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Heart Matters gets to the core of belonging with authentic truths laid out in gorgeous poetry and reflections that feel thoughtful, direct, and life-changing. This is poetry (and a poet) with purpose, to wake the listener one layer deeper than before, to shift awareness just enough that you feel a greater understanding, compassion, love, and tenderness fill you, and then move you closer toward your fellow human beings.

Friday the 13th was the last time she felt fully in control of all her limbs. At 1 a.m. on Saturday, her world as she had known it ended... She was fully awake and trying not to freak out at the thought of something foreign travelling up into her body to roam around inside her brain? Is there really a purpose to all this pain? She asked, "Where is GOD when I'm suffering during the agonizingly long wait?"

A baby girl named Stephen Gordon is born to well-to-do parents. She grows from a young tomboy into a thoughtful woman who feels 'different'. Stephen is understood by her father but alienated from her mother. Bucking against the conventions of society she turns down an offer of marriage and forms a passionate attachment to an American woman. Gradually, Stephen realises she will never fall in love with a man – but will she be an outcast? In pursuit of love and experience, Stephen takes herself to bohemian Paris, a far cry from the strict confines of British society.

I Didn’t Sign Up For This: One Classroom Teacher’s Journey Through Emotional Fatigue to Personal Empowerment is an intimate look at how today’s teachers feel and what they can do to reclaim their confidence and joy to be the teachers they were always meant to be. Integrating self-discovery and personal experiences from nearly two decades of teaching high school English, author Diane Manser shares her realization that teaching is an emotional profession that needs to be viewed as such.

This is a kid and teenager adventure series based in Tokyo, Japan. Two girls get into exciting and inventive situations of their own making.

Twenty-five women (aged 30 to 80) tell stories of how they endured or navigated a variety of struggles and emerged having grown and transformed. Their desire is to share lessons learned to provide you with inspiration, hope, and encouragement.

Feeling frustrated because you can't get more done? Many of us want to accomplish more. Perhaps it is to start and finish a project, develop a new skill, begin a new hobby or career, improve in our work, or just be more productive in general. But we have self-sabotaging habits and tough roadblocks preventing us from making headway. YOUR ACTION, YOUR SUCCESS addresses many of our challenges and offers solutions for getting ourselves moving.

The state-run guardianship system, called conservatorship in some states, is largely unregulated, ill-understood, and increasingly populated by financially motivated predators. Just how the secretive world of guardianship works and its real-life effects remained a mystery to most until the very public case of pop star Britney Spears. Currently, there are an estimated 1.5 to 2 million Americans under court control, but precise figures are not known as no government entity keeps track of citizens who have lost the right to determine their own fate.

This world is constantly nudging us—pulling, pushing, cajoling us—toward our heart's longing and our true expression of joy. Yet our stubborn and conditioned mindsets can resist these signals, too often dismissing synchronicity and serendipity (magic's very language) as little more than accident or annoyance. Playful yet potent, Be the Magic nudges us too, showing how to open ourselves to this ever-present guidance to live a more peaceful, passion-filled, and enthusiastic life.

Liza Wilcox, kindergarten teacher and amateur sleuth, is at it again. In her third adventure, together with boyfriend, Sheriff Tom Owens, and wheelchair bound cyber-sleuth, Justin Weaver, she discovers the links between her parents' deaths, eco-terrorist groups, an old murder, witness protection, and a professional killer.

Tessa Monroe has sacrificed a lot of become the new Assistant Vice President, including weekends, a social life, and learning how to cook. Her best friend, Christian Douglas, has been the main man in her life since paste was considered a snack, but he’s had different plans for his life than climbing the corporate ladder. With a playground proposal and one steamy college night in their past, Tessa is on the quest for her dream job while Christian searches for his dream girl.

Simon adore la petite maison où il est né. La quitter pour une plus belle ? Impossible. Pas question. Pourtant, quand son petit frère Gaspard manifeste son inquiétude à son tour, Simon trouve les mots pour lui parler du déménagement.

Simon est tout triste et un peu jaloux. Lou, sa jolie Lou, sa chérie, Lou ne le regarde plus, ne lui sourit plus, ne lui fait plus de bisous tout doux... Elle n'a plus d'yeux que pour Mamadou. Il n'y a plus qu'avec lui qu'elle joue. Ô rage, ô désespoir ! Simon est profondément triste et horriblement jaloux. Alors, dès que quelqu'un lui dit quelque chose comme : " Va au lit ", il répond : " Patate pourrie ! " Aller au lit, quelle torture, quand on n'arrive pas à dormir.

Ce matin, tout le monde a eu 10/10 à l'interrogation de tables de multiplication. Tous sauf Simon. Il a dit : 3 x 2 = 4, les autres ont explosé de rire et l'affreux Ferdinand l'a traité de nul. Vexation + colère = Simon est très malheureux. Heureusement, grâce à un conseil de sa maman et à une idée géniale surgie au coeur de la nuit, Simon trouve un truc pour retenir, mais surtout pour comprendre ce qu'est une table, au juste. Et il va en profiter pour battre Ferdinand aux billes.

La piscine ? Cet endroit horrible où l'on grelotte de froid, de peur et de honte en maillot de bain, où l'on boit la tasse, où des monstres marins peuvent nous attaquer ? Simon le Superlapin n'a qu'une réponse quand ses parents lui annoncent que la première séance est pour demain : " Jamais de la vie ! " Pourtant, quand il aperçoit Lou qui tremble encore plus que lui sur le bord du bassin, Simon n'écoute que son courage et découvre que, la piscine, ce n'est pas aussi terrible que ce qu'il croyait.

In 1955, the AP thrummed with the news of Lulu Bell Parr's death. The incongruity of her final years as a pauper in a shack with her time as a Wild West star could not be ignored. Then, she was forgotten. Nearly fifty years later, small town history buffs stumbled upon her unmarked grave and set out to give her the recognition she deserved. They raised over seven thousand dollars, erected a monument on her grave (with a parade through town and celebration), and then went on to have her inducted in the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame.

Nicole Townsend shares a simple leadership philosophy for managers in the field guide, "Just Be REAL." She challenges listeners to explore how they can apply the REAL framework using Respect, Empathy, Accountability and Learning in their everyday work lives.

Poems of forging an American life. In 1910 Anastasius, in defiance of his father, immigrates from Greece to the United States. Diaspora speaks powerfully of the aftermath. Poverty, wars, miscommunications, new roles for women emerge. The family struggles to bridge the challenges of time and distance in the age before modern technology knit the world together. The word “diaspora” comes from the Greek term for “to scatter.”

It wasn’t unusual to find a dead body in the orchards surrounding Bakersfield, California. So when Vermilion Blew reads in the local paper about yet one more corpse dug up by a backhoe, she dismisses the discovery. That is, until the revelation that the man had a ticket in his pocket for a movie that she had attended with her fiancé, thirty-seven years before. And that movie was the last time she had seen Frankie Monroe, the evening before her nuptials. Very has gone on with her life, or so she believes, until a slippery slope of events pushes her into a painful and mostly repressed past.

It is a captivating book. Each horse has come into Diane’s life in a different way. Each came to teach a lesson or bring a message. Horses may be without speech, but they are not without a voice. Life can get complicated, but its truths are often very simple. Her horses are loved no matter who they are or where they are in life. God loves each of us too, individually and completely. We are all “keepers” in his sight. We each carry a spark of God’s heart with an important message to be shared with the world. We can and do make a difference in other’s lives.