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Is your life filled with valueless objects that don’t make you happy? Do you feel anxious when you buy things but you can’t control the urge? Would you like to let go of unimportant stuff with a peace of mind? Your happiness costs less than you think. You deserve a stress-free life - where the things you own serve you and help you live a well-balanced life. The Art of Minimalism will present you four minimalist techniques, the bests from around the world, to give you a perspective on how to declutter your house, your mind, and your life in general.

Jack Abrams was the new chief of police in Gig Harbor, Washington, and after working in the violent crimes division in Seattle, Washington, he was ready for some peace and quiet. That is until he met Kate Foley, daughter of former police chief Ed Foley. Evidence from her mother's murder and her troubled nephew will throw them together. Can he keep his personal feelings for Kate at bay, or will their growing relationship stop him from doing the one thing he vowed to do, protect Kate and her nephew at all costs?

"Ethan Frome" is a novel by Edith Wharton, set in the fictional New England town of Starkfield. There a visiting engineer tells the story of his encounter with Ethan Frome, a man with a history of thwarted dreams and desires. The accumulated longing of Frome ends in an ironic turn of events. His initial impressions are based on his observations of Frome going about his mundane tasks in Starkfield, and something about him catches the eye and curiosity of the visitor, but no one in the town seems interested in revealing many details about the man or his history -or perhaps they are not able to.

"A Tale of Two Cities" (1859) is a Dickens' novel set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The story opens in 1775, when Doctor Manette is reunited with his daughter Lucie after having been locked away in the Bastille for 18 years. Lucie nurtures her half-mad father back to health, but their troubles are far from over, as their lives become entangled with the emigrant son of the Marquis St. Evrémonde, the wayward ne'er-do-well Sydney Carton, and the vengeful Madame and Monsieur Defarge.

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1890) is a novel by Oscar Wilde. Dorian Gray is the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Dorian is selected for his remarkable physical beauty, and Basil becomes strongly infatuated with Dorian, believing that his beauty is responsible for a new mode of art. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" is considered one of the last works of classic gothic horror fiction with a strong Faustian theme.

Allie's sister Em does a total makeover transformation on her, encouraging to leave all her bad Jack-mojo behind and have some fun. Em's advice leads to the best night of her life and a pregnancy. She thinks she'll put the baby up for adoption. She's warned that unless Daniel relinquishes his parental rights, the adoptive parents may lose the child they've assumed was there's for months.

It is 1958, and as Laika, the Sputnik dog, is launched into space, Golly Murray, the Cullymore barber's wife, finds herself oddly obsessing about the canine cosmonaut. Meanwhile, Fonsey "Teddy" O'Neill is returning, like the prodigal son, from overseas, with Brylcreem in his hair and a Cuban-heeled swagger to his step, having experienced his coming-of-age in Skegness, England. Father Augustus Hand is working on a bold new theatrical production for Easter, which he, for one, knows will put Cullymore on the map.

Learn how blockchain and Initial Coin Offerings (“ICOs”), a great evolution in the financial services industry, have the potential to unleash free market capitalism as never before and create global financial inclusion.

Mountain Notes: A Nature Diary is a captivating, poetic journal that celebrates the rugged beauty of the Dromara Hills in County Down, Northern Ireland where the author returned home to live on her family farm in 2020. Maggie Doyle grew up on this small dairy farm and feels a deep, emotional connection to this landscape and the rhythms of the natural world. Following a thirty-year career in radio production at BBC Northern Ireland, she took early retirement in 2019.

"The Republic" (380 BC) by Plato is a Socratic dialogue, concerning the definition of justice, the order and character of the just city-state and the just man. As Plato's best-known work, it has proven to be one of the world's most influential works of philosophy and political theory, both intellectually and historically. In it, Socrates along with various Athenians and foreigners discuss the meaning of justice and examine whether or not the just man is happier than the unjust man by considering a series of different cities.

"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is one of the most famous novella of Stevenson. The story is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson, who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll and the evil Edward Hyde. The work is commonly associated with the rare mental condition often called "split personality", where, within the same body, there exists more than one distinct personality.

"Heart of Darkness" (1899) is a classic of world literature by Joseph Conrad. He acknowledged that "Heart of Darkness" was in part based on his own experiences during his travels in Africa. In 1890, at the age of 32, he was appointed to serve as the captain of a steamer on the Congo River by a Belgian trading company. The book tells a story about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa.

A gentle and once beautiful dog is now old, abandoned and confined to living at the dog shelter. No one wants to adopt an old dog, yet something keeps tugging at him to not give up hope. He spends each day looking for that miracle person who will love and adopt him. Does that person exist? His kennel mates don’t seem to think so and tell him so. On the other side of town, an old man Hank, lives in a house filled with sorrow and despair after losing the love of his life, Emma. Without her what could fill his heart?

Who hasn't let their mind drift on their daily commute? This story starts with fantasy—the hot, well-read man on the train catches your eye and gives you something to look forward to from Monday to Friday. It ends with that reverie turned to reality, where the guy is just as into you as you are him, and you're bolder in real life than you ever expected to be. The laws of attraction and the politics of commuting come together in the close quarters of the Washington, DC, metro system.

Trusted: The Proven Path to Customer Loyalty and Business Growth reveals how top companies harness trust to secure their market dominance and drive substantial growth. Expert Natalie Doyle Oldfield, a leading authority on trust in business, provides a proven framework for turning customer trust into a powerful revenue engine. Drawing from research and real-world success stories, Doyle Oldfield outlines actionable strategies to enhance your organization’s "Trust Equity™" and convert it into increased sales and stronger client relationships.

Former abused wife falls for the local carpenter/former Marine she's not sure she can dare to trust another man...When Evie Grimes' stalker ex-husband shows up dead at her back door she isn't sure what to trust; her old memories or her new love. Brady Jackson is a former Marine. Now a carpenter, he is as honest as the day is long. What you see is what you get and what you get is a man willing to do anything to protect the woman he's grown to love. When everyone else turns against him, will Evie be willing to dare to trust?

The story of pioneer fire chief Ed Caswell and the early years of Cochrane, Ontario, which survived a string of major fires and other challenges. In celebrating Cochrane, the book strives to explain stubborn persistence by focusing on Caswell. At the time of his death in1950, he was not only regarded as the last surviving pioneer of the town’s early days, but also as the one who best represented a deep commitment to the town and its fortunes.

In 2007, intelligence operative Nikita Kudashov attempts to escape his native Russia after a series of top-secret spying operations. Years later, Patrick West of MI6 is assigned to investigate the operations Kudashov took part in, and discovers a shocking connection between the former Soviet Union and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Can West unravel the ambiguous connection - and the final clue that disguises the information Blythe-Smith never passed on to the Secret Intelligence Service?

'I pictured myself a wine-dark streak in a TV desert, ears too full of the summer wind to hear that ominous ticking in the sky: the sound of a cultural clock counting me out of youth.' Briohny Doyle turned 30 without a clear idea of what her adult life should look like. The world she lived in, with its global economic uncertainty, political conservatism and precarious employment conditions, didn't match the one her parents grew up in.

This program explains Paul’s success in a corrupt urban society and how certain passages that have been used to vilify Paul as anti-woman were interpolations into the text. Hedonist Corinthians transformed into the Body of Christ.