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Lunar New Year should be a time for familial reunions, ancestor worship, and consumption of an unhealthy amount of candied fruit. But when dragon prince Thuan brings home his brooding and ruthless husband Asmodeus for the New Year, they find not interminable family gatherings, but a corpse outside their quarters. Asmodeus is thrilled by the murder investigation; Thuan, who gets dragged into the political plotting he'd sworn off when he left, is less enthusiastic.

Rigby Croxford's introduction to the United States proves to be more perilous than anything he faced in Africa. His efforts to defend his famous brother-in- law, a television newscaster, from a sex scandal puts him at odds with men bent on destroying America.

Life gives you so many opportunities to go out there and take action. There are so many things you can do, but without action, nothing will come to fruition. Many people wait for the opportunity to come to them, but it's when you go after the opportunity that things actually happen for you. The people you see who are successful are not successful because some great thing happened to them or because they're just smarter or better than you. It’s because they actually went out and took action on the things that they wanted to do.

Improve your grades and test scores with smarter study methods. It may be surprising, but you probably do not know how to get the most from your time and effort studying for school or training on the job. Most of us try to "memorize it all and hope for the best during exams." The best students don't memorize things they need to actually understand.

Imagine you’re a high school kid, a football player in a small Texas town, totally focused on attending West Point. In an instant, your plans are derailed in a horrific auto accident. For Philip Jalufka, life has presented a series of challenges, starting with an accident that required the jaws of life to extract him from a crushed car. With each setback, Philip found the strength to make decisions that guided him to personal and professional success. Following a detour to West Point, he graduated the Academy with honors and went on to serve in the elite U.S. Army Special Operations.

Steve Galanos, a native Midwesterner, reflects on his time in Northern California during the 1990s, a time when the two-digit year emerged as the Y2K problem, the burgeoning Internet fueled the expansion of the New Economy, the dot-com bubble created unseen prosperity and real estate frenzies. Yet it’s a housewarming party, held in late 1999, that affects him the most. At the request of John Goertz, a group of technology managers and executives gather in a conference room.

Wireless connectivity is an amazing and empowering technology. It allows people to access data and be in touch with others in a way which was impossible until recently. Whether we are are accomplishing financial transactions, reading books, listening to podcasts, or listing merchandise for e-commerce, wireless connectivity is a critical link in nearly all of our usage of the internet.

Kapitän Cornish, ein Freund von Cliffs Onkel Curtis, braucht Hilfe. Auf seinem Schiff, dem Klipper Bonny Star, wurde mehrfach eingebrochen. Ein Unbekannter hat alles durchwühlt.

When I started my first martial art school, all I knew about growing a dojo was that I needed more students. So, I set about getting more students every way I knew how, and I kept adding more ways to do that as I went along.

RTL-SDRs are small, inexpensive, yet revolutionary devices which digitize radio signals and enable processing of those signals in a computer. Aviation radio listeners, whether interested in voice communications, ACARS or VDL data, or ADS-B, can use techniques and suggestions in this book to achieve the best possible reception on RTL-SDR devices. Not only can you hear the signals, but it is possible to make high quality recordings of voice communications and capture digital data.

How to tune in AM talk radio and shortwave from your PC, tablet, or smart phone — anywhere with internet access. Listen to live signals, in any country, without your own radio, for free and no strings attached. It may sound crazy, but such a thing is real. This book is a guide to tuning in the world using remote radio receivers located all over the world. It is a recent and powerful technology combining software defined radio with broadband internet.

Our ability to think about the future is one of the most powerful tools at our disposal. In The Invention of Tomorrow, cognitive scientists Thomas Suddendorf, Jonathan Redshaw, and Adam Bulley argue that its emergence transformed humans from unremarkable primates to creatures that hold the destiny of the planet in their hands. Drawing on their own cutting-edge research, the authors break down the science of foresight, showing us where it comes from, how it works, and how it made our world.

Peter Flannery's adaptation of his own iconic BAFTA award winning TV series—with a brand-new final episode by award-winning writer Adam Usden. First broadcast in 1996, Our Friends in the North was one of the most highly acclaimed TV shows of the 1990s. It launched the careers of Daniel Craig, Christopher Eccleston, Gina McKee and Mark Strong, won numerous awards including three BAFTAs, and is widely regarded as a modern classic.

On Halloween night, 13-year-old Ruby disappears in the company of a masked figure. She is never seen again. The only witness is Nell Montague, who is just seven years old. Twenty-three years later, Nell is trapped in an abusive relationship and still suffering from vivid nightmares of what she saw. When tragedy strikes, she escapes and attempts to put her past behind her. Then, 13-year-old Emily disappears.

Thrust into an arranged marriage, the daughter of ancient Egypt’s high priest plays a pivotal role in Joseph’s biblical narrative in this powerful novel from the award-winning author of Potiphar’s Wife. After four-year-old Asenath’s mother is murdered by Egypt’s foreign rulers, the...

Vertrauen ist der Treibstoff für Erfolg: So leben Sie positive Fehlerkultur. Weil rechts ranfahren nicht geht: Faktor Mensch statt Autopilot. Ziele erreichen heißt Menschen erreichen: Das Team macht den Unterschied.

Martial arts business owners! In Martial Arts School Staff and Leadership Team Training, I'm revealing my entire system for recruiting, selecting, and training staff and leadership teams for martial arts school owners. Any style! Any system! Any school! You can easily adapt and use this system for training and developing your own staff and leadership team. And not only will you find out how to train them—you'll learn how to train them right so you keep your program quality high!

One of the most satisfying experiences is to successfully finish what you start. Of course, this is not a one-time event, but something that should happen again and again. The more often this happens, the more satisfying it becomes.

No-one really knows how long the war between Ukraine and Russia will last, but our opening scripture says: Everything has its time. To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven. We pray that the Coronavirus Pandemic will be soon over. The sooner the better! Then we can renew our love with one another and with God.

Still unclear as to his past or why he had been brought to these war-ravaged lands, Darcus is sent on a journey to retrieve the Orb of Origins from an evil, dark sorcerer. If he returns the orb to the elder of the Mërka Uran, he has been promised to have his memories restored. Facing the Dark Sorcerer will not be an easy task though. While Darcus starts off with wyverns and a clear direction, his journey isn’t as straight of a path as he had hoped for. Darcus is determined, but will he even make it to the Dark Sorcerer’s Lair?