Interceptors is an exhilarating ride and front-row seat into the dangerous and harrowing work of law enforcement on America's southern border.Author Matthew Thomas pulls back the curtain and takes the reader on a rarely seen, eye-witness journey.Spanning over 29 years, Matthew's law enforcement career and immersive life in the Hispanic culture is an eye-opening, honest, and unprecedented look into the ruthless activities of dangerous cartel activit...

You check your bank account and the numbers don't make sense. You make decent money. You know what a budget is. You've tried apps, spreadsheets, no-spend months. And somehow, at the end of every month, you're still wondering where it all went.This isn't a discipline problem. It's a brain problem. And once you understand the difference, everything changes.The Spending Loop is a practical, compassionate guide to the real reasons smart, capable people can't stop overspending, ...

‘Blessed are the meek, for they shall be stamped upon.’ From the massively successful author that brought you exploding sheep (Before & After) comes the conspiracy theory to end them all.If you’re a cynic, you’re a sucker. ‘They’ want you to believe in aliens, UFOs and ghosts, because if you go chasing lies, you never get to the truth. ‘They’ are the ultra-secret world ‘Committee’ – the real decision makers who tell governments what to do, dictate which way the stock market’s headi...

This is an odd story…and not a story.It is both truth, and fiction.What follows is what one foolish man wrote to one beautiful woman in a quest to win her heart. If it seems not to follow the course of any knownwritten format, it is because the heart follows no known format itself.The heart simply wants what the heart wants.The reader may decide what became of those two hearts.Because, you see, the book itself IS The pickup line...

This volume in the popular Ignatius Catholic Study Bible series leads readers through a penetrating study of The First and Second Books of the Maccabees using the text itself and the Church's own guidelines for understanding the Bible.Ample notes accompany each page, providing fresh insights by renowned Scripture scholars Matthew and Leeanne Thomas as well as time-tested interpretations from the Fathers of the Church. These helpful study notes provide rich historical, cult...

The instant New York Times bestseller The Washington Post calls a “stunning…superbly rendered” novel, and Entertainment Weekly describes as “a gripping family saga, maybe the best…since The Corrections.”As an Irish immigrant in Queens in 1941, Eileen has dreamed of more in her life—but when she and her family seem to be moving closer to that dream, devastation hits and they must learn how to not only hold on to t...

Do you want to create online empire? Do you want to create online income to create financial freedom for you for the rest of your life?Maximize efficiency and learn how to run both business models and combine them for massive success. Learn how to create six figure incomes from both.You will learn valuable information that can save you time and money as you begin your clothing line. The information you will learn is for the novice or advanced entrepreneur. You will learn im...

Money touches everything in our lives. It communicates our values whether we want it to or not, often simultaneously resulting in what we prefer and what we regret. Those who wish to be thoughtful about how they reflect God's image in all things, do well to think through what they believe about earning and using money. This volume walks through a logical progression of how to think and act in regards to money, and provides scores of scenarios for discussion and application.

Your life is a project. Let God lead it.When failure occurs or tragedy strikes, we struggle to make sense of it. Divine interruptions can sometimes leave us feeling confused. From Genesis to Revelation, God uses conflict as a vehicle for growth.Matthew A. Thomas understands there is more behind every situation than what we can see at first. Completing Project Me is an invitation to understand how God uses challenging experiences to make our lives richer. Learn to:

Written for US workers without employer pensions.Most retirement advice was written for people with pensions. If you don't have one, the standard rules -- save a million dollars, replace 80% of your income -- were built for someone else's life.The starting point here is where most people land: a 401k they may or may not be maximizing, a Social Security estimate they've never looked at closely, and a vague sense that the math might not be working in their favor. The real cal...

Explores the culture that made military shooter video games popular, and key in understanding the War on TerrorNo video game genre has been more popular or more lucrative in recent years than the “military shooter.” Franchises such as Call of Duty, Battlefield, and those bearing Tom Clancy’s name turn over billions of dollars annually by promising to immerse players in historic and near-future battles, converting the reality of contemporary conflicts into playable,...

You know you should negotiate. You've rehearsed what to say. And then someone offers you a number and you hear yourself say "that sounds great" before your brain catches up.That's not a confidence problem. It's a nervous system problem.The Uncomfortable Conversation: Negotiation for People Who Hate Conflict is for anyone who finds salary negotiation genuinely terrifying rather than merely uncomfortable. Whether you freeze when an offer lands, accept whatever your boss says ...