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Are you sick of feeling unfulfilled in your career and life? Do you desire to make a transition but don’t know where to start? Do you wish you had the financial security to take a career break and explore other options? Are you tired of scouring the internet searching for ways to quit your job and live your best life? Me too, y’all. Me too. I recently embarked on a journey to discover what options I had to transition from my unfulfilling 9-5, while raising 2 boys with my husband, making sure all the bills get paid, saving for retirement, and still living my best life! If you’re also ...

The Pavaria has been cut off from the other colony starships due to an ancient prohibition against powering its broken engines. Nathe is volunteered to travel to the far end of the ship to search for the lost notes of Bev Bora which may reveal the secret to restoring full power. But someone doesn't want him to find it. And they're willing to commit murder by jaguar - or worse - to stop him.

Seventeen-year-old Merry has mucked up another chance to get into the University of Magecraft, so she doesn’t have time to deal with shape-changing creatures bent on stealing memories from the people of Woodshire. That’s her father’s job. But when an outlaw mage mistakes her for a damsel in distress on a drenched train platform, she’s dragged into a fight with the monsters and a sheriff mad enough to use them. She’d never admit it out loud, but the mage is actually kind of fun to work with—when she doesn’t want to run him over with her chair.

In Green Like God, Jonathan Merritt gently and insightfully observes that the Creator has a lot to say about environmental problems like unclean water, mindless materialism, wastefulness, over consumption, and pollution. In fact, Jonathan writes that "in the book of Genesis, God went green and never looked back." Relying heavily on the Scriptures, Jonathan gives the case for green living, but not because it's trendy and hip.

**Official Selection — 2024 Tribeca Film Festival** A series of intimate 15 minute dialogues between two people in a relationship at the milestones that define a couple. Sometimes awkward, oftentimes relatable, this show captures the horror and ecstasy of the search for someone to love — but mainly someone to talk to. Best listened to immediately after waking up. For anyone who has ever said too much or not enough.

In the near-future world of Drive A, people can sell up to 49 percent of themselves in IPOs to cover expenses like tuition, medical insurance and housing payments—all of which have become largely unaffordable for the middle and working classes. Cable Rostenfarm did so when he was twelve to escape a deteriorating, nightmarish public school system, and now works as an analyst for a human capital hedge fund, Navarium, that buys and short sells other people.

The goddess of love and beauty is adrift on an enchanted ocean in a magic world. The myriad forces of satanic evil plague the vessel of the passionate red-haired goddess. Only one man, John Kenton, the American adventurer, can try to save Ishtar’s priestess from the black magic that divides her world from ours.

Kyler orbits more closely around Randy and Kelly's world as the chase heats up to find the fugitives and bring them to the senator for vengeance. New territories are opened, and the world continues to expand. Loyalties are built and destroyed as everyone struggles to beat their way through this new normal. Climb in and buckle up while we keep hydro-sliding backward at a 100 miles per hour through the zombie apocalypse.

I’m going to get…… SPANKED! A MINI ANTHOLOGY Please enjoy these previously published stories from Tristan Merritt Curiosity: Becky Trenton had, on occasion, fell a spark of interest at the thought of being spanked. When she and her husband Nick watch a romantic drama that includes a hot spanking, she finds it arousing. Now the young couple decide to explore the matter further. They introduce role-play… and a paddle… into their antics, and the effect it has upon their marriage and life is nothing short of breathtaking. Overheard: Cecilia and Jim are both 32 years of age, having ...

Vola screwed up. Big time. Thanks to her mistakes during the coup, she's been stripped of her shield and labeled a black paladin, an oathbreaker. But who is she without her shield? The only place she can think to retreat to is the last place she ever wanted to go. Home. Now she's got to find a job in her hometown with her loving and highly supportive parents breathing down her neck, while her party tracks her down and refuses to accept her resignation. The only thing that could make it all better is a chance to bag the bad guy who was responsible for her mistake during the coup.

This article recounts Katie Holmes' divorce from celebrity husband Tom Cruise. After less than six years of marriage, Holmes blindsided Cruise with a June 2012 divorce filing. The move required extensive planning and a steely resolve to do what Holmes believed was best for her daughter, Suri. As you would expect, though, the divorce was as newsworthy and compelling as the marriage we have come to know as TomKat.

In a quiet church, on a busy London street, 12-year-old Donovan Blair is found dead. His hands are clasped together as if in prayer. Fearing the murderer may already have another child in his sights, Dan and Lexi work together to establish links between the two deaths and soon discover that not only were both children in care - they had attended the same school. And when it emerges that Lexi’s new boyfriend works there, things become difficult between her and Dan. How much can he tell Lexi about the case? And could she be at risk?

On Her Game Tristan Merritt Four couples have become fast friends, most of their activities revolving around tennis. That is how the group came together for that matter, when the four women met due to their participation in the sport. For the four men, it is just something to do. But for one of the women in particular, Cara, it is a near obsession. And that factor comes into play one Saturday afternoon when they all go to a racquet club, and Cara, with the cooperation of the other three women, bribe an attendant to let them have the next available court ahead of a party that had arrived ...

THE STANDOFF Kaylee Bryant had taken classes in office practice for this? To work as a secretary under a school principal who was so…just so…Oooooooh…so certain that he always had the only right answer? That just made her so…Ooooooooh...MAD! Oh, sure, Jim Martinson was a hunk of a guy. And yes, his decisions were always spot on. But his self-assured, always confident attitude. Never asking for anyone else’s opinion. It just made Kaylee feel…Ooooooooh…so…Oooooooh...MAD! Who does he think he is? The only person who knows the right answer? For everything? Okay, so she knew she ...

Dr. Goodwin is on a botanical expedition in the Himalayas. There he meets Dick Drake, the son of one of his old science acquaintances, and other friends. They are witnesses of a strange aurora-like effect, but seemingly a deliberate one. The group is saved from death in the mountains by a magnificent woman they get to know as Norhala. They are led to a hidden valley occupied by what they name "The Metal Monster", a strange metal city occupied by the metal animate "Things" Norhala commands.

The 7th Standalone Story In The Adult Education Series From Tristan Merritt Adult Education: Anna Takes A Turn The Simpson – Robinson Institute in rural Oklahoma, operates in what was formerly a public school building that was abandoned due to obsolescence in the world of modern technology. However, Michael Simpson and Anna Robinson, partners in a real estate firm decided to purchase the facility along with an adjacent closed equestrian school so that they could make use of the small guest cabins. Although Michael and Anna were not personally involved, both divorced individuals shared a ...

The three-day Folio Prize Fiction Festival 2014 brought together some great writers and audiences and gave them a real opportunitey to talk in depth about their work and similar subjects. The festival included interviews and discussions with top writers, novelists, poets, critics and publishers, including Eimear McBride, Paul Baggaley, Sergio De La Pava, Rachel Kushner, Sarah Hall, Pankaj Mishra, Stephanie Merritt, Jane Gardam and Mark Haddon.

The infected continue to rage across the continents as the Familia's hit squads close in on Chris and crew. Between the baldies, the Nera Guardia, and the powerful undead factions that want him dead Chris doesn't see how his situation could get any worse. Now he has to keep his head above water while supporting his friends in a fast paced ride down the River Styx. Wait a second? Did you say werewolf zombies???

It can seem like every person, every television show, and every ad has an idea of who we are supposed to be. But who does your soul ask you to be? In Your ReDefining Moments, spiritual teacher Dennis Merritt Jones offers a road map back to your center, where you will find your Authentic Self. It is from that center, Merritt Jones shows, that you can live the life you were born for, rather than the tug-of-war so many people get caught up in, trying to be all things to all people, trying to be anyone but who they truly are.

Adult Education Just Behave Tristan Merritt This is the third saga of the goings-on at the Simpson-Robinson Institute in rural Oklahoma. For two years now, the special getaway housed in what was a former public school building has been welcoming women from around the country to spend two full days in a classroom setting, as they role-play being high school seniors. When getting themselves “in trouble, on purpose”, they find themselves being subjected to traditional corporal punishment. Of course, that is exactly what they came to the Institute for. The owners and operators of the ...