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We all dream when we sleep - whether we remember our dreams or not. Sometimes we also have nightmares with visions of horror that stay with us for days. We're not alone. Dogs have "dreams and nightmares" too! While staying the night with his best friends Xena and Oscar, Oso has a horrible nightmare that leaves him shaking with fear when he wakes up. Fortunately, Xena and Oscar are there to calm him down and comfort him with stories of their own dreams and nightmares.

You can master the art of tough conversations. This book shows you how. Have you ever dreaded holding a tough but necessary conversation with an employee, coworker, or boss? Do you put off such conversations far too long? Have you ever launched into a difficult conversation unprepared, only to have the interaction spiral out of control?

Peter "Sugarfoot" Cunningham is a legendary figure in the martial arts community and a seven-time undefeated, undisputed World Champion Kickboxer. Pete "Sugarfoot" Cunningham: Testimonials of a Legendary Champion shares his personal journey and philosophies on life inside and outside of the ring.

One day on the porch of her "new home" in the hills of Los Angeles, Xena, a rescued seven-year-old brindle Great Dane, opens a conversation with her two best friends, Oso (an 18-month-old rescued Golden Retriever/Chow mix) and Oscar (a 10-year-old rescued Boxer) with the question, "Like, how did we all get here to Los Angeles?"

Is it too much for small business owners to want it all - a profitable and thriving business they love, that yields fantastic lifestyle benefits, and is a joy to own...and a valuable business asset you can one day sell for a truckload of money? Business growth expert Jason Cunningham says you can have your cake (a business that's a delight to own and run), and sell it too (create an asset that others are clamoring to buy from you).

The three Los Diggities, Xena, Oscar, and Oso, are gathered around the pool one day, enjoying the sunshine and an occasional game of tag, when the conversation turns to Jeanie's habit of giving playful nicknames to each of them.

In this engaging collection of stories, 43 veterans of the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting explain why throngs attend year after year.... The contributors, who include a dozen best-selling authors and many famous investors, whisk listeners through the exciting events surrounding the meeting - book signings, panel discussions, and social gatherings - and share the pulse of this distinctive corporate culture. Spanning decades, the audiobook offers glimpses of the past and ideas on what lies ahead.

It has been 17 years since the event that killed most of the people on the planet. The violence that swept the country for so long is gone, and Ben and Lila are now living a peaceful existence in their Yellowstone community. But more trouble is looming, and when their daughter Katie—now 16 and going by the name of Cat—and 11 other teenagers leave to explore the country, that trouble hits home.

A poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan's wing; and a house deep in the forest, constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread, vanilla frosting and boiled sugar. In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away—the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder—are transformed by Michael Cunningham into stories of sublime revelation.

Michael Cunningham's luminous novel begins with a vision. It's November 2004. Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through Central Park when he is inspired to look up at the sky; there he sees a pale, translucent light that seems to regard him in a distinctly godlike way. Barrett doesn't believe in visions—or in God—but he can't deny what he's seen. At the same time, in the not-quite-gentrified Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, Tyler, Barrett's older brother, a struggling musician, is trying—and failing—to write a wedding song for Beth, his wife-to-be, who is seriously ill.

Magnet Ass and the Stone-Cold Truck Hunters is a Vietnam war memoir about Captain Alan "Magnet Ass" Milacek, the "man who flew his plane on one wing". It is a war story. But it is also not a war story. It has everything to do with a white-hot mission over the Plain of Jars in 1970, for which 10 men earned The Mackay Trophy, one of history's most coveted aviation awards.

All anglers want to catch record-size gamefish - author Robert Cunningham figured out how to do it. When the author hooks and fights a record-size tarpon in the Gulf of Mexico for more than eight hours, only to lose it at boat side, he is already many years into his 20-year effort to break as many IGFA rod and reel and fly rod records as he can. Follow him as his fishing quest takes him to the Chandeleur Islands off the Louisiana coast, the Bahamas, Florida, the backwaters of the Mobile Delta, and way offshore. His enthusiasm is catching and his angling ability well-honed - as proven by his setting 11 world records in one year!

At the age of four, Amy was taken. She survived. A week later, another little girl was taken. She didn't. Angry that a bad man has gotten away with murder, justice-seeking Amy makes a deal with the heavens. When she dies, if she’s been a good girl, would they let her sit on a cloud for a while - invisible - and get the bad people who slip through God’s fingers? Decades later, her deal and God long forgotten, career girl Amy mysteriously dies.

It was the start of my second new life, in a city that had a spin of its own - a wilder orbit inside the earth's calm blue-green whirl. New York wasn't open to the hopelessness and lost purpose that drifted around lesser places.... Meet Bobby, Jonathan and Clare. Three friends, three lovers, three ordinary people trying to make a place for themselves in the harsh and uncompromising world of the '70s and '80s.

After a fight, some warriors seek to return home. Others seek revenge. The battle of Akhlaur's Swamp is over, and its heroes part ways. One becomes a wizard's apprentice and tries to unravel her mysterious lineage. Another hero returns to his queen, only to find that all is not as it was. Hidden from them both, the Magehound broods. She cannot forgive those who drove her from power, and she will stop at nothing to be avenged.

Welcome to Waterdeep: Here, everything imaginable is for sale. Even dreams can be purchased if one is willing to pay the price. So when the sale of dream spheres threatens the life of his newfound half-sister, Danilo Thann joins forces with Airlyn Moonblade to uncover the source of this deadly trade. Their search leads them into the dark heart of Waterdeep, and to personal secrets that could destroy them both.

Once again, the counselors of Halruaa have beaten back an attack by the wizard Akhlaur. Once more, the kingdom has been saved from its enemies. But victory comes at a terrible price. The aged king is weakened, his powers diminished. His chief counselor Matteo is torn between his duty and his heart. Tzigone, the hero of the battle of Akhlaur's Swamp, has been hurled into a dark world from which she may never escape. And at the edge of time, Akhlaur and his ally, the Magehound, plot their final revenge.

In the streets of Waterdeep, conspiracies run like water through the gutters, bubbling beneath the seeming calm of the city’s life. As a band of young, foppish lords discovers there is a dark side to the city they all love, a sinister mage and his son seek to create perverted creatures to further their twisted ends. And across it all sprawls the great city itself: brawling, drinking, laughing, living life to the fullest. Even in the face of death.

All is not well in the City of Splendors. A new Zhentarim threat lurks in the shadows of Waterdeep. Roguish Harper Bronwyn is sent by Archmage Khelben Arunsun on a mission to meet her long-lost father and reclaim her bloodline's dangerous heritage. She uncovers a family secret that threatens to destroy not only Bronwyn, but the Harpers themselves!

They can't escape the evil. When a forest fire destroys their beloved forest sanctuary, Ben and Lila, along with their six-year-old daughter Katie, head west through the earthquake-ravaged landscape toward a rumored thriving community in Yellowstone National Park. But another rumor persists of a "great evil" in the Midwest - one they will have to deal with if they have any hope of making it safely to Yellowstone, a community they are not even sure really exists. Six years after finding their peace, Ben and Lila have to reenter the world. Has it gotten better or become far worse?