Showing results by publisher "ACX" in Literature & Fiction

S group of Soviet Georgians develop a strain of common bacteria and create an epidemic against the Russian High Command. Robert Cook, a microbiologist in La Jolla helps track down the perpetrators through France, Moscow and the Georgian republic. The novel features the sights, sounds and tastes of those lands, while bringing in enough science to interest the lay reader who likes a galloping thriller...

Hey all, this is a continuation of the best-selling parody of Jimmy Fallon's Thank You Notes.

If you enjoy his humor, you'll love ours. This audiobook is chock full of things that just really piss people off. So vent with the authors and join in the party.

Hadley Finch is devastated when her CEO husband leaves her for a much younger woman after two decades of a happy marriage. When her extreme efforts to win back her husband's love fail, Hadley begins a quest for the next great love of her life with the help of her friends-the Tribe Of Blondes. Not a hair color, it is a resilient, optimistic spirit of light and love that gives the Tribe its name and fuels their passionate choices and personal triumphs.

Heart in Gear chronicles the start-up adventures of Chris Hoffmann, founder of RYNO Motors, as he embarks on a journey to use his erotic explorations as his most liberating act of rebellion. Across these personal narratives, listeners follow Hoffmann as he evolves from a rigid, up-in-his-head engineer, into an embodied, awake man, and leader. From his attempts to build a global business as inventor of one of the world's first single-wheel, electric motorcycles, to lessons learned trying to navigate single life after a 20-year marriage, these stories illuminate what it means to immerse oneself in tough challenges, impactful relationships, and true surrender.

Opening with young Caleb Lewis witnessing an event that will shatter his happy family, the novel follows this young boy through a series of traumatic events, the divorce of his parents, and the death of both of his siblings in the chaos that surrounds the Vietnam War. Caleb himself falls into a dark place. Brilliant, athletic, and charismatic, he begins to use his talents to manipulate those around him. Turning his back on everyone, Caleb descends into a world of drugs, sex, and violence.

Seventeen stories of small-town America that will make you laugh. Guaranteed. If you grew up in the rural Midwest, you've met big, easy-going Sheriff Tip Tungate, with his uniquely local sense of justice. You've sat in front of hulking principal Butch Bauer, who runs "the best sports program in the state", and seen his football trophies in the display case behind him. You have eaten baked beans and chocolate cake at the church carry-in supper, been embarrassed by a revival, and seen what happens in small towns to intellectuals who won't shut up.

It was 335 years ago that a settler in the Virginia colonies completed a sacrificial spell and buried a legendary occult book for the next one destined to find it. Now that person is Darin Dague, a freshman at Jamestown University and deranged sociopath. His chosen target for the spell is his shy, studious roommate, Louis Paige. Even as Louis struggles to put the pieces of Darin's scheme together, he finds himself trapped in a parallel reality where he must prevent his own sacrifice, save the girl he loves, and thwart Darin's plan....

Escaping their lives in California, Clark and his best friend Rudy load up a temperamental V.W. bus and - with a year's supply of LSD - head south of the border for a carefree adventure. Ride along with them from Tijuana to Cancún as they make friends and enemies, explore Mesoamerican ruins, and drink far too much tequila.

When he was in his first year of secondary school, something extraordinary happened. He stumbled, completely by accident, into a Great New World, a world of fantastic sex, opportunity, and Fetus Factories. That's what this book's about. And it's written by the man himself, Axol O'Lerpler.