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"Even before the attack on Pearl Harbor and America’s official entry into WWII, America’s maritime forces launched convoys to support our Allies in Europe through the Lend-Lease Act which gave then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt authority to send equipment and food to the war effort without violating our position of neutrality. Once the war was declared on the United States by Nazi Germany, and the Allies agreed upon a “Europe first” strategy, convoy operations became the main enabling effort in the war". (Andrew L. Lewis, Vice Admiral, USN - retired).

There might be gold in them thar hills, but curmudgeonly San Francisco business tycoon Caden Caldwell treks to Alaska in a fit of rage looking for his free-spirited son, Colt, who has struck out for the Klondike Gold Rush. What Caden finds is something else altogether. Orphaned children. Wayward women. Quirky prospectors. Tlingit Indians. Isolated with this motley crew when early winter weather hits, he has no choice but to re-evaluate his life in ways that terrify yet intrigue him. Will he ever be the same? Does he want to be?

What if we lived in a world that revolved around quality of life, rather than economic winners and losers? In Person to Person, Joeri Torfs and Pim Ampe describe this world and chart a clear path toward it. Grounded in research and rooted in reality, the world they describe is neither a utopia nor a fantasy. They present an environment that incentivizes goodness, fairness, sustainability, and freedom. It begins with the individual and moves toward our collaborative relationships.

The self-help industry is a fraud. You are not exceptional. You can’t have it all. The money won’t follow just because you do what you love. Anyone who tells you something different is lying. Sam LaCrosse’s approach to living a rich and fulfilling life doesn't involve cookie-cutter slogans or self-esteem dogma. The path to a good life lies in discovering and honoring your own core values.

This is a great story to listen along to with a child before going to an amusement park or as a bedtime story. It’s a way to teach your child Spanish, or if they are already bilingual, a way to teach them to understand. Memory aids are available to help with visualization and retention of new vocabulary. An audio vocabulary section helps when practicing the newly acquired vocabulary. Wrapping up this book are crazy roller-coaster facts for those who like the biggest, the fastest, the most inversions, and the most G-forces. It even has an original song.

A small-town campus is rocked by scandal. Suddenly, four women find themselves in the crosshairs of an investigation that threatens to upend their lives.

For Larry "Buddy" Torrence, childhood ended in 1965 after his best friend, Daniel, killed himself. They were seventh-grade classmates at a newly integrated school in redneck southeast Texas. Buddy's been a brooding loner since then, unable to stop blaming himself because he alone knows something chilling about Daniel's death.

In the midst of tall castles, warring pikemen, dreadful plagues, church decay, and the superstition and darkness of 16th-century Europe, the Anabaptist revival burst into flames. One of the first leaders was a partying university dropout who met Christ and was transformed into a fiery preacher, confronting and challenging the greatest reformers of the day.

You will discover in this book that nothing in your heart has stunned God or caught him off guard. Nothing in your past, present or your future has deterred God's plan and purpose for you. Your God given destiny can be found in one place.....The Original Sanctuary—your heart.