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World-class pediatric surgeon, social scientist, and best-selling author of Thirty Million Words Dr. Dana Suskind returns with a revelatory new look at the neuroscience of early childhood development - and how it can guide us toward a future in which every child has the opportunity to fulfill their potential. Her prescription for this more prosperous and equitable future, as clear as it is powerful, is more robust support for parents during the most critical years of their children’s development.

Jed and Gracie's move to Featherwood brings big dreams and open hearts, despite the drought around them. The readymade rural store even comes with an ancient homestead overlooking the river, albeit one requiring some TLC. Gracie is expecting, and they're eager to put down family roots in the tiny community.

Wieder so ein neuer Trend aus Fernost, wieder diese Schwärme aus selbst ernannten Coaches und Erleuchteten, die mit Schals und Heilsteinen behangen asiatische Weisheiten ad absurdum führen, Ihnen Ihre wertvolle Zeit rauben und dafür unverschämt viel Geld verlangen - darauf möchten Sie unbedingt verzichten? Dann lesen Sie einfach weiter. Das hier ist anders, versprochen.

Das Geheimnis von Stone Abbey. Nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter erbt Nina Altmann, eine 24-jährige Konzertpianistin, Stone Abbey, einen wild-romantischen Landsitz im Herzen Englands. Doch das Erbe ist an einen Auftrag geknüpft: Nina soll die Unschuld ihrer Vorfahrin Anna Stone beweisen, die 1858 als Mörderin hingerichtet wurde. Seit Nina weiß, dass Anna ebenfalls Pianistin war, spürt sie eine sonderbare Verbindung zu ihr. Die Musik ist es schließlich, die Nina hilft, Annas Geschichte zu enthüllen.

The Kingsley family is American royalty, beloved for their military heroics, political service, and unmatched elegance. In 1967, after Joseph S. Kingsley, Jr. is killed in a tragic accident, his charismatic son inherits the weight of that legacy. But Joe III is a free spirit—and a little bit reckless. Despite his best intentions, he has trouble meeting the expectations of a nation, as well as those of his exacting mother, Dottie.

Al terminar la Guerra de Independencia de Venezuela y tras la muerte del Libertador Simón Bolívar en 1830, los campesinos no volvieron a sus tierras sino siguieron guerreando entre ellos. Mientras, algunos habitantes de la Isla de Córcega, en el Mar Mediterráneo, decidieron buscar mejor fortuna en América y llegaron al Puerto de Carúpano.

Seventeen-year-old Phoenix has spent much of her life drifting from town to town with her mom Nina, using their charms to swindle and steal to get by. Now they’ve made it to their ultimate destination, Mom’s hometown of Jasper Hollow. The plan: bring down Ellis Bowman, the man who ruined Nina’s life. When Phoenix gets caught spying on Ellis, she spins a convincing story that inadvertently gives her full access to the Bowman family.

Faster than he could unmake a bed, Eddie’s life is turned upside down and he’s out of school with nowhere to go but a home that’s never been his. When he gets to Cherry Creek, the first face he sees is Charlie Motel, his best friend’s brother and also his lifelong crush.

Having a strong, functional company culture is important - so why don’t more leaders invest in it? Simple: They don’t know where to start. Culture is mostly invisible, subconscious, and intangible, so issues build up over time and often go unnoticed by leadership. In Own Your Culture, Bretton Putter peels back the layers of company culture and provides leaders with actionable steps and tools they can use to define and embed it in their companies, based on more than 50 interviews with leaders around the world.

I looked at the monster and the child I had created and I saw what I had feared the most. Isabelle Berger has given birth to a litter of beasts with the power to kill over a hundred people. She knows she should be just as excited as her husband, but a dark secret lurks in her mind that could shatter their happy ending. Will Isabelle find her true home among the beasts?

Ex-cop-turned-PI Maggie Doyle is stuck chaperoning a group of bratty summer camp kids on an archaeological dig on Whisper Island. After a day of fart jokes, fidget spinners, and fistfights, Maggie's regretting volunteering - and then one of her feral charges unearths a skeleton. At first, it looks like a cold case, but the situation takes a sinister turn when a member of the excavation team winds up dead.

All Violet Parker wants is a day off. Better yet, just a “normal” day. But things never go as planned, especially in Deadwood. Someone - or rather something - broke into the local taxidermy shop and took bites out of the critter displays before racing off into the dark. But this is no random crime, and Violet knows it. With a bounty on her head and troublemakers zeroing in on her, she soon goes from being the hunter to the hunted.

Dr. Roni Cohen-Sandler shows mothers how to handle the modern challenges of parenting teenage girls, drawing upon dozens of interviews with teenagers and their mothers, decades of clinical experience, and her own experience raising a daughter. With clear, practical advice, she provides insights and strategies for how you can better understand your daughter and what she's going through, maintain a close and loving relationship with her, keep her safe, and help her become a resilient, capable, confident, and healthy young woman.

Men leave it far too late to seek help, especially for mental health issues. I understand this, I am a man. This book helps you take the bull by the horns and take charge of your wellness well before you need to see a psychiatrist like me. It will help you if you already have been diagnosed.

The story of humanity is the story of textiles - as old as civilization itself. Since the first thread was spun, the need for textiles has driven technology, business, politics, and culture. In The Fabric of Civilization, Virginia Postrel synthesizes groundbreaking research from archaeology, economics, and science to reveal a surprising history. From Minoans exporting wool colored with precious purple dye to Egypt, to Romans arrayed in costly Chinese silk, the cloth trade paved the crossroads of the ancient world.

Eat Like a Local - Oakland, by Michael J McMorrow, offers insights on food in Oakland. Culinary tourism is an important aspect of any travel experience. Food has the ability to tell you a story of a destination, its landscapes, and culture on a single plate. Most food guides tell you how to eat like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Eat Like a Local series, this book will give you a food guide from someone who has lived at your next culinary destination.

The old saying, “It takes a village to raise a child” rings true in this autobiographical novel. Houshang Moradi Kermani grew up in the village of Sirch to become Iran’s eminent author of fiction for children and young adults. These are the many true events of his life that became the inspiration for his books, several of which have been made into television serials and feature films. With a mother who died in his infancy and a father who suffers from a mental illness, young Hooshoo is raised by his grandmother, Nanehbaba, and his grandfather, Aghbaba.

Regeneration offers a visionary new approach to climate change, one that weaves justice, climate, biodiversity, equity, and human dignity into a seamless tapestry of action, policy, and transformation that can end the climate crisis in one generation. It is the first book to describe and define the burgeoning regeneration movement spreading rapidly throughout the world.

After Mallory Shields graduates from college in her idyllic Midwestern hometown, she embarks on an adventure with her best friend Jenna, taking a gap year to explore the other side of the world. Their journey quickly takes an unexpected turn, and the two young women find themselves in danger and exposed to crime, abuse, and the most dehumanizing conditions possible.

Dieser sture Footballspieler hat mich wortwörtlich von den Füßen gerissen. Jetzt will er es wiedergutmachen... Für meine Karriere als Cheerleaderin bei den San Antonio Lions habe ich hart gearbeitet. Und dann werde ich ausgerechnet vom Center Brick Johnson überrannt, den jeder nur "The Mountain" nennt. Der Name ist definitiv Programm, denn plötzlich habe ich einen Gips, zudem bin ich meinen Job los. Doch der Hüne von Mann lässt mich einfach nicht in Ruhe, behauptet, mir helfen zu wollen.