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From Grief to Grace: A Therapist's Journey of Healing After Loss by Anita Salek Aasen is an intimate memoir that takes listeners through her inspirational journey of personal loss and healing. Anita, a licensed clinical social worker, shares her raw, heartfelt journey through grief after the sudden loss of her beloved brother, Lou. Her story reveals the impact of grief and the consuming path toward finding strength and acceptance, transforming her pain into resilience and purpose.

On March 25, 1957, Italy signed the Treaty of Rome, which established the European Economic Community (EEC), a forerunner of the European Union (EU) that was promoted as a guarantor of future peace in Europe. For the soldiers on both sides of World War II fighting each other 13 years earlier in the mountains around Monte Cassino, south of Rome, this would have seemed a highly improbable outcome. The Italian Campaign of World War II effectively divided Italians into three groups, and the country into two rival political entities.

Kate Jones and Mandy Hose have experienced the highs and lows of parenting - and they wouldn't change a thing. The pair met a decade ago and bonded over their premature twins with additional needs, and their remarkable capacity for love, laughter and swearing like a trooper. As the mothers grew...

Karen McDermott delivers an inspirational message to everyone who wants to live a life free of regrets and unrealized potential. Karen teaches people how to attract anything they want into their lives. Through the art of manifestation, she has created a highly successful publishing business, financial freedom, and a life she loves. You can create your dream life too. If you believe in magic, there is nothing to stop you reaching your highest potential. We all have access to this incredible life-changing inner power—harness it with love and it will serve your best interests.

Topping Out is a story of adventure, heartaches, and challenges for a young pioneer woman who teaches the children of hardworking Idaho ranchers. The hardships included crossing the hazardous Salmon and Snake Rivers, managing horses and Smoky Mule, traversing narrow trails with pack animals, and fighting a forest fire. As a 16-year-old, Kay had to prove herself and earn respect during the seven years in the high primitive country.

The Phase Titan now has six Harmonics, but Ethan is just one man with no way to wipeout the worldwide infestation. Moonshot experiments risk unintended consequences. Worse, an alien fleet prepares to turn Earth into a radioactive wasteland—not to stop the Swarm, but to prevent Ethan from gaining more power. Faced with two converging apocalypses, Ethan and his Harmonics will need brains, brawn, and all the Psy they can get their hands on. The question is if they can handle it.

With Shirley’s son Brass kidnapped by Vanko Demyan’s father, a man so ancient everyone’s forgotten his name, Shirley has no choice but to speed to Phoenix, acquire a bunch of AK-47’s, and go toe to toe with the entire Demyan crime family. When Shirley receives a text with a photo showing Brass positioned with his head on a bandsaw table, Shirley wants an Old West showdown. But Viva Shirley offers a better path...Hunt them one by one. It works, until it doesn’t.

Aunt K owns a farm where alpacas and a menagerie of other animals live. Three yorkies—Jingle, Jaywok, and Joi Daisy—visit the farm and learn about the different animals including some of the history of these great animals. The yorkies become good friends with June and Josie, a couple of young alpacas. Jingle, Jaywok, and Joi Daisy also meet Betty, the sled dog, a world class athlete who competed in the Iditarod. The farm is home to many more animals, and the yorkie pups think it’s great fun to learn about creatures from different parts of the world.

Research shows children who are massaged at an early age will experience a wealth of physical, intellectual, and emotional benefits. Hands-on Parenting offers a step-by-step program for sharing the power of touch with your children, giving the best possible advantage for growth and success.

The Cost of Service explores the profound personal and emotional sacrifices made by those in law enforcement, ministry, and the military. Through compelling narratives, it reveals the unseen burdens borne by their families. The book honors their commitment while examining the toll of a life devoted to others. It is a tribute to courage, calling, and the quiet cost of duty.

Better Nate than Ever meets Love Sugar Magic in this spooky second novel in the Fearless middle grade series from Hamilton and Broadway star Mandy Gonzalez about a group of young thespians who time travel back to 1950s Broadway. Twelve-year-old Relly can’t wait for his beloved grandfather to...

Told with sharp dialogue, aching tenderness, and unflinching emotional depth, Ethan & Janet is a powerful story of two teens learning what it means to fight for love, to choose family, and to believe, against all odds, that broken things can still become whole.

From its origins in 1973 as a UK tour company with a single bus called ‘Bollocks’, FCL revolutionised the travel industry and morphed into a global giant. It faced challenges including the War on Terror and SARS that wreaked havoc on business. It battled the encroachment of the internet, a disastrous internal restructure and a US acquisition that delivered a profit wipe-out just months before the global financial crisis.

Magdalene's life is full of beginnings, and her latest one sees her moving into her grandmother's house on Cavanaugh Hill. As a photographer, she plans to transform the upstairs into the perfect studio, while making the rest of the house a cozy home for her and her son. They'll be far away from her scumbag of an ex-husband.

At long last, Lady Rample is about to reunite with her paramour, the American jazz musician Hale Davis. But, as usual for our intrepid heroine, her arrival in the French Riviera doesn’t go to plan! Laid up with a concussion thanks to a waterskiing incident, Lady Rample discovers that her aristocratic neighbor isn’t quite who he seems. With the help of the usual eccentrics, she’s going to find the truth and prove he’s up to no good. Unless he gets to her first....

With the plague of bogles in Victorian London barely contained, bogle hunter Alfred Bunce needs all the help he can get. So Ned Roach becomes a bogler’s apprentice, luring child-eating monsters from their lairs just like his friends Jem and Birdie. It’s dangerous work that takes Ned into...

Simone’s starting her junior year in high school. Her mom’s a lawyer for the ACLU, her dad’s a political cartoonist, so she’s grown up standing outside the organic food coop asking people to sign petitions for worthy causes. She’s got a terrific younger brother and amazing friends. And...

Being a woman is a powerful thing. You have the power to bear children, battle with your hormones, conceive it for nine months, become a mother, and for what it’s worth, You are a blessing. Not all can do the job as you do, and taking care of oneself sometimes becomes impossible. Neglecting yourself is very common, especially to new mothers like me. Taking care of yourself is not a sin. Although you might get yourself caught in the middle of being a mom and a wife, you have to look after yourself for your good. Being aware of your health and body makes your mind more at ease.

In this poignant work of fiction, Emma delivers a powerful narrative of one woman's journey from constraint to freedom. When Emma's carefully constructed life begins to crumble, she must confront the shadows of her past while navigating the uncertain terrain of her future. A testament to the human spirit's capacity for renewal. Blooming Through Thorns speaks to anyone who has ever faced the daunting task of rewriting their own story.

As a working woman right now, you are making history. We supposedly have equal opportunities and equal pay, but so many ambitious working women are at the brink of losing their sanity, struggling to find a way to succeed in their careers, as well as having joy, love, and fulfillment in their personal life. Is having it all just a myth? Should you, as a woman, just give up and choose one form of success over the other? To succeed on your terms, you have to become masterful in two areas: assertion and boundaries.