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Have you found yourself wilting in midlife, and wondering what you might do to flourish in your remaining years? Have you lost your way in the midlife maze due to a significant loss? Did you lose your job or desired career advancement? Did you separate or divorce? Did your last child leave home? Did your family experience a virtual storm of bankruptcy or lose your life savings in a financial meltdown? Did you or someone in your family experience the...
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Complacent, self-made millionaire Scott Northwood wakes up one morning to discover he's been given the ability to extend the lives of people who are about to die just when they are on the verge of achieving something important.
But there's a catch-he must shorten his own lifespan by an equivalent amount of time.
Scott plunges into a moral and emotional maelstrom as his desire to live out his own comfortable life collides with a growing sense...
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A week before Christmas 1951, Dr. Ralph Russell risked everything to voluntarily enter a locked federal drug-treatment facility known as a "narcotic farm."
Sixty-five years later, Dr. Russell's granddaughter Debbie suffers a debilitating crisis of identity when her father (Dr. Russell's oldest son), always her biggest fan, is accepted into hospice.
Debbie's investigation into her paternal lineage reveals family secrets and ignites her mother's volatile...
4) The Retreat
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This is a poignant tale of eight women, who share an unforgettable weekend journey that opens their hearts and minds.
Some close friends, others loosely connected-have just been chosen to participate in a long weekend retreat. Each struggle with her own problems and self-doubts and is at a pivotal point in her life. As the women leave their busy worlds behind and arrive at the Serendipity Ranch in Santa Barbara, they are greeted by five female hosts...
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Your ancestors have waited your whole life for this moment...
... and the next!
What if you had an opportunity to discover and connect with your ancient origins, and the gifts passed on to you from those ancestors? What if those discoveries brought healing you never thought possible?
Amy Gillespie Dougherty, founder of Irigenics Ancestral Eye Reading, and her expert author cast give exactly that and more in this third book in a powerful series.
“The...
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From the cover of Time to Desperate Housewives, the phenomenon of women in midlife experiencing a period of tumultuous personal upheaval-a breaking point-has reached a peak in our culture. Today, more than 15 million baby boomer women report having a midlife crisis compared to 14 million men. In The Breaking Point, Wall Street Journal columnist Sue Shellenbarger looks beyond the numbers to discover the root of all this angst and examine the ways,...
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G. Guild has provided a comprehensive biography of Mohammad's life: from his youth, through his development, with his learning of faith as received from a Nestorian Monk and a myriad of Jews and Christians, through his 'enlightenment' and subsequent teachings to Arabs of his determination of what purity and faith should be, as well as the inclusion of the differences, which occurred as a result of the failure of him to be accepted as a Prophet. He...
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Did you ever ponder the deep questions? Ever wonder at the universe, the stars, the Milky Way? Ever try to understand life and why it is the way, it is? If so, this book is not for you. This book poses practical questions we can ask ourselves, our friends, our significant others about life and what we want out of it.
Some are simple, some complex. Some require thought; some require little. Some require introspection, some just openness. Some may spark...
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The day comes when your kids are grown and you find yourself sitting in the middle of the tidy nest you have spent years feathering. You have encouraged your children that "you can do anything, be anything, and go anywhere," but now you cannot help but ask, "Does God have something more for me?"
Writing for those who have a dream but feel too old, too invisible, too unqualified, or as if they missed their opportunity somewhere along the way, Wendy...
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Menopause can be a complex time of life but it doesn't have to be complicated to get control of your symptoms Too many women think it's either HRT or suffer but that's not the case. There's a third option, which is to get control of your symptoms naturally.
The Hot Flush Freedom Challenge is for busy, professional women who want straightforward practical advice they can implement with minimum fuss and time. Written using everyday language, the book...
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The secret to happiness, longevity, and living on is through mentoring the next generation.
In How to Live Forever, Encore.org founder and CEO Marc Freedman tells the story of his thirty-year quest to answer some of contemporary life's most urgent questions: With so many living so much longer, what is the meaning of the increasing years beyond 50? How can a society with more older people than younger ones thrive? How do we find happiness when we...
12) Bailando sola
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Esta es la historia de Inés, una mujer fuerte y valiente decidida a compartir sus vivencias. Con el convencimiento de que pasamos la vida esperando a que suceda algo "y lo único que pasa es la vida", en estas páginas Inés lo saca todo fuera: recuerdos de infancia, amores, pérdidas, la crianza de los hijos, retos constantes, tristezas y alegrías. Estas vivencias tejen un relato auténtico, emocionante y tierno.
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In The Beautiful Afternoon, award-winning poet and short-story writer Airini Beautrais plumbs history, literature, Star Wars, sea hags, beauty products, tarot, swimwear, environmentalism and pole dancing to deliver a virtuoso inquiry into how we become, and change, who we are.Beautrais surveys the many influences on her life, from Lord Byron and Dante to Dolly magazine and 90s R&B, with intense curiosity and a fierce intelligence. Whether saving the...
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'One of those books that makes you feel good about being alive!'
In the imposing Glen Carrick House overlooking Scotland's famous Loch Ness, lives eighty-eight-year-old Mimi McKinlay, cared for by her three adult sons. Hamish has inherited his mother's musical talents, Fin is the responsible brother, and Angus has the complicated and brooding personality to match his dashing good looks.
But what all the brothers share is a concern that their beloved...
15) Spirit Traffic
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Spirit Traffic recounts how, at the age of 50, the author learned to ride a motorcycle, overcame the terror of navigating her steep dirt driveway in Vermont, and, three days after her son's college graduation, set off with him and her yoga-teacher husband (his stepdad) on a 10,000-mile two-wheel adventure that took them all into uncharted territory-both as novice riders, and as a family. As if in the saddle of her dual-sport BMW, the reader will experience...
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The author takes us on a journey, exploring her last days with her father. As we swim through a sea of emotions, the unfolding of a little girls love for her father will surely touch your heart. Based on a true story, Widley, shares her most intimate childhood memories. A definite page turner.
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Need a change in your life? This book is for you.
After ruining his nineteen-year marriage by not acting like a real man, Dwayne undertook an extensive soul searching journey to fix himself. With countless hours of research, and having interviewed dozens of women, Dwayne simplifies what he learned in this book: the majority of men today have never been taught what it means to be a real man.
If that's you, start here.
Things you will learn:
• How...
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After so many years of early morning alarms and never-ending laundry, many moms expect to feel incredibly liberated when their kids leave home. But what happens when the Land of Empty Nesting isn't all it's cracked up to be-when you suddenly feel like a ship without a rudder? A bird without a flock?That's what Allie Hill was contending with after her daughter left for college. While she thought she was alone in those feelings, Allie soon discovered...
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One day you're staring out the window of your office - actually, you're staring out the window across the room of cubicles you sit in for nearly 60 hours per week - when your boss pops his fat head in to tell you to "think outside the box" on this project he's dumping on your lap. What the actual hell does that even mean? "Think outside the box"? You live and work in a box, surrounded by boxes and now you need to think the opposite of the very way...
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This collection of humor, satire and memoir has it all. Sex, religion, politics. What life was like and what it might have been had things been different. It's about growing up, growing older, and just plain growing. Seventy tales of phobias, winning the lottery, and something about Jesus. There's a fishing story, a getting knocked out story and yes, even one about chickens. 'Checking Out' takes a humorous look at dying while 'Friends', considers...
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