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Peter Roth is a talented musician and an expert drunk. For years, he's heard voices in his head, voices of anyone he's ever respected, and they're all judging him for his failures. As his twenties are dwindling away, Peter decides to embark on a make-or-break trip to the West Coast with his girlfriend and his sister, honing his music along the way. One of the voices comes along for the ride - only it turns out that this one is real. As Peter makes his way across the country, he has no idea that there are dark forces gathering against him - and what it's going to take to survive.

A collection of fabulous tales of genies, heroes, flying carpets and fantastic voyages, The Arabian Nights has enchanted generations of children and adults. Forged in the Islamic Golden Age, it was brought to Europe in the 18th Century, where it became an instant sensation. Included here are seven full-cast dramatisations, starring Carolyn Backhouse as Shahrazad and Derek Jacobi as the King, as well as a bonus edition of In Our Time exploring the story behind the tales.

Boundless Skies explores classic sci-fi themes through a contemporary lens. Continuing the legacy of decades gone by, these fast-paced standalone stories offer wondrous settings, philosophical sci-fi questions, and twists that pack a punch.

For this audiobook, most of the authors step out from behind the page and narrate their own story, creating a unique and rare listening experience. From heartwarming tales of generosity to cautionary fables about the corrupting influence of money, you'll encounter characters from all walks of life, each grappling with the tantalizing prospect of newfound riches.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Beyond My Imaginations Giving Back and listen to poetry in motion.

Continuing the legacy of decades gone by, these fast-paced standalone stories offer wondrous settings, philosophical sci-fi questions, and twists that pack a punch.

Missing and presumed dead, Nick awakes in his bed, bloodied and bruised with no memory of where he has been or what happened to him. As Nick’s friends gather around him to help discover the source of his lost memories, they begin to understand that Nick did not return alone. Something dark is growing inside him. After the darkness forces Nick to go on the run, a stranger appears, knowing more about their situation than they themselves do. The stranger also gives a thin hope of stopping the darkness and its plan.

Freedom Sex and a Meat Cleaver is a young man’s quest for personal freedom and self-discovery. Pierce Colter falls in love with the “Land of Smiles” while in the US Air Force and stationed at the Royal Thai Airbase in Korat, Thailand. When his tour of duty ends in 1974, he flies to Los Angeles, gets a new passport and travel visa, then heads straight back to Thailand. He's a young, wild, and free American guy craving adventure in Southeast Asia.

The Hats We Wear is a multiculural book for children, tweens/preteens, and adults. The sole purpose of this book is to educate people in a fun way and to spark the interest and share some history behind hats, headwear, head-dressings, scarves, and caps.

An absurdist allegory about conforming, lost dreams, and regret, overflowing with horror and humor, The Demon, the Dumbwaiter and the Douchebag is a hilarious social satire that will have its listener cringing and laughing in equal measure.

What do you know about Stoicism and mental toughness? Are you interested in discovering how you can use it to change your life? If yes, keep reading! The concept of Stoicism is derived from Roman and Greek antiquity and it is based on the development of self- control as a means of overcoming every emotion causing or tending to cause destruction. People, as world citizens, need to play an active part in world events, recalling that appropriate and virtue actions exemplified by the world.

Are you into plant-based diet and need more recipes for your instant vortex air fryer oven? Then, you are in the right place! Why not take a shortcut so you can take advantage of your oven with the ease of a seasoned chef?

Chino Genetti is about to break one of the first rules of being a hitman: Don’t fall in love with your target. The alcoholic assassin's life changes when he receives the assignment to eliminate beautiful jazz singer Ericka Green. When love clouds his judgement and he forgoes his loyalty to crime boss Cocoa, he ends up a target himself. On the run from assassins, Chino makes a begrudging deal to live in peace, but old wounds and retribution threaten to take away everything he loves.

Alfred Favero, senior analyst with the IRS, shouldn’t have muddled the timeline. But curiosity got the better of him. There was killing and a cat involved, too, but he’d rather not talk about that. Suffice it to say, a mafia prince is dead, and Alfred is on the run through time with a wrongly accused detective. To unmask the men framing his new friend, he’ll tangle with New York City’s most sinister criminals.

The roots of skinhead culture go back to a time when Black and White youth united under the banner of music and a community of immigrants from Jamaica arrived on the shores of England in the late 1960s. The debut novel by Kevin Triggs, Ready Fire Aim gives listeners a look into one of America's truly yet undiscovered battlegrounds.

In this hot enticing multi-author and multi-narrator mega collection filled with 67 filthy erotic stories, you’ll experience swingers, werewolves, BDSM, spanking, vampires, bisexual, anal, paranormal threesomes, big beautiful woman erotica, lesbian first time, medical, gangbangs and much, much more….

October 2002: Another weekend in the small fishing village in New Jersey. Five years after the events of the last book, can the Belford residents move on with their lives after what's happened in their past?

A simple mistake. A slip through time and space. A strange new world. He should have been more careful. But Alfred Favero, Senior Analyst with the IRS, wasn’t. Now he’s stuck in a world of opposites, where everything he knows is called into question. To survive in Yngil-wode, the taxman must rely on a mysterious band of outlaws and tax thieves. But he risks getting drawn into a war with a tyrant. He risks sacrificing every principle he holds sacred.

He could have avoided it all. But Alfred Favero, Senior Analyst with the IRS, didn’t. To save the woman he loves, he must rewind time itself to learn the secrets that will claim her life. But fate isn’t done with him yet. To get to the truth, he must go undercover to a comic book convention. In costume, no less. The stakes couldn’t be higher. But Alfred is determined that his most challenging case yet will not be his last - because he’ll be darned if he’s going to die wearing pointy ears and face paint.

A little bird sits high on a wire, watching the strange pink monkeys below him. Father bird warns him that they are dangerous, but he is curious and decides to ask the other animals about them. He questions a robin, a horse, a cow, a honeybee, an ant, a dog, a deer, a rabbit, and an owl, all of whom warn him of the dangers connected to the fearsome beasts. The owl tells the little bird how they fight in great wars, and participate in animal slavery, poisoning the air and water, and even killing their own kind.