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Olivia Law had always been the good girl. Great grades, perfect career, husband, house and hairdo. She'd learnt image was everything, so she refused to look below the surface of her life. When not at work her minutes were filled with causes, chairing boards and dining at fabulous restaurants with her equally fabulous husband, David. She kept up the Botox and blow-dries and worked hard. It wasn't enough, but whenever doubt crept in she'd head to a pilates class or plan a renovation on her trophy house. Then she turned 45. Olivia wasn't prepared for David to leave.

On a hot day in July 1919, five black youths went swimming in Lake Michigan, unintentionally floating close to the white beach. An angry white man began throwing stones at the boys, striking and killing one. Racial conflict on the beach erupted into days of urban violence that shook the city of Chicago to its foundations. This mesmerizing narrative draws on contemporary accounts as it traces the roots of the explosion that had been building for decades in race relations, politics, business, and clashes of culture.

Who is the criminal known only as "The Beast?" Too baffling for the police to solve, it becomes a manhunt in which detective Race Williams must track down "the most feared, the cunningest and cruelest creature that stalks the city streets at night." But it will soon become Race's most dangerous case as he tries to stay alive. One of the longest and best of the dozens of Race Williams adventures.

This is the second Special Edition Book of Poetry. This book contains 45 new poems.

Five reads for coffee breaks. One a day Monday through Friday. Don't be late for that meeting and read two at a sitting!

What if you could approach people that you want without feeling anxious and not having an excuse of not knowing what to say? Best-selling author and self-help strategist Michael Wakefield presents leading-edge techniques and scientifically-backed research that will allow you to gradually overcome your social anxiety without feeling completely overwhelmed by the steps you can take to become a better version of yourself.

When we think of our emotions, we often tend to see them as ways of reacting to the world. We feel happiness, sadness, anger, hope, and other emotions because we act on the world, and the world acts on us in turn, and we show our initial reactions by means of our instincts and feelings.

What if you could finally know what to say in any situation and conquer your fear of talking to others? Imagine having the two best books to help guide you along the way to becoming a better version of yourself. Best-selling author and self-help strategist Michael Wakefield details the steps and strategies that you can take in order to become more comfortable talking to others, and how the strategies outlined in these two books will allow you to make progress in becoming more comfortable around others.

Many people find themselves confused with how small talk can positively affect their everyday life. Some people even despise small talk, dismissing it as nothing more than a façade, an over-the-top exchange of politeness. Learning the strategies of small talk in this book will dramatically change your social life for the better.

Tijuana: melting pot of Mexico, gateway to Baja California. Two million souls struggle for survival, each searching for a way to become...something, anything better. Fate brings a few strangers together one night in a crowded taxi rojo. When the red taxi crashes down a canyon, it creates a connection between the passengers that, like the international border within sight of the crash, draws a line between triumph and defeat, hopelessness and perseverance, life and death.

Educator and multimedia reporter Marian Burnbaum interviews one of the nation's leading thinkers in education and video gaming, James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literary Studies at Arizona State University. Professor Gee explains how "good" video games in any genre, including violent video games, can be examples of active, deep learning at almost any age.

Collected poems and observations of Thomas Weston.

This ultimate how-to book will show you how to find answers, be confident, improve your memory, master your emotions, reach your goals, solve your problems, be creative, persuade people, and raise terrific children.

Whether you're interested in becoming more skilled in female body language in order to learn whether she's interested in you, bored by you, or giving you a signal that she'd like to become more intimate, this book will offer tips on how to decipher these movements and use it to your advantage.

The Civil War is over, though for Jupiter Smith, a former slave and Union soldier, many battles still lie ahead. He returns to the plantation he worked on before the war in search of his woman but rather finds his old master gone mad, haunting the ruins like a ghost. Out of pity for the now mentally ill colonel, Jupiter strangles him and heads west to seek a new life in San Francisco.

A stunning debut historical noir novel about a worker in the civil rights movement who became an informant for the FBI during the months leading up to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Feeling underappreciated and overlooked, John Estem, a bookkeeper for Dr. King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), steals ten thousand dollars from the organization. Originally planning to use the money to seed a new civil rights initiative in Chicago, he squanders the stolen funds.

Something more awful than death lurks in the aftermath of the fall of mankind... Evolution. Plants struggled for many years to survive in a manmade concrete prison. Now they have evolved into horrid creatures feeding on the most abundant of food sources as the human race hides in fear. Can a mousy teen, an autistic man, and a brave subway dweller truly be the world's last hope?

Ein teuflischer Plan brachte Asmödäus, Dämon des Lasters, wieder unter die Lebenden. Sein Dasein verheißt Unheil und Verderben auf Erden...

When faced with perplexing challenges and difficult circumstances it is only natural to ask, "Why?" There are some things taking place in the church that are not of God and many are suffering as a result, unaware they are under a curse. This widely anticipated audiobook explores, and provides answers to, the "Why?" question - from a new and fresh perspective.

Different change models have been introduced in the literature, but since organizational change is a piecemeal process, there has not been one coherent model for managing organizational change.