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"Stigma" is a simple two-syllable word yet a powerful expression that conjures up a variety of feelings for many people based on an array of social factors. We all have the tendency to sit on our high horses and proclaim how progressive and civilized we've become. However, the reality is that we experience the burden of stigma in the United States in our public and private lives every day.

The clock is ticking as a forensic handwriting expert and a LAPD detective race to uncover the truth behind a mysterious suicide note. With powerful enemies and a brutal attempt on her life, Claudia Rose must confront a desperate enemy in order to survive. As motives for murder pile up, can Claudia and Joel Jovanic, find the killer before it’s too late?

Three years after Linda Noble Topf was diagnosed with MS, she had only a minimal understanding of the ways MS would affect her body, brain, and ability to function. After experiencing the gamut of emotions that took her from the darkness of grief to the light of hope, Topf made a conscious choice not to wallow in misery but instead to embrace life.

Pet Tracker is the remarkable story of Kat Albrecht, the nation's first police detective-turned-pet detective. Her pioneering experiences are astonishing and revealing, and the time-tested lost pet recovery methods that could one day help you, too. Disillusioned by a police career where her bloodhound-tracking techniques and brilliant search dogs rarely got a chance to shine, Kat started training her retired Weimaraner, Rachel, to search for lost pets - with unbelievable results.

Niccolò Machiavelli famously wrote, "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." That's what this book is about - innovation far more audacious than a new way to find a restaurant or a smart phone you can wear on your wrist. Harvard professor Amy Edmondson and journalist Susan Salter Reynolds explore how to bring into being systems that transform human experience and make the world more livable and sustainable.

It's easy to pray for others' needs. If God takes a long time in answering - or answers with a no - it's easier to take. Far more difficult is focusing on your own needs, when sometimes you don't get the answers you want. What do you pray when life gets hard or even unbearable? When you lose a spouse or a child? When your health deteriorates? When your spiritual life seems barren? Linda Evans Shepherd knows what it's like to pray in the most dire of circumstances.

Project Management for Small Projects shows you how to tailor bureaucratic planning processes to a sleek minimum while still keeping your project running like a well-oiled machine. This third edition has been updated to align with the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) and provides new tools, templates, and techniques to support the revised processes. In addition, there is new material on agile project management and on the essential leadership skills for small-project managers.

Hair of the dog - as people used to say after an all-night binge - but prayin’ to the porcelain gods was the one Lisa enjoyed saying back in the day - back in the days when someone could afford to lose consciousness without fears of ending up in a stomach of the dead. No. Those days were gone - the good old days as they would come to say.

With an exclusive toolkit of forms and worksheets, this essential guide offers an entire roadmap to the business selling process, so you can plan your exit and sell when ready. Learn the entire process, from methods of business valuation and choosing the best exit option, to attracting buyer, protecting confidentiality, and finally negotiating a successful sale.

The year is 1873 when on a late October night, Grace Wickham is called to an accident at the local tannery. Recently returned from a year of medical school, Miss Wickham is the person people turn to as they once did her late father, the local doctor. The body floating in a steaming tannery vat is the owner, Truman Reed, and the men who rush to answer the emergency bell each have reason to wish him dead.

Faking it till you make it doesn't work - at least, not long enough to build a sustainable business. This book by a CEO and public relations expert shows how authentic leadership eliminates the need for shortcuts that sabotage success.

When thinking about writing this book, I read other books on the topic, and found myself walking away shaking my head in frustration. Many of the ideas presented were outright ridiculous and could never lead to legitimate passive income. So I decided to write a better book. The idea of structuring your life around passive income is real. I currently have four streams of passive (or semi-passive) income (I'm working on the fifth), and would never again consider trading my time for money. But it’s not as easy as some books suggest.

The nurturing words gathered here offer the courage to move toward recovery and healing and to summon faith and grace in the midst of pain to anyone who is ill, as well as to their families and friends. Wise and compassionate, this uplifting volume encourages listeners to find solace in simplicity, take comfort in ritual, and welcome the healing touch of a loved one's warm embrace.

The house at Herron Pond is no stranger to tragedy. Accidental death. A devastating fire. Suicide. Are the reports of supernatural activity the persistent gossip of visitors and staff? Or are the chilling tales true?

Having agreed to work with the sinister Nurse Saarinen, Kaarina sets off on a quest through the cyberspace world of her own mind. Her goal is to find the weakness at the core of the Egg, allowing Nurse Saarinen to upload herself and destroy Laura Solomon. In her quest for revenge on the woman who killed her mother, Kaarina will forget everything she knows about Nurse Saarinen...

When a harpooned whale offers proof the Hanford Nuclear Reservation is endangering all life in the Columbia River Basin, Luke Hinson, a brash young scientist, seizes the chance to avenge his father’s death but a thyroid cancer diagnosis derails Luke’s research.

Is it a social experiment, a prison, or a tool for driving one man mad? The dome city is all those things. For Ef and his followers in City of England, it’s a kind of laboratory, a place to test Ef’s theories about how to give humanity a new way forward. For the founders of the Happiness-Program, awakened from stasis, the dome city is a prison where they are fed bizarre lies about the state of the world. For Iris, the dome city is the perfect opportunity to take revenge on the man who assaulted her, distorting his perception of reality until he cracks under the strain.

Battling the hive - a network of humans and demons - nearly killed them all. Now, Richard and Mary take the Oneness on the offensive: Picking out their targets, the cell goes after the humans at the center of the hive one by one. Their weapons: truth, the sword, and hope that even the most desperately lost can be brought home. Their battlefield: the past, the sea, the city, and Tempter's Mountain - where secrets still wait to be uncovered.

Tired of sitting on the defensive, Chris and Tyler go after the hive - the dark entity created when humans and demons join forces. When they disappear, Reese and the others must continue the hunt. An abandoned warehouse, a possessed teen, a children's home, a rural community, and a trail of murders - all lead to final confrontation with the enemy. And, with the truth that if the Oneness turns on itself, it becomes the greatest danger in the world.

The line between good and evil blurs in this pause-resisting, suspenseful Christian fantasy on the border between earth and spirit. After the events in Attack, the Oneness returned home in triumph - all except Reese and Tyler, who remain on the road with the subversive cult leader called Jacob. Jacob’s challenge - to lay aside peace for the sword and bring true justice in a world torn apart by evil - haunts Reese, and though all she wants is to go home, it isn’t clear anymore who or what “home” is.