This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.It’s 1975, and Ray Hayward is stuck…A successful Safeway manager in Southern California, Ray has spent decades doing everything right. He’s built a career, raised a family, bought a house on the hill, and settled into the comfortable routines of middle-class American life. But after a frightening bout of pneumonia leaves him confronting his own mortality, Ray finds himself awake night after night, filled with anxiety.The...

This volume contains three short stories of speculative fiction - "Press The Record Button," "In The Heavens As On Earth" and "Real Life Fiction." Each story explores possibilities at the end of our known world. Time travel, manipulation of reality, nuclear war, reincarnation, chance, and a host of other ideas are woven through these various stories.

What happened in 2012? Where was the big, end of the world event everyone was waiting for? When would the Golden Age begin? These questions and more are answered by Billy Hero, who is on the move. He’s recovering from partial amnesia and narcolepsy due to his most recent battle with the Nagas. The story follows him from New Mexico to Denver, through some Deep Underground Bases on his way to Minneapolis to meet with his old friend, the Reverend T.J. Clemons, who broadcasts his gospel messag...

How far would you pursue a dreamif it meant requisite isolation?If every artless responsebegan to fester a mutiny amongst your closest of friends,would you stay true?On who would you depend for encouragementif everyone you knew arched their chest against you,or turned and sank away?What would you do to protect an idea,to keep safe your future?What did God do?Elohiyms decision to give his creation the ab...

Good financial habits are best learnt at an early age. This ebook is all about money and is written for children aged seven to 12 to read with their parents. It includes brief histories of coins, notes, banking and credit cards and encourages children to adopt good habits concerning personal finance. Through the use of anecdotes, videos, games and interesting money facts, it promotes keeping accurate financial records as a way of preventing money problems or serious debt later in life. The...

Kids. They think they got it so rough these days. But nobody has it worse than Papa Red did when he was a kid. And you better listen up when he talks. A short story from the acclaimed collection Guys Read: Funny Business, edited by Jon Scieszka.

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.It’s 1975, and Ray Hayward is stuck…A successful Safeway manager in Southern California, Ray has spent decades doing everything right. He’s built a career, raised a family, bought a house on the hill, and settled into the comfortable routines of middle-class American life. But after a frightening bout of pneumonia leaves him confronting his own mortality, Ray finds himself awake night after night, filled with anxiety.The...

It was a land where nothing was small, nothing was simple. Everything, the lives of men and the stories they told, ran to extremes.Shanghaied into forced labor on a merchant vessel, Charles Rodney dies aboard ship from repeated beatings—but not before deeding part of his ranch to Rafe Caradec, whom he hopes will protect his family.A word from Louis L'Amour:"Almost forty years ago, when my fiction was being published exclusively in 'pulp' western magazines, I wrote s...

The Canadian Federal Election of 2006 is a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of the campaign and election that ended the 12-year Liberal reign in Canadian politics and saw the House of Commons shift from one minority government to another. The chapters, composed by leading political writers, commentators, and pollsters, examine the strategies, successes, and blunders of the major players — the Conservatives, Liberals, New Democrats, Bloc Québécois, and Greens — and also explor...

Anxiety Hacks for an Uncertain World is a highly accessible guide to anxiety disorders. It helps anxiety sufferers regain control by suggesting an array of useful tactics which when applied can be life altering.Chapters explore key topics such as phobias, panic disorders, social anxiety, general anxiety, pandemics, and more. Additional resources are included in the appendix, such as support groups, services, and helplines. Using light humor and examples from their lived ex...

The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016Written by the foremost authorities, The Canadian Federal Election of 2015 provides a complete investigation of the election.A comprehensive analysis of the campaigns and the election outcome, this collection of essays examines the strategies, successes, and failures of the major political parties: the Conservatives, the Liberals, the New Democrats, the Bloc Québécois, and the Green Party.Also feat...

The Canadian General Election of 2004 is the definitive study of the campaign and the election. The 2004 edition includes analyses of:The campaigns of the 4 major parties and smaller partiesThe role of newspapers, television and the internet in the campaignsThe pre-election pollsVoting patterns across the countryThe rise in non-votingArticles are contributed from leading Canadian political writers, commentators a...