The Face Of Fear

Author : Dean Koontz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1989-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440620614

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For one man, facing his own murder is not as terrifying as surviving it in this blistering novel of suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz. A brutal killer known as “The Butcher” is stalking women in New York City. When the police enlist the help of clairvoyant Graham Harris, the horrifying images of the Butcher’s crimes replay in Harris’s mind—sometimes even at the moment they are happening. Then he sees the most terrifying vision of all—that of his own murder. Harris and his girlfriend soon find themselves trapped on the fortieth floor of a deserted office building. The guards have been killed, the elevators shut down, and the stairways blocked. The only way out is to climb down the sheer face of the building. Otherwise they'll become the Butcher’s next victims.

Author : Dean Ray Koontz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1989-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 042511984X

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A psychopath terrorizes a man and a woman who are left terrified and trapped on the fortieth floor of a deserted office building, with elevator service completely cut off and the security guards murdered. Reissue.

Author : Dean Koontz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780425250754

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For one man, facing his own murder is not as terrifying as surviving it in this blistering novel of suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz. A brutal killer known as “The Butcher” is stalking women in New York City. When the police enlist the help of clairvoyant Graham Harris, the horrifying images of the Butcher’s crimes replay in Harris’s mind—sometimes even at the moment they are happening. Then he sees the most terrifying vision of all—that of his own murder. Harris and his girlfriend soon find themselves trapped on the fortieth floor of a deserted office building. The guards have been killed, the elevators shut down, and the stairways blocked. The only way out is to climb down the sheer face of the building. Otherwise they'll become the Butcher’s next victims.

Author : Barry Boyce
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781590307571

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Most of us have never experienced such deep anxiety and uncertainty in the world as we are in these current times; this anthology of Buddhist teachings offers an antidote. While we can’t control the home foreclosures, job losses, dwindling savings, and the other myriad challenges facing our society, Buddhism teaches us that there is one thing we can always control: our own state of mind. How we react to the ups and downs of life makes all the difference, and Buddhism offers a wealth of wisdom and practices to help us maintain a stable, wise, and helpful state of mind no matter what happens. In the Face of Fear shows us how to • remain open, joyful, and caring, even when life is stressful • avoid old behavior patterns that only make things worse • access our innate confidence and fearlessness • turn difficult times into opportunities for spiritual development • learn why caring for others is the best way to relieve our own suffering • discover that our true nature is always awake, wise, and good, no matter what is happening This anthology features the greatest contemporary Buddhist teachers and writers—people renowned for addressing precisely the problems we’re facing today—including the Dalai Lama, Pema Chödrön, Thich Nhat Hanh, Chögyam Trungpa, Sylvia Boorstein, Jack Kornfield, Norman Fischer, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Sharon Salzberg, and many others.

Author : R. J. Torbert
Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781938690778

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Ghost Face returns like you've never seen or read before. The village of Port Jefferson, Long Island, NY, is rocked by a kidnapping on the Cross Island Ferry that leads to a series of murders that adds to the mystery. Detective Powers and Johnson, led by Detective Lieutenant Cronin, are pressured by national media, the FBI, and the public to solve the related cases before more innocent lives are lost. Things become tense as the detectives' personal lives become complicated as the mystery unwinds in the case that would become known as "The Face of Fear."

Author : Kristen Ulmer
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780062423436

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A revolutionary guide to acknowledging fear and developing the tools we need to build a healthy relationship with this confusing emotion—and use it as a positive force in our lives. We all feel fear. Yet we are often taught to ignore it, overcome it, push past it. But to what benefit? This is the essential question that guides Kristen Ulmer’s remarkable exploration of our most misunderstood emotion in The Art of Fear. Once recognized as the best extreme skier in the world (an honor she held for twelve years), Ulmer knows fear well. In this conversation-changing book, she argues that fear is not here to cause us problems—and that in fact, the only true issue we face with fear is our misguided reaction to it (not the fear itself). Rebuilding our experience with fear from the ground up, Ulmer starts by exploring why we’ve come to view it as a negative. From here, she unpacks fear and shows it to be just one of 10,000 voices that make up our reality, here to help us come alive alongside joy, love, and gratitude. Introducing a mindfulness tool called “Shift,” Ulmer teaches readers how to experience fear in a simpler, more authentic way, transforming our relationship with this emotion from that of a draining battle into one that’s in line with our true nature. Influenced by Ulmer’s own complicated relationship with fear and her over 15 years as a mindset facilitator, The Art of Fear will reconstruct the way we react to and experience fear—empowering us to easily and permanently address the underlying cause of our fear-based problems, and setting us on course to live a happier, more expansive future.

Author : John Saul
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345487063

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Fifteen-year-old Alison Shaw may not be beautiful, but she doesn’t really care: She’d much rather read a good book than primp in front of a mirror. But Alison’s gorgeous mother, Risa, knows that beauty can be a key to success and wishes only the best for her daughter–a wish that may come true after Risa marries widowed plastic surgeon Conrad Dunn. Conrad claims that he can turn Alison into a vision of loveliness, so the teenager reluctantly agrees to undergo the first procedure. Then Alison discovers a picture of Conrad’s first wife and notes, to her horror, a resemblance between the image in the photo and the work her stepfather is doing on her. Though, Risa refuses to acknowledge the strange similarities, Alison digs further into her stepfather’s murky past, uncovers dark secrets and even darker motives–and realizes that her worst fears are fast becoming reality.

Author : Joyce Meyer
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781529340518

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Do It Afraid by Joyce Meyer Pdf

Understand, confront, and walk in freedom from fear with renowned Bible teacher and New York Times bestselling author, Joyce Meyer. Fear will never entirely disappear from your life, but you can confront and overcome it! Courage isn't the absence of fear; it is moving forward in the presence of fear. Courageous people do what they believe in their hearts they should do, no matter how they feel or what doubts fill their minds. In DO IT AFRAID, Joyce Meyer explains that fear is everywhere and affects everyone. It rules many people, but it doesn't have to be that way. The first portion of this book will help you understand fear and recognize how it works in your life, and the second will help you confront fear. In the third section, you will learn about mindsets that will position you for freedom from some of the most common fears people face. Fear is the devil's favorite tool in the toolbox of schemes he uses to destroy God's good plan for you. He uses it to hold you back and prevent progress in every area of your life. That is why you must take ownership of your problems and open your heart to God. He will help bring light into darkness. If you can understand fear and how it operates, you can be free from it!

Author : Eva Holland
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780735237346

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Nerve by Eva Holland Pdf

SHORTLISTED for the 2021 BC and Yukon Book Prizes' Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize A personal story about not only facing but conquering fears. In 2015, Eva Holland was forced to confront her greatest fear when her mother had a stroke and suddenly passed away. After the shock and grief subsided, Holland began to examine the extent to which her many fears had limited her, and wondered whether or not it was possible to move past them. This sent Holland on a deep dive into the science of fear, digging into an array of universal and personal questions: Why do we feel fear? Where do phobias come from and how are they related to anxiety disorders and trauma? Can you really smell fear? (Yes.) What would it be like to feel no fear? Is there a cure for fear? Or, put differently, is there a better way to feel afraid? On her journey, Holland meets with scientists who are working to eliminate phobias with a single pill, she explores the lives of the few individuals who suffer from a rare disease that prevents them from ever feeling fear, and she immerses herself in her own fears including hurling herself out of a plane for her first skydive (and in the process, learns that there are right and wrong ways to face your fears). Fear is a universal human experience, and Nerve answers these questions in a refreshingly accessible way, offering readers an often personal, sometimes funny, and always rigorously researched journey through the science of facing our fears.

Author : John Saul
Publisher : Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1597228931

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Fifteen-year-old Alison Shaw is given the chance to become beautiful when her mother marries a plastic surgeon, but Alison finds that there may be a terrible cost when she discovers the surgeon is sculpting her into his dead first wife.

Author : Krishnananda Trobe,Amana Trobe
Publisher : Perfect Publishers Limited
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1905399405

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Face to Face with Fear by Krishnananda Trobe,Amana Trobe Pdf

Sharing openly from his own life, his experiences working as a psychiatrist and seminar leader and his many years as a disciple of an enlightened spiritual master, Trobe explains how to uncover and heal the deepest wounds of the soul through acceptance, understanding, and compassion.

Author : Chogyam Trungpa
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0834821486

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Smile at Fear by Chogyam Trungpa Pdf

Many of us, without even realizing it, are dominated by fear. We might be aware of some of our fears—perhaps we are afraid of public speaking, of financial hardship, or of losing a loved one. Chögyam Trungpa shows us that most of us suffer from a far more pervasive fearfulness: fear of ourselves. We feel ashamed and embarrassed to look at our feelings or acknowledge our styles of thinking and acting; we don’t want to face the reality of our moment-to-moment experience. It is this fear that keeps us trapped in cycles of suffering, despair, and distress. Chögyam Trungpa offers us a vision of moving beyond fear to discover the innate bravery, trust, and delight in life that lies at the core of our being. Drawing on the Shambhala Buddhist teachings, he explains how we can each become a spiritual warrior: a person who faces each moment of life with openness and fearlessness. "The ultimate definition of bravery is not being afraid of who you are," writes Chögyam Trungpa. In this book he offers the insights and strategies to claim victory over fear.

Author : R. L. Stine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0785775552

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Author : Edgar Feghaly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1598943189

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Forward in the Face of Fear by Edgar Feghaly Pdf

"The pages in this book tell the riveting story of a missionary preaching the gospel while bombs detonate nearby. It tells of a couple who pressed forward in the face of fear to bring the message of salvation. Born in 1949 in Beirut, Lebanon, Edgar Feghaly learned the realities of war as a young child. Saved after being hurled through the air from a bomb explosion, Edgar also learned the realities of God's presence and peace.With a consuming desire to serve the Lord and a deep conviction of God's power to protect him, Edgar witnessed astounding miracles of provision, protection, and, most of all, the conversion of some of the hardest to reach people. Set against the backdrop of Middle Eastern wars, struggles, and chaos, his decades of ministry among Muslims is a gripping testimony to the protection of God and the power of the gospel.This book will challenge your faith, strengthen your courage, and deepen your resolve to go forward for Christ in the face of any fear. "

Author : Douglas E. Winter
Publisher : Berkley Trade
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0425076709

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