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Samantha Knox put away her childish fantasies of archaeological adventure the day her father didn't return home from the Great War, retreating to the safety of the antique bookshop where she works. But when a mysterious package arrives with a damaged diary inside, Sam's peaceful life is obliterated. Ruthless men intent on reclaiming the diary are after Sam, setting her and her best friend, along with her childhood crush, on a high-stakes adventure that lands them in the green hills outside Dublin, Ireland.

Misfit, truant, delinquent. John Robison was never a model child, and he wasn’t a model dad either. Diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome at the age of 40, he approached fatherhood as a series of logic puzzles and practical jokes. When his son, Cubby, asked, “Where did I come from?” John said he’d bought him at the Kid Store and that the salesman had cheated him by promising Cubby would “do all chores”. He read electrical engineering manuals to Cubby at bedtime.

The beautiful island of Crete, an archaeological find for the ages, and one seriously pissed-off Greek goddess. It's just another day for Samantha Knox. After being snubbed by her college's archaeology department for an honor she rightfully earned, Sam is hell-bent on proving her worth to her misogynistic department head. So when an opportunity presents itself to solve the hidden meaning behind a symbol found inside a cave in Greece, Sam is all over it, and she's bringing Bennett and Jo with her for the cross-Atlantic trip.

The pressure is necessary. God has a plan for you. This plan is for you to have hope and to bring glory to Him. It's not about you, it's about Jesus Christ and how he died for all your sins no matter what your life journey is. The pressures sometimes come from the choices we make, but remember God gave you free will and allows you the choice to serve Him. When we choose our own direction, we fall into a life of confusion, chaos, pain, and fear.

Picking Up the Flute sets to music a former professor's musings on retirement, marriage, literature, and the natural world. From his home in historic Bristol, Vermont to Ireland's Connemara coast, travel through John Elder's exquisite topography and relish his explorations of nature, poetry, and geology. John Elder's memoir through music is permeated by his unique combination of prose and learning how to play the Irish flute.

We hope that this book not only inspires you to see illness from a different perspective, but also encourages you to converse with your own personal and dedicated discarnate guides who are sitting on your living room couch right now, just waiting and wanting to be of help. Let them.

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Little Bird West Texas adventure set in the mid to late 1880's. A young girl is captured and saved by a band of Apaches and later recaptured at the last Apache battle in the state of Texas. This is Little Bird's story of her life until her teen years.

"Congratulations on your survival." These words were offered after I suffered a couple of heart attacks and went through catheterization, angioplasty, and stenting. The attacks occurred on August 11, 2024. The journey of recovery starts now. Please, join me. The Martial Heart is a podcast about getting back into your normal activities, such as martial arts, following a major health setback. In my case, it was a heart attack. You will follow me along the path to recovery and we will interview experts and other athletes who have suffered similar incidents and learn how they recovered and if ...

In 1990, though no one knew it then, a fearless group of players changed the sport of soccer in the United States forever. Young, bronzed, and mulletted, they were America’s finest athletes in a sport that America loved to hate. Even sportswriters rooted against them. Yet this team defied massive odds and qualified for the World Cup, making possible America’s current obsession with the world’s most popular game. New Kids in the World Cup is the origin story of modern American soccer.

Aralyn has lost everything—the coveted glass slipper, the prince's hand in marriage, and her only chance to save her mother and sister from destitution. Now she spends her days sweeping the cinders and washing dresses as her stepsister, Ellarose, once did, plotting her revenge against the girl who robbed her of her future. But when Ellarose, now the princess, comes to beg her help in saving the kingdom from ruin, Aralyn seizes the opportunity to get everything she's ever wanted.

This guide will give you the information you need to take your real estate investing business to the next level. In this audiobook you will learn different strategies from some of the top real estate investors in the business, including marketing, wholesaling, renting, rehabbing, using private money, and more.

Hina, the Maori moon goddess, has 30 different faces to help illuminate life’s lessons—a different face and a different energy for each day of the month. And with her changing light, new insights are revealed. This book gives us the chance to connect to the ancient wisdom of the old people, who reach forward into our lives, with each of the moon’s names as their offerings. Their reminders are a source of strength in our strange modern world, where we have been stripped of much of the connection and relationships we need for our wellbeing through successive lockdowns.

Women around the country are running in - and winning - elections at an unprecedented rate. It appears that women are on a steady march toward equal representation across state legislatures and the US Congress, but there is a sharp divide in this representation along party lines. Most of the women in office are Democrats, and the number of elected Republican women has been plunging for decades. In The Partisan Gap, Elder examines why this disparity in women's representation exists and why it's only going to get worse.

There was a time when I almost gave up celebrating Christmas. Our kids were still young and weren't yet hooked on the idea of Santa Claus and presents, Christmas trees and decorations. I had read that the Puritans who first came to America were so zealous in their faith that they didn't celebrate Christmas at all. Instead they charged fines to businesses in their community who failed to keep their shops open on Christmas day.

First produced by the Negro Ensemble Company in 1969, this classic masterpiece by Academy Award nominee Lonne Elder III gives us the portrait of a Harlem family that dreams of a better life, but pursues it in tragic ways. Ceremonies opened the door for new generation of African American playwrights, August Wilson among them. NBC-TV called Elder’s dramatization of rituals "exciting drama, filled with meaningful insight and original comedy."

My soul bleeds, so I wrote this book. It's a fictional tale about a man who watches his church life slowly turn toxic, and how people can slowly turn off-beam, and the gnawing pain that follows,including martial seperation. It's a fictionalized account of my three decades of experience of dealing with difficulties, and about the repeated times when I have had to confront local leadership about local aberrations. I'm not sure if it is a fairy tale, a horror story, or a tragedy. Certainly it is tragicomic, but that is not something we should be associating with church service. Read the book, ...

Whether your family tree is partially filled out, mostly complete, or full with many relatives who were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this step-by-step method will help you discover new relatives and reserve their temple ordinances. You will review the accuracy of your tree, analyze your pedigree, and make a list of ancestors to research. Those with many Latter-day Saint relatives will locate research opportunities by diving deeper into tree analysis and listing ancestors who were not members of the Church. Using descendancy research to find cousins will open ...

Michael was four when his relentless campaign for a dog began. His parents, Janet and Rich, were steadfast; bringing a dog into their fast-paced New York City lives was utterly impractical. On Thanksgiving weekend, however, Huck, a sweet, mischievous toy poodle, joins the family and wins everyone's hearts.... A few months later, the family ventures to baseball's spring training, leaving Huck with Janet's sister in Ramsey, New Jersey. Barely 24 hours into the trip, Janet receives the dreaded phone call: Huck has slipped through the backyard fence and run away.

This is the second book of the Little Bird series. The first was titled Little Bird The Place. In this adventure Little Bird comes face to face with the last surviving member of the family that killed her mother at the battle of Needle Peak, when she was just a toddler. She uses the talents she acquired while living with Apache Indians in the wilds of northern Mexico and far West Texas to save her adopted father Bob "Bones" Taylor, a retired Texas ranger.