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Diagnosed at age 29, Fox is engaged in Parkinson's advocacy work, raising global awareness of the disease and helping find a cure through The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, the world's leading non-profit funder of PD science. Here he shares personal stories and observations about illness and health, aging, the strength of family and friends, and how our perceptions about time affect the way we approach mortality. Running through...
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Simon & Schuster Audio
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2017
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English
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In this landmark work, internationally beloved teacher of meditation and "one of the great spiritual teachers of our time" (Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple) Jack Kornfield reveals that you can be instantly happy with the keys to inner freedom.
Through his signature warmhearted, poignant, often funny stories, with their a-ha moments and O. Henry-like outcomes, Jack Kornfield shows how we can free ourselves, wherever we are...
Through his signature warmhearted, poignant, often funny stories, with their a-ha moments and O. Henry-like outcomes, Jack Kornfield shows how we can free ourselves, wherever we are...
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A360 Media, LLC
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English
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"Join us as we look at the fascinating world of medicine and how it will evolve over the coming years. Digital tattoos, 3D printed drugs, RFID implants for recreational purposes: mindblowing innovations are coming to medicine and healthcare almost every single day. A few short years ago, it would have been hard to imagine that exoskeletons could enable paralyzed people to walk again; that billions of people would rely on social media for
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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[2012]
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English
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"Gordimer trains her keen eye on Steve and Jabulile, an interracial couple living in a newly, tentatively, free South Africa. They have a daughter, Sindiswa; they move to the suburbs; Steve becomes a lecturer at a university; Jabulile trains to become a lawyer; there is another child, a boy this time. There is nothing so extraordinary about their lives, and yet, in telling their story and the stories of their friends and families, Gordimer manages...
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Chronicles of St. Mary's volume Book 5
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Night Shade Books
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[2017]
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English
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"Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary's Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just don't call it "time travel"--These historians "investigate major historical events in contemporary time." And they aren't your harmless eccentrics either; a more accurate description, as they ricochet around history, might be unintentional disaster-magnets. The Chronicles of St. Mary's tells the chaotic adventures...
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iUniverse
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2002
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English
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Sam Foster is a fairly typical modern American teenager-who just invented a time machine. Sam didn't mean to bring back anything from his first trip to the past, but he returned home to 2005 with more than he bargained for, in the form Meg Clayton, a spirited pioneer girl from Oregon. Sam would be only too happy to obey Meg's demand the she be taken home at once, but he encounters technical difficulties-and a stranger who may threaten more than just...
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On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a thirty month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on Al Qaeda prisoners. Doing Time Like A Spy is Kiriakou's memoir of his twenty-three months in prison. Using twenty life skills he learned in CIA operational training, he was able to keep himself safe and at the top of the prison...
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PublicAffairs
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David Folkenflik has convened some of the smartest media savants to talk about the present and the future of news. Behind all the debate is the presence of the New York times, and the inside story of its attempt to navigate the new world, embracing the immediacy of the web without straying from a commitment to accurate reporting and analysis that provides the paper with its own definition of what it is there to showcase: all the news that is fit to...
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Convergent
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[2024]
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English
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"Why do so-called life hacks leave us drowning in tasks, schedules, and unfulfilled expectations? In her straightforward, humorous style, author Kendra Adachi reveals why the problem is not you. Most time management systems prioritize optimization and greatness in service to an imagined future, but what if that's not your goal? What if you long for a book that helps you live wholeheartedly today? The PLAN is the answer. Using the memorable acronym...
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Independently Published
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2025
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English
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First published in 1915, In Times Like These is a groundbreaking collection of essays by Nellie L. McClung-one of Canada's most influential voices in the fight for women's suffrage and social justice. In this modernized edition, the text has been carefully updated for 21st-century listeners, while keeping McClung's arguments, spirit, and voice fully intact. With clarity, humor, and urgency, McClung explores war, democracy, religion, domestic life,...
12. No time like now
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Bloomsbury
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[2024]
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English
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Possessed with the ability to grant others extra time in their lives, when seventeen-year-old Hazeem gives away more time than he has left to live, he grapples with the consequences as he tries to reclaim those years and rediscover the true value of living.
14. Times Like These
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Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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In the wake of her husband's sudden death, Annie is left with two young children and a heart full of unanswered questions. Determined to rebuild her life, she channels her grief into a new passion: gardening. Starting with small plots for friends and neighbours, she soon cultivates a thriving market garden business in the magical setting of a walled garden on her friend Matt's farm. Matt has always harboured feelings for Annie, but her lingering love...
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WordCrafts
Pub. Date:
2020
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English
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July 7, 1937The Marco Polo Bridge Incident results in a prolonged war between China and Japan.The United States remained neutral. September 1, 1939Germany invades Poland leading Britain and France to declare war on Germany.The United States remained neutral. Over the next 15 months at least 35 nations were embroiled in the Second World War.The United States remained neutral. December 7, 1941 - The Day that will live in InfamyThe Imperial Japanese...
16. In Time Like Air
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Open Road Media
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2014
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English
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May Sarton at her evocative and contemplative best. The title poem of this entrancing collection compares love to salt for its ability both to dissolve and to crystallize "into a presence." At once philosophical and fiercely corporeal, this work presents emotion as a sensory experience. Written with Sarton's characteristic concision, these deeply felt poems will delight readers.
17. Time Like Coins
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Ginninderra Press
Pub. Date:
2019
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English
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Lifetime
Pub. Date:
2019
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English
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After finding her old boyfriend's engraved watch at a vintage shop, Emma Potter's sister decides to play Cupid by sending Emma to the same bed and breakfast in Vermont that he's staying at…1 week before Christmas. Upon arrival, Emma's shocked to bump into her first love & his daughter. Throughout the week, the 2 fight their feelings as they plan a show in hopes of saving the local theater.
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Harlequin
Pub. Date:
2014
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English
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A scandalous night-;and no one will ever know! Mardi Gras might be the best party in the world, but Jamie Vincent is spending it third-wheeling with her new roommate. So when gorgeous stranger Colin Raine offers to show her around, how can she say no? Soon Jamie's seduced by the hedonistic carnival-;and her delicious tour guide! Technically she's sworn off men, but for one night only, they can go crazy and no one will ever ;. Until everyone in New...
20. Times Like These
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Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date:
2020
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English
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You're not being very nice right now. I think you like it when I'm not nice. Nick Fletcher has the voice of a god and a tongue as sharp as a knife. His words can cut, and this time, his quick temper has earned him an intruder in his life and on his tour. Dalia Brenner looks like a grown-up Annie gone bad, but he wants nothing to do with her pin-up worthy curves and smart mouth. His method of dealing is to keep his head down, get through the tour,...