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If there’s one thing you don’t do, it’s sleep with your best friend’s ex, but three years ago Alex Stafford went there. And not just once. Repeatedly. For two months. It is the worst mistake she’s ever made, but she is determined to make up for it. Alex is going to be the best damn entrepreneur, granddaughter, and maid of honor she can be. The only problem is, she’s been working so hard she’s about to crack - and then she runs into him. Rich Durand has spent the last three years avoiding Alex. She hurt him more than any woman before her - and there have been plenty.

Three decades after returning home from the adventure that made him famous, the legendary dwarf treasure hunter O’balin Undur has gone missing. Many have presumed O’balin to be dead, including his old friend Bindle, the aged and worn mayor of Mountainside Village. After receiving an urgent letter addressed specifically to him, Bindle sneaks out of town to visit the home of an old friend. There he is greeted by a surprising guest who claims to have seen O’balin alive, searching for a mysterious stone called the Summoner’s Gem.

An anthology of short stories based upon/inspired by, and in loving homage to all of those great gore-fest movies and books of the 1980s (not necessarily based in that era, although some do ride that wave of nostalgia), the golden age when horror well and truly came kicking, screaming, and spraying blood, gore, and body parts out from the shadows.

Colleen Hawthorne does everything right. She got the sensible degree, landed a career in Denver, and an apartment downtown. She calls her parents once a week and visits on Christmas. So when she loses her job and is forced to move back home to Goodland, Kansas, Colleen feels like a failure. Her mother criticizing her weight only make it worse. Colleen wants to curl up in bed with the romance novels she loves to read - and occasionally write - but first she has a plan. She's going to take the freelance marketing world by storm and nothing is going to stop her.

Questa meditazione della durata di tre minuti può essere integrata in ogni momento della giornata, dal mattino prima di iniziare ogni attività fino alle pause di lavoro. Una voce delicata e rilassante, accompagnata da esotiche note emesse dai cimbali, ti prenderà per mano e ti accompagnerà alla scoperta dello stato d'animo che alberga nel tuo corpo. Questa tecnica meditativa è perfetta per prendere coscienza di sé stessi tramite l'osservazione del proprio respiro, nel qui e ora.

Una voce dolce e rassicurante, scandita da soavi note di cimbali, ti accompagnerà in un viaggio di quindici minuti alla riscoperta della concentrazione. Focalizzando la tua attenzione sulle pause che intercorrono tra l'inspirazione e l'espirazione, imparerai a percepire l'effetto del respiro sulle varie aree del tuo corpo. Una tecnica meditativa adatta a principianti e non, ideale per tutti coloro che vogliono imparare a non lasciarsi travolgere da pensieri ed emozioni.

Con questa tecnica meditativa apprenderai come definire tutto ciò che affiora alla tua mente, dal flusso di pensieri alle sensazioni più impercettibili. Imparerai a osservare le emozioni che ti pervadono, cercando di definirle con chiarezza e dando loro un nome concreto. La respirazione ti accompagnerà in questo viaggio di quindici minuti alla riscoperta del legame indissolubile tra corpo, spirito e concentrazione.

Durante i prossimi quindici minuti avrai modo di prendere coscienza dei tuoi pensieri, delle tue preoccupazioni e delle tue sensazioni, imparando a lasciarli andare. Non dovrai fare nulla, solo abbandonarti alla delicata voce del narratore che ti guiderà in questa esplorazione del corpo e dello spirito. Gli esercizi di respirazione inclusi in questa guida ti aiuteranno a focalizzare la tua attenzione sulle emozioni, per poi vederle allontanarsi come nuvole spazzate via dal vento.

Nei prossimi venti minuti imparerai ad alleviare ogni forma di stress grazie ad una voce rilassante che ti guiderà all'osservazione di ogni singolo componente del tuo corpo. Questa meditazione è perfetta per scoprire dove albergano le tensioni e i nervosismi, e per imparare a lasciarli andare. La scansione del corpo è una tecnica di meditazione adatta anche ai principianti ed è perfetta da praticare nel letto prima di addormentarsi.

Questa tecnica di meditazione è perfetta per chi ha problemi o difficoltà ad addormentarsi. Un esotico suono di cimbali e una voce soave ti guideranno in questa esperienza dedicata al rilassamento di corpo e mente, ideale per distendere il sistema nervoso e dormire sonni sereni. In circa venti minuti scansionerai ogni singola parte del corpo e la contrarrai, per poi distenderla e acquisire consapevolezza di ogni emozione e sensazione che ne scaturisce.

The Kids Under the Stairs: BenBee and the Teacher Griefer is a funny, clever novel-in-verse about Ben Bennet - who failed the language arts section of the Florida State test - and three classmates who get stuck in a summer-school class. But these kids aren't dumb - they're divergent thinkers, as Ms. J tells them: They simply approach things in a different way than traditional school demands.

Amelia Peabody lives in a small town where nothing changes. And that's just fine by her. After losing her big sister, Clara, a few years ago, Amelia can't handle any more change. But when she starts eighth grade, she accidentally receives a letter that Clara had written to herself. In it, there's a list of things she'd wanted to do before the end of middle school and never finished, like get on the softball team and throw an awesome birthday party on the lake.

Decades after the Vietnam War and Toby’s life-changing summer with Zachary Beaver, Toby’s daughter, Rylee, is at a crossroads - her best friend, Twig, has started pushing her away just as Ben, a new kid from New York, settles into their small town of Antler. Rylee befriends Ben and learns that Ben’s father was a first responder on 9/11. The two unlikely friends soon embark on a project to find Zachary Beaver and hopefully reconnect him with Rylee's father almost 30 years later.

Angela Wilcox has lost her memory. Pregnant and alone, she has no idea who she is, where she’s from, or how she found her way to Montana Territory. Hank Oster is the new deputy sheriff in Bozeman. And he’s on the trail of a gang of cattle rustlers. When he discovers a beautiful, young woman alone in an abandoned cabin in the middle of nowhere, his first instinct is to help find her family. But he soon discovers she has no idea who they are or where they might be. And it seems she doesn’t want to know.

Claudine Hopkins is a woman on the run. A slave in pre-war Tennessee, she knows that if she doesn't escape now they'll take her baby, and she'd rather die than let that happen. But when she arrives in Arkansas, her worst nightmare becomes a reality. Lost and alone, she spends her days working toward the time when she can make things right again. Dan Graham is the head cow boss at Paradise Ranch. When the plans he's made for his life are overturned by a black-bearded outlaw, he sets out to seek revenge.

Spaceport Zeta, a floating beacon in deep space, has been discovered. It guards the Vortex; the entryway into the galaxy vast wormhole system, enabling rapid travel to the innermost reaches of the Milky Way. Someone or something inside has beckoned the giants and Earth's little ones to enter the unknown. Will the crew of the Omni-Star leave the safety of Zeta and risk everything to discover where they came from and who they really are?

When Scarlett Johnson is chased by a scoundrel from the only place she can call home, she boards a train bound for the western frontier...a chance encounter with a regretful Mail Order Bride gives her an idea - what if she could impersonate the woman? Will Scarlett's ruse be exposed? Or will she beguile the man she has no intention of marrying? When secrets from the past come back to haunt them, both Joe and Scarlett have decisions to make, and Scarlett's life will be thrust into danger.

Maria Holloway is a captive. Abducted by Lakota, and forced to live with the people who killed her husband, the pioneering woman refuses to give up hope that one day she’ll be saved. Far from civilization, and everyone she knows and loves, she’s given in marriage to a Lakota warrior. Full of bitterness and despair, she turns to God for help, wondering if even He has abandoned her. She tries to escape, but is returned her enemy over and over again.

Surf the Woods tells Holt Condren's fascinating story as a successful business owner in pursuit of his dream to build a profitable business while pursuing his passion as a mountaineer. Holt tells his gripping five-year story of passion, pain, and perseverance as he lead a group of explorers up Turkey's 17,000-foot Mount Ararat to find the remains of Noah's Ark.

Margaret Hutchins has been alone since her parents died of influenza in Chicago a decade earlier. When she moves to Cutter’s Creek in Montana Territory for a fresh start, as the new teacher for the little school, she discovers a cozy community where she’s welcomed and appreciated. Heath Moore had his heart broken by Charlotte Beaufort years ago, and he’s hesitant to court again. Until, that is, he runs into Margaret just before Christmas - she’s beautiful, intelligent, and compassionate.