We Called Him Lucky is a touching true story celebrating the extraordinary life of an Australian Shepherd who became far more than a family pet-he became family.From the day Lucky arrived as a timid puppy, he filled every moment with unconditional love, clever antics, and unforgettable adventures. Whether he was outsmarting his owners for an extra treat, herding animals, making unlikely friends, or faithfully standing by the people he loved most, Lucky's remarkable...

In the spirit of Eat, Pray, Love, Carol Wright Folbre’s story is of a young suburban Texas woman’s path to self-discovery in the early 1980s. Newly married, she embarked with her husband on a journey that morphed into an eighteen-month reassessment and discovery of her core skills, values, and presumptions.Folbre’s travels across India, Nepal, China, and Russia were replete with challenge and adventure. Travel by foot, plane, passenger and industrial rail,...

The Islamic State falls. Brilliant combat jihadist escapes to Syria, forms a terrorist cell, secretly masterminds a scheme exploiting a crack in aviation security. The Desert Southwest Coral Snake is their weapon of choice; pilot and co-pilot their targets. An American airliner is brought down from 31,000 feet. Jaysh al-Allah, the Army of God, takes credit, paralyzing commercial aviation. US Marine sniper, FBI and CIA resources are brought to bear. A high-altitude drone with laser...

There are seven levels in heaven, seven levels on Earth and seven levels (steps) we all must go through before we can go home to heaven. When you know your loved one is alive in heaven and you can talk and even see them from time to time, it makes living a lot easier. Your spirit visits them while you sleep. Each of us retains our past lives in our own orb. Yes, we all have a purpose to live.

The Happy Tree is a mischievous, lovable little creature who is an outcast from his forest home because he accidentally started a fire with a magic glass on a stick (magnifying glass). In the process of trying to save the youngest Joy Baby, Angie, the Happy Tree uses the leaves on his top knot to smother the fire. But something terrible happens! His leaves change from green to purple! When this happens, he becomes a social outcast with the tree town elders. The Happy Tree is the Joy Babies...

Follow along a Navy SEAL's firsthand account of American heroism during a secret military operation in Afghanistan in this true story of survival and difficult choices.On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold surrounded by a small but heavily armed force. Less the...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award, Kiran Desai’s extraordinary novel of love and loss, now reissued with a new introduction by the authorPublished to astonishing acclaim, The Inheritance of Loss heralds Kiran Desai as one of our most insightful novelists. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, an embittered judge wants only to retire in peace when his orphaned grand...

The year is 2202, and Japan has become the land of moe. Aspiring author Gin Imose and his little sister Kuroha are traveling to TOKYO to meet with the world famous author, Gai Odaira. Kuroha is uninterested in his orthodox literary style, and amazingly is able to read ancient modern Japanese books written in kanji!This fateful encounter sets off a chain of events that could change the course of literary history. Could it be that, long ago, books could be about more than little sist...

Lod Airport, Israel: Two Concorde jets take off for a U.N. conference that will finally bring peace to the Middle East. Covered by F-14 fighters, accompanied by security men, the planes carry warriors, pacifists, lovers, enemies, dignitaries -- and a bomb planted by a terrorist mastermind.Suddenly they're forced to crash-land at an ancient desert site. Here, with only a handful of weapons, the men and women of the peace mission must make a desperate stand against an army of crack P...

If you are targeted and gang stalked, I do not need to give you a definition. You already know what it means to live it. What I can do is give you information on what I have personally discovered about who and what is behind this, and advise you with techniques I have used to counteract it. Stay strong, and know, there are things you can do.

The bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals returns with a sharply observed, hilarious account of his adventures in China—a complex, fascinating country with enough dangers and delicacies to keep him, and readers, endlessly entertained.Maarten Troost has charmed legions of readers with his laugh-out-loud tales of wandering the remote islands of the South Pacific. When the travel bug hit again, he decided to go big-time, taking on the world’s most ...

“One of the best writers today.” (Johnny Olsen) / “A master storyteller.” (Betty Richard)FROM USA TODAY & MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDYTHEY WERE JUST ADVISORS.UNTIL THEY WEREN’T.On a routine advisory mission to Nigeria, Bravo Team finds themselves in the line of fire when the Boko Haram terrorist group attacks a local village, intent on kidnapping their girls.Vastly outnumbered, B...