Any other eleven-year-old kid might flip past a hand-drawn picture if they found it in a textbook. But not Drew Daley. When he discovers a detailed drawing tucked away in his science book, his entire life changes. He finds himself seeing everything differently and caring about things in a way he never did before. Drew becomes determined to find the artist, but with the list of names inside the front cover of his book as his only clue, the search isn’t an easy one. He encounters overbearing teachers and bullies, broken windows and promises, and even death and destruction. On top of all that, Drew has to navigate through fifth grade, where he’s learning some important life lessons: Lies can be more common than the truth, people aren’t always who they seem, and the most complex problems rarely have “right” answers. Through it all, the drawing gives Drew peace of mind and direction. But how far is he willing to go to uncover the identity of the artist?
Charlie Fell sells baseball cards with seemingly hallucinogenic properties out of his bedroom, takes road trips to places he loves (New York City) and loathes (Southern California), and trips over a series of romantic entanglements. When the young writer releases his first novel, his life begins to unravel as the fallout from his published inner-monologues drive him back inside his already frail mind.
Where should I keep my honey?' is about a confused bee trying to decide where to keep her honey. While she gets more and more down in the dumps about having no good place to keep her honey, she is met with a pleasant surprise – there is a place that bees keep their honey together! This short book for young and learning readers (ages 4-8) is about overcoming problems using cooperation. The book introduces young readers to cooperatives and credit unions without ever mentioning them by name. This cute little adventure will delight and excite while teaching that challenges can be overcome by working together with friends, family, and the community.
Adulting (verb): To do grown-up things and have responsibilities such as a working full time, paying rent, or owning a car. Basic life skills go mostly untaught in classrooms, so graduates are on their own to figure out how to live successfully in the world. Without any guidance, where do you start? Adulting 101 is a clever, practical, and timely guide to show how to:Find a job and be wildly successful at workBuy the items you need as an adult (apartment, car, insurance)Set goals, prioritize, and get work doneCommunicate professionally and effectivelySave and invest wiselyNavigate personal and professional relationshipsAvoid the common mistakes of being out on your ownAnd much, much more This book will give you what you need to succeed and make a real impact, inspiring you to change the world and be the person you were meant to be.
Pro SharePoint 2010 Search gives you expert advice on planning, deploying and customizing searches in SharePoint 2010. Drawing on the authors’ extensive experience of working with real-world SharePoint deployments, this book teaches everything you'll need to know to create well-designed SharePoint solutions that always keep the end-user’s experience in mind. Increase your search efficiency with SharePoint 2010’s search functionality: extend the search user interface using third-party tools, and utilize analytics to improve relevancy. This practical hands-on book is a must-have resource for anyone looking to unlock the full potential of their SharePoint server’s search capabilities. Pro SharePoint 2010 Search empowers you to customize a SharePoint 2010 search deployment and maximize the platform’s potential for your organization.
10 ready-to-use Bible lessons on the 10 Commandments. Each Bible lesson consists of 20 or so ready-to-use questions that get groups talking. These questions make small group Bible study a joy. If you can read 20 questions, you can lead a Bible Study. Answers are provided in the form of quotes from respected authors such as John Piper, Max Lucado and Beth Moore. These lessons will save you time as well as provide deep insights from some of the great writers and thinkers from today and generations past. I also include quotes from the same commentaries that your pastor uses in sermon preparation. Ultimately, the goal is to create conversations that change lives.
The history of Dallas is speckled with the lean, the determined and the obstinately opinionated--fighters who brought the city up out of the prairie. Ride with Nicholas Sparks, who christened the soil with his blood, and stand with Henry Ervay, the mayor who challenged one of the most powerful governors Texas has known. Bonnie Parker shot her way to infamy, while Corinne Maddox solved her stalker problem with two pocket guns. Herbert Noble pushed his luck to the breaking point. Jacob Rubenstein avenged his fallen idol. Accompany Josh Foreman and Ryan Starrett into a largely forgotten Dallas, where citizenship was a matter of gumption.
Jack Darby is a small time entrepreneur trying to let go of his past and rebuild his life with minimal complications. The death of his fiancé and his resulting struggle with alcohol have left him with a desire for simplicity, and for now he is content to operate his small tee shirt business and enjoy an uncomplicated life in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Fate has other plans, however, when he encounters Lou de Silva, a mysterious drifter on a quest for ancient pirate treasure, allegedly buried near the coast of northeast Florida. Graham Kilpatrick, a revenge-minded drug dealer, learns of their quest and plans a heist that will leave Jack and his friends dead, and provide him with the means for an early retirement. When he abducts Jack's girlfriend to use as leverage, Jack must find the treasure if they are to have any hope of escape. As Jack unlocks the riddles and follows the clues to the treasure, he discovers that he and Lou share a destiny woven together by tragic threads from the past, and the search for the treasure becomes a quest for redemption and closure.
The Muse and the Mechanism: Love, sex, drugs, death, life, comedy, dreams, pop culture, racism, class, religion, 9/11, crime, failure, and epiphany, but not necessarily in that order. Old tongues blend with new actions as the modern hipsinisters vie to create a new language of the literary lost. At the Center is Charlie Fell, a twenty-something who can't make up his mind on his medium, his lovers, and his position in life.
The collection includes the adventures of Crimson Fox, Supersonic Warrior, Fire Slinger, Spider Crusader, the galaxy of Intergalactic Wars, the adventure of Acorn High School, and other adventures.
One hundred years ago, Sillara and Tsujatha were caught up in a wave of terrific events that forever altered their nation. They began their adventure as a pair of homeless orphans and concluded it as the Prince and Princess of the Tamari. But that is all in the past. Now Sillara dwells in the distant forests of the Larenai Elves, the mother of twin sons and an accomplished telepath. Tsujatha is the honored Prince of the Tamari and a magician without peer. Their lives seem settled. But appearances deceive. Darkness falls upon the Golden Desert, and the fabric of Gilalion is stretched nearly to the breaking point. Evil, a power that dwarfs the Dragon's and nearly as old as the world itself, strives to enter. Can Sillara and Tsujatha prevent it? Will they even have the chance? For Sillara's sons are stolen from her lands, and Tsujatha goes missing from Halchek. Can Kan-Terak trace their sons? Who can find Tsujatha? Will Sillara and Tsujatha ever meet again? The answers lie in the world of Gilalion, a world whose depth and richness never fail to enchant. There the epic tale of Sillara and Tsujatha continues.
Crimson Fox was relaxing in the jungle, and soaking up the fresh air in his fur! King Squeaky decided to ruin Crimson Fox's relaxation! King Squeaky is spreading despair in the jungle, by invading with his minions.
Do you feel that your life is pleasing to God—almost? When you hear about pastors, missionaries, and popular speakers, do you feel just a bit second-class, as if your life appears lukewarm and not as radical as theirs? You’re not alone. A vague sense of guilt is common in the church. We know God’s grace is the key to eternal life, but it’s so much more than that—it’s the key to a joy-filled walk with Him every moment. Josh Kelley shows why you don’t have to give away everything you own to be a fully committed follower of Jesus Christ. He demonstrates that... God is crazy about you right where you are. You are just as important as any other member of Christ’s body. The work you do every day can be pleasing to God. Discover the joy of radical obedience to Christ in your normal, everyday life.
Have you ever asked yourself what the purpose of your life is? Do you feel like life is meaningless because you have not encountered a convincing answer to that question? Well, you are not alone. Many philosophers have argued that a clear answer to the problem of meaning is forever lost, and that there is no rational way to secure purpose. If a solution could be discovered, it would only be a very subjective one. We may construct one for ourselves, according to this line of thinking, but an objective purpose can never be found. I wrote this book because I strongly disagree with this contention. If you are interested in this adventurous question, you will find in these pages a novel approach to the problem, and I argue that through philosophical inquiry, we indeed can uncover an objective meaning to our lives. This book is a step-by-step guide to walk you through the tough questions in the philosophy of meaning and to bring you closer to your destiny. Our purpose is relevant for all of us. And perhaps the solution touches deeper than you might have ever dared to imagine.
The Korean War rages on in this thrilling alternate history sequel to Beat the Devils: Morris Baker, now a private investigator, must solve a missing persons case in the midst of an endless battle. December, 1959: The Korean War rages on. Protesting the bloody conflict, a Korean-American man by the name of William Yang suddenly blows himself up in the middle of a Los Angeles department store just before Christmas, which leads the U.S. government to reopen the internment camps used during World War II. President Joseph McCarthy's America has never been more on edge, paranoid, and above all, dangerous. Several weeks later, a woman hires Morris Baker, now working as a private investigator, to track down her missing husband — Henry Kissinger — who may have a shadowy connection to Yang's purported terrorist attack. The ensuing investigation for the missing State Department consultant working for Vice President Richard Nixon sends Baker on another thrilling adventure of deceit, intrigue, sex, murder, and conspiracy where the safety of the entire world may hang in the balance.
2nd revised and updated edition Kindle, mobi, ePub? What does that all mean? Which file for which retailer and how to create those? What’s up with TOC? What is an ISBN and where to get one? What about editing and proofreading? How about the cover? Where can I sell my book? Who are the major online eBook retailers? Self-publishing is a daunting task but once you know the secrets, you are good to go to become the next bestselling author. ‘How to Self-Publish - All You Need to Know’ explains it all. Know everything there is to efficiently and easily self-publish your own e-book. This is the book I wish I had when I was in the early stages of my publishing journey. Now it’s your time to grab this opportunity and embark on your self-publishing success! Secrets explained by a publishing professional with more than 20 years experience with printed books and eBooks.
Humanity has precipitated a planetary crisis of resource consumption—a crisis of stuff. So ingrained is our stuff-centric view that we can barely imagine a way out beyond substituting a new portmanteau of material things for the one we have today. In The Human Scaffold, anthropologist Josh Berson offers a new theory of adaptation to environmental change. Drawing on niche construction, evolutionary game theory, and the enactive view of cognition, Berson considers cases in the archaeology of adaptation in which technology in the conventional sense was virtually absent. Far from representing anomalies, these cases exemplify an enduring feature of human behavior that has implications for our own fate. The time has come to ask what the environmental crisis demands of us not as consumers but as biological beings. The Human Scaffold offers a starting point.
How did Christianity spread from a small room of frightened Jewish believers in Jerusalem to a movement that would challenge and eventually overcome Rome, the center of first-century civilization? Capable scholars have written much about this phenomenon, and we are still experiencing its effects today. But to understand first-century Christianity we must begin in Acts—the inspired book itself, and not in outside scholarship. We must read it for ourselves. This devotional is an eighty-day study in Acts that guides you through the history, language, and culture of the first century and inculcates strong Bible study habits along the way. At the end you will have truly discovered Acts.
This book examines the relationship between Plato's views on psychology and his political philosophy, focusing on his reflections on the spirited part of the tripartite soul, or thumos, and spirited motivation over the course of his career. Spirit is the distinctively social or political part of the human soul for Plato, in the sense that it is the source of the desires, emotions, and sensitivities that make it possible for people to form relationships with one another, interact politically, and cooperate together in and protect their communities. Such emotions prominently include not only the aggressive or competitive qualities for which thumos is well known, but also the feelings of attachment, love, friendship, and civic fellowship that bind families and communities together and make cities possible in the first place. Moreover, as spirit is the political part of the soul in this sense, two social and political challenges that occupy Plato throughout his works--namely, how to educate citizens properly in virtue and how to maintain unity and stability in political communities--cannot be addressed and resolved, on his view, without proper attention to the spirited aspects of human psychology.
Occasionally, we may find ourselves convinced that a story has finally ended. The curtains close, everyone goes home; and the night which follows swallows up any loose ends. Upon Rion five hundred years of the same war have passed. At the very end of that war; is the start of a true adventure. Bell believes his place in the world is withering away. He cannot fathom how incorrect he is.
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