Winning Low

South Carolina, 1862. Emily Jarvie is determined to send her family's slave-owning history to its grave. When the Union Army captures the Sea Islands, she returns to the south to teach the former slaves, part of the Army's unusual experiment in racial equality. Despite her loyalty to the Union cause, her Southern heritage raises a brick wall of Yankee suspicion.

With gimlet-eyed cool and razor-sharp wit, these spare, stylish stories from a master of modern-crime fiction assemble a world of gangsters and con men, of do-gooders breaking bad and those caught in the crossfire. The uncle of an FBI agent spends his life as sheriff in different cities, living too close to the violent acts of men; a cocktail waitress moves through several desert towns trying to escape the unexplainable loss of an adopted daughter; a drug dealer with a penchant for karaoke meets a talkative lawyer and a silent clown in a Palm Springs bar.

It's the summer of '74 . . . Richard Nixon has resigned from office, CB radios are the hot new thing, and in the great state of Texas two cousins hatch a plan to drive $1 million worth of stolen weed to Idaho, where some lunatic is gearing up to jump Snake River Canyon on a rocket-powered motorcycle. But with a vengeful sheriff on their tail and the revered and feared marijuana kingpin of Central Texas out to get his stash back, Chuck and Dean are in for the ride of their lives—if they can make it out alive . . .

Aiming low is as easy as breathing. You can practically do it without thinking. And the skills required to get there - like quitting and making excuses - take less time to learn than you might imagine. All you need is No, You Can’t and the stark realization that you don’t really want to “be all that you can be”. In fact, your expectations can go so low that anything you do achieve is completely surprising.

"10 percent of the population holds 90 percent of the wealth". You may have heard this before, but have you ever asked why? Twenty years I searched for the truth about money, and what I discovered was that everything I believed to be true about money was wrong. This audiobook is an introduction to what I discovered in my search for the secret behind the magic trick of making money, which is surprisingly easier than you might think or realize.

When young medusa Ria inadvertently turns an entire village to stone, she and her older sister flee to Nelroote, an underground settlement populated by other non-humans also marginalised by society. There she becomes their gatekeeper, hoping to seek redemption and love…until her friendship with a man from above threatens to dismantle the city she swore to protect.

A ketogenic diet is distinctive from all the other health-oriented diets for several reasons. Firstly, it fully restricts the consumption of carbohydrates in the diet. It points out carbs as enemies of good health and active metabolism. Not only it restricts the intake but also set a standard formula to limit the number of carbohydrates taken per meal. The diet is not only restrictive in essence, but also suggestive. It promotes the use of good quality fats in food products. If it restricts carbs for one reason, it provides a rather healthy alternative.

Do you find yourself fighting voices in your mind that say you are not good enough? Does it seem like God has forsaken you? Are you going through the motions of self-doubt, low self-esteem and serial life challenges? Does it seem like you are surrounded by fake friends? By reading this book, you`ll discover how to deal with depression, fight your fears, anxiety, fight with truth, handle perfectionism, and stop accepting the lies of the devil. With a mix of true and fictional stories, you will see how others, going through similar challenges, were weighed down by their insecurities. Read the...

The good news is that wherever you're at in life, the same opportunities for passive income exist for all of us. Believe it or not, there is nothing fundamentally different between you or any other successful person.... Why some people live the life of their dreams and others don't isn’t a huge secret. It’s also not hard to understand or get started with. No matter what your situation is, you can take the simple yet highly effective steps outlined in this book to start developing passive income streams using real estate.

We all know that all desserts and baked goods are composed of sugars, flours, and other high-carb ingredients. In order to enjoy those same flavors, we need keto-friendly substitutes. This audiobook not only provides an all-inclusive guide to find such substitutes but also brings you the best recipes to make good use of in everyday life. Keto bread is great. It's a fact. However, from what I’ve seen, it’s not much of a big deal in the keto industry now.