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When archaeologist Chuck Bender makes a stunning discovery of a century-old crime, he believes it may be related to a series of deadly accidents plaguing the Whitney to Death 150, the world's toughest ultra trail-running race. While Chuck's teenage stepdaughter Carmelita races to win the competition, Chuck races to uncover the wicked intent lying behind the tragedies—before Carmelita becomes the next victim.

From his early days as a Baltimore cop to his time with the Department of Military Sciences and then more recently leading Rogue Team International, these stories cover the range of the Ledger timeline bringing back old favorites and introducing new ones. The stakes are as high as ever, and Joe Ledger is there to save the day!

Hounded by false accusations of murder, archaeologist Chuck Bender and his family risk their lives to track down an unknown killer on the loose in a rugged canyon on the remote western edge of Mesa Verde National Park, where ancient stone villages and secret burial sites, abandoned centuries ago by the Ancestral Puebloan people, harbor artifacts so rare and precious they're worth killing over.

Canyon Sacrifice brings the rugged western landscape, the mysterious past of the ancient Anasazi Indians, and the Southwest's ongoing cultural fissures vividly to life. A deadly struggle against murderous kidnappers in Grand Canyon National Park forces archaeologist Chuck Bender to face up to his past as he realizes every parent's worst nightmare: a missing child.

A famed sandstone arch in Utah's Arches National Park collapses and takes a woman atop it to her death, ensnaring archaeologist Chuck Bender and his family in lethal questions of environmental monkey wrenching and political intrigue. As more deaths follow, Chuck and his wife Janelle race to uncover the killer even as they become murder targets themselves.

The trip quickly turns threatening when one climber never shows up, climbing equipment fails, and Chuck and his spouse, Janelle Ortega, are suspected in the shocking, present-day death of one of Chuck's former rock-climbing partners. Together, Chuck and Janelle race against time to solve the dual mysteries and prove their innocence—all while facing down a ruthless killer on the loose.

In the riveting second installment of the National Park Mystery Series, archaeologist Chuck Bender finds himself and his young wife and stepdaughters in the crosshairs of an unknown killer when he defends his brother-in-law from false accusations of murder in the brutal slaying of a resort worker in Rocky Mountain National Park.

When Yellowstone National Park's grizzly bears and gray wolves suddenly and inexplicably go rogue, archaeologist Chuck Bender teams with his old friend, Yellowstone Chief Ranger Lex Hancock, to defend the suspect members of a group scientific expedition. Soon, Chuck finds himself defending the lives of his family as an unforeseen danger threatens in the storied national park's remote wilderness.

Are you hosting a volunteer from Workaway, HelpX, Volunteers Base, or another work exchange service? This short audiobook will help you figure out what you want from a work exchange while avoiding issues and problems. You'll learn strategies for recruiting, screening, preparing for arrival, and working effectively with your volunteers, including support and supervision. This audiobook even guides you on how to wrap up the experience.

Five years after the death of his husband, G. Scott Graham thought he had equanimity. He thought he had made peace with his grief. But when a new love entered his life, everything shifted. The grief came back—different this time, disguised as hope, desire, and fear. And with it came a whole new set of questions: Can you open your heart again after unimaginable loss? Can you love fully when you know what love can cost?

Scott Graham, a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers, provides a simple five-week program to help you strengthen your skills in motivational interviewing. Focusing on shifting select communication styles, Graham will help you develop half-a-dozen motivational interviewing habits that will improve your effectiveness with your clients. This book includes links to tracking sheets to help you monitor your progress, as well as support from the author as you grow your skills.

How to Get Published and Deal with Copyrights, Clients, Co-Writing, and Contracts covers a range of topics for both full-time and part-time writers - from finding publishers and agents and getting published to being successful as a freelancer. It is a continuation of the previously published book: How to Find Publishers and Agents and Get Published.

In 1929, archeologists began draining Lake Nemi in search of the mysterious ships that have been glimpsed beneath its waters since the reign of Claudius. What they awakened had been drowned for 2,000 years. For a very good reason. Veteran aviator Lewis Segura has been drifting since the Great War ended, fetched up at last at the small company run by fellow veterans and pilots Alma Gilchrist and Mitchell Sorley, assisted by their old friend Dr. Jerry Ballard, an archeologist who lost his career when he lost part of his leg.

SPINE-CHILLING BODY HORROR FICTION Monstrous transplants. Appalling amputations. Bizarre implants. Nightmarish forms of body enhancements. Disturbing, perverse, often gut-wrenching stories--all between the covers of this anthology. Here are 20 tales by some of today's best horror, suspense, and science fiction writers. The short stories are not for those who are faint of heart or squeamish, or who are easily offended by nasty language, bloody violence, and freakish body augmentations. You've been warned! Bootstrap--The Binds of Lasolastica -- Michael Bailey Idol -- Michael Laimo Unplugged -...

10 Ways to Analyze Your Own Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats describes how you can do your own SWOT analysis, a tool used by organizations and corporations to make decisions on improving the organization and its products and services to increase sales and profits. You can also use a SWOT analysis to improve yourself, your performance, and your work. It features 10 tips on how to do this to become a better you. The goal is to build on your strengths, overcome key weaknesses, take advantage of opportunities, and confront or avoid any threats.

When suspicious deaths befall a whitewater rafting expedition through Cataract Canyon in Canyonlands National Park, archaeologist Chuck Bender and his family recognize evil intent lies behind the tragedies.

Grief Doesn’t End—But You Don’t Have to Face It Alone Three years have passed since the death of G. Scott Graham’s husband, Brian. Three years since that life-altering moment when everything changed. The world has moved on. Friends have stopped asking. And yet, the loss remains—quiet, persistent, woven into the fabric of everyday life. Come As You Are: Three Years Later is not a guide to “getting over” grief—because grief isn’t something to be conquered. Instead, it’s a raw, unfiltered, and deeply personal exploration of what it really means to live with loss when the ...

The Researcher's Bible provides a short introduction to the major concepts and approaches used in the social sciences, especially in sociology, anthropology, leisure, recreation, and tourism. It is an ideal supplement to a more detailed text on research methods and a guide to choose which research methods to use in a study. It also provides an explanation of different options for company owners and managers of organizations, who might want to do research or hire a research company to conduct a study for them.

In Treatment Planning 101, you won't find a long list of potential treatment plans to cut and paste to your heart's content. What you will find is an in-depth look at proper treatment plan mechanics. This text includes a link to a free companion workbook to help the listener explore the concepts outlined in this text to his or her own life situation. This text can be used in conjunction with training or as a stand-alone process to make sure that everyone in an organization is speaking the same language and approaching treatment planning from a similar perspective.

Do you want to build your business? Get more customers or clients? Have better relationships in the workplace? The Dog Type system can help you have more success in your business or the workplace, since it helps you adapt your approach to the style of whoever you are dealing or working with. There are four basic Dog Types in a system that builds on other personality type systems - Myers-Briggs, DISC, and the red-yellow-blue-green color profile.