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June came to the city on the back of hopes and dreams. Now, a year later, she finds herself having to confront the reality of her failures, of the inability of her talent to raise her any higher than the levels of abject despair and poverty. Ready to call it a day, she makes the decision to travel back to her small-town Michigan home in the least conventional way possible. She decides to walk home.

In this guidebook and sequel to Preparing for My First Cockatiel, author Laurel A. Rockefeller explores how to enhance your birds’ lives so they live well beyond the “senior bird” threshold of 10 years old. Diet is covered extensively, along with how to improve your birds’ home environments for the challenges older birds face. As with Preparing for My First Cockatiel, Senior Cockatiel is filled with personal stories and science, exploring what a cockatiel is and how to live a long and very happy life with your best friend.

Lost in the rubble of a society long dead, a small group of survivors forages for what supplies are left to be found. Their explorations will lead to a fatal confrontation as their paths cross with one young man with a death wish. The story of what drove him to that place on that day is one that will change their outlook forever on their increasingly bleak existence on the landscape of a newly alien world.

Have you always wanted to build your own business? Want to mitigate risks and build a successful business? Don't know where to start? This book can help you find realistic answers. How to Start a Business from an Idea is a must-listen for anyone pursuing entrepreneurship. This book explains how to systematically validate business ideas to increase the chance of success for a new venture.

As Escape from Extinction opens, the last Neanderthal dies in a cave on the Iberian Peninsula. Thirty thousand years later, the naturalist Muir O'Brien, hunting deep in the Oregon wilderness, spots a fern believed to be extinct since the end of the last ice age. His discovery leads to a life-changing encounter with the visionary and narcissistic Leo Bonelli, founder of the world's most successful biotech company.

This book contains steps and techniques which will enhance your ability to open your mind to a new way of thinking, and ultimately living. Using positive energy and thoughts we can achieve anything we really desire. You can arm yourself with knowledge to manifest an abundance of wealth, an amazing healthy lifestyle, and bring you wonderful new relationships and enhance old ones too.

Grady has led a serene and perfect life within the Compounds, self-sustaining living units that are sealed off from the rest of the world. His existence has been comfortable, having never wanted or desired anything that wasn't provided for him. All of that is about to change.

There are other worlds all around us. Every day, there are near brushes with those worlds, though we rarely know it. Sometimes, the bubbles of existence that compromise everything we know and don't know come close enough to collide. Sometimes they merge and become defined as each other. Those other worlds can be seen in the abrupt acts of violence perpetrated upon the unsuspecting. It can be as simple as the sudden, darker aspects of the people we encounter in our lives. Those other worlds can be glimpsed in the random moments of impossibility we seem fated to encounter.

Every organization, regardless of the industry, possesses a hidden operational treasure. It exists everywhere and is embedded in each and every process. Unlike a shiny coin, this raw gold is dull and dirty, providing no reason to be noticed, but it’s there. There are “process jewels” buried deep inside your day-to-day activities - rough and uncut, just below the surface, but they are there. The potential they possess can only be realized when you find them, but their combined value is beyond estimation.

Kirk Murphy was burdened with guilt from a past mistake that took the life of his girlfriend Sarah. For years, he struggled with this burden, finding no relief from its grip. Kirk is invited to a small town in South Dakota to join a secret order that will start him on an amazing journey to discovering who he truly is and the redemption that has eluded him for so long.

Emotional intelligence is crucial to succeeding in the modern world. In an economy based almost entirely on services, you need to be able to key in quickly and efficiently to the emotional states or needs of those around you. This is necessary in order to understand how to best serve not only yourself but the other person, as well.

After trying over and over again to find a new job, Olivia Meyer hops on the plane to attend a presentation by an employment guru, Kara Kingsley, hoping that listening to Kingsley will solve all her problems. The presentation takes place at the Blue Bird Summit in Miami, Florida. On the way to the summit, Olivia meets people who teach her important lessons and provide a fresh perspective.

A house in the mountains, the roads to and from it impassable. The perfect place for best-selling author Peter’s annual holiday; a refuge from the pressures of life and an opportunity to recharge his creative batteries in solitude. A dream location. Except this year, something else has taken residence on the snow-covered slopes, something filled with malignant intent and a desire to kill. Driven by impulses beyond its ken, it seeks out the house in which Peter is staying and the writer soon finds himself in a battle with the deadliest of foes, a creature born of nightmares...

As the struggles of being a new entrepreneur were quickly mounting, giving him with the feeling of having bit off a lot more than he could chew, Peter reached out to his old friend in the hopes of gaining some much needed insight and mental stimulation. But he had no idea what was about to transpire or the grand discoveries he would receive.

In this thought-provoking historical and economic analysis, Laurel A. Rockefeller takes on poverty culture head-on, exploring what it means to be poor in the United States. She also takes a look at how America's closest, and much more economically successful, allies (Canada, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom) take care of their poor.

Dr. Shaye Fox has lost almost everyone and everything he loved, including his wife. Once a successful dentist with a passion for healing, he’s been stripped of his career, his self-esteem, and his reason for living. His life is a mess until one rainy night when Shaye finds a big white dog in the road. A dog in critical condition. A dog with a horrific secret. In his race to save the dog’s life, Shaye takes matters into his own hands. And when Shaye discovers that his dog companion is thousands of miles from home, it becomes his mission to return the dog to his rightful owners.

The mind-body connection is amazing. How closely our positive attitude matches what we can accomplish in our lives is backed by science. And while procrastination is caused by a variety of emotions, we can use theories that are based in science to learn how not to procrastinate. These theories and practices work. This is an interesting way to tackle an age-old problem that has plagued generations of people. Finally, in this audiobook, you will be able to listen to practical ways to help you or loved ones change some very annoying habits and develop an entirely new life.

Selling secrets are revealed in the audio that follows. They should be of immense value to anyone connected with the great profession known as retailing.

Everyone sees success in a different light. Some people seek to grow their income to a level where it is no longer important. Others want to eliminate the idea of money as a controller of their lives, preferring personal peace as a constant state of being. And yet, others desire a solid family and being surrounded by great friends, which makes life worth living. Then we turn to motivational books and seminars to help us achieve these goals, but these prosperity-mimicking religions are just as dangerous as gambling all of your money at a Vegas poker table in hopes of a winning return.

Ghosts. Aliens. Serial killers. Monsters. Any and all of these find their way into the stories contained within this volume. Taken from the Baked Scribe blog, these range from horror to science fiction to dark humor and any number of spots in between. Step into the imaginings of Chad A. Clark. Enjoy tales that are short enough to fit into your busy lives but heavy enough to stay with you, long after you hear the last word.