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Negative high school experiences can often lead young men to become shy and unable to talk to girls. With video games and anime perpetuating their social anxiety, they realize they have missed out on friends, parties, and girls. The fear of ending up alone forever and not making the most of life ultimately becomes the trigger for their self-improvement journey.

This is the story of two sisters from the East who hear a man speaking at their church of the opportunity and need for women in the West. He shows them a paper called Matrimonial News, filled with photos of men looking for women to start a new life with. He was looking to benefit by capitalizing on the disproportionate amount of men to women in the West by telling them that if they agreed to it, everyone was a winner.

As the name suggests, the legendary sagas are works of fiction. It is in these sagas that we meet all manners of fantastic creatures, hear of the exploits of heroes and villains, and occasionally see the gods peek in to steer events or punish evildoers. The sagas of Icelanders, by contrast, are largely historical works that tell the stories of the families who left continental Scandinavian lands to settle Iceland beginning in the late ninth century.

Barry Becher and Ed Valenti set the stage for today’s infomercials with their now-famous television techniques. Their zany commercials - advertising such products as the Miracle Painter, Armourcote cookware, and, most famously, the Ginsu® knife - captured both the imagination and pocketbook of the American public. And they became millionaires in the process. But wait, there’s more! You’ll learn how to get a better price on anything you buy, how to get better service anywhere, even how to get easily get bumped from coach to first class on an airline.

A famous 18-year-old fiddle player, Beau, is abducted from her parents’ huge Sierra home at a birthday folk jam in her honor one summer in the early part of the 21st century. As a fire burns up the mountain while she is buried on the land under a pile of brush, she is found just in time. A month later, much to her horror, she is abducted again, this time from a Berkeley music jam.

Do you like epic tales that sing the deeds of the world’s greatest heroes? If so, you will love this volume of epics from the West African country of Mali. Each is full of battles, derring-do, magic, and prophecies based on historical events.

In 1866, just after the war had ended, women were still being brought over from the east to act as brides for the wild men of the west. San Francisco was still young and restless and the police department, now headed by it’s newly appointed chief, Matt Weston, was in turmoil trying to maintain some semblance of law and civility. Meanwhile, Chief Weston marries Eliza, the woman of his dreams, and as he struggles with his job, Eliza takes on the responsibility of hosting three new brides. Rose is a restless spirit who is excited to go west and start a new life.

The Journey, Part 2 is about a man named Marshall, who set out on a quest to find young women with enough of an adventurous spirit to travel thousands of miles, promising to marry a man they had only met through pictures and letters. Follow Eliza and Maggie as they embark with their friends on an exhausting and somewhat harrowing trip from New York to San Francisco and then journey through marriages that were destined to happen and contracts destined to be broken.

Socialism: The Walking Dead examines the history and failures of an ideology that though it may go by different names, it still carries the same danger and risk to society and the American middle class no matter what it’s called.

The last life-harboring universe had collapsed. Eleven supernatural humans survived, only to be trapped in an empty void of nothingness. Lost within the strangeness and mystery of their own souls, they continued to exist as illuminations amid the universal darkness. An inextinguishable sparkle of hope that one day they would see the light again motivated them to break through that infinite loop of nothingness and create a new universe, in which they found the last hope for all of humanity - Earth.

Have you ever wondered how the early church experienced such powerful results, amazing growth, and incredible favor with the Lord? Why did they experience all of this, and what is keeping our generation from producing even greater results, in spite of all the great technology and knowledge that we have? This collection of letters addresses the church, written by a true apostle, and clearly articulates what the church should be, based on ancient patterns clearly visible in the word of God.

Jedidiah lives in the 1800's Wheeling, Virginia - a boy who dreams of traveling west and the adventures that await him. His parents, however, cling to the hope and expectation that he will follow in his father's footsteps and become pastor of the local church. When he convinces his parents to let him go west with some friends of the family, Jed discovers adventures far beyond his imaginings - both exciting and tragic.

The intent of this book is to reveal the heart and mind of our heavenly Father God. It also serves as an impetus for the mature believer to draw ever closer to him, to the prodigal to come back into the arms of him that patiently awaits, and for the one in the valley of indecision to take the plunge.

In FIRES, Fortune 500 veteran Daniel Purdy takes listeners on a step-by-step journey to personal transformation, professional growth, and multifaceted success through harnessing life's fires. The FIRES system leverages the best planning processes from Purdy's corporate background and the latest thinking around holistic health and meaningful success. It's a self-coaching system that balances practical concerns with personal values, incisive strategy with insight and soul.

Roped & Tied is the fictional story of Dani O'Brien, a young woman from a well-to-do family who gives up a life of privilege to marry and travel the professional rodeo circuit with Jake O'Brien, a dashing young tie-down roper who, over the years, firmly establishes himself as the best of all time. The story's backdrop paints a vivid picture of the highs and lows of professional rodeo life, but the plot also exposes the weaknesses of the main characters, from excessive drug and alcohol use to turning their backs on family and friends, adultery, and family violence.

Charlie Hungloe's Greatest Challenge is about a relationship that is sometimes set on two different frequencies. Charlie and Sam show us how to overcome the challenge. To overcome this challenge, you will hear and feel Charlie's and Sam's heartbeating excitement, fears, love, and faith in each other. Also, how Charlie uses laughter and comedy to both hide and communicate his feelings for Sam.

While shelves are filled with accounts of industry titans, politicians, and exalted military leaders, this is a tale of an estranged young man making his way in a hard, cold, and often cruel world. Escaping a dull future with little meaning, he follows the example of his childhood hero and goes west into the Kansas Territory to seek his fortune. He first joins a freighting company down the Santa Fe Trail and then returns to the turbulent “Bleeding Kansas”.

This life story is the direct effect of voodoo damnation, pending between the semicolons of one granted wish and the vision of an oracle. I wished to be loved, then I was told by a fortune-teller that this year is the last of my life.

In this steampunk-stylized reimagining of the wild west, a gunfighter "gadgeteer" joins forces with a preacher and his beautiful daughter to travel to the netherworld and relock the Gates of Hell. Legend has it there is a map that will guide those brave enough to venture through such ominous-sounding places as Rattlesnake Canyon, Dead-Man’s Valley, and Satan’s Pass. A map that inexorably leads to a large black X in the lower right-hand corner. In other words, a map that leads straight to the gates of Hell.

Barrett's story of overcoming in the face of adversity will inspire readers and motivate them to pursue the person they were born to be. From a kid whose daily walk from school included passing crack houses to becoming an executive in the largest healthcare system in the country, Barrett met with "triumph and disaster and treated those two impostors the same". His humility, desire to help others, and faith in his calling to spread hope remained steadfast despite enduring depressing lows and enjoying exhilarating highs.