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Life in Glenash is dangerous. Most of the men here are hunters or fishers, and the fickle Scottish weather changes swiftly. Women can be widowed in the blink of an eye and babies left without fathers. To protect everyone, two husbands take one wife to share, cherish, lead, and love. In 1874, accomplished baker Lucy Gallagher has her sights set on two huge, hot Highlanders: One won't give her the time of day, and the other is being relentlessly pursued by another woman.

AutoPilot Your Math Skills will teach the educator concepts of math. Major parts of teaching math to young children are certain philosophies to consider. This book will show and explain how to use these concepts in hands-on and cognitive activities. Furthermore, it will contain grades one to five of descriptive learning for the user to implement into his/her teaching.

Have you also heard of this trendy new term “Autophagy” but just can’t get behind it? Are you looking for a scientifically accurate, but easy-to-understand guide to use the new concept to your advantage? Or are you simply interested in a healthy lifestyle, a sustainable diet form or detoxification of your body? If you answered yes to at least one of the questions above, this bundle is specifically written for you.

In early 1967, a bored, adventurous photojournalist on an Air Force base in Texas is offered a Temporary Duty (TDY) assignment somewhere overseas. The mission is steeped in secrecy, but Pete is promised a large bonus and hazardous duty pay. So he agrees. He and a small group of photojournalists, each with a special skill, are isolated on a Special Forces base where they are kept under constant surveillance by a group of highly trained and menacing soldiers.

Michael McCann didn't plan to be riding around in the back of a French police inspector's car searching for terrorists in the immediate aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attacks. He didn't expect to fall in love with a German detective's wife who would, by chance, be in exactly the wrong spot during the subsequent terrorist attacks on Paris in November of 2015. It was not on his agenda to suffer congestive heart failure and end up in a French hospital undergoing life-saving surgery.

This audiobook begins with English basics. Next, English words and rules are practiced in fun ways that are easy to remember. We improve our English sounds and sentences with stories! This audiobook is perfect TESOL, ESL, IELTS, and TEFL.

The White Field is a fast-paced journey of a man Tom, fresh out of prison and trying desperately to rebuild his life. But he is caught by mysterious, unseen forces beyond his knowledge or control. After his release from prison, he is dropped back into the world in the wastelands of the city. In the menial work afforded the underclass, he begins his new life among characters at the edges of society

The title story - a modern-day reimagining of Charles Dickens’ wonderful A Christmas Carol - finds Elliot’s PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) from working the front lines of a large urban fire department replacing Scrooge’s greed as our protagonist’s main struggle. Elliot has seen plenty of horrors in his career, and is at a dangerous breaking point. Can ghostly, late-night visitors to the firehouse one Christmas Eve pull him from the brink of suicide?

London, 1914. Als drei junge Frauen ihre Ausbildung am Londoner Nightingale Hospital beginnen, geht für jede von ihnen ein Traum in Erfüllung. Doch für ihr persönliches Glück müssen sie Opfer bringen. Während die aus einfachsten Verhältnissen stammende Sadie alles daransetzt, ihre Herkunft zu verbergen, erfährt Sonnenschein Anna zum ersten Mal, was es heißt, nicht dazuzugehören. Und Kate, die wie ihre Brüder Medizin studieren will, muss gegen den erbitterten Widerstand ihres Vaters kämpfen.

What does it mean to be a wife? Why is a wife much more than a homemaker? How can a wife align with God’s intent and transform her home and community? Dear woman, being a wife is a calling! Your role as a wife is for a divine purpose. You are a specially designed change agent - a vessel God uses to transform the world - starting first with the home! Being a wife goes beyond just being a homemaker. And whether you are aware of it or not, you are the fulfilment of God’s prophecy to your husband and family.

Thirty years after Douglas Coupland broke the fiction mould and defined a generation with Generation X, he is back with Binge, 60 stories laced with his observational profundity about the way we live and his existential worry about how we should be living: the very things that have made him such an influential and bestselling writer. Not to mention that he can also be really funny.

When a distress signal from the colonial transport ship Burnside pulls the crew of the Alura out of lightspeed, Cooper Montbarts sees a chance for a quick salvage grab on the lifeless vessel. Cooper soon finds out nothing is as easy as it seems. Other ships appear in the void, intent on taking what the crew of the Alura had rightfully claimed as their own. Soon, Cooper and his group find themselves trapped on the Burnside and hunted by the mysterious killer that slaughtered the original crew.

Tematem „O nieposiadaniu głowy" jesteś ty - twoja „prawdziwa tożsamość". W sposób zadziwiająco bezpośredni Harding wskazuje na wspaniałe ponad wszelkie słowa miejsce wewnątrz ciebie. Miejsce, które jest twórczym, bezkresnym źródłem wszystkich rzeczy.

Design and construction industry practitioners collaborated to bring you Transforming Design and Construction: A Framework for Change, the first of LCI's Transforming Design and Construction series, to encourage discussion, learning, and experimentation around Lean processes. The short chapters focusses on various Lean topics. They are not designed as a "how-to" for Lean tools, but as a framework for learning and to guide you along your Lean journey.

The book energizes how early learners and everyone else apply math in our daily lives! We can count on numbers and math. Where else can zero, which means nothing, become millions and more? With math on our team, we add to find out how many of something we have. With take-away, we see how much money we get back at the store. We multiply to make numbers bigger like dollars in paychecks. We divide to make them smaller like pieces of yummy pie. All around us are everyday objects made of shapes that math helps us understand.

The Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth was originally published in a condensed form (condensed by Harding) in 1952 and described by C.S. Lewis as "a work of the highest genius". This publication, and this audio version, now makes available the original huge work. It is clearly and beautifully written and read. This book opens your eyes to the universe as it is actually presented and opens your mind to the way it functions. One day, this book will be recognized as one of the greatest works of philosophy.

Inside these sections are anecdotes from years of experience behind the wheel as a transit operator - which can lead to stable paychecks without suffering a merger, buyout, and having to start all over again with gaps of income between jobs. Take this precious time of peace and quiet and light traffic to reflect on what works, and why being a driver might be a good fresh start with good benefits and stable hours.

This book, by the author of the well-known spiritual classic On Having No Head, is a kind of Pilgrim's Progress for the third millennium. It is also a condensation, in the form of a romantic adventure story, of Harding's major work, The Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth.

Born a runt, Rascal is destined to be an underdog. Despite what looked like an unbreakable bond with the daughter of the family who bred her, Rascal's devotion is discarded when she finds herself left roadside, with nothing but a few pieces of kibble to help her survive.

The mist has fallen over Killimor, a rural village in Galway, Ireland. Wailing noises are heard in the depth of it, traveling around the town and instilling fear in all who hear it. No one knows what the cause of it is or what it could mean. No one, that is, except old Malachy O’Neill. He feels that the banshee, who took his wife away many years ago, has returned and is coming for his family once more. The trouble is no one will believe him. Can anyone do anything to stop the impending doom, and silence the keening once and for all?