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A science fiction novel that follows the story of two sisters, separated by an ocean, who desperately try to find each other in a climate-ravaged future... Cee has been trapped on an abandoned island for three years, with no memory of how she got there nor from her previous life. All she knows is that somewhere, beyond the horizon, she has a sister named Kay, and it's up to Cee to cross the ocean to find her. A world away, Kasey Mizuhara, a sixteen-year-old girl and a prodigy in various areas of science, lives in an ecological city built for people who protected the planet, and who now need to protect themselves from it. With natural disasters on the rise due to climate change, green cities offer clean air, water and shelter. Its residents, in return, must spend at least a third of their time in stasis pods and conduct business virtually whenever possible to reduce their ecological footprint. While Kasey, an introverted and lonely girl, doesn't mind having that lifestyle, her sister Celia hated it. Celia was popular and charming, and she much preferred the outside world. However, no one could have predicted that Celia would get on a boat to go out to sea and never return. Now it's been three months since Celia disappeared, and Kasey has lost all hope. Logic dictates that her sister is dead. However, she decides to retrace Celia's last steps. Where they will take her, she does not know. Her sister hid many secrets, but Kasey also has one of her own.

Akela is eighteen years old. She will be eighteen forever, because there are monsters that are impossible to defeat. Although that's not what matters. Maybe that's not the story she wants to tell. Or maybe it is inevitable that, in order for her to tell you how she met Danny and how she changed the lives of her brother Kai and him, she tells you about her illness. How she discovered that there are people destined to be something as immense as being a friend. People destined for you, even if your time together cannot be eternal. How Kai understood that, sometimes, love does save and that hugs from the right person heal. They both forgot that living is not the same as being alive.

Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college--they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now--for reasons they're still not discussing--they don't. They broke up five months ago. And still haven't told their best friends. Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group's yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blissful week they leave behind their daily lives; have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood; and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most. Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week they'll all have together in this place. They can't stand to break their friends' hearts, and so they'll play their parts. Harriet will be the driven surgical resident who never starts a fight, and Wyn will be the laid-back charmer who never lets the cracks show. It's a flawless plan (if you look at it from a great distance and through a pair of sunscreen-smeared sunglasses). After years of being in love, how hard can it be to fake it for one week... in front of those who know you best?

For Astrid Parker, failure is unacceptable. Ever since she broke up with her fiancé a year ago, she's been focused on her career--her friends might say she's obsessed, but she knows she's just driven. When Pru Everwood asks her to be the designer for the Everwood Inn's renovation, which will be featured on a popular HGTV show, Innside America, Astrid is thrilled. Not only will the project distract her from her failed engagement and help her struggling business, but her perpetually displeased mother might finally give her a nod of approval. However, Astrid never planned on Jordan Everwood, Pru's granddaughter and the lead carpenter for the renovation, who despises every modern design decision Astrid makes. Jordan is determined to preserve the history of her family's inn, particularly as the rest of her life is in shambles. When that determination turns into some light sabotage to ruffle Astrid's perfect little feathers, the showrunners ask them to play up the tension. But somewhere along the way, their dislike for each other evolves into something quite different, and Astrid must decide what success truly means. Is she going to pursue the life that she's expected to lead or the one that she wants?

Violet Gentile, a 27-year-old girl, leaves her life in New York to accompany her boyfriend, Yuki Nakamura, when he learns terrible news that affects his family. Overnight, she begins a new journey in Hakone, a small town west of Tokyo, where she is forced to adopt customs very different from her own. However, what will make her reconsider whether she has made a good decision will not be the misunderstandings due to the language, but the isolation that she will begin to feel after knowing the bitter face of the most traditional Japan, embodied, mainly, in Haru, the older brother of Yuki. As she adapts to that life, she will discover that what she thought she knew is not as real as she thought; that her convictions had been nothing more than self-deception and that her prejudices had not allowed her to see who the man sleeping in the room opposite hers, at the other end of the garden, really was.

Reconnect with yourself to create a safe and happy place to live without depending on anyone else... Life is a journey, one that can have good and bad moments, but the most important thing is to be able to do it with you taking the reins along the way. This book invites you to walk the path towards your self-knowledge and towards your self-love in order to create a refuge and a safe place, where you can listen to yourself with acceptance, validation, respect, affection and empathy, from where you can begin to review and identify what it is. Fleeing from miraculous promises or magical formulas, here you will find pure healthy realism. Truths like fists that may seem a little strong at first, but that will end up helping you build an unbreakable self-esteem to be able to face the journey that is life.

Distractions are everywhere around you: that text you respond to quickly, just to get it out of the way. The newest money-making side hustle to cross your mind. The evening spent organizing your overflowing kitchen cupboards. Disruptions are the enemies of a life well lived--both the new distractions of our generation and timeless ones that have existed for centuries. They all add up to make you feel restless, tired, and unfulfilled. They're keeping you from living with joy, from accomplishing the good that only you can do. But that can change today. Things That Matter is a book about living well. It's about overcoming the chatter of a world focused on all the wrong things. It's about rethinking the common assumptions of today to find satisfaction and fulfillment tomorrow.

START WITH WHY shows that the leaders who've had the greatest influence in the world all think, act, and communicate the same way. Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired.

It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships threatening Jews in their hometown of Radom, Poland. But soon the horrors overtaking Europe will become inescapable and the Kurcs will be flung to the far corners of the world, each desperately trying to navigate his or her own path to safety. As one sibling is forced into exile, another attempts to flee the continent, while others struggle to escape certain death, either by working grueling hours on empty stomachs in the factories of the ghetto or by hiding as gentiles in plain sight. Driven by an unwavering will to survive and by the fear that they may never see one another again, the Kurcs must rely on hope, ingenuity, and inner strength to persevere. An extraordinary, propulsive novel, We Were the Lucky Ones demonstrates how in the face of the twentieth century's darkest moment, the human spirit can endure and even thrive.

What mistakes are we parents making in the training and education of our children that are producing crystal children who cannot tolerate frustration and who demand immediacy in what they want? Love is being confused with total concession and, in the interest of giving them the best, we are causing them damage that limits and harms them. We must not forget that children learn from their parents. The example, with clear values and purposes, will allow parents to be energetic, strict and loving at the same time when educating their children so that they can be independent and become good subjects for the society in which we live. Parent education expert, Trixia Valle, shares useful tools to avoid being "cotton parents" and to be able to provide effective parenting to our children.

This is a dynamic and motivating business book very different from what is usually found on the market. Because we already know that entrepreneurship exists and that there are "structures" to start something new or something different and achieve success, but, many times, how to achieve it is what remains to be defined and, in these pages, a path is proposed, a guide, a motivation to invite you to take the step and create what you want and undertake with the style you want. You can be an entrepreneur from the space that motivates you the most, from the one that presents the most potential for you. You can be an intrapreneur, independent entrepreneur or hybrid entrepreneur. If you have an entrepreneur inside you, without a doubt, this book is for you. We hope you can find yourself in it.

You have in your hands a proven method to live happier. When you change your mentality, your true essence appears; the one that will demand the life you deserve to live. By training your mind you will be able to generate new interpretations and new neural pathways that will lead you to create new behaviors and behaviors with which you will be able to change your life positively and reach your High Ideal, the one that, by human nature, corresponds to you. The purpose of this book is to help people transform as human beings, to modify the reality that surrounds them, to find their essence... It motivates them to seek to raise their level of consciousness, to train the mind, to see themselves. understanding the root of their suffering to heal it, separating themselves from the subconscious, directing their thoughts where they want to focus it: towards love, health, freedom and towards a life with purpose, and thus being able to share their gifts and put their Stop Ideal at the service of humanity to be in absolute happiness, to correct course, to evolve.

You have in your hands a 365-day angelic guide so that every day of the year you receive the messages that the angels and archangels have for you. By reading them you will have the company, guidance and embrace of these kind beings who will fill you with light and positive sensations to generate fruitful and positive days in your life. What is the promise of this book? May the angels and archangels accompany you at all times so that you are never alone and so that you live happily! Each message is a bridge of communication with them. Each message is a heavenly teaching that will help transform your heart. Gaby Heredia shares with us in these pages the messages that the angels and archangels want us to receive. Her intervention as an angelologist brings us closer to what these beings of light have to tell us and she invites us to begin to build that bond of love and direct communication that all of us can also have with them.

On the outskirts of Tokyo, in a small city bathed by the ocean and surrounded by mountains, is the house where Shuichi spent his childhood and to which he has just returned. Shuichi is a famous illustrator, he is forty years old and has a scar in the middle of his chest. He is obsessed with his heart, he listens to it every night, and with the confusing memories of the past. His mother manipulated them to protect him from pain: she always told him a sweetened version of his little dramas. The problem is that, if one is not sure that one has suffered in the past and has overcome it, where can one get the courage to keep trying? One day, Shuichi notices that a mysterious boy is wandering around his house. A strange presence that raises many questions: who is the child watching him and why has he chosen his house? But above all, how do you catch a fish-boy? Shuichi discovers that the little boy is called Kenta, he is eight years old and is living some prodigious adventures in absolute solitude. Kenta, the fish-boy, and Shuichi, the surfer cartoonist, establish an extraordinary friendship, to such an extent that meeting each other will change their lives forever. It will take you to a place that beats to the rhythm of the heart, pronounced in all the languages of the world. This is Teshima, a small remote island located in the southwest of Japan, where the Heartbeat Archive is also located.

Kaoru stops at the beginning of the slope. The house she grew up in now seems much smaller than she remembered. But when Sakura comes out to greet him wagging her tail, the feeling of confusion disappears. Kaoru is at home. And the time has come to reunite with her family. There was a time when the Hasegawas were the perfect family. His parents always smiled and exuded love everywhere. Her younger sister, Miki, was the bravest girl she had ever seen. And her brother, Hajime, was first at anything she tried, and filled the world with unique beauty. The same couldn't be said about Kaoru. He didn't stand out at anything in particular: at school he was good, but not the best; He loved girls, but never enough. His brothers, however, shone like the brightest stars in the sky. And Kaoru didn't mind being sheltered from the light they reflected. But even the most wonderful families can be torn apart.

Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and revelations. Inherited from her father, this gift has enabled the family undertakers to flourish in their small Irish town. Yet she has always been uneasy about censoring some of the dead's last messages to the living. Unsure, too, about the choice she made when she left school seventeen years ago: to stay or leave for a new life in London with her charismatic teenage sweetheart. So when Jeanie's parents unexpectedly announce their plan to retire, she is jolted out of her limbo. In this captivating successor to her much-lauded debut, When All Is Said, Anne Griffin portrays a young woman who is torn between duty, a comfortable marriage, a calling she both loves and hates and her last chance to break free. Listening Still is a heartachingly honest look at what we give up and what we gain when we choose to follow our heart.

Two weeks have passed since Iris Winnow returned home bruised and heartbroken from the front, but the war is far from over. Roman is missing, and the city of Oath continues to dwell in a state of disbelief and ignorance. When Iris and Attie are given another chance to report on Dacre's movements, they both take the opportunity and head westward once more despite the danger, knowing it's only a matter of time before the conflict reaches a city that's unprepared and fracturing beneath the chancellor's reign. Since waking below in Dacre's realm, Roman cannot remember his past. But given the reassurance that his memories will return in time, Roman begins to write articles for Dacre, uncertain of his place in the greater scheme of the war. When a strange letter arrives by wardrobe door, Roman is first suspicious, then intrigued. As he strikes up a correspondence with his mysterious pen pal, Roman will soon have to make a decision: to stand with Dacre or betray the god who healed him. As the days grow darker, inevitably drawing Roman and Iris closer together... the two of them will risk their very hearts and futures to change the tides of the war.

Edison Rooker isn't sure what to expect when he enters the office of Antonia Hex, the powerful sorceress who runs a call center for magical emergencies. He doesn't have much experience with hexes or curses. Heck, he doesn't even have magic. But he does have a plan to regain the access to the magical world he lost when his grandmother passed. Antonia is... intimidating, but she gives him a job and a new name -Rook- both of which he's happy to accept. Now all Rook has to do is keep his Spell Binder, an illegal magical detection device, hidden from the Magical Consortium. And contend with Sun, the grumpy and annoyingly cute apprentice to Antonia's rival colleague, Fable. But dealing with competition isn't so bad; as Sun seems to pop up more and more, Rook minds less and less. But when the Consortium gets wind of Rook's Spell Binder, they come for Antonia. All alone, Rook runs to the only other magical person he knows: Sun. Except Fable has also been attacked, and now Rook and Sun have no choice but to work together to get their mentors back... or face losing their magic forever.

In the kingdom of Helios, words have power. That of creating, balancing and then destroying the world. When someone says them, there is no turning back. Arya, a young woman from the capital, is passionate about books. She devours each and every one of her words. But little does she suspect that she is the key to saving her kingdom, the only one that has restricted the use of magic thanks to a treaty. A treaty that the rebels do not like, who are willing to do anything to eradicate it.

A teen girl has the worst Valentine's Day ever--only to relive it over and over again... After living through a dumpster fire of a Valentine's Day, Emilie Hornby escapes to her grandmother's house for some comfort and a consolation pint of Ben & Jerry's. She passes out on the couch, but when she wakes up, she's back home in her own bed--and it's Valentine's Day all over again. And the next day? Another horrendous V-Day. Emilie is stuck in some sort of time loop nightmare that she can't wake up from as she re-watches her boyfriend, Josh, cheat on her day after day. In addition to Josh's recurring infidelity, Emilie can't get away from the enigmatic Nick, who she keeps running into--sometimes literally--in unfortunate ways. How many times can one girl passively watch her life go up in flames? And when something good starts to come out of these terrible days, what happens when the universe stops doling out do-overs?

Selly has salt water in her veins. So when her father leaves her high and dry in the port of Kirkpool, she has no intention of riding out the winter at home while he sails off to adventure. But any plans to follow him are dashed when a handsome stranger with tell-tale magician's marks on his arm commandeers her ship. He is Prince Leander of Alinor and he needs to cross the Crescent Sea without detection so he can complete a ritual on the sacred Isles of the Gods. Selly has no desire to escort a spoiled prince anywhere, and no time for his entitled demands or his good looks. But what starts as a leisure cruise will lead to acts of treason and sheer terror on the high seas, bringing two countries to the brink of war, two strangers closer than they ever thought possible and stirring two dangerous gods from centuries of slumber...

Finding your way is never a simple journey... Alice sees the worst in people. She also sees the best. She sees a thousand different emotions and knows exactly what everyone around her is feeling. Every. Single. Day. But it's the dark thoughts. The sadness. The rage. These are the things she can't get out of her head. The things that overwhelm her. Where will the journey to find herself begin?

Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. Haunted by visions of the Fairy King since childhood, she's had no choice. Her tattered copy of Angharad--Emrys Myrddin's epic about a mortal girl who falls in love with the Fairy King, then destroys him--is the only thing keeping her afloat. So when Myrddin's family announces a contest to redesign the late author's estate, Effy feels certain it's her destiny. But musty, decrepit Hiraeth Manor is an impossible task, and its residents are far from welcoming. Including Preston Héloury, a stodgy young literature scholar determined to expose Myrddin as a fraud. As the two rivals piece together clues about Myrddin's legacy, dark forces, both mortal and magical, conspire against them--and the truth may bring them both to ruin. Part historical fantasy, part rivals-to-lovers romance, part Gothic mystery, and all haunting, dreamlike atmosphere, Ava Reid's powerful YA debut will lure in readers who loved The Atlas Six, House of Salt and Sorrows, or Girl, Serpent, Thorn.

A new threat from the past is rising, and only a handful of heroes remain to fight. Pursued by dark forces, Will and his allies must leave the safety of the Hall and travel to the heart of the ancient world, making new and dangerous alliances, and revealing the shocking secrets of the past. But Will is carrying a dark secret of his own--his true identity. Drawn to the beautiful and deadly James St. Clair, Will is pulled ever deeper into the web of the past, and finds himself tempted by the darkness within. As the ancient world threatens to return, can Will and his friends fight their fate? Or will the truths they learn tear their world apart?

When you understand how linked your emotions are to your digestion, you will understand the path to healing once and for all. If you feel bloating, stomach pain, burning, reflux or have been diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome, SIBO or any other pathology and have tried all kinds of treatments that only serve as a band-aid to relieve the symptoms, this book can change your life forever. Fani García will lead you on a path that begins by opening your eyes and losing the fear of recognizing that, perhaps, your stress level is more than you can sustain. This may be influencing your digestive problems. In this book you will understand not only how digestion works but also the connection it has with emotions, taking into account the latest studies that explain the impact that fear, anxiety or stress sustained over time have on our digestive system. After reading these pages, you will no longer be able to ignore that your digestion has a strong emotional component, so you can begin to significantly transform your health. This is a journey to regain your digestive health.

Anyone who has ever seen a two-year-old start bouncing to a beat knows that music speaks to us on a very deep level. But it took celebrated teacher and music visionary Don Campbell to show us just how deep, with his landmark book The Mozart Effect. Stimulating, authoritative, and often lyrical, The Mozart Effect has a simple but life-changing message: music is medicine for the body, the mind, and the soul. Campbell shows how modern science has begun to confirm this ancient wisdom, finding evidence that listening to certain types of music can improve the quality of life in almost every respect. Here are dramatic accounts of how music is used to deal with everything from anxiety to cancer, high blood pressure, chronic pain, dyslexia, and even mental illness. Always clear and compelling, Campbell recommends more than two dozen specific, easy-to-follow exercises to raise your spatial IQ, "sound away" pain, boost creativity, and make the spirit sing!

This book offers complete and detailed information on everything related to women's health, and combines the latest advances in medicine with alternative therapies that involve both the body and the mind. From a holistic perspective that takes into account emotions, personal development and spiritual life, it exposes the patriarchalism of the medical profession and shows the dark side of some widespread beliefs. The sincerity of the collected testimonies and the author's courageous reflections on women's needs and intimate conflicts will lead many readers to see her experiences in a new light. They will discover that the ambivalence of feelings towards their children is natural, that the maternal instinct is a creative impulse that does not exhaust itself in the offspring, and that if they want to heal and remain healthy they must carry out radical changes in their lives and in their way of life. This is an indispensable reference work for all women willing to take charge of their own well-being.

In Economics Without the Boring Bits, Oxford-trained economist Tejvan Pettinger takes readers on an enlightening tour of the powerful, counter-intuitive and frequently startling insights of economic research, showing us that middlemen are good, recycling is bad (sometimes) and why some people get rich and others don't. This clear, compelling and engaging book breathes life into big concepts such as debt, finance, trade, money, taxation, supply, demand and all the other economic issues that worry us all yet relatively few truly understand. This is your guide to understanding economics, without the boring bits.

Sol is an extraordinary witch whose magic has vanished along with her broom. In her quest to reclaim what makes her unique, she will embark on a magical and exciting journey, but what if the secret to her power lies in an unexpected place? Whether you are seeking to rediscover your essence or find your lost voice in a world of challenges, this captivating tale invites you to explore the power that lies within you. Accompany Sol on her journey through the enchanted forest, a journey full of learning and self-discovery. Find the path to the true source of power that resides in each of us. Do you dare to discover your own magic?... Sonia Rico, journalist, therapist and coach, proposes a magical journey through a story of self-discovery. This fable, full of inspiration and humor, will resonate in the depths of your being.

Heroes, Villains, and Healing allow survivors to view their thoughts and actions through the lens of Marvel heroes and villains they love and hate. Characters such as Wolverine demonstrate how trauma can cause the strongest to forget and block out the pain of the past, while powerful characters such as the Hulk and Thing view themselves as monsters, using their anger and strength to mask their pain, fear, and sense of loneliness. While filled with fantastic radioactive mutations, arch-nemesis, and super soldiers, the realm of superheroes and villains provides survivors the ability to safely explore the theories and applications of cognitive behavior therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and internal family systems therapy to heal their cognitive distortions and become complete individuals. Comics, while designed to be read through the lens of good vs. evil and hero vs. villain, can cause survivors to view their reality, their actions, and the actions of others in the same black-and-white terms. However, reality is more complex, containing contrasting colors and shades of grey. Heroes, Villains, and Healing use these comics as a foundation, providing the tools to identify cognitive distortions and change their automatic thoughts to no longer view themselves as either a hero or a villain. Instead, they learn to view themselves as individuals capable of overcoming the impact of their traumatic past to become the best version of themselves.