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In a rare combination of comprehensive coverage and sustained critical focus, this book examines Japan's progress through its entire history to its current status as an economic, technological, and cultural superpower. A key factor is a pragmatic determination to succeed. Little-known facts are also brought to light, and the latest findings used. 

One tablet a day, it’s supposed to keep you alive. But it might just kill you. TC is the wonder drug. Manufactured in secrecy on a remote planet at the edge of the galaxy. It makes worlds inhabitable; and Balcom Industrial lots of money. Suddenly, the people who need to take it to stay alive start to die! For Layla Balcom, the news is devastating. She’s just resumed her rightful place as head of Balcom. This problem threatens to spoil her moment of triumph. Can the drug be flawed? Or is something else going on? 

"Review a hotel for me," she said. "It'll be easy," she said. I haven't even got started, and there's a body in the bathroom. It was only supposed to be a hotel review. All Miles Goram wants to do is finish up and get off Reevis as quickly as he can. It's an airless planet where everyone lives under a giant dome. Not the sort of place he wants to be stuck on. The body in his bath has really fouled his plans up.

Wickersham Hollow holds the dark secret of a deal made in hell on Halloween night 1697. The secret is kept within a house - a house with a will of its own, a house long empty of living souls - a house with a heart of pure evil. Now, 300 years later, seven teenagers in search of a Halloween night thrill get more than they bargained for when they awaken a malevolence that has lain dormant for centuries. Barely escaping with their lives, they learn that the past never dies.

Set during the early 20th century, the biggest hardship of all mankind, a weak man learns to live through hard times and the great war.

Thirteen short stories of the strange that will take you into a world where only the echoes of reality exist. These are Twilight Zone type stories. Journey with a young boy suffering with downes syndrome as he is confronted by bullies. Lost and alone, he finds a protector he never knew existed. Meet a lonely man who is the butt of everyone's jokes, a man who finally finds love, comfort, and acceptance in a way he could never have imagined. They say the waiting is the hardest part. It's not! Winning isn't always what it's cracked up to be, especially when relatives are involved.

The Diamond Tree is a classic fairy tale that is a fun listen for kids and for adults who play audiobooks to kids. Children will identify with the somewhat petulant Prince Dall as he seeks adventure and tries to outdo his older brothers.

Defeated writer Brenton Blake travels to the woods of Idyllwild, and checks into an old cabin for a week to get away, and deal with a lifetime of depression and loneliness to finally finish his novel. What he finds is a total breakdown in his solitude. No internet, no distractions, only the deafening stillness of the surrounding woods for him to hear the voice that has been calling to him for so long.