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At age 18, in 1974, Yvonne sets out to build a home from trees on 80 acres she’d bought on an Oregon mountainside. Log by log, she creates a cabin and heals from an orphaned past, finding a new family in the forest and with people in a valley named John Day. This true story of one woman’s survival in the wilderness puts an honest and gritty face on the fantasy of living alone in the forest.

When Elsa finds an old snow globe in the attic of the New York City mansion where she works as a cook's assistant, she is magically transported to the quaint Snow Globe Village where she meets the long-lost grandson of her employer and is offered a chance to become a baker and his wife....

Lily Nakai and her family lived in Southern California, where sometimes she and a friend dreamt of climbing the Hollywood sign that lit the night. At age 10, after believing that her family was simply going on a “camping trip”, she found herself living in a tar-papered barrack, nightly gazing out instead at a searchlight. She wondered if anything would ever be normal again. In this creative memoir, Lily Havey uses storytelling to recount her youth in two Japanese American internment camps during World War II.

At age eighteen, Yvonne set out to build a home from trees on 80 acres she bought on an Oregon mountainside. In 1975, log by log she creates a cabin and heals from an orphaned past, finding a new family in the forest, and with people in a valley named John Day.

Eight months ago, six friends took shelter from a storm in a uranium mine, and walked out with super senses. Now, one of them is dead. The other is working off a prison sentence as a CI. With the woman who killed Rylee safely locked away and graduation rapidly approaching, Zoe dares to hope that she might have a chance at a normal life. Then Kieran shows up in her living room, wounded after a fight with an unknown assailant. With him comes the military, a team of top-secret scientists studying the secrets of the Radium Halos, and the revelation that Zoe's dad has been lying to her.

Sixteen years ago, Kira Chiklak’s mother promised her a miracle on Christmas morning. Instead, she woke to the news her brother was gone forever. The Alaskan pilot's dreams have always told her the future but have never revealed the secrets of her past. Now, Kira’s dreams are warning her another child in Amarok is in danger of meeting the same fate as her brother. As Kira races to save Annie Michaels' life, she comes to believe her past and Annie’s future are inextricably linked.

While discussing the context in which certain capital costs effectively create an obstacle to the implementation of sustainable building and design practices, Mr. Kobacker discusses many of the misconceptions and erroneous beliefs that must first be dispelled before any other steps can be taken. The internationally renowned sustainability expert then addresses the specific strategic vision he employs in maximizing a project's value while also minimizing its cost.

Roza Shanina's biography reads like a comic book hero come to life, a heroic female assassin fighting off the Nazi forces at the height of World War II. Seeking vengeance for the death of her brother, Roza Shanina sacrificed her life for service in the Red Army's fight against the invading Nazis during World War II.

On her 50th birthday, Missouri Rothman did not get the Tahiti vacation she dreamed of or the surprise birthday party she expected. Instead, a university student totaled her car, her boss - after 16 years of loyal and excellent service - gave her a letter of termination, and her professor husband of 32 years asked for a divorce so he could marry his post-doc student with the 18-inch waist and perky boobs. Half a century old, jobless, and with only a high school diploma, Missouri must take the lemons that life has thrown her and make the best lemonade ever.

It's a fairy tale come true for Julia Jones, a stalled artist living in Boston's Old World Italian neighborhood, the North End. She's engaged to marry the impossibly wonderful (and impossibly wealthy) Asher Bartlett—in a Swiss castle, no less. And after the wedding, she'll get to ditch her dead-end job and go from being a sometime painter to a full-time artist.

Television actor Renato Rizzuti's first children's book is a throwback to early 20th century juvenile fiction, when the world knew rhymes from books not rap, from Dr. Seuss not Dr. Dre. The stories, told in verse, switch from teaching kids about why zebras have stripes to accepting racial equality amongst peers. Each tale's length is concise enough for a young one's short attention span.

Vous vous demandez peut-être !! Ensemble, ces livres fournissent une feuille de route complète pour comprendre, gérer et prospérer avec le trouble de la personnalité limite. Que vous soyez nouvellement diagnostiqué, un survivant de longue date ou un proche en quête de soutien, ce pack vous permettra d'exploiter vos forces, de surmonter les défis et de créer une vie équilibrée, harmonieuse et épanouissante.

Kit Kat was born in Athens, Greece. Her mother was a prostitute, and their protector was a pimp. After an early childhood marked by violence, homelessness, and an orphanage, a Greek-American woman adopted her and moved her to New York. Kit Kat was eight years old, with a new name, a new country, and a new mother who tried to silence her memories and experiences. She sought refuge in books, and after a failed suicide attempt at the age of thirteen, she discovered Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.

Join author Katrina Majkut on a personal and powerful prenuptial journey. With cheeky insights into the origins of Western wedding traditions, Majkut uncovers eye-opening truths about how social traditions impact people’s lives. Listeners will learn how to modernize outdated traditions that support the wage gap, street harassment, sex and gender discrimination, and that limit reproductive rights. The Adventures and Discoveries of a Feminist Bride is an invigorating and heartening guide to inspire a new generation of fiancés to walk down the aisle as equals.

Men are disappearing from the streets of Seattle, only to show up naked at rush hour weeks later talking about a naked girl who helps them get off drugs. Follow FBI Agents Jaines and Gassert as they investigate a crime which is far more complex that it seems. Jim and his high school crush, Lynn, get pulled into a web of lies, suspense, and crime, as they try to navigate the sudden whirlwind that changes their lives.

Charlotte Harper has one goal in mind: graduating college and starting her career as a journalist. However, life takes a drastic turn when she falls for a British businessman at a local bar. Hopelessly in love, Charlotte seems to have it all, until one fateful night, when a ravaging car crash changes the lives of her and her fiancé forever. What price will Charlotte have to pay to save them both? Will she risk everything for the love of her life? Or will she succumb to the temptations lurking in the shadows?

All you need to know about self-discovery through the Enneagram model...Would you like to know the exact path of life you should choose for guaranteed success? What about an outstanding relationship, financial success, and true happiness? Would you like to have the ability to analyze and understand others? Our job while creating this audiobook was to collect the crucial information about the system and represent it in the most practical way to so every person can identificate the situation and take immediate action. Now it is your turn to discover true happiness!

This audiobook will teach you exactly what lucid dreaming is and how you can start lucid dreaming tonight! I will also go into depth on why it is so important. Your sleeps will never be the same.

What if courage was your only option? Some days are good days. On other days, your pureblood protector gets captured, your father is going to get drained nearly dry by rogue vampires, and you've been turned into some sort of weird vampire hybrid no one's ever seen before. Oh, and no one knows just which of your supposed allies are actually trying to kill you. You know, normal Tuesday stuff.

When virgin Shannon Travers gets fed up with her friends demanding that she find a boyfriend, she enlists the help of tattooed, mohawk-rocking graphic design student Jett. He's more than happy to play along with their Fake Relationship, including the Ten Rules of Fake Dating that control-freak Shannon comes up with. Even if he likes to violate them. Repeatedly.