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Despite a few harrowing incidents with nervy Bridezillas, Addy Winters’ small town party planning business has been murder free—until now. But then, she’s never before been hired to throw a star-studded after-death party for a client who has their death scheduled on their calendar. When Leno Masterson—former classmate, now legendary rocker with a flair for drama—turns up dead four days earlier than he’d planned, Addy suspects that someone helped him along.

Cybersecurity expert Theresa Payton tells battlefront stories from the global war being conducted through clicks, swipes, internet access, technical backdoors and massive espionage schemes. She investigates the cyberwarriors who are planning tomorrow’s attacks, weaving a fascinating yet bone-chilling tale of Artificial Intelligent mutations carrying out attacks without human intervention, “deepfake” videos that look real to the naked eye, and chatbots that beget other chatbots.

Succulents are fascinating plants. They have the reputation of being resilient and easy to grow and maintain. But that isn’t always what everyone experiences when they first get one. While it is true that succulents are tough, they can also become delicate and hard to please. This can happen when they are watered the same way as non-drought-tolerant plants.

Managing your money can be intimidating, scary, and stressful. Theresa Yong wrote this guide as a simple resource for everyday people who want to get a handle on their finances. She explains how to avoid the headaches so often associated with personal financial matters.

Luque flees. Like everyone else, he leaves a past behind, but his is a traumatic one that hounds and ties him down. It is a voracious past that at times casts doubt on his memories, altering them with ominous visions of dark and persistent phantoms. He hopes to put all that behind him and start a new life in Asunción, Paraguay, where he has a cousin who will lend him a hand. Distrust, the resurrection of unwelcome family stories, and a threatening sense of danger, thwart that possibility.

The pain in her heart paralyzed her. Emotionally and physically, she suffered. She tried to forget, but the tears dropped. Everyone told her it's the process. With time, she’d heal. But she was impatient. Writing became her muse, and she poured her heart out on paper. Each entry, each word, brought her closer to recovery. Theresa takes us on an emotional journey, from falling in love to becoming a survivor of verbal abuse.

As Dave settles into his new beach house, Margaret is happy to assist, though she also notices a lot of his decisions lately don’t involve her. She can’t help but wonder if the long-term plans for his future include her and her daughters.

Lyra Castillo does many things. She’s a respected librarian in Seattle, she never misses a yoga class, and she’s read every word Jane Austen has ever written. Lyra never thought, however, that she would be foolish enough to get herself stuck with the most irritating man in existence. But, that’s exactly what happens.

With these last words from their mother, two little girls, Marguerite and her older sister, will begin a long wandering that will last two years. Equipped with a new identity, they must cut themselves off from everything that constitutes their familiar universe. Led from farms to convents, they learn to keep quiet, to pretend, to lie, to adapt and above all to keep hope, against all odds. The story that Marguerite Élias Quddus gives us takes one to the centre of it and lets us glimpse history through the eyes of a very young child.

Resisting Garbage presents a new approach to understanding practices of waste removal and recycling in American cities, one that is grounded in the close observation of case studies while being broadly applicable to many American cities today.

Sarah’s loving the boat life and spending time with Chris, but will an unexpected call from her ex change everything? Margaret is busy in the garden again and frustrated to find that the honor system for the The Cape May Garden farm stand isn’t working out according to plan. Dave is renovating his new beach house in North Cape May but still can’t decide what his plans are for the property. Donna, an old high school friend, is back in town after her marriage ends, and as she tries to figure out a new life, she’s surprised by an unexpected spark with someone new.

En killjoy er ikke bange for at udpege den sexisme, vold og racisme, der findes overalt i vores samfund. Og en killjoy nægter at se til i tavshed for at bevare den gode stemning. I "Killjoy manifest" opstiller feminist Sara Ahmed ti principper eller viljeserklæringer for hvad en killjoy vil (gøre eller være) eller ikke vil (gøre eller være). Sidste del af bogen består af et overlevelseskit for killjoys. Sara Ahmed (f. 1969) er en britisk-australsk akademiker og aktivist.

A big-budget movie is filming in Cape May, and one of the stars, Katherine Duffield, has rented out the Seahorse Inn for two months. Excitement overtakes Margaret and Liz until they receive the celebrity’s ridiculous list demands. Dave is thrilled at the chance to use his construction skills on the film set, but tension unexpectedly arises between him and Margaret. Irene, Dave’s sister, is back in town working on the film as a production assistant. Greg takes a leap toward his dream of opening a restaurant with the support of Liz, but is it the best choice for their family?

Cammie, a dancer in her thirties, has just landed her first part in a show since coming to New York City. Yet the tug of familial obligations and the guilt of what she sacrificed to be there weigh down her dancing feet. Cammie’s lover, Tom, an older piano player, came to the city as a young man in the 1980s with a story eerily in tune with Cammie’s own. Through their triumphs and failures, both learn the fleetness of glory, the sweetness of new love, and how a dream come true isn’t cherished until it’s passed.

Everyone was happy and relieved when Lucien died. But just when one war ends, another one starts. It turns out that Royce is not the last of the Callahan Clan of vampires. His sister Chloe is. She rolls into Charlottesville and immediately declares war on the pack to avenge her brother. But it’s even worse for us this time. We turn to the Fredericksburg Pack for help, but their alpha Dante betrays us through a loophole in the alliance that he uses to reject us in our darkest hour. An army of magic-charged vampires and an ally-turned-enemy pack. What are we supposed to do now?

When Annabelle flees her abusive husband and moves into an 1860s farmhouse, she soon learns that she is not alone; she shares her home with Christian, the ghost of a poet who killed himself in 1917. Christian, wanting nothing but solitude, tries to scare Annabelle away, but once they come together while she is dreaming, they fall in love. The clock is ticking for Christian, for moments after his hanging his fiancé magically cursed his spirit to be stuck on earth for 100 years, and his time is almost up.

"Ich bin das Buch, das dich an das Urwissen in dir erinnert, denn du weißt bereits alles. Ich bin das Buch, das dich wappnet für knifflige Situationen - im Fall des Falles. Ich bin das Buch, das dir liebevolle Möglichkeiten für deine Herzensverbundenheit aufzeigt. Ich bin das Buch, das voller Verbundenheit bei dir bleibt. Ich bin das Buch, das in jeder Zeile für dich wahre Liebe schreibt. Ich wurde auf einer inneren Reise geschrieben, denn die Autorin sehnt sich nach Herzen, die aus mitfühlender Tiefe lieben.

“I jostled her shoulder and noticed when I did that her skin was cold to the touch, her entire torso was covered in tattoos of kimono motifs.” This ghastly scene was the last thing Ruth Bennett expected to encounter when she agreed to translate a novel by a long-forgotten Japanese writer. Returning to her childhood home in Kyoto had promised safety and solitude, but Ruth soon finds the storyline in the novel leaking into her everyday life. Fictional characters turn out to be frighteningly real.

Patty is a licensed mental health professional and a counselor. She was invited to present on Christian Pastoral Counseling for hundreds of indigenous pastors and church leaders. After the unexpected death of their 33-year-old son, both she and her husband, Dennis, invested the next year in mental health counseling from a licensed grief counselor. This time she was the client - not the counselor. As an avid writer, part of her therapy included journal entries as she expressed the emotions of her walk through her grief. Her book is an accumulation of those journal entries.

Margaret and Liz are sisters who are about to get in over their heads...They've been gifted The Seahorse Inn, a beautiful bed-and-breakfast by the beach in Cape May. Though it hasn’t been open to guests in years, the pair endeavor to reopen in time for the holidays. Problem is, they discover the charming old place is really a money pit full of more issues than they can handle on their own. On top of dealing with renovations, Margaret is surprised by an unexpected visit from her ex-mother-in-law.