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An NPR Best Book of 2021 NYPL 10 Best Books for Adults, 2021 A story collection, in the vein of Carmen Maria Machado, Kelly Link, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, spanning worlds and dimensions, using strange and speculative elements to tackle issues ranging from class differences to immigration to...

Una historia de lucha, fe y propósito. Leslie ha transitado un camino marcado por el dolor y la incertidumbre. Desde la pérdida de su hermano por suicidio hasta las batallas diarias con enfermedades como diabetes, convulsiones e hipotiroidismo, su vida parecía un constante enfrentamiento entre la oscuridad y la búsqueda de la luz.
Sin embargo, entre las cicatrices más profundas encontró raíces que la sostienen y le permitieron renacer. En esta obra, Leslie comparte, con honestidad y valentía, cómo un intento fallido de suicidio se transformó en un despertar hacia el sentido de su existencia.

Benjamin lives with a name he hates in a run-down San Francisco apartment, until his brother Billy finds him. Billy's a war veteran who sleeps under a bridge with his loyal band of phone thieves, trying to avoid the police and the VA. Thirty years earlier, Benjamin had an Ivy League degree and was getting noticed for his Peace Corps work on the Ecuadorian coast. But Felicia also noticed, seducing him into a life of cajoling secrets from others to be peddled to the highest bidder. Felicia's talented protégé lived a privileged life until he made a mistake and had to flee with the name Gloria.

Autohipnosis para aliviar el insomnio y disfrutar de noches reparadorasDuerma sin esfuerzo. Descanse profundamente sin culpa. Cúrese suavemente a través de la autohipnosis guiada.¿Y si pudiera dejar de perseguir el sueño y dejar que él viniera a usted? Tanto si lucha contra pensamientos acelerados, tensión emocional o insomnio crónico, este programa de autohipnosis basado en el trauma le ofrece un camino seguro y natural para recuperar un descanso profundo y reparador.

Pharmaceutical interventions such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) or corticosteroid injections often provide temporary relief. However, they rarely address the root causes of joint degeneration or discomfort—and their long-term use can come with side effects ranging from gastrointestinal distress to cardiovascular risk. The need for sustainable, natural solutions has never been more pressing.

Con este libro usted aprenderá más sobre la forma en la que sus relaciones interpersonales influyen en su bienestar.

Dee Blum has a plan. Or rather, her parents do. Graduate college. Go to law school. Become a divorce attorney. Be “successful.” But Dee wants more—more purpose, more passion, more than checking off someone else’s boxes. A surprise gig leading eco-tours of ethical coffee farms in Costa Rica offers a fresh start.

This cozy collection includes three delightful full-length mystery novels in the Haunted Tearoom Cozy Mystery Series featuring April May and the town of Serenity Cove.

April is busy baking tasty treats to serve in her tearoom while stormy weather threatens outside. She ignores the controversy surrounding the sheriff’s recall and the rumors being spread until she learns about a rumor involving her! When she goes to confront the person she believes is responsible, she finds a dead body instead. Accused of murder, she feels she has no choice but to investigate. There are plenty of suspects, but they all have solid alibis. Meanwhile, disaster strikes for someone close to April. At least she can count on Chef Emile’s presence in her kitchen… or can she?

At thirty-five years old, Ivanka was a stunning woman with captivating beauty that entranced those around her. But behind her calm exterior, she carried scars from her past that she tried to hide through work and dedication to the vineyard. That is, until Marco arrived at the winery as an intern.

There’s more to life than running a tearoom and baking tasty treats. As the weather cools and fewer tourists visit, April decides to explore a new hobby. At a painting class, she’s befriended by a group of women, and she’s enjoying having a social life.

April May has turned her tearoom into a psychic fair for the day. Visitors are having their palms read and fortunes told, while April bakes up plenty of flaky scones and buttery shortbread. It's all fun and games until a mysterious stranger turns up dead. With the cards stacked against her, April must find the culprit if she’s going to keep the wrong person from going to jail.

When April May buys a huge Victorian home, she plans to turn it into a tearoom serving exotic teas, dainty sandwiches, and fluffy scones. From the moment she moves in, strange things begin to happen and soon bodies begin to turn up!

April May is intrigued by the fog-shrouded lighthouse where a troubled woman lost her life a decade earlier. When the woman’s sister chooses to re-examine the past, secrets are revealed that threaten the peaceful town and its residents.

Trouble is brewing as April May approaches her 50th birthday and the opening of her tearoom. When word gets around that a local reporter is penning a tell-all, everyone in town is on edge that their secrets may be revealed.

How many times have we heard that reading builds empathy? That we can travel through books? How often have we were heard about the importance of diversifying our bookshelves? Or claimed that books saved our lives? These familiar words—beautiful, aspirational—are sometimes even true. But award-winning novelist Elaine Castillo has more ambitious hopes for our reading culture, and in this collection of linked essays, she moves to wrest reading away from the aspirations of uniting people in empathetic harmony and reposition it as thornier, ultimately more rewarding work.

Strange occurrences stir up a sleepy town in Louisiana. Amanda, the bookworm bachelorette, finds an ancient tome in the thrift shop. A novel? A biography? Hard to even describe it, but she is drawn to it, like it was a magnet, and finds it harder and harder to distinguish the reality of the book from her own. Meanwhile, a dark couple appears, jacking up the quiet streets of the University town. They are free and unstoppable, with their tattoos emitting an unearthly purple glow.

Encourage the vulnerable, difficult, and fun communication necessary to build strong relationships and fortify them against dysfunction, divorce, or separation. Do your everyday conversations feel like an endless cycle of repeat? Does silence dominate your time together? Every relationship goes through its phases, some harder than others, but that doesn’t mean you should simply accept that you are powerless and passively sit by and wait for the phase to run its course. What if you could turn that loop in your throat into a spiral of loving, honest, and exciting connection?

How to restore your marriage after an affair - even if there seems to be no hope. You’ve been devastated. Your partner already stopped the affair, but now you rarely have intimate moments together, and when you do, it’s terrible because the memories of infidelity are paralyzing as they rip your heart constantly. Don’t lose hope. Couples who consciously and proactively choose to recover from an affair and strive to revive their relationship often end up with a stronger bond than they had before.

In the second book of an alphabetical series of erotic experiences, our protagonist finds herself being swept up by the lights, the magic, and the sensuality of an old-time crush. Years after they had first met, fate has given them a second chance at being together. He will teach her all the ways her body can be explored by another person, and she will teach him how life can suddenly make sense once you meet the one.