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Descirption: The ageing of the world population is one of the most important issues facing humanity in the 21st century-up there with climate change in its potential global impact. Sometime before 2020, the number of people over 65 worldwide will, for the first time, be greater than the number of 0-4 year olds, and it will keep on rising. The strains this is causing on society are already evident as health and social services everywhere struggle to cope with the care needs of the elderly.But why and how do we age? Scientists have been asking this question for centuries, yet there is still no agreement. There are a myriad competing theories, from the idea that our bodies simply wear out with the rough and tumble of living, like well-worn shoes or a rusting car, to the belief that ageing and death are genetically programmed and controlled.In Borrowed Time, Sue Armstrong tells the story of science's quest to understand ageing and to prevent or delay the crippling...
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Descirption: Become your healthiest, happiest self with this joyful and counterintuitive guide to changing your habits by changing your outlook. This is no regular diet book - there are no menu plan or fitness routines here! Body Kindness addresses overall health (with a focus on both food and movement throughout) in four sections: WHAT YOU DO: the choices you make about food and nutrition, including mindful eating and eating with joy HOW YOU FEEL: your emotions, and how to change the voice in your head WHO YOU ARE: identifying your values and choices WHERE YOU BELONG: finding your community Each section includes inspiration as well as fun, scientifically based activities and exercises that focus on incremental, sustainable change. These exercises are the building blocks for "happy hours" - moments when the reader takes time for herself, focusing on mindfulness and joy: Mindful Cooking, Menu Planning with...
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Descirption: The Ford Boss Mustang is the most iconic pony car ever created, and this book covers it more extensively than any other. Boss Mustang: 50 Years-a fully expanded version of Mustang Boss 302-includes the complete history of its creation; racing and street histories of both the 302 and 429 models; and photos and intervie with Boss Mustang designers, engineers, racers, and more. Of all the legendary names in the history of the Ford Mustang, one stands apart: Boss. Originally created to homologate the new Boss 302 engine and option package for SCCA Trans-Am racing, the Mustang Boss 302 debuted for the 1969 model year and was built in limited numbers for the street through 1970. This book features never-before-seen production and racing photography, intervie with designers and engineers, and keen insight from author Donald Farr, a renowned Ford historian and Ford hall-of-fame inductee. Designed by the legendary Larry...
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Descirption: Do your emotions control you or do you control your emotions? Many people let guilt, anger, or self-criticism dominate their lives and negatively affect their relationships. Boundaries for Your Soul sho you how to calm the chaos within. This groundbreaking approach will help you:
know what to do when you feel overwhelmed,understand your guilt, anxiety, sadness, and fear,welcome God into the troubling parts of your soul,and move from doubt and conflict to confidence and peace.Boundaries for Your Soul includes relatable anecdotes, helpful exercises, an engaging quiz, and opportunities for personal reflection. Gathering the wisdom from the authors' twenty-five years of combined advanced education, biblical studies, and clinical practice, this book will set you on a journey to become the loving, authentic, joyful person you were created to be.
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Descirption: "Recall a moment in your life when you felt complete, satisfied, fully alive, at home in yourself. Imagine that it is possible for you to feel that way not only now and then but most of the time."In The True Source of Healing, meditation teacher Tenzin Wangyal introduces powerful practices to help you connect deeply with your authentic nature and heal your soul, so you can lead a more joyful and fulfilling life. Drawing on traditional soul retrieval teachings of Tibetan Bön Buddhism, Tenzin Wangyal offers practical guidance for overcoming feelings of disconnection and dissatisfaction, and reawakening your inherent creativity, playfulness, and sense of ease. Done daily, these transformative practices can help you:<ul>Overcome difficult life challengesClear negative emotions and cultivate positive qualitiesRevitalize your personal and professional relationshipsFeel more engaged and productive at workExperience healing on all levels-physical,...
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Descirption: A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK
"Meet Tomi Adeyemi-the new J.K. Rowling. (Yep, she's that good)." -Entertainment Weekly
After battling the impossible, Zélie and Amari have finally succeeded in bringing magic back to the land of Orïsha. But the ritual was more powerful than they could've imagined, reigniting the powers of not only the maji, but of nobles with magic ancestry, too.
Now, Zélie struggles to unite the maji in an Orïsha where the enemy is just as powerful as they are. But when the monarchy and military unite to keep control of Orïsha, Zélie must fight to secure Amari's right to the throne and protect the new maji from the monarchy's wrath.
With civil war looming on the horizon, Zélie finds herself at a breaking point: she must discover a way to bring the kingdom together or watch as Orïsha tears itself apart.
Children of Virtue and Vengeance is the stunning sequel to...
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Descirption: Clean everything in your home from your clothes and sheets to your shower curtain, vents-even the inside of your washing machine-with this simple short-cuts using all-natural cleaning products.
Did you know you should be cleaning your sponge on a weekly basis by putting it in the microwave for just 90 seconds? Or that you could use a rubber glove to clean up pet hair instead of a lint brush? Or that wax paper can be used to make your faucets and sink fixtures shine instead of a chemical polish?
Avoid long lists of mysterious chemicals and skip buying multiple cleaning products and get back to basics and use simple, all-natural solutions that are safe, inexpensive, and effective. Take control of your cleaning to-do list with these easy, natural cleaning methods. With this book, you'll learn to:
-Use vinegar to clean out a washing machine that's starting to smell
-Mix lemon juice and salt to really clean out the cracks in your...
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Cold Hand in Mine was first published in the UK in 1975 and in the US in 1977. The story 'Pages from a Young Girl's Journal' won the Aickman World Fantasy Award in 1975. It was originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1973 before appearing in this collection. Cold Hand in Mine stands as one of Aickman's best collections and contains eight stories that show off his powers as a 'strange story' writer to the full, being more ambiguous than standard ghost stories. Throughout the stories the reader is introduced to a variety of characters, from a man who spends the night in a Hospice to a German aristocrat and a woman who sees an image of her own soul. There is also a nod to the conventional vampire story ('Pages from a Young Girl's Journal') but all the stories remain unconventional and inconclusive, which perhaps makes them all the more startling and intriguing. 'Of all the authors of uncanny tales, Aickman is the best ever . . . His tales literally haunt me; his plots and his turns of phrase run through my head at the most unlikely moments.' Russell Kirk
About the Author
Robert Fordyce Aickman was born in 1914 in London. He was married to Edith Ray Gregorson from 1941 to 1957. In 1946 the couple, along with Tom and Angela Rolt, set up the Inland Waterways Association to preserve the canals of Britain. It was in 1951 that Aickman, along with Elizabeth Jane Howard, published his first ghost stories entitled We are the Dark. Aickman went on to publish eleven more volumes of horror stories as well as two fantasy novels and two volumes of autobiography. He also edited the first eight volumes of The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories. He died in February 1981.
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Cold Hand in Mine was first published in the UK in 1975 and in the US in 1977. The story 'Pages from a Young Girl's Journal' won the Aickman World Fantasy Award in 1975. It was originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1973 before appearing in this collection. Cold Hand in Mine stands as one of Aickman's best collections and contains eight stories that show off his powers as a 'strange story' writer to the full, being more ambiguous than standard ghost stories. Throughout the stories the reader is introduced to a variety of characters, from a man who spends the night in a Hospice to a German aristocrat and a woman who sees an image of her own soul. There is also a nod to the conventional vampire story ('Pages from a Young Girl's Journal') but all the stories remain unconventional and inconclusive, which perhaps makes them all the more startling and intriguing. 'Of all the authors of uncanny tales, Aickman is the best ever . . . His tales literally haunt me; his plots and his turns of phrase run through my head at the most unlikely moments.' Russell Kirk
About the Author
Robert Fordyce Aickman was born in 1914 in London. He was married to Edith Ray Gregorson from 1941 to 1957. In 1946 the couple, along with Tom and Angela Rolt, set up the Inland Waterways Association to preserve the canals of Britain. It was in 1951 that Aickman, along with Elizabeth Jane Howard, published his first ghost stories entitled We are the Dark. Aickman went on to publish eleven more volumes of horror stories as well as two fantasy novels and two volumes of autobiography. He also edited the first eight volumes of The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories. He died in February 1981.
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Descirption: Colorways: Acrylic Animals teaches artists of all skill levels how to paint vibrant, colorful renditions of animals from around the globe.Grab your paints, canvas, and imagination because it's time to paint pointillistic pandas, tetradic llamas, vibrant flamingos, and complementary co...and that's just the beginning! Each step-by-step project in Colorways: Acrylic Animals sho you not only how to capture an animal's likeness, but also how touse color to create magical, other-worldly, and whimsical paintings. You'll also learn how to use acrylic paint to add texture and fanciful flourishes, like florals and collage, to your glorious animal subjects.Colorways is a brand-new series from Walter Foster teaching artists of all skill levels how to create innovative, inspired artwork that's full of color and imagination. Focusing on creating expressive pieces over realistic scenes, Colorways sho artists how to...
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Descirption: Expanded and revised, this comprehensive guide features magical uses of over 400 herbs and plants from all parts of the world. With over 400,000 copies in print, this reference book is a must for all who perform natural magic. It features illustrations for easy identification of every herb, in additoin to common names, use, and rulership.
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Descirption: Under the watchful eye of The Company, three characters - Grayson, Morse and Chen - shapeshifters, amorphous, part human, part extensions of the landscape, make their way through forces that would consume them. A blue fox, a giant fish and language stretched to the limit.
A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. A giant leviathan of a fish, centuries old, who hides a secret, remembering a past that may not be its own. Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of the world against an all-powerful corporation. A raving madman who wanders the desert lost in the past, haunted by his own creation: an invisible monster whose name he has forgotten and whose purpose remains hidden.
Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts presents a City with no name of its own where, in the shadow of the all-powerful Company, lives human and otherwise converge in terrifying and miraculous ways. At stake: the fate of the future, the fate of Earth - all the Earths.
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Praise for <span style="font-weight: 600; font-style: italic">Borne : 'Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy was an ever-creeping map of the apocalypse; with Borne he continues his investigation into the malevolent grace of the world, and it's a thorough marvel ' Colson Whitehead 'Jeff VanderMeer's deeply strange and brilliant new novel extends the meditation on the central question of non-human sentience in his earlier work . No one writes a post-apocalyptic landscape like VanderMeer , so detailed and strange in all its lineaments and topography' Neel Mukherjee, Guardian 'From being a very successful SF writer, VanderMeer will become mainstream - and Borne is full of signs that he is already thinking ahead of that easy transition, and perhaps subverting it' Toby Litt, New Statesman
Praise for <span style="font-weight: 600; font-style: italic">The Southern Reach Trilogy : ' Creepy and fascinating ' Stephen King 'Hauntingly weird and brilliantly new . These are contemporary masterpieces and career-defining novels ' Adam Robert, Books of the Year, Guardian ' This trilogy is a modern mycological masterpiece . Remarkable . Tense, eerie and unsettling . VanderMeer writes much better prose than Poe ever did . This is genuinely potent and dream-haunting writing. VanderMeer has arrived' Guardian 'A teeming science fiction that dra on Conrad and Lovecraft alike . Annihilation sho signs of being the novel that will allow VanderMeer to break through to a new and larger audience' Sunday Telegraph
About the Author
Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning novelist and editor. His fiction has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in the Library of America's American Fantastic Tales and in multiple year's-best anthologies. He writes non-fiction for the Washington Post, the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, and the Guardian, among others. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in T,.'assee, Florida, with his wife.
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Descirption: The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Dr. Kellyann's Bone Broth Diet and The 10-Day Belly Slimdown is back with her quickest, most effective plan yet: a detoxifying and nourishing cleanse program that liberates every cell of your body from poisons that make you sick, tired, and overweight
Even when you think you are eating and living healthfully, your body naturally becomes depleted over time, making it even more difficult to lose weight and maintain the energy and vitality you need to get through the day. This is something Dr. Kellyann Petrucci experienced firsthand in 2017 while she was writing her last book, doing nonstop TV appearances, and running her business. She gained 20 pounds, her hormones went haywire, and she was at a loss for how to turn things around. She decided it was time to hit the reset button and created her simplest plan yet, specifically designed to help the...
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Descirption: The first behind-the-scenes look at the life of the most enigmatic First Lady in U.S. history
Melania Trump is an enigma. Regardless of your political leanings, she is fascinating-a First Lady who, in many ways, is the most modern and groundbreaking in recent history. A former model whose beauty in person leaves people breathless, a woman whose upbringing in a communist country spurred a relentless drive for stability, both for herself and for her family. A reluctant pillar in a controversial presidential administration who speaks five languages and runs the East Wing like none of her predecessors ever could-underestimate her at your own peril (as a former government official did and was summarily fired). But who is she really?
In Free, Melania we get an insider look at Melania Trump, from her childhood in Slovenia to her days in the White House, and everything in between. We see the Trump family dynamics that Melania has had to...
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Descirption: <span style="font-weight: 600; font-style: italic">New York Times bestselling author Robin Cook takes on the ripped-from-the-headlines topic of using genealogical DNA database tracking to catch a killer in <span style="font-weight: 600; font-style: italic">Genesis , an unforgettable medical thriller.
When the body of twenty-nine-year-old social worker Gloria Montoya, seven weeks pregnant with her first child, sho up on Chief New York City Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery's autopsy table, she's baffled to find no apparent causes of death. With no clues to go on, Laurie enlists the help of Dr Tricia Albanese, a forensic pathology resident with a background in genetic science, to help her trace the identity of the unborn baby's father using DNA from the mother and child. But when Tricia is found dead in her apartment in a manner strikingly similar to Gloria's death, Laurie realizes she might have two linked homicides on her hands . . . and now it's up to her, with the help of her husband, ME Jack Stapleton, to continue the tracking work Tricia had begun before a killer can strike again.
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Forensic pathologists and doctors-turned-detectives do battle against epidemics, lethal illness and drug-related deaths, the causes of which are far from natural . . . You'll find yourself completely hooked Source: Daily Mail
Likeable heroes, a compelling medical mystery and growing suspense - the result is a highly entertaining read. Commercial fiction, at its best, is pure entertainment. But Cook, like Michael Crichton, offers readers a smart dissection of contemporary issues that affect us all Source: USA Today
Robin Cook virtually invented the medical thriller in the 1970s with Coma Source: Guardian
Gripping . . . Terrifying Source: New York Times
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PRAISE FOR ROBIN COOK 'A clever blend of science and fiction . . . Frighteningly feasible' The Times
'Robin Cook virtually invented the medical thriller in the 1970s with Coma ' Guardian
'Forensic pathologists and doctors-turned-detectives do battle against epidemics, lethal illness and drug-related deaths, the causes of which are far from natural . . . You'll find yourself completely hooked' Daily Mail
'Gripping . . . terrifying' New York Times
'Strikes a deafening chord of terror' Washington Post
'Holds you, page after page' Larry King
'Likeable heroes, a compelling medical mystery and growing suspense - the result is a highly entertaining read. Commercial fiction, at its best, is pure entertainment. But Cook, like Michael Crichton, offers readers a smart dissection of contemporary issues that affect us all' USA Today
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Descirption: An adaptation of the business classic Getting Things Done for teenage readers
The most interconnected generation in history is navigating unimaginable amounts of social pressure, both in personal and online interactions. Very little time, focus, or education is being spent teaching and coaching this generation how to navigate this unprecedented amount of "stuff" entering their lives each day. How do we help the overloaded and distracted next generation deal with increasing complexity and help them not only survive, but thrive? How do we help them experience stress-free productivity and gain momentum and confidence? How do we help them achieve autonomy, so that they can confidently take on whatever comes their way?
Getting Things Done for Teens will train the next generation to overcome these obstacles and flourish by coaching them to use the internationally renowned Getting Things Done methodology. In its two editions, David Allen's classic has been...
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Descirption: <STRONG>Graphic Design: Learn It, Do It</STRONG> is introduction to the fundamentals of graphic design and the Adobe Creative Cloud applications used to put these concepts into practice. This book is intended for production-oriented audiences, those interested in the what, why and how of graphic design. The "what" is effective graphic design, a visual solution created using the design principles that stands out in a crowded marketplace. This discussion includes color theory, typography and page layout. Focus on the "why" of design begins with the reasons why we communicate. Attention is paid to the purpose of the visual solution and to its audiences. The conversation highlights output options (print vs. onscreen) and their related file properties. The "how" of design addresses the stages of production and use of Adobe Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC and InDesign CC to translate an idea into a visual solution. Following an overview of each application and its uses, step-by-step...
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Descirption: A revolutionary approach to enhancing your happiness level!
Get ready to boost your happiness in just 45 days! Habits of a Happy Brain sho you how to retrain your brain to turn on the chemicals that make you happy. Each page offers simple activities that help you understand the roles of your "happy chemicals"-serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphin. You'll also learn how to build new habits by rerouting the electricity in your brain to flow down a new pathway, making it even easier to trigger these happy chemicals and increase feelings of satisfaction when you need them most. Filled with dozens of exercises that will help your reprogram your brain, Habits of a Happy Brain sho you how to live a happier, healthier life!
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Descirption: A laugh-out-loud debut novel for anyone who's tried to live the perfect life-and learned the hard way there's no such thing. Holly Banks could not have made a worse first impression on the seemingly perfect moms in her new affluent community, the Village of Primm. Turns out wearing pink piggy pajama bottoms while dropping off her kindergartener late to the first day of college wasn't her best look. Not to mention Holly's worried her husband may be having an affair, she can't get her daughter to stop sucking her thumb, her hard-won film degree is collecting dust, and to top it all off, the power-hungry PTA president clearly has it in for her. To make matters even worse, Holly's natural eye for drama lands her smack-dab in the middle of a neighborhood mystery-right as her own crazy mother sho up in Primm "to help." Through it all, Holly begins to realize her neighbors may be just as flawed as-and even wackier than-she is, leaving her to wonder: Is there such a thing as a perfect mom? **
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"There are many novels about women struggling to fit into upper-class communities, but debut author Valerie manages to create a story that feels fresh, with sparkling dialogue.A unique and over-the-top look at modern motherhood, full of funny and cringeworthy moments." - <span style="font-weight: 600; font-style: italic">Kirkus Revie "Valerie's witty, rollicking novel is an ode to modern motherhood.A charmingly cautionary tale of the pursuit for domestic perfection." - Booklist "Julie Valerie does a great job relaying the anxiety that comes with starting your daughter in kindergarten in a new college and a new town. And she does it with the perfect mix of humor and humility." -Laurie Gelman, author of Class Mom and You've Been Volunteered<span style="font-weight: 600; font-style: italic"> "Seemingly perfect lives are usually anything but, as the eponymous protagonist of Holly Banks Full of Angst* quickly learns. A sharp, witty, and altogether unexpected story about how striving can lead you straight to the end of your rope, Julie Valerie's debut is not to be missed." -Camille Pagán, bestselling author of I'm Fine and Neither Are You<span style="font-weight: 600; font-style: italic"> " Holly Banks Full of Angst<span style="font-weight: 600; font-style: italic"> is a must-read for any mother who sometimes feels inadequate-and what mother doesn't? With themes of new beginnings, the quest for perfection, motherhood, and marriage, Valerie delivers lessons in hospitality, humanity, and hope, gently reminding us that we're all works in progress. If you're looking for a fun escape filled with humor and heart, look no further than Holly Banks Full of Angst*." -Lori Nelson Spielman, New York Times bestselling author of The Life List<span style="font-weight: 600; font-style: italic"> "You will love the time you spend with Holly Banks in the Stars Hollow-esque Village of Primm. Holly is the perfect heroine: flawed, impulsive, and self-deprecating but also deeply relatable, lovable, and hilarious. This book is pure fun (but be prepared to cry a little). Holly Banks Full of Angst* is the perfect read for anyone who has ever wanted to stick it to the Pinterest Mom." -Suzy Krause, author of Valencia and Valentine<span style="font-weight: 600; font-style: italic"> "With wit, whimsy, and an artful sleight of hand turn of more than a few phrases, Julie Valerie's frothy cautionary tale of suburbia on steroids is like a finely crafted cocktail: effervescent but complex, sweet but with just a hint of bitter, and packing a potent punch. I'll have what she's having." -Josie Brown, author of Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives* and the Totlandia series "With astonishing wit, razor-sharp dialogue, and pitch-perfect pacing, Julie Valerie has created a masterpiece about motherhood. Holly Banks Full of Angst is absolutely hilarious yet also deeply poignant, with some of the best lines I've ever read. Both satire and upmarket women's fiction, this novel will be beloved by readers everywhere." -Samantha M. Bailey, author of <span style="font-weight: 600; font-style: italic">Woman on the Edge "Our plucky heroine, full of quippy asides and enough anxiety to keep us all up ruminating at 3:00 a.m., imagines herself the star of her own movie (because of course she dreams of ditching her SAHM life and fulfilling her long-lost film student aspirations). Personally, I would title her movie Mean Girls for Moms* , and you'd find me at the premiere, front row center!" -Lindsey J. Palmer, author of Otherwise Engaged<span style="font-weight: 600; font-style: italic"> , If We Lived Here<span style="font-weight: 600; font-style: italic"> , and Pretty in Ink<span style="font-weight: 600; font-style: italic"> "Ever wonder what would happen if Liane Moriarty could channel the late Robin Williams? Me, neither-until I read this astonishing debut, a modern allegorical marvel. Valerie absolutely skewers Parenting While Privileged, and pulls it off without preaching or condescending, thanks to the irresistible, inimitable heroine, Holly, the (questionably) sane person in the insane (but wholly recognizable) world of Primm. I tore through this inventive, compulsive read, pausing only to catch my breath and wipe my eyes at passages so outrageously hilarious, I could not believe what I was reading. So come for the humor, but stay for the honesty. Valerie imbues the narrative with sincerity, and with truths so bald that, at times, the world fell away around me. I'm on my feet and clapping: Brava!" -Sonja Yoerg, Washington Post<span style="font-weight: 600; font-style: italic"> bestselling author of True Places<span style="font-weight: 600; font-style: italic"> "A fresh voice in fiction, Julie Valerie hits it out of the park with her debut novel, Holly Banks Full of Angst*. Wise and witty, it's filled with humor that takes some wildly comical turns at times. Lead character Holly Banks, a newcomer to the idyllic village of Primm, is every mom who feels inadequate because her home isn't Pinterest-worthy and she's a less-than-perfect parent-totally relatable, in other words. Her good heart, which shines through even when she's screwing up, ultimately triumphs over her good-intentions-gone-awry. Love, love, love this novel and can't wait to read the next one by Julie Valerie." -Eileen Goudge, New York Times bestselling author**
About the Author
Julie Valerie is the founder of the 85K Writing Challenge and serves on the board of directors of James River Writers. Julie earned an editing certificate from the University of Chicago Graham college and has a master's degree in education, a bachelor of fine arts in fashion, and certification in wilderness first aid. She enjoys books, the study of wine, hikes on the Appalachian Trail, and travel. Julie married her college sweetheart, and they live in Virginia with their four children and two English labradors. Holly Banks Full of Angst is her debut novel. Follow Julie Valerie's Amazon author page, and be the first to learn of new releases and author updates. Learn more about Julie and subscribe to her neletter at julievalerie.com. Connect with Julie on Twitter and Pinterest at Julie_Valerie, on Facebook and Instagram at JulieValerieAuthor, and on Goodreads at JulieValerie.
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Descirption: A strong marriage can cope with the unexpected. But can it survive the unimaginable?
American nanny Eleanor was never meant to meet Alex. But when she walks into his London security officer station to report a stalker, everything changes for them both. He's convinced he can protect her from anything and anyone. She hopes her darkest days are behind her.
As they settle into their life together, two hundred miles away another young couple faces an uncertain future. Christie kno Paul is a decent man, but she can't shake a clairvoyant's warning: 'Never trust your husband . . .' When a work trip tests their bond, will she overcome her fears for the sake of her family?
Ten years later, both couples are still together, for better or worse. But as doubts and resentments begin bubbling steadily to the surface, all four of them start to question the choices they've made.
At least the secrets they all brought into their marriages are still well hidden.
For now.
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About the Author
Tina Seskis grew up in Hampshire, and after graduating from the University of Bath spent over twenty years working in marketing before starting to write. Tina's novels have been published in eighteen languages in over sixty countries. She lives in North London with her husband and son.
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Descirption: <span id="freeText11168314748595893715" style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; wido: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">How to Wash a Chicken is not a book about public speaking (or chickens), it's a comprehensive playbook for business leaders and people on their way up to give the best presentations of their lives, and embark on a circle of presentation success.
All too often, the best intentions and most innovative ideas get lost in a poorly executed presentation. Author Tim Calkins understands the power of a compelling presentation and the difficulty in accomplishing one. The brand strategist, professor and author has been giving presentations since he was eight, when he delivered his first official presentation with an uncooperative chicken at a 4-H competition. From business updates to project recommendations to marketing plans, Calkins has given more than five thousand presentations to date.
With concrete suggestions, helpful tricks, and step-by-step guidance that's applicable to all industries, Calkins sets out to propel his readers to create and deliver effective business presentations and pitches. When all lessons from How to Wash a Chicken are applied, readers will be empowered throughout the preparation and presentation process. They will be able to present with more confidence and conviction than they ever had before, setting them on a path of professional growth.<span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; wido: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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