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The couples in this collection will do everything they can to find love, even when riches get in the way. The six-book Inherit Love collection follows six couples' romantic journey to inheritance and love. Inside, you can escape to a tropical paradise or an Irish castle. Listen to stories of arranged marriages, second chances at love, office romances, enemies to lovers, and even amnesia. You'll find marriages of convenience (and inconvenience), babies, football teams, bodyguards, and other smoking hot heroes.

As we age, our memories become unreliable; we misplace things and forget details. In Ultimate Memory Magic, memory expert Jim Karol shows that these side effects of aging are not inevitable. His memory-boosting system, called Cogmental Intelligence, goes beyond preserving mental acuity and actually enhances memory and mental function through lifestyle changes and mental exercises. Concentration, alertness, and focus can all be strengthened - by anyone, at any age.

Kids today are more gender fluent and expansive than ever before. In America, around two percent of teenagers (over 700,000) openly identify as transgender. As it becomes increasingly common for us to encounter and know transgender kids, as well as kids with more expansive notions of gender than past generations, it is vital that we have the tools we need in order to truly see and support them. Free to Be is an authoritative deep dive by internationally renowned child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Jack Turban into the science, medicine, and politics of gender identity.

While Cody and Romeo finish their apprenticeship in Indonesia, Spenser travels to Australia in search of Vince Ryker. Along the way, they'll encounter danger and find love.

In the 1990s, researchers in the Arctic noticed that floating summer sea ice had begun receding. This was accompanied by shifts in ocean circulation and unexpected changes in weather patterns throughout the world. The Arctic's perennially frozen ground, known as permafrost, was warming, and treeless tundra was being overtaken by shrubs. What was going on? Brave New Arctic is Mark Serreze's riveting firsthand account of how scientists from around the globe came together to find answers.

Seventeen-year-old Rogue has always classified herself as socially awkward, preferring video games over a trip to the mall. When she wakes up in a forest, she finds that life as she knew it has changed forever, and she cannot remember how. In fact, she can't remember the last six months at all. As she navigates this new world she soon discovers a talent for combat and survival she'd never had before. A handy ability in a world where humans compete in a game governed by rules she can't remember.

After rising to queen, Rogue now must deal with a lot more than she bargained for. Royalty doesn’t just sit around and give orders in Skaki. No, the best of them participate in the much-acclaimed Grand Match that could change their race’s status forever - if they win. But no one except an Ilintian has ever won it. So it’s time for her to team up with an old friend, some new ones, and an unlikely ally to go for the gold. But this is no normal match. There is only one single-player winner. Meanwhile, in the Real, Jewel has challenges to face of her own.

This audiobook contains proven steps and strategies to successfully free yourself from stress, stop emotional eating, and lead a better life. This audiobook also contains useful information regarding the symptoms and causes of stress, as well as how it affects your life. It also discusses how stress impacts your mind and body. In addition, it provides tips on how you can avoid being stressed and how to change your approach towards stressors.

Human cloning. Technology evolves faster than we do. The law shields us from our worst temptations. But the opportunity is there, dangling just out of reach - perfection and ascension or delusion and destruction. The choice is ours. In this collection of clone-themed stories, 10 of today’s top speculative fiction writers explore our morality and built-in societal restraints and reflect upon our state of grace. Similar is not necessarily the same.

When Zoey finds out before her wedding that her fiancée cheated again, she desperately employs the mysterious Max to yell 'I object' at the alter. On the day Zoey see's a gorgeous stranger stand up and tell the entire congregation that he knows for a fact that her fiancée is cheating. As Zoey drunkenly invites Max to celebrate with her, they agree to work together as a love cynic duo. They're both hired for a wedding by a groom, who happens to be marrying the woman that broke Max's heart many years ago. And as she sees Max wrestle with his feelings, she's struck by jealousy.

Wildheath Castle is rightly mine. No one on earth cares more about that beautiful relic than me. I've been the caretaker for the past five years, and the old man promised he'd leave it to me. Now, his American granddaughter has come all the way to Ireland to usurp me. But I’ll not let that lass outfox me, no matter how badly I want to press her against the wall and give her a proper welcome.

They say miracles are myth, fairy tales created for the pious masses. But for a lonely knight returning from the Crusades and a grieving lady with no hope for her future, a miracle will change both their lives forever. Meet Sir Rennington of Ashbourne and Lady Holly St. Maur, and discover the beauty of their Christmas miracle for yourself in this romantic tale.

Bloomberg tech journalist Mark Bergen delivers the definitive account on YouTube, detailing how it started, how it works and ultimately how it drives Google's success. It can be seen as the story of a technical marvel that has upended traditional media and created stars out of everyday people, or the story of the rise of a ruthless advertising conglomerate with little regard for its impact on the world beyond the bottom line—but in reality, it's the story of both.

It seems obvious that pleasure leads to happiness - and pain does the opposite. And yet we are irresistibly drawn to a host of experiences that truly hurt, from the exhilarating fear of horror movies or extreme sport, to the wrenching sadness of a song or novel, to the gruelling challenges of exercise, work, creativity and having a family. In The Sweet Spot, pre-eminent psychologist Paul Bloom explores the pleasures of suffering and explains why the activities that provide most satisfaction are often the ones that involve greatest sacrifice.

Wes O’Neill is perfectly content to hang with his friends and enjoy island life on Lantern Beach. Something begins to change inside him when Paige Henderson sweeps into his life. But the beautiful newcomer is hiding painful secrets beneath her cheerful facade. Police dispatcher Paige Henderson came to Lantern Beach riddled with guilt and uncertainties after the fallout of a bad relationship. When she meets Wes, she begins to open up to the possibility of love again. But there’s something Wes isn’t telling her - something that could change everything.

A stranger invades her home, leaving Rebecca Jarvis terrified. Above all, she must protect the baby growing inside her. Since her estranged husband died under suspicious circumstances six months earlier, Rebecca has been determined to depend on no one but herself. Her chivalrous new neighbor appears to be an answer to prayer. But who is Levi Stoneman, really?

Four teenage boys are high school seniors at two very different schools within the city of Los Angeles, the second largest school district in the nation with nearly 700,000 students. In this “exceptional work of investigative journalism…laced with compassion, insight, and humor” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) Jeff Hobbs stunningly captures the challenges and triumphs of being a young person confronting the future — both their own and the cultures in which they live — in contemporary America.

Who was Ernest Withers? Most Americans may not know the name, but they do know his photographs. Withers took some of the most legendary images of the 1950s and ’60s: Martin Luther King, Jr., riding a newly integrated bus in Montgomery, Alabama; Emmett Till’s uncle pointing an accusatory finger across the courtroom at one of his nephew’s killers; scores of African-American protestors, carrying a forest of signs reading "I am a man." But while he enjoyed unparalleled access to the inner workings of the civil rights movement, Withers was working as an informant for the FBI.

>Do you discover yourself continually feeling anxiety? Do you regularly think that it difficult to praise your own triumphs? Have particular disappointments in your past kept you from advancing and seeking after your objectives and dreams? At the point when things happen, do you discover yourself surrendering rather rapidly? Is your first nature to reprimand as opposed to recognize? On the off chance that you replied "yes" to any of the inquiries above, then this book is for you.

For her entire life, Lisa Garth has felt like a supporting character in the drama of life. The designation never bothered her — until now. Lantern Beach, where she’s settled and runs a popular restaurant, has boarded up for the season. The slower pace leaves her with too much time alone. Braden Dillinger came to Lantern Beach to try to heal. The former Special Forces officer returned from battle with invisible scars and diminished hope. But his recovery is hampered by the fact that an unknown enemy is trying to kill him.