This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Kenya Watson wins the last white elephant gift at his company’s year-end holiday party. The curious present dominates the software engineer’s daily life, compelling the lone wolf down a dangerous road of rich rewards and violent punishments. Kenya, responsible for a horrific incident during his youth, fights inner demons spawned from crushing guilt. Cryptic visions heighten his reality, and prophetic strangers guide him on a mystical qu...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Released from a Union prisoner-of-war camp, Confederate Civil War veteran Lieutenant Henry Gates returns to Buzzard Roost, Alabama, shocked to find his family’s plantation burned to the ground. Lonely decades slip away as Hank searches for his wife and children before finally settling in Southern California.The year is 1888, and San Diego’s real estate boom is gasping its last few breaths. Those hardy souls remaining eke out an ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.When Paul Crutcher’s father dies and his wife, Jennifer, finds a PRIVATE PAPERS envelope in his mother’s belongings, the fledgling author resists all temptations to see what secrets are hidden inside. Eventually, curiosity kills the cat, and he can’t help himself from tearing open his past.Paul’s shocking discovery takes him on an “Origin Journey” to the Deep South. He meets a pair of brothers he never knew existed, who drag him...

In 1962, five-year-old John Townsend believes he has witnessed a brutal murder at a local playground. As his memories fade, the nightmares intensify. In fifth grade, John, with aid from pals Vince and Billy, uncover evidence deep in the spooky Woods implicating a mysterious neighbor. Braving the restless '70s, the teenage crew recruits Karen and Melissa to help stir up the pot. Unable to sleep, John takes things into his own hands, maybe going a little too far. Approaching thirty and sure ...

Leroy Davis became sheriff in the small mining town of Bisbee, Arizona, to track down his sister’s murderer. Thirty years later, Roy, haunted by Helen’s death, is still digging for clues. The perplexing hit-and-run of a bicyclist opens a can of worms that cannot be closed without more bloodshed.Roy has help from Bill Hill, an ex-detective, who, along with his computer hacker grandson, Alex, researches worldwide homicides. They soon discover dark ties between the local case and scor...

All seventy dark and ominous stories are guaranteed to enlighten and entertain. Original versions were recorded as voicemails to amuse the author's colleagues and friends at work. Micro-dramas include: "Detective Amy": Our intrepid sleuth keeps it together searching a houseful of horrors. "The Hole": Lincoln and his strict father discover their cesspool holds a dirty secret. "MPG": Young Shawn, a budding genius, bravely saves little Spot from bodily harm. "Barfly": A thirsty drunkard makes...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The global populations have drastically decreased due to terminal diseases and nuclear warfare. Julie and Jules shadow Alice through America’s decimated Southland, ultimately uniting forces under a cloud of evil intentions. A series of perilous obstacles bind the three closer together in their quest for redemption. Each broken soul they meet along the rocky path adds to the band’s collective resolve. Is Jules truly the person she claims...

This is the third edition of David Powers' highly-respected PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy. This new edition has been updated by David to incorporate changes to PHP since the second edition and to offer the latest techniques—a classic guide modernized for 21st century PHP techniques, innovations, and best practices.You want to make your websites more dynamic by adding a feedback form, creating a private area where members can upload images tha...

Make your websites more dynamic by adding a feedback form, creating a private area where members can upload images that are automatically resized, or perhaps storing all your content in a database. David Powers has updated his definitive book to incorporate the latest techniques and changes to PHP, including the arrival of PHP 7. New features include the spaceship and null coalesce operators, generators, using array shorthand syntax for list(), array dereferencing, and array unpacking with...

Make your websites more dynamic by adding a feedback form, creating a private area where members can upload images that are automatically resized, or storing all your content in a database. David Powers has updated his definitive book to incorporate the latest techniques and changes to PHP with the arrival of PHP 8. New features include named attributes, constructor property promotion, the stricter and more concise match expression, union types, and more.The proble...

It’s September 2009, one year since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and Colin has just lost his job. Luckily, he is soon hired as a project manager in a big international investment bank, but quickly finds himself dealing with office politics, dodgy vendors, hostile project sponsors and the difficult task of managing across global time zones. Will his training and skills in project management help him to get this high-risk project over the line, or will his controversial attempts at turni...

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