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In this book, we will guide you through the process of reframing problems to help you identify your goals, assess your current situation, and create a plan to make your aspirations a reality. With practical techniques and actionable steps, we'll show you how to break down your goals into manageable tasks, overcome obstacles, and stay motivated along the way.

With their Very Exciting Spy Technology and their tried-and-true, toilet-based travel techniques, the InvestiGators are undercover and on the case! And on their first mission together, they have not one but two mysteries to solve! Can Mango and Brash uncover the clues, crack their cases, and corral the crooks—or will the criminals wriggle out of their grasp?

In their next big adventure, S.U.I.T. headquarters is under attack, and Mango and Brash are going undercover and underground disguised as city sewer workers to unclog a sticky situation. But when their search for the criminal Crackerdile backfires, the toilets they travel through get blocked and the InvestiGators take the blame for it! Can Mango and Brash restore their good name and put the real culprit behind bars before the whole city is in deep water?

Frankie O’Neill and Anne Ryan would seem to have nothing in common. Frankie is a lonely ornithologist struggling to salvage her dissertation on the spotted owl following a rift with her advisor. Anne is an Irish musician far from home and family, raising her five-year-old son, Aiden, who refuses to speak. When Frankie finds an injured baby crow in the forest, little does she realize that the charming bird will bring all three lost souls—Frankie, Anne, and Aiden—together on a journey toward hope, healing, and rediscovering joy.

“I’ll be dead in three months. Come tell my story.” So writes Sebastian Trapp, reclusive mystery novelist, to his longtime correspondent Nicky Hunter, an expert in detective fiction. With mere months to live, Trapp invites Nicky to his spectacular San Francisco mansion to help draft his life story . . . while living alongside his beautiful second wife, Diana; his wayward nephew, Freddy; and his protective daughter, Madeleine. Soon Nicky finds herself caught in an irresistible case of real-life “detective fever.”

Alosa est la fille de Kalligan, Roi pirate qui règne (et terrorise) les mers. Son père décide de l'envoyer en mission pour enfin mettre la main sur une mystérieuse et très ancienne carte au trésor qui mènerait à des richesses incommensurables. Pour réussir son défi, la courageuse Alosa accepte de se laisser capturer par ses pires ennemis, s'offrant ainsi la possibilité d'infiltrer leur navire. Captive au milieu d'un impitoyable équipage de pirates cruels, Alosa sait pourtant que la fameuse carte est à portée de main.

"I’ll be dead in three months. Come tell my story." This is the chilling invitation from Sebastian Trapp, renowned mystery novelist, to his long-time correspondent Nicky Hunter, an expert in detective fiction. Welcomed into his lavish San Francisco mansion, Nicky begins to unravel Trapp’s life story under the watchful eyes of his enigmatic wife and plainspoken daughter. But Sebastian Trapp is a mystery himself. And maybe – probably – a murderer.

Monday Rent Boy begins in Somerset, England, in the mid-1980s, with the winning and heart-warming story of two 13-year-old friends and fellow altar boys, Arthur Barnes and Ernie Castlefrank. Endearing outcasts, they try not to speak of the secret tie that binds them: both boys are routinely preyed on by The Zipper, their nickname for Father Ziperto, the local Catholic priest. Still, they find adventure and release in the mischief they get up to together, as each also tries to survive in other ways.

La vida no es justa, y eso Logan lo sabe muy bien. Después de una dolorosa pérdida, su corazón se ha vuelto hermético, frío e inquebrantable. Por eso no le importa que todos crean que es el malo de la historia. Leah nunca se ha sentido la protagonista de la suya. Vive con la cabeza enterrada en los libros, intentando pasar desapercibida, y se refugia en la gran comunidad de lectores que tiene en internet. Leah no es el tipo de chica que Logan está buscando. Y Logan es la clase de chico que Leah trata de evitar.

Two lost souls. One chance at love. From battlefields to bookshelves, Captain Jane Reed is on a mission to help a world-renowned author, Veronica Cooper, reclaim her passion. Seeking solace from the hustle and bustle of Venice, the two head to a tranquil countryside villa, where Jane discovers more than just the beauty of nature. As fate would have it, Jane crosses paths with David, Veronica's mysterious and brooding son. He too carries the weight of his past, but can Jane break through his walls and find the love they deserve? Or will their scars prove to be too deep to mend?

It’s completely natural to want to avoid pain, because it feels “bad,” we instinctively resist it, ignore it, override it, and generally try to get rid of it as quickly as possible. Sometimes, we try to numb ourselves or escape–through painkillers, drugs, or alcohol; through distractions like shopping and overworking; or even through exercise or spiritual practices–because those are the only tools we know for dealing with it.

When Izzy discovers the body of a teenage runaway under her conservatory, she knows that someone in this village buried a very dark secret. Who is the girl? How was she able to vanish in a place like Seahouses? And why was her grave filled with salt?

It starts innocently enough. Four kids—three girls, one boy—are at one of their houses, playing games. One of them has read about "Bloody Mary" and the idea that if you look into a mirror and say her name thirteen times, she will show you the future. Some legends say she'll show you your one true love or a skull to mark your death within five years. Others say that conjuring Bloody Mary will bring her into your world.

What do artist models think about while posing nude on the stand? Do they watch you as much as you watch them? Are they musing about their misadventures or what they want to do when they put their clothes back on and go home? Is it possible that they are living, breathing bodies who are reminiscing about their trips to Europe, Morocco, or New York City? What were the union rules for those in the San Francisco Model's Guild? What about the world of theatre? Is it very different from the world of artist modeling? The answers to all these pressing questions are in this memoir....

The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job and underappreciated by her husband, whose fecklessness has pushed the couple close to the brink of breakup. But just when things couldn't be bleaker, she takes a leap of faith—and in so doing, things start to take a surprising turn for the better.

Tras el primer caso de la inspectora gitana Adela Palazuelo que vive y trabaja en Pan Bendito, ahora le han asignado un caso muy complicado. Una antigua amante del Rey Emérito ha fallecido en Madrid, el CESID se ha hecho cargo de la investigación, pero el Ministro de Interior quiere que un cuerpo especial de la policía haga la suya propia.

Helen Shiller went from radical anti-war activist in Wisconsin, to a member of a collective of white allies of the Black Panther Party in Chicago, to an elected city council person who helped break the back of the racialized opposition to Harold Washington, Chicago's first Black mayor. Shiller participated, when few others did, in the historic fight against the gentrification of a unique economically and racially mixed Chicago community on the Northside.

Legenderna om Ramsjögården talar om en förbannelse som vilar över ägorna. Den blodröda vallmon som frodas på den gamla gårdens marker varslar enligt sägnen om olycka och död. Berättelserna sätter skräck i folket som bor kring sjön, och när den förmögne Göran Blessing kommer till trakten för att rusta upp gården väcks minnen, skvaller och onda aningar åter till liv. Snart märker byborna att vallmon kring gården blommar kraftigare än någonsin tidigare.

Det är 1899. Elvaåriga Elin Andersson och hennes familj har det inte lätt. De riskerar att förlora sitt torp om inte styvfadern har råd att behålla det, och då måste familjen emigrera till Amerika. Det skulle innebära att Elin aldrig får träffa sin bästa vän igen, och det kan hon inte låta hända. Elin lägger därför upp en plan. En plan som kanske kan rädda familjen, och deras hem. Hon tänker ge sig av i smyg och sedan tillbringa sommaren med att samla in tillräckligt med pengar för att kunna behålla familjetorpet.

1832. The morning after her father's funeral, Prudence Merryfield wakes to the liberating thought that this is the first day of her new life. At thirty-five and unmarried, she is now mistress of her own fate. But a cruel revelation at the reading of her father's will forces Prudence to realise that taking only the most drastic action will set her free. Present day. Eliza is gifted a family heirloom by her aunt—a Georgian pocket book, belonging to her ancestor, Prudence Merryfield, whose existence reverberates through the lives of generations of Eliza's family, the Ambroses.