There Is Someone Behind You While You’re Reading This


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This book holds 9 stories—not drawn from my own experiences, but from whispers I’ve heard, passed down through time like dark secrets. I can’t tell you where they came from or how they began, but they’ve haunted me, and now they will haunt you. I haven’t named each story because, by the end, I want you to give them a name—a name born from the fear that lingers after you’ve finished reading. But as you do, make sure to check behind you… because someone is always there, watching. I dedicate this book to those who have passed on—the ones you still feel close to, the ones whose presence never truly left. And you know what? Right now… They’re all sitting next to you.




I Am Behind You


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A supernatural superthriller from the author of Let the Right One In Molly wakes her mother to go to the toilet. The campsite is strangely blank. The toilet block has gone. Everything else has gone too. This is a place with no sun. No god. Just four families remain. Each has done something to bring them here - each denies they deserve it. Until they see what's coming over the horizon, moving irrevocably towards them. Their worst mistake. Their darkest fear. And for just one of them, their homecoming. This gripping conceptual horror takes you deep into one of the most macabre and unique imaginations writing in the genre. On family, on children, Lindqvist writes in a way that tears the heart and twists the soul. I Am Behind You turns the world upside down and, disturbing, terrifying and shattering by turns, it will suck you in.




The Great Mental Models, Volume 1


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Discover the essential thinking tools you’ve been missing with The Great Mental Models series by Shane Parrish, New York Times bestselling author and the mind behind the acclaimed Farnam Street blog and “The Knowledge Project” podcast. This first book in the series is your guide to learning the crucial thinking tools nobody ever taught you. Time and time again, great thinkers such as Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett have credited their success to mental models–representations of how something works that can scale onto other fields. Mastering a small number of mental models enables you to rapidly grasp new information, identify patterns others miss, and avoid the common mistakes that hold people back. The Great Mental Models: Volume 1, General Thinking Concepts shows you how making a few tiny changes in the way you think can deliver big results. Drawing on examples from history, business, art, and science, this book details nine of the most versatile, all-purpose mental models you can use right away to improve your decision making and productivity. This book will teach you how to: Avoid blind spots when looking at problems. Find non-obvious solutions. Anticipate and achieve desired outcomes. Play to your strengths, avoid your weaknesses, … and more. The Great Mental Models series demystifies once elusive concepts and illuminates rich knowledge that traditional education overlooks. This series is the most comprehensive and accessible guide on using mental models to better understand our world, solve problems, and gain an advantage.




You Matter


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The message "You matter to God" is presented using the parable of the Prodigal Son. Cartoon. Age range: Children, Youth, Adults




How to College


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The first practical guide of its kind that helps students transition smoothly from high school to college The transition from high school—and home—to college can be stressful. Students and parents often arrive on campus unprepared for what college is really like. Academic standards and expectations are different from high school; families aren’t present to serve as “scaffolding” for students; and first-years have to do what they call “adulting.” Nothing in the college admissions process prepares students for these new realities. As a result, first-year college students report higher stress, more mental health issues, and lower completion rates than in the past. In fact, up to one third of first-year college students will not return for their second year—and colleges are reporting an increase in underprepared first-year students. How to College is here to help. Professors Andrea Malkin Brenner and Lara Schwartz guide first-year students and their families through the transition process, during the summer after high school graduation and throughout the school year, preparing students to succeed and thrive as they transition and adapt to college. The book draws on the authors’ experience teaching, writing curricula, and designing programs for thousands of first-year college students over decades.




Beyond Reading


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Assemblies recognize the difference between a lector who simply reads and one who truly proclaims the Word of God. They perk up and take special notice when they sense that the lector has worked to get inside the text, to express the meaning authentically, and to draw them into the story. Douglas Leal has spent decades as a lector, lector trainer, actor, and director. He knows how to coach lectors beyond reading so they can become proclaimers of the Word. The conversational, spirited style of the book recreates the sense of a live training session with the author. In a magazine format, with running text surrounded by boxes that focus on a particular subjects and techniques, a tool from the actor’s toolbox, or an encouraging story from the world of acting, the book presents a wealth of wisdom and practical instruction that can carry a lector far beyond basic training. Chapter by chapter, Leal guides lectors to Understand their role as sacred storytellers Learn how to study the text closely: understand its style; notice its literary devices; consider its context in the Bible, the liturgical year, and the lectionary; use Scripture resources to arrive at its meaning; practice the text; and pray it Work with their voice: articulation, tempo, rhythm, pauses, volume, and inflection Develop comfort with nonverbal skills: eye contact, posture, and facial expression Choose an intention appropriate to the text and responsive to the needs of the community Understanding and expressing the true emotional content of the text Staying focused on the text, cultivating authenticity and humility, and seeking feedback Overcoming nervousness, mistakes, colds, and other unexpected problems Developing a plan for practice and preparation




Rapture 911: What To Do If You're Left Behind (Pocket Edition)


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Are you afraid of what's in store for humanity? Think the End of the World is coming? Discover how you can join millions who will be Saved… and how to help those Left Behind. Uncertain about what God has in store for you? Are you worried you aren't prepared for the return of Jesus? Do you fear for the salvation of your friends and family? While no one knows the hour of Christ's return, the faithful millions await the Rapture while the clock still ticks for those uncommitted to His path. Will you be Left Behind to survive the Apocalypse? You can join the millions who will be saved. Do you already believe? Then you can help those who are Left Behind. From the day Marsha Kuhnley was born again, she devoted her life to saving souls through ministry and studying the Word of God. She's been a guest on the popular Christ In Prophecy TV program where she discusses her books and End Times topics. Her background as an analyst makes her uniquely qualified to break down complex theology into easily understandable concepts and guide you and your loved ones to your Heavenly reward. Rapture 911: What To Do If You're Left Behind (Pocket Edition) is your all-in-one resource to survive the Tribulation and prepare for Jesus's Second Coming. Through Kuhnley's easy-to-understand Biblical analysis, you'll cut through modern myths and misunderstandings so you and your family can feel safe in God's hands. This edition contains one-third of the content of the full edition and conveniently fits in a back pocket. In Rapture 911 (Pocket Edition), you'll discover: · Easy-to-understand Biblical analysis. · Theological overview of forthcoming events surrounding the End Times. · Why millions of people will disappear and what those Left Behind can do to be saved. · The truth behind fake news and deceptions surfacing today that will be prominent after the Rapture. · A checklist of preparations, a handy glossary, and much, much more! Rapture 911: What To Do If You're Left Behind (Pocket Edition) is your handbook for navigating the Last Days. If you like to-the-point information, actionable checklists, and helping save your loved ones' souls, then you'll love Marsha Kuhnley's sobering guide to humanity's final days. Buy Rapture 911(Pocket Edition) to unlock your door to the Kingdom of Heaven today!




The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You


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Alternately unsettling and affirming, devastating and delicious, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You, is a new collection of essays on gender and identity by S. Bear Bergman that is irrevocably honest and endlessly illuminating. With humour and grace, these essays deal with issues from women's spaces to the old boys' network, from gay male bathhouses to lesbian potlucks, from being a child to preparing to have one; throughout, S. Bear Bergman shows us there are things you learn when you're visibly different from those around youaaC--/whether it's being transgressively gendered or readably queer. As a transmasculine person, Bergman keeps readers breathless and rapt in the freakshow tent long after the midway has gone dark, when the good hooch gets passed around and the best stories get told. Ze offers unique perspectives on issues that challenge, complicate, and confound the official stories about how gender and sexuality work.




Daymare and Other Tales from the Pulps


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Mystery and science fiction writer Fredric Brown (1906-1972) remains best-known for his short fiction. His story "Arena" (in this volume) became the basis for a "Star Trek" episode of the same title. "Arena" was also voted by the membership of the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the twenty finest SF stories of all time. In addition to "Arena," this volume contains five more of Brown's classic tales: "Daymare," "The Little Lamb," "The Geezenstacks," "The Hat Trick," and "Don't Look Behind You."




Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas, 1919-1949


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Brings together some of the best and most historically significant works of short fiction written in China in this century -including such important figures in the development of Chinese modernism as Lu Hsün, Mao Tun, Ting Ling, and Shen Ts' ung-wen. The companion volume to the highly acclaimed (Columbia, 1978), this new volume presents modernist short fiction from the thirty-year period leading up to the Communist revolution of 1949, after which Chinese literature entered a new phase of development. The stories range in setting from the late Ch'ing dynasty through the Sino-Japanese War and the early Communist years, and range in length from brief tales to substantial short novels. Though a large number of the writers represented are leftists, works of all political viewpoints have been included to provide the full literary panorama of one of the most fertile periods of Chinese creative activity.