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Sitting in his cramped basement room in Brixton, Battersby dreams of money, women, a T-bone steak - and a place to call his own. So he and a group of friends decide to save up and buy a house together. But amid grasping landlords, the temptations of spending money and the less-than-welcoming attitude of the Mother Country, can this motley group of hustlers and schemers, Trinidadians and Jamaicans, men and women make their dreams a reality?

Noa loves to watch the elephants play in the water near his small village in East Africa. One day tragedy strikes, and the baby is left all alone, his mother killed by poachers. When Noa and his village adopt the lonely orphan, a beautiful friendship is born. Until one stormy night when Noa may need his friend to save him, too.

Are you looking for a natural way to ensure that your little one goes to sleep quickly and is able to rest longer? This is a common struggle for parents. It can be difficult to convince your child to relax at the end of the night. A child's natural instinct is to fight the sleep they so desperately need. What if I told you that your bedtime pains are over?

Awaken your chakras to heal yourself and live in harmony - here's how! Do you feel tired, distracted, or anxious most of the time? Do you suffer from chronic pain that your doctor can't treat? Do you feel as if something was weakening you from the inside? It's time to learn more about chakras and reclaim your health!

This book was written for every boy, so that each may know how precious he is - no matter how different he feels, where he's from, or what unique things might make him happy. Wishing every precious boy comfort, acceptance, and love as they listen and enjoy this book, and throughout their life.

Elmore Thaddeus Nix, it's retirement time. Take that final physical and then it's adios to your old life and hello to the new. Wait. Not so fast. Sorry, Elmore. Your plan's about to change. It's Elmore's last day of work. As part of his retirement, he heads to the family doctor for the follow-up to a routine physical. That's when the universe shifts on its axis. Cancer. Then we find out that Elmore's wife lies at home with only days to live. The stroke of injustice falls hard.

Joseph McCabe, an ex-Catholic monk, is a remarkable thinker: radical, heretical, and a futurist who saw how science would upend religious dogmatism, particularly as it relates to Darwinian evolution. This small book contains two pregnant essays from McCabe's vast array of publications, which touch upon the conflict between science and religion and how a new form of ethics can be based on rational inquiry.

Joseph shows himself as God's loyal leader as a young man in Israel with his family and then in his life in Egypt. He suffers in so many situations. However, he loves God, and he knows God is with him. Joseph does what is right in God's eyes, and God gives him many good things in return. He proves himself to be God's loyal leader. This book will inspire young boys and girls everywhere to be good leaders for God.

It’s so easy to get lost in the day-to-day grind of life and lose the momentum you had built for success. You get so busy working for a living that you find you don’t have any time to work on what you value the most - your dreams, passion projects, business ideas, and of course, time with your family and friends. So many people wake up one day and realize how much time has gone by, and they haven’t done the things they dreamed about when they were younger. If that’s a problem you can identify with, then this book is for you.

Smolif traces the fortunes of Contra Marlo, a retired, alcoholic security specialist. Contra was the best before he dropped out and became a full-time drunk. When a company rep offers him a job, Marlo must deal with sobriety, inexperienced team members, a lack of information, as well as the dangers of an alien world and the man who would be king of that world.

Heal your body and mind easily with these essential chakra meditations!Would you like to: Bring harmony to your body and mind? Awaken your body's self-healing powers? Improve your health in just a few minutes a day? Then read on because you're about to learn something very valuable! You're about to learn an ancient healing technique that has been around for thousands of years. With this technique, you can reduce chronic pain, boost your mental health, rebalance your hormones and literally get the body to heal itself.

Is your child wild about dinosaurs? No one quite understands why so many kids go through a “dinosaur phase.” It may be because they are extinct and although they may have been huge and hungry, they are harmless to a child since they no longer exist. These mysterious and powerful creatures interest many children and are a fun and exciting way to introduce relaxation, mindfulness and meditation. There is nothing as powerful as this to help refocus, regulate and relax the human brain.

Remember that you can't run away from most stress factors. Even if you change your terrible job and move miles away from people you can't stand, you'll meet other annoying people and other job-related challenges. Trying to eliminate every stressful thing in your life is a waste of effort. Instead, focus on learning some time-proven coping strategies.

Our culture values being a busy, hyper-productive multitasker. However, trying to fulfill these expectations often leads to depression, anxiety, and never-ending emotional pain. But you deserve to be calm, happy, and healthy. So...how do you calm down and reboot your tired mind without giving everything up and going to live in a Buddhist monastery? You meditate. Meditation will help you overcome anxiety and depression. By reducing stress, it will help you rebalance your hormones and keep your heart healthy. In short, meditation isn't a fad - it's a must!

Impress your friends and make dad proud by reciting these funny jokes; they won't be able to control their laughter! Never be bored again with hundreds upon hundreds of amusing jokes that will blow your mind.

Deep in the jungles of the Venezuelan Rainforest, a dying phytopharmacologist has begun a search that could change the fate of humanity forever. Joining depraved scientists and ruthless mercenaries, he seeks to overcome humanity's one common enemy: Mortality. Meanwhile, plans have been laid by an eco-revolutionary group, led by rebel Faye Moanna, to put an end to the illegal deforestation taking place in the Amazon. But her true motives may compromise much more than their sociopolitical agenda.

This the story of the horrific life of a 12-year-old boy, enduring abuse no child should ever face, the lure of organized crime, descent into the brutal and violent world of a feared mob enforcer, and the power of resilience. This story casts a light onto the ebb and flow of the dark side of American society; a look at the forces that play havoc with the lives that go adrift on the streets of all our cities. And how one man found a way out against staggering odds.

Meet the Crotchets, the quintessential American family; so perfect, that complete strangers decide to learn from them...at gunpoint. But these psychotic kidnappers offer no motive; want no ransom. They are here only to "observe". What begins as a harmless experiment soon escalates into a maddening descent as the very definition of "family" is torn asunder. As the Crotchets fight for their lives, they'll learn the consequences for both action and inaction are more frightening than they could imagine.

On September 12, 2001, Michele Harris went missing from a small town in upstate New York. She has never been found, and the mystery surrounding her disappearance remains. Four years after she went missing, her wealthy husband Cal Harris was arrested and charged with her murder. With neither a body nor a murder weapon, Cal was shockingly tried and convicted of her murder. Then, new evidence surfaced. His conviction was overturned, and a new trial granted. But once again, he was convicted and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. That conviction, too, was overturned on appeal.

Peter Jones was a meched out club kid who went missing, and finding him should have been easy. It was supposed to be a piece of cake. Unfortunately for Darien O’Neil, there’s no such thing as a piece of cake, and Peter has disappeared into the Zone.