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What kind of mess must your life be that you're actually relieved when you get kidnapped? I'm not saying the accommodations were stellar, but Stockholm's got me thinking the kidnapper is nice and his twin brother is delicious. Maybe my parents were on to something when they tried to have me exorcized. Sick of being dragged around all over, I kidnap my kidnapper's brother in order to get some answers. The answers I get aren't at all what I expect, and because I clearly don't know how to be normal, I'm starting to fall for Ewing, completely unable to let him out of my sight.

To catch the spider, he must become the fly.... When a serial killer takes his next victim and evades arrest for the third time, a police leak is suspected. An internal investigation is launched, and Detective Inspector Mark Debruin is identified as the lead suspect. However, with his dying daughter awaiting a transplant in hospital, and a prison sentence hanging over him, Debruin can ill afford to waste time. He has just one chance to prove his innocence and to save his daughter - he must find the killer before it’s too late.

I'm in love with my roommate and best friend. I know, I know. It's been done before. It’s stupid. It's a terrible position to put myself in. There is just something that keeps pulling me in his direction, and I can’t seem to break its hold. And I can't tell him either. Karney Hill is just too perfect and pure and all around way too good for me. So, I’m content to just be his friend for the rest of forever and enjoy the perfection of Karney in the only way available to me. But when his brother comes to Terra Mortis claiming Karney is betrothed to someone else, I claim him.

Whether it's kitsune running rampant in the museum, were-gorillas rampaging at the zoo, or a cupid wreaking havoc on her daughter's birthday party, Jess Friedman can handle any monster the supernatural community of Cleveland can throw at her. Except maybe the disapproving stares from the women at her daughter's day care. Or the awkward conversations with her rabbi about her working for the Catholic Church as a New Templar, hunting down the things that go bump in the night.

It’s been four weeks since the birthday from Hell, and Lyn’s life is finally getting back to normal. Or as normal as it can be for a P.I. with the ability to see demons. Then Sam comes back. It seems the wicked, sexy demon who shares her soul isn’t done using her. Good thing she’s determined to end him. But when Heaven sends an angel to assassinate her, Lyn’s determination goes up in smoke. Sam offers protection, but for how long, and at what cost? And why the heck does "The Big Man Upstairs" want her dead?

The procedure of rectal cleansing through an enema is not a new concept to any of us. While many of us may never have used it, there are others who swear by the benefits of having an occasional enema to get rid of accumulated waste material. The latest thing in rectal cleansing is the coffee enema. While enemas are done mostly with warm water, this one involves inserting coffee via the anus to cleanse the rectum and the large intestine.

Affirmations are a proven and tested method of self-improvement due to their ability to rewire your brain. Similar to exercise, they can raise the level of feel-good hormones and push your brain into forming brand-new clusters of positive thought. As far as the sequence of thought, speech, and action is concerned, the affirmations play a crucial role through breaking the patterns of negative thoughts, negative speech, and, ultimately, negative actions.

The wheat belly diet focuses on eliminating wheat in all forms, including other grains such as barley and rye. The main aim of this diet is to attain health and lose weight by eliminating certain foods. It is not about restricting calories or exercising or doing other things involved in most weight loss diets. It is about eliminating wheat and grains completely from your life and managing carbs depending on individual tolerance levels to manage your blood sugar levels and lose weight.

For those who are just starting to do great in life, they can find real lessons from the life of Steve Jobs who didn't have an affluent life or a memorable childhood, money, or an extravagant college experience. He began as a simple man who only wanted to accomplish something out of his dreams. He didn't have enough in life, only the ability to live and make use of the available resources around him.

Is gospel Christianity dead? Pundits are writing the obituary of historic, orthodox Christianity, but pastor and author J. D. Greear (Gospel, Stop Asking Jesus into Your Heart) believes the postmortems are premature. Jesus promised to build his church. He said that the gates of hell would not prevail against it. The church is not going away. Along with this promise, Jesus gave clear instructions for how the church would prevail. He promised to build it on the rock of the gospel.

When amassing wealth, you’ll have to consider stock investing, especially as a small private investor. At the top of your portfolio, the first strategy should be value investing, as it’s the fastest and safest way to grow your money. However, if you are like many beginners, you might be in the dark on how this tactic works…yet you need to have all the information before dipping your toes. Luckily for you, this guide features the A to Z of value investing to give you a head start on your investing journey.

J.D. Greear shows us how prayer was a nonnegotiable daily staple in Jesus’ life, more essential to him than eating or sleeping and, therefore, why we need to pray as well. He shows us how we can enjoy the same source of power as our Lord and the early church when we learn to "just ask" and depend on our heavenly Father as they did.

For years, I was a violent sociopath as a direct result of my childhood and then experiences as a soldier. My adventures in the methamphetamine culture certainly exacerbated that. I am not proud of this. I'm just saying what it is; that being said, this book will articulate that experience in a series of amusing anecdotes and thoughts that explain the important lessons that I learned during that time.

The 35th President of the United States was assassinated on a Friday afternoon and the 10-month long investigation into the incident ruled that Oswald acted alone in the crime. In 1979, however, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) ruled that it was possibly a conspiracy. This book is an attempt to look at the assassination and some of the different conspiracy theories about John F. Kennedy's death.

Over about two decades, the world has been intrigued by the brutal murder of a six-year-old pageant queen JonBenet Patricia Ramsey, who died in 1996 in her family's home in Boulder, Colorado. Up until today, strange events surrounding the mysterious case continue to make headlines and raise questions about the murder.

Are you wondering how Oprah was able to pull a very dramatic life transformation from an idle dreamer to a very popular and successful person? If you consider her to be your inspiration, why not consider her tips to attaining a newer height of success in life? In life, successful things always get started with a well-streamlined mixture of words and thoughts. Just don't go too far in your life but go too far to achieve to your dreams.

Made popular by the book The Secret and the movie by the same name, the law of attraction is quite simple. It just says that like attracts like. So, if you focus on bad things, you will attract disaster. If you focus on good things, you will attract happiness. But this is easier said than done. It sounds easy, but many people find it difficult when they try to follow this principle. They want something, they focus on the lack of it, and that's what they get...lack of it. This is where most people tend to go wrong....

Who says that only those celebrities are the most influential and most famous persons on Earth? Pablo Escobar is famous not because he is a celebrity, but because he was one of the most notorious and richest Colombian drug lords who has supplied over 80 percent of cocaine that was smuggled into the United States. Pablo Escobar was widely known in the world as the "King of Cocaine" and became a big name in the industry of black market when he became the wealthiest criminal who had ever lived; with an estimated net worth of about 30 billion US dollars way back in the early 1990s.

Prayer, or salah, in Islam is something amazing, and it's the way Muslims talk with Allah. Muslims make Salah every day, five times a day. It's a form of worship that was previously reserved only for prophets, yet during Muhammad's life, peace be upon him, Allah included any of the followers in this honorable and most distinguished group.

Infidelity can yield devastating consequences to a couple and is often the ultimate deal breaker, ahead of physical abuse and emotional unavailability. Yet more than half of married people decide to weather the storm than break their relationship. Unfortunately, the healing process from an affair isn't an overnight event, and even the most loving and committed couples can be accosted by painful feelings, resentment, and paralyzing guilt.