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Alonso Quixano, a retired country gentleman in his fifties, lives in an unnamed section of La Mancha with his niece and a housekeeper. He has become obsessed with books of chivalry, and believes their every word to be true, despite the fact that many of the events in them are clearly impossible. Quixano eventually appears to other people to have lost his mind from little sleep and food and because of so much reading.

After barely avoiding becoming a casualty of his boss’s financial fraud at National Airlines and the break-up of his second marriage, Lonny Jones passes on a promotion to Vice President and relocates to Austin, where he’d attended college twenty years ago, to recharge and figure out his future. By chance, he rents a house owned by a politically active couple and is unwittingly drawn into a down-and-dirty mayoral primary election campaign where the powerful, charming and corrupt mayor uses his office to dispense favors to developers. The challenger is an upstart political novice with an ...

The Roswell Lowdown is an entertaining, fast-paced CIA espionage thriller set in Roswell, New Mexico, Washington D.C., and North Korea. Shocked and dismayed by North Korea’s continued provocative missile tests, Washington leaders debate a response. A range of options, including high-level negotiations, military action, and covert operations, is considered. Celebrated deal-maker Bernie Sorkin proposes a joint venture between National Airlines and a space-travel company, funded by unknown investors and headquartered in Roswell, to provide orbital commercial flights under National’s code. ...

Some threads of fate were never meant to intertwine... Skye Darrow has always seen the world differently—vibrant threads of light surrounding people, shifting with their emotions. Diagnosed with synesthesia as a child, she's channeled this "condition" into her art, creating hauntingly beautiful paintings of the patterns only she can see. But when a mysterious stranger named Killian Sinclair appears at her gallery opening, Skye discovers a shattering truth: she's not ill—she's a Seer, one of the rarest beings in existence who can perceive the threads of fate that bind reality itself. And...

The Africa Sanction is an engaging CIA thriller based in Central Africa, Washington D.C., and Roswell, New Mexico. Outraged by the CIA’s unauthorized assassination of the North Korean President, the Senate Intelligence Committee demands answers. Administration officials attempt to conceal their role in the assassination and deny any involvement. CIA operator James Gill, the mastermind behind the assassination, and National Airlines Sr. VP of Planning Lonny Jones are subpoenaed to testify before the committee. Gill refuses to talk, while Jones claims to have been an unwitting participant. ...

The China Riddle is an entertaining, fast-paced CIA thriller—set in Malibu, California, Washington, D.C., and Dallas, Texas—at the intersection of spy balloons, California fires, and an unresolved Presidential assassination twenty years ago. National Airlines executive Lonny Jones and former CIA operative James Gill risk everything to unravel the mystery as the conspirators close in to silence them.

Summer Butler had no idea that Darling Investigations would be such a smash. But ratings don’t lie—fans love watching the former star solve real-life crimes in her hometown. With the first season wrapped, the reality-show PI is feeling the pressure to make the next one an even bigger success. It seems the town is harboring an arsonist, and all the smoldering signs point to the same culprit: her cousin Dixie.

For as long as Magnolia Steele can remember, the past has had its hooks in her. Her time as a Broadway actress in New York City was an escape that ended in public humiliation, but now that she's back home in Franklin, Tennessee, she's feeling the grip of the two incidents that stole her innocence. The first was the disappearance of her father when she was a teen, who left home for a meeting and never came back. The other incident...well, her memories have returned, but it's best left where it belongs - in the past.

When Magnolia Steele started digging into her father's disappearance, she had no idea she'd find so much dirt. The secrets she unearthed have changed the official story of what happened to him. Everyone other than her now believes that he embezzled from a client with the help of several accomplices, one of whom got greedy and killed the rest, but Magnolia's convinced there's more to it. She finds plenty of conflicting evidence, including startling links between several recent deaths and her father's past.

Ten years ago, Magnolia Steele fled Franklin, Tennessee, after an incident that left her with hazy memories and a horror of the place where she had been born and bred. Though her abrupt departure destroyed most of her treasured relationships, she vowed never to return...until she has no choice. When Magnolia's breakout acting role in a Broadway musical ends in disgrace, there's only one place she can go. She finds herself on her momma's porch, suitcase in hand.

The Allies and Fighter Command have gone on the offensive. The French town of Dieppe is selected for the first major assault on the European continent. But Jox McNabb and No.111 Squadron start to feel like they are being lured into a trap. And their new leader is acting unpredictably, making them worried that he can't be trusted.

While trying to complete a top-secret corporate acquisition project at National Airlines, Lonny Jones’ life is turned upside down as sensitive negotiating information is leaked to the competition and his boss begins to exhibit questionable behavior. Lonny’s life is further complicated by his former best friend, Jack Heygood, who parlays the promise of testimony in the retrial of a Tropical Investment, Inc. kingpin — previously convicted of orchestrating a Ponzi scheme — into release from prison. Once on the loose, Jack’s suspicious business dealings wind through Dallas, the ...

Charlize Carson's career was in her rear view mirror. Retirement wasn't the terrifying leap she worried it would be. But when the phone rings, an old friend on the line, she and Mick consider taking the case. A body is discovered just outside the grounds of a military base, sending shockwaves through the surrounding community. The victim, a well-known advocate who spent decades fighting for the rights of veterans poisoned by the base's contaminated water, has made enemies in high places. As Charlize digs deeper, she finds herself caught in a web of government cover-ups, corruption, and ...

Free Fall from Grace is an entertaining, fast-paced political thriller set in Washington D.C. and Dallas. Long-time National Airlines CEO Bill Wolf, restless and bored in his current position, tastes the Washington political and party scene and becomes enamored with the lifestyle. He soon develops a higher calling to serve as a high-level appointee in the next administration. Unscrupulous power brokers believe him to be useful and support his candidacy for a cabinet position. As Wolf’s interest in his Washington career grows, he loses focus on National just as the stock tumbles due to ...

Strawberry Epiphany is a fast-moving spy thriller set in Washington, D.C. and Dallas. After the untimely death of the National Airlines CEO, the board of directors, at the behest of an activist investor who wants to cash out his stock, moves quickly to install Gene Street as the new CEO. Under extreme pressure to quickly execute a financial turnaround and raise the market share price, Street promotes Lonny Jones to CFO and hires an outsider with a little-known history as COO. Jones’ laser focus on profitability leads him to uncover unexplainable cost problems and become unwittingly ...

En cuestiones de dinero, lo que importa no es lo listo que seas sino cómo te comportas. Tendemos a pensar en la inversión o la gestión de las finanzas personales como una disciplina matemática, en la que los datos y las fórmulas nos dicen exactamente qué hacer. Sin embargo, el rasgo que...

HÁBITOS ATÓMICOS parte de una simple pero poderosa pregunta: ¿Cómo podemos vivir mejor? Sabemos que unos buenos hábitos nos permiten mejorar significativamente nuestra vida, pero con frecuencia nos desviamos del camino: dejamos de hacer ejercicio, comemos mal, dormimos poco, despilfarramos...

Tus genes no definen quién eres. No estás programado para ser de una manera determinada toda tu vida. Existe una nueva ciencia que empodera a los seres humanos para crear la realidad que elijan. En Deja de ser tú, el conocido autor, orador, investigador y quiropráctico Joe Dispenza combina los campos de la biología, la genética, la física cuántica, la neurociencia y la química cerebral para mostrarte hasta dónde se puede llegar.