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"A chilling and detailed look into troubled minds." Patrick Quinlain, Author of Los Angeles Time Best Seller All These Moments Sometimes people are ready to leave. When they do, many write down their last thoughts in an attempt to gain understanding, revenge, or sympathy. Others simply want to explain their actions. What follows is a collection of suicide notes and letters written by authors, actors, artists, musicians, athletes, and murderers. Written by Aaron Hernandez, Jerry Kasinski, Hunter S, Thompson, Virginia Woolf, Kurt Cobain, O.J. Simpson, Charles Whitman, Sid Vicious, Ernest ...

Step by step, mile by mile, his body and mind heal. In this lyrical, vulnerable, and breathtaking memoir, J. M. Thompson, now a successful psychologist, retraces the path that led him from despair to wellness, detailing the chilling childhood trauma that caused his depression, and the unorthodox treatment that saved him. Running Is a Kind of Dreaming is a luminous literary testament to the universal human capacity to recover from our deepest wounds.

Less than four years ago, Simon O'Toole was a middle-aged I.T. specialist. Now, after the fall of technology and the rise of magic, he has been Changed. He has become a young wizard, struggling to use his new-found powers and trying to survive in a world rich in magical energy and filled with reborn, legendary evil. The world itself has changed. Humans, the few that are left, are being hunted down and destroyed by dragons, the agents of darkness. Only when the last of humanity is destroyed can the ancient ones, the gods of Chaos, return and reclaim the New Earth. Simon, with the help of a ...

Book 3 in a post-apocalyptic road trip amongst monsters and the supernatural, perfect for fans of stories like A Quiet Place, The Demon Cycle, and Attack on Titan.

Are you ready to be jumpstarted? Daily Jumpstart is a 30-Day Devotional full of transparency, scriptures, implications, and prayer. It is for the newly saved to the seasoned saints or anyone who feels the need to jumpstart their life. This book is loaded with messages designed to ignite your walk with the Lord. As you read, you will feel the unique spark of GOD come upon you and jumpstart you for your next season. This book will ignite your faith and ignite your hunger.

Book 2 in a post-apocalyptic road trip amongst monsters and the supernatural, perfect for fans of stories like A Quiet Place, The Demon Cycle, and Attack on Titan.

Dancing in My Tattered Pink Dress is a celebration of life that offers hope to anyone who has struggled in their life's journey. Ruth-Ann Thompson opens her life and shares her experiences with skill and grace and gives practical examples of self-advocacy, resilience, and fortitude.

Vexx White is a down on his luck apprentice mage, recently expelled from Fallanden Magical Academy for experimenting with necromancy. With nothing to lose, he becomes a dungeoneer for hire — taking odd jobs in his home town of Cloudbury for pocket change. Nine out of 10 dungeoneers die in their first 10 quests, and to survive Vexx finds himself teaming up with a clumsy elf and a crazed succubus. When they’re not busy trying to kill each other, the dungeoneers drum up all the work they can get, from raiding dungeons to hunting down thieves.

In a top-secret complex surrounded by miles of Texas scrubland, the United States military is working on a new form of germ warfare. Taken from homeless shelters and prisons, the subjects, discarded men and women of America, serve their country as unwilling lab rats. Ramon Willis didn’t commit the murder that put him on death row. But he’s guilty of something worse - surviving the virus and escaping his captors. Knowing he can’t take on the corrupt system alone, there’s only one person he can turn to - Lena Dryer, the reporter who covered his case and watched him die.

Twenty years ago, hordes of monstrous dragons descended upon the Earth and decimated the human race. Cities burned, towns were levelled and humanity was almost obliterated. But from the carnage of those dark days arose a new type of human being. The survivors had been altered, mutated by the magic that the dragons had brought back to the world. These Changed humans now lived far longer than the old race. Infections and diseases were a thing of the past. People barely aged once they reached adulthood. They were stronger than before, more agile and better able to defend themselves against the...

Despite their dubious successes in the past, Vexx and his two companions find themselves back where they had started: penniless and scrounging the streets of Cloudbury for menial work. When they chance upon what seems to be a simple delivery quest to Golden Streams Landing, Vexx accepts it with no hesitation. But what Vexx doesn’t realize is that the roads leading to the city are treacherous, and that there are powerful enemies basic fire magic and rudimentary necromancy can’t defeat.

Helena was lost. Lost to her own mind and to her soul. Since that fateful night she has felt torn, split in half, searching for a way out and the one thing that will complete her and make her feel whole again. Her only problem: she doesn’t know what is real or a figment of her imagination. Memories and deep, dark fantasies have merged, making her existence seem like a cruel joke. Can Helena fight the demons within herself? Can she free herself from the prison that is her mind?

After Vexx White and his fellow dungeoneers survive their latest brush with death, a chance encounter with a woman at the market leads them on their next wild adventure. The mission she describes is dangerous, and all she has to offer is a mysterious amulet in exchange for the rescue of her missing husband. But something about the amulet intrigues Vexx, and against his better judgment, he accepts her quest and vows to reunite the lovers at any cost.

Since the early days of the American republic, political thinkers have maintained that a grossly unequal division of property, wealth, and power would lead to the erosion of democratic life. Yet over the past thirty-five years, neoconservatives and neoliberals alike have redrawn the tenets of American liberalism. Nowhere is this more evident than in our current mainstream political discourse, in which the politics of economic inequality are rarely discussed.

An enforcer for his kind, Dominic’s job is to protect Succubi’s from other immortal races and hide them from the humans. His job simple, until a rogue female hits his radar and sets off every protective instinct he has.

Greetings, I’m Kriss! Welcome to The Apostolic Audio Bible channel. I am a work in progress by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. Hubby to Gigi & Daddy to 2 boys. I serve @KACWillowGrove as lead pastor and am a certified Christian counselor. This channel is designed to be an unfiltered experience into all things Scripture. I feel the Lord Jesus has inspired me to create content that breaks through the spirit of religion and dogmatic customs, into a raw and contextually sound look at the Bible. This channel will have about 2 or 3 playlists, each focused on different elements I feel led by ...

Everyone loves running into and reconnecting with an old friend. Someone you have lost touch with for any number of reasons over the years. It can stir up a cocktail of euphoric emotions through feelings of nostalgia, amusement, hope and love. That is exactly how Emma Goodwin felt when she ran into her high school best friend Charlie Claymore after they found one another randomly after a decade of not seeing or speaking in a small coffee shop in Seattle.

McCray is a bounty hunter who specializes in hunting Mystik criminals. Spenser Townshend is a Mystik conman who uses magic to commit crimes. Together, they stumble upon the mystery of Whisper Falls - a town that ceased to exist a dozen years ago - and a gang of outlaws straight out of hell. In a town where nearly everyone has their secrets and nothing is what it seems, McCray and Townshend must join forces and, along with the local sheriff, a bevy of beautiful saloon girls, and a skeptical frontier doctor, put down the supernatural threat.

“Guard your heart”--the prime real estate of your life--with F-A-I-T-H! Ever ask yourself: Can I continue at this pace? How do I keep up with the demands of achievement mode? Do I have a choice? Do you tell yourself: Keep up the ‘good face,’ everything is fine, just be a good person, do what is best for others, just work harder because you’ve got this--as you feel like crumbling inside? You are not alone! Collectively, allow these testimonials to guide your reflections through intentional journaling as you question your motivations, mark your purpose, and grow your faith, be more ...

Drawing on the writings and wisdom of Henri J. M. Nouwen's themes of caregiving, Marjorie J. Thompson offers a vulnerable exploration of caregiving intertwined with both her own many years of intimate caregiving of family members and collected stories of caregivers in varied settings and stages of life. While not shying away from the demanding physical, emotional, and spiritual challenges of caregiving, Courage for Caregivers also celebrates the gifts of caregiving grounded in the belovedness both caregiver and care receiver share in God's eyes.