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After retirement and a move to Virginia, I found more time to do what I loved. I began to write poems from little notes and ideas I had written down through the years. I was inspired by God's Word, sermons, songs, and devotions. A friend, Emily Wood, encouraged me to put them into a booklet, which I did. Thus began Inspirational Poems. Now, at age ninety, I decided to have them published. I pray that these poems may be a blessing, an encouragement,...
42) Deadly Games
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Rori Maitland has lived her life the way she's wanted it. After retiring from MI6, she's her own woman, with few friends and no husband. That's the way she bloody well prefers it. After all, her job is hardly normal. Ian Kinncaid, master of disguise, has been estranged from his family for well over a decade. With his deep cover blown, he now needs a safe place to put the little girl he saved from the Czech underground. But the shadows cloak enemies...
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This book is a "self-help" guide for immigrants written by an immigrant. It provides valuable insights, short stories, and lessons concerning the common errors and pitfalls immigrants sometimes make, especially when relocating to the United States of America.
The book is a helpful resource throughout all stages of the migration process within the life cycle from beginning to end.
It covers the required preparation before permanent travel, relocating,...
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Inspire your readers with this biography. The exceptionally athletic Monte Irvin was an outfielder who started in the Negro leagues and eventually became one of the earliest black Major League Baseball players after joining the New York Giants in 1949. He played in two World Series with the Giants and after retiring worked as a baseball scout and served in an administrative role in the MLB commissioner's office. Readers will learn that as a mentor...
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Struggling for Perfection is the story of the famous pianist, an enigmatic figure who made some of the most acclaimed classical recordings of the last century. A former child prodigy and an unpredictable, passionate man, Glenn Gould was known as much for his eccentricities as his vast musical genius. After retiring prematurely from performing, Gould branched out into work in film and radio and helped bring classical music recording technology into...
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Industrialist Andrew Carnegie achieved great financial success in the steel industry in nineteenth-century America. An immigrant from Scotland, Carnegie came to America as a boy and worked hard to become one of the wealthiest men in the world. After retiring from the steel industry, he gave his fortune away, believing the wealthy had an obligation to those less fortunate. Students will follow Carnegie's rags-to-riches story, learning about the industrialization...
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Sports writer Graham Fisher and his wife Joan get the travel bug. Both undergo cancer scares after planning a round-the-world trip only after an edge-of-the-seat ordeal do they make it. Five and a half weeks later they are back, exhilarated but broke. They decide to sell their beloved Victorian home to fund more exotic adventures and that too is a roller coaster ride. Graham Fisher recalls the thrills and the pitfalls and adds some sardonic thoughts...
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Sharing the sometimes bittersweet, sometimes unexpected, always insightful accounts ofthe lives of some of the NHL's most famous players after retirement and the turns their lives have takenoften just as wild and crazy as their time on the icethis collection of poignant stories details the hockey's greatest players after the last goal has been tended and the final buzzer sounds. Through in-depth one-on-one interviews, the book offers vivid and captivating...
49) Cold Feet
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They both come home to Largo Ridge for different reasons…can they leave the past behind and risk their hearts again?
Regina calls off her wedding at the last minute-she couldn't marry a man she loved but wasn't in love with. Only one man fell into that category-Buck. However, after their one and only kiss years ago, he'd turned tail and run, leaving her confused and heartbroken.
The last thing Buck expects a few days after retiring from the military...
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Self-directed IRAs have been around for years, but they've been gaining popularity recently among do-it-yourself investors. If this type of investment appeals to you, experts warn that they aren't for everyone, and there are pitfalls associated with self-directed IRAs that could end up costing you money if you aren't careful. Recently, many smart investors have exited the stock market because they have lost control of their investments. They have...
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2019
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He was hired to hunt her down.
Retired Navy SEAL Commander Ryan Marchetti hates the fancy consulting job he's taken after retirement from the Teams. So when the DHS and the secretive Bone Frog Command offers him a contract to hunt down an assassin, he leaps at the chance, even if it means hunting down his former lover. He must focus on the mission and ignore Sutton McRaven's sexy body and luscious lips, and bring the only
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A book anyone can read especially if they wonder how their dream may be fulfilled.
"Father Mike Ortiz is now retired from the Army Chaplaincy and the active Priesthood. After several attempts to become a military chaplain he finally was accepted and volunteered for the Green Berets and served with the 1st, the 3rd, the 5th and the 10th Groups. He underwent SCUBA and HALO training and is a graduate of the Command & General Staff College as well...
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A book anyone can read especially if they wonder how their dream may be fulfilled.
"Father Mike Ortiz is now retired from the Army Chaplaincy and the active Priesthood. After several attempts to become a military chaplain he finally was accepted and volunteered for the Green Berets and served with the 1st, the 3rd, the 5th and the 10th Groups. He underwent SCUBA and HALO training and is a graduate of the Command & General Staff College as well...
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Jan Marie Oakley decided after retirement for nursing that she wanted to write a devotional book to inspire others. Dancing In the Clouds with the Rainbows is series of devotions to lead readers to fill their mind with the wonder of God's Word, the glory of His love and faithfulness, and to assist the reader to develop deeper authenticity in prayer.
At the end of each devotional is a Cloud of Reflection to help the reader apply God's truth, during...
55) Give Way
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Kevin McNamara's life after retirement is…fine. He has friends, a few consulting gigs, and an ex-wife he's finally on good terms with. But when he meets an intriguing stranger–a rarity in close-knit Swanley, Massachusetts–in his apartment lobby, he can't stop thinking about him or about the unexpected attraction that knocked him flat. Awais Siddiqui never thought he'd want to come back to his childhood hometown, but when his grandmother falls...
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Dr. William Walker OAM trained in medicine in Sydney, later travelling to the UK to gain his FRACS. He worked in Newcastle, New South Wales as a Plastic Surgeon, specializing in cleft palate surgery and breast surgery. After retirement, Dr. Walker undertook charity surgery in the third world under the auspices of Rotary and other organizations. His wife, a trained nurse, accompanied him along with his assistant, Nurse Lyn Thorpe, OAM.
Dr. Walker's...
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On the phone Hugh had said, "I've got something you have to see to believe. Get yourself out here." One year after retiring as a Master Sergeant in the 75th Rangers, this was Roman Keane's idea of the perfect way to spend his time: jump on a motorcycle and ride from Georgia to South Dakota to see his old friend, Hugh Early. Hugh had once been Roman's sniper instructor and was now an internationally respected historian of military arms. Historians,...
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"Based on ten years of in depth archival research in the United States, Sweden, Germany, and France, Ideal Beauty is the definitive biography of Greta Garbo as well as a major study of Euro-American concepts of ideal female beauty in the years between World War One and World War Two, encompassing the flapper era and the lost generation of the 1920s and 1930s. Ideal Beauty begins with Garbo's devastating childhood in Stockholm as the child of poor...
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"Tough, straight, upsetting, and strangely beautiful. One of the best sports autobiographies I've ever read. It comes from the heart." —Stephen King
Eclipsing the traditional sports memoir, House of Nails, by former world champion, multimillionaire entrepreneur, and imprisoned felon Lenny Dykstra, spins a tragicomic tale of Shakespearean proportions — a relentlessly entertaining American epic that careens between the
...60) Hudson's Bay Boy
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John Seagrave was born in Toronto, Ontario, but from an early age felt like a cultural orphan in his own community. To escape the inevitable factory job he joined the "Gentleman Adventurers" of the Hudson's Bay Company as a modern-day fur trader. It was the 1970s and, like many other Bay Boys, he was transferred from pillar to post (ultimately 17 outposts) in northern Ontario and Saskatchewan, and the Northwest Territories. Seagrave felt kinship to,...
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