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A rich and multilayered guide that offers readers accessible wisdom and practical methods to cultivate deeper satisfaction in everyday experiences. In contrast to stimulus-driven pleasure, contentment comes from living a life of meaning that aligns with one's values. The author identifies the common traps people fall into looking for happiness that actually create stress, worries, and fears, and offers authentic mindfulness-based solutions to counteract them.

These affirmations are designed to infuse the conscious and subconscious mind with positive new intentions, concepts and perspectives about life and the world at large. Let it play in the background of everyday activities such as driving, working and exercising. Increase self-esteem and enthusiasm for life and open it to new possibilities.

Psychotherapist and director of Career Development at Harvard Business School, Timothy Butler proposes that ruts and dead ends in life can be the catalysts for change. Using a proven-successful six-step method to confront the issues that brought you to this impasse, you can not only get by, but move forward successfully.

Offers lessons for living a fulfilling and joyful life through a simple approach based on four principles--believing in one's destiny, escaping internal captivity, leading a magnified life, and choosing a love-centered life.

Steinbeck's novel features Ethan Allen Hawley, formerly of the New England aristocracy but now a humble grocery clerk. Inspiring little but resentment in his wife and daughters, Ethan nevertheless does his utmost to live an honest life. Every man, however, has his breaking point, and Ethan risks his integrity and much more as he embarks on what he hopes will be a path back to wealth and privilege.

We all have a longing to be a part of something purposeful. And to do that, all we need to do is start. Every major accomplishment started with a first step. In Intentional Living, John Maxwell will help you take that step, and the ones that follow, on your personal path through a life that matters.

Jazz is a likable teenager, but he's also the son of an infamous serial killer who has taught Jazz everything he knows. What Jazz doesn't know is whether or not he is destined to follow in his father's footsteps. He has urges, but he knows he can follow his own path. So in an effort to right his father's wrongs, Jazz decides to help hunt down "the Impressionist"--a new serial killer in town.

New York Times best-selling author Karen Harper offers this blistering tale of romantic suspense. After nearly a year in a coma, Tara Kinsale wakes to learn her husband divorced her and her best friend was murdered, leaving behind a daughter named Claire. When Claire's uncle returns from military service to take custody, sparks ignite as he and Tara team up to solve a mystery.

Bex loves urban exploration--sneaking into abandoned locations--but he always plays it safe. Then a new kid, Kieran, offers him a risky, irresistible mission.

Margaret Trudeau's reflection on life and aging offers women sage advice that is honest, straightforward, and ultimately hopeful. Sharing stories from her own life and the lives of other women, Trudeau discusses everything from pension planning and retirement homes to sex and grey divorce. Trudeau promotes a more proactive, engaged aging process and encourages baby boomers to get serious about finding joy in their third act.