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Children with learning disabilities and conditions, such fetal alcohol syndrome, require healthy, nurturing homes and environments with a strong understanding of the special needs of such children. They need a network of understanding care givers in school and throughout life to help accommodate their limitations. Winston Hinkle had none of these, and the worst of everything, until a Man in White takes him under his wing and gives him a glimpse of what he will become in the coming Age of Ethereal.

3J and Pascale are back and file bankruptcy cases for six Kansas City jazz clubs that have somehow managed to survive the COVID pandemic. Now they must battle an unknown enemy who runs an anonymous disinformation campaign on social media to try to put the clubs out of business. Will they be able to stop the campaign in time to save the clubs and keep jazz alive in the city?

A thrilling story of the pioneering Tumlinson family, and their quest westward to Texas; formation of the Texas Rangers; involvement of the 'Come and Take it' cannon; and conflicts of the region with Mexico. The listener is given a detailed account of the bloody Texas Revolution, the Camanche War, and the proud state of Texas!

Skyscraper developer Quincy Witherman has continued his family's 200-year practice of hiding assets in Switzerland. Now, needing protection from his creditors, he hires Kansas City bankruptcy lawyer Josephina Jillian Jones – 3J – but fails to disclose the Swiss assets to 3J, his bankers, the IRS, and the bankruptcy court...all felonies. 3J knows in her gut that something is wrong. So does Witherman's banker, Stacy Milnes. Will anyone catch him?

Temporal waves can now be detected and traced back to the time and place of their origin, even making it possible for one to travel back in time - or at least for one's consciousness to appear in a projection of one's body. Only three countries have the apparatus to make this event possible: the United States, Germany, and Japan. But now, scientists have been killed, followed immediately by the detection of a time displacement wave - the signature of a time traveler trying to change the past. There are only two days to rectify the situation, or else history settles into a new pattern.

In this take on the classic novel Moby Dick, told with great attention to Melville's unique means of expression, Dr. Ahab the veterinarian falls victim to a vicious monster named Moby. Half-mad and half-blind, he ensnares his workers into a quest for vengeance they cannot resist. Kevin, one of these unlucky workers, with his new dog and armed with curiosity, finds himself in a strange new world.

In Love and War is the moving story of two young people in love at the cusp of adulthood and America’s entry into WW II. Inga, a German girl, and Mack, an American pilot, have fallen in love, but the war threatens to separate them forever. From the tranquil citrus groves of Florida to the shrapnel-filled skies over Europe, Mack only wants to see Inga again. Inga longs for Mack amid the wartime carnage of Germany. One fateful day, the families of both will be changed forever.

This is a murder mystery novel that takes place at Sliver Lake, North of Boston Massachusetts. Blake Rivers and his girlfriend Rose left Silver Lake for New Orleans a few years ago, he swore he would never come back. Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans has caused a separation between Blake and Rose. He has been looking for her in New Orleans for months. He knows it’s a long shot but thinks maybe she went back home to Silver Lake.

This psychological thriller takes us through the lives of liars and champions. And those caught between the two. Wasteful is a tale that displays the mask people use to survive in the world. Even if it means they survive as someone else.

The campground holds the grisly secrets of what happened there years ago when jealousy tore friends apart, leaving a terrifying aftermath. Gary and Linda plan a relaxing camping trip with their two sons. But it's anything but relaxing. When their oldest son begins to experience visions, his terror nearly drives him insane. As his worried parents try to help their son, they, too, experience the horrifying secrets of the woods - a secret which comes alive again after too many years.

Mary DeMure has escaped the lab who turned her into a monster with a touch that kills and is determined to find a cure. When she crashes a stolen car into a frigid lake, Mary is rescued from Death by a man with a gift of his own. Ex-Army Ranger, Ryan Mender, has recently learned he has healing hands when raises his son from the dead, but his encounter with Mary transforms his gift into something sinister.

Nathan Miller is haunted by loss and obsessed with a vision of Death who passed him for someone else. A nightmare that follows inspires an essay about an interview the Grim Reaper who appears as a Man in Black. Years pass and Nathan is living the dream. He is a war correspondent and a bestselling author at the pinnacle of success with the perfect wife and family. And thanks to the Man in Black, he's indestructible (or so it seems). But Nathan's world is built on lies and regret.

In 10 engaging and original short stories, author Benjamin Harnett visits characters at the end of the world and chronicles their immense personal growth—figuratively and, sometimes, literally. Inventive and poetic, these stories bend genres, marrying tales of domestic woes, coming-of-age, love and friendship, loss and discovery, with fantastic and mysterious happenings on an individual, societal, and global scale.

Kansas City attorney Josephina Jillian Jones, 3J to her friends, has dealt with people perpetrating online disinformation, white supremacists, and clients hiding assets, so when a couple who heads up a company that builds inner city housing for marginalized communities comes to her for legal help because their longtime banking partner has shut off their funding, the case appears at first blush to be tame by comparison. But when the bank president disappears and his greed-driven brother seems the likely culprit, things heat up.

A committee of creditors hires 3J, one of whom is the leader of a White Nationalist organization on the government’s domestic terrorist list. When the member realizes he will not get paid back everything he is owed, he blames 3J, a Black attorney, and opposing counsel, a Jewish attorney.

A post-apocalyptic pandemic novel set in the Pacific Northwest that is unlike any other. The main character is an introverted recluse who tries to survive. He is computer-smart, but the internet and computers have died. He must change.

Mistaking an ad to join the titular The Loneliest Band in France for one to sell his blood, Migara de Silva, the novella’s narrator—a Sri Lankan student, new to Montpellier—finds himself, instead, under the sway of the band, drinking heavily and being recruited to play a battle-of-the-bands-esque concert (that night) at the local Café Bovary with its four members: Noël, Guy, Lucien, and Michel. Not only is there prize money attached to the concert, the bandmates also see this as an opportunity to debut a new song—one, they claim, that can hurt—even kill—its listeners.