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Alexander Williams is in too deep. He doesn't sleep, and when he does sleep, it is a few hours filled with nightmares. He thinks he needs to be perfect at everything to prove he can be a good father, fiance, son, and brother, and who no longer cuts. He feels like everyone is just waiting for him to snap and go back to cutting. As the pressure to keep fighting the self-injury addiction builds, he becomes more and more stressed, and when the opportunity to give up and just start cutting again or stay on the path he is on, with the good job and family he loves, can he choose?"
Alex made his choice, but now he has doubts. Did he make the right choice? Can he go through with the choice he made . . . ? Just as Alex has picked up right where In Too Deep leaves off, he chooses his life now, not his past, but can he do it? He has no clue. He has serious doubts that are magnified after he gets injured at his own birthday party. With his wedding approaching faster than he thought, he begins insisting his mama to tell him about her past, despite her wish he leave her past right where it is-in the past. Can Alex find his answers and his footing not to doubt himself before he is so late to his own wedding that Ana changes her mind about marrying him?
From author B.A. Timmer comes a honey of a murder mystery! As the wedding planner at the Aloha Lagoon resort in Hawaii, Kristy Piper has seen some strange parties...but bride Claire Jackson's wedding party may be the oddest yet! Between a man-hungry bridesmaid, an overbearing mother of the groom, and a feisty tween guest, Kristy has her hands full! But when Claire's former fiancé is found dead—murdered by a luau serving fork!—things go from strange to downright dangerous. To make matters worse, Claire is discovered next to the dead body, sobbing uncontrollably. Is it shock...or guilt? The local homicide detective is sure Claire is to blame for the death. Luckily he works on "island time...
Dajour Quadir aka Streetz is back to face more drama, murder, money, and betrayal, will come against his old and new family members to the world of the Quadirs. By day they are upstanding citizens running a Real Estate Company a five star restaurant, and various small businesses in the city of Cincinnati Ohio. By night, they're criminals empire controls most of the drug trafficking in the city and looking to expand. A sudden chain of events will change the course of their family lives forever.
They used to be on the sidelines. Now they’re out in the field... Two years ago, Taryn Hall was a pro football cheerleader—until she left her lecherous boss with a bloody nose and a faceful of Mace. Now she’s part of a different kind of squad. An elderly billionaire named Irving has hired and trained Taryn and her two best friends to work as private investigators... Taryn loves the job, though it sometimes involves boring stakeouts, dog bites—and listening to Irving talk about his golf shoes. Then tattooed, steely-eyed, straight-up gorgeous undercover DEA agent Rick Silva walks into the office and shakes things up... Rick needs help finding the con artist who’s taken his lonely mother for all she was worth. With multiple aliases and multiple victims, it will be a challenge to track down the coldhearted gigolo. And Rick insists on accompanying Taryn on the hunt, working closely, day and night. This could be dangerous. And the case might be kind of risky, too...
The Psychology of Social Status outlines the foundational insights, key advances, and developments that have been made in the field thus far. The goal of this volume is to provide an in-depth exploration of the psychology of human status, by reviewing each of the major lines of theoretical and empirical work that have been conducted in this vein. Organized thematically, the volume covers the following areas: - An overview of several prominent overarching theoretical perspectives that have shaped much of the current research on social status. - Examination of the personality, demographic, situational, emotional, and cultural underpinnings of status attainment, addressing questions about why a...
Advances in Clinical Chemistry, Volume 117, the latest installment in this internationally acclaimed series, contains chapters authored by world-renowned clinical laboratory scientists, physicians and research scientists. - Provides the most up-to-date technologies in clinical chemistry and clinical laboratory science - Authored by world-renowned clinical laboratory scientists, physicians and research scientists - Presents the international benchmark for novel analytical approaches in the clinical laboratory
Unequal Health asks why some individuals are living longer and enjoying better health than others. By contrasting popular beliefs about the relevance of such factors as sex, race, poverty, and health habits, Grace Budrys moves beyond factors that receive a great deal of media attention, such as smoking, diet, exercise, even genetic inheritance, and examines those factors that are far more difficult to identify and track, such as relative income and relative social status.
Inside Instincts by Design, you will discover scientific mysteries of human and animal bodies only creation can explain. This fascinating, full-color book explores the instincts that are necessary for life, helpful for growth, and necessary for protection. Instincts by Design will keep readers captivated with answers to questions like these: How does a baby know when to inhale and exhale? How does a mother’s milk change to mee the needs of her baby? Why is the instinct to sleep one that we cannot override? Why is it important that your tongue is the center of your taste receptors? Why is the hunger instinct crucial for survival? What instincts help brainless jellyfish hunt and kill their p...
Building on the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the cornerstone of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, billed by the UN as “an agenda of unprecedented scope and significance.” These seventeen goals are conceived as integrated, indivisible, and as balancing the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. To be achieved by 2030, the goals are organized around five core pillars: people, planet, prosperity, peace, and partnership. As a member of the SDGs Publishers Compact, Frontiers is committed to advocating the themes represented by the SDGs and accelerating progress to achieve them. Nutr...