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The Truth Is ... An unapologetic look at the life and experiences of one man. Throughout this book you will get the uncensored truths on topics ranging from teenagers, sex, relationships, marriage, drugs and the slap-in-the-face consequences for everything!

No one expected to find the charred remains of a body in the ashes of the house fire. Town constable Paul Whipple knew of no one missing from the area. There were no old reports, or new missing-person write-ups, that had come to his office. It was a puzzle. No one was supposed to be home the day the call came in for a structure fire. It all seemed a little strange to the constable. Paul and his trusty bloodhound, Michelangelo, liked working puzzles. There was always something missed, overlooked by the untrained eye. Maybe it was nothing, not a clue at all. Maybe it was something sniffed out by his hound on a scent. Would it help fit the puzzle pieces together?

Set in a snowy New England mill town, Right Angles is a comedy that centers around the matriarch of a Polish American family, Kasia Angielski. Kasia is deeply concerned about doing the right thing for the right reason within the moral and cultural parameters of her fellow Poles; she''s also trying to understand the baffling customs of her new country. Join Kasia and her eccentric family and friends as she hosts the annual Wigilia, the traditional Polish Christmas Eve supper, when things go terribly wrong at one of the most reverent times of the year!

Do you feel like you're always struggling with people treating you unfairly? Are you surrounded by negative people who make you feel bad about yourself? Do you wonder why there is so much suffering in your life? Yes, You! is the book you need, to guide you to look more closely at the causes and repercussions of negativity in your life. With enlightening examples drawn from life experience, author Barbra Burney shows you how to stay true to yourself and get to the root of the negative influences in your life. You'll learn how to recognize hurtful people and deal with them effectively from a place of truth, positive energy, and faith in God. This inspiring, practical, and ethical guide to a better life will become a valuable part of your toolkit for daily living.

Esteemed Psychiatrist, Dr. Eliza Bremann has it all-an amazing family, a rewarding job, and a fulfilling lifestyle. She is overflowed with recognition for being one of the best psychiatrists in the Palm Beach, Florida, area. She is a true hero. All that changes when she tragically loses her son Michael, when he drowns in a lake at a friend's birthday party. Having her life so quickly turned upside down in light of this event, she caves in to stress-so she thinks. After realizing that what she has been experiencing is something far more complex than stress, she gets help. She finds out that she is battling with a mental illness called Schizoaffective disorder. How did she miss the signs? She is, after all, a psychiatrist, right? Go along with Eliza as she deals with this new obstacle, discovers herself, and realizes that everyone needs help sometimes-even heroes.

This story is driven by a grandmother's love for her ten-year old, half Indian grandson, and his growing respect for her. The grandson learns about his heritage through Grandma. Along the way there is Arctic adventure, peril, romance of the sea, Seattle as a pioneer lumber town, an assortment of colorful characters; all of which is guided by the strong, brave, women the book is really about. This is a cross-cultural, cross-generational novel of the Pacific Northwest based on real people and real events.

A romantic, philosophical novel, Mario Guerrier's Ashes of Desire is based in the sociopolitical realities of Haiti, Guerrier's home country.Inspired by the many questions Guerrier often fields from new acquaintances about Haiti, he wrote Ashes of Desire to stimulate the readers' imagination to explore on their own the many possible answers. The novel draws attention to the power of the instinct over formality even in the most controlled of environments. It also sheds light on the danger of being overconsumed by desire. Ultimately, in Guerrier's imagined world, oppression has a raging impact on those deprived of dreams and hope for better days.

Joseph Battaglia is an accomplished speaker and resource to countless agents across the country. He has mentored and trained agents to become top performers in the Insurance industry. He brings a true hands on approach from the 20 years he has been in this field. Because of his expertise in building one of the largest insurance organizations in the Northeast, insurance agents regard his in-depth knowledge and experience to propel their careers in the lucrative Insurance industry. In addition to helping agents, he has lectured before thousands of people in various capacities. His lifetime pursuit to helping insurance agents prosper is why agents utilize his Principles of Success. He invites you to propel your career. This book is designed to provide a road map for success. Besides providing that course to follow it will also educate and motivate you to bring out the best in you.

An antique store, a Treasure Room, some musty old scrolls, and a passage through time. Summers at Grandpa's are spent checking, shelving, and inventorying dusty relics. Abi and her cousin Lewis devote hours to the task in what Grandpa calls the Treasure Room of his antique store. There he keeps his most prized antiques. Abi wonders how Grandpa gets the antiques for his Treasure Room since they seem to just appear overnight on the door steps of the store. Some old clay jars show up one day and Abi and Lewis discover a hidden treasure inside. Archaic scrolls with the power to carry you to back to points in Biblical history! After reading an inscription from one of the scrolls, Abi and Lewis find themselves in ancient Egypt during the time of Moses and the Pharaohs. The scroll holds the key to how they'll make it home again. But first, they must live through the Ten Plagues of Egypt.

As a new recruit firefighter ("booter") in 1977, I saw there was no record being kept by the department, or anyone else, of the department's history. Any chance I got, I would gather the information for the intention of recording it someday. For four years (starting in 1980), a graduate class at a major university was assigned their final project of the year to evaluate all of the big city fire department in the United States to see which was the "best". They had the criteria of fastest overall response times on calls, firefighters per thousand population, station coverage, specialized teams, number of annual calls for fire and Emergency Medical, and many other points. The Phoenix Fire Department won all four years so that project was shelved. But the Phoenix Fire Department was not always the best. This book is the most accurate account of the history of the Phoenix Fire Department. Phoenix was named after the mythical bird that rose "Up From The Ashes" after being destroyed by fire. The reason for that name was not a fluke. It was because the town denied the need for a fire department, like many towns and cities in the 1800s. It took twenty years of researching through microfiche files of newspapers, city records, State of Arizona and Maricopa County records, departmental annual records, fire department log books, stories from the oldest veterans still alive and their relatives. My files took up an entire corner of our home dining room. I was told by my wife I had to find somewhere to store this stuff. I met with the Fire Chief at that time (Alan Brunacini), and he hear about what I was doing so he appointed me the department historian, and gave me a small closet to store the information. That was the start of this book. A book just about a city fire department can be really boring, unless you are in the fire service, or a relative to someone in it. I wanted to put a more human and humorous side to the book with real incidents that never made

There is a way that seems right unto a person, but the way thereof is the way of death. It is the 1960''s. Above the rich Native American city of NuSprings, Missouri, the sky is turning dark with a deadly storm brewing on the horizon. Suicide Affair is a multi-book story of how lives crisscross and intertwine. Some affairs, no matter how exciting or appealing, are suicidal when pursued. Dark, intriguing, and sometimes chilling, Dark Skies pulls you down a path you would never wish to go: Rita, a child lost on the path, wanders a dark stormy world of loneliness and survival. Her worst fear is not being raised by the monster who murdered her mother, but the shadows that threaten to eat her soul. Garth, a boy with a good soul, is pushed onto the path and pulled into its darkness through revenge and murder. RiverDawg, an aging witch doctor, plays on the path and toys with those who venture down it. People are his entertainment. Quillpen Jack, a Native American boy hoping one day to become a great warrior, discovers the path is not only dark, but deadly. Will he survive? Will any of them survive the coming storm?

After the death of his beloved wife, Matt Cleveland adrift, tried to fill the emptiness of his loss by spending his time and efforts supporting several homeless shelters around town. On the way home from a disappointing county meeting about those very shelters made worse by a very bad winter storm he encountered three people out in the storm that desperately needed his help. In his efforts to help them, he discovered much to his surprise that he needed them as much as they needed him, perhaps even more so. Rita Silverton and her nieces made it impossible for Matt to just walk away without even trying.

Our growth is determined by our actions... Our decision to follow Jesus Christ is the beginning of a new perspective on life. His teachings challenge the status quo causing us to reassess our priorities. The early Church faced these challenges as the Gospel was presented to a self-centered and self-indulged culture. Sound familiar? The Lord wants more than superficial gratitude and a weekly rendezvous. His desire is for His children to mature in their actions towards Him and others. The book of Acts illustrates how those devoted to the teachings of Jesus Christ made eternal impact by acting on their faith. Acts to Grow will challenge you with practically applications to the spiritual concepts in the book of Acts. This record of the actions of the early Church will inspire you to become all the Lord has destined from your life.

The Left pretends to care about being "Green" but in fact it cares only about power, wealth and prestige which it milks from the causes it champions. The Left, in fact, is profoundly anti-Green in both its policies and lifestyles. Marxism, the ultimate form of Leftism, is by far the most anti-Green system of government ever devised. The deconstruction of traditional moral values is likewise very destructive to the environment. While Leftism is artificial, Conservatism, is less a political ideology and more an organic way of living. Humans unregulated from government and cadres live in ways consistent with Conservatism. In this way Conservatism - both Free Market Conservatism and Social Conservatism - are both naturally and truly "Green" and the solution to environmental problems. This book explores the ways in which difference operates in practice. It shows that the great Free Market innovators were also among the most "Green" of Americans and how the traditional nuclear family dramatically reduces our need for energy, water and other limited resources. The book also presents practical ideas for making our world "Green" again by making Free Market Conservatism and Social Conservatism the operative principles in our lives.

To live in Xando is to live in paradise-until the unthinkable happens. Ruthless Barbarian pirates kidnap hundreds of the Xando children. One of them is part of the royal family, the last of his bloodline, and he becomes the children's reluctant king in an epic battle against their captors.One day, a group of escaped youths find strange forest creatures, who turn out to be their greatest allies. Meanwhile, the Kingdom of Xando finds a new ruler in the girl who was a king, who accomplished a feat no other king before her could. Together with their strange allies, the army of Xando joins the children in the fight of their lives. Devon P. Fredankey, Sr., has written an incredibly unique coming-of-age story, one set in a fantastical Renaissance period with a female hero. The Xandonians: Noved and the Girl Who Was a King? is sure to delight all readers of YA adventure and fantasy.

"Wilder: A Social Justice Phantasy," is a thought experiment that explains in a logical, easy to read manner a concept of social justice that is based on personal responsibility (Sartre), rationality (Kant), and fairness (Rawls). Although each of these philosophers are difficult to understand the experiment brings their theories together in a clear powerful way; much as Einstein's thought experiments brought together his concept of specific relativity. The setting for the experiment is inside a mother's womb; The characters are fetuses who do not know what their inborn traits are, or what type of society they will be born into. From this "original position," a rational theory of social and political justice is developed, which hopefully will contribute to a better, fairer world.

Transformed, The Renewing of Your Mind, presents actual experiences that demonstrate yielding and obediently walking in unity with God. Bible and personal examples direct and instruct spiritual growth by challenging un-renewed aspects of the mind. You are invited to seek to know Jesus deeply, desiring His desires, which is living beyond the cross in the fullness of Who God is.

Avatar of the Temple: A small town lawyer looking for a missing man finds himself entangled in an international assassination plot. Law enforcement and powerful political figures seek to stop him before he can interfere. The story heads to Israel where the lawyer is finally before the only man who can save the world. Too late, he realizes that it is the Antichrist. The Beast at Bay: Having escaped during an Israeli attempt to kill the evil man, the lawyer is hiding on a remote island. Killers sent by the US President find a nasty surprise and become the hunted rather than the hunters. In Israel, the murder of a prominent newswoman is at the center of intrigue in the Israeli Defense Force. The Antichrist plans war to suppress Egypt and Syria before seizing the oil fields. At the moment of victory, he is undone by a mysterious event from the First World War that resurfaces to humble him. The Wrath of God: The lawyer's son, who is in his twenties, has been on the periphery of his father's adventures. Now, he finds himself in the middle of the Antichrist's plan to crush Israel. The trouble is that he's in love with a Jewish girl in Jerusalem. Together, they first live through the Gentile assault on Israel, and then the Battle of Armageddon. After worldwide destruction, a new Israel emerges due to God's salvation, and the two begin a life under Messiah's rule on the earth.

When the author published the fictional biography book "Are you brown name in a black list?", he was portraying the war on Iraq from a non-American perspectives. He presented a personal unique perspective for an Iraqi scientist living under International sanctions, wars and occupation. This time, the author blends facts with lots of fantasies to create an amusing book that suits readers gifted with fertile imagination. It is a collection of short tales about creatures living among us in real yet fantasy fashion. If you are feeling alone in spite of there are endless number of safe bacteria living on your body, reading the Outbreak, Pandora's box and other twenty stories in this book will ward off your loneliness. You will be communicating.

Reported Missing: Vanishing Sunday Schools. Who is the Culprit? Shocked! Surprised! Disappointed! Sad! If your Sunday School classes have vanished or is on the brink of vanishing, there is a solution to stop the disappearing classes and revive them by teaming up with Evangelism and Growth plans and a few simple changes. It is unbelievable how many classes have completely vanished and disappeared. These classes that were originally set up to study and show thyself approved unto God a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth, but is no longer happening, leaves an emptiness in the congregation's ability to be able to expand and study the Word of God. There is no substitution or replacement for studying His Word together. When I hear that classes are no longer offered, it leaves a lump in my throat and a dull ache in the pit of my stomach. It is like hearing that a beloved family member has passed. Where is the genuine regret or sorrow that this decision has taken place in so many of our churches? A hollow place will remain in the hearts of many people who cherished these classes. Who will teach us? How will we grow?

No one gets out of here alive. Death is certain. What isn't certain is your reaction to it: Do you feel prepared to cope with the death of a loved one or your own impending death?As a trauma-trained ER nurse, certified clinical hypnotherapist (handling grief and PTSD), memorial portrait artist, and firefighter, Jan Briddell Stevens has faced death multiple times, and she draws upon these varied experiences here. Crossing the Caring Bridge: What Death Taught Me About Life, Love, Gratitude, and Grace brings you face-to-face with Mr. Reaper and encourages you to recognize that old Death is not the monster you've come to expect. Through sincere and even humorous conversations with Death (whose mother calls him Morty), as well as journal accounts of her own family's appointments with him, Stevens clears up "mythconceptions," offering readers hope for Heavenly love.

Discover the hidden secret of Garridan... Life couldn't get any better for Brianna, she's married to a loving husband, has four wonderful children, and a job she absolutely enjoys. Everything begins suddenly changing, turning her happy world upside down, with one unfamiliar message received on her cell. A stranger claiming to know her unexpectedly takes her from the securities of her comfortable life into a spiraling nightmare. Relieving a nightmare of verbal and physical abuse from her own childhood, Brianna struggles to piece her life back together. While doing so, she unknowingly uncovers who this stranger is, and the hidden secrets that have been put to rest years ago from a hellish place called Garridan.

Many assume there are Lotto tickets, scratch offs but what about the human Race? A work Visa may Apply as well. Addictions play a daily role with many people they have several. Can manipulations assist in the best dream of becoming a American, in a free world be full of Suspense, Drama and Romance . John Smith is a manipulator with an addiction in his business no rules apply, along with his brother Mr. Atwood the funeral Director. Lola has the Massage Therapy in erotic fantasy form. Who has the sexual desires to join in the many Romantic Affairs Within Mortuary Affairs Three Lotto Power and not end up in Heels and handcuffs.

With his latest book, The Master's Sales Secrets: 44 Strategies for Sensational Sales Success, Richard V. Battle offers business leaders a graduate-level class in what he's learned in over forty plus years in sales and sales management. Practical, sharp, and clearly communicated, The Master's Sales Secrets can be read cover to cover or referenced strategy by strategy. Putting to use Battle's advice on how (and how not) to work with clients will increase the bottom line. Appointed by then Texas Governor Rick Perry to the Texas Judicial Council and the Texas Emerging Technology Fund and having served in Austin's chamber of commerce and on numerous local and national nonprofit boards, Battle brings a unique, diverse perspective to closing the deal.

Sex doesn't disappear with age. It just gets better-and more creative.In Hiram's debut novel, The Bare Foot Club, four childhood best friends reunite in their late sixties. Their care for each other remains-but their passion blossoms into new and exciting relationships and possibilities. The Bare Foot Club is a romantic, and erotic, story for the senior set. Life doesn't have to end at sixty, seventy, or eighty, nor does it after the loss of a spouse. Hiram writes clear scenes and characters but leaves plenty of room for his readers' vivid imaginations-which have a lot more life left to live.

Three of the five members of The Prophecy have been found. Nakiata who is a Shadow of Thought or S.O.T. master along with Dravone, a Morphan which is like a werewolf, and Ka'tia, the newest member who is a princess from Zondura and a fierce warrior. They had just walked through the Black Door on Zondura and find themselves lost in the dark. Eventually the three of them loosely ally themselves with the Roarrgs who send them on a mission in exchange for knowledge about The Prophecy. Before long they face enemies more powerful than before and the fights become epic. Soon they begin to realize the road to knowledge has more danger than they bargained for and they must use all of their skills and tap into some they didn't know they had to endure the reality that is Vazdrag.

War on fossil fuels and carbon is inconsequential to climate change... Although this book is factual and based on unbiased, peer reviewed science, the data is presented so that anyone can understand the forces behind climate change. For years, carbon produced by burning fossil fuels has been blamed for disrupting natural processes and thus, efforts are in place to restrict its use. It doesn't seem to matter that carbon is the least expensive fuel to generate electricity so fundamental to the standard of living in developed countries or that undeveloped countries need and desire its use. After reading this book that contains easily understood colored graphs, you will be amazed that global climate has been cyclic for over 500 million years and that the current warming trend started roughly 18,000 years ago by natural processes. Dr. Silver is a geoscientist whose career includes industry as well as being a faculty member at two large state universities. His research is focused on milieu of sedimentary rocks that range in age from 450 million years to the present-day coral reefs in Belize, C.A. Burr and his wife live primarily in Granbury, Texas.

This is an autobiography of Art Sedillo, a somewhat mischievous child who finally cleaned up his act after erroneously being sent to the De La Salle Christian Brothers seminary for one year thinking he had a religious vocation. He subsequently became a Golden Gloves boxing champion in New Mexico and the US Marines. He studied criminal justice in the Marines and later became a local and state police officer in New Mexico. He became a Drug Enforcement Administration mid-level supervisor agent and spent the majority of his career in Mexico, Bolivia, and Panama, where he was constantly involved in the real drug war. His story should inspire any kid who lacks aspirations to succeed.

In BROKEN JAR, Jan Doke asked us to think about what or who was molding us and what shape we were becoming as a result. In her new devotional book, FLYING IN THE FACE OF GRAVITY, she challenges us to keep our eyes and ears open to the growing gravitational pull of sin all around us. For 365 consecutive days, you can start your day off prepared for our kind and gracious God to lift you above the earthly influences of sin.

A must read for those worried about today's stock market... An irreverent academic treatment intended to be informational and also a teaching tool, this book is an investment guide for the turbulent times ahead. Using numerous graphs, charts, and tables, as well as a range of strategies to deal with the crisis, this self-help tome details the sources of the coming downturn and what to do about it. Its goal is to allow investors to be more independent in the future. Should you dive into gold? How about bonds? The book uses a historical perspective to answer those questions and provide conservative investors with a number of relatively safe investment strategies while warning them of some popular vehicles that may not live up to their billing. Aggressive investors are not left out. The aggressive strategy discussed in the last chapter may be deemed by many as game changing and revolutionary. If you are concerned about the direction of the market and your investment portfolio, this book is for you.