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A cautionary new fable for ages six to eight. This is a story about a lazy rabbit and a sensible vole who join up to travel through a barren land where foxy bandits lurk. Follow their journey to find out the grim consequences of laziness and who survives.

A shocking tale of secrets, guilt, and clerical child abuse. “God has made you special, but I will show you how to have an extraordinary life. Show you true love, as God intended for our kind.” It’s 1978. Blackburn Hamlet is a typical suburban village in eastern Ontario. In this vibrant Catholic community, life revolves around family and church. Then the safe comfort of both is destroyed by the arrival of a predator priest.

One year later, Silverstone is trying to forget what happened. Rosalie, however, simply can't. Especially not when she's attacked in her own home. Now, the threats are greater than ever, and Rosalie has no choice but to fight back. She'll have plenty of help, but will it be enough? In this riveting follow-up to Teressa J. Martin's debut novel, follow Rosalie as she faces even greater threats and challenges. She'll meet new and exciting characters and be pushed to her limit. You won't want to miss it!

It so happened that a big ship went down in a terrible storm. By chance and good fortune, Rat, Mouse, and Gerbil scrambled safely into an empty lifeboat. A cautionary fable about greed featuring a rat, a mouse, and a gerbil. A tale about overuse of resources by the powerful at the expense of the small and vulnerable.

In the small town of Silverstone, Texas, 21-year-old Rosalie Watson is an average medical student just trying to get by. At least she would be average, if not for her magical ability to heal any living thing. As citizens of Silverstone begin to go missing, Rosalie wonders who or what could be behind the disappearances. When she meets heartthrob Jackson Bulgari, she’ll discover a world of magic and mystery unlike anything she ever thought possible. No doubt Rosalie will face challenges and hardship every step of the way, but the real question is: Can she handle it?

A wasp is drawn to a colony of bees, and discovers a sting in the tail. This is a story about both the stronghold of incorrect belief and the power of identification within community.

The Mynah bird longs to be special like the other animals, but he is just a dull black bird. A snake suggests that he would be more popular if he tried to be like more the other animals, and so the Mynah bird tries doing impressions.... This is a story about both the empowerment of identity and the bankruptcy of people-pleasing.

The mackerel carries injuries and is angry and bitter. But these injuries never heal because blood-sucking lampreys are attracted to the wounds. When he is hooked by a fisherman he finds out how he can be free of the blood suckers.... This is a story about both the crippling nature of bitterness and the liberty in forgiving.

The dog enjoys a carefree start to life, but soon finds himself being trained about good and bad behaviour. When he is sold, he finds that his new master is very different to the trainer. This is a story about both the power of grace overcoming the power of law and of true identity discovered.

The donkey has always felt less significant than the self-important race horses, until a purebred white horse comes and tells him he is to race.... This is a story about both the power of sacrificial love and the strength found in a name.

The crab has taken many knocks in his life and has developed protective armour. When he meets a transparent prawn he sees a different way to live...This is a story about the self-protecting nature and false identity of the flesh. This is the second of The Animal Parables series. Each tale features an animal who finds that things turn out to be quite different from how it imagined and profound life lessons are learned along the way.

The rise of the media presidency through radio and television broadcasts has heightened the visibility and importance of presidential speeches in determining the effectiveness and popularity of the president of the United States. This development has also witnessed the rise of professional speechwriters to craft the words the chief executive would address to the nation. Yet, the reliance of individual presidents on their speechwriters has varied with the rhetorical skill of the officeholder himself, his managerial style, and his personal attitude toward public speaking.

When word finally reaches him that his sister and her family have died a horrid death at the hands of a cattle baron and his craven cowhands, Taggart McBain comes down off the mountain with bear traps, a double barrel coach gun, two LeMats, and a Winchester. He's on the hunt. When the task is done and blood soaks the Nemesis, NV, desert, he receives a shock - his sister is still alive.

A family is fractured and troubled. The grandfather is terminally ill, and it is not a convenient time to die. His business practices are convoluted and corrupt. He seeks to bribe God to buy his way out of Heaven.

FUBU cofounder and entrepreneur J. Alexander Martin shares his compelling story about how he helped build a neighborhood business into a billion-dollar international brand. Teaming with behavioral finance expert and author Ted McLyman, they present an easy to understand and useful road map for success and financial security. J uses his inspirational story as the backdrop to explain why financial success is about discovering your Money Values and Money Temperament.

Harold's a city boy, but when daddy buys the Bar H it's time he gets his soft hands dirty...and all the good ol' boys on the cattle drive Harold joins are going to make damn sure he gets that and lots more. It's grow up, get tough, or get home with your tail twixt your legs!

Beau Boone, starving, with half a left leg, at the end of his rope, falls off the train in the hell-on-wheels town of Nemesis. But Mr. Pettigrew intervenes. Beau owes him, but does he owe him his very life? Can a one-legged man sit shotgun in one of the toughest saloons on the Transcontinental? He can, if he doesn't have anything to lose.

Young Bradon McTavish watches the bluecoats brutally hang his father and destroy everything he's known, and he escapes their wrath into the gun smoke and blood of war. Captured and paroled, only if he'll head west of the war, he rides the river into the wilds of the new territory of Montana where savages and grizzlies await. He discovers new friends and old enemies, and a woman formerly forbidden to him.

Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living a life like most people can't. Awaken the Entrepreneur Within is about awakening that little child within you who had all of those creative thoughts and dreams - that part of you that believed that when you grew up, you could achieve anything you put your mind to.

Robbie McLaughlan er ansat i politiets Indsatsstyrke, da han skyder og dræber en røver under et bankkup - og hans liv falder fra hinanden både privat og i korpset. Familien til den døde røver finder frem til McLaughlans identitet og truer ham og hans familie. Der er kun to mennesker, han kan søge hjælp hos. Den ene er den pensionerede politimand, som tog ham under sine vinger, da han var barn. Den anden er hans kriminelle og voldelige biologiske far, som svigtede og forlod ham for en menneskealder siden.