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The 7 Thoughts to Live Your Life By will provide you with the most compelling thoughts that have the power to help you make your dreams into a reality, find happiness, achieve success, overcome the obstacles on your path, and become your best self. Internationally best-selling author I. C. Robledo discovered the seven thoughts after suffering through a dark depression. While meditating one day, he asked himself how he could live a better life and the seven thoughts came to him in a flash of insight.

Think like Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, and Charles Darwin. Great geniuses before us have uncovered certain key principles on their path to greatness. You can learn those principles now, without all of the sweat, tears, and costly mistakes. Imagine that you could tap into the minds of many great geniuses. Think how they could help you solve challenging problems, broaden your mental horizons, and avoid common pitfalls. They actually can, if we study the principles that they lived by, and incorporate them into our lives.

Go from poor learner to pro-learner without buying into the many myths! Imagine that there was a way to improve your ability to learn, so that you could move toward your goals faster. Think what would happen if you didn’t have to struggle so much to get a little result, and that you could make great progress for the effort you put in. Internationally best-selling author I. C. Robledo collected information from a wide range of sources to show you what you need to know about learning.

"The Gift of the Magi" is a short story, written by O. Henry (a pen name for William Sydney Porter) about a young married couple and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money.

The law of sowing and reaping is still in effect. This law may hold the answers to struggles in your life. Because, "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." You can choose to receive blessings or curses through this law of sowing and reaping. It's a matter of choice. Are your words too weak and powerless to effect long term changes in others? There's a reason. There's a solution. The Bible talks about resurrection, the power that can raise someone from the dead. Have you experienced that power?

When Lt. Commander Max DuMonde, a US Navy test pilot recovering from injuries on a hospital ship, receives a strange parcel addressed to him from Paris, he doesn't know what to think. Inside are an unmarked set of keys, a photo album, and, strangest of all, news that his father--previously thought KIA (killed in action) in Vietnam--has just died.

They are highly trained. Their missions are classified. They are our best and last hope. Yet they do not exist. Follow SEAL Team Six as they train, hunt and fight an enemy who reaches out from the most remote corners of the world to murder and maim. These highly-trained, military men are the unknown heroes who endure unimaginable hardship and murderous combat to protect our homeland.

Billionaire Garret Maxwell has been searching for his mate for decades. When he finds her as a child, his arrangement to see that her family is cared for until she is of age goes awry when the family suddenly vanishes, and he is left to search again. Only now he has to find Miranda Hart before his sworn enemy can get to her first.

Fired from his job at the Tulsa Zoo, 26-year-old Zane Clearwater wakes from an alcohol-and-cough-syrup-induced blackout to learn his mother was killed the night before in a fire in their trailer park home. Zane has no memory of that night. Could he have set the blaze? The police have a lot of questions, but so do Zane and his 14-year-old sister Lettie. When he gets a mysterious text that indicates everything his mother told him about her past was a lie, Zane embarks on a journey of discovery that results in meeting his supposedly long-dead father.

Eighteen months ago, Divinity Parker mysteriously disappeared from her school playground. Everyone, including the FBI, believes her to have been killed or trafficked. A resident of a Georgia town insists she knows where the missing girl is. Though Forrest Spencer and his law colleagues are dubious about this claim, Divinity's mother tasks them with the identification and recovery of her daughter. They find the child alive and thriving. What troubles Spencer and his team is why Divinity, only one and a half years gone, wishes so vehemently to remain distant from her California home.

Household robot Silas is in serious need of a safe haven. After a brutal war that has pitted man against machine and ended with no clear winner, he's left scavenging the ruined streets and avoiding deadly marauders. To secure supplies and reunite with the rest of his kind, Silas must find a partner. Deacon trusts no one in a devastated world. After the death of his family left him hollow, he never expected a hapless robot to stir his sympathy. Against his better judgment, he guides the mechanoid on its journey home despite the distinct possibility of a deadly betrayal.

Former Navy Seal Dane Green is in a bad mood. After being injured on a rescue mission to retrieve the alpha's mate and sister, and a fiery red head with amazing legs, he's stuck in bed. To make matters worse, the red head he was injured for while rescuing, is insisting on nursing him back to health. It might be great if he didn't want to pull her in bed with him. Lois Graham was afraid of Dane when he first kidnapped her. The bear shifter is large and gruff and everything she's not used to. Lois is a human, and the fact that shifters exist at all shattered her world perception.

Simple, practical, "common sense" tips to remember more and forget less. The solution here is simple. We must practice and exercise our memories. Thankfully, in Practical Memory you will discover simple systems and exercises anyone can use to improve their memory. This way, you can see progress immediately, without needing to spend precious time learning difficult techniques.

Salvatori Lorenzo seeks to make his place in the world, but first, he must survive the mean streets of Dijvois. In a city run by gangsters, a life of crime is nothing short of ordinary, especially for a thief living in Low Town. Opportunity comes knocking after Sal is tasked with the theft of a magical locket.

"The Cop and the Anthem" is a short story by O. Henry. It includes several of the classic elements of an O. Henry story, including a setting in New York City, an empathetic look at the state of mind of a member of the lower class, and an ironic ending.

Beulah had a junk drawer at the bottom of the kitchen counter. She opened the drawer and removed a hammer. When she hit the metal box with the hammer, the lid fell off because the hinges of the box were rusted. She saw several small, discolored photographs taken with a Kodak Brownie camera along with a piece of yellowed note paper that read, I will never forgive you.

Sooner or later, every business, association or organization will want to hold a meeting, seminar or trade show outside their regular offices. How do you find your way amongst the dizzying array of hotels, meeting halls, meal guarantees, accommodations arrangements, party packages, bar plans and billing procedures? Author Judy Williams, a veteran hotel and meeting planner, will guide you through the perils and pitfalls of organizing your event.

Lord Hobart Lonsdale, also known as Hobson, watched the woman deal the cards. He knew she was cheating but was yet to figure out how? He was about to call it a night when he caught sight of the lad, in one small bevel of the large mirror that hung at the back of the bar. When he found the same lad, badly beaten at the rear of the hotel, he discovered the truth; he, was really a she, and she was about to be sold to the highest bidder. Incensed, Hobson rescues her and they disappear. At the other end of town, a large shipping vessel slides against the pier of Boston Harbour.

Pike is a bounty hunter and a cold-blooded killer, but when Pike rescued Lady Jacqueline, Duchess of Norgate, from being raped and murdered by marauding bandits, little did she realize, only months later he would accompany her back to England. It was there Pike met Lord Henry Jacobson, a fop who wore a powdered wig and face paint. When a warrant was issued for Pike's arrest for murder, it was Henry who invited the bounty hunter on a small boat ride down the English Channel.

Set in 1845, nothing prepared Lady Jacqueline, Duchess of Norgate, for the pain of Raven Wing's poisonous arrow as it ripped through her flesh and pinned her to a tree. She had fled England, leaving behind the cruelty of Edward Washbourne and his maniacal plan to claim her inheritance, only to be struck down when she was so close to safety. She has less than a day's ride to go and she would have arrived at Edgewater, home of the current Duke of Forkworth and brother to her dearest friend Millicent.