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Four business-owning entrepreneurial knuckleheads chew the fat on the sometimes murky, always quirky, world of UK and Irish personal finance.

From humble beginnings on a council estate in Manchester UK, The Message Trust has become one of the fastest growing youth mission organisations on the planet. Its combination of outreach to young people in schools, counter-cultural mission in tough urban areas, and pioneering prison and ex-offender ministry offers a radical template for effective 21st century mission. In this punchy and powerful audiobook, Andy Hawthorne (Founder and CEO), Carl Beech (Deputy CEO), and key members of the Message team share some of the crucial lessons learned over 25 years on the front line.

B is for Beasts, the second audiobook in an epic series of 26 horror anthologies. Within these sections you will find a collection of 13 stories from some of the finest independent writers on the scene today. From oversized bugs to Kaiju, vicious woodland creatures to giant spiders, B is for Beasts contains a range of terrifying stories in which the humans are always the prey.

Ten classic science fiction stories.

From an acclaimed historian, the full and authoritative story of one of the most iconic disasters in American history, told through the vivid memories of those who experienced it. Carl Smith’s compelling narrative at last gives this epic event its full and proper place in our national chronicle.

Smitty dreamt of the day that he'd no longer be punching the timeclock as Yardley Station's janitor but had no idea that a blue girl and a dead trafficker would be the way it ended. Still, being shot at by station security and nearly ejected into outer space were not much worse than the student loans he owned back on Earth. Oh, and the blue girl? She's part of a starship crew that...well, just listen and find out.

The final issue of 2020...we all dealt with the trauma of the year in different ways. For creatives, they expressed themselves in words and images. Here are stories that deal with race and bias, with fear and death. How we deal with losing a loved one...and an unloved one. There is some laughter in the mix, as well as some tears. Poetry, reviews, interviews, and a graphic short come together with outstanding illustrations to make a bit of brilliance here in the darkest month of the darkest year many of us have ever experienced.

The world is on the verge of an age of enlightenment. Generations have passed since mankind was last forced to contend with magic and monsters. Yet, in the True North, unbeknownst to anyone, an embittered king has released his most fearsome and hated enemy. That loathsome creature is Moleb, the last giant. Now freed from isolation, the giant wanders south to find both healing and revenge. After haunting the borders of Russland for decades, Moleb is finally granted a chance for redemption.

Over 100 years before Julius Caesar's assassination, Rome marched against Carthage and left it in ruin. Contrary to recorded history, Rome fought not to eliminate her greatest rival but for the survival of all mankind. A secret lost to time is now revealed, told through the eyes of a witness to the horrible darkness spreading out of Carthage. Mixing historical fact with elements of Lovecraftian horror, The Darkness out of Carthage explores the Third Punic War with the question, "What if Rome fought not to be the world's conqueror, but its savior?"

In the early 20th century, a fire threatened to consume the entire American West. One man, a dedicated member of the much-derided Rangers, set himself against it. As the blaze devoured the proud timber of the Rocky Mountains, something else was devouring the humanity of the men and women in its path....

The Voluntaryists are libertarians who have organized to promote non-political strategies to achieve a free society. We reject electoral politics, in theory and in practice as incompatible with libertarian goals. Governments must cloak their actions in an aura of moral legitimacy in order to sustain their power, and political methods invariably strengthen that legitimacy. Voluntarists seek instead to delegitimize the state through education, and we advocate withdrawal of the cooperation and tacit consent on which state power ultimately depends.

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