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Discover the astonishing backstories behind the ordinary items you touch every day - and will never look at the same way again. What do the paperclip, the button, and the toothbrush have in common? They’ve quietly shaped the modern world from behind the scenes. Everyday Objects: The Secret Lives of the Paperclip – and Nine Other Mundane Inventions pulls back the curtain on ten humble tools, revealing the riveting, ridiculous, and revolutionary tales behind the items we overlook. From resistance movements to fashion upheavals, engineering breakthroughs to domestic revolutions, this book ...

You're fed up with the way that your relationship is. You're fed up with your OCPD partner. Their behavior is driving your crazy and hinges on the brink of abusiveness. You feel yourself slipping into the depths of depression. Stop the insanity. Rescue your marriage. Have the right conversations with your OCPD spouse right now.

Fiery, free-loving Amber Fields has just discovered she's the daughter of a 90s rock legend. Amber is determined to know more and heads to the bright lights of New York City, a world away from the hippie commune she’s grown up on in Maine. She tracks down the band but answers seem hard to come by. And then there’s the new lead guitarist - troubled, sexy, intriguing Ty who is anything but welcoming.

Still bitter about his failed engagement and life on the family ranch, Ian MacKenzie has been cranky for nearly three years. His brother Mack's married bliss hasn't helped, and now his pregnant sister-in-law's airhead best friend is coming for a visit. Candice arrives to help with the new baby, even though it means swapping her Louboutins for snow boots and her flat irons for flannel.

In these 20 short chapters, Karen Casey explores what matters most about loss, unconditional love, security, surrender, powerlessness, peace, strength, and fear. Each chapter touches on how her own commitment to a spiritual path has had the greatest influence on her life’s direction.

Someone knows my secret and they’re wielding it as the weapon of my execution. I stand accused of poisoning my Gravebriar coven mate. To my fatal regret, I can’t prove my innocence without revealing the truth I’ve long kept hidden: While every other Gravebriar witch are green witches and healers, my magic lies in poisons.

Peacemakers. The Galactic Union’s most capable enforcers and resolute negotiators, their name alone elicits fear and awe among the Union’s citizenry. Set the Terms includes 14 all-new Peacemaker-themed stories in the Four Horsemen universe.

The King is dead. One by one, heads of state fall—ritualistic, symbolic, and terrifyingly precise. The CIA sends in their best: Will and Thomas. They're partners in espionage and lovers in a world where one wrong move means a bullet—or worse. Their orders? Hunt the killers. Keep it quiet. Don't die.

Sewing machine maintenance is usually overlooked, until something goes wrong with the machine.. When the machine gives up from a lack of cleaning and oiling, it usually means a hefty cost to get it going again. You can do the maintenance yourself and save the cost of a breakdown; follow these instructions and you will have a happy dependable sewing machine; ready to use. This book has the information to guide you through cleaning, oiling, and adjusting your sewing machine. This book is for you; it will help guide you, and simplify the maintenance of your sewing machine.

Rowhouse Hymns A Novel by Donnell Casey and Monique Disu In 1995 Philadelphia, the walls of the Richard Allen Projects echo with gospel music, laughter, and the quiet ache of men who carry too much. Brandon Tills is one of them: a husband, a father, and a man trying to hold his world together while the bottle keeps tearing it apart. By day, Brandon fights to be the man his family deserves. By night, he wrestles with his reflection, guilt, addiction, and the memories of what he used to be. His wife Denise, loves him fiercely but grows tired of loving him alone. Their niece Imani, wise beyond...

Far from bitter or self-pitying, Rock Monster is an honest account of one woman’s life-changing experience in a relationship with rock legend Joe Walsh. At once envious, glamorous, debauched and disturbing, it’s her long and winding journey from life in the fast lane to sobriety and redemption.

Alec Slater is a bachelor, never one to bed the same woman, or man, twice. He is a free agent who does what he pleases and answers to no one - that is until a fiery Irish redhead with a temper to match her hair color knocks him on his arse. Literally.

So I woke up married today. For some that’s not a big deal. For me…I have no idea who the woman is. Don’t get me wrong—her killer curves, big smile, and way-too-eager-to-be-married-to-me attitude is kind of attractive. But this isn’t me. I’m the guy on the team who makes sure this kind of crap doesn’t happen. There’s one choice: end the marriage. Pronto. I’m going under the knife for shoulder surgery and my plan is to wake up with a new shoulder and be a single man. I couldn’t be any more wrong if I tried…

OCPD sufferers WANT their relationships to work. So how come your relationship isn't working? Did you realize that your reaction to your OCPD partner's symptoms and personality may actually be causing their symptoms to WORSEN? Get your relationship under control before your partner's symptoms control you!

This book is for the Back Alley Mechanic. You are the type of guy who makes do with what you have to work with. You don't have a lot of tools but you know how to work the tools you have. You don't want to spend a lot of money on fixing that old power tool, but you would like to keep it going for a little while longer. This is the book for you. Most Back Alley Mechanics are familiar with a four stroke engine carburetor, but the two stroke engine carburetor can be a bit of a challenge. This book is written for the person who wants to feel confident with both types of carburetors.

Rhonda Perea und Jared Samson verbinden zwei Dinge: Sie sind Special Agents bei Homeland Security Investigations und sie haben eine lockere Affäre. Beides ändert sich schlagartig, als Rhonda nur knapp einem Anschlag entgeht. Sie flüchtet nach Santa Barbara, wo sie Unterschlupf bei einem alten Freund sucht. Währenddessen findet Jared heraus, dass Rhonda kurz davor war, einen Schmuggler-Skandal in den eigenen Reihen aufzudecken, und gerät dadurch selbst in den Fokus der Drahtzieher. Ein gefährliches Katz- und Mausspiel mit ungewissem Ausgang nimmt seinen Lauf.

Sex is tragically misunderstood in our society. We get contradictory advice (frequently unsolicited) from family, teachers, religious institutions, and even well-meaning therapists who are dealing with their own shame around sex. Despite all of the mixed messages we get, sex is wonderfully good and offers the promise of improving all aspects of human life. Fortunately, for us as individuals and couples, a new day is dawning.

Travel thirty miles north, south, or east of San Francisco city hall and you'll be engulfed in a landscape of thick traffic, fast enterprise, and six-dollar cappuccinos. Venture thirty miles due west, however, and you will find yourself on what is virtually another planet: a spooky cluster of...

It's New Year's Eve, and the world is about to change. Forever. Out of nowhere, a catastrophic EMP event cripples the nation's power supply. Cars spiral off the streets. Planes hurtle from the skies. And in the powerless confusion, it doesn't take long for terrified survivors to resort to violence. Max is working as a security guard in the city center when the power goes out. Surrounded by chaos, he knows he only has one choice: to get out of the city and get to the countryside. But will he make it out of a city that is rapidly collapsing?

I always remember Scarlett as the one-night-stand who got away from me. I fell in love; she took off. It feels like a lifetime ago now, though. I traded in my guitar for a needle, working at St. Skin, bringing other people's stories to life through tattoos. Though I still think about her, I know I'll never see her again. But I never knew that after she left our one night, she left pregnant.