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Quilt appraiser Keely Fairchild is thrilled that the Danger Cove Quilt Guild has teamed up with the Historical Museum to make miniature quilts to decorate the museum's Christmas tree. To join in the holiday spirit, she offers free appraisals of holiday quilts during the ornament-making workshop.

Keely Fairchild left her previous profession as a high-powered attorney to lead a quieter life as a certified quilt appraiser. But when she's asked by the Danger Cove quilt guild's president to prove that a local dealer is selling cheap reproduction quilts as expensive antiques, Keely's "quiet" new job turns dangerous. While Keely and the guild president are in the dealer's shop, the crooked quilt peddler is killed.

Stacia and Marco have just gotten engaged. Marco has been offered his dream job, which means that they have one month to plan their wedding before leaving the country. It seems like nothing is going according to plan. There have been issues with the wedding planner, Stacia's mom, a cupcake incident, a wedding dress snafu, and a drunken wedding rehearsal disaster.

Upon completing her first Big Night assignment of delivering coal to all the kids on the naughty list, coal elf Ember Skye thought all was well at the North Pole. She no longer has to slave away mining coal, and her arch-nemesis - the demonic and evil elf, Sturd - has seemingly been stripped of his power and relegated to obscurity. But you just can't keep a bad elf down.

Have you ever been curious about starting a new healthy diet? Maybe you simply want to know more about vegetarianism, and why so many people are starting to eat this way. Jump into this fun and informative audiobook that contains the following information on vegetarian diets: health benefits.

The concept of animal resistance is now reaching a wide audience across the social media landscape. Animal Resistance in the Global Capitalist Era offers an overview of how animals resist human orderings in the context of capitalism, domestication, and colonization. Exploring this understudied phenomenon, this book is attentive to both the standpoints of animal resisters and the ways they are represented in human society.

The prolific Scottish 19th century writer Andrew Lang translated Homer and wrote novels. But he is best remembered now for his collections of books for younger readers, especially his nine volumes of fairy tales named after a color, such as The Lilac Fairy Book and The Orange Fairy Book. The Story of King Frost comes from The Yellow Fairy Book, first published in 1894.

In this revolutionary new book, edu-tainer, speaker, and author Theresa Puskar sheds light on the incessant mind chatter that clutters your brain and uncovers the myriad of traps your ego sets to deplete your energy and keep you conflicted, confused and running.

Three very different women. Only one thing in common. But when their family patriarch dies and they must share his estate, the truths they discover will test them - and everything they think they know about each other.

Destiny isn’t in trouble because she comes from a long line of women with psychic powers. She isn’t even in trouble for discovering the true magic that had been dormant for centuries. Her trouble comes because there are other people descended from the old clans that felt the shift in the ether when she rediscovered the old magic, and they would rather kill her than let a sixteen-year-old in the bayou have what they covet most.

Die heutige Welt ist voll von Feedback – von den Likes oder Dislikes auf Social Media bis hin zum jährlichen Gespräch mit Vorgesetzten. Doch ist Feedback wirklich so wertvoll, wie immer behauptet wird? Die Autorin findet nicht und zeigt, warum man nicht alles annehmen und sich gar davon frei machen sollte. Feedback gehört zum guten Ton, kommt oft und nicht selten ungefragt: der Spruch des Kollegen, die 1-Sterne-Bewertung des Kunden, das jährliche Feedback vom Chef, der fiese Nebensatz der Schwiegermutter oder Produktbewertungen bei Google. Kritisches Feedback lässt uns zusammenzucken.

Trixie Burnett, a 23-year-old single mom and the only prostitute in the small northeast Texas town of Pineywoods, knows the winning lottery ticket in her purse is about to change things forever.

As Dave settles into his new beach house, Margaret is happy to assist, though she also notices a lot of his decisions lately don’t involve her. She can’t help but wonder if the long-term plans for his future include her and her daughters.

Lyra Castillo does many things. She’s a respected librarian in Seattle, she never misses a yoga class, and she’s read every word Jane Austen has ever written. Lyra never thought, however, that she would be foolish enough to get herself stuck with the most irritating man in existence. But, that’s exactly what happens.

With these last words from their mother, two little girls, Marguerite and her older sister, will begin a long wandering that will last two years. Equipped with a new identity, they must cut themselves off from everything that constitutes their familiar universe. Led from farms to convents, they learn to keep quiet, to pretend, to lie, to adapt and above all to keep hope, against all odds. The story that Marguerite Élias Quddus gives us takes one to the centre of it and lets us glimpse history through the eyes of a very young child.

Resisting Garbage presents a new approach to understanding practices of waste removal and recycling in American cities, one that is grounded in the close observation of case studies while being broadly applicable to many American cities today.

Sarah’s loving the boat life and spending time with Chris, but will an unexpected call from her ex change everything? Margaret is busy in the garden again and frustrated to find that the honor system for the The Cape May Garden farm stand isn’t working out according to plan. Dave is renovating his new beach house in North Cape May but still can’t decide what his plans are for the property. Donna, an old high school friend, is back in town after her marriage ends, and as she tries to figure out a new life, she’s surprised by an unexpected spark with someone new.

En killjoy er ikke bange for at udpege den sexisme, vold og racisme, der findes overalt i vores samfund. Og en killjoy nægter at se til i tavshed for at bevare den gode stemning. I "Killjoy manifest" opstiller feminist Sara Ahmed ti principper eller viljeserklæringer for hvad en killjoy vil (gøre eller være) eller ikke vil (gøre eller være). Sidste del af bogen består af et overlevelseskit for killjoys. Sara Ahmed (f. 1969) er en britisk-australsk akademiker og aktivist.

A big-budget movie is filming in Cape May, and one of the stars, Katherine Duffield, has rented out the Seahorse Inn for two months. Excitement overtakes Margaret and Liz until they receive the celebrity’s ridiculous list demands. Dave is thrilled at the chance to use his construction skills on the film set, but tension unexpectedly arises between him and Margaret. Irene, Dave’s sister, is back in town working on the film as a production assistant. Greg takes a leap toward his dream of opening a restaurant with the support of Liz, but is it the best choice for their family?

Cammie, a dancer in her thirties, has just landed her first part in a show since coming to New York City. Yet the tug of familial obligations and the guilt of what she sacrificed to be there weigh down her dancing feet. Cammie’s lover, Tom, an older piano player, came to the city as a young man in the 1980s with a story eerily in tune with Cammie’s own. Through their triumphs and failures, both learn the fleetness of glory, the sweetness of new love, and how a dream come true isn’t cherished until it’s passed.