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You either want to learn and train for your first 5K ever or you are already a runner and have a 5K coming up for which you need to train. In either case, you might be looking for something to guide you through the training process and get you there. In this Guided 5K Fitness Training Plan, you will be guided through 25 workouts that are designed to have you running a 5K in just five weeks!

The people of the Philippine Islands during the early half of the 20th century experienced various waves of Western imperialism, two wars of attempted secession from Western powers, and two world wars. And yet the Philippine Islands and its people have received only small subheadings in many American textbooks and histories.

In this third and final story, Robin’s attempt at a simple caper goes wildly wrong when her father appears on the scene and turns her world upside down. Mark Parsons is Robin’s bugaboo, the voice in her head she can’t silence. Though she admits he taught her things that are useful to the gang, that’s no credit to his parenting. He’s the kind of person who would - and did - use his own children to further his money-grubbing schemes.

In the follow-up to KIDNAP.org, Robin and her gang take on an unscrupulous pharmaceuticals manufacturer, Neil Preston, who lives on a fortress-like estate and is a big fan of Josef Stalin. As their plan for making Preston change his dishonest ways develops, Robin runs into an old lover. Seeing Darin again makes her question her future. Should she leave crime-fighting behind and try to return to normal life?

At 17, Greasy Mansfield should be dating girls and enjoying his senior year. After a medical diagnosis devastates his future, he drops out of school with the intent to help his century-old grandmother with their growing debt. When a favorite news station advertises a search for character-driven stories, Greasy jumps at the opportunity to display his sharp and spry roommate. Between meeting their beloved anchor, becoming local celebrities, and befriending the girl of his dreams, it appears as if Greasy's life is finally improving.

A year has passed since Janeva Jag witnessed a murder. The endless police inquiries seem finally at an end. It’s time for a relaxing sun-drenched vacation in the tropics. Is it fate, bad luck, or something more sinister that brings the Jag family face-to-face with yet another death? Determined to enjoy their planned Caribbean sailing holiday they try, without success, to ignore a sequence of strange events and threats. Maybe there is a reason to be a bit paranoid, but at least life will return to normal when they get home - or so they believe.

Eight flash fiction pieces that will transport you across a landscape of time, space, and emotion, from Bergen-Belsen, to Faeryland, to the belly of a whale and back.

We're not gonna take it! Robin Parsons is sick of little guys (and girls) getting stepped on by those who say, "We've got the power. Shut up and deal with it." Robin refuses to shut up, and her methods will make you laugh as you cheer for the oddest group of justice seekers since the A-Team!

David Winkle is a 15-year-old high school freshman who has been dealt enough short straws to crush even the strongest of camels. After months of listening to his parents' constant fighting and then his dad's eventual abandonment, the last thing Dave wants is to listen to someone drone on about God's so-called love. Fortunately for Dave, God has ways of getting people to listen.