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"This cozy mystery will reel readers in for a rollicking ride..." -BookLife ReviewsHeart, humor, and just a hint of homicide. Welcome to Lily Rock.After a bad breakup and a string of dead-end temp jobs, Olivia Greer needs a change. So when a friend invites her to visit Lily Rock, a charming mountain town where everyone knows everyone—and the most influential public servant is a labradoodle—she packs up her car and heads for higher ground.Olivia’s getaway turns chaotic fast after she’s run off the road by a tailgater and rescued by a handsome stranger. Things only get worse when her friend...

DAUGHTER DAYS spans Julia Wendell’s entire career as a poet writing poems to and about her daughter. Poems selected from her previous six books are combined with newer poems, as well as excerpts from her memoirs, Finding My Distance and Come to the X. With this scope, forty years of writing poems for her daughter are telescoped in this compilation of new and selected poems.

The Battle of Adrianople is over. Emperor Valens is dead. With Emperor Theodosius now ruling the East, the Roman Empire teeters on the edge of collapse. As rebellion spreads across its provinces, a ruthless decree orders the hunt and extermination of every barbarian living within Rome's borders. Returning from war with a hand pierced by a Roman spear tipped in gold, Ahediel seeks refuge in a secluded mountain settlement, where he is nursed back to health by Dalia the Healer. But peace is fleeting. While King Athanaric rallies the northern chieftains against Rome, whispers of an even greater threat begin...

Most leadership advice starts with what you say. This book starts earlier — with what the room has already told you. Read the Room is a field guide for operating leaders: the managers, directors, VPs, and founders who run the meeting, own the number, and carry the team. Drawing on more than three decades across the military, corrections, manufacturing, natural foods, e-commerce, and software, John Guszak argues that the signals that decide an outcome — the hesitation, the deference, the question nobody asks — are present long before the first word is spoken. Leaders who learn to hear them make...

Make Everyday Meals Simpler While Managing Both Diabetes and Kidney Concerns When you’re living with diabetes and chronic kidney disease, deciding what to eat can feel confusing—especially when recommendations for blood sugar, sodium, potassium, phosphorus, carbohydrates, and protein seem to compete with one another. Renal Diabetic Diet Cookbook for Seniors brings these considerations together in one practical, senior-friendly guide. Created for older adults, caregivers, and families, this cookbook offers 110 approachable recipes made with familiar ingredients and clear, easy-to-follow instructions. The meals emphasize mindful portions, moderate protein, controlled carbohydrates, and ingredients commonly used in kidney-conscious eating—all without relying on complicated...

Every time Halley’s Comet returns, the world has changed. Most of the people are gone, while the trees have gone on remembering in their own way. Beginning in 1066, over more than nine centuries, people are born, form families, fight, migrate, believe, govern, obey, rebel, and die. Kingdoms disappear, republics are founded, old orders return under new names. People’s ideas about freedom, money, religion, and power change, though sometimes only the words do. Amid all this, the trees go on living and recording. In England, China, Florence, and America, they watch different parts of the same world. Unlike humans, they...

'A muscular, suspenseful crime thriller about consequence and the long shadow of obligation.' BestThrillers.comMichael Kramer, an eighteen-year-old talented martial artist, is blamed for the accidental death of his best friend James Basset.Sentenced to five years for involuntary manslaughter, Michael is forced to navigate a prison system where race dictates every opportunity and every threat.In this harsh world, trusting someone like Ijal, a drug mogul from a different background, is a risk. Yet when Ijal intervenes to stop a violent attack, Michael discovers that loyalty can outweigh the rigid hierarchy, and he will forever be indebted to the inmate for saving...

Some people always seem to have the energy, the calm, and the good decisions. What do they know that the rest of us don't?We're told that changing your life means trying harder: a new diet, a new budget, a new morning routine. But most of what runs our days isn't willpower. It's patterns — the invisible defaults, shaped by biology and modern life, that steer our money, relationships, health, and decisions.In Friends Intelligence, Hao Qian shows that these patterns aren't random, and they're never separate. They cluster into seven everyday intelligences:Financial · Relationship · Information · Emotional · Nutrition ·...

Some people always seem to have the energy, the calm, and the good decisions. What do they know that the rest of us don't?We're told that changing your life means trying harder: a new diet, a new budget, a new morning routine. But most of what runs our days isn't willpower. It's patterns — the invisible defaults, shaped by biology and modern life, that steer our money, relationships, health, and decisions.In Friends Intelligence, Hao Qian shows that these patterns aren't random, and they're never separate. They cluster into seven everyday intelligences:Financial · Relationship · Information · Emotional · Nutrition ·...

Every rule says hands off my curvy little office manager. Until her manuscript lands in my inbox… And I read every filthy fantasy she's ever had. About me. She thinks I called her in to fire her. She has no idea what I really want. Because behind these designer suits and this billion-dollar empire, I'm not the man she wrote. I'm worse. I run this city from the shadows. I give orders that end careers—and lives. I have no business touching something so soft. But then she sits across from me, green eyes wide, cheeks flushed, trembling— and every rule...