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The guns of the Civil War have ceased firing, and the shots are but an echo...yet the war rages on, deep inside Will Crump's soul. His "soldier's heart" is searching for peace, and in that quest, Will joins the westward movement, setting his path on a collision course with adventure, loss, and love. The westward expansion floods the sacred, untouched lands with immigrants, bringing conflict to the Shoshone, Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho.

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Hosted by planetary scientist and astrobiologist Dr. Michael L. Wong, Strange New Worlds examines science, technology, and culture through the lens of Star Trek!

A review of theatrical productions, concerts, events and emerging talent in the Midwest. Each year I attend over 100 different events from the Mishiana Area where I'm based, to Chicago where I frequetly work, to Nashvile, Springfield, Ohio (Home of John Legend), to St. Louis and anywhere else there is great entertainment. As a SAG-AFTRA actor and independent filmmaker I offer my insights, observations ,and inside tracks to great Midwest Entertainment at affordable prices.

Michael’s Lens On Life is a podcast featuring reflections and commentary based on my life‘s journey. The Michael’s Lens On Life Introduction Episode will give you a full tutorial on what to expect from this story driven intellectual adventure!

The Daily Reflection Podcast delivers hope, and inspiration through interviews with members of the recovery community through the lens of the Daily Reflection book. Each day, we ask a person in recovery to read the Daily Reflection for the day, and share how this relates to their program of recovery. The result is that we learn through their experience how they manage to get and stay sober. We are not affiliated with Alcoholics Anonymous or any recovery program.

Once every 10,000 years, the walls between worlds grow thin. The stars align and Hell is close. It is the time of The Sha'Daa. The mysterious Johnny The Salesman is up to his usual tricks, offering dark magic trades if one is brave enough to barter with him. Johnny's latest ally, the immortal tattoo artist Haumea, just might have the answer to saving the planet from destruction, if she can create enough supernatural tattoos at Mom's Bane tattoo parlor to turn the tide against evil.

Mark Edwards is infatuated with Vicky Thornton. Right after he enters the seventh grade at Tecumseh Junior High School, he decides to participate in a pie-eating contest. Not just any pie- eating contest, but The Great Lemon Meringue Pie Eating Contest of the seventh grade. Mark has to win to prove his worth to Vicky Thornton.

Experts Michael George, James Works, and Kimberly Watson-Hemphill explain the surprising and significant gap between the CEO's growth goals and actual performance. The authors, who are experts at connecting strategy to execution, give you a complete blueprint for exploiting the strategic and operational dimensions of innovation.

The Corner Scribblers is a small writer's support group in the Chattanooga area comprised of writers, authors, and storytellers from a wide range of skills and backgrounds. We come together once a month to discuss our current projects, recent accomplishments and to share what we have each learned about the craft. Within this cover, you will find a collection of holiday-themed flash fiction stories and poetry, displaying a small sample of those combined skills.

In Grosse Pointe, Michigan the idle rich run wild among one another. The Knights are part of the big four in terms of the US automotive industry. The Fitzpatrick’s are extremely wealthy for a number of things...Beautiful, rich, and dysfunctional. Come, see how the other half live!

Lexington, Kentucky, 1859. After saving John Hunt Morgan from a puma attack, 15-year-old farm boy Will Crump joins Hunt’s militia, the Lexington Rifles. Morgan mentors Will and enrolls him in the local university, where he hopes to study law. As tensions rise between the North and South, Will is torn between his loyalty to Morgan and his love for his family. Will’s sister Albinia, friend of the Clay family, becomes increasingly aware of the plight of the slaves. Luther is one of the first slaves Albinia helps flee the South after his master cruelly abuses his mother and sister.

Dearly beloved in Jesus Christ, I have written to you once again under the divine guidance of the Holy Spirit. Under the Holy Spirit's guidance I have written this book to teach the believer powerful prayer, with few words, so that your prayer may be heard on high, and answered. This book is only to be used as an example for the listener to be put into their own words, and to develop more powerful prayer habits.

Michael Eads was ready to go home until he heard his wife crying in the darkness of the hospital room. He decided it was time to speak to God and thank him for his life, should he be no more. The excruciating pain from acute pancreatitis inflicted its unique stamp of mortality in a man's mind and body. The cold feeling inside his soul was acquiescing to the inevitable reality that his life was slipping away. But not before one last prayer, one last chance, and perhaps one final answer.

America is at a tipping point, and never has this been more apparent than right now. We are in danger of losing our spiritual and moral heritage, making many believe that we have fallen beyond the point of recovery. This book is here to say that yes, we have fallen. In fact fallen much further than we realize, but our country's best days are ahead - with the help of a radical, moral, and cultural revolution, beginning with the church. This book is a manual for the revolution.

On February 29th in a leap year, Mitch Lucas shook hands with destiny. An extra one quarter day left over each year that added up to one day out of every four. A day mankind needed to balance the books after he discovered the passage of time.

It was the spring of 2010. Steve Jobs had come to terms with his illness and fate. Instead of succumbing to it, he embraced it. He assembled the greatest scientific minds of our time into a group he affectionately called The Super Seven.

Was the Civil War the greatest war in American history, or was it the biggest mistake in American history? Was the blood of more than one million men spilled over countless battlefields necessary to get rid of slavery? Was the country we called free for everyone just an idea? Was a nation born and then destroyed because of an institution that was nothing more than peculiar? Does the flag of a dead country that still flies over courthouses in the South speak for a nation?

In the fall of 1969, three brothers, Adam, Carl and Mark, venture out on Halloween night in what would be their last time trick-or-treating together. On the most sacred of all nights, these brothers will try almost anything in their relentless pursuit to acquire as much candy as they can during the Super Bowl of sugar bliss, Halloween. The oldest brother (Adam) creates a plan of attack that will allow them to retrieve the maximum amount of candy in the shortest period of time.

A Killing At The Rock exposes all the human elements of fear and desperation. It is where one man's obsession to kill another man causes each man to fight for their lives. To make matters worse, the chase happens in a cold, murky lake where almost anything can go wrong. And depending on what side you're on, the fine line between what's right and wrong can be distorted. Especially when justice has no eyes and the innocent are invisible.