This spellbinding novel reveals a stunning, provocative account of an emergency life- saving liver transplant that leaves the author in a five week coma. The author uses exerpts from her childhood, teen, and adult experiences to illustrate how they prepare her to withstand profuse bleeding, a stroke, and the ability to come out of her lenghty sleep. The testimony is sprinkled with uplifting humor and helps the reader to understand how perseverance, divine intervention, and timeless optimism helps one to overcome catastrophic experiences. One year after her traumatic experience, she returns to her professiona as a public school administrator, strong and prepared to continue her phenomenal reputation as a no non-sense high school leader. The novel is a perfect literary example of man vs. the universe. The author now shares her experience in multiple venues to support liver and organ transplants across the nation.

THE PRAYER OF THE INSPIRED Father God, thank you for your divine inspiration. With your Word, I am encouraged to continue on and fight the good fight. I am a conqueror because you showed me how to overcome. I am a defeater because you showed me how to defeat all my enemies. I am a lover because you showed me how love wiped away a multitude of sin. Through it all, I remain humble because I know where my help comes from. Thank you Lord for your undeserved kindness. From a small flower with a little bit of hope to an eager worm who desperately wants to experience the glorious transformation from God before his time, God Wired Jesus Inspired offers day-to-day encouragement to all in a new light.

This book of poems is based on my own real personal life experiences as well as others. I focus on what I feel at the time, what I have experienced, or what someone else has experienced. I write on subject matters that relates to abuse, cheating, everyday life struggles, and what can be done to take charge of that moment. All of my poems have meaning and messages to help others visualize a situation that may have had an effect on their lives with possible resolution. My poems are intended to inspire and motivate others as I have been inspired to write them. My voice speaks out loud to represent those who are fearful to speak for themselves. If I can reach out and touch somebody and make a difference in their life, then I feel that my work was worth sharing. My inspiration and motivation comes from my loving husband who came to my rescue at a time when all was dark and empty in my life, and my children who gave me reasons to want to live. The fact that I was in a dangerous situation also put my children's lives at risk and gave me the strength and courage to take control of my life. I write poems as a medicinal tool to help heal my wounds internally and emotionally. It allows me to tell a story and controls my mental state of mind by putting it at ease and peace. These crucial changes allowed me to have the peace of mind that I have today. I have some good memories which I will always embrace and treasure, but had more bad than good that will never be forgotten.

Can you escape this book? The first book to be based on the fast-growing phenomenon of escape rooms, The Escape Book is filled with challenges, puzzles and mysteries for you to solve and escape! Sometimes, there is no easy way out... You're an investigative journalist – and you've learned too much. Your mission is to escape the labyrinth where you have been trapped and expose the corrupt, high-flying businessman, Castian Warnes. This is no easy feat, but your life depends on it. Based on the worldwide phenomenon of Escape Rooms, this book puts your ingenuity and perseverance to the test. You must solve puzzles, optical illusions, conundrums and anagrams to finally escape both the labyrinth and the book – it’s a reading experience like no other. Put your puzzle-solving skills to the test with The Escape Book... Are you ready for the challenge?

The poems in Sum Lucid Beats are reminiscent of the Beat poets Shimberg admires. The subjects of his poems are varied, the style is modern. Shimberg's poetry displays both humor, levity and emotion equal and balanced. Many poetry workshops, open mic's and retreats later. After failed attempts on the road, you will understand the depth of Shimberg's path and words. There is such a thing as post-modern beat poetry. I am a living example. I was not born in the era of Kerouac and Ginsberg. I studied under teachers who did. They passed on the knowledge. I spent 15 years constructing this book. My first poem was about a compulsive gambler. My second poem ever written was about an airplane ride that went slightly off course. My current poetry is not performance based, rather to be read quietly and enjoyed. I found notebooks and journals both handwritten and typed from the late 1990's. They were just sitting there collecting dust in my childhood room. It took me several months to transcribe these by hand.

Zhou Yi downloaded a future trembling app and was pleasantly surprised to find out that this app was actually linked to the myriad heavens the video. He released was praised by countless immortal emperors and god kings and was even rewarded with various treasures. From then on zhou yi's ordinary life became colorful and colorful the little sister goddess was pleading for a dotcom relationship and the female emperor was also interested in him the devil realm ancestor did not hesitate to use the nine revolutions divine technique to bribe him in order to become popular online my voice booms through all worlds i am so strong that i am afraid of myself.

A guide to getting luck on your side As the pace of change accelerates and the volume of information explodes, we're under great pressure to connect just in time with the people and ideas we need to thrive. But we can no longer plan our way to success—there will always be factors beyond our control. This uncertainty, however, cultivates one of today's key drivers of success: serendipity. More than blind luck, serendipity can produce quantifiable results: breakthrough ideas, relationships that matter, effortless cooperation, synchronized market timing, and more. Get Lucky shows businesses how to succeed by fostering the conditions for serendipity to occur early and often. Distills planned serendipity into eight key elements: preparedness, motion, activation, attraction, connection, commitment, porosity, and divergence Features stories of serendipity in action at well-known companies including Avon, Target, Steelcase, Google, Facebook, Walmart, and more Written by serial entrepreneurs and cofounders of Get Satisfaction, a breakout platform for online customer service communities with over 100,000 clients Planned serendipity is not an abstract, magical notion, but a practical skill. Get Lucky is the indispensable resource for anyone who wants to learn this skill and to make serendipity work for them.

In cool, precise prose, and with an unerring sense of the absurd, the four novellas of "Compulsory Happiness" create a picture of everyday life in a grotesque police state, expressing terror and hope, fear and solidarity, the humorous triviality of the ordinary, and the painful search for an ideal."Norman Manea's four novellas, written during the later Ceausescu years, offer a comparable contrast to other Eastern European dissident writing. Instead of the energetic irony, the ebullient absurdism, the sharp-eyed wit, we find a dreamy disconnection, a voice that shock has lowered, an air of sweetness driven mad."--Richard Eder, "Los Angeles Times""Mr. Manea's voice is radically new, and we are blessedly awakened and alerted by the demand his fiction makes on our understanding."--Lore Segal, "New York Times Book Review"

Back by popular demand, the classic JPS holiday anthologies remain essential and relevant in our digital age. Unequaled in-depth compilations of classic and contemporary writings, they have long guided rabbis, cantors, educators, and other readers seeking the origins, meanings, and varied celebrations of the Jewish festivals. The Shavuot Anthology elucidates Shavuot's teachings, customs, stories, and lore for a modern generation. In this in-depth compendium, writings by Flavius Josephus and Philo of Alexandria, Talmud and midrash, medieval literature by Moses Maimonides, poetry by Judah Halevi and Abraham ibn Ezra, prose by Abraham Joshua Heschel and Ahad Ha'am, and stories by Martin Buber and Sholom Aleichem appear alongside art and dramatizations, arts and crafts, culinary arts and humor, children's stories and games, and programs and projects.

THE SPELL-BINDING SECOND NOVEL IN PETER MAY'S INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING LEWIS TRILOGY' "HAUNTING." --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW) "STUNNING." --LIBRARY JOURNAL (STARRED REVIEW) "MAY IS SUPERB." --THE TORONTO STAR Fin Macleod has returned to the Isle of Lewis, the storm-tossed, wind-scoured outer Hebridean island where he was born and raised. Having left behind his adult life in Edinburgh--including his wife and his career in the police force--the former Detective Inspector is intent on repairing past relationships and restoring his parents' derelict cottage. His plans are interrupted when an unidentified corpse is recovered from a Lewis peat bog. The only clue to its identity is a DNA match to a local farmer, the now-senile Tormod Macdonald--the father of Fin's childhood sweetheart, Marsaili--a man who has claimed throughout his life to be an only child, practically an orphan. Reluctantly drawn into the investigation, Fin uncovers deep family secrets even as he draws closer to the killer who wishes to keep them hidden.