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Art & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. This is a book about what it feels like to sit in your studio or classroom, at your wheel or keyboard, easel or camera, trying to do the work you need to do. It is about committing your future to your own hands, placing free will above predestination, choice above chance. It is about finding your own work.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Lisa Bentley thought having her daughter attacked and left for dead was the worst thing that could happen. She was wrong. She and her family lived an ideal life operating a bed and breakfast in the perfect Wyoming town. That world came crashing down...

Duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon (1675-1755) was a French soldier, diplomat, and noted diarist. A French courtier during the 18th century, today he's best known for his comprehensive multi-volume memoirs, which depict life in France at the time. He was an indefatigable writer, and he began very early to record all the gossip he collected, all his interminable legal disputes over precedence, and a vast mass of unclassified material. He is petty, unjust to private enemies and to those who espoused public views contrary to his, as well as being an incessant gossip.

This book contained carefully developed steps to help you grow stronger in that toxic relationship and develop the courage to stop loving that person who isn’t reciprocating. All you need to do is consciously follow the eight tested stages to overcome whatever feelings that hold you down and make you cry. After six weeks, you will come out and say it confidently that you have gotten over him. 

The Alaska Fall and Frankenmuth Fall series is now available in one package! This exciting collection features 68+ hours of survival in a world devastated by EMPs. While visiting their friends Chase and Haylee in Alaska, Don and Samantha learn of the EMP attack on the Lower 48 United States on October 28th.

With a mix of excitement and caution, Don’s group expands their scavenging runs to the town of Burt, where they meet another group. This encounter could lead to a new trading partner or, even better, a potential alliance. Can they trust them? Should they? Keith’s group, mirroring the same mix of trust and caution towards Don’s group, is about to be blindsided. Unbeknownst to them, a surprise awaits. In this new post-apocalyptic world, nothing is as it seems, and the tension mounts.

If an EMP instantly changed the world as you knew it, would you be able to survive? Lauren and her family had been grieving the unimaginable loss of her husband, just trying to make it from one day to the next. Things were just starting to return to a semblance of normal. Her daughter, Elsie, was in college, and the family's businesses were thriving. They were even planning their annual end-of-season trip to Yellowstone with her in-laws. Then, in the blink of an eye, an EMP changed everything for them.

Having been spared the devastating effects up there, the four of them rushed home to Michigan to "rescue" their parents and bring them back to Alaska—3,000 miles each way. Travel with them and see through their eyes what might happen to our neighbors if the greatest country on the planet was caught by surprise and knocked to its knees….

For Don and Samantha Anderson and crew, the second half of winter in Michigan is a time of healing and growth in their new community. With that comes personality conflicts and change. The Andersons’ group isn’t the only thing growing in size and strength in the area. The dog pack is, too, and all of these humans are right in the middle of their claimed territory. As their search for food begins to overlap, the frequency of encounters increases, and something has to give.

April brings new challenges to Logan and Abbi as they work tirelessly with a group of volunteers to restore and rebuild the damaged infrastructure and housing in Alaska after the Russian invasion ends. Meanwhile, many people from the northern portion of the Lower 48 are migrating up through Canada in search of a better life in Alaska, but are restricted to specific routes and stopped from settling anywhere.

For Don and Samantha Anderson and crew, the first winter in Michigan after the EMPs is full of trouble and tough decisions, making their already difficult reality even more challenging to endure. Don finds himself still struggling with nightmares of what he and his group did to defend themselves in the past. Their search radius for food and supplies continues to grow, eventually leading them to the abandoned town of Frankenmuth, Michigan. What they find there, is not at all what they expected!

Called to the scene of a grisly double murder in a Northern English village, Detective Inspector Dave Barnes thinks he's seen everything—until the threads of his investigation unwind an otherworldly secret. As the Inspector and his team delve deeper into the case, a former history professor, with a personal interest in the crime, steps forward to provide bizarre clues that seem too impossible to be true.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The day the sun became the enemy, the lights went out for good. But for one family, a much darker conspiracy was already in motion. A catastrophic solar flare has plunged the world into a new dark age. Technology is a memory, and the infrastructure of...

When Amanda Thomlin finds herself face-to-face with the reality that she may never see her mother again, the overwhelming uncertainty nearly immobilizes her. A kind father figure steps up and takes her under his protection, bringing her into his family.

After a long and eventful return trip from Michigan to Alaska, Chase and Haylee finally make it home with both sets of their parents—just in time for what might be even worse than they’d already encountered in the Lower 48. Join them in a struggle most Americans can’t even begin to fathom—how to survive during a foreign invasion!

Après des mois d’aventures tumultueuses et de dangers incessants, Luderik aspire à une paix méritée, et à savourer chaque instant aux côtés d’Ève. Mais ce rêve idyllique reste inatteignable tant qu’Olrik, le traître impitoyable, échappe à sa justice. Le vampire sadique a disparu, mais Luderik sait qu’il doit le retrouver, coûte que coûte, avant que son frère n’orchestre une nouvelle attaque contre son clan et sa bien-aimée. Pour survivre, Ève et Luderik doivent faire preuve d’une résilience et d’une force de caractère exemplaires...

Preparing for hard times was second nature to native Texans. For the Garcia siblings, it wasn't a matter of if, but when something would happen. Despite their careers taking them in separate directions across the state, nothing could stop the brother and sister duo from meeting back up when an EMP takes most of the country back to the stone age.

In the ruins of civilization, humanity is the rarest resource left. When the lights died—so did the illusion of safety. The world as they knew it crumbled, and humanity followed right behind it. After a devastating CME wipes out the modern world, Portland becomes a graveyard of smoke, starvation, and brutality. The streets belong to gangs. The weak disappear overnight, and threats lurk in every alley. A place where every scavenging run could be their last, and every act of mercy carries consequences.

Portland is burning, and staying alive is getting harder.The city belongs to the gangs now.They control the streets, take what they want, and kill anyone who gets in their way. Food is scarce. Ammunition is precious, and mercy can get you killed.Ben Carter has kept his family alive through the...

Eleven days since everything changed. Five miles to their new home. One chance to get it right. With what’s left of their group, can Jonah and Amanda survive and stay hidden with winter fast approaching? Their plans to bug-in go terribly wrong and they seek a place to lie low and heal after the devastating attack on their home. Mishaps and mayhem plague them as they try to stay hidden from Lucas and his gang.