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In her letters to family and friends we come to know the life of Sybil Van Antwerp: stubborn, cantankerous, opinionated, always steadfast in her belief in the power of the written word. But as the clock begins to tick for Sybil, the need for a few post-scripts to the life she’s led becomes apparent. Fixing her difficult relationship with her children. Taking a final chance at romance. Atoning for an old legal case which has come back to haunt her. And finally, reckoning with a devastating loss that she has spent the last thirty years holding close to her chest.

Like its predecessor, The Book of Moments Vol. 2: Friends and the Best is a simple coffee table book that highlights our special moments. Vol. 2 centers around friendship and moments you may consider to be the best.

Life is short for all of us. I know this because I have been in the funeral industry for almost 20 years. My career has provided me with insight into what truly matters. For me, it is simply all of the small moments in life with my friends and family. However altruistic, I only wish to remind everyone of this simple message. That is the ultimate goal of this book: capture your moments.

Four Months...and a Lifetime is the touching true story of a father who coached his son’s basketball team from kindergarten through eighth grade, a remarkable nine-year journey with the same boys. Their final march to the eighth-grade season championship is interspersed with the author’s own journey of falling in love with basketball in early-'70s New York, filled with anecdotes of Dr. J, sneaking into Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium, and playing pickup in Larry Bird’s home state of Indiana.

Anna is a young Hollywood film executive with a gift for picking box office winners. When she is passed over at work and in love, she begins to question herself. And when an escaped psychiatric patient crosses her path, she is intrigued by his insight. Anna finds herself surrounded by brilliantly vibrant and outrageously eccentric characters who, like many of us, are shaped by our pasts.

If you could fast forward your life to your deathbed and hear your regrets (and joys), then rewind and live your life with that knowledge, would you do it? This book provides that knowledge. After 14 years in the funeral business, Chris Meyer has sat with families and listened to their “could’ves”, “should’ves”, and “would’ves.” In doing so he learned many lessons - lessons that kept repeating themselves year after year.

Everyone, regardless of level and background, is concerned with getting the outcome they want. To put it simply: everyone negotiates—some of us are just better at it than others. You might think negotiation is the realm of the salesperson, that it’s for the business executive or the lawyer, but we all negotiate on a daily basis. Any interaction has the possibility of potential gain if we look for it. Settle for More breaks down and provides practical application for negotiation.

Kommissar Erik Wolf steht vor einem Rätsel: Warum wurde Magdalena Feddersen so gewaltsam umgebracht? Zumal der Hauptverdächtige Mathis Feddersen, der Neffe der Toten, ein perfektes Alibi hat. Zu allem Überfluss findet sich am nächsten Tag im versiegelten Haus des Opfers eine weitere Leiche. Mamma Carlotta, Wolfs italienische Schwiegermutter, die auf der norddeutschen Ferieninsel zu Besuch ist, mischt sich unverzüglich in die Ermittlungen ein - schließlich handelt es sich bei der zweiten Toten um ihre nette Reisebekanntschaft aus dem Flugzeug.