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You might be asking yourself how a guy like me ended up on a fashion reality TV show. You may also be asking why I agreed to be a designer’s apprentice with no intelligible sewing skills. Cake. Delicious, fluffy, flour-laden, sugary cake—the beginning of my downfall. If it weren’t for that cake, I’d have never bribed Mai Sakamoto for more. We’d have never developed a friendship. I wouldn’t know of her dreams to become a fashion designer. And I’d sure as hell would never have ended up on a reality TV show to help her chase those dreams.

Following the 1957 season, two of baseball’s most famous teams, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants, left the city they had called home since the 19th century and headed west. The Dodgers went to Los Angeles and the Giants to San Francisco. Those events have entered baseball lore, and indeed the larger culture, as acts of betrayal committed by greedy owners Walter O’Malley of the Dodgers and Horace Stoneham of the Giants.

In this darkly comic memoir, a young woman recounts the steps she took to rebuild her sense of self in the aftermath of two devastating strokes that robbed her of her ability to communicate. Nina Mitchell was an accomplished Harvard graduate whose world changed forever when her facility with language - and much of her personality - disappeared. Lacking the tools to navigate her old life, Nina was forced to create another one. In After Words, she shares her remarkable journey as she slowly reclaims the power to converse, write, assert her identity, and to be herself - with words.

La Prosperidad del Reino El Plan, La Provisión y El Propósito de Dios para tu Dinero Revelar los Secretos de la Prosperidad del Reino y Experimenta la Libertad Financiera

Do you want to save money quickly and reduce chunks of debt without having to get another job? If you’re fed up with being broke and living paycheck to paycheck like millions around the world, this quick guide will help steer you in the right direction to achieving your personal finance goals. Mastering personal finance is an invaluable skill we need as adults to help relieve some of the financial strains that we face day-to-day. Life's hard enough as it is without hundreds of dollars of debt on our shoulders. It’s time to make a change, and anyone is capable of doing it.

Following the Catastrophe, the plan was simple enough. Scavenge for food. Avoid marauders. And above all else, keep his head down. No problem at all. Especially not with a one-of-a-kind exosuit and a cheeky AI companion on his hands. But when Jarek stumbles onto a back alley mugging gone wrong, well... Problems. The word is out. Young Jarek Slater is packing a serious weapon. The kind he's not ready to use in earnest. The kind that every marauder on the continent would kill for.

Phoenix Park is the man I fantasize about...hitting with my car, that is. He's rich. He's sexy. He's the absolute worst. But after I fall prey to an internet scam and lose every last penny in my account (please don’t ask), it’s Phoenix who swoops in with an offer I can’t refuse. I’ll marry him for the summer so he can inherit the family company from his dying grandmother, and in return, he’ll drop a hefty sum of money into my bank account.

This book contains two essays, one by each of the listed authors. They describe the two religions of Hinduism and Islam, their history, and their contrast with Christianity. This book was part of the curriculum for the C.L.S.C. (the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle) in the early 1900s. (Summary by Scientila)

Elizabeth thought she'd planned for everything. Her son's seizure disorder meant constant routines, strict safeguards, unbreakable structure. But one brief stop at a gas station shatters her fragile world. In a heartbeat, her car is hijacked—with Timothy still inside. She throws herself into the moving car, but that's only the beginning of the nightmare. As hours stretch into days, they're held captive in a remote house—cut off from everyone. No phone. No medication. Elizabeth must keep her son alive while navigating the mind of the man holding them captive, and her own spiraling fear.

Once upon a time…I fell for my brother's best friend. I'm not proud of myself, okay? But these things happen when you're young and impressionable. The point is, I got over it. I moved on. Except now Felix Caine is back—back with his easy smile and sparkling eyes, and he’s making me an offer I (literally) can’t refuse. He needs help with a romantic article he’s writing, and he won’t take no for an answer.

In this series we listen to short stories that are NOT by perhaps the most well-known author of this type. But the many other rich talents in the volume may have treated the subject matter a little differently, or were perhaps just overlooked in the stampede to applaud the winner, but these authors are of equal merit. Each of their works is laden with talent, has purpose, and is rich and textured in this gloried niche of literature.

For years, this woman believed her mother to be critical and disapproving of her; after doing The Work, she came to see her mother's true love for her. (With live Dutch translation)

Matthew Rode has a problem; he's still alive. Just hours ago, he was perched atop a Boston parking garage about to make the leap of all leaps. Now, he has been committed to a psychiatric hospital and needs to find out what went wrong. And then there are the dreams. When he was a boy, Matthew had a life-changing accident that led to many things: a new group of friends, an unstoppable gang of enemies, and a metal rod in his leg.

After Lia’s old car breathes its last, the single mum must reluctantly take the bus to work… and face unwarranted attention from a troublesome teenager. It’s all too much to take—she’s been depressed since her fiancé’s death and even quit her beloved women’s football team. But it’s Happy Car Sharers to the rescue after her friends get her set up on the app. Mateo, meanwhile, has recently moved to town, and his long walk to the train station is a literal pain due to an ankle injury. Soon he and Lia are riding each morning with a bossy driver and a rotation of colorful fellow passengers.

Every one of us has broken places inside. Places in our souls where the dust gathers or the wind whistles through. Every one of us needs restoration. Photographer and portrait artist Meshali Mitchell is no different. Though, in her case, she also had a farmhouse to restore to its former glory. In this book Meshali shares the inspiring story of how the Lord drew her out from behind the camera to embark on an unlikely home renovation in the midst of her own difficult journey to healing.

After weeks on the run, the US Marshals relocate me to a small West Texas town. I’m exhausted and lonely with no friends or family to lean on—until my two sexy-as-sin neighbors stop by. I shouldn’t fantasize about our friendship growing into more but can’t stop my growing attraction. I want them both. And both want me.

Als Commissar der Imperialen Armee ist es Ciaphas Cains Aufgabe, seinen Soldaten mutigen Schrittes voranzugehen und für die Moral der Truppe zu sorgen. Nachdem seine Taten ihn allerdings zu einem unfreiwilligen Helden des Imperiums gemacht haben, wird er immer wieder in riskante Einsätze geschickt, die ihn beinahe Kopf und Kragen kosten. In der Hoffnung, endlich einen ruhigen Posten gefunden zu haben, nimmt er den Auftrag an, aus den Überresten zweier valhallanischer Verbände ein Regiment zu formen.

Pam is angry with God for not healing her cancer, and with herself because she believes she created her own illness. Tears, laughter, and profound realizations ensue when, with the help of Katie's gentle but penetrating facilitation, Pam delves deeply into the root causes of her suffering and what true healing is, with or without cancer.

The only breastfeeding manual new moms will ever need, from the foremost expert in the field—filled with straightforward, evidence-based information and compassionate care. Let’s get real: a breastfeeding makeover is long overdue. From the creator of the popular lactation website Physician...

On the reservation, Emmett Parker finds an intricate web of familial and tribal duties - and what could become a massive class action suit. Indian plaintiffs are suing the BIA for oil well funds they never received. Drawn into the controversy, Emmett is accused of murder by an investigator of his own blood, and now, the man who used to be the law is running from it.