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One small town. One magical Christmas. Connor Norton returns to his childhood home for the holidays, still grieving after his mother’s recent death. Tom, her orange tabby cat, is with him. He runs into Alana, the estranged daughter of his next-door neighbor Dottie who is struggling to come to terms with the devastating secret that tore her family apart. Mary Ann has everything she wants...except for that special someone. Now Connor’s back in town, but is he too late? Hope, love, and the power of forgiveness. Anything can happen - when you least expect it.

Before Jesse James or Billy the Kid, there was Joaquín Murrieta - lover, bandit, revolutionary. On July 25, 1853, a troop of California Rangers killed and beheaded the young bandit. It was believed his army numbered in the hundreds and that he planned to sweep the country south to Sonora. Thinking the matter ended, the Rangers preserved his head in a bucket of whiskey and rode to Sacramento to collect their reward. Yet with his death, his fame only grew, along with rumors of his ghost in haunt of the Rangers.

Do you believe negotiating is one of the most important skills for greater success in business and life and that you could be better at it? Do you let your ego, anger, fear, insecurity, or other emotions get in the way of achieving your negotiating objectives? If so, dig beneath the surface, stop looking for the quick tip or best tactic, do the required hard work, and follow the roadmap Corey Kupfer provides in Authentic Negotiating. This audiobook will lead you to authentic success in negotiating, in business, and in life.

At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers offers a powerful defense of the secularist heritage that gave Americans the first government in the world founded not on the authority of religion but on the bedrock of human reason. In impassioned, elegant prose, celebrated author Susan Jacoby traces more than 200 years of secularist activism, beginning with the fierce debate over the omission of God from the Constitution.

Heart of the West is a collection of 19 short stories that take place in the Southwestern United States, penned by legendary author O. Henry. With his customary wit, the author paints a beautiful - and amusing - picture of the Old West. His stories all end with a twist, often to comedic ends, sometimes with tragedy. O. Henry brings the Old West alive in these stories as only he could.

When Russian soldiers invade Eastern Europe during WWII, they ravage the countryside and terrorize the people. After her mother is murdered, young Ludmelia Kudirka flees to the safety of the forest. Vowing vengeance, she joins the partisan resistance in a David-and-Goliath struggle against Stalin's mighty war machine. A Soviet military officer ordered to crush the Lithuanian resistance is enraged by Ludmelia's escape.

Atheists may be among the fastest growing "religious" demographics in the world, but they are also perhaps the most misunderstood. To begin, atheists have no identifying marks, no defining habits, no obvious symbols, for all that unites them, essentially, is an absence of belief. As a result, many religious believers may not even realize they know atheists, whether as neighbors, friends, or coworkers. In addition, most major religions warn against the faithless and preach distrust of nonbelievers.

This book argues that the elements that contribute to healing war trauma - including safety, connection, community, dialogue, mutual respect, diversity, and compassion - can help build a stronger nation. But this message comes with a warning and a challenge not just for caregivers, veterans service organizations, governmental departments, Congress, and the White House, but for all Americans. War creates incalculable suffering - not only among those on the front lines, but also among those left behind.

Paul Singh and John R. Shook draw on the latest findings from the physical and biological sciences, astronomy and cosmology, geology and genetics, and prehistory and archeology in search of answers. As they lucidly and engagingly demonstrate, the answers science gives about ourselves and the universe in which we live are incomparably more surprising and interesting than any mythical tale about some clash of titans or calculating creator.

Making the provocative assertion that the entire enterprise of organized religion is a thing for which the world and our species would have been better without, Oh, Your God! follows in the footsteps of the material observations of Lucretius, Epicurus, and Democritus, and the more recent anti-theistic arguments of Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins. Drawing from timeless philosophers, modern debates, historical events, and current social climes, Joshua Kelly illustrates the shameful and debilitating damage religion has caused....

Clayton is a tough cowboy living on the outskirts of town with his mother and sisters on a dying farm. He's tough and broken from the death of his father and right now, he faces the problem of an evil sheriff destroying his family. Nancy is a girl with a father who's out of control. Her only escape is riding out of town occasionally when she can escape her prison. She's ashamed, fragile, and worried of her father not only destroying himself, but their relationship.

Set in 1967 East Texas, this novel mixes a soupçon of the supernatural in with the mundane. Twenty-year old Paul Henry, just released from the Army physically healed from wounds he suffered in Vietnam, but still suffering from deep psychic wounds and a radically changed outlook. Estranged from family and friends and not knowing what he's going to do with the rest of his life, decides to visit the grave of his father, a man he never knew who supposedly committed suicide on the day his son was born.

Perched on the border between civilized ghoulkind and the chaos of the barbaric slickskins, the zombie sheriff must rescue his kidnapped friends from the dastardly McFarland and his notorious gang of outlaws. As the posse tracks McFarland, they soon realize that they themselves are being pursued.

Following his second battle wound in Operation Attleboro, young Private Delarosa earns his way out of combat. But he becomes entangled in his best friend Jay Sharpe's driving desire to remain in the infantry and signs a waiver to remain on the line. Together the two rapidly rise in rank while enduring a downward spiral in morals as political agendas replace aggressive military tactics, chronicling the best and worst of that difficult era.

Above All, the third of the John Jospeh Sharpe trilogy series following America's Diplomats and Eyes of the Blind, is a lighthearted action-adventure historical fiction set in the waning stages of the Vietnam War. The story which pits a consummate warrior against the political strangulation that rendered our armed forces virtually incompetent. It is a comical but sordid tale of a roguish gunship pilot and his nemesis, a petty commanding officer, who loathe each other at first sight.

The murder of old Arthur Lockwood was handled so carefully that the police weren't sure it was a murder, but his granddaughter Leah Lockwood was suspicious from the start. She began digging. Slowly the Russian mob in Brooklyn began to become a presence trying to ease into the old man's Lockwood Petroleum empire. And they weren't the only ones. Legitimate oil companies were involved, overseas distributors, they began coming out of the woodworks. And then there was Weaver.

Everyone meet Patches! She is a very special dog and has something incredible about her! When she is on her discovery adventure journeys the different character patches on her hair ' flash ' to teach her the right thing to do every where she goes! All the different patches of hair on Patches make up her coat of characters. Her character patches are what make Patches who she is.

My enemy claimed me as his own. I must return to Palgia—to the place that was once my prison. The Kingdom of Palgia is fractured, divided, and broken. It's up to me to bring the light back to the country overrun with darkness. Erol was once the ruthless captor who kept me imprisoned. He is set to become the King of Palgia, and I'm expected to cater to his every whim. It doesn't matter that I can't stop thinking about him and imagining what his lips would feel like against mine.

Cloaked with magic and determined to protect the ones I love, I travel to enemy territory to find my answers. But the enemy captures me before I complete my mission. In the squalor of the dungeon, I discover secrets about my past that will help my kingdom regain peace. I must make the ultimate sacrifice to save my kingdom and my mate. I must fulfill the prophecy.

After surviving years of nuclear warfare, mankind found itself facing a new, unimaginable threat: a comet headed directly for Earth. Once again, Hawk Hunter, the world's greatest fighter pilot, was determined to rescue the human race. But this would be the last time. On a suicide mission, he flew headfirst into the comet, diverting its path, sparing the planet, and knocking himself into another universe altogether.