Here for the first time is told in a single volume one of the most remarkable stories in American history. An Eastener is never long in California without hearing something of “the big four”: four Sacramento shopkeepers—Collis P. Huntington, Lelan Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker—who got control of the newly organized Central Pacific Railroad property. These men are portrayed in Mr. Lewis’s volume vividly and with a great wealth or pertinent anecdote. Thus their true characters ...

TO THOSE WHO CROSS MAC, PUNISHMENT COMES ON A DAILY BASIS AND SECOND CHASES NON-EXISTENT.A former Navy officer with a reputation for getting results, Mac travels the country helping communities rebuild after America's worst natural disasters. Working for FEMA has taught him how to survive chaos, uncover hard truths, and protect those who cannot protect themselves.But nothing has prepared him for the phone call that sends him home.Returning to California to care for ...

What if we could do better than the family?We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families can be filled with love and care, but for many they are sites of pain: from abandonment and neglect, to abuse and violence. Nobody is more likely to harm you than your family.Even in so-called happy families, the unpaid, unacknowledged work that it takes to raise children and care for each other is endless and exhausting. It could be otherwise: in this urgent, inci...

In Locked Up, veteran IT and cybersecurity executive Zachary Lewis, delivers a gripping, first-person account of how a major university squared off against one of the world's most infamous ransomware groups: LockBit. He walks you through his personal experience battling—and negotiating with—LockBit, as well as the strategies, tools, and approaches he used in resolving the crisis.The book is a detailed, darkly funny, and behind-the-scenes account of an increasingly common a...

THE Eligible PRINCE:Travis Rule, a.k.a. The Richest Bachelor in Texas.THE UNLIKELY Cinderella:Miss Cindy Ellerbee, Travis's sweet-natured new housekeeper.THE Ultimate PROPOSALWas the Lone Star State's most eligible bachelor really thinking of proposing to his very own housekeeper? True, the millionaire had to marry before his birthday, and Cindy was the most adorable gal in sight. But Travis was a man of wealth and co...

Global warming, loss of biodiversity, and toxic chemicals are undermining the ability of the planet to support complex life. Routinely overlooked in causing our current predicament is that several million years of evolution has predisposed Homo sapiens, both anatomically and behaviorally, to vanishing.A former endangered species biologist looks at the ongoing sixth extinction through the prism of human behavior, personal experience, ecology, evolutionary biology, and conte...

Love…in the spotlight.Anna Lainey is a successful author who values her privacy. The last person she would imagine herself dating is a movie star–yet when she meets Benjamin Worthington on the set of a major motion picture, sparks fly–and before she knows it, she’s caught up in a very public whirlwind romance.But when Ben’s fans turn against her and begin stalking her, her worst anxieties have come to life. She doesn't want to live without Ben–but she can’t live in the spot...

Enjoy reading this children's classic in its original format, first published in 1872, on your Kobo eReader.In this eBook, the first edition of Through The Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll is faithfully reproduced as a fixed-layout eBook using EPUB 3.0 format.All of the 240 pages of this book were digitally reproduced to match, as faithfully as possible, the original pages of the novel. All text and all of the 50 original illustrations, by John Tenniel, are properly positione...

Maud Lewis Colours is a perfect first introduction to colours through the joy-filled art of Nova Scotia’s most famous folk painter, Maud Lewis. Even the youngest babies will be drawn to the bright colours and bold forms in Lewis’s whimsical paintings, and toddlers will have fun learning their colours as they explore each vibrant image. A perfect companion to Maud Lewis 1 2 3, this set makes a great baby gift.

STEAMY HOT SCI-FI ALIEN ROMANCE COLLECTION : 4 STANDALONE BOOKS IN ONE.No cliffhanger. Guaranteed HEA.More Than HumanA thousand years into the future and Earth is still in a frenzied war between countries who wish to rule each other. Between the battles is Trevor Noble. Injured on the field, his life hangs in the balance as he's flown to a local Navy hospital. Enter Dr. Lena Clark, a world-renowned scientist and surgeon, wh...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The trendsetting designer known for her effortless style shares the secrets of the art of layering, with more than 250 gorgeous photographs of her signature interiors.“Livability is my true north. The materials I use time and again all change with age and wear. Not only is that okay, it’s how you achieve more than a re-creation of what you’ve already seen, or what somebody else has done. You can do this, too—I promise.”—from the introducti...

In todays busy world, its hard to slow down and pay attention to the things that really matter. And the busyness of day-to-day activities often dulls our senses to the needs, hurts and miracles that happen in our very midst.In Simply Rejoicing, Patsy Lewis uses biblical examples and contemporary stories of God at work to guide readers through a year of truly paying attention to the Lords work in their lives and the world around them.Simply Rejoicing is designed to be read throughout the year....