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This complete - and authorized - summary distills the insights from Roger Landry's book Live Long, Die Short. Over a decade ago, a landmark 10-year study by the MacArthur Foundation shattered the stereotypes of aging as a process of slow, genetically determined decline. Researchers found that that 70 percent of physical aging -and about 50 percent of mental aging - is determined by the choices we make every day. That means that if we optimize our lifestyles, we can live longer and "die shorter".

Vampire Metta Blautsauger is known as the family airhead, and she works hard to keep up the façade. It’s the perfect cover as she goes from dispensing her own brand of justice as a vigilante to an agent for Orcus, the Nosferatu shadow agency. Captured, tortured, and left for dead, she is forced to leave both the agency and Lucas O’Cuinn, the mentor she’s grown to love.

Ellie Nelson has left her legal career in Denver behind and opened an art gallery and studio in Lake of the Ozarks. After Ellie witnesses the murder of a beloved studio artist, she finds herself right in the middle of the search for a stolen Van Gogh that brings thieves, assassins, the FBI, and the Interpol to her gallery.

A murdered child. A small town. A cult lurking in the shadows...Vickie has always lived a quiet, ordinary life in an equally quiet and ordinary small town. Yet one fateful night a child turns up dead in the woods behind her house in a ritualistic slaughter...Vickie and her family are suddenly thrown into a national spotlight. But as the investigation unfolds, she begins to realize her family isn’t so ordinary after all. Evil is inching closer to those she holds dear and Vickie isn't sure who she can ultimately trust.

London, 1890. Mina Murray once lived an adventurous life, but after a tragedy in the forests of Transylvania, she left it all behind. Now she has settled into a quiet routine as a schoolteacher in London, engaged to the respectable solicitor Jonathan Harker, attempting to fit into the stuffy upper class London society to which he belongs. But when vampires abduct Jonathan, her dark past comes careening into her present.

To escape certain death, Eros whisks his royal family across the galaxy in search of a safe home. Unknown to him, a hostile alien species follows him and before he can safely land on Earth shoots his spacecraft down. His craft crashes into the snow-packed Carpathian mountainside. Now stranded on an alien world hostile to his existence he is left for dead. A mother home with her dying daughter notices Eros float down from the heavens and believes he is sent by God in answer to her prayers to save her daughter. When Eros wakes, he has no memory of who he is.

A Doll's House, published in 1879, was the earliest of Ibsen's "social dramas", and the first of his works to attract attention outside of Scandinavia. The central theme of the play is a woman's right to individual self-development, and represents, as humourist Stephen Leacock observed of many Ibsen plays, "a profound problem stated but not solved".

Healthy Disney: Your Guide to a Fit and Magical Vacation is a planning guide for those who desire a Disney vacation with a focus on health and fitness. This book gives you the checklists, steps and activities to keep your vacation on track before you leave your home. Volume 1: The Planning Phase is the first of many Healthy Disney planning guides to come. Danye Phillips has specific items of focus for your trip at 180 days out, 60 days out, 30 days out and the week of your trip that will set you up for success and to accomplish your fitness and food goals.

The story of Lacie Henrickson is one that deals with heartache and loss. When Paul is in an accident Lacie is left to hold it together. The easiest way to do that is to tell Paul how she feels. She just didn't know it would be so easy or so hard.

The love stories of Andrés and Marysol Malo first begin with the enduring tale of how they met, fell in love, broke up, and reunited to be wed. It continues, secondly, with their love toward their children, including Jesús, who was born with a rare physical disability that challenged their faith and hope. And now it carries on, thirdly, with the love and trust they have in Jesus Christ, inviting them to believe in the impossible.

When a band of shadowy fanatics abducts Javin Wollstone’s sister, Bella, from his care, his family’s only hope to bring her home is turning to a hard-bitten band of mercenaries, the Black Furies, led by Commander Rusk. Javin follows Rusk and his men through a maze of political intrigues, religious fanaticism, and centuries of distrust.

A jigger of tranquility is all Em Johnson wants, but now that her beloved Tiki Goddess Bar has been chosen as the location for Trouble in Paradise, TV’s hot new reality show, life is anything but tranquil. When a member of the camera crew is found dead in her kitchen - stabbed to death with Chef Kimo’s sashimi knife - the scene on the sleepy North Shore of Kauai goes from eccentrically crazy to downright dangerous.

It might seem like everyone you know took secret classes on budgeting, owning their career, and choosing the right wine - and you were sick that day. Enter: How to Skimm Your Life. Covering everything from personal finance, to career, to stress management, global politics, and more, this book breaks down some of the less glamorous parts of being an adult.

Mollie vient de recevoir un joli poisson rouge. Le cœur débordant d’amour, la fillette passe la nuit à l’observer nager dans son bocal. Mais Mollie trouve que Poissonnette s’ennuie énormément. Elle décide donc de sortir le poisson de son bocal pour lui faire des câlins. Poissonnette a l’air si seule...Mollie réussira-t-elle à la réconforter ? Ce livre audio d'une durée de 10 minutes a pour objectif l'initiation des jeunes enfants à la musique symphonique.

Discover how you can unlock life’s secrets to become the person you crave to be. You will be gently guided and supported on your road to self-discovery.

Does anyone know who they are when they lose the foundation of their world? I tried to be the person I was before, the “good girl”, but I needed more. That’s when I met Ryder and Zack. My body felt magnetically drawn to Ryder, but with each step, I fought the initial pull. I couldn’t trust my impulses; they were telling me to give myself to him, and I didn’t even know him. When Zack kissed me later that night, I pulled away breathless, hypnotized, and unsteady. The months following were a whirlwind of desire and reckless choices I’d never in my life thought I’d take.

Natasha Dubrova is a young woman, struggling to survive in an impoverished country that may soon be facing war with Russia. Her dream is to find a man she can build a life with, but most men in Ukraine are unwilling to commit, and her attempts to find a meaningful relationship have been fruitless. Her college education is of little use in an economy that is weak and corrupt, and paying the monthly rent is becoming more and more difficult with every passing day. She must focus on her future above all else, but what if this means leaving her family behind, possibly forever?

Enemies of Peace literally starts with a bang: an explosion of a house engulfed in flames, captured on video by two teenage girls. In the summer that led up to the explosion, the Hydroline Corporation hired Timothy Lawson and his firm to represent them in a class-action lawsuit. While juggling his caseload, he and his wife Cynthia decide to buy their first house. It should have been the happiest summer of their lives. Nevertheless, their date with death was looming. Who could have possibly done it?

YOU-NICORN is a 30-day, step-by-step program to help you get a better perspective on your thoughts, build healthy relationships, clarify your goals, and find the path to get there. It’s full of no-nonsense practical tools that will help you wherever you are in your awesome journey of life - tools that you can start using today to make every tomorrow better.

Making his way to a tryst with his "dark lady" near the royal palace the young playwright William Shakespeare encounters a mysterious woman in a cloak. Mistaking her for his lady friend, he accosts her in a familiar fashion, only to discover, to his dismay, that she is in fact the queen. He overcomes his initial discomfort, and takes advantage of the situation to make a petition for royal support to establish a national theatre.