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Seismologist Charlie Richter, grandson of the inventor of the Richter scale, knows earthquakes, and has a method for predicting them. Arriving in Los Angeles to begin work at the Center for Earthquake Studies, a mysterious agency that seems more Hollywood than science, Charlie settles into his new life. His only distraction from work is Grace, an assistant to a powerful producer, and her deadbeat scriptwriter boyfriend Ian.It's only a matter of time before Charlie sees the «Big One» looming on the horizon. When Charlie alerts his boss at the Center, he is the one that's in for a shock: this is exactly what the Center was hoping for.With the news leaked, everyone's suddenly looking to produce the next disaster blockbuster. One of the few scripts Ian actually wrote, Ear to the Ground, happens to be about an earthquake disaster, and soon it's plucked from obscurity and given the fast track. But with a little bit of luck, Charlie may just foil everybody's plans. He just needs explosives, a helicopter, a little more time.By award-winning writer and Los Angeles Times book critic David Ulin, Ear to the Ground is a rollicking visit back to the 1990s.

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Hi! My name is Buddy. I am a Beagle. Since I can read and write, I am no ordinary Beagle. I also am very fond of Mental Masturbation. This is my second book!<br><br>Mental Masturbation, Dear Reader, is a form of anxiety relief that affects my ever-wandering, always-worrying, exceedingly-addictive mind that works 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. I even can confirm that Mental Masturbation manages to continue spinning an extra day during leap year.<br><br>This collection of missives, which I hope you will read (albeit I do not know why you would care so to do) and for which I beg you to pay, is my banal attempt to understand the &quot;why&quot; of life. Whether I am discussing my adventures or thinking about meaningless things, I hope you find my words interesting, fun, thought-provoking or, well, you bought the book so at that point my hopes alredy have been achieved, i.e. I made money to buy more treats!<br><br>Oh yes, if anyone has a cure for Mental Masturbation, I would be most grateful with any elixir that would speed me towards enlightenment. <br><br>Hugs and Kisses,<br><br>Buddy<br>[email protected]

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Hi! My name is Buddy. I am a Beagle. Since I can read and write, I am no ordinary Beagle. I also am very fond of Mental Masturbation. <br><br>Mental Masturbation, Dear Reader, is a form of anxiety relief. It affects my ever-wandering, always-worrying, exceedingly-addictive mind that works 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. I even can confirm that Mental Masturbation manages to continue spinning an extra day during leap year.<br><br>This collection of missives, which I hope you will read (albeit I do not know why you would care so to do) and for which I beg you to pay, is my banal attempt to understand the &quot;why&quot; of life. Whether I am discussing my adventures or thinking about meaningless things, I hope you find my words interesting, fun, thought-provoking or, well, you bought the book so at that point my hopes alredy have been achieved, i.e. I made money to buy more treats!<br><br>Oh yes, if anyone has a cure for Mental Masturbation, I would be most grateful with any elixir that would speed me towards enlightenment. <br><br>Hugs and Kisses,<br><br>Buddy <br>[email protected]

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This book is about this guy HAPPY who is from a humble background in SINGAPORE, and his life experience, serving in the army to escort the President on the Police Bike, Selling Insurance, Romance, Investing in Stocks, Generating multiple Streams of $$$, ups and downs… and eventually realising his DREAM of running a resort and cruise service to connect with Whales and Dolphins in Australia!<br><br>Be inspired by the lessons in this book!<br><br>Jimmy Chua is a Singaporean who has travelled round the world, realizing his dreams along the way! The stories experienced by HAPPY are inspired by Jimmy&#39;s own life journey! Anything is possible when we believe in whatever we are doing helps us in getting closer to living our desired DREAMS! And we don&#39;t have to settle for anything less than what we want, that is the message, love ourselves for who we are, accept the past as it is past, and move on to doing whatever our hearts guide us to do! It is following our passions that make all the difference.<br><br>Jimmy Chua has tried countless jobs in his lives, escorting the President on the Police Bike, driving boat along Singapore River, working for an Investment Bank, famous Universities, Selling Life and General Insurance, Real Estate, Household Surveys, Credit Cards, Telemarketing, Selling Bubble Tea, Portable Air Cons, teaching meditation and most importantly selling the idea of DREAMING BIG and be HAPPY!

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Liberal Protestants have produced a whole raft of &quot;inclusive language&quot; Bibles. But these scriptures don&#39;t come near to making the Bible acceptable to the leftist sensibilities of Liberal Christians. What would the Bible have to be like if it were to suit Liberals? How drastically would it have to be rewritten? And how ridiculous would the result look? Maybe like this.

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Set on the Gulf Coast of Florida, the Marsh family faces what many American families have experienced in the last few decades: the reorganization of the family through divorce. This bittersweet novel has been called by one reviewer the funniest story since Auntie Mame. As mother Linda Marsh re-enters the dating world at the same time that her 15-year-old son does, comic, realistic situations develop. Eventually the three Marsh children and their mother, Linda, learn that the change in the family demands that they embrace the future and change with it. This novel became a CBS/Hallmark Channel movie in l999, starring Mary McDonnell, Tippi Hedren, Camilla Belle, Eric Von Detten as well as other renowned actors. The novel has been used in high school classes, college literature courses, and family study groups in discussions on adjustment to divorce.

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When Katie starts to receive valentine&#39;s gifts in her locker two weeks before Valentine&#39;s Day, and her school&#39;s annual sweetheart dance she can&#39;t help but wonder who her secret admirer is. She and her best friend Beth become convinced they are from Katie&#39;s crush and decide to investigate. <br><br>Is it the dreamy Nick Mitchell finally noticing her? <br><br>Or is someone else leaving the sweet declarations of love? <br><br>Can the girls find out in time to get Katie to the dance with her secret admirer? Or is the whole thing just a Valentine&#39;s Day prank? Join Katie and Beth as they try to track down a serious of sweet clues leading to her secret admirer.

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Esmeralda is a shy witch who longs to be noticed. This year she and her cat Pickitywick are attending The North American Spell In, a large witch&#39;s convention and she has a plan to get the attention she deserves.<br><br>In an old spell book she finds a mysterious recipe for Changing Tea and brews up the potion. The spell is supposed to turn you into the person you have always wanted to be, and seems to be working very well until events happen that make Esmeralda question if the magic is from a spell or located deep inside herself.

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Markus Pell was leading his life, minding his own business, running Smileyville Cab and Courier while working toward his dream business: the Bright White Light Entertainment Engine. He considers himself &#39;reasonably normal&#39; and thought his life, too, was &#39;reasonably normal,&#39; which it was – reasonably. <br><br>Until, that is, the ghostly members of his Imaginary Master Mind came to life. There is nothing normal about living with ghosts named Lincoln or Truman, Dickens or Twain. Markus could tell you. He knows.<br><br>And now those ghosts have come to constitute his &#39;kitchen cabinet.&#39; This is because, deciding that Markus had more spare time than is healthy, the Smileyville Township Secret Society of Conservative Democrats came out of hiding, became the Conservative Democratic Party, and nominated Markus as its 2012 candidate for President of the United States. They nominated him for 2016, too, just for good measure.<br><br>And America will never be the same.

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Power House Inc., the largest employer in suburban Fairbrook, downsizes, throwing hundreds of employees out of work. The story focuses on four women, their lives suddenly turned upside down by the lay-offs, face the loss of their homes.<br>Charlotte is the ex-wife of the PowerHouse CEO who now wants to cut off his financial support and force her to sell the home that had been in her family for generations. It seems he&#39;ll stop at nothing to get his way. Laurel has moved nine times during her twenty-one year marriage and has finally settled permanently, or so she thought, into the first house she has ever owned. But her husband is so defeated by his job loss, he is too immobilized to look for work, and they may lose their house. Zora&#39;s husband doesn&#39;t tell her he lost his job and she continues her lavish lifestyle until they&#39;re nearly broke. Robin, a high school teacher expecting her first child, has given the school district her notice. When her husband&#39;s job goes up in smoke, she tries to get her job back, only to find her position has been eliminated due to the economic downturn. Meanwhile her husband can&#39;t hold a job, and it looks as if they&#39;ll lose their new home.<br> Each of these women realizes she will have to act if she is to save her home. And the odds against all of them are great. In facing these challenges, each finds qualities in themselves they never knew they had.

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