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Written by a monk-turned-leadership-guru, Mindfulness For the Wandering Mind offers unique insight on how you can focus your mind, become more resilient, respond better to conflict, and build stronger professional (and personal) relationships. It's all possible when you begin to understand how your mind works and take control of this complicated mechanism. This book will show you how to identify and close the "apps" that are constantly running in your own mind, so you can eliminate distractions and find greater peace and productivity in your daily life.

One year after his sister’s death, Edward decides to follow through with their dream of opening their guesthouse as a vacation rental. At first, Jax seems like the ideal guest. He’s everything Edward wishes he could be: handsome, outgoing, and without a care in the world. But as the days pass, things don’t seem to be going as well as Edward expected. Jax is inserting himself into Edward’s life, conveniently bumping into him at his work, and then there are the dates he brings back to the guesthouse. The dates Edward never sees leave.

A quintessential American dream story from a Mexican entrepreneur who shares the tale of building a multi-million-dollar business from scratch, complete with both success and failure, and always a vision of hope.

Fashion design graduate student Cindie O'Carroll has a huge celebrity crush on her favorite professor, Robin Palmer. When he asks her to work as his assistant on the set of the fantasy-themed reality dating show Two Princes, she eagerly accepts, only to find herself quickly serving as a last-minute contestant on the show and capturing the attention of both of the handsome bachelors for very different reasons.

Fashion design student and reality show contestant Cindie O'Caroll thinks she's finally found true romance with her favorite teacher and designer, Robin Paul. Unfortunately, the producer of the dating show "Two Princes" has other ideas for her, and when he takes steps to destroy her budding love, she and her friends have to stage a collaborative and extremely fashion-forward coup to show Robin that he's the only prince she'll ever need.

Cindie O'Caroll, underdog contestant on the dating show Two Princes, has to decide what to do next when her hero and boss, fashion designer Robin Paul Palmer, confesses that he has feelings for her while she's in the midst of dating two other men. She wants Robin to take her seriously as an artist, but she also wants him to take her to bed, and the situation only gets more complicated when both of the two princes seem to want her for themselves.

A driven young grad student begins using her true crime podcast to help save her missing best friend, and she soon finds herself leading a small team of crime solvers to uncover local truths that are eluding the police.

As Mercy, Mark, and Tohru cope with the devastating aftermath of a drunken car crash, it becomes clearer and clearer that things can't continue as they are. Before they have a chance to set the world right again, however, women begin dropping dead around them in rapid succession, and the only connection between those women seems to be their involvement in Mercy's recent investigations.

Weaving between preparations for his father’s funeral and memories of life on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, Obed Silva chronicles his father’s alcoholism—a lifelong love that ended only at his death at the age of forty-eight, having poisoned himself one Carta Blanca at a time. Addiction respects no borders; the havoc Silva’s father wreaked on his family not only followed them north, where mother and son moved to escape his violent drunken rages, but would make itself felt even from the grave.

You never know what's out to get you. Though you might think you're safe from monsters and menaces, everyday objects can turn against you, too. A mysterious microwave. A threatening board game. A snowman that refuses to melt. Even your own heartbeat has its secrets. Thu-thump. Thu-thump. When you stop to listen, each beat sounds more menacing than the last.

At least 200,000 people have died in Mexico's so-called drug war, and the worst suffering has been in Ciudad Juárez, across the border from El Paso, Texas. How did it get so bad? After three decades studying that question, Howard Campbell doesn't believe there is any one answer. A rigorous yet moving account, Downtown Juárez is informed by the sex workers, addicts, hustlers, bar owners, human smugglers, migrants, and down-and-out workers struggling to survive in an underworld where horrifying abuses have come to seem like the natural way of things.

On the second episode of the hot new reality TV show Artisan's Isle, things get hot, steamy, and slightly manic when two teams of six compete in a challenge to create a one-act play themed around "What Happened Last Night". Archie does a romantic scene with the bashful new British guy. Sunday gets deep with her partners, and that may or may not be sexual innuendo. Margot and Candy make some very public mistakes, and the great Charles Gamble gets a much-needed cup of coffee. Werewolves and sharks feature prominently.

A changing climate brings heavy rains to West Texas and gives river guide Robbie Ducharme the opportunity to take his clients down a never-before-run arroyo. The landscape they enter, the people they encounter, and the relics they find give these modern-day explorers the thrill of a lifetime. They also threaten Robbie’s relationship with the woman he loves and the life of the assistant he admires. Solitario: The Lonely One asks if we are right to be bold with our lives and the lives of others when the potential rewards are great—or are we venturing where we should not?

Sunday Styles is a passionate romance novelist with a pretty comfortable career and a size fourteen swimsuit. Archie Macleod is a Scottish-American Broadway actor who has no trouble making friends, but who has a hard time finding love. When the two of them agree to join the ten-contestant cast of "Artisan's Isle," the hottest new thing in reality television, they quickly find that they're in for way more than they bargained for.

Most historians attribute the shortcomings of the civil rights era to a conservative backlash or to the fracturing of the liberal establishment in the late 1960s, but the civil rights movement also faced resistance from a liberal "frontlash," from antiredistributive allies who, before it ever took off, constrained what the movement could demand and how it could demand it. Telling the stories of Ruth Benedict, Kenneth Clark, W. E. B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, and others, Darda reveals how Americans learned to wait on time for racial change and the enduring harm of trust in the clock.

On an afternoon in January 1865, a roaring fire swept through the Smithsonian Institution. Dazed soldiers and worried citizens could only watch as the flames engulfed the museum's castle. Rare objects and valuable paintings were destroyed. The flames at the Smithsonian were not the first—and certainly would not be the last—disaster to upend a museum in the United States. The Museum explores the concepts of "crisis" as it relates to museums, and how these historic institutions have dealt with challenges ranging from depression and war to pandemic and philosophical uncertainty. 

Renowned, middle-aged British stage star Hugh Davidson has had a rough couple of years, first falling desperately in love with a young American stage manager and then discovering that he has coronary heart disease. When he gets tapped to be the new Artistic Director at his favorite American theater company, he decides to make a new name for himself in the business, partly to soothe his injured ego and partly to convince Rachael Nightingale, his workaholic paramour, that she wants to spend the rest of her life with him. The problem is, Hugh doesn't really knows what he's doing.

When a volume eight of Geysers Journals falls into my lap, I'm left with a conundrum. Do I hold onto it and try to get the most money out of it I possibly can, shoring up my finances for at least a year? Or do I get rid of it as quickly as possible in an effort to avoid any more attempts on my life?

Magical break-ins abound...The two nearby stores owned by supernaturals are broken into. The Fix ‘n’ Find, my store, is not. What I have instead are suspicious magical handprints on the front windows. Combine that with a weird set of glasses that let the wearer see every type of magic and we have a serious conundrum. Luckily, my ex-fiancé Violetta, is a powerful witch and willing to help me figure out what could possibly be going on. Find out what some magical items and good old-fashioned spell work can uncover in the Spectacle Stealing Supernatural.

My life is one giant cycle of group deniability...As a magic-less son of a witch owning a store full magical objects isn’t easy. But with my unhelpful Rottweiler Bailey and a handful of supernatural staff, we’ve sold everything from elfin wedding china to a life-size dwarven statue we don’t like to talk about. Everything is going smoothly until a goblin customer starts coughing up a disgusting green goo. Little did I know as I watch that liquid spew from his mouth that his presence and that goo was going to send my life into a tailspin.