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Someone is attacking and robbing luxury yachts as they sail the Hawaiian Islands leaving their passengers missing and presumed dead. Sergeant Lei Texeira, with her typical leap first look later style, dives into a case with the Coast Guard to find answers that lie as deep as Davy Jones’ locker.

In A World Beneath the Sands, acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson chronicles the ruthless race between the British, French, Germans, and Americans to lay claim to its mysteries and treasures. He tells riveting stories of the men and women whose obsession with Egypt’s ancient civilization helped to enrich and transform our understanding of the Nile Valley and its people and left a lasting impression on Egypt, too.

Security specialist Sophie Ang returns to Maui, working alongside dynamic partner Jake Dunn to solve a series of bizarre and escalating threats against a rocker with a beach mansion. But soon, catching a crazed stalker becomes the least of Sophie’s problems: A deadly enemy is hell-bent on taking her down, along with anyone she cares about.

The Coronavirus Bible is what happens when a bunch of Christian comedians get together (virtually) during quarantine to raise money to support those in need. This coronavirus comedy bible will not only raise a laugh, but also raise funds to help those in need. And since laughter is also good medicine, you’ll be helping yourself, too. Honest.

God created everyone on earth with a divine purpose and he put in each person the capability to actualize this. However, many are disappointed because they live in a reality that seems to contradict the promises of God in their life. We want everything fast and convenient. However, God has called us to something greater. He wants us to be fruitful, to multiply, and have dominion. He wants us to develop greatness that lasts. This audiobook will help anyone with a vision to gain the perspective to stay in the process and fulfil their purpose.

Sometimes when we look for black and white, all we find is more grey. Sometimes we are waiting on God to answer our prayer before we feel like we can trust he’s even listening. Toby Slough, a seasoned leader and pastor of a large church, shares candidly about his public battle with anxiety and depression. Through his story, you will find God at work in the most unlikely, “un-churchy” things.

Security specialist Sophie Ang has a new case: Someone is looting artifacts from a royal Hawaiian archaeology site on Maui. Things get deadly fast, and Sophie's friend, Maui homicide detective Lei Texeira, takes the case. The women track a killer whose tangled motives extend high into the world of Hawaiian cultural affairs and deep into the darkest of human motivations. And all the while, Sophie walks a tightrope between new love and heartbreak.

Wired in to her computers, MMA-fighting tech agent Sophie Ang has been content in her clean, cool tech lab, where she chases criminals online, continuing a dance in the dark with the enigmatic vigilante known as the Ghost. Tumultuous changes from without and within, eject her from her agency cocoon to the front lines, where she finds herself in partnership with a brilliant, overbearing, larger-than-life ex-Special Forces operative called Jake Dunn.

It was a cold and foggy February night in 1983 when a group of armed thieves crept onto Ballymany Stud, near The Curragh in County Kildare, Ireland, to steal Shergar, one of the thoroughbred industry's most renowned stallions. The thieves demanded a hefty ransom for the safe return of one of the most valuable Thoroughbreds in the world, but the ransom was never paid and Shergar's remains have never been found.

Michael Stevens investigates the murder of a chef in a fine dining restaurant on Maui that's a buffet of possible motives where jealousy, passion, and revenge top the menu. A host of familiar characters, from Jared Stevens to Dr. Wilson, chime in from their perspectives, each contributing essential information to one of the most complex cases Stevens has ever encountered.... Nothing ever goes as planned for Lei and Stevens, and that includes the arrival of their first child. Lei is fully occupied with this personal project as her world is torn apart by powerful forces.

A child’s skull, washed up on a beach, calls out for justice. The last thing detective Lei Texeira wants to do while her husband is deployed overseas is deal with a cold case involving child homicide, and rescuing a group of foster kids takes her beyond her personal limits. Meanwhile, Michael Stevens lands in a jungle hell filled with every kind of threat from crocodiles to kidnappers.

Five years after the events of Rip Tides, Lei Texeira gets into hot water investigating a crime scene 90 feet down off of the tiny atoll of Molokini, where the death of a beautiful marine biologist is anything but an accident. Lei’s husband, Michael Stevens, is desperate to kill an enemy from within, and it drives him to make a choice his wife will never sanction. Can Lei and Stevens find the answers they need before their different directions tear them apart?

This look at CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) - where it began, where it is today, and where it is headed, told chronologically and through Toby Usnik’s 25 years of brand stewarding at celebrated multinational and start-up firms - is a primer for leaders in small- and medium-sized businesses that are figuring out how to manage their triple bottom line (people, profit, and planet). This book is a primer for any leader developing or expanding their CSR efforts.

Special agent Sophie Ang's emotions are battered by a child kidnapping case that goes badly wrong. In tracking the criminal ring, her rogue data analysis program D.A.V.I.D. identifies an anomaly that leads her into a cat-and-mouse game Online with a deadly enemy whose motives are unclear. The chase lures her through dark corridors of cyberspace into a confrontation with the violence from her past that sent her fleeing to the United States. She'll need every skill she's learned to defeat her worst nightmare - and the stakes couldn't be higher.

Far below the beautiful city of Avondale, in the blighted lands of Valana where no one has ever gone and lived, four young adventurers have discovered a world that is beautiful and dangerous. Tiberius, third son of Earl Ageus of Avondale, struggles to understand and control the magic he has dreamed of for so long. Meanwhile, in Avondale a frantic search is underway to discover why Tiberius would willingly leave the city, and find out who has joined him outside the stronghold's massive walls.

Formula One driver Remy Sabatino is leading the Drivers' Championship, in a car that is the quickest of the season by far. But that also means Sabatino's Russian teammate is the fastest too.... Their rivalry couldn't be more toxic ahead of the Grand Prix in Moscow. TV viewers around the world are about to witness the most catastrophic crash in Formula One history. Was this caused by the acrimony between these drivers? Matt Straker, former Royal Marine and corporate intelligence director, is again called in....

The Living and the Dead examines the boundaries between the worlds of life and death. The text draws upon philosophy, ethnography, literature and natural science to suggest that life and death are best understood not in opposition but as continuous tendencies acting upon one another. Austin Locke argues that the failure to give nuanced consideration to the connections between the living and nonliving devalues both life and death.

Poised to win the prestigious Triple Crown of Surfing, Maui surf star Makoa Simmons washes up tragically dead. Detective Lei Texeira plunges into a high-profile case whose dark and tangled motives reach deep into the elite world of professional surfing on the North Shore of Oahu. Lei must follow her instincts into new territory even as husband Michael Stevens struggles with heartbreak of another kind.

To a Formula One driver, speed, wheel-to-wheel combat and danger are part of every Grand Prix. But things turn sinister in Monaco when Remy Sabatino's car is sabotaged. Then Remy's teammate suffers a highly suspicious life-threatening crash. Matt Straker, former Royal Marine and corporate intelligence director, is brought in to the team to investigate. Under increasing pressure, he battles to protect its Formula One drivers as they try to race in the glamorous Grands Prix of the world, from Monza to Brazil.

Maui is sacred places, ancient artifacts, and the dark lava of deepest passions.

Nothing ever goes easy for detectives Lei Texeira and Michael Stevens. An investigation into heiau desecrations must take a backseat to the emergence of an enemy who targets those closest to them, leaving shrouds as a calling card. Lei and Stevens face challenges of the body, mind, and heart in this seventh in the best-selling Lei Crime Series.