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I don't want to remember the truck, or the night I was taken, or the family I left behind. I am not a sad Polish girl. I am a good and happy German girl. I am. I am. I am. It's the Second World War and Himmler's Lebensborn Program is in full flight when eight-year-old Zofia Ulinski is kidnapped by the Germans. She has blonde hair and blue eyes, just like the other Polish children taken from their families and robbed of their names, their language, their heritage.

When Zoey invited me over to her place, I only thought we'd make out and she'd get high. I didn't expect the stoner to make her scream and moan to the point it let out a beast within me. Especially with her family right in the next room.

What if the power of SaaS could serve a greater purpose beyond convenience for the user? What if it could be harnessed by any organization—or any person—to its fullest multi-dimensional capacity to generate massive economic growth and social good? In this quick and insightful book, Feyzi Fatehi shares a remarkable vision for a game-changing disruption in the software industry by granting unprecedented software access to the masses through rapid and automated SaaS-enablement empowered by Corent's disruptive SaaSOps™ platform.

In these chapters, innovation and transformation expert Bill Adams reveals why a modern-day phenomenon he dubbed “on-the-fly leadership” creates a fallout on the Core Leadership Functions and a blowback effect on the ability of leaders to focus their attention that he calls Attention Deficit Syndrome.

You can have it all—not just more income to spend in your retirement years but also the peace of mind that comes from knowing that, no matter what happens in the outside world, you’ll be on your way to a worry-free income for life.

Sometimes, I still get frustrated having a challenging dog, but those moments are becoming further and further apart as we both get grayer and wiser. On most days, I'm eternally grateful for all Java's taught me. She's helped me become a better woman, and I don't think she ever intended such grandiose results. It was by no mistake how our paths crossed on that wintry morning at the shelter. She is an angel in my life. Where our paths lead us next, only the universe knows, but I still have my sparkly, silver magic wand in the back pocket of my old, faded blue jeans...and a poop bag.

Most books that teach you how to build and grow a business are organized around the functional areas of business, such as people, finance, operations, and marketing. Those things are important and necessary - no question - but what is missing is an overarching methodology that systematically reels in every aspect of building and growing a successful company and creates a repeatable process to execute on the activities that will lead to big growth in your company.

With four prim and proper sisters, a grumpy neighbor, and a talent for stirring trouble, Charlie worries this will be the year he finally ends up on Santa’s Naughty List. When one of Charlie’s pranks goes wrong, it seems all hope for a happy Christmas is lost. But this is the season of miracles and second chances. A magical quest awaits deep in the forest - a place of glittering snowflakes and fairy tale creatures - but only if Charlie can open his heart. Will cheeky Charlie find a way to right his wrongs, or will his latest adventure land him on Santa’s naughty list forever?

We bring products to life and connect them to living, breathing customers. Without us, our companies would crash and burn. And yet, it often seems we don’t get the prospectors the budgets we deserve. Where is the love? The reason our companies don’t love us is that they see us as cost centers rather than revenue centers. So, how do we change that perception (and that reality)? How do we become provable, dependable sources of revenue? By changing our relationship with our customers; by turning them into raving advocates and long-term clients.

It's going to happen to all of us - it's just a matter of which day and how. While we're here, why not slow down and pay attention? There's a true gift in being completely present - where angels play. In between the sounds of life and death lies a sacred space called peace. Peace is that place where angels play - where goosebumps remind us that there’s something more to this world that what we can see and hear.

Trapped and isolated at 12,000 feet in the Alpine Visitor Center, Melissa's worst enemy isn't the blizzard that has entombed her in this place, but the frozen horde of zombies surrounding her on the outside. With no way out, she struggles to survive the winter with dwindling supplies, and at the same time, maintain her sanity. Will the undead walk again when the thaw comes? Can she escape the zombie horde? First, she must survive the freeze.

Sage and Rocky Lewis own the land in Akron Ohio where a community of people that society threw away built a small village. The village was created on the principle of dignity, respect, and second chances. The city of Akron voted to close this village because it did not adhere to zoning codes even though it is completely hidden from the street and the only house near it is owned by The Homeless Charity which runs this village and day center. This audiobook is the story of some of the residents in that village. But maybe more importantly it is a story of community, love, and support.

When Sirena Martell finds herself lost and alone on a backwoods road near the Great Serpent Mound, panic pounds her troubled heart. But when she finally does reach the stranger she is supposed to meet - Enoch - with his clutch of artifact eggs, Sirena breathes a sigh of relief...until the real trouble hatches. With unnerving action from the Great Serpent Mound site to Maysville, Kentucky, and overseas from Paris to Amsterdam, Serpent Egg Rapture is one scorcher of a listen across a harrowing landscape that is wrought from pure evil.

At least 75 percent of all mergers and acquisitions fail. It doesn’t have to be that way. Don Scales has been in the professional services business for more than three decades. During that time, he has been involved in more than 40 M&A deals, on both the buyer and seller side. He has learned firsthand what works and what doesn’t and has long thought about writing a book to share his knowledge with others.

Starline is not a traditional princess in pink. She is the one who will do anything to help others from villains and danger. She is a mysterious, heroic girl for the townspeople and to her own family - she is The Masked Princess. A beautiful girl who changed her princess castles life for an adventurous life of the unknown.

Alpha and Omega: Your transfiguration awaits you, my love. Heed the mantra, and live exalted forever. Reject it, and die a mortal death. Haunting relics lure a non-fiction writer into this destiny proclaimed by his tantalizing seductress. He must either claim his revealed identity to start his new life with his soulmate, or else perish in the wake of devastating temptation. Through twists and thrills that test the boundaries of reality, Robb Hoff’s launch of the Eggsquisite Corpse series is an odyssey across a surreal landscape that careens between the earthly and divine.

In the story, the multiethnic community of Wailuna Bay struggles to find safety as a tsunami races toward the islands, but to survive the crisis, they must overcome their own prejudices, class differences, and family conflicts. If residents of this isolated coastal community are to survive, they must band together and seek refuge on the hillside land of an embittered, old milk farmer who wants nothing to do with his neighbors.

It’s a race against time for Wren and her four mates. If they win that battle, the foundation will be set for an epic war for the throne. Queen versus queen. Blood against blood. With both queens at four mates each, the playing field is matched. Or is it? Just one more mate could ensure Wren’s claim to the throne. He kept his mouth shut while lurking just out of her reach, always watching, driven only by his need for vengeance.

Intersecting neuroscience, psychology, and spirituality, author Anne Kertz Kernion offers mindfulness tips and explains the benefits of Christian meditation.

Wren, true heir to the vampire’s Southern Clan throne, has recently joined the Kidnapped Multiple Times Club. She’s certain she’s sick of it - until she meets her latest kidnapper and potential fourth mate. He’s dangerous. He’s lethal. He’s basically Idris Elba in leather. And he looks damn good in a tux. He’ll make the perfect date for a cult party. The murderess queen will be there, and Wren can sever her crown, once and for all. If he can be persuaded, that is.