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This is the story of Judith Wurtman and her close friend Susan Kron and the journey they travel together when Susan is diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). With no known cure and little-to-no effective treatment, the devastating disease causes the death of neurons controlling voluntary muscles and is considered terminal.

Chicago World’s Fair, 1893. “Little Sure Shot” Annie Oakley is exhausted from her work with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. But when a fellow performer scuffles with a man who threatens her harm, she has to keep her eyes peeled. And when the heckler is found dead under the Ferris Wheel, Annie won’t rest until she proves her defender is innocent. Before she can rustle up any clues, an old friend asks Annie to protect her young daughter. And as more bodies turn up around the grounds, she’s going to need all her sharpshooting skills just to stay alive.

If you have ever wondered why some people succeed while others fail to survive, this book is for you. Beneath the placid surface, there is a toxic culture at The F Place. The company is plagued by back-stabbing leaders, drama, lies, scandal, and unhappy employees to the point that both the performance and the well-being of the people in the company are fractured.

It’s 1887, and Annie and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show are invited to Queen Victoria’s Jubilee celebration in London, England. But their long journey across the ocean takes a turn for the worst when the queen’s royal servant ends up dead and Annie’s husband, Frank Butler, falls suspiciously ill. Annie soon discovers that the two events are connected - and may be precursors to an assassination attempt on the queen.

Stress is a big part of many people's lives, this book will discuss many topics related to stress and how to relieve stress by using meditation. Managing stress can be hard but doing meditation makes it easier to manage the things in your life that may cause you to be mentally or emotionally unstable. This book will teach you how to destress by using meditation.

She became an American icon. But would she ever escape her past? Shoot like a Girl depicts the historically fictive tale of a young Annie Oakley's struggles before she becomes the most famous sharpshooting woman of all time. After the death of her father, Annie is sent to the Drake County poorhouse where she learns to cook, sew, and keep house for other families to help her mother make ends meet. The only bright spot in her dreary existence is Buck, a beautiful buckskinned horse, and the two form a bond.

As an archangel and the head of the Grigori watchers, a clan tasked with protecting humanity from its own worst impulses, I don’t have time to indulge in relationships, much less with mortals. The irony of binding my soul to a woman to save her life isn’t lost on me. The real injustice is that I have to persuade Grace, an alpha shifter, to fall in love with me. To submit to me.

Fifteen-year-old Annie Oakley is the sole supporter of her widowed mother and two younger siblings. An expert markswoman and independent spirit, she hunts game to sell to the local mercantile to make ends meet instead of accepting a marriage proposal that could solve all her problems, including the impending foreclosure of her family's farm. After a stunning performance in a shooting contest against famous sharpshooter Frank Butler, Annie is offered a position in the renowned Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.

Let me share a short story with you. When I was in high school, I had a new Spanish teacher who had never taught before. He came in and did not provide the class with any ground rules. He didn't explain his expectations for the class. He didn't explain his rules. He didn't explain to us what he wanted us to get out of the class. The students had no idea. It's almost like you were to go on a date and you didn’t know where you were going to take your date to eat, or if you wanted to go to see a movie or a play.

Dangerous forces are at work across galactic space that the Omnians are attempting to stabilize, but their resources are severely strained. The SADEs, self-aware digital entities, express to Alex Racine and Renée de Guirnon their desire to know the method of their creation. Alex and Renée, the Omnian co-leaders, want to obtain the knowledge for the SADEs, who are humans’ closest allies. Alex, Renée, and Julien, a friend and a SADE, board the giant city-ship, Freedom, which sails for Méridien, the home world of the far-reaching human colonies of the Confederation.

Moira Naesatra has never felt like her fighting skills are up to par with the rest of her fae clan. Maybe that’s why she runs a bakery in Pasadena, where human customers buy her mouth-watering confections...and receive a dose of positive magic as a bonus. When a dangerous side of her magic surfaces in dreams and premonitions, she has to rely on the angel Uriel to help her find and protect the source of sacred magic for her people.

Peggy Weber has spent much of her life wondering and doubting if she is enough: smart enough, attractive enough, holy enough, impressive enough. She knows that she is not alone in having these feelings. In Enough as You Are, Weber shares her experiences of doubting herself and discovering that she is enough; that we all are enough for God’s love. Each chapter includes anecdotes and life lessons for listeners, as well as some “saintly inspiration” to help us continue recognizing that we are enough.

On a mission to request help from the community of Zorith, April Lopez travels to Middle Earth, a subterranean world that may know how to prevent an evil sidhe with her sights set on Arizona from turning humans into mindless thralls. But the psychic visionary runs into a bigger problem days after her arrival: haunting visions of a past life she never knew of before. Desperate for answers, she turns to the Zorith’s leader, Sarielle. April can’t deny the sizzling chemistry they have together, but Sarielle is an Atlantean, reserved and cautious where she is open and headstrong.

Harmonia Shae is in a bind. Literally. A magician has trapped her free will inside a talisman, meaning she can’t travel through time to stop the wayward sidhe queen she’s been tracking…someone who’s intent on enslaving all humans at the nearest opportunity. If Harmonia completes three commands of the queen as the talisman compels her to do, her power could destroy an entire city.

Lara Clint may be a daemon hunter, but she’s still not used to hearing voices in her head. Why are there whispers in her mind telling her to “remember her destiny?” After witnessing the reappearance of a dangerous fallen angel, Lara suspects that these two events are connected and vows to find answers in order to save her hometown of Sedona. The truth, however, turns her world upside down — and reconciling with her past proves as difficult as completing the quest she’s fated to fulfill.

Eight hundred miles WNW of Cape Horn, Don and Réanne Douglass encountered the ultimate wave which pitch-poled their sailboat and turned it into a leaking lifeboat. Working together, the couple struggled over the next 42 days to reach safety in southern Chile, while family and friends all but gave up hope.

As Judy Gruen walked down the aisle and into her Orthodox Jewish future, her bouquet quivered in her shaky hand. Having grown up in the zeitgeist that proclaimed, “If it feels good, do it”, was she really ready to live the life of “rituals, rules, and restraints” that the Torah prescribed? The Skeptic and the Rabbi is a rare memoir with historical depth, spirituality, and intelligent humor. Gruen speaks with refreshing honesty about what it means to remain authentic to yourself while charting a new yet ancient spiritual path at odds with the surrounding culture....

So far, Jen Prescott has been able to manage her life, balancing three kids, a job and chronic illness. Midnight trips to the emergency room are nothing new, but this time, it's one of her daughters who is ill. If ever she needed her husband, it's now. But David has had enough of sickness and announced his intention to move as far away as he can get. Jen must start over somehow; finding a new home, finding the strength to build a new life for her children.

August, 1942 - Fresh from the successful completion of an undercover assignment, Regan is determined to do her bit for the war effort. Before returning home, she goes to Washington to offer her investigative skills to the Army. Now all Regan has to do is avoid Mark Harris who is still actively pursuing her and ignore the call of her own heart.

November, 1942 - Regan is sent by the OSS to join the underground in a France struggling to survive under German occupation. She is assigned to gather information on the infamous wolf packs; U-boats that travel in groups to hunt down and sink Allied warships. But she begins to suspect that her French contacts may be working against her. When Regan's mission takes an unexpected turn, her only thought is to return to the man she left behind and her only fear is that she might not make it out of France alive.