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Two brothers put a mask over their face and went in the bank expecting to obtain a huge amount of money. They started hollering for the customers to lay on the hard floor or sit with their backs to the wall. No one recognized who the robbers could be due to the crazy masks they were wearing. After the men put money in the cloth bag, they ran as fast as they could run, but not until the Security Guard pushed the masks from the faces of the two men. The men started running even faster. They sure didn't want to be caught. After they did their exit from the bank, they stopped long enough to transfer the money they had in the bag to a black suitcase. One of the men sat beside a lady who had a suitcase the same as his. When he arose from his seat and took what he thought was his bag, but it belonged to the lady. The four women, who were thinking fast as they could, on what to do to switch the bags back. The ladies looked at the luggage tag and saw it was a man's name, Pete Sheet. Now, they could look up the address where the man lived. It wasn't a simple task to find the man's house, but they wouldn't stop looking. Brianna, who was one of the four women, began to panic because she had something valuable in her bag the man now had. The men wouldn't do the switch, so the ladies had to take matters in their own hands. They already had a situation during this vacation, and it looks like this is going to be another one. Will they ever make the switch without having problems with the bank robbers?

In the prolog, Marc Daniels imagines himself as one of the smoldering, terrorized titles in the Goebbels' book-burning heap in Nazi Germany. As he begins to type his narrative, his fingers scorch, and smoke rises from his laptop. Whether Marc and his narrative survive these blazing flames depends on how persuasively he reveals the secrets of the Torah for eradicating systemic racism and antisemitism in America. Marc engages in real-time with Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, and Kamala Harris during publicized Iowa caucus town halls from 2016 to 2024. In the epilogue, Marc senses a beautiful rose garden bouquet where a foul stench had existed before. His fingers have entirely healed. "In this book, he offers an alternative vision ("Making America Kosher Again") that blends Kabbalah mysticism and the "deepest roots of the Torah" to offer a spiritual vision that turns Trump's campaign slogan, Make America Great Again, "on its head" by encouraging civic prayer and collective intentions for "cultural unification." - Kirkus Reviews.

Romantic poetry filled with luscious love and steamy passion! Do you have a special someone, but you just don't have the words to convey your feelings? Tangled with You is a collection of soulful, romantic poems that will do just that-help you express all the ways that love imbues your mind, body, and soul.

The Black Tourmaline starts as a classic meet...cute: Adam meets Celia, improbable, since their lives are worlds apart. But as unlikely as it was for their paths to cross, the spark between them is immediate and irresistible. And then the universe bends and twists again. Adam falls victim to the power of a quartz crystal in his pocket and swaps places with Darren, his evil, interdimensional brother-who just so happens to be a serial killer. On the verge of police custody in his previous world, in Adam and Celia's, Darren is unknown to police and suddenly let loose on a whole new world of potential victims.Will Celia become Darren's latest victim, or will she be able to use her wits and knowledge of the power of the crystals to trap and subdue Darren? Inspired by his own experience with clear quartz crystals-an amazingly colorful and realistic dream he had with a crystal under his pillow led him to pen this story-author Thom E. Booton has written his first book of a page-turning trilogy. Part mystery and part mysticism, with a trial riddled romance thrown in, The Black Tourmaline is for those who believe in sci-fi adventure and true love, all at once.

As Americans, we are proud of our beautiful flag. We consider it our most cherished symbol of strength and freedom. Of the many ways to display love for our country, showing respect for the American flag is vital. Our children depend on us to inspire them with a desire to protect and appreciate our national treasure. This book uses vivid, full color photos to describe the etiquette required to honor our flag. The rhythmic text allows young children to easily embrace their important role as keepers of our American history. After reading this selection, your child will want to share with everyone the importance of our flag. So, as we celebrate our many differences, let us never forget our hearts are sewn together with a common love for our country's flag. Old Glory, we salute you!

Writings By Just Jeffrey, is simply a collection of writings into themes of intimacy, influences, inspiration and dynamics, creating external and internal support networks and balance care giving - losing faith in self and God - and finding it again. A compilation of heartfelt, light-hearted and enlightened romp through many facets of the human experience - poverty, neglect, substance abuse, mental illness, discrimination, public policy advocacy, spirituality and healing - reflected through Just Jeffrey's bright, polychromatic mind. Read it and act!

'Soft And Gentle 10 ---A Remembered Prose' is a rare, hybrid blend of prose poetry, mini-story, and noteworthy words of wisdom expressed with heartfelt, captivating imagery and symbolism. It vividly presents representations of emotions that everyone typically experiences at some time in their life. The writings carry such detailed and passionate descriptions that it transports the reader right alongside the author, seeing and feeling just what he is writing about.Most spend their younger years establishing careers and starting a family. Often, the things that are most precious to us in our youth lose their place in adulthood due to time restrictions. As time goes on and life gets even busier, it's easy to lose track of the important things. We should always remember to save time for family, dreams, and nature, all of which can significantly contribute to happiness.Author James A. Hunter fills his prose with selective, heavy-hitting sentiments that beautifully depict what many of us feel on any given day. 'Soft And Gentle 10' will deeply touch those who can relate to the happiness of love, or the sadness of losing love or loved ones; it will move those who acknowledge the beauty of nature and help them realize that we need to appreciate and love it; it will motivate those who aspire to enhance their life through their own, positive efforts; and it will inspire those who refuse to let life's setbacks get in the way of pursuing and achieving their dreams.This versatile, heartfelt collection of 200 pieces of concise prose poetry will relax and mellow the heart as it explores life, love, beauty, nature, happiness, hardships, dreams, and nostalgic memories. This work is a timeless treasure of observations which uniquely capture the soft and gentle aspects of life.

Subjective in nature, this book exposes the folded mental problems rising from real-life events that harm many teenagers, particularly in underdeveloped civilizations i.e., Afghanistan. The argument is centering on how the exploitation of socially accepted norms and religious principles cause mental suffering in teenagers. While Afghanistan is used as an example to illustrate the main philosophy of the book. Thus, the argument in the book is reinforced by the fact that around 99 percent of Afghans practice Islam alongside a strong belief in cultural norms. Because of this, most Afghans' everyday choices & decisions are largely influenced by and based on social norms and religious principles.This book, therefore, emphasizes the value of inner harmony, mental fulfillment, and happiness, which teens today, particularly those from middle-class households in underdeveloped communities, need the most. The book covers real-life observations, personal experiences, & factual tales to support the argument to better showcase the topic matter. The book also provides many examples of various aspects that show how teenagers get mentally troubled and sad. Overall, teens frequently commit suicide as a result of their dangerous mental torment. Eventually, a lot of teenagers lives end, which is worrying. The cause is frequently the naive belief of people in myths or superstitions that are subtly disguised as religious doctrines, duties, or socially acceptable codes imposed on youth.Therefore, it is crucial to identify the underlying reasons for such mental issues of today's teens-like anxiety-which is important to address. The difficult thing about this problem is that it is not always possible to convey it clearly to anyone, even to close friends and family members like best friends or parents. Most of the time, such mental illnesses are kept secret in the heart and mind, which causes teenagers to die on the inside. Inclined by such emotional and mental suffering, this book serves as the voice of many suffering teenagers, particularly the sensitive and introverted ones.

Over the years, I've been tethered to the fear of what would probably happen in my life because of every bad thing that already has happened to me in life. I know, everyone goes through trouble. Some in this world have it worse than others. So, I know that it's right to be thankful to The Father because in my trouble, He has been there for me...to help me. Although my experiences are different from others, I'm no different than anyone else going through life, experiencing problems. Except, I never learned how to push through my difficulties. But God...

In late November of 1859, in the Borough of Port Carbon, Pennsylvania, the battered body of a man was found in the sluice of an abandoned slack water channel of the Schuylkill Canal. It was determined by local authorities to have been a murder. But the victim, thought to be a local resident, went unidentified for almost six months. Port Carbon was one of the many boom towns in the six-county coal region of upstate eastern Pennsylvania. It was the northern terminal point of the 108-mile-long Schuylkill Navigation, the brilliantly engineered canal system along the Schuylkill River between Philadelphia and Schuylkill County. With the discovery of vast resources of anthracite coal at the turn of the century, in the short span of fifty years, what had once been a verdant wilderness had now become a mecca of American industrialization. The unyielding demand for anthracite to fuel the growing America in the northeast by the mid-nineteenth century had grown to magnanimous proportions. Immigrants from all over Europe and beyond poured into the coal region to work the mining and canal operations to supply coal via barge and later the railroads downriver to the tidewater port in Port Richmond near Philadelphia. As in every frontier expansion in American history, there also comes the darker side of human interactions. Men murder other men.The mysterious affair and the unusual facts surrounding the murder of one Amos Schroeder, a local mine boss from a German immigrant family, was published in a series of four newspaper articles spanning from December, 1859 to May, 1860. His story appeared in the Miners' Journal, and Pottsville General Advertiser, the historical regional weekly newspaper of publishing magnate Benjamin Bannan of Pottsville. Bannan was a political economist and journalist, one of the most prominent newspaper men of his time. Bannan's whole life was focused on the expansion of the coal region, and he chronicled everything within his purview. Details of Bannan's investigation into the murder, however, are not known. We only know what appeared in the series of these four articles. The case was apparently solved, but never fully closed. The murderers, who had been identified through the efforts of Bannan, fled Schuylkill County before they could be brought to justice despite the reward offered by the County Commissioners. Bannan, for whatever unknown reason, had opted not to publish the murderers' names, as they remained at large. No historical record has been found to indicate that they may have been apprehended, nor ever publicly named. It was not until over a hundred and fifty years later when members of the family, while researching their coal region ancestry, stumbled upon the case of Amos Schroeder, who was discovered to be the brother of the author's Great-Great Grandfather. The identities of the murderers, however, remain lost to history.This book is a fictional account of how the facts and the mysterious circumstances surrounding his murder may have arrived on the pages of the Miners' Journal. It is also a novel that takes a historical journey to the anthracite coal region of eastern Pennsylvania during the mid-nineteenth century when coal was king. It is a story of the hardships endured by the thousands of immigrant families who worked the mines and waterways of the Schuylkill Canal. It is a story of the heritage both famously and infamously created by the coal barons, industrialists, and railroad magnates who fueled the industrialization of a young America.

Tears: The Other Language Of The Heart And SoulWords sometimes are best expressed through tears, whether they are tears of of joy, of sorrow and woe, or joyful tears of exhilaration and love. Tears are heart-warming vibrations that well up in the soul and flow through the heart, singing a harmonious melody of love and often of life, itself. Furthermore, whether tears are of grief, sadness, humor, fear, or of uncontrollable laughter. Tears are a language, often too painful for the heart to verbalize, yet through our eyes, often considered windows to the soul, tears reflect and thus reveal what is transpiring, happening within our innermost being at any moment in time. Thus, inwardly, tears are those emotions, which are dubbed "cozy tears of love," for their purpose is to maintain a sense of balance, harmony, well-being, and peace among the body, mind, soul - spirit. Cozy tears of love bring us closer to ourselves, which enable us to be more compassionate toward others, indeed toward all sentient life. Cozy Tears Of Love is a compendium of inspirational poems accentuated with the theme of "inner" tears, love, speaking to the reader's heart and mind in such a way, one's heart is excited to be more caring as well as self-loving. Tears are natural healers, comforters, and nurturers Additionally, other themes such as long lasting friendships, familial relationships, self-discovery, indeed opening that door inside oneself and to becoming the individual one was meant to be. Romantic love is a theme also sprinkled throughout this work. The reader will also be appreciative of the humor, philosophical insights, the conversational question and answer style of writing, and imagery that whet the appetite and stimulate the imagination. In Cozy Tears Of Love, additionally, will be found charm, colorful excitement, fun, entertainment, and inspiration that will at times cause the reader to feel and to experience "cozy tears of love."

The Clock is Ticking is a contemporary, character-driven murder mystery that takes place in the heart of the biotech industry in Cambridge, Massachusetts during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Police Detectives Danny Quinn and Joy Seiden are called to investigate the death of Dr. Arthur Rosen, a geneticist who was found under the M.I.T. Boathouse ramp on the Charles River. Dr. Rosen worked for DNA Therapeutics, a biotech company on the cutting edge of CRISPR technology which is used to find cures for diseases utilizing gene editing. At the time of his death, the company was waiting for approval to start their human clinical trial designed to treat Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's Disease. William Martindale, a wealthy entrepreneur living in Aspen, Colorado has the hereditary form of ALS. He has just begun to have symptoms and knows how long he has before the end stages of the disease ravage his body and cognitive abilities. His only chance is to get into the upcoming DNA Therapeutics clinical trial. He had recently divorced his wife for fear that she would leave him like his mother had left his father. He is in love and presently living with Marni Bloom a psychologist who is presently researching methods to treat PTSD, Depression, and Anxiety Disorders. Dr. Rosen's wife, Anna is a beautiful and somewhat mysterious woman who was clearly not above suspicion. There were too many details about her past relationships and background to clear her as a suspect. The investigators are led through a web of legal and biotechnical intrigue in the backdrop of the Covid-19 Pandemic and political unrest not only in the United States but globally as well. By digging deep into the case and recruiting the assistance of the FBI and an unlikely private investigator, Detectives Quinn and Seiden believe they have finally found justice for Dr. Rosen's death. The outcome of their efforts is not what they expected.

Once wounded DEA agent Tanya Anastas is sent to be Regional Director in Brussels, and goes to Ukraine to rescue her family of heritage, a grandmother and two nephews in one trip, but also returns to Ukraine to help a wounded retired American Army soldier, whom she met earlier, to return also with her to Brussels. The DEA agency hears of her bravery and decides to bring all of them home to the United States where she will be the new director of the DEA Museum.

A titanic psychological nail-biter, Welcome to Bravo dresses up the digital and analog worlds as protagonists vying for souls of the departed. This parochial-dystopian epic is driven by rich characters who propel a powerful narrative creating an inescapable addiction to the next page. As a contemporary science fiction thriller, the story is for anyone who ever wondered if the screens captivating our eyes and ensnaring our minds bear a false light, whose foundation of black glass is actually a dark portal conditioning the mind to embrace eternal alone-ness. Charon Mausolus founded and runs Everlasting Enterprises with the promise of Humans Eternally Living Life as an uploaded consciousness interred in hyper-scaled datacenter mausoleums. His technological genius is heralded by government sycophants and capitalistic cannibals looking to enrich themselves feeding off their fellow man. But these crypts of the digital age siphon souls to a sinister purpose, and reveal how the dialectic of Heaven and Hell has been disrupted by a Faustian bargain.

Bobbie DavidSon is and shall continue to overcome the odds of Stage Four Ovarian Cancer. Her husband, Dr. Steven DavidSon is the nation's foremost Christ-based Counselor, and leader of the nation's largest stand-alone virtual church, Amazing Things The Church. While telling this true story, they reveal some of the most important keys to extending life now and forever. You'll discover a treasure of Christ-based healing and health concepts, best practices and supporting agencies. The DavidSon's leave no stone unturned including legal resources, a support web-site, and opportunities to feature your story on the Care-giver in Christ website. This quick-read book, is a guide clearly from a Christ-based perspective. Do you desire to be a Certified Care-Giver in Christ? Enter and complete the Care-giver in Christ (CGIC) credentials program. This book is a must for anyone desiring to give care in Christ-Jesus. There's no greater care, than the care of those providing care in Christ-Jesus.

Many have desired change in their lives and hope to see their circumstances or overall lives become better; but never move forward or enter into faith to see the outcome they desire. Well, your outcome will truly be evidence of your heart's position or posture. With this in mind, we must guard and protect our heart. It must be prepared in order to receive and that preparation only comes through spending time with God in His Word. Above all, to experiencing better in life comes from having a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ and living life in Him. He makes the difference and truly exemplifies what real success in life is, because without Him in our lives, we are merely existing......

Living History's protagonists, Mia and Hugh, encounter a space vehicle that crashed in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest in the ninth century C.E. The problem is: they cannot remember this, when they find themselves in 9,000 B.C.E., where their long journey begins. Aimed at a short time before the crash to prevent the ship from crashing, their time travel is an experimental "shot in the dark," but the experiment fails. However, as they struggle to stay alive, they are not without resources: the beings, who come to be called "cousins," have implanted Nano technology in them to maintain their bodies and minds, but also an ability for to communicate without speech. In Mia, they provide a store of limited information, which includes a database of human languages but also information on the location of six research stations from which generations of cousins have monitored human evolution for millennia with periodic expeditions. These stations frame the plot as they learn how to use them while they travel the world interacting with people and cultures through deep time, and come to devise a plan to use their unique situation to prepare for the day when they return to current times to set in motion a series of events to transform radically the course of human history, sending humankind on a quest to recapture its lost kinship with the world that surrounds them. The only obstacle to their plan, besides the obvious hazards of such a long lifespan, is a branch species of humanity that has preyed upon humans for all time, and who have grown in numbers to threaten the very existence for all; blending into the human race in its long migration through time, they have become virtually invisible and wield great power. Mia and Hugh must counter the Kapalna's growing interest in them in a final sprint to today, and a great awakening.

This is the 4th clusters of poems in the To Peace I Have Traveled books. It guides people to appreciate simple things like birds, butterflies, bees, blooms and blossoms. Nina's vivid imagination is in every poems she writes. When you read her poems, you are carried by her story telling to a point where you see and feel what she is saying. This is the book you want if you are looking for peace. When you follow Nina in her writing, you are following peace and traveling with peace.

Rachelle Mitchell has strong roots in Tennessee and wanted to capture the strong bond she had with her grandparents, family and friends. The Giant Sweet Potato is an imaginary way to illustrate a tasty treat and the beauty of Brazilian Ocarina instrument that plays like a flute.

Most books on vegetarianism focus on the external: why to choose vegetarianism, how to navigate the world as a vegetarian, recipes. With The Way Of Vegetarianism, Selfhood, And The Beyond, Steven Arthur Collier, PhD, goes a different, exciting direction. He has written a book for vegetarians and nonvegetarians alike that focuses instead on the internal, that answers the question we all must ask: "Who am I?"Drawing on Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Zen, Judaism, Christianity, and more spiritual belief systems, along with his more than thirty-five years as a psychotherapist (most of which as a licensed clinical psychologist), and nearly half a century of vegetarianism, Collier walks the reader through deep self-discovery, rediscovery, and self-realization. To help, he introduces his own illustrated experiential selfhood technique: The Experiential Adjunctive Selfhood Technique (E.A.S.T.). We all are victims of habit, but an expanded consciousness of the core of the self can bring about a freeing degree of choice.Collier's writing is a celebration of a new way of being, of an end to all animal suffering, including our own, of a guidance system for both the here and the hereafter-one of less anxiety, guilt, depression, emptiness and more fulfillment, self-esteem, purpose, connection, and behaviors representative of true self.

After a tragic accident, Prince the cat leaves his home and travels to Cat Landea to find his father. He finds the world in chaos, endangered by a wicked cat named Black Master. The World Behind the Waterfall is an epic fantasy tale of danger and battles in which Prince attempts to save his home, new friends, and the love of his life. Will Cat Landea be set free of Black Master at last, or will the world drown in flames?

Lupin, a man with a promise and past. Luna, a woman who lost the last of her family. Both have been found by the Night tribe leader. One over the words of an old woman. The other from his unique gift.

Fosston, northern Minnesota, my hometown, I was 20 years old when I received the registered letter from Uncle Sam and then I was off to Basic Training in Fort Hood, Texas. They soon molded me into a Foot Soldier for the Infantry, and I experienced a horrible tragedy while there. Next, I was on a troop ship and a miserable ride across the Pond to Bamberg, Germany, and my new home. A Company of the elite 15th infantry and all its history. I was one of the 26 young men in the 2nd Platoon and we were from all parts of American and of different nationalities. We were a Band of Brothers, just following orders on Uncle's mundane training and marking the days off our calendars. Maneuvers in the boondocks, wandering around for miles and then dig foxholes, and take cat naps in them. And then spend days cleaning our gear, getting ready for the Saturday morning inspection, Border Guard, and the Alerts.... was this practice or did the Cold war suddenly become another Pearl Harbor? And Holts, our mascot in the 2nd Platoon, with his bad attitude being forced to work for Uncle and his hyena laugh. Hohelfels twice a year for intense training, the Wild Pigs and then the Trek back to A Company. Six weeks of leave at different times, from Oslo to Rome. East and West Berlin and talking to the people that went through WW2. And it was déjà vu that I went TDY in the Post Band. Then it was another rough ride back across the Pond and finally it was 260 miles hitchhiking back home. The two-year adventure and the intermission in my life was one I will never forget, and it make me really appreciate that I was born in America.