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This entry in Jimmy Russell’s Games Console History series is all about Nintendo’s iconic SNES - the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, also known as the Super Famicom in Japan. Narrator JD Kelly talks us through over 100 facts about the console, organised into sections such as hardware, peripherals, history, legacy and more, including some incredible information you probably never knew. From retro gamers who were there at the time to total n00bz who think a PlayStation is Old Skool, there’s something in this fascinating audiobook for everyone!

Redemption is an intimate look at the last 31 hours and 28 minutes of King's life. King was exhausted from a brutal speaking schedule. He was being denounced in the press and by political leaders as an agent of violence. He was facing dissent even within the civil rights movement and among his own staff at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In Memphis, a federal court injunction was barring him from marching. As threats against King mounted, he feared an imminent, violent death. The risks were enormous, the pressure intense.

Medically discharged from the Teams, notorious bachelor SEAL Morgan Hansen is approached to participate in the biggest undercover operation of his career. He is tasked with training and partnering with his ex from a breakup that made news headlines and nearly ended is career. Women’s empowerment guru Halley Hansen has built an empire around her live televised events and seminars. But her world-wide message for women has put her in the cross-hairs of a radical cleric leading a terrorist cell.

When Cubby's mother tells him to take their old goat to market and sell her so they can buy food, Cubby ends up trading the goat for a bag of magic wishing beans. His mother is furious, and in her rage throws the beans outside and sends Cubby to bed. You may think that was the end, but you'd be wrong! In fact, it's just the beginning! Loosely based on the stories of Jack and the Beanstalk and The Magic Cooking Pot, this is the story of a hungry little polar bear and his journey up the beanstalk to the home of the magical giant skybears.

Detroit-based homicide detective John Barnes has seen it all - literally. Thanks to a technologically advanced brain machine, detectives have access to the memories of the living, the dying, and the recently dead. But extracting victims' experiences firsthand and personally reliving everything up to the final, brutal moments of their lives - the sights, the sounds, the scents, the pain - is also the punishment reserved for the criminals themselves. Barnes has had enough. Enough of the memories that aren't his. Enough of the horror.

New Zealand is a country of stunning and diverse natural beauty: jagged mountains, rolling pasture land, steep fjords, pristine trout-filled lakes, raging rivers, scenic beaches, and active volcanic zones. These islands are one of Earth's most peculiar bioregions, inhabited by flightless birds seen nowhere else such as a nocturnal, burrowing parrot called the kakapo, and kiwi. Kiwi are not only one of the national symbols but also the name New Zealanders usually call themselves.

Milan is famous for its wealth of historical and modern sights - the Duomo, one of the biggest and grandest Gothic cathedrals in the world, La Scala, one of the best established opera houses in the globe, the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, an ancient and glamorous arcaded shopping gallery, the Brera art gallery, with some of the finest artistic works in Europe, the Pirelli tower, a majestic example of 1960s modernist Italian architecture, the San Siro, a huge and famed stadium, or the Castello Sforzesco, a grand medieval castle and the UNESCO's World Heritage Site Santa Maria alle Grazie Basilica, containing one of the world's most famous paintings: Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper.

Why Mediterranean? The countries and cities that are in the Mediterranean region of the world enjoy some of the lowest rates of obesity, heart problems, diabetes, and other diet related illness in the entire world. And if you've ever been there you probably saw that nearly everyone over there is thin, healthy, and beautiful. So just what is it about this area of the world that keeps the people living there looking good, feeling good, thin, and healthy?

Who is the criminal known only as "The Beast?" Too baffling for the police to solve, it becomes a manhunt in which detective Race Williams must track down "the most feared, the cunningest and cruelest creature that stalks the city streets at night." But it will soon become Race's most dangerous case as he tries to stay alive. One of the longest and best of the dozens of Race Williams adventures.

Hawaii has something for everyone. The island of Oahu, the most populous and home to the state capital and largest city of Honolulu, is great for people who wish to experience the islands and still keep the conveniences of a large city. Rain forests and hiking trails are located just minutes from Waikiki Beach, one of the world's best tourist destinations. In the winter, large waves on Oahu's north shore turn the normally sleepy area into the surfing capital of the world.

Do you feel too lazy to work out? Are you fed up with trying diet after diet, only to lose and regain the same 5,10, 20, or 30 pounds over and over again? You are not alone. More than 80% of Americans are out of shape and overweight. And being fat is as deadly as being a smoker. The future is scary when you're overweight and unhealthy. It's time to reverse your fate. The Ketogenic diet is putting your body in ketosis, which means your body is burning fat for energy rather than carbohydrates. So again, your body will burn its own body fat or fat that you're consuming dietarily for its overall energy production.

Organic food can change all of this and give you a completely new outlook on life. You will really notice a huge boost in energy levels! The taste of organic food is not the only advantage. It really does change many aspects of your life. It's time to change your bad habits and start a new life with organic food. I am going to help you along the way so you can set up your very own organic garden as fast as possible. This is a book of action, I have outlined the essentials steps you need to take to know everything that I know of years of research and studying in as little as a couple of hours.

Beneath the gloss of Walmart's corporate social responsibility program lies the reality of how the stores are actually managed on a daily basis. This booklet asks whether corporate social responsibility can make up for bad customer treatment and faulty management. Do corporate-level programs geared to societal problems compensate in terms of the company's reputational capital and to the customers? The booklet also looks at whether managers and other employees of a large retail company can be so incompetent that the incompetence itself, apart from any related "attitude," is unethical, given societal expectations as to how businesses are normally operated and customers treated.

Tembo Makaburi, the Swahili term for “elephant cemetery,” is the stuff of which dreams are made for ivory hunters. This is the story of a greedy man's quest for riches and glory as he relentlessly pursues a bull elephant and his valuable ivory tusks across the vast expanse of the Serengeti plains. A chilling tale of greed and revenge!

After the sudden death of her troubled mother, struggling Harvard grad student Kate Drayton walks out on her lecture - and her entire New England life. Haunted by unanswered questions and her own uncertain future, she flees to Charleston, South Carolina, the place where her parents met, convinced it holds the key to understanding her fractured family and saving her career in academics. Kate is determined to unearth groundbreaking information on a failed 1822 slave revolt - the subject of her mother's own research.

In this audiobook, part of Jimmy Russell's Games Console History series, narrator JD Kelly talks us through over 100 amazing facts about Nintendo's seminal NES, the most significant console the company has ever made. Covering many areas such as the hardware, rare games, the legacy of the console today and much more, this is perfect for anyone interested in classic gaming. Whether you were there at the time or you're a n00b who thinks a Playstation is old school, you're sure to enjoy this fascinating trip through gaming history.

Retired Navy SEAL Sean Harper knows all about success. He's established himself as one of New York's premiere investment brokers and enjoys the parties and women that life allows. But he's become a stranger to is happiness. When a new client brings tales of a secret island paradise in the Caribbean and the woman he's willing to leave society for, Sean begins to fantasize about what that life could be like and the serenity and peace it could offer. But when something sounds too good to be true, it oftentimes is.

After Brady Sims pulls out a gun in a courtroom and shoots his own son, who has just been convicted of robbery and murder, he asks only to be allowed two hours before he'll give himself up to the sheriff. When the editor of the local newspaper asks his cub reporter to dig up a "human interest" story about Brady, he heads for the town's barbershop. It is the barbers and the regulars who hang out there who narrate with empathy, sadness, humor, and a profound understanding the life story of Brady Sims.

An eye-opening look at the life and legacy of Jackie Robinson, the man who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and became an American hero.

Great Bald Eagle may sound like a really cool name for a Native American Indian, and if he had have stayed, or even grew up in the settlements of his forefathers, then things might have different. But time moved on, his forefathers spread about a bit, and eventually Great Bald Eagle was born. GBE, Jeebee, to his friends, was raised by Native Americans that were so far from their ancestry, they barely knew anything about it, apart from the fact that they used to call their kids noble heroic names such as Geronimo, and Dances With Wolves.