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This nonfiction self-help book for young listeners with disordered eating and body-image problems delivers real talk about eating disorders and body image, tools and information for recovery, and suggestions for dealing with the media messages that contribute so much to disordered eating.

Even in a sport as legendary as baseball, players are no exception to the roller-coaster ride of life. Every single person has their own tale of failure, courage, and success, no matter how big or small - it’s when you put them together that you unearth the ultimate underdog story. In A Game of Extremes, you will discover 25 stories of the most exceptional baseball players to this day, revealing a more transparent look at the lives of these famous athletes.

Ammu, figlia di un alto funzionario, lascia un marito violento e torna a casa con i suoi bambini, i gemelli Estha e Rahel, maschio e femmina. Ma nell’India meridionale dei tardi anni Sessanta, una donna divorziata come lei si ritrova priva di una posizione sociale riconosciuta, soprattutto se commette l’errore di innamorarsi di un paria.

A true-life adventure sure to shock as well as inspire. AK47s, masked thugs, and brutal urgency erupt from Roy Hallums' account of his abduction in Iraq, shredding through those frequently sterile cable news reports revealing that another "American contractor is being held hostage . . ." Hallums...

"De usynlige" er en familiesaga, et stykke Norgeshistorie og ikke mindst en stærk og rørende coming-of-age-fortælling. Ingrid vokser op på en ø i begyndelsen af det 20. århundrede. Her har hendes familie boet i generationer, som de eneste. Fra øen kan de se ind til fastlandet, men fastlandet ser ikke dem. Havet er hendes eventyr. Fiskene, stormene, fattigdommen. Hun ejer årstiderne, fuglene og horisonten. Ingrid lærer det, ingen længere kan. En dag må hun lære endnu mere.

Memory and Study Habits is an audio program designed by Roy Hunter helping listeners with their study habits. Roy Hunter, MS, FAPHP, is a Certified Hypnotherapy Instructor, author/trainer, and professional public speaker. He received the 1990 Hypnotic Voice of the Year Award from the International Hypnosis Hall of Fame. He started practicing hypnosis professionally in 1983, and has taught professional hypnosis since 1987. Today he teaches and lectures to hypnosis professionals both across the USA and abroad.

The Empty Envelope E is for Envelope...Dink keeps getting envelopes in the mail addressed to "D. Duncan." But the letters inside all start with "Dear Doris" and don't make any sense! Josh and Ruth Rose think someone's playing a trick on Dink. But Dink is sure there's more to it than that...

The Little Red King is lost! As day quickly turns to night, and with tired eyes, the children ready themselves for their beds. As they settle down and each says their goodnights, they realise one is missing...The youngest of the group, The Little Red King! To find him they must overcome woods, streams, big old trees, and everything in between. Join the children and their animal friends on an adventure of a lifetime, as they journey further and higher than they've ever been before. Only the bravest will triumph, will you join them?

After a long and arduous journey spanning the breadth of the empire, Belgrieve has finally laid his regrets to rest and can begin thinking about what the future holds for his steadily growing circle of family and friends. With the defeat of the imposter Benjamin and the restoration of the true prince to his rightful rule, Belgrieve returns home with Satie as his bride and quickly settles back into the rhythm of country living-too quickly, if Kasim, Percival, and Angeline have anything to say about it.

In this classic companion to the best-selling book The Calvary Road, Roy and Revel Hession teach that seeing Jesus is the answer to every aspect of our Christian life. Painting a refreshing and challenging picture of the Lord Jesus, they tell of him in whom all the needs of human hearts are met. Two themes occur again and again in these chapters - grace and revival - but the main direction and theme is always Jesus.

Where trauma meets truth, and pain becomes power. This is a soul-led space for everyone breaking generational cycles, healing after the abuse and rising into their truth. Through storytelling, spiritual insight, and sacred accountability. Janelle lights the path for anyone ready to say : "It ends with me"

The world watched in horror in April 2007 when Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho went on a killing rampage that resulted in the deaths of thirty-two students and faculty members before he ended his own life. Former Virginia Tech English department chair and distinguished professor Lucinda Roy saw the tragedy unfold on the TV screen in her home and had a terrible realization. Cho was the student she had struggled to get to know–the loner who found speech torturous.

In The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development into Business Results, renowned instructors and consultants Dr. Roy Pollock, Andrew Jefferson, and Calhoun Wick deliver a complete blueprint to maximize the effectiveness and ROI of training and development programs within any organization. In this newly revised and extensively updated Fourth Edition, listeners will find tools to implement meaningful strategies immediately, supported by the latest research and new case studies from global companies across industries.

Roy Goble doesn’t want your spare change. He wants your attention—and maybe even your comfort. In this provocative and heartfelt book, Goble challenges the conventional view of generosity as simply giving money, advice, or wisdom. Instead, he invites listeners into a deeper, riskier, and far more transformative kind of giving: relational generosity. This isn’t the kind of book that wraps hard truths in soft language. With the gritty honesty of someone who’s spent time in spiritual and literal junkyards, Roy flips the script on what it means to help others.

Meet Tyrone the Tyrannosaurus, Green Lawn’s newest–and biggest!–visitor. The kids’ old friend Jud Wheat is in town raising funds for a dinosaur museum. But after the show in Green Lawn, all Jud’s money disappears! Can Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose track down the cash?...

Early in the history of English, glamour and grammar were the same word, linked to enchantment and magical spells. Now grammar brings to mind language bullies and bored-out-of-their-skulls students. Roy Peter Clark, one of America’s most influential writing teachers, wants to change that by putting the glamour back into grammar.

For Unique, life is good until her dope-dealing boyfriend, Took, is arrested and winds up in jail. Now she's broke as a joke, trying to put every petty hustle into play to chase hard times away from the door. With an empty refrigerator, a stack of bills piling up, a tenth-grade education, a big butt and a smile, it doesn't take long for her to learn to pull the wool over the eyes of any fool who's blinded by her good looks.

Rachel is a computer genius whose personal life is hell. While she continues to climb the corporate ranks, her beloved twin sister is plagued by a chronic illness that will eventually kill her, leaving Rachel all alone.Serendipity in the form of a mysterious email lands in Rachel's lap one day, but not without a price. Thousands of miles away, archeologist John Tanek sits trapped inside a collapsed tomb with a laptop. He knows that Rachel is the only person who can help him, but time is quickly running out.

A finales de los años ochenta una familia homomarental se muda con una niña y un niño (hermanos mellizos) a un pueblo recóndito de no más de treinta habitantes intentado esconderse del estigma social que provoca la enfermedad de una de las madres que es portadora del VIH. El pueblo (la...

An elderly man believes he will die if his grandfather clock stops ticking - and when the clock is given away; he must stop at nothing to keep it wound.