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This audiobook will help listeners connect their actions to their values to make a life of meaning. The exercises throughout the audiobook will help to clarify what the listener values, and the stories and encouragement will help listeners to craft a vision for the life they want to lead. T. J. FitzGerald is the minister of First Unitarian Church of Honolulu. After careers in acting and in law, T. J. finds deep satisfaction in helping others navigate the choices they are making in their lives. He works with local community organizations in the area of migration.

OneShot. OneLife. will help you start achieving real and meaningful success in every area of your life. You will learn how to implement five powerful principles, called the Ultimate Success Formula, that have been proven over and over again to help people succeed in the vital areas of money, people, faith, work, and health.

Strangers did not, as a rule, find their way to Chez Dom - a small, rundown Tunisian cafe on Paris' distant fringes. Run by the widow Houria and her young niece, Sabiha, the cafe offers a home away from home for the North African immigrant workers working at the great abattoirs of Vaugiraud, who, like them, had grown used to the smell of blood in the air. But when one day a lost Australian tourist, John Patterner, seeks shelter in the cafe from a sudden Parisian rainstorm, the quiet simplicities of their lives are changed forever

Learn the simple financial strategies that will change your life forever. Are you tired of worrying about bills? Do you long to see the world? Does your debt keep you awake at night? Once you learn how to properly manage your income and expenses, you’ll benefit from reduced stress, better interpersonal relationships, and the freedom to spend your money on what really matters to you rather than feeding it back to the finance industry. In Get Out of Debt Fast, Avoid Scams and Increase Your Credit Score!, you’ll find everything you need to know to conquer your debt for good.

In Canberra, a federal election looms and Cassius Calvert, Minister for Border Integrity, is facing a new hard-line policy regarding asylum-seekers. Off the Indonesian island of Dana, Isi Natoli, skipper of the Java Ridge, and a group of Australian surf tourists are anchored beside an idyllic reef. A few kilometres away, Roya and her mother are amongst the passengers fleeing persecution aboard the Talakar. When a storm breaks, these stories collide with chilling consequences....

Drawing on his own life and career and the rich lore of The Lion King, Alton Fitzgerald White, Broadway's longest-running "King", delivers his message of service - taking responsibility for and deriving happiness from commonplace achievements - as a philosophy that anyone can get through each day with satisfaction, pride, and a sense of accomplishment.

Frank Moorhouse was legendary in Australian literary and cultural life, the author of a huge and diverse body of work - essays, short stories, journalism, scripts, the iconic Edith Trilogy - an unapologetic activist, intellectual, libertarian and champion of freedom of speech and sexual self determination. Though he lived his life publicly, his private stories have not been shared, the many paths he forged left unexamined, until now. This landmark study is the fascinating story of how one of Australia's most original writers and pioneer of the discontinuous narrative came to be.

In a post-COVID19 world where redundancies are high, and job opportunities are low, never has it been so essential to learn how to be happy and healthy at work. Jumping from job to job will not provide you with the answers, unless you can first rework yourself and shed yourself of the burden of inherited cultures, past beliefs and historical mistakes. Reworked utilises neuroscience, evidence-based psychology and two decades of working in health and wellbeing to teach you how to be happy, healthy, safe and engaged at work.

Beginning with the seemingly simple question "what is human?" Fr. FitzGerald investigates the implications of modern science. Several lectures are devoted to stem cells. What are they, where do they come from, and how are they used? Does it matter if a stem cell comes from an embryo versus bone marrow, the placenta, or skin? Examine the promise and dangers of stem cell research. The world marveled at Dolly, the first cloned sheep, and now cloning is widespread. What is cloning, how is it done, and are humans being cloned now?

The Power of Suffering is psychologist David Roland’s personal investigation into the nature of human suffering. When our world is turned upside down, what does it do to us, how do we survive it, and, most importantly, how can we grow as a result? David takes the lived experience of eleven incredible people and follows them along each step of their journey from crisis through to acceptance and triumph. Within each story, David draws on his own experience of life-altering trauma and clinical research to offer insights we all can gain from.

This book will go over my entire up-to-date 17-month journey of medical treatments and procedures, medications, diet, and exercise. In this book, I will examine what has worked and what hasn't. My hope is that if you are suffering from costochondritis that this book will help you identify some useful measures that can be taken to help you regain control of your life.

After a plane passenger fails to reach his destination alive, DCI Gawn Girvin must once again chase a dragon. When pathology reports that a passenger found dead on arrival on a flight from Amsterdam to Belfast passed due to natural causes, it should be an open and shut case for the police. But detective Gawn Girvin, adept at smelling a rat, digs deeper and discovers that far from being clear cut, the man's death is indeed suspicious. After interviewing his fellow passengers, and shaking lose inconsistencies in their stories, she heads to the Netherlands intent on nailing the killer.

Tormented by the in-crowd at school on a daily basis, there were two things that gave 15-year-old Abigail Perkins the strength to keep going - her best friend Danny Cobb and her favorite television show Supernatural. But the night Danny’s mother calls to say that his battle with cancer is nearing its end and that the doctors don’t expect him to live through the night, even Supernatural can’t dull the ache in her heart.

Socialite Lucinda Oliver planned a lavish celebration for her fortieth birthday - a weekend escape at an Irish coastal town with her sister Stella and her closest friends. The weekend was to end with a blow-out party and a special announcement, one Lucinda had been dropping hints about for weeks. But before Lucinda could reveal her secret, she went missing. And now, six months later, her car has been found submerged in the Atlantic Ocean.

Have you ever failed? Hit a roadblock that felt impossible at the time? Learn how these author-entrepreneurs hit a wall, pivoted, built even stronger businesses, and now have million dollar stories making a difference and changing lives. Each author gained valuable experience and expertise and shares that with you in their sections. Best of all, these authors show you how you can pivot and profit, too! You’ll have to listen to Million Dollar Story so you, too, can pivot successfully and be inspired to profit and win with purpose!

Handywoman Barb Young has lived in the sleepy coastal town of Bullford Point for over fifty years—and in that time, not much has happened, unless you count that business where a bush turkey managed to board the ferry a couple of years ago. When Joe Griffiths returns from Sydney after six years of drug addiction, jail and, eventually, rehab, Barb offers him a job, hoping to help him turn his life around. However, when another new resident of Bullford Point is murdered, Joe becomes the prime suspect.

A non-human, alien mummy was recently found in Peru that could be the greatest discovery of all time. The remarkable ancient mummified body, dubbed Maria, has three fingers on each hand. It was discovered in Nazca, Peru. While mummies can excite historians, this particular find may alter the story of human origins forever. Dating back 1600 years or more, some experts say it is evidence of an ancient reptilian race.

"We choose to go to the Moon", officially titled the Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort, is a September 12, 1962, speech by United States President John F. Kennedy to bolster public support for his proposal to land a man on the Moon before 1970. Kennedy gave the speech, largely written by presidential advisor and speechwriter Ted Sorensen, to a large crowd at Rice University Stadium in Houston, Texas.

Based on a real-life event, an epic historical novel from the award-winning author of Things in Jars, The Night Ship illuminates the lives of two characters: a girl shipwrecked on an island off Western Australia and, 300 years later, a boy finding a home with his grandfather on the very same island.

After Douglass’ death, Paul Laurence Dunbar laments his passing and the problems experienced by African Americans in the elegiac poem "Frederick Douglass". The poem provides valuable insights into the situation of the African-American community in the late 19th century.