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Although Joseph White regularly attended his Christian church, he was a skeptical believer who openly questioned most Biblical and theological teachings. During the 89th year of his life, however, things would change dramatically for him following an unexpected dreamlike visit from persons whose stated purpose was to prepare him for an important personal journey he would soon embark on. Less than an hour after Joe awoke from his vivid dream, he suffered a heart attack at his retirement home, then a second and fatal attack several hours later while he was hospitalized. After Joe passed through the swirling tunnel toward the glowing light, he arrived on an uncharted planet where he met a spiritual guide named "Adin" whose purpose was to prepare him for entrance into the Heaven community. Over the course of several days, Adin surprised and awed Joe, not only by the things he taught him about God and Heaven, or the amazing sights and miracles he showed him, but also by Adin's playful sense of humor that blended seamlessly with his knowledge and wisdom. Eventually, though, Joe learned that Adin was hiding a mystery from him. That awareness interfered with Adin's ability to guide Joe, and another guide, "Emerson," was substituted to continue Joe's spiritual tutelage. Although Joe worked well with Emerson, several of his questions were unanswered, including: What was behind Adin's mystery? Why exactly did he have to leave Joe? What surprises lay in store for Joe when he entered the Heaven community? Thankfully, Joe eventually found answers to all his questions during and after his passage to Paradise.

In 1953, a 16-year-old boy, a son of a Christian minister who was kidnapped by the North Korean Communists in the Korean War, came to America, where highways were reportedly paved with 'gold' and money trees grew in abundance. To his great disappointment, he found no money trees. Without a penny from home, he had to work hard and educate himself through school. The first few years, he washed dishes, dug ditches, mixed cement, painted walls, cleaned the restrooms, cleaned the classrooms,... To save money for school, he ate two raw eggs for breakfast and three pieces of Wonder bread with peanut butter and grape jelly in between. Sometimes he felt so lonely in his room that he ate sitting in front of a vanity mirror to keep company with the person he saw in the mirror. But he persisted, received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, established himself as an authority in his field with 52 inventions, 40 publications, and a textbook. But he thought he was a failure because he did not invent an earthshaking device. In 1989, he fell into a major depression. The depression took him to the brink of no return, but the fear of eternal Hell-fire prevented him from crossing the bridge. He decided to seek a therapist's help. Then in 1990, in the therapist's office, he experienced God's Amazing Grace, the inner peace and freedom that he had never thought possible to experience in his life. This inner peace and freedom are still with him to this day. And he decided to share his story with the world.

Faith will make you question everythingIf you find yourself standing over the freshly dug grave of a loved one, after trusting that God would save their life, you may question, is their death the direct result of theirs and for your lack of faith? How much faith does one need to change the course of events? Each volume in this four book series has within it answers to questions asked since the dawn of mankind. Each volume is filled with personal accounts of pain and sorrow, acts of valor and unquestionable faith. Volume one in the series meets you at the genesis of your faith. Volume two, three and four gives you the courage to triumph through all 7 levels, and conquer life's foremost prize. "Enoch is a "knowledgeable expert" on faith, how faith is strengthened, the various levels of faith, what to do when our faith is challenged, and how to trust God and His directives completely. I highly recommend this book to anyone whose desire is to understand and utilize their faith." ~ Dr. Ronald Charles BS, BTh, MA, MTh, PhD, ThD, Missionary and author of the "The Search", the book Mel Gibson referenced while filming "The Passion of the Christ". "'7 Levels of Faith' is a powerful eye-opening book that I believe will inspire you to dig deeper in your faith. Through this book, your confidence will be renewed and strengthened as the different levels of faith are unpacked." ~ Marcus Mecum, Senior Pastor at Seven Hills Church in Metro Cincinnati, Ohio "Enoch Rich is doing it right! He has written a wonderful book that will build your faith, and activate you to another level in the supernatural. Beautifully written, powerful content, just wonderful! I highly recommend this life-changing book!" ~ Jeffery M. Phillips, Founder and President of Legacy Churches

"Aleksandr Sukonik never glides on the surface of things; he burrows himself into his subject, digs his own channel in search of the ever elusive truth. He shakes the very foundation of Russian tradition of literary criticism itself." -- Marietta Chudakova, literary critic and historian, doctor of philological sciences, member of Academia Europaea"I believe that Sukonik possesses a rare vision obtained as a result of trying space travel that we in Russia call emigration. Nobody has written on Dostoevsky and Chekhov like this before." -- Sergey Bocharov, literary critic, laureate of New Pushkin's and Solzhenitsyn's prizes.

This is an easy to read, step-by-step introduction helping you create your own licensed company, able to conduct business throughout the world! This book will guide you in every matter including registering your company name, registering for all the federal and state identification numbers, hiring employees, locating the "right" bank, determining working capital and more. The author has been there, and knows what it takes to begin from scratch and build a successful company. He will hold your hand as you pass through the jungle of accounting terms until you actually look forward to reading your own financial statement. You will gradually feel more and more empowered to "get started" in building your own company. The mystery of how to begin will be replaced with the knowledge of taking your first step, followed by each successive step until you gain the confidence to take charge, to make decisions and begin selling your products or services. Whether your goal is to own a small personal business or a future industry giant, you will be guided in the right steps to take. Knowledge is power; and America's Guide to Building Your Own Company will help to provide the powerful motivation to take your ideas and transform them into reality. Every great industry leader began with the same first steps, and this Guide will help you to join them.

Halloween returns to its roots of mayhem, song, sex and redrum. The crew of the Galactic Star Cruiser Legion had set forth on a massive ship built to traverse inside the mystery of Black Holes. Set in the immediate future, paired along with present themes such as terrorism, the digital revolution, technology replacing religion, overwhelming poverty, greed over conservation, Alien intervention theory, the origins of Religion and sexual prowess over repressive nature. In Hell's Reign the simple tools of absolute violence, sheer sexuality, a desire for karaoke and human nature. Have been crafted around a tale filled with dark humor about inter dimension beings, civil wars, commercialism and the old being replaced by new gods in a post modern apocalypse.

Restoration works worldwide are unfortunately limited by various circumstances of their professional and social functions. Of these countless limitations, many represent insurmountable barriers which separate professional interventions by restorers, curators and conservers from the artisan, artistic and antique objects which require intervention. We will emphasize four easily noticeable limits which are dominant and stand in the way of professional interventions by restorers, conservers and curators, on valuable creative, artisanal objects. Firstly, transience and a change in the characteristics of the matter where the natural process which cannot be influenced more significantly; secondly, general ignorance of the basic principles of restoration and conservation work and an undefined place and role of that profession within the societies of various political, economical and other features worldwide. Thirdly, western civilization, as well as most of the rest of the world, basis its existence upon the private ownership legal system, which basically defines the right to private possession of every object, inclusive of the right to destroy the objects. Unfortunately, because of this well known, legal maxim dating from Roman law, the obligations of private owners, regarding the preservation of valuable artistic objects, are not defined; these objects, apart from their monetary value, which represent the historical genesis of human creative work, go beyond egotistic, financial every day value. This egotistic, authoritarian capital-relation, often at work in the richest communities of the world, is the cause of international interest and selective negligence towards human creativity, and is used as the basis for our socialization, worldwide. Fourth limitation; often against their will, restorers are exposed to imperative compromises, by the owners of artistic and artisan objects. New York, 2018 Boro Stipanovic

Digger Sharma's Second Case! Join Irish-Indian private eye Digger Sharma as his adventures continue! Comfortably ensconced in a cushy job at a maximum-security prison, Digger finds himself puzzled by a rash of inmate suicides. In The Blue and the Green, he must confront long-forgotten demons to untangle a web of treachery and deceit, along the way outsmarting pirates, ne'er-do-wells, and a seductive Asian with an unusual tattoo and a dark past of her own.

Three women traveling to India. A journalist, a college intern, a victim. Each on their separate journey. Allison, Lynne, Kasi. Here is their story.

Autism can isolate a person due to their sensory challenges. This book was written to help the autistic person adapt better to the environment using the sensory learning channels- vision, auditory and tactile which are the doors to the sensory world. The kinesthetic channel is the output of how our sensory channels assess the environment. Through RPM we know there is a difference between the cognitive learning and the sensory learning. Cognitively one may know what pain is but his hypo tactile sensitivity may not let one recognize a cavity in a tooth. The exercises in this book have been tried with different students before writing. Our goal is to better the lives of Autistic people using RPM.We know that our autistic children have many sensory challenges. As parents most importantly we want to know what we can DO to help. This book is packed with 'HOW TO's' - practical exercises which can be done for 5-10 mins a day at home. I feel that this book can help people even if they do not have a prior knowledge of Soma RPM. I loved that I was reading it and thinking about my son, I had so many "Of course! Why didn't I think of that?" moments - for me the sign of a great resource book that will be read and re-read many times. -Sue Finnes, ParentAs an occupational therapist I have found sensory based learning to be an integral part of my practice. This is especially important for persons who present with difficulties with sensory processing including challenges taking in, interpreting and responding to sensory inputs from their environments. In order to maximize learning and motor skill development, it is beneficial to teach by incorporating the student's stronger sensory channels while continuing to facilitate development of weaker channels. It is also important to utilize these channels to help students maintain a regulated state in order to promote active engagement in a multitude of tasks and experiences across environments. Teaching via Rapid Prompting Method provides the sensory supports needed to help maximize each students ability to learn, both academic content and functional skills. Utilizing this sensory rich method of teaching has helped many of my students develop the skills they need to lead more meaningful lives. -Amy Brennan,M.S.,OTR/L,BCP

It's 1916 in the city of New Orleans when Andre Boulanger is born to an octoroon prostitute and a Creole man of high social standing. The child's grandmother hires a hit man to kill baby Andre and his mother to eliminate the "taint" in the bloodline, but Andre is spared... He looks white enough to sell to a childless white couple, and the hit man finds that couple in Arthur and Hannah Arcineux. The Arcineuxs change Andre's name to Sebastian. He becomes a sculptor, a man about town, and, after serving as a Navy lieutenant in WWII, he marries a high society New Orleans woman, Lucinda O'Rourke. But when Lucinda gives birth to a black baby, Sebastian renounces her and the child, thinking she has been unfaithful to him with a black man. Sebastian leaves for Jamaica, and Lucinda's father concocts a plan to pretend the baby died at childbirth. He pays Cally, the family maid, to take the baby away and keep it hidden. Cally names the child Vincent and raises him as her own. After finding his great-grandmother's diary, Sebastian must come to terms with his true identity-and come face-to-face with Vincent, the black son he abandoned years earlier.

Charlie is a young cactus wanting to have fun with his friends. He loves and enjoys being around his friends and providing shade when the sun is too hot. His world is about to change. Follow Charlie as he learns to overcome his fears.

A quest for redemption or an exercise in futility...? In the late 1930s in a Southern port city, Joseph Curcio meets his former student Amanda,who is now a street artist selling mosaics made of broken glass and who offers Joseph a place to stay at the abandoned fisherman's cabin where she lives. Joseph is an indifferent, homeless ex-alcoholic who once considered himself a progressive intellectual and the future mayor of his city. Now he begins to find strength in his platonic friendship with Amanda and resolves to resurrect his career by writing an autobiographical journal-a diary in which he hopes to confront and understand his failures, his lost idealism, and his past relationships with his immigrant father and the woman he once loved. What he cannot see, however, are the character flaws that were his undoing and which will take him once again from the brink of success to tragedy, violence-and possibly even death. This is Joseph Curcio's mosaic journal, composed of fragments of memory, pieces of accomplishment, holes of loss, and shards of guilt and regret too sharp to touch.

After Fidel Castro shocked the world by proclaiming Cuba a communist state and aligning himself with the Soviet Union, the Cold War battle lines were moved to a mere ninety miles from American shores. The United States countered by forming the 8th Special Forces Group in the Panama Canal Zone. The Group's mission was to assist Latin American countries in their efforts to prevent insurgencies from toppling legitimate governments. The specially-trained "Green Berets" responded to all requests from their host countries, whether by holding formal training in classrooms, directing construction of facilities such as clinics, propaganda offices and jump schools, or transforming conventional soldiers into counter-guerrilla fighters in steamy jungles. At all times, gaining the hearts and minds of the people was paramount. The missions were on sites away from home and often lasted for many months. Their remoteness prevented regular communications with home base, creating an environment where sound judgement, initiative and leadership were compulsory. Not only did these Special Forces soldiers serve throughout Latin America, but also their families had to manage a new life in the Zone. Few Americans are aware of the undertakings by the 8th Special Forces, much less of their achievements. The sometimes clandestine nature of the work and the intense spotlight on the evolving Vietnam conflict at the time, kept the Group in the shadows. There are thousands of untold stories in that darkness. This book contains a few as witnessed by a junior officer.

All of us will face challenges in life-we have control over how we respond to them. Author Richard V. Battle knows all about this. Over one ten-month period, he experienced divorce, two heart procedures, and a cancer diagnosis. He could have chosen any number of negative paths through that time. Instead, he chose humor, peace, and the Word of God, which led him out of fear and into what he later named his book on the experience: Unwelcome Opportunity. Full of entertaining anecdotes as well as forty-seven passages from Scripture, Battle's Unwelcome Opportunity: Overcoming Life's Greatest Challenges will help others also see the possibility, hope, and light in any situation.

Are you struggling to endure? Are you confused and overwhelmed by the very word endure? Does taking the next step in your situation scare you? The path through the dark times of life can be overwhelming. We may think we will never be able to cope with all that is coming at us. We seem paralyzed and unable to keep moving onward. There is an alternative to sitting alone and giving up in frustration. God has laid out the path for us and He will be there to see us through. We can expect peace, joy and a confidence in our life when we accept God's guidance on our personal path through dark times. This book explains the reasons for our confusion and offers solutions for how to learn the endurance necessary to keep moving on to even the most frightening and unknown destinations of God's plan for us.

With no family to help her, Teddy has no choice but to remain in Bird, South Dakota, and find a way to survive. The townspeople are rude, intrusive, and hostile to strangers. They harass Teddy as she struggles to emerge from depression and find a way to make ends meet. In a series of encounters with idiosyncratic residents, some intimidating and others comical, Teddy realizes that her wit and sense of humor are her best coping skills. However, an arson fire, mysterious break-ins, and death threats assail her. Teddy then becomes both victim and witness to a domestic violence incident, which sends her into therapy and out of denial about the abuse she suffered in childhood-and at the hands of her late fiancé. As Teddy transforms her life from powerlessness and anonymity, the town itself is catapulted into a notoriety it is not prepared to handle, and Teddy's most cherished dreams may finally come true amid the hilarious events that follow.

Debra Parker Oliver and her husband were living a fairy-tale life-until his terminal cancer diagnosis. Rather than spend precious time fighting a disease they knew they could not beat, they focused on living and making memories with their family. From that experience, as well as her decades as a hospice researcher and manager of a hospice agency, Oliver wrote Legacies from the Living Room: A Love-Grief Equation for people caring for loved ones with terminal illnesses. Unique in that it is written not from the patient's perspective but from the caregiver's, Legacies from the Living Room offers readers guidance through illness, loss, and bereavement-it offers the answer to pain: a love-grief equation.

These stories are about the author's children, stories written for and from the grandchildren, adventures with family and travel with her husband Fred. Helen began writing as a child - first poems and then short stories. Her first book was published when she was 85. She always hoped there would be another book. Here it is. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Helen Payson Sebring was born in Milton, Massachusetts. She was the only child of Alma and Carl Payson who encouraged her to read, write and explore. She did just that. She met her husband to be, Fred Sebring, in Harvard Square when she was 16 and he was 21. After graduation and World War II, Helen and Fred began their adventure together which included six children, ten grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Family was everything to Helen and Fred. That and traveling the world. Helen lived to be 90. She kept traveling and writing throughout those 90+ years, with a little bit of writing almost every day and one last trip to celebrate hers and Fred's 69th wedding anniversary.

"Life and Death in the Silver" is centered on the saga of generations of a family involved in historical episodes taking place in the south of Brazil. Biographical excerpts of four military characters-"The Colonel," "The Captain," "The Marshal," and "The Major"-become aligned with the unfolding of historical events described by people in the military and civilians, revolutionaries or legalists, who were actually present at the time. Episodes in Brazilian history are addressed in the book, such as the "Legality Campaign." the "Ragamuffin (Farroupilha) Revolution," the "Paraguay War," the "Proclamation of the Republic," the "Federalist Revolution," the "Contested Territory Campaign," and so on. Many facts mentioned are based on primary sources, such as the living memory of relatives of those who once lived and those who now live in the Silver River basin. It is ultimately a book about rescuing historical events told by generations of a family struggling for order and freedom.

Emerson is terrorized by nightmares after the deaths of her parents-and her waking hours aren't much calmer. She's been abducted by aliens, the military, and other international operatives. Now she must rely on her closest friends, three children with otherworldly powers, the Native American community, and benevolent extraterrestrials. As the journey unfolds to Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, Emerson gains an understanding of one more resource she has access to: herself.Inspired by real-life events, In the Darkness Before Dawn, by C. A. Ferguson, EdD, is a thrilling young adult novel. The adventure, sci-fi, and mystery will keep readers turning the pages; the thoughtful portrayal of self-actualization and the realization we are never alone will stay with readers long after the last page.

We've all failed at love, at least once before. This is for the ones who refuse to give up. For the ones who continue to believe in a kind of love that even they, themselves, may be yet to experience; the kind that many in our generation don't even believe still exists. This is for the ones who are ready to walk away from pain and embrace happiness. This is a guide for the true believers.

A rogue grizzly is blamed for the deaths of cattle along the border separating Glacier Park and the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. The repetitive nature suggests to Coleman Broderick, the Chief Park Ranger, that the mutilations are ceremonies of a cult squatting on a ranch called Satan Dance- maybe the next mutilation will be a person. When Park Ranger, Henry 'Twobob' Roberts, discovers two bodies on the rugged trail into Otokomi Lake, the mutilation similarities are obvious. The companion of the dead hikers is missing and after a third mutilated woman is found in an isolated fire lookout tower, the search for the lost hiker in Glacier Park becomes a deadly tangle of circumstances. FBI Agent Cretcher takes over the search, pursues his own vendetta and accuses Coleman of raping and murdering the woman in the fire tower. The rumor at the Dirty Shame Bar is that the FBI, using the lost hiker as a cover, is searching for something more clandestine. Despite the County Coroner's suggestion that all three hearts were harvested before the mutilations, Henry fabricates a blackmail scheme with Agent Cretcher and risks his life to kill a rogue grizzly to be blamed for the deaths. Even if he is successful, Henry knows that the heart hunter will still be alive- and hunting him.

The Spirit of Trees is a collection of poems about oaks and beech, pine and peach, and floating cottonwoods. It is about Lincoln Logs and old barns, chicken coops, and subdivisions, clothespins and bamboo chimes. It is about doves and geese, peacocks and woodpeckers. It is about migrations and translations, hanging on and letting go, about war and peace and weird foods. It is a about confetti and church pews. It is about young love and cemeteries. It is a book in praise of trees.

Costa Rica experienced drastic changes during World War II and the immediate postwar era. Its people faced great challenges that culminated with the 1948 Civil War. This 40-day revolution changed their lives completely. It gave women the right to vote, but not the right to get pregnant and have children out of wedlock. This is the story of one woman who lived in the midst of such changes in the 1940s, and whose oppressive upbringing forced her to join the Sisters of Charity to become a nun-nurse. Then was obligated to take a leave of absence due to an illness of the lungs. She left the convent just to be caught in the heart of the revolution where she was captured and raped by one of the ragtag soldiers. These bleak experiences, and the postwar traumatic stress changed her destiny. In 1954, single and pregnant, she escaped to a neighboring country, to a home for unwed mothers to hide her shame and avoid the scandal. The stigma of getting pregnant out of wedlock was a disgraceful affair. She could not bear the idea of being labeled as a "loose" woman, and thought seriously about an abortion, but could not imagine killing an innocent life, my life.

The Most Devastating 'Major Storm Is Brewing' It is going to strike every race, country, nationality, and has already started to effect the whole world as we know it. Also how a vicious, evil, dictator will commit mass murders while ruling the entire earth with lies, deceit, as he tries to convince the world that he is a holy god. You will find out that it has been proven that at least hundreds of greats back in time, that everyone has the same great grandmother. This book will also answer questions about the 'Arc Of The Covenant', is there anything to reincarnation that many Christians believe exits, and how demons/imps are alive and well, and what kind of evil things they are doing. Also explains how, if there is only one God, how can it be three different Persons. Plus many more topics, to my knowledge, no other Preachers, nor Christians, has ever talked about, and what God has showed me to be the answers to these, and many other questions.

The moonlight filtered in though the lace curtains over the kitchen window as Laura stared out into the darkness. It was as though the inky blackness was seeping into her and the cup of coffee she held did little to warm her. She was afraid...the man's body they found in the high desert was a man she may have known for well over ten years. A positive ID was yet to come back. The victim was definitely killed by a shotgun blast to the face. No weapon and no shell casing were found at the scene. Decomposition and animals had made the scene a nightmare to recover. For a small community in Nevada, this was their first homicide in years.

Make a living for the family or die trying!Grandfather would do and go anywhere within the Law to make a living for his Family. Going to New York, fresh from the fishing boat and working on construction as a carpender. Taking over the company and become very wealthy.

The 1950's was a turning point for the nation and Utica, NY. It was the best of worlds for many, and a troubled time for others. Lucky U, Lucky Us presents a look back at a special time and place. For those who lived through it, the experience was one of fascination, blessed friendships and conflicting values. Looking back offers the opportunity to relive, cherish and understand a unique era. The pillars of society, both the good and the bad, lived under the 1950's should not be forgotten. We may then preserve and reintroduce the good, while avoiding a repeat of the bad. Upon retiring from a career in both the public and private sectors, Rodger Potocki turned to writing about his home area from a historical and personal perspective. His first book, From the Inside, chronicles key political and economic issues. Lucky U, Lucky Us turns to a view of a distinctive decade in the city of Utica's history.

Each poem in this book will rejuvenate each reader's mind and soul. The Essence of Rejuvenating is based on Love, Education, Life Experience, and each individual's Philosophy or interpretation of perspectives and written ideas in general. Furthermore, each poem reflects the feelings and thoughts of many individuals around the world and their daily experiences as we age through life.