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Life is busier than ever before. We are working longer hours to keep up with longer to-do lists. Yet we’re experiencing more stress and seem to fall further and further behind. Our so-called leisure time is punctuated with interruptions, constantly pulling us back to work. We are led to believe we can prioritize our way out of this, but prioritization is broken. In Workday Warrior, productivity expert Ann Gomez presents a fresh approach that smashes today’s time challenges: too many priorities, too many interruptions, and too much complexity.

Months ago, Ahnjii fell through a gate to Earth where cryptids live hidden among humans like herself. Much to her delight, her unusual truthsense ability allows her to see their real, undisguised forms behind their sigil-enhanced glamor. Always accompanied by Khimmer, the mind of her adaptive Nightarmor, Ahnjii learns to hide her abilities and secrets while daring to delve into the tempting excitement of Earth.

Haddie’s life crumbles around her as the Unceasing’s plans to destroy society unfold. In this epic ending, people she loves die, alliances will divide, and the world rests on the brink of disaster. A new AngelSong enters the conflict.

Thomas confronts the leader of the Unceasing in their hidden Albuquerque base and Haddie follows close behind. Detective Cooper, the coerced FBI, and the Unceasing’s thugs hunt her and her friends until no one is safe. Haddie won’t be able to return to Eugene, not until her or her dad stop the Unceasing. What waits under the hills of Coyote Canyon will shock them all and threatens to be more than Haddie can handle.

Haddie, her dad, and her friends are all at risk in a twisting turn of events. The Unceasing are back and stronger than ever. Her coworker has already been coerced; will one of her friends be next? In a race against time, Haddie and her team rally to find the source of this strange power and stop it, but they might not be enough. Haddie is faced with heart-wrenching decisions, and the choices she dares to make might cost her everything as she stands up against someone who can turn her own team against her. Will she be able to turn things around the second time? Who will she lose?

It took me 37,287 words to describe the impact sexual trauma in the military has had on my life. It has taken me over 30 years to come to terms with my experience where I can now write about it and speak about it. I want to educate people about rape in the military. Perhaps I will be able to help others by sharing my experience. To keep silent just perpetuates the violence and reinforces the culture of rape that has been accepted in the military. My insight in this book will be helpful to both practitioners helping veterans and to other veterans suffering from sexual trauma as well.

Eugene law student and intern at a local law firm, Haddie unites with an unusual ally to delve into the disquieting organization known as the Unceasing. Her dad, Thomas, has his own troubles with an anonymous admirer who boldly attempts to recruit him to a dubious cause; worse, his fan has been stalking him since his last alias as a soldier in Vietnam. Following a lead in Boise, Idaho, Haddie and Thomas race to build a crew to investigate the Unceasing, never expecting to spark a backlash so quickly. However, if Haddie doesn’t take a risk and act fast, her team might be lost.

Eugene law student and intern at a local law firm, Haddie is adjusting to her and her dad’s unnatural abilities. He’s lived with it for centuries, but she just found out this year. Now, she’s dealing with a new addition to their family and a friend who has disappeared. The trail leads to a disquieting series of bizarre raves where people go missing, lose their minds, or die. Someone, or something, disturbing is hiding amid the colorful lights and music. Haddie races against time before her friend becomes one of the casualties.

Eugene law student and intern at a local law firm, Haddie discovers more about herself and her dad than she was ready to delve into. Shocked by gruesome deaths that defy the laws of nature, she searches for rational answers to otherworldly incinerations. To learn the truth, she investigates the two bizarre deaths of a local businessman and his wife. Haddie races against time, obsessed with saving the firm's client, the businessman's mistress, who the police accuse of impossible murders that the young woman couldn't have committed.

Ten classic short stories offering a feminine perspective on marriage written from 1891 to 1917 from such classic authors as Edith Wharton, O. Henry, Kate Chopin, Mark Twain, and others. These works present an early and poignant perspective on the institution of marriage, its role in society, and the personal beauty and pain that can be found within its bonds.

The One-Eyed Cat and the Gambler is a collection of aphorisms and parables on many different topics, including philosophy, religion, love, human nature, time, and memory. Ranging in tone from pointedly satirical to lightly humorous, Jeffery Bennett’s intent is not to express truths, but rather to provoke and challenge the reader’s thoughts and philosophies.

A small-town campus is rocked by scandal. Suddenly, four women find themselves in the crosshairs of an investigation that threatens to upend their lives.