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Fortune tellers and mediums have descended on the Oyster Cove Guesthouse, determined to solve the mystery of local seafarer Jedediah Biddeford’s murder 300 years ago...especially if it leads them to the treasure he buried on the guesthouse grounds. New owner Josie Waters has suddenly got bigger problems than burning the breakfasts: she’s up to her elbows in tarot cards and tea leaves. When one of the mediums is found dead with an ominous note nearby, everything points to Jedediah’s ghost being the culprit.

Kacey Chance said goodbye to her actress dreams to become a private investigator, but now her work is sending her straight into the heart of Hollywood. Her new assignment takes her undercover, working as a personal assistant to a handsome actor. Someone is trying to destroy his career, and it's up to Kacey to find out who, and why. Being on set is every bit as fun as Kacey imagined. The case seems easy enough, until she hits a moral dilemma. Exactly how far should an investigator go to discover the truth?

Diana McLain Smith addresses key questions about the nature of professional relationships, explaining how companies are irrevocably shaped by positive and negative relationships between colleagues, in a guide that shares strategies for building strong and flexible working relationships that can endure difficult interpersonal challenges.

Author Joanne Steen tackles the subject that terrifies parents of military personnel - the death of their son or daughter on active duty. In short, accessible chapters Gold Star parents find thoughtful explanations and trustworthy advice for coping with military grief. Steen weaves together realistic examples with voices of other Gold Star parents, connecting the listeners to the wisdom of those parents who have walked in their shoes.

Kacey Chance is a former actress turned detective. Luckily for her, acting skills come in handy during investigations. Kacey's latest assignment is to investigate a suspicious workplace accident. The victim, who worked at local hangout Rockburger, is seeking a large cash settlement. A stakeout at the victim's residence reveals nosy neighbors and colorful roommates who drop hints that nothing about this accident is quite as it appears.

Kacey Chance is an aspiring actress with a cute face and a plucky attitude. She's trying to break into Hollywood, but it isn't easy. She was the prettiest girl in her hometown, but in LA she's a dime a dozen. When a friend offers Kacey a job working at a detective agency, the young actress jumps at the opportunity. The detective agency is unlike any she's ever seen in the movies. It's run by three handsome, single brothers and their sassy grandmother. Her first day at the agency is anything but boring.

Rudyard Kipling’s best-loved book is now the basis for the Netflix film Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle starring Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Benedict Cumberbatch, Freida Pinto, and Rohan Chand The story of Mowgli, the abandoned "man-cub" who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of...

Over the last 40 years, the leadership industry has grown exponentially. Yet leadership education, training, and development still fall far short. Moreover, leaders are demeaned, degraded, and derided as they never were before. Why? The problem is that leadership has stayed stuck. It has remained an occupation instead of becoming a profession. Unlike medicine and law, leadership has no core curriculum that is considered essential. It has no widely agreed on metric, or criteria for qualification.

The massive orphan train exodus whisked three-year-old Teresa from the safety of her New York orphanage, where the worst thing the Foundling nuns did was wash her curly black hair, to a desolate house and cold-hearted "parents" in Kansas. There, she entered a small and strange Volga German world whose inhabitants spoke a language she had never heard. In this odd world, she encountered whippings and sexual abuse. Mail-Order Kid looks at the orphan train movement through the eyes of one small child who yearns to know her "real" mother.

Kilee Brookbank was a typical sixteen-year-old, but her last ordinary day erupted in an explosion that consumed her house, burning forty-five percent of her body and sending her to the brink of death. After thirty-eight days of surgeries, skin grafts, physical therapy, and excruciating pain, Kilee had to discover how to live again. Now a thriving college student, Kilee has become an author, advocate, and philanthropist focused on helping other young burn survivors and their families.

Have you started a new diet or exercise program only to end up back where you started and at the same weight as before? Why? The answer is not a lack of willpower or motivation, but rather, a flawed strategy. In Sum of the Parts, health expert Jesse Lang explains how achieving your goals requires focusing on all of the factors that contribute to your health.

In The Frustrated Dreamer: When Your Dreams Are Bigger Than Your Now, Juanita Jones combines raw, uncut, and unadulterated truths to help you gain an understanding on "the why" that's standing between you and a life with power, purpose, and a plan.

She's spent a good portion of her life in search of happiness - struggling to find her place, and to discover her worth. But if there's one thing Nicole Thomas has figured out, it's that every experience contains an important lesson, and that God has been there for every step along the way. So with that knowledge, she began to blog. From the ins and outs of divorce and child-rearing, to important conversations with friends, her everyday reflections served as a creative outlet.

Are you tired of toddler temper tantrums? Has your school-aged child's misbehavior gotten out of hand? Get ready to discover proven tactics that make it easy to positively change your child's behavior and build a loving, bonding relationship!

I became interested in researching different weight loss information because I needed it for myself. I used to be skinny and could eat anything I wanted without gaining a pound. Then that changed to the point of me struggling just to lose ten pounds. I realized that in a year's time, I had gained 60 pounds. Reality did not hit me until I stepped on a scale. It was heart wrenching.

A well told story of one life, multi-faceted and multi-colored. What emerges is sheer enthusiasm, a love of live, and a willingness to follow new paths, but always with a positive attitude. For Miki Bell, a series of events caused her to drop out of school at the young age of 12. Working her way through life as a seamstress, hairdresser, police officer, and immigration officer, all from the ages of 12 - 26, she has managed to capture the hearts of everyone around her.

Many of us in the body of Christ are living below our privileges as sons and daughters of God. We yearn for more in our experience with him but don't know what's missing. In A Widow's Might, Judy Knox reveals the missing element and explains how to get it. Losing her husband due to complications following heart surgery could have been devastating. Instead, Judy's 10 weeks with him in the hospital ICU became a turning point, where she turned from her own strength to God's.

Olivia is now in her sixties and widowed. She had been disillusioned by her parents when she was young and discouraged by her late husband Jack, to follow her dreams. Now when she enters the gazebo that was once a place of romance and intimate moments for Jack and Olivia, she finds it just a place to reminisce about her past life. A mysterious letter not only changes Olivia's thinking, it changes her life in more ways than she could ever imagine.

This audiobook will open the door to exciting new discoveries about the secrets of the Jewish religion, traditions, and the Jewish way of life.

This story is actually a daily account of a naturalist's years of observing and writing about zoological and insect life on her estate. It takes place in the late 1890s at The Grove, Stanmore, in England, Mrs. Brightwen's very beautiful and secluded estate. Here, there were woods and shrubberies, a lake, and a large garden that offered a field for Mrs. Brightwen's zoological and insect observations. It was not, however, until her 60th year that she began to be a writer.