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Love and friendship take a backseat to survival—especially to a young coyote/wolf hybrid on the outskirts of suburban Pittsburgh. Coda navigates the city and forest, fascinated by these strange creatures called the two-legs and the metal beasts that transport them. He hunts game, encounters new allies, while enduring the brutality of bitter rivals. His routine of blood and stealth is interrupted when a mysterious female from another land enters his world, then turns it upside down.

A suite of poems that channels the legendary singer-songwriter Ritchie Valens to examine and question mid-twentieth-century conceptions of race and art, identity and desire Ragged and raging across the spectrums of cognition, race, and gender, Tarta Americana lyrically envisions forms of...

Focused on Mental Health betterment. Improving self esteem, self accountability, and more.

The core message of the Bible is God's love for all people. You are loved. Yet, in our modern hurried times, we sometimes overlook the hidden story of redemption and forgiveness. Join me as I share what I'm learning from Jesus with a focus on grace, love, and mercy.

When Michael J. Ellis saw how cancer was ravaging his father’s body, he was desperate to find something—anything—that would help ease the dying man’s suffering. It just so happened that Ellis discovered such a method in herbal remedies. But in a fateful twist, his research inadvertently uncovered a secret that would also impact American society: a weight loss product that actually worked!

You were born with the ability to create your reality. Which means you already have complete control over how you experience what happens "outside" of you, as well as every thought, feeling, inner conversation and action that emanates from you. The "Life Moves" podcast (previously the "Beyond the 3D" podcast) shares how you can apply "personal sovereignty" and "alchemy" to consistently create a reality that resonates with higher vibrational frequencies, like happiness, love, fulfillment, joy, freedom, peace, hope, and prosperity---as opposed to fear, worry, lack, anger, victimhood, jealousy, ...

Stories from rock bottom and beyond by writer and host Michael J. O'Connor. This monthly podcast features short autobiographical stories that are sometimes funny, sometimes sad, sometimes angry, and always full of the strange things that make life worth living. For written versions of these stories, visit https://medium.com/@mjocwrites Twitter: @MJOCWrites Email: MJOCWrites [at] gmail.com

You wanted the jolly fat man to bring Yuletide joy, but the season has gifted you with a heart breaker and a life taker—Badass Santa. Grab your eggnog and camouflage candy canes, strap on your bulletproof holiday stockings, and prepare for thrills and kills.

House on Fire! follows Sophie, a young investigative journalist searching for answers, whose sources for a story on leadership principles in a high-purpose organization get mixed up in a series of mysterious fires around Pittsburgh. Listeners follow Sophie as she explores the intersection of faith and servant leadership in high-purpose organizations and discover how to put serving leadership to work in their own high-purpose organization today.

Harley, the Redneck Shepherd, is an enduring, delightful version of Luke’s account of the night of Jesus’ birth. The timeless message of the gospel shines through as Harley and the Melvins share their account of an astonishing encounter with God’s plan for the redemption of humanity.

Something has taken a liking to the children of Mount Vernon, Washington. Its eyes are orange, and glow like fire. Its hissing voice is the autumn wind. Halloween is in a week. It says it wants to take them trick-or-treating.

Vampires, witches, and zombies, oh my! Within this Halloween special, you'll find a uniquely satisfying collection of horror tales and stories of the macabre.

Meaningful school reform starts with your most powerful partner—your students! When you take time to listen, you’ll find that students’ aspirations can drive your school toward exciting new goals—and when students know they’re being heard, they engage meaningfully in their own academic success. Using examples drawn from student surveys, focus groups, observations, and interviews, this groundbreaking book presents a blueprint for a successful partnership between educators and students.

A troubled young woman is recruited by a race of ancient alien explorers to be their emissary to save the human race from extinction. The problem is that not everyone believes the world is doomed, and not everyone trusts the aliens' motives. Holly Burton will have to overcome opposition from world leaders, attacks by religious zealots, assassination attempts, intractable bureaucracies, and her own fears and doubts if she is to save the human race, not just from the coming apocalypse, but from itself.

In 2013 Michael J. Yochim was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease). While fighting the disease, he wrote Requiem for America's Best Idea. The book establishes a unique parallel between Yochim's personal struggle with a terminal illness and the impact climate change is having on the national parks—the treasured wilderness that he loved and to which he dedicated his life. A poignant and thought-provoking work, Requiem for America's Best Idea investigates the interactions between people and nature and the world that can inspire and destroy them.

Across a thousand battlefields and a million wars, there is always a question. What do you do when all the chips are on the table? Do you run? Try to find salvation in the arms of an easy peace? Or do you stand and fight? Send your enemies into whatever hole they crawled out of? On Deadly Ground has 10 stories handling that exact question. Each character faces the impossible in different ways, but all will be tested before the day is done. Can they earn a heroic victory amongst the endless eternity of space, or are they doomed to fall into obscurity?

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Dexter meets Secretary in Michael J. Seidlinger's provocative, disturbing literary thriller that reinvents the serial killer genre, exploring the psychology of desire. Claire studies forensic science, Victor is the gentleman killer. Subverting expectations, Clair seduces Victor and keeps him in her apartment as her pet, her darkest secret. Beautifully written and provocative to listen to, Seidlinger delves into Claire's motivations and impetus to present a compelling psychosexual portrait of a woman obsessed with performance, power, sex, and gore.

AWS re:View is a weekly podcast that looks at AWS technologies and directions in order to help you understand how they impact your business. --This content is provided for educational purposes only. The opinions expressed here are the opinions of the host and co-host only and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of their employers or customers.--

Rooftops is a story about trauma, survival, and forgiveness of self, set in a magical version of reality. Growing up in a 1970s Australian immigrant family with ties to organized crime, Eddy is a survivor with a troubled past. Now as an adult, Eddy is trying to write a story about demons and vampires while living in a world between reality and his experiences.