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Jolene By : Mercedes Lackey READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Now in paperback, the beloved Elemental Masters series moves to America for the first time in a rich retelling of The Queen of the Copper Mountain, set against the backdrop of Tennessee coal country.Anna May Jones is the daughter of a coal miner, but a sickly constitution has kept her confined to the house for most of her life. Hoping to improve her daughter's health--and lessen the burden on their family--Anna's mother sends her to live with her Aunt Jinny, a witchy-woman and an Elemental Master, in a holler outside of Ducktown.As she settles into her new life, Anna learns new skills at Aunt Jinny's side and discovers that she, too, has a gift for Elemental magic that Jinny calls "the Glory". She also receives lessons from a mysterious and bewitching woman named Jolene, who assures her that, with time, Anna could become even more powerful than her aunt.But with Anna's increasing p...

How To Marry A Werewolf (Claw & Courtship, #1) By : Gail Carriger READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Guilty of an indiscretion? Time to marry a werewolf.WEREWOLVESThe monsters left Faith ruined in the eyes of society, so now they?re her only option. Rejected by her family, Faith crosses the Atlantic, looking for a marriage of convenience and revenge.But things are done differently in London. Werewolves are civilized. At least they pretend to be.AMERICANSBackward heathens with no culture, Major Channing has never had time for any of them. But there?s something special about Faith. Channing finds himself fighting to prove himself and defend his species. But this werewolf has good reason not to trust human women.Even if they learn to love, can either of them forgive?From the New York Times bestselling author of the Parasol Protectorate series comes a stand alone romance set in the same universe. Look out for appearances from favorite characters and the serious consequ...

Isolate (The Grand Illusion #1) By : L.E. Modesitt Jr. READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : L. E. Modesitt, Jr., bestselling author of The Mongrel Mage, has a brand new gaslamp political fantasy Isolate.Industrialization. Social unrest. Underground movements. Government corruption and surveillance.Something is about to give.Steffan Dekkard is an isolate, one of the small percentage of people who are immune to the projections of empaths. As an isolate, he has been trained as a security specialist and he and his security partner Avraal Ysella, a highly trained empath are employed by Axel Obreduur, a senior Craft Minister and the de facto political strategist of his party.When a respected Landor Councilor dies of ?heart failure? at a social event, because of his political friendship with Obreduur, Dekkard and Ysella find that not only is their employer a target, but so are they, in a covert and deadly struggle for control of the government and economy.Steffan is about to un...

The Golden Flute (Lady Diviner #4) By : Rosalie Oaks READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Which will cause Elinor the most trouble ? dangerous island cliffs, a lurking murderer, or her pretence at matrimony? Pretending to be already married to Lord Beresford is certainly improper, but only if someone discovers it ? or so Elinor argues. The honeymoon masquerade will hide their true purpose in travelling to the beautiful island of Sarck: to find the missing vampiri roost, and, of course, sample some of the famous French souffl?. Yet Beresford is being a stickler about their wedding night, the islanders shoot on sight, and Elinor must also find a tiny golden flute to waken the hibernating vampiri. Unfortunately, she cannot divine gold, especially a magical flute the size of a needle. When Aldreda discovers a dead body in the attic, the hunt for the missing roost takes on sinister overtones, especially as mysterious mishaps suggest another victim is intended. If only Elinor?...

The Shadow of Water (The Charismatics, #2) By : Jacquelyn Benson READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Lily Albright can see the future, and it looks like hell. In an England on the brink of war, Lily is plagued by visions of the cataclysmic destruction of London. An ancient prophecy is coming to fruition, and it starts with the gruesome discovery of a corpse in the sewers.To save her city, Lily must untangle a web of conspiracy and violence. She?ll need the help of all of her fellow Charismatics?the men and women who know ?the impossible things?. That includes the enigmatic Lord Strangford, whose ability to see into the darkest corners of Lily?s soul threatens to tear their relationship apart. From the gutters of the Limehouse to the champagne-soaked ballrooms of St. John?s Wood, Lily races to expose a plot that could bring the British empire to its knees. But changing fate and preventing an apocalypse will put Lily?s charismatic powers to the ultimate test.The Charismat...

Tea and Sympathetic Magic By : Tansy Rayner Roberts READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : There's nothing more dangerous than an eligible duke...Every unmarried young lady of the Teacup Isles wants to marry the Duke of Storm, except Miss Mnemosyne Seabourne, who is quite content on the shelf, thank you very much. All she wants is a quiet life and a good book.At a house party full of ruthless debutantes willing to employ sneaky sympathetic magic to win a husband of quality, Mneme joins forces with an enigmatic spellcracker to rescue the duke from being married against his will, and to find out who is responsible for his abduction.Can Mneme save the Duke of Storm without becoming his bride? Will this caper ruin her reputation forever? Can teacups and hedgehogs be used as projectile weapons in emergencies? Why are attractive men more devastating when they roll up their sleeves?If you enjoy Regency house parties, witty romantic banter and high society sorcery, you'll ...

The Lady Jewel Diviner (Lady Diviner, #1) By : Rosalie Oaks READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Diamonds, Death, and Devonshire tea?Miss Elinor Avely's proper upbringing cannot prepare her for the tiny, spinster vampire who crashes into her sitting room and demands to be fed with a sheep.Elinor already has enough troubles without having to catch ruminants. First, her secret gift for divining jewels has landed her in scandal, exiling her from London society. Second, a nobleman of dubious repute wants her to find a cache of smuggled jewels, hidden somewhere along the Devon coastline. Last ? and worst ? she is invited to cream tea at the local manor. And while the autocratic and magnificent Earl of Beresford might be there (and perhaps the jewels themselves too), Beresford is the last person Elinor wants to meet over cream tea.When a dead body is discovered along the cliffs, of course, such delicate considerations become secondary. Fortunately, Elinor now has a small v...

Jolene (Elemental Masters, #15) By : Mercedes Lackey READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : The beloved Elemental Masters series moves to America for the first time in a rich retelling of The Queen of the Copper Mountain, set against the backdrop of Tennessee coal country.Anna May Jones is the daughter of a coal miner. When her father succumbs to Black Lung, the coal company wastes no time in turning the family out of their home. In desperation, Anna May's mother sends her to live with her Aunt Jinny, a witchy-woman and an Elemental Master, in a holler outside of Ducktown.As she settles into her new life, Anna May finds herself falling for a stonemason with such a talent for stonecarving that people come all the way from Memphis to commission statues and tombstones from him. But he's not content with his current skill?he wants to learn to carve stone so well it looks real.When the stonemason disappears on a quest to fulfill his ambition, it is up to Anna May to fol...

The Beautiful Ones By : Silvia Moreno-Garcia READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a sweeping romance with a dash of magic.They are the Beautiful Ones, Loisail?s most notable socialites, and this spring is Nina?s chance to join their ranks, courtesy of her well-connected cousin and his calculating wife. But the Grand Season has just begun, and already Nina?s debut has gone disastrously awry. She has always struggled to control her telekinesis?neighbors call her the Witch of Oldhouse?and the haphazard manifestations of her powers make her the subject of malicious gossip.When entertainer Hector Auvray arrives to town, Nina is dazzled. A telekinetic like her, he has traveled the world performing his talents for admiring audiences. He sees Nina not as a witch, but ripe with potential to master her power under his tutelage. With Hector?s help, Nina?s talent blossoms, as does her love for him.But great romances ...

Witchmark (The Kingston Cycle, #1) By : C.L. Polk READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : C. L. Polk arrives on the scene with Witchmark, a stunning, addictive fantasy that combines intrigue, magic, betrayal, and romance.In an original world reminiscent of Edwardian England in the shadow of a World War, cabals of noble families use their unique magical gifts to control the fates of nations, while one young man seeks only to live a life of his own.Magic marked Miles Singer for suffering the day he was born, doomed either to be enslaved to his family's interest or to be committed to a witches' asylum. He went to war to escape his destiny and came home a different man, but he couldn?t leave his past behind. The war between Aeland and Laneer leaves men changed, strangers to their friends and family, but even after faking his own death and reinventing himself as a doctor at a cash-strapped veterans' hospital, Miles can?t hide what he truly is.When a fatally poisoned ...

The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal By : Jim Loehr READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : The number of hours in a day is fixed, but the quantity and quality of energy available to us is not. This fundamental insight has the power to revolutionize the way you live. As Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz demonstrate in their groundbreaking New York Times bestseller, managing energy, not time, is the key to enduring high performance as well as to health, happiness, and life balance. Their Full Engagement Training System is grounded in twenty-five years of working with great athletes -- tennis champ Monica Seles and speed-skating gold medalist Dan Jansen, to name just two -- to help them perform more effectively under brutal competitive pressures. Now this powerful, step-by-step program will help you to:? Mobilize four key sources of energy? Balance energy expenditure with intermittent energy renewal? Expa...

The Nightmare Before Christmas Sticker Art Puzzles By : Arie Kaplan READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Fifteen challenging sticker puzzles featuring favorite moments and characters from The Nightmare Before Christmas await on these pages!Puzzle your way through spooky scenes from Tim Burton?s iconic film with?The Nightmare Before Christmas Sticker Art Puzzles! Each of the fifteen delightfully frightful puzzles in this book features full-color art of your favorite characters and moments from the beloved double-holiday film. To solve a puzzle, you?ll need to fit more than 100 sticker shapes into a tessellated grid. When you?re done, you?ll have a glossy art poster to frame and hang on your wall. In the spirit of the haunting holiday, this book features a glow-in-the-dark cover, plus a bonus glow-in-the-dark puzzle of Oogie Boogie inside! Ideal for fans of the movie and puzzle enthusiasts alike, this book will provide hours of enjoyment as you complete each scene. Book De...

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity By : David Allen READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, "flow," "mind like water," and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you'd almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance. Not quite. Yes, Getting Things Done offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-do's clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists--all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you're working on. However, it still operates from the decidedly Western notion that if we could just get really, really organized, we could turn ourselves into 24/7 productivity machines. (To wit, Allen, whom the New Economy bible Fast Company has dubbed "the personal productivity guru," suggests that instead of meditating on...

Shook One: Anxiety Playing Tricks on Me By : Charlamagne Tha God READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Charlamagne Tha God, New York Times bestselling author of Black Privilege and cohost of Power 105.1?s The Breakfast Club, reveals his blueprint for breaking free from your fears and anxiety to reach that elusive next level of success.Fear is holding you back. It?s time to turn the tables and channel your fears to actually fuel your success. Being ?shook? is more than a rap lyric for Charlamagne, it?s his mission to overcome. While it may seem like he is ahead of the game and should have nothing to worry about, he is still plagued by anxieties?fear of being weak; fear of being a bad dad; fear of being a worse husband; and ultimately, fear of failure. Shook One chronicles his journey to beat back those fears and empowers you to no longer be held back from your potential. Shook One details the ways anxiety has been a driving force in Charlamagne?s life since childhood. For...

Whole Brain Living: The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life By : Jill Bolte Taylor READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : The New York Times best-selling author of My Stroke of Insight blends neuroanatomy with psychology to show how we can short-circuit emotional reactivity and find our way to peace. For half a century we have been trained to believe that our right brain hemisphere is our emotional brain, while our left brain houses our rational thinking. Now neuroscience shows that it's not that simple: in fact, our emotional limbic tissue is evenly divided between our two hemispheres. Consequently, each hemisphere has both an emotional brain and a thinking brain. In this groundbreaking new book, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor presents these four distinct modules of cells as four characters that make up who we are: Character 1, Left Thinking; Character 2, Left Emotion; Character 3, Right Emotion; and Character 4, Right Thinking.Everything we think,...

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma By : Peter A. Levine READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: Why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtually immune to traumatic symptoms, the mystery of human trauma is revealed. Waking the Tiger normalizes the symptoms of trauma and the steps needed to heal them. People are often traumatized by seemingly ordinary experiences. The listener is taken on a guided tour of the subtle, yet powerful impulses that govern our responses to overwhelming life events. To do this, it employs a series of exercises that help us focus on bodily sensations. Through heightened awareness of these sensations trauma can be healed.?1997 Peter A. Levine (P)2016 Tantor Book Detail : Author ...

Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls By : Lisa Damour READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : An urgently needed guide to the alarming rate of psychological stress experienced by girls from age ten through college, from the New York Times bestselling author of Untangled . Though anxiety has risen among young people overall, recent research studies confirm that it has skyrocketed in girls. According to research studies, since the turn of the millennium, a staggering 31% of girls reported feeling anxious, compared to 12% recorded in the 1980s. In a similar vein, the number of girls found to be emotionally fragile jumped 55% from 2009 to 2014 while the comparable number for adolescent boys remained unchanged over the same time period. As a clinical psychologist who specializes in girls, Lisa Damour, Ph. D., has watched this rising tide of anxiety in her own research, private practice, and in the all-girls' sc...

Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness By : Jon Kabat-Zinn READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : The landmark work on mindfulness, meditation, and healing, now revised and updated after twenty-five years?Stress. It can sap our energy, undermine? our health if we let it, even shorten our lives. It makes us more vulnerable to anxiety and depression, disconnection and disease. Based on Jon Kabat-Zinn?s renowned mindfulness-based stress reduction program, this classic, groundbreaking work?which gave rise to a whole new field in medicine and psychology?shows you how to use medically proven mind-body approaches derived from meditation and yoga to counteract stress, establish greater balance of body and mind, and stimulate well-being and healing. By engaging in these mindfulness practices and integrating them into your life from moment to moment and from day to day, you can learn to manage chronic pain, promote optimal h...

Declutter Like a Mother: A Guilt-Free, No-Stress Way to Transform Your Home and Your Life By : Allie Casazza READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : WALLSTREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERLive lighter. Live freer. Live a bigger life with less.In Declutter Like a Mother, Allie Casazza comes alongside you to explore:Why decluttering calms anxiety in your heart and lessens tension in your relationships.How to ensure your house is working for you, not against you.Why kids thrive when they?re not overwhelmed with options.How to make time, when you feel you don?t have time, to declutter.Allie Casazza was tired of feeling it was her against the laundry in her home. She wondered if somewhere beneath her frantic days and the mountains of toys in the playroom she would ever find joy and peace in motherhood. Then she discovered the abundance . . . of less.As she purged her home of excess stuff, Allie discovered a lifestyle that strengthened her marriage, saved her motherhood, and helped her dev...

The Highly Sensitive Person's Survival Guide: Essential Skills for Living Well in an Overstimulating World By : Ted Zeff READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Full of sound and practical advice for dealing with sensory and emotional overload, this book is the first "how-to" book for highly sensitive people navigating through our highly stimulating world. Book Detail : Author : Ted Zeff Pages : pages Publisher : Wetware Media Language : eng ISBN-10 : B001KW7O92 ISBN-13 :   Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI, HTML, RTF, TXT, etc. Supporting : PC, Android, Apple, Ipad, Iphone, etc. ================*================