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When two worlds collide, the illegal transportation of tons of Mexican cartel marijuana to inner city gang members in a Midwestern city's "hood" - three bodies end up burning, caught in a web of greed as a major international drug deal goes very bad. The chilling trail of evidence from a remote wooded area, where three bodies are set on fire leads homicide detectives across the country chasing down witnesses and conspirators in a two-year search for cold-blooded killers.

Have you been going to the gym for months now, but don’t look any different? Do you feel like, for the time invested, you should be bigger or more muscular than you currently are? If you’ve ever felt like you’re missing a piece of the puzzle, know this: Building muscle isn’t as complicated as the fitness industry wants you to believe. You already know what to do. You just lack the confidence to do it.

“Eat less, move more” is incomplete. You can lose weight eating more. How? Through a process known as diet-induced thermogenesis. Diet-induced thermogenesis, the calories burned digesting and absorbing the food you eat, has a greater impact on “calories-out” than exercise. But when you restrict your caloric intake, you restrict diet-induced thermogenesis. Thus, the principle of weight loss is not consuming a very small number of calories - especially when “calories-in” increases “calories-out”.

What’s your max squat? How much ya bench? What’s your best deadlift? Can you press your body weight? Today, pushing quantifiable expressions of strength, like your maxes, is becoming increasingly ubiquitous. However, though strength may be specific, real strength is much more than a powerlifting total - it’s about resilience, capability, and adaptability. It’s survival of the fittest after all, not the strongest.

The oddly shaped and versatile kettlebell has only recently gained attention in popular fitness. These objects serve as tremendous ballistic training tools that can quickly result in increases across all fitness domains. This how-to audiobook takes you step-by-step from the history of kettlebells, to basic biomechanics, and through an extensive repertoire of kettlebell movements. Each movement is carefully explained. At the end of each major movement chapter, an "action plan" is outlined that will give you workout ideas so you can start right away.

This is a story about politics, history, and power. But, most of all, this is a story about a working-class kid from the south side of Tacoma, Washington, who became a Secret Service agent and traveled the world, building a relationship with one of America’s most controversial Presidents, Richard Nixon, and Mrs. Nixon. This is a story about perseverance and friendship - and a story no one else can tell.

Are you frustrated with how messy your home is? Are you embarrassed to have to switch to cleaning mode every time you have guests coming over? But even after all the cleaning you do you still can't keep your home organized and tidy? Truth is, you have too much stuff. Cleaning and tidying would be a lot easier if you got rid of some material possessions. However, many of you fear that you may need your possessions at one point or another, and hence why your lives are so full of clutter. Your primary objective should be to get rid of physical clutter.

If you have always wanted to slap on slabs of muscle and build your dream physique without going to the gym for machine work, then keep reading...Bodyweight exercises are simple, efficient, and effective. They require minimal equipment, work many muscles at once, and the exercises feel natural - unlike the machines found in gyms. It’s easy to pick up, easy to adhere to, and will challenge you continuously through new movement progressions. Consistency is the key to getting and keeping a strong, muscular body - and it is easy to be consistent with calisthenics.

Dan Foxx has spent more than 50,000 hours face-to-face with over 4,500 top execs from America’s finest companies, from high-flying high techs to promising start-ups. With pressure from boards of directors and investors to deliver dollars and high-ticket IPOs and with expectations from direct reports to make the savvy decisions, these CEOs bare all behind closed doors when their leadership chops are on the line.

Today, our Mother Earth is giving us a timeout to go to our corners and think about what we have done, and she is compelling us to wake up and to remember that we are all connected from the global markets and economies to the air we inhale and exhale. One day, we will realize that there is nothing more important in the world than knowing that each of us has a gift and that we are all here to support each other to fulfill that gift.

Procrastination Habit: How to Overcome Bad Habits and Stop Procrastinating is the ultimate manual that will teach you how to finally free yourself from procrastination. This audiobook looks at the act of procrastinating as a habit, and will teach you the ins and outs of overcoming procrastination. Procrastination Habit: How to Overcome Bad Habits and Stop Procrastinating will give you the foundation and the realization that will allow you to get rid of procrastination completely.

To write a successful book, you need to find and work with an editor who shares your passion for your work and your message and who will help you make your book sing. And sing a smash hit. A blockbuster of a message, clearly and carefully constructed so readers love you and your work and leave you five-star Amazon reviews only because they don’t have more stars to give.

You do not need a background in finance or accounting to understand this book. You will find that it’s an easy listen that goes straight to the point. It reveals strategies and tools you need to make BIG changes in your life so you can pay off your college loans, car debt, and credit card balances.

Thousands of cookie-cutter homes for high-tech workers sprouted from the funeral pyres of a vanishing way of life as acres of lush fruit trees were bulldozed and burned to create today's Silicon Valley. One of the children who grew up in this new suburbia in San Jose, California, was Tom Liggett, a neglected, unwanted child of dysfunctional (that's being kind) parents, who befriended the "witch" who lived in the Spanish cottage on the hill.

Eldercare Confidential is for the caregivers and caretakers who are often thrust into the role of fiduciary, either by legal appointment or by assuming the role because of their relationship to the elderly person who needs caretaking. Typically, this is a close relative, like a parent. The duties of a fiduciary spelled out by laws include loyalty and reasonable care of the assets within custody. This is more than a moral responsibility; this is a legal obligation.

In Anger Management: Control Your Anger & Stop Hurting the One Person That Matters Most - You, you’ll discover what the goal of anger management actually entails, why you need anger management even if you don’t explode when frustrated, what OTC drugs you can take to help with anger, and more.

Do you constantly find Netflix and Hulu keeping you attached to your couch? Are you struggling to make the short hours of the day work for you? Do you frequently ponder why you never get things done on time? Are you one that gets into avoidable predicaments often because procrastination seems to always have control over your wheel of life? It is time to challenge everything you believe your life is at this very moment. There is always room for improvement to make the best better.

Are you the master of your emotions or are they in charge of you? If you are attempting to be successful but your efforts are not effective, there is a good chance that you are making the same mistake countless number of others are making. Your mistake is that you are leaving out the human element in your quest for success. It's not just what you do and how well you do it, it's about how you are able to listen to those around you and touch them in a way that you haven't until this point. This book is about to change your life by showing you the different aspects of influencing the people around you. It is about learning how to listen to them and say what you need, how you need to get them to shatter their opinion and embrace yours.

What is propaganda? It's no secret that we are often being sold things, by advertising companies, and now by the news. How did propaganda start? What was the history of it? How can we learn how to spot it and protect ourselves? Although propaganda has been around for a long time, its form has shifted. Although it is similar now to how it was, there are some key differences to be aware of. Clickbait and fake news: It seems as though a lot of news on the Internet these days is just "clickbait", designed to make people read but without much substance. Plus much more!

A lot of people think that they don’t have enough – whether it is enough wealth, enough cash, or enough possessions – but they are wrong. Often times, the problem is that you have too much. But you don’t realize it. You don’t realize it because you are crowded by all your thoughts, your possessions, and by what society and commercialism want you to think.