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For Minnesota Glaciers captain Scott Walters, skating on a bum knee - and self-medicating to keep skating on it - is all part of the game. That the painkillers he's eating prevent him from having meaningful relationships is just one more sacrifice in a lifetime of them. He’s worked too hard to let his image be ruined by injury or dependency, so he hides the pain and fakes the rest - a girlfriend would only complicate matters. High school teacher Rachel Fielding never needed a man in her life, but she also never intended to grow old alone.

When Philip Cobb, former mob money launderer and current government informer, is murdered just as he is about the enter the Program, his wife, after calling an emergency Program number only to be nearly gunned down herself, turns for help to her brother, who contacts his old girlfriend, Donna Giannini, now a Chicago cop. Giannini (who appeared in SYNBAT) in turn asks her old pal Riley to keep Lisa alive while she finds out what went wrong. The rest of the narrative pits the warrior skills and state-of-the-art special-ops technology of Riley and his men against two groups of professional killers.

Born into a driven and successful family, Winnie Knox tries—and fails—to impress her parents and siblings as she bounces from career to career, year to year. In a last-ditch effort, Winnie takes on consulting work at a stately home in England, hoping to gain a nice bit of prestige as she improves the massive British estate.

When Helen Davenport is found strangled in her fashionable London flat, the discovery shocks even those who thought they knew her best. Glamorous, charming, and with just enough scandal in her past to raise eyebrows, Helen had always walked a dangerous line between admiration and envy. But who hated her enough to kill?

There are only two questions we have to answer in life – how to live and how to die. When we come to the end of the line, we all have to face death, our greatest enemy. But since my emergency cancer operation and chemotherapy, I now choose to face it on my own terms instead of just letting it happen. I will not only survive, I will l thrive. I am determined to prolong my life for as long as I can and to enjoy every moment to the fullest. This is my story in poetry. It is my reckoning with death and my journey into discovering the true meaning of life.

I am seventy-seven, and before I know it, I will be in my eighties. During the past year I was diagnosed with stage three cancer. I am still recovering. I was faced with the reality that here are really only two questions we have to answer in life – how to live and how to die. We all must face death, our greatest challenge, sooner or later, but I now choose to face it on my own terms instead of just letting it happen. But above all I choose to love life. This book is my journey through life and all the lessons and treasures I have garnered in the process.

Do you feel confident at work? Are there times when you lack confidence but can’t show it? The role of confidence in successful leadership is both significant and undisputed and yet organizations are full of leaders and teams who don’t have as much as they want and, even worse, are not doing anything about it. Attempts to develop confidence are usually confined to empty affirmations and vanilla-flavored self-help books. In contrast, this book provides an evidence-based code that outlines the steps we can all take to positively shift our confidence and that of our teams.

Microfluidics is the field of science that studies fluids constrained to spaces that are smaller than one millimeter wide, and by extension, the engineering field which builds devices that exploit the unique properties of fluids at these scales. Author Albert Folch explores this micro science which has inspired engineers to build devices such as engines, spray cans, ballpoint pens, inkjet and 3D printers, pregnancy and Covid tests, glucometers, asthma nebulizers, kidney dialysis machines, and DNA analyzers.

Large-scale organizational transformations usually don't work. What originally starts as a way of improving an organization becomes an all-consuming distraction, a value-destroying set of activities that, even as it becomes clear they will fail, must be completed at any cost. But there is a better way: becoming an Octopus Organization.

Plague strikes. Faith falters. As death surrounds him, John uncovers the cosmic war behind human suffering-and the truth Satan hoped to bury. John's world is filled with turmoil and doubt as the bubonic plague ravages his congregation. Can all these hideous deaths be God's will? If God is good, then why are bad things happening to good people? As John desperately searches through the sacred text, he discovers the epic battle between light and darkness. His quest uncovers secrets that could cause the defeat of the wicked spirit who fell like lightning from heaven.

The historical heart of the novel set in 15th Century Ireland, is framed through the fresh eyes of Kelly, an ordinary woman who runs a café in Banbridge, County Down. Down to earth, deeply religious, the community turn to her in times of need. Kelly has been troubled by dreams of a time gone by. Her son, when he starts to speak, recites names from her visions. Distressed, Kelly turns to a hypnotherapist, and all is revealed. Those she is close to today happen to be the souls that joined her in her life as Maire.

Some secrets never stay buried on Hood Avenue… Terrica has always found comfort in the rhythm of her Atlanta neighborhood—the scent of fresh coffee from her café, the quiet charm of childhood memories, and the safety of familiarity. But when Michael, her childhood love, returns after years of silence, everything she thought she knew begins to unravel. Haunted by Michael’s past and the secrets he refuses to share, Terrica’s world is further shaken by Damien—a mysterious newcomer whose quiet strength and steady presence offer her a glimpse of a different future.

The Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History provides a critical historical analysis of the Enlightenment in England, Scotland, France, Germany, and the United States from c. 1650 to the present. It argues that the degree of commonality between social and intellectual movements in each—and, more broadly, between the five societies—has been overstated for polemical purposes. Clark shows that the concept of 'the Enlightenment' was not widely adopted in those societies until the mid-twentieth century; indeed, that it was unknown in the eighteenth.

About to go travelling with her high-flying friend Kat, Vicky comes up with a plan: if she isn't married at 30, she'll marry her geeky best mate, Mikey. Having just been dumped on her 30th birthday, Vicky, now Vee, tracks down Kat and Mikey. Mikey, now Murphy, is a successful app designer driven by his tragic upbringing. Kat, or Kate, hides a shocking secret, which threatens the happiness of all three.

Hoodoo is a bold spiritual tradition that helps enhance your wellbeing and solve everyday problems. This practical, do-it-yourself guide shows you how to use spells, rites, recipes, mojos, and curios to enrich your life and be ready for whatever comes your way. 365 Days of Hoodoo, by renowned Hoodoo author Stephanie Rose Bird, starts by providing the basics of Hoodoo, and then gradually builds your knowledge day after day.

The Symphony of "8" Short Stories! by Daniel A. Novak is a joyful, imaginative collection of children's tales and is now available in both English and Spanish! These unique stories invite listeners of all ages into a world with creativity, courage, kindness, and curiosity at the center.

In The 7 C's of Selection: Get Real, Ditch the Drama, Enjoy Dating Again, Tanya Cooper, a forensic accountant with a talent for uncovering the truth, shows you how to reclaim your dating life.

What if consciousness had a frequency, and someone just tuned in? Dr. Ryva Chengo, a quantum acoustics researcher, thought she was mapping the limits of subatomic sound. Instead, she becomes the first living conduit for ancient vibrational codes embedded in crystalline structures. When an experiment in her Stanford lab unleashes a cosmic frequency, she’s thrown into a visionary quest that bridges science and mysticism, physics and faith.

A knight, newly-returned from the Crusades, rides out one day to look over his estates. He doesn’t return and nothing is seen or heard of him or his horse again. His grieving lady dies of a broken heart within a year. This is the legend of Elmswood, a mid-Kent village.

Science is the basis of our assumptions about ourselves and our world, from ideas about our evolutionary past to our conceptions of the vast expanses of space and the smallest particles of matter. In this panoramic book, acclaimed historian of science Peter Dear uncovers the roots of such beliefs, revealing how they constitute a natural philosophy that has been developed and refined over the course of centuries—and how the world as we have come to know it was by no means inevitable.