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The Event Planning Toolkit will help you rise to the occasion to plan and execute extraordinary meetings and events by helping you get organized, reduce time-wasting mistakes, and inspire creativity. This how-to guide offers the information you need to execute any event with precision and enjoy the big day with less stress and fewer unpleasant surprises. You will learn how to manage your scope, time, and resources, as well as identify goals, create budgets, find the right venue, assemble a strong team, and more.

Jayden and Mason often wonder about all of the beautiful creations they see. Grandmother snuggles in close with the boys to tell them about God's wonderful creations. This story is written in rhyme for a child's imaginative mind. It encourages them to enjoy the wonders they see every day. God Has a Paintbrush takes inquisitive children through a journey of discovery of the beauty in the colors all around them and expounds on the love that God has for all of his creation.

A daguerreotype photo. A forbidden kiss. A shipwrecked steamer. Dangerous ocean crossings. A drunk bear, and murder. Romeo Poulin, a Dawson gold miner visits his friend Ben Johnnie in Alaska and meets his niece, Becca. An attraction grown in the young Dawson miner as he returns once a year to visit, hoping to marry her. However, the shy Becca doesn’t share his feelings. Meanwhile, a violent man, Rain has set his sights on Becca and kidnaps her uncle knowing that she will follow. A few years later, Romeo rescues Becca who favors him with a forbidden kiss, undoing his steady thoughts.

Three men come together in the town of Redemption, Colorado, each for his own purpose. Huck Finn is a famous lawman who does not hesitate to use his gun to protect the weak. He has come to right a terrible wrong. After his wife’s death, Tom Sawyer does not want to live anymore; he has come to die. The third man, the Laramie Kid, a killer Huck and Tom befriended years earlier has come to kill a man. For these three men Death is a constant companion. For these three men it is their last chance for redemption.

Seven Starts of Midnight is an epic fantasy thriller centered on a world at the brink of darkness. The forces of evil festering for centuries erupt and seven heroes are called to save the world and rebuild the goodness of the Earth. Gathered together from all parts of the known world, our heroes lay their individual desires aside to become part of the adventure and by doing so build something new and worthy of praise.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, portrays the religious and intellectual awakening of Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of the author. Stephen questions the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown up, and traces his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and culture.

Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They provide a portrait of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. Each of the stories offers glimpses into the lives of ordinary Dubliners, and together they paint a portrait of a nation. Ireland was at a crossroads of history and culture at that time, pursuing a search for national identity and purpose.

Every journey begins deep in the soul where we make the choice to act. Ariah’s transformation from orphaned pony to Unicorn begins a journey of growth and a gathering of special friends to solve the evil that has darkened their world. Tarran prodded by an old man takes on his mother’s guest. Dariel upon meeting Ariah remembers ancient feelings and ties her life to the mystery of the Unicorn. The wolf, well he does what he wants for whatever reason he desires.

Three years ago, 16-year-old Maddie Deacon was abducted on her way home from her school’s Art Showcase. Five months ago, she escaped the madman she calls The Painter. Before being taken, painting was Maddie’s life. Now, it’s her nightmare. Maddie wants to forget her years in captivity. She’d rather spend her time getting reacquainted with her parents and sister, not to mention the cello-playing, beautiful boy next door and childhood best friend Wesley. But paint is everywhere, and tormenting shadows linger in every portrait she encounters.

Rachel is hot, sexy, and attractive. She is also Brad’s friend Joe’s mother. What starts as a birthday party at his home goes on to become something more memorable when she develops a keen interest in Brad. Emily is the new teacher in college, and every boy has the hots for her. When Brad has an intimate encounter with Emily in the Metro, he realizes that Emily has much more to teach him than just electric motors. And then they land up in a cottage during a holiday.

It was the year 1740 and Alexander Joyce, a Scots-Irish settler, was living in absolute misery. As he watched the misty hillside of County Down, Ireland, he pondered on all of the hardships he had grown accustomed to throughout the years. From famine, religious persecution, and political persecution, he had experienced much. But now, he was facing his most challenging obstacle yet. Left with little choice, he would soon embark on the journey of a lifetime, and leave his old life behind.

Never mind that Bryn has just broken up with her on-again, off-again boyfriend Holt Furst, or that said boyfriend has suddenly disappeared from his apartment above her shop - possibly in a violent kidnapping. Bryndis dutifully heads to the airport to pick up Frida, only to discover that Frida has also disappeared - reportedly swooped up by a chauffeur and whisked away in a limousine. Who would kidnap her niece? Where could they have taken her? Where could Holt be?

The 16th century was a time of immense change across the globe. For many historians, it marks a massive shift in the way the world operated; it is often considered the beginning of modernity. We may regard the 16th century as the time of Shakespeare and the conquistadors, but women also played a powerful role in many of the major events around the world. In 10 Women Who Ruled the Renaissance, you will explore the lives of 10 extraordinary women who exemplified the spirit of the 1500s - an era dominated by adventure, discovery, and cross-cultural exchange.

Eine Mordserie in Madeiras feinen Kreisen erschüttert die Atlantikinsel. Nach einem feierlichen Dinner im elitären Golfclub der Insel liegt die Organisatorin am Morgen tot auf dem Gelände. Hat sich die junge Frau durch ihr ausschweifendes Liebesleben Feinde gemacht? Oder war sie einem dunklen Geheimnis auf der Spur? Comissário Avila hat eigentlich Besseres zu tun: Sein erstes Kind ist auf dem Weg. Doch statt mit seiner Frau Leticia Babybücher zu wälzen, sucht er in der High Society von Madeira nach einem Mörder.

In the second year of a Gorta Mhór - the great famine - 19-year-old Devin Mahoney lies on the dirt floor of his small, dark cabin. He has not eaten in five days. His only hope of survival is to get to America, the land of milk and honey. After surviving disease and storms at sea that decimate crew and passengers alike, Devin’s ship limps into New York Harbor, three days before Christmas in 1849.

Two sets of cousins, Boer and Brit, find their destinies inexorably intertwined in the politics and mayhem that led up to and encompassed the Anglo Boer War of 1899-1902. From Transvaal to Victorian England, the cousins form strong bonds that are tested on the battlefields of South Africa. Martin de Winter, nurtured to lead his country, Transvaal, into the 20th century, instead finds himself excelling as a gifted young general, fighting a desperate war to keep his nation from ruin, all the while being haunted by his love for a British woman.

When Sylvester, aka Psycho Cat, an animal with a sixth sense, discovers a human skeleton inside a trunk in the attic of one of her rental units, landlady and amateur sleuth Beth must return from wintering in Arizona. After only a few days, the investigators are told to put the case on hold. Why? Tracking down the tenants from that time and uncovering evidence won’t be easy, but Beth, for everyone’s sake, vows to identify both the victim and the perpetrator.

In this last book in the trilogy about Gabrielle Allan, the listener finds Gay and her great-aunt, Belle, about to start a new life in a setting far different from their much-loved Drovers Road. The sheep station of Cape Lost is now Gay’s responsibility, and regardless of her three years’ study at the Massey Agricultural College, both the isolation and tasks ahead seem alarming. Despite its remote and nearly inaccessible location, a surprising cast of new and old characters converge on the station’s windswept, sea-edged expanse.

As the story of Cape Lost opens, an important new thread is about to be woven into the life of teenage Gabrielle Allan. Home from boarding school for the summer holidays, she and Merry are once more happily on horseback in the New Zealand hills. They are helping their Uncle Dunsany bring a herd of sheep to Cape Lost, the station owned by their great-uncle Garnet. Considered eccentric, Garnet Allan has lived all alone on the remote station bordering the sea ever since the mysterious disappearance of his young and beautiful wife many years before.

In this first book, young Gabrielle Allan (called Gay) is living contentedly on Drovers Road, her uncle Dunsany’s sheep station in the hill country a hundred miles from Gisborne. Besides her young, bachelor uncle there are her three orphaned cousins - Eve, Hugh and Merry - and their great-aunt Belle. Taken in by Dunsany years before, after her parents’ divorce, Gay now scarcely remembers any other life.