Hunting Life

Miss Violet Knowlton knows the dangerous boy she watches in secret from her window is someone a proper young lady should avoid. Yet temptation overcomes her. Kit scoffs at her offer of friendship-until, slowly, her innocent trust opens a door to a world he's never known....a world in which Kit can break off the shackles of his shameful past. Then Kit disappears from Violet's life.

For Nick and Ishi, working for Project GoldenEye proves more taxing than they ever dreamed it would be. Paying back the enormous debt they incurred is beginning to seem less and less possible. Especially given the endless “special projects” assigned to the pair as a means to avoid spending the remainder of their earthly days behind bars... Yet, once again, he and Ishi are paired with ‘Cat’ and her equally alluring sister, Natalia, in another dangerous assignment. This time, the search is for something far older...located in a region of the world where Nick and Ishi are unwelcome: ...

Thirty-four of the nation’s best turkey hunters and turkey callers, past and present, have filled this book with their knowledge and wisdom. You’ll learn tactics from some of the early pioneers of the sport of turkey hunting, during the time that wild turkeys were just being reintroduced into many states. You’ll also learn, from some of the best turkey hunters of today, how to deal with too many gobblers and too many hens coming in at the same time, or one old tough tom that no one seems to be able to take.

Someone committed a crime in a fantasy kingdom. The suspect is a fearsome dragon. Jimmy Delehanty and Enid O’Malley, hardboiled private detectives and dragon hunters, are on the case. Enid’s the brainy one. Jimmy? Definitely not. Along the way they meet a diverse cast of characters – a narcissistic woodsman, a grouchy leprechaun, a giant with body shame, a tortoise who can’t get over his childhood, a bad-tempered oak tree, and a witch named Francine. The High Heeled Dragon Hunter is a mashup of fantasy, detective story, and a healthy dose of romantic tension between two pulp fiction...

Sara Bliss (yes, that’s her real name) tracked down more than 65 people who transformed their lives to learn how they did it so you can, too. Take the Leap is packed with inspiring profiles, quotes, and other pieces of creative advice from game changers, rule breakers, and side hustlers, including successful entrepreneurs like Barbara Corcoran, Bobbi Brown, writer turned actress (at 40) Jill Kargman, Black Crowes drummer turned sports radio host Steve Gorman, writer Simon Doonan, and NFL player turned artist/activist Aaron Maybin, and many more.

The constraints of the spiritual life, practiced in community, are what set us free. Practicing spiritual disciplines can seem difficult, especially when we undertake them as isolated individuals. But we were never meant to practice them alone. Jared Patrick Boyd reveals how the constraints practiced in Christian community shape us into the way of Christ. He re-anchors the practices of constraint within the ascetic tradition of monasticism, religious orders, and the early church fathers.

Mary Anning grew up on the south coast of England in a region rich in fossils. As teenagers, she and her brother Joseph discovered England’s first complete ichthyosaur. Poor and uneducated, Anning would become one of the most celebrated paleontologists ever, though in her time she supported herself selling by fossils and received little formal recognition. Her findings helped shape scientific thinking about extinction and prehistoric life long before Darwin published his famous work on evolution.

Jilly thinks she's figured out how life works. But when her sister Emma is born deaf, she realizes how much she still has to learn. A big fantasy reader, Jilly connects with another fan, Derek, who is African American and a deaf ASL user. She goes to Derek for advice but doesn't always know the best way to ask for it and makes some mistakes along the way. Jilly has to step back to learn to be an ally, a sister, and a friend, understanding that life works in different ways for different people, and that being open to change can make you change in the best possible ways.

What if the unseen world is not just something to fear but something to learn from? In Out of the Darkness, Into the Light, paranormal investigators Cara Cilento and Gail Gamble take readers on an extraordinary journey through some of the most haunted locations, eerie artifacts, and chilling personal encounters with the supernatural. Drawing from years of firsthand experiences, they blend historical intrigue with deeply personal insights, uncovering not just spirits, but the lessons they leave behind. From haunted asylums to cursed objects, every case reveals more than just a ghost story—...

A Powder Keg of Spiritual T.N.T.! Living a naturally supernatural lifestyle is easier than you think. T.N.T. is a guidebook that teaches you how to live a naturally supernatural lifestyle, expressing and demonstrating the Kingdom of God wherever you go, to whomever you meet. It is an easy, fun, strategy to help you launch out in your supernatural destiny as a world changer and revivalist. Treasure Hunting is an exciting model for witnessing that uses words of knowledge as the clues to find people God wants to bring into His Treasure Chest––His Kingdom. The Holy Spirit has highlighted on...

How in the world is he the one knocking on her door? Rachael Barnes has been writing about Silverwood Academy for almost three years. In her make-believe world, vampire hunters train up-and-coming slayers to defeat the bloodsuckers that hide in the dark corners. But when Rachael kills off her main character, everything starts to get strange. There’s an earthquake, her cat starts acting crazy, and friends from her old job ask her where she's been as if she still works there. Just when Rachael begins to question her sanity, a knock at her door confirms she's either lost her mind or written ...

For over 50,000 years, the Great Hunt has shaped human existence, creating a vital spiritual reality where people, animals, and the land share intimate bonds. Author Larry Frolick takes the listener deep into one of the last refuges of hunting societies: Canada’s far north. Based on his experiences travelling with First Nations Elders in remote communities across the Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Nunavut, this vivid narrative combines accounts of daily life, unpublished archival records, First Nations' stories and Traditional Knowledge with personal observation....

No One Cares About Your Career Like You Do! You must run your career as if it were your business and you are the CEO. If you want to get and keep the job you want, you need to change how you think about your career. This book will change how you think about your career. Instead of relying on others or just thinking about your career as a series of jobs, it will teach you how to look at yourself as a business and to use business tools to boost your career to where you want it to go. Tom Sheppard successfully used these techniques to rise to the level of a senior executive in a Fortune 500 ...

There is the Cornwall Lamorna Ash knew as a child – the idyllic, folklore-rich place where she spent her summer holidays. Then there is the Cornwall she discovers when, feeling increasingly dislocated in London, she moves to Newlyn, a fishing town near Land’s End. This Cornwall is messier and harder; it doesn’t seem like a place that would welcome strangers. Before long, however, Lamorna finds herself on a week-long trawler trip with a crew of local fishermen, afforded a rare glimpse into their world, their warmth and their humour.

Snipers work in pairs so relationship and trust are all important. Snipers are elite soldiers and clearly the author is among the best of the best. A Sniper's Conflict is a superb account of professional soldiering at the sharp end....

Jake: I know that I’m too shy to find a mate. Too timid. Too insecure. The only people I feel really confident around are my packmates - and Adam. Seeing my best friend again after ten years feels like heaven, but matching with him on Mate.com? Has the potential to break my world apart.

Are you a savage, an aristocrat, or a peasant? Savages make things happen. Aristocrats, like a parasite, live off the success and production that the savages generate, while the peasant is happy to exist from the scraps from the tables of both.

"Asylum-seeker"; "refugee". All the major British political parties have brought these words to the top of the political agenda. Some newspapers shout about the swarms of refugees arriving on our shores; others criticize our government's lack of humanitarian principles. But what do we know about the refugees themselves what it means to leave your home, your family, your past? Author Rose George has travelled to Liberia and Ivory Coast and also met refugees in Britain to discover what really happens when you are uprooted by war, greed, and guns.

Until recently Tess Vigeland was a longtime host of public radio's Marketplace. It was a rewarding, high-status job, and Tess was very good at it - but she'd begun to feel restless. Without any definite, clear sense of what she wanted to do next (but an absolute certainty that what she'd been doing was no longer truly satisfying), she walked away from her dream job and into a vast unknown. Suddenly she was no longer " Marketplace's Tess Vigeland"; she was just Tess Vigeland.

Twelve-year-old Rowan is destined to be Queen; her twin brother, Rhydd, to be Royal Monster Hunter. Rowan would give anything to switch places, but the oldest child is always next in line, even if she is only older by two minutes. She resigns herself to admiring her monster hunting aunt's glorious sword and joining her queen mother for boring diplomatic teas. But tragedy shatters the longstanding rule, and Rowan finds herself hunting the most dangerous monster of all: a gryphon.