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Death is easy. Surviving it? That's the hard part. Dr. Jake Jameson knows this all too well. Losing his mother at the age of 18, he walks away from his small hometown and the painful memories it holds, vowing to never return again. Twelve years later, he finds himself driving back down the coast of North Carolina. When his father leaves him a small medical practice, he has no choice but to heed the call until he can sell it. But coming back home means facing everything he left behind, including the one woman who might make it impossible to leave again.

Head down. Don't look up. Never make eye contact. Those were the words I lived by growing up, the words that protected me in an unsafe home. But words are only letters, and eventually even they couldn't keep his hands off me. Hoping to leave behind the shattered life of my past, I find myself in a boring, small town, with an aunt I've never met, and at a school I loathe. But soon I learn that not everything in this world is as black and white as I've determined.

Anxiety looms large in historical works of philosophy and psychology. It is an affect, philosopher Bettina Bergo argues, subtler and more persistent than our emotions, and points toward the intersection of embodiment and cognition. While scholars who focus on the work of luminaries as Freud, Levinas, or Kant often study this theme in individual works, they seldom draw out the deep and significant connections between various approaches to anxiety.

Whether you're a first-time real estate investor or a seasoned professional, The Complete Guide to Buying and Selling Apartment Buildings helps you map out your future, find apartment buildings at a fair price, finance purchases, and manage your properties. Now revised and expanded, this second edition includes tax planning advice, case studies of real acquisitions, and appendixes that add detail to the big picture.

Therapist Beverly Berg offers powerful tools for the partners of recovering addicts. Based in mindfulness, attachment theory, and neurobiology, this book will help listeners sustain emotional stability in their relationships, increase effective communication, establish boundaries, and take real steps toward reigniting intimacy. With more than 25 years in the field, she has developed a unique set of exercises that address the issues faced by couples in recovery.

Breeden Andehar grew up the son of a boatwright in a village far from the capital city of Arlon. At 16, he is given a chance to receive an education at the local monastery alongside three sons of nobility, a cloth merchant's daughter, and a clever orphan. Breeden and his new friends have their education cut short when a bitter rivalry between two brother gods spawns a conflict which threatens the entire Land.

Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Blending extensive fieldwork with feminist and anti-work theorizing, Porn Work details entrepreneurial labor on the boundaries between pleasure and tedium. Rejecting any notion that sex work is an aberration from straight work, it reveals porn workers' creative strategies as prophetic of a working landscape in crisis. In the end, it looks to what porn has to tell us about what's wrong with work, and what it might look like to build something better.

Best-selling author Elizabeth Berg has published fiction and nonfiction in The New York Times Magazine, Ladies’ Home Journal, and New Woman. She has been nominated for a National Magazine Award for her graceful, witty writing. In The Pull of the Moon, she alternates letters and journal entries to trace a middle-aged woman’s impulsive, and solitary, drive across country.

We have all struggled to take control of our futures or build the life of our dreams at some point. Thriving Life will show you how to take charge of your own life and transform the way you view yourself, your relationships, and your experiences.

Laura Stone was the hottest author of erotic fiction in the country but also the most elusive. Known only by her pen name, there wasn't a person alive who wasn't dying to discover her true identity. And I, Killian Turner, knew exactly where to find her. Her real name was Kate O'Malley, and I fully intended on learning every dirty secret she had to exploit for my own gain. After all, isn't that what journalists do? But I underestimated my prey. I didn't anticipate how her lips could seduce me or the touch of her body against mine would eventually become my ultimate undoing.

Becoming Like God offers a Kabbalistic approach for becoming all powerful. Written with extraordinary clarity, Michael Berg presents a logical method to achieving our supreme birthright. In revealing this opportunity for humanity, he highlights ways to develop our natural God-like attributes, and diminish the aspect of our nature (our ego) that interferes with our destiny. In his succinct style, Michael provides the answer to the eternal question of why we are here: to become like God.

Your Self-Sabotage Survival Guide will help you refocus your energy and get back on track, first by helping you identify the elements of self-sabotage, then by providing sound advice for reinventing yourself and eliminating sabotage from your life. This essential guide will help you get rid of the "buts", banish the "if onlys", and break the cycle of playing it safe.

With the story of the painful and life-changing crisis he experienced in the Church that led him to love the Church more intensely, Fr. Berg Along intertwines the stories of other Catholics who have themselves experienced life-changing hurts but who, in Jesus, found healing. Ultimately, this audiobook is about hope for wounded believers: If you have been hurt in the Church, Jesus can take you on a journey through your wounds, a journey of healing that will make you an even better human being, a better Christian, and a better disciple.

A New Era in Banking: The Landscape After the Battle identifies the main drivers of change at the heart of this wholesale transformation of the financial services industry. It examines the complex challenge for financial institutions to de-risk business models, reconnect with customers, and approach stakeholder value creation.

Seit Hartley den attraktiven, reichen und wilden Easton Royal kennengelernt hat, ist in ihrem Leben nichts mehr, wie es war. Sie schwebt auf Wolke sieben - doch an jeder Ecke lauern neidische Feinde. Als der schreckliche Unfall geschieht, bei dem Eastons Bruder lebensgefährlich verletzt wird, stellt das ihre neue Liebe auf eine harte Probe. Und als Hartley infolge des Unfalls auch noch ihr Gedächtnis verliert, kann sie niemandem mehr vertrauen.

Als Holger Simonsmeyer, angeklagt des Mordes an einer jungen Frau aus seinem Heimatdorf Trenthin, freigesprochen wird, atmen er und seine Familie auf. Doch im Dorf herrscht weiter Misstrauen - und dann wird erneut ein junges Mädchen ermordet. Wenige Monate später steht die Journalistin Doro Kagel vor den Brandruinen von Simonsmeyers Haus. Sie hatte Bettina Simonsmeyers Bitte ausgeschlagen, ebenso ausführlich über den Freispruch ihres Mannes zu berichten, wie zuvor über den Mordprozess. Von Schuldgefühlen geplagt beginnt sie nun, den Fall neu aufzurollen...

Acht Freunde, acht Geheimnisse... Eines davon ist tödlich. Doro Kagles Jugendfreund Jan-Arne wurde auf Fehmarn ermordet. Kurz bevor er starb, flüsterte er ihren Namen. In Doro werden Erinnerung an ihren letzten Besuch wach - an den jungen Vagabunden Bolenda, dessen Leiche sie und ihre Clique damals am Weiher fanden. Und an das "Geheimnisspiel", das sie und ihre Freunde spielten. Jeder hatte anonym ein Geheimnis auf einen Zettel geschrieben. Auf einem stand: Ich weiß, wer den Bolenda getötet hat.

A story that tugs at the heartstrings...Thirteen-year-old Katie is new to her Missouri town, living alone with a stern, inaccessible father following her mother’s death. Unable to fit in at school, she forges alliances where she can: With her housekeeper, with a pimply fellow misfit named Cynthia, and with the gorgeous Taylor, who gets her kicks out of shoplifting. Most frustrating of all is Katie’s imperfect friendship with the proprietor of a local gas station, a handsome twenty-three-year-old who shares her love of checkers but doesn’t return her crush.

Ein Mord in Sankt Peter-Ording ruft Kommissar Theo Krumme mitten in der Hochsaison auf den Plan: Am Strand wurde unter einer der Pfahlbauten die Leiche eines jungen Mannes entdeckt. Bei dem Toten handelt es sich um Marten Schilling, Barkeeper und Freund von Insa Clausen, Tochter einer der wohlhabendsten Familien Nordfrieslands. Während Insa völlig aufgelöst über den Tod ihres Freundes ist, scheint sich die Trauer bei ihrer übrigen Familie in Grenzen zu halten. Krummes Argwohn ist geweckt.

Within these walls, he became my solace, my sanctuary, and my strength. I am not strong. I am just a survivor of circumstance. Isn't that what we all do? Survive? Each of us has our own set of circumstances to muddle through. Mine are just more.... complicated.