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Wild Goose Chase
An antique dealer and his inconvenient(ly irresistible) new colleague must contend with an illicit stuffed goose and their sizzling attraction, from USA Today bestselling author Sarah Adler. Antique store owner Callahan Leitner has an illegal taxidermy goose in his living room. Why? It's...complicated. But it may end his career unless he finds a legitimate way to dispose of the bird ASAP. Except, there's an unexpected wrench in his plans--the frustrating, effervescent Annie O'Neill. Annie is happy to fill in for her uncle at his antique store; it's the perfect opportunity to gain more experience before opening a shop of her own, plus she'll finally meet his handsome young business partner. Unfortunately, Cal is nothing like the charming man she expected. She's tempted to take his apparent dislike personally, until she stumbles upon the source of his moodiness: the contraband waterfowl hidden upstairs. When the goose goes missing, both of their professional reputations are on the line. As Cal and Annie attempt to track down the bird before it can be traced back to the store, their tentative alliance turns into something much deeper. Will the hunt for their felonious fowl lead to true love, or end in ruin? -
Forest Legend: The Tale of Ol' Split Toe
A deer journeys through time, witnessing a resilient world transformed as humans struggle for control over nature.Mother Nature struggles to maintain equilibrium in a changing world while fire, disease, logging, human displacement, and war repeatedly destroy forests of centuries-old trees. Split Toe, a deer chosen at birth for a unique education, travels through time to understand the interconnected workings of a Michigan forest. He meets humans along the way: Ice Age hunters who trap and kill a mastodon; Mukwoh, a young Ojibwe hunter who stalks Split Toe through swamp and forest; loggers clear-cutting Michigan's white pines; Edra, a woman advocating for the trees; Angus and Grace, pioneers who become a first generation of family farmers; scientists from the future studying the impact of nuclear radiation.
Split Toe witnesses two hundred years of conflict building between modern humans-who fight to control the natural world-and Mother Nature, who repeatedly reaches for balance. He wonders whether human ways will ultimately overpower Mother Nature, until he meets a boy who changes everything.
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Turnaround Blueprint: Transforming Senior Living Communities from Struggling to Spectacular
The Turnaround BlueprintTransforming Struggling Senior Living Communities Into Thriving Homes
Senior living is one of the most rewarding-and most challenging-industries to lead. Communities face shrinking margins, staffing shortages, rising expectations from families, and constant pressure to deliver exceptional care. Too often, leaders are left with theories and buzzwords when what they really need are proven, actionable tools.
The Turnaround Blueprint is that playbook. Written by an experienced operator who has led communities through both crisis and growth, this book lays out a clear, step-by-step framework for stabilizing operations, rebuilding culture, and creating lasting success.
Inside you'll find:
- Real-world strategies tested in senior living communities across the country
- Practical tools and templates for financial recovery, staff engagement, and operational excellence
- Case studies and scenarios that highlight what works-and what doesn't-in times of crisis
- Action checklists that help you move from insight to execution immediately
This is not another leadership book full of abstract ideas. It's a hands-on guide for executive directors, investors, owners, and senior living professionals who want to see struggling communities come back to life-and to build places where residents, families, and staff all thrive.
Whether you're facing declining occupancy, financial distress, or cultural burnout, The Turnaround Blueprint shows you that excellence is a choice-and with the right systems and mindset, any community can achieve it.
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Laws of Witchcraft: A Novel from the World of Glass and Steele
Fans of the GLASS AND STEELE and THE GLASS LIBRARY series will delight in the new magical historical mystery by USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, C.J. Archer. Set in the years between the two series, the first volume of Professor Gavin Nash's memoir features beloved characters on a quest for a rare book.
When Gavin travels to Edinburgh with his good friend Oscar Barratt, he's eager to acquire a centuries-old book on witchcraft for the soon-to-open Glass Library. Even with ruthless railroad magnate John J. Defoe in the bidding, the victory comes easily. Perhaps too easily.
Hours later, the book is stolen.
A single clue links the theft to the recent abduction of two women, both magicians. Desperate to recover the book, Gavin and Oscar find an unexpected ally in Defoe's enigmatic assistant, Miss Wheeler. But as they delve into the mystery, they uncover far more than they bargained for: a secretive sect, a descendant of the Witchfinder General, and forbidden love letters.
With time running out for the kidnapped women, can the unlikely trio untangle the lies from the truth before the magicians-and the book-are lost forever?
NOTE ON SERIES ORDER: While reading the GLASS AND STEELE and THE GLASS LIBRARY series before embarking on THE UNCENSORED MEMOIRS OF A BOOK HUNTER will give you a more complete understanding of the characters and their world, it's not absolutely necessary.
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Who Is John Cena?
The champ is here! Learn about WWE legend John Cena and his exciting transition from wrestler to Hollywood actor. This action-packed biography about the leader of the "Cenation" has all the exciting details on John's life and his titles, rivalries, signature moves, films, and more. In 2002, John Cena joined the WWE and the ring was changed forever. The beloved wrestler now holds the record for most WWE World Championship reigns and is considered one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. John is much more than just a talented wrestler--he is also an author and a successful Hollywood actor who has has starred in blockbuster movies. He has been cast in exciting films from popular franchises such as Fast and Furious, Transformers, DC Comics, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. When he isn't acting or wrestling, John spends his time volunteering with the Make-A-Wish Foundation. John has granted over 650 wishes, which is more than any one person has granted in the organization's history. -
Townmania: Marcus Winchester and the Making of Memphis
Townmania: Marcus Winchester and the Making of Memphis tells the forgotten story of the man who transformed a frontier settlement on a Mississippi River bluff into the thriving city of Memphis. This first full-length biography of Memphis's founding father explores ambition, race, politics, and identity in early Tennessee, uncovering a chapter of Southern history that shaped the nation.
Marcus Winchester (1796-1856) devoted his life to transforming the small settlement on the fourth Chickasaw bluff into a thriving center of transportation, commerce, and industry that became Memphis. Sent there at Andrew Jackson's request while still barely out of his teens, Winchester went on to become the city's first real estate agent, mayor, store owner, banker, postmaster, and one-man chamber of commerce. His leadership helped establish Memphis as the westernmost outpost of American expansion along the Mississippi River and laid the foundation for its later emergence as one of the South's most important commercial cities.
He championed critical infrastructure projects that connected the frontier town to the wider world: a stagecoach line, a regular ferry crossing, major roads stretching east and west, and the first railroad tracks laid in the Midsouth. It was also Winchester who led the creation of Memphis's first bank and first newspaper.
Despite his accomplishments, Winchester and his family endured relentless attacks because his wife, Amarante Loiselle, was a free woman of color at a time when the debate over slavery had become increasingly polarized-and deadly. Forced to move his wife and children outside the very community he had built, Winchester experienced firsthand the peril of challenging entrenched social boundaries.
Winchester's story intersects with many of the most significant events and figures of the antebellum South. Captured as a boy by the British during the War of 1812, he later stood with Andrew Jackson during treaty negotiations with the Chickasaw, championed David Crockett's congressional campaigns, assisted Frances Wright in building Nashoba, her utopian commune on the Wolf River, and watched with sadness as Native Americans were ferried across the Mississippi River on the Trail of Tears. He befriended James K. Polk and served as John Overton's agent in Memphis as Overton fought for the young city's rightful place in state politics.
This meticulously researched biography unearths the fascinating story of Marcus Winchester while bringing to life the struggles and triumphs of some of Memphis's earliest residents. As Americans across the young nation grappled with what sort of country the United States would become, these early settlers transformed the untamed frontier on a Mississippi River bluff into a thriving metropolis.
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Getting Away with Murder
The tenth thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door. "Shari Lapena is far and away one of the best psychological thriller writers in the world . . . She is intensely bingeable." --Lisa Jewell Jill and Ted adore their New York brownstone the way others adore their children. They have carefully, expensively, made every inch of it their own. It reflects who they are, their status and tastes. With the grand mahogany staircase and state-of-the-art kitchen, it is the stuff of glossy magazines and real-estate dreams. It is their sanctuary. So when Ted's inheritance runs out and he makes a bad investment, they panic. How can they protect their beloved home and enviable lifestyle? The answer is obvious. Or at least, it is obvious to Jill and Ted. The death of one wealthy family member--from whom they stand to inherit millions--could solve all their problems. Together, they will get away with murder. As long as they trust each other. As long as neither makes a mistake. As long as there are no surprises . . . -
Sold outBlood & Betrayals
***SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION with SPRAYED EDGES, available only in the first printing!*** The first book in an epic new dark academia romantasy, perfect for fans of the Zodiac Academy and Atlas Six series, about a young woman named Summer Tuatha De Daanan who enrolls at the magical Avalon University, where she must uncover the secrets of her past, find the mysterious benefactor who paved her way, and stop a sadistic killer who threatens to drench Avalon in blood. Fear, Fury and Fire. To Know is Not Enough. Power flows through the ancient halls of Avalon University like a neverending flood. Admission to the elite institution enables students to hone their magic under the watchful eye of their icy headmaster. Summer Tuatha De Daanan planned to slide through her tenure at Avalon, unnoticed and inconspicuous. She has no interest in learning more about her past or why someone applied to the school on her behalf. Her emotional walls keep everyone at bay, and her sharp tongue makes people give her a wide berth. Yet, despite her best attempts, her emotional armor begins to melt from her feral vampire roommate to the angelic senior who is never dissuaded by her feigning disinterest. Maybe this could be good for her, a new life. Yet, dark secrets lurk in the halls of Avalon, and soon those same halls are drenched in blood. Summer finds herself as the obsession of the sadistic stalker with the warning: Seven lessons to learn. With the help of her new friends, she races against the clock to solve the mystery, hoping to save lives and catch the killer before it's too late.Sold out -
Transient Worlds: On Translating Poetry
Transient Worlds: On Translating Poetry is a personal guide to global poetry in translation by 25th US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze. Focusing on an accessible selection of key works, Sze takes readers through nearly two millennia of poetry from every part of the world, constructing fifteen different "zones" of literary discussion with a critical focus on the artistic dimensions of translation itself. To do this, Sze engages multiple translations of the same source poems--as well as original poems written by translators--to explore deep connections between the acts of writing and reading. In Zone 10, for instance, Sze presents two translations of a single poem by Marina Tsvetaeva, the first a well-known standard and the second by a poet who speaks no Russian and employed a Russian-speaking friend to help translate the poem phrase by phrase. In another Zone, Sze presents a famous passage from the Iliad, but rather than present another translation, Sze instead juxtaposes a contemporary poem that uses numerous elements of the Iliad as a springboard to write through the original Greek and into an original work in English.
Ultimately, Sze invites readers to consider their own acts of engaged reading as a creative pursuit, giving them tools to begin translating poems themselves as well tools that will unlock foreign-language works--even from languages of very little familiarity--as inspirational sources. At its core, this unique anthology, published in association with the Library of Congress, showcases a profound goal of global literary citizenship: to open works up to all readers and to encourage poetic creativity at the fundamental level of language itself.
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Evening Begins the Day
"Restrained and powerful" -Jewish Book Council
"A riveting journey of hurt and healing, questioning and hope." -ELIZABETH GRAVER, author of Kantika, winner of the National Jewish Book Award
After she discovers her husband's infidelity, Rachel Cohen, reeling from hurt and shame, escapes to a rental house in the idyllic town of Woodbury, near Boston. She winds up next door to her colleague Cynthia Meyer, who-unlike Rachel-seems to have everything in this town where parents are high achievers, children excel, and problems are sealed inside well-tended houses. Cynthia's a successful VP in corporate giving, who helped fund Rachel's latest environmental project for elementary kids. Cynthia's husband is a pioneering researcher in breakthrough cancer treatments. Their only child, Lauren, is set to graduate high school in the spring.
Pretenses shatter the day an ambulance pulls up in front of the Meyers' house and Rachel watches helplessly as Lauren is carried away on a stretcher. Amid their turmoil, Rachel and the Meyers' lives begin to intertwine. When they adopt an ancient spiritual practice called the Counting of the Omer, it leads them down unconventional pathways for answers.
Evening Begins the Day shines a light on the complexity of two families in crisis and their transformation from isolation to community, loneliness to hope and joy.
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Super Moon Protocol
Fifty years ago a vicious animal attack sparked by the lunar calendar destroyed a small farming family north of Dallas, Texas. No one knew the impact that night would have on the world's future. Today that same lunar event will occur again. The question is, will the same vicious event reoccur? If it does, will it be isolated like before or on a global scale? Against the clock, Rob and Mel Florchett must solve the mystery behind the attack in 1970 and put the pieces of their family back together. Along the way they befriend locally renowned psychologist, Dr. Maria Sheltie. Through their combined research and bravery they outwit the CIA and survive the brutality of a Mexican cartel boss. But will family, friendship and pure luck be enough to prevent the world as we know it from an all out animal apocalypse? Conspiracy, suspense, and peril lurk around every corner in this heart pumping race against the clock thriller.
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Tai Chi for seniors over 60: Walk Without Worry Again - An 8-Week Illustrated Program with Seated & Standing Routines to Prevent Falls, Rebuild Balanc
2026 Updated Edition - Includes FREE Downloadable Guides + a 40-Minute Video Lesson
Do you hesitate before each step-wondering if this is the moment your balance gives out?
That fear changes everything. You say no to the park. You grip the walls. You wait for help when you used to move freely.
Falls are the #1 cause of injury for seniors-and fear makes it worse.
When you start avoiding movement, your body gets weaker. And when your strength fades, so does your independence. You miss simple joys - playing with your grandkids, bringing in groceries, walking to the mailbox.
Now there's a proven, gentle plan to reclaim control-one step at a time.
In just 10-15 minutes a day, Tai Chi for Seniors Over 60 gives you a clear, illustrated 8-week path back to confidence.
Developed by Sarah Lin, who searched for answers when her own mother struggled with balance, this book is rooted in personal discovery, not perfection.No clinics. No pressure. Just safe progress, week by week.
Why it works when others don't
Unlike short 28-day challenges or random online videos, this structured system offers 8 full weeks of guidance, support, and visible progress.
Each session strengthens your body through simple movements-whether you're seated, standing, or mixing both.
Sarah's gentle, step-by-step method has already helped hundreds of older adults across America regain stability, confidence, and independence.
Inside, you'll find:
- 8-Week Progressive System - Each week builds measurable strength and confidence. Not rushed, not static.
- No Equipment Needed - Just you, a chair (optional), and 10-15 minutes of quiet space.
- 3 Clear Levels - Seated, Standing or Mixed. Choose based on your comfort and progress at your pace.
- Step-by-Step Illustrated Instructions - Clear visual guides for every movement, designed for easy following.
- Built-In Balance Tests - Measure your progress at Week 1, Week 4, and Week 8 with clear, visible results.
- Fall-Prevention Practice - Targeted, low-impact movements to strengthen balance and stability safely.
- Gentle Joint Relief - Movements designed to ease stiffness in knees, hips, and shoulders naturally.
PLUS: Included Downloadable Guides
Tai Chi Starter Pack PRO
Start safely. Avoid mistakes.Fix & Flow Library
Adapt moves. Keep progressing.Made especially for ages 60-78
Too old to start? Not here. This book includes safety cues, seated modifications, and reassurance at every step.Afraid of falling?
You're not alone. Every movement is tested, guided, and adjustable-no strain, no guesswork.Already tried free YouTube videos?
Those are random. This is a complete, structured system designed for weekly wins and lasting results.Think you need a professional nearby?
Sarah has guided hundreds through this exact program-in community centers and living rooms just like yours.Imagine this:
You walk to the mailbox without gripping the rail.
You play catch with your grandson without second-guessing.
You carry a grocery bag without needing to call for help.That's not just movement. That's freedom.
Every day without practice is one more day your balance could have improved.
Click "Add to Cart" and start Week 1 tomorrow morning.
Reclaim the confidence that's always been yours.
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Heilung des goldenen Käfigs (German)
Viele Menschen kreieren sich unwissentlich ein Leben in einem goldenen Käfig, einem Traum nachjagend, der noch nicht einmal ihr eigener ist. Sie streben nach einem Leben, das nur nach außen hin gut aussieht. Der Druck, sich den gesellschaftlichen Normen und Idealen anzupassen, diktiert oft, dass man sich den beschränkten Ansichten der Welt um einen herum anpassen muss.
Während der goldene Käfig dir den Eindruck vermittelt, du hättest es im Leben zu etwas gebracht, wie viel kostet es dich, dein Leben unter Kontrolle zu halten und Veränderungen zu vermeiden? Der Preis dafür ist hoch - Stillstand, Blockierung und Einengung sowohl in deinem Leben als auch in deinem Körper. Nur warum solltest du nicht stattdessen ehrlich zu dir selbst sein?
Was wäre, wenn du dich nicht an das anpassen würdest, was richtig erscheint, sondern dein wahres Selbst annehmen und eine Realität schaffen würdest, die mit dir im Einklang steht?
Susanna Mittermaier ist Psychologin, Bestsellerautorin und Gründerin von Pragmatic Psychology, die die Menschen in der Welt dazu einlädt die Verrückten zu sein, die sie wirklich sind und dabei Spaß zu haben.
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Flowers Bloom Anyway - A Memoir: Rebuilding a Life You Didn't Choose
The day after she buried her husband, Dr. Liz Fiedler Mergen found out she was pregnant and realized the hardest truth of all: Nobody was coming to save her.Flowers Bloom Anyway isn't a book about how to grieve the "right" way.It's about grieving messy, living loud, telling the truth even when it hurts, and planting beauty anyway.When Liz became a widow overnight, grief didn't come with a guidebook. It came with casseroles, silence, and unsolicited opinions. But through the loss, the loneliness, and the rumors, she kept going. She is raising her daughters, has rebuilt her life, and found glimpses of grace in dirt-covered hands and flower fields.Part memoir, part rallying cry, Flowers Bloom Anyway is a real and redemptive story about unexpected loss, solo motherhood, rural grit, stubborn hope, and the kind of faith people don't earn in a church pew but in the aftermath.Ever wondered, How do I keep going when everything has changed? This is Liz's answer-a story of heartbreak and healing, and how she turned loss into a thriving life and a million-dollar enterprise. -
We Come Here to Starve
In the Midnight Café, everyone is starving for something.
The animals who find this place have nowhere else to go. They cannot find their place in society, in their relationships, or even before God. This decrepit café has become a refuge. A place to hide from a world that has no place for them.
The Fly, the café's quiet owner, serves every animal that wanders into his café. He listens as they each search for belonging, only to arrive at the same painful realization: survival and true belonging cannot coexist.
Come, sit. The Fly has been waiting for you.
We Come Here to Starve is a hand-illustrated philosophical graphic novel about the tension between survival and belonging. A beautiful yet haunting allegory about the collapse of sanctuary, the moral compromises survival demands, and the dangerous hunger to be loved without having to change.
PLEASE READ:
This book explores themes of self-destruction, trauma, and faith. It includes discussions of suicide, abuse, and strong language. If those subjects may be triggering or upsetting for you, please reconsider whether this book is the right fit.
If you'd like to read Paige Parker's work but prefer gentler themes, consider her hand-illustrated book Observations on the Human Condition. A poetic, thought-provoking read that many find beautiful without being intense.