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Even though Mindy hasn't updated the house she inherited from her grandmother, her house is favorite to hold Rom Com Movie Club, where she and her best friends since college gather to swoon over cheesy, unrealistic rom coms.

“A thinking mind is an active mind” they say. This book is meant for general consumption, specifically for children and teenagers between the ages of seven to 16. This book was inspired by you, yes you! And it aims at clarifying and making their minds ready for the outside world as they grow. It is an avenue for youths of these ages to put on their thinking caps and questioning spirits so they can know more about the world they live in. This book has many benefits, resources, and qualities to add to their lives, as well as impact to make in their daily lives.

Today, obesity is an ever-growing concern for the world, especially in the west. Not only is it related to diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, but what is even worse is that the governments all around the world are not taking any responsibility. You see, it is the big corporations’ fault that you ended up on the wrong path. On a daily basis, we are exposed to their manipulating messages that subconsciously triggers emotional needs in us.

Faye Martin never expected her husband to abandon her and their three children...or that she'd have to struggle every day to make ends meet. So when her 4-year-old daughter is discovered through a YouTube video and offered a starring role on a television series, it seems like her prayers have been answered. But when the reality of their new life settles in, Faye realizes that fame and fortune don't come without a price.

When Rona Blackburn landed on Anathema Island more than a century ago, her otherworldly skills might have benefited friendlier neighbors. Guilt and fear instead led the island's original eight settlers to burn "the witch" out of her home. So Rona cursed them. Fast-forward 100-some years: All Nor Blackburn wants is to live an unremarkable teenage life.

Are you desperate to make ends meet each month, constantly wondering if you can pay the bills? If debts are poisoning your life and you want to make your dollar go 10 times further, it's time to budget. Living alone from the age of 14, I learned to budget the hard way. Since my early teenage years, I had to earn and save my own money. In this book I'm sharing my insights about how to manage even the smallest income to outlast the month. I will give concrete, actionable advice based on my own and well-known financial experts' experience.

To help people develop their potential, to articulate and become the self that they want to be, are capable of being, and that best serves them and others in the short and long term is what we as individuals and leaders strive toward.

Helicopter parent Kelly Birkby’s overactive imagination has her constantly on guard against threats to her young family - killer bees, the impending tsunami, roaming rabid dogs. But when her wallet is stolen and her beloved Southern California beach town becomes the target of an actual crime spree, she takes it upon herself to fight back by enlisting the most formidable force she knows: the moms of the town.

Our world is filled with fake facades, from the unrealistic filters used on social media to the “holier than thou” personas seen in certain hypocritical believers. To combat the fake trends, a new trend has emerged - one that fights the facade with transparency and vulnerability. Instead of being filtered or super-spiritual, we’re told to be real and honest. And rightly so.

A longtime Nantucket resident is trying to make the best of a lonely summer. Her spirited granddaughter is learning what she wants out of life. Unforgettable surprises await them both in this magical, multigenerational novel from New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer.

Adam and Tara are sucked into a police investigation that might get Tara killed. Can Adam keep her safe or will he lose her forever? Tara James, the local librarian assistant, is afraid her past will catch up to her when an infant is abandoned outside the Tipton County Library. Will news of the abandoned baby stir up publicity and force her to go on the run again? Librarian Nancy Daley’s world has become complicated. Carter is pushing to set a wedding date, a woman was left for dead on the side of the road, and Tara, her assistant, is acting strange.

News of the murder sparks fear in the small community of Cherry Creek, and that fear only grows when the arsonist leaves a calling card belonging to a killer everyone believed was long dead. The Dragonfly mysteriously disappeared from the local asylum decades ago, stepping out of existence and into legend. The story draws the attention of Noelle McKenzie, a local author, and she digs into details from the past while Captain Derek Dempsey searches for evidence in the present.

The world whipped around her in a dizzying funnel of lights and shouts, people in uniforms pressing in from all directions. Noelle sat motionless in the street, barely able to breathe. His little body was too still. Too broken.

Olivia Dawson can’t seem to catch a break. Her boss is retiring and her immediate supervisor, an awful woman with a personal vendetta against her, looks to be getting his job. Her love life is in shambles, her best friend won’t shut the hell up about Star Trek, and her elderly neighbor won’t stop hitting her car with his pickup.

Carlos Keller was finally moving on. He'd asked Kathy to marry him, and now he could forever put behind him the disappointment of his failed first marriage to the only woman who ever held his heart, Madeline.

There is only one Gargoyle left. It is only a matter of time now before the Twelve Generals defeat the remaining Gargoyle and open the gates of hell to let their brethren take over the world. It has been 2,000 years and Gwen and the others are ready to be done.

After watching her brother, Artka, march off to war against Ecclessa, Jeda is unexpectedly forced from her family home. Sentenced to a life of service, she is sent to the courts of the Emperor. Jeda fears she will be forced to a life of drudgery-or worse.

What more could you need than unrealistic romantic expectations from movies, and best friends to watch them with? There's always the funny, mouthy, less-than-perfect best friend in a rom-com, but the sidekick is never the one to get the love interest. Since Ruby can't even keep a roommate, she's fairly sure that's the life she will continue to live, so she has always assumed her role with pride.

Emerson Whitney writes, "Really, I can't explain myself without making a mess." What follows is that mess—electrifying, gorgeous, defiant. At Heaven's center, Whitney seeks to understand their relationship to their mother and grandmother, those first windows into womanhood and all its consequences. Whitney retraces a roving youth in deeply observant, psychedelic prose—all the while folding in the work of thinkers like Judith Butler, Donna Haraway, and C. Riley Snorton—to engage transness and the breathing, morphing nature of selfhood.

What's it like to be a trail angel and can romance truly blossom from first meeting to marriage on the Pacific Crest Trail? How do trail names get bestowed and what does it mean when you find yourself roaring back at a mountain lion? How have climate change, technology, and the sheer number of hikers affected life on the PCT? Find the answers to all these questions, and so many more, in the diverse writings gathered in Crossing Paths, an anthology of stories and poems written by PCT hikers.