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"HQ: Operating In Your Heavenly Intelligence" introduces a groundbreaking concept in spiritual leadership and practical faith application—Heavenly Intelligence (HQ). While IQ measures analytical thinking and EQ addresses emotional awareness, HQ represents a believer's capacity to perceive, discern, understand, and operate according to divine realities while navigating earthly systems. This transformative work reframes the Christian experience through the powerful lens of heavenly citizenship—asserting that believers are not merely struggling pilgrims passing through a foreign land, but ...

On June 13, 1966, men of the 1st Recon Battalion, 1st Marine Division were stationed on Hill 488. Before the week was over, they would fight the battle that would make them the most highly decorated small unit in the entire history of the US military, winning a Congressional Medal of Honor, four Navy Crosses, 13 Silver Stars, and 18 Purple Hearts - some of them posthumously.

Ray Charles (1930-2004) led one of the most extraordinary lives of any popular musician. In Brother Ray, he reveals his life story unsparingly, from the chronicle of his musical development to his heroin addiction to his tangled romantic life.

This collection of classic horror stories is sure to give you goose bumps, raise the hair on the back of your neck, and put some fright in your night. Includes Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper by Robert Bloch, Coin of the Realm by Charles L. Grant, Something Had to be Done by David Drake, The Graveyard Rats by Henry Kuttner, The Small Assassin by Ray Bradbury, Calling Card by Ramsey Campbell, The Words of Guru by C.M. Kornbluth, and Passengers by Robert Silverberg.

A deeply personal memoir of the private Ray Charles - the man behind the legend - by his eldest son. Ray Charles is an American music legend. A multiple Grammy Award-winning composer, pianist, and singer with an inimitable vocal style and catalog. Now his eldest son, Ray Charles Robinson Jr., shares an intimate glimpse of the man behind the music, with never-before-told stories. Going beyond the fame, the concerts, and the tours, Ray Jr. opens the doors of his family home and reveals their private lives with fondness and frankness.

https://youtu.be/brFvdYqU2Og We are living in a time where people are drowning in information yet starving for wisdom and knowledge. So often we reach for answers, searching for what we don't have and overlook what is right in front or inside of us. The book title echoes the words of both Theodore Roosevelt and Muhammad Ali, respectively. "Enough IS Enough" is reminiscent of the words, "Do what you can with what you have right where you are." The Subtitle, "What's In Your S.H.O.E.?" is symbolic of the champ's famous quote, "It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wears you out; it's the ...

The definitive biography of the world's most renowned monarch and richest woman, and of her controversial husband, H.R.H. Prince Philip.

An anthology of short stories of spaceships, aliens, and the outer worlds by classic Science Fiction authors, from the Golden Age to the New Wave Era. This compilation includes stories by William Bender, Jr., Ray Bradbury, G. Gordon Dewey, Charles E. Fritch, Edward W. Ludwig, James V. McConnell, Stanley Mullen, Robert Silverberg, Jerry Sohl, Henry Slesar, and L.J. Stecher Jr.

Ten-year-old Daniel Waterford and his family join a wagon train heading for Oregon, a grueling experience for the hardiest of people and a boring one for a young boy. The journey is fraught with peril for Daniel, but by the time they arrived in Trinity, their new home, Daniel has aged far beyond his years. Travel with Daniel as he faces unimaginable challenges, and experience the Wild West as it really way, not the way movies and popular TV has led us to believe.

Ninth US Cavalry First Sergeant Ben Carter and his special detachment are assigned to find geologist, William Heatherton, and his team of researchers, believed lost somewhere in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico Territory. In their search, they encounter a strange boy, alone in the mountains, who talks of a mysterious prophet who seeks pilgrims for the hidden city of Eden to protect them from the Army of Satan, and the boy’s teachings have led him to conclude that Ben and his men are the vanguard of that army. Is the boy, Moses, delusional, or is there truth in his tale of a ...

In 1875, Indian Territory, in what is now the state of Oklahoma, was a haven for thieves, swindlers, and murderers, all trying to escape the reach of the law. When President U.S. Grant appointed Judge Isaac Parker judge of the Western District of Arkansas, which included the territory, Parker was intent upon bringing fugitives to justice. He authorized U.S. Marshal James Fagan to hire 200 deputy marshals to help police the 4,500 square mile lawless territory. Among those deputies was Bass Reeves. Born a slave in 1838, Reeves had spent the Civil War as a runaway in Indian Territory, and ...

INTRODUCING HARRY HOOKER! Harry Hooker is a great private investigator—when he’s sober, but when he’s hired to find a man’s missing fiancée, he finds himself immersed in an environment that taxes his self-discipline in ways it has never been tested before. A crooked banker, cozy with an enigmatic and secretive Russian, seems to be the key to finding the missing woman, but Harry has a problem; how to get past a team of hard-core Russian toughs armed with assault rifles. All of this he has to do with no backup beyond an eager motel owner who thinks it’s all a great game.

This is not your ordinary memoir. The author looks at his life through the lens of stories he's told his children and grandchildren for years. Over seven decades of life, not in a recitation of things he did or people he met but of incidents that left a lasting impact on him in the form of stories that hopefully transport the reader back in time. These are not stories of the authors life, but stories from that life. Tales that tell of a journey from a place of deprivation and outhouses to privilege and state houses. One man's journey to realize the American dream.

Private Investigator Harry Hooker is hired by a little old lady to track down her adult son who she fears has fallen in with the wrong company. Calvin Muldoon is a nerdy social misfit who has no friends and despite his high IQ works in the warehouse of a farm supply store. When Harry finally tracks him down he finds himself embroiled in a situation that’s far more than a simple case of an adult child finally cutting the apron strings. Muldoon has gotten himself caught up in some seriously deadly intrigue with people who play for keeps. Harry finds that its more than Muldoon’s life at ...

Thanks in large part to the support of a powerful U.S. Senator with ties to a shadowy group of politicians and bureaucrats, David Morgan’s career survived the debacle that was Dagastan, and three years later he is posted to the West African country of Naganda as the American ambassador. As bad as Dagastan had been, Morgan finds that it was a cake walk compared to the quagmire that is Naganda. Having recently undergone a military coup, and with its economy in shambles, Naganda is now in the throes of a vicious internal power struggle, with China and the Soviet Union manipulating the ...

Captured by pirates at the age of eight when her parents were murdered, Elizabeth Parker has forgotten her past and become one of the most feared pirates in the Caribbean. She and her vessel, The Vixen, prey on all ships, American and British, who sail those treacherous waters. Colin Worth, son of a Boston merchant, ran away to sea, and ended up in the young American navy, the executive officer aboard the frigate, U.S. S. Intrepid. After a confrontation with his tyrannical captain, he is marooned in a ship’s boat—left to die at sea. When Elizabeth and her crew, being pursued by Intrepid...

There are very few people you will run into in the US (or the world) who have never heard of Oprah Winfrey or Bill Gates. However very few would be able to tell you who their go-to person is in making things happen (whatever "it" is). This "it factor" is what this book is all about - The Second Man

The first volume in a series giving a fictionalized account of the life of Bass Reeves, a feared lawman in Indian Territory in the late 1800s. Included in this volume are 'Bass and the Preacher,' The Marshal and the Madam,' and 'Renegade Roundup.'

Former US Navy officer Colin Worth and pirate captain Elizabeth Parker, after a grueling campaign in the Caribbean against the English forces fighting the Americans during the War of 1812, have sailed around the southern tip of South America, seeking a peaceful home somewhere in the vastness of the Pacific Ocean. They quickly discover, though, that life in the 'peaceful' ocean is just as chaotic and dangerous as it had been in the islands. From Tahiti to Australia, and then on to China, which is suffering under the heels of western forces who have brought the dreaded drug opium to the ...

After Alan Fortune and his friends create an accident in which her husband is badly burned, Matilda Rowe takes control of his company and his scheme of political intrigue and decides to play her own deadly game. Living off the grid, and constantly looking over their shoulders, Alan and his friends have to use their wits to stay one step ahead of a woman who is out to prove that the female of the species truly is deadlier than the male. But they are not the only targets in Matilda’s crosshairs. And, when they do finally meet, she has a surprise for them.