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John Crudder is an ordinary 25-year-old law school graduate looking for work in the Old West. What he finds instead is the love of 18-year-old Charlotte and the reality that he cannot have her without placing her in mortal danger. Raised to privilege, Crudder finds life as a cowhand, and later as a marshal, satisfying. Rather than being about to live that simple life, he finds himself thrust into the role of Midnight Marauder. Unless he stands up for those who have no voice, more lives will be lost, and an entire town will be wiped out.

When I come home to find my house robbed, I do all the things you're supposed to do. I call the cops, clean the place up, and look into home security options. What I don't expect is to fall for the security guy that shows up at my door. There's no way he's interested in me, though. He's just here to provide a service. Or is he?

This gripping personal account of life as a young World War Two submariner on two famous Royal Navy submarines, Thrasher and Trenchant gives vivid detail of depth charging, gun actions and other operations including sinking the Japanese cruiser Ashigara, the largest enemy warship sunk by a British submarine during the war, sinking the German U-boat U-859 with its secret cargo, towing a midget submarine to attack the German battleship Tirpitz in the Norwegian Fjords, and taking a group of SBS soldiers to carry out a daring raid in Sumatra.

The subject of countless adaptations, Oliver Twist is an essential read or listen, and this version is both exciting and accessible for children ages 8 to 13. Roy McMillan uses Dickens’ original words in the main text, simplifying and clarifying them at certain points. Oliver’s journey to London is narrated with ceaseless energy by Jonathan Keeble; his reading is infused with a delicious knack for storytelling.

In Junkyard Wisdom, Roy Goble explored the tension between wealth and poverty, between faithfulness and temptation. He tackled the question of what it means to be an ambassador of Jesus in a world of walls and what it takes to break those walls down. Now, in the face of a transformed world with more complex walls, Junkyard Wisdom Rebuilt takes on these principles with new perspective. Most of us live a life of abundance, insulated from the poor or anyone else who might threaten that comfortable life. Yet the spiritual hunger we are struck with remains.

Since the groundbreaking work of Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, the concept of the Balanced Scorecard has achieved increasing popularity in the business world. In this book, the authors draw on their extensive experience with scorecard projects to provide a step-by-step method for introducing the Balanced Scorecard into an organization. This book will provide senior and operational managers, consultants, and business academics with a comprehensive view of emerging Balanced Scorecard practice supported by both business advice and a theoretical foundation.

Welcome to The Catherine B. Roy Show, business and personal growth podcast exploring what it truly means to turn your passion into profitable business and providing practical steps on how to do what you love and make your dream life and business flourish. This is a show filled with inspiration, positivity, practical tools and tips. This is the place where you will meet EXTRAORDINARY high achievers, Nobel Peace Price, EMMY and Oscar awarded scientists and artists, NFL players, thought leaders, HR experts, PR experts, sales experts, bestselling authors, coaches, consultants, therapists, 6,7 and ...

Based on the authors' hugely popular blog and podcast series, this book is for patients and everyone else who is curious about how psychiatrists work. Using compelling patient vignettes, Shrink Rap explains how psychiatrists think about and address the problems they encounter, from the mundane (how much to charge) to the controversial (involuntary hospitalization). The authors face the field's shortcomings head-on, revealing what other doctors may not admit about practicing psychiatry.

We're Doomed, Now What? addresses the crisis that is our time through a series of brilliant, moving, and original essays on climate change, war, literature, and loss from one of the most provocative and iconoclastic minds of his generation.

Lost follows Clint Hazard, a modern-day cowboy who believes he was born 150 years too late. He loses his truck, his marriage, his son, his friends, and faces the loss of job and a term in prison. He struggles with habits that threaten to derail his life. His journey is aided by watching the change that takes place in his best friend who took the same journey about a year before him.

Why the heck would you subscribe to Breakthrough Marketing Secrets? Because you'll get proven direct response marketing, copywriting, and entrepreneurship success strategies you can use today... To write your own ticket and create the life, business, and career you want. The show's host, Roy Furr, has been in the trenches of entrepreneurial marketing since 2005... Creating winning campaigns, breaking sales records, and generating windfall wealth. Thanks to these copywriting, marketing, advertising, and business strategies. Online, offline, on the internet and beyond, the principles, strategies...

Acclaimed radio and TV dramatist Roy Clarke is well known for his hit sitcoms Last of the Summer Wine, Open All Hours and Keeping Up Appearances. But before he came to fame, he penned two hugely entertaining six-part thriller serials—both directed by a struggling radio producer who would become one of the most renowned playwrights in the world: Alan Ayckbourn.

In many Muslim countries, mainstream Islamist parties are taking an increasingly secular approach to politics. Yet by doing so they risk destroying the religious elements of society that created them.

Auf einem Friedhof in der Altstadt von Delhi wird ein handgeknüpfter Teppich ausgerollt. Auf einem Bürgersteig taucht plötzlich ein Baby auf. In einem verschneiten Tal schreibt ein Vater einen Brief an seine fünfjährige Tochter über die vielen Menschen, die zu ihrer Beerdigung kamen. Im Jannat Guest House umarmen sich im Schlaf zwei Menschen, als ob sie sich eben erst getroffen hätten - aber sie kennen sich schon ein Leben lang.

Chinesische Medizin einfach und kompetent erklärt - von einer Schulmedizinerin und überzeugten TCM-Ärztin. Dr. med. Nina Roy praktiziert seit über zwanzig Jahren Traditionelle Chinesische Medizin. Praktisch und lebensnah erklärt sie in ihrem Gesundheits-Ratgeber die verschiedenen Wandlungsphasen der TCM und wie diese unser Leben beeinflussen. Mit Selbsttests kann man die Balance von Yin und Yang und den eigenen Konstitutionstyp bestimmen. Konkrete Ernährungsvorschläge und Empfehlungen für Bewegung und Entspannung helfen, Körper, Geist und Seele zu harmonisieren.

Faith, Hope and Glory charts the lives of three African-Caribbean families, connected forever by the theft of a beautiful pram in Tilbury in 1946. As they live through the eighty years since then, they witness and take part in the emergence of the modern United Kingdom.

According to the early legends and traditions of Britain, the oldest of Christian denominations, Grail Christianity, also associated with Celtic, Druidic, Old Catholic, Welsh and other early Christian denominations, was first started by Christ himself during a visit to Glastonbury in the west of England with his great uncle Joseph of Arimathea. Joseph of Arimathea, who was also known as the "tin man" in Britiain, became the guardian of the Christ child during the missing years between his 13th birthday and his ministry in the Holy Land. As Joseph of Arimathea was a rich trader who sailed ...

[Contains explicit content] Join comedian and host Rachel Dratch on a tour through the straight talkin' Northeast! You'll hear stories and jokes about parades in Boston, squirrels in Vermont and Dunkin' Donuts pretty much all over. The comedy in this episode was recorded at live venues all around the country.

When Lila returns to India from the United States after inheriting an ancestral home, she must confront a culture that has always been a part of her, her mother from whom she has been estranged for a decade, and her family (grandmother, aunts, uncles, and cousins) who all still live in the house. These family members resent her sudden inheritance of this humongous home, a stunning display of the status and culture of the zamindars, India's ruling class that was so firmly shaped by British colonial rule.

Cover-up of the Saudi involvement in 9/11 is nothing short of treasonous, yet the number of Americans willing to be accomplices is not only large but loud and often strategically placed and very powerful. Still, ordinary Americans can become informed and boycott all of the individuals and businesses that are either owned by the Saudis or cooperative with their agenda and demand that their representatives address the situation and that the media do their job and inform the American people. Domestically, Saudi Arabia is actively subverting the US through its support of Wahhabi mosques and ...