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With The Head of the Snake, author Tim Conner picks up where Dirty Harry left off, but on steroids. Faced with endless gang violence and death in Chicago, a band of Marine veterans becomes the law. Their solution is Camp Keokuk in Iowa where vicious gang members disappear forever. Plucked off the mean streets, the worst of the worst are dropped by helicopter into permanent storage beyond redemption. While civil libertarians may howl, the daring conspiracy of revenge justice spreads and citizens applaud. Through fast-paced storytelling with characters that come vibrantly to life, Conner touches the third rail of urban policy, and sends a shock wave into the pious programs that have tried to deal with it so far. The Head of the Snake is an electrifying jolt to the solar plexus of our social consciousness. Dirty Harry would be proud.
2019 Gold Medal Winner of the Nautilus Award in the category Religion / Spirituality of Eastern Thought2020 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist in the category SpiritualityChange. Sometimes it wells up from within and we enter gracefully. At other times it is utterly choiceless and the past, present and future get burned up in the most unforgiving flames. The Seven Skills presented in When Bad Lands help guide us through this challenging and rewarding journey. This is not a shortcut to clean up the surface or soften the edges. Rather, it is a mirror for courageously seeing ourselves with humor and heart.
Would you like to sell your home quickly and easily? Feng Shui can make a unique contribution to the home sale process by focusing on energy and balance rather than just physical appearance. This book introduces basic approaches that can be easily and inexpensively implemented by the homeowner or realtor to attract more buyers, invite positive attention to the property, remove buyer objections, smooth out the entire selling process and generate a quick, profitable home sale. Learn about: How Angles and Shars negatively affect your home sale The Bagua as a tool for restoring balance The Run-Thru, a serious Feng Shui problem Physical and Energetic Balance Selection and installation of Cures and Enhancements How the five elements factor into your home sale Attached garages, stairways and bathrooms, and their Feng Shui impacts As you read through the book, you are guided through nine particular areas of focus and offered Feng Shui adjustments that will best prepare your home for sale. Give your home the extra advantage that Feng Shui offers. Sell more quickly and closer to the listing price. Apply this practical basic approach and make selling your home more profitable and enjoyable.
With the first edition out of print, readers-and libraries-have had to resort to searching for copies online to replace their old, much-used, dog-eared copies. No more. This second edition of Wisconsin Underground provides an up-to-date listing of the state's most publicly accessible caves, former mines, and other subterranean treasures. Whether you are a sport caver, researcher, or vacationer, this guide offers unique travel destinations, suggests possible study projects, and points to both widely known and little known underground locations.YOU'LL FIND Updated listings of 44 sites 18 new sites 14 museums featuring cave and mine replicas and geology exhibits 13 sidebars highlighting Wisconsin's underground history and geology, as well as less accessible-yet fascinating-locations Directions, precautions, and amenities for all sites listedThis guide offers ideas for travelers who want an unordinary travel experience. While some sites require sure-footedness and an ability to climb scores of stairs, others are accessible even for families with young children. Whether you're ready for a serious trek or a simple peek beneath the surface, Wisconsin Underground can the lead the way.
Samir's Revenge, a sequel to Dave Admire's first novel, Terror in Paris, is a high-level suspense thriller that follows the leader of a terrorist group as he plans and executes assaults on three major cities in the United States. Consumed by a personal vendetta, Samir weaves into these violent acts a plan for the deaths of the three American professors who thwarted the complete success of his attack on Paris. It is "kill or be killed" as the Americans must rise up again to defend themselves and their country.
Samir's Revenge, a sequel to Dave Admire's first novel, Terror in Paris, is a high-level suspense thriller that follows the leader of a terrorist group as he plans and executes assaults on three major cities in the United States. Consumed by a personal vendetta, Samir weaves into these violent acts a plan for the deaths of the three American professors who thwarted the complete success of his attack on Paris. It is "kill or be killed" as the Americans must rise up again to defend themselves and their country.
Margaret's War uses 15-year-old narrator Billy to juggle the broken heart, the trampled soul, and the fragile sanity of a beautiful young woman when male egos grab and grope at her with the absurd hands of war.The isolated small town where Billy and Margaret live is suddenly thrust into the brutal reality of World War II when German POWs are brought in to help with crop harvesting. The face-to-face contact with the killers of their sons is not only beyond the capacities of Gold Star mothers, but twists the thinking of everyone, including Margaret, who is determined to challenge fate. That challenge gets Margaret, Billy, and his outrageous older friend and mentor Cy immersed in a women-empowering scheme to turn war on its historical head.The forces of Nature and the contrariness of human nature conspire to bury their efforts in a merciless avalanche of such depravity that their very survival is threatened.The issues of war veterans as stooges, the fall of racist innocence, and God's role in war are among the things that Margaret, Billy, and Cy must step around as they go for broke with a plan that tries to enlist the help of Eleanor Roosevelt.What finally happens is as unpredictable as to where Billy's beloved dog Toby will next mark his territory.
This book unearths the highly sophisticated aesthetic/artistic devices, patterns, and mechanisms in a ramified variety texts of the Hebrew Bible. However, it does not unveil and fastidiously study those aesthetic/artistic devices, patterns, and mechanisms for their own sake only. This book plausibly and meticulously proves how the biblical text enlists and uses that artistic intricacy to convey and enhance its messages and lessons: liturgical, historical, social, moral, national, legal, political, and others.Among the biblical texts discussed are the untold story of Psalm 23, the two conflicting Abrahams in the story of the sacrifice of Isaac, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the first transgression and eviction from the Garden of Eden, why the Bible is intimidated by the intellectual faculties of the woman, the power of naming in the Bible, anti-feminism in the Bible, Samson trapped in the cage of his childhood, Moses as a tragic hero, unmasking the real Joseph, the enigmatic scroll of Esther, young David the riddle, the death of innocence in the scroll of Ruth , and more .This way the book opens new horizons for the reader of the Hebrew Bible by introducing a novel , innovative, and creative perspectives through which the Hebrew Bible can be observed, while bestowing upon its captivating characters and chronicles a surprisingly elucidating meaning.
Through her fiercely independent, yet childlike eyes, Tera allows us to enter the recesses of her guarded world. Her Aussie sister, Beth, walks with us, compassionately guiding and explaining.Tera's life? A world of secrets. A place of shame. A lifetime of expanding mental illness. Tera moves from collector to hoarder, progressively tipped by the compulsion into a perilous world of rats and disease. As Tera repeatedly expressed through words, actions and even rage, she did not live like other people. And yet, living an ordinary life of home and family was her greatest desire. It would never be.
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