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Andi has always been anxious about her weight and, like many women, thinks that unless she is thin, she has no value. Follow her "misadventures" and see whether this is true or if she'll find there are more important things that makes a person who and what they are.

Walking along the white stretch of road, white due to the continual fall of snow, I saw no one as usual...not that I expected to see anyone. I'd been walking for what felt like forever and had not found another soul. Was I the only one left? And really, what was the point if I were? And why had I survived?

Living with OCD: Obsessive compulsive disorder is quite a common thing that plagues a lot of people today. It is not an isolated case. You or your loved ones may have it as well. Knowing what you are up against can help you get better equipped for fighting this debilitating battle against your thoughts and actions.

Gurken Stonebiter, avatar of Durstin Firebeard, templerager of the Stonebiter clan, is in a pretty pickle. He's an axe-happy, grammatically-challenged dwarf on the hunt for blood. Thieves made off with temple property, sending him into a fit of vengeful rage. Seeing as he's a Berserker, it's in everyone's best interest not to get Gurken's hackles up. Gurken often dissolves into a fury of bloodlust, and carnage unlike anything seen in the age of men.

When a man is brutally beaten to death outside a Houston strip club, young paramedic Nathan Kleinman is drawn into the maelstrom of events that lie in the wake of the Hunter's actions. The Hunter, a man who kills without weapons, relying only on his hands and feet, testing his personal strength and skill as a predator, is in the final stages of his psychosis. His delusions are starting to override his conscious control as his mind and personality fragment.

Do you have self-confidence and rational belief in your own self? Are you aware your own strengths and capabilities? The level of your self-confidence is a result of how you perceive your own self. This has a significant influence on other people's perception of you. How others relate and react to you is a reflection of your own self-perception!

"Snowed In" tells the story of three people with secrets to hide who meet at a roadside bar during a storm - and learn that there's nothing deadlier than each other. In "Helix" a detective takes a case that leads him into the twisted world of genetic modification and artificial intelligence. The violent noir "Let Sleeping Gods" features a bad man doing very bad things to prevent the end of the world.

Anfangs soll Philip Odell nur dem Verschwinden von Paula Ballard nachspüren, einem Fotomodell und Adoptivtochter eines Londoner Unternehmers...

Philip Odell in geheimer Mission. In einem medizinischen Forschungslabor geschehen rätselhafte Todesfälle. Unfälle? Sabotage? Mord...

Es sollte nur ein Urlaub sein - doch die Erholungsreise schlägt bei einer Grenzkontrolle in eine Verbrecherjagd um...

Odell staunt nicht schlecht, als ihm drei Herren fast zeitgleich beauftragen, den Mord an der Zeitungskolumnistin Margrit aufzuklären...

Wieder einmal ist Philip Odell in eine Sache verwickelt, die wohl Aufregung, aber kaum Bares verspricht...

Eine seltsame Anzeige verwickelt Privatdetektiv Odell in einen äußerst mysteriösen Fall...

Aus einem Rendezvous mit der hübschen Heather McMara wird für den ehemaligen Abwehrattaché Philip Odell plötzlich ein Fall...

Ein Filmproduzent bittet Philip Odell um Hilfe. Sein Hauptdarsteller wird erpresst. Odell soll den Täter diskret zum Schweigen bringen...

In this dramatic series of interviews, General Powell describes his ascent from the ROTC to four-star general and eventually to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and mastermind of Desert Storm. He discusses his assignments in Germany, Korea, and Vietnam, his role in the Carter, Reagan, and Bush administrations, and his eyewitness accounts of Desert Storm, the invasion of Panama, and the Iran-Contra scandal.

The economy is changing. Trust and value have become the new Return on Investment (ROI). Consumers are the new drivers of the market; they are in control of where, when, how and from whom they buy. Meridith Elliott Powell draws on her 20-plus years in sales to give you a practical step-by-step guide on how to find the right prospects, build profitable relationships, close more sales and turn your customers into champions for your business.

Talk about the ultimate way of killing two birds with one stone so to speak! Aquaponic Gardening Demystified: The Art of Growing Crops and Raising Fish is the perfect audiobook for getting acquainted with aquaponic gardening. It explains what this type of gardening is and even gives you a little history on it too. If you know very little or nothing at all about it this is a great place to start. Getting a plan in place and where to locate it is something that must be considered which is covered in this audiobook.

Ostensibly writing her grocery list, Mrs. Hollingsworth most happily loses her sense of herself. Her list becomes a discovery of the things she has and those she lacks, including men - even her own husband. Mrs. Hollingsworth begins her list by imagining a "lost love" story in which she is playful with and disdainful of the conventions of Southern literature. Soon tiring of that, she decides to turn up her imagination.

Fourteen years after we first met Simons Manigault, our protagonist is newly graduated from Clemson University, bored, unfocused, and idling his summer away at his mother’s home in Edisto, South Carolina. Not yet ready to fully embrace adulthood, Simons finds himself surrendering to cynicism, as well as to the temptations of his "turned-out-well" first cousin, Patricia. To avoid sinking further into his rut, Simons embarks on a road trip through the South.