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By best-selling author and film director Robert H. Lieberman, The Boys of Truxton is a tale of a collision of three individuals: Derek, a kid serving a life sentence in a maximum security teenage prison for a brutal murder of a child; Shrek, the Syracuse cop who put him there; and Sheila, a young woman who has come to work in the prison and slowly becomes convinced of Derek's innocence. Nothing is as it first appears in this layered and taut thriller, based upon the author's work in a teenage prison in Upstate New York.

“Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) and Primary Resolution of the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder” provides a brief discussion illuminating the concept of PTSD: how it arises, what maintains it, how it progresses to increasingly constrain a person’s life. PTSD also involves faulty thinking, but focus on such present-time reactions is ineffective without addressing the original trauma. PTSD is the consequence of attempts to avoid re-experiencing. Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) is a technique for overcoming this tendency, allowing the sufferer to experience the traumatic incident in ...

When she was seven years old, Angel saw her father brutally murder her mother. She was adopted by US Marshal Caleb Jacobs and his wife Bonnie. Angel didn’t want to be a schoolteacher like her new Ma. Angel wanted to be a lawman like her new Pa. Now she is a newly promoted Marshal and ready to take on the bad guys!

Consider the Constitution is a podcast from the Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier. The show provides insight into constitutional issues that directly affect every American. Hosted by Dr. Katie Crawford-Lackey the podcast features interviews with constitutional scholars, policy and subject matter experts, heritage professionals, and legal practitioners.

In the eight generations since the last and final war, humankind has moved closer — thanks to genetic engineering — to perfection in every way. That was what Detective Creally Leemling had been taught, even though he was only a Nearly Perfect. And he believed it — until he witnessed things no Perfect could imagine still existed. A mystery on earth’s surface leads this futuristic detective to a mind-shattering discovery, a beautiful young woman and a desperate plan to escape perfection…and survive.

Baby is the tale of aging Doris Rumsey, a hunched librarian who works in a middle school. Her health rapidly deteriorating, Doris is convinced she is dying, though it turns out this elderly woman is actually pregnant. Claiming that she has never been with a man, Doris ultimately gives birth in a field to a baby girl. And, from the moment of birth, the child can sing - and sing as no other human being has ever sung. This is the story of Baby and her otherworldly melody, of her fame, her exploitation, her kidnapping, and the mother's ultimate fate.

Drawing on theories from the The Leadership Challenge, Robert Thompson effortlessly incorporates Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner’s time-tested concepts into a winning fable of leadership and growth. This dramatic tale of transition centers on a three-day meeting of two former rival pharmaceutical companies taking the first step towards creating a joint sales strategy. Told through the perspective of participants from both camps, they come to rely on The Five Practices that form the heart of The Leadership Challenge.

Desperate to support his wife and two children, Nudelman tries his hand at countless jobs, palming himself off as a carpenter, ghost writer for a wealthy businessman, and even attempts selling himself to the Chinese. At war with his bizarre neighbors the Szorsky’s, Nudelman contemplates justifiable homicide.

Ten classic short stories from the quills of great bird-loving authors.

Jake Jackson was a legend in the Old West. His ability with a gun was unmatched. His name brought hope to the oppressed and sent shivers of fear up the spines of outlaws. Jake Jackson was equally as revered among the Comanche where he was raised from an infant to become the Comanche Warrior, White Wolf. There were many songs sung around campfires in Comanche villages praising his fierceness in battle.

A lawless land. Outlaws, thieves, robbers, murderers run rampant. This is a frontier land in which a man must make a stand. He must live by the rule of decency. He must protect the innocent, uphold the law and serve the public. Sometimes the politicians who make the laws fail, and he must make his own decisions about right and wrong. He must protect the innocent, stand up to the corrupt. This is Marshal Morgan Porter!

This is the eighth book in the saga of the exploits of United States Marshal Morgan Porter. He and his deputies changed the culture of lawlessness in the Old West. Ride with Texan Morgan Porter as he fights to tame the Old West. This audiobook is why you should never try to take a gun from a Texan! A lawless land. Outlaws, thieves, robbers, murderers run rampant. This is a frontier land in which a man must make a stand.

This is the seventh book in the saga of the exploits of United States Marshal Morgan Porter. He and his deputies changed the culture of lawlessness in the Old West. Ride with Texan Morgan Porter as he fights to tame the Old West. A lawless land. Outlaws, thieves, robbers, murderers run rampant. This is a frontier land in which a man must make a stand.

Hall, recently married to the love of his life, Samantha, is haunted by the calling of the mystical lake he observed while flying out of the Quetico after his most recent canoeing and camping adventure in Canada's great north woods.

Die Milchstraße ist nach Jahren der Unterdrückung wieder frei, die Macht der Ewigen Krieger gebrochen. Die Menschen und die Angehörigen anderer Sternenvölker machen sich gemeinsam an den Wiederaufbau. Doch die nächste Bedrohung nähert sich. Ganze Sonnensysteme materialisieren im Leerraum zwischen den Galaxien. Wie es aussieht, stammen sie aus einem fremden Universum. Ihr Auftauchen löst den sogenannten Strangeness-Schock aus. Menschen werden verwirrt, Raumschiffe schwer beschädigt, Welten verwüstet.

Do you want to get rid of your dreadful “time-wasting” habits and start doing things in an organized, efficient manner? Success comes to those people who can manage their time according to their priorities. It is due to the fact that they can finish doing important tasks at a certain period of time without rushing things and without becoming reckless.

Die Gruselkabinett Box 35 beinhaltet die Hörspiele Aus finsterer Tiefe, Die Ratten in den Wänden, Der Rabe, Runenzauber.

Schauer, Spannung und Schwarze Romantik: 10 Meisterwerke des Genres. Mit dabei: In der Gruft (H.P. Lovecraft), Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde (R.L. Stevenson), Die schwarze Spinne (J. Gotthelf), In der Tiefe des Maelstroms (E. A. Poe), Die Legende von Sleepy Hollow (W. Irving), Die Affenpfote (W. W. Jacobs), Der Vampyr (J. Polidori), Der Sandmann (E.T.A. Hoffmann), Der Garten des Bösen (N. Hawthorne).

The Phantom of the Opera (French: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serialisation in Le Gaulois from September 23, 1909 to January 8, 1910. It was published in volume form in April 1910 by Pierre Lafitte.[1] The novel is partly inspired by historical events at the Paris Opera during the nineteenth century and an apocryphal tale concerning the use of a former ballet pupil's skeleton in Hector Berlioz's 1841 production of Der Freischütz.[1] Nowadays, it is overshadowed by the success of its various stage and film adaptations. The ...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this volume we come up against the definition of Northern Europe. There are many, each with plausibility and each so obvious. So, here’s ours.