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This modern parable tells the engagingly simple story of one man's journey of going from a life filled, yet unfulfilled. You'll find yourself walking in his footsteps in this easy-to-listen narrative packed with practical applications and a timeless process. Define what's most important you. Clarify your wants and heart's desire. Find your purpose. Tap into the power of your authentic self. Listen to The On-Purpose Person, year after to year, to better calibrate and navigate your good life into a great life.

Dakota Territory, 1867. The O’Driscoll brothers have survived a Sioux massacre, but younger brother Michael is gravely wounded. The deserters are fleeing north with Tom’s lover, Sara, when they come upon a sheltering rock by a stream down off the Bozeman Trail. If there is game here, they may survive winter. “Wanted” posters appear everywhere. Enter any town, and they will have to shoot their way out. The rock and river become their safe place, and when spring comes, their paradise. But the world seeks its way to them, and even in paradise, human nature makes its own trouble.

Enter the world of a business person whose company just lost their largest customer. Having recently succeeded Fred Taylor, his old boss, as the head of the company, it was evident that Fred was the company. What should he do? Could they recover? Something was missing. It was a common purpose, a reason to work at the company....

The Civil War may be over, but in this thrilling historical novel, the battle for the West is only just beginning. Wolves of Eden sets four men on a deadly collision course in a haunting narrative that explores the cruelty of warfare and the resilience of the human spirit.

Whether you are a foreign investor seeking a United States green card or a domestic developer sourcing capital for your latest project, the United States EB-5 visa program offers unique opportunity. In an industry known to be difficult to understand, The EB-5 Handbook breaks down the EB-5 program into its simple basics - investment, economic growth, and green cards. In The EB-5 Handbook, investors and developers alike will learn how to get started on their EB-5 journey.

Let the business reformation begin. The premise of this audiobook’s message and movement is simple. The title and role of a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is obsolete. CEOs are command and control holdouts based on the archaic thinking and ways of the Industrial Age. We're well into the Digital Age and heading into the Age of Purpose and Meaning. We need a reformation in business. New times call for new leadership.

Scare Street is proud to present 14 diabolical new tales in this bone-chilling collection. Each ghastly short story unleashes a new nightmare, ripped from the depths of your psyche. It’s almost as if this book has a mind of its own; a monstrous, disturbed mind, a mind full of dark dreams, and twisted nightmares.

West Cork. November 1920. The Irish War of Independence rages. The body of a young woman is found brutally murdered on a windswept hillside, a scrapboard sign covering her mutilated body reads "TRATOR". Traitor. Acting Sergeant Séan O’Keefe of the Royal Irish Constabulary, a wounded veteran of the Great War, is assigned to investigate the crime, aided by sinister detectives sent from Dublin Castle to ensure he finds the killer, just so long as the killer he finds best serves the purposes of the crown in Ireland. Meanwhile, the IRA has instigated its own investigation....

Dublin, 1922: As civil war sets brother against brother and Free State and Republican death squads stalk the streets and back lanes of Dublin, demobbed RIC-man, Sean O’Keefe, takes a break from life as a whiskey-soaked waster to search for the missing son of one of Monto's most powerful brothel owners. Hired to find the boy amid the tumult and terror of a country at war with itself, O’Keefe soon finds that the story is not as simple as it first seemed and that the truth can be hard to pin down.

The Best Life Stories by Reader's Digest are 150 of the best hand-picked real-life tales of resilience, joy, and hope - all in 150 words or less! "He has a proud walk," said a homeless man with an eager grin.

Your leadership potential is limited by only one thing - blind spots! Through decades of human potential research, we've discovered that most problems in the work place such as turnover, disengagement and conflict are due to one blind spot - possibly the most significant blind spot - a lack of awareness; real-time awareness of how leaders are coming across and being perceived by others. Join bestselling Blind Spots authors, Kevin McCarthy and Likky Lavji and a studio audience of managers and senior leaders throughout North America as they discuss overcoming blind spots to develop and lead ...

FIT 4 Leading is a message about leadership, especially personal leadership. Regardless of whether you consider yourself a leader or not, you have much to gain from at least one chapter in this book. Which chapter though? You will know it when you read it. Over the course of the book, we’ll explore some of the questions and misconceptions about leading that I’ve encountered over the years. Please leverage my lessons to your benefit, but be skeptical. My intention is not to conform you to my style or view of leadership, but to provoke your thinking. Ideally, you’ll refine your ...

Future Past rollicks across a world of artificial gods and aliens that are altogether too damn real! It has villains that want to literally destroy the world, it has heroes that just need a good nap! If it doesn’t make you think of some classics of science fantasy, then there’s a whole list of books you need to read. Kevin McCarthy has constructed a future history in which the past —our present— is not so much forgotten as …misremembered? De-extincted dinosaurs? Check. Loquacious extraterrestrial arachnid bureaucrats? Check. Animatronic pantheons? Check! The Creature from the ...

BOOK ONE IN THE TALES SERIES In the tradition of the Twilight Zone, Night Gallery and the Outer Limits, here are twelve stories that will take you beyond the world that we all know, the world that we depend on every day. They will take you to a place where anything can happen, for better or for worse... Victoria; A dying town at the edge of California's high desert holds a centuries old secret that its last resident is determined to solve. The Boat Houses; millions of tourist flock to Pompeii and Herculaneum every year to see their ruins but in a place where tourists don't go, in the ...

This second collection of short stories once again takes the reader beyond the paths we all walk in our everyday life, to where that thin veil of civilization is torn aside to reveal worlds in which the strange and impossible do happen, for better and for worse. In the nine tales here we meet; a man who buys a classic car that can do incredible things, things that could change his life forever, even if he’d rather it didn’t (The Song Remains the Same). A brilliant and nasty research scientist who is hell bent on unlocking the key to immortality both for herself and for mankind, even if ...

Ben Nickerson lives on Cape Cod, one of the premier vacation spots in the country. He doesn’t have a house with an ocean view or live near the beach. He doesn’t own a boat. Ben lives in a sober home because he’s a recovering alcoholic. He works menial jobs and stays below the radar. His closest confidant is a two-year-old child who lived over a century ago. As bleak as his life seems Ben is still trying and he has a plan. A plan to put his life back together, put his marriage and his career back together. And while the road he’s currently on isn’t an easy one, or a normal one, Ben...