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A true story about a fully disabled newborn goat, near death, who defies the odds with the help of a kindhearted dog trainer, a devoted German Shepherd, and a touch of fate.

Nobody thought Rosie would survive the night, but she had other plans. If she did survive, there was no way to know if she would ever be able to walk again. The dog trainer, Lynn, had to try to save her. She couldn't turn her back on this tiny baby.

Living with a goat in her kitchen for eight weeks was never something Lynn ever imagined, but when faced with the situation, she took it one day at a time.

Unsure how her eighty pound German Shepherd would react, she was pleasantly surprised by their unexpected friendship and lifelong bond.

A Nashville publicist and the country star who once broke her heart are forced onto a two-week tour that could make their careers-or destroy them both-in this aching and charming love story about music and second chances.

One dream job. One epic tour. Two hearts on the line.

Charlotte Cameron's dream is to become Nashville's most successful music publicist, and now, after four years of late nights in the office, she finally has a shot at making it come true. All she has to do is pull together a near-impossible two-week tour for Hot Spot Records' hottest new artist, Liam Hayes.

There's just one small problem: Charlotte and Liam have history.

Now Charlotte must hit the road with Liam and pretend he's just like any other client, not someone she was once wildly in love with. So what if Liam, with his piercing blue eyes and charming dimples, looks even better now than he did all those years ago? And so what if his heartbreaking songs make Charlotte wonder what could have been, and if she's the girl he's written them for?

Letting Liam back into her life could shatter her heart and destroy her career for good. If choosing love means losing it all, how can Charlotte begin to decide which of her dreams is worth the fall?

From USA Today and international bestselling author of The Simple Wild comes a sweeping second-chance, forbidden romance set against the rugged beauty of northern Ontario.

Emery McAllister once dreamed of leaving Cold River with the boy next door, but one devastating night destroyed their future and left her heart carefully guarded. Twenty years later, she's built a life of control: running the town's police detachment, raising her daughter, and keeping a fragile peace with her ex-husband, the mayor.

She's certain she has moved on until the day she has dreaded-and secretly hoped for-finally arrives.

Logan Landry is home.

After two decades behind bars for being in the wrong place at the wrong time-and the choices that haunted him ever since-Logan returns to his family's bison ranch carrying the weight of everything he lost, but especially Emery. Friendship is all he dares hope for now, but seeing her ignites a fire he thought long extinguished.

When a teenage girl disappears and old wounds reopen, Logan becomes Cold River's favorite suspect, despite his airtight alibi. As distrust closes in, Emery must choose between the life she's built ... and the love she can't let go.

Scribbles and Shenanigans is a charming collection of the author's everyday observations-little moments, big thoughts, and the quirky takeaways that life tends to sprinkle along the way.

Indigenous Peoples in Canada have experienced coerced sterilization under eugenics legislation since the 1930s, and the violence has never stopped, even though eugenics fell into disrepute. In The Genocide Continues, Karen Stote traces the historical, political, economic and policy context informing the coerced sterilization of Indigenous women from 1970 onward. She shows how a powerful idea paved the way for the expanded violations of Indigenous People's bodies and futures. That idea was population control -- a concern with who occupied land and how resources were distributed -- and it was a central thread guiding public health interventions from eugenics to family planning.

The Genocide Continues offers new insights to show how federal, provincial and corporate activities intersected to criminalize and regulate Indigenous reproduction. Saskatchewan, which first established family planning policies in the 1970s and is now the province with the highest number of Indigenous women coming forward with experiences of coerced sterilization, is Stote's case study to demonstrate why family planning activities consistently targeted Indigenous women.

Stote weaves compelling archival evidence with principled storytelling to connect violence against Indigenous bodies to violence against Indigenous lands. Unless and until colonialism, extractivism and dispossession are addressed, a genocide against Indigenous peoples will continue.

Naming the Body: A Queer Woman's Restorative Mapping of the Self celebrates and reclaims a queer woman's uprooted, mothering, ailing body and an erased identity through memory and language. An identity that just three decades ago could not be claimed because women, especially queer women, didn't have the language to signify and embrace them. This collection of sixteen units of text, freeing itself from all form or expectations, is written with unequivocal honesty and one single goal in mind: to give voice to a silenced body. The result is literary patchwork, storytelling under the stars, a cry, a riddle, a manifesto, even a road map for the future! Naming the Body is a contemporary hybrid memoir in translation that places the body at the center of multiple realities through a unique, interrogative, and entertaining reading experience.

Building a company is hard.

Building a great team is even harder.

In We Were Rizing, a founder reflects on the journey of launching and scaling an IT services company in a fast-moving, high-pressure industry. What began as ambition soon became a test of character, partnership, and resilience.

This is not a highlight reel. It's a candid, behind-the-scenes account of demanding clients, pivotal decisions, missteps, and defining moments that shaped a culture built on trust and collaboration.

Through honest storytelling and leadership lessons learned the hard way, this book reveals a simple truth: sustainable success is never about one person at the top - it's built by people who commit, grow, and win together.

Divorce can be murder . . . and divorce lawyers can get murdered.

I'm Kim DeLuca - assistant to Ollie Spalding, Connecticut's most successful divorce lawyer. I'm the one who keeps his empire running while he charms his way through every courtroom in the state.

Ollie isn't just my boss. I was a foster kid, so he's the closest thing I've ever had to family. There's nothing I wouldn't do for him

He's also the most feared divorce lawyer in the state. He took on people with money, power, and tempers that scared even the police.

Now he's dead. And the police want to know who his enemies are.

There are more than I can count.

But I'll find out which one killed him.AN EXHILARATING BLEND OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE, NAIL-BITING TENSION AND A MIND-BLOWING FINAL TWIST.Perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, Daniel Hurst, T.M. Logan, Patricia MacDonald and Shari Lapena.READERS LOVE THE DIVORCE LAWYER: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Packed with clever, unexpected twists, it's a gripping and suspenseful read.' Michael V. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Kept me hooked throughout.' Michelle M.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Hooked me right away. Full of twists and turns.' NetGalley Reviewer⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'This book promises a shocking final twist, and wow! I can honestly say it exceeded my expectations!' NetGalley Reviewer⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'This book was brilliant! Massive 5 stars from me! Loved the twist at the end.' Jess H.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A very engrossing book.' J. D.

We Called It a War: Lessons Learned from the Fight to End Poverty is a first-hand account of Sargent Shriver's leadership of the War on Poverty, which he undertook under President Lyndon Johnson between 1964 and 1968. The memoir offers a rare inside view of how programs like Head Start, Community Action, Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA, now AmeriCorps VISTA), Job Corps, Legal Services, Neighborhood Health Centers, Foster Grandparents, Upward Bound, and Work-Study were conceived and implemented-and how Shriver's collaborative, community-based approach can be applied to tackling poverty in America today. The book gives the reader intimate insights into the opportunities and challenges of translating President Johnson's audacious pledge to end poverty into a working set of social programs that continue to uplift and empower communities across the United States today.

In leading the anti-poverty effort, Shriver was tasked with drafting the requisite legislation, ushering it through a skeptical Congress, creating the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), and recruiting the talented anti-poverty warriors who would take the OEO from concept to implementation.

Shriver's words reveal a public administrator skilled at creating major social policy; a global citizen driven by his spiritual faith and commitment to social justice; a principled pragmatist who successfully executed grand ideas; a social entrepreneur whose skeptical approach to bureaucracy enabled him to liberate the creative energies of the diverse individuals who collaborated with him; and a politician who earned the trust and respect of his adversaries.

Shriver's words remind us that to achieve equal opportunity and justice for all, we must again create an environment that nurtures bold ideas and empowers decisive, community-based action.

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A look behind the curtain of the company that pioneered the sustainable business movement: Seventh Generation.

To build a business that is not only sustainable but also successful in a world obsessed with power and unlimited profit is no easy task. Perhaps no one knows this as well as Jeffrey Hollender, who has spent the last five decades in the trenches of social entrepreneurship, pushing and striving for a better way. His quest to revolutionize the relationship between corporations, society, and the environment is filled with failure, success, disaster, and most importantly, hope. This is that story.

In Built for a Better World, cofounder Jeffrey Hollender takes you behind the scenes at Seventh Generation, the innovative company founded to sell environmentally friendly products. In revealing his personal and professional struggles to adhere to the values his business was built upon, you'll learn how the company grew, morphed, and ultimately became a leader in the corporate responsibility movement. These stories are more than an inside scoop on the inner workings of one of the most iconic and beloved sustainability-focused companies; they are a chance to learn from the hard-won lessons its pioneers faced along the way.

Anyone who aims to use their ambition for the betterment of humanity and its home is invited to step into Jeffrey's journey as he keeps building toward a greater future.

One of the greatest films never finished. One of Hollywood's most dangerous alliances. One enduring legend.

In the late 1920s, at the height of silent cinema's reckless glamour, three formidable figures set out to make an impossible film. Gloria Swanson, the era's most dazzling star. Erich von Stroheim, cinema's most obsessive and uncompromising auteur. And Joseph P. Kennedy, a ruthless financier with ambitions far beyond Hollywood. The result was Queen Kelly-a production so extravagant, scandalous, and volatile that it collapsed before completion, leaving behind fragments, myths, and a curse that would haunt everyone involved.

In The Curse of Queen Kelly, Pamela Hutchinson reconstructs the full, astonishing saga of this infamous film: a tale of artistic obsession, moral panic, sexual politics, power struggles, and personal betrayal. Drawing on archival research and vivid storytelling, she traces how a doomed collaboration became one of cinema history's most notorious cautionary tales-and how Swanson spent decades fighting to preserve its legacy.

Part film history, part Hollywood tragedy, The Curse of Queen Kelly is a gripping account of creative ambition pushed to the brink, and a meditation on what survives when a film is torn apart but refuses to die.

"Eat. They twisted in deeper. Eat. Still so simple. An impulse. Repeated again and again. Eat..."

"Acid-bath class struggle intermingles with parasitic terror in Briana N. Cox's slippery, slithering, symbiotically suffocating debut." - Clay McLeod Chapman, Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

"This damning portrayal of U.S. health care doubles as a potent, unforgettable creepfest." - Kirkus Reviews

LEIGH PIERCE ESTATES is home to a diverse array of tenants: families, immigrants, students, the forgotten elderly. All working poor, and all in danger.

Because the tenants of Leigh Pierce are disappearing.

Live-in handyman Xavier seems to be the only one who notices. Or cares. After a chance encounter with the culprit leaves him infected with something horrifying, Xavier is thrust into a surreal nightmare of starvation and consumption all too familiar to his gentrifying Atlanta neighborhood.

Succumbing to his infection, Xavier is drawn into the cobbled-together family squatting in Leigh Pierce's basement. People who, through a myriad of doomed roads, fell into the same self-destructive cycle of indigency, harboring dark secrets... and darker appetites. Trapped in a dynamic of codependency and complicity, Xavier and his family- new and old- are forced to confront the cost of survival in a world that has disregarded them.

"While the Patient Slept" is a chilling Golden Age mystery that features the introduction of one of fiction's most enduring amateur sleuths, Nurse Sarah Keate. Set within the somber and claustrophobic walls of the Federie mansion, the story follows Nurse Keate as she is summoned to care for an elderly patriarch lying in a profound coma. As the household waits for the inevitable, the heavy atmosphere of the isolated estate grows increasingly tense.

The silence of the sickroom is shattered when a body is discovered just outside the patient's door-murdered while the nurse watched over her unconscious charge. Keate must navigate a tangled web of family secrets, inheritance greed, and long-buried motives to identify a killer hiding in plain sight. Known for her keen powers of observation and no-nonsense demeanor, Nurse Keate teams up with the astute Detective Lance O'Leary to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again.

This novel is a masterclass in atmospheric suspense, blending elements of the gothic thriller with the intricate deduction of classic detective fiction. "While the Patient Slept" remains a foundational work in the mystery genre, showcasing Mignon G. Eberhart's exceptional talent for crafting psychologically complex and gripping tales.

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You've got the degrees, credentials, and career. You're smart, resourceful, and successful. Unfortunately, you're also your own worst critic. Stress is your middle name, and Worry is your best friend.

But you don't have to stay stuck in stress, anxiety, and negative emotions. You can combat them by learning how to exercise your optimism muscles.

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• Your 24 Optimism Muscles
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If you want good mental health, you have to work out your mind. With Up Your Optimism Game, more joy, happiness, and peace of mind are just a mental workout away.