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Free yourself from the negative mind-set that overwhelms you. Addicted to the Monkey Mind offers a toolbox of practical skills to shift self-sabotaging, programmed ways of thinking and learn actionable steps. J.F. Benoist - a visionary thought leader in the fields of addiction treatment and personal development - uses the journeys of two relatable characters to teach you how to develop a powerful new mind-set and finally break the cycle of debilitating habits.

"Han betraktar tyst sitt verk, är nöjd med snittet, så exakt mitt i halsgropen. Vit som snö, röd som blod, svart som ebenholts mumlar han för sig själv. Så torkar han av kniven mot byxbenet och stoppar ner den i bältet. Försvinner in bland granarna." Katjas pojkvän Leif är en entusiastisk jägare. Tillsammans med en udda grupp vänner så har han bildat ett jaktlag, som beger sig ut i den östergötska naturen några gånger per år. Vid årets sista jakt annonserar en av medlemmarna att en fransk utbytesstudent ska följa med jaktlaget ut, för att studera botanik.

Nate Thompson has met the heart-stopping girl of his dreams. There’s just one problem. The man who he just started to know as his dad is marrying her mom. Best possible solution? Join the Army. Go as far away as possible and stay as long as it takes to forget her. By the time he returns, she’ll be off the market, and he won’t have to deal with the untimely feelings he has for his new stepsister. At least, that was the plan. Claire Carter is just trying to get through nursing school while maintaining a relationship with her uncommitted college boyfriend. Her immediate plan is to graduate, start a career and solidify her relationship status before Nate returns. Then these forbidden feelings for him will no longer matter. But she promised to write to him while he was gone. How was she to know those letters would bring him home to her?

The art of downsizing is getting to the point where you have just enough - a point of sufficiency and satisfaction. This book focuses on the emotional side of downsizing. It is not about the practicalities of sorting and selling and donating, but how it feels to do all that, to get rid of your children’s favorite toys, even if your children now are 40 years old with their own children.

En stor överraskning väntar Teodore Fenton när han träder in på sitt spanska hotellrum. Det är regissören Allan Åsberg som ringer med ett jobberbjudande. Han har en storfilm om Olof Palme på gång och behöver en producent. Teodore är inte sen med att nappa - sin oemotståndliga charm till trots är han som vanligt pank. Men han vet vilka knappar man ska trycka på i filmbranschen och i hans nät finns oväntade kontakter.

Un amore finito, un impiego insoddisfacente lasciato indietro e una vita che, a 39 anni, non ha ancora messo radici e sta tutta in una valigia. Come quella con cui Julia arriva a Barcellona, nella lussuosa villa di Pedralbes che lei e le sorelle sono costrette a vendere dopo la morte della madre Gloria. Fra i ricordi di un padre autoritario e severo, complice della dittatura franchista, e i segreti di famiglia occultati fra le pareti delle stanze deserte, Julia ritrova anche una fotografia della madre da giovane, abbracciata a un bellissimo sconosciuto.

Filter Shift describes the notion of unconscious filters: How we create them, how we perceive the world through them, and how they control us. The vast majority of are persistently held back by our unconscious biases and misperceptions, even with the best of intentions. Filter Shift explores the unseen dynamics that get in the way, providing a series of blueprints for success.

Journalistin Maren soll in New York den berühmten Zuckerbäcker Bob Halliwell interviewen. Keine leichte Aufgabe, denn Journalisten sind dem New Yorker ein Dorn im Auge. Maren zeigt vollen Körpereinsatz und kann den Zuckerbäcker schließlich mit ihrem Charme und ihren weiblichen Reizen um den Finger wickeln. Auch Bob Halliwell kann Maren von seinen Fähigkeiten überzeugen und beschert ihr nicht nur kulinarische Höhepunkte.

Allison can break your bones with her mind, and she can't control her power. Now 45 years old, she's spent her life trying to stay away from other people. But a random encounter with a couple on the street leaves her believing that she may have done something horrible. Something unforgivable. Killer-for-hire Daxton and his girlfriend Maggie know the truth. Instead of easing Allison's anguish, they come up with a cruel plan to take advantage of it. But with Allison's abilities exposed, there may be a grisly body count very soon....

When Scarlet Wilson is asked to host Annalee Pinault and Gunnar Magnusdotter’s nuptials at the Four Acorns Inn, she never expects it to start a war of matrimonial madness. Three senior citizens want Scarlet to get into the wedding business, and they aren't willing to take no for an answer. It doesn't take long for things to spiral out of control.

Splid er for nyligt begyndt at studere venskabets magi, men det er trods alt ikke så længe siden, at han var den værste skurk i hele Equestria. Så da han modtager en hemmelig invitation fra prinsesse Celestia om at deltage i Ponyvilles forårsmusical springer han straks til i håbet om at kunne afprøve det, han har lært indtil nu. Først går det hele glat, men inden længe begynder den tidligere kaoskonge igen at lave ravage, og alle er bange for, hvad det hele skal ende med, inklusive ham selv. Hvad skal Splid dog gøre?

It's 1957, and in a shattered post-war world, life goes on. Dot, a pupil midwife, negotiates the streets on her trusty old bicycle - come rain or shine - to help women in need. Living and working under the supervision of the strict Mrs O'Reilly, she must complete her training with twelve deliveries: there's Mrs Wardle who lives in a seedy slum; the eighth Clarke baby, born in an unusual place; the superstitious Wests, desperate for a boy; baby Murphy who is received with laughter; and brothel-worker Mrs Maloney.

When Sara Zaske moved from Oregon to Berlin with her husband and toddler, she was surprised to discover that German parents give their children a great deal of freedom. In Berlin, kids walk to school by themselves, ride the subway alone, cut food with sharp knives and even play with fire. German parents did not share her parental fears, and their children were thriving.

In this powerful, personal, and often humorous book, Sara opens up and shares stories from her career, describing what it’s like living in the spotlight and how her faith keeps her strong. She writes about overcoming life’s most challenging experiences, from a childhood accident that nearly took her life, to the loss she experienced when her parents divorced, and from her own painful and very public divorce, to finding incredible love when she least expected it with former pro quarterback-turned-sportscaster Jay Barker.

1957: Iris Bailey is bored to death of working in the typing pool and living with her parents in Hemel Hempstead. A gifted portraitist with a talent for sketching guests at parties, she dreams of becoming an artist. So she can’t believe her luck when wealthy socialite Nell Hardman invites her to Havana to draw at the glittering wedding of her Hollywood Director father.

This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. Many of the contributors bring their own special touch, presenting a refreshingly eclectic variety of personal icons, from pub signs to seaside piers, from cattle grids to canal boats, and from village cricket to nimbies.

Lucy Honeychurch is an innocent abroad. Under the care of her well-meaning but infuriating chaperon, Cousin Charlotte, she is completing the final part of a conventional well-bred English upbringing: the Grand Tour. But the sensual atmosphere of the Florentine countryside exercises a strange power over Lucy's half-formed and untested character, as do her fellow guests at the Pension Bertolini.

Canterlot High og Crystal Prep Academy arrangerer den allerførste Canter-Crys videnskabsfestival og forskningskonkurrence sammen. Twilight Sparkle elsker naturvidenskab, men hun er nervøs over at skulle møde sine tidligere klassekammerater igen. Det er hun i hvert fald indtil hun finder ud af, at hun er sat sammen med Rising Star, en ny, dejlig dreng fra Crystal Prep. Twilight bliver fortryllet af ham, mens de skaber en festhumør-modifikator, men Flash Sentry, Sunset Shimmer og resten af hendes venner mistænker Rising Star for at have skumle planer.

Sara Hendren invites us to rethink the things and settings we live with. What might assistance based on the body’s stunning capacity for adaptation—rather than a rigid insistence on “normalcy”—look like? Can we foster interdependent, not just independent, living? How do we creatively engineer public spaces that allow us all to navigate our common terrain? By rendering familiar objects and environments newly strange and wondrous, What Can a Body Do? helps us imagine a future that will better meet the extraordinary range of our collective needs and desires.

It’s often said about great things in our life that they’re not appreciated until they’re gone. In Jabri Harrison’s debut book I’d Rather Be on an Island, we’re taken on a journey that finds the subject shipwrecked on an island doing the best he can to survive. On his own strength, however, there’s no way he’ll make it, but his relationship with God that grows throughout the story provides him with the encouragement and wisdom he needs to find purpose on the island and hope for his soul.