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In The Customer Connection: Life Lessons from Behind the Chair, you’ll embark on a transformative journey into the world of a seasoned “hairapist,” where the salon chair becomes a unique vantage point for understanding human nature.

Pam Geiger’s longstanding role as an esteemed fashion and beauty artist began years before she ever coiffed Jacqueline Kennedy, Cheryl Tiegs or Christie Brinkley. Long before working with Bill King, Patrick Demarchelier, Steven Meisel, Hiro, Neil Barr and Irving Penn, Pam was in front of the mirror in her childhood home in Lexington, Massachusetts, fretting over her own evolving adolescent looks and experimenting with ways to improve them.

This book will keep you entertained! You will discover fun and interesting facts you probably never knew existed! If you've ever shivered at the idea of eating tarantulas, or wondered why medieval kings have such odd nicknames, you'll enjoy a trip round the world of weird facts with this fascinating book. From weird food to odd funeral customs, from explorers who got lost to misleading translations, the book contains hundreds of intriguing trivia facts.

Brokenness can appear in various areas of our life: physical, financial, emotional, mental, or spiritual. One of the major causes of brokenness is trauma, but no matter what initiated the brokenness, dealing with it usually produces hopelessness and feeling of being overwhelmed. Not everyone will face brokenness in their lifetime, however for those who do, they have a challenge ahead of them.

Are you ready to turn your passion for health and wellness into a thriving online business? From Idea to Income is your ultimate roadmap to navigating the lucrative world of e-commerce in the wellness industry. This guide walks you through every step—from brainstorming and sourcing products to marketing strategies and scaling your business.

Although Libby Peyton hailed from a small Ohio town, she branched out from attending a very small liberal arts school, which included a junior year sojourn in Japan, to a doctoral program at a major midwestern university. Her studies in sociology were interrupted, at least as she likes to think, by the onset of schizophrenia and a subsequent hospitalization. Despite the ongoing, unrelenting somatic symptoms, delusions, and suicidal ideation she experienced, she held down a low-level administrative job in a university for twenty years, all the while keeping her mental health status a secret.

When her school announces its plan for year-round instruction, 15-year-old Francesca’s dream of summer art camp seems lost. The only way Francesca can stop the Board of Education from going ahead with its plan is a long shot: she must win the Snow Games, a capture-the-flag, multi-round battle for teens.

Giselle is cursed. A monster lives within her, preying upon her mind. She sees no hope for her future when thoughts disappear as they form, and every small pleasure is met with a fit of pain. Then her closest friend offers her a single, harrowing chance at freedom. Terrified that failure is inevitable, but desperate for the life stolen from her, she sets out to slay her curse armed with a magical talisman. Now, the girl who can’t do anything right must defeat the beast within before her dreamsnare fills, or risk dying trapped in her own mind.

Ellena is on an adventure to change the outcome of her fate. Will she succeed?

This is a true story of the death of a child through homicide. It is about a mother's healing journey and the pivotal decisions she had to make in order to survive her son's death. It is about betrayal, and a shocking verdict but it's also about love, courage, and faith. It is hope for survival and inspiration for revival for those that are suffering a similar loss.

Kiyoko “Emerald” Simmons may be the smallest member of the GEMs team, but that doesn’t mean she can’t take care of herself. The easiest way to get on her bad side is to try and run her life. So when her grandparents arrange a marriage for her to a complete stranger, she loses her cool and cuts ties. Before she can leave Japan once and for all, the man who would marry her tells her about his true love, Mei, who has been missing for months. Kiy vows to find her, going undercover in the same facility where Mei went missing.

Taunting him was a game I had become all too good at playing, although neither of us ended up being a winner when we played it. Our game was frustrating, heart-wrenching, and wicked, but one I couldn’t force myself to walk away from.

For as long as she can remember, God and his teachings have enveloped every part of Megan Davidson’s life, leading her to commit herself to the church as a Catholic sister. But lately, thoughts she’s suppressed for years are consuming her. Her faith is tested when dreams of a woman she’s attracted to begin to haunt her. She’d never felt lonely before. She had God; she had her social work at St. Joseph’s Hospital, and her prayer. But now? The more Megan tries to reject the impure thoughts, the emptier her life feels.

The relationship between a father and daughter is profound. Jay and Rae Anne Payleitner share their own insights into this sometimes complicated but ultimately fulfilling relationship. Rooted in Scripture and full of stories, this book will deepen dads’ and daughters’ appreciation for one another.

Ruby Henderson and four of her closest friends decide to travel west as mail order brides to find love. Upon arriving, she instantly regrets the rash decision. Especially upon meeting her husband to be who looks more like an outlaw, than a doctor.

In the heart of Coketown, a small and struggling town in modern Northern England, our protagonist struggles to make sense of their reality. The town is reeling from the effects of pit closures and social deprivation, and the recent events of COVID and Brexit have only made matters worse. It is a place where hope is scarce, and the weight of the world seems to rest on the shoulders of its residents.

With no family in Charleston, Anna Tuttle decides to join her friends and become a mail-order bride. But she wasn’t prepared for the way her indulged life would change. And yet her rugged husband is doing his best to help her adjust to her new life as a rancher's wife. But she wants more.

In this genre hybrid between historical fiction and sci-fi, Naavalah, a scrupulous mechanic aboard the starship Reynolds, crash-lands on the Lost Colony of Arciel, where she must choose between signaling for help—thereby bringing the imperialistic Federation to conquer this unsuspecting world—or trying to survive on her own. Before she can decide, she is found by a local genderfluid clothier named Melis-te, who rushes her away from her crash site to avoid capture by the local feudal lord.

When Kara Reynolds runs from her fiancé on her wedding day, she leaves San Francisco, along with her humiliated and un-supportive family, and heads to a small town in northern California to get her head together and face the truth about her desires. She can't commit herself to a man when in her heart she knows it is relationships with women that she really wants to explore.

Caroline Bishop leaves war-ravaged Charleston behind to be a mail-order bride for a man she’s never met. Meeting handsome Adam Larsen, a man who makes her pulse race with a single glance, along the way seems like a cruel twist of fate, especially when she learns he lives in the same small town she’s headed to.