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Everyone is busy. The pressure to get results in nonprofit organizations and churches is extreme. As a result, often projects and tasks are given full attention, while development and training of staff and volunteers are seen as secondary. In How Time-Crunched Leaders Develop Potential Leaders, author Christopher Scott provides six simple ways that busy leaders can develop the people they lead.

Have you always wanted to learn Machine Learning principles and how to create bots and more with Python? Every day more and more of our technologies and processes are being automated and computing is no different. Besides being able to automate many simple coding operations and algorithms so that you can complete daily tasks and projects faster than before, Machine Learning makes you more employable down the line. This audiobook will teach you everything that you need to know to start creating simple shell scripts and bots today.

Python is one of the most used programming languages in the world. It's been used to make everything from phone apps to blockbuster video games, and the best part is that it’s one of the easier languages to learn. That’s right! Python was made so that it would be easier to learn and understand, compared to languages like C and C++.

Thirty years ago, Sergeant Samantha Jane Elliott had just found the love of her life when her team was attacked. Seven people, including Jay “Cowboy” Evans were ripped from her life in only moments. She’s dreamed of a time when she would see Cowboy again, holding on to the romantic notion of heaven and a happily ever after. As Sam lies dying, the last thing she sees is Cowboy, looking just as he did the night of the attack. But when she awakes, Sam discovers there is no white light or angel wings - there are vampires in uniform and horrifying visions of Cowboy being ripped out of her life again.

Facebook adminship is not always as easy as one may think. With help from this audiobook, you will be guided toward success in no time.

Nina Williams’ world shattered in an instant when she and her daughter witnessed her father's brutal murder. Everything in her life became trivial save one: protecting her only child. With the help of a friend, Nina leaves the city in a cloud of terror and heads for Vail Mountain and the safety she prays she will find. Rob Garland has seen his share of the treacherous conditions on the mountains. But even spring floods, summer fires, and hikers lost in winter storms have not prepared him to face the fear in Nina's eyes. There is no beating the odds on this one.

Wolf-shifter Vanessa Burns has survived a life of brutality and neglect. Being kidnapped, drugged, and forced into an underground fighting ring is just the beginning of one man’s sick and twisted obsession. Travis Kameron, the alpha of the Crescent Ice pack, suffering a similar fate, wakes up to find his life is about to be irreparably changed by the fierce she-wolf in the next cage. Can they put aside old rivalries and the past and work together to not only survive and escape but also weather the storm of complications, revenge, and betrayals waiting for them on the outside?

This book is a cross genre historical fiction of the journey of a large 16th century sapphire. It contains several intertwined fictional genres from romance, eternal love, criminal intrigue, conspiracies and murder plots. The book is tasteful, sincere and contains numerous heart warming situations. It has a wide range of twists and surprising turnarounds, it is filled with humor, suspense and sentimental moments that bring the stories to life.

Nysa is an up-and-coming DNA retrieval expert well known in the scientific community for her advances in the technology used in the field. After being recruited to work on a secret project by an extraordinarily wealthy and mysterious benefactor, Nysa is moved to a hidden lab outside Denver, Colorado. Isolated from the world and forbidden from contact with anyone outside the facility, she is unaware of the strange occurrences that begin to plague the planet.

It sounds innocent enough. A young boy's mother decides she wants carpet in her kitchen. But sometimes those simple little decisions change lives in ways you might never imagine, and when those changes come for a young boy and his family, they leave a lasting impact that threatens to not only destroy their house, but their home as well. This short story by Thomas L. Scott takes the listener along a path that is at once heartbreaking, hopeful, honest and inspirational. You'll want to listen to it again and again.

An often funny, often heartbreaking short story about a young man's experience with chicken farming, and his father's alcoholism. "The Catholics, the Chickens, and Me" will leave you laughing and crying at the same time. This new audio short by Thomas L. Scott offers a poignant glimpse into a troubled yet hilarious past.

Kandace Miller is a star student who stays on the straight-and-narrow path of her perfectly planned life. Olivier DeMarche always chooses the shortcut in life, wanting the easy way in and out of every situation. When two opposites attract, can the language of love keep them together. Or will they be Lost in Translation?

What happens when you spend your life loving one person and that person suddenly dies? To what lengths would you go to get them back, even for just a day? In this Kindle Single exclusive, master storyteller Thomas L. Scott explores those questions with a haunted love story that will astound you....and may have you looking over your shoulder at the same time.

In this collection of essays, Reverend L. Scott Donahue, president of Mercy Home for Boys & Girls, invites listeners to bear witness to love's remarkable power to inspire growth, hope, and change in even the direst circumstances. Donahue recounts the stories of 10 children whose traumatic pasts have brought them to Mercy Home to seek the healing and supportive services this therapeutic residential home provides.

Taylor Barrett was looking for answers in a universe that had abandoned him. Jude Boehler flooded her dark world with charisma and mystery, drawing everyone into her hurricane. It was a most captivating of love affairs. They were shooting stars, meteors in the sky, colliding to create a spectacularly wonderful reckless romance, leaving them breathless and tethered.

As lead investigator of the Indiana State Police Major Crimes Unit, Detective Virgil Jones tackles only the toughest cases in the state, and the one he faces this time has the city of Indianapolis on edge, near the brink of panic. A team of serial snipers are on the loose. Their killing ground is the city. Their victims are chosen at random. Or are they? With no witnesses and very little evidence, it's up to Virgil Jones and his team to find out who is behind the on-going massacre and stop them once and for all...if they can.

Daniel and Aidan have spent their lives apart from the rest of the kingdom of Castiglias and its subjects. For the last three years, they have been left with only each other for company since King Argyle's men came and took their parents to be slaves. The boys' survival has been dependent on the lessons learned from their parents, as well as their own unique powers. When Argyle's men come to take Daniel, Aidan uses his little-known gift to fight off the gathering party.

Now, for the first time ever, you can enjoy the short stories of Thomas L. Scott in this convenient and exclusive bundled edition! Stories included in this bundle are: "Just Another Day", "The Catholics, The Chickens, And Me", "From The Ashes", and "Jack Bellows".

Fifteen-year-old Jack Bellows is a happy and content young man. He has two parents who love him, a twin brother as his best friend, and a simple life in the country. Then, one night at the dinner table, everything changes in an instant and the family that Jack loves and adores is changed forever. Jack Bellows is a story of love and loss, of heartbreak and hope. It is also one you won't soon forget.

HighBridge Audio presents four titles in the American Diabetes Association's 21 Things series, collected here in an essential, must-listen omnibus edition.