Small Life

In a world where meaningful connections are more important than ever, mastering the art of small talk can be a game-changer. "Mastering Small Talk: Building Confidence and Strategies for Engaging Conversations" is your essential guide to transforming those initial, often awkward exchanges into genuine, lasting relationships. Whether you’re navigating social gatherings, professional settings, or networking events, this book provides the tools and techniques to engage in confident and effective small talk.

Everyday Life with a Small Twist is a quietly powerful exploration of intuition, awareness, and the hidden signals woven into ordinary life. In a world dominated by constant notifications, endless scrolling, and algorithm-driven noise, one woman begins to notice something different—a subtle internal “buzz” that appears just before messages arrive, calls ring, or moments unfold. At first, it feels like coincidence. Then it becomes something harder to ignore.

Desperate to escape their high-pressure life in Los Angeles, the Finch family moves to rural Oregon. But it doesn’t take long to learn that “small town” is not code for “stress-free.” As the new owners of Applegate's one and only general store, the Finches find that the simple life’s anything but simple when your little store is the town's only grocery store, gas station, hardware store, fire station, and occasional dentist’s office.

On the brink of death, a man comes to terms with the life he lived versus the one he never pursued in an emotionally rich novel of parallel lives, redemption, and finding purpose. On the eve of his sixtieth birthday, mechanic Rusty Wilson takes a bullet to save the patrons of a small-town...

Discover the potent force of kaizen... and use it to easily, effortlessly achieve any goal or make any change you want to!We've been programmed to believe that change is a "battle" - something hard fought and hard won, something that demands struggle and sacrifice. But as anyone who uses the technique known as kaizen can tell you, nothing could be further from the truth. With kaizen, it's effortless, simple, and inevitable to change your life.

James Hunt is twenty-eight, a few weeks in Sunshine Shores, and not the man who showed up. He owns a condo. He owns a boat. He pays his tab. He fixes what breaks. A cop. A barista. A realtor with a mother flying in from Seoul. Four more women in town who haven't decided about him yet. His father's flying in for Labor Day. Duke Law's still on the calendar for September. The good life is his, if he can keep it.

She just wanted a fresh start. Sparrow Creek had other plans. Claire Donovan didn't move to wine country looking for trouble. After walking away from a high-pressure career and a marriage that quietly fell apart, all she wanted was to take over her late aunt's bookshop and figure out who she was without either one. Then her cat found a body. Cab — the opinionated tuxedo cat she inherited along with the shop — leads Claire straight to a corpse in the vineyard's wine cellar on the night of the town's harvest festival. Suddenly Claire is the woman who found the body, the deputy ...

A moment. A mistake. That's all it took for Kennedy Reynolds to lose her first love and her family. She's spent a decade traveling the world, building a life, hiding the truth, never looking back at the past--until her adopted mother's unexpected death pulls her back to the small town--and the secret--she left behind. A chance to make amends. That’s all Xander Kincaid wants from the woman who ran away with his heart all those years ago. At least that's what he tells himself, until he sees her again and that old flame flares bright.

A self-help guide for adults seeking lasting personal change through small, consistent habits. Drawing on behavioral science, neuroscience, and real-life case studies, this book challenges the culture of grand ambitions and offers a practical framework for building momentum one manageable decision at a time. Covers habit formation, motivation, identity, and resilience. Suitable for general adult collections. Subject headings: habit formation, behavior change, self-improvement, motivation.

Twenty-seven, eight years in the Army, a few months out, and a few months from starting law school at Duke. James Hunt's gap year was supposed to be a quiet one. Then his uncle dies and leaves him a beachfront condo in a small California town and a leather ledger with thirty years of handwriting in it. Duke is in September. Sunshine Shores is right now.

Emmett Dameworth has more money than he knows what to do with and two kids who need him at home. His daughter Vera is nine and never causes trouble. His son Huck is eight and causes nothing but trouble. Since their mother walked out three years ago, Emmett has handled every problem the same way - by paying someone to fix it. Roslyn Fullilove is Huck's new fourth grade teacher. She is warm, funny, and impossible to intimidate. When Huck destroys another boy's school project, Emmett comes in with his checkbook out before she has even opened her folder. She tells him to put it away. Huck does ...

From #1 Amazon Bestselling Author Kel Summer Harmony Bay: The Complete 7-Book Series A Small-Town Women’s Fiction and Sweet Romance Series of Later-in-Life Second Chances 🎵 Seven stories. One coastal town. And the second chances that change everything. Maggie Donovan spent a lifetime building a life that looked exactly the way it was supposed to. Carefully managed. Carefully controlled. Carefully… incomplete. Until the moment it all begins to fracture—and she makes the one choice she never thought she would: She leaves. In the quiet coastal town of Harmony Bay, Maggie isn’t ...

With the Latest BBB Tax Bill Details including No Tax on Tips, Overtime and Car Interest! What makes this book different? Two Things: It is organized by life event instead of tax topics and it is written in English. 88 Chapters and 4 appendixes the majority of which are either absolutely necessary tax knowledge, timely updated information for a specific year or tax law, or a specific life event such as having kids or retiring for which it would be good to know how it affects your taxes, preferably BEFORE you file or make a mistake. Each chapter is organized in the best way possible to make ...

Take a breath, find your calm, and embrace all the goodness life has to offer with a new daily guide featuring the best-loved wisdom from The Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Series. Dr. Richard Carlson has taught millions how to let go of the anxieties and fears that can derail our day and instead...

Some women return home to say goodbye. Others return to discover who they really are. At forty-eight years old, Lila Simmons has spent years holding her life together by sheer force of will. After a painful divorce shattered the carefully controlled world she built, the last thing she wants is to return to Salt Flower Bay—the small Florida beach town she spent thirty years trying to escape. But when her estranged mother dies unexpectedly, Lila has no choice but to go home. Her plan is simple: Settle the estate. Clean out the house. Leave before the past has a chance to pull her under ...

A heart too big for this world. A life that changes everyone. "The audio version of Life & Death & Giants is especially captivating, with a cast of talented narrators voicing each of the points of view. Fans of John Irving will appreciate the quirky characters and surprising plot line. And...

Where Dreams Go to Die... or maybe NOT! Lily’s a gorgeous woman vacationing in the last place on earth she wants to be, and she has her husband Judd to thank for this ‘get away’. She wonders why they’re here when they could be anywhere else, like Paris, Italy or even the Caribbean. Determined to make the best of it despite everything, Lily is determined to find some excitement before her unwanted vacation ends. A hotwife romance short, intimacy.

A President dies under mysterious circumstances, leaving a secret mistress and their twelve-year-old son…and also a loyal First Lady who has no idea what went wrong with their marriage. Forty-nine-year old widow Ruby Hudson, the former First Lady of the United States, needs a fresh start. As she mourns the loss of her husband, she turns her love of books into a whole new career, opening a little bookshop on a charming, pirate-themed island called Shipwreck Key just off the coast of the Florida Panhandle. Her two daughters think she’s crazy, but Ruby can finally breathe again knowing ...

Summer was supposed to be easy. Sun on the water. Long afternoons on the dock. A beach town that always promised one more good time before dark and even more after. He got all of it. He also got a business, a boat, a name over the door, and seven women who know exactly where they stand. Now summer's ending, and a letter from Duke Law demands a decision.

When a billionaire CEO walks into a bakery, he gets more than a sweet treat, he now has a fake girlfriend. I never expected a simple favor for my grandfather to turn my world upside down. One minute I'm focused on my company, the next I'm playing the role of Piper's devoted boyfriend. Small-town chaos and wedding planning mayhem ensue, but being by her side feels right, even if it's all pretend. As I help her with her bakery and get entangled in her family drama, I start to question what I truly want. This fake relationship has become all too real, and I'm not sure I'm ready to let go. ...