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Carrie Rhodes is escaping lifetime of abuse. Now she must hide from her boyfriend and the gang that wants her dead. When her car breaks down just north of Chicago, hope fades and she resigns herself to her inevitable fate. But hope returns in the form of an extraordinary man with dark secrets and an unusual occupation. For the first time, Carrie finds herself as part of an extended family where love is given freely and unconditionally.

You may think being a superhero is all about dodging bullets, fancy armor, secret identities, and thwarting supervillains - but not in Spire City. Here, you have to deal with crazy shamanic visions, and Nazi butchers brought to USA after World War II. Need we mention the malevolent thought forms and gangs of freakish mutants? Modern city life is tough enough, but in Spire City even the superheroes are stretched to the breaking point when the villains have better lawyers.

A waiter, strapped for cash, has a watchful AI implanted before work. With a new body, an injured woman is brought face-to-face with trauma from her past. A microchip lets pet owners gain too much insight into their dog’s thoughts. In their debut anthology, Futures Gleaming Darkly, Clinton W. Waters offers a window into the human experience in a world that is both mundane and fantastic. Join a host of queer characters as they navigate love, loss, and life in a technology-enhanced, not-so-distant future.

Why do so many of us postpone life until after death? What makes it so difficult to enjoy right now? This can be traced to a lack of presence. Rushing for tomorrow while forgetting today. Understanding presence requires an investigation into the conditioning mechanisms forming our identity and skewing our perception.

Great software can change the world. So, why not start with an idea of what your end user wants and needs? The success of any software is underpinned by the users’ need for it. Will it serve its purpose efficiently? Will it make the end user’s life easier? Will it give them their money’s worth? In User Experience by UX designer Steven Branson, you’ll find out everything you need to know. Expanding your UX approach, honing your coding abilities, and acing your computer programming interviews are within reach!

Like so many of us, Sam Paige is stuck in a rut. He's been working at a job he hates, just to make ends meet, and has totally forgotten that he has any choice in how his life turns out. But one day, an invitation to a fundraiser puts him in the orbit of famed auctioneer Max Farber, who insists Sam takes a chance on challenging his long-held beliefs about success, discipline, character, and, most of all, abundance.

Josephine Locke has always been unlucky in love, in life, and definitely in finances. On the cusp of eviction and newly unemployed, she inherits a bookstore in the sleepy little town of Little Comfort, Massachusetts in the wake of her aunt's death. However, strange occurrences in the store make her wonder if her aunt's ghost is trying to send her a message. But ghosts aren't real…right?

Develop a Positive Mindset and Attract the Life of Your Dreams teaches listeners how to feel better about themselves and create a clear action plan for sustainable improvement. In this book, the author explores the power of the mind to help the listener discover the endless possibilities of thinking positively. Included also is How to Stop Being Negative, Angry, and Mean. With this second book, listeners will discover how to manage emotions, the importance of a growth mind-set and how to develop one, the major causes of anger, and more.

As an adult, Craig is reclusive and avoids facing his past, only to discover strange abilities that won't let him escape it. His struggle to find normalcy is challenged by his cousin Danny, a Chicago police detective who uses him to uncover clues at murder scenes. As Craig becomes involved with Lauren, he finds himself pulled ever further into Danny's pursuit of a vicious serial killer - the Tourist. But even if he chooses to forgo his chance at happiness in order to help his cousin, will he understand in time that both he and Danny are being hunted?

During March of each year, 70 million people fill out the National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament bracket, either in national contests or office pools. The goal is to predict all the winners for a tournament of 68 teams. The odds against perfection are astronomical. A small group of social media marketers, led by mathematician Sinclair Dane, see this annual quest as an under-appreciated opportunity to make money on sports betting. For a $2 entry fee, they offer one billion dollars for anyone who can predict the winners of all the games.

Most of the relationship problems stem from a lack of proper and sincere communication. On the other hand, lack of communication often makes our minds think irrational and make wrong assumptions, which leads to feeling jealous and anxious. Our minds then slowly become entrapped in a vicious, never-ending circle of negative thoughts. The result - constant fights, arguments, and ultimately breakup.

Before the events of Stolen Moments, Justin Blackthorne. was a man with very different tastes....A man with a past that kept him moving forward. Take a glimpse into the journey that finally brought him to Kentucky, and a little pie stall one lazy August afternoon. Strap in, it’s going to be a wild ride.

Browning M2 .50 caliber gunner Eddie Hawkins enjoys his work, and he is good at it. His other passion is first-person shooters. Stationed in Afghanistan, Eddie has a reputation for his deadly skills with the heavy machine gun, after an initial shaky start. Life is good for Pfc Hawkins, until the night the Taliban arrive at Bagram. Eddie recognized a hostile when he sees one, and he does not hesitate to open fire on a vehicle inside the Bagram perimeter fence. Yet the vehicle escapes, and the Afghan’s stationed at Bagram insist he shot at one of theirs.

Pfc Eddie Hawkins has two passions in life. First-person shooters and his job as a cupola gunner in a Humvee in Afghanistan. His weapon is a Browning .50 calibre, and Eddie has acquired a reputation for his deadly skills with the heavy machine gun. It wasn’t always that way, but after a shaky start, he has learned how to handle the gun like an expert. There is no looking back. But Hawkins is about to face his biggest challenge yet. On patrol near the Afghan city of Ghazni, they run into a strong force of Taliban.

How did companies like Facebook, PayPal, Oracle, and Google get started? Who built the internet as we know it now? What are their stories? How did these tech giants turn innovation into a global technological empire? You’ll learn it all and more with The Tech Billionaires Collection!

The older we get, the more we realize that relationships are not like the movies. For them to last a lifetime, both couples must put in the work. This ensures that both partners meet each other’s needs and wants. But how can you and your partner effectively nurture each other so you can both grow and thrive? It all starts with healthy communication. In order for your partner to fulfill your needs, you must learn to communicate and vice versa. Mindful communication sounds simply in theory, but is so hard to do in real life.

Many investors wish they could get in on just one millionaire insider secret and make their fortune. Lucien Stevenson reveals one such well-kept secret in this book. Even though this “secret” has been around for nearly two centuries, less than one percent of American investors are aware of it or use it to build their wealth and manage their money.

Feeling insecure in a relationship is a very hard-to-handle emotion, but being in this situation is more common than we can think. In the beginning, we don't understand how much this can affects our life, but then, the voice in our mind starts asking many questions about ourselves, our partner, and our relationship. Do you ever felt like that? If so, you've probably noticed how this has consequences in your life.

PFC Eddie Hawkins, a Browning .50 gunner based in Afghanistan, has a reputation as a man who shoots first and shoots straight. His Humvee is commanded by Sergeant Dan Jones, the platoon leader. Leading a training mission into a dummy Afghan village, things go disastrously wrong after a foul-up by an intelligence major. As if it couldn’t be worse, the officer intends to make amends for his mistake and leads them back into the heart of the enemy.

It’s a known fact that the more we care about a person, the more susceptible we are to feeling intense negative emotions whenever we feel like the relationship is under threat. While all these feelings are valid, managing and expressing them in a respectful, loving way can be a bit of a challenge. When conflicts arise, we are often caught between feeling guilty for being mad at our partner and holding them accountable for their actions.