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An adrenaline junkie, a homebody, and the camping trip that ignites their love at first sight. When Leila’s students challenge her to go camping, she sets out armed with a bucket list designed to force her out of her comfort zone - the indoors. Her trip starts with a broken car, a twisted ankle, and several forces of nature. She expected a few bumps along the way, but not the handsome stranger who comes to her rescue. Ezra has no time for romance, preferring to spend his rare time off from work as a firefighter enjoying nature.

For four years, from January 2017 to January 2021, writer and publisher Martin Rowe documented the state of the United States and the world - using the verse form of ottava rima. In June 2019, he dedicated 30 of those verses to two extraordinarily compelling and distressing photographs of animals in extremis taken by Canadian photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur. Now expanded to include more verses and more of McArthur’s stunning images.

The War for Independence rages across the colonies. The war has barely touched 18-year-old Daria until Gideon, a young man she fancies, declares himself a loyalist and leaves for battle. Even though their families are on opposite sides, Daria still has feelings for him. A neighbor, rumored to be a witch, tells Daria about Midnight Lullabies. If she gives one to someone she loves, it will ensure they return to her. That isn't black magic, right?

Welcome, or rather benvenuti, to this journey into Italian cuisine. In Italy, food is the main topic of conversation (after football, for men). In my experience, I’ve seen very few people in the world discussing food during dinner. This passion for eating well is widespread in the bel Paese. It’s also the source of heated disputes between villages, which causes a lot of variety in some of the world’s most renowned recipes. Italian restaurants and Italian food have conquered the whole planet.

Secret Warrior is a compelling memoir following elite Division 1 university head women's basketball coach Joanne P. McCallie's mental health journey through the realities and challenges within the sports world. With 28 years as head coach for University of Maine, Michigan State, and Duke University, and while winning repeated conference championships and advancing to the Finals of the National Championship, she hid her bipolar diagnosis for 25 of those years.

Piles of snow have taken over Little Bird’s town, and while it is chilly, he doesn’t let it get him down. Instead during this holiday season, Little Bird and his friends have taken it upon themselves to make the most of it. Building a snow castle, having snow fights, and even making new friends are the adventures Little Bird will have in this fairytale-like holiday special.

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Erie. Greater Than A Tourist-Erie Pennsylvania, USA offers the inside scoop on Erie county, and all of its hidden gems of recreation and vacation possibilities. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the ‘Greater Than a Tourist’ series, this book will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Single mom Chrissy Eve is struggling to make ends meet selling pretzels at the Yule Heights Shopping Mall. All this mama wants is a silent night, but when her seven-year-old asks the mall Santa to teach his mom to drive a sleigh, she finds herself in knots over the man in red. Dash Winters is the last person she needs pulling her reins. She has a son to think about, and a “seasonal romance” with someone who gets paid to lie to kids once a year is not going to jolly her holly.

Everyone in the world seems to be crazy for Liam Hanks, a teenage boy with a swoony singing voice that melts everyone's hearts. Me? I could do with a little less Liam. Too bad Dad (who happens to be our city mayor) had to choose Liam as this year's Fourth of July concert celebrity. Even worse? I'm the one in charge of making sure Liam stays out of the news.

For Katherine Kale, who has recently returned to the United States after teaching overseas for years, Maple Creek, Michigan, is the perfect American town and the elegant blue Victorian on Walnut Street is the house of her dreams. When she is nearly poisoned at the annual Apple Fair, as another woman dies, Katherine suspects that Maple Creek may not be the paradise it seemed at first acquaintance and determines to find out who would lace a caramel apple with deadly poison. Her first clue, unearthed while planting chrysanthemums in her back yard, is an antique cameo.

Gilly is heel tevreden met haar leven: ze runt een succesvolle bed and breakfast in haar eigen huis en geen haar op haar hoofd die eraan denkt die prachtige plek op te geven. Maar dan ontmoet ze makelaar Leo, die niet alleen vriendelijk en behulpzaam is, maar ook nog eens verwarrend aantrekkelijk. Langzaam begint ze zich af te vragen of het wel zo erg zou zijn het roer van haar leven radicaal om te gooien. Gilly's volwassen dochter Helena heeft haar eigen beslommeringen. Haar bedrijfje als weefster komt goed van de grond nu haar prachtige stoffen steeds populairder worden.

Nearly 40 million people in the United States live below the poverty line - about $26,200 for a family of four. Low-income families and individuals are everywhere, from cities to rural communities. While poverty is commonly seen as a personal failure, or a deficiency of character or knowledge, it's actually the result of bad policy. Public policy has purposefully erected barriers that deny access to basic needs, creating a society where people can easily become trapped - not because we lack the resources to lift them out, but because we are actively choosing not to.

An easy-to-digest, inspiring, and transformational resource for the most crucial project of your life, this blueprint is designed to meet the needs of all relationships, from those that are cruising, complacent, or merely dissatisfied through to those that are highly conflicted.

Summer is over, and the leaves are beginning to fall, and now, it's time for Little Bird to go to school for the first time. Come along with him and Anne Marie as they navigate through the first day of learning the alphabet, numbers, and taking on new adventures.

The meditation "Live free of Allergies" will help you in the process of activating your self-healing powers. With the help of this meditation, you learn to bring your physical body, your emotional body and your energy body into harmony and thus strengthen your immune system. Allergy symptoms such as constant sneezing, runny nose, red eyes, shortness of breath, skin rash and food intolerances can be overbearing. On top, you may also feel weak, exhausted and lack motivation. Allergies are often extreme reactions of an immune system that is overburdened.

It’s a book about the struggles I had encountered.

Decompress offers a quick-kickstart toward feeling happy again! Created as a seven-day guide, Decompress was written to help those who are feeling stressed, anxious, depressed, or for those who are looking to improve their self understanding. This book only requires the listener to dedicate less than 20 minutes a day, for 7 days, to encourage a rewiring of mindset and heart. There are short informative listens, interactive questions, opportunities to be vulnerable with diary entries, and also daily meditations with supplied music designed to relax racing minds.

It is a dark time in the medieval kingdom of Arialia. The Black Death has arrived. Fatima loses her parents to the plague. She's wandering in the forest alone and doesn't know where to go for comfort. In her desperation and in the cold at night, she dreams of a pink unicorn that can save her from fear and starvation. When she wakes she sees the carriage of the princess passing by. It has a pink unicorn design on it. Fatima pursues the carriage, meets the princess, and her life is forever changed as she learns the true meaning of the pink unicorn.

It is a dark time in the medieval kingdom of Arialia. The black death has arrived. Fatima loses her parents to the plague. She's wandering in the forest alone and doesn't know where to go for comfort. In her desperation and in the cold at night, she dreams of a pink unicorn that can save her from fear and starvation. When she wakes she sees the carriage of the princess passing by. It has a pink unicorn design on it. Fatima pursues the carriage, meets the princess, and her life is forever changed as she learns the true meaning of the pink unicorn.

Do you need help getting your children to love reading? This audiobook will help to train your childen's imaginations. This is not just the story your children already know. We produce the popular stories as new.