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Public speaking is the art of using spoken words to convey information or a message to an audience. Public speaking is part of public relations and business communication, attaching one's ideas or thoughts for others to understand. It can be anything from a meeting presentation to a press conference speech. This audiobook is a great guide that will help you to overcome your fear of public speaking and open up to the world. The audiobook will help you how to speak better in public and in front of groups, how to apply the principles of persuasion, how to deal with criticism and audience.

The Right Choice is an efficient, solution-oriented book to give you data, decision points, and details to help shape this life-changing decision by providing a framework to work from. If you or someone you love is choosing a college to attend, it’s important to know the reasons for why to attend a public college vs. a private college vs. a religious college. This book will help you narrow your options by helping you answer these questions:

Dracula looks on in horror at the monster's duck pouting on Instagram: teen vampires glistening in the sun with fabulous hair, werewolves with hipster beards.... He decides enough is enough. He will salvage the monster image with the monsters of old, and remind the world that they are so much more than fantasy objects for teenage girls.

Poetry in one form or another has been around almost as long as language. We have used it to communicate our joys and heartbreaks, our victories and our losses. But fear has also been a constant companion, and our ghost stories and monsters stretch their claws back into history as far as the eyes can see. The Configuration Discordant is an exploration of not only that fear, but of our global journey through poetry. One hundred poems exploring 75+ forms of poetic expression from the humble haiku to the mysterious Qasida.

In a troubled society, a lone police investigator takes on the case and starts to the collect the various pieces of the puzzle. Will they fit together?

Comet Cove is a city where everyone gets their own special powers when they come of age. Everyone, that is, except for Samael Judd. Ordinary in a world of extraordinaries, Sam faces the possibility of exile should his powerlessness be discovered. When a Fragment doesn’t accept themselves, their Aura doesn’t give them the powers they’re promised, making them a Blank. But a solution exists: If Sam can confront the part of himself that he would rather stay buried, he just might be in the clear. That is, until he finds out he’s revealed his secret to the wrong person.

Gloria Rank has lived her entire life in the dark. Blind since birth, she has made a name for herself as a respected talk radio show host in New Jersey. When her younger sister, Anna, has her identity stolen and a man is murdered outside her apartment, Anna becomes the prime suspect in an FBI investigation. But when bodies begin piling up around her, the FBI has to admit that she is being stalked by a murderer.

During a dig in Morocco, archaeologist Annja Creed and her companions are nearly buried alive when the khettara ceiling collapses, revealing a 1,300-year-old corpse. But when Bedouin bandits raid the camp, Annja barely escapes with her life...and half of a scroll in ancient Kufic script. Her companions' survival now depends on her.

In a remote part of Ireland, two archaeological teams dig for the find of a lifetime — the legendary Spear of Lugh. Folklore claims the magical weapon was forged in the time of the ancient Tuatha de Danaan. But as the search intensifies, people begin disappearing from the dig. "Faeries," whisper the locals. The Other Crowd....

Lukas und der Schlunz nehmen mit der ganzen Familie an der Gemeindefreizeit teil, die auf einer geheimnisvollen Burg stattfindet. Da gibt es natürlich jede Menge zu erleben: Es soll einen verschollenen Geheimgang geben und in der Kirche wurden neulich etliche der goldenen Geräte gestohlen. Ob die Kinder dem "unsichtbaren Wächter" auf die Spur kommen, der nachts durch die Flure spuken soll? Lukas ist bei all den Abenteuern nicht ganz wohl. Ein Detektiv hat ihm erzählt, ein neuer Killer sei beauftragt worden, den Schlunz ums Leben zu bringen.

San Cristobal, Galapagos-Inseln. Montag, 3. August, 12.00 Uhr. Niemand der zweihundertfünfzig Passagiere der SARDONIA achtete auf die drei Männer, die in letzter Minute an Bord gingen. Auch die Besatzung war ahnungslos, wer den Luxuskreuzer betrat. Nur der Kapitän war eingeweiht. Unbehaglich blickte er den Neuankömmlingen entgegen. Schließlich war einer von ihnen ein gefährlicher Mörder. Der Kapitän übernahm es persönlich, gemeinsam mit seinem Zahlmeister den ungebetenen Fahrgästen ihre Kabine zu zeigen. Noch lag die SARDONIA im Hafen von San Cristobal.

In a partnership with We Need Diverse Books, industry giants Kwame Alexander, Soman Chainani, Matt de la Peña, Tim Federle, Grace Lin, Meg Medina, Walter Dean Myers, Tim Tingle, and Jacqueline Woodson join newcomer Kelly J. Baptist in a story collection that is as humorous as it is heartfelt. This impressive group of authors has earned among them every major award in children's publishing and popularity as New York Times best sellers.

Joe Miles must save a family from the killing torrents of a flash flood - while under fire from thieves after a railroad payroll. Once fired for being old, he's still young enough to be a hero.

Something tan and cylindrical struck the roof and rolled off. The men inside didn't wait for the dynamite to blow; they lurched into the sunlight, firing as they ran. A brutal war began when two bold men left Kane's mine to work their own strike. This was the final battle.

A traveling prospector wandering around California looking for gold spends a few peaceful days with a man hiding a sad story.

Superstition, mystery, and murder also have a niche in western writing with this story by Cynthia Haselhoff.

Brad Kelly planned for weeks, set everything carefully in place - then he hit the Pioneer State Bank for $53,000. Will he kill to keep it?

Zane Grey shows his knowledge of Indian tribes and their history and the peon system of Mexican plantations.

Werewolf by Max Brand in Western Story Magazine (12/18/26) involves just such an inward journey for Christopher Royal, who is convinced he is a coward and flees a confrontation with Harry Main, who is a gunfighter. There comes a time in this story - when Christopher encounters the aged Indian, the old wise man - that the terrain shimmers with the multiple affinities of meaning conjured by the unconscious, which Vergil once sought to capture within an image both awesome and sinister: numina magna deum [the great divine power of a god].

In the bush country of South Texas, Captain Richard King built a sprawling ranch called Santa Gertrudis. But at the end of the Civil War, while King was in Mexico, his ranch was raided by Union troops led by a sadistic killer who burned Santa Gertrudis to the ground - and slaughtered everyone on it. Thirty years later, King's land is about to run with blood once more. Former Union Captain Jack Brant has gotten out of prison and is raring to pick up his rampage where he left off.