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A guide for parents to help their children better understand the world around them by helping them think through the questions they face regarding honesty, friendship, sensitivity, fairness, dedication, individuality and 103 other character-building issues
Many families and almost all schools spend a great deal of time developing children academically, but studies show tht scholastic achievement is not the only key to future success....
Many families and almost all schools spend a great deal of time developing children academically, but studies show tht scholastic achievement is not the only key to future success....
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In Michael Parker's new novel, Joel Dunn Jr. tells the story of how he did everything he could to save his family after his mother left and his father's tenuous hold on sanity unraveled. On a journey from the town of Trent, North Carolina, to the coast, Joel and his little brother Tank thread their way back to their mother, fueled by potato chips, Coke, and the soundtrack of the powerful soul music that their daddy taught them to love. Always keeping...
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"A very funny, very moving novel about being lost and then found . . . I love this book."
-Antonya Nelson, author of Bound
Two strangers meet over the hood of a used car in Texas: Marcus, who is fleeing both his financial and personal failures, and Maria, who after years of dodging her mistakes has returned to her hometown to make amends. One looking forward, the other looking back, they face off over the car they both want. And after knowing...
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Haunted by a secret tragedy, Edwin, son of the richest family in a small Southern town, fights to overcome his addiction to morphine and face the truth that his parents have worked to obscure. This timeless debut novel of master Southern storyteller Michael Parker takes readers to a small Southern town in the 1950s where Edwin Keane suffers from the lasting effects of a horrible accident-a broken back, a morphine addiction, and a town of enabling...
5) North Slope
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In 1968, one oil company was left drilling for oil on the North Slope of Alaska. All the big guns had given up and left the icy waste of this frozen desert. When the drill penetrated the lake of oil beneath the ice, so began what was described as the 'second gold rush in Alaskan history'. Michael Parker has taken this historical fact and turned it into a brilliant thriller that penetrates the reader's mind as keenly as the drill cut through the ice....
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ONCE MORE WITH FEELING. Rehearsal stories from legends and everyday heroes to inspire any performance"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately under rehearsed" Sean O'Casey.
Churchill knew it. Demosthenes believed in it. Taylor Swift lives by it. The importance of rehearsal. Virtuoso violinist to Olympic gold medallist, business leaders to teachers, their fascinating stories capture the physical, and the mental rehearsal essential...
7) Learning D
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D is a modern programming language that is both powerful and efficient. It combines multiple paradigms in a way that opens up a whole new world of software design. It is used to develop both desktop and web applications, with future targets including mobile, and is available on multiple platforms. It is familiar to anyone with some experience in one or more of the C-family languages. However, hidden in the similarities are several differences that...
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Underwater oceanographer Harry Marsham survives when his yacht is rammed one night in the Caribbean by a ship without lights. This unexpected event draws Marsham unwittingly into a desperate battle to expose the evil plans of the terrorist, Hakeem Khan, who is preparing to attack the soft underbelly of America, turning the Gulf of Mexico and the eastern seaboard of the United States into a wasteland. Drawn into this violent world is Marsham's associate,...
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Manfred Schiller is the world's most powerful and richest citizen He controls an enormous industry that covers most aspects of everyday life. The key to controlling his organization is a week-old baby boy, and Franz Molke-leader of the People's Party in Germany-aims to control the Schiller empire by kidnapping the infant. The kidnap fails, but the baby disappears in the process. Ex IRA terrorist and SAS soldier, Conor Lenihan fights double cross and...
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Whether ferrying slowly across an eastern Naorth Carolina river or reaching out to touch a train that' s not about to stop, the wanderers in these stories yearn for what they can' t quite grasp. It might be what they' ve left behind or what lies ahead, but whatever it is, it won' t leave them alone. Regret and marvel, trouble and love- it' s Everything, Then and Since.
11) Hell's Gate
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A savage struggle between good and evil in Africa's great Rift Valley. Ten thousand, armed Masai tribesmen threaten to overwhelm the sprawling railway camp at Nairobi in the year 1898. Left to defend the camp and its inhabitants, Major Kingsley Webb faces defeat with just 250 soldiers under his command. The conflict touches the lives of the lovely Hannah Bowers and Reuben Cole as both Reuben and Major Webb struggle for survival and for Hannah's love....
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These eleven arresting, comic, and moving stories by acclaimed writer Michael Parker testify to the driving force of love, the lengths to which we'll go to claim it and pursue it, the delusions we'll float to keep it going, the torment that goes part and parcel with it. And despite all of the above, the absolute necessity of it, no matter its consequences.
Whether it's a college student undone by the boy who leaves her, or the boyfriend intent on...
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It is 1943 and the battle of the Atlantic is being ferociously contested by the Allies and Hitler's Nazi Germany. In the storm-lashed waters off the north coast of Scotland a German commando group lands on the remote shores of North Cape Island. Bruno Schafer has personal orders from Admiral Dönitz to find a missing U boat captain who holds the secrets to Britain's new centimetric radar. The islanders, remnants of a once thriving whaling community,...
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Calling all Hamilton fans! Spend more time with the remarkable Theodosia Burr by reading this fascinating novel inspired by a little-known incident in her life. It's the stuff of song.
Michael Parker's vast and involving novel about pirates and slaves, treason and treasures, madness and devotion, takes place on a tiny island battered by storms and cut off from the world. Inspired by two forgotten moments in history, it begins in 1813, when Theodosia...
15) A Dangerous Game
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When Charlie Picket was sent to Mexico by his boss, he didn't expect to end up with a thirteen year old girl in tow and be hunted by the FBI, the CIA and the Mexican police. But the hunters wanted the girl who was key to the theft of ten billion dollars and the overthrow of the Mexican government.
16) Roselli's Gold
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Hidden, Vatican gold and three murdered soldiers is the secret Captain Miles Roselli thought he'd buried during the Second World War. Twenty years later the gold is uncovered, and Roselli finds himself in a life and death battle against those who would seek to destroy him and the credibility of the Roman Catholic Church.
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This précis is a light-hearted attempt to make the Old Testament into a readable document for people who are interested, but do not have the inclination to take the time to read it. It would be enjoyable as an introduction to the Bible. It is not aimed at serious students of the Bible or religion.
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Kenneth E. Bailey was both a missionary and a New Testament scholar. As a missionary, first in Egypt and later in Lebanon, Israel-Palestine, and Cyprus, he experienced firsthand the life of traditional Middle Eastern villagers, which led him to the conclusion that the village culture he witnessed in the twentieth century had hardly changed since the first century. Consequently, he was able to reinterpret Jesus's parables and life experiences through...
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No matter what the speaking challenge is, this inspirational, cleverly illustrated book will help readers perform with passion, power and persuasion-at the top of their game. Whether chasing a job, planning a pitch, giving a speech at a wedding, presenting to one or one thousand people, listenrs of It's Not What You Say will discover how to: • Use the rule of three to win any audience over • Prepare so you can be yourself - but better • Embrace...
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"Set in the hardscrabble landscape of early 1900s Oklahoma, but timeless in its sensibility, Prairie Fever traces the dynamic between the Stewart sisters: the pragmatic Lorena and the chimerical Elise. The two are bound together not only by their isolation on the prairie but also on their deep emotional reliance on each other. That connection to each other supersedes all else, until the arrival of Gus McQueen. When Gust arrives in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma,...