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Courtney Cain is ready to settle into a home of her own now that she knows for sure she’ll be staying in Curly Bay. She loves her job at the Curly Bay Pet Hotel and Rescue, and a home will mean she can participate in the foster program she helped start at the shelter.

With a sudden influx of animals into the shelter, Courtney Cain knows it’s time to start up a foster program at the Curly Bay Pet Hotel and Rescue. It’s a lot of work, and her life becomes even more complicated when her ex-fiancé arrives in Curly Bay!

A severe thunderstorm has hit Curly Bay, causing major damage to the Curly Bay Pet Hotel and Rescue. Fortunately, a wealthy patron is interested in hosting a fundraiser to help offset the costs. As Courtney and Mrs. Throgmorton organize the event, Courtney starts to feel she’s being sabotaged at every turn.

Courtney Cain can’t believe that a former police dog has just been dropped off at the Curly Bay Pet Hotel and Rescue. Grieving Gunnar isn’t interested in working with anyone else following Officer Walter Cheatham's demise, and now it’s Courtney’s job to find him a new home.

Clues, quips, and cocktails...that's how Mr. and Mrs. Key always solved crimes. But what happens when their "perfect marriage" falls apart...in the middle of postwar Washington, DC's, most baffling murder?

Throw on a pair of running shoes and join Dave, Jim, Winville, Alan, and Julie on their midday run as they converse about life and the complex world of family-owned businesses. Running, planning, and transitioning the ownership of a business is hard, particularly when it requires the maintenance of family relationships as well. Negotiate the pavements and streets with them, and learn from real-life experiences as they unpack a toolbox of useful strategies that can be utilized everywhere from the boardroom table to the dining table.

Living with a chronic, progressive neurological disease (MS), a geologist explores some of the confounding questions of our time. The difference between wellness and illness, the different, but complementary roles modern science and alternative traditions like naturopathy play in healing, the potholed approach to accessibility and affordability of health care in our great country, the role of resilience and opportunity in answering the time honored question each of us ask: "Just who am I?"

The Woman's Blueprint reveals the culprits that keep you bound to negative and limiting beliefs. If you have questions about how to change the images from your past or how to negate the false beliefs you have of yourself, The Woman's Blueprint has the answers. It will help you define your purpose and clarify and strengthen your relationships and provides proven techniques to help you embrace the best version of yourself.

The compensation beast can rear its ugly head in many ways. But generally, compensation problems for freight brokers come from the four employee "lacks": Lack of urgency, lack of motivation, lack of good decision-making, lack of alignment with company objectives. Taming the Compensation Monster helps transportation and logistics providers create a sense of urgency, inspire motivation, promote better decision-making, and provide rewards that align with company objectives.

Reflections on Aging from the Sunset Marquis is a vibrant, inspiring guide that reframes aging not as decline but as an encore performance full of rhythm, growth, and renewal. Written with wit, candor, and heartfelt wisdom, the book draws from the author’s personal journey and decades of experience as a clinician, educator, and interventionist.

How many times have you looked around to see if there was a way out. The ongoing cycle of the mundane, fitting in when clearly you like everyone else are unique. Heartbeat the beginning of moments in life and the journeys taken to overcome. By choosing poetry allowing it through the pen to paper to pave the way to overturning what indoctrination had unseemly occurred. This happens to us all and so through writing the release of pent-up emotion that could not find the sound nor the voice.

Kami was strong, stronger than the others, but she couldn't outrun them. Taken and bled for one purpose, she holds on, following the spark and whispers of hope... Ruth's life is no longer her own, memories becoming as intangible as smoke, her fingers never able to grasp what had been. That is, until the elixir. The clock has turned back, but a flashing specter remains...

Boston, 1829. Julia Webster has grown up the daughter of the renowned senator Daniel Webster and is confronted with her world turning upside down. Still grieving the loss of her mother, she learns her widowed father plans to marry a woman he barely seems to know himself. As she wrestles with this new reality, she learns more than she counted on about her father's work.

Tensions continue to mount as Seth and Olivia search for who or what is responsible for Abby’s death. Meanwhile, Morgan continues her battle to expose the electric company’s negligence toward the community, but Seth’s brother Jackson, a savvy attorney, has swept in to save the day. Morgan is finding it increasingly difficult to protect Heidi’s father, although his true identity still remains a secret. And with Morgan back in town, Nick and Whitney are struggling to keep their marriage intact.

Embark on a deeply personal and emotional odyssey with Diane Grossman Gaston in Life in the Shadows: My Journey Towards the Sunlight. This collection of over 80 evocative poems spans decades, from Diane's melancholy teenage years through the present, illuminating her poignant journey from shadow to light. Each poem becomes a window into Diane's soul, revealing the raw emotions she felt growing up in a broken home.

The roller coaster of the creative process can be both exhilarating and exhausting, but it is a lot more manageable when you know you are not alone. Creative pursuits—whether a paid profession, a side hustle, or a leisure activity—can bring joy and meaning to the lives of artists and audiences. But they also bring challenges of motivation, confidence, blocks, and the realities of rejection. Creative Resilience provides guidance for anyone navigating these challenges from those who have been there.

My name is Alyce Thomason; I used to be a normal kid. That is, if being “normal” means burying your mom on your sixteenth birthday – cuz that’s what I got to do. Now, I live with my aunt who hates me. I miss my mom so much. She used to tell me I was special… that I was meant for greatness. Too bad she won’t ever see that. When I turn eighteen, I’ll be out of my aunt’s house and on my own, except that doesn’t happen. My dumbass twin cousins stumble down a rabbit hole into alternate universe – and take me with them. That’s not the weird part, though.

Mediating Prenups details how to begin the process by choosing mediation as the best first step in creating a marriage-friendly prenuptial agreement. In the book, the author describes the potential problems that develop when beginning with the usual attorney-led negotiations, both by initiating a damaging power imbalance as well as engaging in inflexibility that can harm the viability of a marriage. Those standard methods result in creating terms embedded in the resulting the prenup that can diminish marital contentment and resilience.

Uncover Life’s Profound Lessons through a Transformative Journey from Death to Life. Immerse yourself in the profound narrative of 11:11 A Journey from Death to Life, a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the transformative power of adversity.

The Marriage-Friendly Prenup: How to Create a Thoughtful and Caring Prenuptial Agreement contains ideas and methods for future spouses to find common ground and create positive outcomes for each other when formulating a prenup. It provides guidance on how to mitigate the harm often caused by the usual process of getting a prenup. The Marriage-Friendly Prenup provides concepts and tools that will help foster creative and collaborative decision-making and mutual problem-solving. This results in better prenups, ones that that can actually increase marital harmony and goodwill.