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While performing before Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the world's greatest escape artist Harry Houdini becomes pitted against a formidable foe: Rasputin. A powerful mystic, Rasputin has made puppets of the Tsar and his wife Alexandra. To save the nation from ruin, a small band of patriots recruits Houdini to expose the imperial "spiritual advisor" as a charlatan. Houdini wages an epic battle of wits and wills with the charismatic fiend. The American magician's daring and ingenuity are put to the test in an adventure that takes him from the grand palaces of St. Petersburg to the frigid wastelands of Siberia.Along the way, Houdini makes allies and enemies of a host of real-life figures, including the mischievous imp Princess Anastasia, the colossal former boxer and royal bodyguard Jim Hercules, the crossdressing conspirator Prince Yusupov and the sinister Black Sisters, practitioners of the occult who scheme to use Rasputin for their own ends. Meticulous research brings these people and the Russia of 1911 to life.Rasputin is one of history's most fascinating villains, at once a barely literate Siberian peasant and a Nietzschean superman, a Christ-figure to his followers and the Antichrist to his foes, a faith healer and a debaucher of enormous sexual appetites. He has at his disposal an army of goons, femme fatales, Gypsies, hypnotized assassins and fanatical members of the mysterious Khlysty cult.However, Rasputin's greatest strength is his own extraordinary personal magnetism. Gathered around him is a circle of female devotees known as the Little Ladies. To help Houdini bring Rasputin down, the magician's feisty wife Bess infiltrates this coven. She falls under Rasputin's spell and Harry must rescue her from his clutches.As in Houdini's movie serials, he escapes from one peril after another: buried alive under six feet of snow; trapped in a burning barn by Rasputin's henchmen; chained to a rack in the medieval torture chamber of Ivan the Terrible. The pace steadily accelerates until Harry's final confrontation with his nemesis on a frozen river. Houdini did in fact perform for the Tsar and Rasputin did arrive in the capital that same year. Many real events are incorporated into this work of fiction.

A step by step training manual with everything an eyelash extensions technician needs to know. However, you actually need to try and practice some of these explanations before you become fully aware of the benefits of the information contained in this book. Therefore Robyna explains how to practice the art and judge your own work. This will prepare you well before you work on clients.I have tried to consider all the questions students asked me during my forty odd years of teaching. All the things I liked and disliked about having eyelash extension on my eyelashes. I have included the different kinds of eyelash extensions together with false eyelashes and party lashes, information about glue, eye anatomy, skincare (in brief) eye care, contra-indication, YouTube video site addresses and my findings on those videos. How to set up your business card, your forms, disclaimers and everything I could think of to assist you to either improve your skills or gain knowledge in becoming the best in the business. There is a section on how to practice on oranges before you begin practicing on a friend or family member. Yes they love you and want to help you become good at your new skill but that does not mean you should make a clown out of them. They want to look as though they have some added beauty to their face. They do not want to get sore eyes for assisting you nor do they want to look ridiculous. Eyelash extensions courses run for a day or so. You cannot possibly lean this skill in a day. It is great to have someone teaching you but no one remembers all they are told or shown. Therefore this book will assist technicians and beginners alike. Flutter up girls.

A marriage that has lasted decades began with the poems in this book. When the author was romancing his wife they regularly spoke into each other's souls with poetry, which is evident by the first poem in this book that he wrote for his wife, "I Believe in Love." Words make the soul come alive. This collection of Love Poems and Love Quotes is a celebration of love and romance that include literary giants and classic poets like Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson, William Yeats, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe and many more. The classic beauty of these poems and quotes will be enjoyed by the first time poetry readers as well as the Literary-inclined and especially those with the intention to fall deeper in love as the words jump off the pages into your heart.

As a stylist, Thomlinson aims high, with goals that recall modernists such as James Joyce and Virginia Wolfe: writers concerned with the complex juxtaposition of interior thought and external reality. The novel's pyrotechnic language serves primarily as a window into the minds of his characters. -- LA Review of BooksGround breaking and important...should become one of the most analyzed techniques in literary fiction.-- Experimental WritingThis unconventional text while reminiscent of the Dadaists word games, experimental poetry, and William Burroughs's work using cut-ups is, in the end, a unique entity unto itself...-- Ray FracalossyThe Strike vividly explores a season of crisis in the lives of Old Yu and Little Xu, two outsiders in an ice-bound Chinese border town riven by an illegal strike. Caught up in the upheaval, guilt-ridden Old Yu embarks on a reckless journey to find the rebellious woman he betrayed, before it's too late. Meanwhile, lonely young drifter Little Xu enters into a dangerous relationship with a stranger on the run.The Strike stands out as a novel that is both experimental and dealing realistically with real world events in an engaged way. The new use of syntax the novel pioneers is a method the author, a translator, uses to shake up the synapses of readers in a way that can deliver new perspectives on the nature of reality. Linguists and psychologists, literary critics and readers will find this to be a stunning new revelation of possibility.

Would you like to be empowered and encouraged? I Will Stand offers a positive outlook for older kids and teens in their daily lives. Sunday school teacher and mother Dawn Foss outlines a series of commitments to live by. Each is based on scripture and will give you the tools you need to live out your faith so that you can be used by God in each situation you encounter. You will be inspired to be a champion of character with boldness and assurance that you are not alone in this journey and that God will be with you all the way. He has a purpose and plan for your life and cares about who you are and what you do. Each insightful guideline touches on developing character and helping you become who God wants you to be. Effective for personal or family devotions as well as group discussions, I Will Stand provides a map to drawing closer to God and is a must-read for all who believe that character really does matter.

Bloom by 30 is a compilation of poetry dedicated to the 30th anniversary of my birth. Bloom by 30 is a journey captured with words. The journey from a 17-year-old love-struck girl to a full-blown passionate, purpose-driven, faith-filled woman. Bloom by 30 embodies the heart and soul of a woman in and out of love, battling life struggles by faith.

Are you a new believer in Christ? Are you a believer wanting a closer relationship with your Heavenly Father? Do you have a desire to hear the voice of God more clearly? Through his personal testimony, and ministry experience, along with the life changing Word of God, Dr. Danny Brooks invites you on the journey of a deeper walk with God.

When an attack leaves Addy, her young daughter and her best friend floating in space in a tiny life-pod with dwindling supplies, they can only hope someone will find them. Preferably someone friendly. Wouldn't it be an odd twist of fate to have the handsome alien ambassador she'd been trading with earlier that day find her? But ha! That would never happen. Besides she stinks to high heaven and looks like crap. He was on his way home. He'd never find her.Or would he?

Based on St.Petersburg Fl auto thefts by teens. Tyrone Jenkins is a 13 year old criminal who's always getting into trouble with the law. The police know his face; teachers at his school hate him and his mama can't stand 'em. Tyrone and his friends go out and commit a slew of crimes throughout the fictional city of Pineburg Fl. The older drug dealers are looking for him and the younger generation doesn't get along with him. Society has labeled Tyrone an endangerment on the radio. Tyrone must deal with the cycle of poverty and real life issues throughout the black community.If you are fascinated with the South St.Petersburg history and folklore the mini lights then you would love my story because I've incorporated that legend as well to give you that St.Petersburg feeling when you read my book. There's popular landmarks in my book "The Deuces," which is located in St.Petersburg Fl and the old Mercy Hospital. I also created The Peckerwood family who are saints and sinners living in Tyrone's neighborhood. So you are ordering two cartoon shows in one and learning the history of black culture in St.Petersburg Fl.

Adam and Eve have walked a cursed world for five centuries. The cities of their descendants are scattered across Havilah, Nod and Cush. Mankind invent tools. They write and they make laws. Dark angels harass and tempt the sons and daughters of the First Parents while predators feast on their flesh. The Man and Woman who walked with God in Eden Paradise journey to cities in Havilah and Nod. Cain divides Nod with prejudice and violence. Adam and Eve urge peace while men and women invent war and slavery. Scroll of Civilization is their story.

Winner of the League of Utah Writers 2017 Gold Quill for outstanding YA literature.Book 1 of 8 in the epic The Blacksmith Legacy series."An exciting, surprising and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny story. A truly enjoyable read."-Susan"Edge of your seat moments throughout. [Billy] instantly shot into my top 10 adventure books of all time...You'll find yourself rooting for Billy and friends in no time."-Nathan"If I can make it through an entire YA novel without rolling my eyes, we have a winner...It's smart, it's witty, and it's fun."-RebeccaBilly has spent his whole life keeping his head down in school and trying to survive the endless parade of foster homes.When a three hundred pound spider emerges from under his bed intent on drinking his blood, Billy discovers he is the main player in an ancient war between demons and humans.With his best friends Ash-Lea and Greyson, and a reformed demon as his ally, Billy prepares to face an invasion of demonic spiders and the General that leads them.The fate of the Universe hinges on 15-year-old Billy in this exciting, humorous epic fantasy and 20-foot-tall demonic spiders.Billy Blacksmith: The Demonslayer is book One in a fantastic new fantasy book series. Great young adult book for teens and kids, aged 11-70.

2020 Gift Ideas - White Elephant Gift - Funny gifts Romantic and funny!Color dashing heroes, shirtless pirates and bodice-ripping blokesA great gift for people who like a laugh this coloring book for adults by Humperdink Hatmaker is inspired by classic and cheesy romance novels and will blow your shirt off! Share your creations on Facebook and Instagram with #ColoringBookofRomance

A cursed woman and a troubled war hero rise up against a tyrant KGB officer in the wake of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Midnight, August 20, 1968: the sirens of Prague are sounding. Without warning, Russian tanks have crossed the frontier and are pouring into the city. The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia has begun. Arriving with the troops is Colonel Grigori Dal, a seasoned KGB officer and coldblooded killer. While the country slips into chaos, Dal uses the fighting as cover to apprehend an American prisoner-of-war from a military prison in Prague. Within days, only a cursed woman and a troubled war hero will stand between him and protecting the Cold War's darkest secret: proof U.S. servicemen were secretly transferred to the Soviet Union. R. Cyril West's novel of tragic love, suspense, intrigue, and the dangerous machinations of the human heart-The Thin Wall. Watch book trailer video and learn more at: www.powmiatruth.com

If you walk the streets of Sapphire Court, you are sure to hear about Calista Cavanaugh. She was a blonde bombshell with wit, charm, and the biggest personality Brookston had ever seen. Cali no longer lives in the large house in the middle of the street with her perfect husband and two perfect little boys. She's lost.Her closest friends, four other Brookston housewives, continuously wonder what happened to Calista while welcoming two new housewives to Sapphire Court. However, don't let the smiles, wine, and shows of perfection fool you. Sapphire Court holds secrets. Dark Secrets. When you check your mailbox and decide to go look closer through the cracks in curtains of the old Cavanaugh house, be wary of a pair of piercing blues. They will be watching you through curtains of their own. Welcome back to the neighborhood.

"I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints."- Jude 1:3Ordination is the affirmation of God's call to pastoral ministry. It is also the verification of theological and moral fitness for ministry. The full process of ordination in the Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA) lasts several years. The final step involves an extensive oral exam and writing a dense paper organized around the EFCA's statement of faith.In the summer of 2019, the EFCA broadened its statement of faith to include all orthodox views of the glorious return of Christ. Benjamin Vrbicek is the first pastor who holds an amillennial view of the return of Christ to be ordained in the new era. Once for all Delivered is an expanded version of his ordination paper.About the AuthorBenjamin Vrbicek (M.Div., Covenant Theological Seminary) is the lead teaching pastor at Community Evangelical Free Church in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Benjamin and his wife, Brooke, have six children. He blogs regularly, is the author of Don't Just Send a Resume and Struggle Against Porn, the co-author of More People to Love and Enduring Grace, and has written for Desiring God, The Gospel Coalition, For The Church, 9Marks, and Christianity Today Pastors.

Have you ever started to do something without even understanding why you're doing it or where you want to do it? Have you ever felt that you were knowledgeable about many things, but it seems like not enough?vThe primary reason for many of these feelings is the absence of a Vision as a motivator!Without vision, you're like a ship's captain whose compass doesn't work. Without vision, you're like a driver who doesn't know how to get to his destination. Without vision, you're like a traveler who doesn't understand where she's going or her trip's objectives.In this book, the Vision Strategist, Dr. Catrina Pullum, the Chain Breaker, shares her plans for casting vision and determining the sustaining efforts to accomplish your visions and goals.

Artificial Intelligence is nearly ubiquitous thanks to companies like Google, Facebook and Apple who have infected our daily lives with technology like AI infused natural language processing and search right in the palm of our hands. To move beyond AI to Artificial General Intelligence and then Superintelligence, we need to think far outside the AI development box to design and build human level and eventually beyond human level cognitive AI. So what does it take to build human level cognition into a machine? It takes a brand new way of thinking about artificial intelligence because today's AI systems and infrastructure will not support a true human level cognitive superintelligence, In this edition of the Superintelligence Handbook, I discuss and detail new developments in artificial general intelligence designs specifically related to artificial cognition as well as a couple of updates to some of the content in ASIH1. I also discuss new advancements in infrastructure that supports cognitive AI. The future is both uncertain and hopeful. Humanity stands on the cusp of becoming an interstellar advanced species but only if we can survive long enough to make it to the stars. We need superintelligence and cognitive systems to save us from ourselves and help us master surviving in space. As our organization works through the sale of our cognitive AI code and IP the bad news is that it is not being sold to a US investment group. The good news is that deep within the content of this book is the blueprint of our cognitive AI machine. Safely archived for future generations.Failure is not an option but it is a high probability. Good luck and don't be evil.

"You Can't Catch Me!" is a collection of sayings that were passed down from the author's parents and people in the community. It is her candid words of wisdom that have inspired the documentation of such cultural authenticity. Through her voice, may these life lessons transpire through generations to come.ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Victoria Kelly, fondly known as "Vicky," was born in Cuba on January 14, 1920 to Jamaican parents, William and Beatrice Warren. She was raised in Jamaica and came to the United States in 1979. She is a daughter, sister, aunt, wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and a hidden gem. She has 7 children, 13 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren, and a host of cousins and in laws. Victoria resides in Los Angeles, California, where she loves to cook, sew, read her Bible, dance, and listen to Spanish music.

What does the Bible say about Sex? It is not an exaggeration to say that there is no single subject that influences people as profoundly as sex. Sex and Scripture covers, in clear everyday language, what the Bible says about sexual subjects such as: abstinence, marriage, adultery, masturbation, homosexuality, lust and pornography.

Belle has a secret. As a young girl, she made a decision based on one little lie. That decision would forever change her life simply because she allowed fear, cleverly disguised as courage, to become the driving force behind her sheer determination.Even as a very successful business owner, Belle struggles with underlying fear and doubt and wonders if she will ever be good enough. Through a very strange set of circumstances, she meets a young child, Meme.Meme walks with Belle through many life situations: helping a friend whose child has lost her battle to cancer, missing her two somewhat distant children, and struggling with a board member scheming to take over her business. Through each situation, Meme imparts wisdom regarding several characteristics that transforms Belle over time.As Meme imparts this wisdom, she too changes over time. Belle had never told anyone about her secret and has worked all her life to keep it hidden. With Meme's assistance, Belle learns that revealing the secret will set her free to truly know that she is loved and forgiven. Meme also helps Belle discover the balance she desperately needs: how to be strong, not pushy; bold, not rude; and humble, not weak.Readers, especially women in business, will resonate with Belle's struggles and will relate to the hidden secret and the lie it was based on. All will welcome knowing they can receive forgiveness and have freedom from guilt and shame by learning how certain characteristics lead to a more balanced life.

The deadliest cannon shot in American history was fired at the "Negro Fort" at Prospect Bluff on Florida's Apalachicola River on July 27, 1816. The resulting explosion killed more than 270 men, women, and children, and destroyed the largest free black settlement in North America. The Fort at Prospect Bluff is a remarkable look at this shocking episode of American history. The author digs deep into the letters, documents, eyewitness accounts, and military reports to tell the story with more depth and clarity than ever before. This book tells an amazing story of Native Americans fighting to preserve their lands, Maroons (escaped slaves) making a desperate stand to protect their freedom, U.S. and British troops confronting each other during the War of 1812, and a shocking attack and its bloody aftermath. This is the story of an Underground Railroad that ran south to Spanish Florida and eventually to Trinidad, the Bahamas, and for a few even to Newfoundland.

My life as a ten year old middle child in my family.

This workbook gives readers a platform to answer the Q&A sections of the Self Epiphany Esteem and Confidence book. The Self Epiphany Esteem and Confidence book can be purchased separately.

Poetry book to glorify God and display my testimony.

This book is simply a tool to help those that struggle in the area of sexual sin. After reading this book, you will find that you can control your fleshly appetites with a little prayer and fasting. Truth is, you are not your struggle. You can defeat this! You are not the only one that deals with this issue. Inside this book are some biblical examples of the effects of lust. You will discover that lust can affect every aspect of your life, your career, and your family. More importantly, you will find the solutions needed to break the pattern.

What if a future President wrote her memoirs BEFORE she held office? And her story includes how she ended war., abolished the IRS, managed by statistics and results (Not media reports).And then got down to work attacking illiteracy, crime and healthcare? And took a stab at the media while at it. Oh, and she is a woman. Enjoy a read of how a President COULD hold office and get her take cutting back government intrusion into our daily lives.

But We Get Up..Bouncing Back After Life's Knockdowns is for anyone who feels life has delivered it's most lethal punch and knocked you down! Not only can you get back up off the canvas of life, you can fight back and win! Today is the day you reclaim your life! A.T. Wright is graduate of Stark State College AA Business Administration. He received his B.S Organizational Supervision from The University of Akron. He is the Founder/CEO of The Young Scholars Mentoring Center in Akron, Oh, In 2017 he began his career as a motivational speaker, sharing his experiences with inmates at correctional institutions across the state of Ohio. He is an Author and owner of Our Voices Publishing, a Master Barber and owner of Y.S.M.C Barbershop. He is the father of 17 year old Andrew Zamir and God Father to four year old Madden Maxwell. He was recently honored at the 30th Annual Salute to Significant African American Males given on behalf of the Ohio Black Women's Leadership Caucus of Akron.