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There is more in the water than you know.When ex-astronaut Brock Finlander tries to reconnect with his long-lost daughter, a marine biologist, they discover strange things happening to marine life on Claw Island.In a rush to identify why the crabs are growing out of control, they find more than they bargained for.Now, they have only 72 hours before the cover-up becomes dangerous and unstoppable. But danger never expects to run into a man like Brock Finlander. A man who will not just respond, but will attack it with everything he has: his intellect, his military training, and his family.But when the animals you''re trying to save become the enemy, how do you fight back?Together, father and daughter must learn that family comes first before time runs out and they lose each other, and the island, forever.What they thought they knew about the water was wrong... so very, very, wrong.If you like thrilling action and heartwarming, endearing characters, you''ll love this coastal action-adventure set in the very center of Maryland''s blue crab population, the Chesapeake Bay, surrounded by NASA, NOAA, the Coast Guard, and the Annapolis Naval Academy.Scroll Up and Grab Your Copy Today!NOTE: This book contains some cursing.

An alphabet book full of animals and alliterations.  Alligator aims apple at airplane.  Bear buys big bag of black beans.  The pictures are entertaining for children and adults.  The alliterations are useful for developing phonemic awareness  in early readers and future readers.  Children will want to read this book again and again.  There''s no other alphabet book quite like it.  All profits will be donated towards reading and health promotion for farmworker families.

Kitten''s Rainy Day is a children''s book that follows kitten around during a rainy day. He sneaks out of his home against his mother''s wishes to play in the rain for the first time. Along the way, he meets his friends who encourage him to follow his mother''s advice.  In the end, he learns a good lesson and receives a special gift from his mother for future rainy days.

The changing, challenging times.  Now creating new ways of thinking, working, surviving, and continuing our new unknown ways of life, since Covid19.  All changed overnight, to a masked confusion, making our new history, an ongoing mystery! A fun-yet truthful, 80 page poem book; of random poems, about our ever changing times, changed forever...

What is positive Black masculinity? Who should define it? Khefa Nosakhere’s  first nonfiction book, Institutional racism and the search for African American masculinity and identity in selected works of Richard Wright  is a multi layered analysis of how American racism shaped the lives of 3 men. Bigger Thomas (Native Son) Richard Wright (Black Boy) and Fred Daniels (The Man Who Lived Underground). This is a work that will continue the discussion of rebuilding and refocusing on the traditional nuclear Black family.  A strong nuclear family is a broad based answer to most of our problems. Since the centerpiece of the nuclear family is the man, understanding the socio-economic and political climate of this country is vital. Everyone seems to be able to define themselves freely and without argument except for African American males/men. A short Google search confirms when the term “Black masculinity” is typed in, numerous negative terms appear. Why is this the case? The answer is interwoven into the racist history of the United States. Professor Khefa Nosakhere is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana. He holds a BA in Literature and Language from the University of Southern California as well as a Masters degree in literature. His literary specialities are:  20th century literature, major authors, African American culture and Black Literary Criticism.

Summer has ended in Shadow Valley. That can only mean that school is starting, and this year the Paranormal and Supernatural Society, or P.A.S.S., as Jean and her friends call it, has finally received the recognition they've been working so hard for: a table at the school's Club Fair. This is their chance to grow their ranks and - hopefully - start being taken seriously by their peers.But changes among the team are starting to be felt and even though things seem to have calmed down from the chaos of their last adventure, and the town is well under way to full recovery, all is not as it appears. Creatures lurk in the darkness, waiting for the opportunity to strike.

Sloane Delaney struggles to keep her daughters safe in an apocalyptic dawn.Aided by a pack of abandoned dogs, they maintain a dangerous charade to keep looters at bay.But then, corrupt agents arrive, threatening their hard-won sense of security.Fleeing for a safe haven, Sloane doesn''t count on trusting a stranger.

Her name is Heart. Heart is just your typical dalmatian. She does all the things a puppy should do. She likes to play with toys, eat evrything that fits into her mouth, and sleep in the sun. But when she gets separated from her girl, her life changes. Follow Heart as she faces everything from baths to fires on her journey back to her girl.

Stepping into Who You Are kicks open doors with an out of the box perspective and insight about self-discovery and the obstacles faced while finding yourself. Stephanie Gilmore share''s brief stories about her early adult experiences through her journey of discovering her inner voice, strength, and facing the pains of adversity. Finding her own truth, and evolving into who she wants to be, Stephanie speaks about her experience with self-discovery, while providing nuggets of wisdom, and poetry. "There is no better moment than the present to take back control of our lives. Finding the inner courage, no matter what you are faced with, and have been through or pushing through, to live your most fulfilling life should always be done on your terms, and by your standards. Taking the time to self-reflect, and examine yourself is vital in your continuous evolution of self." -Stephanie G. Stepping into Who You Are helps to shift that internal dialogue into searching for the who, where, and why. Why do I do this? Why do I think this way? Who am I? Where have I been? Where am I now? and Where do I want to go? Through thought-provoking stories, a little humor, soul fulfilling poetry, combine with putting in the work, Stepping into Who You Are will help to give you a foundation and more insight on how life can speak through you.

Isadora Spence knows two things: 1) she''s tired of all the wars and wants them to stop and 2) she never wants to see Maximillion Sinclair again. Sparks fly when rising desperation leads Isadora and Maximillion to attend a political delegation together in the Southern Network. She''s determined to create a pact for peace and save lives, but when events spiral into far more dangerous territory, she realizes the only witch she can trust is Maximillion. Can they work together, or will everything fall apart?Meanwhile, her sisterwitch Sanna is out of her depth in an unfamiliar world of volatile goddesses and buried history. Facing an unwinnable battle against Prana, the ruthless goddess of the sea, Sanna roots through history, only to discover that Prana isn''t the only enemy they face.In a world embroiled with war on all fronts, can the sisterwitches do their part to bring peace and freedom to Antebellum? Or will all their best efforts fail in the bigger machinations of goddesses and witches? FREEDOM is the final book in the Dragonmaster trilogy. This sweeping YA Fantasy saga will take to a new world, keep you on the edge of your seat, and ask you to answer the most impossible question of all: What is freedom?

When the snow hits the fan, will you be ready?Read how author A. R. Shaw delivers a far too plausible scenario challenging human survival.As conditions continue to deteriorate, starvation sets in. An unexpected visitor returns bringing Bishop the chance he needs. An all-out battle on the ice is the only way to survive.

A Family Tells their Story of Challenge and Resilience from Slavery to the Present. "...and your descendants shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and by you and your descendants shall all the families of the earth bless themselves."   (Genesis 28:14)My ancestors, born into slavery, suffered one of the most horrific cruelties against humanity ever recorded.  Their determination to survive and to succeed, despite the atrocities inflicted against them, has deeply inspired my life''s journey.  To cope with their suffering, they sustained a deep and abiding faith in a God who could deliver them in this world and prepare them for the next.  They endured their plight but never gave up the struggle or the hope for liberation and freedom.Throughout my life, I have been deeply committed to the search for our family''s history, identity, and legacy.  This commitment has grown out of the tremendous respect and love for my ancestors who gave so much to the fabric of their New World.  Once freed, they became outstanding citizens and gave extraordinary service in many areas of American life.Today, their stories of enslavement are no longer untold struggles of a determined people.  Their stories have evolved to include the successes and accomplishments of generations of outstanding descendants in a land that once enslaved them.  It is with pride that I offer this book to tell their stories and to offer our gratitude because it is upon their shoulders that we now stand.

While working on another writing project, an epiphany occurred which led to this book. Although I have read both John the Baptist''s and Jesus'' statements about repentance and the kingdom of heaven many times, I became intrigued that both used the same phrase to describe how one prepares to experience the spiritual blessings of that divine realm - "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."The longer I pondered its meaning, the more I understood the enormous challenge Jesus faced in transforming the historic religious attitudes of Israel. Repentance was not solely about ceasing prior bad behavior. Instead, its greater meaning involved turning away from self-righteousness under the ancient legal codes of Israel and turning to righteousness based on faith in the redemptive life and work of Jesus alone. In order to accomplish that, centuries of deeply entrenched religious legal standards, traditions of the elders, social standards and attitudes, and the very order of Jewish society would have to change. It would involve the greatest physical challenge and the greatest danger one could face, but the spiritual rewards would also be the greatest anyone could experience.Given the spiritual importance of repentance, it seemed logical that Jesus would have woven its meaning into all of His teaching. This inquiry led to a deeper study of the Sermon on the Mount and to the discovery of a treasure trove of spiritual truths regarding repentance.This project has been both spiritually and physically challenging. It has been the focus of my attention and interest for a long while and has involved many hours of study and writing. The challenge seemed endless at times, but it resulted in a broader and deeper understanding of this vital spiritual concept.I am indebted to many friends and family members for their encouragement and help. I am especially grateful to Jeffery McClendon who edited the original draft and offered many insightful comments and suggestions regarding both content and style.I do not consider myself a biblical scholar, nor am I adept with either Hebrew or Greek.  The resources which I used were no greater than those available to any biblical student. Bible references are from the New King James translation, and word meanings were derived from a Hebrew-Greek study bible, Vine''s Expository Dictionary, and several computer based resources. Word references are basic without any significant effort to explore their wider meanings and nuances. Christianity is a deeply personal spiritual experience applicable to all believers equally. However, throughout this book I used masculine gender nouns and pronouns as a traditional means of expression, and for simplicity in writing, to describe both Christianity''s universal impact on mankind and its personal transformation of individual Christians. The reader should understand that no racial, ethnic, or gender disparity is intended. I did not intend to write a scholarly treatise, but rather a direct, common-sense examination of the importance of repentance in the birth and development of the Christian faith. I hope it is meaningful.

Life in France (indeed, life anywhere) evolves, unfolds. Even the best of plans are not exempt from the unexpected. And sometimes those events are not only beyond our control but also often beyond our wildest imagination. In the first book, A Bright Sun & Long Shadows I gave an account of the glorious and the gruesome events of the first four years of establishing our new life in France.Most popular works in the genres of international living, cross cultural adjustment, and life transitions seem to stop after an apparent success has been established in the story line, as if such an adjustment to life was now complete, the chapter closed and "they live happily ever after". I believe that, often, there is an unconscious need, on the part of author and reader alike, to establish this "Happy-Ever-After" ending as permanent; a static state once reached, forever achieved, much like childhood images in fairy tales, or a heaven of harps, angels on floating clouds and that final reunion with long lost loved ones. There''s a part of me that believes this is necessary for our personal short-term satisfaction. Such myths make life more bearable than the inevitable uncertainties that, in fact, we experience as life rolls along past the end of the most recent "last" chapter and into the realities that come next. The future reveals itself, emerging from nearly indistinguishable forms illuminated by slivers of moonlight, hopes to rise with the dawn, then, at last seen more clearly in the starkness of a noonday sun only to advance to twilight, dusk, darkness and another dawn. In the long-haul of life, and in the inevitability of growing older one learns that, while that Genesis myth is true, "in the beginning all was good"; if we also live long enough we know that life is not static, nor is this originally created goodness invulnerable to the many hard knocks that continue long after that first garden is created, then grows, as the future becomes present and many presents in turn pass by. In the Judeo-Christian context of my faith, I witness that part of our human nature is, after all, a myth of our beginnings over and over, book after book, chapter after chapter of the rise and fall of life.This is the stuff of which life stories are made, and such it is with this volume as a sequel to the first book, A Bright Sun and Long Shadows.  Indeed, after the first four years, we thought that we had "made it" through the worst of times and looked forward with a Robert Browning attitude, of the best yet ahead of us.    Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be,The last of life, for which the first was made:Our times are in His hand who saith "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half;trust God: see all, nor be afraid!" -Robert Browning

BEST BRAIN FITNESS HAPPY FUN GIFT FOR ADULTS, SENIORS & STUDENTS!Your mind drives your life, fortune, and success! Make your mind quick, vibrant, agile & omnipotent! Improve your memory & concentration! Live life to the fullest! Travel the world! Have more fun! Daily puzzle solving will help you to enjoy yourself when relaxing, tired, stressed, waiting, or traveling. Puzzle-solving will also help you to be successful in life, love, social media, school, retirement, business, finance, work, profession, & job. Daily puzzle fun will keep your brain in top operating shape. Build Spelling Skills! Expand Your Vocabulary! Read Faster! Excel in math! Have sharp, quick logic! The puzzles in this fun activity book are designed to improve your intelligence quotient (IQ). IQ is a measure of the intelligence you already have. The IQ you use on a daily basis - your effective IQ - can be increased. Doing so can increase your ability to solve and overcome problems, invent lateral solutions. Additionally, you will find that as you increase your effective IQ, you can become more successful in your life as you strive to gain valuable achievements. What Are the Benefits of Puzzle-Solving? Working word, math, logic & picture puzzles provides many benefits for our minds. ΓÇó As proven in science, we can actually increase our effective IQ. ΓÇó Also, challenging puzzles provide our minds with exercise for stimulation and maintenance. ΓÇó In addition, puzzles are good for your mind''s cognitive (thinking and memory) development. ΓÇó These puzzles provide great opportunity to improve the brain''s overall health and longevity; there is less memory loss as we age, as well as the delayed onset and reduced risk of cognitive impairment. ΓÇó Scientific studies have found that our brains actually reorganize in response to new challenges. Motivating puzzles in this book provide such a challenge.Live Life Active, Agile, Bright, Healthy & Happy!

On again, off again, ON AGAIN-Jolie Tucker and Mick Meiser are giving their relationship another try. Things seem to be working out for them so far, and love is on the menu all over Leavensport! An unexpected pregnancy with a surprising partner, a therapist pairs off with the chief of police, and the mayor of Leavensport falls for Jolie''s Aunt Fern!Although Leavensport is serving up affairs of the heart, there are a lot of mysterious activities lurking in the air. The townspeople awake to find freshly dug empty holes throughout the fields that were recently up for sale under suspicious circumstances. Jolie and Ava believe they are taking a break from solving murders when they start teaching an online cooking course-until they witness one of their students take a stake through the heart!Welcome to Leavensport, OH, where DEATH takes a DELICIOUS turn!

After decades of ecclesial warfare over LGBTQ people, the dust is finally beginning to settle: by and large, mainline Protestant churches are blessing same-gender unions and ordaining LGBTQ people for ministry. Now, many are wondering what difference it will make. How will the decision to affirm LGBTQ people play out in the lives of churches? How will newly-ordained LGBTQ ministers affect the future of the faith? Will things change? Will things stay the same?Yes.I am an openly gay man who has served as the solo pastor of a small Presbyterian church in New Jersey since July 2016. So far as I can tell, I am the first openly LGBTQ pastor of any church in the area. With the dust still settling around my feet, I have stepped into a calling that feels much bigger than me, and I have been asking these kinds of questions along the way. It was through preaching the sermons in this collection that I found my way to Yes.None of these sermons (except for perhaps the first one) are explicitly about being gay or about LGBTQ issues. And yet, my experiences and perspective as an LGBTQ person are infused into every sermon that I write-and, really, into everything that I create. Though the nature of the infusion varies from sermon to sermon and from circumstance to circumstance, I cannot help but carry my queerness into every single day of my calling. The same is true, I believe, for other LGBTQ ministers and LGBTQ people of faith. Our queerness has blessed and will continue to bless both our faith and our world. Sometimes, the blessing will look different from what people are used to. Sometimes, it will stretch, even rattle them. Other times, the blessing will look and feel perfectly familiar-like it has always belonged in our faith.The organization of these sermons is loosely chronological and loosely thematic. After each set of three sermons, I have included a poem that I wrote in the past year. The inclusion of my poetry bears witness to personal experiences behind the sermon writing. Over the course of that first year, I felt an abundance of support from within my congregation and a sea of opposition and chaos beyond it. Several members of my partner''s family disowned him. Three rainbow flags were stolen from establishments in our small town. Donald Trump rose to power, and with him a horde of anti-LGBTQ forces. During this time, I wrote sermons to guide my congregation, and I wrote poems to guide me.For those of you who are not LGBTQ, I pray that this book helps you to notice and celebrate the myriad ways in which LGBTQ people are blessing our faith and our world. For those of you who are LGBTQ, I pray that this book furthers your assurance that you are free, you are clean, and you are loved. At the end of the day, every day, I''m doing this for you. 

THE EDGE OF EXTINCTIONA preemptive attack by a superior alien race has decimated the Earth''s population, leaving only indigenous animals alive. It is the end of humanity''s reign - almost.A smal band of ordinary people - strangers - at first - survive.. Sixteen unremarkable people trapped in an iconic Pacific Northwest motel outlast the year-long plague of "Bugs." Through a series of hardships, they try desperately to hold together and live. The self named Survivors endure through grit and determination. And maybe something more.Now out-gunned and a milion years behind in intellegence, the Survivors struggle to fight a war against an entire alien race and soul crushing odds.Are they the last of humanity.

<b>We always want to believe history happened to those in the past.<br /> Many aspects of historical events were unforeseen. However, not this one. <br />Warnings had been issued, yet the world was unprepared for the invisible enemy that threatened to kill us all.<br /><br />WELCOME TO THE NEXT GLOBAL WAR</b><br /><br />From the imaginative mind of international bestselling author, Bobby Akart, comes a series ripped from today''s headlines. Meet the Virus Hunters, the disease detectives on the front line of a never-ending battle to save humanity from viruses one-billionth our size.<br /><br /><b>&quot;Scientifically accurate, top notch entertainment and electrifying excitement ...&quot;</b><br /><br />Deadly outbreaks of diseases make headlines, but not at the start. Every pandemic begins small, subtle, and in faraway places. When it arrives, it spreads across oceans and continents, like the sweep of nightfall, killing millions, or even billions.<br /><br />The hunt for a silent killer continues in this heart-pounding, page-turning thriller. Not even a doctor''s white coat is protection from this virus that''s one-billionth our size. Dr. Harper Randolph searches for evidence and her gut tells her the answers lie in one of the most secretive places on the planet - China.<br /><br /><b>&quot;Characters are well developed, a plot that is intriguing and a novel that educates the reader at the same time. Most highly recommended! &quot;- Amazon Hall of Fame Reviewer</b><br /><br />With the help of a new partner, she follows the clues and enters the mysterious world of China''s underground where both allies and enemies await. The stakes get higher the closer she gets to Patient Zero. Will she find the origin of this novel virus threatening the planet? Will she be silenced by those whose secrets resulted in a global pandemic in the recent past?<br /><br />Bobby Akart has delivered up-all-night thrillers to readers in 245 countries and territories worldwide. His new Virus Hunters novels will give you pause and remind you that we''re in a global war for survival against an unseen foe.<br /><br /><b> &quot;Bobby Akart writes a scientific thriller better than anyone else.&quot;</b><br /><br /><b>SPECIAL DEDICATION:</b><br /><br />Finally, this series is dedicated to the Virus Hunters - the disease detectives, shoe-leather epidemiologists of the CDC''s Epidemic Intelligence Service who work tirelessly to keep these deadly infectious diseases from killing us all. Thank you!<br />