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When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the US Navy had a total of 111 submarines. It was mostly a collection of aging boats. Fortunately, with the war in Europe was already two years old and friction with Japan ever increasing, help from what would become known as the Silent Service in the Pacific was on the way: there were 73 of the new fleet submarines under construction. The Silent Service in World War II tells the story of America's intrepid underwater warriors in the words of the men who lived the war in the Pacific against Japan.

Returning to the city that inspired his first prize-winning book, Lost in the City, Jones has filled this new collection with people who call Washington, D.C., home. Yet it is not the city's power brokers that most concern him but rather its ordinary citizens.

Y’ALL AIN’T RIGHT is an anthology of Southern Extreme Horror stories featuring 17 of the best extreme horror authors in the genre. From gator infested swamps to the overgrown backwoods, be careful how far you venture off of the main road. And if you hear banjos… well, you better paddle faster!

As daughters of the impoverished King of Montenegro, Militza and Stana must fulfill their duty to their father and leave their beloved home for St. Petersburg to be married into senior positions in the Romanov court. For their new alliances to the Russian nobility will help secure the future of the sisters’ native country. Immediately, Militza and Stana feel like outcasts as the aristocracy shuns them for their provincial ways and for dabbling in the occult. Undeterred, the sisters become resolved to make their mark by falling in with the lonely, depressed Tsarina Alexandra.

A finalist for the National Book Award, Lost in the City features 15 poignant short stories, each set in Washington, D.C. Far removed from marble monuments and the offices of rich politicians, the nation's capital that Jones captures is inhabited by self-willed African-Americans struggling to live their lives as best they can.

Nathan Jones explica los conceptos económicos y financieros subyacentes de situaciones cotidianas, para que puedas contar con elementos de juicio en una mejor toma de decisiones. El contenido es válido para cualquier país del mundo, aunque los ejemplos expuestos son de USA. No es necesario ningún conocimiento previo porque los conceptos se desarrollan paso a paso y con ejemplos explicativos. El curso está dirigido a quienes deseen lograr una mejora sostenida en su economía personal.

Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor, William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful white man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation, as well as of his own slaves. When he dies, his widow Caldonia succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart.

The Scare Street train is leaving the station with a new collection of skin-crawling horror. Thirteen tales of nightmares and dark fantasy lurk within. Plenty of listening to occupy your mind, as your train ride to terror begins.

Militza y Stana, hijas del empobrecido rey de Montenegro, se ven forzadas a casarse con dos miembros de la aristocracia rusa para que su padre pueda recuperar parte de su poder. La vida, a pesar del esplendor de la corte del zar Nicolás, no es fácil.

The Golden Age Restored is a stunning piece of alchemical work that is vivid in its descriptions and a Jungian utopia for dream analysis and analogy of the individuation process.

A lot can happen on the way from one place to another, especially when an overnight flight makes for an unexpected romantic encounter between strangers seated together; a trucker finds life beyond the ranch where he grew up; and a bored Midwestern housewife tries to escape Kansas City.

Is fate stronger than a young woman’s desires? Miomir ìl Kurić wants money, power, and to be feared, but unburdened by her past. Her Uncle Karanosz insists she remains a part of their unique family, one which harbors special skills… and connections to evil. Miomir seeks to silence the old knowledge along with those who remember it.

Are you struggling with anxiety or panic attacks? Do you find yourself paralysed by fear? If so, I feel your pain. I've been there myself, but I found the tools and techniques to overcome these awful illnesses. This pack brings together Ed Jones's first two best-selling books, each with a key focus. The content in these two books will help you to understand what anxiety is and why is affects you in the way it does. You'll also learn how panic attacks affect the mind and body and learn powerful techniques to overcome them and regain control of your life!

Anxiety is one of the biggest killers in the modern age. If you've ever experienced anxiety, panic attacks, phobias or any of the other ways anxiety manifests itself, you'll know just how debilitating it can be. I struggled for years with it and lived my life in constant fear. I wouldn't go out, I wouldn't meet new people, I wouldn't grow as a person. Anxiety had stopped me living my life. Until one day I said, "Enough is enough!" and I made a decision to overcome this horrible affliction, no matter what.

Junior Detective Henry Ike Pierce is hired to reassess cold-case killings. On the third day of his new job, a dismembered body appears in a local park. The corpse's desecration is like slayings from over two decades ago, and his boss assigns Henry to his first investigation. Henry seeks a killer within a community of rival ethnic groups, refugees from the 1990s Balkan Wars. Rumors point to a killer called "the hooded one". As his investigation unfolds, the young man from Western Virginia's coal country discovers that "trust" has a flexible definition.

The Player Development Podcast exists to provide player development education to professionals, students and those who have an interest in this great career. Tune in and find out how you can create generational impact today.

Are you struggling with panic attacks or anxiety on an almost daily basis? It can be so hard to live the full life you know you are capable of when you are gripped by constant worry and fear. This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to completely eliminate panic attacks in five simple steps to regain control of your life quickly and easily.

A wolf in gentlemen's clothing tracks his prey. It is 1968, and the secretive Group of 30 has resisted the new Czech regime installed after the Prague Spring. Professor Valentýn Hrubý leads this campus group, fighting for the reforms crushed by Russian tanks. Hrubý keeps lists to help his forgetfulness, and the authorities find one of these lists, one that shows the names of his associates. The new government hires an assassin to track and dispose of the group’s members. Dressed in a three-piece suit and topped by his ever-present black fedora, Karanosz Tasev stalks his prey.

In 14 sublime stories, Edward P. Jones turns an unflinching eye to the ordinary citizens of Washington, DC: men, women, and children caught between the old ways of the South and the temptations that await them in the city. With the legacy of slavery just a stone's throw behind them and the future uncertain, Jones' cornucopia of characters will haunt the reader for years to come.

Professor Filíp Nekola’s wife dies unexpectedly in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and his troubled teenage foster daughter, Miomir, comes under suspicion. Filíp must protect his two other wards, younger siblings brought to him six years earlier when an assassin, Karanosz Tasev, killed the children’s parents. A detective appears, telling Filíp he has learned of Tasev’s hunt for Miomir.