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Differences of opinion have always been part of life. For decades, spouses, family members, co-workers, and neighbors have had spirited conversations about politics, social issues, religion, current events, and even sports. But what was different in the past is that these disagreements wouldn’t sever ties between family and friends.

Within days of a series of monster solar storms slamming into earth, electrical grids fail and everything in the northern hemisphere with a computer chip ceases functioning. Electricity won't be completely restored for at least a decade, and the result is that everything modern life depends on to function is gone. Chaco is a well-educated freedom fighter on a death list in El Salvador. Having fled to the United States, he is in hiding by working for a wealthy couple as their handyman and gardener. Following the disaster, he reveals his true identity, and convinces his employers and their neighbors to follow him.

Despite the heat between the sheets blazing hotter than ever, forces beyond their control work to rip them apart. New revelations and surprises leave Andie crushed and Cade reeling. Can Andie and Cade trust their crazy love to carry them forward, or will they have to sacrifice everything they'd hoped for, and leave love behind?

Research librarian Andie Wales is devastated to learn that the man she fell in love with is a professional athlete who plays on and off the field. When Cade’s past mistakes catch up with him, Andie urges him to go back to California to do the right thing.

Can you recall a time when adversity or a negative moment caused you personal or professional pain? How did this adversity moment transform your identity? Did you become more compassionate, live with more integrity or develop a deeper sense of self? This is the journey The Crucible’s Gift will guide you on. James, a highly sought-after international speaker, interviewed over 140 executives from around the world to learn how leaders transform their leadership style after moments of adversity.

Today’s challenges are tomorrow’s opportunities. As an active combat veteran, Eric Power knows the sacrifices and struggles of civilian veterans. As a mentor and a self-development student, he also knows the keys to overcoming some of the greatest challenges in business and in life. Power shares his success principles as he takes you through the challenges of David Little, a veteran facing personal and career challenges. Follow along as David meets his mentor, Ralph Power, who helps him discover his self-worth and shows him how to build life-changing relationships.

In Southern California, three terrorists of unknown allegiances slaughter dozens of men at a shopping mall. In Denver, the eccentric CEO of Denver Communications, or DenCom, has a target on his head. In the wilds of Greenland, a long-forgotten enemy is reaching out for recognition and revenge. At the center of it all, a special investigator for the “communications” company is dragged into a diabolical plot he can’t begin to understand.

The year is 2071. Devastated by the loss of his wife and son, NASA engineer John Orville signs up for a new life on Mars, implementing Project Bakersfield, a plan to combat deadly Martian storms. After a military unit lands on Mars, supposedly for a training exercise, Orville discovers the true purpose of Project Bakersfield. With the military unit going rogue, and a massive superstorm threatening imminent destruction, John Orville must fight to save the colony.

In the early days of the western frontier there were a group of hardy, action-ready men riding under the Cinco Peso cut-star who called themselves Texas Rangers. This collection of short western tales tells of the many hardships in keeping the peace and enforcing the laws of civilization in the untamed land of the Old West.

Savvy companies today know that their success is predicated on innovation and responsiveness. That starts with social connection inside the organization. It starts by placing psychology and sociology above technology. By making work better, not just faster. By creating and growing connectedness. Doing this with intention. That’s what we call social by design.

Against the bloody backdrop of a country simmering with racial tension, friendships are tested, beliefs are tried, and the prejudices of years are challenged...Unaware of the inner turmoil of Kuwait, Evan Davis enters as an employee of Al Hakim, a benevolent Kuwaiti horse-breeder, hired to change the country’s perception on the world’s stage. But all is not what it seems - when documents detailing the atrocities done to the Bedoon are thrust into Evan’s hands anonymously, he is forced to act. But wherever he turns mysteries and secrets abound.

Victory should be sweet for pro quarterback, Cade Prescott. He's won the Super Bowl MVP, has a baby on the way, and is marrying the love of his life, librarian Andie Wales. Raised by foster parents, Cade yearns to be part of a real family. Unfortunately, his mother is running from the law, and Andie refuses to plan the wedding unless her future mother-in-law is included. Meanwhile, their enemies have not given up, and unbeknownst to Andie and Cade, they are on their way to exact revenge.

Cade is arrested and thrown in jail. To save Andie from danger, he tells her they're through, done. Instead of abandoning Cade, Andie is drawn into a sting operation to prove his innocence. Andie disappears on Cade, sending him on a desperate search. Can Andie and Cade unravel all the forces conspiring to keep them apart and intercept the love they both deserve? Small cliff-hanger. Andie and Cade's love story is complete in Part Five, but will their wedding come across without a hitch? Find out in Part Six where wedding jitters and lurking danger threaten Andie and Cade's future happiness.

Long before the first pharmaceutical companies opened their doors in the 1850s, doctors treated people, not symptoms. And although we've become used to popping pills, Americans have finally had it with the dangerous side-effects, addiction and over-prescription - and they're looking for an alternative. Here's the good news: that alternative has been here all along in the form of ancient treatments that have been used for eons by cultures around the world.

Not all the folks who roamed the Old West were cowhands, rustlers, or cardsharps. And they certainly weren't all heroes. Give-a-Damn Jones, a free-spirited itinerant typographer, hates his nickname almost as much as the rumors spread about him. He's a kind soul who keeps finding himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. That's what happened in Box Elder, a small Montana town. Tensions are running high, and anything -or anyone - could be the fuse to ignite them.

Whether you are the leader of a family, a team, or an organization, or you just want to refocus and take control of your personal life, this audiobook will inspire you to greater success in leadership, and freedom from bias. Purple People Leader will inspire you to make peace with politics and make progress with people.

At the age of 33, Erik Reece's father, a Baptist minister, took his own life, leaving Erik in the care of his grandmother and his grandfather - also a fundamentalist Baptist preacher and a pillar of his rural Virginia community. While Erik grew up with a conflicted relationship with Christianity, he unexpectedly found comfort in the Jefferson Bible. Inspired, he undertook what would become a spiritual and literary quest to identify an "American gospel" coursing through the work of both great and forgotten American geniuses, from William Byrd to Walt Whitman to Lynn Margulis.

The Second Battle of Bull Run (August 28-30, 1862) was one of the most decisive battles fought during the Civil War, and it was also one of the most unlikely. Less than three months before the battle, Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Northern Virginia had been pushed back nearly all the way to Richmond by George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac, so close that Union soldiers could see the church steeples of the Confederate capital.

To protect those he loves, Cade is forced to play dirty with one exception: on the playing field. Meanwhile, Andie is drawn deeper into the manipulations of a coworker who doesn't have her best interests at heart. Andie's mother appears on the scene to help while Cade's mother suffers a horrible relapse. A shocking twist upends everything Cade believed and forces Andie to reconsider whether she'd been too trusting of the man who'd wormed his way into her heart.

Veronica is a perfectly ordinary girl, except for one very important thing - she lives on a volcano! Join Veronica on her search for pearls in the black sands on the far side of the biggest volcano of all...Mount Mystery!