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Fresh-out-of-a- bad-relationship New York City single, Sofia La Scala, a finance executive, carves out time once a week for happy hour with her best friend Chloe in search for Mr. Right. But when Chloe can't make it out one night, Sofia meets seductive billionaire, Alex Chambers. The two immediately connect and begin flirt-filled exchanges that heat up rapidly and eventually lead to a steamy romance in the Penthouse Suite of a high-end luxury hotel. The relationship challenges Sofia's norms and flings her into a world of fantasy, role playing and lust. While Sofia is more than satisfied with her sexual romps with Alex, despite warnings from her girlfriends, she dreams of a more serious relationship. It all seems too good to be true. Which of course, means it probably isn't. Trouble begins when a security breach takes place at Sofia's company, and the IT expert brought in to fix it just so happens to have Alex's firm on his resume. Simple coincidence, right? Then there's a glitch in the finances which she can't seem to rectify, what does it all mean? Is Alex connected? Is he being upfront with her? As Sofia investigates, more questions emerge which she's afraid to ask. Will she jeopardize her career in pursuit of the truth? More importantly, is she willing to face the truth if it means losing the one thing which has come to matter more to her than her career- a future with Alex Chambers?.

Iona and Audrey emit smoke signals when they need help, but sometimes it takes more than water to put them out.Iona thought she would sip mimosas while relaxing on a beach in retirement, but instead she suffers from loneliness as vacation brochures collect dust. Even worse, she feels forgotten by her daughter.Iona's daughter, Audrey, serially dates emotionally scarred men and buries herself in work to avoid the pain of rejection. Audrey feels like an abject failure when it comes to relationships.The relationship dynamic between the two shifts when a disastrous fire threatens Iona's home. Audrey's longing for motherhood is funneled into caring for Iona. Iona courageously joins the Senior Center where she meets Maxine who sells fresh eggs at farmer's markets by day and hosts parties at night.As the relationship between Audrey and Iona disintegrates like burning wood, they discover that living with each other in adulthood presents numerous challenges and adaptations. One thing's for sure, they'll need to get better at putting out fires.

God's Return On Investment is based on the perception that God is constantly involved in our lives and is training us to understand what He and Jesus did for us and do for us. In order to gain insight into the spiritual realm, where God wants us to have a relationship with Him, He utilizes what we understand through physical properties. In other words, what we are familiar with, that occurs in our day-to-day lives, is actually just examples of what God wants us to understand spiritually. This book takes us through the journey of our lives from birth to death by utilizing the aspect of returns that occur in each phase of our life. God put this property of returns into His plan before Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden. Before the sin was committed, He established the way for revitalizing the originally intended relationship between Him and us through His son Jesus. Now He wants us to see, through physical returns, what has been done for us by way of His investment. The things that went wrong in the Garden of Eden are counteracted by our human representative in the Garden...of Gethsemane. Why has He done all of this? Because He has always loved us and wants us to love Him as was originally intended before sin entered the world.

Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state in Northern India, as it existed in its rural state fifty years ago.In a small village, the residents struggle with poverty while their social status is defined by caste discrimination. Poverty dictates their decisions. The lower castes and women are looked down upon. When Sarkar archives a level of professional success beyond that of his Father, it creates a difficult to navigate tension in their relationship. Sarkar's best friend from childhood, Judhan, is also a major character in the life of the village.A historical fiction novel inspired by the author's own life.

Eating with others is a restorative activity. When dining in an historic restaurant, the setting, cuisine, and relics of the past take us back in time. We come to understand a people's history through the restaurant, those who founded it, how it stayed afloat, special dishes, and past famous guests. Recipes featuring local foods prepared by distinctive chefs leave diners with a souvenir of a beloved restaurant. We may find ourselves swept away by the unique atmosphere, friendly waitpersons, and abundant information to inform our historic journey.

The setting: two fictitious nations, Hastan and Llehstanz, in a past imaginary era of colonization.The Llehstanz Monarchy won its final battle over Hastan to colonize the nation after years of war. The battlefield charge was led by a reputable, young, ruthless, and handsome Colonel Valstohl Baquiste. Highly skilled but equally arrogant, he holds a prejudice against the people of Hastan. Tragically, Colonel Baquiste was unexpectedly attacked during the last battle leaving him physically disabled. Realizing his military life is over, the embittered Colonel Baquiste awaits his dismissal to return to Llehstanz. However, he is offered a second chance for victory.Colonel Baquiste is called back to military duty on a secret mission. He must go alone in disguise to capture elusive thugs terrorizing the Llehstanzite regiment. In accepting the mission, Baquiste realizes he is no longer fighting an enemy on a battleground when he travels to stay at the palace of renowned Southern Hastana landowner, Sir Bojeshnomaan Yervaan. Yervaans' sinister nature ensnares Baquiste while the delicate assignment compels him to confront his tragic past and his prejudice against Hastanas. If the ambitious Colonel wants victory, it will require him to use not just his grit but also his heart.

Editorial cartoonist Paul Jamiol's fourth book of political cartoons represents his take on the world and on those in that world who should be scrutinized a little closer for their words and deeds. Upheaval, divisiveness, and a new Administration were hallmarks of the years 2017-2019 in which Americans were affected profoundly. This book is Jamiol's recording of that period in a selection of 150 cartoons. Jamiol's pursuit of honesty is relentless. "We need to care about our fellow Americans, not denigrate them or beat them down, and if that's happening, we need to bring it out into the light."Like all his books, this collection strives to be a truthful recording of the rising tide of spin from the White House occupant, his ilk, and the Right-wing media revisionists who want to "slide things past" the American people. These falsehoods come in waves that never seems to stop. They try to penetrate the American consciousness, hoping lies will be accepted as the truth. Hopefully this book of cartoons will turn the tide and hold some waves back so Jamiol's non-revisionist telling of events might also be heard.This book won't change your perception of the world. It will only show you how Jamiol perceives the world. Whether you agree with his handling of an issue, you will be captivated by his creativity, poignancy, toughness, and honesty. It targets readers interested in politics, issues, a cartoonist's take on the world, or are just curious about our changing political landscape. Visual commentary can highlight an issue more clearly than the written word.

Do you take investing seriously but it's not your career?Do you want to spend time on your investments, just not all of your time?Do you want a successful investment approach?If so, this book is a straightforward, actionable set of steps for successful investing in individual stocks.This framework has three pieces:1) Identification: Create a list of stocks you'd love to own at the right price.2) Valuation: Determine the real worth of your listed stocks.3) Personalization: Adopt personal practices that keep you on the path to wealth through individual stocks.Along the way, learn why you should NEVER take small positions and why investing whenever a good opportunity comes along is a mistake.Once you adopt this framework:¿ Your wealth will grow.¿ You'll face big moves in the stock market with equanimity.¿ You'll sleep well, confident in your investments.¿ Your friends will come to you for investing advice.¿ You'll understand how to manage risk in the way that matters to you.¿ You'll have fun investing!Continue reading to learn the number 1 rule of investing. Interested?

The Spragues of rural Cedar County, Missouri, missed the Civil War until their oldest son, Jesse, answered a remark from a drunk southern sympathizer who wore revenge. Soon after, his father is shot by a group of confederates scouts. With the help of his special needs friend, Rooney, the two youngsters maintain the farm until Franklin recovers. The next summer after Jesse taking his girl, Sissy, home from a brush arbor church service, a group of southern sympathizers ambush him. Jesse escapes with the help of Rooney and leaves the county. Having two friends in the Union Army is southern Missouri, Jesse decides to travel there. On his journey, the youngster meets a drummer and a young lady, Lena. Chauncey, the drummer, and Jesse barely escape a group of Confederate raiders returning from a foray. Jesse makes it Monett and is hired as a scout. Back in Cedar County, Rooney misses his friend and when Sissy dies, he decides to go find Jesse and tell him of her death. When he reaches Monett, he discovers Jesse was wounded and taken to Arkansas to be executed as a spy. Rooney's purpose is clear: he will rescue Jesse, nurse back to health and take him back to Cedar County.

Hope's Garden Song is a powerful metaphor written to help hurting families learn to sing a new song of HOPE together, while also cultivating a safe space for their deep sorrows.This story takes place in a special beloved broken garden, among tender, broken-hearted animals that weep over its unexpected destruction from a terrible winter storm right before the highly anticipated celebration of Spring. The hurting and confused animals, who lose their favorite tree and their precious Lily flower, learn what it means to weep together, grieve together and HOPE together too. In the midst of their journey of pain, a special butterfly friend, named "Hope" teaches them a new song to sing. Through a journey of questioning, doubt, anger, and honest wrestling...They come to discover that their "Great Gardener" who weeps with them, is always working, always close, always doing a new thing even when they can't see Him.In fact, they discover the most amazing truth: that He is using every precious tear to grow beautiful gifts from their deepest pain.Hope's "garden song" becomes their light in the darkness and the anthem that ultimately comforts their broken hearts as they trust their Good Gardener. This endearing and powerful parable is for all ages and honors both the depths of shared sorrow that families sometimes have to walk through and the overwhelming joy of a deep shared HOPE too.When read together, this story will give needed language to validate the raw realities of disappointment,trauma and loss, while also celebrating the deeper truth that we can trust all our broken gardens to the Great Gardener's good hands and loving heart."Behold, I am making all things new." (Rev. 21:5)

David North, a once proud member of the British intelligence service turned freelance assassin, has returned home. He's in the capital and has already taken the life of the home secretary, the first of his latest victims. This is a man who fundamentally enjoys the thrill of the kill without any remorse towards those he murders.The clock is ticking, and the Section's newest agent, Naomi Ripley, has been tasked with finding him before the bodies start stacking up. She's far younger and less hardened than her foe but is no stranger to the chaos this job brings. She's fought on the front line and faced her fair share of extremists and psychopaths this world can produce.It's these experiences she'll need to fall back on to survive the onslaught this single day holds for her that will test her in more ways than she knows. "Winner of the Chill with a book Awards 2023."

The book was meant to get kids off the street and into the home. The book was meant to keep college students on the up and up. The book was meant to be for general reading and entertainment purposes and the book was meant to be God-fearing.

I have told this story to friends of a friend, this urban legend. I will start by saying thatSeptember had never been so tired as it was in 1945.It was God's will, the town lacking a legalized draft in the midst of war. It was always peacetime, so sayeth the law, the law held as word. Telly and Mckenzie, tutor and student, spent their days speaking of artistic rituals and arguing opinions. Telly was reluctantly coming to term with the fact that he would never be as good an artist as Mckenzie. Instead, he took jobs at community colleges and wrote himself into plays, never expressing another desire. Mckenzie was turning eighteen, a dangerous age for most, but not for him. Not in that safe environment where nothing could hurt him.They also said that a teenage boy wants nothing but heroics. But with no draft, no machine guns, no mud tracks, dead friends, or bombs, it felt like peacetime.There was no draft, but there were volunteers.At turns both allegorical and lyrical, Hannah Duffy's debut captures the world at a time of upheaval and uncertainly through the eyes of two young men.

The Bradshaws, who readers first met in Hot Winter Sun, are living a peaceful life in Restoration England, under the gay and clever King Charles II. A season is launched for their unusually beautiful and high-spirited daughter, Julia. However, after an unexpected visit from Philip Lambarth, a bizarre and tragic chain of events is set off, changing Julia's life forever.Too late, Julia realizes the true nature of the man she thought she loved, and broken-hearted, impetuously enters a marriage of convenience. Julia attempts to live quietly and banish the memory of Philip's treachery, when another man captures her heart in a way she never dreamed possible.Being unable to convince Julia to end her unsuitable marriage, he eventually leaves Cornwall for London, and Julia is left devastated and hopeless in a trap of her own making. Madness and murder then stalk this unusual heroine, until an astonishing twist of fate restores the happiness she thought was lost forever.

A book designed to help parents and teachers explain the Russian War in Ukraine created for children ages 3-10.Sunny Sonechko melts the snow and pours warmth and love on the flowers making them grow strong and tall. When a storm cloud covers the village in darkness, the sunflowers rise in a wall to defend their home as Good triumphs over Evil.The book helps readers see why the Ukrainians hold so much love for their homeland. The rich traditions of Eastern Ukrainian folklore and contemporary village life are echoed in Cossack dress, mouth-watering dishes, Ukrainian spring, and above all the love for grandmothers who grow and eat sunflowers, the national flower. The nation's historical life cycle of war and tragedy leading to reconstruction and prosperity is demonstrated.¿Ukrainian Air follows the pattern of all books in Folkerts' series "Rural Life Around the World" showing contemporary rural life and traditions: it is a visual gem, both entertaining and educational. A poetic story integrated with colorful illustrations, all carefully researched, enables young children, parents, and teachers to discover a unique cultural geography. Come and sense the sounds, aromas, visual details, and emotions of people with whom you have more in common than you thought. A picture glossary is available at the back.

As the world approaches the middle of the twenty-first century, octogenarians Donald Lasserman and Richard Adamo maintain unbridled hope and vision for a more promising future. They unite several retired world leaders, including a former nemesis, to brainstorm ideas for a better world. While this happens, Donald's self-made billionaire nephew, Nate, goes up against a terrorist kidnapping in the Panamanian rainforest and a coup in Cuba.Packed with intellectual stimulation and thrilling action, hopefully the content highlighted in this book will prompt readers to consider solutions and improvements for our everyday lives.This is the author's second fiction work, following The Great Divorce (2018). While a sequel, it is also an entry point if you pay attention to the prologue. This book builds on the chaos of the first, fostering ideas and dreams for a more united and civilized world.

Aerospace physiology (also known as flight or aviation physiology, human factors, or aeromedical factors) is the scientific discipline studying the effects of flight conditions on human physiological and cognitive systems teaching aviators to work and function at peak efficiency in the abnormal environment of flight. This information is introduced to pilots throughout their training and includes hypoxia, spatial disorientation, visual illusions, fatigue, trapped gases, and many others. Unfortunately, all of these issues still create incidents and accidents for pilots on a regular basis even today. The reason for this disparity is pilots may know about the information but fail to understand it completely. This book will transform a pilot's potential misinterpretation of this subject matter into definitive action on the flight deck.The most current, authoritative, and comprehensive resource on this critical subject is Aerospace Physiology: Aeromedical and Human Performance Factors in Aviation (Second Edition). This book provides professional-grade information for enhancing safety-of-flight for all pilot experience levels. The book was written for use in academic settings and is currently the preferred text on flight physiology for the world-renowned University of North Dakota's John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences, plus other university aviation programs.The book's twenty-two chapters follow a logical presentation format, with each chapter thoroughly discussing the topic in understandable language, followed by core competency questions. Each topic details the environmental causes, potential physiological & cognitive responses, plus effective and proven anticipation & mitigation strategies. The book uses the most recent research and experience-based information combined with current aviation incidents and accidents that illustrate how these issues present themselves in realistic flight environments, followed by discussions on how those events may have been prevented. The information in this book is based on Mr. Martin's thirty years of military and civilian aviation experience, as well as modeled after the US Air Force's Physiological Training Program for pilots and the comprehensive European Union Aviation Safety Agency's (EASA) flight physiology human performance standards.Using Aerospace Physiology: Aeromedical and Human Performance Factors for Pilots (Second Edition) as your learning or teaching resource will elevate your standard of training to its highest levels. The book is essential for all student pilots, certified flight instructors, and licensed private and professional pilots.