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Forty-nine-year-old Tricia Buenvenida, a marketing executive who has launched multiple products within the beauty industry, gives advice on how to stay and look youthful based on her own life lessons. Listeners will be inspired to adopt these practical tips to forever change their lives and embrace a positive, empowering life outlook that will keep them young in body, mind, spirit, and heart.

In Beautiful Lady, author Geri Maroney shares her story to inspire other women who are also battling cancer’s grip on their lives. Filled with honesty and humor, she offers a resource for growth of spirit and evolution of mindset packed with essential tools and new perspectives on age-old beliefs that may weigh heavy on the heart of cancer patients.

I was a California girl. My children were unofficially forbidden to move more than an hour and a half from their mother. How did I end up in Arkansas? I blame Erik Estrada! After purchasing our new home in Arkansas, it was a full year before we could actually move. We endured the comment “You're moving where!” and the looks that went with it by our California friends for that entire year. So this started out as emails to friends and family to let them know all the strange and amusing differences in our new world.

After living an average life in Buffalo, New York, author Lisa Marie Runfola gave it all up to marry her paramour and live abroad as an expat - only to return a few years later to support her ex-husband and children through his cancer and eventual death. In A Limitless Life in a Powerless World, she tells the story of a woman who changed her life after a lightbulb moment, having no idea her new life would change her in turn.

We're not going to let men make the rules for women anymore. We're going to make our own rules and laws. If you are a quiet revolutionary and don't know what to do, this audiobook is for you.

This audiobook is about a 51-year-old active, independent, healthy, Christian woman who was doing what she loved running a art business and working for a travel company. On October 8, 2008 she suffered a massive stroke that would change her life forever. She tells of her miraculous recovery and her faith and trust in God knowing he would bring her through the many challenges she would face to obtain what she had worked many years for.

This audiobook is designed to help improve the life of a long-forgotten yet vital segment of our society - the truck drivers. Truck driving is one of the most dangerous occupations in the country, and drivers suffer a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, sleep apnea, stroke, and other illnesses, mostly related to obesity and inactivity. But it doesn’t have to be this way. In this audiobook, you will learn how to reverse disease, lose weight, exercise on the road, and eat right.

An insightful look at how cross-racial friendships work and fail within American society.

First a runaway. Now running for her life. Won't Jill Shepherd's family be surprised when she returns to Grand Island, Michigan, to end their lies and scheme to have her declared legally dead? But when Jill exposes the mastermind behind her intended death, her family's deception may kill any chance she has of remaining alive. Clay Merrick may seem to be little more than a handy-man restoring homes, but when the former Special Forces operative tracks a brutal killer to Jill's house, he has most of the evidence he needs to bring the killer to justice...until Jill gets in the way.

Why am I here? What is my purpose? What events have led me to here and now? In The Résumé of Life, author Terry J. Walker helps you address these questions and more. This life-changing audiobook is packed with questions and insight to help you find your own answers and your own truth to better understand why you are here, what you have done in your life, and where you wish to go.

When Melissa begins work on restoring the painting of an intriguing aristocratic lady, little does she know that her story, and that of her subject, are about to become entwined. Transported back to the time of Dukes and stately balls, grand houses, and gracious ladies, Melissa finds herself playing the part of her alter-ego Charlotte. As she navigates her way through the social airs and graces of her new-found life, she soon discovers that being a woman in the time of the Regency is very different to the life she had lived in New York City.

It is 1969 when two young boys approach Casey Hammond in the airport, alone and scared and lost in a country not their own. She agrees to help them get to their uncle - but she has no idea of the danger and intrigue she will soon encounter. It seems there are foreign nationals in pursuit of the children, which risks the safety of the entire group. When an arrogant but handsome young man comes to their rescue, she soon learns he is the children's older cousin.

Debut poetry collection by Winifred Roemer-Sabajo, Full Circle: Love, Hope, and Healing Poems describes the simple joys and struggles of life, as well as, transcendent experiences, dreamscapes, and journeys to inspire your heart, nourish your soul, and help you reconnect.

A young cage fighter is diagnosed with a strange genetic disorder that requires a bone marrow transplant. It happened so quickly that the matter is now one of life and death; he has 24 weeks to live. Martin needs a relative for a donor, but his parents died in a car crash and he has no siblings or other close relatives. A mixed-raced man he casually met at Nandos, who later became a friend, volunteers to go for the test and is found to be a match. Leroy feels there is more to his relationship with Martin than just friendship.

A four-year-old girl loses her parents to murder-suicide and develops a mental disorder because of the lack of help. When she becomes an adult, she opens a car door while going 40 miles per hour with five children in the back and doesn't sleep for an entire week! Her son dedicates his entire life to helping her.

Hope is about a woman who lives in a drowned world and is going through a silent ruin, and finds comfort in believing that her own self exists as another being, and confides her innermost secrets to her. It all started with a dream, advancing to a nightmare that then became a reality. Hope plays a lonely game in silence, until her dreams turn to dust. She lives her life through an illusion that ends with capturing her own light, making that moment an unforgettable day. This novel reveals in detail how a woman suffers from depression, and how it rules and guides her life through her journey in finding solace.

This book is about people who are starting to awaken. To give them some of the experiences that I have had and to show them that you can have these experiences and still have a loving, productive life. To let them know there is nothing wrong with them, they are magnificent.

In "Along Came Hell, or So I Thought," witness a profound journey of spiritual transformation as one woman grapples with the shocking revelation of her husband's betrayal after forty-four years of marriage. This heart-wrenching narrative delves deep into the core of family trauma, shedding light on the dark corners of sexual abuse within a seemingly normal household. It's a poignant growth book that doesn't just tell a story; it escorts listeners through the tumultuous pathways of emotional healing, guided by a steadfast Christian perspective on trauma.

I had the honor to teach elementary school in three states and in three countries. In my 30 years of teaching, I told true life stories to pass on wisdom and truth to my students. This book is a compilation of some of the humor and courage themed favorites I have shared over the years. This book was written to bring a smile to your lips and hope to your heart. May these stories help to illuminate the wisdom and truth in your own life.

Journey to Safe Harbor covers three generations of a family where the personal and emotional sacrifices made in the name of mission, commitment and duty, aiming "to do good in the world", ended with unintended tragic consequences for their children. It is about a professional family, educated, religious and idealistic, but did they understand love?