Showing results by narrator "J. D." in All Categories

There have been thousands of books on the Great War, but most have focused on commanders, battles, strategy, and tactics. Less attention has been paid to the daily lives of the combatants, how they endured the unimaginable conditions of industrial warfare: the rain of shells, bullets, and...

1993. In this rollicking take on modern diplomacy, a Norwegian social scientist and his diplomat wife are determined to try a new tactic to break the long-standing deadlock of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. A secret back channel in Norway leads to unexpected breakthroughs as negotiators find common ground. When the political becomes personal, relationships are forged that offer a chance to alter the course of history.

Navy SEAL Calvin Cooper is on his way to Silicon Valley to purchase a drone from a backyard inventor. He has an almost-encounter in Monterey with Libby Brownlee, who has taken a semester off from grad school to tour the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Dis-Solving Conflict from Within presents a new paradigm for looking at conflict. Written by a professional mediator (and an occasional adventure motorcyclist), this book presents a mindfulness-based framework for understanding conflict, and more importantly, responding to conflict with strength, clarity, and ease as opposed to reacting to it with fear, avoidance, or aggression.

First published in 1853 amidst rumors that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with one of his slaves, Clotel is a fictional chronicle of one such child. After Jefferson's death, his mistress and her two daughters are auctioned. One daughter, Clotel, is purchased by a white man from Virginia who impregnates her. Despite the promise of marriage, Clotel is instead sold to another man and separated from her daughter. After escaping from the slave dealer, Clotel returnss to Virginia to reunite with her daughter - now a slave in her father's house.

When an elite group of Texas Marines—Echo Squadron—is sent into the remote mountains of Kazmira to investigate strange energy readings, they expect a mission of strategy and survival. But what they uncover is far beyond anything human warfare has prepared them for. Ancient beings stir beneath the earth. Giants rise in the shadows. Portals rip open reality. And whispers from Eden echo across the battlefield. Among them is Sergeant Samuel Carter—a soldier, a father of seven, and a man whose unshakable faith is about to be tested by a force older than time.

Life in the Middle Ages can be tough. Nasty, brutish, and short, as they say. War, famine, torture. Plague and intolerance. People getting burned at the stake and all that. And nobody speaks English. All of which sucks if you’re from the 21st Century. Martin’s just a regular guy. A job that's going—well, not exactly nowhere, but not anyplace fast. A condo in the DC suburbs. A Ford Fusion. A couple of beers on a Friday night.

From a career as a, yes, ruthless pimp in the '40s and '50s, Iceberg Slim refashioned himself as the first and still the greatest of the "street lit" masters, whose vivid books have made him an icon to such rappers as Ice-T, Jay-Z, and Snoop Dogg and a presiding spirit of "blaxploitation" culture.

Today’s natural disasters kill thousands of people in a matter of hours and days and we ask WHY? What made Job special then and now was the ability to stand nobly firm when tragedy surrounded him and to question the silence of God.

Persistently unlucky with women, Mitchell is tired of dates that seem to go nowhere fast. He's just decided to become a player - replete with a swaggering style and cocky attitude. Now all the women he meets find him irresistible! Enter Nikki, a beautiful woman whose luck with the opposite sex has also been pretty bad. Will they hit it off?

Billionaires, Navy SEALs, ex-lovers seeking revenge, terrorists, sultans, and Indian Ocean pirates. This five-book series begins with an improbable beginning (a one night stand) and winds up in a climax of beauty, butterflies, and a happily-ever-after worth dying for. Enjoy the same couple: Marco Gambini, former Navy SEAL stripped of half his wealth who owns and operates a global security rescue team, and Shannon Marr, former weather girl at a Tampa television station.

Maxwell Cain, also known as “Bloody Rain Cain,” is a cop fed up with the murderous hooligans who control the streets of San Pajita, California. After years of public service, Max is fired for executing too many dirtbags, and he seeks solace at his favorite taqueria. When his comfort burrito is sullied by the careless actions of brutal thugs, Max finally snaps. What begins as an argument over a ruined lunch quickly spirals into a hurricane of blood and revenge. Max is joined in his fight by the gorgeous Kate Valentine, a baker with an itchy trigger finger.

Born in 1832 in Pennsylvania, Louisa May Alcott was best known for Little Women, her phenomenal bestseller loosely based on her childhood experiences with her own sisters. Adapted numerous times for stage and screen, it is dramatised here alongside her follow-up novel Good Wives and the thrilling sensation story A Marble Woman.

Diana Wolf likes to think she has it all: a rock-god husband, an empty nest, a wine cellar, and a dream home in the woods. Life is good. It has to be. But when she hires a cartographer, Kerry Perkins, to survey and map her estate in rural Tennessee, she pulls back a frayed corner of the lie that is her fairytale life. On his first night at Wolf Hollow, Kerry stumbles across a young girl's skeleton buried in the woods. But what really scares Diana is a familiar symbol carved into the girl’s skull: two wolves.

Langston Brown is running out of time and options for clearing his name and escaping death row. Wrongfully convicted of the gruesome Mother's Day Massacre, he prepares to face his death. His final hope for salvation lies with his daughter, Liza, an artist who dreamed of a life of music and song but left the prestigious Juilliard School to pursue a law degree with the intention of clearing her father's name.

Why seek outside answers when you already possess the resources and power you need? Noted Native American speaker turned author D. J. Eagle Bear Vanas uses wisdom from his Odawa Indian roots and his path as an officer in the US Air Force and later as an entrepreneur to interweave the Native tradition of storytelling with practical key bits of knowledge to live and learn by. By following Vanas’s direction, you can develop your talent and ability to better serve and defend others.

Msgr. Rossetti’s uplifting words are suffused with a spirit of gratitude and joy. He encourages listeners to abandonment to God and a habitual awareness of God’s loving presence. It is precisely this Presence that gives inner peace and radiates God’s joy. This retreat given to the Bishops, focuses on the Divine invitation to a deeper relationship with God. Drawing on a lifetime of ministry to priests and bishops, speaking of such important spiritual topics as prayer, Eucharistic amazement, the Mother of God, hope, facing suffering, thanksgiving, and joy.

Join this great voyage through the history of the Panama Canal, which is, one hundred years after its completion, on the eve of a new chapter in its spectacular history. From the early explorers, many seeking a critical water connection between two of the world's great oceans to the determination of the best engineers of America, the BIG DIG finally opened for shipping - you can be on board! What stood in the way of making this canal a reality?

NATIONAL BESTSELLER MORE THAN A MILLION COPIES SOLD Get ready for kindergarten with this audiobook of rhyming poems that shows kids what to expect from their first year in school! “Kindergarten, here I come… I’m checking off the list Of everything I need for school. Let’s see…...

Nebraska born and bred Navy SEAL Calvin "Coop" Cooper, after his own family has perished in a tornado, is ordered to meet the family of a prominent San Diego psychiatrist.