When Desiree Doppelganger walks into the offices of Mortimer-Crasher, her feather boa and flirtations with "Pretty Eyes" aren't the only things heating up the office. Lou and his partners take on the search for Desiree's missing prized pooch, Boots. What should be a walk in the doggie park quickly moves up the mercury as hard-boiled Crasher discovers he's not the only one seeking the spirited stud dog. What if anything do a metro male dancer, a spoiled socialite, and a dead policeman have ...

You picked up this book because you are 19 or 27 and you love Jesus, but the quiet time streak you promised in January broke by January 9 and the group chat, the loan, and the 2 am spiral are louder than any verse right now. You are not looking for a fortune cookie verse and you are not looking for a lecture from someone who pretends the twenties are easy. Or maybe you feel lonely in a lecture hall of 200, unseen in a crowd, and you wonder if God hears you in the empty room. Whatever broug...

You bought a drone because you saw what a single aerial photo does to a listing. In 3 seconds it shows the lot shape, the roof condition, the backyard privacy, and the neighborhood feel that 12 ground photos never convey. Yet most new pilots post soft, tilted images that do not help a home sell, or they fly without understanding FAA Part 107 and risk a fine over $11,000.This book is not a gadget review and it is not a set of filters. It is a field tested system of 101 practical les...

You picked up this book because you run a local service business and you have noticed something shifting under your feet, the way your customers find you is changing, and you are not sure you like where it is going. A homeowner with a flooded basement no longer scrolls through a list of blue links, and they ask a chatbot which company to call, and the chatbot names two businesses and leaves everyone else in silence. You may have already asked an AI assistant who the best provider in your t...

The difference between those who achieve genuine financial independence and those who never will comes down to a single concept. The wealthy do not trade time for money. They build systems that produce income without their direct involvement. Most people focus on net worth, but net worth is a snapshot that can vanish in a market crash. Cash flow is the fuel that runs your life every day, regardless of what the markets do.This book provides a complete framework for restructuring you...

Faith. Fairness. Fortitude. And Football.Every time he confessed his sins, young seminarian Vince Lombardi sought forgiveness for the one he just couldn't stop committing—playing football. Football was more than a game to Lombardi. It was life. And the values it took to succeed—"perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication, and respect for authority"—were ones he lived by and inspired in others.Considered one of the best coaches of a...

Many family historians will come across direct links to ancestors who lived and worked in the countryside as farmers, laborers, landowners, village tradesmen and professionals for most of us have rural ancestors. Yet despite the burgeoning interest in genealogy, these people have rarely been written about with the family historian in mind. No previous book has provided a guide to the documents and records, from medieval times to the twentieth century, that researchers can use to find out a...

A ride on a steam train is a popular family outing. More than 100 heritage railways cater for that demand, capturing the spirit of nostalgia while preserving the engines and equipment of past days of rail travel. Their interests even extend to the modern era of 1960's - 70's diesels.Those heritage railways themselves have a long pedigree, back to 1951, when a group of enthusiasts saved the Talyllyn Railway in mid-Wales from closure. They ran this railway as volunteers, out of their love of...

To train the greatest, he had to be the greatest.On the streets of South Philly, Angelo Dundee learned what it took to survive—a sense of purpose, a clear head, and sometimes . . . a powerful right uppercut. Boxing was the family business and the ring was his home.A skilled trainer and cut man, Dundee intuitively adapted to whatever his fighter needed, be it doctor, therapist, drillmaster, or friend. With gauze and liniment or a well-timed joke, Dundee knew how to ...

Does untidiness plague your life? Is disorder in your home or workplace costing you time and money? Is it draining your physical and emotional energy? Do you find yourself constantly resolving to do better, only to see your determination weaken within a matter of days? Has this situation gone on for years, maybe decades?If so, this book is for you. It provides a simple set of strategies to enable you to declare war on chaos and banish untidiness from your life forever. By applying ...

Scotland does not have a ‘law of contract’, as most comparable jurisdictions do, but rather – due in large part to the intellectual innovations of Viscount Stair – possesses a unitary ‘law of voluntary obligations’, of which contracts form but a part. This fact is highly significant, but is frequently overlooked. Indeed, the significance of this has even been overlooked by the Scottish Law Commission, who have recently proposed to significantly reform the ‘law of contract’ in Scotland by u...

Art historians have often minimized the variety and complexity of seventeenth-century Spanish painting by concentrating on individual artists and their works and by stressing discovery of new information rather than interpretation. As a consequence, the painter emerges in isolation from the forces that shaped his work. Jonathan Brown offers another approach to the subject by relating important Spanish Baroque paintings and painters to their cultural milieu.A critical survey of the ...