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In On the Wagon, the eighth installment in the Tales of Dan Coast series, Dan decides to give temporary sobriety a go….just to prove to himself and his friends that he can do it. When boredom overtakes him, he and Red decide to look into the disappearance and possible murder of a local woman. With no suspects, no apparent motive, no weapon, and a case that's 10 years cold, is she really even missing? Is she really even dead? Join Dan, Red, and Skip as they piece together what little clues they have and fumble their way through another action- and humor-packed case.

Dan Coast and his friends have always used his home as a place to discuss and brainstorm about current cases, but Maxine, Dan's girlfriend, has had enough of their antics. After a late-night argument, Dan, in an attempt to smooth things over, decides to get himself an office. As soon as Dan rents the office, two woman with missing husbands come forward, asking for help. Join Dan, Red, and Skip as they piece together the clues that could lead them to the same fate as who they're searching for.

Dan, Red, and Skip have returned home from their road trip to Bonifay. Dan is ready for some much-needed relaxation. He makes himself a drink, grabs the newspaper, and settles into one of the Adirondack chairs by the fire pit. Life is perfect. Until that one phone call ruins it all. Make yourself a tequila, Seven, and lime, and join the boys as they try to get themselves out of trouble they didn’t ask for. This newest Tales of Dan Coast Adventure, Another Mother, also sees Dan’s parents, Gene and Peg, return to the island to deal with a surprise from Gene’s past.

Skip Stoner has finally returned to Key West, and as soon as he does, he gets a call from his dad, Larry, about an old friend's missing daughter. Dan, Red, and Skip head to Siesta Key, Florida in search of the young college girl, whose friends say they haven't seen her in days. Her boyfriend, a young man from an affluent family, has returned home without her, has retained a lawyer, and isn't talking.

Dan Coast and Red Baxter are back for the 15th volume of From the Tales of Dan Coast. When Lindsey Malvo, a heart transplant recipient with not long to live, finds a love note written to his long-deceased wife, he hires Dan Coast to find the man who wrote it. With Skip Stoner nowhere to be found, Dan and Red have to go at it alone in this action-packed installment. Can Dan and Red solve the mystery before their client’s time runs out? All this while Dan struggles with reminders and the anniversary of when he lost his own wife.

Shoulda Seen it Comin' is the 14th book in the Dan Coast series and the third and final book in a three book arc. A letter from beyond the grave may not be enough to get Dan to solve a murder, but the check that came with it probably is. Red, Skip, and a woman from Dan's past team up to help Dan solve the murder of The Amazing Gary.

Dan Coast has finally bought himself a new car - well, new to him. But when he returns to pick up his new ride, he gets an unwanted surprise. In Deadly Moves, the seventh installment in the Tales of Dan Coast Series, we also see the return of Officer Mel Gormin. Join Dan, Red, Mel, and Skip as they do their best to solve the murder of an elderly couple while working as bodyguards to a young starlet who is visiting Key West.

How does someone with no enemies end up murdered? That's for Dan Coast and his sidekick Red Baxter to find out. Join Dan and Red, along with Skip Stoner and Dan's childhood hero, former astronaut Kip Larson, as they piece together the clues that may free an innocent man. In this action-packed sixth installment of The Tales of Dan Coast series, Dan digs into a wrongly accused man's past and finds out he may not be so innocent.

What's a Siberian tiger doing in Alaska? And why did it become a man-eater? For State Fish and Wildlife Protection Officers Jake and Julie MacDonald, answering those questions is the least of their worries! Partners in life and on the job, the most dangerous thing they usually have to deal with was arresting heavily armed poachers in the middle of nowhere with no backup. But their latest assignment is something out of a horror movie: Stopping a man-eating tiger who is terrorizing a remote village. And, as usual, Jake and Julie are on their own.

Ginny Rasmussen, just like every other young female in town, was thoroughly enamnored with Bobby Jackson, the new disk jockey on her favorite radio station. He had an absolutely incredible voice and seemed way too good for their little town. Who is he? Where did he come from? Is he single? Imagine how shocked Ginny would be if she found out she already knew him - but Bobby Jackson wasn’t his real name. His normal speaking voice wasn’t anything like the way he sounded on the radio. And...she sat next to him every day in AP English!

Jake MacDonald had lived almost his entire life in a remote cabin in the Alaskan subarctic. He was home-schooled by his mother, a former music teacher. From his father, he learned to hunt, fish, trap, and everything else a man needs to know to live a subsistence lifestyle. But his mother insisted that he finish his education at a real high school in a real town. So, at 17, Jake heads for the interior city of Fairbanks.

Anyone who has spent any time in the North Country, either as a visitor or a resident, has probably heard the name Robert Service. This audiobook is more or less an homage to this British Canadian poet and writer, often referred to as “The Bard of the Yukon”.

Acclaimed editor Edmund R. Schubert hangs up his editorial hat to explore issues both global and personal in this exquisite short story collection. Life, death, aliens, zombies, love, loss, apocalypse, space travel - these are just a few of the topics Schubert looks at in This Giant Leap. In this volume listeners will find science fiction, horror, fantasy, and new genre blends, all told with Schubert's characteristic heart and glorious writing style.

Anyone can start to live a more simplified lifestyle if they are genuinely ready for a drastic change in their lives! Being a minimalist is not just about throwing out old belongings that you have collected over the years. It is a mindset and a change of pace! While the de-cluttering of your precious living space is a crucial step in the process, once you start to rid your life of unnecessary items, a spark will ignite, and you will ask, "What else is dragging me down?"

Ashley Quinton is on the verge of madness after the release of a killer she helped put behind bars 19 years ago. Upon the exact moment of his discharge, she immediately receives calls from a local payphone from someone who tells her things only the killer would know. And then she begins to see items connected to her past - items that were given to her by this man when she was a child, only for them to disappear in a haze of smoke and mirrors before others can confirm her claims.

On June 25, 2013, the US Supreme Court handed down its decision in Shelby County v. Holder, invalidating a key provision of voting rights law. The decision - the culmination of an eight-year battle over the power of Congress to regulate state conduct of elections - marked the closing of a chapter in American politics. That chapter had opened a century earlier in the case of Guinn v. United States, which ushered in national efforts to knock down racial barriers to the ballot.

A common man of modest means, world-weary George McLast decides to forget all his problems and take the trip he and his beloved wife had only dreamed about before she passed away three years earlier. Despite all the unnerving feelings he's been getting in his chest, his son's disapproval, and his precarious financial situation, he sets out across America following the same route John Steinbeck took in 1959 with his pet poodle Charley.

A derelict ship and a splintered crew are not the rewards Ro had hoped for when she helped disrupt her father's plans to start a war with smuggled weapons. But with the responsibilities of full Commonwealth citizenship and limited resources, she is forced to take her father's place working as an engineer on Daedalus station while she and Barre try to repair their damaged freighter, Halcyone.

Unemployed doorman Thomas Soles has had it. Sick and tired of watching so many families lose their "dream" because of corporate America's insatiable lust for profit, he sits in the kitchen of his rented tenement and writes a book about the tragedy.

It begins as a drinking club in an academic backwater on the Stanford University campus of the late 1970s. A post-Nixon/post-Mao generation of China scholars plots to make a better world. Suddenly, the US recognizes the People's Republic of China. Intense demand arises for the unique skills that the Mandarin Club members possess. Now, yesterday's dreamers are today's policy makers and pundits, patriots, and spies.