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For the first time, critically acclaimed, New York Times best-selling suspense master J.A. Jance brings together her two most beloved creations: Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady and Seattle investigator J.P. Beaumont.

Who is an ethical slut? It is anyone who dreams of being free to love; having an abundance of friends, flirtation, and affection; and following their desires. This book gives tips, techniques, and skills to succeed at free love. 

Get the Summary of Evy Poumpouras's Becoming Bulletproof Sample key takeaways from Chapters One through Two: 1. The media sensationalizes things that are unlikely to kill us, so we fear them more than things that are likely to kill us. 2. When you feel afraid, your body feels that it is in danger. 3. Fight means combating the danger. Flight is deeming the danger to be too great for you to take on, so you try to escape it. Freeze is being so overwhelmed by a perceived threat that you can’t respond, like a deer in the headlights.

Get the Summary of Lindsay C. Gibson's Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents. Sample key takeaways: 1. Emotional loneliness is a feeling of emptiness and being alone in the world. 2. Emotional intimacy is when you feel safe opening up to someone and they see you for who you really are. 3. Some parents are too self-absorbed to notice what their kids are feeling. Even if they were to notice, they wouldn’t know how to respond to their kid’s emotions.

Get the Summary of Pema Chödrön's When Things Fall Apart. Insights from Chapter One: 1. The journey to enlightenment is not an easy one. When you start meditating, you will get inspired. But you will also feel afraid. At times, you will feel like you are going to fall off the edge of the world. 2. Fear is a natural part of life. We all try to run away from it, but we shouldn’t. The bravest people are the ones more intimate with fear.

Surveillance capitalism claims human experience as free raw material that can be translated into behavioral data for a commercial purpose....

Nadine Burke Harris, a pediatrician, was running a free clinic in a poor neighborhood in San Francisco, when she realized there was a harrowing connection between trauma and medical problems for her child patients.

Narcissism is a mental illness that can be diagnosed only by an experienced professional. It involves a grandiose sense of self-importance and entitlement, constant need for admiration, and lack of empathy. It is a spectrum disorder, which means it has a range of symptoms increasing in severity. Narcissists are generally incapable of intimacy and find it hard to maintain long-term relationships. They find it difficult to understand their own feelings and emotions or relate to others. 

At 26 years old, Christie Tate found herself contemplating suicide, yet she had no good reasons for it. She was alarmed, and didn’t know whether she wanted to act on those thoughts or not.

Get the Summary of Ruth Soukup's Do It Scared. Sample key takeaways from Chapter One: 1. Every person has fears. These fears can be categorized into seven main fear archetypes: the Procrastinator, the Rule Follower, the People Pleaser, the Outcast, the Self-Doubter, the Excuse Maker, and the Pessimist. 2. The Procrastinator, also known as the perfectionist, struggles with the fear of making a mistake. 3. Procrastinators are very good at tasks that require high attention to details and lots of organization.

Get the Summary of Glennon Doyle Melton's Carry On, Warrior. Sample key takeaways from Part One: 1. Life is an adventure, and our quest is to find the unfindable. This is the problem - life is a bit of a setup. We’re put here, and made to crave something that isn’t even here. 2. Glennon Doyle Melton tried to fill this hole with poisonous things for 20 years. When she was young, food was her only refuge. 3. Bulimia made her comfortable because when she was going through a binge, she lost consciousness of her discomfort and emptiness.

Cortex-based anxiety revolves around sensations, thoughts, logic, imagination, intuition, conscious memory, and planning. If your thoughts or ideas constantly turn to anxiety, if you obsess over doubts and worries, you probably have cortex-based anxiety.

Get the Summary of Michael J. Fox's No Time Like the Future. Sample insights from Chapter One: 1. Michael J. Fox struggled with his first child, a son named Sam. He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s soon after his son’s birth. 2. Fox adjusted his life, learning to accept Parkinson’s and becoming sober. This led to a strengthened relationship with his partner and daughters. 3. Sam’s eventual departure to college was difficult for Fox. Fox himself never went to college, and couldn’t give any meaningful advice, but more important, Sam was his best friend.

Kamala Harris’ mother came to the US from southern India to pursue a doctorate in nutrition and endocrinology at UC Berkeley. She eventually became a breast cancer researcher.

Get the Summary of Jen Sincero’s Badass Habits Insights from Chapter One: 1. Habits are no-brainers. They’re a routine tendency or behavior. They are the beliefs, thoughts, and actions that we repeat on autopilot. 2. You can quit bad habits through repetition. When you repeat something enough times, you establish new neural pathways in the brain that your habit flows through effortlessly and automatically. In other words, the new habit becomes second nature and replaces the old one. And more.