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What lies behind the forbidden door of the great Taxidermist? When her servant decides to find out, a great and terrible surprise awaits her.

Jenny Kane loves weird science - but it's gone way, WAY out of control. Her mother's moved out, her dad's still moping around, and she's not sure how to cope any longer. And she keeps getting these weird phone calls from a scientist named Rod who's...where?...when? - another time zone? Another time altogether? Another reality? But that'd be crazy, wouldn't it? She also has the strangest feeling that she's done all this before. Who's this odd boy she just crashed into - this Tristan?

When a gang of film-star look-alikes decide to try and con a Hollywood producer into financing their bogus blockbuster movie, they know it's the biggest gamble of their lives but looking like the biggest flange of film-stars ever assembled to make a movie, has got to help. The Great Hollywood Double Hustle invites you into the curious world of a desperate gang of film-star look-alikes who are prepared to risk everything to escape what they consider to be, their dysfunctional Doppelgänger fate.

Wal is a dreamer. He dreams of escaping from his parents by sailing away on a raft. His friend Billy is a bit more practical: he thinks a raft would be great fun for day-trips in the sheltered waters of the local inlet. Together the boys build the raft and sail it. They make visits to an island, they explore the nearby mangrove swamps, they sail among the wild sea birds. One day they save a trapped dolphin. On another day they nearly collide with a millionaire's yacht. But Wal still dreams of escape, and one dark night he sets sail into the teeth of a growing storm.

Poor Jack Wong is a clueless cadet at the Unified Space Academy when his pod is stranded on a planet of disgusting aliens. All he wants to do, other than escape, is to fulfill his proud duty to advance Earth Culture's Primary Heuristic: "Wherever possible, find the weak spot in an alien civilization and interfere as much as possible for the benefit of humanity." It's the Human's Burden! But everything comes unstuck, made worse by his irritating Machiavellian AI. And that's just the start of Jack's troubles in space and time....

Earth, the fantasy - the place where mankind originated, the storied vista of green, rolling hills and unblemished mountains and fields of amber grain waving in a light breeze. Earth, the reality - a junk world, a dirty, dangerous, rundown planet filled with detention camps, flop houses, taverns, human body parts factories, mobsters' palaces, and a lawless immigrant community of aliens and humans on the run.

From Rory Clements, winner of the Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award, comes The Queen's Man, the sixth in his acclaimed bestselling John Shakespeare Elizabethan mystery series. England is a Judas nest of conspiracyIt is 1582, and the conflict between Protestant and Catholic threatens to tear the country in two. While Queen Elizabeth I holds the reins of power, there are those whose loyalty lies with her imprisoned cousin, Mary Queen of Scots.

Kristen's life gets more complicated as she deals with losing the only man she's really ever loved...her father, only to find out that almost everything she has ever known was a lie. Her only ally as she's running to save her life from someone trying to kill her is her father's neighbor, an ex-police officer and writer, who knows just how to get under Kristen's skin. Circumstances push the two together and they learn that they are more compatible than they first thought.

This audiobook includes all of the real, honest secrets that Rory used to become one of the fastest rising speakers in the world in just a few short years. This is not just the basics of how to tell a story, what to do to write a speech, or how to use simple gestures. This is industrial-strength mastery level advanced mechanics for how to make audiences erupt with laughter and explode with applause. The only way you'll ever reach your maximum potential as a speaker is to become absolutely dynamic onstage.

Having a hard time staying focused in your life? Do you find that you are either constantly procrastinating or constantly overwhelmed? You're not alone, and there is something fun that can help! You need the Daily Discipline!

Cofounder of Southwestern Consulting, author, and renowned sales consultant Rory Vaden reveals the skills and secrets of top sales performers that transcend all industries. The Sales Team's Edge sales training certification program will show you how to fill your sales funnel, distinguish yourself from a sea of sales professionals, and keep your skills sharp.

What if you really could make more money than you knew what to do with? What if you were able to lose the fear of rejection, and prospecting became more fun? Picture a lifestyle where you were always the top producer in your office or at your company. Think for a moment about just how good it would feel to always be getting recognized for the top spot, having trophies and plaques hanging all around your office and the respect and admiration of your colleagues.

You want to grow your income, but you're so busy that you often feel like there's just not enough time in the day to fit in everything that needs to be done! Sound familiar? Don't worry. Now you have access to over 160 years of excellence in coaching, training, hiring, motivating, managing, and leading from the Southwestern Company salespeople.

From a dog livestock auction to the laboratory of one of the world's leading animal behavioral scientists all the way up to the highest echelons of the USDA, journalist Rory Kress and her dog, Izzie, seek answers about who we're trusting to be the watchdogs for our pet dogs. The Doggie in the Window is a story of hope and redemption. With Izzie's help, learn the real story behind the dog in the window and how she got there in the first place.

Play is important. Play is a fundamental human need. Play can improve every area of a person’s life. But are you really getting enough real play? It’s time to explore The Play Paradigm. This breakthrough book will help you understand and re-define your relationship with play. This has the potential to transform your life, work, relationships, and overall levels of success and happiness.

Now raising their four-year-old daughter, Indiana, alone, after Joey’s passing, Rory Feek digs deeper into the soil of his life and the unusual choices he and his wife, Joey, made together and the ones he’s making now to lead his family into the future. When Feek and his older daughters moved into a run-down farmhouse almost 20 years ago, he had no idea of the almost fairy-tale love story that was going to unfold on that small piece of Tennessee land. He takes listeners on his incredible journey from heartbreak to hope and, ultimately, the kind of healing that comes only through faith.

Rory Miller's Facing Violence: Preparing for the Unexpected includes seven elements that must be addressed to bring self-defense training to something approaching complete. These elements are: legal and ethical implications, violence dynamics, avoidance, counter-ambush, breaking the freeze, the fight itself, and the aftermath. Training that dismisses any of these areas leaves you vulnerable.

The eve of war: a secret so deadly, nothing and no-one is safe. June, 1939. England is partying like there is no tomorrow, gas masks at the ready. In Cambridge, the May Balls are played out with a frantic intensity - but the good times won't last. When one of Cavendish Laboratory's finest minds is murdered, Professor Tom Wilde is once more drawn into intrigue. In a conspiracy that stretches from Cambridge to Berlin and from Washington, DC to the west coast of Ireland, he faces deadly forces that threaten the fate of the world.

In This Life I Live, Rory Feek helps us not only to connect more fully to his and Joey’s story but also to our own journeys. He shows what can happen when we are fully open in life’s key moments, whether when meeting our life companion or tackling an unexpected tragedy. He also gives never-before-revealed details on their life together and what he calls “the long goodbye,” the blessing of being able to know that life is going to end and taking advantage of it.

This big-canvas international spy thriller marks the beginning of a brilliant new direction for Rory Clements. 1936. Europe is in turmoil. The Nazis have marched into the Rhineland. In Russia, Stalin has unleashed his Great Terror. Spain has erupted in civil war. In Berlin, a young Englishwoman evades the Gestapo to deliver vital papers to a Jewish scientist. Within weeks she is found dead, a silver syringe clutched in her fingers.