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Thirteen Diamonds

Lillian Morgan, #1

by Alan Cook ...

Series Book 1 - Lillian Morgan
Lillian Morgan, a retired mathematics professor who can remember any number but not what she did yesterday, is resigned to living a boring life when Gerald Weiss, a Nobel-prize-winning Economist and fellow resident of Silver Acres Retirement Community starts choking and then dies during a weekly meeting of the bridge club.Gerald was holding a bridge hand of 13 diamonds when he died, which is rarer ... Read more

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Lillian Morgan, a retired mathematics professor who can remember any number but not what she did yesterday, is resigned to living a boring life when Gerald Weiss, a Nobel-prize-winning Economist and fellow resident of Silver Acres Retirement Community starts choking and then dies during a weekly meeting of the bridge club.Gerald was holding a bridge hand of 13 diamonds when he died, which is rarer
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Homo Sapiens 2.0

Introduction to a Natural History of Hyperinformation

by Gérard Ayache ...

Narrated by Alan Cook ...

Unabridged

6 hours 50 min

How can we use information rather than be subjected to it? Does life have a digital logic? Is the internal structure of the universe made up of information? Is the Internet generating a collective brain? Ever since Homo sapiens, armed with his electronic machines, learned to unlock the secret of information and its alchemy by digitizing it, he has unleashed hyperinformation. This force is a subtle ... Read more

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How can we use information rather than be subjected to it? Does life have a digital logic? Is the internal structure of the universe made up of information? Is the Internet generating a collective brain? Ever since Homo sapiens, armed with his electronic machines, learned to unlock the secret of information and its alchemy by digitizing it, he has unleashed hyperinformation. This force is a subtle
... Read more
Run into Trouble

by Alan Cook ...

Drake and Melody are teamed up to run a race along the California Coast for a prize of a million dollars—in 1969 when a million is worth something. Neither knows the other is in the race before it starts. They once did undercover work together in England, but this information is supposed to be top secret.The race sponsor, Giganticorp, is a large and very profitable government military contractor, ... Read more

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Drake and Melody are teamed up to run a race along the California Coast for a prize of a million dollars—in 1969 when a million is worth something. Neither knows the other is in the race before it starts. They once did undercover work together in England, but this information is supposed to be top secret.The race sponsor, Giganticorp, is a large and very profitable government military contractor,
... Read more
Hotline to Murder

by Alan Cook ...

Tony Schmidt joins the Central Hotline in sunny Bonita Beach, California to improve his listening skills. Shahla Lawton joins the Hotline to fulfill a volunteering requirement for her high school. Neither one expects to get mixed up in a murder investigation.But that is before Shahla's best friend, Joy, also a listener, is murdered. Tony and Shahla discover that they are able to uncover ... Read more

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Tony Schmidt joins the Central Hotline in sunny Bonita Beach, California to improve his listening skills. Shahla Lawton joins the Hotline to fulfill a volunteering requirement for her high school. Neither one expects to get mixed up in a murder investigation.But that is before Shahla's best friend, Joy, also a listener, is murdered. Tony and Shahla discover that they are able to uncover
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Freedom's Light: Quotations from History's Champions of Freedom

by Alan Cook ...

FREEDOM'S LIGHT contains quotations from 38 of history's champions of freedom, from Aristotle to Zlata Filipovic, from George Washington to Martin Luther King, Jr. Included are Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Anne Frank and many more. In today's world where governments and organizations are constantly monitoring our behavior, it is important to know what personal freedom is and why we should strive ... Read more

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FREEDOM'S LIGHT contains quotations from 38 of history's champions of freedom, from Aristotle to Zlata Filipovic, from George Washington to Martin Luther King, Jr. Included are Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Anne Frank and many more. In today's world where governments and organizations are constantly monitoring our behavior, it is important to know what personal freedom is and why we should strive
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To the Last Ukrainian: An American War

The Story of a War Reporter

by Régis Le Sommier ...

Narrated by Alan Cook ...

Unabridged

4 hours 17 min

"I'm here to put the internationals in order. I'm in charge here. Too many people showed up at the center and they had no business being there.” These are the words of an American instructor, met by Régis Le Sommier at the beginning of the war when all the media was minimizing the role of the United States in Ukraine. Régis Le Sommier is the only war reporter to have gone to both sides of the ... Read more

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"I'm here to put the internationals in order. I'm in charge here. Too many people showed up at the center and they had no business being there.” These are the words of an American instructor, met by Régis Le Sommier at the beginning of the war when all the media was minimizing the role of the United States in Ukraine. Régis Le Sommier is the only war reporter to have gone to both sides of the
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Who’s the Devil: the Other or the West?

by Régis Le Sommier ...

Narrated by Alan Cook ...

Unabridged

4 hours 39 min

“We’ve spent nine trillion dollars bombing the Middle East like mad. We’ve sown death there, including our own. And what has it gotten us? Nothing.” Donald Trump, November 1, 2024. The figure of the devil has haunted our collective consciousness since the dawn of time. He structures our societies, whether religious or secular. Sometimes, the devil has been a friend before being “demonized”. ... Read more

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“We’ve spent nine trillion dollars bombing the Middle East like mad. We’ve sown death there, including our own. And what has it gotten us? Nothing.” Donald Trump, November 1, 2024. The figure of the devil has haunted our collective consciousness since the dawn of time. He structures our societies, whether religious or secular. Sometimes, the devil has been a friend before being “demonized”.
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Dancing with Bulls

Dancing with Bulls, #1

by Alan Cook ...

Series Book 1 - Dancing with Bulls
Matthew and Mason are on vacation in Greece with their parents. While exploring the ruins at Knossos Palace on the island of Crete, they wander off and suddenly find themselves at Knossos in its prime, 4,000 years ago, when the Minoans were in power. Captured by guards, they barely escape execution and are forced to join a team of slaves who are training as bull dancers. That means they have to ... Read more

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Matthew and Mason are on vacation in Greece with their parents. While exploring the ruins at Knossos Palace on the island of Crete, they wander off and suddenly find themselves at Knossos in its prime, 4,000 years ago, when the Minoans were in power. Captured by guards, they barely escape execution and are forced to join a team of slaves who are training as bull dancers. That means they have to
... Read more
Aces and Knaves

by Alan Cook ...

Karl Patterson, sometime baseball card dealer without visible means of support, doesn't get along all that well with his father, even though he lives in the guest house of his dad's estate on the Palos Verdes Peninsula near Los Angeles rent free. So he is surprised when Richard Patterson, who is founder and CEO of a successful software company called Dionysus, asks for his help to determine ... Read more

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Karl Patterson, sometime baseball card dealer without visible means of support, doesn't get along all that well with his father, even though he lives in the guest house of his dad's estate on the Palos Verdes Peninsula near Los Angeles rent free. So he is surprised when Richard Patterson, who is founder and CEO of a successful software company called Dionysus, asks for his help to determine
... Read more
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999. Inside Death Row in the United States

by Arnaud Gaillard ...

Narrated by Alan Cook ...

Unabridged

6 hours 21 min

On death row, the poorest and most numerous, with no family and no decent lawyer, are sometimes executed before all their appeals have been exhausted. Their fate consigned to modest prison cemeteries. In Texas, the number engraved on the cement stone begins with 999. Out of 50 American states, 34 still have the death penalty. Why and how? The author's investigation took him to California, Utah, ... Read more

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On death row, the poorest and most numerous, with no family and no decent lawyer, are sometimes executed before all their appeals have been exhausted. Their fate consigned to modest prison cemeteries. In Texas, the number engraved on the cement stone begins with 999. Out of 50 American states, 34 still have the death penalty. Why and how? The author's investigation took him to California, Utah,
... Read more
Trust Me if You Dare

Charlie and Liz Novels, #1

by Alan Cook ...

Series Book 1 - Charlie and Liz Novels
Charlie Ebersole is good at his job as a securities analyst for International Industries in Los Angeles in the year 1962, but he is also somewhat bored at being tied to a desk most of the time. He jumps at the chance to join the fraud section of II, and is immediately put on a case that will take him and another employee, Elizabeth Reid, to Buffalo, Fort Lauderdale, and possibly to Fidel Castro's ... Read more

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Charlie Ebersole is good at his job as a securities analyst for International Industries in Los Angeles in the year 1962, but he is also somewhat bored at being tied to a desk most of the time. He jumps at the chance to join the fraud section of II, and is immediately put on a case that will take him and another employee, Elizabeth Reid, to Buffalo, Fort Lauderdale, and possibly to Fidel Castro's
... Read more
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The incredible files

Crimes and disappearances

by Geoffrey Claustriaux ...

Narrated by Alan Cook ...

Unabridged

9 hours 12 min

Three lighthouse keepers mysteriously disappear in the early 1900s. Two young girls disappear in the jungles of Panama. Five men abandon their car in the mountains, then plunge into the forest for an unknown reason, where one by one they die. A young man disappears. He is only found 7 years later, walled up in the chimney of a cabin in the middle of the woods...Since time immemorial, mankind has ... Read more

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Three lighthouse keepers mysteriously disappear in the early 1900s. Two young girls disappear in the jungles of Panama. Five men abandon their car in the mountains, then plunge into the forest for an unknown reason, where one by one they die. A young man disappears. He is only found 7 years later, walled up in the chimney of a cabin in the middle of the woods...Since time immemorial, mankind has
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