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In the playful style of Tom Robbins, Ed Abbey, and Kurt Vonnegut, Shawn Hartje’s Pipeliner is a laugh-out-loud journey through ‘90s culture. Idaho, 1993: Seventeen-year-old Jason Krabb falls for a girl from the other side of town who’s mixed up with a ragtag crew of pipeliners bringing gas lines through the high desert. Jason’s hilariously naive struggle to distinguish himself as one of the crew while attempting to leave his mark on the ‘90s grunge scene is a stirring reflection on adolescence.

This book will cover DNA links to convictions and acquittals. The long link of DNA evidence is vast. That many convictions were overturned because of DNA evidence or that many years after convictions individuals were set free. Privacy issues are also in question. Many countries have different regulations due to new laws surrounding the length of time that DNA is stored. The varying strands of this innovative forensic evidence collection is also in jeopardy.

Folklore of the Indigenous people of Canada. The stories shared here tell of all the folklore from Coast to Coast. Sharing Toronto, Vancouver, to Ottawa, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland. From West Coast to East Coast telling of "Sasquatch" and "Great Bear Run", Northern Lights, Yukon Lights etc. Ghosts and Eerie spirits abound in this Canadian tale of the past. Explaining the beliefs of the Indigenous people of Canada.

Becoming a dad is like unlocking a new level in the game of life – exciting, challenging, and completely transformative. Every journey starts with a step, and this book is that step towards a more confident, joyful, and balanced fatherhood.

Sal Benedict has become one of the most powerful mob bosses of all time. He's an understated man who lives frugally with his wife. But he's also highly temperamental, and he's about to confront an issue that'll make him go through the roof. Someone has kidnapped his son Johnny, a gifted young student at Harvard Medical School. The Irish mob has been taking family members of Italian gangsters for some time, but no one has been dumb enough before to sign their own death warrant like this.

Atopar os obxectos do estoxo obrigoume a superar todas as barreiras que mantiñan represados os recordos. Os muros saltaron con violencia e, igual ca nun tsunami de lembranzas, volvéronme os feitos que esquecerá na adolescencia. Un tsunami de recordos, os mesmos que escribín durante as horas desta noite. Os que ninguén crería, se chegasen algún día a se divulgar.

Suffocating from boredom and bureaucracy in a low-level corporate job, he was starved for adventure. By fate or happenstance, a hidden door led him into a secret underground room the likes of which he had never imagined possible. Surrounded by cascading waterfalls of reflected light and oddly sentient plant beings, he knew he'd found his new obsession. There was just one problem: it was all against the law.

Nearly 25 years ago a comprehensive study of ways women lead was conducted by the non-profit organization, ATHENA International. The findings were clear and powerful. From them, the ATHENA Leadership Model was structured and has become the gold standard for great leaders and the building blocks for success in today’s global economy.

Embark on a transformative journey with "365 Daily Affirmations: Cultivating Mindfulness, Motivation, and Success," a powerful tool designed to reshape your thinking and inspire a more fulfilling life. This insightful book is your daily companion, offering a year's worth of thought-provoking and uplifting affirmations to guide you through each day with renewed positivity and purpose.

Secure friendships, social confidence, stress-free lunch times... It all awaits you! You’re in school for around 180 days a year, which means 180 lunchtimes. How does that make you feel? Are you someone whose heart races when the bell rings for lunch? Sure, you’re ready to eat and not think about math, but the lunch hour can be more stressful than math. Maybe you have conflicting friendship groups, and every choice seems wrong, or perhaps you’re used to standing on the sidelines, trying to start a conversation, terrified of rejection.

As historias de terror teñen o efecto de remover nos seres humanos os medos atávicos que a civilización tenta ocultar baixo a aparencia da razón, a ciencia e o control. Mais todos sabemos da existencia de feitos que contradín toda lóxica, de realidades que fan abanear as nosas crenzas, por moito que pechemos os ollos e nos neguemos a admitilas. Nas páxinas deste libro, Agustín Fernández Paz mergúllanos en seis historias que traspasan «as fronteiras do medo».

The Happiness Manual: A Guide to Your Daily Self-Mastery is an empowering handbook boasting a collection of inspirational stories and transformative practices designed to help you overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of experiencing more happiness in your life.

"In "Twilight of Empires," the gripping second installment of the World at War series, the fragile veneer of global peace is shattered, plunging the world into an abyss from which there may be no return. Following a super-pandemic that tested the limits of human resilience, an EMP attack over the UK and the US casts a long shadow across the globe, signaling the onset of a conflict engineered in the shadows by Chinese propaganda artists. Their meticulous plans, woven through years of deceit and manipulation, have finally borne fruit, thrusting the world into an orchestrated chaos.