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Series Audiobook 1 - Benjamin Joel Series
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After a drug cartel abducts his sister, a Kansas judge puts everything on the line to find her.Judge Benjamin Joel catches a death penalty case involing a local drug dealer with ties to a Mexican cartel. When his sister is abducted three days before the trial, Ben is told what he must do to save her--cut the defendant loose utilizing a seldom-used judicial tool known as a judgment of acquittal. A ... Read more

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After a drug cartel abducts his sister, a Kansas judge puts everything on the line to find her.Judge Benjamin Joel catches a death penalty case involing a local drug dealer with ties to a Mexican cartel. When his sister is abducted three days before the trial, Ben is told what he must do to save her--cut the defendant loose utilizing a seldom-used judicial tool known as a judgment of acquittal. A
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Notes From An Alien Planet

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by Michael Burke ...

As part of an interplanetary exchange scheme, a human (from San Francisco) arrives on another planet. He begins to write his journal as he explores the new world and meets the inhabitants.In this book, you are taken on a transformative journey between two worlds. The narrator is the reader’s eyes and ears on this extraordinary trip from the old and the familiar to the new and surprising, but can ... Read more

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As part of an interplanetary exchange scheme, a human (from San Francisco) arrives on another planet. He begins to write his journal as he explores the new world and meets the inhabitants.In this book, you are taken on a transformative journey between two worlds. The narrator is the reader’s eyes and ears on this extraordinary trip from the old and the familiar to the new and surprising, but can
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The Birds of Baghdad

by Michael Burke ...

Former US Deputy Marshal Jack Parker was tough, rough and relentless in tracking criminals. So when he felt forced to retire from the US Marshals Service he used those same skills to track down a Nazi artifact in Iraq worth millions of dollars. In his pursuit of a fast payday he sets in motion a series of events that has the CIA, Mossad, Al Qaeda and the Iraqi Army all chasing after him. He ... Read more

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Former US Deputy Marshal Jack Parker was tough, rough and relentless in tracking criminals. So when he felt forced to retire from the US Marshals Service he used those same skills to track down a Nazi artifact in Iraq worth millions of dollars. In his pursuit of a fast payday he sets in motion a series of events that has the CIA, Mossad, Al Qaeda and the Iraqi Army all chasing after him. He
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Out of Mind

by Michael Burke ...

Detective Johnny “Blue” Heron is lured away from stargazing on his fire escape by a wealthy socialite who wants to track down her husband’s lover. It appears to be a straightforward task for a private investigator, but the trail quickly muddies. Blue is chased by hit men and seduced by the suspected lover. A fight in an abandoned pipe factory, a headless body on the railroad tracks, and the ... Read more

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Detective Johnny “Blue” Heron is lured away from stargazing on his fire escape by a wealthy socialite who wants to track down her husband’s lover. It appears to be a straightforward task for a private investigator, but the trail quickly muddies. Blue is chased by hit men and seduced by the suspected lover. A fight in an abandoned pipe factory, a headless body on the railroad tracks, and the
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Swan Dive

by Michael Burke ...

Swan Dive focuses on “Blue” Heron, a down-and-out detective with a roaming eye who gets much too involved in a complex business deal, a deal which results in embezzlement, swindling, sexual misconduct, and murder. Along the way, Blue discovers a great deal about himself while trying to understand the subterfuge. One of his problems is that he often gets too entranced with whatever woman is nearest ... Read more

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Swan Dive focuses on “Blue” Heron, a down-and-out detective with a roaming eye who gets much too involved in a complex business deal, a deal which results in embezzlement, swindling, sexual misconduct, and murder. Along the way, Blue discovers a great deal about himself while trying to understand the subterfuge. One of his problems is that he often gets too entranced with whatever woman is nearest
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What You Don't Know About Men

by Michael Burke ...

What You Dont Know About Men tells the funny, heartbreaking stories of 20 sometimes shy, sometimes sexy, often sentimental men who march through life as punch-drunk fathers, sons, brothers, uncles, friends and lovers.Michael Burkes debut collection opens with the story of Matthew Connors, a suburban Chicago teen struggling to protect his sister and brother while their parents vacation in the ... Read more

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What You Dont Know About Men tells the funny, heartbreaking stories of 20 sometimes shy, sometimes sexy, often sentimental men who march through life as punch-drunk fathers, sons, brothers, uncles, friends and lovers.Michael Burkes debut collection opens with the story of Matthew Connors, a suburban Chicago teen struggling to protect his sister and brother while their parents vacation in the
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Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion

An Exploration of the Oceanic Mind

by Michael Burke ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics
This work seeks to chart what happens in the embodied minds of engaged readers when they read literature. Despite the recent stylistic, linguistic, and cognitive advances that have been made in text-processing methodology and practice, very little is known about this cultural-cognitive process and especially about the role that emotion plays. Burk’s theoretical and empirical study focuses on three ... Read more

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This work seeks to chart what happens in the embodied minds of engaged readers when they read literature. Despite the recent stylistic, linguistic, and cognitive advances that have been made in text-processing methodology and practice, very little is known about this cultural-cognitive process and especially about the role that emotion plays. Burk’s theoretical and empirical study focuses on three
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Die Happy

499 Things Every Guy's Gotta Do While He Still Can

by Tim Burke, Michael Burke ...

Attention, guys of America: It's time to get off the couch, turn off the PlayStation, and set down your beer (just kidding— never set down your beer). Your days of freedom are numbered. Every guy owes it to himself to do something audacious, ostentatious, hilarious, or just plain fun before it's too late. The time is now for the kinds of things that will be decidedly against the rules after you ... Read more

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Attention, guys of America: It's time to get off the couch, turn off the PlayStation, and set down your beer (just kidding— never set down your beer). Your days of freedom are numbered. Every guy owes it to himself to do something audacious, ostentatious, hilarious, or just plain fun before it's too late. The time is now for the kinds of things that will be decidedly against the rules after you
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The Ivory Goddess

by Michael Burke, Daniella Batsheva ...

Thirteen years ago, a young girl called forth an ancient entity, little realizing the consequences of her unwitting act. Now, with all she loves gone, she summons forth once more...The Ivory Goddess. ... Read more

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Thirteen years ago, a young girl called forth an ancient entity, little realizing the consequences of her unwitting act. Now, with all she loves gone, she summons forth once more...The Ivory Goddess.
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Sinister Societies

Six Novellas of Secrets and Horrors

by Errick Nunnally, Michael Burke, Tom Deady, Sarah Read, Cindy O'Quinn, Mercedes M. Yardley, Linda Hartley ...

This original anthology of six novellas from a cadre of acclaimed horror authors dares readers to be captivated and entertained by their confrontations of secret orders, survival, and horror.We all have secrets. That' s one truth. Another is that secrets are tricky to keep: They want to be shared. In the company of these secrets, societies emerge. They fester and spread. From the esoteric to the ... Read more

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This original anthology of six novellas from a cadre of acclaimed horror authors dares readers to be captivated and entertained by their confrontations of secret orders, survival, and horror.We all have secrets. That' s one truth. Another is that secrets are tricky to keep: They want to be shared. In the company of these secrets, societies emerge. They fester and spread. From the esoteric to the
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Saturnalia

by Michael Burke, Daniella Batsheva ...

The Virtus Fides was a proud craft of the Imperium, a millennias-old empire. Upon completion of its thirteen-month mission above the primitive world of Arago, the crew takes part in the Mid-Winter celebration before embarking on their next mission. Strange blue lightning soon disables the station.Tarquin and Arrius, officers of the Imperium, come face to face with the source of the mysterious blue ... Read more

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The Virtus Fides was a proud craft of the Imperium, a millennias-old empire. Upon completion of its thirteen-month mission above the primitive world of Arago, the crew takes part in the Mid-Winter celebration before embarking on their next mission. Strange blue lightning soon disables the station.Tarquin and Arrius, officers of the Imperium, come face to face with the source of the mysterious blue
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A Place for Our Rain

by Dennis Michael Burke ...

The story of the friendship between two women: a survivor of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake-now a young deputy county coroner in Arizona-and a Whiskey Row saloon girl from Prescott, Arizona. Together they learn about their two very different worlds as they unravel a murder that leads them on a wild chase to San Francisco and back to Arizona-all to stop the assassination of Theodore Roosevelt ... Read more

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The story of the friendship between two women: a survivor of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake-now a young deputy county coroner in Arizona-and a Whiskey Row saloon girl from Prescott, Arizona. Together they learn about their two very different worlds as they unravel a murder that leads them on a wild chase to San Francisco and back to Arizona-all to stop the assassination of Theodore Roosevelt
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