What happens when an ordinary life keeps brushing up against the extraordinary?From chance encounters with celebrities to near-misses with the spotlight, Kevin Michael Frye’s seventy-plus years have been anything but anonymous.Raised 1200 miles north of Hollywood on a small Canadian island, Frye, now a semi-retired musician, somehow kept finding himself on the edges of fame—sharing meals with iconic celebrities, trading jokes with rock stars, and r...

"Charming . . . Connolly recounts growing up a scrappy Montana kid—one who happened to be born without legs. . . . an empowering read." — PeopleKevin Connolly has been an object of curiosity since the day he was born without legs. Growing up in rural Montana, he was raised like any other kid (except, that is, for his father's MacGyver-like contraptions such as the "butt boot"). As a college student, Kevin traveled to seventeen countries on his skateboard, i...

What if the universe does not begin with force--but with restraint? The Infinite Reservoir is a bold and accessible challenge to the modern collapse of meaning. Its central claim is simple but transformative: the universe exists because Infinite Being restrains itself to make room for finite participation in structured relation. From this metaphysical act of self-giving arises time, space, gravity, and even the moral and rational order on which civilization depends. This is not religious d...

Work through multiple design projects in this part-color guide to understand how Autodesk Fusion 360 helps improve efficiency and drafting Key FeaturesUnderstand the project workflow of Autodesk Fusion 360Design and redesign projects while learning to fix errorsGain a better insight into repurposing real-world items into Fusion 360 for custom designsPurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookBook Descri...

Biggsy is an idealistic 50-year-old English teacher in a West London boys' secondary school. A maverick head of department who battled against the educational establishment for twenty-five years, he's beginning to crack. His departmental colleagues love him, but he suspects that the school's management team is out to get rid of him. His wife, Myra, a medical secretary, is his mainstay. She patiently endures his total commitment to his calling without complaint. However, when she realises t...

Tight buddies since NYU, Ric and Hal dream of producing the next Broadway smash. But to pay the rent, they reluctantly work for Ric's megalomaniacal father, Malcolm, owner of the most powerful advertising firm on Madison Avenue. Ric's long history of bumping heads with his disapproving dad comes to a boil when Malcolm cruelly fires Ric and Hal, sparking a twisted journey of personal exile and exploration neither of them could have imagined. Long held family secrets, deeply buried personal ...

This is a guide meant to help those industrious individuals who just don't know what they want to do when faced with forced job change, or who have chosen to go in a different direction in their vocational life, and don't know how to begin. You will gain a new found connection with yourself that will help you be more in touch with your inner processes, and increase your confidence and capabilities to determine any new path you choose in your life. The aim here is to provide some methods an...

An essential guide to doing business in Central and South America, complete with communication and etiquette tips.This is the essential guide to business etiquette and customs for anyone doing business in Latin America. It features everything the reader needs to know?from getting an appointment to securing a contract. Doing business in Latin America can pose unique, substantial challenges to a non-native, and this book demystifies the entire process. From the two-h...

Michael thought the nightmares would end when he woke up.But something followed him back.After a series of disturbing visions begin bleeding into his waking life, Michael finds himself haunted by a presence lurking just beyond perception-watching from darkened hallways, empty rooms, and the quiet spaces between sleep and reality. As fear tightens its grip on his home and family, he is forced to confront the buried trauma feeding the darkness before it consumes everything he...

Doing genealogical research on his grandmother's family, the author uncovered a shared great-grandparent with President Abraham Lincoln, a branch that produced Elvis Presley, and a 100-year-old unsolved murder involving his grandmother's cousin.In the spring of 1922, in the Illinois farming community of Hoopeston, 25-year-old Gertrude Hanna had been missing for a month when her carefully preserved body was found in the basement of the parsonage across the street from her home. Was ...

My Spiritual Compendium is approximately 33,000 words and is intended to be informative, as well as entertaining, and thus is written as an enjoyable story that also provides the reader with a solid foundation of fundamental spiritual teachings. The story centers around a young woman's account of her experiences with a spiritual healer, in which she is given a small book of spiritual teachings that can be described as an artistic, spiritual compendium, or spiritual teachings that are writt...

For anyone grappling with why they do the things they do, feel the way they feel, and think the thoughts they think, Your Heart Is a City is an answer to those questions and more from a unique perspective on the human mind. Prepare to be seen and see yourself more clearly than you ever have as you embrace the revelation of just how active and alive you are mentally, spiritually, and emotionally. You are vast and intricate, a metropolis of intent and experience. This book is your invitation...