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It's been a year since Oakley was drafted into the professional hockey league. Life has gotten a lot more complicated, not only for him and Ava, but also for his younger sister, Gracie, and their two closest friends. Tyler is about to make his professional hockey debut and is still in Gracie's sights. But things are different now that she's older, and it's becoming harder for him to convince himself that she's just his best friend's little sister.

The Bible has been hijacked. We’ve all seen examples of sacred scripture being used to justify racism, sexism, reactionary politics, and violence. If you have ever found yourself wondering what Bible some of your fellow believers are reading, then you are not alone. With a foreword from Brian McLaren, Who Stole My Bible?: Reclaiming Scripture as a Handbook for Resisting Tyranny shows how the Bible is an inspiring handbook for finding your voice for speaking truth.

A comprehensive 10-step guide on the aftermath of grief and loss and how best to manage your life when you feel least inclined to continue living. In your darkest moments, when you feel most alone, isolated, and fragile - your loved one taken from you - it might feel like the pain is too much to bear. You know you can not go on like you are. Yet, thoughts of "moving on" and going back to "normal" feel dismissive and even disrespectful to the memory of your loved one.

Kim Brady, third generation NYPD, returns to the job after her father's recent suicide and catches a career-making case–a mass shooting in Manhattan's Meatpacking District. There is one eyewitness, Leanne, but she can't come forward because she's transgender and she fears coming out. Kim resists her lieutenant's demands to force Leanne's cooperation for personal reasons. She's also being undermined by someone inside the department who is tampering with evidence, threatening the other witness, stalking Leanne.

For a while, Rose Douglas believed life had given her a break. She was enjoying a steady job at the local clinic; her two young boys, Adam and Brandon, were doing well in school; and their family had found an easy friendship with widower Nate Theroux and his daughter, Sophie. The possibility of something deeper even hung between her and Nate—until the day Tommy Merchant, her ex and the father of her sons, showed up without warning. While Rose knows all too well his erratic and abusive nature, he swears he's clean, and ready to turn over a new leaf.

Do you ever look at a plant out in the wild and wonder if it is safe to eat? Would you like to do anything other than trawl the mall once again this weekend? Maybe it’s time to learn a new skill–one that is not only interesting and useful but also immensely satisfying. Foraging meets a deep-seated need that we all have to hunt, explore, and gather.

Have you ever had the feeling of being watched when you're alone? Andrea has just moved in to her new apartment after ending a long relationship. She is drawn to the affordable rent and the landlord, Lee, who appears helpful and understanding to someone facing financial difficulties. Unbeknownst...

Empower Your Nonprofit is a comprehensive, accessible, and highly practical guide to harnessing the power of emerging AI technologies in the nonprofit sector. This book delivers strategic research, tools, case studies, and advice to help nonprofits advance their missions through AI, with interviews, outlooks, testimonials, and quotes from nonprofit leaders and influencers in the AI industry delivering key insight to all listeners regardless of technical expertise.

Awkwardness discusses how we ostracize and punish those who fail to fit into existing social categories, how we all depend on-and are limited by-social scripts and norms for guidance, and how these norms frequently let us down when we need them.

Amateur sleuths Geneva Pomolo and Iris Reeves are invited to the local high school by their young friend Suzie Orleans, who is rehearsing for a performance of Agatha Christie’s Murder at the Vicarage. From the moment they set foot on campus, Geneva senses mysterious things afoot. When not one, but two murders take place on campus in the span of an hour, Geneva and Iris are thrust neck-deep into their most dizzying case yet. When an innocent teenage girl is targeted, Geneva tangles with a culprit both cunning and ruthless.

Doctor Jenny Ipswich had the perfect life, until the day her husband died. Devastation turns into shock when his two-million-dollar life-insurance policy is set to pay out half to another woman. Jenny discovers the secret family in Paris and comes face-to-face with Elise, who is demanding her...

An illuminating critical biography of one of our most influential nonfiction authors, New Yorker journalist Janet Malcolm. A titan of American letters, Janet Malcolm was a writer with a far-reaching impact and cultlike following, even as she actively opposed being a literary celebrity. For The...

After a brutal betrayal from within Ankhmakis’s own family, the distraught prince seizes the throne and is crowned Pharaoh Ankhwehenfer, while Natasa is forced to flee across the sea to a new land, with a new magic. Broken and truly alone for the first time since their bonding, their grief threatens to swallow them whole. A stalemate is proposed, and as Egypt becomes two nations, as in the days of old, a prosperous peace falls over the south. But evil lurks still. There are those both within the Pharaoh’s court and without that would do anything to see the king fall.

This summer doesn’t just unearth the past—it threatens to unravel Sabrina’s life completely. Her alcoholic father is dying, she’s estranged from her family, and she’s only surviving motherhood thanks to bottomless cups of coffee and secret cigarettes. After years of trying to avoid her issues, she finally comes face-to-face with them on a reluctant journey back to Seaside, Massachusetts. And this time, she doesn’t run away.

Take charge of caregiving: conquer daily challenges, communicate effectively, and transform behavioral changes with 9 actionable steps. No one prepares you for dementia, but no one prepares your loved one, either. The world has over 55 million dementia patients, which only increases annually. And not a single one of them was prepared.

When her witness protection cover is blown, Amy Conroy flees across the country. With no money and only her dog for company, she steals rides in the trunks of unsuspecting strangers' cars until a tragic accident lands her in a Key West hospital where she is mistaken for the dead driver. Undergoing reconstructive surgery, Amy becomes almost the mirror image of beautiful Shelly Ralston. Even Matt Jensen, the investigative journalist Shelly was obsessively in love with, believes Amy's the deceased woman.

Five years into a multi-decade deep space mission, a team of eight scientists—four women, four men—explore a dwarf planet near the Kuiper Belt, loading soil samples, rocks and artifacts onto their spaceship, Gretel. Inadvertently, they bring aboard a stowaway, an unseen entity which has grown exponentially in a very short time, and is trying desperately to escape from Cargo Hold 4. The ungodly howling, hammering and screeching coming from the hold on Gretel becomes unbearable, affecting the crew's sleep and work cycles, and threatens the integrity of the ship itself.

Divorce is not for everyone, but neither is marriage. This book explores what it means to take a vow of marriage and under what circumstances you should change course toward a better life. How do you know if divorce is right for you? What is keeping you in a mediocre - or even harmful - marriage? Through a series of deeply personal questions and reflection on my own personal journey from unhappily married to happily divorced to happily remarried, together we can help you come to the right decision for your life.

Elizabeth was a practicing therapist, college professor, and single mother whose dysfunctional family dynamic only became worse after her mother died of cancer. But something very strange happened at the family ceremony to scatter her mother’s ashes, and Elizabeth’s life took a completely unexpected turn. When an attorney brought a mysterious package to her home, it set off a chain of events that challenged the very reality Elizabeth believed in, and led to the exposure of a secret her mother had kept since Elizabeth was born.

Storytelling is a practice used by counselors in prisons and many other settings to help people heal from trauma and abuse. It is a powerful tool that has been used since the beginning of time to help people make sense of their world, especially the hard parts, and it can be added to traditional or non-traditional therapy to facilitate healing. In Storytelling as a Therapy Tool, Heidi Henyon - who uses storytelling and other complementary practices with her coaching clients and traditional therapists - will teach you how to help your group honor who they are and more...