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Dramatic, highly listenable, and painstakingly researched, The Great Desert Escape brings to light a little-known escape by 25 determined German sailors from an American prisoner-of-war camp.The disciplined Germans tunneled unnoticed through rock-hard, sunbaked soil and crossed the unforgiving Arizona desert. They were heading for Mexico, where there were sympathizers who could help them return to their fatherland. It was the only large-scale domestic escape by foreign prisoners in US history.

One by one, things that Norm and his Japanese American family took for granted are taken away. In a matter of months, they, along with everyone else of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast, are forced by the government to move to internment camps, leaving everything they have known behind.

"The Right to Privacy" is an article that appeared in the Harvard Law Review on December 15, 1890, that is considered the first document that argued for the inherent right to privacy, defining the right as one of the natural rights, the “right to be left alone”. The authorship is credited to both Louis Brandeis and his law partner, Samuel Warren, but the article was apparently written mostly by Brandeis.

Safe in the ivory tower. Gabriel Miller swears he’ll keep me safe. Enemies lurk outside, waiting to strike. An army held back by these walls. Except some animal instinct warns me the danger is much closer. It’s already here. Is Gabriel my protector, or my enemy? Is this house a castle or a cage?

The mob, billionaires, presidents, political maneuvering, and war. This is a tough, plain-spoken, deeply passionate narrative by one of our most important national figures. So many politicians' books read as though they've been cobbled together from old speeches. The Good Fight is as far from that as it is possible to get. It is the story of a man who knows what a good fight is because he has had to fight like hell for everything his whole life.

He just wants to erase his past. The day Jack - formerly Winston Stewart - walked out of jail, he vowed to keep his conviction a secret. After all, it wasn’t like he’d committed a murder. Just a terrible mistake, and he did his time. Now he wants a new life in a sleepy town where no one knows his name. Deep Haven is the perfect place to start over as a chef. The last thing the former pararescue jumper wants is to get involved. But when Boone Buckam - his friend and the one guy he owes for getting him out of the slammer - asks for help, how can Jack refuse?

As champion of the Goddess of Fate, Marluck had it all: fame, power, status—until his divine favor was stripped while fighting a freakish fledgling god-beast. He somehow became an Oathbreaker: a reviled fallen paladin, scorned by all. Bereft of his powers and cast lower than the cobbles, Marluck stumbles across the Oathbreakers Guild. But when a stranger whispers of four holy sites where other Oathbreakers found favor once more, Marluck is helpless to resist the siren song of renewed succor within the fold of his goddess and sets out on a do-or-die quest to find favor once more.

Queen Mab's niece, Fiona, has long been bored to tears by the intrigues of Court life. She'd prefer to cut loose at a punk club, knock back a few Thai beers, and hook up with a likely lad of similar interests. But when Fiona goes AWOL, she only gets as far as Manhattan's Inwood Park before a nasty demon nearly puts a permanent crimp in her plans---and a dark stranger sparks her desire.

Are you tired of your daily job? Would like to understand what is passive income and how you can achieve financial freedom? Many people are living life on their own terms, working when they choose to, and earning more than they ever did at their “daily” jobs.

Discover crochet and learn it in just one day with this easy-to-use guide. This is a proven, step-by-step method to learning the craft of crochet.

Marjorie Dunn is hiding in plain sight. The past can’t find her at the peaceful inn she owns in a quiet coastal town in Maine. Until Sam Brewer walks through the door. He arrives in the dead of night, with a dark suit and storm-gray eyes. Marjorie knows better than to trust this stranger, but she can’t resist his touch. Every kiss binds them together. Every night draws the danger close. She risks her heart with him, but more than that, she risks her life. The past has caught up with her. And it wants her dead.

The Memory Palace Technique, also known as the "Method of Loci," is a powerful memory improvement technique that has been used for thousands of years. It is based on the idea of using mental imagery and spatial memory to remember information. The technique involves creating a mental image of a familiar place, such as a house or building, and then linking specific pieces of information to different locations within that place. This audiobook will teach you everything you need to know about the Method of Loci and how it can be very helpful in enhancing your memory and recall.

When you've got nothing left, why not risk it all? They say life in the Coalition is idyllic, utopian. Tell that to Caspian Robeaux, who was tried, convicted, and thrown in prison. When an early chance for parole comes up, it seems his luck may have changed, though something isn't quite right about where they're sending him. And he might just have to take the biggest chance of his life if he wants to survive.

In a world where so many dark things go bump in the night, terror awaits around every corner as these authors take horror stories to the next level. Suffer alongside these characters as camping trips go awry, artistic drawings come to life, home décor thirsts for sacrifices, and more stories to fuel your worst nightmares. Featuring eight stories by Warren Benedetto, Jacob Steven Mohr, Barend Nieuwstraten III, Lincoln Reed, Dylan Roche, Victor Nandi, and L.V. Gaudet.

Why does engagement plummet as learners advance in school? Why does the stream of questions from curious toddlers slow to a trickle as they become teenagers? Most importantly, what can teachers and schools do to reverse this trend? Beautiful Questions in the Classroom has the answers. Written to be both inspirational and practical, this resource will help educators transform their classrooms into cultures of curiosity.

Playing for Keeps is an insightful, in-depth account of the game that became America's premier spectator sport for nearly a century. Reconstructing the culture and experience of early baseball through a careful reading of the sporting press, baseball guides, and the correspondence of the player-manager Harry Wright, Warren Goldstein discovers the origins of many modern controversies during the game's earliest decades.The 20th Anniversary Edition includes information about the changes that have occurred in the history of the sport since the 1980s.

Neuroscience, Psychology, and Religion is the second title published in the new Templeton Science and Religion Series. In this volume, Malcolm Jeeves and Warren S. Brown provide an overview of the relationship between neuroscience, psychology, and religion that is academically sophisticated, yet accessible to the general reader.

Working out consistently leads to increased confidence, a healthier body and a more focused mind. This hypnosis uses neuro-linguistic programming to help you stop procrastinating, live healthily and achieve a rock solid workout routine.

Jim Jones convinced his 1000 followers they would all have to commit suicide since he was going to die. Shoko Asahara convinced his followers to release a weapon of mass destruction, the deadly sarin gas, on a Tokyo subway. These are a few of the doomsday cults examined in this audiobook by best-selling author Alan R. Warren. Its focus is on cults whose destructive behavior was due in large part to their apocalyptic beliefs or doomsday movements. This audiobook examines how a social movement grows into a full religion and when it does not.

Today's heads of big companies are as recognizable to us as the most popular entertainers or sports stars, but the heart and soul of every organization are those leaders below the CEO. Today's celebrity CEO has become either a figurehead or an egomaniac, and often too public a personality to get the real work done. That work is done instead by teams of leaders - exceptional deputies who forge great partnerships to maximize both organizational and personal success.