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As the brigade he commanded attacked a Confederate battery on a hill outside Petersburg in July 1864, a bursting shell blew Col. Joshua L. Chamberlain from the saddle and wounded his horse. After the enemy battery skedaddled, the brigade took the hill and dug in, and up came supporting Union guns. Chamberlain figured the day’s fighting ended. Then an unidentified senior officer ordered his brigade to charge and capture the heavily defended main Confederate line.

Kylo’s Lament is a slow-burning psychological horror that traces one man’s descent into madness as he battles an unknown terror. Dave has always found comfort in his routines, a stable office job, casual tennis matches with friends, and quiet evenings with his cat, Kylo. But everything changes the night he glimpses a reality-bending distortion creeping along his arm. At first, he dismisses it as stress or fatigue. At least, until it comes back. Over time, the strange static-like substance appears again and again.

Is America Doomed? Uncover the Hidden Forces Driving Our Decline and How We Can Still Reverse It. Is America on the brink of total collapse? Are we witnessing the final days of a once-great superpower? The Death of America: Understanding the Age of Decadence holds the answers you need. This shocking book pulls back the curtain on the hidden forces unraveling the very fabric of American society—forces that threaten to plunge the nation into irreversible decline if left unchecked.

Über die Liebe gab es viel zu erzählen, aber eines blieb unerwähnt: dass sie nur in seltenen Fällen auf der gleichen Ebene stattfand, nie einfach und außerdem unberechenbar war. Flora flieht zu ihrer Grandma aufs Land. Sie möchte neu starten, nachdem einige Mitschüler sie gemobbt haben. Frieden findet sie in der Begegnung mit Schmetterlingen. Ihr größter Traum: eine eigene Aufzuchtfarm. In Mousehole begegnet sie Dean, einem Mädchenschwarm, dessen Charme sie in kürzester Zeit erliegt. Doch nicht nur Flora hat Geheimnisse, sondern auch ihr neuer Freund.

In 1960, Dr. Maxwell Maltz introduced his revolutionary theory of psycho-cybernetics: the science of using self-image psychology, visualization and action to achieve your goals. These ground-breaking concepts established him as a pioneer in the self-development field and transformed the lives and careers of people all over the world. Dr. Maltz’s works, including Psycho-Cyberntics, have reached more than thirty-five million listeners.

1470. England is in turmoil as the battle between supporters of the Yorkist king, Edward IV, and the old Lancastrian king, Henry VI, escalates. And for Isobel Fenton, the war is personal. Her father's death made her heiress to Beaumoncote Manor, a desirable estate in the midlands. But as conflict threatens England's unstable peace, Isobel and her lands become the focus of bitter tensions and a long-held feud. Taken from her manor, Isobel becomes the unwilling mistress of an indomitable Earl. She sees her only chance of happiness in the Earl's brother, Robert Langton.

May Hanna gave her millionaire ex-husband's hired Pinkerton detectives the slip to sneak out of the country. To escape financial embarrassment, James Potter, the manager of a prominent Euclid Avenue apartment building, gave his family cough medicine laced with poison, killing his entire family including himself. Married to a Millionaires' Row doctor, the infamous con woman Cassie Chadwick posed as Andrew Carnegie's illegitimate daughter and forged a fake $5 million check.

Das Vermächtnis von Yangchen ist der vierte Roman aus der Avatar-Chroniken-Reihe von F. C. Yee und der zweite, der sich auf das Leben von Avatar Yangchen konzentriert. Avatar Yangchen ist es gelungen, Bin-Er ein gewisses Maß an Stabilität zu bringen, aber ihre Erfolge beschränken sich auf eine einzige Stadt. Gerüchte über die "Eintracht“ – eine Waffe, die zur totalen Auslöschung fähig ist – haben zu wachsenden Spannungen zwischen den Vier Nationen geführt. Verzweifelt versucht Yangchen, die Feindseligkeiten zwischen den Staatsoberhäuptern zu beschwichtigen.

The purpose of this book is to provide a practical, biblical and spiritual strategy for historical churches ensnared by the comfort zone of their past accomplishments and achievements. Its content is primarily designed to help provide the leadership and guidance necessary to identify and empower such churches to make bold, purpose-driven decisions in abandoning the status quo, so that Christ will be exalted above their past and self-interests.

Someone has murdered three prominent residents of Old Town Alexandria, Virginia including the wife of the city's sheriff. When the trail goes cold, the sheriff's son hires dismissed FBI agent, now private investigator CJ Hawk, to look into the murder with fresh eyes. His investigation leads to the discovery something a lot more sinister. A secret government agency, code-named ZULU CENTER, has been spun up inside the State Department with a single mission; hide the identities of the nation's covert intelligence operatives and the military's special operators. Technology is a double edged sword.

Chock-full of real-world examples of mistakes, heartbreak, and redemption that makes it sound more like a juicy exposé than a business book, Love as a Business Strategy offers a new, people-first framework for achieving any business outcome. Written by authors who aren't fans of run-of-the-mill, nap-inducing business or leadership books, this book clearly shows that a better way of doing business is possible, helping listeners ditch the status quo, embrace humanity, and achieve lasting success.

Putting Down Roots by John Coverdale (author of Uncommon Faith) is the exciting story of the beginnings of Opus Dei in the U.S. It tells how Fr. Joseph Muzquiz came to America in 1949 to begin Opus Dei with very little money and only a rudimentary command of the language. At the time, only a handful of Americans had ever heard of Opus Dei. But by the time he passed away in 1983, Opus Dei had put down deep roots in this country.

Scion of a wealthy New York family, Captain Hank Mitchell is a hot shot fighter pilot flying escort for American bombers as they penetrate Nazi-occupied Europe. His P-51 is hit over Germany and he bails out over the English Channel. Burned terribly, he is pulled from the freezing water of the English Channel to realize his life has forever changed. Angry and bitter, he meets Doctor Roger Hanson, an Army Air Corps flight surgeon, who knows that Hank’s best chance is to take part in the RAF’s cutting edge burn treatment program.

Four months have passed since the birthday party where Princess Katyn came into James’ life and gave the country hope of a royal wedding. Andrew is now a journalist, but he’s still up to his old tricks, spinning stories of the impending engagement of James and Katyn. Fortunately, the public are lapping up the fairytale royal romance. In reality, James and Andrew’s relationship is struggling to survive the weight of their separation, always one bad headline away from disaster. The expected engagement has cornered James, and he’s acting out in ever more dangerous ways.

La lutte pour reprendre le contrôle du Daedalus et faire demi-tour vers le nouveau monde promis aux humains a commencé. Les yis, des aliens cachés à bord de l'arche stellaire pour y régner derrière l'avatar mensonger de la Capitaine Électrique, envahissent l'habitat humain à la recherche de Hazel, la Fille de la Capitaine, et sa petite bande de rebelles. Après avoir repoussé un assaut sanglant des yis contre son village natal, Hazel conduit ses proches vers l'arrière de l'arche où ils espèrent trouver un refuge plus sûr.

What if the return of Jesus Christ wasn’t announced with trumpets and fanfare—but instead began quietly, with the lives of a single mother, her terminally ill daughter, and a world on the brink of despair?

The Camel's Back - one of the stories, which entered in a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald "Tales of the Jazz Age" (1922). When Perry Parkhurst decides that his long-time engagement to Betty Medill has gone on long enough, he presents her with a marriage license and an ultimatum: get married immediately or end the relationship all-together. But things don't go quite as well as Perry expected, and the two end up parting ways for good. Perry decides to drown his sorrows and soon ends up attending the same costume party as Betty, dressed in an elaborate camel costume.

Allyson Ford is fed-up with dating because, lately, it seems to be all about partying hardy, getting drunk, and getting laid. “There’s nothing but cavemen out there anymore.” “Dating? Ha!” Steve McCallister barely escaped an encounter with one of the many cavewomen who constantly fill his college geology classes. Then, during a midnight run, his Eagle-Scout blood rises when he sees a damsel in distress.

Earth has fallen. Humanity’s mighty fleets and brave soldiers weren’t enough to hold back the relentless creatures of the Voidborn. Hope now rests in the hands of Kayden Reynolds and his crew of misfits and aliens. Will they be able to rally enough forces to launch a counterattack and take Earth back? Or will the rest of the galaxy soon follow?

Als der milliardenschwere Kunsthändler Sam Levy die wunderschöne junge Künstlerin Isabel Flynn trifft, wird sein Leben auf den Kopf gestellt. Die unglaubliche sexuelle Anziehungskraft zwischen ihnen ist so stark wie ihre emotionale Bindung – die beiden verlieben sich schnell und leidenschaftlich ineinander. Aber außerhalb ihrer kleinen Oase des Glücks gibt es im Leben der beiden rachsüchtige Menschen, die ihnen Schaden zufügen wollen.