This work is also a tribute to the tireless pursuit of truth and understanding. It is a testament to the power of critical thinking and the importance of seeking knowledge and sharing it honestly. Ultimately, this book is a call to civic engagement, and historical awareness. It is dedicated to those who seek to understand the complexities of American policy and contribute to a more informed America with the intention to inspire hope and activism.

The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, the depletion of oil, economic upheaval, and mass extinction together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions. Active Hope shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face this crisis so that we can respond with unexpected resilience and creative power. Drawing on decades of teaching an empowerment approach known as the Work That Reconnects, the authors guide us through a transformational ...

I made a huge mistake.No, not breaking into Panchard Enterprises, I did that on purpose. It was the getting caught part that changed everything. Instead of prison, Peter Panchard offers me a deal; steal something for him and he'll help me find my little sister.Now I'm at Neverly Prep wearing a uniform and trying to get close to Lucas Hook, the guy whose safe I need to crack. Did I mention the car and mansion and black card that goes along with this deal? Or the thr...

In this book, a solid and emerging group of international researchers contributes to the theory of metadiscourse and to our understanding of the role metadiscourse and related ‘meta’ phenomena may play in digital forms of communication. Providing examples of new research methods and approaches, the authors investigate progressively hybridized academic and non-academic genres that have migrated from analogue to digital format. The book offers valuable insights on how digital communication h...

Who falls for a woman who’s eight months pregnant?Answer: Sands Wilder. Immediately.I barely learn his first name before he’s shielding me from bullets.I’d come to the bank to rescue my confused grandmother, the woman who rescued me when I found myself pregnant after stupidly swiping right, curious about intimacy. Oops.Only I find a lot more than grandma mentally visiting the 1970s.There’s a new security gua...

Ben Blackpelt has been on the run most of his life, exiled from a secret community of shifters after his father was betrayed. On his trail is a pack of three dangerous shifter assassins. They are sworn to bring him back home, dead or alive. But when Ben stops for breakfast in the small town of Lockdale, Texas, he meets...Savannah Dean, a voluptuous redhead and single mom just trying to make ends meet as a waitress. The husky, handsome man who walks into the Sunshine Diner needs hel...

Can love overcome the spell of the siren's song?Vander Tanglevine is the young king of the Emerald Isle. But a meeting with the merfolk oracle will send him on a journey to earth to recover an ancient weapon he will need in the fight ahead. There he meets Dr. Brynn Mulbrook, an archaeology professor at a small West Texas college, ostracized by her colleagues for spending her career trying to prove the existence of an alternate world.As she helps him find wh...

"Hilarious, heart-warming, sexy, and real—you'll fall in love, guaranteed!"—Lori Foster, New York Times bestselling author for Sultry with a TwistTo save her career, TV producer Bobbi Gallagher must return to her hometown to shoot a slice of life never before seen. She's all business, but the scorching looks from the flirtatious Trey Lewis are enough to steam up any gal's camera lens.For West Coast filmmaker Bobbi Gallagher, going back to Sultry Sp...

Being diagnosed with lifelong medical conditions such as cardiovascular problems or diabetes, etc that could have been prevented by a healthy diet?Compromising on your quality of life due to obesity or other weight-related issues?Seeing your family and loved ones fall into the abyss of health complications caused by unhealthy diets?The Mediterranean diet follows a lifestyle rather than being a set of restrictive diet instructions. The basis of the diet is from resea...

All Holly Nichols wants to do this holiday season is hole up in her historic home and try to make it through another Christmas. Losing her husband to a drunk driver two years ago plunged Holly into an all-consuming darkness. Only recently has she managed to reach for the light and find some remnants of joy as an elementary school teacher. With the encouragement of family and friends, Holly is ready to move forward, but she's lost her faith in love, and has no plans to try and find it again...

Over the years, I have written these poems from memories, occurring events, and from my thoughts as they emerged. These selections included represent only a few as I began writing poetry while still very young. Some came easy to write, while others have undergone many revisions. Writing in rhythm and rhyme carries a great fascination and challenge for me.Many, but not all of the photos included, came from the photography collection of my son, Jeremy. Our family photo albumns contai...

Spirit Faces is a visionary book about the afterlife based on Mark Macy's fifteen years of research, with special emphasis on a growing collection of unique photographs in which he captures clear faces of nonphysical beings- spirits. These photographs and other results of his research provide some of the first solid evidence, and verifiable proof, that life continues after death of the physical body.Macy weaves his groundbreaking information into a clear picture of life on...