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Peter Bishop

Financial scams are becoming more sophisticated every year — and older adults are often the primary targets.But being targeted does not mean being vulnerable.Avoiding Scams and Financial Fraud for Seniors is a clear, practical guide designed to help adults over 60 recognize warning signs, protect personal information, and respond calmly if something feels suspicious.This book does not use fear tactics.It does not overwhelm with technical jarg...

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Louisa May Alcott

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Elizabeth Klett, Arielle Lipshaw, Karen Savage, Kara Shallenberg, Bruce Pirie, Amy Gramour, Phil Chenevert, David Lawrence, Tom Crawford, Denny Sayers, Henry Frigon, Nadine Eckert-Boulet, John Croudy, Peter Bishop, John Fricker, E. Lee

In this dramatic reading of Little Women, we follow the lives of four sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March – as they embark on the journey from childhood to womanhood. The sisters live with their mother while their father fights in the American Civil War. The family, headed by their beloved mother Marmee, must struggle to make ends meet, with the help of their kind and wealthy neighbor, Mr. Laurence, and his high-spirited grandson Laurie. Although Little Women was a novel for girls, it d...

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Ellen Curtis, Erin Vance, Brad Dunne, Bronwynn Erskine, Melissa Bishop, Shannon K Green, Peter J Foote, Stacey Oakley

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From the Rock

The sea is a dangerous, unknowable entity, with depths that man has yet to explore and creatures that we may never encounter. The seas that surround the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador are particularly vicious, with freezing waves, terrible winds, and strong undertows.This collection features fifteen tales designed to highlight the strange beauty and wonderful thrill of the sea. Delve into stories from genius authors such as Lisa M Daly (Navigating Stories), Brad Dunne...

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Peter Bishop

Nobody ever suspected that a secret lay hidden in the picture that Zivilia had inherited from her mother. That it had been painted in the land of Blue Mists, a strange hermit kingdom that lay on the other side of the world, had been long forgotten. Besides, Zivilia knew nothing of the country's blood-splattered history, or the disruption caused by the League of Ausburg and their traders in the brief period when they were there many years ago. Thus learning her painting held clues as to whe...

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Peter Bishop, Lesley Williams

Whilst there is extensive literature analysing the design and function of new buildings and places, the actual process through which development proposals are actually fashioned – through complex negotiation and deal making, involving many different stakeholders with different agendas – is largely undocumented. Conventional planning theory tends to assume a logical, rational and linear decision-making process, which bears little relationship to reality. This book aims to shed some light on...

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Peter Bishop

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Objekt

Whether a humble string of planks swaying across a trickling stream or the soaring towers of the Golden Gate Bridge, bridges are one of man’s great engineering feats. In Bridge, Peter Bishop provides a comprehensive historical account of their role in the advancement of human culture.From ancient Roman arches to the rail bridge of Lhasa to the suspension bridge over Niagara Falls, we traverse in this book the full span of the globe to examine numerous types of bridges and ...

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Peter Bishop

The invention of the Groff changed everything. It propelled people out-of-body and into the shallows of subtle-space, to skim, or ghost, intimately alongside the physical world. As the twenty-first century staggered towards its conclusion everyone was travelling out-of-body, for work or pleasure, legal and illegal. But with new freedoms and opportunities came new forms of power, crime, vulnerability and madness. Now, an immensely powerful SuperGroff could punch minds far deeper. The Argent...

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Bishop Peter J. Elliott

The liturgy of the Catholic Church is the action by which Jesus Christ unites the members of the Church in glorifying God. It makes people holy through words, music, action and signs. The Eucharist is intended to be the most powerful means of union with our God, with the saints in heaven and with each other, and is to be a foretaste of the praise of God given in joy by the saints in heaven. As we move through the whole of the year, the Church is united with the mysteries of Christ's earthl...

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Henry Herz, Henry Herz, Jane Yolen, Mary Fan, Eugen Bacon, Jeff Edwards, Peter Clines, Lee Murray, Bishop O’Connell, Tori Eldridge, Harry Turtledove, Catherine Stine, Scott Sigler, Gaby Triana, Ann Dávila Cardinal, Jonathan Maberry, Andrea Tang, Kevin Andrew Murphy, Jeremy Robinson, Tanya Huff, David Mack, various authors

Combat Monsters brings together twenty award-winning and bestselling speculative fiction authors who each bring their own spin on an alternate history of World War II.New research has uncovered deeply buried military secrets—both the Allied and Axis special operations during World War II included monsters. Did the Soviets use a dragon to win the Battle of Kursk? Did a vampire fight for the Canadians in Holland? Did the US drop the second atomic bomb on a k...

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Bertrand Russell

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Peter Bishop

Russell sets forth the idea that political ideals must be based upon the ideals that best benefit the individual to create the best life possible. He details the issues that his current economic system and the unequal distribution of wealth present in achieving said ideals. He puts forth his beliefs on what the purposes of an economic system should be, including production and security. He criticizes monopolies and all the damage that they have done. Russell then moves toward a critique of...

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Tracey Rowland, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, George Weigel, Joanna Bogle, Andrew Bolt, Bishop Peter J. Elliott, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Sr. Mary Grace, S.V., Rev. Canon Alexander Sherbrooke, Reverend Jerome Santamaria

Cardinal George Pell was a significant figure in Australian public life and in the life of the Catholic Church from the time of his appointment to the episcopacy in the 1980s until his death in 2023. His imprisonment for some 404 days for a crime he did not commit was one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in Australian legal history. His scape-goat treatment has been compared to that of Alfred Dreyfus in the period of the Third French Republic.As a defender of Catholic orthod...

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Bishop Peter J. Elliott

Ceremonies Explained for Servers may well be called the "mother of all servers' manuals". This is the most detailed guide available for servers and those who train and supervise them at the altar.In accessible language, Ceremonies covers the roles of servers in a wide range of Catholic liturgical celebrations. These are described in full, such as: the Mass in both the Ordinary and Extraordinary forms, the seven sacraments, the ceremonies of Holy Week, the Liturgy ...