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The truths I present are universal and not exclusive to those who work in blue-collar trades. This book is intended for all who go out to work to provide for themselves and their loved ones. Without question, many of us have already realized a few of the ideas presented. We have been taught these ideas by parents and other mentors. But some folks, through no fault of their own, have never heard any of the ideas discussed in this book. If you're one of these people, then this book is just for you!

"Les Oulhamr fuyaient dans la nuit épouvantable. Fous de souffrance et de fatigue, tout leur semblait vain devant la calamité suprême : le Feu était mort. Ils l'élevaient dans trois cages, depuis l'origine de la horde ; quatre femmes et deux guerriers le nourrissaient nuit et jour. (...) Sa face puissante éloignait le lion noir et le lion jaune, l'ours des cavernes et l'ours gris, le mammouth, le tigre et le léopard ; ses dents rouges protégeaient l'homme contre le vaste monde."

Reeling after being left at the altar, Paige Graham seeks comfort in her secluded cabin. But there's someone sleeping in her bed - a sharp-eyed, sexy stranger who claims to have no memory. While a little digging reveals John's true identity, Paige knows there's more to his past...and more to her feelings.

Emma Johnson has enough problems. School, boys, and her firm-yet-aloof dad are enough to keep her on her toes. But everything falls apart when her most embarrassing thoughts and memories start to appear on any device she’s near. Why is this happening? Who can Emma trust?

With keen inside analysis and great stories drawn from astonishing access to Washington's key players, Pennsylvania Avenue takes us behind the scenes to show what really happens on the first street in America and how that affects the country.

Disgraced in the US, maverick ad man Eliott Thurber is forced to transfer to the newly opened London offices of Parabola Media. The clash of cultures has hilarious consequences as he tries to cope with promoting a range of peculiar products, challenging clients and not to mention his disgruntled new colleagues. His first assignment is a gourmet cat food for an intensely conservative company but Eliott has his eyes on a bigger prize, American investment in the NHS. After all, "where there's pain, there's gain..."

Learn about the Rise of the Berlin Wall with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. The Berlin Wall served as a monumental physical reminder of the differences in government between East and West Germany. After World War Two, there was a division of Germany between the Western Allied forces of the US, Britain and France and the Soviet Union in the East. Each assumed responsibility for a portion of Germany to help it back on its feet after the war.

Learn about the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall and its wider context in global relations with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

This title will explore the rise and fall of the Wall, the attempts to cross the Wall, and the life and economy of East Germany. In addition, it will look at the wider context of international relations, with an exploration of the Iron Curtain and a review of Germany since the fall of the wall, focusing on the process of German Reunification.

When Ryan spots a young woman on the tube on his commute, he can’t take his eyes off her. Instantly attracted and intrigued, he’s keen to find out more about his mysterious fellow passenger. The woman he thinks of as Millie spends all day travelling the Underground, unable to leave for reasons unbeknownst to Ryan. For some inexplicable reason, he just can’t shake the feeling he wants to help her escape her endless commute.

"The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" is a gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. It is about a London legal practitioner named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde. The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" entering the vernacular to refer to people with an unpredictably dual nature: outwardly good, but sometimes shockingly evil.

In 1919 Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of World War One to pilot the very first nonstop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland. In 1845 Frederick Douglass, a black American slave, lands in Ireland to champion ideas of democracy and freedom, only to find a famine unfurling at his feet. And in 1998 Senator George Mitchell criss-crosses the ocean in search of an elusive Irish peace.

Spiritual conduct carries a standard. God's standard is righteousness. God is faultless, unpolluted, and without sin. In order for humankind to be righteous, they have to put their trust in Jesus Christ, God's Son. Jesus came to earth to serve and give his life as a ransom for all people.

The Social Currency addresses the idea that money is a social construct, and therefore so is poverty. The book showcases several communities that confronted their financial disadvantages by creating their own currency. These economic activists challenged the idea that money, by definition, had to be created and controlled by the government, locally instituting the printing of money in the process.

Arriving at work to find she’s lost more than five and a half days of her life, Briony has no recollection of where she’s been, or what has happened. Has she been ill or had a breakdown - or could she have been drugged and abducted? Doubting her own sanity, Briony is fearful of what lies beyond the surface, yet driven to discover the truth. Going through her scarce memories, she realizes that something terrible might have happened to her during the time she has no recollection of.

Joseph Warren III, colonial Boston's most prominent physician, teacher, writer, orator and scholar, is caught up in the radical movement, working to free the colony from British exploitation, and becomes a political and military leader. All the great names seek his help and leadership, each in a different way; the Adams cousins, James Otis, John Hancock, to name a few.

A daring plan is formulated involving a simultaneous attack from both air and land to stop a madman from carrying out his deadly scheme. If the plan fails, the Americans will use the only other alternative left to stop him: a B-2 bomber with a nuclear payload, which could lead to a nuclear showdown with other Islamic states. With the odds stacked highly against them, the allies must find a way to stop Kemal and avert a nuclear holocaust.

The Balkans and Mideast, a region very much in the news, is the setting for this action novel which takes place in the not too distant future. The secular pro-western government of Turkey has been overthrown in a violent revolution and replaced by an Islamic fundamentalist regime. Her fanatical leader, General Muhammad Kemal, has contrived a devious plan to restore the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans and unite the Islamic world under his evil rule.

Poor Christa! Not only does her buxom, well endowed friend, Maisie, get all the attention from boys, now Christa discovers that her horse, Sherman, needs four new shoes or he will go lame. What a dilemma for Christa. She has no money and no way of getting any so she goes to the blacksmith, the aptly named Jake Brutus to see if she can help in the smithy as a way of paying for the shoes. But the kind of recompense Jake has in mind does not involve working the bellows.

The loss and pain of feeling your world falling apart can be seen and felt in this series. The story follows Pierce who has lost everything that he felt was important in his life. He had a very normal life with a beautiful wife and kids. His wife began to act strange and disappear and become distant. It seemed like a typical story of a marriage falling apart but there was more to it than that. There was an explanation for all the hurt and pain. There was more to it than simply good and evil.

Something otherworldly and unnoticed is happening in the small town of C'ville that would, if known, excite the loins of every government on planet Earth. It is both dreamy and deadly, a combination discerned only by a lovelorn drifter who needs the distraction to keep from dying of a broken heart.