The Real Food Solution


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Food coach and nutrition educator Wendy McCallum has worked with many families to find successful strategies for clean eating, featuring affordable real food that everyone enjoys. This approach leads to gradual weight loss -- that stays off -- and increased energy, all while eating healthier, tastier meals. There's no shortage of popular approaches to weight loss and wellness, including paleo, gluten-free, and vegan diets. There is wide understanding of the advantages of ''real'' or ''clean'' food and recipes. But most people find it difficult to make changes in their diet and even harder to maintain these changes -- not to mention how tough it is to get the whole family to buy into a new way of eating. This is not a radical, instantaneous solution but instead a real, lasting change -- in the family kitchen and on the scale -- which comes from slow and steady building of positive habits that are enjoyable, not painful. It's flexible, kid-friendly, and even fun -- as Wendy has seen firsthand in her work with families of all shapes and sizes. The Real Food Solution presents her approach in full, with lots of background information, six weeks of meal plans and 70+ recipes -- including pantry and grocery lists -- making it fun and easy to achieve real change with real food.




Sweet Talk


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A fan favorite from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Sweet Spot and Sweet Trouble: “Smart, sexy romance doesn’t get any better than this.” —Debbie Macomber Is there anything sweeter than first love? Don’t ask Claire Keyes. The twenty-eight-year-old piano prodigy has never had a regular boyfriend, much less a real romance. Her music career has left little room for friends or family—which is just part of the reason she hasn’t seen the family bakery or her two sisters in years. But now Nicole is sick, and Jesse is AWOL. Despite the fact that Claire can’t boil water, she’s determined to play caretaker. Connecting with her sisters tops her to-do list . . . along with falling in love, or at least in lust, for the first time. Ruggedly sexy Wyatt just might fit the bill. Although he keeps saying that he and Claire come from entirely different worlds, he lights up hotter than a bakery oven whenever Claire is near. If this keeps up, she just might sweet-talk him into her bed . . . and her life. “One of those stories you don’t want to end. It has plenty of laugh-out-loud moments and just the right amount of lump-in-your-throat moments . . . This is the first of the Bakery Sisters trilogy, and will be a hard act to follow.” —Fresh Fiction “Romantic, daring, and hopeful . . . Sweet Talk is definitely a winner.” —Single Titles “Susan Mallery has whipped up a cast of fun, eccentric characters who will keep readers turning the pages.” —Romance Reviews Today




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Smart Women Know When to Say No


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Bestselling author uses commonsense psychology, humor, and stories to help women learn how to live a more balanced life.




Large Window on a Small World


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THE STORY: Still living with his widowed mother, at an age when most of his contemporaries are well settled into married life, Tad Snow is satisfied to pursue his job with a toy company, his chemical experiments and his busy correspondence with a s




Gimme More


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'A rock novel that entertains with wit, cunning, malice, and a wicked twist in the tale.Every detail rings true' Guardian




Sing Me a Bawdy Song


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After serving in the 'Great War' Casey Bretten returns to college and graduates with honors. He begins a new vocation as the manager of an Automobile Service and Repair business in Toledo, Ohio near his family farm. Through no fault of his own Casey had suffered abrupt endings to three affairs. He had tasted the 'honey of sex' and is eager to marry and settle down. He meets Emma Haan where she is working in a local bank. They fall in love and are married. Everything is going well until the Great Depression and Casey and Emma lose all they have worked for. They are near the point of destitution when Charlie Nash stops by Casey's business and offers Casey a job in Kenosha, Wisconsin at his Nash Motors Plant. The family moves to Kenosha and in 1933 they have their last child, a girl. Casey names the girl 'Tiona' which means 'Little Princess' in Indian. Unknown to Emma, Tiona is the name of Casey's first love. In 1936 Casey is promoted to the position of 'Regional Service Manager' of the entire Western United States. The family moves to Los Angeles. From 1936 to 1945 Casey flies more than 300,000 miles on United Air Lines planes. He is home with his family one week out of every twelve. During that time Emma is home with the children. Some of the problems Emma faces are: The death of her Mother. The 1938 flood in Los Angeles which almost results in the death of one of the children. The two youngest children contacting 'whooping cough.' Buying and moving to a two-bedroom house that is all they can afford. Emma's brother's young widow comes to visit them there with her baby and eventually marries a sailor who is transferred to Pearl Harbor. After several years they are able to buy a larger house. Here, Tiona's best friend is sent to Manzanar, a Japanese Prisoner of War Camp. Bill, after being rated 4-F is drafted into the service and Bob is also drafted even though he has a heart problem. Bob is later wounded while serving in the Philippines. Later Emma finds out she has breast cancer and Tiona, Casey's first love moves in next door.




Martha Washington


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With this revelatory and painstakingly researched book, Martha Washington, the invisible woman of American history, at last gets the biography she deserves. In place of the domestic frump of popular imagination, Patricia Brady resurrects the wealthy, attractive, and vivacious young widow who captivated the youthful George Washington. Here are the able landowner, the indomitable patriot (who faithfully joined her husband each winter at Valley Forge), and the shrewd diplomat and emotional mainstay. And even as it brings Martha Washington into sharper and more accurate focus, this sterling life sheds light on her marriage, her society, and the precedents she established for future First Ladies.




The Sect


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A liberated synthetic human. An AI trapped in a virtual prison. Can one teen save her friend from an upload disaster? Anya’s friend, Cynthia, is a free citizen, despite the Sect’s strict rules on segregation. After a section of society accuses her friend of being a troublemaker, Anya worries synth freedom won’t be tolerated much longer. Accused of a crime he didn’t commit, the AI Quintus must spend eternity in a virtual reality prison, with no access to the systems he built. When an opportunity arises to communicate with one synth, the wily program seizes it. Cynthia’s odd behavior worries Anya, leading her to believe a bigger danger looms. When the AI’s sudden push for freedom puts her pal in peril, the worried teen rushes to save her. Can Anya stop Quintus from destroying Cynthia’s life? Or will the cunning AI trap his jailers with the perfect revenge? Jump into The Resistance Files and explore new sci-fi adventures with our heroine, Anya Macklin. THE RESISTANCE FILES – POST REGION begins with THE SECT, BOOK 6. Grab this science fiction tale of oppression and hope today! Note: The Sect is a prequel set before the gang’s stint in the Region, and can be read as a standalone. The remainder of the series will follow their journey Post-Region.




Break the Skin


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Laney—a skinny, awkward teenager alone in the world—thinks she’s found a kindred spirit in thirty-five-year-old Delilah. Then the police come to ask Laney questions and she finds herself reconstructing a story of suspense, deceit, and revenge; a story that will haunt her forever. Seven hundred miles away, in Texas, Miss Baby has the hardened heart of a woman who has been used by men in every possible way, yet she is desperate for true love. When she meets a stranger, a man who claims he can’t remember his real name or his past but who seems gentle and trusting, Miss Baby thinks she may have finally found someone to love, someone who will protect her from the abusive men who fill her past. But Miss Baby and Laney are connected by a terrible crime, and, bit by bit, the complex web of deceptions and seemingly small misjudgments they’ve each helped to create start to unravel. Action, speculation, and contradiction play off one another as the story is told through their first-person voices, which keep you nervously guessing all the way to the shocking, tragic climax. Break the Skin is expert storyteller Lee Martin at his very best.