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By the time we reach adulthood, most of us know what brings happiness and fulfillment into our lives—what makes our hearts sing. Yet we struggle to make our dreams into reality, and our struggles cause sadness and frustration. In 2003, psychotherapist Steven Keeler began a self-imposed experiment to prove that our beliefs, which we can learn to control, are the single biggest influence on the reality we create for ourselves. But fear-based beliefs keep us trapped by the idea of scarcity—that within our vast universe there aren’t enough resources to go around. Steven moved to the Big ...

Travel Like a Local St. Louis by author Dawn M. Stevens offers first-hand and personal insight into the best ways to visit St. Louis, Missouri, home to the Gateway Arch, otherwise known as the Gateway to the west.

The Ven. Laurie Brock and The Rev. Dr. Steve Pankey bring you a weekly podcast on the Lectionary Gospels. In the horse world, where Laurie lives, a hack is an easy, non-competitive ride to relax both horse and rider. In golf, where Steve likes to spend his time, you occasionally have to hack your way out of the rough. At Lectionary Hacks, we’ll try to make it easy for you, but we might take a few wild swings as well.

Ellen Parker is taking a long overdue vacation in Coalville, Pennsylvania, testing her healing after last year’s brutal events. Coalville is a small town noted, in the summer of 2014, for its antique stores, bed and breakfasts, and – most recently – ugly death. A tragic plane crash the month before has drawn the attention of hunters from both sides of the law, all looking for something hidden on the plane, something now missing. Initially focused on her own healing and an interest in a handsome man from New York, soon Ellen is aware of the growing danger of the hunters willing to kill...

In the 29th Century, the greatest evil in the human settled worlds is slavery, the ultimate expression of wealth and power. While many oppose it, on some worlds it flourishes, restrained only by the slaveholders’ fear of the slaves themselves, for there is no such thing as slave loyalty. However, in the shattered, burned rubble of Torianis, a rebel warlord’s elite soldiers, soldiers who died fighting with an almost inhuman precision and competency, put the Free Union’s intelligence service on the track of what might be programmable slaves. More than mass produced clones, someone has ...

In Mercenary’s Redemption, the seventh Wild Geese novel by Steven M. Silver, Free Union President Peter Mavis Carmichael, the cunning and ruthless leader of the most powerful bloc among humanity’s Settled Worlds, struggles to maintain his grip on power. At the same time, on the backwater farming world of Kodomir, a member of the Free Union, the man known as Gwielgi tries to find peace with his demons. His grief and guilt drive him into a desert. As fighting rises within the Free Union, Carmichael is believed dead and chaos rapidly spreads and Kodomir is occupied by a brutal leader of ...

It is 1994; Ellen Parker, a thirteen-year-old rural Ohio girl, is mourning the death of her cousin Eileen, killed by a wild bullet from a fight between the Steel Riders and a rival outlaw motorcycle gang, both struggling to control the methamphetamine trade out of Butler County. As Ellen and her family try to comfort one another, county Deputy Sheriff JJ Jeffers works with a federal task force to break up the trade but is becoming increasingly frustrated with the lack of progress and his minor role. The summer stretches on and Ellen finds a sanctuary on the farm of her grandfather Tom. Then...

In the spring of 2016, someone kidnapped the young step-daughter of John Allen Douglas, a very dangerous figure in the Philadelphia criminal world. Is this the opening move in a gang war, one designed to distract Douglas from his business, or is it something more personal? Ellen is drawn into the hunt for the child when Robert Blasingame reappears in her life. Ellen first met him during what was supposed to be a vacation but turned into a life and death struggle. She cut off her feelings for Blasingame when she discovered he was a very dangerous man operating outside the law. Nowadays, ...

Mercenary’s Justice, the tenth Wild Geese science fiction novel by Steven M. Silver, follows Gwielgi as he flees from his home, a place of painful memories, and. becomes a mercenary again. He hires on as a security advisor to a judicial team representing the Organization of Settled Worlds’ High Court. Sent into the Frontier to resolve conflicts, the team finds itself in increasing danger and it becomes clear powerful interests, for reasons unclear, are keeping the legal team exposed to that danger. While Gwielgi tries to protect the team and deal with ghosts and ex-enemies of the past, ...

Mercenary’s Peace is the ninth Wild Geese science fiction novel by Steven M. Silver. Kodomir, a small world and home of the former mercenaries called the Wild Geese, is attacked during peace negotiations, killing and wounding many. Among them is Gwielgi, who, like many others, has wounds of body more than matched by his damaged heart – among the dead is the woman he loved. As the war moves on, the Kodomiri try to pick up the pieces of their lives. Then the war that almost casually savaged Kodomir turns from its distant battlefields and returns to Kodomir. Still heart broken and ...

The twelfth and final Wild Geese novel, Mercenary’s Promise, follows Alisti Kheyntamenti to his home world of Osiris, a place where his family, he believes, was wiped out in the first of a series of civil wars. Now Osiris is suspected of being at the center of a criminal network that has taken thousands of lives and Kheyntamenti is asked to find the truth. But Kheyntamenti is a soldier, not a spy, and his wanderings attract the attention of those who treat his mind like a plaything and try to weaken him by forcing a confrontation with his deepest fears of loss and failure. Stirred by the ...

The eleventh Wild Geese novel, Mercenary’s Humanity, opens with a cry in space, a cry followed by silence. Disasters visiting new colonies is not rare, especially in the Frontier, and Kodomir sends a relief force. But there are secrets inside of secrets on New Monterey and the first is the colonists are not alone. Something, someone, from the dark past, is rising from the mountains like ghosts of mythology. Into this comes the Wild Geese and Gwielgi has his own secrets revealed, including one that could result in his death. As Gwielgi and the Geese fight to survive, they find an ...

Holiday Stories book one Valentines Day is a collection of short stories by a team of extremely talented authors. “Candy Hearts” by Award Winning Author Chera Thompson - A curious visitor on Valentine's Day has an unexpected influence over a troubled family. “Sliding into Love” By Judi Getch Brodman shows you how when you least expect it things can change for the good. Allie suffered a horrible breakup two years prior. Valentines Day was the last thing on her mind. Romance was not even something she thought about. She hadn’t planned on meeting a great guy perfect for her but then ...

In the third of the Ellen Parker novels, it is 2013. From the Carolinas to southern Pennsylvania, someone is killing women and leaving many hanging on barbed wire fences. While the unknown killer is pursued by a multi-agency task force led by the FBI, Ellen Parker, a Philadelphia journalist, is contacted by Iraq veteran Elizabeth Chernov, who has encountered a young girl fleeing from the drug-related killings of her guardians. Chernov believes the girl is pursued by the murderers perhaps aided by the police; she trusts Ellen only because she did a story on her and others dealing with the ...

It is 2003: Ellen Parker, now a journalism intern and trying to deal with her demons from violence of a decade ago, watches while in the countryside and small towns of eastern Pennsylvania, someone is stalking and killing women. The killer is not a fool and appears to be quite knowledgeable of police procedures. Disciplined, intelligent, his motives carefully hidden, the killer’s violence is escalating. The task force hunting him, including county Deputy Sheriff Craig Morgan, knows they are running out of time. Ellen has an idea for her paper that is both exciting and terrifying: explore ...

Secrets, Adventure, Fear, & Love : Book Two is a collection of six stories by a team of very talented authors. Race To Adoption by Elaine M. DeGroot A young couple's attempts to adopt...a puppy. (Based on real life questions asked of me and my fears of rejection when adopting our first pup.) The Summer in Madrid by Terez Peipins A romantic story of a young gay male. “Don’t you want to be loved or just to love someone?” He didn’t tell his mother just how sad love had made him. One more weight of sadness to what he already carried around with him. Ouroboros by Gary Bolick “The self-...

« Soigner jusqu’à se briser » est un balado documentaire francophone qui explore la détresse des soignant·e·s principalement du Québec à travers des témoignages bruts et des discussions avec des proches et des expert·e·s. Entre pression du métier, traumatismes accumulés et failles du système, nous posons une question essentielle : qui soigne celles et ceux qui soignent?

“Oh, I want to go back to the Rio Grande! The Rio! That’s where I long to be!” The words, sung in a soft and musical tenor, died away and changed to a plaintive whistle, leaving the scene more lonely than ever. For a few moments nothing was to be seen except the endless expanse of wilderness, and nothing was to be heard save the mournful warble of the singer. Then a horse and rider were suddenly framed where the sparse timber opened out upon the plain. Together, man and mount made a striking picture; yet it would have been hard to say which was the more picturesque—the rider or the horse.