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The upcoming eclipse was anxiously awaited by Clay Jeffries as he prepared a private observatory on the plateau above his father's ranch near Rawlins in Wyoming territory. Then, he received a visitor with an unusual request. The stranger asked the ex-professor if he would tutor his frumpy but brilliant daughter in astronomy. Clay reluctantly agreed, but only if she proved to be an exceptional student. While the young girl surely proved to be both brilliant and frumpy, her arrival also brought with it many potentially deadly consequences that neither she nor her father realized.

 This Audiobook contains the following works: "The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money" [P.T. Barnum] Starts at Chapter 19, "As a Man Thinketh" [James Allen] Starts at Chapter 40, "The Science of Getting Rich" [Wallace D. Wattles] Starts at Chapter 49, "Morning and Evening Thoughts" [James Allen] Starts at Chapter 67, "The prophet" [Khalil Gibran] Starts at Chapter 131, "Dollars Want Me: The New Road To Opulence" [Henry Harrison Brown] Starts at Chapter 159, "The Art Of War" [Sun Tzu] Starts at Chapter 166. 

This collection of children’s stories offers a mix of some best-loved tales as well as newer favorites. Included are “Puss in Boots”, read by Robby Benson; “A Day at Santa’s Workshop”, read by Betty White; “Elfis, the Elf Who Saved Christmas”, read by Brian Austin Green; “Jack and the Beanstalk”, read by John Ritter; “Peter Pan”, read by Sandy Duncan; and “The Wild Swans” and “The Elves and the Shoemaker”, both read by Michael York.

It hadn’t been a bad winter, but the townsfolk of Idaho City were anxious for spring to arrive. Like everyone else, Joe would appreciate the warmer weather and longer days. But he and Sheriff Fulmer both dreaded the influx of gold hunters and the trouble they would bring. They needed more good men, but after losing two deputies, not a single acceptable candidate had applied.

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Marked Men books comes the second installment in the Saints of Denver series featuring a bad girl and a by the book attorney who could be her salvation...or her ruin. Avett Walker and Quaid Jackson’s worlds have no reason to collide. Ever...

This Audiobook contains the following works. The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald Start at Chapters 1, A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens Start at Chapters 10, Anne of Green Gables By Lucy Maud Montgomery Start at Chapters 16, Emma By Jane Austen Start at Chapters 54, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain Start at Chapters 108, The Raven By Edgar Allan Poe Start at Chapters 144, The Prophet copie By Khalil Gibran Start at Chapters 145, Think and grow rich By Napoleon Hill Start at Chapters 173, The Iliad By Homer Start at Chapters 191.

He never looked back as he made his way through the gaslit streets without a penny in his pockets and no place to sleep. He should have been crushed by his desperation, but it was his anger and hate that drove him. He would use the one skill he had learned in those empty years that he now left behind him. He would enter the world of bareknuckle fighting and have to face older, stronger men to make his way in this hard world. He may be nothing, but he wasn’t going to go down without a fight.

What does it really mean to follow Jesus —and is it worth it? In a world chasing success, material wealth, and personal fulfillment, many people feel something is missing. Their hearts hunger for more. The gospel story at the center of this book reveals a profound truth: We are all searching for deeper meaning, greater purpose, and lasting joy, but too often we’re looking in all the wrong places. In Jesus, the Rich Young Man, and the Meaning of Life, Fr. Michael White and Tom Corcoran —bestselling authors of Rebuilt and Seriously, God? —offer a powerful guide to Christian discipleship.

When he signs on as the lone deputy of Malachite, Arizona, the Regulator agrees to keep the peace… no easy task when two warlords are fixing to fight for control of the boomtown’s saloons, gambling houses, and brothels. But Knox has a secret mandate: judge the two men, decide which is the lesser evil, and tip the scales in his favor. He has thirty days to do it.

From a Mountain man’s dying wish the saga of four generations comes to life in every page. Depicting their fight to survive and their struggle to keep the Z Bar J Ranch alive deep in the untamed White Mountains of Arizona. Through fate, Hammerhead is found and raised among the hard cowboy life. He holds a secret that could change everything—one that blurs the line between this world and another. He is thrust into the violence of the west and one of the bloodiest range wars the territory has ever seen

HE ISN'T LOOKING FOR A FIGHT. HE'S LOOKING FOR THE TRUTH. Buffalo Crossing was once a peaceful cattle town. Now gunmen fill its streets. A cattle war is coming, and honest families are trapped in a deadly fight for land, water, and control. Then the Regulator rides in. The Regulator has seen places like this before. He knows the lies. He knows the greed. He knows the cost of war. What he doesn't expect is Sarah Davis.

Axel, Ella and her parents boarded their Denver-bound train. And as it was the first time that they’d experienced the incredible speed of riding the rails, his fiancée and his future in-laws were anxiously waiting for the engineer to open the locomotive’s throttle. As Axel watched Ella stare through the window in anticipation of seeing the outside world whiz by, he believed all of the danger and uncertainty were over. After Mortimer Peel’s trial, he and Ella would get married, start a family, and he’d continue his work as a private investigator and trouble shooter.

This Audiobook contains the following works: Track 01 - The Power of Your Subconscious Mind [Joseph Murphy], Track 21 - Think and Grow Rich [Napoleon Hill], Track 39 - The Richest Man in Babylon [George S. Clason], Track 58 - The Science of Getting Rich [Wallace D. Wattles], Track 76 - Meditations [Marcus Aurelius], Track 89 - The Game of Life and How to Play It [Florence Scovel Shinn], Track 99 - How to Get What You Want [Wallace D. Wattles], Track 104 - The Art of Money Getting [P.T. Barnum], Track 125 - The Key to Success [Russell H. Conwell], Track 132 - The Law of Success [Napoleon Hill].

BE STRONG AND COURAGEOUS. Fletch led his motley crew of orphans and outcasts into the Montana wilderness. Now, stranded in Xanadu, he must get them through winter. Survival won’t be enough, though. Fletch vows to build something good and lasting, a town for folks chasing a better life on the frontier. But the mountain has other ideas. Blizzards close in. Food runs thin. And danger is everywhere, from sweating dynamite to grizzly bears to a mysterious predator that shouldn’t exist at all. At Fletch’s side stands Faith, a young woman growing stronger by the day.

Eleven-year-old Axel Nielsen and his ten-year-old girlfriend Elsa Johannsen were happily chatting as they walked away from Winfield, Kansas’ one-room school. But their cheery conversation quickly ended when they saw Elsa’s father striding towards them with a somber look on his face. Axel thought Mister Johannsen was going to scold Elsa. But when he noticed a large cloud of black smoke rising into the air above his family’s farm, he realized her father wasn’t going to chastise Elsa. He was coming to give him horrifying news about his parents and two brothers.

Erich had been treated as a freak of nature for as long as he could remember. When he was twelve, he was bigger than any fully grown man in Brainerd. His defense against the constant taunts was to retreat into a shell which marked him as a dimwitted giant. He'd been working as a blacksmith for six years when he found himself without a job and decided to leave Minnesota for the far West. Maybe in Montana Territory he would be more readily accepted as just a man and not a monster.

The loud roar snapped Mrs. Doyle from her sleep, and she quickly slid from her bedroll, stepped to the tents flap, and pulled it aside seeing a bear standing on its hind legs just a few feet from her. What made it more horrifying was what she didn't see. The camp behind the bear was empty. She dropped the flap and turned to her the frightened boy standing behind her. He looked at his equally terrified nanny unaware that they had been abandoned to die in the wilderness.

When aging cowboy Gus Matthews gets fired from Rocking-C ranch for laying out the mean-spirited, know-nothing foreman, he heads north for Oklahoma, where he finds work with the Aronsons, an elderly couple whose ranch has seen better days. What should be easy work for kindly employers quickly turns sour when Gus discovers that the neighboring Slash-M ranch have been rustling the Aronsons’ cattle. Even worse, Gus becomes the corrupt sheriff’s main suspect in a string of violent crimes plaguing the county.

As Carl sat astride his roan gelding and stared at Pine Bluffs, he knew that his days of punching cattle were over. The long drives across the West were dying now that the railroads had crisscrossed the Plains. Ironically, his last formal education had given him the skills and knowledge to help build those railroads, and now he’d finally put them to use. His short-term plan of spending a quiet night or two in Pine Bluffs would soon be altered by a simmering man-made volcano in the mountains of central Wyoming at a mine that provided the coal for the railroad’s locomotives.

Mattie Foster had made a terrible mistake. She had left Missouri and come to Green River, Wyoming to find her father; a father who was not the man that she even knew. Now, she was being held by two men against her will. The man who was determined to find her was a rancher. A rancher with a debt to repay.