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Mo Collins survived the beginning of the zombie apocalypse by doing nothing but staying on the replica pirate ship the Viva Ancora. But after what he thought was a chance meeting of another survivor, Smokes, everything changed. Mo has become the hero in a story seemingly channeled by Smokes. Following what sounds like a prewritten script, Mo and Smokes gathered a motley crew of typical zombie apocalypse survivors.

O palavrão é parte viva da língua brasileira: divertido, explosivo, às vezes ofensivo, mas sempre carregado de força e significado. Este dicionário reúne, de forma inédita, os principais palavrões usados no Brasil, explorando suas origens, sentidos, contextos e até mesmo a intensidade de cada um através da inovadora Escala Fascinare. Mais do que um simples compilado de termos, esta obra é um mergulho na criatividade popular, no humor e na irreverência que fazem parte do nosso jeito de falar.

We can shift our perspective and change our world. Life can be exceptionally gratifying when we realize that our thoughts create our interactions, and our interactions create our relationships. To truly relate is what living is all about. This book is meant as a seed. Its message offers inspiration for living an authentic and transparent life. As a resource for life, it unites what is seen as separate and heals what is wounded.

Love and the Working Class is a unique look at the emotions of hard-living, nineteenth-century Americans who were often on the cusp of literacy. These laboring folk highly valued letters and, however difficult it was, wrote to stay connected to those they loved. This book displays the personal expression of factory hands, manual laborers, peddlers, coopers, carpenters, lumbermen, miners, tanners, haulers, tailors, seamstresses, laundresses, domestics, sharecroppers, independent farmers, and common soldiers and their wives.

Over the millennia we have relied on mystics, shamans, and priests to explain what awaits us in the next life, but what if it’s all an illusion? What really lurks behind the veil separating this world from the next? Might this other world be something real and tangible and literally "not of this Earth"? In other words, might what we currently define as extraterrestrials perform an entirely different function. What if the afterlife is an illusion created by the beings that exist within that realm.

A sermon by Charles Spurgeon, in which he claims that Christ died out of sheer pity for the ungodly.

Lochlan Brady and his daughters have faced some of those dangers and worked to build a place where they and other survivors can start to rebuild civilization. The new world is one where power rules and Loch has found himself to be the most powerful around. It's thrust him into a position of responsibility for not just his daughters but all the other survivors. It's not one he wants but feels he has to take. They have shelter but now Loch and the other survivors must find sources of food and other resources needed to not just survive but to thrive in the Connected System.

Many Christian families have never experienced the joys and benefits of family worship. But as Donald S. Whitney makes clear, the daily worship of God by families at home is a practice rooted in the Bible and common throughout Christian history. How can people unfamiliar with family worship lead it in their own homes? How do busy households in today's culture recover faithfulness in family worship? This practical book shows you how simple and easy it can be.

Wyatt’s always been the caretaker for his three younger siblings, but when his parents’ negligence becomes too much, he needs to step in and make things official. Keeping the kids out of foster care and raising them by himself is almost too much for one 24 year old to handle, but he’ll do anything to protect his family. Even if it means turning to a staid and surprisingly attractive lawyer who’s willing to take his case on a pro bono basis.

Ben’s never been this unhappy. His parents got divorced, and he moved to a small town where he doesn’t fit in. He has no friends. Then, he meets a beautiful but suspicious black horse. Panther is even more troubled than Ben. And unless Ben can convince Panther to trust people again, the horse’s sorrow may cost him his life.

In Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South, author Kristina DuRocher reveals how white adults in the late 19th and early 20th centuries continually reinforced race and gender roles to maintain white supremacy. DuRocher examines the practices, mores, and traditions that trained white children to fear, dehumanize, and disdain their black neighbors.

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Though Cassie Coblenz left her Amish community to go to college, her mother and father's farm will always feel like home. It's the ideal place for an extended study break - at least until her grandmother's handsome Englisch doctor becomes a regular distraction. Zach Reynolds is the kind of heartbreaker Cassie has learned to avoid, no matter how charming he may be.

On the bloody battlefields of Iraq, one man's quest to find God will unleash hell. For more than a decade, Nick Kismet has traveled the world protecting priceless relics and cultural heritage sites from looters while searching for answers to the mystery that has haunted him since the first Gulf War - a mystery that has defined his life. Now, a new war has brought him back to the bloody battlefield where his search began.

Jason and Sophie survive the initial months of chaos following the EMP attack. Their growing community is fighting back against the human traffickers who threaten them and other innocent survivors. They have built a compound that seems a safe haven. But as the threat grows, can Jason's young army of rebels meet the challenge, or will they, too, become victims?

Your business is invisible. And invisible businesses don't make money. You have a great product. You work harder than anyone you know. But customers aren't finding you, revenue is unpredictable, and competitors with inferior offerings are somehow winning. The problem isn't your product—it's that you're unknown in a market that rewards attention above all else. What if the solution to breakthrough growth was already proven?

Priti wants to be used and abused. Devra doesn’t play that way. She believes in simultaneous submission, in giving and receiving freely rather than overpowering her partner. But when this quarrelsome pair becomes inspired by a silk neck roll from the extensive collection of cushions on Devra’s bed, they find it impossible to extract power play from their encounter.

​Hopeful, accessible, winsome, and deeply wise, The Road to Wisdom leads us beyond current animosities to surer footing. Here is the moral, philosophical, and scientific framework with which to address the problems of our time - on the world stage, but also in our daily lives.

His tour is over, but the war rages on for Dickie, one of the forever-haunted veterans who gave up his soul during the Forgotten War. Here is a glimpse of his story, of the battleground he can never leave. Only death can conclude his final objective: closure, and peace. Join him on his road, the Korean Road, as he battles horrors he carries and those that he meets along the way.

Eleanor Porter's Pollyanna is widely considered a classic of children's literature. Pollyanna is a kind novel advocating an optimistic outlook, which is summarized in a famous quote 'When you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will'. Pollyanna, a young orphan, is living with her stern aunt, who is taking care of her out of 'sense of duty'. Under any circumstances Pollyanna prefers to see only their best side, taking joy in simplest things, she affects everyone around her.