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You hold your son in your arms for the first time. As you look at his perfect hands and fingers, he grabs onto your thumb. You smile as tears start streaming down your face. You can’t believe this moment has come; the moment you can finally hold your son in your arms. “I will never let you go”, you start to tell your son, “I promise, I will always be there for you. I promise to do whatever I can to help you succeed”.

Take a walk down a big city street and experience the sights and sounds you may hear. From the cars on the street to the wind rushing by or the great big bus as it gives out a sigh. See the raindrops as they splatter down and the sounds of people trying to get to dry ground. As you listen along, the story takes you down several city blocks. Follow along and see how many sights and different sounds you would hear.

It turns out that monsters like Dracula and Wolf-Man get pretty scared when Halloween rolls around. Who would have known? The silly reason being, they find kids in ghoulish costumes absolutely frightening. Dracula thinks he has the solution when he invites his monster friends over for a hopping Halloween party. Foolishly, no one expected trick-or-treaters to show up at the door.

Unemploymentville.com creator and author Anne Emerick has interviewed career coaches, entrepreneurs, and everyday people to explore their own stories of bouncing back from a personal unemployment crisis. And now, Emerick shows you how to use insights from their tales to forge your own path to success. Out-of-Work to Making Money: 21 Comeback Stories Every Job Hunter Should Hear shares strategies and compelling true stories from people in all walks of life who worked their way from jobless to financially secure.

This is the authorized biography of Jimmy Hoffa, whose disappearance in 1975 is one of our country's most famous unsolved mysteries. From humble beginnings in Indiana, James R. Hoffa rose up the ranks and eventually became the leader of the world's most powerful labor union. There were those that wanted to bring him down, perhaps, none more interested than Robert F. Kennedy.

On Christmas Eve, Santa uses Christmas magic to bring a snowman to life. The snowman decided to play a trick on Callie and hid her Christmas presents and leave riddles and clues she has to figure out to find the missing gifts. Follow along as Callie searches and tries to figure out who took them.

We are a diminishing group of men and women whose amazing experience actually resembles the incredible experience described in the original “Big Book.” To show other alcoholics, through the heavy use of sarcasm, precisely how far away from that message we have strayed is the main purpose of this book. For them, we hope these chapters will effectively point out the absolute ridiculousness of much of what is commonly spoken, taught, and accepted in the world of recovery today, thus inspiring a reevaluation of the actual “Big Book”.

A mysterious letter pulls Austin back to Yellow Run, a place he’s avoided for years because of a past better left buried. He’s not the only one who’s changed, but some changes are not for the better. Austin must tread lightly as who he is now - a man of conscience - is no longer welcome. But first he must decide who’s friend and who’s foe, for the woman he came back for shares her suspicions that her husband - his old partner - lives a secret life.

Can you hear the diggers? The audiobook will take you on a trip to the construction site complete with sound effects you would hear. Listen as the diggers, dump trucks, and cranes as well as other equipment used in construction rumble, buzz, and crash their way around the construction site!

This funny audiobook follows the crazy antics of one silly bird. Who knows what's coming on Thanksgiving Day and doesn't want any part of it? Track one includes the narration, complete with sound effects from the farm, including cows, pigs, ducks, and goats. Track two is a full narration without the effects so your child can read along with the story. Follow along with the poultry hero as he tries to avoid becoming a meal!

Sometimes bad people just need to go down, and for whatever reason, there's usually no one else around to do it. He just wanted to pass through town unnoticed, but vicious outlaws made his business their own and picked a fight he was desperate to avoid. The worst sin yet, they've targeted an innocent woman and her child in their schemes. Austin must now take up his gun and do what he hates but is better at than anyone else: fight without mercy, fight to the end, and win at all costs....

Cassius Marcellus Clay was a Kentucky planter, politician, and abolitionist. He freed the slaves on the estate inherited from his father and paid them a wage. Clay argued that no cordial union could exist between liberty and slavery, concluding his speech with, “If you would have peace, be just, for justice is the only peace.”

A woman enters the Boston Police Department, presenting to Sergeant Sully a bloodied knife and a confession that she had committed murder. The body was indeed discovered where she said it would be, and the knife was confirmed to be the murder weapon. Only one problem with her story: She could not have done it.

She looked familiar, but when he had known her before, her chest had been no bigger than his then-skinny pecs. Now, she could float a platoon of capsized Marines. “Mary!” he exclaimed raising his eyes from her…nametag. “So good to see you again.” Thank goodness she had not accidentally pinned herself, the explosion would have blown out the windows. She was still as ugly as sin. No implant could fix that..p>

John Riley is a physicist who achieves his lifelong dream of unraveling the mysteries of anti-gravity, but along the way, also unwittingly discovers the secret of interstellar communication. When he and a small group of coworkers attempt to respond to an unexpected message, believing it to have originated from somewhere on Earth, they find more than they anticipate. The message is from deep space.

It is 1890. In the twilight of his years, Carl Brooke records his reminiscences as a member of the Agora Society. Each letter describes the society's involvement in solving a crime, often coming to the aid of Captain Barnwell of the Boston police.

He was a legend with a blood price on his head both north and south of the border; a renegade black West Point man now living among the hostile bronco Apaches and waging a war of vengeance against two governments. But when a courageous Mestizo priest with a desperate dream needed a man of strength to fulfill his vision, there was only one warrior fierce enough to whom to turn. It was the one they called the Black Apache.

Join Carl Brooke and Captain Barnwell on their final adventure together. Reeling from the horrific pain of the loss of Anne, his wife, Carl Brooke must face his ultimate nemesis, Thomas Drake. Did Drake play a hand in Anne’s death? Can Carl stop Drake before he harms his daughter, Mary?

An anonymous telegram introduces Carl Brooke to both his future wife and her conflicted brother, who harbors a dark secret from the Civil War. The discovery of a deliberately cut tree reveals the presence of a mysterious one-legged man and the possible reemergence of Carl's nemesis, Thomas Drake.

This powerful book couldn’t come at a more timely juncture. With our deep misunderstanding of racial identity, the murder of transgender women increasing at an alarming rate, and the battle of faith and sexual orientation at churches across the country, we are in a cultural war of ideologies. Overwhelming prejudices have constricted our basic capacity for compassion and understanding. Live Through This is a collection of intimate essays about one man’s journey to self-acceptance when his faith, sexuality, and race battled with societal norms.