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Several years ago, I was approached by Carolyn Wyman, author of “The Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Book” to write a book about Otis Spunkmeyer Cookies. I am co-founder of Otis Spunkmeyer Cookies with my husband, but no one starts a company alone. I told her that Otis Spunkmeyer was about many things besides cookies, and I wrote stories to prove it. Carolyn agreed, indicating my most fascinating stories had nothing to do with cookies. She suggested I compile my “you can’t make this up” stories of improbable possibilities.

This transformative guide delves into the essence of maximizing productivity, offering you the tools and techniques to achieve outstanding results in every aspect of your life. Whether striving for professional excellence, personal growth, or both, this book provides a comprehensive roadmap to elevate your performance and sustain high effort levels throughout the year.

My memoir depicts my life living in my home town of Middlesbrough. It then had the highest rates of unemployment in the UK. I witnessed the decline of its Iron and Steel, Chemical and Shipbuilding industries leaving tens of thousands of local people out of work. While living as a long time unemployed, unmarried, single mother with my two beautiful girls, both with different fathers, I found myself at the lowest echelon of society. I endured years of ostracisation, poverty and social exclusion.

THERE IS POWER IN CLARITY. WHEN YOU SET AN INTENTION YOU ACTIVATE A FORCE THAT BUILDS MOMENTUM. NO MATTER WHAT THE APPEARANCES, EVEN IF YOU FEEL STUCK IN A RUT, SOMETHING IS HAPPENING FOR YOU JUST BEHIND THE SCENES. KEEP MOVING FORWARD WITH THE INTENTION THAT YOU CAN MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE. YOU WILL GAIN CLARITY AND COMMITMENT AS YOU BECOME MORE RESOURCEFUL AND INSPIRED.

In Ley Lines of Love, Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle shares wisdom gained from a lifetime of spiritual seeking and devoted practice. A dedicated practitioner of Buddhism, she shares many remarkable stories about her inner journey, including the joys of learning from enlightened teachers. She also recounts how her years of involvement with a devotional tradition from India ended in an archetypal story of disillusionment.

What if every terrible thing imagined came true? Every fleeting, nightmarish thought a reality? For grief-stricken Karina, her newfound ability to turn her worst daydreams into palpable truths has sent her into a downward spiral of depression and guilt. Coupled with the appearance of an enigmatic shadow figure and visions of her dead family, she grapples to maintain her sanity while desperately attempting to harness her abilities and reunite with her loved ones.

Believing all their troubles are behind them, Dani and Aideen seek to lead a more simple life. Their final mission is to bring Orla from 1801 to live with them in 2022. Then they will find peace. Not so. Charles is still on the loose, and has become so powerful that even capturing and imprisoning him won’t stop him. Space is being pioneered in the future using, unfortunately, time travel, and a virulent blend of intelligent life is heading toward Earth.

The Narcissist’s Shadow is a powerful and uplifting memoir of resilience, transformation, and the unwavering strength of the human spirit.

Warum dieses Audiopaket? Es bietet eine beispiellose Tiefe und Fachwissen, gestützt auf psychologische Forschung, und vermeidet die Fallstricke von Vereinfachung und allgemeinen Ratschlägen, die man oft in Selbsthilfe-Hörbüchern findet.

Drei gescheiterte Beziehungen innerhalb eines Jahres. Eine Karriere, die den Bach runtergeht ganz klar, da muss ein neuer Anfang her. Also beschließt Dani Buchanan, alles hinter sich zu lassen und sich auf die Suche nach ihrem biologischen Vater zu machen. Mit einem Senator mitten im Wahlkampf um das Präsidentenamt hätte sie jedoch nicht gerechnet. Und auch nicht mit seinem attraktiven, aber arroganten Wahlkampfmanager Alex Canfield. Gleich bei ihrer ersten Begegnung fliegen die Fetzen und nach und nach auch die Funken.

In a distant magical forest, brimming with mischievous goblins, wise wizards, spell-binding witches, ethereal elves, and a menagerie of magnificent, magical animals, there reigns a kind and wise creature, The King of the Wizards.

This collection of 35 short poems was first published in 1927, and is a sequel to When We Were Very Young, which was the first anthology of verse dealing with the domestic adventures of Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh.

When new next-door neighbors Georgia, Midge, and Lula first assembled on Georgia's porch in Charleston for sweet tea, they couldn't have known their gathering was the beginning of a treasured tradition. For 26 years they have met on Tuesdays at four o'clock, watching the seasons change and their children grow up, supporting each other in good times and in bad. With their ambitions as different as their personalities, these best friends anticipate many more years of tea time.

For over two decades the identity of Melissa Witt's murderer has been hidden among the dense trees and thorny undergrowth rooted deeply in the uneven ground of a remote mountaintop in the Ozark National Forest. Determined to find answers, LaDonna Humphrey has spent the past seven years hunting for Melissa's killer. Her investigation, both thrilling and unpredictable, has led her on a journey like no other.

Polly Maddox lives under the sheltering wing of Santa Catalina Island, her world as small and idyllic as the isolated cove where her father ran a not-so-secret moonshine operation during Prohibition. But when he’s accused of a startling crime and goes on the lam, Polly’s life capsizes, leaving her with little choice but to flee toward the gleaming mirage of 1939 Los Angeles.

Comparative Law: A Very Short Introduction aims to offer a concise introduction to comparative law-its objectives, methods, concepts, and uses. After an overview of the fundamental definitions, key concepts, and basic lexicon of the discipline, the book proposes an analysis of the most successful techniques adopted in legal comparison for mapping the world's legal systems and for explaining legal change and diffusion of law, also giving a concise description of the legal traditions of the world.

Many of the stories in this book seem at the same time both familiar and strange. Their authors valued family, duty, patience and heroism. They longed for children in their old age, and rejoiced when they saw cruelty and envy punished, wrongs righted, and kindness and bravery rewarded.

An accomplished psychiatrist, she’s always prided herself on connecting to the patients who’ve been brought to the facility, no matter how difficult or closed-off they are. That is, until David arrives. At first, she listens to what David has to say. How he claims to be four-hundred years old and possessed by a demon. Her diagnosis is multiple personalities and approaches his treatment as such.

Ally steht kurz vor einem Burnout und nimmt sich eine längere Auszeit auf der Ranch ihrer Familie. Ausgerechnet Chris, der süße Typ aus der Nachbarschaft, ist auch aus persönlichen Gründen wieder zurück. Und ein zufälliges Wiedersehen lässt Allys Herz höher schlagen. Einen richtigen Traummann zu finden, stand für die erfolgreiche Architektin Ally Coleman bisher nicht auf dem Lebensplan - denn dafür hat sie überhaupt keine Zeit. Zielstrebig arbeitet sie an ihrer Karriere - bis zu dem Tag ihres Zusammenbruchs.