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On the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, Jake McCluskie's wife, the doc, is brutally murdered by a powerful deity, igniting the fuse to a deity civil war that only McCluskie and his partner, Detective Frank Sigorlli, can stop.

Jorge Hernandez may be the king of gangsters, but lately, he's been the king of lazy. The former Mexican cartel boss starts to change his mind when a blue-haired freak slashes his tires, calling him a climate criminal. He finally breaks out of hibernation when rumors of a new medication said to be for children with 'behaviour issues' is about to become mandatory for all school-aged children. Jorge suspects that the drug is more about making kids compliant and easily controlled, but that is just the tip of the iceberg. Who is at the top of the pile of degenerates that are pushing this agenda? Is it just Big Pharma trying to make their next billion, or is it something much more sinister behind this latest plot? Jorge and his gang intend to find out. One thing is for sure. If you go woke, you go broke with Jorge Hernandez. Just not in the way you might think. Politicians. Celebrities. Narcissists. Psychopaths. Everybody Wants to rule the world, but will you let them?

The contemporary figure has somewhat similar characteristics to his father, grandfather, and great grandfather; a soul-searching thinker, all the same, departing from the ruinous while conserving the beneficial side of the culture, customs, and manners in which he was raised and the larger generational dimensions embedded in it.A virtual page-turner, the highly intense and graphically detailed saga reaches its most intense crescendo in this final installment. Characters readily identifiable in your own life, cheek by jowl with the hero and foe, percolate the gamut of your emotions. Rooting for the one while despising the other, you are propelled into the bowels of the narrative.Some personalities appear to be born evil and feed on the environs; others tend to virtue and progress upon it. Protagonists and antagonists are mixed and varied; some are eternal optimists and find happiness even in dark periods; some are risk takers in the will for clarity, putting their reputation on the line; some are perpetually abstruse and find it their sad comfort zone; and then there is the many up and down others.The first and second generation Stanoli patriarchs were fond of saying, "There is nothing greater than loving God and loving your neighbor," and "I am a learner, willing to be corrected and criticized in order to become what I ought to become no matter where it comes from," and "I make it my moral ambition to be happy around others.

Dr. Edward T. Evans is a retired Professor of Russian language and literature. He taught 22 courses for the Specialty Program at a University in Baltimore. He is an author of eleven academic books, the last being The Memoirs of the Pages of the Tsars. His study of Hindi at a large University in a major city led to a year of travel in India. His visits in China were made for his book China for Business; Russia for Business was also a result of his many tours in the Soviet Union.

When I was 13 I contracted an STD all because I was doing things and going places that I had no business going. It was the worst thing that a 13 year old could ever experience. I will never forget this experience as long as I live. Three days after going into the red light district I began to feel a burning sensation and I had to figure out how I am going to tell my mom and dad that it hurts and burns when I use the restroom. Years later I discovered after going into ministry that contracting an STD is similar to what happens when people come in contact with demonic spirits but instead of it being a physical relationship it is all spiritual. I understand what the bible was saying when it said we must guard our eye gates and ear gates because those are the gateways to our soul. Many believers as well as unbelievers have opened themselves up to demonic activity and has allowed satan and his demonic forces to penetrate their souls. Why are the saints sleeping with the enemy? This book will identify the ancient spirits of this world that continue to attack the saints in the 21st century. This book will also teach you how to close demonic portals that you have no idea were open in your life. Go with me on a journey of spiritual warfare and defeating the demonic forces that are attacking you and your families.

Carly Taylor has hit rock bottom. She's just flunked out of college and her parents are angry. She's spent her entire life in the shadows of her talented pop star brother, Aiden, and is in hopeless love with his best friend, Scott. She's not sure what she's going to do next.Then Aiden invites Carly to join the guys on their band's tour. Sexual tension rises between Carly and Scott, and they sleep together. But he calls her his sister to her face and on national television. Their romance promptly ends before it even starts.After having a major fight with her brother about pursuing a music career, twenty-three-year-old Carly posts an anonymous video online singing one of her own songs. The video grabs the music industry by storm. Is she ready for what the future holds both for her career and her love life?

This work is a hypothetically dialogue on how the eternal world might seem for someone recently dead, using me, the author pretending-to-be-recently-dead, confronted with a First Greeter, an intelligent and empathetic Spirit Guide named Amorella. This work is for the purpose of challenging the Reader's reasoning and contemplation about how it is permanently moving on.Amorella has been my creative spirit guide since the early 1980s, and she has been in my earlier published novels with iUniverse. The dialogue is candid. Amorella gives me questions to show who I am now that I am a heartansoulanmind and nothing more. I am who I am; Amorella is who she is and has been as my silent creative companion for the last forty years. Faces of the dead are visible to one another; their heartsansoulsanminds are dressed as their faces, as they were in life. One's spiritual face masks shows intellect and emotion. The spirit mask appears young, old, or in between, whatever the nondeceptive heartansoulanmind shows. Deception is a basic need in life, not spiritual existence.I, the Amorella and Spirit Guide, see Richard as a naked heartansoulanmind. There isn't any more of Richard left, only his straightforward humanity, his outer soul, and his personality through and through. Richard's setting is quite reasonable for one who is recently been declared dead by one such as myself. Someday you will be recently dead, and someone like me, the Amorella, may show up and appear out of black. You may sense a voice kindly saying, "Hello, I am your Spirit Guide and will help in your recent transformation from a physical/spiritual being into a spirit being, similar to myself, though you were born, lived and died. I am here when you feel the need of companionship or assistance."

April enters the military and grows physically, spiritually, and emotionally. One of her missions, she discovers a secret that involves her father and uncle.Changes between April and Hugh become evident.April chooses a new life path, but there are unexpected consequences.

The book is about my early life and it was a "hoot" going back to the first ten years of life, I hope others enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. I could not believe I remembered all those people and their names.

When Petros, the leader of the disciples of Joshua, began a secret journey up the Jordan River, he is not certain who he will meet along the way. He does know some of the players of his mission and where to meet them, but does not know the big picture. Then a mysterious hooded person approaches him on the sandy shores of the Dead Sea, more familiar to him than strange. Together they will face the uncertainty of a mission known only to The Shield of David.Author Vidda Crochetta chronicles the greatest story ever told unlike any author before him. The Shield of David is five women who combine their resources and unite to protect a charismatic Galilean populist preacher to save him from himself. The man is more important to them than his mission to challenge the Roman and Jewish authorities who disregard the concerns of ordinary people and support the established elite.

People move to Southwest Florida for a variety of reasons. The region's warm and sunny climate is a major draw for many people. Southwest Florida offers mild winters and hot summers, which is appealing to individuals seeking to escape colder climates or regions with harsher weather conditions.

The reader is invited to consume this work of nonfiction with a mind open to the new idea that global environmentalism has devolved into Ecopolitics as a partisan political special interest in the 21st Century. Sadly, consensus science that solves real environmental problems has been replaced with pernicious political propaganda and demagoguery. And, the cost-benefit analyses necessary for prioritizing and solving environmental problems goes unmentioned in the issues of global climate change - unmentioned because such analyses are incalculable in today's knowledge of climate science.This book is a rational synthesis of the massive, and often contradictory, volumes of information on global warming and climate change. This book cites numerous contemporary and credible experts on the issues of climate science and climate policy for a balanced assessment. The Author has dedicated his life to understanding and communicating the complexities, interrelationships, politics, sciences, economics and global significance manifested in environmental matters. Mr. Taylor has authored two prior book: "Green Gone Wrong" and "Climate of Ecopolitics."

Adriana Bardolino's spicy memoir finds her out of her element, and missing her happy place. This new world is nothing like the magical tropical island of Maui she left behind. There, her life was filled with love, beauty, art, and romance. Everything goes topsy-turvy when a dear friend's promise dissolves into the humid Miami air. When her new life in Florida turns out to be less than expected, she misses her island home. Life events send her through dark clouds and tumbling tides. Gauguin (Art) keeps Adriana stable through most storms, but eventually even Gauguin deserts her. She floats through the universe without a spacesuit, searching for creativity to return. She visits new lands in hopes of a renewed spark. Adult life forces her to grow up, to learn to forgive herself and others for past mistakes, but there are deep emotional losses along the way. Will Adriana find Gauguin?

Venture into the Lost Fields of Silk in Ireland, where a fearless granddaughter unravels the clues to find her missing grandmother.Escape to bygone eras and embark on a heartfelt journey alongside a young girl and her father in 1950s Northern England.Travel to the picturesque village of Wark, nestled on the banks of the River Tyne in the UK, as mist shrouds a tranquil Sunday afternoon.Peer through frosty windows on Christmas Eve after an ice storm, where the possibility of a holiday miracle fills the air.In this intimate and diverse collection, Christiane Banks shares authentic short stories, many drawn from her own life experiences. These tales offer messages of hope, redemption, and enchantment, sprinkled with a touch of fairy dust.Banks gently reminds us to reach out and grasp our Falling Star. To love deeply and be loved in return. To discover our true selves, extend kindness, and follow our passions during our fleeting time here. Immerse yourself in these shimmering short stories, perfect for any occasion, and let their magical wonder lift your spirits."Banks is a skilled storyteller. It feels like she has graciously given a piece of her heart to the readers"- Senior Editor, iUniverse

Two boys, raised in the millennial world where their parents overprotected them, but abandoned them for their work. Each parent was very successful, but their children were left with loneliness and longing for love. They were raised in a digital world, full of toys and games. Their church brought the boys together. A promiscuous priest coerced them into sexual situations in the name of God. From this exposure, they developed a love for each other that continued through their childhood and into adulthood.Because of parental intervention, the boys went to different colleges and received their law degree. They still communicated and got together as often as they could. After graduation they planed a trip together. Then, at a party, they suddenly met a beautiful and remarkable girl who had also just graduated, and was also looking for a way to celebrate. The boys asked her to go with them on their trip. She was also a millennial, with wealthy parents, and they had a lot in common. As it turned out, the place where the boys wanted to go was the girl's family origin. She had friends there and knew all about the location.The boys and the girl jumped into a love all threesome. This was their anti-society outlook. Religious rules were made to be broken. Then the problems began to appear. They would work out a solution, but life always got in the way. The dilemma was almost predictable. Finding a solution was not.

Miranda's life is thrown into a tail spin, when two police officers show up on her doorstep. She is ripped away from her dream job at one of the most sought after ad agencies in Manhattan. Forced to leave New York and move to California to raise her niece and nephew leaving behind the love of her life to assume a responsibility for which she is unprepared.

"I have to ask again, Lorrie. What are you thinking? Why would you tell on yourself and members of your family and family lines to the whole world?" Answer: "Because the Holy Spirit asked me to so others can learn that healing for oneself, members of one's family, and one's family lines is possible." The Holy Spirit prompted questions for me to ask that gradually uncovered issues needing forgiveness, clearing, and healing in myself and my Soul line, and in our family and family lines, along with the roots of those issues and how to deal with them. They included centuries-old curses, hypnotic implants, and infestation by negative (dark) energies. I pray that my story will help many other people, families, and family lines be cleared and healed.

"What are you thinking, Lorrie? Why would you tell on yourself to the whole world?" Answer: "Because the Holy Spirit asked me to tell my story to help others." A central theme of this book is "What is wrong with me?" I learned that "what was wrong" was that I had many partially split personalities that had not been evident to me or others and that repressed painful and guilty memories from my childhood and adulthood were surfacing. The teachings in A Course in Miracles enabled me to face those memories. My journey has been painful and a little weird, but I am glad I chose to walk into the darkness rather than deny it because that choice led to healing and peace for me. I pray that my story will help many others come to a place of healing and peace.

Lenora strongly believed she lives in paradise. She had her dream as a crime investigator, her soulmate in the form of a friend, luxuries, well-known boxer of a lover, and a beautiful son. But paradise does not belong to everyone, at least not to the liars and the ones lied to. She learns this first hand when after a soul-wrenching accident her life completely crumbles before her eyes and she is left with nothing but the urge to drink it away every night. And to make things worse, her past comes back to haunt her. What is she to do when the FBI approaches her on the street with an ugly suspicion about her lover?

Courage, compassion, and hope are the themes of eight short stories. A six-year-old girl learns what a martyr is. A farm boy is changed by the Korean War. A son questions his father's death on November 22, 1963. A teenager encounters Indigenous people in the 1850s. A man spends a weekend with his dying father. A young mother challenges her dad's judgement. A family makes sports history. An impoverished boy returns something of value to a mother in mourning. These are stories about ordinary people who lived on the Northern Plains and faced hardship with dignity, humor, and selflessness. They did not allow themselves to become victims and they are much more than just survivors.

The book "48 Prophecies of God about His Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ" explains how a person can assure themselves the ernal State of Heaven. The Mathematician, Peter J Stoner calculated that for Jesus to fulfill 48 of the Old Testament Prophets prophecies is one chance in an astronomical figure of one chance in one trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion.To put that in a physical realm, it would be like a blindfolded person picking out the one designated coin from a stack of coins measuring two feet high covering the entire State of Texas. But Christ goes beyond statistics, as He was raised from the dead after three days. And you, too, can be raised from the dead if you have the faithful belief in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.

A world-class sniper teams up with a physical phenom to challenge one of the most dangerous men in the Middle East. They first must pass a selection process that involves a months-long evaluation in mountain warfare, mountain climbing, survival, and shooting.

A young, Egyptian prince finds a hidden room deep within the temple of Amun. A mysterious message has been preserved there and the boy sets out to learn of its meaning. Discovering the hieroglyphs are connected to the Hebrew people currently conquering the inhabitants of Canaan, the prince decides, once he is pharaoh, he will change Egypt's temples to align with his new-found faith. Joined in this quest by his beautiful bride, Nefertiti, Akhenaten uproots the capital to a new site in Amarna and only allows his citizens to worship the Aten.But the leaders of Egypt and the priests of Amun vie for control of the ancient kingdom on the Nile. Eliminating the heretic pharaoh becomes their chief goal. Once a new, boy king, Tutankhamun, is on the throne, the power of Egypt can be reversed and once again rest in their hands!The Heretic Pharaoh uncovers hidden events that connect loyal king Tutankhamun and Akhenaten, the renegade pharaoh that turned Egypt's world upside down.

No one could have predicted thirty years ago that online learning would become such a key facet of our educational landscape in nearly every corner of the world. Online teaching and learning have evolved rapidly and far more widely than imaginable, accompanied by huge impacts on business, society, and our entire educational enterprise.Drawing on his extensive experience in online teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate level as well as his 25 years in higher ed administration, the author paints a global picture of the evolution of online education. He describes how one country after another has witnessed the astonishing growth of online degrees and "microcredentials" of all kinds. Along the way, he dispels the myths and misperceptions that have grown up around online learning.With incisive analysis built on sold data, the author demonstrates that online programs are no longer regarded as second class but in fact are fully in the mainstream of higher education. Not only that but he predicts that, by 2030, they will become the gold standard by which the more traditional degrees will be judged.