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Eileen Sharp and Vic Hightower were frustrated. After years of profitable, predictable growth, Swan Services was in a rut. Meetings were called and discussions held, but few decisions were made and even less got done. People were pointing fingers and assigning blame, but nothing happened to solve Swan’s mounting problems. It felt as though they were working harder than ever but with less impact. The company Eileen and Vic had founded and built for 10 years was a different place. It just wasn’t fun anymore.

Zaltys is a girl like any other to grow up ranging thejungles of the Southern Lluirwood. She’s a crack shot with a bow and no stranger to the dangers that lurk beneath the deep forest canopy. On expedition with her family to harvest the forbidden terazul flower, a powerful drug that has gathered many a dreamer into its narcotic embrace, Zaltys is about to unearth a truth long buried by the feculent loam of deception.

Take a moment to look over your books about investing. Have any of them given you a successful method for making profits and reducing risks? Is there even one such book that has proven reliable over the years? Alas, most investors would say no. That's because so few investment books are classic in the true sense: For years investors keep buying the book, and they keep using the method to make the most of their opportunities.

For more than half a century, Ada Louise Huxtable's keen eye and vivid writing have reinforced to readers how important architecture is and why it continues to be both controversial and fascinating - making her one of the best-known critics in the world. On Architecture collects the best of Huxtable's writing from the New York Times, New York Review of Books, Wall Street Journal, and her various books. In these selections, Huxtable examines the 20th century's most important architectural masters and projects.

Most of us assume we lack psychic abilities because we were not "born" with these powers. Psychic talents are just like any other ability. They can be developed. Unleash Your Psychic Powers contains dozens of exercises (over 100) to assist you in developing yours.

Robert Prechter proposes a new science called socionomics. It's the study of how humans interact and how that interaction determines the course of the economy, culture, and history.

How a Beaver Saved My Life is a dramatic look into one man's journey when doctors told him that he would be in a wheelchair or dead in 10 years. You will share his engaging, deeply touching, and sometimes hilarious stories. The experience will seem so real that you will think you are there with Gary as he faces death and disability and finds his way to win over both! Gary's unyielding commitment to never take on the identity of an illness is truly inspiring.

This book is sort of written like a preppers version of a school paper entitled “What Did You Do on Your COVID 19 Summer Vacation?” It provides an apocalyptic fiction author’s attempt to give his prepper perspective of the pandemic, quarantine, lock downs, stupid mask rules, power mad governors, and how this all ties into the strife America is facing and how he is preparing himself for it.

Two old farts surviving a grid-down apocalypse by fate or chance, or could be rotten luck according to their bickering, find themselves bound by circumstance of survival to live out their days together. Bad luck seems to be a daily occurrence for all in this apocalypse of no food, no water, but add to it a hurricane, pandemic, and old age, and two grumpy old men, and you have a story of resilience and humor sure to entertain you in a quarantine.

Walt and Yoshi travel away from aunties farmstead to find an isolated island paradise allegedly not far off shore. Yoshi jealously guards and carries the “Juice”, a big gourd shaped stainless steel jug of herbal tonic that has taken months to create and is the best cure available for many sicknesses in this grid down world without doctors or pharmacies. Will Walt’s botanical elixir offer a remedy or herbal cure for this ghost disease, or will it be an incurable slate wiper virus for the United States?

The setting for the event is an apocalyptic author, listeners get together, prepper camp out which is occurring in Alabama when a geomagnetic storm triggers a chaotic pole shift like event causing earthquakes and flooding. The electrical grid has gone down and the unexpected slip of Earth’s Tectonic plates grinding together causes the New Madrid Fault line in Tennessee to tear itself apart and alter America’s continental shape and coastlines forever.

The Earth’s magnetic poles have shifted, the electrical grid is down, and society has collapsed. Survivors struggle daily to cope, as pestilence and plague take their toll. Famine and strife run amuck in the burning cities. Hospitals are abandoned. A chance discovery made while scavenging in the old attic of an herbalist cache of books gives Zack the added herbal knowledge he needs to fight the rampant diseases occurring in his survivalist community. Forgotten medical knowledge from the Civil War era offers healing for a small group trying to reconstruct society.

The virtual work world...you may love it...or hate it! Do you manage a remote team? Are there times that you feel frustrated and stressed? Have expectations been set without the how-to in getting there? The Virtual Divide reveals that there is no perfect leadership style; how to get results with team meetings and ways to communicate clearly and effectively, and how to inspire and build trust within the team.

A satirical, often humorous, but practical look at how three groups of people will end up trying to survive the apocalypse when stuck on a sinking Island. The setting for the event is an apocalyptic author, listeners get together, prepper camp out which is occurring in Alabama when a geomagnetic storm triggers a chaotic pole shift like event causing earthquakes and flooding.

Walt and Yoshi find themselves as down on their luck and stranded, bugged out preppers in the grid down apocalypse. Their mission in life now is to get to Florida and live out their days playing apocalyptic beach bums, or getting to Yoshi’s great aunts farm located more inland. Emergency broadcast messages on the radio of early winter approaching a mini ice age is cause for concerns and they begin second guessing their decision to bug out.

Survival tips written for (and by) old farts... I decided to write down a bunch of timely wood lore tricks and preparedness advisement so they can be shared and remembered at least once more. Knowledge I have gained from a lifetime of prepping and preparing for disasters and how to live easier through hard times are explained within this book.

A national emergency was declared months ago when the electrical grid went down and stayed down. Times are hard and many die off from starvation and disease. We find ourselves now regaled and intrigued with an amusing story about how an old southern prepper met a beleaguered former Japanese restaurant owner under fearful circumstances in this apocalyptic world. The odd couple are forced to team up in order survive food shortages, old age, armed marauders, and life in general as they plot a course to bug out of their current situation.

North Korea has taken down many of the electrical grids worldwide with cyber and terrorist physical attacks, and it's lights out for America and her allies. Our stalwart survivors team up with others to defend what they have and bravely forage out to scavenge what’s left of society in a coastal city. Supplies are low, food is disappearing at an alarming rate, and game is getting scarce as desperate people do even more desperate things to survive.

This an apocalyptic story of survival from the perspectives of several survivors trying to live through it and survive from the start of the disaster to eight months after. They must come together to form a community by their entrepreneurial efforts and networking. The disaster, starvation, and societal collapse in this dystopian world is seen through the eyes of a pair of older vacationers who just happen to get stranded at the beach.

The grid is down and electric bikes are the transportation of choice for the coming apocalypse, but where do you find one in this deserted beach town? The prepper couple forages for food and other supplies in the looted-out vacation spot and lucks up on a restaurant supply truck. A small group of people still living at the marina seems to hold the key to reforming society but closely guards its secrets and turf against strangers.