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A short Christmas love story of a woman who reunites with her high-school sweetheart.

There's no reason your money should be sitting in a bank account. By learning value investing, you can reap the rewards of consistent, reliable gains that can make you a millionaire by the time you retire. Don't just work for your money - put your money to work for you and retire in style.

I wrote this book because I want you to have a great experience building your new home or remodeling your existing home. It is possible. You don't have to listen to your friends who say, "Oh, remodeling is a nightmare," or "Building a house is a dreadful experience. I'll never do it." I don't want you to be in that category.

Rockets and Revolution offers a multifaceted study of the race toward space in the first half of the twentieth century, examining how the Russian, European, and American pioneers competed against one another in the early years to acquire the fundamentals of rocket science, engineer simple rockets, and ultimately prepare the path for human spaceflight.

After fatally shooting the Confederate sharpshooter who killed his best friend, Zach Harkin's sense of revenge changes to deep remorse when he views the dead man's diary and photo. Haunted, suffering from post-traumatic stress, and unable to serve, he is mustered out of service. With scant information, he begins an epic journey to search for the dead man's family. He is captured, imprisoned, tortured, and thoroughly tested as a human being, and after escaping, he never expects to find love in the war-ravaged South.

When random killings start happening around Centerville, Marvin (Marv) Henderson, Centerville's retired large-animal vet, now cowboy coroner, begins to see links that point to a serial killer with an unknown motive. With his friend, an elderly lady named Annemarie Smith, being one of the victims, nothing will stop Marv in his efforts to bring her murderer to justice, even when his own life is danger.

This book encourages men to father with the knowledge that they are vitally important to the futures of their children. National speaker Michael Byron Smith discusses the implications of a fatherless home, the challenges of parenting, and the hierarchy of fathers. There are absent fathers, present yet uninvolved fathers, authoritative fathers, loving fathers, teaching fathers, and many more.

Revenge is one of the great themes in literature, from Shakespeare to Poe. This collection contains 18 original stories commissioned for this volume plus a reprint of a classic Ruth Rendell mystery.

Before the Civil War had even begun, these young men, Zach and Luke, had already crossed paths while fishing in eastern Tennessee. After they parted ways, they never expected to later be pitted against each other in war - but, when Zach joined the Northern cause and Luke joined the Southern, that's exactly what happened. On the battlefields, each boy learns invaluable lessons about himself, and both contribute to the outcome of battles and, ultimately, to the war.

From the beginning of the Industrial Age and continuing into the twenty-first century, companies faced with militant workers and organizers have often turned to agencies that specialized in ending strikes and breaking unions. Although their secretive nature has made it difficult to fully explore the history of this industry, From Blackjacks to Briefcases does just that.

Tired of living below your hopes, capabilities, and expectations? Should you keep your business or "take the money and run"? What would you have others do? Discover the common mistakes that may have cost you success, happiness, and opportunity in the past...and how you can avoid them in the future. In the dazzling Town Hall discussion you'll learn the unexpected payoffs, prices and possibilities from this distinguished panel of business leaders.

A stunning first novel full of empathy, marked by an astounding maturity of insight. Cumberland is both a place and a state of mind; it is a small-town story of longing and loss in the manner of David Adams Richards. It is an exploration of loneliness and the fear of loneliness in lives limited by circumstance. Cumberland is an industrial town located halfway between Ottawa and Montreal on the shore of the St. Lawrence River. It's facing the close of its factories and mills in the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

The legendary Ice House Club celebrated it's 50th Anniversary with this live all-star comedy extravaganza. The recording of this momentous night features 8 national headliners in an amazing tribute that will be remembered as one of the strongest Comedy shows in history.

Our world is full of fear: fear of death, public speaking, flying, drowning, failure, rejection, snakes, needles, heights, darkness, enclosed places, and countless more. Satan uses fear to steal joy, kill opportunity, and destroy hope. God has an antidote: supernatural courage. Our favorite Bible heroes achieved results greater than their natural abilities because of bravery that came only from God.

This short book is for anyone who runs or markets an app – or other startup, scaleup or challenger brand – and wants to generate a ton of buzz, coverage and attention but without having a ton of money to do so. With over 1.5 million new apps launched every year – over 4,000 a day – it's never been harder to win attention by standing out in a noisy world; and never been more crucial to do so. It's a case study of how one small app won way more than its fair share of buzz and attention by using creative PR, guerrilla and viral marketing that helped it grow big.

A Vagabond Life is a true story of a family lost. Told by Michael, the oldest son, it chronicles the challenges that arise from a lack of nurturing and a deep hunger for fatherly attention. His father is a man with demons, no paternal instinct, and no desire to improve. Michael, however, longs for the tender, intelligent father often exposed when demons allow it. His mother means well, but her youth and lack of education or marketable skills leaves her struggling to keep a roof over her family's heads.

The novel "Fantaisie" takes place in 1946 post-war Europe, following Jan Orlinski, a former Polish RAF pilot, and his lover Sophie Gordon. Jan takes a job flying cargo missions from Paris to the Belgian Congo for a mysterious employer named Gerston, transporting what he believes is cobalt ore.

In The 5A's to Great Relationships, Michael J. Smith tackles one of the most fundamental aspects of life—our relationships—with insight, clarity, and practical advice, whether it's in our personal lives, professional settings, or even as parents, relationships are the foundation of our happiness and success, yet, they often feel like a constant challenge.

Everything in the world gets disrupted—industries, technologies, entire ways of life—but what about you? For too long, you've been living by inherited scripts—stories handed down by family, society, and tradition that dictate who you should be, what you should want, and how small you should stay. But here's the truth: There is nothing sacred about repeating the suffering of those who came before you. The Four Laws of Disruption is not a self-help book full of temporary fixes.

You ever feel like you’re thinking too much? Like you see what’s happening in the world—your life, this culture, these routines we swear by—and you just can’t pretend it makes sense?Good. Because same.I’m Karmen Michael Smith, your Overthinker-in-Chief, spiraling publicly so you don’t have to.This isn’t self-help. This isn’t hot takes. This is a disruption of the ordinary.One day, it’s the gym and why my body resists going.The next, it’s what happened to Starbucks?And sometimes? It’s calling out the cultural mess we’re all pretending not to see.No fake wisdom. No ...