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Navigate Your Grief and Find Healing—Even Meaning—In the Loss of Your Loved One. This poignant guide navigates the unfathomable pain of losing a cherished soul, illuminating pathways toward healing and newfound purpose.

A Force for Good is the biography of the heroic life of Gisela Warburg Wyzanski, a courageous young German Jewish woman who leveraged her wealth and family connections to save countless children from annihilation at the hands of the Nazis.

Learning the Language of Depression is an ideal book for people with depression who would like some help communicating, as well as friends and family of someone with depression who would like to better understand their loved one.

After years of being signed up to every matchmaking site known to man, speed dating, getting set up by well-meaning (if somewhat delusional) friends and family, and even applying for the reality TV show Fairytale Love to find her prince charming, Kennedy Dawes was starting to lose hope. On the advice of her therapist, she'd written down—in excruciating detail—everything she was looking for in an attempt to manifest her Mr. Right. There was just one problem—she couldn't get Mr. Wrong out of her mind.

Hanna has rebuilt a life that passes for safe: a job at a maximum-security facility where she keeps her distance and keeps her promises, a daughter who deserves a quiet childhood, and a man who watches the doors so she can breathe.

Sleep-deprived moms and dads take note: The two women who help Hollywood's A-listers get their ZZZs share their no-fail, family-friendly solution to get any baby, toddler, or preschooler to sleep—usually within less than five nights. Pioneers in children's behavioral sleep, Jen and Jill give...

Callie Summers’s seemingly ordinary life is merely a veil for an extraordinary discovery—one that is brimming with powerful gifts and fragments of forgotten memories. Memories that are slowly making their way to the surface. As her destiny unfolds before her, she finds herself drawn into an unimaginable adventure, which whispers of a forgotten time.

After her mother's death, Delaney Byrne faces escalating debts and a sister to support. Their home is burglarized, hinting at her mother’s obsession with a hidden treasure in Arizona's mountains. When her estranged best friend, Joss, proposes one final treasure hunt, Delaney is skeptical but desperate. As they delve into the wilderness, Delaney and Joss navigate a maze of old betrayals and hidden dangers. Each clue they uncover draws them closer to the treasure but deeper into risk. Delaney vows not to repeat her mother’s mistakes, but the mountain’s perils are relentless, and trust is scarce.

Follow an adorable facility dog as she helps a child with appendicitis. Facility dogs are specially trained to help kids through medical experiences—from lifting spirits, motivating movement, modeling the power of play, and more.

Follow an adorable facility dog as she helps a child through a diagnosis of epilepsy. Facility dogs are specially trained to help kids through medical experiences—from lifting spirits, motivating movement, modeling the power of play, and more.

Recovering from a personal tragedy, the awkward, life-loving, and humorous Vanessa “Calamity Vanity” Jane VanBuren reluctantly agrees to go on a rafting trip with a close friend. All heads turn when Craig Bjorn Eriksen, a young Norwegian man, who could be mistaken for an A-list actor, walks in, closely followed by a trail of beautiful women. Self-conscious, Vanity is instantly smitten with him, but doubts he will notice her.

This book is full of adventures with a character who merely craves a little excitement in her life. Weirdly, she finds herself across the seas more than a few times a year. Most times, her little travel jaunts are colorful but uneventful. That is, until she answers an advertisement to take a short-term job in Fiji. Drawn by the thrill and promise of living abroad in a true paradise, she sets off. Not knowing the many dilemmas she will face, she leaps headlong into the offer.

In today's digital age, it is more important than ever to prioritize cybersecurity in both our personal and professional lives. Top Cyber Security Tips: Securing Your Business, Life, and Family is a comprehensive guide that provides practical, actionable advice for safeguarding your business, your personal information, and your loved ones from cyber threats.

Her knowledge of a series of car fires has Doctor Trent Henson leaving the safety of her best friend’s car and stepping out into the dark deserted streets of the metropolis night. An established psychologist and life coach, as well as an expert in crisis intervention, she has heard it all and seen it all, having been inside many unhealthy minds. Her oath to herself has always been to take the work seriously, but never take it home. Events of tonight will hit home and change everything.

“I am opposed to heart disease and cancer the way one is opposed to sin.” With that as her battle cry, health activist and philanthropist Mary Woodard Lasker had a singular goal: saving lives by increasing medical research. Together with her husband, advertising genius Albert, they created the Lasker Foundation, bestowing the Lasker Awards. But the real increase in medical research funding occurred when Mary discovered a revolutionary source: the federal government. “I’m just a catalytic agent,” she would insist, while she tirelessly lobbied Congress and presidents alike.

Welcome to the fascinating world of behavioral paradoxes: apparent contradictions which make sense once we understand the human needs and motivations behind them. This inspiring book invites you to ponder contradictory behaviors which reflect our shared humanity and, surprisingly, offer pathways to improved mental health, meaningful living, and well-being for ourselves and others.

In 1940, art-world icon Georgia O'Keeffe bought a house in a mountain-rimmed New Mexico desert, planning to live there for six months every year. To manage her remote household while she paints, O'Keeffe invited Maria Chabot—a young and naïve would-be writer—to join her. Their tempestuous relationship endured throughout the chaotic years of WW2, the death of Georgia's domineering, philandering husband (Alfred Stieglitz), and Maria's design and building of a remarkable adobe house and studio for the artist in the native village of Abiquiu—a generous gift from an exceptional friend.

Olivia “Livy” Winters agrees to spend the summer at Sanderling Cove on the Gulf Coast of Florida with her two cousins, Charlotte “Charlie” Bradford and Brooke Weatherby, to help manage The Sanderling Cove Inn while their grandparents take a long road trip in Europe. Livy hopes a summer away from her past surroundings and her job as the owner of a bakery in Virginia will help her forget a traumatic incident there.

When nurse and fledgling pilot Lucinda Rhodes hires guitar-playing private detective Rolly Waters to track down a Stratocaster guitar owned by her deceased father, Rolly is thrilled to take on her case, especially when he learns the guitar’s original owner may have been Jimi Hendrix.

As children in 1918 Baltimore, Annie, an Irish-American girl, and Vince, the son of Sicilian immigrants, both lose loved ones—Annie’s father and sister to the Spanish flu and Vince‘s brother to an auto accident. The tragedies change how each of them face the world and—after they meet and wed—how they relate to each other.