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From neighborhood gyms and smoke-filled arenas to star-studded casinos and exotic locales, American writers have chronicled unforgettable stories about determination and dissipation, about great champions and punch-drunk has-beens, about colorful...
Mindfulness as a practice is very simple and its effects are well- documented. Now, modern biology and neuroscience can actually quantify many of the effects of mindfulness and you may be surprised by how powerful the impact can be. In Masters of Mindfulness, 11 top researchers and proponents of mindfulness discuss what modern science and contemporary research have revealed about this ancient practice and the many ways in which it can benefit
...Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love has become a worldwide phenomenon, empowering millions of readers to set out on paths they never thought possible, in search of their own best selves. Here, in this candid and captivating collection, nearly fifty...
Sharing the Light features essays originally presented at the popular 1992 EFY conferences. Young people today face a lot of tough question that older generations may not have faced, but they also deal with many of the same issues that have seemed so unbearable to adolescents throughout time. How do you overcome discouragement and cope with failure? What can you do when you feel fat and have ugly hair, and not even a doctor can help you get rid
...11) Women of History
For many millennia, the history of the world has been written by, for, and about men. This fascinating volume takes a different approach, offering brief biographies of dozens of women who have played a role in key world events. Learn more about the influence and impact of ladies like Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, Pocahontas, Marie Antoinette, and many others.
Businesses used to contact buyers by placing advertisements in newspapers, magazines, and on television and radio. Now they monitor your online shopping and product browsing habits. This book looks as the ways businesses spy on patrons, examines the reasons the marketplace has changed, argues the pros and cons of keeping tabs on cyber shoppers, and outlines the advantages corporate mining gives to larger companies.
Who Was Lucille Ball? By Pamela D. Pollack and Meg Belviso; read by Tara Sands. Listen to find out more about a young girl from New York who loved to perform, a model and dancer who moved to Hollywood to become a movie star, and one of the most famous comedians of all time, who starred in her own hit TV show.
Who Was Walt Disney? By Whitney Stewart; read by Dan Woren....
* "The Cheerleader Murder Plot" by Mimi Swartz, read by Pam Dougherty
* "The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob" by Skip Hollandsworth, read by Bruce DuBose
* "A Kiss Before Dying" by Pamela Colloff, read by Staci Snell and Karissa Vacker
* "The Talented Mr. Khater"...
Who Was Abigail Adams? By True Kelley; read by Ann Marie Lee. Listen to find out more about a smart and independent colonial girl, both the wife of a president and the mother of a president, and the first First Lady to live in the White House.
What Is the Constitution? By Patricia Brennan Demuth; read by Kathleen McInerney. Listen...
Who Is Jeff Kinney? By Patrick Kinney, read by Ramón de Ocampo. Listen to find out more about a boy who played practical jokes and made up funny stories, a college student with a popular...
Who Was Neil Armstrong? By Roberta Edwards, read by Dominic Hoffman. Listen to find out more about a boy who loved to make his own model planes, a teenager who got his pilot’s license before his driver’s license, and the very first person to set foot on the moon.
Who Was Marie Curie? By Megan Stine, read by Sarah Scott. Listen to find out more about...
Who Is Bob Dylan? By Jim O’Connor; read by MacLeod Andrews. Listen to find out more about a boy named Bobby Zimmerman from Hibbing, Minnesota; a folksinger in Greenwich Village in the 1960s; and a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Who Was Frida Kahlo? By Sarah Fabiny; read by Marisol Ramirez. Listen to find...
Who Was Frederick Douglass? By April Jones Prince, read by John H. Mayer. Listen to find out more about a boy born into slavery who taught himself to read and write, a young man who escaped to freedom in the North, and the father of the civil rights movement.
Who Was Nelson Mandela? By Pam Pollack & Meg Belviso, read by Mark Bramhall. Listen to find out more about...
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