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Jaynie Floyd, a celebrated mystery writer, has a book on the New York Times best seller list. It’s wonderful news and her agent wants to send her on a book tour to promote it. However, Jaynie is newly widowed and doesn’t want to go.

As Violet waffles over whether to stick with her cheating fiancé, she and her friends must cater his formal military dinner. When an officer is found beaten, and not with a whisk, her fiancé is the prime suspect and temperatures rise in and out of the kitchen. Can Violet and the handsome investigator crack the criminal before the tension boils over?

The basic concept of the alkaline diet follows an ideology that believes that the human body turns into a very healthy metabolic machine when acidic (acid forming) foods are completely replaced with Alkaline based ones. Without any prior knowledge, this is a concept that might seem a little bit hard to believe at first, but scientists all around the world are proving it otherwise! In fact, the positivity of this alkaline diet has been proven to the extent that it can even fend of diseases such as cancer.

Nobody wakes up one day and decides they want to have an eating disorder. And eating disorders are certainly not about getting attention or vanity. It is not a “lifestyle” or “choice” you make. Depression and/or anxiety often coexist with an eating disorder, making it all the more problematic. Experts believe those who suffer with eating disorders have a chemical imbalance in their brain with a lack of serotonin.

Discover the way to perfect your skills and unburden your soul by boosting your self-esteem and ultimately accomplishing whatever you set your mind to when it comes to talking to others. Make use of a wide range of simple yet effective tips, along with practical information and examples of what to say, how to say it, and how to evaluate each situation to your best interest.

Parker’s poems continue to resonate today. She was trying to make sense of who she was in a world that was busy telling her who she could and should be, regardless of how she felt about it. Aren’t we all? Having Parker’s acerbic irreverence and wit reflect our own lives back to us, in which, as she says, “good and bad are woven in a crazy plaid”, gives us reassurance, perspective, courage, and a much needed laugh.

Positive affirmations are defined as: statements that affirm something to be true, or positive phrases that a person repeats to themselves to describe how or who they want. Affirmations can help in so many different areas of life, it’s truly amazing. Affirmations can also be used to increase your awareness of your positive attributes and reinforce your confidence in yourself.

The seven traditional chakras are each associated with a color, an area of the body and with emotional qualities. This set of seven visualization meditations allows you spend a little time focusing on each chakra and the qualities that it embodies. The mediations are all similarly formatted; starting with a simple body scan, then exploring the chakra, and then returning to the present moment. This repetition of structure offers comfort and with repeated use, will help you feel a sense of “coming home”.

Meet Kacy Marie Aspen. A young and curious girl with schizophrenia who just turned 17. Upon discovering the house and witnessing several odd figures standing out front, she soon finds herself being stalked by them almost everywhere that she goes. As she struggles to determine if what she is seeing is real or in her head, will she confront these strange characters and find out their story? Or will she descend into madness and learn that it might be all in her head?

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was brilliant, well-educated, well-read, well-traveled, privileged, and prolific. Wharton was, one might say, an influencer of her time. Her body of work encompasses 15 novels, seven novellas, 80-plus short stories, poems, plays, and nonfiction writings spanning travel, design, criticism, war articles, and a memoir. In 1921, she was the first woman awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Literature for her most famous novel, The Age of Innocence.

The Reset begins the story of discovery for Mena Garcia, the scientist who unknowingly unearths an alien artifact that holds the key to catastrophic end of life on Earth.

Mother to the child who will doom a kingdom...or save it. Adelaide didn’t mean to doom an entire kingdom. She only cut the queen’s lifeline to save the newborn prince. Now banished, she is determined to prove herself even if that means playing with fate. But all magic has a price, and the spell meant to bring her a human child instead brings her one sired by one of the darkest Fae. Can she raise the child to save the kingdom he is fated to destroy? Life was much easier when she was able to see ahead.

Grant, a billionaire CEO and former Navy SEAL, is buying the only company that can make his newest tech possible. But his Christmas trip to Austin isn’t as simple as it seems and kidnapping is the last thing on his mind. Caught up in a plot that drags him into the heart of danger, he finds more than he’s looking for when he meets Maisy. And trouble isn’t far behind. Will this small-town spitfire Texas woman be the salvation he needs? Can he prevent her from becoming a casualty when death lurks in the shadows?

Adair Stanton grew up in the peaceful hamlet known as North Western. While she ran barefoot through wildflowers, her family ran a prosperous inn on the stagecoach route. As an adult with a child of her own, Adair is ready to take her place at the inn. One of the guests, a man named Robert Fawn, is convinced he’ll find gold in the Mohawk River that flows through North Western. Everyone believes him to be daft. Then one day, Robert Fawn vanishes. Adair is convinced someone has harmed him for the gold. But who in her hometown would be so sinister?

My purpose was handed to me in the shape of an envelope, a simple paper container with a sealable flap that holds a little bit of hope for our everyday heroes. As it turned out, a life of stationery was my destiny, not a stationary life. And it all began on the heels of a broken heart. For the better part of my life, I dreamed of and even prayed for an epic love story, and this is a love story on so many levels. I just never expected it to come at such a great toll. But then again, if you look back through the course of history, the greatest love stories always do.

When Conrad and his wife set out to meet their friends for a simple weekend retreat, all they wanted was an easy weekend full of catching up and drinking. But when the group discovers a map that shows them the location of a hidden waterfall in the heart of an uncharted valley, they can’t help but jump at the opportunity to rediscover it.

What if you could write a book, get it in front of millions of readers, and it wouldn’t cost you a dime or cost next to nothing? Even better, what if you received a commission for every book that was sold from your site? Oh yeah, and once it's done, it will earn you perpetual income forever. Yup, you read it right! You can, thanks to Kindle, Amazon, and Audible making it all possible - and I am going to show you how. All you need to do is be your creative self, read, and take action.

Reeling from the loss of Earth, Commodore of EVE Hank Casey’s mission changes. A surprise passenger and alien technology are discovered which lead Tony Garcia and Hank on a mission of redemption. Marine leaders train civilian forces to increase their combatant numbers to liberate a planet that can potentially host a colony for the future of humanity. All the while, Mena Garcia is thrust into a leadership position—will she dig deep enough to finally finish something that she started?

Take an average-looking 32-year-old woman, an internet typing blunder, a group of doting gay men, a social-climbing gorgeous Latin poser, and a humble British nobleman and you have Just Call Me Lady. With the help of her "Queer Eye" team, Connie Botello blossoms, and a web of assumptions and comic faux pas ensues when she buys an online noble title and assumes the persona of Lady Constance Widford of Exeter, England. Love, deception, exotic locations, arrests, and celebrity all complicate this once small-town girl's life with a lovely, redemptive conclusion.

50 Things to Know About Being a Music Teacher, by author Juan Rangel, offers a holistic approach to teaching music. Most books on teaching music give you a pedagogy and offer lesson plans that fit a very structured mold. Although there's nothing wrong with that, the musical experience is unique to everyone and doesn’t fit just one specific personality. Based on first hand knowledge, there are many talented music teachers, but being exceptional is something that eludes most.