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This is a story of a struggling young couple, Tom and Aki, who lives in Brooklyn, New York. Tom is Italian American, and Aki is of Japanese descent, born and raised in Osaka, Japan. Tom is a dreamer who, like most, dreams of becoming rich, not yet knowing how rich and blessed he already is. Tom and Aki are madly in love with each other, making the best of what little material things they have. They live in a less-than-modest one-bedroom apartment...
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Stop, Go, Murder is a story about murder, the game of Go, and the role of happenstance in shaping our lives. Introduced here is Steven Crane, a homicide detective, who has come to see his life, including his current case, as a deceiving game of Go, the ancient board game of strategy, and his obsession. The killer Crane is after is in plain view, and he, knows it in his gut. Still he struggles, as we all do, to see things as they are. Stop Go Murder...
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In this interactive choose-your-own-ending eBook, Eric is excited to be at the mall and has trouble staying near his dad. Readers make choices, then click the links to jump to different pages and read what happens next. Each story path leads to different consequences and one of three endings. "Think again" questions encourage critical thinking.
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Offers practical advice to help women to shed "false guilt" and step into contentment, encouraging readers to peel back the layers of emotions and cultural and spiritual expectations that make it difficult for them to navigate the complexities of having multiple roles, dreams, and demands in life.
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Have intentional quality time with your little ones that's fun, educational, and meaningful for your family's faith journey with these short devotions.
Written by bestselling author Diane Stortz, this to-the-point, interactive devotional gives bite-size teachings on how to follow God.?Stop-and-Go Devotional?provides short, active devotions based on Bible stories, designed for busy families with preschoolers and primary-grade children.
Each devotion...
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"How do you break the cycle of negative thinking? This book offers much-needed relief to "chronic overthinkers" using a powerful combination of mindfulness, acceptance, and awareness. With this unique guide, readers will discover the key to breaking free from the negative thinking that keeps them stressed out, anxious, worried, and generally unhappy. Using the powerful, evidence-based tools in this book, readers will find a way out of their own head...
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Full of practical diagrams and maps, as well as international case studies, this book offers a unique and extensively tested 'GO-STOP Signal Framework', which allows managers to better understand why consumers are not buying their products and what can be done to put this right.
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Slow down. Stop running. Pregnant and postpartum women have heard this advice since the beginning of time. Many runners have no idea what they can and cannot do during pregnancy and postpartum, leaving them unsure, scared, and susceptible to injury. This book throws out all those old wives' tales and proves that women can keep running-during and after pregnancy. All they need is the right information.
Written by two moms and physical therapists who...
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The Mentor Within ~ Stop Holding On When You Should Let Go
This book comprises a series of articles, often with a picture, to raise some questions as we go about our busy lives.
All too often, as our lives become more hectic we merely speed up, turning the hamster wheel faster. The small amount of time we had to savour other things in life gets crushed out. And yet we have so much to help make our lives easier, which did not exist even a...
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This revolutionary guide is not only the first to look at how typography in design creates a call to action, but it also explores type and image as language. Stop, Think, Go, Do is packed with arresting imagery from around the world that influences human behavior. Page after page, you'll find innovative messages that advocate, advise caution, educate, entertain, express, inform, play, and transform.
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Many women are wired to control. You're the ones who make sure the house is clean, the meals are prepared, the beds are made, the children are dressed, and everyone gets to work, school, and other activities on time. But trying to control everything can be exhausting, and it can also cause friction with your friends and family. This humorous, yet thought-provoking book guides you as you discover for yourself the freedom and reward of living a life...
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In this six-session women's small group Bible study, Karen Ehman provides practical, biblically based steps for letting go of the need to control. Let's face it: many women are wired to control. We make sure that the house is clean, the meals are prepared on time, the beds are made, the children are dressed, and everyone gets to work, school, and other activities on time. And trying to control it all is not only exhausting, but can also cause us to...
15) Stop Complaining - Make Your Own Luck: Living a Legacy on the Go by Implementing the 5% Solution
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Gwen Rich's latest book is a heroic survival story that details the system for creating your own Legacy-on-the-Go!
From learning, how to Empower yourself in any health situation, to using Community to restore Faith, to turning your Passion into a profitable business, to losing those last 10 pounds, to discovering your Living Meaning, any one of the pages in this "life book" can be, ripped out and used ,as a recipe for success!
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A plague of blood falls from the sky. Blood-loving animals follow for the buffet. How far would the Creator go to stop murder, injustice, and greed known as abortion? Peel back love, license, liability, and legend. Peek into personal and private lives. Unveil and pursue hidden, unpopular pieces of an intricate and diabolical controversy. It's never just two sides: blue and red states, right and wrong, win and lose. Step back and meet Cici and Lincoln...
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"'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?' A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive...
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"Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. Are these incidents connected? After an elusive search that yields more questions than answers, the case eventually goes cold. Now, eleven years later, Delilah shockingly returns. Everyone wants to know what happened to her, but no...
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"Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else will--searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking. A new case brings her to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood with a rough reputation. She is searching...
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Rachel Hollis is sounding a wake-up call. She knows that many women have been taught to define themselves in light of other people--whether as wife, mother, daughter, or employee--instead of learning how to own who they are and what they want. With a challenge to women everywhere to stop talking themselves out of their dreams, Hollis identifies the excuses to let go of, the behaviors to adopt, and the skills to acquire on the path to growth, confidence,...