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Built on top of the old city cemetery, Denver Botanic Gardens sits upon thousands of unrecovered human remains. Small wonder, then, that visitors and staff alike have reported all manner of ghostly activity, ranging from disembodied voices, cold spots, and phantom footsteps, to shadow figures and full-bodied apparitions. Are the spirits of the restless dead making their presence known to the living?

Private Detective Jazz Singer is enjoying a peaceful card game when a series of deadly explosions rip through the heart of Xeno City. Jazz has friends among the dead and wounded and he vows to make those responsible pay. As the bodies and the questions begin to pile up, along with Jazz’s mounting dinner bill, he is forced to use whatever means necessary to get to the bottom of things. Even if that means putting those he cares about in the line of fire.

I designed and started to write The Ancestor in the Mirror as a cross-curricular material while I was working as a Earth Space Science and Biology teacher in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida. The main point was to provide support to a group of ELL students who were struggling with different subjects. I started to gather information in 2012 and finished my research when I moved to Boston, Massachusetts.

Changing your career doesn't have to be some big scary thing that leaves you frozen in place for years on end. You don't have to continue to sit there, just dreaming of a better life. With the market expanding at never-before-seen rates and new job opportunities arising around every corner, there has never been a better time to earn a living doing exactly what you love to do, and nothing else.

What if your job was something you looked forward to every day? Something that got you excited each morning? Are you someone who feels truly fulfilled with their career? If you’re anything like the 53 percent of Americans who are unhappy with their workplace, then the answer to this above question is probably a “no”. It’s time for you to establish a career for yourself that you are truly excited about. Something you can’t wait to tell your friends and family during the holidays. Something that leaves you feeling like you have control of your life!

Xeno City, a cross roads in a sprawling multi-species galaxy, is also a city brimming with greed, corruption and murder. Wading through this murky cesspool is J. Azize "Jazz" Singer. A private detective pursuing an honest, or not so honest, buck. When Jazz is told of the death of his childhood friend, Erta L’Hotzuma, a death the local law fails to investigate, he sets out to find out who is responsible and why. His investigation, however, soon meets strong and violent resistance and he begins to suspect he has stumbled onto something bigger than just the death of a friend.

This is a new edition of Yone Noguchi’s classic text, The Spirit of Japanese Art. Excerpt from the Introduction: "When I left home toward a certain Doctor’s who had promised to show me his collection of chirography and art, the unusual summer wind which had raged since midnight did not seem to calm down; the rain-laden clouds now gathered, and then parted for the torrent of sunlight to dash down. I was most cordially received by him, as I was expected; in coming under threat of the weather I had my own reasons."

How much longer will you stay at a job that you hate, wasting away your skills, your potential, and your life? Why do you remain stuck in your career, afraid to leave the spider web of a job that does not excite you and motivate you to show up each day? The answer is quite simple - most of us are afraid of change. Becoming unstuck professionally and pursuing your dreams doesn’t have to be incredibly difficult, threatening, or impossible. You’re capable of a lot more than you realize - right now! To seek your dream employment, you will simply need to start working on yourself.

Within a year, Earth would be a vassal world, with the Sirian invaders triumphant. Only Standish, Earth's Defense Engineer, could halt that last victorious onslaught — and he was helpless, the lone survivor of a prison shipwrecked in uncharted space!

This small book contains the essence of the "Yoga of Unknowing" which is the realization that as humans we will always have limited knowledge and following the lead of Nicholas of Cusa we should learn to be cognizant of our ignorance and thereby become more enlightened in the process. Also included is the essay "The Mystery of the Eight Realms" which touches upon how virtual reality technology is our own technological Plato's Cave and how understanding VR, MR, and AR can help us better understand consciousness.