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Nancy Meets Her Double Author: Carolyn Keene In her eighth adventure, Nancy Drew meets her double, and it all comes about thanks to a cold day, a tired mailman, a theft, and a scam. As usual, Nancy also has several investigations running alongside her progressing romance with Ned Nickerson. It all starts with Nancy trying to find some stolen mail and quickly evolves into a search for her father’s stolen letter, a search for a strange letter from England for Nancy, the mailman’s ner’do well brother, and Nancy Smith Drew, who is somehow the connecting factor and also in significant danger of marrying the wrong man and losing her surprise inheritance.  There’s danger [...]

An Eye for an Eye Author: Madhuri Shekar Evil Eye is an Audible original tale that combines the compelling nature of theater with the dark truths hidden by families and the fear that only an endlessly ringing, unanswered phone can elicit. It starts innocently enough – Usha and her husband are loving, fairly modern Indian parents who dote on their Americanized, now-living (and college educated) in America daughter, the feisty Pallavi. They may be good and loving parents, but distance has its price and while a thirty year old unmarried girl in the US isn’t news, it’s more than a little [...]

Nazis and nukes... Author:  Sam Kean It was a real-life nightmare scenario.   Whenever he deemed it expedient, Hitler could load up one of his powerful V-2 rockets with a nuclear bomb and wipe London off the map.   At the time, no one on the Allied side of the conflict knew if a nuclear bomb was possible or if Germany’s scientists had enough knowledge to achieve such a development.  But just the thought of Hitler possessing a bomb of indescribable power had Allied leaders terrified, recognizing that the even a single bomb would be enough to tip the balance of the [...]