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Codi lives in the exceptionally drab town of Oath, a settlement without color, children, or personality. Sucky, right? Oath civilians love the color white, the smell of freshly cut grass, and playing the piano by the fire at precisely 7:11 p.m. on a Friday night. The predictability is unbearable. Codi can't believe her luck when a child manifests in the library.

Shenanigans: A Memoir is the story of a woman who became a successful media watchdog as well as a more sympathetic wife, mother, and daughter. Always surrounded by witty and strong-minded people, especially her supportive, force-of-nature husband, Abby Kenigsberg more than held her own. She pursued a serious career as a media critic and professor and became a respected figure in New York media. Kenigsberg delivers irreverent descriptions of college professors, corporate bigwigs, and never-before-revealed encounters with Dan Rather, Leslie Stahl, Mike Wallace, and Alan King.

15 Days describes the passion, purpose, and program of one urban teacher's impact on his elementary students, their families, his student teachers, and the world! Follow veteran teacher Mark Horowitz and his incredible students as they prove that lives can be touched and transformed in merely 15 days. 15 Days gives new meaning to the field of education's three R's: relationships, rigor, and relevance.

Jack Thornton and Sean Plunkett have survived seemingly fatal wounds, while Aiyanna, the Last of the People of the Songs, has become Jack's lover. Their deadly enemy, Heinrich Kuhl, has vanished but remains hell-bent on destroying them both, as does his eldritch master - the Yarvaak Golu: The-God-Who-Waits.

Anybody can explain to you what certain passages of the Bible mean and how they apply to your daily life. However, not too often do you see it in a simple language that the average, common, 9-to-5 person can understand. The best part is, though, that the perspective comes not from a theologian or minister like other Christian books, but from an average Joe, or in this case, Jake, who happened to be inspired to write something for the average person.

Discover how crystals can help you fight stress, cope with anxiety, and more. Heal your mind, body, and spirit, with clear and balanced energy that empowers you to live with greater peace and comfort. This audiobook is a beginner’s guide based on a practical and step-by-step approach plus self-healing techniques that resonate best for your own unique needs. This audiobook provides you with a clear insight into the tradition of Buddhism that has been in existence for centuries.

Liana Linacre thought she was in love, but what began as her fantasy romance ended with a curse that threatens her life and everything she loves. Orphaned and alone, she barely escapes the dark forces that want her soul. Corban Alexander belongs to an ancient order of vampire hunters and wants to kill everyone who is demon-touched. He knows that the creatures who want Liana dead will find her again before long.

Life gets busier and more stressful with time. Technology, economy, modernity, and many other aspects of these modern times affect us in many ways. We more often than not, try to find an escape route from all the stress built up from this hectic life. This audiobook provides you with a clear insight into the tradition of Buddhism that has been in existence for centuries.

Author MK Kim was one of Korea’s most sought-after motivational speakers. For more than 28 years, she was a corporate speaker, as well as a television and YouTube personality. Then, in January of 2020, her career came to a screeching halt. The coronavirus and social distancing shut down every major speaking venue around the world. Reboot: Your COVID-19 Quick-Start Guide to Life, Work, and Hope, lays out this proven formula, step by step, to help you reboot your own life and learn to thrive again.

The cooking lessons that stick with us are rarely the ones we read in books or learn through blog posts or YouTube videos (depending on your generation); they're the ones we pick up as we spend time with good cooks in the kitchen. Dorothy Kalins, founding editor of Saveur magazine, calls the people who pass on their cooking wisdom her Kitchen Whisperers. Consciously or not, they help make us the cooks we are—and help show the way to the kind of cooks we have the potential to become.

Zoe and Hank (short for Hannah) have been inseparable since they met in elementary school. The leader of the pack, Zoe is effortlessly popular while Hank hides comfortably in her shadow. But when Zoe's parents unexpectedly divorce, Zoe's perfect facade starts cracking little by little. Sinking under the weight of her broken family, Zoe develops an eating disorder. Now she must rely on Hank for help.

What if you were haunted by strange and terrible dreams in the night? But what if they were not dreams, but preludes of the truth? What if you met the woman of your dreams in a nightmare? What if you learned that you were doomed to a terrible destiny, and that there was nothing that you could do to escape it? This is the fate that befalls Jack Thornton, a former Marine lieutenant who served with the famed "Walking Dead" in Vietnam and who is now a lawyer in San Francisco. His quiet, ordered life begins to unravel, however, when his nightmares begin to shape his waking hours.

His first time in The Philippines, he arrives home in her arms. For as long as he can remember, Jeff longs for Asia and Asian women. Now, in the Mabini district of Manila, he discovers reality exceeds anticipation. The beautiful young bar Filipino girl Analyn satisfies his deepest lusts and the strongest yearnings of his heart with Asian sex. In her love and her body, his soul recognizes the heaven he seeks.

Paleo diet is the most natural way of eating that has been successfully used by us and our ancestors for thousands of years. If you want to be toned and lean as quickly as possible without weird dieting, “good genetics”, or wasting ridiculous amounts of time in the gym and money on pills and powders...regardless of your age...then you want to listen to this audiobook.

Avis knew one thing: She wanted to be a good mother. At least a better mother than her own had been. Could she be the exception in her family? She traded Romoland for Modesto, married young, and started a family. Checking the boxes didn't a happy marriage make. Before her children were a few years old, she already knew she'd made a mistake.

Educated in Amherst, Massachusetts, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (1819-1906) accompanied her physician-husband to California in 1849. The Shirley Letters (1922) is the book edition of a series of letters written by Mrs. Clappe to her sister in 1851 and 1852. They were first published under the pseudonym of Dame Shirley in the Pioneer magazine, 1854-55. In these letters, Louise Clappe writes of life in San Francisco and the Feather River mining communities of Rich Bar and Indian Bar.

Pizza & Chill? ;) How to Kinda Sorta Date is Lisa Ramos' (model and star of MTV's Guy Code) debut book. Ramos explores the quirky bumps and awkward land mines associated with dating in the 21st century. Answering fan questions with personal anecdotes, top 10 lists, mixtapes, and her best advice, Ramos connects the dots as she shares her laughable highs and lows of dating all in the hopes of helping you find true love or, at least, go on a few memorable dates.

Ashley Bowman has always been impetuous, but even she is a little shocked when she chains herself to a palm tree in the Florida Keys hours before a hurricane is due to blow in. It's all with the hope of saving her childhood home from a heartless Miami developer. But the moment she meets Roman Díaz, she realizes he does have a heart - it's just encased in ice. Ashley's determined to get Roman to crack…even if she has to drag him all over the eastern seaboard to do it.

During a work-experience placement at the local church, a deeply religious woman falls for her priest, a man who believes God has a filthy procreation plan for them both.

Rebellious, curious, and never far from trouble, Clare is unlike her goody-two-shoes sister and a constant disappointment for her strict, religious parents. To change her behaviour, Clare is sent to stay with Master Michael, a family friend, schoolteacher, and strict Christian. There, her responsibilities will include looking after his new arrival and spreading the word of God. When Clare arrives, however, it seems that Master Michael is not quite the symbol of innocence she has always been led to believe, and his idea of rehabilitation is not quite what she had in mind.