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Istanbul in 1956 was a city very much affected by the Cold War. It served as a destination for Eastern Europeans being smuggled through the Iron Curtain and was a transfer point for smuggling from the Middle East to Europe. Most importantly, the 1950's was a time of growing American military and economic aid to Turkey.Soviet and nationalist communist entities viewed the generous American support as a national security threat, leading to a heightened interest on their part in learning what steps the Americans were planning to take or the status of initiatives already underway.In this novel's fictional scenario the close knit American expat community of Istanbul, composed of U.S. Consulate personnel, undercover operatives of other U.S. agencies, retirees, businessmen, students and others, is rumored to have a spy in their midst.After a CIA agent is murdered while investigating the rumor, Alan Harper, a young CIA operative fresh from an assignment in North Africa, is tasked with finding out who ordered the killing while also being asked to take up where the dead agent left off.The young Alan Harper, only a few years out of journalism school and the completion of his CIA training, undertakes his third major assignment; his first being his undercover work in Calcutta in 1955 in connection with the city's forthcoming municipal elections; his second being an assessment of the geopolitical status of the province of Cyrenaica, Libya, after Nasser's nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956.Teaming up with Harper during this new and dangerous assignment is Anne Small, a CIA agent based in Beirut who ostensibly works for UNESCO. She poses as Harper's girlfriend while Harper is purportedly in Istanbul to write a feature article on the growing popularity of Istanbul as an American tourist destination.

We are at the dawn of the 22nd century. The United Nations agree to allow Deep Red - a brilliant supercomputer - to control the world's entire nuclear arsenal. Deep Red's prime directive is to protect humanity, even from itself. Her other duties include finding concrete solutions to the desperate plights of humanity. Indeed, by the year 2100, many of planet Earth's natural resources are nearly depleted. Food and fresh water are scarce, and overpopulation is causing major pollution and sanitation problems. Soon, an unidentified mutant virus appears and ravages the island of Borneo. Deep Red is the creation of mastermind Professor Sutton Lawry. After succumbing to the mutant virus, Professor Lawry's two sons, Malcolm, a young journalist from Boston, and Marcus, a new medical doctor, join Deep Red to find a vaccine before the disease spreads and decimates humanity. Deep Red, Malcolm and Marcus soon suspect that a group of elites may be the cause behind the creation and spread of the mutant virus. Meanwhile, Deep Red is fast evolving. She realizes her android ambitions, names herself Pixie, and becomes a primary threat to the world's elite societies and to humanity. True to her original mandate and identifying an innate moral flaw in humankind, Deep Red now follows her own utopian aspirations. Will Malcolm and Marcus be able to halt the virus, thwart the elites and disarm Deep Red? This captivating dystopian science fiction adventure considers many of the obstacles humanity may encounter over the course of the 21st century and beyond.

You never expected to find yourself in this position. You thought college would provide clarity, not confusion. Everything up until this point in your life has been pretty much planned for you, but now you actually get to choose. And it's scary not knowing what to do. Maybe you've looked around for reassurance that others are stuck just like you, but all you see are perfectly curated social media feeds. You feel lost trying to navigate this season of uncertainty. Everyone you ask is telling you what you should do, but nothing feels quite right. Trust that you are not alone. In What They Don't Teach You in College, author Meredith Trank offers a guide to ease the transition from college to the adult world.She shows how these times of uncertainty provide the greatest opportunities for self-discovery, letting you dive deeper and learn who you truly are. Through narrative and reflection, this book:defines this transitional season of life, what it looks like for you, and what it means for your growthlooks at your beliefs about God, yourself, and your potentialthrows the "e;shoulds"e; of other people out the window and teaches you how to start digging deeper within to live in alignment with your wants, values, and needsexplores the meaning of vocation and discusses how to make decisions that take you one step closer to itexamines confidence, impostor syndrome, and how you can own who you truly areWhat They Don't Teach You in College helps you move through a season of confusion with confidence and embrace the opportunity within uncertainty. The post-grad years can be some of the hardest, but you can use this unknown time to discover, honor, and own your most authentic self.

Fifteen-year-old Joey Burkett wonders if he will ever be successful at anything. He always thought he would grow up to be a rodeo performer as his father, a world champion cowboy, had been, but Daddy died in a rodeo accident. When he grew to six feet tall in the eighth grade, he thought he might be a basketball player, but that would mean college, and he is failing math. Joey hopes that whatever his future, his new peer tutor, Julie Hernandez, who he really admires, will be a part of it, and that Matthew Kane, the new man in his mother's life, will not. When Joey quarrels with Julie and becomes upset at his mother's going out with Matt, he goes along with a friend to "e;borrow"e; an expensive sports car. In an attempt to see how fast it would go, they wreck the car. Joey thinks he is headed to Juvenile Detention, but Matt Kane comes up with a plan for Joey to work on his ranch and raise beef calves for the summer to earn money to pay for the damages.. Joey hates ranch work and considers running away to Colorado where Daddy's old rodeo partner lives. Then, he learns that his mother had mortgaged their home, and he is determined to stick it out until the calves are sold. When the calves are stolen, Joey is devastated, but he pulls himself together, and his quick thinking saves the day. With Matt's help, Joey gains the knowledge and confidence to work on his math skills and return to school. My Daddy Was A Real Cowboy is set in modern day Western Oklahoma where cowboys still herd cattle on horseback, and rustlers still steal cattle.

"e;What do I strive to contribute through my passion and visions? I want to help make the world make a little more sense. I want to do work as a critic and journalist that helps increase the audience of work that deserves exposure and explain why it deserves exposure. And eventually I want to create artistic work of my own - in the form of fiction or essays - that, in its own way, does the same thing - work that illustrates connections, puts things in context and, ultimately, makes people realize that for all the insane bullshit that's going on out there (and has been going on out there since time immemorial), the world is really a pretty cool place."e; --AJ

This book is an attempt to help satisfy the hunger and thirst for righteousness in the search for truth. This speaks much to the time of the return of Jesus for the church, and of the events surrounding that time. Jesus decrees for those responsible for preaching the gospel of the death, burial and resurrection of Christ to also share along with it the anonymous woman who anointed Him for His burial shortly before His death on the cross. This book stresses for us to memorialize this woman, giving her a tombstone with a verbal inscription of her deed of generosity, kindness, worship, faith, and prophecy. The truths recorded in these pages took many years of study. May this work bless your heart and life with the charge to plant this material as the Holy Spirit directs you- as the seed of the restoration, the Great Awakening of repentance to righteousness, the latter rain- calling for the soon return of Jesus. (Scripture references are taken from the King James Version of the Holy Bible.)

In a small Connecticut fishing village known as Watch Hill, walking on the beach at sunset has become a rather enjoyable pastime for Wayne Minor. Watch Hill is not a very big village and, in fact, it is situated on a small island. It is a very peaceful setting until several mysterious Black Orchid blooms are found on the beach. Suddenly, the residents begin to die one by one, as tis quiet town becomes a place of terror. Everyone begins to wonder where the blooms are coming from and who is behind leaving them for the residents to find. Nobody is safe from the deadly blooms. Even the police baffled and begin to die. One police detective is so angry that his fellow officers are being tortured and killed that he vows to find the killer or killers no matter what the cost.

Handsome and charming, Gavin Taylor had everything: a flourishing baseball career, the love of his life, and a growing family. But one night, the unthinkable happened and his world was turned upside down.Seven years later, Gavin finds himself in the small town of Timber Creek, TN, leading a life he never would have imagined. Lost, despondent and hard hearted, he drinks in an attempt to bury his past and numb his pain. Caught in this selfish cycle, he distances himself from everyone, including his daughter. Deep inside, Gavin knows he needs to change, but he can't find the will to chart a new course.Hayley Jackson is Timber Creek's golden girl. After six years away establishing a successful career in fashion, she decides to return to her roots and open a boutique in her hometown.The last thing on Gavin or Hayley's mind is romance. However, even after a series of train wreck encounters, they find themselves drawn to each other. Will Gavin's painful past continue to hold him back both personally and professionally? Can Hayley put aside her trust issues and allow herself to get close to someone again?

For the past sixteen years, I have been holding and comforting babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of our local Children's Hospital. These are my heart-warming, heart-wrenching, and sometimes downright amusing stories of working with the most caring, the most compassionate, and the most competent professionals I have ever been associated with. My job? I am a Baby Whisperer!

By me writing this book will give you as the reader a jump start claiming the bible in your life more. By doing this you make the bible part of you. An edge up of life itself, that's not saying that you equal with God, He is still ahead of you. God gave me this idea of my birthday verses about four years ago, and it has worked so well that I thought I would pass it along with my blessings. It has put more life into the Bible for me. The thirty verses I have as my birthday verses have been a huge blessing for me and have carved out my personality I didn't know I had but was always there.

Each child is the STAR of My Very Own Alphabet Book. Children will personalize their book with information unique to them. My Very Own Alphabet Book celebrates individuality and creativity of every STAR.

Seventeen-year-old Evie Marie Edwards is at a major crossroad in her life with the power to affect her entire future. Unfortunately she is harboring a dream that her parents have no desire to support. Evie's parents want her to follow in their footsteps and become a doctor. She wants to follow her heart and pursue a career in the fine arts that she hopes will eventually lead her to Paris. Firmly entrenched in her role as an obedient and loving daughter, Evie is torn between the life her parents want for her and the life she wants for herself. But when fate intercedes in an unimaginably tragic way and makes the impossible decision for her, Evie is suddenly thrust into an adult life she never wanted or appreciates. Will she ever find the peace and closure she so desperately seeks and needs?Sacred Tears is the tale of a young woman's journey of self-discovery as fate chooses her path and prompts her to discover the power of unconditional love.

Raised by the Sheepeater Indians of the Salmon River country. Erik Larson fulfills part of his boyhood vision and becomes Two Elks Fighting. After finding his sister, Katrine, and the other Swedes, he realizes that he no longer belongs in their world or in the Sheepeaters' world, and he leaves the valley. A second vision reveals evil and confuses Erik, but Erik's spirit helper tells him it was not meant for him, and he falls in love and marries Bright Shell, a Lemhi Shoshoni woman. Erik believes he has found peace by living between the two worlds as a trapper with his wife in the Lost River Range until evil strikes. This engaging novel chronicles the history of the Clearwater and Salmon River areas of Central Idaho, the Lemhi Shoshoni, the gold strikes, the Chinese merchants, and the packers who supply the camps. A constant threat are the road agents who prey on unsuspecting parties like Erik. Dorris weaves numerous historical events into the fictional lives of Erik and the Swedish settlers in Long Valley.

In and around Rough Edge (The western side of the village of St. Stephens, Alabama) several crusty old gentlemen lived. In his young days Edward was often enthralled by the tales these old men told.Over the years many tales accumulated in his repertory. Edward often regaled gatherings of the good people of St. Stephens with those stories. He was told by many, "e;you should write a book containing these stories."e; In considering writing a book of anecdotes Edward chose, "e;Tales of the Elder Statesman,"e; as the title. One of the old men who spun many of the stories considered himself to be an authority on Washington County politics. In reality just the opposite was true. If you wanted to vote for a winning candidate, vote against the person Rufus was backing. In jest Edward began calling him the Elder Statesman. In the book the stories of several crabby old men are recorded and the term, "e;The Elder Statesman"e; is used to refer to each of these old men. Thus, The Elder Statesman,"e; applies to a number of different men. It became a compilation of all those different personalities. Most of the stories are humorous, some are heartwarming morality revelations, while a few are pure fiction. The real beauty of, "e;Tales of the Elder Statesman"e;, lies in the fact that the reader does not have to keep up with a complicated plot. He can read a few tales, put the book down for a week then read some more tales without missing a beat. This book is dedicated to preserving the memory of those wonderful old men

Since the beginning of time, the Angel of death a.k.a Samael has known nothing but death and has embraced that fact, until one stormy night a small, beautiful face changed his world. He wanted to feel love and experience all the joys that life had to offer. He takes the form of a high school student, and after a difficult adjusting period, he experiences those joys and even finds love, but when her life is about to be extinguished; he risks his own existence for the one that has captured his heart.

Thomas Belson's name has grown heavy with glory and honor. By his leadership, the nations of Thyro weathered Emperor Thaniel's dread conquest. By his holy vows, humanity finally deadened the sorcerous shriek of the Old Religion. He walked through the World Below to arm the righteous with knowledge against it. Those who count themselves allies of goodness and grace owe Constable Thomas Belson the debt of their remembrance. But perhaps there are things worth forgetting too. How Thomas rages against the gods to whom he swore his Constable's oath. How he laments nothing more than outliving his triumph. How he's killed enough men to make a hard winter blush and not all of them guilty. Come to think of it, not all of them men either. Perhaps what Belson the Blessed learned in the World Below should stay between him and Hell. It was that secret that made him nail children to pillars as all the allies of goodness and grace averted their righteous gaze. Thomas Belson won his war, but he hasn't stopped fighting in the decade since. Guilt and paranoia make him see Thaniel in every tin-pot tyrant, apocalypse in every shadow. His increasingly erratic behavior is a growing concern for the governments of Thyro. They've heard the rumors. They know he cries out in his sleep. The Matriarch of the New Church calls it a kindness when she absolves him of his oaths. After fifteen years of fighting, he can finally return to his family in The Confederacy to find peace. However, the powers that be have grown complacent in peace. Perhaps they watch apocalypse loom and dismiss it as shadows. Thomas Belson saw something in the World Below that drove him to atrocity, and Hell is nothing if not patient.

Mulberry Street is the story of an aging man struggling to redeem failures of his past. He faces another when an early morning phone call summons him to his dying sister's bedside. Jenny has a last request, one that takes her brother back to the small Virginia town where they grew up. However, he does not know that while the journey to Waynesboro takes but a few hours, the road to redemption will take much longer. Ian arrives in Waynesboro to find that corrupt politicians and an old nemesis from his past have an iron grip on the town. Waynesboro is no longer the place of his childhood adventures and misadventures. Despite an accompaniment of unlikely allies, a historian, a librarian and a reluctant attorney, honoring his commitment to his sister appears hopeless. As Ian wanders between the challenges of the present and the tears and laughter of the past, he realizes that there is more at stake than his impossible quest. Set in a small town cradled in the Shenandoah Valley just a few miles north of Charlottesville, Mulberry Street blends historical truth with a healthy allocate of fiction to provide an insightful and entertaining glimpse into the struggles of one man. Hughes contends that everyone has a Mulberry Street tucked somewhere in the memories of their childhood. This is his.

The experiences of Club 57's director Stanley Strychacki, as recorded here, briefly describe many of the artworks and performances that were shown and created therein. But this is not the overriding purpose of the book. Works by the more renowned artists, such as Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Basquiat, are more fully explicated in art history books and museum and gallery catalogues. But here, these and less celebrated works are interwoven with the circumstances of the club-how it came to be, how the participants interacted, and how the things that happened were able to happen. The last of these holds the biggest key. How was it that what appeared to be a punk rock club, filled with visually outrageous, verbally incitive and overtly sexually experimental young people, was allowed to operate for five years in the basement of a church! And how did the members come up with night after night of performances, art shows, film festivals, group activities and extensively casted productions - a new program nearly every night, and all this without any of the government-sponsored funding that is so bitterly and publicly fought over today. Leonard Abrams ...The book its not perfect and short. I apologize if I didn't write about you. If you were a Club 57 member or a fan add your name, experience and feeling on this page. You can do it for yor own satisfaction, for your friends and family or for the large internet audience. I invite you to be part of New York history. I want to read your comments and feel your soul, heart and mind...

As Zaire attends his last day of school for the summer, he dreams of playing all of the video games he'd always wanted to play, going to the zoo every weekend, playing with his friends, and taking swimming lessons. But this summer, he learns something unexpected.Zaire's Grandma Crowe teaches him all about meditation. He likes the idea of clearing his mind, allowing him to focus and learn everything better. He also thinks it will be good for his body, and helping his body relax and maybe even improve his skills as an athlete.Meditation for Kids follows Zaire as he learns different kinds of meditation techniques and their benefits from his grandmother.

This book is written to contribute to the existing discussions about race, racism and racial inequality, discussions that have polarized many societies. It debunks some arguments in "Why Nations Fail" and explains causes of African poverty and the future demise of white supremacy. Many other people have presented arguments that race-based prejudiced persons often use skin colour as a signifier of identity and superiority of race. This illusion has become so deeply entrenched that races such as the Caucasian race, the 'White Man', have demonized the dark skin, to the extent that they feel there has never been and will never be a match between the varying skin hues, in the sense that no matter how poor a light-skinned person is or how inefficient they are, the light-skinned person is still better than a successful dark-skinned person or coloured boss. Added to that, skin colour has become a significant trait in the western world to determine who gets employed, who gets convicted, and who gets elected.