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For everyone who's a part of a tribe, their journey through life is more or less the same. For the good or bad, it changes you. After all, iron sharpens iron, and time apart in a leper colony can challenge your worldview. But on the bright side, they're doing fine just rolling around from place to place. Never in a spot for too long, all the while wearing masks and performing a show for the simple-minded audience. Once they paid the ticket price to come and see the rejects, they can go on their merry way with their judgements. Oh, what fun! Care to sit a while and listen?

Beyond the Heavenly Kingdom is the second book in a series set in the mid-19th century and follows Tienkuo: The Heavenly Kingdom, which traced the lives of Jason Brandt; his wife, Black Jade; and his scholar friend Wu Sek-chong during the Chinese Civil War. In this second novel, Brandt and Black Jade travel from Shanghai to Boston in the years following the American Civil War. Americans of that era, increasingly anxious about competition from lower wage Chinese immigrants, demanded an end to all immigration from China.

PHLEGM is not one of those acronyms that just rolls off the tongue. It tends to stick in the throat. But it's easier to say than Planetary Hub Law Enforcement Group - Monroe Division. PHLEGM is an important unit, doing an important job. Members of this group are called shields and they patrol Monroe Station, a huge orbital community in Earth's influence. This story is about one of those shields. His name is Levi, and he's trying to fit into a human world as best he can.

At the dawn of the twenty-second century, the human race is poised for greatness. The Solar System is being rapidly colonized, and the stars are almost within reach. The future potential seems limitless.

Improve your Spanish by learning about climate change! Expand your vocabulary, reading, and speaking skills with this book for intermediate Spanish learners. Learn about a topic that matters—global warming and climate change. Pick up this book if you want to: • Learn new words, expressions, and phrases related to the environment. • Improve your reading skills with the most important topic of our day. • See how people talk in real life in Spanish. • Have some fun while learning. • Learn with a friend (try out the discussion questions). • Get a higher TOEFL, TOEIC, or IELTS score.

Listening to this book is like going into a trippy play where animals talk and there are bizarre characters. It is a mind-bending listen with interesting characters and story plot. Believe it or not, it does have a lesson to the story: We all wear masks to hide our true selves.

This story bundle includes three novellas and a bonus!

Many have seen and studied the classic films of Alfred Hitchcock, but how many know a lot of these movies were inspired by real life murders? These cases range from his native England in the 1800’s to 1950’s America. Influencing his work from The Lodger, his third directorial effort and first true suspense thriller, all the way down to Frenzy, his next to final film. Such minor details appear in his films as a woman’s necklace or being buried in a garden. Or can be so detailed that one film, about a wrongly accused musician, is based on a true story outright.

Guardrails starts with False Prophets, a short treatise explains how conspiracy theories are used to reinforce the big deceptions. It describes how free-thinkers are routinely brought back into the paddock. Many well-intentioned truthers have unwittingly helped to bury the very truth. And just what is the truth buried by the conspiracy theories? Simple. The truth is, the media is not reporting factual events to inform you; they are reporting stories to conform you.

Are you confident in the Word of God? Are you certain that God speaks to you in and through the pages of the Bible? Daniel R. Hyde exhorts readers to grow in their certainty that the Bible is the Word of God, to know with their hearts as well as their heads that God has spoken, and continues to speak, through his Scriptures. When troubles come, it is crucial that your confidence in what God has said is strong. Hyde hopes that by having a good grounding in what the Bible says about itself, Christians will be well equipped to stand firm.

The Reality Beneath Book II Going Sideways on Life is a sequel to Johnson’s first book of short stories, The Reality Beneath - Old Fashioned Reality in the Modern word. It contains a completely new set of short stories written in the unique genre that he is known for. It is an insightful mixture of speculative fiction, science fiction, and fantasy. The stories take things we believe we know and understand in a new way. This gets us to think about the world that surrounds us in a new way to reveal a new understanding.

Five shorts from Theera. Six newbies tryout for entry into one of the fastest guilds on Theera. Things take a turn for the worst when the newbies first meet and realize they may not be compatible, not even for the single assignment they're tasked with.

Gallery of Death is a story collection which begins with "Coyote", where a Cherokee Plainclothes Detective has 12 hours to rescue a kidnapped woman and keep his spiritual nemesis, Coyote, at bay. In "Homeward Bound", two soldiers attempt to evade the enemy and a pending air strike to make their way to safety, and back home. "Catrina" is a personal essay describing an actual death scene investigation Dr. Harper performed, and his struggle to overcome the sterility of clinical terminology to accurately convey his findings.

Just Give Up on projecting fantasies about yourself and pretending to live up to them. Reject setting goals and making judgments about how good you are, and instead just do what you want. The only ones even taking notice are those less successful than you, are they really who you are looking to impress? Daring to fail is the new winning - doing what you want without fear of how you think people will judge you - even if that means getting a stripper in Brazil pregnant.

It is a curious thing that at my age, "55 last birthday", I should find myself taking up a pen to try to write a history. I wonder what sort of a history it will be when I have finished it, if ever I come to the end of the trip! I have done a good many things in my life, which seems a long one to me, owing to my having begun work so young, perhaps. At an age when other boys are at school, I was earning my living as a trader in the old colony.

John Reynolds just wanted to be left alone. After surviving the World Trade Center bombing and the Long Island Railroad shooting, he moved to Cleveland to run his uncle's tugboat business. Everything was fine for 18 years, until the City and the Mafia decided that no man should be an island.

The Poetry Book, by Charles Maynard, takes the listener on a thought-provoking journey that gains momentum as it progresses. Through poignant diction, vivid imagery, and striking storytelling, this introspective author inspires the listener to think deeply about a variety of pertinent matters, from where our future is headed, to navigating a deteriorating societal infrastructure.

Ever wonder how normal people fell prey to a monster? Find out by listening to Achim's Story, based on the life of one of the few people who survived the sinking of the Steuben by the Russians in February 1945. Four thousand people perished in the Baltic Sea. This is believed to be the third greatest loss of life at sea after the Gustloff and the Goya. Joachim Wedekind zur Horst was interviewed and quoted in the February 2005 National Geographic article "Ghost Ship" about the sinking and finding of the Steuben.

Glen A. Larson is often credited with the creation of Battlestar Galactica, based on his earlier Adam’s Ark concept. Yet this may not be as true as one thinks. Leslie Stevens was a writer and producer and had a great to do with the show’s early development. At different times, he had success as a Broadway playwright, film noir director, and co-creator of The Outer Limits with Psycho screenwriter Joseph Stefano.

The Silent Call of the Lake: JM's Story is an evocative and heartfelt journey through the life of an elderly man named JM, whose profound connection to ice fishing and the natural world of Cuyahoga Falls shapes his entire existence.