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The alkaline diet provides many powerful health benefits. It provides catechins, antioxidants that fight cancer by destroying free radicals, shutting down cancer cells' power supplies, and shrinking tumors. This diet can also help you fight heart disease, arthritis, inflammation, diabetes, and autoimmune diseases. It can even help you reverse the physical signs of aging!

Nowadays, the average person's diet is filled with foods that are not suitable for human consumption, but we have become so accustomed to them that we disregard health issues and continue to eat them. The Dash diet takes account of modern day living and allows you freedom of choice to a certain degree, rather than restriction. A person who starts the DASH diet will also be able to reduce the risk of procuring high blood pressure.

We come into this world naked, innocent, the very essence of love. Granted a brief amount of time to revel in and enjoy this state, it isn't long before we are being groomed to fit in and play by the rules. Suddenly, societal expectations have us looking outside of ourselves for validation, acceptance, and love. And with all the judgment and modeling to which we are exposed, it isn't long before we don a social mask.

Chloe Byrd is your average quirky high school senior: well-spoken, adventurous, and artistic. She attends Sansbury High with her two bestfriends, Zolie Mayfair and Gavin Delgado. Despite Chloe's shambolic life, she manages to meet Kaine Williams on a popular app called Tinder, are they truly the "perfect" match?

Just So Stories is a collection of stories written by Rudyard Kipling in 1902. He developed them during one of his many journeys to Africa. He told children wonderful accounts of how the animal kingdom's eccentricities came about. The collection of stories came to be known for their wordplay and insistence of placing the wisdom of children at the heart of his stories.

Meditation is scientifically proven to reduce stress, increase energy, and provide a sense of inner peace. But as a busy mother, who has time to sit in mediation? A renowned teacher and mother of two energetic boys, Erica Pereira teaches how to move in meditation by incorporating mindfulness into the endless duties of motherhood.

Una giovane donna nigeriana finita nel racket della prostituzione deve fare i conti con l'incolmabile differenza tra sogni e realtà. La strada per la libertà è ostacolata da personaggio equivochi e pericolosi.

Due giovani donne forti e volitive si scontrano e confrontano sul difficile terreno della burocrazia. Le scartoffie e le pratiche burocratiche diventano un'occasione di scontro e un modo per parlare delle difficoltà che i migranti incontrano sulla via dell'integrazione nel nostro paese.

After the death of their parents, the five young Meyter children found a home with their loving grandparents. It was a tight, but happy home, until their grandfather passed away and their grandmother grew too old to care for 10 little feet and five extra, hungry hearts. Life being what it is, their grandmother went to a home for the elderly and the five Meyter children went to an orphanage, The Harmony Home for Children.

Dedicated scientist Laura Manning's IQ is off the charts. But beneath her pristine white lab coat is a curvaceous body that craves satisfaction. And it's hard keeping her mind on the experiment and off what's under the lab coat of her research partner, Jay Cutler, whom she's working with to develop a libido suppressant for a society gone sex mad - especially when Jay offers to act as a human guinea pig.

What if you had a simple set of tools that could give you everything you want?

In this life-changing book you will learn: a step-by-step process for creating the relationship of your dreams, the importance of visualization and self-exploration, how to make a plan that works, how letting go of control can get you more of what you want, how to stop sabotaging your relationships by asking the WRONG questions, a powerful communication tool for preventing conflict and improving all of your relationships, the truth about honesty, the gifts of gratitude.

Are you tired of so-called professionals giving you nothing but a bunch of theories, studies, and incomprehensible psycho-babble? Want an easy-to-read book written by regular people just like you? We are not psychologists, we are relationship specialists. The examples we use in this book are from our own experience in our own relationships. This seven-step process has worked for us, it has worked for others, and it can work for you too! This is not just another book that tells you how someone else achieved results, gets you all charged up and then leaves you to fend for yourself in the real world.

We walk you through the step-by-step process that we used, and we teach you how to do it for yourself. At the end of each chapter, you will find writing exercises and action steps to move you through the process and keep you on track.

In The Seven Steps to Successful Relationships, you'll find answers to your most common questions about relationships, from finding a mate, to saving a marriage, to communicating more effectively at work.

Keith and Maura have developed practical and powerful tools for creating relationships that work.

--John Gray, Ph.D., Author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

Who needs a man when you have a pint of fresh Wisconsin ice cream and full access to Cary Grant on The Movie Channel? That's what second-grade teacher and MGM-devotee Caitlin Walsh believes. After being left at the altar by her ambitious rat of an ex-fiancé, Cait has rededicated her life to her students and to the citizens of small-town Ridgewood Grove.

Rob and Elizabeth may have grown up practically next door to each other, but they have nothing in common. Elizabeth "Please Don't Call Me Lizzy" Daniels is a small-town Wisconsin girl at heart. Shy and inexperienced at love, the frizzy-haired dessert cookbook writer resides in her quaint hometown of Wilmington Bay, stutters painfully when nervous and is only comfortable with her laptop and her tiny circle of cooking pals.

"The road," Kerouac wrote, "is life," and the women in these three stories hit the road looking for fuller, richer lives than the ones they have at home. One flies to Ireland to land a husband; one, who hoped to find shelter in paradise, realizes her journey isn't over; and one loses a lover, a friend, and a few precious illusions about herself as she drives across America.

The friendship of two tightly knit New York City couples whose bond isn't quite what it seems threatens to unravel after the publication of a story in a well-known literary magazine that bears a strange resemblance to their real life. This wry, urban novelette blurs the lines between love and lust, loyalty and betrayal, laying bare the power of literature to expose parts of ourselves we may not want to see. Christine Benvenuto oh-so-lightly pokes fun at Manhattan's privileged class, and her observations are all the more biting for their subtlety.

Socrates is a burrowing spider with a very big secret. No one knows his secret until he has a conversation with a little beetle. Will Socrates ever tell his secret? Will he ever find a friend?

In Nest. Flight. Sky: On Love and Loss, One Wing at a Time, award-winning memoirist Beth Kephart returns to the form for the first time in years to reckon with the loss of her mother and a slow-growing but soon inescapable obsession with birds and flight. Kephart finds herself drawn to the startle of the winter finch, the quick pulse of hummingbirds, and the hungry circling of hawks. She discovers birds in the stories she tells and the novels she writes.

The perfect romance for any holiday or for when you just need one. Get caught up in this sexy romance that's told over a year of holidays. Shannon Quinn is the small-town girl who runs Holiday Quinn--a holiday-themed inn/resort based in scenic Door County, Wisconsin. One winter evening a wealthy Minneapolis businessman, Bram Hartwick, blows into town along with the fast-falling snow.

Although she is most famous for her bestselling fiction, Erica Jong started her publishing career as a poet and has an international reputation for her verse. Becoming Light includes early poems previously uncollected in book form, selections from her previous books and many new poems. Erica Jong's poetry exhibits her rare gifts for inventiveness, wit, vigor, honesty and accessibility.

This is a story from the Andersen's Fairy Tales collection.