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The 1992 Los Angeles Riots: six days of looting, arson, assault, and murder. America's second largest city in chaos. In All Involved Ryan Gattis weaves a heart-stopping narrative from the perspectives of characters whose stories of the riots were never told. In six sections, each covering a single day, we follow the intersecting lives of 17 people: gang members, firefighters, nurses, law enforcement officers, and graffiti artists, every one changed for ever.

Everyone wants to be successful enough to enjoy their time here on Earth, but nobody knows how. Take a dive into learning how to think and feel like a millionaire. By the end of the book, you'll be pushing yourself more than ever before while encouraging others to do the same. Our greatest enemy can be found in ourselves, but taking the first step is always the hardest. Throughout the book, we will touch base on how to be successful, but more importantly, how to stay successful so that your family and friends can benefit as well. Let’s get started.

 So Others May Live: Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death is the award-winning untold story of the US Coast Guard's quiet but resolute rescue swimmers. From deep ocean caves on the Oregon coast to the panicked and chaotic streets of post-Katrina New Orleans, here are their stunningly heroic stories.  

Criminal defense lawyer Lisa Peebles was taken aback by a secretly recorded phone call and police interrogation video that surfaced in a 20-year-old kidnapping case. They held the stench of a cover-up. She recruited an investigative reporter to help unearth the truth and exonerate Gary Thibodeau, the man convicted in the 1994 kidnapping and murder of 18-year-old Heidi Allen.

This audiobook will help a person with a plan, yet funding caused everything to come to a complete stop. It will also help someone bridge the distance between ambition and destiny. I sometimes look at it as my bridge to fulfill my purpose in life. I feel that knowledge is power. So many people don't understand financial institutions. I feel I need to share the information with people to help someone.

Throughout history, numbers and planets have played a key role. They have helped to reveal our futures and who or what we connect best with. They are everywhere around us...even though we don't even realize it.  

You’re proud of what you have accomplished in your life. Yet there is a voice inside your head that says you should be further along than you are right now. So what’s holding you back from having the impact you desire? The answer lies in getting out of your comfort zone and staying there. Doing this means becoming fearless and focused so that you can take action and break through the mental walls that stand in your way. 

The award-winning audiobook Life Should Be Simple and Easy: If You're Doing It Hard, You're Doing It Wrong, shows us the downright, honest truths about life. In doing so, this audiobook gives us the tools to live life in the best possible way. It is a unique self-help audiobook, in the sense that it does not try to change you, motivate you, inspire you, or teach you coping skills. It drills down to the basics of how we become who we are, in turn, revealing the origin of stress.  

Great, disruptive leaders like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Reed Hastings have transformed companies, industries, and entire societies while generating incredible wealth for themselves, their investors, and employees in addition to thousands, if not millions, of people. In Owning Tomorrow, John Furth takes the lessons these and other great disruptors have learned during their careers and turns them into practical exercises, tools, and techniques to help senior executives develop their own disruptive skills.

The Hoppers, celebrating 65 years in gospel music. From humble beginnings on a farm in North Carolina to New York City's famed Carnegie Hall to David's Citadel in Jerusalem. This family shares the stories of life, laughter, sorrow, and encouragement of a most uplifting journey. Regardless, this American family has established a Gospel music legacy. Enjoy this unabridged version of After All These Years.

Alan Schnurman has learned and lived by these principles and discovered how to fill his professional and personal lives with great successes: success in real estate investing, success as a businessperson, and success as a partner, husband, father, and friend. I Can, I Will, I Must has the author, Alan, showing how his lessons and experience apply to real estate investing, yes, and also to an entire approach to living that is fulfilling, rewarding, and will make you a richer person on every level.

The story opens in 1954 with the main character: Anne Schefter, a 28-year-old US constitutional law expert, currently unemployed ever since concluding a position as associate campaign manager in Helen Gagahan-Douglas’ upsetting loss of a US senatorial race in 1950 against Richard M. Nixon. Anne is approached by her Stanford law school friend Natalie (Nat) Gottlieb, now a tax lawyer for a law firm in San Francisco.

Healing Justice: Stories of Wisdom and Love combines research, storytelling, and honest observations to challenge the outdated notion that justice requires trading an eye for an eye. Sawatsky immersed himself in communities in Canada, Scotland, and France that employ little-known practices to transform suffering into wellness. By sharing the teachings of the lotus, the eagle feather, and the Celtic knot, the author lights the path in your journey toward regaining your wholeness.

Companies fear looking at changes or improvements to their sales forces for good reason: Sales are the engine that drives revenue. For CEOs, there comes a point where changes or improvements must be made to these two areas of a business if growth is to continue. The world is not static, and sales and marketing organizations cannot be allowed to stagnate and to operate using now-primitive thinking. These business units are the last frontier for CEOs to address in business improvement.

Those inspired from books such as 48 Laws of Power, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, and Rich Dad, Poor Dad will appreciate this modern approach to understanding financial literacy. 10 to Get In targets an audience looking for modern examples of successful maneuvers made by extremely noteworthy and influential people. 10 to Get In is a short listen with a big impact.

A heartbreaking bequest unexpectedly makes childless Maggie Howard a single mother. But if she can’t locate her late friend’s missing will, producing a rich, proud “papa” might be the only way to keep baby B.J. safely in her custody. As luck would have it...in saunters sexy-as-sin, fun-loving new neighbor Nick McKenzie, with money and moxie enough for a short-term charade. His masculine tenderness instantly holds tiny B.J. spellbound. His brash sexuality rocks Maggie to her core.  

Anyone can approach an organization; not everyone can get in. The first step in business-to-business sales is getting in the door. It doesn't matter if you have the greatest product or the most dynamic presentation if you can't get in front of the decision maker. That decision maker is often highly guarded by a savvy gatekeeper who screens out sales calls--leaving even talented, experienced salespeople frustrated by their inability to get access to the right people. The experience of selling to a business isn't limited to salespeople. At some point, many people find the need to approach an organization, whether it is selling an idea or service, for fundraising needs, or even just selling personal credentials in an interview or audition.

Six weeks ago, the mysterious virus came out of nowhere and engulfed the world. Everyone infected seemed to die...then rise again. Jeff Blaine did his best to hold his family together and to protect them from the horrors scratching at their door, but in the end, they were ripped away from him like everything else that ever mattered. Lost and alone, Jeff decided his only option was to destroy as many of the monsters that stole his life away before they destroy him as well.

It has been six weeks since the virus engulfed the world. Everyone who was infected died, and then rose again. Governments collapsed, armies fell, and civilizations turned to dust as the human race tore itself to pieces. The living are in danger of becoming extinct.… Jeff Blaine has witnessed the annihilation of his family and everything that mattered to him. When he steps outside his home for the first time since the world died, he meets Megan, George, and Jason, three other survivors who force him to accept that there may still be a reason to fight and live to see another day.

First time novelist, Patrick D'Orazio, takes us on a journey that follows the path of the everyman, Jeff Blaine, in the days after the end of the world. Six weeks have passed since the virus ravaged the world's population and in that time most of humanity has passed into shadow, turning into corrupt, rotting flesh eaters that known only pain and hunger as they attempt to destroy the remaining members of the human race. Jeff has lost everything, including much of his desire to continue surviving in this hell on earth.