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Tessa Randolph has been dumped. She's jobless and on the borderline of moving in with her overbearing mother. Turns out, her mom doesn’t want that either. She offers Tessa a job. Only Cooper’s Life Insurance, where Tessa’s mom has worked for years, isn’t what it seems to be. Turns out, Cheryl Randolph has been working undercover--under the cover of a hooded grim reaper cloak.

From a hunchbacked dwarf to a paranoid poet-assassin, a history of Victorian England as seen through the numerous assassination attempts on Queen Victoria while she ruled the British empire. During Queen Victoria’s 64 years on the British throne, no fewer than eight attempts were made on her life. Murphy follows each would-be assassin and the repercussions of their actions, illuminating daily life in Victorian England, the development of the monarchy under Queen Victoria, and the evolution of the attacks in light of changing social issues and technology.

In popular memory, the Second World War was an unalloyed victory for freedom over totalitarianism, marking the demise of the age of empires and the triumph of an American-led democratic order. In Scorched Earth, historian Paul Thomas Chamberlin dispatches the myth of World War II as a good war. Instead, he depicts the conflict as it truly was: a massive battle beset by vicious racial atrocities, fought between rival empires across huge stretches of Asia and Europe.

This audiobook, the seventh volume in The Evidence of Biblical Prophecy series, offers another seven great chapters of topics related to Bible prophecy and reveals how close we are to the end times!

Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist listener and ideal for teaching at an undergraduate level. Each of 22 essays takes up an area where digging for meaning in the medieval past has brought something distorted back into the present: in our popular entertainment; in our news, our politics, and our propaganda; and in subtler ways that inform how we think about our histories, our countries, and ourselves. Each author looks to a history that has refused to remain past and uses the tools of the academy to read and re-read familiar stories, objects, symbols, and myths.

Sparkling with magical realism, this book follows nine seemingly separate stories that dovetail in an unexpected and profound climax. It begins with a mysterious pow-wow to be held inside a colossal tipi, 3.5 miles tall and three miles wide, which suddenly appears on the outskirts of a small town. Advertising fliers blanket the area and all of Indian country, billing itself as "The Pow-Wow of all Pow-Wows." There is a stipulation to the pow-wow though: only full-blooded Native Americans are allowed to dance, drum, or attend the grand event.

Eight great chapters of topics related to Bible prophecy reveal how close we are to the end times! Chapter One - China in Bible Prophecy. Chapter Two - The Judgement Seat of Christ. Chapter Three - The Nine Future Wars of Bible Prophecy. Chapter Four - The Coming Seven-Year Tribulation. Chapter Five - The Miracle of Israel. Chapter Six - The Coming One-World Religion. Chapter Seven - The Exponential Prophecy Curve. Chapter Eight - The Coming Anti-Christ.

SF Sketchfest is an annual comedy festival where titans of humor descend upon the quaint township of San Francisco to mercilessly pummel audiences with all forms of live comedic performance. As far live storytelling goes, the King Kong of questions and comments is indisputably Eugene Mirman, and he brought three monsters of comedy onstage to split sides and take names in a special live Hold On at SF Sketchfest 2018.

On April 26, 1871, a police constable walking one of London's remotest beats stumbled upon a brutalized young woman kneeling on a muddy road - gashes were cloven into her skull, her left cheek was slashed open and smashed in, her right eye was destroyed, and above it a chunk of the temporal bone had been bashed out. The policeman gaped in horror as the woman held out her hand before collapsing into the mud, muttering, "Let me die", and slipping into a coma. Five days later she died, her identity still unknown.

McInerney and Vallely, retired U.S. Generals, are now military analysts for FOX News. In Endgame, they direct their experience and expertise to the question of how to win the war on terror. Unlike past enemies, radical Islam is not confined to particular nationsm - and thus cannot be defeated solely through conventional warfare against enemy states.

Get ready to experience a new level of terror with Paramnesia, the first of four horror anthologies from Grendel Press. Featuring a collection of original short stories from a diverse range of talented writers, this book will take you on a journey through the depths of the human psyche, exploring the darkest corners of the mind and the horrors that lurk within. Each tale is expertly crafted to keep you on the edge of your seat, with twists and turns that will leave you gasping for breath.

On March 21, 1968, Yasir Arafat and his guerrillas made the fateful decision to break with conventional guerrilla tactics, choosing to stand and fight an Israeli attack on the al-Karama refugee camp in Jordan. They suffered terrible casualties, but they won a stunning symbolic victory that transformed Arafat into an Arab hero and allowed him to launch a worldwide campaign, one that would reshape Cold War diplomacy and revolutionary movements everywhere. In The Global Offensive, historian Paul Thomas Chamberlin offers new insights into the rise of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

All organizations face crises from time to time, and at a time when news, information (or misinformation), and rumors can spread quickly, a timely and thoughtful response to a crisis, is critical. In this book, two industry insiders offer a primer on how organizational leadership should prepare for and handle crises. The steps, plans, and cautions they offer show how organizations can deal openly and honestly with challenges while continuing to survive and prosper.

America's long-standing principles and traditional values are under attack by leftist ideologues who reject them outright and are working hard to replace them. We are fast becoming a nation of socialists, secular humanists, atheists, agnostics, and anarchists who want to tear down every virtue enshrined by our Founding Fathers.

Tessa Randolph is feeling defeated. On the outs with her boyfriend and suddenly without a job, she's scrambling to pay the rent. She doesn’t exactly have the kind of life she wants. Tessa needs a change. And the ability to afford the wet food her cat Pepper thinks she deserves at every meal. Against her better judgment, but without a better offer, Tessa takes a job from one of the scariest of bosses: her mother, who has a deadly sharp tongue. And just like that, she learns that the life insurance agency at the edge of Mist River isn’t what it seems to be.

Against the background of the changing seasons, this Christmas fairy tale tells how the love of three children change the frightened heart of a young pine tree that becomes their Christmas tree.

Why did we form Kingdom Business Mentors? As many Christians have been erroneously taught that wealth is something evil and not meant for the children of God, we align with biblical scripture that we were born to rule, reign, and prosper. We believe that abundance is the ONLY way to be sustainably generous, so we, the Body of Christ, can be the catalyst to help heal our hurting and dying world. We believe that God has opened the business platform as the extension of the Church for a great harvest in the last days, increasing the Kingdom of God, day by day.

Klaus Kinski war ein wahrer Meister des Sprechtheaters, der sein Publikum gleichermaßen schockierte und faszinierte. Kinski erlangte vor allem für Rezitationen bekannter Philosophen und Dichter hohe Aufmerksamkeit. Kinskis Vortag wollte erfühlt, verstanden und gleichzeitig genossen sein, in seiner üppig überschäumenden Sinnlichkeit, die aufs Ganze ging, den Menschen mit Haut und Haaren visierte, den Zuhörer zu packen versuchte - um jeden Preis.

Join Thomas, Emily, and Shep as they try to come up with movie plots based on everyday objects.

It's all fun in the sun, until other reapers start to die.... Tessa Randolph is a reaper, one of the few endowed with the abilities of the real grim reaper. And now, she's been offered a spot to attend the annual reaper conference in Miami. But things get off to a rocky start when another reaper dies on the plane. And none of the other reapers saw his soul depart for the hereafter. Tessa takes it upon herself to figure out why.