Dassa skates toward the palace in completion of her Third Quest, unaware the Karkar Plague has returned to ravage Gannah. On a medical starship not far away, Dr. Pik is ordered to find a cure for the plague – an unlikely assignment, given his inbred hatred of the whole Gannahan race. Duty trumps prejudice, however, and he succeeds… but that's just the beginning of the story. Dassa and Pik survive attack by space pirates, food poisoning, savage Gannahan beasts, and a plane crash. The hardest part, though, is enduring one another's company. The Creator who wrote the story of redemption in the stars has commanded her to share it with her reluctant savior. That's not all He requires of her, but the rest is unthinkable.
One of the most prominent names in the lore of the planet Umban, author J. S. Freeman is as mysterious and controversial as the island of Freemansland from which she came. In this book, she breaks her long silence to tell her remarkable story. Stillwaters is the first in a three-part serial. Come and see. The truth is better than her fiction.
The inhabitants of the planet Gannah are known as bloodthirsty savages who once tried to conquer the galaxy. Now a plague has ravaged the planet and only one survivor remains, a young woman named Dassa. Pik, the doctor from the League of Planets assigned to her case, hates everything Gannahan and wishes every last one of its people had died. Bereft of everything she's ever known, Dassa clings to her God and the story he has written in the stars. He has given her an assignment: to return to Gannah and replenish it with a new race of people. But she must first overcome the prejudice of the entire galaxy and recruit her de facto enemy, Pik, to help her.
This book is an inspiring story about courage, optimism of life, and determination of the author who encountered unexpected experiences on her way. The biggest of them turned out to be the fight against cancer, which twisted into a positive experience, changing completely the approach to the life of the writer. This autobiographical narrative moves a reader into the toughest moment of her life and can be a good read for anyone who battles cancer and struggles to find themselves in new and tough life circumstances. The author has kept a positive spirit throughout the cancer treatment, which helped her to go through it with energy and cheerfulness. This book is a true story of self-motivation, written with a sense of humour, which reads with a smile. *** A 7-year-old girl knocks at the tanned-brown wooden gate with shapes of various wild animals carved onto the brass knocker. After few hefty knocks, she hears heavy steps. The door opens, and she enters the 'Dome of Books', the name she gave to this building of the National Archives. She thinks it was built in the last century or even prior, for it looks like a mysterious castle. Daddy is in his suite on the third floor, alone in this fortress, accompanied by the noises from the creepy staircases that she follows upwards. She stops on the first level to catch her breath, as the air is so cold. Her throat is stinging. Her stomach knots when on the second floor she passes that gigantic fountain with water dripping in an empty bright shell from an open mouth of a creature she couldn't name. 'It is gloomier than it was on the lowest floor,' she thought. It turns into a darker sensation when she reaches her destination. Her T-shirt got stuck to her icy cold, wet back. The light from the bottom is fading with each step up. Apart from the wet droplets falling into a golden sink in the fountain's cascade, she hears the beat of her heart. Her moves are echoing in the weird citadel of bricks, marbled floors, and stone walls. She glances down from the barrier she holds tightly and sees the apparent unending abyss from where she came just a few minutes before. When she hammers at her daddy's office door, she is as pale as the Moon. Her eyes smile, and her mouth widens at the corners when her papa picks her up and twirls her in the air. Her cheeks are reddening from joy and happiness. But her heart is still thumping its noisy melody... * * * With sun rays bathing the scene of St Ouen's Beach, I explore clear waves of the Atlantic. The waves bounce like bath bubbles, sending glossy sparkles into my eyes. The setting could not have been more perfect. I clicked a few photos that later would feed my Instagram page. I ironed my floral cotton dress with fingers and smiled. Luis, with a heavy breath, rushed to me with his yellow tennis ball and gave me a typical dog's attraction: he licked my face with his hot tongue, reaching my eyes at the end of his long kiss.
How do companies like Microsoft and Wal-Mart rise to the top of their industries and dominate year after year, while others like People Express and LA Gear burn out after promising starts? In Changing the Game, Eric Flamholtz and Yvonne Randle, two leading management consultants, reveal that the key to success lies in how you transform your organization. Virtually all organizations face critical transition points in their life cycle, when they must change how they play the game, or perish. Flamholtz and Randle focus here on three critical moments: the move from entrepreneurial to professional management, when a firm reaches a stage of growth where it can no longer operate in an informal, unstructured way; the revitalization of an established business that is losing ground to competitors; and a radical change in a business vision. The authors show, for instance, how American Century Investors made the transformation from a $50 million entrepreneurship to a professionally managed company with a market value of $2 billion; how IBM, one of the great American corporations, was forced by the proliferation of PCs in the 1980s to overhaul its business to survive; and how Starbucks Coffee, originally a Seattle coffee-bean store, was inspired by Milans romantic coffee bars to recreate itself and transformed an entire industry. The book concludes with a look at how one company--Bell Carter Olive Company--pulled together all the concepts and tools presented in the book and successfully changed the game. Changing the Game provides a comprehensive framework and a set of tools for the strategic management of organizational transformation. It will help managers meet the challenges of an increasingly competitive business environment.
As the firstborn son of New Gannah¿s ruler, ADAM is being groomed to succeed his mother on the throne as toqeph, and he is determined to lead his people wisely and well. Trekking through the wilderness as part of his training, he stumbles upon a village of Old Gannahans. This is shocking, for he and everyone else believed the original inhabitants of the planet had all died decades earlier from the Karkar plague.DAVIYD is one of this remnant. Before his father died, he¿d told him to look for a young man, tall as a tree, standing in the prism¿s light. No one knew what the prophecy meant, but when Daviyd sees Adam, he recognizes him as the one who was foretold. He was no happier to see Adam, though, than Adam is to see him, for it¿s obvious from Adam¿s appearance that he is a descendant of the Karkar, the people who created the plague that nearly wiped out the whole Gannahan race.After he returns home, the toqeph sends Adam back to find Daviyd and bring him to her. After he does, she tells Adam of how, some years back, she learned that her father¿s line had taken the throne through deceit¿and Daviyd is the rightful heir. She promises Adam that he will still inherit, not Daviyd, but he¿s not sure what to think. She seems awfully attached to the newcomer, and it¿s not like her to see a wrong and not try to right it.Eventually, the decision is no longer his mother¿s to make¿it¿s Adam¿s responsibility to choose. Will he right the ancient wrong and lose his inheritance? Or ignore the truth and lose his integrity? (There¿s also a major subplot involving Adam¿s sister, but the 350-word limit prohibits its inclusion in this summary.)
Letter to Pastor and Other People's Letters is a series of letters that introduced me to the concept that "All that glitters is not gold" (Shakespeare). Perhaps you have been there but shame and embarrassment have robbed you of the opportunity to give voice to your testimony. Let me encourage you by stating that giving voice to this particular testimony put me on the road to deliverance and recovery.
Mind renewal is an ongoing process for every believer. Meditations of the Heart offers a fresh approach to the process by breaking the "culture of silence" through the transparency of the testimony supported by the Word of God.
Tiny houses are all the rage these days, but what can you do with something so small? Here are seven stories about people chasing their dreams, making fresh starts, finding love, stumbling upon forgiveness, and embarking upon new adventures in tiny houses"--Amazon.com.
In Today's society we see the SHEroes' and the HEroes', but we don't always see what happens "behind the scenes" of overcoming or maintaining their super human abilities in balancing entrepreneurship aligned with work, life, and parenting! This book is an empowering guide featuring bold and truthful advice from several men and women sharing their story of how they "do it all"! This Co-Authors edition is the all-in-one resource you need to create your "survival guide toolbox" with easy-to-use strategies, backed by real life stories, inspirational encouragement, and the tools needed for overcoming challenges faced by todays "ParentPreneur's".
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