Designing Your Life


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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • At last, a book that shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage • “Life has questions. They have answers.” —The New York Times Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve. In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise.




How to Break Up with Your Phone


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This evidence-based, user-friendly guide presents a 30-day digital detox plan that will help you set boundaries with your phone and live a more joyful and fulfilling life. “I wrote The Anxious Generation to help adults improve the lives of children. Many readers have asked me for a version of the book aimed at helping adults and teens help themselves. Catherine Price has written the best such book.”—Jonathan Haidt Do you feel addicted to your phone? Do you frequently pick it up “just to check,” only to look up forty-five minutes later wondering where the time has gone? Does social media make you anxious? Have you tried to spend less time mindlessly scrolling—and failed? If so, this book is your solution. Award-winning health and science journalist and TED speaker Catherine Price presents a practical, evidence-based 30-day digital detox plan that will help you break up—and then make up—with your phone. The goal: better mental health, improved screen-life balance, and a long-term relationship with technology that feels good. This engaging, user-friendly guide explains how our smartphones and apps are designed to be addictive and how the time we spend on them is increasing our anxiety and damaging our abilities to focus, think deeply, form new memories, generate ideas, and be present in our most important relationships. Next, it walks you through an effective and easy-to-follow 30-day plan that has already helped thousands of people worldwide break their phone addictions and feel more fully alive. Whether you need help for yourself or for your family, friends, students, colleagues, clients, or community, How to Break Up with Your Phone is the ultimate guide to digital detoxing. It’s guaranteed to help you put down your phone—and come back to life.




I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die


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A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect.




Harlequin Love Inspired April 2019 - Box Set 1 of 2


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Love Inspired brings you three new titles! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope. THE AMISH SPINSTER’S COURTSHIP by Emma Miller When Marshall Byler meets Lovey Stutzman—a newcomer to his Amish community—it’s love at first sight. Except Lovey doesn’t believe the handsome bachelor is serious about pursuing her. And with his grandmother trying to prevent the match, will they ever find their way to each other? THE RANCHER’S LEGACY Red Dog Ranch by Jessica Keller Returning home isn’t part of Rhett Jarrett’s plan—until he inherits the family ranch from his father. Running it won’t be easy with his ranch assistant, Macy Howell, challenging all his decisions. But when he discovers the truth about his past, will he begin to see things her way? HER COLORADO COWBOY Rocky Mountain Heroes by Mindy Obenhaus Socialite Lily Davis agrees to take her children riding…despite her fear of horses. Working with widowed cowboy Noah Stephens to launch his new rodeo school is a step further than she planned to go. But they might just discover a love that conquers both their fears.




Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense June 2019 - Box Set 1 of 2


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Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith. BLIND TRUST True Blue K-9 Unit by Laura Scott When guide dog trainer Eva Kendall stumbles on a dognapping, she quickly learns she’s the ultimate target. But can officer Finn Gallagher and his K-9 partner, Abernathy, help her track down the puppy she’s training…and uncover why someone’s set their deadly sights on her? GUARDING THE AMISH MIDWIFE Amish Country Justice by Dana R. Lynn On the way to deliver her cousin’s baby, Amish midwife Lizzy Miller witnesses her driver’s murder—and now someone plans to silence her. Lizzy knows better than to trust strangers, but her very survival depends on the help of former Amish man turned police officer Isaac Yoder. HIDDEN TWIN by Jodie Bailey Amy Brady has been in witness protection for three years when someone threatens her life—and her twin’s. Now it’s US marshal Samuel Maldonado’s duty to get her to safety. But if she ever hopes to be reunited with her sister, Amy must work with Sam to expose a murderer.




Motherless Brooklyn


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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from America's most inventive novelist. "A half-satirical cross between a literary novel and a hard-boiled crime story narrated by an amateur detective with Tourette's syndrome.... The dialogue crackles with caustic hilarity.... Unexpectedly moving." —The Boston Globe Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, Lionel Essrog is an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank Minna, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable, so who cares if the tasks he sets them are, well, not exactly legal. But when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of Lionel's colleagues lands in jail, the other two vie for his position, and the victim's widow skips town. Lionel's world is suddenly topsy-turvy, and this outcast who has trouble even conversing attempts to untangle the threads of the case while trying to keep the words straight in his head. Motherless Brooklyn is a brilliantly original, captivating homage to the classic detective novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.




Plan a Happy Life: Define Your Passion, Nurture Your Creativity, and Take Hold of Your Dreams


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From the creator of the immensely popular Happy Planner and Me and My BIG Ideas, Stephanie Fleming, comes Plan a Happy Life(TM)--a delightfully practical book that shows you how to simplify, organize, and live with intention, all while having fun.




Harlequin Special Edition December 2019 - Box Set 1 of 2


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Harlequin® Special Edition brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! These are heartwarming, romantic stories about life, love and family. This Special Edition box set includes: THE RIGHT REASON TO MARRY by Christine Rimmer The Bravos of Valentine Bay Unexpected fatherhood changes everything for charming bachelor Liam Bravo. He wants to marry Karin Killigan, the mother of his child. But Karin won’t settle for less than true lasting love. THE RANCHER’S BEST GIFT by Stella Bagwell Men of the West Rancher Matthew Waggoner was planning to be in and out of Red Bluff as quickly as possible. But staying with his boss’s sister, Camille Hollister, proves to be more enticing than he thought. Will these two opposites be able to work through their differences and get the best Christmas gift? A TALE OF TWO CHRISTMAS LETTERS by Cathy Gillen Thacker Texas Legends: The McCabes Rehab nurse Bess Monroe is mortified that she accidentally sent out two Christmas letters—one telling the world about her lonely life intead of the positive spin she wanted! And when Jack McCabe, widowed surgeon and father of three, sees the second one, he offers his friendship to get through the holidays. But their pact soon turns into something more…




TIMES OF WAR & PERIL - The Historical Novels Series (Illustrated Edition)


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e-artnow presents to you this unique historical collection with action adventure tales from all over the world. This carefully crafted and meticulously edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Out on the Pampas The Young Franc-Tireurs The Young Buglers The Cornet of Horse In Times of Peril Winning His Spurs (Boy Knight) Friends Though Divided Jack Archer Under Drake's Flag By Sheer Pluck With Clive in India In Freedom's Cause St. George For England True to the Old Flag The Young Colonists The Dragon and the Raven For Name and Fame The Lion of the North Through the Fray The Bravest of the Brave The Young Carthaginian With Wolfe in Canada Bonnie Prince Charlie For the Temple In the Reign of Terror Orange and Green Captain Bayley's Heir The Cat of Bubastes The Curse of Carne's Hold The Lion of St. Mark By Pike and Dyke One of the 28th With Lee in Virginia By England's Aid By Right of Conquest Chapter of Adventures Maori and Settler The Dash For Khartoum Held Fast for England Redskin and Cowboy Beric the Briton Condemned as a Nihilist In Greek Waters Rujub, the Juggler A Jacobite Exile Saint Bartholomew's Eve Through the Sikh War In the Heart of the Rockies When London Burned A Girl of the Commune Wulf The Saxon A Knight of the White Cross Through Russian Snows The Tiger of Mysore At Agincourt On the Irrawaddy With Cochrane the Dauntless Colonel Thorndyke's Secret A March on London With Frederick the Great With Moore at Corunna Among Malay Pirates At Aboukir and Acre Both Sides the Border The Lost Heir Under Wellington's Command In the Hands of the Cave Dwellers No Surrender! A Roving Commission Won by the Sword In the Irish Brigade Out With Garibaldi With Buller in Natal At the Point of the Bayonet To Herat and Cabul With Roberts to Pretoria The Treasure of the Incas With Kitchener in the Soudan With the British Legion Through Three Campaigns With the Allies to Pekin By Conduct and Courage




Becoming a Somebody


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Ignat Kaneff arrived in Canada in 1951 with a mere five dollars to his name, no English, and very little education. Within five years, he had started a construction company and broken ground on his first subdivision, kicking off a career as one of the country’s top businessmen. His is one of Canada’s great immigrant success stories.