Take a trip with a sales professional. Travel from door-to-door to high-level corporate transactions, witnessing a wide range of selling techniques. Using the science of selling, to get the order, not a pledge—pledges don't pay commissions. This book answers the question of how to be a successful, high- producing sales professional. Written for novices, practicing sales people, sales professionals, and anyone interested in why and what sales people do, it details what a sales personality is and how to develop a powerful one. Many prospects believe that unless they see the value of a product, they really don't need it. It is the true sales professional that recognizes a need and is relentless in the quest to prove it. All selling attempts should lead to the most beautiful words in a sales person's vocabulary—THE CLOSE. The reader will be very much involved in different types of closing situations. Sales are only words and deeds—it is how one uses them that determine success or failure. This book explores questions that plague the sales profession.

Ghosts traces the cultural and literary origins of the paranormal, reveals the secrets behind many mysterious myths and legends, and analyzes our continued fascination with visitors from the other side. With chapters on the origins of ghosts, poltergeists, ghosts from around the world, exorcism, haunted houses, and more, this book will keep you on the edge of your seat. Belief in ghosts is nothing new. Uncertainty surrounding death is part of the human condition and the existence of an afterlife is deeply rooted in most worldwide cultures and religions. In Taoism and Buddhism, the Hungry Ghost Festival celebrates the belief that, once a year, ghosts and spirits are released from the afterlife and walk among the living. In the west, ghost stories were established in ancient folklore and tend to embrace the same classic themes as today's horror movies: romance, tragedy, and terror. Writers of antiquity used ghosts and hauntings as a way to provide background information or foretell coming events, and Shakespeare, the father of English literature, used the same techniques in his plays. Glamis Castle, the infamous haunted Scottish setting for Shakespeare's Macbeth, is said to be on of the most nerve-wracking places on earth—but are these feelings imagined or real? At one time or another, most people have experienced a creepy, spine tingling, someone's watching you sort of sensation that they can't explain. Scientists may try to account for these fears by attributing them to the natural fear of the unknown. Cold spots are nothing more than an open window and creaking floorboards are nothing more than old wood shifting in place. Regardless, millions of people believe that there is much more to these strange phenomenons than can be explained by modern science. And really, who can say that they're wrong? Be informed, entertained, and frightened by this comprehensive volume about "the other side."

PHANTOM MUSTANG by Carroll J. Stephens in memoriam with Harold L. Stephens __________________________________

With great power comes a whole lot of trouble… Drake Sinclair has always had superpowers. Inexplicable. Powerful. Dangerous. He’s always been desperate to know why. But he’s not ready for the one person with answers to be a psychopath with a murderous vendetta. Still, Drake will do anything to discover the origins of his abilities and protect his new friends and the girl he’s falling for. Even if that means finding Lucius Sykes, the notorious psychopath ‘gifted’ with the same powers as Drake by a long-destroyed illegal organization called Project Midnight. Except, Project Midnight is back. And they’ll also do anything to finish what they started. Pulse-pounding action, Marvel-level snark, superhero origins, and romance collide in this intense young adult superhero fantasy!

How is a well meaning mother to protect her daughter from a culture where the birth of a baby girl is met with despair because the only future open to her is that of sexual assault and teenage pregnancy, which would doom her to a life of illiteracy and poverty as it has doomed her lineage before her? Genital mutilation has many causes but at the root of all of them is fear. A fear that pushes a mother to do the unthinkable to a daughter that she loves? What does a scapegoat do with the fate she has been handed? Accept it and roll with it, or reject it? How is she to reject it when the acceptance of her role is needed for her culture's psychic equilibrium? In the theater of the mind where all springs forth, is there such a thing as an innocent victim, and a victimizer? Feasts of Phantoms is a novel that explores of all of these questions.