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Filled with heartfelt stories and insightful tips, this book is a reassuring companion for anyone facing the challenges of caring for elderly parents. From understanding the emotional needs of your aging parents to making important medical decisions, this book covers it all.

From humble beginnings in one of Brazil’s crowded favelas, soulmates Mario Ng and Ana Silva chase ambitious dreams - hers of being a music star - and his of becoming his country’s youngest astronaut. They find success as Ana’s music inspires a global audience and Mario rewrites the record books. How long can their happiness last in an era of rising seas, global unrest, and hackers bent on wreaking havoc? The answer is painful, and Mario must deal with the ghosts of his past, and ghosts of another era - nightmares with far-reaching consequences for the world below.

After best-selling author Jean Carper discovered that she had the major susceptibility gene for Alzheimer's, she was determined to find all the latest scientific evidence on how to escape it. She discovered 100 surprisingly simple, scientifically tested ways to radically cut the odds of Alzheimer's, memory decline, and other forms of dementia.

Stephan has lived the lifestyle of a Dominant for five years. After several rebellious teenage years, it gave him the stability and control he had been seeking after his parent's death. As president of a not-for-profit foundation, he knows what his future holds and what he wants out of life. All that changes when a simple lunch with his college friend and mentor, Daren, leads him to buying a slave. Thrust into a situation he never thought he'd be in, Stephan can't walk away. He is compelled to help this girl.

Eight hundred miles WNW of Cape Horn, Don and Réanne Douglass encountered the ultimate wave which pitch-poled their sailboat and turned it into a leaking lifeboat. Working together, the couple struggled over the next 42 days to reach safety in southern Chile, while family and friends all but gave up hope.

Thanks to a successful interview with the painfully shy E.B. White, a beautiful, 19-year-old, blue-eyed blonde from the cornfields of Iowa lands a job as a receptionist at The New Yorker magazine. There she stays two decades, becoming general all-around factotum - watching and registering the comings and goings, marriages and divorces, scandalous affairs, failures, triumphs, and tragedies of the eccentric inhabitants of the 18th floor. Though she dreamed of becoming a writer, she never advanced at the magazine.

When you’re a teen, it can feel like you have too many responsibilities, yet too little independence. But know that you have the power to turn your life around by honing the life skills you need to bring the very best version of yourself to the world.

It is said that chess grandmasters can envision a match’s outcome 10 moves before it occurs. Imagine a person who can visualize 10 steps ahead, not simply in the game of chess, but in every human interaction. Imagine a person who could anticipate what you would say before you said it, who could see a punch before it was thrown. Imagine a secret that could make all of this possible. Albert, a Princeton mathematics professor, is such a person, and as he is thrust into a murder and burglary investigation on campus he finds that the secret is buried in an obscure cipher.

Kim Scaravelli has been writing online content for over 20 years. Over that time, she has helped hundreds of organizations build authority, communicate effectively, and develop meaningful connections with people. In this practical guide, she walks you through the process of writing, from setting up your writing space to researching, crafting first drafts, editing, and mastering the long game. Because success isn't about being able to write one piece of content. It's about being able to create content whenever you need to and enjoying the feeling of making words work.

A modern practice with ancient roots, mindfulness is widely recognized for its calming, healing, and restorative effects. Mindfulness and meditation can help you relieve stress, regulate your emotions, achieve focus and clarity, strengthen your communication skills, and cultivate an appreciation for what is most important to you.

Rachel Matthews is used to stress—from the cutthroat world of the district attorney’s office to her escalating clashes with her teenage daughter. So when a stranger sends a lavish bouquet with a macabre message and leaves a disturbing video on her doorstep, she’s quick to act. Teaming up with an old classmate turned private investigator, she wades through old case files, searching for someone harboring a grudge against her.

Marie Antoinette was a child of 14 when she was made to leave her family and country to become the wife of another child, France's 15-year-old King Louis the XVI. Far from home and suddenly thrust not only into the role of a woman and wife, but of a queen, Marie Antoinette lived an astonishing, though short, existence.

Discover a unique fusion of modern technology and ancient wisdom in this transformative adaptation of the Tao Te Ching. Aimed at business leaders, solutions architects, product managers, and technical professionals, The Architect Way: Requirements for a Universal Framework offers a refreshing perspective on the challenges and complexities of application development and system architecture.

Fractured Not Broken is a true story of loss, faith, and a rare love that only happens in nonfiction. In a sweeping and heart-wrenching narrative, Kelly exposes the truth about what happened after a drunk driver rendered her a quadriplegic. She shares how she found her way back - through faith and pain, her community, her family, and the love of a man she prayed for.

Albert, a Princeton mathematics professor, has discovered a secret known as The Tree of Knowledge–a method of predicting and manipulating the future with mathematical precision. But he’s not the only one. Cristina Culebra, and her insurgent RED movement, seek to harness this same power to gain control of the United States and the world.

Stress is a big part of many people's lives, this book will discuss many topics related to stress and how to relieve stress by using meditation. Managing stress can be hard but doing meditation makes it easier to manage the things in your life that may cause you to be mentally or emotionally unstable. This book will teach you how to destress by using meditation.

Every crime scene has a smell, a look, a trail of DNA. It also has a feel. An emotional residue that lingers...floating unseen, like bacteria in the air, just waiting to be absorbed, to be experienced, to be interpreted. And only the man, the woman, and the boy know this. It starts with a "pull" they can't quite explain. All three of them feel it - Kate, Weston, and Christopher - but none of them know why they are drawn to this small town in Southeast Michigan in the middle of winter.

He's called the Harbinger, a serial killer using Georgia and Florida as his hunting and dumping ground. But when he sends a letter to the federal/state task force that has assembled to find him, he leaves a mark that immediately catches Kate and Weston's attention: The circumpunct. The symbol of the Beast.

Every crime scene has a smell. A look. A trail of DNA. It also has a feel. An emotional residue that lingers...floating unseen, like bacteria in the air, just waiting to be absorbed. To be experienced. To be interpreted. And only the man, the woman, and the boy know this. When Kate Messenger quits her job as a police detective to join Noah Weston and Christopher on the road in the middle of nowhere, she has no idea what to expect.

As an archangel and the head of the Grigori watchers, a clan tasked with protecting humanity from its own worst impulses, I don’t have time to indulge in relationships, much less with mortals. The irony of binding my soul to a woman to save her life isn’t lost on me. The real injustice is that I have to persuade Grace, an alpha shifter, to fall in love with me. To submit to me.