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There are so many messed-up families around today. This is a story of how a broken family produced broken children, how life piled on disappointments and even more pain and yet how all that dysfunction was turned around because someone decided "enough is enough." In that determination and reaching out to God for answers, entire families and generations could experience a better life and a more fulfilling future. It is a message of hope that no matter how bad things are a person's life, family and destiny anyone can experience this miracle of transformation, freedom and joy. If you are in a similar situation you will find keys to bring release and freedom, keys to give you hope and future.
A tornado has visited Goldfield, destroying most of the small Midwestern town and, in particular, the farm buildings of an old reclusive artist. As search and rescue teams, along with a French art expert who appears shortly after the tornado, investigate the buildings, they find his body stuffed in a freezer.Mayor Ryan Lambert and his young workers learn from a local reporter that the old guy was the last and perhaps the greatest artist of German Expressionism, a movement that was eradicated by the Nazis in the 1930s. As the man's murder is investigated, four more bodies are uncovered at the site - models, students - each one killed in a different way.After the art recovered from the nearly destroyed artist studio is deemed original and invaluable by the first expert, a second French art expert arrives and claims the entire body of work to be forgeries. A missing Russian nurse, a gallery in Moscow, a man in drag, a top-of-the-line Mercedes, and a spate of duplicate original paintings lead to a violent confrontation amid mountains of canvases, easels, and frames in an abandoned airplane hangar...
William Robinson was a young sea-faring man captured by pirates and turned into a slave. After a battle between pirate ships, he escapes into the sea, drifting for many days with little food or water before being rescued by Edward Beard, captain of the merchant ship, Vandalia.After a tragic shipwreck, William washes ashore in what is now called Beards Hollow. Soon thereafter, he meets and marries the love of his life, Elizabeth. Sadly, she unexpectedly dies, leaving him heartbroken and angry. In deep despair, and in extreme financial difficulty, he finds the buried treasure he has so desperately been searching for. Then, with a gun pointed to his head, he is forced to kill his greatest nemesis, a pirate named Burton Klug. Three days later, William dies and is never able to claim his fortune.After reading the book, the two brothers find two gold coins inside the box they discovered William's journal in. Now realizing the story of buried treasure is true, they begin digging for gold at Beards Hollow...
Like many, you have difficult people in your life. They consume your thoughts, break your heart, and leave you defeated, but you keep trying to help because you care. It's so frustrating - these difficult individuals don't listen, they don't learn, and they don't even appreciate your help. But what if you knew what professional counselors and coaches know about helping others change? It could make all the difference.In Helping Difficult People Change, you will learn both ancient wisdom and cutting edge strategies and tools that, with practice, will change your relationship with the difficult person and give them their best opportunity to change. After all, if you keep on doing what you've been doing, you will keep on getting what you've been getting: total frustration! Instead of focusing on changing the other person, first focus on changing your thinking and your approach to the person, and you will become a first-rate change agent. This will change your life, and then it will change others as well. You can do this, and this book will help!
Charles Dameion Ashford III met the threshold to life and death long before it's time. Challenged by a childhood intertwined with dark Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner disasters, his tender connection to the world around him could not prevail. Instead, books became his friends, his happy place, and his link to affirmation from his father, who would otherwise harp on his every imperfection. Nonetheless, he was perceived to be a success by those that groomed him, his mother Lillian Ardmore, and his father Charles Dameion Ashford II. He was their only child, their golden child, and the heir of the doctor gene which ran through the paternal males for eight generations preceding. Yes, Charles had a destiny, and a legacy to live down which he proudly ran toward like a marathon finish line. To his favor, he possessed hands with forces like surgical universes and an untamed boldness to conquer the limits of modern medicine. With the silver lining in his life, his beautiful childhood sweetheart, Shara, life smiled a bit on his awkward development. But, destiny would have to ring with the chimes of his genes and dance to the song of an ill-fated tale of privilege and carnage.
Three single mothers of three bastard children from three generations, each one vitally connected to a ghost town located where sea meets land on Santa Cruz County's northern coast.In 1959 Kaitlin Lowrie resettles in Cliffport with her mother and her son - the only household hanging on in an all-but-forgotten locale. But in 1965 Janice McLoughlin, long-absentee landlady, shows up and is determined to sell the place. Elisabeth Lowrie despairs of their being evicted from her cherished, lifelong home.It falls to the feisty Lowrie daughter to span the gap between the two older women. While the outspoken Jan tells her life story aloud, Katie has also to read her mother's notebooks in the more formal language of Elise's memoir. Katie dreams then schemes how to stay living on the land.In their letters, phone calls, journals, and conversations, we hear the distinct yet disparate voices of these strong-willed women - tough on the outside, sensitive within - as they come to terms with one another and themselves. Katie, Elise, Jan: three naked ladies, each in her own way as resilient, enduring, and irrepressible as the wild bulbous Amaryllis belladonna plants rooted out West and surviving up and down California's Central Coast.
What is a soul? What is its purpose? Is there a purpose? After picking on a kid that would fight back, the school bully suddenly becomes a maniacal child abductor and murderer. A mysterious rock is discovered in the forest near sleepy Tionesta, Pennsylvania. A town better known for camping, river activity, and retirement living. A determined dis-embodied soul seeks to make contact with the beings in the third dimension. Mix in a little high school romance, and it all culminates in an event that captures the entire worlds' attention and leaves the human race in awe.
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