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Cheerful in the face of dark opposition. Innovative to improve a backward world. Industrial as a cure for oppressive conditions. Unyielding beneath all who seek to bind and control them. Faithful until they conquer the fear of death and rise to great acts of heroism and service. Mormons and steampunks are two faces of the same coin. Twelve authors spin tales of true believers facing impossible odds, risking this life in the hope of gaining something better after.

Threnody is an archaic word which has its roots in the Greek term, which means to sing a dirge, generally at a funeral or at the loss of a cherished person. In this volume, D. Scott Smith (author of Motivational Listener) provides vision and understanding that allows for comparison between the “good old days” and the present times. The nineteenth century seems so distant and unreal, almost as if there is no connection between the people of that era and ourselves. When listening to this book, you will be surprised at how much we have in common.

Terrifying Tales Unleashed is a menagerie of short stories covering many popular genres including horror, science fiction, and suspense/thriller. Cover the gamut in this gripping narrative by way of the buried alive, rats, bats, vampires, werewolves, zombies, aliens, ghosts, demons, and cannibals.

Being a motivational listener takes practice and is a set of skills you can apply on a daily basis. You will be interesting because you are interested. Confident people are more attractive and interesting. The practical skills you will learn in this audiobook will enable you to walk into any networking event full of confidence that others will recognize.

Part murder mystery, part courtroom drama, and part landmark legal case, The Third Degree is the true story of a young man’s abuse by the Washington police and an arduous seven-year journey through the legal system that drew in Warren G. Harding, William Howard Taft, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John W. Davis, and J. Edgar Hoover. The ordeal culminated in a sweeping Supreme Court ruling penned by Justice Louis Brandeis that set the stage for the Miranda warning many years later.

Feeling gratitude and expressing thanks to others is extremely important both for one's satisfaction and for better relationships with others. It involves having a positive outlook, accepting what is now, when you can't make any changes, being grateful for others' help, and giving to others. As The Gratitude Book describes, this outlook on life can take many forms, from gratitude for one's home and possessions to one's skills, job opportunities, business achievements, and relationships.

Since a key to success in email marketing is using emails to contact the decision maker, sometimes it can help to buy a list if you want to reach a large number of potential prospects. The Complete Guide to Email Marketing features the tools and techniques to use for this approach to gain visibility and credibility and build your business for more sales and profits.

A combination of books, blogs, articles, and promotional materials can help you build your business success in various ways. Turn Your Blogs and Talks into Books shows you how to do this, which will help you increase your credibility and authority, gain more recognition, grow your brand, and more!

Make More Money with Your Product or Service is about how to make more money from your products and services and the different programs you develop based on them. Part IV deals with advertising, PR, and the social media.

2016 Election Monster Myths was inspired by watching the growing battle against Donald Trump by the media, Republican establishment, Democrats, academics, minority groups, and many others. He has a disapproval rating of about two-thirds of the country. Yet he had continued to outpoll other candidates in this crazy election by appealing to the angry and disaffected, though he was once considered just a reality show entertainer and successful businessman.

Almost as soon as the last shot was fired in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the battlefield became an archaeological site. For many years afterward, as fascination with the famed 1876 fight intensified, visitors to the area scavenged the many relics left behind. It took decades, however, before researchers began to tease information from the battle's debris - and the new field of battlefield archaeology began to emerge.

Jane Austen spends her days writing and matchmaking in the small countryside village of Steventon, until a ball at Godmersham Park propels her into a new world where she yearns for a romance of her own. But whether her heart will settle on a young lawyer, a clever Reverend, a wealthy childhood friend, or a mysterious stranger is anyone's guess.

Belle Bishop, Queen of Witches, is a good witch. Her sister Angelica? Not so much. Belle rules her witchery kingdom using the ancient Wiccan Rede - An' it harm none, do what thy will,' while Angelica runs amuck, casting one mischievous spell after another. But this time, Angelica has gone too far. It's up to Belle and her former best friend, Atlas, the greatest wizard the earth has ever known, to save Belle's niece, Gia, from Angelica's magical mischief. If they don't, Gia will end up in The Summerland just like her mother...

Manhattan-raised, marketing and promotion impresario Audrey Holtz has taken her friend's belt buckles from Music City boutique favorites to home shopping channel wait-list-only items. But she's traded in her high-power stilettos for Sketchers ‘cause her feet are swollen and killing her. Pregnancy is a bitch, especially when you've assumed a false identity to dodge paparazzi on account of your Ponzi-scheming parents. Nashville TN homebuilder Damian Baker is screwed and not in the construction sense of the word.

Nicky Blane, a bestselling author and farmer-in-the-making, doesn't need to look far to find creative inspiration for his novels. His crazy-ass Aunt Liza, a wanna-be witch, lives next door. But this time, she's blown it big-time with a hex on her ex that's gone a wee bit awry. Think graveyards and voodoo dolls, spell-casting and cauldrons, potions, raw emotions, and more.

On a dark, damp Sunday evening, a man taking a shortcut home sees a hand reaching out in supplication from a bundle of sacks. In an instant he knows something terrifying has happened.

In the Highlands in the late 1950s, much of the local newspaper’s success was due to Mrs. Smart, the no-nonsense office manager who kept everything and everyone in line. Her murder leaves her colleagues in shock and the Highland Gazette office in chaos.

Manhattan apparel designer Roxy Rae Vaughn, who's also a still-in-the-closet, country line dancing queen, wants to be a fashion success story. Tired of being nothing more than a Fifth Avenue up-and-comer, thanks to her elitist parents, Roxy moves to Nashville, Tennessee and opens a boutique in a local tractor supply store, the only retail space she can afford. Short on cash and way, way down on luck, she rear-ends a pick-up truck belonging to a tomato-growin', bootscootin' cowboy.

This audiobook is a compiliation of the "The Stuck with A" series by authors D. D. Scott and David Slegg. The books included are: Stuck With A Schmuck, Stuck With A Stiff, Stuck With A Spell, and Stuck with Sleigh Bells.

The Stuck with a... Series is Castle-gone-country with the mom squad, Betty Boop, and My Cousin Vinny in the barnyard. But this ain't no ordinary barnyard. There's a lot more than a crazy rooster missing from the chicken coop, a bad ass cow causing a bunch of trouble, and a dog looking like a creature out of a storybook. There's a stiff too. A stiff - as in a dead guy - in a snow drift near the chicken coop. Things aren't lookin' too good for Nicky Blane, who owns the farm....

Author D. D. Scott is back...this time, with the third book in her new best-selling series co-authored with David Slegg. What if Santa had a double knee replacement and had to put his BFF Father Time and The Mom Squad's Grams in charge of The Big Red Ride? For Stuck with Sleigh Bells think Castle and Beckett, The Good Witch and Maxine in Whoville.