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Imagine if you were running a very old software program on a computer. It would be slow, inefficient, and cause you to waste a lot of time dealing with the outdated interface. You know how frustrating it is when this happens to you on a computer, but do we even notice when we are using old or inefficient mental skills? Think how many times you read every day. And imagine how much more time you would have if you could learn how to speed read.

This book will teach you how to relearn how to focus your attention and re-evaluate how to use your mental energy both wisely and effectively; how to turn off distractions, and even say no to communications sometimes; how to prioritize and develop the mental acuity to follow through on goals. All of these things can be easily done if we simply relearn the skill of powerful focus!

Imagine if you had the magical ability to read people's minds. You would always know what they were really thinking, and how they formed their opinions. You would be able to tell if they were lying. You would know what decisions they were going to make even before they did. Wouldn't it be great if you could always know just the right thing to say to influence them effectively? Well, it turns out that this isn't a magical superpower at all - it is simply the ability to analyze people.

Detective Thornbush of the Caliginos City Police Department tracks down a serial killer with a startling trademark. His victims are bloodless, with two marks on their necks, similar in shape, size, and distance to two canine teeth from a human mouth. He is aided by a school counselor, a local pastor, and a mysterious doppelganger. The pastor is anxious to restore a runaway daughter to her mother before she becomes the next victim.

A man and woman stand on a South-American cliff top overlooking the Atlantic. The muted sound of surf rises from below as they hold hands and gaze across the ocean. Silhouetted by the setting sun, hair tousled by a tropical breeze, it would be remarkably romantic...if not for the end of the world. "The tissue sample appears to contain a complete human genome...but it's missing half of the normal DNA."

What is the single, key ingredient that can mean the difference between closing the sale and hearing your customer say "I'll think about it"? Getting a raise, or not getting a raise? Making people interested in listening to your ideas, or not caring what you have to say? You guessed it - persuasion!

Are you tired of always feeling depressed, sad, or hopeless? Do you feel that things are just not working out in your life, but have no idea how to change them? Do you wish there was some way you could take control of your life back? Or maybe you just want to feel happy again but don't know how. If feelings of self-doubt, dejection, or negativity are making it impossible to live the life you want, you are not alone.

The one missing person he can’t find is the one who matters the most. Private Investigator Jax Rodriguez has been searching for his brother, Diego, for 20 years. When he stumbles upon another lead, he makes an agonizing decision: he will follow this last trail until it grows cold, and then he will marry the woman he loves and abandon his quest once and for all. Artist Mikayla Grant is terrified of losing another person close to her, but she has to let Jax go after his brother. Given the secrecy surrounding Diego’s disappearance, clearly Jax is heading into danger. 

The general prays for peace. The smuggler retires. The cyborg dreams of being human. The assassin closes in. And the Seer is missing. It is the most guarded secret in the fledgling kingdom of New Jerusalem—that its leader has disappeared, leaving behind only a series of cryptic ciphers. Now, with the fate of her new nation in the balance, MacKenzie must find Rafael Ward to help decode the Seer’s clues. Clues leading to the oldest library in the Americas. To the most brutal conquistador of the age of discovery.