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Food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell doesn't know what to believe when Lydia Partridge, the put-together owner of gourmet Bar Harbor Ice Cream, suddenly reveals fears that her husband may be having an affair. There's no other way to explain why Jamie, a respected professor, was spotted in a remote part of town with a much younger woman. But instead of learning the truth about the secret meeting, Lydia opens her freezer truck to find another surprise—the dead body of a summer employee . . .

We may not often think of our clothes as having a function beyond covering our naked bodies and keeping us a little safer from the elements. But to discount the enormous influence of clothing on anything from economic cycles to the future of water scarcity is to ignore the greater meaning of the garments we put on our backs. Disrobed vividly considers the role that clothing plays in everything from natural disasters to climate change to terrorism to geopolitics to agribusiness.

Born into a tenant farming family in North Carolina in 1946, Mary Louise, Mary Ann, Mary Alice, and Mary Catherine were medical miracles. Annie Mae Fultz, a Black-Cherokee woman who lost her ability to hear and speak in childhood, became the mother of America's first surviving set of identical quadruplets. They were instant celebrities. Their White doctor named them after his own family members. He sold the rights to use the sisters for marketing purposes to the highest-bidding formula company. The girls lived in poverty, while Pet Milk's profits skyrocketed....

Liddy Crawford, best friend of food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell, is getting married. The wedding is the talk of the town in Bar Harbor, Maine, including snide gossip about the age gap between the bride and her groom, local lawyer Sonny Lipton. But the cruelty of the comments is nothing compared to the nasty wedding-cake baker, Liddy's quarrelsome cousin Lisa. So when the belligerent baker is found facedown in a three-tier cake, the victim of a poisoned slice, there are more suspects in town than names on the guest list.

Duty of Care: An Executive's Guide for Corporate Boards in the Digital Era offers a much-needed guide for board directors and leaders who need to get up to speed and close their digital knowledge gap in order to make the right decisions about digital technology investment and deployments. Written in easy-to-understand language, this audiobook targets directors and executives who want to protect themselves from risks ranging from massive cyber security breaches to digital infrastructure investment mistakes.

Lyme disease is spreading rapidly around the globe as ticks move into places they could not survive before. The first epidemic to emerge in the era of climate change, the disease infects half a million people in the US and Europe each year, and untold multitudes in Canada, China, Russia, and Australia. Mary Beth Pfeiffer shows how we have contributed to this growing menace and how modern medicine has underestimated its danger.

In this new edition of her best-selling Changing Course, Claudia Black extends a helping hand to individuals overcoming the complex trauma of being raised with addiction in the family.

In Making Tough Decisions About End-of-Life Care in Dementia, Dr. Anne Kenny, a skilled palliative care physician, describes how to navigate the difficult journey of late-stage dementia with sensitivity, compassion, and common sense. Combining her personal experience caring for a mother with dementia with her medical expertise in both dementia and end-of-life care, Dr. Kenny helps the listener prepare for a family member's death while managing their own emotional health.

Dr. Jennifer Etnier offers a system of positive coaching that can be applied to any sport, and explains that good coaching requires working with young athletes at their developmental level and providing feedback designed to keep children engaged and having fun. Etnier gives easy-to-understand guidance on important aspects of successful coaching-including information on the development of children's motor skills, communication with a young athlete's parents, and nurturing a growth-oriented mindset-making this a critical resource for youth coaches of all experience levels.

In the warped world of prescription drug pricing, generic drugs can cost more than branded ones, old drugs can be relaunched at astronomical prices, and low-cost options are shut out of the market. In Drugs, Money and Secret Handshakes, Robin Feldman shines a light into the dark corners of the pharmaceutical industry to expose a web of shadowy deals in which higher-priced drugs receive favorable treatment and patients are channeled toward the most expensive medicines.

Imagine walking up to a stranger on the subway and asking them for their seat. What about asking a random person on the street if you could borrow their phone? If the idea makes you squeamish, you're not alone - social psychologists have found that doing these very things makes most of us almost unbearably uncomfortable. But here's the funny thing: even though we hate to ask for help, most people are wired to be helpful. And that's a good thing, because every day in the modern, uber-collaborative workplace, we all need to know when and how to call in the cavalry.

Despite Jesus' prayer that all Christians "be one", divisions have been epidemic in the body of Christ from the beginning to the present. We cluster in theological groups, gender groups, age groups, ethnic groups, educational, and economic groups. We criticize freely those who disagree with us, don't look like us, don't act like us, and don't even like what we like. With a personal touch and the trained eye of a social psychologist, Cleveland brings to bear the latest studies and research on the unseen dynamics at work that tend to separate us from others.

Chai on Life by Lorie Kleiner Eckert is a heartfelt collection of essays offering wisdom drawn from everyday experiences. Eckert, an author and motivational speaker, reflects on themes of family, self-acceptance, resilience, and happiness, all with a dash of humor and Jewish cultural insight. Her engaging, conversational style invites listeners to explore the beauty of life's simple moments and challenges, encouraging a mindset of gratitude and growth.

Detective Callahan faces her most challenging case yet. She is pregnant with her first child and assigned to desk duty with firm orders to stay off the street. Five years after the unsolved murder of two wealthy young men in western Canada, a potential witness vanishes to Berlin. Callahan teams up with German Detective Katriona Sager to investigate the enigmatic Hanna Winter, a suspect in an international human trafficking network.

When Detective Callahan's instincts scream that a suicide is actually murder, she knows there's more at play—especially when the victim's employer is tied to international smuggling. Uncovering the truth will put her life at risk; these criminals have tried to kill her before and won't hesitate to try it again. Now, as a mother with a two-year-old daughter, Callahan faces a difficult choice: risk everything to expose the killers, or walk away to protect her family. With each new lead, the danger only grows.

Mysterious deaths plague a luxury cruise ship as it sails from Singapore to Sri Lanka with only two hundred wealthy passengers. With the ship's security seemingly powerless to investigate and the captain reluctant to alarm the guests, newlywed Detective Bernadette Callahan takes it upon herself to uncover the truth. Having no authority and risking her own life she races against time, navigating a web of secrets and intrigue among the wealthy passengers.

When an Irish priest narrowly escapes an attempt on his life at a remote Canadian Seminary, Detective Bernadette Callahan finds herself entangled in a mystery that hits unexpectedly close to home. As Callahan delves deeper into the case, a sinister plot emerges, reaching back to the misty shores of Ireland, where ancient tales and myths hold the key to the mystery.

Generational distrust and ageism are seeping into organizations worldwide. Smart leaders are harnessing age diversity and encouraging mutual learning, cross-generational collaboration, and a culture that embraces both similarities and differences across age groups. Multigenerational Workplace: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you bridge divides, reduce prejudice, and unlock the benefits of age-diverse teams.

Food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell usually reserves judgement for local cuisine, not the people who serve it. But staying neutral isn't so easy when caught between the biggest seafood rivals in town—her BFF Mona Barnes and the successful Leighton clan. Adding to a bitter decades-old surf-turf war between family businesses, a modern Romeo and Juliet story unfolds as Mona's son gets engaged to the daughter of her sworn enemy.

Donna LaBar had long been interested in nutritional healing, informally advising family and friends. But it was when her 12-year-old daughter was diagnosed with advanced acute myeloid leukemia—with two weeks to live—that all her research found a greater purpose and all she’d learned about recovering the body was put to the test. Her daughter’s recovery changed her life—and the lives of everyone LaBar has helped since then.