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Let’s be real—you don’t need another self-help book telling you to “work harder” or “stay disciplined.” You need a damn strategy that actually makes you WANT to do the things that move the needle in your life. Enter gamification. This isn’t some tech bro jargon or a gimmick that fades faster than a New Year’s resolution. This is a battle-tested system designed to make even the most mundane tasks feel like an epic quest.

For much of history, people with learning disabilities have been regarded as unworthy of interest—often seen as a threat to the social order and sometimes dismissed as barely human. While recent years have seen an improvement, learning-disabled people are still treated as fundamentally different. Beautiful Lives is a personal and pragmatic account, told through the eyes of a father whose son has severe learning disabilities. From early civilisation to the chilling realities of twentieth-century eugenics, this powerful book uncovers a startling and rarely told history.

Kenneth Dahl returns to his once-familiar home after being confined to a psychiatric hospital, but he’s not alone. The dead whisper secrets to him that only he can hear. When the voices materialize as a ghostly phantom, Ken’s new life is threatened.

Do you have relationships you'd like to repair but feel it's too late or don't know where to start? It could be a co-worker, ex-friend, or family member. Perhaps the conflict has gone on for so long that trying something new and different seems hardly worth the effort or even feels like a complete waste of time. In Build New Bridges: The Art of Restoring Impossible Relationships, author Greg Stephens offers practical tools and hope for tackling seemingly insurmountable conflicts.

Reeling from a failed marriage, Sheila, a twentysomething playwright, finds herself unsure of how to live and create. When Margaux, a talented painter and free spirit, and Israel, a sexy and depraved artist, enter her life, Sheila hopes that through close—sometimes too close—observation of her new friend, her new lover, and herself, she might regain her footing in art and life.

In the second novel of the Northwoods Mystery series, The Lure once again follows Traverse City's crime-fighting team of Quinn, Gilda, Patrick, and Ian as they work to solve what's going on in the Pines and at the Old Mission falconry center.

Sawyer Murphy has one goal: to reclaim his life. Blinded by a sniper's bullet in Afghanistan, he refuses to be limited by his disability. As Redwood Coast Rescue's tech genius, he’s determined to prove he’s more than just a computer guy, so when his best friend vanishes in the rugged wilderness, Sawyer sets out with his loyal seeing-eye dog, Zelda, to find him.

Diagnosed twice with ADHD, Jordan Stephens found his teens and twenties a whirl of career success and nurturing friendships but also a brutal pattern of self-harm, hedonism, destructive coping mechanisms and heartbreak. When he tried to live up to his own damaged expectations and his world exploded, he stepped away from his previous existence completely and allowed himself to explore the pain he'd repressed his entire life.

I don't regret sleeping with Connor Wolfe. At all. What I regret is trusting my birth control to keep my time with him restricted to that one scorching night. He's the Beast of the Boston Wolfes, the man everyone fears and the father of my child. I just haven't told him yet. I know what kind of world these men live in. There is a reason the Wolfes control the city. There is no way I'm exposing my unborn child to that kind of violence. I need to keep him safe. Protected from the threat that comes with being a Wolfe. So, I try my best to stay away from trouble.

The conflict between Citaria and Mehr’Durillia has begun. Gone are the days of subtlety and subterfuge, giving way to the rising tide of war. As the Silver Blades and their allies lay plans to fight the war on enemy soil rather than at home, new allies and enemies rise to the surface. An ancient evil stirs from its ages-old slumber. A once-peaceful empire threatens from the West as an undead uprising begins.

Experience the heroes of your favorite fairy tales all at the same academy! Since the beginning of time, the two magicians Merlin and Morgana have been in competition with each other. Merlin uses supposed heroes and Morgana uses supposed villains to steer the fate of the world in their direction. It is a battle that has been raging for ages. And it's now coming to an end.

In a time when communal rituals and cultural ceremonies fail, longtime scholar, storyteller, and ceremonialist Stephen Jenkinson asks what it means to lose cultural inheritance. In examining matrimony and its ritual twin, patrimony, Matrimony contemplates culture-making, building and preserving cultural memory, and the ache of living in a world bereft of meaning and connection. There is a real and palpable consequence to turning away from public ceremony—and not just for the celebrants.

My family was never supposed to meet my fake fiancee. Except she just walked into my hospital room, looking just as surprised as I am. All because of one white lie. They think we’ve been together for a year, but I only met her last night. I panicked after my father didn’t name me as the next CEO of our family’s billion-dollar company. His reasoning was that “I care *too* much about work”. In fact, the whole small town we live in thinks I’m too rigid and too serious.

What if the most effective investment portfolio was also the easiest to manage and the least expensive? As the authors of this clear, practical, and enlightening book—part financial guide, part exposé—prove, there are just three simple rules you need to follow and only a few, very inexpensive investment products that are necessary for an ideal portfolio. The authors deftly bust investing's myths—what they call investing's Seven Deadly Temptations—and dispense with all the complicated, confusing, and self-serving advice of the Wall Street wolves.

My mother has an invisible shield. I’ve tested it. It’s true. She knows what I am up to. How can I get through? An enchanting story of a child and the tricks played on mother; but mother always knows.

Ever had a job so bad you questioned your life choices? Welcome to The Jobs from Hell, a hilarious and painfully relatable look at the worst workplaces, nightmare bosses, and absurd coworker antics that will make you grateful for your own employment (or motivate you to quit immediately). From the mind numbing to the downright bizarre, these true tales of workplace misery are packed with humor, hard-earned wisdom, and just enough hope to keep you from setting your resignation letter on fire.

Two apples plus three oranges. Does that make five orples? NO! It's still two apples and three oranges. Join the band of animals for a counting and adding challenge. But don’t get too mixed up! Ever wondered why you can’t add things up that aren’t the same? Because apples and oranges can’t make orples! In this quirky counting book, listeners will engage with all the different ways you can go WRONG in adding like terms. As many maths teachers would understand, this is a common struggle for young learners when they are introduced to algebra and patterns.

If Fight Club, Money, and The Motorcycle Diaries had a three-way, Novelty would be their web-toed, mutant lovechild. Finn Balor is a depraved billionaire and polymath with a vendetta against fate and an insatiable appetite for hedonism. Obsessed with the idea that free will is a fallacy, he invents the Oracle—a quantum device capable of reshaping reality.

The frontlines are exhausted. Rocked by the relentless onslaught of Legion, the Eighty-Six face additional hardship with the constant influx of refugees. Rumors have begun to spread. There is a weapon hidden in Republic territory. One that could destroy the Legion. The people of the Republic are colluding with the Legion, someone whispers. The Eighty-Six are conspiring with them, says another! The people whisper and whisper. When hardship comes, accountability is always cast by the wayside...

In the latest PC4Kiddos adventure, time-traveling BFFs Georgie and GiGi meet civil rights icons Shirley Chisholm and Fannie Lou Hamer.