A naïve Minnesota small-town kid 'escapes' by moving to the Big City and starting college. He loses his money in a scam, is forced to move in with his crusty 'exiled' grandfather, and work in a failing out-of-the-way restaurant.

Professor Matthew Eastman walks into his office one afternoon and suddenly discovers that he's "forgotten" a year of his life. It is now 2005, but he doesn't remember anything from 2004. A therapist pulls him through his life, crisis-by-crisis and sin-by-sin, until they reach 2004. That was the year when he began researching a Russian novel that includes elements of black magic. That book, "The Master and Margarita," slowly takes over his life and steers him towards where he doesn't want t...

Through a clerical error, superintendent of schools Jack Cole finds himself called to active duty in the United States Navy at the beginning of WWII. Cole was never in the Navy and responds accordingly. Thinking he is trying to avoid military service the Bureau of Naval Personnel has him apprehended and flown to Washington DC where he is given the choice of active duty or Portsmouth Naval Prison.Cole accepts active duty and finds himself stumbling from one hilarious situation after...

Looking at the inter-war period, this work explores the relationship between cricket and English social and cultural values.

The explosion was heard and felt miles away. All 35 workers and Uyghur "patients" were killed except Dr. Gao Ming, the new director of the "Specialized Facility for Mental Health Solutions" in Urumqi, western China, 200 miles from the Kazakhstan border. This secret Chinese Communist Party laboratory did experimental brain surgery on Uyghur dissidents to test whether cognitive abilities could be surgically enhanced. The answer was "Yes." The Party expanded the experiment in a nearby hospita...

This little Handbook is your road map to your first Real Estate transaction, whether you are a buyer or a seller.

The environmental impacts of construction are momentous. How can architects minimise these by making responsible material choices? Material choices have a global impact. The design and construction industry are responsible for 39% of all carbon emissions in the world. Despite the great desire among architects to address this, it can be difficult to compare materials directly, let alone understand the repercussions of selecting materials for use in different parts of a building or of sourci...

Unlock your body's natural healing abilities and discover how to get rid of mental disorders with this definitive guide to stimulating the Vagus Nerve!Do you often struggle with bouts of intense anxiety and panic attacks that just wouldn't let up, no matter what you do? Is stress slowly killing you and taking the joy out of life? Are you suffering from brain fog, productivity decline and creative blocks?If you answered yes to any of these questions, then ke...

Engineering is everywhere, from the Large Hadron Collider to invisibly small circuits on silicon chips*. The 50 Greatest Engineers* celebrates the great achievements that have been made through the ages, containing profiles of the best-known and most innovative engineers of all time. Chosen from across the globe, they include a diverse range of talent - from the likes of Nikola Tesla, Lillian Moller Gilbreth and Gustave Eiffel to Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Fazlu Rahman Khan and the Wright Br...

What would you do if your father were murdered, your mother remarried your uncle, and the kingdom itself seemed to conspire against you? Hamlet plunges listeners into this gripping world of betrayal, madness, and revenge, a Shakespeare audiobook that brings every secret, every scheme, and every moral dilemma vividly to life. From the first haunting ghost to the shocking twists of fate, this tragic tale of the Prince of Denmark is impossible to turn away from.As you listen,...

The legendary novel whose true events inspired the film KILL YOUR DARLINGSIn the summer of 1944, a shocking murder rocked the fledgling Beats. William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, both still unknown, we inspired by the crime to collaborate on a novel, a hard-boiled tale of bohemian New York during World War II, full of drugs and art, obsession and brutality, with scenes and characters drawn from their own lives. Finally published after more than sixty years, this...

William W. Johnstone is a USA Today best-selling author with over ten million books in print. From his popular Mountain Man series comes another rousing adventure featuring the unbeatable hero Smoke Jensen. A baleful blackcoat with a pistol in one hand and a Bible in the other, Lazarus Cain rides through the countryside claiming to carry out God's plan. In his ominus wake, he has left one of Smoke's cowhands fatally injured. Mad as a rattlesnake, Smoke is bent on revenge. Now, not even the...