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Before Indian casinos sprouted up around the country, a few enterprising tribes got their start in gambling by opening bingo parlors. A group of women on the Oneida Indian Reservation just outside Green Bay, Wisconsin, introduced bingo in 1976 simply to pay a few bills. Bingo not only paid the light bill at the struggling civic center but was soon financing vital health and housing services for tribal elderly and poor.

It is February of 1865; the Civil War has been going on for five years now. Flaxen-haired and blue-eyed Miriam Hanner Clarke is widowed at age 28 after her husband, Burton, went to serve in the war and was killed in battle. She fills her days of dealing with his loss by working in the dormitory, which has been turned into a hospital. No longer the quiet, shy, stuttering girl she was when she arrived, Miri is now a competent young woman who is determined to ease suffering in any way she can.

Gracie Kennedy first came across “Billy the Bully” Becker in the woods, when she was seven. He had frightened her terribly that day but ended up taking her home. As a little girl, lost in the woods, that was what made her believe in him. Now called “William,” Billy is a deputy in the sheriff’s department who is given some of the most challenging cases to solve. Yes, he has grown up; but he’s not at all sure that Gracie has. She has come back full of disrespect and quite unladylike language, something he is not at all inclined to put up with.

In Valkyrie the story continues from Vickie where she engages with an evil corporate game played on poor people. Vickie will risk all to do what she is always compelled to do. Circumstance and destiny collide as she influences many lives and gains the attention of others. The powers at many levels feel the ripples of her influence. The story takes Vickie almost in two directions as she works to make things right.

The Joys of Travel is a nonfiction audiobook about a small-town-born-and-raised girl who finds a career that leads her on many humorous travel adventures. As her friends would say, "This could only happen to you, Julie."

Magical Money Manifestations is a practical and spiritual guide for women to have more money, more freedom, and more joy in their lives. It covers money mindset, changing beliefs, and what it takes to go from poverty to riches. The purpose is to create a money movement that will empower individuals to take the first steps necessary to succeed in life and in business. The listener will experience a dramatic change in how they think.

Each book in the series stands alone as Vic/Tim, which is number 4 in the series timeline, actually was the first book written. When it was written people asked how Vickie got her start so the series began. Vickie in this book is in the prime of her life and is assaulted by a man named Tim hence the title of the book; Vickie and Tim. Vickie decides to use her unusual and unique method of revenge on Tim. However things are not as simple as they seem and their lives become intertwined.

Vickie is the beginning of her story yet through the tragedies of life, she finds a way to victory. She is young, pretty with eyes like violet. She is a victim to some and a Valkyrie to others. Her journey takes her places few live through but her character is powerful and persevering. She gains wisdom from some while utilizing the techniques of her own ingenuity to affect lives. To herself, she is only Vickie but to many others a powerful force. The journey begins here with Vickie and will give you understanding what has made her.

Feisty little schoolteacher, Cinderella Barton, is quite tired of Deputy Henson Andrews telling her what to do. She came to Strasburg to take her first teaching position, and he begins lecturing her the first week, despite her efforts to ignore him. She moves from one boarding home to another, and at the end of the school year, she is forced to move into "Lady Angelica's Home Away from Home for Ladies" in the middle of the night for safety. Once there, she finally feels safe for the first time in months.

Angelica Dawson's fiery temper often flared as red as her hair. But finding out from her Uncle Thomas that she was totally without options for her home and future, took the wind completely out of her sails. He was bringing a prospective husband to meet her the following day. All she knew about him was that he was wealthy, and that her uncle thought he would be kind to her.

Most people feel their life is missing something. They feel less than they could be. There is a reason for this general unhappiness. The good news is: you can change it. Coyote Dreaming shows how civilization is out of balance and a fundamental change of mind is necessary to allow many, for the time, to understand psychological and emotional discomforts with which they suffer because they cannot fit into the hole society created for them.

"Don't call me unless I call you. Don't tell your friends about me. And definitely do not tag me on social media." These were some of the rules that barista Mikaela Johnson had to live by whilst she was dating billionaire Justin Henderson. This is a billionaire romance with plenty of twists and turns that will keep you listening all the way to the end. If you want to hear a romance that will keep you guessing till the end, then this is it!