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This is the story of my journey from a university psychology department to public mental health and private practice, and on to being a psychologist in Indian land. It includes, of course, the many interesting people, novel experiences, and challenging ideas I encountered along the way. It is a story of expanding spiritual awareness and growth as a human being and the part played in that by the Chippewa/Ojibwa Indians, whose own practice of faith...
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Have you ever wondered how a dead person can come back to life? Have you wondered if there could somehow be a virus that turns humans into beings hungry for the blood of living beings? Would you know what to do if a zombie apocalypse breaks out? Read on… For decades, zombies have caused us amazement, fear and curiosity due to their strange, rare and unknown nature. Zombies worry us because they show us all the degradation that we can reach. In this...
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And the end begins.
In one fell swoop, civilization is changed forever.
No one is unaffected, few are prepared.
Some become survivors, others - easy prey.
Only the strong, and crazy, will survive.
Through the blood and chaos, civilization will be permanently transformed.
And it all begins with one terrifying moment, when the lights go out and never come back on.
Total Collapse!
44) Desert Blade
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In the post-apocalyptic Midwest, now a ravaged dust bowl, former guardsman Derek Covington must find help for a sick boy. With nothing but memories of all he lost, Derek crosses the desert alone in search of the doctor who saved his own life ten years ago. Drifter gangs who loot and pillage don't dare come near, for Derek has a formidable weapon: a prosthetic arm with a deadly blade. For a decade, Dr. Lidia Sullivan has fantasized about the handsome...
45) The Forlorn Hope
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David Drake's astonishing stand-alone sci-fi military novel about space mercenaries, The Forlon Hope, is not to be missed!
They had fought long and hard, and damn near won in spite of everything. But now the men who hired them are going to sell them to the enemy...and so begins a novel of adventure in which a band of Star Mercenaries is driven across the face of a planet by enemies bent on their destruction. With only the guns in their hands, this...
46) Haole Teacher
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WWI took many men away, leaving women to adapt to their absence. Iowa school teacher, Ina Marie Martin found herself a victim of this tumultuous time. Like men who were physically or mentally injured, she needed to recover, to find a way to avoid becoming an outcast. She fled her shame and found a new life on the Island of Hawaii. Other circumstances besides the war, contributed to the tumult of that era; influenza, prohibition, food and clothing...
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Four romance writers. Four failed marriages. Can they create the perfect man? Romance writers should be experts on love, but that's not the case with Libby Day and her friends. Although they can come up with great stories on the page, their relationships in real life are all miserable failures.While on a writing retreat in the mountains, they decide to try to pen the perfect man-the kind that only exists in a novel. Libby yearns for a rock star. Nicky...
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The fifth and best novel yet in David Drake's acclaimed epic fantasy series, Lord of the Isles
Starting in Lord of the Isles and continuing in Queen of Demons, Servant of the Dragon, and Mistress of the Catacombs, David Drake has told the continuing, interlocking stories of Garric and Sharina, Cashel and Ilna, young brother and sister pairs who journey together from a small town to the capital. Their destiny is to reunite the island kingdoms of the...
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Morris Brown, bail bondsman from Champaign, Illinois, stumbles into his extraordinary life in the 1950's. His journey parallels the events of the first 60 years of the twentieth century. His showmanship and persistence at tracking down bond jumpers make his story compelling. He spends years perfecting the art of catching the allusive jumpers.
Morris Brown connects with movie stars, the mob, and ordinary folks in need of help getting out of jail....
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Three fantastical short stories of letting go and new beginnings with a dash of magic revolving around mystical forests and the creatures who call them home.A princess with an unnerving calling to escape the castle and go into the woods. A scientist and his assistant are in the midst of their experiments when the trees get up and walk away. A fairy does everything she can to stay with her tree, even when all the others have left her.
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This book is an interesting, easy to read adventure story set in several countries — Norway, Spain, Peru, Brazil — and it tells the story of the spiritual journey of the hero as he lives through a wide range of experiences. It is, in part, science fantasy! At the start of the story, Alexander is earning extremely good wages by fishing commercially in the North Sea. The ship's crew is a collection of societal misfits, who manage their dysfunctional...
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I Miss You, Brother is written from the viewpoint of the authors youngest son who lost a sibling. It is meant to start conversations to express the grieving child's different emotions.
Some children will be very vocal about their feelings while others will not shed a tear nor want to talk. He sees your friends embracing you, but his friends are not allowed to come play right now.
Not knowing how to deal with grief, he may lash out in frustration....
53) Dayhunter
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A new day dawns blood red. A master of fire, Mira is the last hope for the world. For centuries, she has secretly enforced the history-altering edicts of the Triad. Now she and her unlikely ally-the human vampire hunter, Danaus-have come to Venice, home of the nightwalker rulers. But there is no safety in the ancient city, for the threat of conflict is in the wind . . . with unholy alliances and earth-shattering betrayals taking hideous form in the...
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Quinn Kelley and Eli Bloom are now married! Their wedding went off without a hitch. However, an expected complication puts a damper on their wedding reception. When Quinn heads back to the dressing area to change out of her wedding dress, she finds her mailman's dead body.
Devon McHugh was Quinn and Eli's new mailman, but why was he even at their wedding? Neither Quinn nor Eli had invited him, yet there he lay, stabbed to death in a pile of flower...
55) Captive Dragon
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Marine biologist Chloe Pearl has had enough of one Reef Bayard, a charismatic animal activist who's put her job in danger. When she finds him in one of the aquarium's tanks she knows he's up to some publicity stunt. She's determined to uncover his plot, just as soon as she can get that gloriously nude body of his…covered.
Reef isn't what he appears. He's a seadragon. And getting netted and on display for Chloe may work in his dreams, but he has...
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Worlds apart...
But reunited by love!
Surgeons Layla and Arlo once shared a connection like no other, but they're total opposites: Layla's heart belongs to New York, while Arlo won't ever work in a big city hospital. Only when Arlo's remote practice needs her help, Layla finds herself heading out to Thailand! Working side-by-side, Layla begins to see jungle life through Arlo's eyes... Is a proposal in paradise enough to give life together a...
57) Dawnbreaker
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The dawn brings new terror for the creatures of the night... Those of her race fear Mira for the lethal fire she bends to her will-a power unique among nightwalkers, both a gift... and a curse. The naturi despise Mira for what she is-as they prepare the final sacrifice that will destroy the barriers between the worlds. And once the naturi are unchained, blood, chaos, and horror will reign supreme on Earth. Mira can trust only Danaus, the more-than-mortal...
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The medical needs of wounded soldiers during WWII caused military hospitals at home and on battlefronts to take on many doctors, nurses and ancillary healthcare workers. This left a severe deficit for the home folks. After peace came again, the discharged medical workers transitioned back to domestic institutions. This is the story of an occupational therapist and doctors and nurses in an Iowa hospital during that upheaval.
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Return to the the epic tale of the Lord of the Isles, David Drake's saga of magic and might.
For the first time in a thousand years, the Kingdom of the Isles has a government and a real ruler: Prince Garric of Haft. The enemies joining against him intend to destroy not only the kingdom but humankind as well.
The rebels gathering in the West outnumber the royal army and the magic they wield can strike into the heart of the palace itself, but far...
60) Shadow Blade
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A hallowed weapon hidden in a jungle hell.Forced to prove my worthiness to an elite group of players, I must earn the right to enter one of the most notorious locations in the game.The Emerald Caldera has a fearsome reputation for chewing up would-be adventurers and quickly sending them back to the newbie zone. Filled with dungeon temples, monstrous beasts and dark-magic cults, the jungles of this mysterious island are deserving of respect.And I must...