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Solomon says that the glory of young men is their strength (Prov. 20:29). Young men have so much to give the church, but sadly the modern church has taught them nothing about how to exercise their strength in a godly way. This book by 19th-century pastor J.C. Ryle is short, but gives young men what they need: straight talk about being a Christian man. Ryle does not mince words when describing the temptations to pride, lust, laziness, and more. This classic is a powerful reminder from a wise man about how to be strong in the Lord and to give no opportunity to the devil.

More people than ever are accepting that there is an Alien presence on Earth. With world governments and their agencies acknowledging the phenomenon and recent military leaks, it's clear that we are being visited by some kind of otherworldly intelligence. The encounters with the unknown can no longer be shrugged off as fantasy or delusion. Explore these most hair-raising UFO incidents and decide for yourself.

The Aging Revolution is the story of Butler and his disciples: women and men who saw older distressed adults in hospitals and homes, and worse: being ignored by most of the medical establishment. These revolutionaries could not ignore the suffering, and they set out—individually and collectively—to create entirely new ways of caring for aging adults to ease their suffering and improve their quality and length of life.

Native Americans like Squanto provided good fortune for the Pilgrims of colonial America. During this period, tensions were high between Europeans and the Native Americans in present-day Massachusetts. Squanto, Samoset, and Hobbamock served as interpreters and ambassadors, establishing peaceful alliances between these two groups.

Through the rising action of his life in literature, Lennon’s remembrances track the influence not only of his literary pater familias, Norman Mailer, but his actual father, a booze-bitten blue-collar bibliophile with his own reputation for genius, and how together these mentors forged and focused the 20/20 literary vision Lennon takes to the work of some of the greatest writers of the Twentieth Century, from Baldwin and Bishop to Didion and DeLillo and, not least, Mailer himself.

Not all business podcasts are no-nonsense. In 2004, two college friends founded Fresh Produce, a mostly just typical ad agency with an art gallery in it. Since then they've helped a lot of businesses not fit in very well. The Differentiated Business Podcast with Michael J Hart the Fourth and Theodore J Heeren the First provides a glimpse at what its like to work at a one-of-a-kind ad business that specializes in differentiation strategy. If you’re looking for a business podcast about caring for office plants, kazoo collecting, or how to run a Dungeons and Dragons campaign, you just hit the ...

Vampires, witches, and zombies, oh my! Within this Halloween special, you'll find a uniquely satisfying collection of horror tales and stories of the macabre.

Across a thousand battlefields and a million wars, there is always a question. What do you do when all the chips are on the table? Do you run? Try to find salvation in the arms of an easy peace? Or do you stand and fight? Send your enemies into whatever hole they crawled out of? On Deadly Ground has 10 stories handling that exact question. Each character faces the impossible in different ways, but all will be tested before the day is done. Can they earn a heroic victory amongst the endless eternity of space, or are they doomed to fall into obscurity?

On October 23, 2012, with Superstorm Sandy fast approaching, Captain Robin Walbridge made the fateful decision to sail the HMS Bounty from New London, Connecticut, to St. Petersburg, Florida, believing the wooden ship, a replica of the original, famous Bounty, would fare better at sea than at port. He told the crew that anyone who did not want to come on the voyage could leave the ship and there would be no hard feelings. No one took the captain up on his offer, and this decision would have fatal consequences.

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Dexter meets Secretary in Michael J. Seidlinger's provocative, disturbing literary thriller that reinvents the serial killer genre, exploring the psychology of desire. Claire studies forensic science, Victor is the gentleman killer. Subverting expectations, Clair seduces Victor and keeps him in her apartment as her pet, her darkest secret. Beautifully written and provocative to listen to, Seidlinger delves into Claire's motivations and impetus to present a compelling psychosexual portrait of a woman obsessed with performance, power, sex, and gore.

AWS re:View is a weekly podcast that looks at AWS technologies and directions in order to help you understand how they impact your business. --This content is provided for educational purposes only. The opinions expressed here are the opinions of the host and co-host only and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of their employers or customers.--

Rooftops is a story about trauma, survival, and forgiveness of self, set in a magical version of reality. Growing up in a 1970s Australian immigrant family with ties to organized crime, Eddy is a survivor with a troubled past. Now as an adult, Eddy is trying to write a story about demons and vampires while living in a world between reality and his experiences.

In the dark ages, women were property and nobles took whatever they wanted. When a peasant girl is forced to travel through a dark and foggy night filled with ill omens, fortune and misfortune ambush her on the road home. Beneath the glare of the red star, she discovers a rare treasure. Pursued by a mad lord and stalked by a mysterious stranger, her whole world is turned upside down. When everything she loves comes under attack, she must choose between running away and revealing a gift that could alter the kingdom forever....

The Referrals Podcast is a weekly show where Michael J. Maher, author of (7L) The Seven Levels of Communication, interviews a top producing Realtor, lender, or small business owner about how they are implementing the (7L) system and winning! The Referrals Podcast is all about Real People. Real Stories. Real Referrals.

Are contemporary soldiers exploited by the state and society that they defend? More specifically, have America's professional service members disproportionately carried the moral weight of America's war-fighting decisions since the inception of an all-volunteer force? In this volume, Michael J. Robillard and Bradley J. Strawser examine the question of whether and how American soldiers have been exploited in this way. Robillard and Strawser offer an original theory of "moral exploitation".

In his most terrifying and twisted case yet, Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger goes to Bangkok to search for a friend who has gone missing, only to find himself on the run for murder when a glamorous club girl turns up dead in his bed.

Der vierte und letzte Teil der "Riyria-Chroniken". Als Gabriel Winters Tochter Genevieve kurz nach ihrer Hochzeit mit einem Grafen auf mysteriöse Weise verschwindet und für tot gehalten wird, sinnt der reiche Whiskey-Baron auf Rache. Da er während des berüchtigten Jahres der Angst in Colnora gelebt hat, heuert er den einzigen Mann an, von dem er weiß, dass er sie entweder finden oder blutige Vergeltung üben kann – Royce Melborn. Royce und Hadrian, der zynische Ex-Assassine und der idealistische Ex-Söldner, reisen daraufhin in die geheimnisvolle Stadt Rochelle.

In this pulse-pounding thriller that will keep you guessing to the very last end, homicide detective Nick Teffinger witnesses a murder from a place he shouldn’t be and soon finds himself pulled into the edgy world of an exotic young lawyer who is too mysterious to trust and too hypnotic to resist. The Nick Teffinger thrillers are all self-contained within their own four corners and can be listened to in any order.

Nick Teffinger never follows orders, but this time it might cost him his job as a Denver homicide detective. Unsolved murders prey on Teffinger’s psyche, and when an on-the-loose killer taunts him with plans for his next kill, Teffinger has do so something, especially since he ignored the first warning with dire consequences. His unlicensed pursuit of the killer takes Teffinger across three continents and, as series fans have come to expect, into the arms of numerous exotic women along the way.