When Kurt meets Cassie it is love at first sight, but at nearly that same moment a killer who breaks bones like toothpicks and tears flesh with fangs begins ravaging the community. While many ascribe the carnage to a decades-old legend called "The Coogan Curse," Kurt digs for clues, separating fact from fiction, truth from superstition, madness from motive. Then Cassie's sister is killed. Cassie and her toddler are now clearly in the demon's crosshairs. To protect them, and despite putting...

A shy, immature, reluctant young soldier finds himself on a darkened jet, making his descent onto an airfield in Vietnam.What Larry Long didn’t realize, however, was that he was also descending into a hole of pot, booze, and pills—one that would take him years to escape.In this memoir, he looks back at his army service, beginning with the worst eight weeks of his life: basic training. During that time, he didn’t make any friends or gain any self-confidence. All he did was lo...

Chicago Assistant Prosecutor Kurt McBride knows the fate of law enforcers in prison: unbearable for him. So when he finds himself accused of murder, he must take flight. With false identification and altered appearance, he finds refuge amidst the small, year-round population of Washington Island, Wisconsin. He meets and forges a relationship with a young woman to whom he confesses his true identity. He gains credibility and respect from neighbors. He solves a local murder case. He stays un...

Kurt McBride had his eye on celebrity long before his first day in Law College. And his seven-year career has thus far gained him national repute. So when a wealthy socialite contacts him pleading for his help and will pay $4,000 per day plus expenses, McBride sees the opportunity as a giant step up the ladder—even after the widowed woman, Carolie, explains her situation.Women her age around the country are being abducted and she has proof, she says, that the kidnappers are after he...

Toby Noble takes his life for granted: his loving family, his countless friends, his upcoming college days, even his intimacy with the most sought-after girl in town. He has no idea how much it all means to him—until everything, save his own being, vanishes.In a flash of lightening he is a stranger to everyone and everything in town. The people he knew are gone; the places he knew have either changed or disappeared. Life itself, as he knew it, is different.In a state of near-...

Circularity and Resource-Based (CRB) Dispute Management System is designed to integrate natural resources with cultural diversity into negotiation and mediation, using systematic management tools. This approach enables disputants to objectively develop and choose resolutions that benefit all parties while promoting environmental conservation. When applied correctly, this process can help resolve long-standing resource and environmental disputes while safeguarding resources for future gener...

Circularity and Resource-Based (CRB) Dispute Management System is designed to integrate natural resources with cultural diversity into negotiation and mediation, using systematic management tools. This approach enables disputants to objectively develop and choose resolutions that benefit all parties while promoting environmental conservation. When applied correctly, this process can help resolve long-standing resource and environmental disputes while safeguarding resources for future gener...

The Resource-Based Dispute Management System concept proposes a management system that sequences the particular natural resource with cultural diversities to broaden the individuals perspectives within the negotiation and mediation processes.

No single person has affected the history of our world more than Jesus Christ. His real-world teachings, moral example, and incarnate life surpass those of any philosopher, guru, or spiritual leader (or all of them combined). Yet it is his death and resurrection that make his teachings worthy of obedience and his person worthy of worship. Jesus Still Speaks invites the reader to encounter anew Jesus’s seven last sayings as he died in atoning sacrifice for our sins. All of Jesus’s words are...

Today's modern Christian often struggles with overwhelming issues and questions at home, at work, in the marketplace, and within the depths of his or her own soul. Often these issues come in the form of attacks against positions we take when we speak God's truth into the lives of our loved one or our places of work. Many Christians have been trained to dialog with unbelievers on the big issues of apologetics, but few have been equipped with the less weighty but no less troublesome issues o...

This volume of correspondence contains exchanges written between Lloyd Cline Sears (1895-1986) and Pattie Hathaway Armstrong (1899-1977), two influential leaders in early educational efforts of the Churches of Christ. Spanning the years 1915 to 1921, the letters document their writers' romance, but they are more than simply love letters. They also express an educational philosophy and an understanding of Christian purpose as inspired by the Stone-Campbell Movement and held in tension with ...

Climb aboard Big Blue and ride along with veteran trucker, Long-Haul Larry as he tells tales of his journeys across America's heartland.Share in the humor and struggle of driving a truck for the first time and teaching others to do the same.Experience nail-biting tension while trucking through ice and wind.Learn how to train a cat and how not to train your wife.Find out what to wear when the shooting starts and discover the fastest way to get a ...