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Like all of us, Michael Anders has a dream. Ever since he was a kid in junior rodeo, he has dreamed of becoming a world-champion rodeo cowboy - riding bulls and bareback horses, scoring high, winning big buckles, basking in the glory. And now it all seems within his reach. Michael has filled his permit and is now a full member of the Professional Association of Rodeo Cowboys. So he sets out on this rodeo run with his two traveling partners, Kirby Jordan and Jim Ed Sarkos.

The Mexican drug lord of the Sinaloa Cartel, El Chapo Guzman, was ranked as one of the 100 most powerful people in the world for three years continuously by Forbes magazine. In 2009 he was 41st, in 2010 he was ranked 60th, and again in 2011 he was at the 55th position. In this book, we will take a look at this Mexican drug kingpin, his early life, how he entered the business of drug trafficking, how he expanded his business, and how he increased his control over the Mexican drug cartels.

Olivia Montgomery is on the run for her life. Her stepfather, having control of her fortune, has plans to do away with her before her twenty-first birthday so that he can have it all. Olivia, having no plans on being his next victim, flees in the night from her mansion in New York. She heads out west, where they say a man can get lost for years without ever being missed. She is hoping to hide long enough to avenge her mother's death. Mac Kincaid, bounty hunter turned rancher, has one last job to complete before he can retire and raise his young ward on the land he owns.

When Edward Garlock was sober, he was a kind, generous, hard-working farmer, providing for his wife and eight children. But when he drank, he turned into a bully capable of absolute cruelty. Then one day, two young men showed up on his doorstep, putting into motion an amazing series of events. Edward soon found himself at a campground in Framingham, Massachusetts, walking into a revival tent. The Holy Spirit got ahold of him, changing not only his life, but the future of thousands of others through him.

The most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to Texas historiography of the past quarter-century, this volume of original essays will be an invaluable resource and definitive reference for teachers, students, and researchers of Texas history. Discovering Texas History focuses on the major trends in the study of Texas history since 1990.

There's no business like show business! And for the Awesome Possum Family Band, they're about to get their big break! The youngest possum wants to join in the music making but doesn't know his talent.

A Fort Worth detective finds contentment as a small-town police chief. Orin Cage left a 15-year career with the Fort Worth PD to become Chief of Police in the small North Texas town of Rather. Glad to have escaped the high-pressure of the Metroplex crime scene, Cage takes a laid-back, but still effective, approach law enforcement.

From internationally renowned psychic medium Cassandra Blizzard comes this extraordinary journey into the meaning of life and the true nature of God.

The God Point addresses life in all its layers and answers age-old questions about the Soul and what lies beyond. When we understand our true state of being, we find the peace within and we walk in harmony with one another. The God Point is our journey to Oneness.

With Why Am I So Happy? Dr. Mike Cockrell embarks on a fresh approach that teaches you how to achieve success and happiness in your life. Mike's groundbreaking approach to teaching gives you an inside look at how he was born and raised in a small Mississippi town to a family that struggled financially and how he grew, through his family's love and dedication as well as his own desire to have the life he always wanted, into a prominent physician and entrepreneur.

Something new is brewing in the 17th century! Fans of the 1632 series have often asked “What's going on in North America?” Herbert Sakalauks has set out to let you know in his short novel The Danish Scheme. Christian IV, King of Denmark, Sir Thomas Roe, the English Ambassador to Christian's court, various elements of the extended Nasi/Abrabanel family have arranged an unusually well-funded and well led expedition to North America.

Four stories deal with Errol Stein's idiosyncratic musings on mortality, love and the outrageous demand of an ancient Mayan god. From Philadelphia to Tucson to the coast of the Yucatan Errol is tested and gets by, not always getting it right, but always changed by his experiences. In stories ranging over a 40-year partnership with his beloved Wanda we see Errol struggling to make sense of a life's lessons and ultimately getting it right.

On January 21, 1968 a B-52 Boeing Stratofortress, carrying four 1.1 megaton H-Bombs, caught fire and crashed in the Arctic Circle near Thule, Greenland. The Strategic Air Command's (SAC) Arctic Circle route was an airborne alert operation, referred to by the pilots of these large bombers as the "Chrome Dome," and was a 24-hour round-the-clock strategic undertaking. Carrying four 1.1 megaton H-Bombs, the B-52's were ready on a moment's notice to wage all-out warfare on an enemy that dare provoke an attack.

Here is a book to help you or a loved one think and work through grief. Many times people have no one to talk to about their loss. This book is also a resource to use to help lead a grief group discussion about the four tasks of grief. To learn more go to Grievingteens.com, GrievingTeensPublishing.com.

The Tiger Cruise is an audiobook about a Los Angeles Class nuclear attack submarine, the USS Woodbridge, which leaves Norfolk on a routine two day tiger cruise. The tiger cruise is a navy tradition whereby family and friends are invited to sail aboard a naval vessel to get first-hand experience of navy tradition at sea. After the Woodbridge embarks, a large earthquake strikes in the mid-Atlantic and, for the first time in recorded history, large tsunamis strike the East Coast all but destroying the naval base at Norfolk.

Grief is a process that you must work through and it is not time limited. Some never work through grief while others work through it and return to a life changed but directed again to the future. Grief will affect all of us. Christians have hope but still grieve. This book will help you or a friend work through grief. This is a devotional that will encourage you and draw you closer to your heavenly Father who deeply loves you and wants to be close to you - your Daddy.

Texas Ranger Captain Rowdy Bates rides to Kansas to chase the rustler who stole his horse, Sugar. In Wichita, he meets a young US marshal by the name of Jack Black, and they sidekick up to pursue and capture the Bill Whitley Outlaw Gang along with Brack Cornett, taking the lawmen back to Texas and eventually deep into Mexico in their pursuit. All the while back in Laredo, Victoria Lee Dupree awaits her trial and an almost certain sentence to hang by the neck for the murder of High Card Harry Brownstone - an act perpetrated to protect the man she loved.

By unlocking the code of how the Spirit worked in the first-century church, we can understand how God longs to work in our communities and hearts today. It is He who convicts, converts, commends, commands, consoles, and ultimately completes us. The Holy Spirit is an essential part of our faith journeys—God alive in each of us!

In Everyday Joy and Peace, part of the MyDaily® devotional series, you get 52 weeks of biblically based teachings and devotions from trusted pastors and leaders to help keep your heart oriented in the right direction so you can live a life of filled with joy and peace. Each devotion includes a Scripture reading, reflections to deepen your relationship with God, and a prayer to help you focus your heart and mind on God.

Stampede Canyon held all the natural beauty of the West—and all of it's dangers. Sheer cliffs studded with silver rose straight to the sky on three sides—and the fourth was pitted with traps.

Long before Smoke Wade rode into the drought-stricken valley his reputation as a feared gunslinger had been known. The ranchers knew him as a pistolero whose cool eyes and lightning hands were just what was needed to stop the Bristol gang. Even as he rode in, Smoke could sense the trigger-taut atmosphere of thirsty men and cattlemen who were itching to get at the bushwhackers whose guns controlled the waterholes. Tempers were getting shorter and guns were being loaded.