Yes, it's you against your 30 billion fat cells! They stay with you forever and can expand to store as much fat asyou choose to stash in them. Fat Wars: 45 Days to Transform Your Body isn't another diet book. Instead, it's the book that will tell you how your body works: how it makes energy, how it stores fuel (fat), how it moves fat around and how to get it to burn that fat instead of putting it into storage. Then Fat Wars will tell you how to take that knowledge to craft an eating and ac...

"A touching and provocative exploration of the latest research on animal minds and animal emotions" from the renowned anthropologist and author ( The Washington Post).Scientists have long cautioned against anthropomorphizing animals, arguing that it limits our ability to truly comprehend the lives of other creatures. Recently, however, things have begun to shift in the other direction, and anthropologist Barbara J. King is at the forefront of that movement,...

Defiant Souls is a supernatural thriller about a young woman who finds herself in the middle of a brewing war between Heaven and Hell.After suffering a tragic loss two years prior, 19-year-old Jade Harris gradually pulled herself from the grips of depression and is now a thriving college freshman who just completed her first year. She has an easy-going job, a place of her own, and is dating the most desired guy on campus. Life was definitely looking up for Jade.But that was...

New York City in the 1980s was a cesspool of corruption, violence and drugs. In a city gripped by fear, one man took it upon himself to bring order to the chaos, all while building an empire that would span the entire state. His name was Walter King, and the only thing more legendary than his reign was the path he blazed in his rise to the top of the underworld.An homage to the great gangster stories of old, House of King tells the tale of one man's meteoric rise from obscurity to ...

After one of the best evenings of her life at the junior high school ball, a young girl experiences her first kiss. During the amazing, yet awkward moment, something goes horribly wrong and her life is turned completely upside down. Soon she realises that her new existence has been severed from the usual humdrum of a typical teenage girl, and that she has been hurled into the world of the supernatural. Who can she trust, where can she turn? And what is it that she finds so uncomfortable ab...

Morgan, an early settler, is finding it hard to fit into their new community along with his wife and teenage daughter Suzie. And during his fortnightly visit into town, several miles away, he learns that it will only get harder as the winds of winter blow in upon them.Travel with Morgan and his daughter into the sick society he did not suspect dwelled so close to them within these cold, lonely mountains.They soon discover that the 'All-hallows-eve' celebrations play an all-en...

Two young cousins embark on an adventure, full with story telling, great foods and ghost haunting's. Heart-beats rise and minds rage as strange noises are heard out side their tent. What is wandering around, sniffing their sanctuary and threatening their safety? Will they even survive to see the morning sunrise again?Follow the boys into a journey of discovery where the learn that all is not what it seems.Bonus Short Story Included: 'Any Blood Idiot.'

Here is a story description of "Love Beyond the Classroom":"Love Beyond the Classroom" is a heartwarming tale set in Nairobi, Kenya, that follows the journey of Francis and Diana, two university students pursuing degrees in Real Estate. Their story begins with a shared academic struggle and evolves into a deep connection filled with laughter, shared dreams, and unspoken feelings. As they navigate the challenges of university life, their friendship blossoms, and they find themselves...

A down-and-out private eye is hired to find—or find out what happened to—several missing young girls. But what begins as a routine missing persons case soon spirals into a dangerous web of corruption, deception, and unspeakable horror.Justin Bolt—a disgraced cop turned drunken private dick—reluctantly delves into his latest case and quickly discovers the one thread that links each of the missing girls together is the enigmatic man of privilege that they all encountered shortly befo...

Once every generation there is a Chosen One, who will stand between humanity and darkness.But why is the Chosen One so often a teenager? Why do only children get swept through portals to save the fantastic world on the other side? Whose idea was it to put the fate of the world in the hands of someone without a fully developed prefrontal cortex?In Never Too Old to Save the World, nineteen authors explore what would happen if the Chosen One were called midlife. What ...

They say you love three people in your lifetime, and each of those people teach you a lesson. I’ve only loved one person, and he taught me all the lessons I ever had to learn. Five years ago, my brother died in a car accident and my boyfriend up and left me without as much as a goodbye.To deal with the grief, I moved to Maine and uprooted my career in the only place where I felt at home. I lived a quiet life with my job, my dog, and my best friend, finally coming to terms with the ...

A beautifully unique feature of Catholic life in the Diocese of Tulsa and Eastern Oklahoma is the presence of the sons of Saint Benedict at Clear Creek Monastery. How they came to be in our midst and what they do for us and with us is a very interesting story. Ted and T. Gavin King have done us a good service in collecting much of that story so we can read it and thank God for Clear Creek and the life of prayer they give us.—Bishop David Konderla,Bishop of the Diocese of Tuls...