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Want sex, drugs, and rock and roll? It’s all here. But what is so moving about Staci Layne Wilson’s unconventional coming-of-age story is that in spite of her rocky childhood, she describes her parents with deep affection, generosity, and pride. Hers is a story of triumph over a legacy of alcoholism, suicide, and Hollywood burnout, but more than that, it’s a tender, gripping tale of unconditional love (with a healthy dose of humor). Despite the downsides, her upbringing gave her the powerful determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.

Christopher Webb, the Amazing Spider-Mage, brings his exotic arachnid performers aboard the 1940s-themed Pacific Dream cruise for what should be a week of elegant entertainment. But beneath his stage confidence lies a secret terror—one that makes his career choice both ironic and perilous. When Christopher catches the eye of Cleo Laveau, the ship’s mysterious psychic medium, their attraction ignites something unexpected. Cleo’s theatrical mysticism hides genuine power, and a moment of jealous rage unleashes forces neither of them understands.

Understanding Cholesterol: The Complete Guide to Heart Health is a comprehensive and practical guide designed to help you take control of your cholesterol levels and protect your heart. Cholesterol is a crucial substance in the body, but when levels are out of balance, it can lead to serious health risks like heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular conditions. This book provides clear, evidence-based information on everything you need to know about cholesterol—from its role in the body and the factors that affect it, to the best strategies for managing it effectively.

Stop Mumbling And Speak Clearly In 30 Days is a practical, step-by-step audiobook program designed to help professionals, students, job seekers, and public speakers reduce mumbling and speak with confidence. In just 30 days, you’ll follow daily exercises targeting breath control, posture, articulation, projection, intonation, and pacing, with real-world scripts for meetings, interviews, and presentations.

Get ready for a wild ride through an alternate universe of music in Rock & Roll Nightmares: Parallel Lines. These short stories, written by award-winning and bestselling authors, cover everything from hilarious antics to deep reflections, all set in a music world that's not quite what you remember. What ties them together? Each tale takes a real rock star's story and spins it in a whole new direction.

Become a smarter participant in the lawsuits, whether or not you hire a lawyer. Get the inside scoop about what happens behind the curtain. Lawsuits are stressful and costly. With the guidance in this book, you can help reduce your stress and costs and be a more effective participant in your case.

Hi. My name is Linda Johnson. I’m a foodie. I’m also a vampire. What? Don’t you think a vampire can be excited about eating? There is a multitude of tastes in the world to be enjoyed. Just because I drink blood it doesn’t mean I can’t have an appreciation for the finer culinary palates from around the world. Haven’t you ever heard of ‘season to taste’?

Dr. Persephone (Seph) Smith is a psychologist with enhanced empathy, allowing her to feel the emotions of others. But her gift comes with a price. Plagued by nightmares and insecure in her work, Seph absorbs the suffering of her patients by day and swills tequila by night. When Seph is deployed to an abandoned air hangar turned medical shelter during a massive hurricane, one by one, as the wind howls overhead, staff and evacuees disappear into the dark recesses of the vast space. The missing return as mutilated corpses.

When he first saw me, Tom said that he would spend the rest of his life with me. To my surprise, he actually did. He was the love of my life. We shared a story that felt like a dream. Every moment was an adventure...and then Tom became ill. As his mysterious symptoms persisted we were hurtled through a maze of fear, tests, doubts, and sorrow. But while doctors toyed with diagnoses - Lyme disease, ALS - we filled each day with joy, hope, good food, wine, music, and travel.

On a distant planet, xenobiologist Janine Meriwether finds herself haunted by a recurring dream: being dragged to her death by the Nartressan seaweed. Soon, she learns of three others - a traumatized emergency responder, a troubled seafood mogul, and a high-priced escort - who share the same nightmare.

Theories for the beginning of creation and how life exploded multiple times on Earth are fascinating mysteries of the universe. As science unravels thrilling facets, we are finding more complexity than imagined as progress unfolds in fits and starts. Leaps in genetics, mathematics, physics, astronomy, engineering, microbiology, biochemistry, paleontology, and other great fields are beginning to coalesce around theories that move us away from directionless randomness and chance to purposeful design and marvelous engineering.

Biscuit is a dog with a difference. She relates her own story to us of life in a normal family. From a bewildering start of hearing things she does not understand, she moves to an increased comprehension of new words and events. Sometimes we wonder what limits there are to her perception.

The corruptive power of money and ambition in American politics begins in Venice where a Washington woman reporter trying to repair a bad marriage suddenly spots a professional jeweler, a key figure in the world of Washington's powerful social and political elite. When she returns to Washington she is shocked to discover that the jeweler has not returned and has, in effect, disappeared. This piques her curiosity and what she uncovers goes to the heart of political corruption on a grand scale; deals with diamonds smuggled into the country to finance a presidential political campaign.

In her past life, after causing the death of a little boy, Nikki was so devastated that her soul mate promised to murder her in their next life, to make her pay for what she had done. With no knowledge of this, Nikki lives for years as an addict, down on her luck, until she is rescued by Ken, who helps her with all aspects of her recovery.

This is a difficult story of my life. How I survived 30 years of domestic violence before finding peace.

This book is a follow up to “Surviving the Nightmare, I wanted to share my story of surviving 30 years of domestic violence. This book talks about my tough childhood and everything I’ve done to recover from the years of abuse. My life is full of fear and pain, even as a young child. However, despite that I held onto hope that one day I would be at peace. In this book you will learn about the hard times I went through. You will see the bruises and scars that showed my struggle to survive. But you will also see how I changed and grew stronger over time.