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Homeless, mistreated, and tired of making up the difference for her alcoholic mother, a 15-year-old girl from the foothills of North Carolina leaves home with no destination in mind - she just wants to get away from the crushing burden of abuse and unwanted responsibility. Thanks to the kindness of a stranger, she finds herself in Nashville, Tennessee, with a place to live and a job at a local café. She develops a sense of belonging at the café, and her coworkers and customers become her family.

Are you ready to transform your life? If you are fed up with feelings of discontentment and are now ready for a life full of passion, unstoppable energy, and unceasing motivation, then this is the book for you.

When the Nesbitts anchor in the Southern Bahamas one night in a moonlit cove, Madeleine discovers someone wants to make sure her family never makes it out of paradise alive. The double murder of her parents shatters the only security she's ever known. Now trust into a world of international intrigue, she vows to find answers before the killer returns for the next of kin. This is a contemporary thriller about the bravery of those determined to fight injustice and how big bucks and bigger dreams corrupt the motives and hearts of so many.

Based on a true story, real characters and actual events. The dawning of the nuclear age and the Cold War brings nuclear mushroom clouds to Tonopah, Nevada. Lone Dog Barking murders a killer to avenge an earlier murder. His trial platform helps him spark quenching of nuclear smoke signals around the globe in the Test Ban Treaty of 1963. Support comes from surprising quarters. A pack of five young boys bear witness to these events.

Every Friday for the last 25 years of her life, I had lunch with Charlotte and each week she told me more of her extraordinary story. To all appearances, she was a strong and dignified survivor, with old-world courtesies, a twinkling sense of humor, and a lilting Austrian syntax. Yet deep within, she'd been scarred by a profound personal trauma.

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El Reino de Dios Está en Vosotros es un ensayo escrito por Tolstoi en 1893. El título deriva de las palabras de Cristo en el Sermón de la Montaña. Tolstoi lo utiliza para exponer su idea del cristianismo como filosofía de vida; de relación personal y directa con Cristo; el rechazo a la violencia como método para el orden artificial; y para denunciar a las instituciones que promueven el status quo y la diferencia entre los hombres.

A successful walrus hunt means Anna and her beloved Kinauquak will soon be joined in marriage. But before they can seal their promise to one another, a tsunami wipes their village from the rugged shore ... everyone except Anna and her little sister, Iya, who are left alone to face the Alaskan wilderness. A stranger, a Civil War veteran with golden hair and blue eyes, wanders the untamed Aleutian Islands. He offers help, but can Anna trust him or his God? And if she doesn't, how will she and Iya survive?

Things are purposely hidden in the world of a crime. Little can be known of its workings without risk. This crime thriller novelette with psychological erotic themes, murder, and robbery, deals with an unexpected event that occurs during a crime in progress. In a world of calculated risks, the unexpected can become very deadly. Indulging a foible or making a common slip can set fate on a deadly path. Who has the practice to operate in this world? Ray does.

This is Leon Malmed's true story of his and his sister Rachel's escape from the Holocaust in Occupied France. When their father and mother were arrested in 1942, their French neighbors agreed to watch their children until they returned. Leon's parents were taken first to Drancy, then to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and they never returned.

La Muerte de Ivan Ilich simboliza una crítica directa de Tolstói a lo que él consideraba una vida sin sentido. Nuestro personaje, Ivan Ilich, es uno de tantos burócratas de la época quien vive su vida en la trivialidad, carente de empatía y con total indiferencia por cualquier persona o cosa que no interfiera con su cómoda existencia; hasta que un hecho trágico cambia su perspectiva de la vida.

Patton, a college-aged genius plans to rob a train of gold. He enlists the aid of Geronimo, a widowed ex-con; Skittles, a good-natured circus acrobat; and Royce, a cigar-chomping biker. After the robbery takes place, the gold is divided into three lots and hidden on three different vehicles. This causes confusion and betrayal by all involved in this steampunk adventure.

Billionaire CEO Vitaly Chekov needs a new secretary. As he interviews potential intern candidates, one particular blonde woman catches his eye. At first glance, he knows he must hire her for his personal pleasure. Upon meeting Vitaly, Sarah tries to keep things professional. But when an after-hours meeting turns into a passionate encounter, things get complicated....

Luck be a lady tonight. Claire Bannatyne is a lady, but sometimes the 21-year old wolftress behaves like an indecisive virgin princess. Her father is the Grand Alpha of an ancient pack of wolf-shifters devoted to secrecy and tradition. Now her procrastination to choose a life-mate is going to cost her dearly. In 24 hours, she'll be forced to enter into an arranged marriage, with a mate of her father's choosing, and all the wrong men are vying for her hand.

A mixed-blood Native American wolf-shifter, abandoned by a teenage mother and ignored by an absentee father, Rio Waya has never fit in or felt worthy of love. But when he comes home to the Black Hills, he realizes he wants a mate of his own.

Tired of his disconnected life and uninspiring job, Leon Logothetis leaves it all behind - job, money, home, and even his cell phone - and hits the road with nothing but the clothes on his back and five dollars in his pocket, relying on the kindness of strangers and the serendipity of the open road for his daily keep. Along the way, Leon offers up the intriguing and charming tales gathered along his one-of-a-kind journey: riding in trains, buses, big rigs and classic cars; sleeping on streets and couches and firehouses....

Hurt feelings severed the relationship between Mari and her sister following the tragic deaths of their parents. A single mom, Mari has dedicated her life to her daughter and avoided her sister since the reading of her parents' will. In desperate need of rest and relaxation, Mari decides to use the beach house she inherited for the first time since her parents' deaths, which is located on the island Mari loved so much that she named her daughter after it.

This book reveals the interplay between official government channels, covert intelligence agents and others, who acted largely behind the scenes of the peace process between Egypt and Israel that began in1978 and is still holding. The world leaders: Jimmy Carter, Menachem Begin, and Anwar Sadat, were driven by deeply held faith and conviction. Others were military hawks who, later saw peace as the only viable option. Still others saw peace and stability in terms of business and prosperity.

The Kaddish has long been considered to be a special prayer for the dead. It isn't. Those who recite the prayer faithfully for 52 Friday nights after the death of a loved one may wonder why there is no place for the name of the deceased in the prayer. This book contains much new information on the Kaddish, including how it was created during the Crusades as an homage to God.

The authors reached back into history to understand the reasons and methods brilliant rabbis and Talmudic scholars abandoned the Holy Land, both physically and spiritually, to settle in what came to be known as the lands of the Diaspora. This dramatic exodus was contrary to the biblical injunction that all Jews must live in the land of Israel. The Battle of the Two Talmuds explains in great detail how the Babylonian scholars created their own interpretation of the Torah that grew to take precedence over that of the Jerusalem scholars. This book shows that all human beings are subject in various ways to power, glory, and guilt.