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In an easy conversational style, The Restless Northwest provides a brief overview of the remarkable geological processes that have shaped the Pacific Northwest. The narrative is also sprinkled with firsthand accounts of the people involved in recent exciting, scientific discoveries. Williams enlivens this story of long-ago geologic events, with a variety of fascinating asides, on everything from enormous undersea tubeworms, to the Willamette meteorite.

Aisha Williams had been there, done it, and seen it all when it came to dating men. But when she began to fall for handsome pastor Daniel Lancaster she felt like he was different. He was the first white man she had ever dated and, not only that, but he was able to speak to her soul and understand her in ways she could never explain. However, Daniel had a secret. A secret like no other. A secret so incredible that it was almost impossible to believe. A secret so shocking that it would change both their lives in more ways than one....

Remote desert locations, including the Chihuahuan Desert of northern Mexico, southern Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, draw adventurers of all kinds, from the highly skilled and well prepared to urban cowboys who couldn't lead themselves (much less a horse!) to water. David Alloway's goal in this book is to help all of them survive when circumstances beyond their control strand them in the desert environment.

Sharon Kinne. Joan Shannon. Celeste Beard. Three of the most notorious female serial killers in modern times have also been the most promiscuous. Sharon Kinne slept with as many men as she could, killing those where she could make a profit. She would escape from prison and remain at large to this day. Joan Shannon ran her own "swingers club" before recruiting her own daughter to murder her husband for insurance money.

Richard is going through mid-life crisis, having an affair, and plans to leave his wife and children. He suddenly has a revelation while on the golf course, as he watches his golf buddies, and then listens to them complain about their lives at the 19th hole. He decides that he is better off with his wife, and makes a pact with himself to get his body in shape, as his wife had been nagging him about. Perhaps they could work out together.

Rising author Mohamed Akl has given a detailed guide to making presentations in his latest book, Time to Captivate: Insider Tactics for Compelling Presentations. Whether you are a student or a professional in any field, you may need to make presentations from time to time as part of a school project or to pitch your ideas to your team. Not knowing how to make these presentations is not only embarrassing, but it can also be damaging to your career. But worry not! With Mohamed Akl's guidance, you can learn to be a pro.

Based on two years of fieldwork and interviews with 71 Midwestern Americans, the Waskuls' book is a reflexive ethnography that examines how people experience ghosts and hauntings in everyday life. The authors explore how uncanny happenings become ghosts and the reasons people struggle with or against a will to believe. They present the variety and character of hauntings and ghostly encounters, outcomes of people telling haunted legends, and the nested consequences of ghostly experiences.

Jason and Vanessa are back with a new lieutenant and a new case. With the discovery of a young woman's body on a greenway trail, the detectives are thrown into a desperate search for a killer.

This teaching manual helps to rightly divide what the word of God has to say about prosperity and its purpose in the kingdom of God.

It's time to start budgeting like a bossy boss! This book contains actionable information on how to budget and manage your finances like a pro. Many people are neck deep in debt and have very bad credit reports today because of lack of proper financial planning. You see, the difference between the rich and the poor is that the rich have been able to quickly learn and understand that money management is a skill that must be carefully mastered.

Events will conspire to push Jason and Vanessa's partnership like never before. Lives are lost and futures changed in a mystery that won't come together.

Are you struggling with depression and anxiety? You are not alone in your battle! With the help of this book you'll not only become stronger but you'll make it possible to reclaim your life - without depression - once again. You will learn a number of strategies and techniques to start managing your depression and anxiety right away, for a greater sense of well-being and confidence.

John A. Thompson takes a long view of America's dramatic rise as a world power, from the late 19th century into the post-World War II era. He shows how American leaders from Wilson to Truman developed an ever more capacious understanding of the national interest, and why by the 1940s most Americans came to support the price tag, in blood and treasure, attached to strenuous efforts to shape the world. The beliefs and emotions that led them to do so reflected distinctive aspects of U.S. culture, not least the strength of ties to Europe.

What do motivational speakers, salespeople, preachers, and lawyers have in common? They are all in the business of convincing people, and they do it well. In fact, they do it so well, that this is their job - to persuade people to "buy" what they are selling, whether it's an actual product, or a concept, a story, an ideology, etc.

Dillon Bledsoe has been in prison for seven years. In this continuation of The Stranger, Dillon is lost, searching for hope and determined to uncover the truth about the night several high school girls were murdered. He meets the mysterious Jonathan Maynard who offers assistance in exonerating him, but one startling revelation after another cause Dillon to question the man's motives. Confused and unsure who to trust, Dillon returns to Seal Bay in an attempt to clear his name and leave the past where it belongs.

Something horrible happened eight years ago in the small coastal town of Seal Bay. Six high school girls were killed and dumped into the bay by a man named Lance Puckett. It was a crime which ripped apart a community and left emotional scars that time would never heal. A calm morning in Seal Bay is shattered by the appearance of a stranger who bears a striking resemblance to Lance. Has he come back to dig up memories from the past, or could this man be a drifter, just passing through?

What Faqir Chand has discovered is that religious visions, no matter how profound or uplifting, are self-generated and are not due to the miraculous energies of a saint or a master. Yet, disciples worldwide tend to believe otherwise and thereby project power and omniscience on their respective gurus who, in truth, have neither. Therein lies the great religious trap. An unscrupulous guru is akin to a parasitic vampire who psychically lives off the deepest yearnings and sincerest intentions of their devotees, never letting on that they are completely devoid of power.

The idea that the world is an illusion that betrays its real origin has a long tradition and can be found in the writings of Hindu rishis, early Greek philosophers, and Christian Gnostics. What is perhaps surprising is to find such a rich literature on the subject in neuroscience and quantum physics. The latest, and perhaps most provocative, idea to gain some currency in varying scientific disciplines is the hypothesis that the universe is the result of a computational simulation....

A lot of what happens in your life is mostly determined by what you are thinking. Your state of mind clearly gives way to the realization of capabilities, opportunities, and goals. Goals are affected by how tough your mind is, and how you will use its powers. Even if many of us realize how important it is to work toward the development of mental power through training, only a few gets real results. The fault is obviously on the fact that they don't know the ways and means of proper mental training.

The words "Kama Sutra" tend to invoke scenes of erotic decadence to the minds of the people of these modern times, something that seems to be alluring to the point of being almost illicit. After being translated into thousands of various texts, this manual of the sexual experience from the country of India that addresses not just the different practicalities of sexuality but even the courtesies the way of living as well as how to successfully relate with the sexual partner in the deepest and most meaningful manner.