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Reinventing the Supply Chain explores the historical role of supply chains in the global economy, outlines where the system went wrong and what needs to be done to fix it, and demonstrates how a retooled supply chain can lead to the revitalization of American communities. Jack Buffington proposes a transformation of the global supply chain system into a community-based value chain, led by the communities themselves and driven by digital platforms for raising capital and blockchain technology.

Join Cindy and Sammy on a new guide dog team adventure to the zoo.

Fairways, Greens, Lost Balls & Bad Lies is an amusing, entertaining story about real golfers just like you and your golf comrades. You will hear about adventures of friends who share the thrill and torture of playing the game we love. Most importantly, you will laugh. Funny things happen on every golf course, and you will undoubtedly connect with the characters you will meet in this book. Golf stories are remembered long after golf scores are forgotten. Listening to this book will lift your spirit, and you may stumble upon a tip or two that will improve your handicap.

From the humble beginnings of a frontier army camp, Fort Worth transformed into a city as cattle drives, railroads, oil, and national defense drove its economy. During the tremendous growth, the landscape and cultural imprint of the city changed drastically, and much of Cowtown was lost to history. Witness the birth of western swing music and the death of a cloud dancer. See mansions of the well-heeled and saloons of the well-armed. Meet two gunfighters, one flamboyant preacher, one serial killer and one very short subway carrying passengers back in time to discover more of Fort Worth.

The changing needs of employees have created a new mandate for today's leader. This actionable guide will help you, your team, and your business thrive. Healthy leadership is like a cultural magnet that attracts people to your team and the cultural glue that makes them want to stay. If your employees do not see healthy leadership, they will look for it elsewhere. Healthy Leadership is grounded in healthy principles and practices. The three healthy leadership principles are love, positivity, and growth. The three healthy leadership practices are to clarify, connect, and coach.

In recent years, food writers and historians have begun to retell the story of southern food. Heirloom ingredients and traditional recipes have been rediscovered, the foundational role that African Americans played in the evolution of southern cuisine is coming to be recognized, and writers are finally clearing away the cobwebs of romantic myth that have long distorted the picture. The story of southern dining, however, remains incomplete.

Hannah Hammer unknowingly stumbles upon an EMP conspiracy so sinister she thinks it’s a movie plot. Blogging about it has attracted the attention of a shadow government agency that immediately sends its most skilled assassin to neutralize her. The stakes are high for those behind the plot because discovery means a trial for treason. In this intense second installment of the electrifying World on Edge series, society has collapsed, unlikely heroes emerge, and a daring group of brave citizens band together to defend their country.

Joe Buck is on a collision course with a life-altering event. He’ll need to rely on his skills to survive the catastrophic EMP about to unfold as he’s working behind the scenes at his blue collar job at the Super Bowl. Breakout country singer and small-town girl Lexi Carter is on the same trajectory. She has just finished singing a well-received rendition of the National Anthem at the Super Bowl. The crowd is raucous. The performances were meticulously rehearsed, finely tuned down to the second, and should have gone off without a hitch. Except for one surprise glitch: an EMP.

Brad and Bone, the outrageous duo behind "the most fired show on the radio," have spent decades on top of the Atlanta airwaves with their infamous stunts and biting banter. From their annual "Blow Up Bash" to headline-making antics, they've built a legacy of chaos that fans and sponsors love—until they inevitably cross the line yet again and have to start over on another station. But after years of pranks and punchlines, cracks are forming in their partnership.

When Candybar shows off in class by eating a "bug" (raisin) instead of learning the spelling words, Mrs. Bean keeps him after school to study the words. He hatches a plan to bypass any studying, but everything unravels when two mischievous dogs throw his plan into chaos.

The circus comes to Munchytown, and the Munchy Bunch gang can't wait to go! But when the clowns put Chompy in their cannon stunt, his fear of clowns and Candybar's sneaky antics nearly derail the show!

Rags Bertram is a man with a past. But he isn’t one to boast about it. A former soldier in the US Special Forces, Rags came to the island and bought an old marina to stay off the grid and out of trouble. He’s living the good life - working on the water by day and playing on it by night, often while holding a cold beer in his hand. No one on Hideaway Isle knows about Rags’ former life until trouble suddenly finds him.

Odessa has targets in their sights and the clock is ticking as they prepare to unleash a blitzkrieg upon their sworn enemies. Their operatives are embedded at the highest levels of government in the United States and Europe. Exposing them is the key to preventing a biological disaster that can threaten the Western world's water supply and kill millions. Gunner Fox and the Gray Fox team face off with an enemy thought to be extinguished nearly a century ago.

Buried in the darkest depths of the Bermuda Triangle lies one of the greatest drowned secrets of World War Two - a sunken German U-boat carrying a deadly payload that would've changed the course of the war. A team of research scientists stumble upon the sub while mapping the deepest part of the Bermuda Triangle along the Puerto Rico trench. Their divers disturb the wreckage and never make it back to the surface.

When Larhonda Richards is kidnapped by a survivalist cult, her father hires Brady Collingsworth to find her. Brady is an experienced private detective and will not let anything stop him from bringing her home. Nothing, that is, except for her own wishes. When Brady finds her and realizes that she was no kidnapped at all but has joined a group of like-minded preppers to prepare for an apocalyptic weather event, his own mind starts to question whether or not he himself is prepared.

Sven Denali didn't ask for this. He was a prepper and that meant that he planned ahead. He never knew exactly when, or if, disaster would come, but he knew that to fail to plan meant he was planning to fail, so he did what he could, just in case. When nuclear war started, the world got crazier still, and he realized that even his own neighbors, if circumstances were right, would stop at nothing to save themselves. Now with his family missing and parts of two other families relying on him, he had choices to make.

After successfully repelling an attack by the group led by the "man in the red shirt", Dianne, Jacob, Josie, and Sarah have found themselves in the clutches of the attackers while Mark, Tina, and Jason barely managed to slip away. Now they must find a way to save their friends and family from a madman before it's too late. Meanwhile, in Washington, a battle between Rick's group and the MS-13 gang members turned brutally violent when they were saved by the Russian force sent in to secure a way to stop Damocles.

Stranded across the country away from his family, Rick must travel from California to Virginia to reunite with his wife and children, all while struggling to comprehend and deal with the horrors along the way. At home with her three children when she experiences the beginning of the end in a dramatic and deadly fashion, Dianne Waters has experience as a prepper and survivalist, but not even years of training and preparation have readied her for the darkness that comes with the end of the world.

This audiobook includes a fine group of simple rules that have the potential to greatly change your life. No kidding! Ever wanted a compass for life? Here is a very unique step-by-step guide: self-motivation broken down into defined everyday life issues: love, money, romance, karma, justice, your purpose of life, and several more. Figuratively, this is a medical doctor's self-help dissection notepad. The rules are plain amazing, simple, and down to earth. Need that extra drive, clarity, or motivation? Take a chance! Be enlightened and inspired!

With unflinching honesty, author Glyn Haynie's new memoir, Soldiering After the Vietnam War: Changed Soldiers in a Changed Country, describes the difficulty he and many soldiers faced in adjusting to civilian life on their return from Vietnam. This moving story chronicles the impact this war had on these young combat veterans. It exposes how the shameful treatment these soldiers received on their return from Vietnam impacted them. It is also a story of brotherhood and the strong, lasting bonds that can only be forged in combat.