Michael McCarthy
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Everyone likes to make money, but the act of selling can be uncomfortable and even stressful. By focusing on helping your customer rather than selling to them, you can overcome your resistance and turn a potential customer into a lifelong relationship. Even those who are timid, frightened and otherwise distressed by the prospect of selling will find these simple, time-tested methods of seasoned sales professionals easy to understand, implement, and...
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Includes over 20 Illustrations. The story of a young fighter pilot from basic training through the end of the war in Europe, this short memoir is a welcome addition to the literature of World War II aviation. It is noteworthy for a number of reasons. It illuminates the world of tactical aviation, which has taken a backseat to stories of strategic bombing and air superiority combat...Perhaps most importantly, it combines the immediacy of contemporary...
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The untold story of the worst disaster on the Great Lakes in U.S. History. On July 24th, 1915, Chicago commuters were horrified as they watched the SS Eastland, a tourism boat taking passengers across Lake Michigan, flip over while tied to the dock and drown 835 passengers, including 21 entire families. Rockefeller, Morgan, and Carnegie had bought into the ship business in the Midwest, creating a boom market and a demand for ships that were bigger,...
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Few things are capable of invoking the kind of anxiety and terror as the thought of making a public speech. The fight-or-flight response triggered by the idea is a defense mechanism no longer useful to us in this modern age. In this book, you'll learn easy and powerful techniques to override this all-too-common fear, and begin to view the idea of public speaking with excitement and confidence. The techniques discussed within the book were developed...
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Stephen Hopkins was a hurricane and shipwreck survivor, Jamestown settler, psalmist reader and adventurer who yearned for the freedom to live life on his own terms. His pursuit of this ambition is explored in this imagined look at the four-year period in which Hopkins lived in London, aligning himself with the oppressed Puritans and their escape from persecution. Although not a follower of the Puritans' vision of Christianity, he became a leader and...
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Miracle Kingdom volume 2
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Winston is an angel. Digby is a cherub. Together, they are investigative partners charged with auditing prayers and sniffing out fraudulent miracles. Welcome to the Department of Divine Intervention, where the outcome of the universe is just another regular day in the office. In pursuit of disproving the dubious healing powers of a shady televangelist, Winston uncovers more anomalies than answers. Worse yet, the religious network that broadcasts the...
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Miracle Kingdom volume 4
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Winston takes matters into his own hands when the improbable findings from his audit investigation fall on deaf ears. Worse still, Winston suspects Lester Benny's miracles are mutating into tragic twists of fate, placing everyone in Lester's church in grave danger! Winston's pursuit for answers sends him spiraling into the Infinite Incomplete, the realm containing the unfinished parts of the universe and other cosmic works-in-progress. But what exactly...
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Miracle Kingdom volume 3
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Billions and billions served! Our angelic auditor Winston Donovan breaks the fourth wall to take televangelist Lester Benny beyond the boundaries of the comic panels in an effort to unmask the truth behind Lester's improbable miracles. However, Winston's audit of Lester's healing powers leads to an unsettling revelation. Meanwhile in Las Vegas, the seeds of seismic events take root as an underground group of unnatural beings who call themselves The...
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Miracle Kingdom volume 5
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In this concluding chapter with a wraparound cover, Winston's dogged quest to solve the mystery behind Lester's miracles reaches its pivotal moment of truth. However, the final showdown takes an astonishing turn, testing Winston's faith in the heavenly system itself. Hidden portals, demonic agents from the Under Realm, celestial intrigue and more twists than a pretzel factory! Oh my.
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Miracle Kingdom volume 1
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Are you in desperate need of a miracle? Got globs of money? Then come get fixed up with Lester Benny, a shady televangelist with astonishing healing powers. However, forensic accountant Winston Donovan smells a fraud-- and trying to expose Lester as a scam artist is proving near impossible, despite Winston's own preternatural powers. Could it be divine intervention or a clever hoax? Miracle Kingdom is a playful detective story that examines the clandestine...
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New York Review Books
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[2015]
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262 pages ; 24 cm.
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"The moth snowstorm, a phenomenon Michael McCarthy remembers from his boyhood when moths 'would pack a car's headlight beams like snowflakes in a blizzard,' is a distant memory. Wildlife is being lost, not only in the wholesale extinctions of species but also in the dwindling of those species that still exist. The Moth Snowstorm records in painful detail this rapid dissolution of nature's abundance and proposes a radical solution: that we recognize...