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In Unsafe at Any Meal, Dr. Renee Dufault, former food investigator for the Food and Drug Administration, provides the startling answers. While at the FDA, Dr. Dufault discovered that mercury - a highly toxic metal - was contaminating the plumbing systems of many food manufacturing plants. Upon further examination, she discovered that the same mercury was also evident in a number of processed foods commonly sold in supermarkets.

In My Life with Helen, listeners learn for the first time what was going on behind the scenes after Helen’s fall from grace and how Diane struggled to come to terms with the media frenzy that followed. Maybe, things do happen for a reason. That’s for the listener to decide. There’s no denying that Helen was a force to be reckoned with, but more importantly, she was human, flaws and all.

Networking for Career Success shows professionals how to enhance their careers through effective networking. It covers everything from basics of networking to targeted techniques for making a career change, funding a new business venture, adding clients, and more.

She’s given up on love. He’s marrying for money. But God has other plans...South Wales, 1905. Faith only believes in the certainty of pain and suffering. Born with a club foot and harboring a dark secret, the barmaid can’t escape her sinful past. But after the country’s religious revival puts her out of a job, hope sparks when a handsome aristocrat gallantly offers her a second chance. Can the troubled couple trust in God to light the way to true love?

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Birmingham. Greater Than a Tourist - Birmingham, Alabama United States by Sophie Mace offers the inside scoop on The Magic City. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Rosa monte à Paris pour y retrouver son amant, Jimmy. Celui-ci n'est jamais là où elle l'attend ; elle le cherche dans un étrange jeu de pistes semé de moments très chauds. Avec l'aide de sa copine Mad et du déroutant Alistair, Rosa va bientôt prendre possession de ses fantasmes et de ses envies.

I have experienced four “near-death experiences” in this lifetime on Earth. The story begins at the end of my life in 2017 and recounts my history as a child abandoned by my mother, raised by a nanny during the 1950s. Having imaginary friends who were angels guided and directed to become the spiritual leader I am today.

Author Janet S. Dumas became drawn to cat advocacy after her visceral reaction to a chilling expose in the newspaper about the thousands of animals being gassed to death each year by the City of San Antonio, Texas. She knew she had to take action, thus beginning her adventures into the world of trap-neuter-return and caring for cats near her, both feral and domestic. Janet shares her experiences as a feral cat colony caretaker, how she came to understand the individual cats, and the relationships they built together.

Young Lucy has been kidnapped - trapped in a place she can barely understand by an obsessed man. Her captor has created a twisted home that only he can navigate, for reasons only he can fathom. What follows will test her body, mind, and soul. Lucy is about to witness horrors that no one should ever experience. There are many secrets behind the curtain, and Lucy will discover them all.

I was just a teenager when I ran away from the pride that had made my life hell growing up. Leaving home wasn’t easy, since I also had to leave Daisy, the one good thing in my otherwise rough life. But scraping by, a lone lion shifter in a big world, I ended up doing some terrible things. I even ended up betraying Daisy in the worst possible way. Now I have a different life, playing for the St. Dominic Cougars and living with three other lion shifters who are as good as brothers to me. Then one day, Daisy appears with a little boy who she says belongs to me.

A wealthy Boston woman named Claribel Sudds consults Dr. Daws, a wise old chemist who dabbles in magic, about her desire for a stage career. For a fee, Daws prepares some magic candies in five flavors that will endow the eater with the talents of dancing, singing, elocution, piano playing and high kicking. However, Claribel forgets the box of goodies on a store counter where it is inadvertently taken by the 12-year-old Bessie Bostwick. At home, Bessie eats the chocolate candy and places the others in a serving dish in the hall.

It’s July 1946, and after a decade of Depression and war, life in America is returning to normal. But for Charlotte and Mary Oswald, one tumultuous summer will unearth all their secrets and upend their world, once again. Charlotte Oswald’s life is dictated by rules. Where she can go. Whom she can speak to. How she can spend her long, dull summer days. It’s a small, closeted existence, but necessary to protect Charlotte, who has suffered from debilitating fits since childhood.

Anything that alienates and divides us leaves us weak and exposed to disaster. Simple human compassion is more essential to our national resilience and strength than most of us recognize. Shallow values won’t suffice as the foundation of our social and cultural infrastructure. With anecdotes and unexpected stories about growing up during the '60s and '70s in Los Angeles and from her work in disaster recovery, Diane Burden Cox illustrates the importance of our relationships with each other to our national resilience.

When newly widowed Martha Henderson is invited to live with her wealthy confidante, an unanticipated lust is brought to the surface as repeated advances from married Peter target her emotions. With an escaped convict’s murders inching closer and closer to home, and Martha’s longing threatening to unravel her friendships, tangled paths cross with devastating consequences.

What if you could interview top Christian women leaders and ask their advice on how to be successful (eternally significant) and glorify God with your work? Threads of Wisdom documents the journeys and best advice of 10 women that lead marketplace and non-profit organizations, in their own words.

When we were children, we dreamed of being heroes. We wanted to slay dragons and defeat the monsters that scared us. As we grew older, we were forced to try and find our monsters. We had been told they would be easy to spot. Monsters had too much teeth, too much fur, too much size. These were lies. We stopped wanting to be heroes. We started to want to be more, to be too much. We wanted, needed, more than the world could give us. We wanted more than what we were told we should be. We wanted to become monsters.

As World War II rages across Europe and the Pacific, its impact ripples through communities in the heartland of America. Mary-Catherine, a farm girl, is locked in a dangerous love triangle with two Germans soldiers held in an Illinois POW camp in the Chicago suburbs. Mary-Catherine thinks she's in love, but the German POW may have other plans for their relationship.

Avery Smart doesn't believe in "forever cowboys". Especially after her father died young in a tragic rodeo accident, and she watched all her girlfriends get their hearts broken by love 'em and leave 'em types in Stetsons and spurs. But when she returns to her hometown of Bandits Hollow, Colorado to take pictures of cowboys for her lucrative photography business, a new light is shed on the darkroom of her heart by Grant Hollow. He's one professional bull rider who not only intends to stick around for the right woman - he's determined to lasso her heart for good.

Francine has had the great fortune of being surrounded by some fascinating and inspirational people in her life...Live, Love, Inspire shares the stories of some of these incredible individuals. Francine's hope is that these stories and life lessons will inspire you and have an impact on your life, the way they did on her life. The second part of the book shares Francine's tips for achieving health, happiness, and success in life.

A perfect summer romance! Louisa is left at the altar on her wedding day with no job, no home, and an awful honeymoon on her own. Back home, she takes up living in her family’s dilapidated summer cottage in the Hamptons with a rescued dog and a bad sunburn, awful neighbors, and a handyman who is anything but helpful.