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Michael Brein's Travel Tales Collection: Close Calls and Great Escapes 1 features a bunch of frightening and horrific tales of fear and panic that can most certainly happen to you in your travels. Scary things do happen occasionally, and mostly your travels are the usual, typical, expected sorts of normal non-anxious experiences. But there are also those unexpected, strange and dangerous surprises that pop up now and again in your journeys.

Bob and Billy, two not-too-bright characters, are working peacefully in the bomb testing field in the Death Valley. Everything is going according to plan until their cousin Billy-Bob accidentally pushes a nuclear bomb launch button. After that, all kinds of mayhem erupts. The plus side? Bob and Billy get super-powers that turn them into... you guessed it... super-heroes. And that's just the beginning!

While working on his doctorate degree, Sam Abbott invents two serums: one to prevent contagious diseases; the other to block the harmful effects of air pollution to lungs and bronchial tubes. He tries to get US drug companies to take an interest in his inventions, but they all sneer at him and turn him down. Buried in student loans, virtually penniless and weeks away from getting his doctorate, Sam contacts David Holloway, the second wealthiest man in the world. Sam needs financing to build his company.

Michael Brein's Travel Tales Collection, Spooky Tales 1, features a bunch of bizarre and strange tales of the paranormal that can happen to you in your travels. Strange things do happen, and mostly they are the usual, typical, expected sorts of normal experiences. But there are also those unexpected, strange surprises that pop up now and again in your journeys.

"We haven't seen you since the explosion! We'd love to have you visit!" And so start the adventures. What happens next is chronicled in Problem Cousin and Other Funny Stories, a new book by Alex Goodwin. From chasing burning Christmas trees down steep mountains to ending world-wide banana shortages, Bob and Billy will take you on an adventure like never before.

The 10 travel tales that are featured for November, as well as each following month, include a fascinating mix of travel stories as well as a few brief vignettes. These are, simply said, great travel stories! The November issue features such tales as "The Black Book", "Confessions of a Customs Officer", and "Confessions of a Stewardess", whereby travelers get themselves into trouble by behaving and acting in ways that make them guilty of doing dubious things while traveling overseas.

Michael Brein’s Travel Tales Collection, Mexico Horrors 1, features three wild and scary travel tales of unbelievable things that can happen to you in Mexico. Bad things do happen, and mostly there are the usual, typical, expected sorts of wonderful Mexico experiences. But there are also those unexpected, unpleasant surprises that pop up now and again in Mexico.

The Travel Tales Collection, Mexico Horrors 1, features stories of roadblocks, fake police, bandits, and "La Mordida," aka "The Bite."

Michael Brein's Travel Tales Monthly Bookazine Issue No. 4 for October 2014 contains among the best travel stories from Michael's huge collection of about 10,000 travel tales that he has gathered in interviews with nearly 1,750 world travelers and adventurers during his four decades of travel to more than 125 countries throughout the world. The 10 travel tales that are featured for October, as well as each following month, include a fascinating mix of travel stories as well as a few brief vignettes.

Michael Brein’s Travel Tales Monthly Bookazine Issue No. 3 for September 2014 contains among the best travel stories from Michael’s huge collection of about 10,000 travel tales that he has gathered in interviews with nearly 1,750 world travelers and adventurers during his four decades of travel to more than 125 countries throughout the world. The 10 travel tales that are featured for September, as well as each following month, include a fascinating mix of travel stories as well as a few brief vignettes.

In this fascinating and vivid account, Peter M. Gardner takes us along with him on his anthropological field research trips. Usually, the author's family is there, too, either with him in the field or somewhere nearby. Family adventures are part of it all. Travel into the unknown can be terrifying yet stimulating, and Gardner describes his own adventures, sharing medical and travel emergencies, magical fights, natural dangers, playful friends, and satisfying scientific discoveries.

African Safaris 1 is the very first of the Collections travel tales series and contains among the best travel stories about African safaris from Michael's huge collection of travel tales that he has gathered in interviews with nearly 1,750 world travelers and adventurers during his four decades of travel to more than 125 countries throughout the world.

Michael Brein's Travel Tales Monthly Bookazine Issue No. 2 for August 2014 contains 10 among the best travel stories from Michael's huge collection of travel tales that he has gathered in interviews with nearly 1,750 world travelers and adventurers during his four decades of his own travels to more than 125 countries throughout the world.

Issue No. 1, Jul 2014 features such hilarious tales as "The Porno Prof Capers", which describes all the crazy, stupid sorts of trouble that a scurrilous scoundrel traveling to the former Soviet Union can possibly get himself into. And, if that is not enough, how about "The Mad Bomber", who cannot help getting himself into all sorts of embarrassing situations? You are going to laugh this month, but you will also see the unfortunately sad and serious sides to travel as well.

There are some old Geezers you just don't mess with. Meet one of them: Paul. Then - for your own safety - try to get away from him as fast as you can.

Never get a haircut from a woman who Has Just Got a Divorce. It's a real bad idea. I'm living proof.

The line between reality and illusion becomes more and more blurred as Adam Andrews is carried away into a fantasy world of his own making. In this horrific tales of self-deception and murder, Thomas Weston traces the downward spiral of a man descending into total insanity.

25 Secrets to Emotional Self-Healing give you 25 powerful steps to erase a stress-producing lifestyle. Here is your menu for slowing down the pace of life, and feeling not just okay, not just good, but great! Short, practical guidelines are for worriers, depressed and insecure people, and anybody trapped in the same circle of mistakes.

Here is a highly effective parenting audiobook featuring Dr. Ruben's rapid positive-parenting steps for controlling and eliminating child tantrums, disobedience, lying, stealing, perfectionism, anger, impulsivity, and school problems. Solutions provided for common family problems include step parenting, adult life after children, and knowing when therapy is best. Dr. Rubenn's methods stem from scientific and clinical research on parenting, using applied and experimental analysis of behavior.

Effects of Bad Parenting is an emergency first-aid kit for parents and professionals utterly baffled by today's unmotivated, disobedient, complacent, and free-spirited children. The audiobook responds to the accelerated epidemic of school apathy, college dropouts, college graduation delays, insensitivity, impulsivity, casual sexual practices with friends, and overprivileged kids. More than a recipe for cures, this guidebook carefully translates complicated psychopathology into straight forward, easy-to-understand language.

Protect your family and yourself from the most dangerous infectious disease. Flu experts agree - a severe pandemic is just a matter of time. But there are many other ways to protect yourself and your family. They are cheap and widely available. Everybody can take steps to protect themselves and their families. The nightmare is another 1918-style flu that is both highly contagious and highly lethal. It could kill tens of millions of people around the globe.