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B has lived with so many different foster families and youth programs that they have to invent nicknames for them to keep track. Their parents died in a car accident when they were four, and they’ve been moved around ever since. And even though some foster families don’t really get B or why they haven’t picked a new name yet (though B has been grappling with that for a while), B tries their best to stay positive. They try to keep a list of names that might fit, and they dream of being able to live in a home where they could adopt a dog and teach him all sorts of tricks.

Hailed in his lifetime as one of Latin America’s greatest writers, Machado de Assis (1839-1908) was a storyteller known for his wholly innovative narrative techniques and uncanny talent for unraveling the social and political milieu of nineteenth-century Brazil. These signature traits are on full display in Quincas Borba, a novel that sees Machado satirize a rapidly changing Rio de Janeiro. Originally published in 1891, the story begins with the death of its titular character, a mad philosopher infamous for spouting pessimistic theories of “Humanitism”.

Three gherkins face the fear of the unknown as they escape their pickle jar and leave the fridge. The Gherkins meet an old and tired fork, fed up with his role in life. They cheer him up, showing how to enjoy and love being a fork again.

Starting her journey with children was a fresh breath of air, especially when she started working for the Prince Family. The love she had for the Prince Family children was unmatched, especially when she got acquainted with their father, Chief Prince. Struggling with grief after losing the love of his life, Chief is compelled to continue his demanding job as a billionaire investment banker, and he isn't interested in finding another love. At least that's what he thought.

Whether you're a lifelong trivia-lover or a budding young factologist, this book is the perfect companion for inquisitive souls. Both educating and entertaining, the book is bursting with hilarious and outlandish tidbits of information to ignite your curiosity.

Crispin Aleron was an ordinary mortal man until the night he was attacked and left for dead. A stranger appeared from nowhere, making an offer he couldn't refuse. Offers such as this cannot be without consequences, but Crispin had no time to think it over. Now, centuries later, the consequences are becoming clearer. Spending all these years repaying his debt, doing as the otherworldly Council of Seven demands, he is now dealing with their punishment for breaking their cardinal rule: absolutely no intimacy with mortal beings.

As indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most? The Serviceberry is an antidote to the broken relationships and misguided goals of our times, and a reminder that “hoarding won’t save us, all flourishing is mutual.”

Whether amateur or Tour professional, every golfer will experience that crucial moment when victory hinges on just one shot. Make it, they win; blow it and they will re-live the memory on the golf course for years to come. They have arrived at their personal moment of truth. The question is: can they handle it? The follow-up to his acclaimed Silent Mind Golf, this new book sees Robin Sieger explore the concept of choking and apply his easy-to-grasp mental conditioning techniques to help golfers at all levels perform under pressure.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Liliana's Invincible Summer, a dreamlike, genre-defying novel about a professor and detective seeking justice in a world suffused with gendered violence. “Deeply rewarding . . . a dreamscape with a powerful undertow . . . [a] harrowing and labyrinthine...

The first book to quilt the spirit of a wildly successful international clothing brand among the scraps of childhood trauma, Glitter Saints is the story of Robin Brown, creator of Magnolia Pearl. It’s a mining of tragedy for the kind of magic that creates and sustains—a sharp-eyed, soft-hearted, stubborn hope that’s the rarest raw material.

Ever since Fern Espinoza and Lily Graden met as teenagers volunteering at a conference center in Costa Rica twenty years ago, they have shared a close friendship, even though they live in different states. They can hardly believe it when their teen dream of traveling to Africa together becomes a reality. It’s the trip of a lifetime—but life sure isn’t what they thought it would be back when they were young.

The putt is one of the most crucial shots in the game of golf. It is also one of the most highly pressured. All players know that it is on the putting green that matches are won and lost. In this book, the third in his acclaimed series on the mental game of golf, peak performance guru Robin Sieger dispels the fear that surrounds putting and shows how his intuitive silent mind approach can be used to improve our performance on the greens.

Born of illustrious New England stock, Rachel Field was a National Book Award-winning novelist, a Newbery Medal-winning children's writer, a poet, playwright, and rising Hollywood success in the early twentieth century. Her light was abruptly extinguished at the age of forty-seven, when she died at the pinnacle of her personal happiness and professional acclaim. Fifty years later, Robin Clifford Wood stepped onto the sagging floorboards of Rachel's long-neglected home on the rugged shores of an island in Maine and began dredging up Rachel's history.

Our PTCB Study Guide prepares you for the test to become a pharmacy technician and for what comes after the test!

Cass is stunned when a man she hasn’t seen or spoken to in twenty years wills his law practice to her. His client list contains a single name. Farrah Sibley. Accused of murdering her boss, Farrah has femme fatale written all over her. Beautiful. Smart. Cunning. But is she capable of such a cold-blooded killing? Shot once through the heart, the victim, prominent lawyer Terrence Dowd only had one enemy.

We have entered a new Cold War, even if most people choose not to admit it. The contest between America and China is global and unbridgeable, and it encompasses all major instruments of statecraft: diplomacy, technology, military power, intelligence, trade and investment. It has its tinder box: Taiwan. And both protagonists are working hard to draw allies and friends to their side from east and west, north and south. We stand at its beginning. But this Cold War is nothing like the last one between the Soviet Union and the West, which defined the second half of the twentieth century.

Beth Carter longed to be something more than what she had been. As a teenager, she hadn't known that her decisions would cost her so much. She also hadn't had much of a choice. Will the secrets she carried one day come back to destroy her? Or will she be able to overcome the pain of her past and finally...Bloom?

In Cells Leben geht es nicht immer lustig zu. Als Profikiller hat er seine lieben Sorgen mit den Klienten. Solche Probleme wie die mit der unscheinbaren Sally hat er allerdings sonst nie. Ob Killer, Ermittler oder der Tod höchstpersönlich – sie alle enthüllen in DARK NEWS – Crime ihre Geheimnisse und die ureigenen Ängste, aus denen sie geboren wurden. Inhalt: Cell, KoB Killa – Ein Kriminalstück in vier Akten, Revierkonflikt, Venusfliegenfalle, Feuerwache, Warteschleife, Bindungsängste, Todsache. Weitere Teile der Reihe DARK NEWS: DARK NEWS - Mystery, Mystische Kurzgeschichten.

This book is written for you if you are a woman with fibromyalgia, ages fifty and better, who still has a lot of living to do. In Living Your BEST Life with Fibromyalgia, Dr. Robin Pfaff is your guide on the side, helping you to create your unique holistic game plan so you can love your life again. Throughout the book, you will learn skills and strategies to revitalize not only your physical well-being but also your emotional and mental wellness, your social well-being, and your experience of self-transcendence or spirituality.

Quirk and Moth have avoided killing each other long enough to solve another case. They decide on a local job next, and take up the search for a missing scientist. How could Quirk know this new mystery put them on a headlong collision course with his troubled past, a plethora of personal issues, and a hoard of genetic hybrid creatures with an appetite for anything that moves? When their client dies in mysterious circumstances, law enforcement pursues the dysfunctional duo all the way to a research lab in frozen Yellowknife.