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This Book is the ultimate self-improvement tool for anyone seeking personal growth and development. The author, a renowned expert in leadership skills and emotional intelligence, delivers a comprehensive guide to developing the kind of confidence and subconscious influence that is associated with charismatic people. Drawing on the latest scientific research on the subject, this book reveals that charisma is a learned behavior, not an innate qu...

An unparalleled achievement, a work of shattering, almost unbearable radiance. I did not stop crying throughout. For Mills. For my young self. For all of us who have lived and continue to live in that pitiless abyss of childhood abuse. To read this courageous book is to be transformed utterly by Mills's empathy, resilience, and grace. Mark my words: Chosen is destined to be a classic because this is a book that will save lives."-Junot Díaz, au...

An unparalleled achievement, a work of shattering, almost unbearable radiance. I did not stop crying throughout. For Mills. For my young self. For all of us who have lived and continue to live in that pitiless abyss of childhood abuse. To read this courageous book is to be transformed. Mark my words: Chosen is destined to be a classic. Why? Because this is a book that will save lives."-Junot Díaz, author of This Is How You Lose HerAt thirteen ...

John Francis 'Jack' McGinness became Australia's first elected Aboriginal Union leader in 1955. It was the culmination of a life spent advocating for Aboriginal and workers' rights. Jungung is Jack McGinness's story told by his daughter, Kathy Mills.Jungung traces Jack's early life in the bush of the Nothern Territory's Top End learning the language and culture of his Irish father, Stephen McGinness and Ulnyunduboo, his Koongurrukun mother. Wh...

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[W]hat does it mean to crave the land?' Stephen S. Mills asks in this ambitious book of poems that imbricates 18th- and 21st-century narratives, domestic tension and national strife, profligate sex and the accountability of gay marriage, forms of incarceration and suicide by proxy. In these poems, New England, Texas, Florida, Indiana, and New York cohere into a collective land that produces personal melancholia, an 'excess of black bile.' Mill...

American landscapes are some of the best-known images in the world: we recognize Niagara Falls, the Grand Canyon, the Manhattan skyline, and the streets of San Francisco in a thousand advertisements and TV shows. But how have these places come to be as they are, and why are some places familiar while others are quite unknown? The American Landscape introduces the reader to the changing face of the American environment, tracing the way in which...

The Genesis Chronicles tells the story of Genesis via a series of dialogues between grandfathers and grandsons. It mixes humor with serious analysis and application of the key themes of the book. By looking at the lives of Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebekah, Joseph, etc., we are challenged to examine our own lives. This book shows us errors to avoid, how to respond when we have failed, and provides guidelines for living a life that is pleasi...

Unable to accept complacency in suburban life, Stephen S. Mills transports himself to dank prison cells, international executions, and the minds of murderers that unravel through the kinky underbelly of America. He comes full-circle back to the bedroom of a young, gay couple whose everyday lives surprise us in a flawed and fascinating world. These poems channel the hushed tones, loving whispers, and lusty moans of a generation deluged in an un...

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Estimates the costs associated with U.S. and overseas Air Force installations and units to provide insight into the costs and benefits of overseas basing.

Prediction: You will love A History of the Unmarried if you are married, or ambivalent about marriage, or hate the idea of marriage, or hope to be married someday. There is something sincere and surprising here for you, whatever your gender or orientation: if you have ever been in a long-term relationship, or ever hope to be, if you are a fan of Mad Men, old movies, Perry Mason, Frank O'Hara, Sylvia Plath, and/or Jackson Pollock, if you have e...

It's a case of espionage, skulduggery, and serious unpleasantness in this second novel in the Rogue Agent trilogy, from one of fantasy's newest stars.

A parallel world is in the grip of terror, staring down the barrel of a thaumaturgical war---a war that threatens to spill across the dimensions and plunge every reality into a nightmare---in this conclusion to the Rogue Agent trilogy.

Written in the bestselling tradition of Mercedes Lackey, this novel kicks off a fast-paced fantasy series about a ne'er-do-well sorcerer with grand ambitions.

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