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If you crave the real experience of God's presence in your daily life...If you sense there's more to Christianity than service, study, and superficial spirituality...If you're ready to go beyond knowing about God to truly knowing Him...Here's where life with God begins.Is God really like a father who cares about the details of our everyday lives? Then why does He often seem so far away, distant in the moments when we could most use a personal touch from Him?So many of us have lived in that unspoken longing. In these incredible stories, you'll see how one person found that God is not always content to wait for us to discover Him amid the clutter of life. Instead, when we simply hold out our hands, He illuminates our ordinary world and gives us new eyes to see.Closer Than Your Skin traces the journey of an ordinary Christian who longed to move beyond the trappings of faith to genuine life with God. Her story reveals how to overcome the obstacles that most often block such intimate connection. Through this remarkable account, you'll gain tangible insight into what a daily, vibrant companionship with the Creator really feels like once you wake up to the eternal reality all around you.Interactive study guide included.

BENITO MUSSOLINI has called the people who work 'the salt of the Fatherland,' the strength and substance of the nation. He was born in one of the most proletarian provinces of Italy, where the whole life of the people is made up of hard, tenacious, and productive work. In Romagna, all wealth comes from the land and the sea.'My forebears,' writes Mussolini, 'were peasants who worked the land, and my father was a blacksmith who beat the red-hot iron on the anvil. Sometimes a youngster I helped my father in his humble labor: I have now the far more arduous task of molding souls.'In the broad plain of the Po valley between the Alps, the Apennines, and the Adriatic, the very fertile southern area is characterized by the frank nature of the inhabitants and their dialect: the Romagna is a country where the people live in harmony with the seasons, amid sowing and reaping, faithful to the land which they seldom leave to seek their fortunes elsewhere. The centuries pass without changing the rural character of the Romagnoli, nor the rustic aspect of a country that is both rough and gentle.

"When evil pulls you back to the hell you thought you'd escaped." A gritty, character-driven supernatural thriller.

Everywhere she goes, death is stalking and toying with Bell. Party girl heiress Bell Price and her quirky siblings have had enough fear and worry to last a lifetime. Bell wants nothing more than peace, quiet, and a drama-free existence for her family. The last thing she suspects when she goes to the local police precinct is that the prior year's horrors unleashed upon them by her younger sister's ex are only the start of what's headed their way. Gunshots ring out in the early hours of the morning and a scream pierces the air. The unknown assailant has Bell in their sights and they won't rest until they have sated their thirst for revenge. Will Bell and her siblings be able to catch the stalker before one of them becomes the next victim? Find out in this thrilling second installment to the Runway Dreams series.

The first 3 novels of The Cape Bay Cafe Mysteries in ONE paperback!When Fran moves back to her idyllic beach town to take over Antonia's Italian Café, her family's cafe, she also develops a knack for solving bizarre murders. Each book includes special recipes. From 3x USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Harper Lin.Cappuccinos, Cupcakes, and a Corpse (Book 1)Francesca Amaro spends her days making delicious artisan cappuccinos in Cape Bay, Massachusetts until she stumbles upon her neighbor's dead body. When the police discover Mr. Cardosi was poisoned, Francesca becomes a suspect.The victim's son, Matty, happens to be Francesca's old high school friend. Together, they uncover the secrets of the locals in order to find the killer in their idyllic beach town.Tea, Tiramisu, and Tough Guys (Book 2)When Francesca's old high school crush, Todd, is accused of murder, she is convinced he is innocent. The police don't believe Todd's story, and neither does Matty.During the busy summer tourist season at Cape Bay, Francesca sets out to prove Todd's innocence. Matty, however, investigates to prove Todd is guilty. Why does Matty detest Todd so much? But what if he's right-what if Todd is a murderer?Margaritas, Marzipan, and Murder (Book 3)Summer tourist season is winding down, but the Cape Bay police find a dead body in the alley beside Mary Ellen's Souvenirs and Gifts. Police rule it a suicide, but Francesca Amaro knows it's murder. Who would buy a bag of souvenirs, including a box of delicious marzipan, only to commit suicide moments later?Even though the police tell her to stay out of the case, Fran is too curious not to investigate, even though she's running a busy and popular café.Buy the paperback now to read this charming, popular cozy mystery series.

DCI Lesley Clarke is a busy woman.She's dealing with the reopened investigation into DCI Mackie's death, supporting DS Dennis Frampton through recurring mental health problems, and making plans for her own future.And then prominent crime boss Arthur Kelvin is found dead at a local beauty spot.Who killed him? Could it have been a member of his own gang? A rival, from within Dorset or further afield? Or maybe one of Kelvin's many victims?When Lesley starts to suspect that someone close to her might be involved, her world turns on its head. Can she solve the murder and keep her career, team and relationship intact?

In the heart of New York, where the supernatural thrives in shadows, Zendaya Zabalaza, a former detective turned YouTube sensation and competitive eater, is thrust into the center of a high-stakes battle between titans of the supernatural underworld.When the Police Commissioner becomes the pawn in a supernatural conspiracy involving murder and a failed execution, he turns to Zendaya with a proposition that could not only clear his name but also reveal the truth about the mysterious disappearance of her own brother.As Zendaya delves into the investigation, she and her boyfriend, a formidable duo of gifted witches, unwittingly become entangled in a fierce battle against a powerful pack of werewolves, an African vampire coven, and influential figures in the city's supernatural underworld. In a world where alliances shift like shadows, they soon realize that forging unexpected friendships will be crucial to overcoming their enemies.Meanwhile, Mariah Jenkins, believing she had gained immortality, discovers a dark twist to her newfound existence. The vampire who sired her harbors a death wish, and if he dies, she dies. As others he has sired seek to seal him away for eternity to preserve their own lives, Mariah faces a dilemma-how do you give an immortal a reason to live forever? Especially when love, money and power are not enough. A Witch with a badge, werewolf packs, and an ancient African vampire coven collide in this gripping urban fantasy thriller. Brace yourself for a tale of love, betrayal, and magic that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page.Jennifer Tirrel - Engaging and Exciting Read!"This was a fun and wild ride of a story. A wonderful tale of vampires, werewolves, and witches with things you won't see coming..."

The Buddha House - a seventeen-year memoir adventureIn 2000, Sylvia and David bought a large, derelict 1750's haunted country house on the Isle of Wight. It's over-run with many kinds of fungi, rodents and other unpleasant gifts left behind by previous owners. The couple are excited, though wary, starting out on this change of direction in their forties, newly in love and hoping to run the complex as a combined family home and mindfulness retreat centre. They start enthusiasm for the adventure, have many encounters with supposedly exorcised ghosts, contractors with foibles, strange neighbours, and others they employ, to make it habitable.In the process, they uncover famous art connections, a murder mystery story, and a house with its own identity and personality.The house and garden is also the setting for their personally designed wedding, many happy and challenging family times, lots of friends and family visiting, and a business that's not quite enough to live from fully but allows a great work-life balance. In 2007 David takes early retirement from his paid employment and Sylvia is following her dream of research, studying for a PhD in Mindfulness and ADHD. All seems well, life is following a path not quite envisaged, but they allow it to lead them until it changes again.In 2008, Sylvia has a total breakdown following the death of her father. She cannot work, barely leave the house, hardly sleeps and is haunted by reawakened memories of her childhood. They won't survive financially, but Sylvia can't move. David takes over and converts the house into two holiday letting units and it's here they meet the best and worst of the British public.It takes Sylvia years to fully recover and her diagnosis of complex trauma and PTSD is enlightened further when she is also diagnosed with ADHD, as are both her sons. But times are changing and although they have held their own financially, the house and garden are finally becoming a burden they can no longer shoulder. The day comes when they must make the decision to leave.All through the story, Sylvia brings out the essential teachings of the Buddha and how they both live with these teachings centrally in their lives, how it sustains them, enables them to navigate the difficulties and maintain equanimity. Sylvia never fully recovers from her breakdown, her nervous system experienced such a traumatic shock it becomes overreactive to any further stressors and she must learn to live a very different life, returning to her love of writing and poetry, and creating a brand new garden from scratch in a new home.

Venn has lost the love of his life. Spending his days rotting and festering over his past. He battles depression, loneliness and the memories attached to his once happy life. This is a journey of grief, of expression, of self acceptance.

The Law of Clarity is a guidebook that offers practices and instruction for relaxing and listening to your body (earth), calming anxiety and other challenging emotions (fire), getting clear about your life's purpose, communicating with yourselves and others, and more. Alexandra guides you on a journey up the mountain of your aspirations using her own experiences, starting at base camp (earth) and rising ever higher through the elements. At the peak, with a vast view, you will have more clarity about yourself and the obstacles to your dreams and relationships.

n this series, we follow Pasta Sam, his family and friends on their journey of learning to cook. These books help to teach children simple and easy cooking techniques and recipes with their grown ups. Alongside some fun characters and funny backstory, children get to learn a life skill in a fun way while falling in love with food and encouraging family time at home.In this book, Sam and his friends are having a sleepover. Whats the best sleepover food? Pizza! Sam's mother teaches us all how to make a really quick, easy and very tasty tortilla pizza recipe.

Our world has fallenWe are no longer the dominant speciesIt is a fight for survivalCaught in the middle is a human named Aldber, a warrior of the Galardros.He must achieve the impossible-hunt down the enemy's formidable leader. It is a glimmer of hope that could lead to salvation.But nothing is as it seems, for Aldber discovers painful secrets of his past, and great mysteries unfold beyond anything he could imagine.Join the far-future epic adventure

Aimed at both the intelligent layman and the professional economist, the two volumes of this book are the most comprehensive and intellectually powerful explanation of the nature and value of laissez-faire capitalism that has ever been written. They represent a twofold major integration of truths previously discovered by other writers, combined with numerous original contributions made by the author himself. Within economic theory, they integrate leading ideas of the Austrian school with needlessly abandoned doctrines of the British classical school. They further integrate such reconstituted economic theory with essential elements of Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism. On the foundation of these integrations, Dr. Reisman is able to develop the numerous major original contributions that his book presents on the subjects of profits, wages, saving, capital accumulation, aggregate economic accounting, monopoly, and natural resources, among other vital subjects. Based on the same foundation, his book presents the most powerful critiques of Marx, Keynes, the pure-and-perfect competition doctrine, and environmentalism to be found anywhere. A leading part of its trenchant analyses is a consistent demonstration of the natural harmony of the rational self-interests of all men under capitalism-of capitalists and wage earners, of consumers and producers, of men and women of all races and nationalities, including immigrants and the native born, and of competitors of all levels of ability-consonances most will find astonishing, given the prevailing misunderstandings of capitalism. The book's importance and appeal to a general audience are evident in its description of prevailing attitudes toward capitalism and its challenge to learn why they are all completely wrong and the cause of self-destructive political behavior on a massive scale. For those with the intellectual courage to accept a challenge of having many of their firmest and most cherished beliefs reduced by unanswerable logic to the status of Dark-Age superstitions, here are some of the beliefs that Reisman's book demolishes: The profit motive is the cause of starvation wages, exhausting hours, sweatshops, and child labor; of monopolies, inflation, depressions, wars, imperialism, and racism. Saving is hoarding. Competition is the law of the jungle. Economic inequality is unjust and the legitimate basis for class warfare. Economic progress is a ravaging of the planet and, in the form of improvements in efficiency, a cause of unemployment and depressions. War and destruction or additional peacetime government spending are necessary to prevent unemployment under capitalism. Economic activity other than manual labor is parasitical. Businessmen and capitalists are recipients of "unearned income" and are "exploiters." The stock and commodity markets are "gambling casinos"; retailers and wholesalers are "middlemen," having no function but that of adding "markups" to the prices charged by farmers and manufacturers; advertisers are inherently guilty of fraud-the fraud of attempting to induce people to desire the goods that capitalism showers on them, but that they allegedly have no natural or legitimate basis for desiring. Reisman's book flies in the face of all anticapitalistic ideas and demands. Its thesis is that never have so many people been so ignorant and confused about a subject so important, as most people now are about economics and capitalism. It argues that in its logically consistent form of laissez-faire capitalism-that is, with the powers of government limited to those of national defense and the administration of justice-capitalism is a system of economic progress and prosperity for all, and is a precondition of world peace. Following an exhaustive economic analysis of virtually every aspect of capitalism, the book's concluding chapter is devoted to the presentation of a long-range political-economic program for the achievement of a fully capitalist society.

If he's death, I crave oblivion.Elowen is cursed: she kills with a brush of her fingertips. Her worst fear is hurting the boy she cares for-and her second-worst is the attention of the Raven Lord. Maelor is the lethally beautiful leader of the witch-hunters. And now, he seems like he knows her secrets.When he arrests her, her only hope is to survive a series of brutal trials. Ninety-nine out of a hundred will die, and magic is strictly forbidden. Strangely, Maelor is immune to Elowen's touch. The Raven Lord claims to want to help her. But as she spends more time with him, she discovers he has a dark secret of his own. Is he the reason bodies have been showing up around the kingdom, drained of blood?The more Maelor wants Elowen, the more dangerous he becomes. In a world where trusting someone can get you killed, will this beautiful monster help her survive?Hallowed Games is the first book in a new series of fantasy romance, morally-grey characters, and deadly trials: perfect for fans of A Court of Thorns and Roses and Serpent and the Wings of Night.

This handbook presents a diverse array of scientific concepts, with the intent that one or several will spark an interest in deeper exploration. The first attempt for this book was to compile all the "First Laws" of science as an introduction. However, focusing solely on the "first laws" omitted too many fascinating and crucial concepts that would be ideal in an introductory handbook such as this. Consequently, the book evolved to feature various theories and principles of science, aiming to attract folks with a term, concept, or idea that drives their curiosity further. Thus, this book is not intended as a reference source, but rather as a catalyst for exploration and discovery.

Did you ever wonder where sparklers come from? Read all about it in the book, Sparkles. Sparkles was an ordinary star with an extraordinary goal. He had a dream and he pursued that dream. Hard work paid off. He accomplished a rare performance.

#1 National Bestseller!Our thoughts and words are the architects of our reality. They have been interwoven into history, shaping not just ourselves but the world around us for centuries. The universe has laws that are unbreakable, such as the law of gestation, polarity, gravity, time, forgiveness, gratitude, and many more. Many of us are unaware and go against them, fighting their principles instead of using them for our advantage.People tend to re-act instead of taking a moment to think, change perspective and take action. One can stop feeding the argument by simply taking action instead of being enticed to keep on fighting.Love and fear are the two emotions that rule the human body. Everything between is a derivate of the two. Love brings us freedom and joy. Fear takes us to regrets and unhappiness.In Sarah Moon's book, Journey to Wholeness, readers embark on a journey of self-reflection and transformation. Through working through exercises set at the end of each chapter, they can gain insight into their thoughts and feelings while building an empowering mindset enabling them to help others in similar situations along their own journeys.Make the most out of life; don't just exist, truly experience it! Every moment is a chance to create something amazing. Life is to be enjoyed, quit surviving it!

Have you said yes to God, but found yourself in what seems to be a never-ending battle that has left you feeling beaten, bruised, and weary? Do you feel that you have been faithful and have been doing the very best you can with what God has given you, as well as the promises He's made over your life, but it seems that you've been stuck in the same pit for years? Have you seemed to face loss after loss, and death after death, to where you have begun to feel empty and lifeless, wondering when things will ever change or get better?If that sounds like you, then this poetic book is exactly what you need. It's time to get your strength back and be encouraged by the Lord!In "31 Days of Prophetic Encouragement for the Weary Warrior," you will be empowered to hope again and will be wooed by the kindness of your Father through hearing His heart towards you. You will be encouraged while reading to know that you haven't been alone. There are other warriors of God out there who have faced the same crushing and pressing, ordained by the Lord, purposed to forge them, and you, into mighty and immovable Kingdom men and women.This book will take you on an intimate 31 day journey with the Lord where you will commune with Him and be reminded of His truths towards you. His fresh wind is blowing on you to fill you with new strength and new vigor!Weary warrior, it's time to arise!Lift up your heads, O ye gates; And be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; And the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.Psalms 24:7-10

Are You Ready to Grow?Because your mind is like a garden, what you plant will grow. Do you need to choke out the weeds of negative, oppressive thinking? Uproot those toxic thoughts with powerful truths! This book provides 90 inspirational "seeds" to nourish your mind and spirit and to boost healthy spiritual growth. Based on Philippians 4:8, this book develops the eight positive "whatever's" the Apostle Paul listed into 90 encouraging meditations. Sown with encouraging, real-life stories, biblical principles, and practical insights, these thought seeds inspire a bountiful harvest of growth in Christlikeness in crucial areas of your life. You'll also enjoy some original quotes you won't soon forget. Get ready, Christian friend, to grow closer to Jesus in the next 90 days!

Jaylen finds himself constantly taunted by supernatural forces. The love that he shares with Marlanna restores his strength when facing extermination. He has to overcome the challenges brought to him by the realm of the unknown all while being perceived to be a patient at a mental institution. The very people that he vows to protect only consider him to be delusional. His only means of survival is a forbidden spirit bend on the destruction of all humanity. Does he have the courage and strength to protect his loved ones from the supernatural forces or will the dark forces consume the human existence?

The Chew Crew is a collection of three stories about two dogs who chew everything but their food in between their many adventures.

God's Grace is often described as the unmerited favor He shows to all who trust in Him. In the Old Testament people were only able to glimpse God's grace from afar, whereas those of the New Testament were able to encounter His grace in the person of Jesus Christ. This study looks at the lives of twelve different Bible characters and what they learned about God's amazing love and kindness through the ages. We will not only be encouraged by what we learn, we will be challenged in the way we interact with others as we show them the grace of God today.

Combat Engineers. The Unsung Heroes of Vietnam. August 25, 1966. Specialist Dan Crowley was among the handful of demolition experts assigned to a route clearing mission in support of Operation AMARILLO. His equipment load was the same as it had been numerous times before: a Claymore mine, TNT, C-4 explosives, blasting caps, time fuse, det cord, eighteen rounds for his M-79 grenade launcher, two hand grenades, and his Colt .45. But this would be no ordinary mission. The Viet Cong had just surrounded an American patrol along Highway 16. Crowley's outfit - Charlie Company, 1st Engineer Battalion - was among the smattering of units thrown together for this impromptu "relief force." History would call it the Battle of Bong Trang. In a war dominated by airmobile infantry, the combat engineers played a critical role in shaping America's battlefield victories. They built obstacles, dug defensive positions, set landmines, performed various types of demolition, and could fight as infantry whenever ordered. Fire in the Hole tells the story of Charlie Company, 1st Engineer Battalion during their deployment to the Republic of Vietnam in 1965-66. Told from the perspective of four Charlie Company veterans - Dan Crowley, Larry Blair, Chuck Humphrey, and Jay Franz - this book provides an intimate, no-holds-barred account of the combat engineers in Vietnam.