Mark Owen
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The companion volume to the multimillion-copy bestseller No Easy Day by former Navy SEAL Mark Owen reveals the evolution of a SEAL Team Six operator.
Mark Owen’s instant #1 New York Times bestseller, No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden, focused on the high-profile targets and headline-grabbing chapters of the author’s thirteen years as a Navy SEAL. His...
Mark Owen’s instant #1 New York Times bestseller, No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden, focused on the high-profile targets and headline-grabbing chapters of the author’s thirteen years as a Navy SEAL. His...
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The #1 New York Times bestselling first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy SEAL who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments.
From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama Bin Laden’s compound, operator Mark Owen of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare...
From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama Bin Laden’s compound, operator Mark Owen of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare...
3) Impact
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"We've found something here, something game-changing..."
The explosion at the International Space Station (ISS) forever changed the direction of inventor Tamarind Chase's life. His life mission was to mine asteroids, but when the accident triggers an expanding debris field it strands the scientists at Moonbase Verity including the friend that once saved his life. He must find a way to rescue them and empower the secret they have discovered.
"Impact"...
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Somatic Exercises for Beginners: Transform Your Life in 30 Days with Personalized Exercises for Body and Mind
Embark on a transformative journey that bridges the gap between body and mind with "Somatic Exercises for Beginners." This guide is your first step towards a more connected, grounded, and harmonious life. Designed for individuals at the beginning of their somatic wellness path, this book offers a simple yet profound program that can be...
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In today's fast-paced world, the quest for well-being and mindfulness has never been more crucial. "Integrating Somatic Practices with Daily Life: A Modern Approach to Healing and Mindfulness" offers a transformative guide to embedding the principles of body awareness and mindful movement into the fabric of everyday life. This book serves as a bridge between traditional somatic healing methods and contemporary lifestyle, making ancient wisdom accessible...
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The Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder Family Roadmap" is an essential guide for families facing the challenges of Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD). This compassionate and comprehensive book serves as a beacon of hope, offering a blend of storytelling, practical exercises, and expert insights to support families on their journey toward resilience and connection.
Navigating the often complex path of DMDD, from the initial diagnosis...
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In this domestic thriller, a terrifying home invasion unravels everything a young woman thinks she knows about her perfect home and marriage.
Lisa Taylor has friends, family and a job she loved back in Cleveland. But when her husband Jeff lands the promotion of a lifetime, she gives it all up to go him. Their whirlwind move to Miami feels like an adventure, their idyllic new neighborhood the perfect place to start a family. But their dreams...
Lisa Taylor has friends, family and a job she loved back in Cleveland. But when her husband Jeff lands the promotion of a lifetime, she gives it all up to go him. Their whirlwind move to Miami feels like an adventure, their idyllic new neighborhood the perfect place to start a family. But their dreams...
10) Missing daughter
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Families with nothing to hide don't have so many secrets.
Life can change in an instant. For Ryan and Karen Lane, it happens on the morning they discover their twelve-year-old daughter's window open, their beloved Maddie missing from her bed.
Police investigate. Suspicions swirl. A teenage boy admits he was outside her bedroom window the night she disappeared. A halfway house for convicts recently opened in the neighborhood. The Lane family is thrown...
11) The Piazza
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Don Benito faltered; then, like some somnambulist suddenly interfered with, vacantly stared at his visitor, and ended by looking down on the deck. He maintained this posture so long, that Captain Delano, almost equally disconcerted, and involuntarily almost as rude, turned suddenly from him, walking forward to accost one of the Spanish seamen for the desired information. But he had hardly gone five paces, when with a sort of eagerness Don Benito invited...
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Every parent wonders: Am I buying products for my child that are filled with chemical toxins? In his powerful new book, Raising Healthy Children, David Steinman, the director of the Chemical Toxin Working Group and one of America's premier environmental activists, shows how today's most popular items-from bubble bath to cereal to cleaning products to snack foods-are contaminated with unacceptable levels of chemical toxins and pesticides, and he proposes...
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Sponsorship is a rich and enduring part of tradition of Alcoholics Anonymous. Twelve Step Sponsorship delivers both the theory and practice—how to do it and why—in a clear, step-by-step presentation. Written by the author of Getting Started in AA, a widely acclaimed guide for the newcomer to the program of AA, this book is the first truly comprehensive look at sponsorship, a role recovering people benefit from both as sponsees and ultimately...
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Chosen for inclusion in William Evans Burton's Cyclopediae of Wit and Humor of 1857, with an illustration by Henry Louis Stephens, "The Lightning-Rod Man" was the one Melville tale to be available throughout his lifetime, thanks to reissues of this volume. More a parable than a character-driven story, The Lightning-rod man is a charlatan who tries to profit by selling fearful people lightning rods during thunderstorms. The narrator has a difficult...
15) The Piazza Tales
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The Piazza Tales (1856) is a collection of short stories by American writer Herman Melville. Before publication, five of its six stories appeared in Putnam's Monthly during a period of productivity with which Melville sought to achieve popular success as a writer of literary fiction. After the failure of his novels Moby-Dick (1851) and Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852), Melville struggled to find a publisher who would accept his work, and contemporary...
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Screens connect us 24/7 - and we've never been lonelier. Screens let us post, surf, text and shoot imaginary foes — but we're losing our ability to function in the real world. As a result, young adults are experiencing an epidemic of anxiety, isolation and even suicide. Bestselling author David Murrow show us how to master our screen time — and return our focus to the things that really matter. The book explains and diagnoses the screen problem...
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In Matthew 24, after Jesus gave His disciples a profound, detailed description of what will happen prior to His second coming, He urged them to "keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come" (verse 42). So as we seek to follow His commands today, what are we to watch for?
Foreshadows explores 12 major trends that point toward Jesus' ever-nearing return-and that illuminate how God's faithfulness, wisdom, and sovereignty are...
18) The Encantadas
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"The Encantadas" (or Enchanted Isles), is a series of ten descriptive sketches, and a reminiscence from Melville's sailor days revealing the ecologically pristine Galápagos Islands as both enchanting and horrifying. Containing some of Melville's "most memorable prose", The Encantadas were a critical success at a time when Melville's fortunes were down. After publication, the New York Dispatch cited the chapters as universally considered among the...
19) The Bell-Tower
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Considered to be the least characteristic of Melville's stories, somewhat resembling the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe, "The Bell-Tower" is a dark literary work that explores, though never fully reveals, its central mystery. An eccentric artist and architect dreams up plans for a magnificent bell tower. After receiving approval from the city, he happily begins construction. When city residents begin to notice strange occurrences...