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Two apparently very different negotiators: a leading hostage negotiator and a mergers and acquisitions dealmaker. One has solved hundreds of high stakes sieges. The other has completed more than sixty corporate M&A deals worth close to $1 billion. In The Work Smarter Guide to Negotiation Kirk and Jim have fused their remarkable life experiences of negotiating in widely contrasting situations to simplify complex issues and provide practical solutions for all kinds of scenarios.

At midnight Texas granite courthouses stand in solitary silence, except for the tolling of their clock towers. The bells' thick droning could easily drown out the cries from a small-town killer's victim. Small-town justice is always something to question, especially when a mysterious stranger is stalking the wintry main streets to butcher your friends.

Raw and loony, filthy and funny gutbucket belches from Kirk Alex, author of the acclaimed and controversial LUSTMORD: Anatomy of a Serial Butcher. This collection includes tales such as the sexually graphic and outlandishly violent, “Ziggy Popper at Large,” featuring a recently released ex-con sitting in a dive bar in seedy East Hollywood nursing a beer and minding his own business, when a scrawny a-hole walks in and parks his butt on the stool next to his and offers him cash money to shag his wife. Hardboiled and packing a punch of LA attitude in its gritty realism and black humor, “...

Relax with this uplifting love story that will tug at your heartstrings and keep you listening WAY too late at night.

Last Tango in the Old Pueblo Some insane lunacy is taking place at the New Pueblo Funeral Home & Chapel. Drifter Ray Zook is about to regret he ever set foot in Tucson, let alone allow himself to get hired on as the night man, answering the phone & hauling decedents. Pushin’ da Pushbroom Just what it says: working another McJob pushing a broom in a Tucson warehouse the size of a couple of football fields. It also goes into my two close encounters with Bukowski back in the 80s when I drove a cab in L.A.

Birdman of Tucson Calder, reclusive by nature, gives his color TV set away (to break free of his addiction to it). In an effort to fill the void in his humble digs he decides to pick up a parrot at the local pet store. Instead of the bonding that he was receptive to and expected to take place, this bird-lover’s life is turned into a certified nightmare. Following a month’s worth of assaults by this evil freaking “lovebird,” he takes it back to the shop. But then inexplicably risks life and limb to recover it. Will he or won’t he? And should he get it back, will the protagonist ...

Will love be the winner? Josie Campbell grew up surrounded by doctors who were fiercely dedicated to their profession. That’s why fun-loving Josie has never been tempted to date anyone in the profession. Then again, she’s never met anyone as intriguing as neurosurgeon Noah Anson. Captivated by Josie’s free-wheeling spirit—and her total lack of interest in him--Noah is determined to win the beauty’s heart. Noah has never met a situation he can’t control or a woman he can’t charm. When Noah asserts that he can win her heart in five dates, Josie can’t resist the tempting ...

En la actualidad, muchos cristianos no tienen un entendimiento adecuado del NUEVO PACTO. No comprenden correctamente lo que Jesús hizo por ellos con su muerte, sepultura y resurrección. No entienden que Él lo hizo TODO—y nada que ellos hagan podría mejorar lo que Jesús ya hizo.

The Old West's most famous lawmen are convening one final time, but not to solve a case. Instead, they're hoping to spend a few days together having a high old time in Denver before they ride off into the sunset of their years. But then a prostitute is brutally murdered and one of their number stands accused of the crime.

Growing up with an alcoholic and abusive father, Michael is forced spend his summers as a young boy working away in the family's rural crematorium. The crematorium was where it all began - a series of bad decisions and chilling outcomes.

~"This trilogy was like a bag of chips, you can't read just one because they are so enjoyable that you have to continue reading to find out what happens next"~ Amazon reviewer Love heartwarming romance collections that keep you turning the page with stories that seamlessly flow into one another? Then this is the collection for you! Three closely-related love stories about the lives and loves of a family who stands united even when things get tough. Just Say Yes- When a social media maven intent on getting her dream job puts down the name of the business owner's son as a reference and THEN ...

Once upon a time in a small pond, there lived many little animals. The tiniest of them all were the tadpoles, but one tadpole was just a tad too small. His name was Fin, and he had an ENORMOUS question. "HOW DO I GET BIGGER?"

The world that we live in is filled with chaos. We are all searching for meaning in our lives but we often get lost along the way. We all must ultimately realize that meaning is found in responsibility, for our actions, for the way that we live our life, and for the people in our lives. We don’t have to stay in the chaos, we can choose to bring order to our lives. Join us for a fresh perspective on the practical steps we can take to become who God intended us to be and to realize what our calling is. This is Coming Out of Chaos.

In 1929 F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote Ernest Hemingway that because his short stories now earned $4000 a pop he was "an old whore" who had "mastered the 40 positions" when "in her youth one was enough." But were the upwards of 180 stories he cranked out when not writing The Great Gatsby really the work of a literary prostitute selling out his talent for a fast buck? Kirk Curnutt and Robert Trogdon don't think so. Each episode they draw a random title from a hat and explore its place in Fitzgerald's career, in the magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post or Esquire where it may have appeared, ...

An overcrowded planet. Dwindling resources. England isolated and divided. Dominant corporations controlling food, medicine and work. Those on the outside scrabbling to survive. In this companion novel to The Keepers, Pauline Kirk captures the stark reality of a world that is not too far away. Jude is a skilled member of the corporation's security force. Cracks are beginning to appear in the system and dissatisfaction is growing. Soon even Jude begins to doubt the benevolence of the omnipotent Corporation to which she is pledged until the day she dies.

A small town in Vermont broadcasts prophecies of its residents' deaths. Rey, a cutlery salesman, seems to flicker at the center of every murder on screen. He thinks the town is rigged with cameras, or the locals are trying to set him up. But as the broadcasts grow increasingly surreal, and maniacs start showing up in town to remove his sensory organs, Rey starts to realize that the images pulsing beneath the static-riddled airwaves have woven him into a battle between people who believe that analog is the frequency of the gods.

Severin Smith has been at war for as long as he can remember. After years of dedicated service in the marine corps, the fighting finally catches up with him when a gruesome IED injury ends his military career. No longer able to externalize his agonizing inner turmoil, he moves to his grandfather's isolated farm, where he is relegated to combating his formidable internal demons alone.

As Immortal Divorce Court Volume 4: Doubling Down on Divorce begins, Sirius Sinister is reeling from the destruction and mayhem caused by his enemies in Lisbon. Setting out with renewed determination to avenge those who’ve perished, Sirius makes a difficult gamble, deciding to take the fight to evil, no matter the cost. By luring Gulth Scorn into a final decisive confrontation, Sirius hopes to achieve victory, but his well-laid plans take an unexpected twist when the Countess returns to offer her own brand of assistance.

A renowned warrior, Brynhild Grimsdotter, and her biographer, William Barding, aid a young girl seeking vengeance for the murder of her father, a trinket bearer and victim of the king's obsession with finding occult artifacts.

Mean Pumpkin is a short story about a selfish bully pumpkin who undergoes a transformation at Halloween.