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In the year 2038, there’s only one destination that can play host to the world’s wealthiest adventure seekers: the Pengalaman Island Resort and Virtual Reality Theme Park. Located on a private South Pacific island, guests here live out their wildest fantasies in custom-made virtual reality simulations while also enjoying the usual amenities of an exclusive five-star getaway. All is relatively breezy until famed billionaire and avid guest, Mr. Wagner, goes missing within a virtual simulation. His only hope? A daring rescue led by Derek Ambrose and his ragtag search party.

We oftentimes look towards the outside world to find the roots of our problems. However, most of the times, we should be looking inwards. Our mind and our emotions determine our state of being in the present moment. If those aspects are left unchecked, we can get easily overwhelmed and are left feeling unfulfilled every single day.

365 Quotes to Live Your Life By will be more focused than other quote books, allowing you to keep your mind on what is most important and helping you produce real and long-lasting positive changes in your life. This collection of great quotes comes from a diverse range of great people - men and women from the East to the West, from ancient to modern times, from artists to philosophers to scientists to entrepreneurs, and more.

NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic-Programming and this is used to model successful people, managers and leaders. And if you model successful people correctly, you’ll get the same results as they have, for example: a higher productivity and income.

The Practice of the Presence of God is a collection of writings and teachings from Brother Lawrence. Brother Lawrence - originally named Nicolas Herman - was a friar in France who worked in the 1600s. Brother Lawrence’s teachings focused on encouraging his students to seek out the presence of God in the everyday. Through living a life of obedience, humility, and piety, Lawrence posits that humans are able to interact and live in communion with God.

In an ancient Indian kingdom, a man named Siddhartha embarks on a journey from his home and family to seek spiritual enlightenment. Siddhartha gives up all belongings and wealth, becomes a homeless beggar, and focuses on meditating on the teachings of Buddha. Siddhartha’s travels take him all around the country, meeting new people and living a life of contemplation, until he meets Kamala, the most beautiful woman he has ever seen.

Marcus Aurelius' Meditations is the philosopher's writing on his personal philosophies and private life. The book is made up of 12 books that Marcus Aurelius used to outline his ideas for self-improvement and guidance.

Characters that are passed down through history are larger than life, and Paul Bunyan is a fabled figure whose stories have been passed between generations and grown to epic proportions throughout time. The legendary giant lumberjack accompanied by trusty Babe the Blue Ox is a classic character whose legends have lived for over a hundred years. This collection of stories includes classics like: "Babe the Blue Ox", "The Birth of Paul Bunyan", "Paul Bunyan Tames the Whistle River", "Paul Bunyan and the Frozen Flames", and "Paul Bunyan and the Log Jam".

This book was designed to make the journey of breaking overthinking accessible to everyone. Each obstacle is presented as a chain and by breaking the five chains of overthinking, you can free your mind and rediscover yourself. I’m going to be honest with you. It’s not going to be easy. Overthinking is something most people have become accustomed to and the sacrifices required to break the chains of overthinking are significant. This book won’t give you results overnight because it’s simply not possible.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a book by David Hume, a philosopher from the 18th century. Hume is known for being an empiricist philosopher, meaning he believed that sensory experiences and solid evidence are all that matters when it comes to knowledge. Empiricism posits that rationalism and empirical evidence are required to truly be able to “know” anything, that no knowledge is inherent to humans and every person is a blank slate until they gain experiences.

People around you consider you a very nice person. Your colleagues know they can ask you for help, because they know you will get it done in time. But for important decisions your colleagues go to someone else. They skip asking for your take on the situation. Sometimes in meetings you wait for the right moment to give your opinion, after a while you grab you chance but almost nobody pays attention. You realize that your behavior is not going to bring you far. You want to do something about it. You have come to the right place.

Did you know that a lot of the videos, pieces of training and books from today's famous productivity and self-help gurus like Tony Robbins and Tim Ferris are based on the practical advice of the ancient stoics? Both gurus credit their current success on embracing stoic principles in their life and business. It's safe to say that Stoicism survived the test of time.

A toe-curling, breath-holding, binge-worthy romantic suspense collection.

After an unencumbered 12-year career as an international jewel thief, Gregg Hadyn let his guard down—for love—and was caught. Expecting to spend the next 15 years in a federal penitentiary, Gregg is stunned when his nemesis, covert intelligence Director Denny Garret, makes him an offer too good to refuse: serve his sentence outside of prison in exchange for stealing for the US government.

The battle for Templar has only just begun. The city is under attack by a mysterious woman in a purple cloak who wields an extraordinary elemental power: Every few hours, a sustained lighting column strikes the city, slowly draining the lives of everyone it touches with its deadly, crackling energy bolts.

International Jewel Thief Gregg Hadyn is stealing diamonds, and he can’t be caught. But when Gregg “accidentally” kidnaps Special Operative Carly Macklin during a heist, he finds that he escapes with more than he bargained for. As Gregg wrestles with attraction for Carly versus a career that puts them squarely at odds, Strategic Intelligence Response Unit Director Denny Garret, who is also the former FBI agent who chased Gregg unsuccessfully for 12 years—and is now Carly’s boss in the SIRU—renews his commitment to apprehend the notorious thief.

Borrowing its title from an old Anglican prayer, Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time is a series of stories and vignettes that reflect on a world searching for peace after World War I. These stories span topics from passionate affairs between soldiers and nurses to the thrills and spectacle of bullfighting. Many of the stories in the collection are presenting as counterparts to one another, playing off of similar themes with different framing techniques.

Claire Maltisse, computer hacker extraordinaire, is accustomed to playing dangerous games…online. But her work as part of the Rider team thrusts her into the forefront of physical danger. When she’s targeted for extermination by the Titan private security team, she must forge unlikely allies and rely on her own savvy skills to bring down the enemy. But her life and her heart are on the line.

If you too are in a place where you don’t see any light at the end of the tunnel, then let me introduce you to a revolutionary discovery that changed my life: the vagus nerve. New research has revealed that this miracle nerve is the missing link to treating depression and anxiety and other incurable diseases such as Alzheimer’s and epilepsy.

Believed to be dead. John Remington is resurrected after two years of being held captive by the men who had employed him. They’ve failed in breaking him, but one last secret exposed will either give them what they want...or revenge will become his sole motivation to survive his torture. His assassination skills will be perfected, tried, and implemented on innocent people in order for him to be released. He has to prove to them that they’ve broken him and he’ll be loyal to their cause. The target is the President of the United States.