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The small group of humans who had once been abducted by aliens now have a new job. They are employed by the aliens to abduct different alien species. All for the purpose of medical testing to ensure the other species are biologically compatible. Along with a couple of their alien friends, they are assigned a different task and sent to Earth. Not to abduct humans but to rescue some stranded aliens in need of medical care. What should be a routine mission encounters a cascade of problems. Now they must abduct (rescue) a wounded alien from a hospital teeming with heavily armed soldiers. They ...

For the Reptilian humanoid alien Trissii, abducting humans was all just part of her job. She had done it dozens of times before... Testing for this subject was now complete. In a few hours, he would be back home, none the wiser about his little adventure. Then her ship crashed on a nightmarish planet classified as double-red; there was no chance anyone would ever rescue them. Her badly damaged ship would never fly again, and to make matters worse, she now had a broken hand. Their survival depended on a desperate option no one had ever used. She needed to wake the human from stasis. Then ...

The retired four-star general and and bestselling author of My Share of the Task shares a powerful new leadership model Former General Stanley McChrystal held a key position for much of the War on Terror, as head of the Joint Special Operations Command. In Iraq, he found that despite the vastly...

In the first book, Ben had ordered a strange object from eBay. It turned out to be the missing part from an alien spacecraft. One with an AI that needed a crew so it could pass itself off as a non-AI ship. Having survived their first adventure in space, they now had a new, larger, and much faster ship. Returning to Earth should have been the easy part. They also had a wedding to plan. Unfortunately, nothing goes as planned. They are sent to a new destination in space to meet with a new alien species, with whom the other aliens' first contact didn't go very smoothly. Along the way, they ...

The Complete Insurance License Exam Prep 2-in-1 is your fast, powerful audio companion designed to help you pass both your Life, Health, and your Property & Casualty exams in 12 days or less—on the first try. Perfect for busy aspiring professionals, this audiobook turns complex insurance concepts into clear, memorable explanations you can absorb anytime, anywhere.

Ready to stop “studying” and start scoring? This audiobook turns the GED into a simple, step-by-step plan you can follow in the car, at the gym, or on your lunch break. No fluff. No jargon. Just clear coaching that converts minutes into points across all four subjects.

Benjamin, Mark, and Chloe were all set to graduate college in a few weeks. Ben had ordered a strange object from eBay to use as cover art for a book he was writing. It looked really cool, like a slightly charred old military artifact from 70 years ago. It was possibly part of an engine. After cleaning it up (it was found in a cow field), he placed the strange device on his dorm room desk directly over the wireless charging port. That woke it up. Unknown to him, the disabled starship hiding on the moon could now communicate with the missing part. The ship needed two things: 1) The missing ...

Are you eager to join the hundreds of people already profiting as insurance agents? Are you Feeling overwhelmed by the vast material, tight schedules, or fear of retakes? Well, I have something to tell you… Over the years, I’ve helped more than 200 people earn their insurance license. Most wanted the same things: a better lifestyle, more family time, or a higher income. But many saw their goals blocked by the exam—dense with technical terms and questions that felt overwhelming. From my experience, nearly 87% of the candidates I worked with had failed once or felt stuck.

The Ogres seemed to be 'monsters,' but they were monsters that could be reasoned with—as long as you understood what motivated them. Several new aliens have now joined the fray: One that seems helpful and friendly, but something from its past may have kicked over a hornet's nest—a really nasty threat that hasn't been seen in centuries. A new race may be the most dangerous they have encountered. They have a weapon against which they have no defense. To top it all off, a massive swarm of intelligent insectoid aliens has been expanding, and their former enemies, the Meduala, are now ...

Daniel Baker was an engineer at Raytheon Shipboard Systems. He was getting ready to move into the small cabin he had just bought that was being renovated. Sue Glitch was the “clueless tourist” who had literally dropped into his life. Something (almost everything) about her story screamed “not quite right.” She claims that “We are from Zealand, the newer part.” Just who is this strange girl who just dropped in? Or what? The answer is out of this world… When fate gives you the chance to drop everything and go on the adventure of a lifetime, you dive in…

The Earth Space Force Military has a huge problem. The massive alien Ogre that they had earlier fought was only an immature little one. The full-grown ones had found some derelict starships and were about to find one with an FTL drive. Keith and his crew were tasked to sneak in and destroy the derelict that contained an FTL drive before the Ogres could find it. To do that, the Meduala sent them a living weapon to assist with the battle. One that the Meduala has spent thousands of years trying to deal with. Is the new weapon more of a problem than the Ogres? The Ghost Ships that contacted ...

The crew decided to split up. They send the Shadow to keep trying to stop the warring parties in M33, while the Stardust III heads back for upgrades and some rest. The situation in M33 turns out to be much more complicated than they initially thought. Last-minute crew adjustments caused more stress than expected, and tempers are flaring. They rescue more stranded aliens, some of whom don't want to be rescued. Then, they rescue an alien that can only tolerate small amounts of regular air and would die if exposed to normal food or water.

Daniel Baker, Sue Glitch, Leon Price, and Vicki Ferdinand are embarking on a new adventure. They discovered a clue about the location of the missing alien race, the one that predates all of the known species in the Collective, but no trace of them has been seen in 100,000 years. They need to recruit additional crew members for the mission. The trip will take months just to travel one way. They pick up some skilled mechanics and what they assume will be plenty of spare parts. Unfortunately, what they discover will require more than they brought with them. They find a war-ravaged planet, ...

Throughout history and infinite dimensions, there exists a secret group of supernatural investigators operating on the fringes of society, lurking in the shadows, working strange cases with little reward. They are hardboiled zombies and ghosts, mythological creatures, ass-kicking vampires, tortured humans, and uncanny sleuths whose normal is the bizarre and weird.

Many felt blocked by the Property & Casualty exam — dense with technical definitions, policy forms, and tricky distinctions. From my experience, almost 80% of candidates who struggle do so not because of lack of effort, but because they try to memorize instead of understanding the logic behind the material. That’s the real challenge: it’s not about intelligence, it’s about structure. With the right step-by-step method, everything becomes clear, logical, and easy to retain — no more endless, confusing manuals.

The crew of the Stardust III plans to enter the portal and explore the source of the mysterious radio beacon in the M33 galaxy. On their way there, they discover ships full of refugees fleeing one disaster, only to be heading into another. Then, they are almost ready to enter the portal, when survivors, displaced from Earth, are discovered in a place where it is impossible for them to be. Finally, fully equipped, well-armed, and with a small fleet of ships, they enter M33…Only to discover that not all answers are what you want to hear, and that one race is attacking the damaged ships…

What if you could combine the agility, adaptability, and cohesion of a small team with the power and resources of a giant organization? When General Stanley McChrystal took command of the Joint Special Operations Task Force in Iraq in 2003, he quickly realized that conventional military tactics...

Jake Taylor was your average broke student at the University. One day, when he had no classes, he stumbled across a booth set up for "brain scans," Earn while you sleep. It looked like easy money, so he signed up for the full scan. It would require sleeping in a booth for two days, but he would wake up thousands of dollars richer. It should be easy money… The next thing he knows, he is no longer human, and the new world he finds himself in is an extremely dangerous place. So dangerous that the former occupant of the body he finds himself in had just died from a venomous snakebite. He is ...

The Earth Space Force Military has a problem. Something so dangerous that they need the ultimate distraction. A way to keep all the news stations away from it. They need them to focus on it rather than the massive alien ‘thing’ being lowered into a pit in the desert near Area 51. They have decided that Keith and nine of his crew will be that distraction. They choose to drop off Keith, the hero starship captain, and a bunch of alien women off at Comic-Con for a surprise appearance. That is one of their problems. They also encounter several new and very dangerous alien races and must deal...

After leaving the medical chamber, Keith thought the long war was over. He had united two warring factions and identified the culprit behind the earlier devastating war. A xenophobic race that was out to destroy all the other races. The problem was that they didn't like that he had uncovered their deception, and they were out for revenge. Then the Earth sent their “secret weapon” out to him. Something that could possibly beat the Meduala at their own game. Unfortunately, her daughter insisted on coming out too. Much of his earlier success was based on help from the AI on his patched-up ...