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Carefully designed by leading experts in the field, here is a vocabulary building program that provides the inside edge on learning new words, understanding word usage and pronunciation and making a powerful vocabulary part of your everyday life. This program, Volume One of a four-part vocabulary building series, offers you: The building blocks of English words Dynamic visualization techniques for learning new words Self-challenges to make your new...
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Explore natural healing, tune into your body's needs, and use magic to create a joyful, healthy lifestyle with this essential guide to wellness for your witchcraft practice.
Magic meets healthy living in this guidebook to help you become a healthier version of yourself. From crystal healing to moon cycles to other natural remedies, you'll learn everything you need to know to strengthen, treat, and support your body and spirit - all while using your...
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How many times have you heard a teacher say that your child has tremendous potential "if only he'd just apply himself" or "if only sh'd work just a little harder"? How often have you said the same thing to your son or daughter? Or perhaps you have a coworker who can't seem to finish anything; his reports are never in on time, or her projects are always behind the schedule. No matter what excusses you hear, you suspect that laziness is the real reason...
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From the author of Iron & Silk comes a moving memoir of love and family, loss and spiritual yearning
Anxiety has always been part of Mark Salzman's life: He was born into a family as nervous as rabbits, people with extra angst coded into their genes. As a young man he found solace through martial arts, meditation, tai chi, and rigorous writing schedules, but as he approaches midlife, he confronts a year of catastrophe. First, Salzman suffers a crippling...
5) The Little Book of Self-Care for Gemini: Simple Ways to Refresh and Restore-According to the Stars
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Everything you need to know about self-care-especially for Gemini!
Take Time for You, Gemini!
It's "me" time-powered by the zodiac! Welcome star-powered strength and cosmic relief into your life with The Little Book of Self-Care for Gemini.
While a Gemini may have trouble slowing down, this book truly encourages you to take time to take care of yourself. Let the stars be your guide as you learn just how important astrology is to your self-care...
6) Star Trek VI
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Internal pressures, enormous military expenditures, and the destruction of their primary energy source have brought the Klingon Empire to the verge of catastrophic collapse. To avert disaster, Gorkon, Chancellor of the Klingon High Council, proposes negotiations between the Federation and Klingon Empire, negotiations that will put an end to the years of hostility between the two powers, and herald a new era of peace and cooperation. Captain James...
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Americans have been warned since the late 1970s that the buildup of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere threatens to melt the polar ice sheets and irreversibly change our climate. With little done since then to alter this dangerous path, the world has reached a critical threshold. By the end of the century, it will likely be hotter than at any point in the last two million years, and the sweeping consequences of this change will determine the future...
8) Wedding Hacks: 500+ Ways to Stick to Your Budget, Stay Stress-Free, and Plan the Best Wedding Ever!
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Take control of your wedding planning (and budget) with over 500 easy hacks to help your wedding go as smoothly as possible-from preventing wardrobe malfunctions to making an adjustable seating chart.
Congratulations-you're engaged! But, now what? As you start to share the news with your family and friends, you might start feeling slightly stressed about the amount of planning you suddenly have to do. But wedding planning can actually be easier than...
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In the first book to help parents truly understand youth violence and stop it before it explodes, national expert Dr. James Garbarino reveals how to identify children who are at risk and offers proven methods to prevent aggressive behavior. After more than a decade of relentless increase in the urban war zones of large cities, violence by young boys and adolescents is on the rise in our suburbs, small towns, and rural communities. Twenty-five years...
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More Charles Kuralt's American Moments takes us on a wonderful, joyous exploration of Americana with this second volume of never-before-available spoken-word accounts of what makes the United States so special. An American Moment with Charles Kuralt -- a timeless series of television essays about uniquely American people, places, and ideas -- was Kuralt's last project before his death on Independence Day, 1997. In this rare and special recording,...
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A riveting guide to the energy that surrounds us-from the vitality of light to the potency of sound waves-and how tuning into the power of frequencies can help us heal ourselves, and the planet.
Energy is everywhere. From the light, sound, and electromagnetic waves that surround us to the intricate networks inside of us, harnessing the extraordinary power of these invisible frequencies may be the key to a variety of medical innovations and human...
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In the tradition of In Cold Blood, The Executioner's Song, and A Civil Action, Suzanne O'Malley exposes the human mystery of the most horrifying crime in recent history and the legal drama surrounding it. As a journalist, Suzanne O'Malley began covering the murders of Noah, John, Paul, Luke, and Mary Yates hours after their mother, Andrea Yates, drowned them in their suburban Houston home in June 2001. Over twenty-four months, O'Malley interviewed...
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The sun, moon, stars, and other celestial bodies are constantly impacting our lives. They affect our decision-making, relationships, communication. They signal change and grant us moments of self-reflection. And, if we let them, they challenge us to grow into the best versions of ourselves.
In Mercury in Retrograde, practicing astrologer Rachel Stuart-Haas takes us on a fun and energizing exploration of the astrological phenomena that guide our lives....
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The everything-you-missed, wanted-to-know-more-about, and can't-get-enough guide to the Game of Thrones television series-from the first episode to the epic finale. Valar morghulis!
Spanning every episode across all eight seasons, INSIDER's entertainment correspondent Kim Renfro goes deep into how the show was made, why it became such a phenomenon and explores every detail you want to know. It's the perfect book to look back at all you may have missed...
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From beloved New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist Anita Diamant comes a timely collection of essays to help inspire period positive activism around the globe.
When Period. End of Sentence won an Oscar in 2019, the film's producer and CEO of The Pad Project, Melissa Berton, told the audience: "A period should end a sentence, not a girl's education." Continuing in that revolutionary spirit and building on the momentum of the...
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In this extraordinary narrative, Alan Tennant recounts his all-out effort to radio-track the transcontinental migration of the peregrine falcon -- an investigation no one before him had ever taken to such lengths. On the Wing transports us from the windswept flats of the Texas barrier islands -- where the tundra falcons pause during their springtime journey north -- to the Arctic, and then south, through Mexico, Belize, and into the Caribbean, in...
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Throughout his almost four decades of life on the road, Charles Kuralt has introduced us to people and places that have warmed our hearts. Now in Charles Kuralt's Spring, he disposes with winter's chill by recounting some of the most miraculous rites of spring he has witnessed over the years. Combining ageless pieces from his years at CBS News with never-before-recorded material, Kuralt takes us on an unforgettable journey. From a garden blossoming...
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Is it still possible to fake your own death in the twenty-first century? With six figures of student loan debt, Elizabeth Greenwood was tempted to find out. So off she sets on a darkly comic foray into the world of death fraud, where for $30,000 a consultant can make you disappear-but your suspicious insurance company might hire a private detective to dig up your coffin...only to find it filled with rocks.
Greenwood tracks down a British man who...
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Young, blond, handsome Dr. Swango seemed a godsend wherever he was hired to practice medicine. But acclaim would turn to disbelief, dismay, then horror, as the evidence mounted that he could actually be murdering his patients. Then, Dr. Michael Swango would leave that hospital -- only to be rehired at another. Today the FBI believes that Swango may be the most prolific serial killer in American history. In his brilliant, bestselling Den of Thieves,...
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