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Sometimes a workplace isn’t just a workplace but a place of safety, understanding, and acceptance. And sometimes murder threatens the sanctity of that beloved refuge.... In the leafy suburbs of Austin, Texas, a small branch library welcomes the public every day of the week. But the patrons who love the helpful, unobtrusive staff and leave rave reviews on Yelp don’t always realize that their librarians are human, too.

Imagine a life where financial abundance and personal fulfillment are not just dreams, but tangible daily realities. This revised and revolutionary second edition of Rich Habits unlocks the secrets used by those who have already cracked the code to wealth and happiness. Using the story of J. C. Jobs, author Thomas (Tom) Corley illustrates the most effective daily success habits of wealthy individuals.

We live in the age of disinformation - of organized deception. Spy agencies pour vast resources into hacking, leaking, and forging data, often with the goal of weakening the very foundation of liberal democracy: trust in facts. Thomas Rid, a renowned expert on technology and national security, was one of the first to sound the alarm, even before the 2016 election. But this is not new. The story of modern disinformation begins with the clash between communism and capitalism after the Russian Revolution.

When the People's Republic of China unleashes a devastating attack on the United States, newly appointed Navy Commander Bill Wilkins and his crew are suddenly alone, deep in the enemy's backyard, and unable to communicate with naval or national leadership. At home in Washington, the president is detached from reality. Survivors of his cabinet contend with military leadership for control, some to save the nation they serve, others in pursuit of personal power.

Felix Rivendale, the Marquess of Wrenworth, is The Ideal Gentleman, a man all men want to be and all women want to possess. Even Felix himself almost believes this golden image. But underneath is a damaged soul soothed only by public adulation.Louisa Cantwell needs to marry well to support her sisters. She does not, however, want Lord Wrenworth-though he seems inexplicably interested in her. She mistrusts his outward perfection, and the praise he garners everywhere he goes.

Why do so few doctors become wealthy despite being among the highest-paid occupations today? 'How To Get Rich As A Doctor' is an easy-to-read manual that explicitly outlines the quickest way to build wealth by leveraging real estate as a doctor. This book deals explicitly with the challenges and financial issues doctors face, how to navigate through them, and resources to help achieve your wealth goals. It will teach you exactly how to continue to practice medicine full-time while building massive wealth and creating a stream of passive income. The book is broken down into three sections: 1...

Do Our Pets Go to Heaven? is a book intended to explore the relationship between you and your pets...to, as far as possible, embrace the understanding that the death of those wonderful family members we love so much can be the door to a forever that is filled with unending love. The world of pets (for that matter, of animals in general) is a phenomenal mix of interaction and curiosity. This book presents some of the facets of those interactions and curiosities that we believe will cause you to want to listen on repeat.

Western civilization has given us modern science, the wealth of free-market economics, the security of law, a sense of human rights and freedom, charity as a virtue, splendid art and music, philosophy grounded in reason, and innumerable other gifts we take for granted.

Thomas À Kempis' collection of meditative writings from the Brethren of the Common Life is the most widely read book in the world after the Bible. The reflective devotions have been a heartening friend to great men such as Thomas More, St. Ignatius Loyola, Thomas Merton, Pope John Paul I, and John Wesley. Learning to live like Jesus is the central task that À Kempis explores in this classic devotional. This book provides comfort and counsel to every person who seeks to live a more connected and whole life.

A wanderer's life was all James Randall Kirkland had known since he was an orphaned boy in San Antonio. And while years of adventure had satisfied his younger self, now he's longing to put down roots of his own and is prepared to go it alone. But when he sees the Apache slave woman with the startling blue eyes, the course of his journey is changed forever.

Invite Hannibal Lecter into the palace of your mind and be invited into his mind palace in turn. Note the similarities in yours and his, the high vaulted chambers of your dreams, the shadowed halls, the locked storerooms where you dare not go, the scrap of half-forgotten music, the muffled cries from behind a wall. In one of the most eagerly anticipated literary events of the decade, Thomas Harris takes us once again into the mind of a killer, crafting a chilling portrait of insidiously evolving evil - a tour de force of psychological suspense.

Everyone knows the parlor game question asked of every chef and food personality in countless interviews: What is the last meal you'd want to eat before you die? But what does it look like when you pose the question to bartenders? In Last Call, James Beard Award-winning author Brad Thomas Parsons gathers the intriguing responses from a diverse range of bartenders around the country.

This book investigates why Marxism failed in its effort to transform human society.

This Modern Meditation Technique has been taught by this author regularly, on a quarterly basis, at the US Patent and Trademark Office and as an annual seminar at a Natural Living Expo in Washington DC, as well as at other organizations like the American Cancer Society, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, the US Psychotronics Association, the International Conference on Science and Consciousness, and at corporations during lunch hour in the DC area. After teaching physics, environmental science, and electrical technology courses at Erie Community College for several years, I ...

The world is up in arms over a rumor that a major criminal cartel has the fix on for the upcoming World Cup. Those involved can only agree on one man to find the truth: a former FBI agent who is well-qualified to conduct the investigation, has no national or personal interest in World Cup Football, and has absolutely no intention in becoming involved. Only after his family is violence drawn in does he throw his near-ruthless abilities, knowledge, and world-wide contacts into finding the truth, and his enemies. He even use his daughter, and appears willing to sacrifice the world famous, but ...

In the wake of a suicide, the most troubling questions are the most difficult to answer: How could we have known? What could we have done? And always: Why? Written by a clinical psychologist whose own life has been touched by suicide, this book offers the clearest account ever given of why some people choose to die.

The story follows the life of mike Halley, a Viet-Nam veteran during the sixties from the NY Police Academy through the ranks of the department and the people he meets and the cases he worked. The voice of Mike Halley is a more understanding viewpoint, while his partner JC Colby is a flippant and distrusting soul who mocks the powers that be. Halley is married with all the drama that comes with raising a family while JC is the confirmed bachelor who thinks most of the married people he meets are deceptive and make poor husbands. Halley, is the exception of course.

This book explores the idea that the current populist movement in America could have been avoided if different decisions had been made by policymakers in the late 1970's.

Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry writes about stories of true crime along the Virginia North Carolina border region that he calls home. From the 1912 Hillsville Shootout to the 2007 Virginia Tech Massacre, Perry writes about these stories that have interested him over a long career of writing about the history of the place he calls home. Subjects covered include the 1929 Lawson family Christmas murders in Stokes County to the shootout on Fayette Street in Martinsville, Virginia, along with the case of the Martinsville Seven. Multiple bombing stories from Mount Airy, North Carolina, before it...

When Leaders Get Hazed: A Guide to Deal with Difficult People in the Workplace explores the challenging and often life-changing experiences of dealing with individuals who engage in hazing behavior.