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Whether it's getting better grades, creating better relationships with your friends, parents, or teachers, getting a car, getting into the college that's right for you, getting a date for the prom, or finding your dream job, the Law of Attraction works! Like attracts like - when we align our goals with our best intentions and highest purpose, we can more easily have a better, brighter life.

Black Oak Security is a crack team of private investigators led by the brilliant and enigmatic Ethan Proctor. But even the brilliant burn out sometimes, and when his employees order him to take a much-needed vacation in Atlantic City, Proctor reluctantly agrees. Ensconced with friends in a boardwalk hotel, he is just beginning to relax when things start getting strange. An old friend drops the information that a killer is stalking the boardwalk - and the locals suspect vampirism.

When Cletus J. Diggs and his buddy Jasper decide to go fishing, Jasper tells him two fishermen they know saw a dinosaur in The Great Dismal Swamp, Cletus is ready to chock it up to shadows and too much beer. When he and Jasper are out fishing themselves and find a bass boat jammed nose first into the bottom of the Perquimans River with nothing left of the other two men but a boot with a leg protruding from it and one big-assed track in the mud, things get serious.

With Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind, David Herman proposes a cross-fertilization between the study of narrative and research on intelligent behavior. The book as a whole centers on two questions: How do people make sense of stories, and how do people use stories to make sense of the world? Examining narratives from different periods and across multiple media and genres, Herman shows how traditions of narrative research can help shape ways of formulating and addressing questions about intelligent activity, and vice versa.

They are battered women, grieving parents, and burglarized homeowners who responded to criminal violence by taking the law into their own hands. Their cases have struck a deep chord in American society. Are they victims of a failing judicial system or criminals themselves? True crime writer Gary Provost examines the stories of ordinary citizens who have taken on the roles of judge, jury and - sometimes - executioner.

Texas Ranger Loren Williams is chasing six bank robbers who killed and beheaded three fellow Rangers who were chasing them. He meets up with Jim Thornton, a former Confederate gunman, who has found a little blind girl named Shelby Jean at a burned out wagon, her father and uncle murdered and her mother kidnapped and murdered by the men the Ranger is chasing.

Folk music is more than an idealized reminder of a simpler past. It reveals a great deal about present-day understandings of community and belonging. It celebrates the shared traditions that define a group or nation. In America, folk music - from African-American spirituals to English ballads and protest songs - renders the imagined community more tangible and comprises a critical component of our diverse national heritage.

The Civil War has ended. Jim and Noble are two rebels who set out from San Francisco searching for gold. While helping a prospector recover his claim, they encounter love, guilt, danger, and violence. They come up against a dying assassin who wants to go out in a blaze of glory and a psychotic mayor with a terrible secret. They help a young farmer whose abusive father becomes set on killing Jim.

Jim sets off with his friend Rute to meet Jenny, a young woman Rute says is special. Rute breaks a leg in a fall and heads for Frozen, Nevada to heal up with friends and finds himself pursued by three widows intent on matrimony. Jim finds Jenny and frees her from a mayor who wants to marry her. On the way, Jim kills a man in self-defense after stopping him from abusing a waitress. As Jim and Jenny head for Frozen, he must fight off assassins sent by the man's mother.

Retired police lieutenant and avid amateur radio operator Don Wood stumbles on a new form of communication he calls "ParaCW" while experimenting with his ham radio gear, computer, and an old smartphone. After a surprise visit at Don's local amateur radio club meeting by FCC Enforcement Agent Larry Turner, Don soon realizes that the FCC and, eventually, the FBI are quite interested in his find, but for what purpose? They claim it's to help out his government; he thinks it's for other reasons.

His family gone, Thorne leaves the ranch, wanting only to die. He is about to meet an old enemy and a new love. Bill Fitch is a brutal rapist and serial killer who carries the scalps of his victims on his bridle and rides into Texas with murder and mayhem on his mind. Gomez is the half-breed who rides with Fitch and lives to rape and eat the flesh of his victims. Shorty Doddredge is the Ranger sergeant, saved by Thorne in an Indian fight, a lonely man, who is about to meet the love of his life.

The new drug of choice, heroin, is pouring into the mountains of Eastern Kentucky. The drug pipeline starts below the border and extends through the northeast US and then to West Virginia and Kentucky. The addicts flock for the new, cheap, stronger high. Many are dying from overdoses. Nearly every family has lost someone to the drugs.

In book one, retired police lieutenant Don Wood stumbled upon a new form of communications he calls ParaCW while tinkering around in his ham radio shack. Word of it got out which drew the interest of the FCC and, eventually, the FBI. Now, in book two, it will be revealed why FBI Agent Watkins wants Don's ParaCW and the measures he will take to get it.

Emerson Francis Whitman, whose parents were great admirers of philosophy - and philosophers - has the distinction of being the technical representative of Primary Pulse Energy Systems of Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. As a tech rep, Emerson travels to a variety of trade shows to assist distributors and dealers of the company's product line to learn the equipment and to sell more of the same. The work itself is pleasant and relatively undemanding. It allows him to travel across the country in a leisurely fashion.

In book one of The Grey Ham Series, retired police Lieutenant Don Wood stumbled upon a new form of communications he called ParaCW. After visits from the FCC and FBI, Don and his wife, Nikki, suffered the loss of one of his dogs being killed by an FCC agent. In book two, it was revealed why an FBI agent wanted Don's ParaCW and the measures he took to get it. In this final book, Don will team up with his new friend from the FCC to take not only the corrupt FBI agent down but others involved, too.

An entertaining, thought-provoking blend of memoir, old-time storytelling, homespun philosophy, and the occasional errant thought, all delivered with Southern style and a distinctive country flavor. These treasures are the result of matriculation in The Advanced School of Hard Knocks (from which I graduated summa cum laude), and I felt it was only right to share them. Perhaps, one or two will bring a smile to your face and a lift to your spirit.

This audiobook is about my life convictions and the pain and sorrows that I encountered while going through the storms in my life. This audiobook is meant to encourage and uplift your spirit and is designed to make you think about how good God is and what he’s done, and is doing in your life. It is not intended to take away from the Holy Bible or to replace the Holy Bible.

Sent to a Navy supply depot in the Pacific Northwest to investigate the cause of an inordinately large number of submarine battery failures, Emerson Francis Whitman finds more than either he or the Navy bargained for. Determining the problem with the batteries is child’s play. But deciding what to do about the discovery could have shocking - and possibly deadly - results.

What's a young man going to do when a war ends? One young soldier returning from the Civil War finds himself thrown into a world of danger, corruption, and crime as he struggles to reinvent himself. When his neighbors' farm is burned to the ground and all are killed - he finds his new destiny as a bounty hunter. Now he must fight criminals and bring justice to a lawless land.