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After a hard-hitting romantic breakup caused by his misinterpretation of the unsaid, a perplexed Cooper Landry blames his past for the failure. He equates distance to therapy and accepts a career opportunity in Central America, presuming to change his fate by changing its setting.En route, the real trouble begins when his abduction and imprisonment by a drug cartel redirect his objective to survival and escape, despite forced addiction and man-eating dogs. When Quinn Daltrey, the woman with whom he shared the romance, discovers he has gone missing, she follows, intending to find and save him, though she has no plan. This literary soup is layered with adventure, romance, and thriller. Some of it is true. Much is imagined. It navigates universal desires and unbound danger as each lover follows their path to discovering that one's destiny can be shaped rather than surrendered to chance.

Ginny thought she was going to Central Texas to find her friend, Allie, who was way overdue from her vacation. Allie was one of those people who always lived up to her commitments. However, it had been days since her planned return, and yet she was still not home. Not only that, but for someone who called or texted every day, she had been suspiciously silent for well over a week. Determined to follow Allie's trip itinerary, Ginny set off on a road-trip of her own, determined to track down what had happened to her friend. What she expected to find at the old museum was evidence that Allie had been there so she could determine her next steps. What she didn't expect to find was an old photo of a farmhouse with a woman who looked very much like Allie. That had to be a strange coincidence as the photo was data 1894, and today was 2014. Not only that, but the old Indian shaman who came up to talk to her in the museum did a lot of mumbling about being able to tell Ginny where Allie went. Agreeing to follow the shaman might have been the worst decision Ginny ever made - but it could be the best part of the rest of her life. Ginny's time had indeed just begun.

In recent decades the themes of family love, understanding and unity have been at the forefront in our society. From the music of Sly and the Family Stone ("Family Affair"), and the O' Jays ("Family Reunion"); To the popular cinema juggernauts of "Cheaper By the Dozen", "Johnson Family Reunion", "life with father", "Home Alone", and the wildly popular "Madea's Family Reunion "; To American politicians' favorite mantra of "Family Values" ---- the focus on family dynamics and family relational health has remained a permanent feature of our culture. And yet, despite its importance, the notion of "family" is still perhaps one of the least understood and most threatened facets of contemporary society. Charlene Ashford's scintillating account of the Porter family will warm the heart and delight the imagination while providing brilliant insights into the meaning of family. Readers will meet the unforgettable characters of the Porter Family: the grand matriarch - the glue that holds the family together; the quick-tempered Aunt, the wise cracking quip-a-minute brother, the brooding and tempestuous sister, the envy-bitten sister; the volatile, "doesn't-have-a-clue" brother; the always available, understanding, and affable undertaker.Prepare to experience laughter, heartbreak, heartache, disappointment, sadness, anxiety, and the tenacity of hope as the Porter family faces internal challenges of divisiveness, misunderstandings, relational strife, health deterioration, and death. Witness the attempts of flawed human beings to navigate the unpredictable moments of the human condition as they revel in their limited capacity to manage serendipity.Follow the Porter family Heroine who, despite her feet of clay, tries desperately to keep the fragmented family on the path of unity. In the end, the reader is certain to adopt an empathic stand in favor of the Porter family's efforts to successfully pull it all together. Will the Porter family be able to garner the therapeutic and healing resources that will enable them to arrive at a place of love, forgiveness, reconciliation, and redemption? Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison mastered the unique skill of bending language to her will so that the reader was mesmerized and helplessly pulled into the drama of the narrative. Charlene Ashford has proven equally adept at coaxing language out of its chair and onto the dance floor. Once there, she frees language to initiate the dance of liberation -- to twirl, twist, leap, roll, and bounce from the page to the eye to the heart to the soul with dexterity and humor. Ashford's narrative achieves its aim -- to promote a story of family redemption, where individual self-discovery and communal restoration become possibilities for all those who desire it deep enough and strong enough to pursue it

Redemption Will Come as a Song is a combination of new and selected poetry by Lawrence Grieco, spanning a half century of writing, plus a number of autobiographical sketches in prose, and finally five short, short stories. Therefore, this book has a little of everything, and the good news is that all the styles of poetry and prose presented here have a way of relating to and complementing each other, to make, in the end, a whole statement about the author's life and development as a writer and as a human being. Here you will find romance, baseball, anthropology-sometimes all three at once-and more. His poetry is easy to read, but often has a deeper, underlying meaning, waiting for the perceptive reader to discover it. You will also find a whimsical interplay of words and ideas just for the sheer joy of it. His poetry is subject to three rules: Make people laugh, make people cry, make people want to write poems themselves. The autobiographical sketches in prose jump around the author's seven-plus decades of life, defying chronology, "unstuck in time" much like Kurt Vonnegut's character, Billy Pilgrim, in the novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. And the short stories at the end qualify as "flash fiction" and are humorous excursions into storytelling. The combination of poetry, memoirs, and fiction make this an unusual, if not unique, book.

"What Hitler was able to do to a crowd in 2-1/2 hours will never be repeated in 10,000 years!"-Ernst Hanfstaengl, Hitler's early confidant "Hitler was one of the first great rock stars. He was no politician; he was a great media artist. How he worked his audience! ... The world will never see anything like that again. He made an entire country a stage show."-David Bowie, British rock legend As a young man in Vienna, Adolf Hitler was sleeping on park benches in 1909, just a real "Nowhere Man" making all his "Nowhere Plans" and who would soon haunt homeless shelters while trying to hawk his unimaginative and banal paintings. Yet in 1933, this mommy's boy and self-centered dilettante was appointed Chancellor of Germany after discovering his artistic-political calling as a charismatic orator and stage actor in the 1920s-and then dazzled Germans and foreigners alike with the color and pageantry of the Nuremberg rallies and other grand spectacles in the 1930s. As a virtuoso in the art of presenting dramatic performances, Hitler inspired the same type of emotional ecstasy that the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Elvis Presley aroused from their frenzied fans. Even after clearly revealing the monstrous side of his murderous character in World War II by exterminating Jews and Slavs by the millions before committing suicide on April 30, 1945, he still emerged from the ashes and rubble of the Third Reich to seduce later generations. To the present generation, he has morphed from a murderous villain into a comical figure on many Internet platforms, particularly the hundreds of humorous YouTube parodies of his fanatical ranting and raving. This book examines Hitler's extraordinary political-artistic talents to explain his nearly unfathomable rise from a homeless nobody into the most influential and demonic creature on the vast stage of modern history.

Just a kid from The Bronx, born 2nd generation of a family of immigrants from Italy, Andy was blessed in so many ways over the years. There was no silver spoon or any kind of privilege in his life or his family. He learned the value of hard work at a very young age and was blessed with the fruits it yielded the rest of his life. Having left home at barely 17 years of age, he joined the Navy (Vietnam era), served over 8 years, and was honorably discharged. After being discharged from Active Duty, he went back to college, full time at night, while working full time during the day. Although this was done during difficult family times, it set a firm foundation in place for his next career in life to reap more blessings. It was just after this time that he received another Blessing... he met his wife, Grace, with whom he has shared 35 wonderful, glorious years as of the time of this writing. Looking forward to many more years, he and his wife are happily retired in their home on Whidbey Island, WA. Putting to use his lessons in life, he applied what he learned with the help of God, and an extraordinary amount of hard work and sacrifice, to build a home, a successful career and a retirement, adapting to the many unexpected hands that life sometimes deals you. "Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans"..... John Lennon.

This book gives you a look at the past, the present and the future. It will give you methods that will help you plan the future while telling you about the past and the current events. Once you have read and understood these parables, paradoxes, and paradigms, you will have a blueprint to work with. Note, however, to feel good, be productive and move forward in life, the mind and body must make the deal - a deal that will yield utility (i.e., happiness) and a sense of self. The said deal will create a synergistic bond that will propel you to a place where dreamers dream, creators create, and all others merely conjecture. Doing all of this while heading in the direction of perfection (where time has no application) only never to arrive!

A group of alien cattle rustlers, the culprits behind those mutilations going back 50 years, are still dispatching herds in southwest Kansas. But now night raids in their triangular craft are coming up short--the bovine gene pool's gotten small...offering too little reward for their labors.Their best remaining hope: to conscript an Earth-human collaborator, to force an able someone to procure new breeds for them. If only their random choice were other than Harley Rennet, an aging sign painter. But...it's old Harley they levitate while at the wheel of his '59 Rambler. Once up, he's not so much terrified by the aliens as fascinated by how they look.That's no surprise, really, since Harley only took to painting billboards and barns to make ends meet. He's the very model of a frustrated artist. So as the aliens coerce him on pain of "liquidation," Harley looks for a way to even the score. If he's to do this or die, he'll seek to do it his way. Gathering his pluck, he poses them one question.When he asks "What's in it for him?" he innocently trips a cosmic lever...a key legal precept of far-distant stars. Now the aliens must oblige him in something-but in what? Harley doesn't need to think twice. If he's going to sell out Kansas ranchers, then these aliens will help him do the crop circles he's dreamt for years of making. There's your bargain!Thus--Harley's long-suffering wife, his dog, his little Kansas town and five whole counties roundabout--are all soon held tight in the grip of High Strangeness. Like those unhappy cows, the mystery drops (with a thud) in the lap of Kansas Law Enforcement: lazy-ass Sheriff Ted, a small town P.I., and a couple of countrified tornado spotters known to a weather channel. Together they'll track the falling cows, puzzle over the circles, and call on gorgeous Nance and her boyfriend to fly their drones...all as a dragnet tightens around hapless Harley.

Becoming Tonus 0 is a coming-of-age story of a boy growing up in the Baby Boom era. From a time of seemingly harmless fun to a poolhall life, that was anything but harmless, he navigates his way through the obstacles and challenges of growing up.This is a story of a young boy who as he grows into his teen years comes dangerously close to following the wrong paths. His adventures, although many times funny, are accompanied by some perilous and life-altering moments. How he chooses to deal with these moments will lead to choices that could affect the rest of his life.It is a humorous as well as dangerous tale.

The angel's announcement to Mary in the sixth month (Luke 1:26) and the use of the Hebrew calendar prove that Christ was born on Pentecost Sunday, May 23, 6 B.C. in the Julian calendar. The Universe is governed by a set of laws. An investigation into the original source of these natural laws proves that God had made the laws of the universe before the beginning of the universe billions of years ago.The proof that God had made the laws of the universe before the beginning of the universe means God had been living before the beginning of the universe billions of years ago. This is no fiction because it is based on the laws of physics, such as the law of gravity.Edwin Hubble's discovery of an expanding universe in 1929, when extrapolated back in time, proves that the universe had a beginning. The universe had a beginning and the proof that God had been living before the beginning of the universe prove God created the universe.The proof that God created the universe, which included all the atoms that made up 100% of the human body, also proves that God created man.

The legend of a demigod who fathered a nation begins this origin story. As the community he created faces multiple threats, the foundational role of women in leadership that he carves out proves invaluable. Colonial rule, enforcing "scientific racism", then births the new horror of ethnic purges. Many lose access to their history as they are scattered around the world. In the family ancestral journey retold in these pages, previously hidden accounts are restored, and the resilience of the human spirit inspires us anew. An ancient indigenous treasure trove of oral history reaches down through time to tell us anew what happened to them.

The Last Day 1985, is a story about two world powers seeking control of oil in the world's richest oil location, during a time when gas lines around the world were several blocks long. The method decided on to resolve this conflict by these two world powers, will take you on a fascinating and suspenseful journey.

Devil's Night is a story of terror, horror, revenge and a late found love. With a backdrop of Detroit in the 1960s, the story begins on Halloween Eve - called Devil's Night. A teenage prank goes horribly wrong on this quasi-festive night when five teenage boys steal a mocked-up scarecrow from a neighborhood porch and hang it on an expressway overpass. This seemingly harmless act leads to an evolving series of life changing events. Georgie Kolpacki is the self-appointed leader of the boys. His dire family background, deep-seated paranoia, and waning friendships feed his quest for brutal revenge. Rosemary Lesko is one of the targets of this revenge. The Lesko family and their Aunt Anna have their lives turned from idyllic to turmoil as they deal with tragedy and the evolving consequences. Aunt Anna's psyche is transformed from a lifelong spinster to a woman falling in love with a local bar owner and plays a key role in the outcome of the story. A Doberman Pinscher by the name of Lucifer, and a twin specter, prove to be a nemesis that Georgie must try to escape from!

The School-Based Behavior Technician is a training handbook and studying resource for individuals pursuing a Registered Behavior Technician® (RBT) certification in the school setting. The objective of this book is to serve as a means to prepare and train for the certification exam which aligns with the Behavior Analyst Certification Board® (BACB) RBT task-list (2nd ed.). This training manual is offered independent of the BACB. This handbook is a supplemental tool to completing the 40-hour required RBT training and aims to serve as a professional guide to individuals providing behavior analytic services in the school setting.You can find more information at www.schoolbasedbehaviortech.com

Jay Michael Smith is a retired insurance broker, a former banker, civil and human rights advocate, who served as the first Executive Director of Health Professions Licensing Bureau in Indiana state government. Jay took on major developmental roles at Indiana University School of Medicine and later at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. He later finished his career as owner of Jay Smith and Associates. Jay and his wife are now involved in philanthropy activities designed to promote quality of life, educate and provide opportunities to African-Americans in need of developing their life skills. An African-American only-child born in a tenement building towards the end of World War ll and raised in the inner city by a great Aunt, a devout Baptist and domestic/cafeteria worker. He received a catholic elementary and secondary education. Jay graduated from Ball State University with a degree in business administration and from Indiana University with a master's degree in higher education administration. Jay shares his many experiences and adventures, some humorous, but all with lessons learned. From being part of a delegation visiting a hospital for indigenousness people in Guatemala with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, listening to Nelson Mandela upon his release from prison addressing an audience at Morehouse College, to hearing the Dalai Lama share his stories and wisdom. He along with his wife traveled with People-to-People International program (a program that offers opportunities to get to know local cultures) to South Africa. Jay provides his observations of competing as well as surviving in white dominated banking, government, higher education, and insurance environments with help from people of different races and backgrounds. Jay is a recipient of one of Indiana's highest awards for his service and leadership in state government, Council of the Sagamore of the Wabash. His life has revolved around promoting education, civil and human rights, the arts, and world travel, especially among African-Americans with an emphasis on giving back to humankind.

In How to Think and Create Success: Creators Are Thinkers-Thinkers Are Creators, Wayne Faulkner distills his twenty-two years as an educator and seventeen years in corporate management into a method, concept, and solution-all in one-that helps inventors, creators, artists, and designers start a business, launch a concept, or offer a solution. Faulkner's easy, four-step way helps people create success, allowing them to have a better career, demonstrate their purpose in life, and be financially free.

Ripples - is the story of Father Sal Gomez, a priest serving in Southern California who faces a canonical trial summoned by his bishop. Accused of scandal arising from the forbidden relationship with his childhood sweetheart, he grapples with preserving his integrity and preventing his impending fall from grace.Will the challenges soaked in the pages of this novel impact Sal's world and the people who inhabit it? Will his mythical character overcome dark schemes other characters hatched to steal his future and of those he cares about?You, the readers are invited to ride rippling waters and watch them turn into ocean waves as you follow this masterfully crafted story spanning from the river town in Central Philippines, to the labor farms in Central California, to the heart of the People Power Revolution in Manila, and head on to the clashing forces in Los Angeles.

People are hungering to know Jesus whether they know it or not. Our job as followers of Jesus is to bring his presence into our everyday world. One of the tools God has given us to accomplish this is the gifts of the Holy Spirit. In Discovering the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, the reader is introduced to twenty-one of these gifts and their use in real-life situations. This will help the reader discover their own gifts and how they can be used to make Jesus's presence a reality. Deacon Michael Wesley has a Master of Theological Studies degree, is an ordained deacon in the Catholic Church and has been a part of the Catholic charismatic renewal for 51 years. His goal through this book is to inspire Catholics to discover and start using their own gifts of the Holy Spirit. He believes the gifts of the Holy Spirit is one way Jesus intends us to continue his ministry on earth. In addition to introducing readers to the gifts of the Holy Spirit, Deacon Mike also discusses obstacles to the spirit-filled life, such as unforgiveness and spiritual warfare. He believes the more people see Jesus's presence through our use of the gifts the more they will be drawn to him.

The retired FBI ladies ask the eight cousins to help them with an uncover mission in the mountains of Arkansas. These cousins are proficient in such missions, but could the ladies take care of the numerous bad men who are equipped with guns and have every confidence in themselves.It's not just some horrible men, who have committed atrocious acts, they have to worry about, they will be in the wooded areas that are filled with bears, bobcats, cougars, and snakes. Can the ladies really do this job, or will they become too scared and make a run for home?

Robert Kinerk grew up hearing great Alaska stories. He has recreated many of them in Tales from the Territory. He lived in Alaska from when it was a territory, working as a reporter, as a logger, and an ambulance attendant. He labored in a pulp mill and moonlighted as a night-time disc jockey. His stories are of rugged and often solitary women and men driven by the demands of climate and of distance to rely mostly on themselves. On their own, they thread their way past life's snares and pitfalls. In Tales from the Territory, a reader will discover kids and grown-ups, priests and prostitutes, arsonists and artists working out the adventures and misadventures life presents them. Sometimes they tackle that job rightly, sometimes wrongly. But they always do it humanly, with all the bumps and warts and wanderings that being human entails. They bring to the task of living their accumulated stores of strength and their burdens of frailty. Those burdens and those strengths are at the heart of Tales from the Territory.

In the late 19th century, Brahmins in India rarely ventured out of their comfort zones in their tightly-knit village communities to cross the seas and court excommunication when they returned. What then prompted some 130 young pioneers to leave their village sanctuaries, cross the vast stretch of the Indian Ocean on a hazardous week-long journey to seek an uncertain future in British Malaya? How did they cope with a challenging environment characterized by an unfriendly equatorial climate, deadly tropical diseases, and an unknown foreign language? How did they live through two world wars, two periods of emergency and the Singapore separation? What was the legacy they left behind, and how has this been perpetuated by their descendants? A Malaysian of Brahmin descent, the author addresses these questions based on research spanning five years and incorporating his own perspectives. Utilizing secondary sources and anecdotal accounts of pioneer Brahmins, he has compiled a social history revealing that an adventurous spirit and promise of more equal and rewarding opportunities propelled pioneers to plunge into the unknown. This pioneering spirit made succeeding generations of Brahmins successful and distinguished in their respective places of domicile.

I have always loved the church as it has played a significant role in my life and my family's life. I am what I am today because the church poured into me, opportunities, spiritual advisement, and amazing experiences. I will always be thankful for those pastors and church leaders who helped to grow and to nurture my spiritual formation. The church was a major centerpiece for our small community wherein enduring relationships were formed, young minds were edified, and were shaped into loving, caring, and morally upright Christians. Unfortunately, however, there are those whose narrative reads differently. Sadly, there are too many narratives of pastors, church leaders, and laity alike who have been exposed to devastating experiences within the body of Christ, creating painful hurt and disappointment. Church hurt is one of the most painful hurts that a person can experience. I urgently say that the pendulum swings in both directions when it comes to church hurt. It flows upwardly toward church leaders as well as flows downwardly to church parishioners. Neither is beneficial to the body of Christ. Church hurt is an issue that must never be swept under the rug, expecting it to go away. The health of the body of Christ is at stake, therefore, those who are in leadership and followership positions must take a stand against this awful sin. Healing must be sought for those who have been injured by and or through the very institution that represents our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Happily, healing can take place and people's faith can be renewed. Will you be one of the ones who will help them through the healing process? May God speak to your heart to be a healer and not one to contribute to this terrible, and sinful act. Who will help them to Heal?

New and growing Christians are daily grappling with fundamental questions about their place in the overall plan of God for humanity. The digital age has created many half-baked and self-acclaimed "teachers" and "mentors" from whom many of these Christians receive their instructions in righteousness, and with the deluge of misinformation and outright falsehood flowing from social media and, even some supposed Christian leaders, this state of uncertainty and confusion is further heightened. I am led to write this manual, which is interactive by design following a Q&A approach, specifically not to completely fill the gap, but to contribute, in any small measure, in proffering answers to some of these hunting questions. This book deals with some of the questions a Believer is having and likely going to have as he/she grows in their relationship with God. This book, which can be used as a bible study manual in a church or school setting or as a tool for personal learning and growth, addresses questions around baptism, liberty in Christ, sin, and condemnation, the coming of the Messiah, the significance of the parables and miracles of Jesus, demonic possession, domination and affliction, Hell, Paradise, and Heaven, etc. The book, therefore, is suitable for Believers who are desiring to know more about God and mature in their relationship with Him. It is the plan of God that we do not remain baby Christians when we come to the saving Grace of our Lord and Personal Savior, Jesus Christ, but to grow to maturity organically and consistently. As babes in faith, it is very possible and easy for us to be tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes, according to Ephesians 4.