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Afghanistan - the name conjures images of rugged mountains, ancient cities, hardened Mujaheddin, a country rife with regional rivalries, and the eternal struggle between Tajik and Pashtun. Afghanistan comes to life in this epic adventure of love, betrayal, and war. Young Tajik Ahmed Jan¹s heroic journey begins in the Northern Alliance stronghold near Taloqan just a month prior to 9/11. He is swept away by the chaos that soon engulfs the country before a chance discovery propels him to the forefront of the clash between civilizations.

An autobiographical narrative about how a middle-class youth endured personal turmoil and family crisis to achieve his lifelong goal of becoming a physician. He rose to become one of the outstanding eye physician-scientists of his generation...only to be disheartened and disillusioned by the ongoing tainting of medicine by bureaucrats, bungling administrators, and federal prosecutors - including the tragic scapegoating of three physicians during the whistle-blower initiated federal Medicare/Medicaid fraud investigation at the University of Washington.

This is a guide to create a "positively selfish" position on building a financial foundation on which you can stand. It may take a bit of sacrifice in learning, but as with any goal, you start off slow, address habits, and then, over time, you have a financial foundation and have developed strategies to grow your income. It will allow you to get through days, weeks, and years of life events and unforeseen circumstances during your lifetime, whether positive or negative. The goal is to create your best lifetime for you, your family, and generations to come.

Chasing Blackbeard is the coming-of-age story of a cabin boy and scribe that decides to dedicate life and limb to cover the story of history’s most feared name in piracy. The maniacal Edward Teach leads a life filled with self-destruction, demonic pacts, and drug abuse. Can Eli Ellis be enough to save this larger-than-life character?

Understand that if you are listening to this audiobook, it is meant to be. This book is full of random stories and my thoughts. This small book has one purpose only and that is to WAKE YOU UP!

Set in the 21st century, Spiritual Cashflow revolves around a young man and his search for purpose, truth, and a guiding light for the spirit in the rugged urban landscape of the City of Angels. It's a story about sex, money, and enlightenment.

Saponi is both the heartwarming and heartbreaking tale of two peoples with one cause. Saponi and colonists alike lived together in peace until the King’s Rangers show up and destroy tranquility. Come join The People of the Red Clay and a few determined colonials as they show us what makes our nation what it is today. Saponi, while fiction, was written with breathtaking historical accuracy. This is a story of love, war, racism, and eventually togetherness. Anyone that has ever enjoyed listening and learning about Native American culture, the American Revolution, or Eastern North Carolina will thoroughly enjoy this piece.

Retired CIA case officer extraordinaire Stone Waverly is contentedly caring for his motherless children and teaching precocious middle schoolers when out of the blue, duty calls once again. Within hours, he finds himself leading a team of covert operators in treacherous revolutionary Benghazi during the Arab Spring. Battling Gaddafi loyalists and purportedly allied jihadists, he surreptitiously hunts for a terrifying weapon before it can be unleashed on the US homeland.

Quando una cliente afferma che la sua casa è infestata, Ivy cerca di tenere la mente aperta e le armi a portata di mano. Se i suou talenti psichici e i recenti casi affrontati le hanno insegnato qualcosa, è che è meglio prepararsi per l'inaspettato.

En Textos fuera de contexto, algunas de las voces más influyentes en la iglesia de hoy, analizan algunos de los pasajes bíblicos más malinterpretados en nuestros tiempos. Si prestamos atención a los capítulos de este importante audio libro, no solo mejoraremos nuestro entendimiento de la Palabra santa de Dios, sino que también honraremos a Dios al tomar en serio Su Palabra y crecer en el discipulado.

Something magical happened in the summer of 1978. Thirteen-year-old Robert Prince fell in love with Alia, a mysterious older woman who lived down the street. Something horrible and deadly happened between Robert, Alia, and his friends Scott and Tim. Something that would leave Robert scarred for the rest of his life. Unable to forgive himself or to love anyone else after what happened when he was 13, Robert sinks into a world of masochism and despair, seeking redemption for the sins of his past.

Ramsay Quarles is already a wanted man when he guns down a cheating gambler in a small Kansas town. Now the dead man's nephew, Jack, has decided Ramsay is his new guardian and guide to the western frontier.

When Vicksburg fell to Union forces under General Grant in July 1863, the balance turned against the Confederacy in the trans-Appalachian theater. The Federal success along the river opened the way for advances into central and eastern Tennessee, which culminated in the bloody battle of Chickamauga and then a struggle for Chattanooga. Chickamauga is usually counted as a Confederate victory, albeit a costly one.

Ben Redding has been sent ahead of the herd traveling up the Chisholm Trail through Indian Territory. The herd needs water in the worst way, and a drought has dried up most of the creeks and turned rivers into streaks of mud. When Ben finds a clear, cold pool of water on the prairie, he thinks he's found an oasis, until he discovers what lives in the water, and what her price is for a drink. Can he return to the herd in time to warn them? Will thirsty cowboys even believe what he saw?

Nathan Jackson, old and blind, was there the day he came to life. He lived through the riot. He served the new master until he was taken away. He is the last living believer. But now there is a group of children exploring the ruins of the old insane asylum, moving closer to his hiding place. Soon, he thinks, there will be new disciples for the master.

When a meteor shower rains down on the North Pole, causing the Earth to shift on its axis, resulting in numerous natural disasters, Guy Olson and an international team of scientists are dispatched to go investigate. What they find is worse than they could have imagined. The heat from the space rocks has awakened something ancient and cold deep under the ice. Now it's looking for more heat, traveling beneath the ice, catching anything with warm blood.

Keith's mother is dead, but that doesn't mean she's stopped trying to help him turn his life around. His dad, however, doesn't see any reason he or Keith should stop drinking or using drugs. Ashley and her two best friends have never known real love. When the girls make a road trip into a larger city near their home on the Oklahoma plains, they stumble upon a book at an estate sale that might be the answer to their romantic problems.

Shim and Shay don't like staying home alone while Mom and Dad go to work in the castle. Then one day a gnome tells the children how the fairies gave him a bag of gold. The children set off to ask for a bag of gold of their own so Mom and Dad won't have to work. But there are dangers they never could have imagined waiting in the wide world outside their village, including a monster in the forest.

In this collection of short stories based on his acclaimed Werewolf Saga, author Steven E. Wedel reveals back story about some of the major characters in the series. Who made the Old Ones and why? How did Ulrik come to be the first werewolf born in the New World? Was Shara destined to become a werewolf? These questions and more are answered in these stories. This is a can't-miss addition to The Werewolf Saga that fans of the series will want to add to their bookshelves.

In the era of mullets, Reaganomics, and Hollywood heavy metal, Josh Cooper and his girlfriend Rana set out from Florida to Tennessee to reunite with an old friend to form a new rockabilly band. What was supposed to be a scenic turnoff from the main highway turns into months of captivity, terror, and unorthodox experimentation at the hands of a disgraced professor and his hillbilly followers.