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I have many dreams of being a writer, and I love what I do. Let me ignite your mind, imagination, and dreams with the power of my fictional storytelling.

Due to the ever-changing landscape we face, this book was meant to be the most complete guide to the waterfalls in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Following this guide will allow everyone, no matter your hiking knowledge or ability, to enjoy some of the beauty that abounds in the area. It is noted that a very high percentage of the falls as shown are rarely, if ever, visited by the general public, so with an adventuresome spirit and a willingness to do the work--you too can experience these landscapes and the nature that surrounds them, or make you own adventure and find even more! Keep in mind, the locations change significantly in appearance based on season, rainfall, and topography due to storms, rock slides, falling trees, etc.Where they could be found, the author also tried to point out some of the history associated with the names, especially with the Indian or Finnish names as given to the specific falls, rivers, or surrounding area.Use this guide to plan your next hiking adventure--and I look forward to seeing you on the trail.

She lost her mom, her infant brother, and her twin, and if that's not enough, she lost her voice. Therefore, it was only natural that after this happened, she would lose her faith in God as well. Nonetheless, the world continued around Mirda, forcing her to adapt. Hurting in ways no one could understand, she went through life just getting by. Little did Mirda know that God wouldn't let her slip away so easily.Read Mirda's story as she rediscovered not only her faith in God, but also her faith in herself, with the help of her best friend, her father, and the love of her life.

The reason for writing this book is to coach, instruct, and teach people how to perform various exercises correctly and effectively. I also wanted to provide people with information on eating plans/diets, supplemental information, workout programs, kickboxing drills, motivation quotes (we all need some type of motivation daily), and testimonials from some of my clients on how fitness has helped them in their lives. Get that work! A portion of the proceeds from this book will aid in helping the homeless and providing free expert fitness training for young athletes in high school and college

From times of old where kingdoms ruled across the lands and seas comes a magical tale of a young sharp-tongued bounty hunter who is more than what he seems. A name that is known but a power that is not, with hidden truths of the past, lies, betrayal, pain, and sorrow--these are just the beginning! Follow our young bounty hunter as he not only faces feelings he never knew were real but also his painful past and comes face to face with the enemy, who he never thought he would come across...until now. This will drag him into a war he wants no part of. How will this journey affect our young bounty hunter? Will his past come peacefully? Or will it bring him more sorrow and anger?

Ninety percent nonfiction with witnesses. Coming from the stars and healing the blind. Appearing in multiple places at the same time.He comes with plans from the future--to build a machine that vaporizes pollution and also allows travel beyond the speed of light. 12 three will continue explaining the importance of 12. About the author. An ancient soul perceiving planetary peace.Thank you very much, Fletcher.

Wilhelmina Thornton's world turned upside down in less than a minute. That's how long it took her father to tell her that she would be spending her entire summer with her great-aunt Agatha at Merrycliff, an old house in the little mountain town of Three Springs."Dad, how can you do this to me? I'll be bored out of my wits!"How wrong she was! The summer turned out to be the best one ever! Full of surprises, secrets, intriguing twists and unexpected turns.

"Why are these grown men getting paid millions of dollars to play a child's game?"Inevitably, if you've been around the game of basketball long enough, you've heard some cynical adult ask this question. It seems fair; getting paid millions to play basketball every night in front of adoring fans does sound like one of the easiest gigs in the world. But there's a lot more to it than that.No one has an easy journey to reap the rewards waiting for them at the highest level of basketball. Only 3 percent of high school athletes earn scholarships to play in college, and only 0.03 percent turn pro. Of those 0.03 percent, there are only so many who have successful careers, make the millions players dream of, and don't go broke almost immediately after retiring. There's plenty of elite hoopers, but to make it to the highest level of basketball, you have to be the best in the world.One thing all the elite players have in common are insane work ethics (and sometimes some luck in genetics). Inside this book, you'll find stories of the relentless work and hours that these stars have put in when all the lights are shut off, no one's watching, and it's just them and the basketball. Because, when basketball is someone's only ticket out of a rough life, gang wars, drugs, and violence, you won't believe how good at the game they'll become.

An organization is more than a producer of goods or services; it is part of the fabric of the communities in which it serves. Over my nearly four decades in leadership roles in the financial, nonprofit, and public sectors, I have learned a lot about inspiring and motivating every organization's greatest asset, its people. People, in this case, includes everyone involved with the organization: its staff, of course, as well as its customers and the other stakeholders with whom it interacts in various ways.People have always been the key to the success of any organization. That is even more true today, as technology streamlines our work while also challenging our ability to keep people engaged. Furthermore, with the current labor shortage, it is increasingly vital for organizations to attract and retain top talent.I prefer a servant leadership style, which has suited me well in the many sectors in which I have worked. My strategic approach to growing revenue, reducing costs, and building relationships is to enable and support my team. I view my role as serving, supporting, and working for them so they have what they need for us all to succeed. We also have a lot of fun together along the way! It's about building synergy so that our entire organization's accomplishments are far greater than the sum of the individual efforts.Through my experiences, I have identified seven timeless truths that have shaped me professionally and personally. I call these the 7 Rs of leadership and life.

This book tells the story of a young woman's journey in life while being a military spouse. The reader will experience how amazing and challenging military life can be. The book shows the many military roles a spouse will have to claim/hold while supporting the active soldier/family while trying to find herself in the mix of it all. This book will empower, inspire, and most of all prepare anyone who may one day be a military spouse.

We are presented with several million options during our life that we have to make a choice between. The choices we make create the way we see the world and establish how we live in it. This environment, which we have created for ourselves, is called our world. Everyone has a world that is unique and personal to them.Of course, our worlds are based on assumptions that for one reason or another, we choose to believe and call facts.We are sure that what we believe takes precedence over everyone else's beliefs, and that can make our world a bit of a challenge to live in at times. I have decided to share my world with the rest of the world. Not to convince anyone that my world is better than theirs but to share some of the things that I found helpful for the world at large.In my eighty-eight years as a well-educated wonderer, many of my assumed facts have been proven wrong. I see that as progress a good thing. The challenge is to be able to accept that one of your lifelong facts just isn't true. I have only a few things that I learned that have stayed true so far and have been stabilizers in my world. I think they can be of use to almost everyone and need sharing.I am not writing this book to encourage you to think like me but rather to just think. There are things changing all around you. So many new things to learn. So many new places to visit. So many edges out there you haven't walked on yet. No matter how intelligent you are, your areas of vast ignorance are greater than your areas of knowledge.There is so much to learn that when you throw your arms up and say, "I know nothing," it will be true, but it is okay. Every other human on earth is in the same situation, they just don't know it.We have robots with Artificial Intelligence (AI) far beyond any human right now that are working for us. What will happen when they decide we are too dumb and of no use to them? I believe this could be a far greater threat to human survival than global warming. What do you think, and why?

Darrian Collins is recently divorced and is starting over in Austin, Texas. She has a job at a restaurant and is studying at the same time while trying to meet new people. Her older sister Danielle Collins lives in the same city, and she is pushing for her younger sister to go out on dates and be more sociable. While Darrian is living a simple and quiet life, her sister invites her out so she can hang out with the friends she regularly goes out with.This is where Darrian meets Danielle's coworkers/friends. She is introduced to two young men named Timothy and Michael and a young woman named Amber.To everyone's surprise, Michael and Darrian get along and start dating. This makes Danielle very happy knowing that her little sister is having fun and isn't lonely once again.This, however, makes other people very angry, and in time, Darrian will find herself in a cat-and-mouse game. She begins to be harassed and receive strange and dark gifts from a person she doesn't know.As time goes by, she starts to wonder if the person sending her things is a stranger after all. Maybe...just maybe...the danger is a lot closer than it seems.Danielle is the only person whom Darrian can trust, and together they try to keep each other safe.While Darrian's quiet and peaceful life is turned upside down by this tangled web of lies, there is also a sinister and dark secret the city of Austin holds. Someone has been kidnapping and murdering young females during the night.Could all the kidnappings and Darrian's stalking be connected? Or is it the work of an ex-lover who holds a grudge on Darrian for trying to have a new love life.Humans have always had a dark side and can commit horrible acts. In this terrifying story you must remember that someone is always watching!

Never ignore the fears of a child. Use those fears as a chance to connect with a child. A chance to help them learn or understand, and maybe make a million dollars.

My book is first to praise God, Jesus, and Holy Spirit and also to express words of love to Mother Mary, Virgin Mother; may these words speak to your heart as they have me.

Miraculously surviving a freak car accident caused by a demon creature on his seventh birthday, Chance Jordan, now eighteen and secretly a virgin, is the star slugger for the Wellington Preparatory Academy Spartans, the East Coast's most elite coed boarding school.But his dreams of being selected in Major League Baseball's upcoming draft is jeopardized when he meets Marina Robbins, an eighteen-year-old asylum patient at the eerie Havenhurst Psychiatric Hospital, where the patients undergo dark secret experiments.She believes him to be her soulmate, the War Bringer, Dayan'el--lead general for the armies of Michael the Archangel in the Great War for the throne of heaven.But she's crazy, right? And love? Well, he's given up on girls. Relationships with them are like milk. Both seem to come with an expiration and go sour.Yet he had felt something when she touched him, and she did feel familiar somehow. And deep down inside, he often questioned if there was something more to life than sex, money, fame, and power.With his life spiraling out of control from peers determined to stop him, use or abuse him for their own desires, and the law for the murder of a fellow student, he must uncover the truth about the insane girl, about himself, and the very real dark forces that will do anything to have him.If he can't find a way to defeat them and somehow save the strange girl, his doppelganger best friend, and his tormentors, he'll be forever lost in hell, damned for all eternity.

A woman's eyes, first seen in a bookstore on Christmas Eve, dominate Nick's life as he searches for their owner for twenty-five years. After many near misses--or so they seem--he faces a life-changing decision...

The book 25 to Life is based on Waulee Evans's twenty-five years as a corrections officer in the Department of Corrections and how he viewed it. Also, he will show you how jail affects both the inmate and the officer almost in the same way, and everything that can happen to an inmate can happen to an officer in jail. The minute you walk through the doors and down those halls, you could very well be the next recipient of some unpleasant attention or a life-changing situation. Nobody in jail is immune from violence, disrespect, or being injured. The officer is in just as much danger as the incarcerated person.

All that she set out to do was to explore her surroundings. Little did she know that she would be launching an intra-family rivalry that would last for years!

Sometimes, life gets stressful. Your boss is a jerk, your job is awful, the rent is due, and your car has a flat tire. We've all been there, and we all hate it. We wish we could have a better job or make more money (because that would solve all our problems), but for whatever reason, we can't. That's life and life goes on, right? Maybe for most of us. But for one ordinary warehouse worker, this couldn't be further from the truth.One day, while at work, he literally falls into a life of luxury. He finds himself as a man by the name of James Moreaux, a billionaire businessman with a fortune, a mansion, a fast car, and a butler who is always there when he needs him. He regularly attends lavish parties and has friends everywhere he goes. His life becomes the polar opposite of what it was like prior to his incident. He becomes someone--someone who can be whatever he wants. He has the world at his fingertips, but at what cost? Are the sacrifices worth the possible gain? With every choice he makes, he weaves his fate into this alternate reality until it consumes him completely.

MLK Jr.'s Detroit Dream: Memoir of a Civil Rights Foot Soldier is an autobiography of an African American black girl who was indoctrinated into the civil rights movement at the age of eight when Dr. Martin L King Jr., the freedom icon, marched in Detroit during the summer of 1963. The memoir puts, in chronological order from a child's point of view, the events, major personalities, triumphs, and tragedies in American history from the time of the Detroit Dream March in 1963 until Dr. King's tragic death in 1968.This book was inspired by young children who were mesmerized by the oral recitation of author Sharon Elizabeth Sexton's memory of when Dr. King came to Detroit and delivered his first version of the "I Have a Dream" speech. "Children do like history if they feel they can be a part of it," Sexton discovered and put the story into written form as the memories came back while writing. Sexton realized that she and her baby boom generation of the 1950s went through a lot of life-changing history between the time Dr. King first talked about his dream for the children of America and his untimely death.In recent history, American youth are once again witnessing life-changing social circumstances. Many of the youth don't realize that their grandparents, who were part of the baby boom generation, were faced with similar issues. This book can be used by multiple generations to bring up similarities, talking points, generate conversations, and provide teaching moments that will bring the different generations of family, community, and nation together to talk about African American history and current events.

What do a physical therapist and a high-end jewel thief have in common? The same bullet. Two break-ins, a botched jewel heist, and a murder set the stage for a complex set of events that put both the thief and the physical therapist at the wrong end of a rifle.Third Time's the Charm is a fast-moving murder mystery full of twists and turns. A home invasion results in the murder of a childhood friend of Melinda Stark's son. The perky physical therapist immediately inserts herself into the investigation to help solve it, unknowingly becoming a pawn in a game she has no idea she's been drafted into. Melinda's newest patient, Dominic Gallo has been hired by a billionaire bad guy to steal two priceless Egyptian charms. He misses the handoff and hides the charms in his sister's gift shop while he figures out his next move. The charms are inadvertently sold by his sister's assistant. The cash receipt yields only an illegible name. With no other option, he begins breaking into homes of people whose names look similar to the one on the receipt. The third name on his list is Melinda Stark. While Melinda pursues the murder investigation of her son's friend, Dominic tries to find out if she has the charms. The twists and turns continue to pile up as Gallo and his wife end up becoming friends with Melinda and her homicide detective boyfriend. Dominic's client goes completely off the rails and threatens to end of the lives of both Melinda and Dominic if the charms are not returned to him immediately. The nail-biting ending comes when the murderer, the charms, and Melinda's relationship to Dominic's client are revealed, leading to an explosive showdown that no one sees coming.

I don't know why I did it; let's call it therapy,I suppose I'm out of touch with modern poetry.Or just too old and grumpy for this modern stuff.I've tried to understand it, but haven't had much luck.I don't know why I do it; maybe it's a curse. But now and then, I need to rattle off another verse.I wake up of a morning, and lying there in bed,Start putting words together, somewhere in my head.I might stop it if someone tells me they're no good,Or I might slash their tires, and write another book.

This book is what you need to have to install solar panels and live off the grid.

Do you ever look back on your life and wonder, What the hell was I thinking? If so, good for you! As a self-proclaimed black sheep with a rebel heart, Laura relates to so many in her debut compilation of personal essays, Trial and (Mostly) Error.With essays like "Dying Sucks, So Write a Will" and "Well-Behaved Women Rarely Make History," Laura takes you on a personal journey of self-evolution and discovery through stories and life lessons that are both relatable and entertaining. Her "tell it like it is" style will leave you laughing, crying, and endlessly entertained. At the end of each chapter, readers will find a list of "challenges" to ask themselves before moving on. These stories will inspire you and leave you feeling thankful for your mistakes because after all, we all can grow through what we go through.

The tension between property and equality, as the Founders expressed it, or liberty and equality as commonly expressed today, has been a central issue for democracy since its beginning in Athens. The US founders addressed the problem with commitments to the protection of individual liberty and to equality of opportunity. Central to these commitments are private property rights and their enforcement, recognizing the diversity of individual interests and abilities and their rights to develop both as they choose. As James Madison put it in "The Federalist Papers," "the protection of the faculties (of men and their diversity, the original source of the rights of property) is the first object of government." That this is the greatest obstacle to a pursuit of a uniformity of interest as it would imply an equality of outcomes instead of opportunity. Thus, a political commitment to the pursuit of equality fosters continual questioning of its achievement and on what terms. In his new book, Property v. Equality--America's Enduring Political Rivalry, Mack Ott weaves the history of our democracy with the evolution of its political parties, the role of voting, its government and its institutions, with the central concern for the evolving tension of equal liberty with various and different levels of property. From the outset, Ott argues the problem of slavery presented deep moral and political problems. The importance of political compromise between the states to secure the adoption of the Constitution led the founders to put off abolition and settle initially for an end to importation of the enslaved in twenty years. Most states outlawed slavery well before 1860, but the end of slavery did not come easily. It was the presidency of Abraham Lincoln and his restoration of the Union that removed the biggest obstacle to liberty and equality. Ott explains that Lincoln also had a full agenda of other policies. Lincoln's "fair chance" aimed to provide Federal assistance to the emergence of greater equality. He successfully introduced three programs to enhance public welfare and the common good: assistance to develop roads and a federal highway system, the Homestead Acts to aid people to acquire property and residences at subsidized prices, and the Land Grant College program to assist states in developing institutions of higher education for young people. Lincoln's notion of a fair chance reflected his desire to expand the Federal role in promoting the common good and the enhancement of economic equality. The Civil War also brought to the center of political attention a practical obstacle to the achievement of balance between liberty and equality, according to Ott. This was the inability of federal revenue to provide a growing revenue base to support economic growth and intervention in major shocks, especially war. Except for a brief period during the Civil War, income taxation had not been available because it was viewed to be unconstitutional. In 1913, the Supreme Court ruled that direct taxation of citizens did not violate the Constitution. In the implementation of the Sixteenth Amendment, Congress allowed for progressive taxation--people of higher incomes would face higher tax rates than those with lower incomes. Lincoln laid the basis for an expanding Federal role in the economy and showed the way to progressively fund the Federal government. Perhaps the second major challenge to the pursuit of liberty and equality led to the election of Franklin Roosevelt. To confront the Great Depression, Roosevelt embarked on a major expansion in the Federal role in the American economy and control of much of the private sector. His success led to new debates over that role, in which liberty-versus-equality issues were central. With the death of Roosevelt and end of the Second World War, the political economy continued to expand the role of the government and to st