Twenty-eight stories. One terrifying book!Need a new spine-tingling read?Consumed is a horror & dark fiction anthology featuring 28 macabre tales on the theme of food and drink, with stories from:U.M. Agoawike • Ed Ahern • K.G. Anderson • Evan Baughfman • Hannah Baxter • Cedric Bell • Jackson Bell • Tim Brown • Theo Carr • Tom Coombe • Marcus Field • Warren Frey • Gene Gallistel • Zach Gearey • E. Florian Gludovacz • Emma H...

Brought to you by Penguin.James Patterson's BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.Jack Morgan is visiting Peter Knight and the team in the London branch of his investigation agency, Private.At a cocktail party the night before the Trooping the Colour parade for the Queen's 90th birthday, Jack receives a phone call from the Duke of Aldershot saying that his daughter, Abbie, has been kidnapped. He needs Private on th...

This book discusses the role of human personality in the study of behavioral cybersecurity for non-specialists.Since the introduction and proliferation of the Internet, cybersecurity maintenance issues have grown exponentially. The importance of behavioral cybersecurity has recently been amplified by current events, such as misinformation and cyber-attacks related to election interference in the United States and internationally. More recently, similar issues have occurred in the c...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.You already understand the importance of quality communication. But good communication is built not on speaking but on listening. When we learn to actively listen—to listen well—this ability resonates through all our relationships and interactions.Research has found that by listening actively, you will obtain more information, increase others' trust in you, reduce conflict, and better understand the message bein...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Parkinsons disease is a debilitating nervous system disorder and incurable. If you want to help yourself or someone with their gait and balance, slowness of movement, tremors and rigidity, and so much more, then this book is for you.You'll read it in less than 15 minutes and know how to improve your condition without medication. It is a brief and quick to the point book, written by a man whose wife has parkinson...

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have focused new attention on a perennial problem: how to end wars well. What ethical considerations should guide war’s settlement and its aftermath? In cases of protracted conflicts, recurring war, failed or failing states, or genocide and war crimes, is there a framework for establishing an enduring peace that is pragmatic and moral?Ethics Beyond War’s End provides answers to these questions from the just war tradition. Just war thinking ...

Americans are losing touch with reality. On virtually every issue, from climate change to immigration, tens of millions of Americans have opinions and beliefs wildly at odds with fact, rendering them unable to think sensibly about politics. In How America Lost Its Mind, Thomas E. Patterson explains the rise of a world of “alternative facts” and the slow-motion cultural and political calamity unfolding around us.We don’t have to search far for the forces that are misleading...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Use These Habits In Order To Create A Disciplined Life, Become Happier, Healthier And Gain More Freedom!Do you want to be more successful and productive? Do you want to have more free time? Being more self-disciplined will help you!Some people find it very easy to wake up at five am every morning, rain or shine, to go to the gym before they head off to work, perfectly groomed, at eight. ...

The economic activity of our society is destroying the viability of life on earth and enabling a minute minority to accumulate vast wealth and power while much of the population struggles with poverty or insecurity. We have an inhumane economic system which is rooted in ideas propagated either by those who stand to gain from the system or by well-meaning people who have been convinced that the current system represents centuries of evolutionary progress. There is nothing inevitable about t...

Guide to the 20 novels and hundreds of characters of Zola's Rougon-Macquart novel series. According to Wikipedia: "Emile Zola (2 April 1840 - 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France...After his first major novel, Therese Raquin (1867), Zola started the long series called Les Rougon Macquart, about a family under the Second Empire... More than half of Zo...

Spanning the mid to late 20th century and set in the Elkhorn Valley of southwestern Montana, The Stone Sister tells the story of a child' s birth, disappearance, and discovery in a home for " backward children." Told through the voices of a father, nurse, and sister, the novel is hailed by award-winning writer Ann Patchett as "beautifully written and compassionately told...a novel that will stay with me for a long, long time." The story explores the power of family secrets and soc...

A true story inspired by true events, author GJ RACHAEL PATTERSON narrates in a creative nonfiction genre a story based on twelve years of genealogical research of her ancestral roots--a three-generational saga filled with perils and triumphs.“Rachael uses a unique and non-traditional style to preserve her family heritage and history through exploring the personalities and situations of her ancestors.”--Jerry Frank, author/conference speaker/webmaster, SGGEE (The Society fo...