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When Georgia rents her country home for the month of August, it’s off to the relaxing Connecticut shore for her; her husband, Tom; and their young daughter. It’s just what they need to ease family tensions and reconnect. All that’s left to do is leave behind their house keys—to a stranger. For Anna, Georgia and Tom’s house in the cool woodlands is a dream break from the oppressive heat of a New York City summer—and from an increasingly ill-fated relationship with her lover. A month apart and Anna can clear her head and reassess her future. She’s found the perfect place to do it.

Shrouded in a world of intrepid agents and fatal assassins, a fearless operative dares to escape his allegiance to the cause. When his renown rises after successfully orchestrating a string of daring train raids, Confederate scout Drouet Broussard is inducted into a covert league loyal to a lethal cause - the Knights of the Golden Circle. With war raging, Broussard’s assignments become successively bolder and involve him in the ultimate mission: A presidential assassination.

In This Explains Everything, John Brockman, founder and publisher of Edge.org, asked experts in numerous fields and disciplines to come up with their favorite explanations for everyday occurrences. Why do we recognize patterns? Is there such a thing as positive stress? Are we genetically programmed to be in conflict with each other? Those are just some of the 150 questions that the world's best scientific minds answer with elegant simplicity.

This volume relates the stories of the Borgias and the Cenci. The former, a family of Spanish adventurers, came to dominate the Italian peninsula, and, when Rodergio Borgia became Pope Alexander VI, the world of Christendom, in the late 15th century. The Cenci was an aristocratic family, in which rampant sexual and domestic abuse led to murder and very public execution.

Dory wakes up in the padded room of a psychiatric hospital with no recollection of how she wound up there. She soon finds out she's been Blue-Papered - involuntarily committed. She gets sent to the wrong counseling group and discovers a whole new world of psychiatric patients she'd never known existed. At first, she just thinks they're cutters, all marked by similar scars, but then she finds out those scars are from carving into their own bodies to satisfy their bone-crazy addiction. When they find out Dory's never tapped into her bones, she becomes their target.

Achieve a vibrant, energized life with balanced gut health, even if you've battled digestive discomfort for years! Does discomfort from bloating and irregular bowel movements consume your day-to-day life? Do you often navigate a fog of fatigue and mental fuzziness? Are you overwhelmed by the conflicting gut health advice out there? If any of this sounds familiar, you're not alone. Many women over 50 face similar challenges, often exacerbated by changes in hormones and metabolism.

Drawing on 30-years of successful change management delivery, this book lays out how to get any business change adopted. Written in an engaging conversational style and brought to life through cartoon character "Change Cat", it gets to the heart of how to design, develop, and deliver change that works.

Through space and time, sisters entwined. Lost then found, souls remain bound. Three sisters escape the Salem witch trials when the eldest casts a spell that hurtles their souls forward through time. After centuries separated, fate has finally reunited them in the present day. One the healer, one the teacher, and one the deceiver. Will their reunion return their full powers, or end their soul's journey forever?

This book invites you to explore gratitude through the lens of Christian teachings, practical applications, and reflections from saints and modern Christian leaders. It seeks to inspire a deeper spiritual connection and a more joyful, fulfilling life rooted in thanksgiving.

In January 1975, President Gerald Ford signed into law HR 17045 of the Health and Human Services, which gave birth to the Child Support Enforcement Program. This is a federal-state program whose purpose was to help strengthen families by securing financial support for children from their noncustodial parents....

So if you’re tired of merely surviving life and are ready for a complete life transformation, just follow the actions outlined in Goals Master Plan and you’ll be well on your way to success and finally living the life you desire. Crafting a detailed master plan for your goals will help give you clarity.

If you are purposeful about doing good for your marriage, think how impactful your marriage would be by the intentional things you did to strengthen it. Wouldn't you begin to see the goodness in your marriage? Wouldn't your thoughts toward your marriage be more positive than negative?

God's word is filled with his promises for us that we can claim over our lives. God is a man of his word, and as believers, he will always provide for us. His word teaches us about freedom from depression, sin, and shows us that he can heal the weary. The author wants you to pray over these promises and allow God to speak to your heart.

Since Christmas is coming, Joy resolves to start working with determination to find love immediately, so she won’t have to live through another sad Christmas.

In the sheltered town of Carmel, women do not have a future outside of a good marriage. That future is threatened when Leah Edwards’ father gambles away the family’s livelihood and estate. She and her sisters must hurry to find husbands. Then August Fox, a Guardian from Cariath, comes to town and purchases a supposedly haunted manor. Charged to keep the peace between mortals and Faerie, the Guardians are the stuff of legend. After he stuns her with a marriage proposal, Leah reluctantly journeys to Cariath, discovering there is more to August and the legends than she guessed.

Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935) was one of the first crime novelists and paved the way for later female writers of detective novels, like Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Ngaio Marsh. Among her prolific output are twelve novels featuring her main character, detective Ebenezer Gryce of the New York Metropolitan Police Force. This collection contains the third group of three novels in the series: Initials Only (1911), One of My Sons (1901), and The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow (1917).

Through a series of essays, poems, and comics, 30 creators give voice to moments that defined them and shed light on the immense diversity and complexity of the Asian American identity. Edited by CAPE and with an introduction by renowned journalist SuChin Pak, My Life: Growing Up Asian in America is a celebration of community, a call to action, and a road map for a brighter future.

I hold sway over the dead. Even saying that in my head sounds wrong, but it's true. Yup. I'm a necromancer! Something my folks kept hidden from me, and I still don't understand why. To get answers, I'll conduct a magical séance with their ashes. Add in that supernatural beings are wanting to harness my ability, and keeping my secret from my new boyfriend, I wish I had more powers than just over the deceased. But magic always comes with a price.

This audiobook should be one of the fun and interesting listens for consumers of Christianity and Science. It presents different sides of the amazing verses in the Bible, and how they are supported by science and engineering. While past engineers and scientists had few problems with the Bible before the 1970s, this audiobook explains why the Bible can still be trusted - even by unbelievers.

She was just looking for a relaxing break. Moria Donovan has just finished her latest book, and as a treat is sent to the beautiful island of St. Lucia for a much needed vacation. What she wasn’t expecting to find was the handsome New York bar owner. Feeling an instant connection, she throws caution to the wind and takes a chance getting to know him. Yet the more she gets to know Cord, the more she feels herself falling for the man. But this is just a holiday fling, right? There’s no way that they could make a go of this. She lives in DC and he lives in New York.