David Osborn

An historic lighthouse at the tiny coastal village of Shinnecock witnesses during one month both murder and espionage when the select Summer White House Oval Office is lodged in the neighboring private home, to which the U.S. president retreats on holiday with his entire family, and which this year sees a highly secret visit by a prince from Saudi Arabia, where two American scientists are held hostage.

When two women detectives in the CID division of a large city police force, one a forty-year veteran, the other a rookie, are forcibly teamed together in an unfriendly partnership, the rookie follows the many-years-old cold case of a painting found in a stolen deposit box. As she traces its path from obscurity to potential world fame at auction, the older detective, disdaining the efforts of her younger partner, investigates the more recent and seemingly unrelated violent homicide of an important city councilman. The paths of both widely different investigations merge, however, united by evidence in the cold case, and the two detectives become as one to successfully hunt down those guilty of the homicide.

Using a medieval wishing charm to escape from a big city museum where she is mistakenly locked in for the night, Jessica, along with Annie-Mae, a homeless Rag Doll, ends up not at home but in OR, where the country's evil Great Leader holds the charm hostage until brought a feather from a deified Golden Swan in Hoppitland, country of the Stick people. With a brief welcoming respite among friendly rats in their the canyon country of Rodentia, then a perilous trip across a great man-eating Vine Forest, Jessica brings a golden feather back to OR where, after Annie-Mae chooses to return to Rodentia, she uses the medieval charm, first in a heads-on defiant showdown with the all-powerful Great Leader of OR, then to wish herself safely back home.

Love for a poor old plow horse sees Jessica on an exciting new adventure when pitted against malicious wheels-for-legs Wheelies, Mesozoic-era Pterodactyls, deadly stone Gargoyles, and enthroned as a Goddess Queen by fun-loving Pixies. Join her until, with Beak, a wise know-everything hummingbird, Junk Dog, an itinerant peddler, and Dinky, an exuberant little Unicorn, she wins ultimate victory over Esmeralda, the ageless evil-scientist leader of a band of mercilessly militant girls the same age as Jessica herself.

On yet another exciting adventure In Fairyland, now to rescue little Prince Ethan of the land of No, held hostage by the evil sorceress Lady Citronella, Jessica teams up with two old friends: Greta, the fairy princess, often disguised as a witch, and Sir Percival, the doughty monocled Englishman who fantasizes hunting hares with his trusty gun. Flying them about is Greta's irrepressible witch's broom, Sweepy, who saves the day while all the time thinking he's the old-fashioned Wabash Cannonball train made famous in country-western music.

When the bodies of a retired couple in a small town are discovered six months after their deaths, the local police chief, his lead detective, and the county coroner all rule the couple a shared suicide. One young woman police officer, however, suspects murder. Her dogged pursuit of the killer or killers against orders to desist eventually leads her to evidence that the deceased couple were silenced to cover up a major scandal at the state capitol and to a terrifying shoot-out when she finally runs the killers to earth.

Welcome to the world of buying foreclosed homes at auction--a real estate strategy that lets you remove the middleman, decrease your competition, and buy at a discount.Bidding for properties on the courthouse steps while competing in real time with other investors is a thrilling experience. There's nothing like it in the world of real estate, but there's also a lot to learn. With dozens of insider auction secrets that are proven to help maximize returns, Bidding to Buy will show you the skills you need to successfully bid at auction, then turn a healthy profit on your investment.Successfully buying foreclosures isn't a matter of luck, and it isn't for insiders only. However, it does require a process--one that can be repeated for optimal returns. In this book, you'll find a full blueprint of the foreclosure process, including the repeatable five-step method that the authors have used to buy thousands of properties.Discover a new kind of real estate investment and uncover profits on your local courthouse steps Inside, you'll learn how to: Find properties before they are broadly exposed to the marketUnderstand the entire foreclosure process and how it differs from state to stateConduct complete title research and develop an eye for red flagsNavigate the potential risks and pitfalls behind a live auctionAccess property listings and early posting dataBuild an accurate financial analysis on any available propertyAcquire creative and alternative financing methods, including no-cash solutionsComplete critical post-auction steps, such as evicting tenants

Ophelia is a little girl who lives deep in a far-off great forest where her widowed father is a woodcutter and her home a tiny cottage with a thatched roof and flower-filled window boxes. Blessed at birth by fairies, she is friends with all the little forest animals who live around her, and with no school or other children to fill her playtimes, she is never lonely, sharing adventures with many, like Sammy Skunk, Rory Raccoon, Oscar Owl, Betsy Bunny, Patrick Porcupine, Benjamin Beaver, and others--all joining with her in keeping their forest home peaceful and safe.

Abandoning a life she herself terms "thrown away," Ana Masaryk, a Purple Heart Army vet of the Iraq war, begins anew in a small northern New England town, where she finds refuge with the gay illustrator of children's books in an abandoned church he has transformed. A necessary job covering local social functions and writing obits for The Chronicle, the town's newspaper, leads Ana into an impassioned whole new life of consuming work as the paper's publisher and editor, and to her defiant defense of it, at the risk of losing everything, when the paper's independence is threatened by a big-city news chain owned by a politically ambitious billionaire, who always gets whatever he wants through lies, distortions, and sowing dissension.

Fiery dragons, witches, goblins, and wizards don't stop Jessica, a little girl who lives with her mother in the poorest part of a great city, from endless adventuring in the magic of Fairyland and other faraway places.Join her and enchanting fairyland friends in five thrilling stories. In one she overcomes pirates and ogres to defeat an evil sorceress, and in another defies monster spirits and faces down a wicked witch to free a fairy princess from savage goblins.Be with her in a lovely fairyland refuge saving long-forgotten toys from a terrible fate, and yet again when in a battle of wits, she defeats an all-powerful wizard to restore a lost dragon child to its mother. Don't miss a final adventure in which, ever undaunted, she braves killer trees, bedouin robbers, and a fearful yeti tyrant to rescue old fairyland friends from imminent peril in the circus of a cruel and merciless clown.

What if the real secret of millionaires isn't about doing more, but becoming more? Millionaires know everything in your present is a result of how you thought, decided, and acted in the past. But your present circumstances can easily change. Right now. Because, with this revolutionary manual to wealth, you'll discover... - The undeniable connection between mornings and wealth. - Why becoming wealthy is never a sedentary pursuit. - The simple five-step wake-up process that'll guarantee you'll rise early...like a millionaire. - Four choices you must make to become wealthy. - The specific actions you must take when you choose to become a millionaire. (They'll surprise you. Definitely.) - A revolutionary twist on affirmations...and how to leverage them in a way that will absolutely produce results. - How Rearview Mirror Syndrome can significantly inhibit your financial growth. - The key to replacing your blind spots with a vision for the future. - A free 30-day Transformation Challenge Fast Start Kit. This, in the end, is the true value of mornings: In that quiet period of stillness, when the world is asleep, and you're in complete control--that's when you nurture the golden goose and discover the incredible potential of each new day. That's where you find your Millionaire Miracle Morning. The Miracle Morning Book Series includes all of the titles below and doesn't have to be read in any particular order. Book 1: The Miracle Morning Book 2: The Miracle Morning for Real Estate Agents Book 3: The Miracle Morning for Salespeople Book 4: The Miracle Morning for Network Marketers Book 5: The Miracle Morning for Writers Book 6: The Miracle Morning for Parents and Families Book 7: The Miracle Morning for Entrepreneurs Book 8: The Miracle Morning for Transforming Your Relationship Book 9: The Miracle Morning for College Students Book 10: The Miracle Morning Companion Planner Book 11: Miracle Morning Millionaires

Kasie Sanders, a young rising-star New Orleans police detective, is busted after a bodega shootout and is working as a wedding and children's party photographer when she is picked for a dangerous special assignment by the FBI, investigating American ties to a sex-slave ring in Malaysia and Thailand. Going undercover as a photojournalist for Great American Families magazine, Kasie joins Louisiana's famed Warriner family, one of whom, a prominent congressman, is suspected of pedophilia, and soon encounters, in the idyllic setting of the Warriner's historic antebellum Lonsdale House, vicious racism as well as crimes even worse than pedophilia, and herself in far more danger than she ever experienced as a police officer.

New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller Stack the odds in your favor and start building your wealth today David Osborn and Paul Morris, two of the most popular and celebrated wealth-building minds in the game today, have mastered the art and science of sustainable wealth creation through entrepreneurship, passion, and a relentless focus on growth, success, and fulfillment. In Wealth Can't Wait, they share their decades of knowledge, debunk the myth that building wealth is often difficult, and demonstrate how you can create horizontal income streams to enjoy more financial freedom throughout your life. Far from a get-rich-quick formula, Wealth Can't Wait equips you with a comprehensive set of wealth-building skills that will serve you throughout your life. Osborn and Morris's tested and proven five-part strategy outlines what is required to build wealth--from making the initial choice to dealing with setbacks--and details how to cultivate the mindset, habits, business, and momentum to secure the greatest results. The book's valuable tips, building blocks, and lessons from the authors' own experiences will inspire you to start achieving your financial ambitions today.