SYNOPSISAda Okoye is a struggling young woman drowning in debt, family pressure, and the constant fear of losing everything she loves. When a mysterious billionaire unexpectedly enters her life with a shocking offer—a marriage contract that promises to solve all her financial problems—she is forced to make an impossible choice.With no other way to save her mother’s medical treatment and prevent her family from being thrown out of their home, Ada signs the c...

LIFE IS 5% WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU, 95% WHAT YOU DO WITH IT! Have you ever wondered how to create a great life for yourself or what is your purpose in life? This book will show you not just what you want but also EXACTLY how to create the happy, successful life you have always wanted using smart, measurable goals and a strategic life plan tailored specifically to YOU. In this book you will find out: • How to create a great life • How to find purpose and meaning in your life • Ways of achieving...

Written to reflect the realities of todays business environment, Power Mentoring is a nuts-and-bolts guide for anyone who wants to create a connection with a protg or mentor, or to improve a current mentoring relationship. Filled with illustrative examples and candid insights from fifty of America'smost successful mentors and protgs, Power Mentoring unlocks the secrets of great mentoring relationships and shows how anyone (including those who are well established in their careers, or those...

**PubWest 2023 Book Design Award (Silver)At a time of climate emergency, Zen koans show us how crisis itself can reveal the regenerative openness of life, mind, and being.**Zen koans are a tradition of holistic inquiry based on “encounter stories” from East Asia’s most radical Buddhist tradition. Turning this form of inquiry toward the climate crisis, Susan Murphy contends that koans can help us enter the mind of not-knowing, from which acceptance and possibility freely eme...

Love, attachment, the passions, gender, carnality, birth, bodily being, mortality, belonging, suffering, hope, despair, personhood, imagination, vitality, the struggle to be fully human – how do these things dwell wholly in emptiness, how do we reconcile their vivid life with 'no–thingness'?The red (or 'vermilion') thread originally connoted the color of the silk undergarments courtesans were obliged to wear. Most spiritual traditions do their best to distance themselves as thoroug...

In the Company of Women explains how indirect, or "relational," aggression can hurt women and hinder them from achieving success and harmony in their adult lives. Gender studies have shown that when a goal is in sight, men generally use direct action to attain it. Women, on the other hand, have been socialized to express aggressive actions through indirect means-using behavior such as shunning, stigmatizing, andWith startling insights into the meaning of our everyday behav...

We all know our earth is in trouble. But is it beyond repair? Are we stuck with a planetary disaster we cannot hope to address?Despite the reality we find ourselves in, Zen practitioner and author Susan Murphy reminds us of the astounding intelligence and magnificence of nature and argues that not only is it not too late, but that we all have the capacity to embrace this challenge with a sense of hope and reason.By shining a sober light on the current state of emergency, Mu...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Paul Van Der Merwe’s Lucky Go Happy and NOT the original book.Preview:Author Paul van der Merwe follows an unlikely journalist on an adventure to define happiness in Lucky Go Happy: Make Happiness Happen! (2014). The journalist is not actually a person but rather a rat named Lucky who searches for a shared definition of happiness among the animals of the African Bushveld…Inside this companion to the book:

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Malcolm Gladwell's Blink and NOT the original book.Preview:In Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005), Malcolm Gladwell argues that first impressions are often surprisingly accurate. Having less information and making decisions quickly leads to better outcomes in many cases…Inside this companion to the book:Overview of the BookInsights from the BookImportant People

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to John C. Maxwell’s Developing the Leader Within You and NOT the original book.Preview:John C. Maxwell’s Developing the Leader Within You (1993) is a guide to forming the necessary traits required of a leader. A leader is someone who can attract, motivate, and mentor followers who help bring the leader’s vision to life…Inside this companion to the book:Overview of the BookInsights from the B...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Michael Pollan’s Cooked and NOT the original book.Preview:Cooked (2013) by Michael Pollan is a journalistic study of cooking in the modern world, where convenience foods have rendered the need to cook and the knowledge of cooking relatively rare. Cooking is essentially defined as the transformation of raw ingredients using fire to make barbecue, water to make braises, air to make bread, and earth to make fermented food. ...

The first book in a heartbreaking trilogy set in post-war Liverpool by bestselling author Nadine Dorries.1950s Liverpool. In the tight-knit Irish Catholic community of the Four Streets, two girls are growing up.One is motherless – and hated by the cold woman who is determined to take her dead mother's place. The other is hiding a dreadful secret which she dare not let slip to anyone, lest it...