David Lewis
1) Coming Home
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Jessica Lehman, world-weary and despondent, takes an impulsive detour to visit her hometown and discovers more than she anticipated. A single purchase in a quaint gift shop becomes the catalyst for reviving long-buried memories of her tragic childhood, mixed with happier memories of her first sweetheart, who had always promised to "rescue her from dragons." Her childish hope for the fairy tale "happy ending" had been dashed years ago, and Jessie now...
2) Saving Alice
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A Novel of Second Choices, Second Chances Emotion-Packed Fiction From a Bestselling Author Stephen Whittaker had determined never to be like his dad, someone he considered a loser in every way. Stephen had distanced himself from those early years in Aberdeen, South Dakota, and it was working--an Ivy League education, a great job offer with a New York law firm, and an engagement ring and the proposal all worked out for lovely, talented Alice... Losing...
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From oral history to written word, learn about the history of Oregon through the stories of the Indigenous peoples of the Willamette Valley.
The Willamette Valley is rich with history-its riverbanks, forests, and mountains home to the tribes of Kalapuya, Chinook, Molalla, and more for thousands of years. This history has been largely unrecorded, incomplete, poorly researched, or partially told. In these stories, enriched by photographs and maps,...
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This book sets out to solve one of modern history's most baffling mysteries. Before the start of World War One, Adolf Hitler was living rough on the streets of Vienna. During four years of fighting he never rose above the rank of lance corporal. His superior's did not believe he had the personality to ever lead.
Yet, by 1933, he was on his way to becoming the one of the world's most ruthless, yet charismatic, leaders. What happened to transform him...
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This book is a commentary on Love to the Lost, a pamphlet published by the early Quaker James Nayler in February 1656. It explores Nayler's theology described in this pamphlet, which was, written prior to his blasphemy conviction, as similar to that of other early Quakers. This book puts Nayler's thought into its historical and biographical context.
It is not easy to be sure, what Nayler meant in his pamphlet. Several mountain ranges stand between...
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El liderazgo es engañoso. Nada es constante.
Las circunstancias cambian de día en día y de momento a momento. Muchas veces, la mejor "herramienta" que tenemos es nuestra intuición, basada en parte en la sabiduría de nuestras experiencias y en parte en puro instinto.
En mi experiencia como facilitador corporativo y mentor de desarrollo en liderazgo, he encontrado que los líderes más efectivos son los que pueden realizar una profunda autorreflexión...
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When Speaker Newt Gingrich greeted Dr. David Lewis in his office overlooking the National Mall, he looked at Dr. Lewis and said: "You know you're going to be fired for this, don't you?" "I know," Dr. Lewis replied, "I just hope to stay out of prison." Gingrich had just read Dr. Lewis's commentary in Nature, titled "EPA Science: Casualty of Election Politics." Three years later, and thirty years after Dr. Lewis began working at EPA, he was back in...
9) Altared Boy
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“Altared Boy” takes us on a journey through much of the life of a sexually abused altar boy. It is a stark journey laid bare in a delicate and non-graphic manner. Through ongoing flashbacks, which sometimes detonate into his daily life with unfortunate consequences, Lewis guides us through his pilgrimage through an emotional minefield. His belief that, though you may never be free of the scars you hide, you by no means need to surrender to them...
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There are hundreds of thousands of atheists in the world so all of us probably meet and talk with and write to many each day. The purpose of this work is to better understand them and what faith they have so as to get along better with one another. Along the way we will establish some definitions to make the playing field level as we try to understand how various atheists differ from one another and other persons with their faiths and beliefs. We...
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Who am I and where am I going?
Throughout my ministry I have encountered this question from countless Christians living defeated lives, dealing with shame, guilt, and condemnation over their past. Every Christian has struggled with issues of condemnation, guilt, and lack of true-identity. These false ideas hold us back, but they don't have to.
If you find yourself constantly trying to measure up yet failing, Standing in Your Inheritance will walk...
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Do you want to improve your relationship through communication?
Do you want to know the rules of effective communication in a relationship?
Do you want to manage relationship problems through communication?
If you answered YES to all the questions, then this is the right book for you. This guidebook is going to help you improve your communication as a couple. How to communicate in a relationship is an insightful book designed to cover every aspect...
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Charismatic, singularly determined, and controversial, W.E.B. Du Bois was a historian, novelist, editor, sociologist, founder of the NAACP, advocate of women's rights, and the premier architect of the Civil Rights movement. His hypnotic voice thunders out of David Levering Lewis's monumental biography like a locomotive under full steam.
This second volume of what is already a classic work begins with the triumphal return from WWI of African American...
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Communications form the core of human relationships. The way you communicate to people in your family, workplace, and society at large goes a long way in determining how they perceive you, and in turn how they relate with you. Each one of us needs to make an effort to master the art of conversation. This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to effectively communicate with others and how to easily express what you want and need to say.
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The Pacific Northwest has always been home to unusual folktales, bizarre legends, and strange goings ons. From the countless UFO sightings and the dense rainforests of Oregon and Washington, to the sprawling network of Shanghai tunnels interlaced beneath the cities, the region is rife with stories of the unexplained and the unnatural. In Evergreen Ape, David Lewis takes a closer look at the origins of the Pacific Northwest's most beloved and elusive...
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How to Improve Your Communication Skills in the Workplace, Organization and in Your Personal Life Good communication is an important skill in any environment, organization with human interactions. moreover, when it comes to communication in the business, effective communication is an integral element to business success.
This book contains: Internal Workplace Communication External Workplace Communication Group Workplace Communication How to Communicate...
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"A Step by Step Guide to Improve Communication Skills at Work and in Relationships"
Communications form the core of human relationships. The way you communicate to people in your family, workplace, and society at large goes a long way in determining how they perceive you, and in turn how they relate with you. Each one of us needs to make an effort to master the art of conversation. This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to effectively...
18) Cutthroat Trail
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When Ruben Beeler finds a rancher friend shot to death and mutilated, he calls on Marshals Marion Daniels and Homer Poteet for help. That call begins a chase that takes the men from St. Joe into Kansas and down to Hell on the Border and the Fort Smith court of Hangin' Judge Issac Parker. In pursuit of the killers, the marshals venture into the Oklahoma Territory, or "The Nations" as it was known at the time, following a path of bloodlust that began...
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"Got a gun?"
With those words, David Allen Crockett, a retired police officer who simply wanted to be left alone, finds his seclusion shattered by his friend, therapist Ruby LaCost. At Ruby's request, Crockett agrees to teach one of her clients, Rachael Moore, how to defend herself with a handgun.
During the course of those lessons, Crockett and Rachael begin an intimate relationship. When Rachael is found dead from an apparent suicide, Crockett...
20) Payback Trail
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When Ruben Beeler joins Marshal Marion Daniels to investigate an incident of theft and murder, Rube is plunged into a world of dark deeds and black hearts. With the help of an abused and courageous young woman, Rube, Marion, and Marshal Addriss Tippideaux head south of the Missouri line into the hills and hollows of Northern Arkansas, and take on an entire clan to see that justice is done.
Suspicion of outsiders and hate for the government abounds,...