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Life in New York City is already crazy enough. But for Soraya, the normal stress of a high school senior is only enhanced tenfold when she suddenly begins to lose control of an ability she never truly understood. Heightened emotions trigger something inside Soraya that wants to show itself. A part of Soraya bubbling beneath the skin surface. Only a magical bracelet keeps her from becoming something... inhuman.Or, maybe fate has other plans. Perhaps Soraya is not supposed to be a human at all. Rescued and mesmerized by a young man with crimson wings, Soraya suddenly wakes up on the other side of a portal to a parallel world-Angoleth-a place where dragons and magic rule the land. Not just any magic, however. Dark magic is making Angoleth's residents suffer.Can Soraya handle the truth of who and what she really is? Will it help her gain the control she needs or only leave her burning with even more questions and desires?To solve her problems at home, she will first have to dive deep into the troubles and dangers of a land she knows nothing about. A realm that could easily devour her whole. Is Soraya the heir Angoleth has been waiting for?

The journey of a writer is one of storytelling, opening one's heart and reflecting on special moments with those we love. Reflections of the Heart: Stories and Poems from Life covers an array of emotions -- love, loss, awareness, joy, compassion, and serenity. It begins with the author's self-reflection and provides a tribute to family members and friends.With heartfelt prayers and descriptions of healing places, Reflections of the Heart will tug at your soul. It will spark memories of your family, places you have traveled, and special events that have brought awareness and growth.

When a friendly knight is hired by a king and queen to kill a dragon who stole their money, the knight faces many challenges along his journey. But his greatest challenge is still to come. Did the king and queen tell him the whole story? What will happen when he finally faces the dragon? Read this book to find out!The Knight, the Dragon, and the Evil King and Queen was inspired by author David Ibanez's love for dragons and storytelling. He wrote this book as a summer school class project when he was twelve years old.

Inspired by hometown hero and patriot spy Nathan Hale, who gave his life for the cause of independence during the Revolutionary War, Sara Fleming grows up wanting to serve her country. Joining the US Army Reserves as a military intelligence soldier seems to be a good way to fulfill this goal -- and a means to pay off her student loans. When Sara and her new Army Reserve unit are deployed to Kuwait and then to Iraq during the first year of Operation Iraqi Freedom, she finds that serving in a war zone is not the heroic dream she imagined as a child.Ill-equipped and untrained for the conditions in the Middle East, Fleming and her unit are mostly shunned by their active-duty counterparts in Kuwait. They wait for a mission assignment with almost nothing to occupy their time and little to no direction from leadership.When her unit is sent to Iraq, they are put in extremely dangerous situations without proper equipment, safety measures, or logical protocol. For over a year Fleming goes from one chaotic situation to another, losing friends to deadly attacks and realizing that every day her team spends in Iraq could be their last.Told from a woman soldier's perspective, The Army You Have brings readers into the confusing and frustrating inner struggle of not believing in the war you are asked to fight. Through her experience, Fleming finds healing through the embattled comradeship of her fellow soldiers, a new emboldened strength of character, and a greater appreciation for life, friendships, and family.

Raised in the collective dystopian empire known as Paragonia, Jade rises through the ranks to become the premier spy and assassin who trains others to blindly serve their leader's whims without question. Paragonia is a world empire that thrives on strength and total control. There is no tolerance for independent thought or even the desire for basic human dignity through religion, philosophy, and close family ties. All are outlawed, and those who show this weakness are exploited in highly elaborate public executions.But Jade has a secret. She knows Paragonia's dictator, Owen Fireside, is responsible for her parents' murder. And it is this secret that inoculates her from Paragonia's propaganda and mind-control methods.As Jade plans to murder Fireside in retribution, she isn't aware there are others who also know about her secret. Leaders of the Hostile resistance have been watching her for many years, hoping to turn her and use her as a spy against Paragonia. Their plans include not only overthrowing Fireside's regime, but also destroying the Paragon elites, a highly organized network of families who keep humanity in a machine-like existence for their own purposes.But those of the Paragon trust no one -- not even their premier spy and assassin. Will Jade be caught in their web of deception to be used as a weapon of evil instead of a weapon for good? This thought-provoking thriller will keep you engrossed as the deceptive strategies of evil doers try to erase anything that gets in their way.

In the heart of Chicago, where shadows conceal secrets and organized crime reigns, one retiree embarks on an extraordinary journey. David Blazen spent 50 years comfortable in his work routine but now is retired and desperately searching for purpose in his life. He ultimately finds it in the most unlikely of ways: by becoming a self-proclaimed detective. Travel through a labyrinth of adventure in this award-winning novel, where suspense lurks around every corner and laugh-out-loud moments break through the tension. Follow along as David's search for truth and justice gets him caught in a web of contentious cases, all within his first week on the job. The most puzzling? A murder he witnessed that police are calling a suicide. Will his investigation help identify the killer? It's up to this amateur sleuth to solve that mystery, prevent a budding turf war between Chicago's two dirtiest crime lords, keep a corrupt candidate out of the mayor's office, and bring peace to a city rattled by crime and violence. The problem is, to succeed, he must become a criminal himself. All net proceeds from this book will be donated to non-profit organizations benefitting senior veterans."We're all searching for purpose and fulfillment in our lives, and this crime fiction adventure is both heartwarming and inspiring, An action-packed and surprisingly poignant yarn about a man's search for himself as he enters his golden years." - Kirkus Reviews2023 BookFest Awards Winner: 1st Place in Cozy Detective and 2nd Place in Amateur Sleuth

When her husband's health began its serious decline after open heart surgery, Linda Moran was prepared to support him through a challenging recovery that included a stroke and speech aphasia. But as Dean pinballed from one medical crisis to another, the couple encountered unexpected obstacles from the medical/healthcare system itself. Ultimately nine specialists in Dean's care either didn't keep them informed of new protocols, or the doctors didn't communicate with each other, leading to contradictory care instructions.After two years of chaos, Dean received a referral for hospice care-which meant that he wasn't expected to live for more than six months. Though the prognosis was devastating, hospice brought many surprising benefits: Help navigating a broken system. Spiritual counseling. The freedom to be fully present in life. And an opportunity to make Dean's remaining time what he wanted it to be.Filled with intimate personal stories, as well as practical checklists for those facing a similar journey, The Perks of Hospice shows us how the end of life can be so much more than an ending.Married for almost forty-five years, Dean and Linda Moran did everything together, especially in their two decades as fiber artists, experimenting with an ancient paper process on fabric. Their art provided a needed respite from medical reality and helped them create a lasting legacy at the end of their lives together.

Forget what you might think about outlaws, Broccoli Bob and his friends are the good guys, nutritionally and otherwise. When trouble starts brewing in the Broccoli Patch, Bob heads for Vegeville to seek the help of the other Organic Outlaws. Along the way, you'll meet Carrot Cassidy, Psychic Celery, and a host of others in this fun-filled vegetable western.Author Karyn Drum struggled to raise her three children organically back in the day when organic vegetables were hard to find. That, along with her southwestern roots and love for all things silly, combined to create the Organic Outlaws. Now an elementary art teacher, she has found her true calling celebrating children's imaginations in many interesting and entertaining ways. She lives with her mad scientist husband and beautiful daughters in Carrboro, North Carolina.

Dave is a nineteen-year-old helpless romantic who fantasizes about landing the girl of his dreams. As his plans fail, he finds himself in jail facing a felony and must head home to Sunnyslope. Dreading being back, Dave is approached by an old friend who attempts to convince him to stay and join a gang. Desperate to avoid gang affiliation, Dave takes a job offered by an incarcerated individual. Will he ever get free from the curse of Sunnyslope? Or is his redemption connected to the very thing he's trying to run away from?

This is an award-winning story about family, adoption, heritage, and identity. It is also about place and people. Haralambie invites you to accompany her on her search for her biological roots, the hurdles and misdirections, and what happens when she finally finds out who her biological family members are. Every adoption search and reunion are different. The results, and how each adoptee deals with them, are also different. But everyone who has been touched by adoption, whether directly or through friends, professional clients, or patients-can learn from others' experiences. Haralambie's journey will intrigue readers and may make them laugh and cry. It will surely get them thinking about their own identity and heritage. Her message for readers is to approach the quest with kindness and understanding. Gold Award in the Literary Titans Book Awards 2023

Author Rico Chamblain is a 27-year military veteran of an era spanning the outer edges of the Ho Chi Minh itty-bitty foot-stumpers to the suicidal cave dwarfs of the Taliban. Rico Chamblain, a creative writing graduate of the University of Arizona, has sprung forth a believable yet fictious autobiography that has captured the Black American military experience, the upward rising of UMM-GOWHA Black Power from the mid-fiddies America voiced within the poetic ritmo of an original language created by newly freed Blacks living the promised life along the Carolinas and Georgia shoreline islets. It is dubbed the Gullah language that be beautifully enriched sound-bites of Creole, Caribbean, English with African a'banging the step to your ear-drums. OG folk gonna holla "dat fool be talking geechee." Unk' Zeke's Pond be a keeping it real the oral tradition of Black history not to be confused with his-po'dunk lying-story. Unk' Zeke's Pond be a great read to crest the fo'reallies truth of Juneteenth, dem Collard-greens as swell a footpath to shedding the p-funk of inner-city dwellings that will leave ya' hungering for a straight-up Come here, Baby and talk Geechee to me!

As we go about our daily lives, we create stories, weave poems, make magical moments, at times without realizing it. Some moments in time are worth revisiting while others are better left unexplored. However, those could be the ones that need further scrutiny and may hide deeper, more important themes in life. Our stories are like peering through an old-fashioned kaleidoscope, reflecting images of bits of colored glass constantly shifting, changing, creating new designs and patterns. Our memories are kaleidoscopes. Our stories are kaleidoscopes. Our lives are kaleidoscopes. So, what's your story? Use the prompts after each story or poem to journal your story as you make your way through life. Our journey is not yet over.

Sylvia Tello is the kind of person who spreads joy wherever she goes. Compassionate and empathetic, she has a knack for helping those in pain find a path to healing. But three years after the death of her husband, Rolando, she's consumed by grief, unable to attain the peace of mind she's provided for so many others.When Sylvia travels to Sint Maarten to capture the life-long dream she had with her husband, the serene beauty of the island only reminds her of what she's lost. But her focus soon shifts when she meets Sarah Sandoval, a bright, ambitious young widow whose sorrow mirrors her own. In the next four days, they begin a journey with the courage to share secrets, dreams, memories, entering the darkness of what they wanted to forget, now becoming the light of what they need to understand. Asking both the living and the dead: will the endless longing for what was ever be the vision for what can become? In turns heartbreaking and hopeful, Four Days explores a love that remains in the deepest corner of each person's heart, where embers of that love are the moments that continue to surface, reminding us that in order to move forward, we must return to where it all began.

When staying with prajna paramita, the bodhisattva-path practitioners will also absorb all superior virtuous dharmas. Owing to nonattainment, learners will be relieved from attachment and self-conceit and become humble, and their powers for removing vexations, hindrances, coverings, and bondages will also be strengthened. That is what is meant by expedient skillfulness in cultivating prajna paramita.The importance of the bodhisattvas becomes significant during the times when Thus-Comers are not present. Given that circumstance, the bodhisattvas are the only ones who can teach sentient beings correct dharma expediently and skillfully. Both great bodhisattvas and expedient skillfulness come out of prajna paramita. Because the great bodhisattvas have achieved expedient skillfulness, they are able to really practice virtuous dharmas, attain superior benefits, assist the sentient beings to mature, and dignify and purify the Buddha lands.

Death, a benevolent creature, saunters through the landscapes herein, portending little terrors that creep up on you in these microtales.Mr. Lord, returning in "Mr. Lord Again," addresses another generation-old evil. "The Bag" and "Career Change" demonstrate how social justice can be quick, loud, and final, making horror a force for positive.The self-analysis in "Misdirection" makes you question the usefulness of your therapy sessions, while vampirism, freshly explained, presents itself in "Takers" and "Leave Nothing" for your edification.Wronged innocents correcting their own personal tragedies, lifestyles unimaginable to the average adult, multiple pasts impinging on our present -- all are for the amusement of some, the screams of others.Enjoy.

These are stories that a very old man remembers. They could not have happened to anyone else.Professor Alain Corcos is a native of France. He came to the United States twice -- first as a member of the French Air Force in November 1944 after escaping from Vichy France three months before D-Day. He came back to the States as a student earning a PhD in plant breeding and taught the nature and philosophy of science for twenty-six years at Michigan State University. He has written many scientific articles and three books published by university presses: The Myth of Human Races, The Myth of the Jewish Race, and Gregor Mendel's Experiments on Plant Hybrids, which, years after its publication, became a very important contribution to the history of science. Professor Corcos is also the author of The Little Yellow Train (the story of his escape from France during World War II) and six other books, including The Folly of War.

Like most children, Jayden loves animals and wonders whether she is an animal too. In Mommy, Am I Your Baby Dragon? Jayden learns that even though she is not an animal, she is like them in many ways. This book teaches young children the names of common animals (and one mythological creature!) through entertaining illustrations and verses while improving their listening skills along the way.

If you walk long enough in the woods, you'll be introduced to your family. For we all have but one mother, Earth.In Monroe County Deer Hunts: Why the Good Old Methods Are Best, author Keith Francis Organ hearkens back to the hunting stories of his youth and shows how hunting has evolved over the past sixty years into a technological game with little respect for animal or environment.When Organ was young, hunters didn't use trail cameras, tree stands, or feeding stations. Hunting was a man's sport, and hunters had to learn the signs of deer to succeed. They had to learn to think like a deer to bag a buck, and they had to consider the cover a deer would prefer in different weather conditions as they studied the woods and weather, not the deer. Doe tags were never issued, and smaller bucks were healthier than some of the giants taken today. Experienced hunters were like lions, stalking prey while wearing velvet moccasins. All wildland was open to hunters, which provided ample space to explore nature. It was a classroom where the older hunters could teach the younger about the hidden secrets of their prey.Monroe County Deer Hunts recalls the spirit of adventure that awaited every hunt, a time when no two hunts were ever the same.

After decades of service, the time has come for Jill to retire. Choosing to tuck herself away in a sleepy suburb -- what could possibly go wrong? Jill's lethal instincts, which made her one of the most sought-after government assets, won't let her slip into the quiet life that easily. Her past keeps creeping into her present, making it difficult for her to settle into a life of garden lunches and knitting clubs.The Shady Oaks Division follows Jill through the trials and tribulations of retirement as she struggles to fit into her new role. Her paranoia, fueled by her sharp instincts, threatens to upend her. But is it just paranoia? Or are they forgetting that her training and expertise are what made her their number-one asset to begin with? Will Jackson, the agent assigned to Jill, be able to keep her from disturbing the picturesque town she's moved into? His own colorful past allows him to connect with her, and he works tirelessly to keep her on track. But will it be enough, or will it complicate matters further?

The Sutra of Explaining the Profound Secret provides the theoretical foundations of Yogacara Buddhism with Sakyamuni Buddha's teachings on mind consciousness, the ultimate meanings of knowledge, the selflessness of the names and concepts, the natures of existent beings, the yoga path of samatha and vipasyana, the ten stages of bodhisattva and the ten paramitas, and the exquisite and superior things the Thus-Comers have fulfilled. This sutra serves as the cornerstone for building the Buddhist epistemology, philosophy of the mind, and the pedagogy for bodhisattva education, and contributes to the establishment of the status of Yogacara school in the great-vehicle Buddhism.

Jerry Granahan, a paranormal enthusiast, receives an intriguing invitation in the mail. He convinces his friend Miller Byrne, a man dealing with his own demons, they should attend the gathering. Together they travel to an isolated Tennessee mountain town and join a small group of other attendees. It is Josiah Alden, a mysterious philanthropist, who has invited the group with a challenging proposition. Would they be willing to spend All Hallows Eve night in a local enclave reputedly haunted by the ghosts of executed Confederate soldiers? If they accept the terms of his offer and can make it through until sunrise, they will each receive equal shares of a cache of his money. Once they enter a forgotten park beside an old burial ground and darkness descends on the group, strange occurrences begin. The horrors that soon follow trap Jerry and Miller in a terrifying world of the undead that tests the limits of their sanity as they find themselves struggling to survive a nightmare they can no longer escape.

Nothing prepared Liz, the academic scientist (with a background in Australia and UK) for Linda, the quick-witted eighth-grade dropout from Texas excelling in malapropisms and outlandish jokes. Linda was still married and Liz a grieving widow. How could they sustain a relationship when they had such different personalities, backgrounds, and interests? But despite obvious incompatibilities, their chemistry was undeniable, and the extraordinary contrast was exciting for both of them.Over time, each of them enthusiastically engaged the other in different pursuits and each of them bonded over the novelties. They introduced each other to their favorite entertainments, with mixed results (Linda found opera boring; Liz cheered for the wrong team at a University of Arizona basketball game). Linda's jokes kept them constantly alive to humor that offset the complexities of the lives they led when they were apart. But slowly, their shared love of nature, carefree RV trips, and travel abroad (with the help of antianxiety meds for Linda's first time on a plane), brought them ever closer. Maybe, they realized, they were more alike than they thought, as each pondered their love of being rebels. Maybe their differences were to be celebrated rather than overcome.With humor and heart, Across the Divide: The Strangest Love Affair reveals how possibilities unfold when we open ourselves to unlikely opportunities.

This is the story of John Niven, founder of Purity Stores -- a chain of grocery stores across California as far south as Fresno and as far north as Yreka. Established in the San Francisco area in 1925, this chain operated most of its stores along the Pacific coastline, many of them in small towns. In John Niven, explore John Niven's career as he starts with Van Camp Packing Company. From there, he joins Cummins Engines with notable businessmen Clessie Cummins, William G. Irwin, and A. D. Lasker, before founding Purity Stores. Author John David Noll, a grandson of John Niven, traces the history of this successful businessman through newspaper articles, correspondence, and family chronicles as John faces challenges from the Great Depression, World War II, warehouse strikes, price wars, unions, and expansion pressures from competitors.

The Compendium of American English Grammar: For Advanced ESL Speakers is an easy-to-use grammar reference book for nonnative English speakers who have progressed beyond the classroom. Topics include:definite and indefinite articlesnoun categoriestwelve official verb tensestwo unofficial verb tensesgerunds and infinitivesstative verbsphrasal verbscorrect placement of adverbsnegationquestion formationindividual function wordsstandard numbers and shortcutsformal and informal languagemistakes that native speakers makepronunciation and grammarand much moreFilled with examples and detailed explanations of the trickiest sentence patterns, The Compendium of American English Grammar is the ideal book for students, business executives, new and longtime US residents, and others who want to perfect their English skills.