Daniel Henning
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"Finalist for the PROSE Award in Philosophy, Association of American Publishers" "One of Next Big Idea Club's Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of Spring" John Kaag is the author of American Philosophy: A Love Story, which was named a New York Times Editors' Choice and an NPR Best Book of the year, and Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are, which was also an NPR Best Book of the year. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Harper's...
2) Warrick
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Warrick Canton works with Mason's Navy SEAL team and he's going stir-crazy on the sidelines while he heals from an ankle injury. He longs for a relationship like the ones his buddies have, but, after his girlfriend of three years dumps him just when he thinks they're solid, he struggles to believe it's possible. He's invited to a backyard barbecue at Mason's house, where he meets up with the spitfire he's met before and knows won't give an inch. Warrick...
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RECONNECTING TO THE PUREST VERSION OF OURSELVES
Reclaiming our destiny and moving forward requires finding our higher self-the innocent, virtuous, vulnerable child within us. Our spirit self is always in contact with that child, who wants us to be more imaginative, intuitive, honest, and open to receiving love, no matter what indoctrinations and toxic environments we have experienced. In Soul Searching, beloved psychic medium Bill Philipps shows...
4) Shadow
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Given a life that's been little more than an uphill battle, it's no wonder Shadow is so damn good at dealing with whatever's the hardest, the most hazardous and hellish.
The life of a SEAL is the one place where Shadow is most comfortable existing. He's certain of what he's capable of achieving, knows when to act and exactly how to do what needs to be done. But when he sets off on a mission to rescue Arianna and her family, his world goes from precise,...
5) Markus
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Markus learned firsthand that love hurts when he lost someone who'd meant everything to him. Afraid to feel that deeply again, he's buried his pain, believing his heart is dead. So certain that he'll never be the same, he devotes himself wholly to serving others. Meeting Bree wakes him from a deep sea of grief, and he's stunned to recognize his heart beating for the first time in so long.
Lost, alone and in serious peril, Bree reeled at how her life...
6) Worser
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William Wyatt Orser's life is turned upside down after his mother has a stroke, but the socially awkward, word-loving twelve-year-old finds glimmers of hope when he discovers friends who share his love of wordplay and books.
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Your company is turning in regular profits every year, and its market share is only getting bigger. Competitors can't touch you. So why is your stock price so sluggish? The answer is as simple as it is cruel: investors aren't interested in history, and they already know you're profitable and competitive, that knowledge is baked into your stock price. The hard reality is that a competitive advantage just isn't enough.
Investors want companies to surprise...
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Pete, the owner of a pet store filled with animals with interesting personalities, falls ill and the animals are left alone to run the store and survive. A street rat enters the store and tries to take over. The animals have a hard time trying to figure out how to run the store and, to make matters worse, they start to fight amongst themselves. The store needs a great leader urgently before they run out of food.
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Clear and illuminating commentary on one of Bodhidharma's most important texts, designed to help Chan practitioners apply timeless and essential advice to their practice
Legend has it that more than a thousand years ago an Indian Buddhist monk named Bodhidharma arrived in China. His approach to teaching was unlike that of any of the Buddhist missionaries who had come to China before him. He confounded the emperor with cryptic dialogues, traveled...
10) Chase
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Everyone has a secret they'd like to keep buried, and Chase has more than one. His past is about to blow wide-open as the nightmare he'd tried once before to lock away comes back to horrifying life. With enough painful memories to last her a lifetime, Vanessa vows to keep moving forward instead of looking back in regret. But, when she gets caught up in Chase's struggles, they become as much her own problems as his. To secure the present, they both...
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Debut author Jennifer Giesbrecht paints a darkly compelling fantasy of revenge in The Monster of Elendhaven, a dark fantasy about murder, a monster, and the magician who loves both.
The city of Elendhaven sulks on the edge of the ocean. Wracked by plague, abandoned by the South, stripped of industry and left to die. But not everything dies so easily. A thing without a name stalks the city, a thing shaped like a man, with a dark heart and long pale...
12) Snake Heart
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Tasked with an impossible mission, hunted by the very people he wants to protect, Yanko White Fox is the only one who can save his nation from famine and anarchy. Armed only with his fledgling skills as a wizard and accompanied by allies he's not sure he can trust, he must track down an ancient relic before his enemies find it first. But countless obstacles stand in the way, including his mother. The deadly and infamous pirate Snake Heart cares nothing...
13) Warrior Mage
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His mother was one of the most powerful wizards in the Nurian Empire until she abandoned her people to become a notorious pirate. That choice doomed the family she left behind to a life of disgrace.
Yanko White Fox doesn't remember his mother, but as the only gifted child in the family, he is expected to erase the mark she left on them all. With an affinity for earth magic and communicating with animals, he's not the most natural candidate to become...
14) Hawk
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Stumbling over a dead body is one hell of a way to start a vacation...
While growing up, Hawk was always the wild card, the one who couldn't sit still or find a place to belong. Becoming a SEAL gave him a niche and a purpose in the world like no other. Nevertheless, the wild man remains under the surface, waiting for the match to his flame. Ending up back home for a few days' R&R, Hawk notices a new, darker element has moved in next door--and, at...
15) Shimano's Tale
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Shimano is an adventurous fish who, together with her friends, discovers a mud monster in their dam. They manage to alert the humans who also uncover all the garbage in the dam and decide to close it down. Now Shimano and her friends must race against time as the water in their home starts to disappear through a mysterious portal. Can Shimano and her friends save the others in the dam?
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An openly gay jock. A boy next door. The latter dates a girl, but will that change soon?
After Kevin meets Lucas, he can't get him out of his mind. And as if life at Oak River High isn't hard enough, Kevin has a girlfriend. In the web of mixed feelings and unjust expectations, one thing leads to another, and ultimately someone's heart is broken.
Time for Goodbyes is a sweet romance and the first novel in Jay Argent's Oak River Boys series. It's...
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Throughout human history the desire to explore an afterlife required that we critically bend the way we think. A time when there is really only one question to be asked - what happends when this life ends?
By tradition, our next world experiences are fixed in accepted philosophical understandings or time-honored religious beliefs. Any challenge to these options requires that we find the private moments to become unbiased and fearless.
The Afterlife...
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A hot stranger. A dominant mother. Will the young love survive the competition?
There are two simple facts in Kevin Carter's life. One: he dates Lucas, the hottest guy at school. And two: telling Mom is not an option. But when a new boy comes into the picture, Kevin soon realizes that life isn't that simple, and he needs to make a choice between two evils.
Stuck in the Closet is a sweet romance and the second novel in Jay Argent's Oak River Boys...
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An unorthodox examination of death, soul life, and the process of a plausible reincarnation. By traveling outside the restrictions of traditional convictions, near-death experiences start to take on the appearance of walking along the perimeter of an extremely complex afterlife. Beyond our ego-defined picture of what occurs after we have taken our last breath lies something extraordinary and magically powerful.
20) I Wished
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"I started writing books about and for my friend George Miles because whenever I would speak about him honestly like I am doing now I felt a complicated agony beneath my words that talking openly can't handle."
For most of his life, Dennis Cooper believed the person he had loved the most and would always love above all others was George Miles. In his first novel in ten years, Dennis Cooper writes about George Miles, love, loss, addiction, suicide,...