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Drawing down one’s savings in retirement is something very few retirees do well. They often outlive their money, systematically underspend for fear of outliving their money, or employ inefficient and wasteful drawdown strategies. Retirement Income for Life provides five enhancements that will greatly improve the odds of your retiring well.

Using what he calls the Seven SuperLaws and the Seven Power Principles, James takes complex, time-proven concepts and combines them with fun stories and powerful anecdotes, presenting you with a proven path to your ultimate achievement. You will learn that you are able to achieve unlimited success by following a series of tested and proven actions.

In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is in disarray, corrupt structures are falling apart, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, a formerly enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist schoolteacher, dodging the local constable and the slavecatchers that prowl the bayous.

New York Times best-selling author Jim Harrison is one of America's most beloved writers, and of all his creations, Brown Dog - a bawdy, reckless, down-on-his-luck Michigan Indian - has earned cult status with readers in the more than two decades since his first appearance. For the first time, Brown Dog gathers all the Brown Dog novellas, including one never before published, into one volume - the ideal introduction (or reintroduction) to Harrison's irresistible Everyman.

The research is definitive and sobering: rich people who win the lottery stay rich. That's their normal state. Middle-class people who win the lottery soon end up back in the middle class, because that's their normal state. And those who are broke and win the lottery quickly return to being broke. The amount of money you have (or don't have) reflects who you are. If you think broke, you'll always come back to being broke. And if you think wealthy, you'll always return to wealth.

The collection’s title novella, "The Farmer’s Daughter,” opens in the unforgettable voice of a 15-year-old girl living a life of solitude in rural Montana, where she has recently moved. Home-schooled by parents who don’t fully understand her, she finds escape in the rapture of playing piano and exploring the gorgeous countryside on her horse.

The world is increasingly being globalized, countries are opening up their borders, and online communication technologies are becoming mainstream. At the center of almost every communication activity is the English language. Most non-native speakers think English is a difficult language to learn. However, this is not the case.

The Washington War is the story of how the Second World War was fought and won in the capital’s halls of power - and how the United States, which in December 1941 had a nominal army and a decimated naval fleet, was able in only 30 months to fling huge forces onto the European continent and shortly thereafter shatter Imperial Japan’s Pacific strongholds. Three quarters of a century after the overwhelming defeat of the totalitarian Axis forces, the terrifying, razor-thin calculus on which so many critical decisions turned has been forgotten....

This darkly satirical drama by Gore Vidal finds two presidential contenders seeking the endorsement of an aging ex-president, and explores how personal agendas can change the course of a nation's destiny. The political intrigues rampant in Vidal's 1960 setting are strangely similar what is going on today. Includes an interview with actors Fred Thompson and Marsha Mason.

If life were to come with an owner's manual for creating wealth, health, contentment, and spiritual connection, this would be it! Have you ever felt like you needed to stop the life you're living, make a few adjustments, and start over? Do you ever feel like you are working too hard for the results you are getting? Have you ever had a nagging feeling that there really is something to this "spirituality thing"? If your answer is "yes" to any of these questions, you're going to love this audiobook.

I hope that I can encourage you to tear down your walls and allow God to use your hidden gifts and talents to bless others. I call these gifts and talents "hidden treasures". They are unused gifts given by divine intervention. I believe we all have them within our hearts. We just simply need to reach down inside ourselves and find them, and then, allow God to help us reach out and share them with others. This is God's purpose and will for our lives. God created us for relationship and he has set in motion a plan to bless men and women through other men and women.

Jarred is haunted by a mask in his mirror, visions of a past he doesn't remember, and love for a woman he can't recognize. As he feels he is about to crack from the stress, the mask in the mirror begins to crack as well. Jarred wonders if he is haunted, insane, or is he perhaps the only sane person left in the world.

Thanksgiving should be a joyful season - but not for Mary Shrock. She’d always planned to marry David - never even considered doing anything else with her life. Two weeks before their wedding, David runs off to marry another woman. That was a year ago, and Mary is still feeling the shock and humiliation. Micah Miller lost his wife last year, leaving him with five young kinner to raise on his own, plus a business to run. He is exhausted. 

Life in Rough Creek, Missouri, isn’t easy - especially if you’re the older brother of the most daring, troublemaking young man in town. Spencer Ludlow has spent his entire life trying to rein in his half-brother Markus, with only middling success. He’s willing enough to keep trying, but with the harvest season coming on, he’d like a little help. Besides, he’s got something more important to focus on - Tina Webber, a young lady from Boston, who has answered his advert for a Mail Order Bride.

I've traveled around the world for years and years now, interacting with thousands of people and, consistently, I find there are about eleven questions I'm continually asked.

In Mississippi Noir, literary crime fiction master Tom Franklin has assembled a phenomenal short-story collection that highlights a mesmerizing and diverse set of styles and subject matter. Urban, suburban, and rural settings alike unveil new shades of darkness that fall upon Mississippi's past and present.

When you find your unique genius and purpose, what we'll call innate ability development occurs, and you build and live your life from that place. You literally light your life on fire and become a productivity powerhouse!

This is the original announcement of the famed Roswell, New Mexico, crashed disc, made by ABC Network Radio news anchor Taylor Grant on July 8, 1947. This first public announcement that the US government had recovered a crashed flying saucer was covered up by the Army Air Force and successfully kept the lid on the so-called Roswell Incident until 1978 - 31 years later - when former military personnel involved in the recovery began to speak openly to UFO researchers.

Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. In the wake of Chicago Noir, Twin Cities Noir, and Kansas City Noir - all popular volumes in the Akashic Noir Series - comes the latest Midwest installment, St. Louis Noir. Masterfully curated by Scott Phillips, author of The Ice Harvest (adapted for film, starring John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton), this volume will chill the listener with heartland menace.

Scientific research has proven the phenomenon of entrainment of the brain - in other words, that the brain, when subjected to pulsating sound, tends to synchronize with that sound and resonate at the same vibration. Zen masters practice for up to 20 years to access the "Theta" brain state (four cycles per second). Using the breakthrough program, you can begin to access this state immediately and effortlessly.