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A pampered Long Island princess hits the road in a converted bus with her wilderness-loving husband, travels the country for one year, and brings it all hilariously to life in this offbeat and romantic memoir. Doreen and Tim are married psychiatrists with a twist: She’s a self-proclaimed Long Island princess, grouchy couch potato, and shoe addict. He's an affable, though driven, outdoorsman.

Are you looking for a natural hair audiobook for Black women? If so, this audiobook is for you. If you're tired of being on the natural hair struggle bus and you want to boldly and confidently rock your curls and coils this no BS guide written by Gwen Jimmere, named the world's leading expert on textured haircare, is a must have. Your hair looks and feels like a hot mess and it’s caused your confidence to take a dive. You're not the problem. It’s what you’ve been taught about your hair. That's why you have to relearn how to care for your coveted crown.

Part forensic scientist, part master sleuth, Megan Smolenyak has solved some of America's oldest and most fascinating genealogical mysteries. You've read the headlines; now get the inside story as the "Indiana Jones of genealogy" reveals how she cracked her news-making cases and became the face of this increasingly popular field. Whether she's scouring websites to uncover the surprising connections between famous figures or using DNA tests to locate family members of fallen soldiers, Smolenyak's historical sleuthing is as provocative, richly layered, and exciting as America itself.

Coin Street Chronicles is a memoir that paints a picture of Britain in the 1930s and 1940s, as seen though the eyes of one for whom it was the backdrop of her childhood. The story is set in and around Coin Street, on the south bank of the River Thames. The area is now a cultural showcase known as The South Bank, but was then a gritty, Cockney-like corner of London.

Cassidy Clarke once climbed the world's highest mountains, but after an unexpected illness ends her career she's back in her hometown, broke and hoping for a little luck. But the townsfolk aren't exactly putting out a welcome mat for the woman who once snubbed them in the media, despite her apologies now. Mitch Anders knows someone has set up camp on the grounds of his plant nursery, and he's surprised to find his sexy high school crush ducking questions about where she's staying. Though he's sworn to stop cleaning up other people's messes, Mitch offers Cassidy a job and a place to stay - his place.

Covert CIA operative Stephanie Liuzzi is supposed to be in Rio on her first vacation in years. A last minute mission request sends Stephanie jetting off to Venice, Italy. It's a simple mission: pick up the information from an Italian asset, come back home, and head off on her much-needed vacation.

Stephen Thaus, das teuflische Gehirn der SVIA, verfolgt Anna Gudwin bis in ihre Träume. Zu Recht, denn seine Silicon Valley Intelligence Agency bedroht die Welt mit einem Virenkrieg. Mit Hilfe von Tom Hellebrandt gelingt es Anna, in der chinesischen Stadt Wuhan in das streng bewachte Labor einzudringen, wo an diesem Virus geforscht wird. Um Thaus zur Strecke zu bringen, beschließt Anna, die wichtigsten Mitglieder der SVIA auszuschalten. Über das Spielerparadies Macau führt sie der Job nach New York.

Während in Deutschland der Konflikt zwischen BND und Verfassungsschutz eskaliert, deckt Anna Gudwin die Strategie von Stephen Thaus im Kampf um die Weltherrschaft auf: Er überzieht die Erde mit einem Guerillakrieg, dem die Nationen machtlos gegenüber stehen. Als Anna vom Verfassungsschutz kaltgestellt wird, zieht sie auf eigene Faust los, um den skrupellosen Anführer der SVIA zu stellen. Dieser lockt sie in eine Falle in der chilenischen Atacama-Wüste - während er mit einem finalen Anschlag die gesamte Führungsriege der Welt auslöschen will.

Die Serie erzählt die fiktionale Geschichte der Studentin Anna Gudwin, die versucht, ihren totgeglaubten Vater Klaus Gudwin zu finden. Klaus - ein altgedienter BND-Agent - ist spurlos verschwunden, hat aber jede Menge kryptische Botschaften hinterlassen. Der BND - vertreten durch Annas "Führungsoffizier" Manfred Mor - hat ein großes Interesse, diese Botschaften zu finden und zu entschlüsseln. Dafür braucht er Anna. Auf ihrer Suche folgt Anna den Spuren, die ihr Vater Klaus in der jüngeren Geschichte hinterlassen hat.

When Celine’s best friend dies, she decides to wear a dragonfly bracelet to keep her close. After Celine and her family escape a car accident unharmed, she realizes she has lost the dragonfly bracelet. Rattled by the scary and unexpected series of events, Celine determines they must have a guardian angel watching over them. Dragonflies symbolize transformation from a physical presence to a spiritual one. All too often we lose loved ones only to wonder where they’ve gone and if we’ll ever see them again.

Do committed Christians need to withdraw from society? This is the question that many people are asking. No one can predict how the future will look, but one thing is clear. We don’t need countercultural gestures, so much as the grace of Christ. By an Unexpected Way explores true stories of modern men and women living and sharing their faith against remarkable odds.

50 Things to Know About Birds in Oklahoma by Kevin Flanagan offers an approach to enjoying and appreciating birds that most books on birds in the state of Oklahoma overlook. Most books on birds tell you to how to identify birds and may provide very generalized range maps. Although there's nothing wrong with that, this book takes an approach of exploring both the state’s wonders and its avian residents. In this book, you'll discover favorite places to visit and enjoy birds and their environment.

When Maddie’s socks suddenly go missing, she knows she must do something about it. Her first clue is a pile of glitter, and that means magic! Now, with the help of Eoin and Muffins, Maddie travels to the fairy world to save the day - er, her socks!

Luke Jensen has seen some sorry looking bounties in his time, but this one takes the cake. A wanted poster is offering a reward of one dollar and 42 cents — plus one busted harmonica — to capture Three-Fingered Jack McKinney. Turns out, McKinney’s 12-year-old son Aaron wants revenge on his daddy for abandoning him and his mom. The reward is all the money Aaron can scrape together. Luke can’t say no to the poor boy — or his beautiful mother — so he agrees to go after McKinney and his bank-robbing gang.

Reeling from the sudden death of his wife, Daniel Dixon returns to Wyoming’s Powder River country to start anew. It’s the end of the 19th century and the Indians are gone. The growing city of Buffalo, just a stone’s throw from the ruins of Fort Phil Kearny, seems a peaceful place to start a medical practice and raise his sons, Harry and Cal, and his willful daughter, Lorna. But the peace Dixon seeks eludes him. Johnson County is soon engulfed in a bloody range war that will draw in the Dixon family in ways he could never have imagined.

Maddie has always had a wild imagination. Dreaming of dragons, fairies, and faraway places is her favorite thing to do. And now, with the help of her magical wand and her mini unicorn, Muffins, Maddie gets to see those dreams come true. When Eoin, the leprechaun, appears in Maddie's backyard one day, he tells her that the creatures in the forest are in trouble. A dark fairy has taken them captive! Now it's up to Maddie, Eoin, and Muffins to save the day!

Princess Willa has everything, but instead of enjoying her magnificent riches she only laments what’s wrong, bad, and missing. One morning the letter W has completely vanished. This W deficit is a very big problem. People aren’t well, only _ell, which is too close to ill and when wonder goes _onder they feel even _orse still. Without the Wonderful W, the world that was once a great seamless whole is now a lonely kingdom riddled with _holes. There are holes in the ground and holes in the sky, but the _orst of the holes are the ones deep inside.

Kassidy Spence thought she was just making a typical Friday night commute home. Turns out she was about to dance with the devil. Her unwanted ability to sense demons once tore her world apart and she refuses to let it happen again. But a hot new self-help book changes everything. Some who read it leave on a mysterious journey only to turn up dead; even stranger, they died smiling. Kass fears the author has sinister intentions, and even worse, a demonic alliance.

A fictional account of a future woman president's tenure, this funny satire imagines a president who stops war, gets rid of the IRS, and then gets down to work on handling illiteracy, illegal drug abuse, and other social ills. She has an attitude, and she's determined. Maybe you'll find some ideas that could be put into use today.

For 12 years, Katrina held all the "most horrible, most expensive" titles for US hurricanes. When the monster storm slammed into Mississippi's Gulf Coast in 2005, public health physician Dr. Robert Travnicek firmly faced the disaster. In Katrina, Mississippi: Voices from Ground Zero, Dr. Travnicek and other first responders reveal what really happened during Katrina: what they did to get ready, how they managed from inside the emergency operations centers in Hancock and Harrison Counties, and the catastrophic destruction they dealt with for several years to come.