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Type :epub | 1.24 MB | English | Kate Rorick | HarperCollins
Description: From Emmy award-winning writer Kate Rorick comes a novel about modern-day morals, motherhood, and getting your worst moment plastered across the internet.
It was the mommy meltdown seen around the world!
Quinn Barrett's Instagram-perfect life turns inside out when her son refuses to wear his hand-crafted costume to the Little Wonders Precollege Happy Halloween Parade and Dance Party. She loses it - complete with stomping, screaming, and costume-destruction galore. Not her best day. And caught on viral video. Yep, "Halloween Mom" is now internet famous.
The posting culprit: tattooed, blue-haired, west-coast transplant Daisy McGulch, out of place in the posh New England town and unable to blend with the other perfect mommies of Little Wonders Precollege.
While she couldn't care less about organic snacks (paleo-preferred) or the winter quarters of the Little Wonders chickens, she's not about to admit...
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Type :epub | 1.15 MB | English | Cussler, Clive | N/A
Description: Kurt Austin and the NUMA crew risk everything to stop a cutthroat arms dealer from stealing a priceless ancient treasure.In 1074 B.C., vast treasures disappear from the tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs. In 1927, a daredevil American aviator vanishes on an attempted transcontinental flight. And in the present day, a fishing trawler - along with its mysterious cargo - sinks off the coast of Scotland.How are these three mysterious events connected?And, more importantly, what do they mean for Kurt Austin and his NUMA team?Kurt and his team soon find themselves wrapped up in a treacherous treasure hunt as they race to find the lost Egyptian riches. . . before they fall into the wrong hands.
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Type :epub | 1010.85 KB | English | Kate Elizabeth Russell | HarperCollins
Description: ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S BREAKOUT AUTHOR TO WATCH IN 2020
"Brilliant and stunning . . . an absolute must read." - GILLIAN FLYNN
"A well-constructed package of dynamite." - STEPHEN KING
A most anticipated book by The New York Times • USA Today • Entertainment Weekly • Marie Claire • Elle • Harper's Bazaar • Bustle • Neweek • New York Post • Esquire • Real Simple • The Sunday Times • The Guardian
Exploring the psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious yet naïve teenage girl and her magnetic and manipulative teacher, a brilliant, all-consuming read that marks the explosive debut of an extraordinary new writer.
2000. Bright, ambitious, and...
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Type :epub | 51.79 MB | English | Dave Nichols | MBI
Description: In The One Percenter Code, best-selling Motorbooks author and editor of Easyriders magazine Dave Nichols takes up where he left off in One Percenter: The Legend of The Outlaw Bikers. Nichols takes readers inside the world of outlaw motorcycle clubs and pulls back the secretive curtain on the biker lifestyle. He explores the concept of brotherhood, ultimately arriving at a new definition of family and community in the process. Being a member of a one percenter motorcycle club requires extreme discipline; in this book, Nichols sho us what that life offers in return.Nichols delves into the one percenter code of conduct and honor and finds something that is sorely lacking in modern society. In this book, he sho us how we can apply those values in our own lives.The world of the outlaw biker has its own rough-hewn rules of order, and The One Percenter Code acts as a guidebook to that truth-, honor-, and brotherhood-based world.
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Type :mobi | 517.05 KB | Meg-John Barker | 2020 | Icon Books Ltd
Description: Plenty of books on sex suggest that it has to be done in a certain way, or in a certain kind of relationship, or with certain people. This isn't that kind of book. <br> Enjoy Sex is a truly practical, friendly guide through the confusing, and sometimes alarming, world of sex and sexuality. Its radical approach puts your experience at the heart of the book, and invites you to explore what might be enjoyable to you. <br> With the authors' engaging and thoughtful style, the book challenges the messages we receive about 'normal' sex, looks at how to understand and care for yourself, delves into ideas of pleasure for different bodies, ages and tastes, explores relationships, and tackles the tricky topics of communication and consent. <br> So, throw out the rule book and learn to listen to your own desires. This may just be the most helpful book about sex ever.
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Type :mobi | 504.09 KB | 9781585580378 | Chip Ingram | 2003 | Baker Books
Description: God wants his children to have a lasting relationship and great sex-the results of a deep, meaningful love that is rooted in commitment. Love, Sex, and Lasting Relationships, helps readers walk a path to true love that is more fulfilling than they ever imagined. <br>"There's a better way to find love, stay in love, and grow in intimacy for a lifetime," says Chip Ingram. It's God's way. Whether single or married, happy or searching for hope, readers will discover that by following God's prescription, they can create a love that lasts. A love that can be enjoyed.About the AuthorChip Ingram is the President and Teaching Pastor for Living on the Edge, an international teaching and discipleship ministry. His passion is to help everyday Christians actually "live like Christians" by raising the bar of discipleship. A pastor for over twenty years, Chip has a unique ability to communicate truth and winsomely challenge people to live out their faith. Chip is author of nine books, including God: As He Longs for You to See Him; The Invisible War; and Love, Sex, and Lasting Relationships. Chip and his wife, Theresa, have four children and six grandchildren.
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Type :mobi | 1017.32 KB | 9780698409750 | Joseph Finder | 2011 | Macmillan
Description: <strong><em>New York Times</em> bestselling author Joseph Finder delivers an exhilarating and timely thriller exploring how even the most powerful among us can be brought down by a carefully crafted lie and how the secrets we keep can never truly stay buried. </strong><br>
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The chief justice of the Supreme Court is about to be defamed, his career destroyed, by a powerful gossip website that specializes in dirt on celebs and politicians. Their top reporter has written an exposé claiming that he had liaisons with an escort, a young woman prepared to tell the world her salacious tale. But the chief justice is not without allies and his greatest supporter is determined to stop the story in its tracks.<br>
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Nick Heller is a private spy-an intelligence operative based in Boston, hired by lawyers, politicians, and even foreign governments. A high-powered investigator with a penchant for doing things his own way, he's called to Washington, DC, to help out in this delicate, potentially explosive situation.<br>
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Nick has just forty-eight hours to disprove the story about the chief justice. But when the call girl is found murdered, the case takes a dangerous turn, and Nick resolves to find the mastermind behind the conspiracy before anyone else falls victim to the maelstrom of political scandal and ruined reputations predicated upon one long-buried secret.
**Review
**Praise for <strong><em>*</em>Guilty Minds</strong>
<em>"Finder sho off his top-notch storytelling skills, moving with ease from high places to low in the nation's capital." <br>
-</em>Kirkus Revie
<em>"Finder really kno his way around a thriller, and his sensibilities about Washington, scandal, and the immediacy-and threat-of digital publishing and electronic surveillance seem chillingly plausible. This is an exciting, insightful thriller with finely sketched characters-in other words, a sure bet in public libraries." <br>
-</em>Booklist* (starred review)
"[A] tight plot, sharp dialogue, and a cast of intriguing characters keep the story a cut above the genre pack." <br>
-<em>Publishers Weekly<br>
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"Finder (<em>The Fixer</em>) sho off his clever storytelling skills by packing action, politics, and modern detective techniques into a complicated plotline that leads to murder."<br>
<em>-Library Journal</em>
"This is a dark tale of intrigue and underhanded politics.If you're a Finder fan, this book will not disappoint you. If you're not, you might become one after this read."<br>
-*Suspense Magazine
<em>"Finder's prose is lean, the pacing swift and agile, and the plot well worth gossiping about." <br>
-</em>Minneapolis Star Tribune
<em>"</em>Guilty Minds<em> balances its thriller tenets with solid characters., razor-sharp dialogue, and a breathless plot that careens from one realistic twist to another." -</em>Mystery Scene Magazine*
<strong>Praise for Joseph Finder and *The Fixer</strong>*
"A master of the modern thriller."<br>
-<em>The Boston Globe<br>
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"There are many authors who take a reader 'slowly into that good night.' However, the real genius kno how to create the ultimate lead-in. They are the wordsmiths who can, in one page or one paragraph, grab the reader's attention and never let go. . . . A true genius wordsmith, this is one author who has created solid suspense gold."<br>
-<em>Suspense Magazine<br>
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"Finder can make reading about someone walking across a room excruciatingly suspenseful. . . . This is a thriller that is as much about redemption as it is about escape. A remarkable exciting read."<br>
-<em>Booklist</em>, starred review
"If you're in the mood for tense, witty angst about closed-down career opportunities and dirty money cleansed by family redemption, <em>The Fixer </em>is the way to go." <br>
<em>-The New York Times Book Review</em><br>
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"Joseph Finder takes a familiar story and gives it a unique spin in his latest page-turner, <em>The Fixer</em>."<br>
-Associated Press
About the Author
<strong>JOSEPH FINDER</strong> is the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of twelve previous novels, including <em>The Fixer</em>, <em>Suspicion</em>, <em>Vanished</em>, and <em>Buried Secrets</em>. Finder's international bestseller <em>Killer Instinct</em> won the International Thriller Writers's Thriller Award for Best Novel of 2006. Other bestselling titles include <em>Paranoia</em> and <em>High Crimes</em>, which both became major motion pictures. He lives in Boston.
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Type :mobi | 13.42 MB | Matt Harrison, Theodore Petrou | 2020 | Packt
Description: A new edition of the bestselling Pandas cookbook updated to -pandas 1.x with new chapters on creating and testing , and exploratory data analysis. Recipes are written with modern pandas constructs. This book also covers EDA, tidying data, pivoting data, time-series calculations, visualizations, and more.
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Type :epub | 309.19 KB | English | TaraShea Nesbit | Bloomsbury Publishing
Description: <p id="freeText2863965699447194415">From the bestselling author of The Wives of Los Alamos comes the riveting story of a stranger's arrival in the fledgling colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts―and a crime that shakes the divided community to its core.
Ten years after the Mayflower pilgrims arrived on rocky, unfamiliar soil, Plymouth is not the land its residents had imagined. Seemingly established on a dream of religious freedom, in reality the town is led by fervent puritans who prohibit the residents from living, trading, and worshipping as they choose. By the time an unfamiliar ship, bearing new colonists, appears on the horizon one summer morning, Anglican outsiders have had enough.
With gripping, immersive details and exquisite prose, TaraShea Nesbit reframes the story of the pilgrims in the previously unheard voices of two women of very different status and means. She evokes a vivid, ominous Plymouth, populated by famous and unknown characters alike, each with conflicting desires and questionable behavior.
Suspenseful and beautifully wrought, Beheld is about a murder and a trial, and the motivations―personal and political―that cause people to act in unsavory ways. It is also an intimate portrait of love, motherhood, and friendship that asks: Whose stories get told over time, who gets believed―and subsequently, who gets punished?
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Type :epub | 3.22 MB | English | Glennon Doyle | 2020 | Random House Publishing Group
Description: [b]In her most revealing and powerful book yet, the beloved activist, speaker, and bestselling author of [b]Love Warrior and Carry On, Warrior explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet the expectations of the world, and start trusting the voice deep within us.[/b]
"Untamed will liberate women-emotionally, spiritually, and physically. It is phenomenal."-Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls and Eat Pray Love [/b]
This is how you find yourself.
There is a voice of longing inside each woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good partners, daughters, mothers, employees, and friends. We hope all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives and wonder: Wasn't it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to be grateful, hiding...
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Type :epub | 1.28 MB | English | Seth M. Siegel | St. Martin's Publishing Group
Description: New York Times bestselling author Seth Siegel tells how contaminants got in our drinking water, what they're doing to us, and what we must do to make our water safe.
If you thought America's drinking water problems started and ended in Flint, Michigan, think again. From big cities and suburbs to the rural heartland, chemicals linked to cancer, heart disease, obesity, birth defects, and lowered IQ routinely spill from our taps.
Many are to blame: the EPA, Congress, a bipartisan coalition of powerful governors and mayors, chemical companies, and drinking water utilities - even NASA and the Pentagon. Meanwhile, the bottled water industry has been fanning our fears about tap water, but bottled water is often no safer.
The tragedy is that existing technologies could launch a new age of clean, healthy, and safe tap water for only a few dollars a week per person.
Scrupulously researched, Troubled Water is full of shocking stories...
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Type :epub | 2.25 MB | English | 9780300224757 | Jon Willis | Yale University Press
Description: Long before space travel was possible, the idea of life beyond Earth transfixed humans. In this fascinating book, astronomer Jon Willis explores the science of astrobiology and the possibility of locating other life in our own galaxy.
Describing the most recent discoveries by space exploration missions, including the Kepler space telescope, the Mars Curiosity rover, and the New Horizons probe, Willis asks readers to imagine-and choose among-five scenarios for finding life. He encourages us to wonder whether life might exist within Mars's subsoil ice. He reveals the vital possibilities on the water-ice moons Europa and Enceladus. He vie Saturn's moon Titan through the lens of our own planet's ancient past. And, he even looks beyond our solar system, investigating the top candidates for a "second Earth" in a myriad of exoplanets and imagining the case of a radio signal arriving from deep space. Covering the most up-to-date research, this accessibly written book provides readers with the basic knowledge necessary to decide where they would look for alien life.
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Type :epub | 2.86 MB | English | Katherine Stewart | Bloomsbury Publishing
Description: For readers of Democracy in Chains and Dark Money, a revelatory investigation of the Religious Right's rise to political power.
For too long the Religious Right has masqueraded as a social movement preoccupied with a number of cultural issues, such as abortion and same-sex marriage. But in her deeply reported investigation, Katherine Stewart reveals a disturbing truth: America's Religious Right has evolved into a Christian nationalist movement. It seeks to gain political power and to impose its vision on all of society. It isn't fighting a culture war, it is waging a political war on the norms and institutions of American democracy.
Stewart sho that the real power of the movement lies in a dense network of think tanks, advocacy groups, and pastoral organizations, embedded in a rapidly expanding community of international alliances with likeminded, anti-democratic religious nationalists around the world, including Russia. She follo the...
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Type :epub | 2.91 MB | English | Judi Lynn | 2020 | Lyrical Press
Description: The charming homes of River Bluffs, Indiana, make perfect projects for house-flipper Jazzi Zanders. Less charming is her hothead brother-in-law, who's a bit of a fixer-upper himself. But could he also be a murderer? Jazzi married her gorgeous contractor Ansel-not his family. But somehow she keeps living with them. So she's delighted to help Ansel's brother Radley move out of their home and into his own place, in the same building as his work supervisor, Donovan. But when Donovan is shot and his apartment ransacked following an argument with Ansel and Radley's older brother Bain, their sibling becomes a suspect-especially after his missing gun turns up as the murder weapon. Told not to leave town by Detective Gaff, big brother moves in with . . . Jazzi and Ansel. Now Jazzi needs to prove Bain's no killer, not only to keep him out of jail-but to get him out of their house. What was the killer...
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Type :epub | 303.1 KB | English | Todd May | University of Chicago Press
Description: You're probably never going to be a saint. Even so, let's face it: you could be a better person. We all could. But what does that mean for you?
In a world full of suffering and deprivation, it's easy to despair-and it's also easy to judge ourselves for not doing more. Even if we gave away everything we own and devoted ourselves to good works, it wouldn't solve all the world's problems. It would make them better, though. So is that what we have to do? Is anything less a moral failure? Can we lead a fundamentally decent life without taking such drastic steps?
Todd May has answers. He's not the sort of philosopher who tells us we have to be model citizens who display perfect ethics in every decision we make. He's realistic: he understands that living up to ideals is a constant struggle. In A Decent Life, May leads readers through the traditional philosophical bases of a number of arguments about what ethics asks of us, then he develops a more...
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Type :epub | 1.14 MB | English | Gareth Wood | Permuted Press
Description: A year has passed since the dead rose, and the citizens of Cold Lake are out of hope. Food and weapons are nearly impossible to find, and the dead are everywhere. In desperation Brian Williams leads a salvage team into the mountains. But outside the small safe zones the world is a foreign place. Williams and his team must use all of their skills to survive in the wilderness ruled by the dead.
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Type :epub | 6.96 MB | English | 9781642501230 | Becca Anderson | Mango Media
Description: Did you know the first writer on record in human history was a woman? Enheduanna was writing poetry in Sumeria over 4000 years ago. Have you read the work of the first black woman published in North America? Phyllis Wheatley's religious and philosophical works brought her fame on both sides of the pond. From religious mystics and political dissidents to erotic playwrights and romantic poets, no subject or literary form is left untouched. In honor of those women whose pens pioneered, persevered, and proved that the female voice is brilliant, The Book of Awesome Women Writers is an invitation to celebrate the unforgettable impact these women have made upon our culture.
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Type :epub | 1.34 MB | English | Eleanor Wood | HarperCollins Publishers
Description: A late 30s The Wrong Knickers meets Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Eleanor finds herself in her late 30s on a beach in India with three old ladies, trying to 'find herself' and 'discover her family history' like some sad middle-class crisis cliché. How did she get here? Truthfully, it could be for any one of the below reasons, if not all combined: Stepmum dying/Stepdad leaving - family falling apart, subsequent psychotic break; both parents now on third marriage Breaking up with J after 12 years - breaking up a whole life, a whole fucking universe - for reasons that may have been... misguided? New boyfriend moving in immediately, me insisting 'it's not a rebound!' even after everyone has stopped listening, being cited in his messy divorce, him being sectioned, then breaking up with me Going into therapy after dating a potentially violent, certainly threatening, narcissist (the most pertinent point of which should be noted: I did not break up with him - he ghosted me)...
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Type :epub | 14.44 MB | English | Carolyn Forché | 2019 | Penguin Publishing Group
Description: The powerful story of a young poet who becomes an activist through a trial by fire
What You Have Heard is True is a devastating, lyrical, and visionary memoir about a young woman's brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others. Written by one of the most gifted poets of her generation, this is the story of a woman's radical act of empathy, and her fateful encounter with an intriguing man who changes the course of her life.
She is twenty-seven when the mysterious stranger appears on her doorstep. The relative of a friend, he is a charming polymath with a mind as seemingly disordered as it is brilliant. She's heard rumors from her friend about who he might be: a lone wolf, a communist, a CIA operative, a sharpshooter, a revolutionary, a small coffee farmer, but according to her, no one seemed to know for certain. He has driven from El Salvador to invite Forché to visit and learn about his country. Captivated for reasons she doesn't fully...
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Type :epub | 38.23 MB | English | Darcy Gaechter | 2020 | Pegasus Books
Description: This 148-day journey began on Darcy Gaetcher's 35th birthday. The emotional waters that would fester and erupt on the ensuing journey was often more challenging to navigate than the mighty river itself. With blistering lips and irradiated fingernails, Darcy would tackle raging Class Five whitewater for twenty-five days straight, barely survived a dynamite-filled canyon being prepared for a new hydroelectric plan. She and her two companions would encounter illegal loggers, narco-traffickers, murderous Shining Path rebels, and ruthless poachers in the black market trade in endangered species. They would plead for mercy at the hands of the murderous Ashaninka people who were convinced that they had come to steal their children's organs. In a desperate attempt meant to give her some pretense of control, Darcy even cut off all her hair before entering Peru's notoriously dangerous "Red Zone" in hopes of passing for a boy and being seen as less of a target. At once a heart-pounding adventure and a celebration of pushing personal limits, Amazon Woman speaks to all of us feeling trapped by our desk-bound, online society. This a story of finding the courage and strength to challenge nature, cultures, social norms, and oneself.
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"A well-paced tale of outdoor adventure. Daring readers will be inspired to overcome similar challenges-and armchair travelers won't be disappointed." , Kirkus Revie
"A roller coaster thrill ride, both physically and emotionally. Yet, riding rapids pales in comparison to having to face down the darkest elements of human nature. A riveting definition of true fortitude. Readers will be inspired by her audacious sense of adventure and courage, and when combined with her vulnerability, Darcy becomes a Wonder Woman for the ages." -- Julie Moss, Ironman Hall of Fame athlete and author of Crawl of Fame
"The same courage and relentlessness that propelled Darcy Gaechter down the Amazon also powers this terrific book. Thanks to writing that is both lyrical and self-reflective, Amazon Woman manages to become at once an inspiring adventure story and a deeply intimate memoir." -- Eli Saslow, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of Rising out of Hatred
"Darcy's trip down the Amazon serves as a reminder that the beauty of life is not in the destination, it's in the journey. Darcy is a role model and an example of what you can accomplish when you follow your dreams." -- Tejay Van Garderen, professional road racing cyclist
"Darcy Gaetcher navigates Class V whitewater and evades armed drug cartels while uncovering the deep and complex roots of her own passion for adventure. As the first woman to paddle the Amazon River from source to sea, she leverages extreme skill and endurance against refreshing humility. Amazon Woman shares a remarkable journey that runs, like the river itself, with both turbulence and grace." -- Caroline Van Hemert, author of The Sun is a Compass
"A powerful, adventure-filled memoir, beginning with the first page.", Booklist
About the Author
Darcy Geachter is the first and only woman to kayak the entire length of the Amazon River. For the past fifteen years, she has been considered one of the world's best female kayakers, leading expeditions in the continental United States, Alaska, Ecuador, Colorado, Idaho, Bhutan, Nepal and Kenya. A speaker with the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies and the Colorado Whitewater Association, Darcy lives in Colorado.
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