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Windwood Farm has a terrible secret - one that's been buried for nearly 100 years. Taryn Magill aims to uncover it - or die trying. As a mixed-media artist and urban explorer with a love for abandoned houses and a big imagination when it comes to the past, 30-year-old Taryn has never really met an old house she didn't like. In fact, she's made a career out of painting these sad, often derelict structures, to show her clients their former glory.

Far too many people in contemporary culture feel they don't have enough time to "get it all done". The stress of this chronic overwhelm creates a disorganized mind that leads to a chaotic life. Based on her highly acclaimed "Energy Management" workshops and drawn from over 25 years of counseling and coaching experience, professional trainer and speaker Jackie Woodside shares her breakthrough methods that lead to becoming the least stressed, most productive person you know!

With the publication of Susan Sontag's diaries, the development of her career can now be evaluated in a more genetic sense, so that the origins of her ideas and plans for publication are made plain in the context of her role as a public intellectual who is increasingly aware of her impact on her culture. In Understanding Susan Sontag, Carl Rollyson not only provides an introduction to her essays, novels, plays, films, diaries, and uncollected work published in various periodicals, he now has a lens through which to reevaluate her classic texts.

The rule book has changed. You attend a business networking event and meet Jack. You buy him coffee to foster a relationship. Point scored. Jack has the potential to be your new customer and even leads you to new business. Feeling pretty good, you go to another function. You're impressed with the influential speaker at the event. She walks off stage to a lineup of people who want to meet her. You figure, what the heck? I'll invite her for a coffee, too. Wrong. Quite honestly, you could be pushing away an influential connection without knowing it.

I’m out at a Halloween bash when Anthony, my obnoxious apartment manager, busts into my place and lets the dog and cat out. I'd gladly have killed him, but someone beats me to the punch. Now, I’m searching for my beloved fur baby and trying to figure out who killed my obnoxious slumlord. It’s probably for the best I don't know that Theodore, my cat, and his furry pals are running loose in the neighborhood sniffing out Anthony's killer in the middle of Halloween madness. What could possibly go wrong?

Cassie's words dangled in the air like an invitation, warm and welcome. He couldn't likely bring her home without a simple kiss, now, could he? When their eyes met, Shane tilted his head, asking for permission with the lift of his brow. She nodded slightly - a silent response - yet the best thing he'd heard in weeks -

A song half-heard. The murmur of a voice singing in the dark. There it is again...a few words set to an old melody filled with mystery, heartbreak and horror. Out of Tune gathers a collection of original dark fantasy tales inspired by folk ballads. Here you'll find stories of strange creatures and strangers humans, treachery and love, murder and monsters.

With a better understanding of healing, we can change the paradigm of treating and preventing chronic pain and disease. While conventional Western medicine tends to treat the body and mind as separate entities, scientific evidence proves that physical, spiritual, and psychological aspects of the self affect one another on a profound level. This audiobook explains the science that tells us that only when these deeper spiritual and emotional issues are addressed can true healing from suffering and pain begin.

In 1987, author Steven Kunes began his morning visits to the Alfred Coffee Shop on Melrose Place in LA. He soon found himself seated within earshot of a regular group of aspiring young actresses and couldn’t believe the things he overheard. It didn’t take long for Kunes to make notes of these conversations, which he did in the composition book he carried specifically for this mission.

This book gives you ways to beat insect infestations on your houseplants and tips on preparing plants for winter. Learn how to raise orchids and African violets, how to grow a Christmas cactus the way your grandma did, and how to make poinsettias rebloom. You can learn how to make a dish garden and terrarium. You'll learn the right way to water your houseplants. When insects afflict your houseplants, consult this book.

Cognitive behavioral therapy is a highly effective technique that can help you address both the negative feelings and those negative behaviors. It can help you break the cycle and assist you in achieving the changes that you really want to make. If you want to take back your life and achieve everything that you want to, cognitive behavioral therapy is the tool that you need.

I’m ditching my cocktail waitress gig at MadDog’s biker bar because I’m marrying Prince Nicholas of Fredonia - he of the black hair, blue eyes, and the remarkable royal jewels. But Nick steps out seconds before our wedding and doesn’t come back. So, technically we’re gathered here today to celebrate the union of two people - but the problem is there’s only one person - me.

Alexandra Gastone has a simple plan: graduate high school, get into Princeton, work for the CIA, and serve her great nation. She was told the plan back when her name was Milena Rokva, back before the real Alexandra and her family were killed in a car crash. Milena was trained to be a sleeper agent by Perun, a clandestine organization from her true homeland of Olissa. There, Milena learned everything she needed to infiltrate the life of CIA analyst Albert Gastone, Alexandra's grandfather, and the ranks of America's top intelligence agency.

Narcissists can make our lives a living hell, but by understanding them and then following a few simple guidelines, we can take back control and empower ourselves when dealing with these individuals. Whether the narcissist in your life is arrogant, overly-critical, haughty, bullying, bossy, negative, show offs, passive aggressive or simply downright egotistical, this book has the answers you're looking for!

For millennia, the rituals of death and remembrance have been fixed by time and location, but in the 21st century, grieving has become a virtual phenomenon. Today, the dead live on through social media profiles, memorial websites, and saved voicemails that can be accessed at any time. This dramatic cultural shift has made the physical presence of death secondary to the psychological experience of mourning. Virtual Afterlives investigates emerging popular bereavement traditions.

Savory Suppers and Fashionable Feasts offers a delightfully flavorful tour of dining in America during the second half of the 19th century. Susan Williams investigates the manners and morals of that era by looking at its eating customs and cooking methods. As she reveals, genteel dining became an increasingly important means of achieving social stability during a period when Americans were facing significant changes on a variety of fronts - social, cultural, intellectual, technological, and demographic.

Does love follow a formula? Ever since Alanis Morissette’s awkward days on Nickelodeon, Canadian Chloe LeGrange has dreamt of the rock star life in New York City. She’s impulsive and honest, making for a confident musician—but her emotions are in constant need of balance. When Chloe settles into her city life during the summer of '03, she reluctantly offers to go on a blind date. Enter fate—stepping in and disrupting the storyline. A flicker of light, an instant attraction, an undeniable connection—Adam Ford’s perceptive narrative launches their story. But what if the ballad of Adam and Chloe starts at the end? The chorus before the verse…

Representatives of a Chicago-based investment firm are sent to Boston to test a revolutionary invention that thrusts research subjects into a nightmarish subconscious realm that forces them to experience the moment of death. But when they return to the real world, bizarre residual effects continue to haunt them, thwarting their efforts to find meaningful answers to the reason behind the mind-bending psychological bombardment.

Agnes Michaels is coming home. Home to her childhood town of Fairfield and the house her father lovingly built for her mother. A house surrounded by the woods where Agnes’ two childhood friends and her boyfriend, Tyler, were all murdered twenty summers ago when she was just seventeen. She was the only one who escaped, but not without emotional and physical scars.

Lost Souls: Found! Inspiring Stories About Pets with Disabilities features pets who, with the help of loving, caring guardians, have overcome incredible obstacles to make the most out of their lives. The stories included in this book highlight how each pet, despite any difficulty, has become an indispensable family member and how the humans attached to these pets truly see these challenges as blessings instead of burdens.