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Most people are not happy working a nine to five job. You will not achieve financial freedom by making someone else rich. Start working for yourself to make your dreams a reality. Get started, uncover how to create financial freedom with Airbnb, and become a Superhost. Airbnb Investments for Beginners walks you through all the details.

Entire cities disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving nothing but dust and rubble. When an alien race came to make Earth theirs, they brought with them a weapon we had no way to fight, a universe-altering force known as thelemity. It seemed nothing could stop it - until we discovered we could wield the power, too. Five hundred years later, the Earth is locked in a grinding war of attrition. The talented few capable of bending thelemity to their will are trained in elite military academies, destined for the front lines.

In his acclaimed books, renowned writer, speaker, and philosophy professor Dallas Willard explored the nature of Christian life in God's Kingdom. Yet one topic remained undisclosed: Willard's understanding of heaven and eternal life. In the months before his death, Willard engaged in moving and insightful conversations about the meaning of life and the life to come with close friend and theologian Gary Black, Jr. These inspiring dialogues were steeped in biblical theology as well as practical wisdom grounded in the here-and-now.

If you had to disappear ....truly vanish ....would you know how? Stay Gone is not about fantasy. It is a no-fluff field manual for real-world disappearance. Inside, you will learn how to erase your trail, rebuild under a new identity, and avoid the critical mistakes that get people caught. This guide is for the desperate, the determined, and the ones who know that escape is not the end, it’s just the beginning. Inside this tactical guide, you’ll uncover: Step-by-step instructions to vanish without triggering alerts How to build and live behind a believable shell identity Tools to ...

Six Award-Winning Authors have contributed new stories to A Timeless Romance Anthology: Autumn Collection. In Heather Horrocks' charming story, A Hound Dog Named Elvis, interior designer, Kaitlin Hartley returns to her hometown of Aspen Grove, California, to the job of her dreams after a year of specialized training in New York. During the town's Autumn Festival, she enters her dachshund, Elvis, into the Running of the Hallowieners race.

Cuando Lord Logan William, Duque de Windsor viaja a España en una misión del rey, no imagina que regresará a Inglaterra con Esmeralda, una joven española que jamás imaginó como su duquesa. Esmeralda, es una mujer humilde y de belleza exótica. Desesperada por proteger a su pequeño hermano del abuso de su madrastra, toma una arriesgada decisión: atrapar al poderoso Duque de Windsor. Lo que comienza como un acto de supervivencia, pronto se convierte en un matrimonio lleno de rencores, tensiones, secretos y deseos no confesados. Logan, atrapado entre su deber de preservar el honor de ...

Beneath the ancient pines of Miller’s Woods, something impossible is waking up… When Jake Stenner thought his day couldn’t get any worse after getting a flat tire, he couldn’t have been more wrong. Taking a shortcut through the woods might have been his worst decision yet—and it’s a choice that changes everything. Together with his sister Jill, Jake is thrust into a race against time to uncover what really happened that day, before whatever he found in the woods consumes his family…or the entire town. Has Jake stumbled upon something far greater—and more dangerous—than he ...

THE 'HITS' KEEP COMING: SUSPENSE FICTION WITH A DIFFERENCE Hired killers. Vigilantes. Executioners. Contract killers. Assassins working from a moral or political motivation. You’ll find them all in this thrilling suspense anthology. But these are not ordinary killers, not your run-of-the-mill hitmen. The emphasis is on the "uncommon" here—unusual characters, usual situations, and especially unusual means of killing. Here are tales by some of the best suspense/thriller writers today, including F. Paul Wilson, Ken Bruen, J. Carson Black, Billie Sue Mosiman, Laura DiSilverio, Joseph Badal,...

He has no intention of letting the hero die. Qurban never questioned his role. When the monks proclaimed him the hero of prophecy, destined to defeat the demon king, Qurban couldn’t understand their reasoning, but they gave him a home. They fed him, clothed him, trained him day after day, forming him from a half-starved child into a blade in human form. But what comes after? All his friends died. The monks who raised him are less than scorch marks on the mountain, remembered only in the praise of people whose faces Qurban couldn’t fully recall as the last vestige of the demon king, a ...

Hollywood superstar Max Conroy is A-list all the way; he's one of the few actors who can guarantee box office blockbusters. Max has it all: the charisma, the stunning movie star wife, and a sizable personal fortune that grows along with his legend. When Max escapes from a rehab center in Arizona, disoriented and longing to return to his blue-collar roots, he becomes the target of a motley group of kidnappers planning to cash in by holding him for ransom. Max not only outsmarts them; he evens the score.

In Colorado, a pop star and her entourage are brutally murdered. At first the lead assassin, ex-Navy SEAL Cyril Landry, has no qualms about the killings - it’s just another job for The Shop, a shadowy organization that has hired him to execute people across the country. But Landry begins to wonder why these people had to die, transforming from mercenary to hunter as he delves into the depths of The Shop.Thousands of miles away, in a seedy motel in Florida, a local police chief is found shot to death....

Para terminar la guerra entre Escocia e Inglaterra los clanes más fuertes de las tierras altas deciden unir fuerzas, para esto el Laird del clan McAllen envía a sus dos hijas para que Duncan, hijo del Laird Blair escoja a su futura esposa. Maisie McAllen no se considera candidata para ser la esposa del futuro Laird. Una, por la horrible cicatriz que le rodea el brazo izquierdo y parte de su espalda. Y dos, porque no desea casarse con alguien que no la ama. Duncan Blair, no quiere casarse, pero sabe que debe poner a su clan por encima de todo. Cuando conoce a las hermanas McAllen, sabe que...

When homicide detective Jolie Burke awakens to intruders in the dark of night, she's forced to flee. Jolie's nobody's victim, but she cannot fight this faceless enemy alone. She reaches out to Cyril Landry, the ex-Navy SEAL who is long on special-ops skills and short on patience. He suffers no fools - ever. But when Landry rolls into Branch, New Mexico, Jolie is gone, and there's nothing waiting for him but trouble.

Cyril Landry has been a dead man since he escaped a firefight off the coast of Florida three years ago. In all that time, the former Navy SEAL has been living off the grid to protect his wife and teenage daughter, who have mourned him and moved on.

Rooted in examples from their own and others' classrooms, the authors offer discipline-specific practices for implementing antiracist literature instruction in White-dominant schools.

Detective Tess McCrae investigates a grisly crime scene in the ghost town of Credo, Arizona. The evidence suggests a cartel drug hit. But Tess, with a nearly faultless photographic memory, sees what others might miss: This is no drug killing. Someone went to gruesome lengths to cover their tracks. The killer’s trail leads from Tucson to California - from anti-government squatters to the heights of wealthy society. As Tess follows the trail of gore and betrayal, perfect and indelible in her memory, she uncovers far more than one man’s murder and solves much more than one isolated crime.

Take a ride down Route 66 in a '55 Crown Vic. Shield your nose and eyes from the dust as Okies leave for California. Drink strong coffee in an all-night diner. Hear a haunting train whistle in Gallup, New Mexico. Investigate a death on old 66. Take a last ride on a faithful Apaloosa and watch the sunset over a majestic saquero cactus. Feel Andy Payne's pain as he pounds the road to New York. Lost on Route 66 is an anthology of essays and short stories about the fabled highway that is filled with mystery, suspense, adventure and humor. Don't miss it.

A mother always protects her children... but what if she can't protect herself? Bonita Gray's life has already been shattered once, but the pieces are far from being put back together. After surviving a near-fatal accident and waking up from a three-year coma, Bonita returns to a world that has moved on without her. As she struggles to reclaim her life and reconnect with her sons, Bonita discovers that the nightmare is far from over. Her son Jason is behind bars for a crime she knows he didn't commit, while her other son Justice harbors secrets that could tear the family apart once more. As...

A mother knows her children… or does she? Bonita Gray has the perfect life until tragedy strikes and she is left to raise her two boys by herself. Like all other single parents, she, too, endures many challenges and fears before her little ones are all grown up. However… parenthood as she knew it is flipped upside down when one obstacle that Bonita thought she’d never have to face arises. One that may force her to choose life or death for one child over the other and lead her to fear for her very own livelihood. What if one of your children did something so horribly wrong and the ...

Bonita has done everything in her power to protect and save her sons. She has taught them right from wrong and raised them to love one another and their neighbors. But despite her best efforts, evil has seeped into their lives, threatening to destroy them all. Now, after all she has endured and sacrificed for them, Bonita faces an unimaginable decision: to sacrifice one of her sons or her own life. Caught in a heart-wrenching dilemma no parent should ever have to face, Bonita is thrust into a dark and desperate situation from which she may never escape. What if you were forced to choose ...