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Audiobooks Narrated by Tom Lennon
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As the inter-dimensional enemy closes in on humanity’s last stronghold, the saga continues.
Commodore Richard Morian and the crew of the Avenger find themselves at the forefront of the battle against the Blues. As they face off against unimaginable foes and navigate treacherous political waters, they must rely on their wits, their courage, and their trust in each other to survive.
With new technology, advanced weaponry, and a fierce determination to protect their home planet and the galaxy at large, the Avenger is ready to take on almost any challenge. But as they drive deeper into enemy territory, they discover their most dangerous enemies may not be the aliens themselves, but a traitor within their own ranks.
Every week, one in eight Americans place a bet on the dream of a life-changing lottery jackpot. Americans spend more on lottery tickets annually than on video streaming services, concert tickets, books, and movie tickets combined.
The story of lotteries in the United States may seem straightforward: tickets are bought predominately by poor people driven by the wishful belief that they will overcome infinitesimal odds and secure lives of luxury. The reality is more complicated. For a Dollar and a Dream shows how, in an era of stagnant upward mobility, millions of Americans turned to the lottery as their only chance at achieving the American Dream. Gamblers were not the only ones who bet on betting. As voters revolted against higher taxes in the late twentieth century, states saw legalized gambling
as a panacea, a way of generating revenue without cutting public services or raising taxes. Alongside stories of lottery winners and losers, Jonathan Cohen shows how gamblers have used prayer to help them win a jackpot, how states tried to pay for schools with scratch-off tickets, and how lottery advertising has targeted lower income and nonwhite communities.
For a Dollar and a Dream charts the untold history of the nation's lottery system, revealing how players and policymakers alike got hooked on hopes for a gambling windfall.
American Urbanist shares the life and wisdom of a man whose advocacy reshaped many of the places we know and love today-from New York's bustling Bryant Park to preserved forests and farmlands around the country. William 'Holly' Whyte's experiences as a WWII intelligence officer and leader of the genre-defining reporters at Fortune Magazine in the 1950s shaped his razor-sharp assessments of how the world actually worked-not how it was assumed to work. His 1956 bestseller, The Organization Man, catapulted the dangers of 'groupthink' and conformity into the national consciousness.
Over his five decades of research and writing, Holly's wide-ranging work changed how people thought about careers and companies, cities and suburbs, urban planning, open space preservation, and more. He was part of the rising environmental movement, helped spur change at the planning office of New York City, and narrated two films about urban life, in addition to writing six books. No matter the topic, Holly advocated for the decisionmakers to be people, not just experts.
This revealing biography offers a rare glimpse into the mind of an iconoclast whose healthy skepticism of the status quo can help guide our efforts to create the kinds of places we want to live in today.
We need effective leaders today more than ever before. In fact, the root cause behind failed businesses and failed governments is usually either a lack of leadership or the presence of destructive or ineffective leadership. In this collection of dissertations on topics relevant to effective leadership, you'll be challenged to think. Along the way, you'll learn how to discover and clarify your mission, vision, and values; learn how to handle difficult people and situations; improve the performance of your people and teams; and communicate with coworkers, customers, and colleagues. You'll also learn about the leadership continuum and its gradations and how to find the action, behavior, or decision that balances as best as possible benefits with costs. Balance is getting something just right. However, since the world is always changing, the sweet spot is always changing too. What was in balance yesterday may not be today. Like riding a bicycle, we constantly need to monitor our positions and make adjustments to compensate for curves and bumps in the road. Make sound decisions, build better teams, communicate more effectively, be appropriately flexible, and be appropriately strong, with the lessons, examples, and insights in Balanced Leadership.
To all those individuals who have dogs in their lives, fully know how brilliant these family members can be. They completely know just how loving and loyal their dog, or dogs, are. To those many others who never had a dog to love and cherish, I'm hoping that this anthology gives them a little push to seek the adoption of these loving animals.
The Great Blackness is coming …
The dimensions are collapsing, and life across the universe will end, or, at least the form as we know it will never be the same.
The ruthless Scarab have a plan, but it’s inhumane, unthinkable, and it would probably work.
A mysterious door stands in the middle of the desert lands of ancient Kemet. Behind it, answers about the universe that many seek are hidden—even answers to questions no one has thought to ask.
Choices will be made—people will die.
No one can know if what’s behind the door is worth the risk without being changed forever and forever changing the world.
The door is the key …
Jude Johnstone and his photographer buddy Grover once traveled together for magazine articles. Times have changed. Jude is now a tabloid reporter in Miami, and Grover runs a dying camera store. Then Jude gets a tip leading to the location of a disappeared Powerball winner of $900M, and finds him in hiding in a South Beach penthouse. Howard Rosen was a bowling alley accountant who has erased his identity with the plan to reemerge a hero after financing a coup against a corrupt Caribbean island dictator. He hires Jude to find his possible son ... or is it just a young man claiming to be his son on Union? He instructs Jude to find out, and help islanders resist the governor, with an unlimited budget and the lure of a fake reality show to infiltrate. What happens next is anything but predictable, though, as a storm approaches. And if he and Grover fail to beat the opposing tribe? They're shark food!
Universal power is gone ...
Centuries ago, a clean, endless power source was discovered coursing through space.We found a way to harness it and life became easy--no more struggling.Without warning, a technologically advanced alien race came along and just took it away.
We took electricity for granted.Just another bill, sitting on the counter waiting to be paid.
Until it's gone.
Billions perished.Frozen to death in their homes.Starved when manufacturers and farmers couldn't produce enough food.
We'd built a helpless civilization dependant on universal power.The old, simple way of hard work and toiling the land was forgotten.
The aliens just left.
We struggled to survive.We learned, again.Tapped into the earth, and found resources.Powered our homes and machines.
Then the aliens returned and started imprisoning us.Forced us to mine gold without explanation.
Now, only one woman stands between the aliens and our freedom:
Commander Saren Thorn.
