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Inheriting power comes with the chains of control. Ruthless bloodlines, whispered deals, and a family empire built on fear. I never had a choice in the life mapped out for me. Then I met her. Nicky wasn't supposed to be part of my world. She had a record, a broken past, and the kind of fire that made her impossible to ignore. She didn't care about the Parker name. She cared about the man underneath it. So I married her. Built a life with her. Gave her everything. And we destroyed it. Or maybe… someone made sure we would.

You define life or it defines you. In Shawn Speakman’s case, it was both. Lacking health insurance and diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2011, Shawn quickly accrued a massive medical debt that he did not have the ability to pay. That’s when New York Times best-selling author Terry Brooks offered to donate a short story that Shawn could sell to help alleviate those bills—and suggested he ask the same of his other writer friends. Unfettered is the result: an anthology built in order to relieve that debt, featuring short stories by some of the best fantasy writers in the genre.

This is an eyewitness - and eye-opening - account of some of the most savage and brutal fighting in the war against Japan, told from the perspective of a young Texan who volunteered for the Marine Corps to escape a life as a traveling salesman. R. V. Burgin enlisted at the age of twenty and, with his sharp intelligence and earnest work ethic, climbed the ranks from a green private to a seasoned sergeant.

For 40 years, The 36-Hour Day has been the leading work on the care of people with dementia and their family members. Written by experts with decades of experience caring for individuals with memory loss, Alzheimer disease, and other dementias, the book's authoritative and compassionate approach to care features discussions of the causes of dementia and the management of its symptoms from the early stages to late-stage disease.

Starting an organization that benefits the community is a lot of work and takes strategic planning. This workbook will challenge you to ensure you start strong and down the right path to create positive tipping points for social change. Whether you are just in the beginning stages of this idea or in your first year of operation, this workbook provides answers on how to move forward.

The death of Abbie’s father, the overseer of a large country estate, leaves her without means or resources, without even a place to live. Her landlords, in an extraordinary display of charity, invite her to live at Holdaway Hall. But the invitation is as puzzling as it is generous. Why are the Crawfords, who have never paid her any notice before, so concerned with her well-being now?

Contains books one and two of the humorous sci-fi Jane Bond series: Some Assembly Required and Dark Side of the Moon.

The Rebinge Star Trek Voyager podcast is a deep dive into the Voyager TV series by Trek fans James and Kim. There will be over-analysis, head canon, discussions of leadership and a lot of laughter.

Contains books three and four of Jane Bond: Moons of Jupiter, Book 3; and The Evershaw Curse, Book 4. Jane's back home after her encounter on the moon with the artifact that left a ping-pong-ball-sized hole through her. Meanwhile, her friends take a few day trips including an ironic trip to Roswell, NM. They wind up getting in trouble all over the world while Jane rests up. And none of it was Olive's fault. Really!

In the early 1990s, General Gordon R. Sullivan, Army Chief of Staff, and Colonel Michael V. Harper, his key strategic planner, took the post-Cold War Army into the Information Age. Faced with a 40 percent reduction in staff and funding, they dismantled a cumbersome bureaucracy, reinvented procedures, and set the guidelines for achieving a vast array of new goals. Their approach was based on continuity and change: maintaining their focus on the Army's historic vision and values while introducing new problem-solving techniques and training methods.

Here you have found a book so foul, so repulsive, so horrifying...that you will undoubtedly find yourself running to the nearest bathroom in an effort to both relieve your bowels and scrub your hands clean of its putrid filth. They have finally released this humorous collection of terrifying tales, despite the bitter public outcry which demanded these pages never see the light of day...and perhaps for good reason.

When disaster strikes his home world of Arra, Eä sets out into the void of space seeking gold - a vital ingredient - in a last-ditch plan to save his planet. He discovers the precious metal on a small, water-rich world that is the third in a modestly-sized solar system. Mining requires labor, so Eä looks to the planet's most advanced species, a bipedal ape. Through genetic manipulation and breeding, he creates a race capable of retrieving gold. When his laborers begin to chafe under the yokes of slavery, Eä realizes he's created much more than a workforce.

Aric and Fadan are half-brothers. Both sons of the empress, but only one of them son of the emperor. A decade earlier, Fadan's powerful father tore the empire in two by outlawing the use and practice of magic. When Aric and Fadan stumble upon an ancient manual of magic, they're faced with a choice: take the book straight to the emperor or see if one of them has the forbidden magical talent.

NXT LVL. Vertrieb – Zwischen Fachgespräch und Feierabendbier ist der Podcast für modernen Versicherungsvertrieb. Host Katharina Meister spricht mit Versicherungsmakler:innen, Vermittler:innen, Agenturinhaber:innen und Branchenexpert:innen über zeitgemäße Vertriebsansätze, Digitalisierung und neue Wege der Kundengewinnung. Im Fokus stehen praxisnahe Erfahrungen aus dem Versicherungsvertrieb: Wie gewinnen Vermittler:innen heute Kunden? Welche Rolle spielen Social Media, Content und persönliche Sichtbarkeit? Und wie gelingt Vertrieb zwischen Fachwissen, Authentizität und Alltag – ohne...

Her name is Inanna. Spoiled granddaughter of King Anu of the planet Arra, she is more obsessed with being a queen on Earth than in saving Arra from a disaster set in motion by her malicious father, Morgoth. The feud between the Arkonian Morgoth and his Arran half-brother Ea, a deadly struggle for Anu's throne that began on Arra, continues after they arrive on Earth.

Four dark tales of the holiday spirit. In "Christmas Eve Gift", Old Bill sets out on her annual Christmas Eve journey to her niece's house and encounters an unexpected darkness along the way. In "A Dark Christmas", Alice, a dark daughter of the vampire, Elizabet, turns the table on a family of hunters. In "On the 7th Day of Christmas", Sunny finally gets to throw a party, only a monster shows up and twists a small kink into her New Year's Eve festivities. In "Twelfth Night", A 13-year-old encounters the Woman with No Face for the first time.

Aric may have found a new home and a new family in the desert, but once more, the emperor rears his ugly head. This time, his Paladins are coming to seize not only the Guild, but Aric himself. Meanwhile, in the north, as Cassia flees the imperial hounds close on her heels, Fadan seeks the support of a rebellion fragmented by politics and personal interests.

ഒരുവന്റെ ബന്ധനങ്ങൾക്കും മോക്ഷത്തിനും ഒരു കാരണം തന്നെയാണുള്ളത് അവന്റെ മനസ്സുതന്നെ. സർവ്വവിഷയങ്ങളിലും...

Trying to Make It is R. V. Gundur's journey from the US-Mexico border to America's heartland, from America's prisons to its streets, in search of the true story of the drug trade and the people who participate in it. The book begins in the Paso del Norte area, encompassing the sister cities of Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, which has been in the public eye as calls for securing the border persist. From there, it moves on to Phoenix, which was infamously associated with the drug trade through a series of kidnappings....

Standards so low our dreams came true on their own. Learn how we did it. Did what? Also true. Unhinged content but we're fine... really