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This is NOT a "How To" hunting guide. There is NO expert advice on hunting strategies or techniques. That is left to the experts. However, it is about hunting and is based on over 60 years experience in the unsuccessful pursuit of the ever elusive 10 pointer. This book tries to describe what is actually traveling through the mind of the average hunter as he tries to remain stock still while silently sitting in total darkness waiting for the sun to rise in the morning or waiting for the sun to set in the afternoon. He can't move. But his mind is free to wander wherever it pleases, and it often does as he drifts off to places far from where he actually is. There is no doubt that "expert" hunters possess the ability to remain totally focused throughout the entire waiting period. Most of us don't. This book also offers an unusual perspective of the hunt and hunter from the point of view of the "Elusive 10 Pointer."

Sue Hassel, originally raised on a farm in the Midwest, sang in Europe professionally, later moving to New York City which has been her home since. Over the years her individual poems and essays have been published in newspapers and books. She has been featured in extended weekend edition profiles of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and enjoys the moniker, "The Soprano on the Bridge." Random Thoughts of a Creative Mind is a collection of her early writings as well as more current articles, a few of which you will find on her website, www.suehassel.com. This book is her attempt at quantifying where creativity comes from in an individual, and how to grow through the various stages of life retaining that creativity and keeping it vital to the end of life.

It was my fourth year participating in Tai Chi classes, and I became conscious of how the class had transformed for me from repeated gentle movements with gestures of meditation to more of a state of providing a positive purpose and direction in my life. The connection between the physical world and the spiritual world made me feel the joy of life.The book is a memoir about my exploration in the north in the summer of 2010. It was a crucial time of my life that needed to take place. One can discover many things about themselves through a variety of paths you make in your life, but unless you are willing to take that chance, the path can disappear leaving you with no clear way out. At one point in my life, my spiritual side was controlled by dark forces that I was able to hide from the people I worked with and my family but was eating at my insides. Through one of my dreams, I was able to connect with a childhood memory that allowed me to accept that I could find a solution to my depression. Luckily at that time, my position as an educational administrator changed back to being a teacher. This gave me the opportunity to find out what this dream was telling me to do.This book explores the one summer when I left my home to find out what I knew was missing. A summer I spent in Canada and Northern Michigan. The exploration had its lighter sides along with my understanding of the Canadian culture. But It's a book full of self-discovery and spiritual events that I only started to understand after the years of my Tai Chi training. Even if I did not recognize the connections with Tai Chi during this trip, the experience was woven with events that connected me and allowed my chi to cast out the darkest parts of me.During this exploration, I not only made a connection with Canada but a variety of people I interacted with. Little did I know that I would end up back in the USA in a city where we lived for five years. I was able to reconnect with the one person who I would call my Shaman which would end up being one of the most important days of my life. Even though I made progress in my spiritual healing prior to our meeting, it was that day we met that finally made me believe I was a good man.During the past years, I was contemplating writing this book, seeing I was now retired I put the excuses away and completing this book even though it brought back some painful memories to me. There were many parts where I told myself why would I let all of you know the inner workings of me. The answer became clear when my daughter-in-law told me if it helps just one person benefit from reading this book it is well worth it. This book is for all you who have lost their way but have the ability to hide it from their friends and family. The book is for all of you who can function so well in their job, enabling the lies about their inner self to be so well hidden that no one would have any ideas about your anguish. This book is especially for me and my children. I need to let them know it is all right to take risks and be open about their feelings. Lastly, this book is for you. May it help you to see the light and follow it to true happiness.

At the beginning of a new year or in the middle of one-it is always a great time to start Your 365-Day Journal of Positive Affirmations & Commitments, by Dr. Kenneth Morton, a scholar in leadership and a coach, author, and public speaker on positivity and inspiration. Morton provides each day's focus, about which the reader journals, speaks affirmations, and makes commitments. In personal development, consistency is essential, and this book helps the reader establish a reliable routine for personal growth and self-improvement. Your 365-Day Journal empowers those hungry to make the leap to a next level of positive thinking.

Composition of Life: A Memoir of Science and Spirituality begins with a death, but through that ending, author Thane Kreiner, PhD, reveals deep connections within life that will help readers who are also on journeys of self-awareness and spiritual discovery.As Kreiner's mother dies from pancreatic cancer, Kreiner learns from her the power of full forgiveness, which sets him on a path through memories of growing up with an alcoholic and abusive father. Drawing on his background as a scientist, he begins to see evidence and proof in spirituality as well, and both help him along this journey. The stories in Composition of Life are rooted in history and connected with the #MeToo movement, racism in the United States, and climate change. Writing these essays led Kreiner to a place of forgiveness he never imagined was possible-something readers may find as well.

Interim leaders are becoming essential change agents for organizations in today's gig economy. To propel their companies forward, human resource professionals, change management specialists, project managers, and all business executives must understand and make use of this changing talent economy. Neil Grant's Rise of the Gig Leaders: Why Interim Leaders Are Vital in Today's Organizations provides this understanding.Grant, himself an interim leader for almost two decades, provides a detailed analysis of the DNA of interim leaders-what defines them and how they add value. Rise of the Gig Leaders is rich in case studies, testimonials, and examples of how interim leadership has made a difference in many organizations. With this knowledge, business leaders and prospective interim leaders will have confidence choosing this as a viable leadership strategy.

The book, Both Wrong and Bad, is a crisp philosophical account of the reasons preference by race is both wrong and bad.The author, Carl Cohen, is a professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan, where he has been on the faculty for 62 years.

Schustermeyer's Fire: Schustermeyer endures the Loma Prieto Earthquake in 1989 in the first story and subsequent conflagration. Schustermeyer and the Middle School: The second story focuses on an 8th grade neighbor who is a virtuoso basketball player and an irresponsible after-school teacher. Schustermeyer's Mother - 2016: The third story revisits with Schustermeyer's Mother...a second attempt to eliminate her 90-year-old boyfriend. Enjoy all three of these romps that take place in the San Francisco area and Medford, Oregon. Semper Fi!

Four days after being temporarily assigned to the detective division of a sleepy suburban police department, a young officer is thrust into the task of investigating a double homicide. The investigation takes the upstart officer through unfamiliar and dangerous encounters, including suspicion that his agency is incapable of an investigation of this magnitude.Inspired by a case Louis A. Dorio worked during his twenty years in a "bedroom community" police department, Murder Finds the Suburbs is thrilling true-crime drama that shows evil-as well as service and justice-are everywhere, not just big cities.

If you've never heard from God, don't believe God speaks or ambivalent about conventional patterns for discerning His voice, this book will change your mind and awaken a consciousness in the act of listening to the voice of God. God speaks to each and every one of us, but no two people hear from God exactly the same way. God speaks. Are you listening? In this compact, insightful and revealing text Word is Enough, couples Shannan and Erhabor who have spent over two decades in ministry and pastoral counseling expound on biblical truths and help guide readers through a three dimensional spiritual lens for understanding God's purpose in our lives. God's word is final, non-negotiable and will always go forth and establish what it's set out to accomplish. Just like in the days of old, God speaks today. Not to people without sins and blemish, but to human beings like us whose nature has been corrupted and damaged by sin. Word is Enough represents a spiritual unmasking of the veil that separates us from who we are as God's on earth. With this knowledge comes power. And real power that destroys every yoke and breaks every chain. The power that emanates from a discerning spirit. The power that allows us to boldly declare God's promises for our lives and the power that gives believers the unction to walk the walk and not just talk the talk. God's word is real. It's not just an ancient account of what happened in the lives of believers of old. It's about now. And in this book you'll find that clearly there's a message for you. It's all in the word. Learn how to listen, when to speak and most importantly what to do when God speaks. Word Up!

In A Visit to Nicaea: A Search for Truth in the Bible, author C. Ray Wimberly, PhD, compares events described in passages from the Bible with physical evidence stating that the events could not have logically occurred and often are contrary to physical science. Wimberly wrote A Visit to Nicaea for the reader who has an open mind and who seeks the truth in all things. A Visit to Nicaea was written to seek reality-and the truth about who we are.

The existence of evil and its longstanding presence in our world has generated many questions about God's character and His moral stance on evil. The Story of Us seeks to clarify some of those questions. It's the story of mankind from a biblical perspective, showing that when sin entered our world, we lost our faculty of free will and became alienated from God-our Creator, Benefactor, and Savior. This inspirational and uplifting book explains how our loving Creator is incessantly working to rescue us from the miserable condition of being condemned to eternal death and nonexistence.

Pregnant in Prison is a sequel to The Skeleton's Are Out by Kenya Richardson. Each book tells about her childhood experiences of being molested at an early age, causing her to have several unhealthy relationships which leads to her becoming Pregnant in Prison. The book discusses some of her unhealthy relationships and how she overcomes adversity before, during and after her incarceration.

"Are you sure, Gabriel? Are you sure you're not troubled as well?" Priti asks at their first encounter. "I don't think so, Priti, but trouble always seems to find me." Gabriel replies. Gabriel carries the weight of guilt over his older brother's suicide for much of his childhood until a seminal event at the start of adolescence reminds him of a forgotten detail from that tragic night. Gabriel sets his sights on Jack Winter, an elderly neighbor whom he now suspects as having molested his brother, driving him to suicide, and he vows to avenge his brother's death. The seed of this revenge grows and grows until the start of summer of 1983, after his last year of high school. Knowing that his group of friends will soon disperse, Gabriel reveals his plan to kill Mr. Winter. Two people with their own hidden skeletons enter his life during the summer of '83, uncle Leon, an Israeli soldier back to visit after his participation in the Lebanon War, and Priti, a beautiful girl with her own hidden scars. But despite the positive influences of these two people in his life, Gabriel has lived too long with anger and despair, and the only way to exorcise the haunting images of his brother's swinging body is to honor his vow for revenge."Crafty, enticing fiction incorporating engaging themes of friendship and conspiracy." - Kirkus review"Gabriel's Storm is a thoughtful coming-of-age story deftly set around a captivating crime plot." - Clarion review"Gabriel's Storm is a fantastic read that is easy to follow and fall in love with. I was thinking about the characters long after I finished reading." - Manhattan Book Review

Addiction isn't always about the "obvious" vices: drugs, alcohol, gambling. It comes in many forms. It sneaks up on us. In her own life, it took author Rochelle Cory by surprise.After years of horse riding and participating in rodeos, Rochelle found her life turned upside-down when a horse stomped on her. Her story, Rhinestone Cowgirl: A Different Kind of Addiction-about dashed dreams and both questioning and finding God-will bring tears of sadness and joy to readers' eyes.

During the very trying times of the Civil War: is impossible forbidden love possible, even for a plantation owner? Does Franklin Randolph find that undying love? Can it be so right in the heart, but so wrong in the eyes of man? Would giving up everything for the one he loves be paid with his death?!

The "Gift" of mentoring a mission! It is an evolutionary approach that incorporates self-actualization through faith and conscious wording. Your Book inspires you to transcribe your life-narrative and mission it into your faith-based belief(s). In doing so, your divine purpose/call will be championed through reflection, redemption and redirection. Your Book illustrates how to discover a precise remedy that identifies and facilitates counter intuitive ideals, fears and irreversible memories. This is how it becomes your gift - reflective writing that promotes you to visualize and write your own desired ending or outcome. It is authored to inspire and illuminate the topics/themes that energize your soul and/or help restrain any desire to deflect unease. The stories within each chapter will encourage you to recognize and adjust intolerant thoughts and behavior(s) as well as deep-seated ideals that may be learned or unidentified. In order to originate and authenticate a desired ending/outcome regarding something you've experienced and/or aspire to evolve into fruition, leisurely examine patterns and themes you perceive to be insignificant or misleading. My missioned journey was exercised with extreme caution and continual spiritual guidance. The exploration bared the resemblance of employing an established archaeologist to dig up and discover a rare dinosaur skeleton -- employing them because they knew what it took to protect and preserve a rare artifact. This is no different in relation to how you align with your gifts, purpose and capacity to mission. The words you exert to depict your history, present (now) and future must be monitored. The leading interactive component of Your Book highlights how to do so -- utilize conscious wording with the intention and commitment to identify truth through faith. Your Book is inspired by a mix of interactive and self-reflection methodologies which promotes its foundation -- how to mentor a mission while intentionally

Connect! How to Quickly Collaborate for Success in Business and Life is about the number one key to organizational effectiveness: getting along with people. When people take the time to learn about each other, it's much easier to work together. Barry Moline is a longtime CEO with a successful history of bringing people together quickly and effectively to accomplish important goals. He's written a practical guide full of dozens of fresh ideas readers can use immediately to help people quickly collaborate. Connect! also includes fourteen compelling case studies that illustrate how readers can apply these transformative concepts to their specific situations."Insightful and practical - Connect! clearly shows how you can act immediately to cultivate better relationships in your work and in society." -John Bowes, Ed.D., School Superintendent

“In Him is the fullness of the godhead bodily and by Him all things consist…” We must not forget who is at the center of our faith. He is the wonderful counselor, Jesus Christ. He is our portion and our sufficiency! It is time to recapture the greatest significance of our spiritual walk, which is to intently and intimately relate to Christ. He is the first fruit and forerunner of our spiritual experience. It is in Him that we are able to be called, “The sons of God.” It is in Him that we are made whole, justified, and are declared righteous. However, to establish a fully committed relationship with Christ, we must be willing to go beyond merely learning about the details that surround His life and work. We must be willing to pour ourselves into His person, His way of life, and His very nature. The early disciples counted it an honor to live for Christ. However, it is clear in our modern day that we have lost perspective concerning what it means to know Him. We have the clichés and church antics practically down to a science. We have even sought to supplement godly living with our talents and giftedness; opposed to submitting and yielding to the power of God. Beloved, we must realize that spiritual living cannot be reduced to catchy phrases, self-centered prayers, a misuse or subjective approach to interpreting Scripture, or emotionally stimulating church services. Sadly, all of the aforementioned practices lead to little or no godly transformation. It is time to awaken to the reality of our conversion in Christ. It is time to identify with Him and to truly devote our lives for His cause! He wants to bring us into a life changing encounter that will reshape the way that we view spiritual living, the church, and our fellowship with one another. “That we may know Him” unpacks the fundamental practice of what it means to be a devoted follower of Christ. It leads its readers toward a Christ-centered approach to spiritual and practical living, while debunking the misleading notions that attempt to secularize the Christian experience. The book engages and encourages believers to develop a perspective of what it means to know Christ in the purity of heart as He intended!

Just Bailey, is a book about domestic abuse. And the love of a man, that is slowly dying, with every punch. And of a strange frightening gift, Bailey has.

Twelve-year-old Michael has been struggling to just be a kid. Between his mom's illness and his anger at having to help his family out, he is growing up way too fast. But then Michael makes a friend and solves a mystery. Maybe there can be fun and adventure, even during crisis-and maybe, just maybe, Michael will learn his feelings are totally normal and that he's not alone.As a teacher for twenty years, Kellie Sanchez has witnessed a lot of family tragedies. By writing Skipper: Friend or Foe? A Distracting Mystery within Life's Traumatic Events, Sanchez hoped to help preteen boys experiencing all types of difficult situations.

Dewey the Puppy is new to the world and he takes you with him on his adventures of discovery, all from the puppy perspective. In his first book, you meet his family and learn about "Working Dogs" while meeting one. "Argo" is a Working Dog that helps us learn the differences between pets and working Dogs. Follow along for more adventures and discoveries!

This book is the second in this series. It is meant to guide the reader in ways often missed by well-meaning friends, family & colleagues. In an attempt to list the quotes alphabetically, realize that some are different but similar, but the meaning remains the same, regardless of subject. Every attempt was made to have no duplicates from Volume I. Credit is given when known.

What if husbands had a guidebook relatively simple to understand and apply? A husband of over 28 years offers humorous observations and sound tactics, essentially a field guide, on how to survive a marriage and most importantly to avoid being "dumped on" by your wife for your many real and perceived shortcomings as a husband.Tens of millions of unsuspecting husbands walk around without a clue as to what to do, what just happened, and why am I in the doghouse again with my wife? This book will teach husbands the hidden pathway to a happy, successful marriage.This book offers practical strategies and solutions to a variety of sources of marital friction: relatives, children, pets, budgets, household chores, sex drive, etc. At the most fundamental level, a husband want a wife who is a life-time companion, soul mate, and best friend who will more than occasionally have sex with him. This book will help a husband achieve this success. If the husband won't read the book, then his wife can read it to him while he's watching the MLB Network.

This book isn't meant to be a "How To" guide for people whose parents have been diagnosed with dementia or Alzheimer's. Nor is it meant to offer any medical advice when confronted with caring for various ailments of the elderly. It recounts my own personal journey through the confusing maze that was my mother's dementia. I didn't even know she had it when she first arrived to live with me. I just knew she wasn't doing well on her own. As I learned how to interact with her, this new and different her, not the mother who raised me, I also was challenged to change my attitude towards my mother, to reexamine my own priorities, and to find a peace that circumstances can't touch. I hope my story may help others who unexpectedly find themselves on the same journey.

Everyone has had experiences that left them wishing they had trusted their instincts more. Perhaps they could have avoided a bad consequence, simply by speaking up at the right time.Trust Your Instincts is a work of love created by Brenda and Natalie Blackburn, a mother-daughter team. This series of books is a way to open conversations with small children, to teach them to speak up for themselves when that small voice inside their head says 'something just doesn't feel right'.It is a proactive way to empower children, to tell them that it is always okay to talk about how they feel. It encourages thought, questions and answers, without fear. It helps parents assure their children that they are safe, loved, and that they (and other caring grownups) are always willing to listen and help. Author Brenda McCook-Blackburn began as an educator teaching Kindergarten. Later, as research analyst and Professor of Sociology at a California State University, her research showed that the major threat to children's safety comes from people they know.This was driven home one afternoon during one of Brenda's sociology lectures on Marriage and Family. She revealed staggering statistics showing the rise of abuse. Some students cried when they heard that nearly 50% of children experience some sort of abuse in their lifetime. They realized that, if not to them, abuse may have happened to the person next to them. The floodgates opened and their stories poured out. Years later, some of these very students became proponents for children's rights and safety.One young military vet remained after class to express his thanks. His stepfather, he said, sexually abused him when he was small. He had carried this shame his entire life. That first step in sharing helped lift his darkness. He's now a father with three beautiful children and helped come up with the idea of a children's series on trusting your inner voice.With Trust Your Instincts Brenda hopes to drive away this harmful secrecy.Natalie Blackburn works with groups to protect women and children, as well as with lawmakers and the FBI. She also provides women with guidance on how to protect their children. Many women feel they have no one to go to for help, for themselves or their children. This is why abuse continues and is growing. We must help our children feel secure and loved, and tell them their voices matter. That little voice in their heads is saying, "Be brave. Speak up. Someone who cares will listen and believe you."Illustrator Kim Wilson Brandt was able to capture the youthful fun in being a child with illustrations that capture joy, sadness, and family warmth at the same time. Our heroine, Candy Cricket, faces situations that get children to think about what Candy needs to do to help. It is easier for children to think through these problems when they are talking about Candy and her family: Real life situations, but in a world of bugs; perfect for young children.All profits from these books will be donated to groups and individuals fighting to create and enforce laws to protect the safety and innocence of children. See our site at http://www.outskirtspress.com/trustyourinstincts.

This is a story of an extraordinary life shaped by an ordinary education. And it’s the journey of a bold go-getter who succeeded in four communication careers - journalism, sales, professional speaking and authorship – without a single college degree. Moreover, it’s a guidebook for anyone striving to turn fear into faith, doubt into dependence, risk into reward, heartache into hope and setbacks into successes.Dick Biggs is living proof of what can happen to purposeful people who are daring dreamers, confident competitors, obstinate overcomers and determined doers. Chronicles Of A Career Communicator: An Extraordinary Life Shaped By An Ordinary Education is a handbook of Dick’s lessons learned over more than seven decades. With Chronicles Of A Career Communicator, this is your chance to cope with challenge and maximize every opportunity.

The Angels that stand beside me is based on the true story of the Author's life, she's sharing the experience she witnessed and the love she felt while being on the other side. The Author will be sharing her experiences with Angels that she has interacted with here on earth. The story is a Revised Edition to The Reincarnation of Bobby Johnson which was given to the Author by a Higher Power; The Reincarnation of Bobby Johnson is based on Rape, Murder and Justice. The Angels that stands beside me was seat on the Author's heart to share with the readers in 2005 after losing her only son to murder. The story is designed to assure everyone that there is life after death as we call it and that Angels do exist here on Earth. The Author wants all readers to keep an open mind on the things that they will be reading because there are things that one will call fiction when it can really exist here on earth.

The wisdom of the universe resides in the aged. Every day, when an old person dies, that information is gone forever. The most accurate, modern database of that knowledge lies within these pages. The sources are many. Over time society''s values change; morals erode thru the aeons, only to be replaced with ethics more applicable to the struggles of today''s modern humans. The words contained herein are meant to guide the reader to a destination befitting the unique individual, not to appease the masses; how to look inwards for answers, not outwards. Create a personal path only you can walk.

Democracy by its very nature is a difficult form of government to administer. It is messy. There are many conflicting ideas of how to do things. In order to enact any programs, you must build consensus. There is a lot of give-and-take in the process. In the end few people get everything they want. The democratic process is further complicated by the elected officials who are supposed to administer it. They are not perfect people. They wrestle with the same foibles as all of us. They are easily distracted, are inconsistent, lack the proper knowledge, and in some cases are just downright incompetent. Plus, they possess some of our common moral weaknesses: pride, envy, jealousy, laziness, just to name a few. So in the end American democracy will never be perfect. The best we can hope for is that we can make it better. This should be our ambition and our goal. This is the story of one individual who entered the political arena. It tells what he tried to accomplish, and what he learned.