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To be a bookseller or librarian… You have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker. An advocate. A visionary. A person who creates “book joy” by pulling a book from a shelf, handing it to someone and saying, “You’ve got to read this. You’re going to love it.” Step inside The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians and enter a world where you can feed your curiosities, discover new voices, find whatever you want or require. This place has the magic of rainbows and unicorns, but it's also a business. The book business.

For centuries, people have been fascinated by stories of angel sightings, yet many contemporary beliefs about them are based on misconception and myth rather than solid, biblical truth. Responding to our modern cultural interest in angels, popular Bible teacher Dr. David Jeremiah provides an in-depth, biblical look at these agents of heaven and their role in our world and our lives.

Vocational discernment, says R. Paul Stevens, is a lifelong process - one that takes on even more significance in later life. Stevens argues that our calling does not end with formal retirement; to the contrary, we do well to keep on working, if possible, till life’s end. Stevens delves into matters of calling, spirituality, and legacy in retirement, showing that we must continue to discern our vocation as we grow older in order to remain meaningfully engaged for the rest of our lives. He reframes retirement as a time of continued calling and productivity.

We each have a unique purpose in this life, one embedded within us by the Creator of the universe before time began. Yet we rarely experience this greatness because the glory of God within us is still waiting to be uncovered. So we spend our lives running after the wrong goals. However, Stephen Chandler believes God created everyone, including you, for greatness . . . and doesn’t want anything to get in the way of that destiny. In Stop Waiting for Permission, you’ll discover the keys to unlock your unique calling and activate your innate, God-given strengths.

In today’s polarized context, Christians often have committed, biblical rationales for very different positions. How can Christians navigate disagreements with both truth and love? Tim Muehlhoff and Rick Langer provide lessons from conflict theory and church history on how to negotiate differing biblical convictions in order to move toward Christian unity.

Challenging times will come, but great leaders know how to lead their teams and emerge even stronger - prepare yourself now using this helpful guide to personal and professional success.

Getting bored with residential real estate? Do the exact same thing in the commercial space for ten times the profit—with no extra time, money, risk, or corporate red tape. Most commercial real estate books leave you with plenty of information but no idea where to start. That’s why Commercial Real Estate Investing provides one simple, proven, step-by-step roadmap for doing your first commercial deal. Stop competing against rookies who watched an HGTV episode and decided they were house flippers. Everything you need to find and fund your first deal is right here.

To be a bookseller or librarian...you have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker. A brilliant listener. A person who creates a kind of magic by pulling a book from a shelf, handing it to someone and saying, 'You've got to read this. You're going to love it'. In this love letter to the heroes of literacy, James Patterson uncovers true stories from booksellers and librarians.

The year is 2023, and things are bad—bad, but still not as bad as they could be. Hestia Harris is forty-two, abandoned by her husband (he left to fight for the Union cause), and estranged from her parents (they’re leaving for the Confederacy). Yes, the United States has collapsed into a second civil war and again it’s Unionists against Confederates, children against parents, friends against friends.

You’ve strived to be your best in every step of your career. Now you’re starting a new leadership role, one with more responsibility in areas and organizations where your experience is limited. The template for success you’ve always relied on may no longer apply. In Changing Altitude, Dennis O’Neil and Greg Hiebert provide you with a framework for optimizing your impact and maximizing growth. Dennis and Greg show you how to identify values that underscore who you are as a leader, define what success means to your organization, and take your team into the future.

US Army Major David Keller was already identified as one of those leaders who would one day become a general. A West Point graduate with six combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, he was the consummate professional soldier - until a roadside bomb in Afghanistan took his legs. Angry, grieving, and carrying a loaded gun, David returns home to mend a few fences. Then, he would end his wheelchair-bound agony by taking his own life. But his family, community, and a woman, Maggie McCall - someone he tried to forget - begin to show him otherwise.

1871—Manistee County, Michigan. The lumber industry is the predominant and most powerful business in Northern Michigan and is used to doing whatever it wants to do, wherever it wants. It is trampling on the rights of a small group of homesteaders whose small 80-acre farms surround Portage Lake. A dam is used to operate a water wheel-driven sawmill, and when the dam's gates are closed, Portage Lake floods the homesteaders' otherwise tillable land. The Cut tells the David and Goliath story of the farmers' resolve to overcome Big Lumber's abuse.

How We Can Build a Better World is a practical guide for building a better world. This is a realistic objective because, with the awakening catalyzed by the global crisis, we can now change the world. This manual shows how we can change it effectively and for the better.

"I just want to make sure I've got this right. You hanged all three of them?" That's how it began, a case where the cops are crooks and the crooks are cops, a kidnapping where the victim is the bad guy, and the good guys must cross some lines to get him back. Welcome to the upside down and backward world of the undercover agent, where nothing is as it seems, and people may not be what they appear. Going Under by former undercover agent John Madinger takes you into that world, and closer to the truth of the undercover experience than any other law enforcement memoir has ever gone.

Getting bored with residential real estate? Do the exact same thing in the commercial space for ten times the profit—with no extra time, money, risk, or corporate red tape. Most commercial real estate books leave you with plenty of information but no idea where to start. That’s why Commercial Real Estate Investing provides one simple, proven, step-by-step roadmap for doing your first commercial deal.

Detroit homicide detective Russ Baker has been sent to work the Cold Case Division due to a screwup he committed on a case. He was all alone in the basement office until he was visited by an unlikely partner. A dead former detective who was now an annoying ghost. Would the ghost help him solve the cold cases, allowing the murdered victims to go on to the hereafter?

Detroit Police Detective Russ Baker is in charge of the Cold Cases, and with his ghostly friend and partner, Wes Loomis, and their new partner, Mary Cohen, they have to solve cases to allow victim's ghosts to go on to the hereafter. They take on a case of murder of an escort service Madam who was blackmailing her clients. The Ghost Squad finds they have too many suspects and now have to narrow the list down to one. Will they find the killer?

With Ultimate Vacation, Randy Carver shares the personal vision planning process that he and his team have developed and refined to help thousands of clients maintain and advance their standard of living. You'll learn how to define what's important today and create a vision for what the future looks like.

Detroit Police Detective Russ Baker is in charge of the Cold Cases and, with his ghostly friend and partner Wes Loomis, they have to solve murders to be able to send the victim's spirits to the hereafter. Russ is given a case by his girlfriend Mary, who transfers from Missing Persons to work with Russ. Together they go out to find a missing boy whose mother was murdered by his abductor. Wes is on the job, tracking down leads but even he runs into problems. Too many leads end up blocked by criminals just ahead of them.

Detroit Police Detective Russ Baker is in charge of cold cases, and with his partner, Mary, and their ghostly friend and partner, Wes Loomis, they have to solve murders to be able to send the victims' spirits to the hereafter. Their captain comes to them with a problem: It seems that the old Michigan Central Train Station has ghosts haunting the workers who are trying to clean out the station for renovation. They find seven ghosts who all have cases of murder forcing them to haunt the station.