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Imagine you are stranded on a strange planet which is eternally light on one side and dark on the other. Professor Edmunds, a disgruntled, underappreciated genius existing in the dingy basements of UC Berkeley's Astronomy Department, experiences this very fate. Professor Edmunds, on that historic night, not only discovered the Dark Planet - he discovered something much, much more. His discovery confirms his long-held, and largely-ridiculed, scientific speculation: that every soul on earth shares, somewhere in the universe, an exact replica - a biological duplicate - an Other.

They said it was impossible. Reanimation of dead tissue could never be done. They were wrong and now the dead are arising. Attempts to reanimate dead cells had been happening for decades. But all experiments had been a complete failure. Or were they? In a race against time, bounty hunter Harrison Quaid must band together with a beautiful genetic scientist and her mysterious grandfather who has walked right out of the history books to stop an evil mastermind from using this technology for mass destruction.

During a family reunion at their ancestral castle, the famed Von Kassel family - arms dealers for over 100 years - suddenly find themselves in possession of stolen plutonium capable of creating the most destructive weapon on earth. Previously aloof from the moral implications of their business, the family is torn apart by the deadly potential of their recent acquisition. Family conflicts are ignited that had long been avoided in order to maintain solidarity and the insulation of wealth and power.

Nick Burke's family is trapped on Ground 134. A new quarantine erected in the middle of the night seals off his neighborhood from the rest of the city. But Nick isn't sick, and his family isn't, either. In fact, no one seems to be sick. More disturbing still, rumors circulate that quarantines on distant Grounds are becoming permanent, the affected people never heard from again. If he stays, he risks his family becoming sick or worse. The only way out is to break laws that carry a penalty of death.

The Greer Agency tells the story of Mike Greer, private eye, in 15 connected stories. Greer, the only PI in the Altoona phone book, scratches out a living in the decaying railroad town. With the help of an anonymous benefactor, Greer gets interesting cases that he solves with pluck and determination. All the while, his romance with Susan grows increasingly more intimate.

An army of 30,000 jihadists make their way north, through Michigan, killing anyone who will not convert to Islam. Will the Shadow Militia and the people of Iroquois be able to defeat this newest threat?

The president of the Orange Grove Homeowners Association is murdered, and there are plenty of suspects - in fact everyone, who lives in Orange Grove. Brent Marks thinks he is dealing with a routine foreclosure defense until his client is implicated in the crime and calls upon Brent to defend her. To make matters worse, another client's destiny is about to cross their path. At the crossroads of morality and ethics, the courtroom drama explodes, while the action outside the courtroom spirals out of control.

Los Angeles is terrorized by a series of murders. One man can stop the killer: Detective Daniel Kane. But for Kane - devastated by personal tragedy and haunted by a secret that could destroy his family - to do so may cost him everything, even his life....

Psychologist Gary Schaade started receiving tapes and letters from potential killers soon after releasing his best-selling book, Psyche of a Serial Killer. When Gary received a tape at his office, he was sure it is another entertaining attempt to scare him and his wife. This tape was different: a confession to prove his theory.

A sailing adventure! This richly textured mystery begins in the dark jungles of the Congo basin, develops a sinister edge in the Seychelle Islands in the Indian Ocean, drips with Southern charm in old Charleston, is buffeted by seduction and betrayal during a hurricane on the Atlantic, and explodes in a violent climax in the Azores. It will leave the listener stunned at the perfidy of man - and wanting more.

General Trusten Polk's F-16 explodes on takeoff in Denver. Within hours he's exposed as an impostor, a war hero politician controlled by others.

As Captain Boyd Chailland, the pilot member of the accident board uncovers Polk's lonely private life he finds another pilot from Polk's past knows all his secrets and is leaking them to the press. Congressman Roscoe Kelly is tied to bank fraud and other politicians with ties to Polk duck and weave.

When tragedy strikes and as the world begins to crumble around him, Mark SleepingBear decides that it's high time to renovate his grandfather's Cold War era fallout shelter. As conditions deteriorate, Mark struggles with the decision to share his bunker, should the need arise, with his neighbors. For years, Mark has isolated himself from these people. After he shares his secret, his neighbors decide to build their own bunker, a massive shelter, constructed with comfort as the number one priority.

What if you could experience a day from your youth with the knowledge and maturity of your current life? What if you were an old man and you could experience your wedding day again, once again seeing your late wife? That is Jasper Hill's dream, and thanks to Memory Experiences he can make it real.

Trying to calm his inner demons and forget the tragic loss of his men, Cal dives headlong into his work, taking the battle to the enemy. Now the president needs his help to uncover a leak in his administration and start the long road to cleaning up Washington, and wrestling power back from corrupt officials who threaten to plunge the American government further into the abyss. Will Cal uncover the truth before it's too late?

Rick and Abby grew up together, became best friends, and ultimately fell in love. Circumstance tore them apart in their early teens, though, and they went on to lives less idyllic than they dreamed about in those early days. Rick has had a very successful career, but his marriage flat-lined. Abby has a magical daughter, Paige, but Paige's father nearly destroyed Abby's spirit.

In this second audiobook of the high-octane Chaser series, it's business as usual for bail enforcement agent Chad Remington. That is until the sister of Remington's best friend goes missing. To complicate matters, Remington's father has hired him to retrieve a client who's been charged with murder and jumped bail. Only one problem: the accused is Heather Bettencourt's uncle. Little does Remington know all of these are pieces to a horrifying puzzle, and he'll have to put everything on the line to solve the case while keeping his own inner demons in check!

Bail enforcement agent Chad Remington can't seem to pull it together. If he's not battling personal demons, he's wrestling with his family's unrealistic expectations or the love of a woman just out of reach. But Chad's life takes a fateful turn when an old friend in the FBI solicits his help. Criminal mastermind Islene O'Brien and her gang of thugs have just robbed an armored car of two million dollars, and they're willing to kill anyone in the way of their escape path.

A publishing company wants to do a book the entire Cooper clan, starting with Matt. The publisher also has a movie deal lined up after the book is released. The Coopers' private lives will soon become public-very public. Things heat up during the interview process when Clay lets some family secrets slip out and they end up in the book. Meanwhile, Clay, Elliott and Gloria enlist retired police lieutenant Dean Hollister's help in tracking down the man who killed Gloria's father more than three years earlier.

Six months earlier, in The God Virus, the lights went out across America, throwing our country into turmoil and chaos, unleashing the demons of a million souls upon an unsuspecting humanity. Dan Branch and his family, caught in the meat grinder of societal collapse, battled their way back home, only to find a new and greater threat waiting for them. Once again, Dan and his family must fight for survival against impossible odds. But this time they are not alone.

What is it like to work inside a state hospital or to be a patient in such a hospital? What is it like to live inside the mind of such a patient? This tragi-comedic novel takes the listener inside the asylum, inside the worlds of three central characters: a narrator who has taken refuge from his fears of the world, a psychiatrist whose own life has been damaged by his father's depression, and a catatonic schizophrenic whose world is trapped inside a crack in the wall opposite her bed.