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Ralph F. Voss examines Capote and In Cold Blood from many perspectives, not only as the crowning achievement of Capote's career, but also as a story in itself, focusing on Capote's artfully composed text, his extravagant claims for it as reportage, and its larger status in American popular culture.

Velvet Sinclair's abusive marriage is spiraling downward when a new neighbor moves in next door in this R-rated erotic novel. Thomas Weston provides graphic descriptions of the most intimate details of Velvet's often kinky sexual activities with men and with women.

This chapter-level audiobook can change the way you listen to BigShots - mostly businesspersons with a snapshot or two of politicians - as they pontificate for public consumption and personal gain. You'll recognize the spin, that dastardly polite euphemism for lies that the advertising/PR folks coined years ago to anoint their profession with a bit of undeserved dignity. In the process, you might gain a more realistic grasp of what's going on around you and how your mind is being manipulated, aka brainwashed.

When John left a Chinese restaurant and phoned the number listed on a cryptic fortune cookie message, he had no idea of the web of intrigue and murder he was about to become entangled in, or of the wealth and true love he was destined to find.

From the earliest moments of contact until after World War I, find out what debates raged on behalf of and against Native Americans, how their culture was stripped from them, citizenship denied them, and the schemes against them, to not only steal their land but to make them white. Their contributions to society have been monumental and immeasurable, but their rewards have been few and almost unseen.

This book is a summary of the 16 personality types.

When Leonard and Mona visited a thrift shop, all they wanted was a cheap shirt and a blouse. Instead, the garments they tried on transported them to other dimensions and horrors they'd never imagined. Travel with them for an adventure unlike anything you've ever imagined.

Cardinal David Caneman took just three years to engineer his ascension into the CEO's office of Vatican Bancorp. His cabal of fundamentalist zealots now moves quickly to seize the world's largest institution. First, by publicly assassinating the Pope. Next, by replacing him with Caneman. Jackson Schilling enjoys his happy, early retirement. Then, the SEC drafts him. Come on, Jack, one last audit. It's mandatory, after an attempt on the Vatican Bank Chairman's life. But Jackson Schilling is no ordinary auditor.

An edge-of-the-seat thriller written by one of the best new talents to come from the UK in years. The plot jumps from the past back to the present as it twists on a gritty rollercoaster ride from start to finish. Jones has a talent to write stories so current it is frightening.

"An action-packed terrorist thriller, following veterans returning from Iraq. It ventures into the murky world of private security companies. Another absolute cracker from best-selling thriller writer Conrad Jones. The best new British author for years. Stephen Leather describes Soft Target as a 'corker'." ( Guardian Reviews)

A deranged husband and wife are committing horrible acts of torture and murder. They record their terrible crimes, and sell them as snuff videos to twisted people around the world. After hearing this horrific tale you'll think twice before running or answering an ad.

The plot begins with a sustained attack on security service personnel on both sides of the Atlantic. A synchronized three-prong attack with radioactive dispersal devices, or dirty bombs, against New York, Liverpool, and of course the holy city of Jerusalem. The nefarious Yasser Ahmed returns to haunt Tank; if you enjoyed listening to parts one and two, then this is a MUST-listen!

The final volume of the Hell Trilogy takes you on a writhing serpentine theme park type adventure. You become captive to a world of violence, the horrors of a drug addict's cravings and some highly innovative interrogation techniques Dick Cheney would applaud. It ends in justice - real justice - for those who genetically believe feral emotions running amuck are vengeance free.

It's Vietnam, 1969. After a Vietcong ambush, Navy SEAL Mel Stone recovers from a prolonged coma in a Montagnard village with no memory and an aging process that ended at age 22. Decades latter as his memory returns bit-by-bit, he realizes he has developed a miraculous medical condition. What some consider a blessing becomes a living hell when powerful men hunt him across four continents to tear the secret from Mel, dead or alive.

History is important to the understanding of life; it is hoped the reader will enjoy this study of a long-time family, their love for country, and accepting failure and defeat with victory. John-Jehu was said to be a successful businessman, early 1800s, and, since he was fluent in the Cherokee language, he had been in the employ of the Judge Advocate for the Cherokee before 1830. This really lines up with all we have learned of his life, and we hail him as a fine American, a patriot, with all the values that made this a great nation, that is, a voice for the weak, a love of justice, and human progress.

Conrad Jones has done it again with his Alec Ramsay books. Crime thriller writing that will have you chewing your fingers as you listen!

All Adam and Eve Gaunt wanted was to get out of the house for the weekend. Having limited funds, what better place to go than a flea market? How could they have known that at Legiondell, they would walk through a door taking them into a new life of vampirism, cannibalism, sex, and murder?

Conrad Jones has done it again with his Alec Ramsay books - crime thriller writing that will have you chewing your fingers as you listen! Soft Target is the first book in a series of thrillers that follow the hunt for a nefarious killer. The book begins in famous US tourist destinations where suicide bombers cause carnage before attacking the United Kingdom.

When Walter Thomas accepted the invitation of his friend Brett Fisher to attend the services at a small oneness Pentecostal church he did not know what he was getting into. Something in the atmosphere of the cult-like church tapped into the darkest recesses of his soul, and he found himself changing and becoming enmeshed in events that ultimately led to a series of gruesome murders. In this fact-based fictionalized novel, Thomas Weston knocks the props out from under the false oneness Pentecostal religion, exposing the deception and hypocrisy.

Sgt. Phillip Davis and Sgt. Anthony Trangotta of the Sheriff's office were under increasing pressure to solve the series of murders that were taking place with increasing frequency among the Tampa Bay drumming community. Fear was spreading like wildfire, and many of the drummers were becoming reluctant to attend drumming events not knowing where the madman who was terrorizing them would strike next.