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Strategic guidance to the college admissions and college financial aid process for students and families curious about funding higher education. By planning ahead, understanding what the admissions offices at your target universities are looking for, and familiarizing yourself with the financial aid process, you can streamline the college experience and avoid any last-minute surprises that could impact your ability to pay for college. No more wondering “How am I going to pay for college?” From scholarships to grants to loans, and the options at each school across the US, knowing your ...

Join co-hosts Lloyd and Meghan as they peer beneath the surface of topical issues, curiosities, conjectures, and futurisms. Lighthearted look at the fascinations of our world through the lens of NotebookLM.

The Abbey Road Music Photography Awards invites listeners to step beyond the image and explore the process behind music iconography, shining a light on the talented photographers behind the lens. Hosted by acclaimed music photographers Charlotte Patmore (Clairo, Sam Fender, Lola Young) and Katy Cummings (Two Door Cinema Club, You Me At Six, The Hunna), the duo bring their combined knowledge and unique perspectives to this five-part series. Episodes will be released every two weeks, exploring the diversity of music photography across various areas - from style and identity to the relationship ...

Missing Persons is Jack Olsen’s novel of suspense and horror, combining the shock and tension of A Stranger Is Watching with the gritty realism of The Blue Knight – a story of terror and loss and love that unlocks the nightmares lurking behind the façades of ordinary lives. Could it happen to you? Severn Gamble’s wife walks into the Justice Building of a major Northwestern city to pick up some typing-and never comes out. (“Margot?”) No one has seen her. (“Margot!”) She has disappeared. (“Margot!”) And the nightmare begins. Gamble starts to hunt for her, joined by two ...

Set in the metropolis of Corinth City where steampunk meets neon gothic. Haunted by a recent heartbreak, Hughes is indebted to the city's most terrifying criminal gang. Desperate for salvation, Hughes sets his sights on joining the Scarlet Citadel, an enigmatic organization of pageant fighters, monster hunters, and keepers of secrets. As a member of their illustrious ranks, surely he can pay off his debts and change his life for the better.

In Rogue Command, a group of European terrorists have a new, unexpected target, with nuclear-level consequences. With the clock ticking for Troy to stop them before they set off a global war, Troy, partnered with an Interpol agent whom he grudgingly respects, is up against the enemy of his life.

Unlike the women who descended on Washington in 2017 to protest the inauguration of President Trump, the women of January 6 did not come as women. They came as Americans, as patriots, as defenders of the republic. They did not wear pink hats. They wore MAGA hats. Their issues were indistinguishable from those of the men in their lives—the rule of law, free and fair elections, and the preservation of constitutional rights. They brought no laundry list of special needs like, say, “reproductive rights,” because they understood that no one was challenging their right to reproduce.

Set in the brutal Lincolnshire farmland, Burden of Truth has everything that fans of British crime fiction want—deadly realism, dark humour, and characters you will love right up until the shocking twist is unveiled.

From the time of his childhood in rural Kansas, Dwight D. Eisenhower's vision of himself and his country was one of confidence and hope. His hard-working parents taught him self-reliance and nothing that happened in his long career ever eroded this trait. During nearly half a century of service to his country and the world, Eisenhower displayed a deep understanding of the nation's problems, aspirations, and fears that prevailed during both war and peace.

Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love, and had children. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experiences radically different from our own, unfolding in a world where deadly wounds might be healed overnight by divine intervention, or where the heart of a king, plucked from his corpse, could be held aloft as a powerful symbol of political rule.

When Dave Mansford, founding member of 80's band Alternator is electrocuted live on stage during a comeback concert, DI Declan Walsh and the team of the Last Chance Saloon are brought in to investigate whether it was a simple accident, or vicious murder. However, as they investigate further they find the surviving members of Alternator in the middle of a multi-million-dollar rights sale, a band whose lead singer disappeared in 1998 and has never been declared dead, and whose biggest success, the 1987 album Secrets and Lies seems to be cursed.

Dragnet was an American radio series, enacting the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective Sergeant Joe Friday and his partners. The show took its name from the police term dragnet, meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.

Unknown Market Wizards continues in the three-decade tradition of the hugely popular Market Wizards series, interviewing exceptionally successful traders to learn how they achieved their extraordinary performance results. The twist in Unknown Market Wizards is that the featured traders are individuals trading their own accounts. They are unknown to the investment world. Despite their anonymity, these traders have achieved performance records that rival, if not surpass, the best professional managers.

Legendary writing coach Jack Hart spent 26 years at The Oregonian and has taught students and professionals of all stripes, including bloggers, podcasters, and more than one Pulitzer Prize winner. Good writing, he says, has the same basic attributes regardless of genre or medium. Wordcraft shares Hart’s techniques for achieving those attributes in one of the most broadly useful writing books ever written. Originally published in 2006 as A Writer’s Coach, the book has been updated to address the needs of writers well beyond print journalists.

What are your beliefs about money? Do you have limiting beliefs that are keeping you from making or enjoying the money you deserve? How do you turn around these limited beliefs? You’ve heard the saying, "If you don’t like the results you are getting, then change the behavior that produces those results." Understanding your beliefs about money and developing a strategy to obtain the money you deserve is vital.

Murderers or monsters, normal people turned bad or people born with the desire to kill; it doesn’t matter where they come from, serial killers strike dread into our hearts with a single mention of their names. Hunting in broad daylight or stalking from the shadows, we are their prey and their hunt is never done until they are caught or killed. With a worrying number of them living in our communities, working alongside us at our places of employment and sharing the same spaces where we spend time with our families, serial killers are just another neighbor that we barely think about.

What is masculinity? Ask ten men and you'll get ten vague, conflicting answers. Unlike any book of its kind, The Way of Men offers a simple, straightforward answer - without getting bogged down in religion, morality, or politics. It's a guide for understanding who men have been and the challenges men face today. The Way of Men captures the silent, stifling rage of men everywhere who find themselves at odds with the overregulated, overcivilized, politically correct modern world.

After a botched assassination attempt on the President of the United States, White House operative Blake Johnson and his opposite number in British intelligence Sean Dillon set out to trace the source of the havoc. Someone is recruiting a shadowy network of terrorists, and that man is not pleased by the interference. Soon he will target them all: Johnson, Dillon, Dillon's colleagues. And one of them will fall...

The Witch of Vernaster has turned her evil eye east, and it has fallen on the dungeon lord. Now she'll dispatch her formidable forces to ruin his plans. But John is gaining power, and is determined to triumph. His team is growing: Venx the Elven huntress has joined him, and she brings stealth, guile and a fantastic knowledge of the land.

Nightshift clerk and high-functioning insomniac Jack is back to work, trying his best to keep out of trouble. But when his chain-smoking coworker discovers a mysterious radio signal revealing the guarded secrets of their town, Jack will learn that an annoying new dayshift manager is far from the worst of his problems. In this second installment of the Gas Station saga, Jack finds himself entangled in his most harrowing adventure yet.