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Time had flown, and Antonia wasn't entirely sure where it had gone. It seemed to her that she had just moved into Westamere Manor; had just discovered that her house was haunted; had just met the man whose ghost she was living with. And yet, the weeks and the months had passed, and it was already late October. In a flourish of busyness to prepare the manor for the winter season, Antonia completely missed the last few days of October.

Every human is born with an automatic response system (nervous) that produces a flight-or-fight response whenever we are faced with a situation that appears scary or takes us off guard. When we are met with an unexpected situation, there is a part of the brain that controls how we react, whether we choose to fight or take a flight. It is that part of the brain that brings about anxiety. It is the same for children. Some leading factors that add to the anxiety disorder in children include biological factors, family factors, and environmental factors.

Driving Great Results addresses the frustration around the core elements of running your business. Don't reinvent the wheel for tools that have already been proven. The time-saving tools in this book will allow you to spend your time on the things which really matter: your people, customer satisfaction, market and product differentiation, and doing the things you love to do!

Pyralis’ boy is nine years old. A simple fact only in contention if you ask him. His actions today seem a little unstable. Not knowing what day it is, claiming conversations that have never happened, asking Hadriel if he's going to the forest again. Hadriel has no intention of going to the forest. He just wants to try cooking a damn fish.

Reidon Ward will become a god. He doesn't know it yet, of course. Reidon was born weak, sickly, and small. Afflicted with a painful disease and abandoned by his parents because of it, he has had to fight tooth and nail for every minor advantage life has allowed him. However, his perseverance has not gone unnoticed, and when the most powerful artificial intelligence in human history takes an interest in him, things began to change quickly.

In this book, Luke Goss goes to the desert - not a long adventure or expedition, but a simple camping trip - to check in with himself. Four days and nights alone isn't long, but long enough to stop and listen without distraction. Questions about love, faith, God, war, consumption, and more, this book is to reach out and to share a few thoughts and philosophies accompanied by images taken by Luke in the hope to give the reader a moment shared. With images of sunsets and a midnight campfire, you're invited to a Desert Conversation.

A long-brewing clash between a Mile High music legend and an aggressive government censor has come to a head, as Pablo Vasquez - a.k.a. "The Soothsayer" - must contend with the diabolical Blatherskite and his minions. To bolster his crusade, Vasquez recruits Earl Danners - a prolific beer drinker with a burgeoning talent for belching forth sonic blasts of guttural decimation.

Kidnapped in broad daylight from a busy Edinburgh street, Hannah Wilson has no idea what her abductors want with her, as they chain her in the back of their van and speed out of the city. They tell her she's perfectly safe when she's terrified for her life.

A “lifer” at the secluded Academy of Florence, Leo has never met his parents ... or anyone in his family for that matter. His current “family” is his mechanical monkey and robot lion, who along with his charming best friend and fellow lifer, Savvy, only get him into trouble. But after Leo’s latest experiment goes catastrophically wrong, he finds a mysterious clue that opens an underground maze—one that seems to have been created for him to solve. Leo hopes the tunnels will help him discover the identities of his parents and the reason he’s an orphan in the first place.

A veteran of the war in Afghanistan, Corporal Ethan Miller USMC is a shell of a man. Haunted by a tragic event from his past, he lives a life of self-inflicted penance, feeling underserving of love and isolating himself into a broken existence of anger and guilt. His nightmares had only just begun when he is violently plunged into an epic journey that will ultimately test the limits of human endurance.

Mutanten an vorderster Front - mit Gucky gegen die Geheimwaffe. In der Milchstraße schreibt man das 6. Jahrtausend nach Christus, genauer das Jahr 5658. Das entspricht dem Jahr 2071 NGZ nach der galaxisweit gültigen Zeitrechnung. Über dreitausend Jahre sind vergangen, seit Perry Rhodan die Menschheit zu den Sternen führte und sie seither durch ihre wechselvolle Geschichte begleitet. Noch vor Kurzem wirkte es, als würde sich der alte Traum von Partnerschaft und Frieden aller Völker der Milchstraße und der umliegenden Galaxien endlich erfüllen.

Emily should be happy. She has a nice husband (even if they rarely speak to each other, let alone sleep in the same bed), two little boys she loves (even if a full night’s sleep is a distant memory)—and now, a brand-new house in which they can live out all of the bourgeois fantasies she knows she should be ashamed of. But still she aches for something more. Enter Alathea and Elliott, their new neighbours, and also parents of two young boys. Alathea is intimidatingly confident and beautiful, but also disarmingly open and friendly.

Leaving the Rat Race with Python shows you how to nurture, grow, and harness your work-from-home coding business online - and live the good life!

Kaiser Napoleon Bonaparte, seit einem Jahr auf die Insel Elba verbannt, plant seine Rückkehr nach Frankreich und den Sturz König Ludwigs XVIII. Vor diesem historischen Hintergrund vollzieht sich das abenteuerliche Schicksal des jungen Kapitäns Edmond Dantès, der infolge eines teuflischen Intrigenspiels zu lebenslänglichem Kerker verurteilt wird. Nach 18 endlosen Jahren gelingt ihm die Flucht aus der Festung Chateau d'If, und er gelangt auf wunderbare Weise in den Besitz sagenhafter Reichtümer.

In a world that demands more and more, it takes a great amount of motivation to continue to give and be more productive. Being in the right mindset is the key to unlocking your greatest productivity, and all that you need to do to maximize your capacity is to reset your mind and train it to achieve supercharged productivity! So, how do you start? Just as your day does—in the morning. Interested and ready to go? Then start on a journey to maximize your productivity through this book.

The mystics who coined the phrase "the way of affirmation" understood the apocalyptic nature of the word yes, the way it can lead out of one life and into another. Moving among the languages of Christian conversion, Classical metamorphosis, seasonal transformation, and gender transition, Luke Hathaway tells the story of the love that rewired his being, asking each of us to experience the transfiguration that can follow upon saying yes—with all one’s heart, with all one’s soul, with all one’s mind, with all one’s strength ... and with all one’s body, too.

Tom and Clara are two struggling academics in their mid-30s who decide to take their first holiday in 10 years. On the flight over to Indonesia, Tom experiences a debilitating panic attack, which he keeps hidden from Clara. At the resort, they meet Madeleine, Jeremy and their five-year-old son, Ollie, and the two couples strike up an easy friendship. The holiday starts to look up, but when Clara and Madeleine become trapped in the maze-like grounds of the hotel during 'the fogging' - a routine spraying of pesticide - the dynamics suddenly shift between Tom and Clara.

They named me Dino! I grew up among the loving idiots of my hometown as the Mute. Their only drawback was to give more than what they had. At the age of 14, I opened my mouth and released the avalanche of sounds that echoed across the Balkans. After it, I couldn’t stop talking. Our national drink, the potent rectified spirits distilled from the purple plums, served for medicinal purposes to clear the cluttered minds of our townsfolk idiots. Never in the history of the kingdom of Biares, my home country did any of upheavals occurred within the Balkans.

This collection of nine restorative guided meditations and visualizations was created by stress management expert and best-selling author Brian Luke Seaward, PhD. Designed to help you experience serenity and find a soothing sense of inner peace, they provide a supportive foundation to help you let go of stress and anxiety and take some time out for yourself. These immersive meditations are valuable in challenging moments and as a daily tonic to enhance your well-being. Above the Fray can be a regular companion that you return to time and again on your journey to well-being.

Antonia, die älteste der drei Mühlenschwestern, ist der Wirbelwind der Familie. Nachdem vor vielen Jahren ihre erste Beziehung traumatisch endete, lässt sie sich nur noch auf oberflächliche Affären ein. Dafür geht sie ganz in ihrem Beruf als Hebamme auf - und neuerdings in der Aufgabe als Trauzeugin für ihre beste Freundin Anna, die in der Mühle am Sternsee eine große Hochzeit plant. Doch als Antonia erkennt, dass ausgerechnet Xander, arroganter Sohn eines skrupellosen Hoteliers, den Trauzeugen von Annas Zukünftigem gibt, möchte sie am liebsten davonrennen.