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From renowned yogi meditation teacher and author of Do Your Om Thing Rebecca Pacheco comes Still Life, offering an in-depth exploration of mindfulness and meditation misconceptions to arm the listener with inspirational and practical tools for cultivating a consistent mindfulness practice.

The annual River Run is a fall favorite in Stoneybrook. Participants end the race win a commemorative mug from local potter, Josie Cobb. But when one of the mugs is shattered over Josie's ex-husband's head and he's found dead along the riverside trail, the sheriff is sure the potter finally snapped.

In this contemporary romance, young Caroline struggles with loneliness after her father's death, her brother’s military deployment, and her mother's deteriorating health. All the while, she juggles graduate school and a full-time job while remaining focused on her future. That is, until Hashim, an exotic stranger, moves into her garage apartment.

Hannah Morgan is a content producer for internet sensation and millionaire playboy, Mathew Albrecht. When she discovers his possible ties to a global terrorist organisation, her investigation becomes more troubling the deeper she goes. Could her client’s involvement also be linked to the death of her husband years earlier or is it something more sinister? Enlisting two ex-military guns for hire, a young hacker and her dead husband's AI, Hannah must confront the demons of her past to save the future.

Georgia Winston is now dating Detective Cal Perkins, planning a Christmas program, and navigating her relationship with her twin stepbrothers. Just another day. But then her church’s youth pastor dies of poisoning, and she’s the only one who hears his final word, “Anchor.” After the youth pastor’s girlfriend disappears, Georgia starts asking questions. Too many. When she’s almost run off the road, she goes on the offensive - with her stepbrothers’ help - and starts putting the pieces of the murder together.

The war had taken everything from Lina Sucherin - her parents, sisters, a fledgling romance...even her faith in herself and her psychic abilities. All of it ripped away with the fall of the Third Reich and the brutal Soviet sack of Berlin. Three years later, amid the suspicion, paranoia, and fledgling brutality of communist East Germany, danger threatens the only people Lina cares about, forcing her to overcome her lingering self-doubt.

What happens when you're middle-aged? Is it over? Will you change or remain the same? What will you do with the second half of your life? All of the short stories and essays in this collection illuminate this incredibly interesting and vital stage. All characters demonstrate how they have chosen to navigate this new world. Some are more successful than others, but all are interesting.

All Georgia Rae Winston wants is to fall in love. Life, of course, has other plans. Georgia’s biggest challenge in the farming town of Wildcat Springs, Indiana, is figuring out how to win Evan Beckworth’s heart. Until the day she discovers the body of a former student in the woods. She assumes it was an accident. When she starts to suspect it wasn’t, it stirs memories of her father’s murder nine years earlier. A murder never solved. Georgia refuses to let that happen this time.

Time traveling Parminder - a.k.a. Pammi - must stop a power-hungry Able from the future from destroying the ancient city she visits, where Ables like her live freely. If she is unable to stop him, the city of Zanum vanishes forever, taking Pammi, and all other Ables with it.

Callie Hayes never expected that her fiancé was out to steal all her money. But a drained savings account and foreclosed home puts her dream of owning a luxury purse line on hold for the foreseeable future. Thankfully, she finds an out-of-the-way resort where she can rebuild her life. Billionaire Liam Summers has been acting CEO of the most prestigious luxury resort company in the world for the last three years. After his uncle's death, he inherits everything on one condition: he must work undercover at The Hideaway resort as a staff member.

Inga Belova leaves NYC for post-perestroika Moscow to launch her own business. She falls in love with two women along the way. Gary Shteyngart says, “If you're going to read one bisexual management consulting Russian novel this year, please, dear god, make it this one."

The man in the suit...is about to call you to the stage. Are your palms sweating? Public speaking causes anxiety in 75 percent of the population. Does your career depend upon mastery of this fear? Whether it’s giving a report to a handful of co-workers in a conference room or an auditorium full of your peers, this book can help you get over the nerves. Conquering that internal struggle is the focus of this book.

When the last man on Earth reveals he has a nuclear weapon pointed at the tiny Martian colony, the colonists can only survive by working together. Jaye, a Trueborn Child of Mars, isn’t like her father, Merlin. Like all the Trueborn, she is cursed with perfect memory and deep sensitivity. But not even the knowledge that Merlin killed her mother can change the fact: They need each other for more than survival.

Abrielle and both of her brothers, Brogan and Matteaus, are swept from Kansas to someplace beyond - to a desert in which everything is watery-brown, including the sky and the light of the weak sun. Abrielle finds herself in the middle of a realm everyone had heard of but no one believed existed. Except this version is rundown and broken, void of color and hope. When she gathers her bearings, she discovers her youngest brother is missing, lost in a land that is foreign and dying.

This Ally Parenting audiobook is the synthesis of 22 years of teaching parents through private parenting consultations, classes, and speaking engagements. Each chapter is an answer to questions parents have asked about how to get more cooperation from their children, or how to make them more responsible, or how to get their child to talk to them more. Parents who had tried many common strategies such as taking things away, isolating, yelling, pleading, threatening, shaming, questioning, and commanding, couldn't stand it anymore.

A strange Christmas letter appears, and Macy Kennedy is forced to go back home to the small town she has avoided for more than 30 years. Despite an oncoming blizzard and in spite of her feelings, Macy packs up to leave on the adventure of a lifetime. She bribes her loyal secretary and the firm’s maid to help drive her through a blizzard to accomplish the sordid ordeal. Little can they ever imagine that a rare, mystical blue moon hangs high in the sky on this Christmas Eve and that magic lives in this enchanted mountain town full of love and friendship.

Can love overcome the tragic past between an FBI agent and a bridesmaid-for-hire? Chloe Romano is a good FBI agent even though she fights a deep attraction to her team leader, the gorgeous Liam Esposito. Fraternizing with her boss is strictly forbidden, so their feelings have to remain a secret longing. When an FBI sting operation goes horribly wrong, Chloe's love for Liam become tangled with grief when she learns that he was the one that left her best friend behind to die. Quickly, Chloe resigns from the FBI and launches a bridesmaid-for-hire business.

Change your work - change your life! Does the thought of going to work fill you with dread or excitement? Work Quilting is all about using every one of your unique talents and skills to turn your dreams into reality. The work you do should be one that supplies you with a lifestyle of financial freedom, flexibility, and fun! The world of work is changing!

Having an amazing prayer life is not for the famous Christians. It's for all of us, ordinary people who are seeking the extraordinary. Author Rachel Larkin has discovered a simpler way to pray - a way that turns ordinary moments into extraordinary divine encounters.

Do you ever feel like you have to be different things to different people? Do you struggle with pulling yourself together? Rachael ultimately realized this too, and finally discovered what it takes to make a fractured life whole again.