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Would you like to uncover how Leaders with Heart lead their teams and engage and retain them in the process? Join Heather R. Younger, J.D., the best-selling author of The 7 Intuitive Laws of Employee Loyalty, The Art of Caring Leadership, and The Art of Active Listening. Heather is the Founder and CEO of Customer Fanatix. Join her as she interviews amazing leaders from all over the world and all walks of life to find out what drives them to be more emotionally intelligent leaders with winning organizational cultures. You’ll uncover how to improve: Employee engagement Perceptions of ...

Podcast discussing everything movies, from the funny, to the absurd, to the terrible, hosted by two lifelong friends who love the art of cinema!

Nye Havers is in his 40s and has given up on love. Life hasn’t done him any favors, and his acerbic nature has just gotten worse over time. He rides a bicycle to work, gets splashed by cars in the rain, and is constantly in trouble because he can’t resist being a smart mouth. He is the co-owner of a small courier service that has sadly become his life. But there is one surprisingly bright spot in his world, even if Nye feels he doesn’t have a chance in hell of getting the guy.

This is a collection of flash fiction stories and experiences revolving around the conventions that we all know and love. If you have ever attended a convention, especially a fandom convention, then you know that anything is possible.

Vampires. Shifters. Zombies. Ema Marx has her work cut out for her after accidentally unleashing the evilest creature in history. Their imminent battle has been foretold, but Ema must hone her powers if she's going to have a snowball's chance in hell of winning. Luckily, Ema meets an elite trainer named Bridget, but in the vampire world people are rarely who they seem. To save her new friends, Ema dives head-first into an alliance with the Alpan King, but she may be giving up more than she bargained for.

Are aliens visiting us?I don't know. Neither do you, but we can discuss it rationally, and come up with some likely answers. Let us use a little humor and a little logic to answer these simple questions: Are aliens visiting us? What are they really? Why are they coming here? What can we do about it?

Death magic creeps into the forest. There are rumors of the dead rising up from the ground. The brothers watched as Tierfi took flight, the former guardian and red dragon, hope still flickering in her heart. "No matter what the cost," she thought, "I must stop my brother, even it is means losing my life. I hope, for the sake of the others, the price will no prove too costly."

A fatal accident at the circus sparks an insurance investigation that leads John Nieves, a former New York cop, to a list of murder suspects. It seems that the Great Rollo, beloved of millions, had enemies...both at the circus and among his own family. All that is surreal and magical about the circus brings out Nieves' deepest fears, blinding him to the very real danger that is closer at hand.

Strong-willed Maggie is a gifted psychologist and counselor. However, her dismal business skills leave her desperately trying to save her private practice. Having lost in love, Maggie avoids romantic situations. When enticing Hugh Bradford enters her life, Maggie runs scared. Can she overcome her wariness with the handsome and wealthy Hugh Bradford enough to chance her heart?

High school is a time for learning, making friends, and blackmailing your teacher. On a frigid night, we meet a pair of runaway teens, a high school MILF, and the world’s worst policeman, all trying to disentangle themselves from each other’s business. No good deed goes unpunished, as this chance encounter leads to more than any one bargain for.

Transformative mediator and relationship coach Belinda Zylberman has assisted hundreds of couples in choosing whether to stay married or divorce. Through her work, she’s able to show couples what lies on the other side of a relationship when conflicts are transformed to information, awareness, and healing. Listen to What Happened to My Happily Ever After? and discover a new possibility in your relationship.

Erin is the daughter of a god. For any other, orphaned as a small child, this would be welcome news. For Erin, nothing could be worse. Upon finding an ancient spell book, Erin Doherty is sent spiraling into a realm that she never knew existed - a place where her father, the male who abandoned her, lives like a king, lording over all. And her brother, Soren Vidar, fights to free the worlds from his oppression. Escorted by her brother’s oldest friend, Jakob Väsen, Erin is welcomed into the home of the fiercest warriors in Soren’s rebellion.

Cabbage Night, 1991. The traditional night of pranks takes a disturbing turn when a violent crime rocks a small Adirondack town. Even more so when the only witness is a seven-year-old boy. Hen Trout, who had hoped to catch a pet hedgehog that night, instead sees his beloved Miss Sally become a victim. Single mom Marcella Trout is blindsided when Tyler, her seventeen-year-old, is arrested for the very crime Hen witnessed. Now Tyler’s eerie mood swings seem dark and frightening and rooted in a family history Marcella has desperately tried to bury.

In junior high, I was that kid. You know the one. The one that was somehow always on the outside looking in. The one who never understood why people made it their life goal to find everything that was wrong with me. I was that kid that kids picked on to fit in with other kids. Somehow, that all changed when I moved to a different school and discovered my hardened personality and inability to trust anyone made me mysterious and cool to people who didn't previously know me.

No memory. No refuge. No escape. When a struggling musician wakes up in an empty, post-apocalyptic casino with no idea how he got there, he soon discovers he's not only in a fight for his sanity but for his survival as well. Ready, set, deal!

Una noche, Michael Fitzgerald descubre a una joven muerta en su bañera al volver del supermercado. Al lado del cadáver hay una pluma de gorrión. Aterrorizado, llama a la policía, que le interroga sobre la víctima, Alyssa Tepper, a la que él asegura no conocer. El detective Dobbs y la agente Gimble, del FBI, unen fuerzas en lo que parece un simple asesinato: cuando salen a la luz fotos en las que Michael aparece besando a Alyssa, es arrestado de inmediato, pero a las pocas horas aparece otra víctima con el mismo patrón: una pluma de gorrión colocada al lado del cuerpo.

In this guide, Erika Buenaflor explores the animal mythologies, spirit journeying techniques, and shape-shifting practices of ancient shamanic traditions and modern-day curanderismo. She examines how indigenous Mesoamerican peoples used animals in their ceremonial healing and divination rites and explains the innate gifts and powers that different animals embody.

I know there is more to Kross than most people see. I mean, it's not like I've been stalking the guy, but I may or may not have happened by all the places my hand-to-hand combat instructor goes. I might possibly have watched as he played with the kids at the daycare and helped at the animal shelter in his free time.

Given that the plant kingdom developed on Earth many millions of years before the evolution of human beings, it’s fair to say that herbs are the oldest magical tools in existence. Known for millennia to have beneficial properties for both physical and spiritual well-being, many different species of plants were incorporated into the practices of healers, shamans, and other medicine men and women of the “old days” — this was the origin of herbal magic.

Grief and nightmares haunt us all in the wake of a parent's passing. For one man, the nightmares begin to invade his everyday life after his father dies suddenly. His father's neighbor offers their help to alleviate the emotional pain, but the cost may be worse than the dreams and visions. Memories are worth holding on to, no matter how painful.