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With full calendars and long lists of things to do, people often put on hold life's most important goal - building an intimate relationship with God. Often, believers wish to pursue the goal but are not sure how to do it. They feel frustrated or guilty when their attempts at personal devotions seem empty and unfruitful. With warm, encouraging writing, Joel Comiskey guides listeners on how to set a daily appointment with the King and make it an exciting time they will look forward to.

Everyone has a belief system. This may be religiously influenced, but often it's a product of the person's personality and experiences. There are certain actions that our belief systems tell us are "right" and "wrong." These are often subconscious. Whether we intend to or not, we take our belief systems with us to work. It is a manager's job to understand the belief system of every team member and its effect on efficiency and productivity.

Small businesses make our country great. However, the challenges facing entrepreneurs and small business owners can be overwhelming. Business schools don't prepare owners for the real world. As a result, entrepreneurs may experience worry, pressure, and confusion. It is then just a matter of time before the entrepreneur suffers a breakdown. But it doesn't have to be this way.

What kind of advice would married couples in the Bible give to couples today? The Bible provides a rich history about couples who experienced every imaginable hardship and obstacle. Now, their experiences come to life in How to Build a Lasting Marriage. This is a practical book for couples who want to build an enduring marriage based on biblical truths.

To be helpless is to be hopeless, and to be hopeless is to be cheaply frustrated. Help is an inevitable element in the journey of life. The absence of it gives room to shame, reproach, and unnecessary delay, and many times it could lead to destruction. Help is an active force; it is a shame terminator and destiny transformer. When it is at work, it certainly turns situations around and aids timely accomplishments. Without help, the journey of life becomes a burden rather than a blessing.

This book is a compilation of life lessons of faith that I have found profoundly helpful in living a prosperous and progressive life in Christ Jesus. These are antidotes for life's issues, questions, and struggles we face on a day-to-day basis. This book is full of insight and powerful revelations of love and faith in a God who cares deeply for his children. I believe this book will shed light on your walk with our savior to better serve you in living the abundant life.

When the recently orphaned Goodacre children are transported to the land of Faracadar, they must discover and develop their special gifts and talents, which require that they exercise ingenuity, creativity, and compassion. Fourteen-year-old Doshmisi and her younger siblings, Denzel, Maia, and Sonjay, are given the task of retrieving the powerful Staff of Shakabaz from the evil enchanter Sissrath.

High Cotton chronicles the life of a 12-year-old boy, his kidnapping, and being sold into slavery. He suffered torture and abuse and witnessed horrible events prior to and during his journey via slave trader ship to America. He was auctioned to a plantation and eventually emancipated. He returns to the sea aboard the same ship he arrived on and remains until the death of the ship's captain.

The story of a Polish-Jewish family that was destined to the horrors of WWII that evolves into the story of one of the sons - a young man, Gabe, who would be rounded up and sent to work camps where he faced death and/or torture constantly. After years he would escape with a close friend and together they would seek a new life - by then over 200 family members including Gabe's parents and two of his brothers had been brutally murdered and so there was deep remorse that followed, mixed with the yearnings for revenge.

James Baldwin writes about the beginnings of four formidable figures, which were central to the founding of America. He tells the stories of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Webster and Abraham Lincoln.

Poetic Expressions contains the basic foundations to the purpose of Carl McKever's passion and appreciation for poetry. Mixed emotions are stirred within this book and some personal-life aspects are discussed.

Join Dave and his Zombie fighting friends in part two of the award winning Zombie Avengers series as they travel the world battling Zombie uprisings wherever they arise. This time around Diarrhea Dave joins forces with the JabJab Warriors from the Island of Grenada. He must come up with a master plan in order to save the people of Grenada from becoming zombie food. This time around the Zombies are bigger, faster, and stronger than ever before, but this is fight Dave and the Jab Jabs can't afford to loose.

James Willis, a child of the 70's, lives with his loving father and stern grandmother in a rundown old house. James knows he does not want to be poor all his life. He puts his ideas to work and starts his first business when he is only 8 years old. One thing is certain, James is not afraid to make his dreams come true.

For as long as he can remember, eleven-year-old Mash has felt trapped in a city he despises. Mash feels like he is surrounded by a zillion people and noises all the time. Unfortunately, life at home with his mother is even less tranquil. She’s always drinking her “special drinks” and acting a fool, prompting Mash to escape further into his obsession with all things aeronautical. If only he could fly away from it all…but not before the upcoming air show - the air show that may change his life forever.

The Hidden Addiction: Behind Shoplifting and Other Self-Defeating Behaviors is based on the premise that people do not want to make their life any harder than it already is, and that when they are shown who they really are as individuals and how to easily change their false and self-destructive thinking and beliefs, they can be guided to significantly alter their life solely on their own steam.

Thomas, better known as "Uncle Tom", reflects on his youth as the servant of a storekeeper. Tom's boyish spirit is confronted with a number of disappointments; however, he never loses sight of his goal to be free. The Adventures of Uncle Tom detail the nature of a young man full of wit, character and resourcefulness to out "fox" his ill-tempered master.

The Future of the American Negro was written to put more definite and permanent form the ideas regarding the condition of the negro. Booker T. Washington, a prominent African American leader, educator and author, articulates the importance of Industrial education. He emphasized the importance of the development of the Negro in hand and heart training, which would provide the solid foundation necessary to attain the highest form of citizenship.

Nathaniel and his awkward son Willis take a summer road trip to reunite with their quirky relatives in the Deep South. His plan is simple. A relaxing vacation will offer an escape from the pressures that he left behind. The fresh air and slow pace of the country are just the remedy he needs to put his life back in order. However, plans do not always work out as intended. The Great Willis Tate gives an account of a father and son's journey as they struggle to find their footing in a strange place that they once called, home.

You must listen to this shocking true story of how one father uncovered the truth about the wrongful death of his son, due to "medical errors" caused by doctors. The knowledge which has been obtained from the actual experience of this “father and author,” has been accumulated, analyzed, organized, and put into this book to share with the world about the wrongful death of his son, due to: “medical errors caused by doctors.”

In Becoming King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Making of a National Leader, author Troy Jackson chronicles King's emergence and effectiveness as a civil rights leader by examining his relationship with the people of Montgomery, Alabama. Using the sharp lens of Montgomery's struggle for racial equality to investigate King's burgeoning leadership, Jackson explores King's ability to connect with the educated and the unlettered, professionals and the working class.