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This book explores the implications of one of the the greatest surprises in the bible. God is holy. The Bible describes all kinds of holy things that are presented as opposed to unholy things: implements and people and clothing and actions and thoughts and places. These things, we are told, are holy, because they are set aside for a singular and specific purpose.

With technological advancements and globalization changing the way that businesses operate, it follows that organizational management must adapt to meet the needs of the times, and this calls for the evolution of leadership. Whether you are a high-level executive in a large corporation or an entrepreneur managing a handful of employees, you surely encounter challenges in managing and leading your people.

When journalist Jess Duffey gets the first chapters of a bad serial killer novel, she dismisses it as a prank, a ploy for publicity. Until she follows the writer’s directions to the grave and stumbles head-first into an FBI investigation of a grisly cold case. The manuscript is not fiction. It’s true crime. The killer wants Jess to publish his account, word for word, and doing so is the only way Jess and FBI Agent Corrina Stone can find the killer before he completes his evil mission: to kill 15 times.

Academy Award-winning director Michael Curtiz—whose best-known films include Casablanca, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Mildred Pierce, and White Christmas—was in many ways the anti-auteur. During his 27-year tenure at Warner Bros., he directed swashbuckling adventures, Westerns, musicals, war epics, romances, historical dramas, horror films, tearjerkers, melodramas, comedies, and film noir masterpieces. In the first biography of this colorful, instinctual artist, Alan K. Rode illuminates the life and work of one of the film industry's most complex figures.

Vanessa and B-Girl are two superhumans whose lives didn't go quite as planned. While Vanessa can process numbers as fast as a calculator, she'd trade all of her powers for a dream career that already left her behind. Now she's stuck making coffee for a boss who's desperate to underpay her. B-Girl is a veteran superhero with a career that never got off the ground, a broken marriage, and a pile of debts to pay. When she discovers that Vanessa's talents aren't limited to making her daily latte, she enlists the barista in a plan that could make them both rich....

Rancho Santa Elena in 1987 seems like the ideal Southern California paradise—that is, until a series of strange crimes threatens to unravel the town’s social fabric: workers attacked with mysterious weapons; a wealthy real estate developer found dead in the pool of his beach house. The only clues are poison and red threads found at both crime scenes. As Detective Benjamin Wade and forensic expert Natasha Betencourt struggle to connect the incidents, they begin to wonder: Why Santa Elena? And why now?

At two in the morning, after another long night of work, brash young lawyer Tom Weldon learns that he’s being passed over for partner at his top-drawer firm and quits on the spot. On the walk back to his apartment, he happens upon the professional hit of a wealthy power broker. Next thing he knows, Tom’s being held captive in a rural shed with the intense daughter of the murder victim. They escape and run for their lives, hiding out in Kentucky while Tom tries to unravel from afar the complicated mess they’ve stumbled into.

Ransomware will cost companies around the world $20 billion in 2021. Prepare for, recognise, and survive ransomware attacks with this essential guide, which sets out clearly how ransomware works, to help business leaders better understand the strategic risks, and explores measures that can be put in place to protect the organisation.

A love affair. Two weeks in Normandy. She’s a classy princess, I’m a dirty SEAL. She’s been promised to another man; I’m married to the teams. She’s willing to enter a loveless marriage for her country; I’m willing to die for mine. Until I fall in love with her. Nothing will stop me from making her mine.

Sonny Bill Williams (SBW) is a once-in-a-hundred-year athlete with immense sporting talent in rugby league, rugby union and boxing. Sonny Bill has built an incredible career and sporting reputation across the globe. His athleticism has taken him from inner-city Auckland, where he grew up, to the highest sporting moments in Twickenham, Eden Park and Sydney's Olympic Stadium. But there is so much more to Sonny Bill Williams' life and journey than his on-field and in-the-ring triumphs.

Discover the true joys of making new friends and join the fight against bullying with Big Nick and Little Al! Big Nick is tall, gruff and a right ole' meanie. Feared among everybody at school, Nick had quite the reputation. Word in the hallway was, Nick did not like to make friends and would fight anybody who dare approach him. That was until he met Little Al. Calm and composed at all times, Al was not taken aback by Nick's tall demeanor, which perturbed and surprised him to no extent. Nick liked towering over and intimidating small boys but Al was different.

Peter Lynch is a monster. A sociopathic attorney hiding in plain sight behind billboards and a successful career. With the highest connections, he terrorizes the city and buries the evidence, and there’s no way to stop him. Until one discharged Green Beret decides to try... A novel of crime and suspense, from best-selling author Alan Lee.

Empowering you to become the courageous architect of your life! Are you feeling out of control, stuck, or frustrated in a process of disease or pain? Feeling that wellness and vitality is beyond your grasp? It has unfortunately become a common place to feel helpless in your health journey, perhaps even a horrible victim to your circumstance or genes. But, what if I told you that this doesn’t have to be your reality? You actually have the power to change your health and your future.

It's been a year of change for Gideon and Sirius. Both are new parents, but for the two of them, the joys of fatherhood have to wait. After a few months of silence, the All-In Killer has begun his murderous spree again - and his latest victim died only miles from Gideon's doorstep. The All-In Killer has made it no secret that his homicidal countdown will end only with the deaths of Gideon and Sirius. When Gideon decides he can no longer hide the encroaching threat from his wife, they prepare together for the approaching storm.

A hijacked airplane. A fatal disaster. A desperate soul in need of salvation...Willow's spirited, carefree, and far too young to die. Trapped on a hijacked airplane with no promise of survival, Willow's forced to confront her darkest fear as well as her soul's deepest need. Terror in the Skies is the first novella in the Turbulent Skies Christian Thriller series, an unforgettable collection of interconnected novellas about strangers traveling together aboard a doomed flight.

Have you been wondering what the hype around the keto diet is about? Maybe you are keen on trying it for yourself, but are not sure where to begin. Do you struggle to lose stubborn weight? This audiobook is an all-inclusive guide to all you would ever need to know: why keto is different from any other diet plan; why keto diet promotes a high-fat and low-carb intake; why keto is not another diet fad; why keto is a revolutionary way to improve your physical, emotional, and psychological well-being; why weight loss is more of a side benefit than a primary goal; and more.

Three days until Halloween. At the stroke of the 13th hour, Satan plans to impregnate a girl who turns 13 on the day of Halloween to start Armageddon. There are three girls who were born that day, but nobody knows who the Chosen One is. The senior elder of a secret organization, The Community, begs private detective Hurts to help him stop Satan. Hurts confides in Amanda, Tom, and Tom’s mother, Lill, and asks them to help him. They must find out which of the three girls is the Chosen One. They must prevent Satan from kidnapping her. They must stop the Armageddon. Can they do it all?

When the city suffers, everyone suffers. Steven Hines listened to the city, and the city spoke. Cleveport told him she was sick. With his unnatural connection to her, that meant Hines was sick, too. But when his friend Detective Abby Jones comes to him for help investigating a series of deaths with no discernible cause, Hines can’t say no. Then strange fungal growths begin to appear in the streets, affecting anyone who gets too close, turning them into violent lunatics.

This is the story of a man, both husband and father, who takes his Parkinson’s diagnosis in stride (albeit shuffly). With the help of music, humor, and charity, Alan begins to make a difference in the world. Over time, the progression of his disease slows with the help of music, humor, and charity...and of course, Sinemet.

It was a crime unlike anything seen in British Columbia. The horror of the "Wells Gray Murders" almost 40 years ago transcends decades. On August 2, 1982, three generations of a family set out on a camping trip - Bob and Jackie Johnson, their two daughters, Janet, 13 and Karen, 11, and Jackie's parents, George and Edith Bentley. A month later, the Johnson family car was found off a mountainside logging road near Wells Gray Park completely burned out.