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For the past year, Dru has put everything she has into building a catering business with her sisters. She’s so used to working until all hours of the night with them by her side that when they both find love and move out, Dru decides to focus on something that has always weighed on her...finding the father who’d abandoned them.

A person's story is who they are. How they spent their lives. The good, the bad, and the "huh" moments. Stories shouldn’t end before they have even begun. This story is about Sarah Haynes. Her story of humiliations that are beyond comprehension.

Although countless books have been made into films, this may be the first time a screenplay is released as a book with the explicit purpose of enlisting a producer and financing for the film. Free Will - Moving Beyond the Illusion is not just about producing a full-length theatrical-release documentary. This book is about explaining to the world in a variety of ways that virtually everyone can understand and relate to, why nothing we humans think, feel, say, or do is ever up to us.

Ben Lewis. Blackmailed by a dead man. Hunted by armed killers. All because of Gunter Markov, a gifted North Korean hacker. Someone who has posted encrypted secrets online - supposedly the hack to end all hacks. Deadly secrets. The sort many seem suddenly only too willing to kill for. Lewis finds himself unexpectedly the one person alive able to decrypt Markov’s coded hack. As a nationwide manhunt is launched to find Lewis, his former girlfriend, Holly, goes missing, presumed kidnapped. Will Lewis be able to find Holly before it is too late? Or will others get to Lewis - and the encryption key - first? Especially those increasingly desperate to ensure that Markov’s encrypted secrets remain buried forever.

Life as a ski instructor is usually chilled. Especially on a powder day. However, when your client is the wife of a dissident Russian oligarch, someone Moscow wants eliminated given everything he’s been saying about the Kremlin elite, suddenly the temperature risks becoming red hot. Deadly dangerous - if not downright lethal. In particular when the ski instructor is Ben Lewis.

When a valuable thoroughbred racehorse is stolen from the breeding shed one stormy night, Tetch becomes the prime suspect in this infamous and mysterious theft. Though she is known far and wide as a renowned empath, even those who support Tetch begin to wonder. Why won’t she defend herself? Why would she rather go to jail than tell the truth? And ultimately, where is Quantro?

A Family History of Illness is a gritty historical memoir that examines the body's immune system and microbial composition as well as the biological and cultural origins of memory and history, offering a startling, fresh way to view the role of history in understanding our physical selves.

There are good guys and bad guys in both human and animal form. And there's love in the air, too. After the ultimate humiliation at the hands of the school bully, our hero, Ben Wilkinson, takes his frustration out on a stray dog just as lightning strikes. He wakes up in the body of the dog, and his adventure begins. He struggles to survive against the odds as he fights for his freedom and his life in rural Australia.

Maestro de los cuencos de sonido: Una composición exclusiva de cuencos de sonido para reforzar el cuerpo, el espíritu y el ánimo. Desde hace milenios los cuencos tibetanos de sonido se emplean para saneamiento y para meditación Las vibraciones liberan energías, tienen efecto sanador sobre el cuerpo y estimulan el espíritu. Pase a un estado de relajación profunda absoluta. Benefíciese de la fuerza mítica de los cuencos de sonido, cuyos tonos palpitantes fomentan los procesos de autocuración, disuelven las tensiones y tranquilizan el ánimo.

A stunning health crisis only further fuels Ella Sheridan's wounded spirit. Now, the nation will learn of yet another setback for the daughter of the first female vice president. Ignoring strict security mandates against commercial travel, Ella books herself on a flight to Los Angeles to share her difficult news with a trusted friend. An undeniably fateful encounter with a handsome photographer onboard rocks Ella to her core. In the midst of her personal crisis, the intense attraction to Dezi is too potent for either to ignore. On the brink of a spontaneously romantic breakthrough, a ruthless plot for vengeance takes shape.

"An impassioned call for solidarity and unity in a time of political and social uncertainty."

Discover the challenges of parenting and the secrets of disciplining a toddler. Learn how to get your toddler to sleep; potty train your toddler; feed your toddler; transition to preschool; and more. Parenting and educating your toddler is something that you need to start doing as soon as possible, and you can start today.

Benjamin Franklin left behind quite a legacy as an inventor, politician, and philosopher. Yet when he first arrived in Philadelphia, his future wife thought he had “a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.” Franklin recalls that this was because at the time he was carrying a large dinner roll under each arm and eating a third as he walked down the street. This delightful excerpt from his memoir shows how Franklin got his start in the printing business and demonstrates his skill as a humorist.

James McLaughlin worked as an Indian agent for most of his life. His most infamous act, however, was ordering the arrest of Sitting Bull for fear that his participation in the Ghost Dance movement would inspire Indian rebellion. “The newspaper reports regarding the arrest and death of Sitting Bull have nearly all been ridiculously absurd”, he wrote to the United States Indian Service. With this account, he attempts to defend his role and set the record straight on the circumstances that led to the death of this influential Native American leader.

In this account, Gottlieb Mittelberger reveals the plight of poor German families who migrated to America in the 18th century. It was normal at the time for poor Europeans to fund their journey to the New World by agreeing to a period of indentured servitude. Yet what Mittleberger observed was more akin to slavery: workers were auctioned off upon arrival with no formal contract. This enlightening record reveals a darker side to early American history.

The Jamestown settlers imagined life in the New World would be flowing with abundance, but things were not as they expected. Not only were they agriculturally inexperienced, but they had bad luck negotiating with the natives and faced delays of their food shipments from England. In “The Starving Time”, Captain John Smith recounts the bleak conditions of the winter of 1609-10, including tales of people so desperate they resorted to cannibalism. It was a time of starvation indeed - of the colony’s 500 residents, only 60 lived till spring.

¿Quien no ha tocado fondo sin sentir que Dios no escucha nuestras oraciones? Sin embargo siempre he dicho que podemos encontrarnos en la peor situación de la vida, que aun ahí Dios esta con nosotros. Vamos a darle a Dios el espacio para que pueda operar dentro de su marco de misericordia.

The foremost diverse children's authors and illustrators - including Jason Reynolds, Jacqueline Woodson, and Kwame Alexander - share answers to the question, "In this divisive world, what shall we tell our children?" in this powerful collection, published in partnership with Just Us Books.

El Obispo Gary Hawkins, Sr. no es un pastor ordinario. Su pensamiento creativo y vanguardista lo hizo crecer de 75 personas a más de 10,000 en menos de cinco años. Siendo un nuevo pastor, convirtió sus frustraciones de cómo convertirse en un simple libro paso a paso de sabiduría y conocimiento que hará crecer su negocio.

Abrazando los buenos hábitos es la primera de la serie Escalera al éxito. Por lo tanto, este libro define los buenos hábitos desde las perspectivas divina y social, delineando todo lo que podemos ganar cuando practicamos con valentía y habitualmente lo que es correcto y ético en el hogar, el trabajo, y en nuestras comunidades.