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This fictional story begins in Illinois where Federal Agents propose a rescue mission for Captain Pete and the sailboat, Off the Wind. The story moves to SW Florida with extensive sailing to the Dry Tortugas and a side trip to Cuba. The story continues with the legal battle with the FBI, Homeland Security and even a Presidential Commission. Along the way there is sailing through storms, waves, and wind with an occasional twist. The continuing interaction between Captain Pete and the Federal Government makes this an enjoyable, yet totally believable read. The story is fiction and any reference to politicians currently in office is coincidental.

A gripping collection of poems scratched out along the road, delineating surreal scenes, epiphanies, reconciliation and moments of vivid clarity. The author''s experiential insights extract meaning from a personal altercation with death, periods of doom and demoralization, the euphoria found in lust-colored love and the feel of calm soaking into the bones. This collection tackles emotionally complex topics with poignancy, humor and philosophical edginess. Part One, Reflections offer a brutal, authentic focus on things demanding honest inquiry. The physical and emotional logic swing from subdued and melancholy to simple sunny and the implacable enemy of conformity, knocking on doors sheltering controversy and discomfort. Part Two, Observations provide an examination of ingrained assumptions and world view, thus tempting a deconstruction of fixed thought. This section glimpses the mysteries of the external and transcendent, and how they may affect the individual psyche. Part three, Odes pays homage to those who''ve assisted in shaping the pursuit of purpose, self-awareness and a capacity to see best in others. This collection closes with Nolan''s Poem... a piece inspired by real events, offering a peek into the forthcoming novel: On Troubled Roads to Everywhere... a fascinatingly depraved and brutal yet savagely funny and inspirational telling of a boy''s cry from hell.

Germs are invisible to the human eye.  They are tiny and minute and can only be seen under a powerful electronic microscope.  Undenounced to people, they hide in plain sight.  They are everywhere and on everything and are found all over the World.  They can affect people anytime and anywhere without warning.  Despite being so tiny, germs are powerful, and strong while people can be weak and vulnerable.   They are also dangerous and there is no way to avoid them.  Germs make people sick – extremely sick.Luckily throughout the World there are many health agencies and health professionals trying to prevent spread of disease-causing germs and help people stay healthy.  However, their help is not enough if people fail to take care of their own personal health and hygiene and neglect to wash their hands more frequently.   According to the public health agencies, the most effective way for people to prevent getting sick is by thoroughly washing their hands before and after many tasks.  They recommend using soap and water and appropriate handwashing procedures.  By proper handwashing, people can prevent spread of disease germs to others and keep themselves and their loved ones from getting sick.In addition, parents, teachers, and educators can work with children at their early age on how to properly wash their hands by guiding them and showing them the correct procedures. To help children learn, adults can demonstrate good hand washing through fun filled handwashing activities.  Some of which are demonstrated in this guide “Washing Germs Down the Drain”.  Working with young children is the best way to promote effective behavioral changes for the future generations with the anticipation that change in behavior in children will continue through their growing years, their adult lives and into old age with the hopes of decreases the spread of illness to self and others from lack of handwashing.Germs have no idea how destructive they could be, but it is up to people to make changes to their lifestyles so they can be safe, keep others safe and help everyone stay healthy.

One night while lying in bed, a young child hears singing coming from his bathroom. Singing?! He tiptoes down the hall to investigate. To his amazement, he sees his toothbrush dancing and singing about all the reasons why it is important to brush his teeth. With A Toothbrush Tale, Stacy Caldwell Smith has written an engaging song that parents, pediatric dentists, and other caregivers can sing with children to help them understand why we brush our teeth. The toothbrush's advice has helped Smith's own three young children accept brushing twice a day as fun and not a chore. This song-plus the helpful tips for adults at the back of the book-will have readers everywhere dancing to the sink morning and night!

"Witness of Our Father''s Love," is in three parts. In fact, it''s three books in one. The first part, are true events, that transpired to individual''s, who wished to share God''s glory. It''s a powerful insight into His heart, and love for His Children. The second book, "His Loving Words" are scripture/verses that offer peace, hope and love. Concluding with the third book, "Daily Love & Bread." An offering of select scriptures, will infuse a moment of calm in this hectic world. A faith driven read.

Leadership is a lifestyle, not a vocation. The Process creates emotionally intelligent leadership starting in your relationships, and extending into your business and your entire lifeOver the years, I have counseled hundreds of people. The “help” I shared with couples in crisis has now evolved into a repeatable Process that, when entered into with full commitment, can bring life transformation from the inside out that not only saves marriages, but changes lives for the better in all directions. What I learned in developing and implementing the Process was that sustainable change and growth depends on the changes you apply to your every-day life, relationships, and thought patterns. These changes stem from a deep inward change. They are not sustainable unless they are transformations that occur inwardly and are expressed outwardly.This book summarizes the Process. It contains probing and powerful questions at the end of each chapter, questions designed to help you discover your own way forward. Whether you are struggling as an individual, in a relationship, or married, the Process will point you in the direction of seeking and receiving help as a lifestyle, not as a solution to a problem. It will illuminate the difference between destination orientation, and journey orientation, not only in your relationships but in all aspects of your life. It will show you how true leadership starts in your own life and your own home, and is then translated out into your vocation and your community.

In Turning Ministries Right Side Up, Dr. Cory Hardy provides the four organizational tools that churches of all sizes, but especially those with congregations of less than seventy-five members, need to create a policies and procedures manual. With this, they can turn their church into a smoothly operating and viably expanding organization capable of spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ to more and more people in their communities.With both master’s degrees and a doctoral degree in different theological studies, as well as experience working as a church administrator putting together a policy and procedure manual, Hardy has created a book that is easy to read, easy to follow, and easy to understand, perfect for a pastor or a lay member in any church.

In 2014, a terrible nightmare became real for Tom Madsen and his wife Marilene: a lump on their son Kevin’s leg was diagnosed as sarcoma. Kevin soldiers on through debilitating treatments for three years, but finally passes just shy of his 20th birthday. But Kevin refuses to go away, and he has shown up in numerous ways since he passed. In Relentless: From Both Sides of the Veil, the Madsen father and son show that our love for each other transcends our physical bodies. And Madsen the father becomes the student, as his son reaches across the veil to show his father - and many others - that love and spirit survive.

As we also glorify God in magnifying him, he will frequently give us occasion of praising or telling others of his magnificent power and favor to us. He will enable us to look up to him with comfort and cheerfulness and upon our enemies with confidence where he will lift us out of the oppressive situations in which we go through and he will restore us to our former power and dignity from which we have fallen.Many of us are living in our pride day in and day out except for giving God all due glory and when we do this he will abase us bringing us down to our knees and we will then recognize that he is the one that is to be magnified. Men may try to rule, but God is the overseer. He is a mighty God full of compassion. We should give him thanks daily.and magnify his holy name. He is Lord of Lords, King of Kings, the all Majestic. Power and ruler of all.Like when Elijah called out to God and said; “Let it be known this day that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and that I have done all these things at your word. Listen to me, O Lord. Hear me, so that these people may know that you are the Lord God and that you have turned their hearts back again.” Then the fire of the Lord came down, burning up the offering with the wood and the stones and the dust, and lapped up all the water that was in the drain.

Relationships aren't just about the people we love in our lives. They are our lives. From family and significant others, to friends and coworkers, we have to communicate with each other in order to survive and thrive. When our communication skills lack, our relationships suffer, which brings down our quality of life. This interactive course book will teach you how to program yourself for success in all of your relationships with complete honesty, mutual respect, and trust by first turning the lens on the self.With a deeper understanding and love for yourself, you'll learn how to build strong foundations, set healthy boundaries, and open broken communication lines that will allow you to not only find your true love relationship, but to also keep all of your relationships in a healthy, always evolving place.Take the journey of self-education this book offers you and create the positive, lasting relationships you desire.

This work is an outburst of the conscience that starts with a tone of tempered apprehension. Not to be mistaken as that of raising a false alarm, as we often do to downplay the seriousness of calamitous events confronting us. It blares out a siren with a loud trumpet, delineating the precipice upon which mankind is ‘perching’ at this material time all over the globe — blindly!That is to say, that it captures the overall dangerous state of human affairs as they have been from time immemorial and as they are now staring at us ominously in the face today, offering diagnostic wholesome principles for the re-establishment of viable governance and relationships in all human societies.It is an anthology with a difference due to its down to earth simple nature.At every page turned, one will not be reading a series of poems, but seeing the realities of our lives laid bare before our very eyes! In this work I have poured out my heart, emptying everything in my mind, with well-founded spiritual undertone, in view of redirecting the path of humanity to where Divine Love, that with which we and everything in Creation are made and governed in its true essence, and therefore not Money nor sheer Power rules! - For a better tomorrow for all!

Admiral Jungle and the Inhabitants battle environmental villains who want to destroy the jungle.

With all the hatred and violence in the world, we need a plan to change things. This just might start a conversation about how to do that. We are supposed to "love our neighbor " and do for them as we would want them to do to (for) us. So how do we go about it??? Maybe the answer is in here.

Jon Levine, the CEO of Levine Investment Management, and Alyssa Martin, a primary-care physician, have lived together in Palm Beach Gardens for many years. Matthew Johnson, their mutual friend and FBI senior agent, has frequently enlisted the couple to provide assistance with his work. More Games provides the opportunity for Levine and Alyssa to scrub in once again. Johnson entices them by dangling several provocative scenarios in fascinating locales. However, his cases are frequently menacing and entangled, dealing with culprits who are both unsavory and nefarious. Levine and Alyssa soon find themselves in deep water in situations they had not bargained for. This sequel to three previously published novels, allows the reader to become better acquainted with this unique and appealing couple.

Day 1...this backlit hedgeDay 100...heart-shaped tree

This is a non-fiction work about an award-winning, innovative-and very unusual-library in a small Texas town. "It is the unlikely yet fascinating story of a library, a simple building made of brick and stone, yet made venerable with an abundance of heart and soul. So enjoy, because, well, you have NO idea-what really goes on behind the scenes, and why a book about this library is no ordinary story."

It may not be the end of the world, but if they fail it will definitely be the end of them.A creative, insecure boy with hidden talents even he doesn’t recognize, a girl of many names carries the future, the smallest body in the pod community may be ill but he is everything you could want in a young scientist.What do they all three have in common? They are all skinny, they don’t believe a single thing they are told, and they love to delve into forbidden waters.What’s left of the human race live a life of ignorant luxury thousands of years after the war, that is, until Kade, Brodin, and Sylas set off a chain of events they never thought possible. They find themselves trapped in the world they dreamed of, left with a task where failure is not an option, and time is ticking down.Kade and his friends must find the only man able to fix the mess they caused, but how will they survive a world where they are nothing but a delicacy of the food chain? The weight of humanity is resting on their tired shoulders with only each other to rely on.

The year 2020 marks the centennial anniversary of Paramahansa Yogananda''s arrival in Boston, Massachusetts, aboard The City of Sparta with the mission of bringing the sacred technique of Kriya Yoga to the West. This collection of poems is dedicated to Paramahansa Yogananda and his spiritual classic Autobiography of a Yogi.

"Cheers" Stories from the Manatee Pocket,  is a story of a sleepy little town in Port Salerno, Florida where you can come and enjoy some of the finest restaurants, great food, music and some of the best people you will ever meet.In my book “Cheers” I share some history of the Port Salerno area and name all the restaurants and bars that are all in walking distance from each other.I also talk about some of the best music and bands you will ever find, but most of all I tell some of the funniest stories of my friends that I have encountered over the years, who now have now become family. 

This book is dedicated to ALL who have served in the United States Armed Forces. To the HEROES who stood their ground against EVIL, and gave their lives so others may live in peace. We must NEVER forget their sacrifices and HONOR them.

Calluses were all that Melvin Lowe knew. He was in the same boat as most of the laborers in East Texas at the turn of the century. His family was not from the upper class, and racially they didn't conform to society's expectations.As a matriculating child, he was denied a chance to attain a proper education, and had to augment his family's earnings by going to work before he was ten-years-old. As the oldest, he had to work so that his siblings could go to school.Tensions riled his family after his father left them. His mother remarried. He had to juggle the effects of a sibling rivalry and an aggressive stepfather.This young Leo showed his versatility, by working in several fields of employment from cotton, to lumber and to ice. World War I broke out in Europe, and while it was still a remote conflict life could go on a usual for him. He got married and then divorced in the interval. He survived his city getting burned to the ground.He was eventually drafted for Uncle Sam. Trained as an engineer, he served for over a year overseas. He saw Brest and Paris, France, before getting wounded. He sailed home and wanted to use his status as a veteran to launchpad toward social mobility. He remarried. His city went through a week of lawlessness. It also went through a divisive campaign season with both gubernatorial and presidential stakes.Author, Iethiopia Tafari Lowe traces his great granduncle's journey from his birth in Paris, Texas in 1894 until his decision to move away from there in 1920. An amateur genealogist, Lowe he been researching for this book since 2007, spent a quarter of 2010 studying in Amarillo, Texas, and in 2014 started writing in earnest.Within its pages, this biography features 40 illustrations and 8 appendices. Over 100 pages of family trees, and unit rosters. One chapter deals primarily with never before published racist violence in Lamar County with original insight and sources.This is an unforgettable journey through Texas, New York, then embarked on sea vessels, to and from France, to Massachusetts, and home to Texas . For profiles of familiar historical figures such as: Texas Governors James S. Hogg and Pat M. Neff. For ambitious villains and their minions: the Ku Klux Klan, the Whitecaps, the Arthurs, the Hodges, the Smiths and the Vances. As well as unforgettable historical ancestors and characters such as: deaf cousin Aaron Milton and centenarian Charlie Ruth.So, let us join Corporal Melvin Lowe in France as he prepares for The Return to Paris.

It''s 2039 and for the most part life is good for humans in the majority of countries in the world. It''s far from perfect, but still much improved from life at the turn of the 21st century, and a great deal better than the 20th or any earlier era are working to build infrastructure to create barriers against rising waters, improve structures for homes and businesses that are wind and weather resistant educate humans as to the cyclical nature of weather changes over time, and address the effects of industrial and human involvement that have contributed to pollution and climate variation.

The poems in this book touch upon the various aspects of the human condition: loss and regret, but also joy, love and wonder. Each poem is accompanied by a work of art by an expressionist artist whose work is in the permanent collections of many notable museums. Together, the poems and art illuminate the hopes and fears of living.

Without question, the team of the 1970s in the NFL was the Pittsburgh Steelers. During the decade, the Steelers won four Super Bowls. However, the team for which this book was written, the 1976 squad, was not one of them. However, many Steelers of the time, including its founder, Art Rooney, said that the 1976 was the best of them all. It did not seem like it after the first five games of the season as the Steelers won only one of those games. They also lost starting quarterback Terry Bradshaw in the fifth game to injury for several games and had to move on with rookie Mike Kruczek in control of the offense. Knowing that one more loss would destroy any hopes they had to make the playoffs and a chance to win an unprecedented third consecutive Super Bowl, the Steel Curtain defense dominated like no other defense in "modern" NFL history. In their last nine games, all victories, the Steelers gave up only 28 points during that span. No other defense can even come close to numbers like that. In addition, with their passing game struggling due to injuries, the running attack that featured the "Ground Crew" offensive line gained hundreds of rushing yards per game during their nine-game winning streak. Running backs Franco Harris and Rocky Bleier to both rush for over 1000 yards in 1976, only the second pair of running backs to ever do so in the same 14-game season.The 1976 Pittsburgh Steelers had an incredible conglomeration of some of the NFL's all-time greats in their organization, 13 of which are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Cornerback Mel Blount was so dominant that the NFL changed defensive coverage rules, one of which was named after him. Quarterback Terry Bradshaw won four Super Bowls, winning MVP in Super Bowl XIII and XIV, and showed how clutch he was by throwing a touchdown pass in the fourth quarter of each Super Bowl. Defensive tackle Joe Greene, the first draft pick by head coach Chuck Noll, was Defensive Rookie of the Year in 1969, Defensive Player of the Year in 1972 and 1974, made the Pro Bowl ten times, and was All-Pro four times. Outside linebacker Jack Ham was a six-time All-Pro who was considered one of the finest pass coverage linebackers of all-time. Franco Harris finished his career second on the all-time rushing list and was named MVP of Super Bowl IX. Inside linebacker Jack Lambert was the emotional leader of the defense, was six-time All-Pro, and was the Defensive Player of the Year in 1976. Wide Receiver John Stallworth retired as the Steelers' all-time leader in receptions, receiving yardage, and touchdowns and scored the game-winning touchdown in Super Bowl XIV. Safety Donnie Shell was named to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2020 was such a fierce hitter that his teammates gave him the nickname "Torpedo". Wide receiver Lynn Swann was Super Bowl X MVP and made some of the greatest catches of all-time during his career. Center Mike Webster anchored the offensive line for fifteen years and was named All-Pro five times. Head coach Chuck Noll was also named to the Pro Football Hall of Fame and is the only coach to win four Super Bowls without a loss. Owner Art Rooney and his son Dan Rooney, who was team president in 1976, were also inducted into the Hall of Fame.

A Spiritual path explains how Spirituality is used in our everyday lives. How to co-exist in the Spiritual realm as well as the physical. How to focus your awareness into the present moment and raising your consciousness. The importance of being open to new ideas and releasing that which no longer serves you. How to deal with the fear of the known and unknown. Understanding mind control and the law of cause and effect. Knowing the role of forgiveness and how it affects our Spiritual life. An understanding of what time means in the physical realm and the Spiritual realm. Answers to the question of how to communicate with God and being a co-creator with God to reach our goal of universal oneness.

In his compelling book, Stephen H. Dalton, AIA, shares examples from his 45 years in the construction field to show that it is your personality and character that determine your success, not your education or standardized procedures taught in school.Becoming a Better Builder is a must read for anyone in construction. Great real life examples of how to be a successful builder from a front row seat over Dalton’s long career. ~ Anthony Mannion, Senior Vice President, Lend Lease US ConstructionBecoming a Better Builder brings years of wisdom and experience distilled in actionable advice for success in construction management. Excellent book for all looking to build their careers in today’s competitive world of construction. ~ Branka Minic, CEO, Building Talent FoundationBecoming a Better Builder is a great, easy read for engineers, architects and construction managers. My experience working with Stephen Dalton showed how this advice worked in real time on very large complicated projects. ~ Chris Kearney, Vice President, Exp USA, MEP Engineers

This memoir is based upon the life and times of Emmelinah Sindane, an unexpectedly great long-distance runner from South Africa. It is a celebration of her historic rise from the brutal racism, cruel abuses and abject poverty to an astounding and inspirational wave of successes. The memories of her climb through apartheid's impossible racist and sexist barriers will not likely be forgotten, whether through races named in her honor, or after taking root in the folds of your memory. To be sure, through you, the reader, her character and soul will never die.

Our life plans are often far off course from where and what we expect our lives to be.  Our expectations, life-altering losses, people, presumed failures and ultimately fickle faith lead us down a trail littered with disappointment, anxiety and despair.  Author, Nita L. Page, shares the most disappointing and vulnerable seasons in her life, how she was able to weather the storm with God’s grace and ultimately overcome by allowing her faith in Christ to rise up within her. The author shares life encounters and personal experiences that ultimately led her to fully embrace love, forgiveness, and humility.  God meets us right where we are - in our deepest valley and highest mountain top moments - He is there with us to guide us along the way.  God’s love is unwavering.  When in despair, do not travel the road alone. Invite God into your life and make your requests known unto Him. Connect with your faith and God will give you every bit of the strength you need to keep moving forward.Once we understand that life is simply a series of lessons and opportunities to serve Him, the journey becomes that much more rewarding.  We begin to understand closed doors and seemingly missed opportunities – those experiences that would have, if not for God’s divine intervention – taken us completely off course from His ultimate plan for our lives.Covered by Grace reads like a devotional or series of short stories of courage and perseverance.  Readers will find the author to be refreshingly relatable – a sister or dear friend simply sharing short stories over lunch. At the end of each chapter, the author challenges the reader to look inward - to recognize past experiences for exactly what they were, acknowledge any missteps, grasp the intended lessons, and then ultimately the author charges the reader with the responsibility to reach back to those who aided them along their journey; and to pay the blessing forward to future generations.

The time is 1970; the place is the postwar housing development, the small bungalows built for returning veterans and for shipyard workers. F0r first time in their lives, families had some money. They can afford a new house, two bedrooms, one bath, yards big enough to build a garage in. They begin again, this time without war. The neighborhood fills with working husbands and stay-at-home wives who have time to make friends over morning coffee and play tennis in the local park. The future looks good. But wars continue, not THAT war, but the one in Korea, then Vietnam, then the Middle East. When the first settlers move on, their old homes fill with new surges of veterans' families glad to have chances to begin again. Eleanor, white, meets her new neighbor, Patsy, black, through a break in the twenty year-old overgrown laurel hedge between their houses, planted by Eleanor's husband when they first moved in, . Different wars, different colors, different ages, similar struggles. Their lives entangle, like the limbs of the hedge between them. They have coffee, trim the hedge, begin a friendship that clears the path for hope and trust between the two women. Together they learn to deal with the unlucky hands thev have been dealt: war-scarred husbands, handicapped children, uncertain futures. When tragedy strikes, will they find solace in knowing they are sisters bound by blood?

Half of Jan Morrison's life is pure chaos, the half that has to do with her family, her sense of wifeliness, motherliness, womanliness. The other half, the half in which she counsels children whose own lives are as chaotic as hers, is the core of her days, and she is pretty successful at it even though she comes to school hungover, popping breath mints, unsympathetic toward little girls who suck their thumbs, and incapable of calling her autocratic principal by his first name. Asshole seems a much more fitting label.Then Mr. Peterson warns her that her days at James Lee Elementary School are numbered. RIFFING: reduction in force. Six weeks, to be exact. And her only hope of survival is to cure the six most problematic kids in the school or at least make them disappear from the principal's radar.Between her divorce and her unsympathetic school principal, Jan is almost as unstable as the kids in her Wednesday Club who are not following the rules and are creating havoc in classrooms and on the playground. Mr. Pedersen has given her the edict "cure these kids" or else, the else being her job. Jan knows she needs to cure herself while she's at it.The cure may be the Wednesday Club, except that every time it meets, one of its six members either flies away as a pterodactyl, hides behind the tightened strings of his hoody, continues to suck her slick thumb, steals a watch just for the heck of it, or just plain disappears. An irate parent, a scared principal, and Jan's inability to keep her mouth shut bring Jan's job to an abrupt end.However, a couple of good girl friends, a talented lover, a dog, the return of a son, and a belief in her own vision for messed up little kids keep Jan moving through the chaos, hope on the horizon.