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Robert Bruce was Scotland's greatest king ever. The Bruce, as he was known, was crowned King of Scots in 1306, a time when the ancient kingdom of Scotland was under English occupation. When King Robert began his reign, his first two battles were losses. Yet from 1307-1313, The Bruce won battle after battle.

"This book is for real, because Libby is for real," states legendary strategist Dr. Phil McGraw in his foreword to TRAVELING HOPEFULLY. With courage and candor, Libby reveals the real issues of her life--molestation, suicide, and mental illness--and shares her hard-earned insights on how her tragic family legacy shaped her life in negative ways.She shifted her perspective from limiting to liberating, shedding those recurring themes and dramatically transforming her past. With a process she calls Five Steps to Jumpstart Your Life, Libby explains how others can rewrite their stories, as she did, to create more joy and fulfillment.The 21 Hopeful Tools are easy to follow exercises and examples that take the reader through a transformative process, teaching how to:*dissect the past to direct the future*link internal clarity with external action*create a Traveling Hopefully personal roadmap*choose positive Travel Companions to support and inspire you*keep moving toward what is wanted and away from what no longer servesFilled with personal stories and those of others, TRAVELING HOPEFULLY inspires change--how to become a doer rather than a dreamer.

The FBI that Freeh took over was still reeling from the bloody standoff at Ruby Ridge and the conflagration at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texa. This work follows Freeh through his disputes with Clinton, National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, and others over indictments against the senior Iranian officials behind the Khobar bombing.

Sophie Quinn has always lived in Washington, DC, but now she finds herself in Portland, Maine for a year. With the pipes freezing-inside the house. And a husband who seems to have his eye on a hiking-booted LLBean femme fatale. Not to mention the mother-in-law from hell who never fails to let her know that she leaves much to be desired.

Focuses on two teenage sisters struggling to carve out their identities as young adults, taking risks and undergoing disturbing transformations that go unchallenged by their emotionally absent parents. In the vein of "American Beauty", this book offers a glimpse into the world of a family in crisis.

Features scores of fresh interviews, including one with the session musicians from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, who recorded with Aretha Franklin. This title is the story of a great artistic achievement. It's also a biography of a star who is both more complex and determined than her modern image as a diva indicates.

Abby has turned thirteen - a real teenager who only wants to pierce her ears, have a boyfriend and run her own life. But when her mother suffers a nervous breakdown, Abby faces a life far from what she hoped for.

One man believes Linda Bascomb was murdered. A second believes she took her own life. The first is her husband, Warren, an aging surgeon who has lost his medical license because of his morphine addiction. The second is her son, Ben, a husband and father who struggles every day to remain sober and avoid bankruptcy.Warren has entered into an arrangement with his son that has since kept Ben financially afloat and Warren supplied with morphine. Ben's wife, Emma, desperately seeks to distance her husband from Warren before their relationship destroys her family. Opposing her efforts is Victor Javier, the mastermind of the arrangement, an immigrant whose cruelty masks a hope for his mother's deliverance. Though Linda Bascomb was once the true connection between Warren and Ben, her memory becomes the specter that polarizes them. As the pain of unresolved history accumulates, their embittered agreement collapses, and in the process destroys one life, changes another forever, and drives both from the emotional and chemical shelters in which they hide. In the inevitable reckoning, Ben and Warren are forced to acknowledge the power the dead exert on the living, the elusive nature of redemption, and the ways the things we lose define us. Sometimes shocking, always incisive, Keith Dixon's brilliant debut novel is a harsh but compassionate portrayal of love and need. Set on the emotionally bleak outskirts of New York City, Ghostfires, with stylistic power and psychological precision, lays bare a corrupt American dream-and a family with scores to settle.

In the mountainous tea plantations of Darjeeling a family is torn apart when two sisters fall in love with the same man. Forbidden love, family relationships, jealousies and surprising twists reveal the extent to which family honour in India still plays an important role.

In the wake of Viagra's enormous popularity, the international market has been inundated by a blizzard of purported natural sex enhancers. Some of these products are nothing but hype, yet others contain proven agents that enhance libido, improve sexual function, and increase pleasure. These bona fide sex-boosters can be found in Hot Plants.From the ancient rainforests of Malaysia, to remote mountains in Siberia, medicine hunter Chris Kilham has scoured the globe in search of effective, sex-enhancing plants. Hot Plants, Nature's Proven Sex Boosters For Men And Women, contains a lively account of those adventurous travels, with valuable information that you can use to boost your sex life. These natural agents of desire include Tongkat Ali, maca, yohimbe, catuaba, ashwagandha, horny goat weed, zallouh root, Rhodiola rosea, Red ginseng, Siberian ginseng and chocolate. Medicine Hunter Chris Kilham draws upon history, legend and keen research, as he weaves tales of remarkable people, exotic locations, and his extensive investigations into the science and uses of the hot plants. Learn which plants increase libido in both men and women, improve erectile function in men, put more fire into your sex life, and significantly boost your pleasure.

A husband-and-wife psychologist team uses case histories and examples from their own relationship to show how the differences between men and women can be turned into the source of the most romantic intimacy, and how to keep lovemaking and romance alive for a lifetime. Reprint.

Tess McDonald is running the show. Nikki Howard has what she thinks is the greatest job in the world. Kim Sheppard is at the pinnacle of corporate success. Then Tess loses her business. Nikki is convicted of a crime. Kim is accused of corporate theft. But fate truly intercedes when they meet in of all places - their doctor's office.

A medical emergency leaves desperate newlywed Gary with a very sick wife, a new baby, a mountain of bills - and no job. He is forced to make a difficult choice as he calls on his estranged sister-in-law, forcing long-buried emotions to come out, and saving his marriage and their lives.

Almost 29, Michael Hughes believes she is almost out of time to find the love that will make her dreams come true. Her craving for love is matched only by her obsession with finding 'the one', the perfect mate. Will Eddie Matsen fit the bill? It seems that things are finally going to change for Michael.

Set in a wealthy community in Northern Michigan, this novel tells the story of nine-year-old Symone who is mysteriously adopted by the Hustons, after her mother dies of a drug overdose.

Biotech companies are racing to alter the genetic building blocks of the world's food. In this text, Bill Lambrecht investigates how genetic engineering is changing what we eat, how we live and the global politics of food.

A true-life glimpse of the dangerous work regularly performed by the US Coast Guard Search and Rescue service. This is an account of the rescue of the fishing crew from the "La Conte" as it sank off the coast of Alaska in 90-foot seas, one January night in 1998.

Between 1929 and 1934, women in American cinema took lovers, had babies out of wedlock and got rid of cheating husbands. This is an exploration of the careers and lives of female stars such as Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow and Mae West.

Only the imagination limits the possible improvements that the human mind can conceive. In "Supermen", 20 science fiction writers explore the likely course human beings will take when cyborg engineering takes over the human evolutionary process.

A collection of gay erotic writings tracing the development of a gay identity from the late 19th century to just before the Stonewall Inn riotsLong before the rise of the modern gay movement, an unnoticed literary revolution was occurring, mostly between the covers of the cheaply produced pulp paperbacks of the post-World War II era. Cultural critic Michael Bronski collects a sampling of these now little-known gay erotic writings-some by writers long forgotten, some never known and a few now famous. Through them, Bronski challenges many long-held views of American postwar fiction and the rise of gay literature, as well as of the culture at large.

Harmony and her old college friends are respectable, straight laced professionals. But once a year, they reunite at an exotic resort for a decadent sexual free-for-all - complete with group sex and tantalizing erotic games. This year, Cole is finally going to reveal his true feelings for his old friend Harmony.

Fever-ridden, raving, and trapped in a cabin on his own ship, Long John Silver is on his way towards England and the hangman's noose. But Silver vows to exact revenge upon his captors by disclosing their secrets in a journal.

Contains "How To" a "To Do", and a "We Did," full of ideas, checklists, and stories about rediscovering the lost art of adventure. This book contains ideas about canyoneering, mountain climbing, parachute jumping, extreme snowboarding, and more.

A Fun, Easy Way to Talk with Your BabyBabies can communicate with their hands long before they can speak. Using American Sign Language (ASL), Dr. Michelle Anthony and Dr. Reyna Lindert have created the simple and successful Signing Smart system to teach parents how to integrate signing into everyday life with their hearing children. Through the more than seventy activities presented in this book, parents will learn the tools and strategies they need to understand how to introduce signing and build their child's sign and word vocabulary.Using ASL signs and Signing Smart with hearing infants and toddlers has many benefits, including:-reducing frustration and tantrums-allowing children to express what they need or want-facilitating speaking-fostering communication and promoting learningBy using these practical, easy-to-learn methods, parents and babies-from as young as five months old to preschool age-can "converse" through signs at mealtime, bath time, playtime, or anytime.Featuring the Signing Smart Illustrated Dictionary, with 130 signs.

The former US Ambassador to the Vatican, Ray Flynn, gives a personal, inspiring and intimate portrait of John Paul II and his revolutionary term as Pope.

A novel about a humble fisherman who is elected as the next pope. The authors are a former US Ambassador to the Vatican and the author of "The French Connection".

In 1605, at Cambridge University, one of the translators working on the new Bible is savagely murdered by unknown hands. Deacon Marbury, the man in charge of this group of scholars, seeks outside help to find the murderer, to protect the innocents and their work. But the people who offer to help are not who they claim to be.

Dinner with kids shouldn't be a battleground. And it shouldn't make a martyr out of the parent whose job it is to get it on the table fast, fresh and hot every day at 6 PM. Aviva Goldfarb's cheerful Scramble system takes the hassle and worry out of mealtime. Her users and readers rely on her grocery lists, weekly meal plans and recipes not just for the healthy dinners themselves but for taking the stress out of dinnertime. She wants families to actually enjoy their dinners together! Now, with SOS! The Six O'Clock Scramble to the Rescue, Goldfarb is taking an extra of-the-moment stress away from meal planning for busy families: concern about the environment, about the cost of shipping out-of-season food halfway around the world, about packaging, about additives and preservatives.In SOS! The Six O'Clock Scramble to the Rescue, readers will get a full year of weekly meals that:--help readers eat seasonally without missing their favorite foods--move toward a slightly more vegetarian menu for health and a lighter environmental footprint--reveal when organic matters (and when it doesn't)--save money through easy, efficient planning, bulk buying, freezing and storing, and avoiding waste--pack the power of achievable ethnic meals, such as Easy Cheesy Tex Mex Scramble and Greek Pasta Salad--make grocery trips count

Georgia grew up in a small Gulf town full of Southern characters. So the few secrets she's managed to keep are precious, including that she invented TV's hottest kitchen gadget. She turns to women she trusts can keep her secret from her controlling society. All members are veterans but they've just admitted one woman who doesn't fit in - Sierra.