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...Ben Het has tanks in the wire!"Hawk Claw is engaging," the pilot reports firing the first TOW missile ever from a helicopter in combat.Fire Base Delta had already been over run and Fire Base Charlie was fighting for its life. How much would fall before the North Vietnamese army was knocking on the doors of the key city of Kontum?This was the third phase of the North Vietnamese Easter Offensive Campaign of 1972. Standing across the country between them and the fall of Saigon was a poorly led South Vietnamese Army, brave South Vietnamese soldiers, and US Advisors. How much ground would be lost before they could stop the flow of men and tanks coming across the borders?This is their story as related to the author by those who were there.Follow Major Steinhauer as he withdraws with the fleeing South Vietnamese soldiers from the long-forgotten battlefields of Ben Het, Dak To and Pleng Klung. Ride with the crews that were the first to engage enemy forces with the aerial TOW weapon system in combat. Comprehend the bravery of the South Vietnamese soldier when properly led, and the defeated cowardice of the South Vietnamese senior officers. Examine how an American civilian was serving in the capacity of a two-star general commanding all the forces opposed to the North Vietnamese invasion in the Kontum region. Serve with the civilian volunteer nurses that remained in the besieged city of Kontum to care for the wounded during the battle.The events are all true, as are most of the characters who are still alive, who retold their tales of what it was like to be under siege for so many days against overwhelming odds.The courage, dedication, and loyalty of US advisors towards their South Vietnamese counterparts as well as the bravery of the South Vietnamese soldiers when properly led will astound you. The determination of Army Aviators to curtail the enemy and save the advisors is nothing short of miraculous.Get your copy of this sixth volume, Battle of Kontum, 1972 in the Undaunted Valor series.

During His darkest moments, Jesus uttered seven statements on the Cross that offer us tremendous wisdom in our own dark seasons-when we feel alone, forgotten, and unable to surrender, forgive, or let go of our mistakes. In 6 Hours, 7 Lessons, Orthodox Christian priest Father Nicholas Louh and licensed clinical psychologist Dr. Roxanne Louh show us that there is no darkness so dark that our Lord hasn't already experienced it. Christ's final words direct us toward the light of His love and protection while giving us the guidance we need to find hope and healing.

O século XX foi marcado pela facilitação de circulação de bens, capitais e pessoas entre países. A integração regional desenvolvida a partir dos blocos de integração regional como União Europeia e Mercosul acabaram por desenvolver economicamente os países que deles fazem parte, havendo ainda, na União Europeia um avanço grande no bloco com a instauração da moeda única. Toda essa facilitação de circulação a partir da relativização das fronteiras acabou também por trazer alguns efeitos nefastos, como o desenvolvimento da criminalidade transnacional e o deslocamento de bens, valores e pessoas ligados aos crimes, o que faz surgir a necessidade de desenvolvimento e aprimoramento dos meios de cooperação jurídica internacional em matéria penal com a finalidade de evitar ao máximo a impunidade e a máxima de que o crime não deve compensar.

There is an old tale that speaks of a beautiful baby with skin as white as snow and blonde hair like corn silk. Her name is Luci. She was born in the deep Amazon jungle in a tribe that saw her difference from the other children as a curse. They demand that she be abandoned in the jungle to appease the Shadow god.Luci's father consents and takes baby Luci to the deepest part of the jungle to be left to her fate. Hearing the cries coming from a cave, a troop of monkeys takes Luci to their treetop home. Luci falls from the tree and is about to be attacked by a jaguar when she is rescued by fairies and taken to Mab, the Queen of the fairies.Over the years, Luci grows into an intelligent young woman educated by the fairies, and beloved of the animals in the jungle, including, most especially, by Kisha, the jaguar that was about to eat her when she fell from the tree.We follow her adventures with the fairies and the animals. She is introduced to humans like her - "people" - at the jungle clearing where workers are clearcutting the forest to make way for farming. The men attempt to take Luci as a prize, but are thwarted by the jungle animals and Queen Mab.Luci undergoes a life-changing transformation in a dramatic ceremony. Luci now sets about to find a woman who was seen wandering the jungle. Could it be her mother in search of Luci?

When she ran away in 1947, Jasmine Holmes was beautiful. Now she's back: sick, broke, divorced, her life in ruins-a perfect project for her aunt Emma Madison, master meddler. But small-town secrets live long in darkness, and the ones that Jasmine Holmes guards might be the darkest of all. How to fix Jasmine? True, her reputation as the town tramp was well deserved. When she fled tiny Medford for Las Vegas nine years ago, it was in a cloud of scandal. Once Emma rescues Jasmine from a hospital bed and her niece's eight-year-old daughter from foster care, townspeople are dismayed at their return. And when Jasmine, after she recovers, begins nursing the dying wife of her once-supposed lover, Medford erupts in a veritable volcano of gossip. Lovers from a decade ago appear, then a new suitor. Soon emotions of desire, jealousy, spite and fear roil the once-peaceful community. During her brief stay, Jasmine sets the lives of many on trajectories they never could have expected. And although her own journey may be long and arduous, love and joy wait at the end, thanks in large part to an elderly lady with the remarkable ability to take things gone wrong and set them to rights. Subtly influencing the course of events-watching, waiting, and then pulling the strings with perfect timing, is Jasmine's sage and savvy aunt-the redoubtable Emma Madison.

In this wise, warm-hearted, witty, and hilariously funny true account, New York Times bestselling author Andrew Kaplan tells what it's like when he, his wife, and two-year-old son decided to chuck it all and live the fantasy in a villa by the sea in that extraordinary corner of the world - part international café society, part billionaires' playground, part provincial France - that is the French Riviera.Whether it's matching wits with French bureaucracy, searching for the perfect bouillabaisse, encounters with con men, eccentric ex-pats, and Monaco's royal family, partying with the international set on Onassis' yacht, playing chess with a philosophical police chief, or adventures and friendships with the rich and famous and the presumably standoffish French, Once Upon a Villa will transport you to a fascinating and shrewdly-observed world that you will savor like your first-morning bite of pain au chocolate.So pour yourself a glass of wine, open the book, and Santé!

Total Fluff is the ultimate Fictional dog story. Follow an abandoned dog who is found and cared for by three children. Will their parents let them keep the dog?Join Sarah, Bobby, and Billy as they attempt to care for a new species of family member. But who abandoned the dog and why? Learn the answer to this mystery and more as you read on. Incorporating humor and satisfying America's love of pets, Total Fluff covers lessons in friendship, parental guidance, and responsibility.

A story about three kids and their Papa, finding stars and lucky stardust.Written by Canadian author Robert Blondin.Other books by author are Lost in The Darkness of Thought and Guilt Factors - Mind Games & Thought Nots!

Expression of Honor is a Civil War Romance. Juliette is from France and fell in love with a visiting Southern officer he must leave for the United States before her. She leaves later on a blockade runner All the revelations, predicaments, and perils gives her resilience and fortitude to meet each situation. Frank identifies himself as a Kansan after a decade of dealing with border ruffians, bloodshed spawned by the pro-slavers against the ant-slavers. Also the political wrangling from the Kansas-Nebraska act festered into bloody Kansas. Frank was sick and tired of being sick and tired. He was ready to hash it out in the Rebellion as a Lieutenant Colonel under General Ulysses Grant. The two main characters separate stories merge into a supernatural moment.

We Christians live in a rushed and hurried culture which our churches have accepted without thinking through the consequences. It seems that we have allowed ourselves to equate busyness with spirituality and bible study with the loudest opinion in the room.Reflecting attempts to call us back to a matured time in Christian history when congregants did not read the Bible speedily. One of my high school English teachers used to warn us that just vocalizing words aloud was different than truly reading. This book calls us to read the Scripture, reread the Scripture, think about what we have read, and to meditate on the concepts of a passage following them throughout Scripture. By this means, we should be able to grasp a more complete understanding of the ideas the verses have presented to us.Moreover, a slower reading and a rereading allows time for the Holy Spirit to speak to us. Often, I hear someone express that as often as they have read a certain passage of Scripture, they did not gain the newest understanding from their latest reading. Why is that?It is because we have just called words without reflecting on them. Reflecting and meditating are old ways of studying the Word of God. You will be richly blessed by beginning and maintaining the practice. It is indeed food for the hungry Christian's soul.

This book is coming to world at a time nobody expected it. This is compilation of many years of studies, pondering, meditation and reflection on a complicated topic as this one. Despite people opinions and position, interpretation and postulation, God is God; Jesus is Jesus, and the holy spirit is who he is. I will advise the reader to please sometime to come out of the misleading information so far about any of the characters: 1. - God 2. - Jesus 3. - The holy sprit Help yourself if you are already a Christian, approach this book with an open mind. Take a pencil and paper and meticulously follow the bible passage and real for yourself. If you are not yet a believer or born again you need to with help of this book, give your life to Christ and become born again: 1. - Repent 2. - Be born again 3. - Be baptized in the holy spirit. This is the set order, but God can make work the way he wants. But the essence of these is the unity in the faith. Let us not leave human effort out of this equation. Human are used to witness to us before he become born again as pastors, prophets, and evangelist. No wonder Jesus prays let them be come as we are: United. Jn 19:Read and read as many times as you can till you get it because your life depends on it enjoy your that they be conformed to the image of his dear son. Rom 8: 29: For those God for new he also predestined to be conformed To the image of his son: that he might be the first born among Many brothers and sisters.

'Call of Angels' is a novel for readers who are willing to explore the boundaries of harsh reality and fiction - a combination that will stretch their imagination and emotions, as Rasna fights to survive amidst personal and natural adversities, through which there is one constant factor - Marks and Rasna's unwavering and unconditional love.As COVID-19 ravages the world and the daily death toll rises, Rasna is reminded of another time and place when she had been caught in a somewhat similar cataclysmic occurrence.The lockdown creates a backdrop to flashbacks in which Rasna relives the Tsunami of 2004 which had swamped the world. She, with her family, had been on vacation in Sri Lanka when the tsunami had struck, and so had consequently become entangled in natures web of disaster in which she had not only lost but also become reunited with loved ones.Whilst reading the Call of Angels, you will walk alongside Rasna and Kirti her sister, as they pit their strength against not only their convictions and resilience against natural tragedy, but also against their personal convictions, mystery, treachery, betrayal and involvement in the ongoing political unrest.

Qué pasa con el Libro de Mormón? No se puede negar que es un libro controvertido. Muchos no lo aceptan como escritura. Creen que José Smith, hijo, lo "escribió". También creen que la Biblia es la única Escritura jamás escrita, pero en ninguna parte la Biblia hace esa a rmación. Esta creencia no es bíblica. De hecho, ocurre todo lo contrario. La Biblia da testimonio de la existencia de otras escrituras escritas y especí camente una segunda escritura escrita sobre la tribu de José (Ezequiel 37:19). Este José es el mismo José de la túnica de muchos colores, el mismo José vendido como esclavo en Egipto y el mismo José que salvó a Egipto y a todas las tribus de Israel de los siete años de hambre que hubo.Debido a su falta de conocimiento y educación, si José Smith, Jr., hubiera escrito El Libro de Mormón, habría sido refutado hace años. En cambio, a medida que pasa el tiempo, se demuestra que cada vez más cosas son correctas. José Smith no pudo haberlo escrito por muchas razones, una de las cuales es el hecho de que era un hombre apenas alfabetizado. Sabía muy poco de las Escrituras y nada de hebreo. Sin embargo, el Libro de Mormón está claramente escrito por hombres muy educados y con una sólida formación en las costumbres hebreas y técnicas de escritura, ninguna de las cuales era conocida por ningún estadounidense en el siglo XIX.En este libro se explorará más información sobre este tema.Este libro fue iniciado por dirección del Espíritu Santo y escrito para todo el cuerpo de Cristo. Algunos podrían preguntarse por qué deberían leerlo. Algunos lo leerán para intentar refutarlo; otros lo leerán para aprender y otros lo utilizarán para promover sus propias agendas. Sin embargo, debes leerlo y orar sobre él, pidiéndole a Dios a través de Su Espíritu Santo que te dé testimonio de su validez.Necesitamos la dirección del Espíritu Santo porque siempre somos vulnerables al error. Incluso los profetas pueden ser engañados (2 Crónicas, capítulo 18). Satanás hará todo lo que pueda para impedir que logremos unidad en nuestra lucha contra él. Durante años ha utilizado el plan de "divide y vencerás", y nosotros hemos sido víctimas de él. Es hora de que dejemos de pelear por nuestras pequeñas diferencias y comencemos a trabajar juntos por la salvación de toda la humanidad. La cosecha es abundante; ¡Es hora de incorporarlo y podemos hacerlo! Con la ayuda de Dios a través de Su Hijo Jesucristo y Su Espíritu Santo, podemos lograr lo que de otro modo sería imposible por nuestra cuenta.

Orange Fanta has no theme greater or less than life, as it's given. Charles Elin uses language in its most simplistic to present the complexities of reaching beyond ourselves and questioning where that is. He finds a place for humor and utter disbelief in the politics of the day. These short poems just touch a phenomenology of our everyday, in the words of common banter, miscommunications and private thoughts.

I Can't Breathe is a fictional novel set during the time when a video showing George Floyd's final moments and his dying words, "I Can't Breathe," went viral. The novel depicts its global impact and how it empowered individuals to speak out against discrimination by organizing rallies and marches.Khushboo, the novel's main character and a lawyer, is empathetic to women's concerns and helps many women who are trapped in abusive and suffocating relationships. The novel also briefly depicts racism in its various forms, including sexual harassment at work, negligence in care homes, and so on. Although most people face this, the story shows that some individuals are strong enough to deal with it, while some, like Aadrika, a sensitive and fragile woman, cannot. The novel is set against a backdrop of events in Khushboo and Aadrika's lives, including how they are deceived, betrayed, and abandoned by Anil, her father, but even in the pit of darkness, there are hues of rainbow of love and hope that glimmer momentarily throughout the novel.

The murder of an antiquities curator at the Smithsonian Institution brings FBI agent, Ted Lansing to the prestigious Washington museum. He again steps into an all-consuming case that takes him from the comforts of his new life to the barren, mountainous terrain of the Sinai Peninsula in search of the killer and an elusive piece of granite, The Sinai Artifact.The curator's death and subsequent recovery of the priceless artifact becomes a race across the globe, first to Rome and ultimately to the Middle East, all with deadly consequences. What secrets do the objects hold, and how many innocent victims must die in search of the greatest archeological discovery of all time? Or is the oddly shaped stone something else entirely? From Lansing's initial discovery that his prime suspect is not who she firstappeared to be, to a cast of conspiratorial characters, the case takes Lansing halfway around the world.One time German Stasi agent, Hans Richter, now in the employ of Russia's clandestine service, orders the murder of an elderly Vatican priest who comes too close to the artifact's true secret, but it is only the start of Richter's murderous quest for the priceless stone.Roadblocks to Richter's pursuit of the treasure, and Lansing's relentless hunt to uncover the secret buried in the Sinai, are thwarted by a formidable adversary of Richter, linguist, and expert in biblical languages, Russian archaeologist Irina Kazakov. But for which side is she working?What are the Russian's hiding, keeping from the world? Why is the Catholic Church so interested in recovering the oddly shaped stone? Does the centuries old monastery of Santa Katerina and its complement of Greek Orthodox priests hold answer?

Does it really make a difference what we do or how we do it? Are there strict rules and steps to follow? Can we afford to be careless, thoughtless, reckless, and oblivious to the very real consequences of failing to be deliberate in our actions?Imagine if we lived our lives each day fully aware of the Word of God, ever mindful of the meanings and final results of every action. What if we made up our minds consciously and deliberately to adhere to every line and precept? What if every move and thought was intentional and purposeful as we seek to please God, learn more about Him, and share His love with others?Living Wittingly takes us on a journey as we answer the many questions about our walk with God. There is nowhere better than the Word of God to discover the tools of living wittingly, intentionally, and victoriously.

Within these pages are true stories that highlight the four areas that can also cause divorce and infidelity: Communication, Money, Sex and Trust. As you read these sometimes very provocative, bedroom language, real life episodes, the common trend that you'll observe with these dynamic people, is that they honestly love God and want to please Him. This gave them confidence, boldness and an authority that I have read in the Bible, but seldom seen, until now.I challenge you to take a leap of faith in your marriage, knowing what God has joined no other should destroy. Invite your spouse to join you on this intimate thought-provoking journey.There are no boundaries in the bedroom.

The Legend of The Grizzly Spirit by Charles L. Holcomb Jr. tells the tale of Matt Saxton, a young man from New York who travels across the country on the Oregon Trail, as he makes his way to Portland with a band of other Americans.Matt has always been the kind of person who stands out in the crowd, as he is resourceful, smart, brace, and cunning.Throughout the novel, Matt faces the conflict of growing up, as he is forced to understand what is right and wrong, while using his natural ability to protect others.This western themed novel follows his adventures as he has run in with Indians, wild animals, and treacherous conditions of nature. As the narrative goes on the fable of Matt grows, as he tames a wild horse, saves the lives of multiple men, and charms four different ladies to fall in love with him. As we follow along the journey to achieve American Expansion, this epic novel binds together elements of historical fiction and romance. One-part tall tale, and one part legend, Holcomb's book is sure to entertain.

ln the beginning of time, all the free people roamed the fields, plains, and forests of the new world and grew in numbers until the lands became overcrowded. The animals became hungry. Father Time saw the problem and, one moonlit night, brought forth the Great Mother Wolf from the waters of the first spring. He then charged her to take from the free people the old, sick, and injured so that the strongest and fittest would share the gifts of the new world. Soon the Mother Wolf became overwhelmed with the task that Father Time had given her. She went to Father Time and begged for some helpers. That night she was given four new cubs that looked just like her. The animals were very unhappy and went to Mother Nature to complain that they could not rest because of all the new wolves.

Sara The Purple Goose And Susan The Black Swan is about a funny looking purple goose and a black swan, who became the very best of friends even though they were so different. They overcame major differences with hard work and lots of teamwork, by themselves and with all the other different animals. Sara, Susan, the cows, horses, geese and swans achieved their dream of a big, red, warm barn for the winter with lots of effort and loads of teamwork. Sara, Susan, and the other animals became the best of friends despite their differences toward the end of their journey.Sara The Purple Goose And Susan The Black Swan uses the words listed below which helps strengthen basic sight word recognition for grades Pre-K through third.the, them, where, always, been, using, use, their, would, its, gave, upon, made, together, bring, carried, her, just, over, think, again, from, once.

T¿puna Rock is a tale of two teenage siblings raised in Canada by their M¿ori mother and Canadian father. While on vacation in Aotearoa New Zealand, their borrowed sloop is disabled in a storm with only the two teens aboard. Having lost their navigation gear, after six days adrift with no sense of direction, they beach their damaged boat on a desolate 'rock'. With no idea where they are and their boat damaged beyond repair, the teens recognize that they cannot save themselves unless they listen to the spirits of their Polynesian ancestors. Recalling knowledge shared by their M¿ori grandparents and basic science and mathematics, the protagonists reinvent enough traditional non-instrument navigation to determine where they are, design and build a boat and plot a course to sail one thousand kilometres back to Aotearoa after more than three months on their 'rock'.T¿puna Rock is written to appeal to a broad range of ages, including secondary-school students among whom engagement in science and mathematics is often declining, particularly among indigenous students. The reader becomes invested in the protagonists and their situation on a purely human level in the novel's first two chapters. In subsequent chapters the protagonists come to understand and value ancestral knowledge in the context of modern science and mathematics. In the process, the teens teach each other, and the reader.

An outcast girl looking to belong discovers a secret doorway to other realms in a thrilling portal fantasy novel for middle-grade readers. When twelve-year-old Adeline Perle's transient military family finally plants roots in an old, creaky mansion - Cannondale - the girl craves to build the lasting friendships that she, as a constant outsider, never had. At last, on the cusp of bonding with a new group of affable teens on Cannondale's grounds, Adeline discovers an unusual treasure behind a secret door, unveiling portals to extraordinary realms where she is confronted with disappearing creatures and magical people, good and evil, and a boy who's desperate to help her find her way back home. But not all friends are as they seem. Some will go to any length to get what they want, including a secret Adeline does not even know she possesses. It is a secret so important, all the magic in the universe is at stake. Wars have been waged over it, and Adeline finds herself right in the middle of it all. She must overcome all inhibitions and face her greatest fears not only to survive but - after a lifetime of wanting - to find her place and way home.