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One year past infection and even rural Montana has not been immune to the scourge. Spreading slowly over the world has been an infection, an infection that robs humankind of their free will and replaces it with but a single desire, to infect others. Safe in the wide open spaces of Montana, some have found a way to survive using wit, bloodshed, or the simple tenacious creativity of life.

More than 50 years ago, Willie Nelson's beloved Christmas song, "Pretty Paper", first hit the airwaves. And for all these years, Willie has wondered about the real-life Texas street vendor, selling wrappings and ribbons, who inspired his song. Who was this poor soul? What did his painful trials say about our loves, our hopes, our dreams in this holiday season - and in the rest of our lives?

Tavara Tinker leads a double life. By day, a proper Victorian lady. By night, deep in the heart of industrial London, she maintains a research laboratory and a steam-powered factory where she creates the clothes and weapons for a new generation of adventurer.

Today, orphanages are common in many parts of the world. But a look at young people who spent their childhoods in institutions in Romania reveals just how developmentally damaging such places can be.

In The Northside, Johnson brings the untold story of Atlantic City's black community vividly to life, from the arrival of the first African Americans to Absecon Island in the early 19th century through the glory days of the "World's Playground". Drawing on dozens of personal interviews and painstaking archival research, he reveals long-forgotten details about the people on whose backs the gambling mecca was built and offers a wide-ranging survey of the accomplishments of more recent generations.

This eclectic collection of radio stories and sonic snapshots chronicle how recorded sound has captured and shaped American life. They include a cardboard disc recorded by Tennessee Williams in a New Orleans penny arcade, a home-recorded letter from World War II, the songs of a 1930s fish vendor, and more.

There are quite a number of stories explaining how dogs were tamed, but this Shona story from Zimbabwe, originally told to the musicologist and folklorist Hugh Tracey in the Karanga tongue, explains how cats became cherished inhabitants of human homes.

Samuel Carter has put one mission above all else. Until he takes down the international criminal organization that destroyed his family, all other plans and dreams are on ice. Erin Green just helped elect Annette Ware to the senate, and as her reward, the senator named her chief of staff. Her first task is to help the senator make a splash by launching an investigation into rumors of an elite military unit operating in secret. She wasn’t expecting that task to lead her to Samuel, the hot-as-sin former marine with a penchant for Brioni suits.

Are you looking for non-religious kids' Christmas stories? If so, you will enjoy our collection: Kids' Christmas Book with Santa Claus and Non-Religious Stories: Xmas Holiday Story Books for Children. Note that these are public domain works that were originally written by the indicated authors. All of the stories have been modernized and re-written for the 21st century.

This book is designed for beginner/intermediate students of the English language who wishes to improve his/her English fluency to the next English level. This is a simple English learning guide that presents English learning in a fun and exciting way. You don’t have to learn by following the boring/harsh method of the formal learning system. It is possible to learn and have fun at the same time!

Fifty Years on the Trail is the true story of John Young Nelson (1826-1903), an early frontiersman, military scout, interpreter, guide, and saloon owner. Nelson ran away from home as a young teenager to adventure in the west. He worked on farms, served as a cabin boy on a Mississippi steamer, and became an apprentice with a group of traders traveling west from Missouri. After meeting a band of Sioux, he got himself adopted into the tribe, learned how to live off the land and became a Sioux warrior.

With this collection of stories, James R. Nelson, takes the listener on a magnificent journey that ranges from a young boy finding love at the circus to an old man mourning the death of his wife. Many different genres are explored including mystery, horror, ghost stories, and more.

Imagine if you could attract happiness, prosperity, and love by knowing the right opportunities to look for. Imagine making quick decisions that accelerate your ability to achieve the success you want. Imagine, if this transformation was possible in less than 90 days! Amazon number one best-selling author and one of Australia's leading goal-setting and habit development expert Romney Nelson provides the six fundamental magnetic thinking principles for attracting everything you desire into your life.

Are you trying to improve your fitness but struggle to remain to any one plan for more than a few months? Do you find that the popular trends in dieting and exercise are not providing you with the results you hoped for? Do these diet and fitness plans focus more on the short-term outcomes, rather the lasting success that long-term and supportive habits can build? The Habit Switch has been specifically written and structured to include easy-to-follow actionable steps that will reveal how to steadily increase your habit frequency and intensity over time.

How many of us are living up to our full, God-given potential? What's holding us back - and how can we overcome it? These are the questions Nelson Searcy and Jennifer Dykes Henson want us to ask and answer. With energy and enthusiasm, the authors take a holistic view of health that encompasses the physical, spiritual, emotional, and mental areas of our lives, giving us proven, systematic ways to dramatically improve each. Listeners come away with specific strategies to lose weight, get more sleep, lower stress, nurture better relationships, connect with God, and much more.

Brad Feldman is desperate to come up with a novel idea for his failing television series, America's Most Haunted Locations. A friend reminds him about Doctor Louise Hilton and her groundbreaking research in parapsychology at Duke University during the 70s. Doctor Hilton invites a select group of people to join her and Brad at an old Victorian mansion in Michigan's remote Upper Peninsula. At first, Brad is delighted when unexpected happenings start to occur, but his joy soon turns to fear as things quickly spiral out of hand.

Join Authors Lee Houston, Jr., Nikki Nelson-Hicks, Mark Gelineau, and Joseph King as they saddle up and, with a little fairy dust and luck, take you on adventures never before imagined! Two of the most popular genres ever come together in rollicking adventure yarns that would curl a cowpoke's mustache in any enchanted forest! Wild mustangs and magic wands! Witches and outlaws! The good, the bad, and the fairy tale! All of that and more awaits in Once Upon a Sixgun from Pro Se Productions!

À la mort de sa mère, Brett Bohlinger pense hériter de l'empire familial. Or elle ne reçoit qu'un feuillet jauni : la liste des choses qu'elle ambitionnait de vivre lorsqu'elle avait quatorze ans. Pour toucher son héritage, il lui faudra, en un an, réaliser tous ces objectifs... Mais la Brett d'aujourd'hui n'a plus rien à voir avec l'adolescente qu'elle était... Enseigner ? Elle n'a nulle envie d'abandonner son métier pour se colleter avec une marmaille rebelle. Avoir un enfant ? Elle n'y pense plus, d'autant qu'Andrew, son petit ami, n'en veut pas. Retrouver son père ? Plus facile à dire qu'à faire. Tomber amoureuse ? Mais ne l'est-elle pas déjà d'Andrew ? À moins que...

Desperate to get out of his debt to the Odyssey Shop, Jake Istenhegyi answers a quirky classified ad: TREASURE HUNTERS WANTED. He signs on with a crew that is looking for the Cross of Trismegitus, a relic stolen by Pierre Rameau, the Pirate King of Honey Island and lost during the Battle of New Orleans.

Gray Smythe has been the unchallenged leader of their group of friends for years. Stoic and determined, he's managed to be there for them all through some crazy shit. But when Robbie, the only girl in their group, gets into a car accident, the line between friendship and lover suddenly gets a hell of a lot thinner.