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Fearless Aging: A Journey of Self Discovery, Soul Work, and Empowerment

Fearless Aging is for women who are looking for a positive and more soulful way to approach their aging, and to age naturally and gracefully, and to create a new way of looking at the aging process. As we enter our middle and later years it is time to open our minds and deepen into the wisdom and strengths that are inherently our own. To age well and without fear happens as we learn how to be more authentically ourselves. The stories and exercises in Fearless Aging will help you learn the importance of maintaining a good attitude, of taking control and using your personal resources; time, money, energy and abilities for a better life, and what true wisdom and a successful life means from a woman’s point of view, and what it means to honor one’s self. Also,this includes the importance of love, purpose, spirituality and doing your soul work, what this means, and why this work is necessary as we age.

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Palace of Treason: A Novel

The pulse-pounding sequel to the best-selling, Edgar Award-winning Red Sparrow that The New York Times Book Review called “terrifically good”: Star-crossed spies Dominika Egorova and CIA agent Nate Nash return in a cat-and-mouse race to the finish.

Captain Dominika Egorova of the Russian Intelligence Service (SVR) has returned from the West to Moscow and the Center, the headquarters of her service. She finds things worse than when she left. She despises the men she must serve, the oligarchs and crooks and thugs of Putin’s Russia. What no one knows is that Dominika is working for the CIA as Washington’s most sensitive penetration of SVR and the Kremlin.

As she expertly dodges exposure, Dominika deals with a murderously psychotic boss; survives an Iranian assassination attempt; escapes a counterintelligence ambush; rescues an arrested agent and exfiltrates him out of Russia; and has a chilling midnight conversation in her nightgown with President Putin in one of the tsar’s palaces. Complicating the risks is the fact that Dominika is in love with her CIA handler, Nate Nash, and their lust is as dangerous to both of them as committing espionage in Moscow. And when a mole in the SVR finds Dominika’s name on a restricted list of sources, it is a virtual death sentence. She must face off alone against her psycho boss, who’s got an eight-inch knife up his sleeve.

Just as fast paced, heart pounding, and action packed as Red Sparrow, Jason Matthews’ second novel proves he is “an insider’s insider and a masterful storyteller” (Vince Flynn, number-one New York Times best-selling author).

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The Escape Artist

“Meltzer is a master and this is his best. Not since The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo have you seen a character like this. Get ready to meet Nola. If you’ve never tried Meltzer, this is the one.” (Harlan Coben) 

Who is Nola Brown?

Nola is a mystery. 

Nola is trouble. 

And Nola is supposed to be dead. 

Her body was found on a plane that mysteriously fell from the sky as it left a secret military base in the Alaskan wilderness. Her commanding officer verifies she’s dead. The US government confirms it. But Jim “Zig” Zigarowski has just found out the truth: Nola is still alive. And on the run. 

Zig works at Dover Air Force Base, helping put to rest the bodies of those who die on top-secret missions. Nola was a childhood friend of Zig’s daughter and someone who once saved his daughter’s life. So when Zig realizes Nola is still alive, he’s determined to find her. Yet as Zig digs into Nola’s past, he learns that trouble follows Nola everywhere she goes. 

Nola is the US Army’s artist-in-residence – a painter and trained soldier who rushes into battle, making art from war’s aftermath and sharing observations about today’s wars that would otherwise go overlooked. On her last mission, Nola saw something nobody was supposed to see, earning her an enemy unlike any other, one who will do whatever it takes to keep Nola quiet. 

Together, Nola and Zig will either reveal a sleight of hand being played at the highest levels of power or die trying to uncover the US Army’s most mysterious secret – a centuries-old conspiracy that traces back through history to the greatest escape artist of all: Harry Houdini. 

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Seeing the Blue Between: Advice and Inspiration for Young Poets

“For a class, or to work up enthusiasm about writing – and not just poetry – one could hardly do better for young people than this fresh and inviting collection.” – KIRKUS REVIEWS

How do you write poetry? It’s a question with as many answers as there are poets. Now, in this unprecedented volume, thirty-two internationally renowned poets provide words of wisdom and inspiring examples of their own work for new poets everywhere.

Compiled by anthologist extraordinaire Paul B. Janeczko, a talented poet in his own right, this outstanding resource offers a fascinating spectrum of advice from those who know best – ranging from “break a few rules” to “read Shakespeare’s sonnets in the bathroom” to “revise each poem at least thirty-two times.” Not surprisingly, the most frequently made suggestion from these seasoned poets is simply to “read, read, read!” This rich volume – an ideal resource for classroom teachers and a beautiful gift for budding writers of all ages – offers the perfect opportunity to do just that.

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Mind Hacking: How to Change Your Mind for Good in 21 Days

Have you ever wished you could reprogram your brain, just as a hacker would a computer? In this three-step guide to improving your mental habits, learn to take charge of your mind and banish negative thoughts, habits, and anxiety – in just 21 days!

A seasoned author, comedian, and entrepreneur, Sir John Hargrave once suffered from unhealthy addictions, anxiety, and poor mental health. After cracking the code to unlocking his mind’s full and balanced potential, his entire life changed for the better. In Mind Hacking, Hargrave reveals the formula that allowed him to overcome negativity and eliminate mental problems at their core.

Through a 21-day, three-step training program, this book lays out a simple yet comprehensive approach to help you rewire your brain and achieve healthier thought patterns for a better quality of life. It hinges on the repetitive steps of analyzing, imagining, and reprogramming to help break down barriers preventing you from reaching your highest potential.

By treating your brain as a computer and mastering Hargrave’s mind hacking formula, you, too, can create a positive, permanent shift in your thinking, leading to personal and professional triumphs in all areas of life.

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Searching For The Ideal Machine: How Strategy Drives VEX IQ Robot Design (MRI Inspiration & Outreach Series) (Volume 4)

Searching For The Ideal Machine: How Strategy Drives VEX IQ Robot Design is a handbook that explores the relationship between strategy and engineering design in the field of competitive robotics. The book provides a methodology for finding success in competitive robotics. The process starts by determining the key functional requirements of a season’s game, and details and discusses a variety of machines and mechanisms that can satisfy such requirements, using the 2015 VEX IQ Highrise game as an illustrative example. These machines and mechanisms can be versatile (or general purpose) or specialized (or of limited purpose but with higher performance). The problem of building stable irregular stacks is discussed and solved in a mathematically rigorous way. Next the authors develop a taxonomy of robots, classifying the various common types of machines into a set of six robot “families” – pushbots, clawbots, harvesters, plowbots, gantries and (task-optimized) cherrypickers. The authors show how compliance of designs with game rules on robot sizing can be evaluated prior to construction using simple trigonometry. The book applies these principles to the 2015 VEX IQ Highrise game, developing a variety of strategies for transport, sorting and stacking of game objects. Next the authors show how these specialized strategies can be combined for improved competition performance using an evaluation schema that considers the maximum and likely score and the reliability of the machine to assess the suitability of each machine for solo and alliance telerobotics as well as autonomous robotics based upon its strengths in transport, sorting and stacking of game objects. After describing their favored solution to the exemplary problem, the authors provide a detailed methodology for extending such an approach to future competitions. Written in plain English for a middle school audience (both students and coaches), most of the book is accessible to elementary schoolers as well. Two sections of the book are mathematically sophisticated– particularly the sections on designing robots for rules compliance, and the mathematically rigorous solution to the problem of building stable irregular stacks. Elementary and middle robotics coaches may find this book useful to illustrate robotics concepts and help train their students in designing the optimal machine for their chosen strategy. The machines, mechanisms and assessment process described in this book will prove useful to future season robotics competitions.

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Children of Blood and Bone

This program is narrated by acclaimed reader Bahni Turpin, whose past work includes The Hate U Give and The Underground Railroad

In Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi conjures a stunning world of dark magic and danger in her West African-inspired fantasy debut.

They killed my mother.

They took our magic.

They tried to bury us.

Now we rise. 

Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls. 

But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope. 

Now Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy. With the help of a rogue princess, Zélie must outwit and outrun the crown prince, who is hell-bent on eradicating magic for good. 

Danger lurks in Orïsha, where snow leoponaires prowl and vengeful spirits wait in the waters. Yet the greatest danger may be Zélie herself as she struggles to control her powers – and her growing feelings for an enemy.Â