A decorated, dedicated, and brilliant US Army chemical-weapons expert and his estranged but equally brilliant insect-pheromone researcher of a son become unwary targets of an ultrasecret, renegade Communist Chinese spy plot masterminded by a diabolical genius who dreams and schemes of combining the two American's talents with his own in order to develop a new type of weapon that can induce hive-like obedience in masses of people-a weapon of mass mind control (WMC)! The father is stealthily drugged then abducted while the son is befriended and seduced to come ...

With Ozma and Glinda gone, will anyone notice that Dorothy and the Wizard haven't quite been themselves? And can Ozma's cousin Ozana and the real Dorothy get to the Emerald city before it is completely overthrown by legions of shape-shifting body-snatchers? Then accompany Tote, a wooden outcast from Ozana's picture-perfect village of Pineville, as he and Whitefinger the ex-woodcutter struggle to understand what the only flower ever to be banned from the Story Blossom Garden may or may not be trying to tell them in Nicolai's 2012 illustrated novella, Tote's ...

“Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else’s head.”                          Malcolm Gladwell     Whenever you struggle with faith – place your trust in Jesus: He is your Savior, Lord, Life-Giver, Protector, Provider, Counselor ...

세계 인구는 80억 명에 가까워지고 있습니다. 각 나라들은 기독교, 특히 예수님을 통해서만 구원받는다고 말하는 복음주의자들에게 점점 더 적대적이 되어가고 있습니다. ...

Finding Elizabeth is the true story of how several grieving families in a small Florida community have - through the astounding powers of Psychic/Medium Elizabeth Palin - received real and reassuring contact from their children who they thought were lost forever to tragic deaths. In their own words, family members confirm that there IS life after life; that their loved ones are indeed alive in the spirit world, living out dreams they had on Earth. Through Elizabeth, these young spirits answer plaguing questions, solve mysteries their deaths left unanswered ...

Le secret de la Chine pour stopper le Covid-19 Depuis le début de la pandémie, plus de cent personnes, dont certaines dans un état grave, ont sollicité Angelina Jingrui Cai, médecin traditionnel chinois exerçant en France. Compte tenu de ses résultats, elle se devait de partager les méthodes et les recettes utilisées pour en faire profiter le plus grand nombre, d'autant que le virus n'est pas définitivement éradiqué. Cette pratique est également bénéfique ...

This is a companion volume to Practice Makes PURPOSE: Six Spiritual Practices That Will Change Your Life and Transform Your Community. The Six Spiritual Practices are a new formulation of a very old set of teachings and disciplines. If you apply them regularly, you will have more energy and vitality, more focus, more compassion, more clarity, and more joy. And these effects will ripple outward into your marriage and family, your parenting, your workplace, your friendships, your neighborhood and city. The Practice Makes PURPOSE Workbook contains questions ...

Trust at all levels in society has been in decline since the 1960's. Once respected and venerated institutions have seen their trust levels fall. Where at one time we assumed trust, now we question trust. This is especially critical when it applies to those individuals and institutions we entrust with our money. This study examines the wealth management sector of the financial services industry. This sector is highly sensitive to issues of trust as individual and institutional investors, regulators, and other stakeholders try to maximize returns in an unpredictable ...

In 1898, life on Black Boar Mountain in eastern Kentucky is quiet for the small settlement of farmers and drovers who work the land around their little cabins. But when ten-year old Lydia King and her father unearth an ancient, preserved body up on the seep bog, a curse is let loose . . . or so some believe. Once These Hills is a gritty, historical crime novel aimed at fans of rural noir. It's set in the hills of Appalachia, a place where spirits, dangerous animals, and escaped criminals roam the terrain right alongside the settlers who seek only to live ...

What started out as a good idea to get a dog for our son soon morphed into an arrangement whereby two big messy pups took over the household. Not content to be mere add-ons, Rambo and Buddy soon moved front and center of our existence, bringing joy and a certain degree of inconvenience overlaid by a rich layer of devotion and unwavering loyalty to the pack. Twelve years of fun and adventure unfold in these pages as we tried to remember that our four-legged companions were, after all, only dogs. We thought of them as family. Join us on backpacking trips ...