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Menopause is uncharted territory for women, and it can be difficult to know how to ease the effects of hormonal changes that can often start in your 40s. With honesty and optimism, The Menopause Diet Plan encourages a positive, fad-free approach to managing your physical and emotional health during perimenopause and menopause. It highlights current scientific knowledge about the best diet and lifestyle choices to manage your weight; keep your heart, brain, and bones healthy; and decrease the risk for cancer and other chronic conditions.

In this eight-session Bible study, well-known Bible scholars N. T. Wright and Michael F. Bird team up to take you on a tour of the story behind the explosive story of the New Testament. You will discover things you never knew about Jesus’ baptism and journey into the wilderness, the meaning behind his parables and miracles, the significance of his death and resurrection, the incredible expansion of the early church into the Greco-Roman world, and how the transforming mission of Jesus can still turn the world upside down today.

In many corners of the world the climate of hostility hangs over any overt Christian faith commitment. The book of Daniel shows how people who worship the one, true, living God can live, work, and survive in the midst of a nation, a culture, and a government that are hostile and sometimes life-threatening.

The story starts with the initial moments of COVID's appearance in Wuhan and ends with Joseph Biden's inauguration in an America ravaged by well over 400,000 deaths - a mortality already some 10 times worse than US combat deaths in the entire Vietnam War. This is an anguished, furious memorial to a year in which all of America's great strengths - its scientific knowledge, its great civic and intellectual institutions, its spirit of voluntarism and community - were brought low by political incompetence and cynicism on a scale for which there has been no precedent.

From Richard Wright comes a compelling story of one man's attempt to escape his past and start anew in Harlem. Cross Damon is a man at odds with society and with himself—a man of superior intellect who hungers for peace but who brings terror and destruction wherever he goes. The Outsider is an important work of fiction that depicts American racism and its devastating consequences in raw and unflinching terms. Brilliantly imagined and frighteningly prescient, it is an epic exploration of the tragic roots of criminal behavior.

Originally published in 1938, Uncle Tom's Children, a collection of novellas, was the first book from Richard Wright, who would go on to win international renown for his powerful and visceral depiction of the Black experience. Set in the American Deep South, each of the powerful and devastating stories in Uncle Tom's Children concerns an aspect of the lives of Black people in the post-slavery era, exploring their resistance to white racism and oppression. The collection also includes a personal essay by Wright titled "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow."

Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city’s sewer system. This is the devastating premise of this scorching novel, a never-before-seen masterpiece by Richard Wright. Written at the height of his creative powers, it would see publication in Wright's lifetime only in drastically condensed and truncated form, and ultimately be included in the posthumous short story collection Eight Men.

He’s my fake fiancé but my feelings are anything but fake. Him? Oh, he’s my brother’s best friend. He’s charming and gorgeous with a six pack of steel. But he’s as big of an a-hole as he is rich. I’ve known him since he was the arrogant teenager who ridiculed me. He’s nothing but a cocky playboy with more money than sense. Always getting himself into trouble with both the law and his powerful father.

Libby’s mommy was sweet and Libby was Daddy’s girl. Mommy got her a mirror at a garage sale and Daddy made goofy faces with her. Tummy Bear and Joe the Lion didn’t seem to like the mirror and maybe the mirror didn’t like them. Libby was pretty sure the mirror didn’t like her either because it stopped showing her face.

A photographer, Abner Cray, goes to NYC to work on a coffee table photo book about Manhattan. In the apartment he's renting, he encounters and falls in love with a woman, Phyllis Pellaprat. Halfway through the story, the listener will find out that she's dead. Worse still, the absent friend whose apartment he's using was the one who murdered her. Beyond that, he's been given the doubtful gift of seeing and interacting with hundreds of spirits that inhabit Manhattan.

Recovered from his captivity aboard the Cjittan Generations Vessel, Benjamin Jamison has decided it is time...time to get to the bottom of what really happened to his family while there are no demands on him. Not an investigator by trade, he goes about getting information the only way he knows how - forcefully.

There are some very good reasons why a law-abiding citizen should master and learn how to pick a lock. We all lock our doors to keep our loved ones safe at night and also to secure our possessions in the day. Lock-picking opens our eyes to the full light of security. This is a step-by-step guide on how to pick locks like a professional.

A colored human Android device, Chad is also the first fully functional sentient Afro-American robot. It has a mission to assimilate into Afro-American culture and use its supplemental characteristics to improve and enhance. Welcome to the world of Chad! Chad will excite and thrill, opening up doors and the possibilities of Afro-Americans in the 21st century.

Looking for a simple way to become a better salesperson?  Sales is not about knocking on doors, cold calling, or pestering people until they buy. Sales is about creating relationships and understanding the psychology of persuasion. Becoming a better salesperson will not only help you make more money - it will also improve your relationships with friends and family. The Psychology of Selling will teach you how to craft sales pitches that work by first teaching you what is going on in the mind of your prospect. This audiobook is your secret weapon.

Social media is growing at an exponential rate and is quickly becoming the best and cheapest way for businesses to advertise on. Reaching potential customers through social media sites is fairly straightforward, and you don’t need a marketing degree to learn how. As of 2018, there are an estimated 2.46 billion social media users around the world distributed across sites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and even YouTube. With such a wide potential market, it would be foolish not to tap into this new segment!

Anger management can be learned and is much easier than you think. There are proven strategies that helped millions of people to deal with certain situations in a productive way. Anger involves more than just your mind. Therefore a couple of yoga classes are not enough to cool you down. Ignoring your anger instead of dealing with it won’t be a healthy long term solution.

Verá, mejorar su calificación crediticia no tiene por qué ser tan difícil como muchos piensan. Dentro de este libro, aprenderá los factores que afectan su calificación de crédito y cómo puede solucionarlos. También descubrirá formas de pagar su deuda. Si ha estado luchando para ahorrar dinero o administrar sus finanzas de manera efectiva, este libro le brindará los métodos que le permitirán comenzar a ahorrar para su futuro.

The contract states “pretend” fiancée. But my heart can’t tell the difference. Arrogant, rich asshole who’s too damn hot for his own good. Everything I shouldn’t (and don’t) want.... So, how the hell did I end up in this situation? The fake fiancée to the billionaire boss from hell. He’s a gorgeous, charming jackass with an ego that’s sure to be bigger than any bulge.

Sally Wright is the Edgar Alan Poe Award nominated author of six Ben Reese mysteries, as well as Breeding Ground and Behind The Bonehouse, the first two Jo Grant horse country mysteries. The Outsiding is published posthumously.

The core of self-discipline and mental toughness is willpower. When your willpower is high, you are able to find that inner strength to keep going, especially when you feel like you can’t go on anymore. In addition, willpower will help you find the means to get up and beat procrastination. In fact, procrastination is simply a response that we have to the stress and overwhelming feelings that come with being faced with a myriad of responsibilities and matters that we need to tend to.