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I have known Jax my whole life, and I have loved him with every breath I've ever taken. The fact that we were born a mere month apart to mothers that are best friends has made us inseparable since birth. What we have is so rare, one would think our story would be written, our fate sealed. But, unfortunately, that's not how life works. Life offers us many choices that can turn destiny into chance.

Since Wilde's condemnation of modern biography, the genre would appear to have accelerated its descent into bad taste. As Carl Rollyson points out, writers as various as Rebecca West, Ted Hughes, and Joyce Carol Oates have deplored biographers' tendency to cut up lives and render the bloody data so as to make their subjects seem unhealthy, unwholesome, and unsound. Janet Malcolm has compared biographers to burglars; modern novels feature the biographer as grave robber and victimizer.

According to recent surveys, the trucking industry is worth more than $730 billion…and it’s eyeing much more progress in the near future. And there’s a huge opening for truckers–close to 1 million–which is a telltale sign of the large growth potential of the trucking industry.

Before he was betrayed, Caine was still an assassin.... As the CIA's deadliest operative, Caine is tasked with eliminating America's most dangerous enemies. But Caine is a professional. His missions of death have rarely been personal. Until now. A fellow operative is killed on an icy New Zealand mountain. A shipment of vital medicine disappears from a UN cargo container. And a CIA cargo plane is shot down in the vast Empty Quarter desert. These seemingly unrelated events are all linked to a shadowy operation, known only as SANDFIRE...and if exposed, the fallout could engulf the Arabian Peninsula in war.

In the United States alone, chronic conditions account for 70 percent of deaths and consume the majority of health-care spending. This trend will only accelerate not because the US health-care system is failing, but rather because it is designed to solve a different problem: to treat acute conditions, not prevent them. The health-care system of the future will need to focus on predicting health issues before they happen, prescribing the right solutions which may not call for health care as we know it today and preventing bad outcomes.

The Mentoring Project’s flagship mentoring resource is its field guides. These long-form pieces provide practical guidance on various aspects of life as a Christian, like finances, purity, technology, work, and more. Written by pastors and other Christian leaders, these field guides provide a biblical framework for mentors and mentees to discuss these topics and grow together.

Nine-eleven was the world's worst terrorist atrocity. Julian Fox intends to change that fact. The planning will take months. The attack will take just two minutes. Nine-eleven involved four airliners, three buildings, and 3,000 deaths. What Fox is planning will down 1,300 airliners, devastate countless city centers, and kill around half a million people. His method won't require a single hijacker, just 23 lines of computer code.

Mingling clear, non-fiction explanations of Tom Dutta’s revolutionary Way of the Quiet Warrior formula for success with fictional tales designed to illustrate those concepts, this audiobook is designed to be highly engaging and easy to listen to. With more than three decades of experience in the corporate world, Tom Dutta is perfectly positioned to identify and address the unmet needs and unresolved issues of CEOs, leaders, and executives the world over.

Deep within the Dark Continent of Africa, the dwindling population of wild Elephants is protected by law yet systematically harvested by poachers. The armed forces of Park Rangers are not enough to protect the ivory prongs from these giants of nature. A hundred years ago, the Great White Hunters were the predators. Now the region calls on one man to protect the elephants from virtual extinction … Tusk.

When a bloody raid in Libya turns up nothing but a camp of terrorists who know nothing about any bombs, the elite American fighters find themselves ordered to Portugal to follow up a new lead. Once there, they learn every undercover agent from every country working in Portugal has been taken out of play, leaving the door wide open for staging an apocalyptic attack. If the Black Berets fail to locate the bombs and take out the merciless cabal that stole them, it could mean the end of the world as they know it. For these five warriors, the stakes have never been higher.

Youth ministry isn't just meeting with students and teaching them God's truth. It also involves a myriad of administrative and operational details. Youth Ministry Management Tools 2.0 provides youth ministers and volunteers with helpful insights, advice, and practical resources to successfully manage a youth ministry. Authors Mike Work and Ginny Olson provide you with quick and accessible answers to all of your management, administrative, and supervisory questions and needs.

The Littlest Green Beret represents a small felt hat, my stature, and all those seemingly insurmountable goals. We all face adversity amidst physical, mental, and emotional challenges, and this audiobook is about becoming self-reliant in terms of creating a powerful future. It can also become your battle plan for addressing life's challenges and the key to unlocking the leader within you. Through my own stories of adversity, I convey how leadership development can occur every day if you're observant, reflective, and determined.

Most people labor under the assumption that diabetes is caused solely by poor eating and exercise habits, but in many cases, this is not true. This book explores many facets about diabetes so that you don't have to try to sort through what to believe on your own. Safe and Proven Cure for Diabetes begins by debunking common myths surrounding diabetes in an effort to demystify the disease and give listeners a good starting point of knowledge to learn more about the condition.

An ordinary leader is someone who leads a small organization or team that is doing great things. They manage the majority of the world's workforce, but they don't lead large corporations or big government agencies. Ordinary leaders are rarely written about in books or quoted in magazines. They are, however, important. Maybe not globally, but in their own realm of influence, their leadership makes a difference.

Pack your bags for the transformational quest of leading a dynamic, fast-growth organization in The Journey to CEO Success. Distilling more than 20 years of experience coaching visionary leaders, executive mentor Patrick Thean identifies seven essential practices that enabled Michael Praeger to transform AvidXchange from a promising startup into the billion-dollar public company it is today. This book blends compelling real-world stories with battle-tested tactics to equip entrepreneurs and CEOs to thrive.

The year is 2071. Devastated by the loss of his wife and son, NASA engineer John Orville signs up for a new life on Mars, implementing Project Bakersfield, a plan to combat deadly Martian storms. After a military unit lands on Mars, supposedly for a training exercise, Orville discovers the true purpose of Project Bakersfield. With the military unit going rogue, and a massive superstorm threatening imminent destruction, John Orville must fight to save the colony.

Whether you are the leader of a family, a team, or an organization, or you just want to refocus and take control of your personal life, this audiobook will inspire you to greater success in leadership, and freedom from bias. Purple People Leader will inspire you to make peace with politics and make progress with people.

A must-listen for veterans and their loved ones, War Story is an explosive look at the chaos of war - and the battle for life in its aftermath. It confronts some of life’s biggest questions: Why do we choose to fight for a country or a cause? What happens when the cost of that fight overwhelms and destroys? Can we forgive and be forgiven? How do we find hope? At its core, War Story is a dramatic personal encounter with war and faith, love and tragedy, and ultimate renewal.

America is hopelessly divided, but more worryingly, the ideas and “mystic chords of memory” that rest at the cornerstone of our civilization and bind the generations are being severed, attacked, and forgotten. The left has set out to shatter these bonds with a war on American history - the fundamental concepts, institutions, and icons that make our country what it is. And we have failed to protect our history, allowing Hollywood, educators, and the media to rewrite the story of America. We have ignored the invaluable lessons of our parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents.

In our sinful world, we often struggle with anxiety, loneliness, and heartache. Everywhere we look, we see broken families and divided communities. How can we truly cultivate God’s kingdom “on earth as it is in heaven” in such a broken place?