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NeuroLoveology: Getting Off With Your Thinking Cap On explores how the brain processes attraction, relationships, conflict and sex. Each chapter will introduce the science and psychology behind the various elements of an adult romantic relationship while also including the tools to enhance that relationship, emotionally and sexually.

When a neurotic boomer mom meets a svelte young yoga teacher someone has to transform, and you can bet it won't be the foxy yogini with the starburst on her sacrum. Yin Yang Yogini is Eat Pray Love for moms who can't (or won't) jump on an airplane and fly to Bali, for women who are grounded (at least temporarily) in and by motherhood, for women (and men) who must find their spiritual enlightenment in their own backyard. Yin Yang Yogini is a memoir that will speak to women; to those who are dealing with anxiety issues and disorders (eighteen percent of the US population, and twice as many women as men), to those who have children, to boomers (70 million) to women diagnosed with breast cancer (one in eight) and to those who practice yoga (20 million Americans and the number is growing). This is a memoir about a transformational two years of Kathryn's life, a time in which she learned to trust herself and the universe, even while facing such issues as the death of her parents, her children leaving home for college, panic and anxiety issues, and breast cancer. Although breast cancer and yoga may seem to be unlikely partners, studies have shown that yoga improves the well being of women treated for early stage breast cancer, and yoga is increasingly recognized for its effects on various ailments ranging from depression to heart disease and autoimmune diseases. Yin Yang Yogini is a memoir about transformation through yoga, with yoga as the backdrop for change, a story of how one can evolve in mid-life and in mid-stride, of how one can learn to let go of the past, let go of fear, and live with trust in the present moment. Kathryn's story is heartfelt, humorous (Kathryn was a yoga skeptic so this is not simply an ode to yoga), and timely. Yoga is spreading like wildflowers these days-but not everyone realizes that this ancient practice holds the key to balance, strength, and inner peace in our contemporary world. Kathryn's journey of self-discovery, awakening, and healing will speak to women (and especially to mothers) everywhere. It will also so speak to anyone who has faced anxiety issues or a serious disease, such as cancer. Yin Yang Yogini is about finding courage, strength, and happiness within.

Thomas Pendleton loves his wife, Ann, and six-year-old son, Seth, more than anything, but his job often makes him an absent husband and father. One day, after Thomas leaves on a business trip, both his wife and son are killed in a car accident. Thomas shuts himself off to the world and is home grieving when a cosmic storm enters Earth's atmosphere. Scientists are baffled by its composition and origins but not nearly as much as they are by the storm's side effect - anyone who has died and chosen not to cross over is suddenly visible and can interact with the living. Ann does not return, but Seth does, and Thomas sees it as a miraculous second chance to spend time with his son and keep promises previously broken. They set out on a trip to the Air and Space Museum in Washington DC, but little do they know that they are travelling headlong into a social and political maelstrom that will test Thomas in ways he could never imagine. Along the way, they encounter armed kidnappers who want Seth for his supernatural abilities, meet up with a medium, the ghost of a slave boy, and none other than Abraham Lincoln. Citing an overpopulation problem caused by the "Impalpables," the government begins to take drastic measures. Military scientists have a device called The Tesla Gate that is said to return Impals to where they were before the storm. Many have nicknamed the controversial machine "the shredder" because no one really knows if it will do what is claimed, or, shred the Impals - effectively destroying the soul. Thomas is determined to do everything possible to save Seth, or, at the very least, make it where Seth doesn't have to endure his sentence alone . . .

Ten-year-old Elvis Jones is tired of being picked on, taunted, and teased by the bullies at his elementary school, so he does what any smart, technologically brilliant kid his age would do: he creates EKHO, the Evil Kid Hunting Organization, a sophisticated network of kid spies and secret agents that utilize a variety of cool gadgets to stay one step ahead of the enemy - the bullies. They hire kids, make them swear allegiance to the organization, and train them as Commandos, Privates, and Elite Spies. As kids rise through the ranks, the missions, posted on an encrypted EKHO website, require more smarts and skill, especially when the bullies form their own counterspy group called DEKE (Destroy EKHO Kids Everywhere). It's all in good fun, until the kids of EKHO must put their pretend skills to use for far more serious, and dangerous, missions. As field agents come across evidence of more sinister forces, they now have to deal with the strange, weird, and the unknown as they look for the truth about the bizarre and creepy threats to their school, their families, and their own lives. They experience betrayal, intrigue, infiltration and counter-espionage as well as teachers and adults who act more mysterious with each passing day, which leaves Elvis and his EKHO team wondering: who can you trust when the person standing next to you might not be entirely human?

Scientific and technological advances have provided the means for destroying planetary life, but does humanity have the wisdom necessary to choose survival? While facing impending danger, cultures worldwide can benefit by exploring tried-and-true perspectives about humankind's place in the world. One proven measure for greater balance comes through reclaiming the spirit-infused views that ensured the survival of our ancestors for millennia.

In the aftermath of a violent incident and near-death experience, Sarah Lange is plagued by heavenly voices and dogged by a desire to return ';home.' Frightened by her desire to terminate her existence on earth, she checks into a trauma center in Malibu, California, and meets Dr. David Sutton, an intellectual, scientist, reductionist, and someone who believes in nothing beyond his immediate experience. David's world is as divorced from mystery and magic as Sarah's is alive with and animated by it. Their sessions open up a dialogue about the separation of worldsone easily defined and explained and one unknowable and waiting on the other side of human experience. Even as his faith in his profession fades, David struggles to bring his disturbed patient back to the real world. In a desperate effort to define herself, Sarah ';escapes,' and David must decide how far he is willing to go to save a patient, and ultimately, himself.

When a potentially lucrative copper deposit is discovered by an American mining company on the farmland of the Makenda tribe in eastern Kenya, the local government seizes the opportunity to secure a new source of revenue. The young Makenda King, Ule Samanga, is told to relocate his people to a refugee camp in Nairobi. He angrily refuses. Faced with devastating the future of his rural tribe, he calls on the spirits of his ancestors to help him protect their sacred homeland. When he discovers a letter, written fifteen years earlier, revealing he has a half-brother in New York, the young king takes it as an omen and engages a young African woman at the Ministry of Culture in Nairobi to help him locate his brother in New York. Curtis Jackson is a struggling mortgage broker and former jazz prodigy, trying to keep his business afloat during the financial crisis of 2008. At first he has no interest in developing a relationship with his newly discovered African family. When an ambitious executive from the mining company offers him a substantial sum of money to appease the Makenda tribe, he changes his mind. ADVANCE READER COPY EDITION With less than altruistic motives, Curtis' journey to Africa becomes a spiritual odyssey and changes him in ways he never imagined. Determined to reveal the truth behind the political machinations, he joins with his brother and his father's people in the fight to keep their homeland. In this assured and compelling debut, Richard Crystal (brother of Billy) weaves a story with contemporary moral imperatives and real world parallels, incorporating the dichotomy between modern American business and a thriving rural African culture, the election of President Obama and its impact in Africa, the history of jazz music in America and the enormous power of family.

ADVANCE READER COPY Greg Kihn continues to pioneer the ROCK THRILLER GENRE with RUBBER SOUL, a murder mystery and an action packed ride through BEATLEMANIA, featuring THE BEATLES themselves. Dust Bin Bob runs a second hand shop at the Flea Market at Penny Lane. He has an extensive rep of American R&B singles that he gets from Merchant Marines returning from Baltimore and New York. The action starts when he befriends some blokes by the name of John, Paul, George and Ringo and becomes their lifelong friend sharing the vinyl that will start a revolution. From then on, it's a rocket ride from their earliest days in Liverpool to six shows a night in Hamburg to the Cavern Club to full-fledged Beatlemania. Along the way, Dust Bin Bob uncovers a plot by Marcos loyalists to assassinate the Fab Four from in Manila after they snub snub Imelda Marcos, blowing off a reception at the palace and narrowly avoiding an international incident. It could have all happened! 100% historically accurate and including previously unpublished information about the Beatles early days, Rubber Soul is inspired by Greg Kihn's radio interviews with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Pete Best, Patti Harrison, and Yoko Ono. When he asked where the Beatles got those rare American R&B records that inspired their early music, the answer was from Merchant Marines who brought them over from Baltimore to Liverpool. From a serious Beatles fan who has read every word every written about them, Rubber Soul is a wild ride through Rock 'N Roll history.

Beauty Queen is at once memoir, commentary, enlightenment and a little dose of self-help. Taylor Marsh was Miss Missouri, performed on Broadway, hosted a radio show and starred in a one woman show. She was also a Relationship Consultant for the nation's largest newsweekly, edited the web's first mega successful women-owned and operated soft-core pornography site, worked as a phone sex actress and studied sexuality and relationships for years. She's been single, a girlfriend, a mistress and a wife. She has the inside track to what men want, what women need and how we all tend to muck it up. As a political commentator and popular writer, Taylor is intelligent and inspiring. She blends personal experience, pop culture and the politics of sex in an entertaining, engaging and inspiring read.

The rich spirit of an English junk dealer and his family is challenged by the arrival of the tax collector in this humorous and heartwarming classic. Beneath the sunny, cloudless skies of Kent, the Larkin household--Pop, Ma, and their six children--enjoy the simple pleasures of life. Pop works as a junk dealer and keeps the farm to feed his brood, while Ma cooks the meals and minds the children. While the family may not seem to have much, they more than make up for it in joyous spirit--and bountiful feasts. All of that could change, however, when a stranger appears on their farm. Cedric Charlton from Inland Revenue has come to inquire why the Larkins failed to file income tax for the previous year. But Charlton's plans hit a snag when the eldest Larkin daughter, Mariette, takes a liking to him--and he to her. Now, if the Larkins and country living can charm Charlton, perhaps he will forget about every last pound they owe . . . "A pulsing comedy of country manners. A five-alarm blaze of a book. Just about perfick." --Time "A gently, anarchic wish-fulfilling daydream." --The Times (London)

Following a money trail leads a PI into danger in this hard-boiled mystery by the creator of Perry Mason and author of Turn on the Heat. Brainy private detective Donald Lam is always one step ahead of the bad guys--but he's also smaller than them and typically gets beat up. That's why his boss, the ever-irascible Bertha Cool, has hired a martial arts master to teach him self-defense. The first class isn't easy for Donald, but he is rewarded with a new client . . . Henry Ashbury is concerned about his daughter's recent spending habits. He wants Donald to find out where her money is going, without letting on that he's a detective. So, going undercover as Ashbury's trainer, Donald soon learns the story behind the daughter's finances. But when his investigation also turns up a dead body, the diminutive detective must teach the killer a lesson in justice . . . "Lively wit and machinegun dialogue." --Ralph E. Vaughan, author of Murder in the Goblins' Playground "Gardner has a way of moving the story forward that is almost a lost art: great stretches of dialogue alternate with lively chunks of exposition, and the two work together perfectly, without sacrificing momentum." --Booklist

Dealing with debtors turns deadly for a prickly PI in this hard-boiled mystery by the creator of Perry Mason and author of Bats Fly at Dusk. A hot-headed widow and a glass-jawed ex-lawyer, Bertha Cool and Donald Lam seem like an unlikely duo of private detectives. Even so, they've managed to solve the most difficult of mysteries--when they're together. With Donald now on a European vacation, Bertha is hesitant to accept any new business--but money is money, and this new case seems routine enough . . . Bertha is hired to get sales engineer Everett Belder out of a $20,000 problem. Unfortunately, his troubles soon multiply. His wife is receiving poisoned-pen letters accusing him of infidelity. Then she disappears. And there's also the matter of the body in his cellar. With everything spiraling out of control, Bertha must determine who is behind this deadly game of cat and mouse before another murder comes into play. "No one has ever matched Gardner for swift, sure exposition." --Kirkus Reviews "The best American writer, of course, is Erle Stanley Gardner." --Evelyn Waugh

When his drug-smuggling grandmother is murdered for informing on her employers, a journalist takes justice into his own hands   Four old women return from a Bahamas vacation with four more suitcases than they had when they left. They leave them behind at baggage claim, and a stranger picks them up—disappearing with the extra suitcases and the hundreds of pounds of cocaine they hold. The grandmothers are smugglers, supplementing their social security with criminal income, but one of them is tired of the deception. Doris goes to the DEA to out her boss, a vicious drug lord named Trelana, and when he learns she has snitched, her age does not buy mercy. Doris’s grandson, Drew Jordan, is a journalist with fantasies of life as a commando. Now it’s up to him to avenge the woman who raised him, and get retribution even if the whole international drug trade stands in his way.

The government''s most feared retired operative hunts an asylum''s worth of escaped convicts and a serial killerwho executes entire townsA murderer roams America-the worst the country has ever seen. Nicknamed Tiny Tim, he doesn''t just kill individuals or families; he wipes out small towns. First Dixon Springs, Montana: population 108. Next, the 115 souls of Daisy, Georgia, done away with using his hands, a knife, and a silenced machine gun. The FBI considers him unstoppable, and so they call Jared Kimberlain.ΓÇïThe fearsome retired operative wants nothing to do with it, having gotten his fill of hunting serial killers years before, when he was nearly killed capturing a vicious psychopath named Andrew Harrison Leeds. But now, along with eighty-three other inmates, Leeds has escaped from the island institution where he was imprisoned. Between him and Tiny Tim, no soul in America will be safe until Kimberlain cleans up the mess.

A killer proves he can penetrate the world''s finest security systems, and an undercover operative must come out of retirement before the president enters the crosshairsTwenty-five-thousand dollars a week buys an impressive security system, and America''s billionaires have the best they can get. Round-the-clock guards, electrical fences, and bulletproof glass protect their mansions-but they''re no longer enough. Three of the nation''s most powerful businessmen have died in seemingly impossible ways: one electrocuted, one blown up in his sleep, and the third hacked to death in an impenetrable room.The security service chief contacts an old special-forces colleague, Jared Kimberlain, who quit the life when he lost his taste for clandestine ops. He''s spent the last years trying to undo the wrongs he did when he lived without a conscience. Kimberlain doesn''t care about the troubles of billionaires, but their security was as good the president''s-and he could be next.

The acclaimed biographer presents ';a perceptive life of the controversial political philosopher' and author of Eichmann in Jerusalem (Kirkus Reviews). Hannah Arendt was a polarizing cultural theoristextolled by her peers as a visionary and berated by her critics as a poseur and a fraud. Born in Prussia to assimilated Jewish parents, she escaped from Hitler's Germany in 1933. Arendt is now best remembered for the storm of controversy that surrounded her 1963 New Yorker series on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, a kidnapped Nazi war criminal. Arendt's first book, The Origins of Totalitarianism, single-handedly altered the way generations around the world viewed fascism and genocide. Her most famous work, Eichmann in Jerusalem, created fierce debate that continues to this day, exacerbated by the posthumous discovery that she had been the lover of the philosopher and Nazi sympathizer Martin Heidegger. In this comprehensive biography, Anne C.Heller tracks the source of Arendt's contradictions and achievements to her sense of being a ';conscious pariah'one of those rare people who doesn't ';lose confidence in ourselves if society does not approve us' and will not ';pay any price' to gain the acceptance of others.