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Fatherhood by George: Hard-Won Advice on Being a Dad
by George ForemanThis father of ten thriving children delivers knock-out advice on the art of being a dad.George Foreman is an international symbol of a positive attitude, determination, and athleticism. He's also well known for having ten children, five boys and five girls. As a man who strives to live in obedience to the Ultimate Father, Foreman has a powerful perspective on effective, godly fatherhood. Through his own experiences as a son in a single-parent home, as a faithful father, and now as a grandfather, he knows what works and what doesn't--all with a dose of humor and humility. The goal of this book is to provide commonsense fathering advice and anecdotes to a wide variety of men who themselves are encountering the challenges of fatherhood.
The Drowning: A Novel
by J.P. SmithEvery seven years, a boy disappears from Camp Waukeelo.Who will be next?It doesn't take long for a little boy to disappear. Joey Proctor can't swim, but that doesn't stop camp counselor Alex Mason from leaving him out on a raft in the middle of the lake in a fit of rage. Alex only meant to scare the kid, teach him a lesson. He didn't mean to forget about him. But now Joey is gone… and his body is never found.More than twenty years later, Alex is a success. The proof is there for anyone to see, in the millions of dollars he makes, his lavish house, his beautiful wife and daughters. And no one knows what happened that summer at camp. At least, no one should know. But it looks like Joey Proctor may be back to take his revenge…
How to Build Android Applications with Kotlin: A hands-on guide to developing, testing, and publishing production-grade Android 16 apps
by Eran Boudjnah Alex Forrester Alexandru Dumbravan Jomar TigcalUtilize Android programming to build scalable and reliable apps using industry best practices with practical guidance from a team of Android experts with over 40 years of combined experience Get a free PDF copy, AI Assistant, and Next-Gen Reader with your bookKey FeaturesBuild real-world Android apps with Kotlin and the Jetpack Compose UI frameworkLeverage the latest libraries to accelerate your Android developmentOvercome development challenges with tips and tricks from experienced Android professionalsGet With Your Book: PDF Copy, AI Assistant, and Next-Gen Reader FreeBook DescriptionWritten by four veteran developers with 60+ years of collective experience, this updated third edition will jumpstart your Android development journey, focusing on Kotlin libraries and Jetpack Compose, Google’s powerful declarative UI framework. You’ll learn the fundamentals of app development, enabling you to use Android Studio, as well as get to grips with Jetpack Compose to create your first screens, build apps to run them on virtual devices through guided exercises, and implement Jetpack Compose’s layout groups to make the most of lists, images, and maps. The book has been updated with Kotlin’s powerful networking and coroutines libraries to help you fetch data in the background from a web service and manage displaying the data using Kotlin flows. You’ll learn about testing, creating clean architecture, and persisting data, as well as exploring the dependency injection pattern and learning how to publish your apps on the Google Play Store. You'll also work on realistic projects split up into bite-size exercises and activities, along with building apps to create quizzes, read news articles, check weather reports, store recipes, retrieve movie information, and remind you where you parked your car. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the skills and confidence to build your own creative Android apps using Kotlin.What you will learnCreate maintainable and scalable apps using KotlinGrasp Android asynchronous programming with coroutines and the Flow APISimplify app development with Google architecture componentsApply MVVM and Repository architecture patterns to standardize retrieving and displaying data from outside sourcesIncrease app stability and robustness with unit and integration testsUse standard libraries for dependency injection, networking, data parsing, and persistencePublish your app on the Google Play StoreWho this book is forThis book is for beginners as well as intermediate-level developers with no prior experience in Android app development. Basic knowledge of the Kotlin programming language or experience in a similar programming language, along with a willingness to brush up on Kotlin is required.
Beautiful Days: Stories
by Joyce Carol OatesA new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize–winning “Undocumented Alien”The diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol Oates explore the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves, who assert their independence in acts of bold and often irrevocable defiance. “Fleuve Bleu” exemplifies the rich sensuousness of Oates’s prose as lovers married to other persons vow to establish, in their intimacy, a ruthlessly honest, truth-telling authenticity missing elsewhere in their complicated lives, with unexpected results. In “Big Burnt,” set on lushly rendered Lake George, in the Adirondacks, a cunningly manipulative university professor exploits a too-trusting woman in a way she could never have anticipated. In a more experimental but no less intimate mode, “Les beaux jours” examines the ambiguities of an intensely erotic, exploitative relationship between a “master” artist and his adoring young female model. And the tragic “Undocumented Alien” depicts a young African student enrolled in an American university who is suddenly stripped of his student visa and forced to undergo a terrifying test of courage.In these stories, as elsewhere in her fiction, Joyce Carol Oates exhibits her fascination with the social, psychological, and moral boundaries that govern our behavior—until the hour when they do not.
To Laney, With Love
by Joyce SullivanTo Laney, With Love,I know you have questions but I can explain. Meet me at The Rendevous, Valentine's Day. Make this our little secret.-R.The note stunned Laney Dobson. Before she could move on, Laney had to know if her husband was still alive. So she turned to her son's coach, Ben Forbes, and together they searched for answers-and found unexpected desire.But Laney also found her husband-newly murdered! She sought refuge in Ben's arms, his lips...his body, and despite her fear, dared to dream of love again.But Ben feared Laney and the boy he thought of as his own were still at risk. Now Ben would protect Laney at all costs, even if it meant stopping their own wedding to catch a killer!
Shiny Objects: Why We Spend Money We Don't Have in Search of Happiness We Can't Buy
by James A. RobertsIn Shiny Objects, a cross between In Praise of Slowness and The Tipping Point, consumer behavior expert Professor James A. Roberts takes us on a tour of America's obsession with consumerism—pointing out its symptoms, diagnosing specific problems, and offering a series of groundbreaking solutions.Roberts gives practical advice for how to correct the materialistic trends in our lives which lock us into a cycle of financial hardship and stress. Shiny Objects, a new The Paradox of Choice for the modern reader, is more than a critique of capitalism—it's also an exploration into how we can live happier, fuller, more productive lives today.
The Flower and the Sword
by Jacqueline Navin10th ANNIVERSARYBetrayed!The word cut deeper than any broadsword, for Rogan St. Cyr had been played false by the woman to whom he had given his heart. Yet the beautiful Lily was still his bride, and now she would pay for her treachery with her very freedom.Though he held her prisoner, far from the comfort of family or friends, Lily longed to ease the pain that tortured her warrior husband. For she knew that deep inside his hardened soul lay the embers of their love, longing to be brought back to life.
Getting Students to Show Up: Practical Ideas for Any Outreach Event—from 10 to 10,000
by Jonathan McKeeWhenever I talk with youth workers at big events, I see the same look in their eyes. It’s the look of, “I want to pull off an event like this.” I regularly get phone calls from youth workers around the country saying, “We’ve never done anything like this before, but we wanted to do a big evangelism event . . .” At 80% of the events I speak at each year it seems as if the youth worker in charge expected large numbers, only to get a fourth of his or her expectations. The heart is there and the motives are pure . . . but the experience and know-how are in short supply. Most youth workers would love to pull off successful outreach events, if they only knew how. Youth workers are only learning how to program outreach events by “trial and error.” They need a resource to not only teach them the basics in programming outreach events, but also give them tools and examples that actually work. This book will help them understand the mindset of this outreach crowd, and give them the tools to plan effective outreach programs. The book will show them examples of how NOT to do it, as well as giving them “ready-made” events that work. It will also provide the basics such as the importance of DRAW, and aligning every single element with the events PURPOSE. The target market is all youth workers who want to plan weekly outreach programs, big events, or campus programs. A secondary audience would be student leaders who want to learn how to run 20 minute lunchtime “Bible Clubs,” geared for outreach. Youth workers would be the gatekeepers to this audience, because they are the ones who would purchase the books for their student leaders
Clever Girl: A Novel (P. S. Ser.)
by Tessa HadleyClever Girl is an indelible story of one woman’s life, unfolded in a series of beautifully sculpted episodes that illuminate an era, moving from the 1960s to today, from one of Britain’s leading literary lights—Tessa Hadley—the author of the New York Times Notable Books Married Love and The London Train.Like Alice Munro and Colm Tóibin, Tessa Hadley brilliantly captures the beauty, innocence, and irony of ordinary lives—an ability to transform the mundane into the sublime that elevates domestic fiction to literary art.Written with the celebrated precision, intensity, and complexity that have marked her previous works, Clever Girl is a powerful exploration of family relationships and class in modern life, witnessed through the experiences of an English woman named Stella. Unfolding in a series of snapshots, Tessa Hadley’s moving novel follows Stella from the shallows of childhood, growing up with a single mother in a Bristol bedsit in the 1960s, into the murky waters of middle age.Clever Girl is a story vivid in its immediacy and rich in drama—violent deaths, failed affairs, broken dreams, missed chances. Yet it is Hadley’s observations of everyday life, her keen skill at capturing the ways men and women think and feel and relate to one another, that dazzles.
One Night Before Christmas
by Catherine LeighShe wants the man...Carly Underbrook loves the holiday season; to her it's always been more about giving than receiving. Only, Carly meets Jonah St. John at a party and decides that this year she does want a present-a tall, handsome tycoon...gift-wrapped!And the mistletoe!But Carly falls into his bed not realizing that for Jonah Christmas is more about money than mistletoe. She can't fall in love with Montana's own modern version of Scrooge...can she? Keeping her distance isn't easy, however, especially after Carly learns that Santa's brought her a little something extra this year...she's having Jonah's baby!A heartwarming, emotional tale full of seasonal sizzle and spice!
The Painted Table
by Suzanne FieldThe Norwegian table, a century-old heirloom ingrained with family memory, has become a totem of a life Saffee would rather forget—a childhood disrupted by her mother&’s mental illness.Saffee does not want the table. By the time she inherits the object of her mother&’s obsession, the surface is thick with haphazard layers of paint and heavy with unsettling memories.After a childhood spent watching her mother slide steadily into insanity, painting and re-painting the ancient table, Saffee has come to fear that seeds of psychosis may lie dormant within her. She must confront her mother&’s torment if she wants to defend herself against it.Traversing four generations over the course of a century, The Painted Table is a beautiful portrait of inherited memory. It is a sprawling narrative affirmation that a family artifact—like a family member—can bear the marks of one&’s past . . . as well as intimations of one&’s redemption.&“This difficult but beautiful story of hurt and healing, desperation and hope, offers an intriguing view inside the world of the mentally ill and their loved ones.&” —Publishers Weekly&“Describes a descent into darkness [and a] redemptive ascent into light . . . [The Painted Table is a] deeply moving experience.&” —Melvin W. Hanna, PhD, author of Mood Food: Nourishing Your God Given Emotions"[C]ompelling . . . [The Painted Table] point[s] readers toward redemption, the kind that removes all the layers of anesthetic we use to try—and fail—to numb our pain, and replaces them with beauty that can come only through grief and surrender." —ChristianityToday.com
Demystifying the Out-of-Body Experience: A Practical Manual for Exploration and Personal Evolution
by Luis MineroMaster the skills of leaving the body using logic and reason. Improve self-understanding and achieve personal growth with over a dozen exit techniques. With well-ordered, rational explanations, Demystifying the Out-of-Body Experience describes how and why OBEs work. This is a groundbreaking guide for using OBEs to understand your place in the worlds that exist beyond our daily lives.Meet spiritual guides, loved ones who have crossed over, and even other out-of-body travelers who want to help you understand who you are and why you are here. Learn communication techniques and memory aids to get the most out of each experience, in addition to tips for creating a program of OBE mastery. Contrary to popular belief, many people have come back from "the other side" and shared their experiences. And now, you can be part of this life-changing exploration.Perfect for beginners and experienced seekers who want to learn about the non-physical planes in a non-mystical context and want to evolve the condition of their soul. This practical workbook for spiritual transformation is based on the research of the International Academy of Consciousness.
A Lantern in The Dark: Navigate Life's Crossroads with Story, Ritual & Sacred Astrology
by Danielle BlackwoodMeditations, Stories & Rituals for Life's CrossroadsAll too often, when we find ourselves at a crossroads, the conventional ways of understanding where we are can fall short of the mark. Intuitively, we know we need something more. Sacred astrology teaches that there are several distinct rites of passage that can show up as a psychospiritual crisis characterized by intense challenge and confusion. We are betwixt and between—no longer who we used to be, but not yet who we are becoming. However, these powerful thresholds are where the real magic of our lives happens. They usually coincide with significant turning points that lead us toward our life's unique purpose.Learn how myth, folklore and story can be a source of guidance in difficult times. Illuminate the archetypal dimensions of your own story and re-enchant your life. Learn when to expect the crossroad times throughout your life so you can make peace with the past, navigate the present, and create a more purposeful future. Discover the keys to self realization and step into alignment with who you’re becoming. Create a self-care tool kit for the distinct issues that arise with each crossroads, and get clear about what you're calling in. Unlock new levels of self awareness through ritual, guided meditation, and journal reflections crafted specifically for each threshold. You will also learn how to support family, friends, coworkers, and clients who are going through difficult times with a transpersonal understanding of where they are and what they're going through.Having insight into what time it is in your life can be a lantern in the dark.
The Great Survivor of the Tudor Age: The Life and Times of Lord William Paget
by Alex AngleseyDiscover the captivating rise and fall of William Paget, as he emerges from obscurity to become one of Henry VIII's most influential advisors, navigating court intrigues, imprisonment, and political machinations as he goes on to shape and define Tudor history. Like Cromwell and Wolsey before him, William Paget came from nowhere to become one of Henry VIII's most powerful 'new men'. After serving as ambassador to the Court of Francis I of France, he became Henry's most influential foreign policy advisor and developed a close relationship with Emperor Charles V. He had the king's ear in Henry's later years, was the key player in drafting his will ( was it a forgery?) and in enabling Somerset to become Lord Protector in the reign of the boy king, Edward VI. For a while, he was Somerset's 'right-hand man'. When Somerset fell, Paget was imprisoned in the Tower and nearly executed. But he survived and regained power. He had a major role in delivering the Crown to the Catholic queen, Mary, and in arranging her marriage to Philip II of Spain, whom he then advised on English politics. He kept in with the Protestant princess Elizabeth and survived to have influence when she came to the throne. William was the founder of the aristocratic Paget family - Barons of Beaudesert, Earls of Uxbridge and Marquesses of Anglesey. From records of the mansion that he built on a site next to today's Heathrow Airport, a picture has been created of how life was actually lived in a Tudor household at the personal family level. The story is partly told from previously unexamined family letters. It is an exciting narrative of dramatic ups and downs: from rags to riches, plague to plenty, and prison to peerage. Court intrigues, conspiracies, rebellions and coups, follow one after the other. William is usually in the thick of it, the power behind the throne.
The Valentine Affair!
by Mary LyonsSex, lies and Valentines!Alexandra Pemberton had promised her newspaper a Valentine exclusive: the story of Leo Hamilton's whirlwind engagement to Fiona Bliss. By fair means or foul-and more likely foul!-Fiona had succeeded where many had failed, and got the world's most determined bachelor at least halfway to the altar!Alex was impressed! She was also-she had to admit-jealous as hell! Eight years ago Leo had almost seduced Alex-almost. It had never been enough. And dogging Leo's all-too-attractive heels, Alex realized that she wanted Leo as an exclusive, all right-exclusively hers!Mary Lyons writes sharp, sophisticated and sexy stories that will leave you chuckling and breathless for more!
Bullpen Diaries: Mariano Rivera, Bronx Dreams, Pinstripe Legends, and the Future of the New York Yankees
by Charley Rosen"Delightful and insightful." —John Thorn, author of Total Baseball Baseball is the only sport where the defense has the ball, and there is no lonelier in the world of sports than the pitcher’s mound. Which makes Yankee relievers among the most scrutinized and intriguing group of athletes in the game. In Bullpen Diaries, Charley Rosen, lifelong Yankees fan and co-author of the bestseller More Than Just a Game, delivers a fun, insider’s look at this rare breed of player. With one-of-a-kind stories about Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, Mariano Rivera and teammates, as well as behind-the-scenes interviews and fascinating trivia (including the origin of baseball’s secret mud), Rosen hits a grand slam with this indispensible volume of baseball history—featuring players and teams from across the MLB as well as predictions for 2011.
The Surgeon's Marriage
by Maggie KingsleyDoctors Tom and Helen Brooke have a great marriage-when they can find the time to see each other amidst the pressures of work at the Belfield Infirmary and the demands of their adorable twins. Despite feeling overworked and underappreciated, Helen knows that she and Tom have something very special. So when Tom’s handsome friend becomes their new colleague and makes a play for Helen, she might be flattered but she’s not going to stray.Then a series of misunderstandings makes her think maybe Tom doesn’t care. Except he does, passionately, and now he’s faced with the fight of his life-the fight to save his marriage....
Apache Fire
by Elizabeth LaneA dangerous man lay near death at Rose Colby's feet-and though logic told her to flee from the unpredictable half-breed, instinct whispered a different tale. Latigo was a worthy man who desperately needed her help-and her heart...!The brave young woman made Latigo yearn for what he knew he could never have-acceptance, family...and love. Such things were not for the likes of him. For he was a renegade Apache, the white man's posse claimed, and could only bring the widowed Rose Colby more grief....
The Earl's Snow-Kissed Proposal
by Nina MilneChristmas kisses with the earl... Gabriel Derwent, Earl of Wycliffe, needs an heir. With no wife or child of his own, he hires Etta Mason to research his family tree and find one! Single mom Etta isn't used to things going her way. So she can't believe her luck when her new boss whisks her away from her humdrum life to spend Christmas with him! She may be cynical about fairy-tale endings, but standing in Gabriel's arms, snowflakes softly falling, dare she hope his achingly romantic kisses could mean so much more?
From Spitfires to Vampires and Beyond: A Kiwi Ace's RAF Journey
by Owen HardyWorld War Two Spitfire pilot Owen Hardy was probably the last New Zealand ace to tell his story. He left home at 18 bent on joining the RAF and by 1942, aged only 20, he was at Biggin Hill with 72 Squadron under Brian Kingcome. D-Day found him flying over the Normandy beaches with 485 (New Zealand) Squadron. That he survived the war unharmed owed as much to luck as it did to his ability as a fighter pilot. Unable to settle in civilian life afterwards in New Zealand, he returned to the RAF for the second phase of a remarkable career. Converting to jets, Hardy went on to command 71 Squadron, leading a Vampire aerobatic team with considerable success across Europe – dodging MiGs at the same time! But adapting to peacetime service wasn’t easy. Previously stimulated by the wartime environment and still passionate about flying, he was less enamored with staff jobs; and this despite working on the introduction of a new, state-of-the-art missile system, Bloodhound. Then a fateful decision, to turn down command of a Javelin squadron and follow his mentor, led finally to disillusionment. Hardy pulls no punches in this forthright and refreshingly honest autobiography. In retelling his eye-opening story, editor Black Robertson shines a light on what it was like not just to fly in combat, but also on the changing face of a post-war RAF which arguably undervalued some of its heroes. From the heat of North Africa to the uncertainties of the Cold War, it’s a unique and enthralling tale.
Myths of the Moon
by Rosalie AshMystery Man!When Carla saved the life of a handsome stranger, she didn't realize her own would never be the same again. All she knew about him was that his name was Daniel and that he had temporary amnesia. But that didn't stop Carla from inviting him to stay in her holiday cottage until he regained his memory. For reasons she couldn't understand, Carla felt she belonged with this stranger and when, finally, he kissed her-a great passion was unleashed. Then his memory returned and for some reason Carla's handsome stranger disappeared as suddenly as he had arrived....
The Tudor Empire
by David WildmanThis book will delve into how the Tudors exerted their control over their empire and domains, stretching from the Old War to the colonies of the New. The Tudors remain one of Britain’s most fascinating royal dynasties. Their thirst for control surged due to the family’s paranoid obsession about being interlopers who were never destined to be monarchs. Throughout the sixteenth century, the Tudors added more and more territories to their portfolio, but this growth came at a bloody cost. Each monarch attempted to expand their control of the kingdom: Henry VII consolidated his authority across the realm, Henry VIII had visions of a French empire, and Elizabeth I oversaw the travels and travails of the seadogs in the New World. This book will delve into how the Tudors exerted their control over their empire and domains, stretching from the north of England, Wales, Ireland, Cornwall, all the way to European possessions, as well as fresh colonies in the New World. It utilizes contemporary sources with further engagement in wider historical debate to provide an accessible introduction into this era for readers.
Scorpio Witch: Unlock the Magic of Your Sun Sign (The Witch's Sun Sign Series)
by Zoë Howe Ivo DominguezBecome more passionate and confident in everything you do using the magical energy of your Sun sign. Sharing numerous spells, exercises, and stories, Ivo Dominguez, Jr. and Zoë Howe help you enhance your witchcraft and everyday activities. You'll explore Scorpio correspondences, divination techniques, self-care routines, and much more.This book deepens your relationship to yourself, providing many ways to channel your natural intensity into stronger witchcraft. Explore your Moon and rising sign traits, perform a ritual to meet the spirit of your sign, and overcome challenges that Scorpios often face. Featuring spells from Scorpio contributors, cleansing and shielding methods, and advice on magical timing, this book in the Witch's Sun Sign Series helps you achieve your goals and be your magnetic self.
That Marriageable Man! (Man of the Month)
by Barbara BoswellMAN of the MonthMR. JUNEThat Marriageable Man: Tall, dark and very sexy Rafe Paradise was single and satisfied-until he "inherited" four mischievous kidsHis Ultimate Dilemma: Being a devoted dad without getting hitchedThat Marriageable Woman: Next-door darling Holly Casale. She knew exactly what Rafe needed-her!Rafe was determined to be an exceptional single father. But keeping his mind strictly on fatherhood was impossible with luscious Holly offering helpful parenting hints. Besides, Rafe was more interested in what his eligible neighbor knew about making children than raising them. But taking her as his lover would mean making her his wife! And marriage was the farthest thing from his mind-wasn't it?MAN OF THE MONTH: This seductive bachelor finds love-under his very roof!
Rails From Shrewsbury: A Pictorial Journey, 1970s–2012
by Peter J. GreenShrewsbury station, located at the junction of the lines from Chester, Crewe, Wolverhampton, Hereford and Aberystwyth is a busy and interesting railway center for the enthusiast. Many train movements are still controlled by semaphore signals operated from a number of signal boxes, including the largest remaining operational mechanical signal box in the world at Severn Bridge Junction. Nevertheless, modernization has been gradually sweeping away much of the railway infrastructure, both at Shrewsbury and in the surrounding area, as it has been everywhere else. This book looks at Shrewsbury itself, the lines that radiate from there, and the trains that ran on them, in the late twentieth and the early part of the twenty-first century. During this time period, much more general railway infrastructure and mechanical signaling was still in use, and locomotive-hauled trains were abundant, using a variety of motive power, including Classes 25, 31, 33, 37 and 47. The various freight lines that saw traffic are also visited. The railway from Newport through Hereford and Shrewsbury to Chester, in particular, saw regular steam-hauled special trains, a few of which are illustrated here. Preserved railways in the area are not forgotten, including the Severn Valley Railway which once ran from Sutton Bridge Junction at Shrewsbury to Hartlebury, between Kidderminster and Droitwich Spa.