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books about: finding

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Finding Love (A Mill Creek Crossing Romance), 2013

Amelia Devin has always been known as the "stable one" in town. After her mother died when she was eighteen, she took over as the caregiver for her younger siblings and gave up her life to make sure they were okay. Now that they're gone, what will she do with herself? Has she missed the best years of her life raising kids that weren't her own? Clay Barnes is a newly widowed father, and his job as a famous TV chef keeps him in the limelight as ...

Finding Jessie: A Mystery Romance, 2013

Sam’s quiet life as a New England bookseller and occasional lawyer is turned upside down when a tussle over a vintage children’s book turns him into the rescuer of a much younger woman. Jessie is a mysterious beauty with dark secrets—much darker than his own. FINDING JESSIE is an emotionally intense, heartbreaking modern gothic mystery romance about a woman’s lifetime quest for her sense of self and the man who is determined to ...

Finding a College: A Homeschooler's Guide to Finding a Perfect Fit (Coffee Break Books), 2013

“Finding a College”: Parents homeschooling high school sometimes get the feeling that the light at the end of the tunnel might just be a train heading straight at them! That train is called “college,” and one of the most angst-ridden tasks facing homeschooling families is choosing a college that will be a perfect fit for both the student and the family. But where do you start? How do you find a college to visit? Is it possible to ...

Finding Chase (Chase Walker #2)

Moonstruck Media, 2012

Finding Chase, sequel to #1 Bestseller and Top 100 Best Teen Book of 2012, Chasing Nikki, by Lacey Weatherford Overview: Scarred by tragedy. A grief so intense it burns. How to keep his vow when life no longer seems worth living... Can love come again? Finding Chase Back Cover Blurb: Things haven’t been easy for Chase Walker. He’s experienced tragedy, and at times he’s not sure he wants to continue living. But he made a vow to go on ...

The Finding (Law of the Lycans #3) (The Law of the Lycans)

Nicky Charles, via Smashwords, 2013

She discovered a dark secret, witnessed a murder and fled into the night fearing for her life. Three years later, Cassie is still hiding from her past, haunted by a dream lover and fighting to control a terrifying beast that seems to grow stronger each day. When Bryan, pack Beta, appears to claim her, Cassie is forced to face the truth of her existence. Innocence, betrayal, greed and love collide with ancient werewolf laws in... The Finding. ...

Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Hire, Keep and Nurture Creative Talent
Nolan Bushnell, Gene Stone

Net Minds Corporation, 2013

In Silicon Valley legend Nolan Bushnell's first book, he explains how to find and hire employees who have the potential to be the next Steve Jobs. Nolan Bushnell founded the groundbreaking gaming company Atari in 1972, and two years later employed Steve Jobs, as well as many other creatives over the course of his five decades in business. Here Bushnell explains how to find, hire, and nurture the people who could turn your company into the next ...

Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create the Life You Want
Martha Beck

Atria Books, 2013

Finding Your Way in a Wild New World reveals a remarkable path to the most important discovery you can make: the knowledge of what you should be doing with your one wild and precious life. It’s the thing that so fulfills you that, if you knew what it was, you’d run straight toward it through brambles and fire. Life coach and bestselling author of Finding Your Own North Star Martha Beck guides you to find out how you got to where you are ...

Finding Catalina, 2012

Catalina Vincent is imprisoned. Not in a state penitentiary or jail cell but in her own life. And Brody Marks is her warden. She goes to school at the local University and is forced to work at Brody's bar, the Bait and Tackle. But within the confines of that limited freedom she can't escape the oppression that she has lived with every day for eleven years. She's trapped all because her mother Silvia carelessly chose a life with Brody when Cat ...

Finding Drake: The Desperate Search for Mr. Anderson

Son of Peter Publishing, 2012

Fifteen-year-old Drake can’t stand his Grandpa. Abandoned years ago by his alcoholic mother, Drake is forced to care for this crazy old man suffering from Alzheimer’s, a disease he doesn’t understand. And his resentment worsens when Grandpa commits a common Alzheimer’s offense: he wanders and disappears. This sparks a desperate missing person search – desperate because Grandpa is lost in a Minnesota winter – and Drake suddenly ...

Finding Rebecca: A Novel of Love and the Holocaust, 2012

Now Available Exclusively on Amazon Finding Rebecca: A Novel of Love and the Holocaust How far would you go for the one you love? Christopher would always be there for Rebecca no matter what it took, from the beaches of Jersey to the hell of the holocaust and Auschwitz. The prisoners in Auschwitz called it Canada, the land of unimaginable riches, where the last possessions of those who perished in the gas chambers were gathered ...

Finding Stones (Tales From A 20 Year Old Witch), 2012

"Finding Stones" Tales from a 20 year old witch. By Tiffany Luv Wright 20 year old Jaxx had everything a girl could dream of, until she meets her lifes mission in the mines of New Mexico, beginning a descent in to a world of witchcraft, ancient demon enemies, and Immortal lives, realizing that growing up means coming to terms with the eternal battle between good and evil, and the line blurring at every turn. It introduces new enemies and ...

Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life
Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica

Viking Adult, 2013

The New York Times bestselling author of The Element gives readers an inspirational and practical guide to self-improvement, happiness, creativity, and personal transformation Sir Ken Robinson’s TED talk video and groundbreaking book, The Element , introduced readers to a new concept of self-fulfillment through the convergence of natural talents and personal passions. The Element has inspired readers all over the world and has ...

Finding Teddy, 2011

Sherylyn Gruber’s family life is forever changed when she is abducted from her home in San Jose, California by a rogue group of terrorists known as T-12 who plan to bomb Mercy Hospital where Sherylyn works as a staff nurse. In this fast paced medical/drama/thriller, Sherylyn’s husband, FBI Special Agent Hal Gruber, must race against the clock to rescue Sherylyn when she escapes from her captors and becomes lost in a barren California desert. ...

Find Purpose - A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Meaning in Your Life (Find Happiness)

Racheal Vicari, 2012

Do you feel like your life is passing you by and you still haven’t found your “true calling?” My whole life I have felt like I was here to accomplish something special. I knew I had a purpose. The only problem was I had no idea what “it” was. Maybe you are just heading to college or out into the “world” and have no clue what you should do with your life. Maybe, like me, you have already accomplished all of your goals only to ...

Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
Rich Roll

Crown Archetype, 2012

Finding Ultra is Rich Roll’s incredible-but-true account of achieving one of the most awe-inspiring midlife physical transformations ever. One cool evening in October 2006, the night before he was to turn forty, Rich experienced a chilling glimpse of his future. Nearly fifty pounds overweight at the time and unable to climb the stairs without stopping, he could see where his current sedentary lifestyle was taking him. Most of us, ...

Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
Martha Beck

Three Rivers Press, 2002

“Explorers depend on the North Star when there are no other landmarks in sight. The same relationship exists between you and your right life, the ultimate realization of your potential for happiness. I believe that a knowledge of that perfect life sits inside you just as the North Star sits in its unaltering spot.” Martha Beck has helped hundreds of clients find their own North Star, fulfill their potential, and live more joyfully. Now, she ...

Finding Karla: How I Tracked Down an Elusive Serial Child Killer and Discovered a Mother of Three (Kindle ...

Canadian Writers Group/The Atavist, 2012

In the early 1990s, Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo became known around the world as the “Ken and Barbie Killers” after the young lovers were convicted of crimes related to the rape and murder of two teenage girls. Homolka later struck a deal with prosecutors to serve twelve years in prison for manslaughter. When she was released from prison in 2005, Homolka lived briefly in Montreal, where she was hounded by the press. By 2007, she had ...

Finding Emma
Steena Holmes

Amazon Publishing, 2013

A mother’s near-obsessive devotion to her missing daughter threatens to destroy more than one family. Megan is the harried but happy stay-at-home mother of three little girls living in a small town. Her life implodes when her youngest daughter, Emma, disappears on her third birthday. Two years later, Megan is preparing to commemorate Emma’s birthday and the anniversary of her kidnapping, compelled to keep her name alive in the minds of her ...

Finding Florida
T. D. Allman

Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013

Over its long history, Florida has been many things: a native realm protected by geography; a wilderness that ruined Spanish conquistadors; a place to start over; "god's waiting room." With a native population as high as 900,000 (who all died), it became a pestilential backwater with a few thousand inhabitants, but today is our fourth most populous state, with nineteen million. The site of vicious racial violence, including massacres, slavery, ...

Finding Nouf
Zoe Ferraris

Mariner Books, 2009

Fast-paced and utterly transporting, Finding Nouf is a riveting literary mystery and an unprecedented window into the lives of men and women in Saudi Arabia. When sixteen-year-old Nouf goes missing, her prominent family calls on Nayir al-Sharqi, a pious desert guide, to lead the search party. Ten days later, just as Nayir is about to give up in frustration, her body is discovered by anonymous desert travelers. But when the coroner’s ...