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Matt is an unemployed loner with an alcohol problem. He spends his days and nights frequenting the same local bar near his apartment in search of his next drink. All is business as usual, until one fateful day when he is forced to come face to face with his own demons, love, lust, and a jukebox.The bar is a playground for the local patrons, each wondering how they got there and if they'll ever leave. Along Matt's journey, his fellow bar mates-as well as a burgeoning love interest-guide Matt through a hectic day in his neighborhood pub that changes everything.A Glass Half-Empty rings with as much brutal truth as an alcoholic's recovery memoir. Matt's attachment to alcohol isn't just a substance dependency but a way of life, involving emotional connections to a community, even if that community is self-destructive. Now, Matt must navigate his life and control his addiction all while clinging to the company of friends.

It all started when Laura Ingalls Wilder's quilt was taken from a museum in Walnut Grove, Minnesota. Soon, other items from small museums dedicated to famous Minnesotans began to disappear. However, as with many criminals, the thief can't stop while ahead.The situation worsens as the incidents escalate, and the thief searches for a perfect accomplice. Reminiscent of the 1924 Leopold and Loebe atrocity, these two thugs unleash a spree that terrorizes northern Minnesota-all in the pursuit of the perfect crime. As the police and lawyers get involved, people in the area begin to debate the nature of criminals and whether an excuse should lead to an exoneration.From Sinclair Lewis' funeral urn to Glensheen's wicked candlestick, The Good Evil Queen by Michael Frigden offers a crime thriller from the pages of Minnesota's history.

Christine Holly is a small-town girl from Maryland's Eastern Shore, raised in a conservative home in a family deeply affected by the death of her sister at a young age. She meets and falls in love with a younger man, an Oklahoma farm boy whose prominent family owns substantial land and oil wells. She marries, CJ, her "e;Prince Farming,"e; and moves to the Plains to become a devoted farm wife. Her fantasies of an all-American agrarian life soon become nightmares when she discovers her new relatives are not the wholesome crowd she perceived. She finds herself thrust into a twisted drama of dysfunction, aberration, and shocking revelations that make her question her future-and her own sanity.In Crude Awakening, Holly narrates a fictionalized account of her experiences as she's extracted from her staid and stable environs and moves into a crazy and chaotic environment with her new family. She tells of mustering the courage to leave her marriage and her dreams behind.

In America's sixties and seventies, Jack is working in a minimum-security prison for young men when he meets Marlon-and Marlon has a story to tell. Spared the horrors of a hardened adult prison, he is forced to accept his current situation while telling Jack a bit about himself.He and his friends ill advisedly stole a car and rolled it along while drinking. Their theft concluded in an accident. People got hurt, and Marlon fled. The next morning, though, the reservation police arrived at his home and arrested him, which is how he ends up talking to Jack.Marlon's reservation houses about two thousand American Indians. By day, his neighbors are all for peace and love; at night, when they get drunk, violence spreads. It's a horrible way to live, forcing Marlon to struggle with his identity while fighting racial inequality. The Way of the Buffalo offers a fictionalized inside look at this tumultuous age of flower power through the eyes of a Native American youth who can't find meaning in a crazy world.

A Demain is a book that should have a lot of appeal to a mature audience. It is a different approach to the common description of the senior years. The book uses characters who participate in a life that rises above the gray life that descends on people above sixty years on this earth. The characters have the common health issues, but their relationship with their doctor is not the most important relationship in their life. These characters seek to be part of a meaningful relationship with others, Sex is still an important segment of their wellbeing. Their language is one that is not faint; it is colorful and on point in all situations. A person reading this might say, "e;My friends don't talk like that, but I wish they did."e; This book would bring a smile to the majority of readers and they would recognize a lot of the happenings in the book. The growing importance of personal relationships as age increases is a keystone to this book.

Margarete is a beautiful and talented rabbit. Sadly, she is also an arrogant, selfish snob. On her way to perform her world famous magic show, Margarete is involved in a serious accident and ends up in the hospital.When she eventually wakes, she finds herself surrounded by unsavory "e;country bumpkins."e; Of course, Margarete judges them immediately. She is much too famous and fancy for these folks. Then, something surprising happens: these loveable creatures begin melting Margarete's cold heart.A serious crisis occurs in the neighborhood, and Margarete knows she is the one to help. This jaw-dropping event in the quiet countryside brings shocking change and just might turn a bigheaded snob into a selfless hero.

After the government's first choice to design a secret installation is discovered and murdered by foreign agents, the president turns to a lonely widower from Pittsburgh to take her place. Stanley Bigelow's unusual engineering skills and solitary life make him suitable for the work, but Captain Tyler Brew, the Navy SEAL overseeing the project worries that the man's age, weight, and lack of physical fitness will make him vulnerable to his predecessor's fate. Despite round-the-clock protection by female FBI agent, L.T. Kitt, and a specially trained German shepherd from the witness protection program (Augie), the SEAL's fears prove warranted. All while a terrorist offensive takes shape.The Accidental Patriot is a story of citizenship and service; loyalty and love; and how personal transformation happens in unexpected ways.

In recent years, the environment in which advertising operates has changed. As a result, company leaders are under rising pressure to increase turnover and profits ahead of the industry average while fighting for new consumers. Unfortunately, marketing, as an organizational function, has been downgraded from a strategic role to a marginalized tactical and sales support department.In a comprehensive guide that addresses these current challenges, seasoned marketing executive Corneliu Vilsan leads advertising professionals through a practical set of principles, tools, and case studies to help the marketing function recapture its strategic importance by returning to the basics to create results that can be measured, analyzed, and replicated. While closing the gap between theory and reality and reconciling rational thoughts with creative ones, Vilsan introduces the phronesis methodology to challenge assumptions and encourage the creation of business or case studies to advance marketing excellence. Included are training insights and a marketing effectiveness test that lay the groundwork so an organization can survive and thrive within today's complex environments.Phronesis Marketing shares wisdom, principles, and tools that guide company leaders through a comprehensive roadmap to improve the strategic position of marketing within their organizations.