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Synopsis The novel is aimed at those interested in not just football but the human condition. The Lion of Dellwood is a story of resilience and the human spirit. Dellwood, Derry, Defiance, Dennis, and Dementia are five places life leads Donald Richards. Richards is a young boy who spends his formative years as a ward of the state, and the guest of an abusive foster family. He’s a “payday” and an unpaid laborer for the Bono family. The system labels the orphan a five, a broken boy they describe as physically inept, mentally impaired, and intellectually behind. He believes the message and the reality he observes: he’s damaged. The number five is his curse but also his blessing. Through...
Princess Evangeline is about to face the biggest hurdle of her life: arranged marriage. But two traumatic events change her destiny forever, and not only hers. A mysterious boy with but a letter for a name has been forced to face her obstacles with her. This is the first story in a series with two people from very different backgrounds facing destiny together.
2nd Half - Gridiron Gangsters. Donald Richards returns from the Cape and completes what’s left of his long and uneventful career. A failed physical, signs of dementia and family conflict sets the scene for a chaotic conclusion. A forced retirement, five tragic deaths, and a crushing guilt, pulls Richards back to Dellwood; a place he swore, he’d never go. Thanksgiving night on Coal Mountain is Richards’ defining moment, and he fails. New Year’s Day is his shot at redemption and he fails again. Haunted by his choices, the story goes to overtime where Richards is confronted by a familiar face and a forever future. There was a time when professional football, was unpopular and on the cus...
Nick Shamus has lived his entire life in the slums of Horner and has chosen to spend it as a lying, cheating, conniving thief. Unbeknownst to Nick, his life is about to be turned upside down when he discovers that he’s blessed with enchanting abilities. Unfortunately for Nick, this also makes him a wanted man. Ester Rayther, a mercenary, hasn't had the best run of luck lately. Her dad is dead, and she's out of a job. Looking to start anew, Ester ventures to the independent state of Seaport, where she meets the mysterious Berend Finch—a man looking to uncover a twenty-year-old conspiracy that could be the death of her. Notorious for all the wrong reasons, Weston Fairchild has spent the la...
Set in a time of swords and kingdoms, you find Matthew, a man trying to live a life after everything is taken away from him. Fates push Matthew into an unknown village called Frayla, a surreal place filled with virtue and Godly people. Words of destiny surround Matthew in a suffocating cage as he is asked to partake on a dire mission to save Frayla. As Matthew tries to avoid his past and avoid failure, he is challenged physically, emotionally, and mentally as he navigates new relationships and fights for what is good. A mashup of fiction, adventure, action, love, humor, fantasy, tragedy, and Christian values. Bookkeeper explores life on all levels as it shows Matthew’s first steps in recovering.
Prince Shade is many things…but a murderer is not one of them. After being accused of killing his father, the king, and escaping his home, Shade and his closest friend Erin find themselves on the run. While Shade endeavors to build an army of allies and retake the throne, he learns there are many who prefer someone else be in charge; and many more who wish to see the downfall of the throne altogether. In the midst of confusion, chaos, and treachery Shade learns there may still be hope for the kingdom, even in the darkest of places.
Marketing Management: The Big Picture organizes traditional Marketing Management theory and practice in a conceptually appealing way. The use of well-known examples and consumer commercials throughout the content ensures students will commit to memory and innovative method for structuring and solving marketing problems. The framework constitutes a disciplined approach to connecting marking variables to each other, inextricably linking marketing strategy concepts with their executional implications.
Retail is going through difficult times and is suffering the consequences of both the economic crisis and the digitization of society. Fundamentally, there is a bigger problem: stores cannot keep up with the changing behavior of customers who are connected 24/7, customers for whom there is no distinction between online and offline.The End of Online Shopping: The Future of New Retail in an Always Connected World describes how the smart, the sharing, the circular, and the platform economy are shaping a new era of always connected retail. Retailers urgently need to innovate if they want to stay relevant in a world dominated by marketplaces and sharing platforms. The book contains inspiring examples from different industries — which include the usual suspects such as Amazon, Alibaba, and Google, but also local startups — and covers all aspects of the customer journey, from orientation and selection to delivery.The End of Online Shopping provides an excellent overview of shopping trends and developments worldwide, and offers readers indispensable insights into the future of retail.
For decades, studies of oil-related conflicts have focused on the effects of natural resource mismanagement, resulting in great economic booms and busts or violence as rebels fight ruling governments over their regions' hydrocarbon resources. In Oil Sparks in the Amazon, Patricia I. Vasquez writes that while oil busts and civil wars are common, the tension over oil in the Amazon has played out differently, in a way inextricable from the region itself. Oil disputes in the Amazon primarily involve local indigenous populations. These groups' social and cultural identities differ from the rest of the population, and the diverse disputes over land, displacement, water contamination, jobs, and wea...