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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 36 ways to improve your writing Two writers show you how to turn a worthy sentence into a memorable one. Starting where The Elements of Style leaves off, Good Writing can improve your book, your essay, your memo, your blog post, speech, or script. These...

Anne Marie Allen was 15 when she was accepted onto a cookery school course that promised real qualifications and a future in the career of her dreams. Her happiness was short-lived as it became clear she had been tricked instead into a life of domestic servitude to the members of the Opus Dei cult. What followed were years of misery in slavery, forced celibacy and traumatic physical suffering under an ambitious and tyrannical institution that demanded perfection, humiliation and pain.

The author describes in detail all the insanity, disturbing behaviors, oppressive symptoms, and various feeling associated with the mental battles within her own mind. The author suffers from clinical depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and borderline personality disorder. She struggles with suicidal thoughts and attempts, self-mutilating behaviors, mania, paranoia, anxiety, and psychosis with intense hallucinations of all five of her senses, and multiple delusions, including the belief that she is the "second-coming of Christ".

This is an empowering and uplifting self-help audiobook on schizoaffective disorder that aims to inform, inspire, and encourage the listener in his or her journey of recovery. This audiobook provides the listener with hope and tips on how to effectively cope.

Looks at each dog element archetype individually, exploring their personality strengths and weaknesses, emotional defaults, how they react under stress, what makes them happy, and their potential physical ailments and conditions Offers holistic practices to help support each elemental...

"First thought, best thought." This was the phrase that poet Allen Ginsberg used to describe spontaneous and fearless writing, a way of telling the truth that arises from naked and authentic experience. For more than 30 years, groundbreaking teachers at Naropa University such as Ginsberg and his...

A haunting tale of love, loss and finding one’s place in the world Widowed artist Annabel returns to Guernsey seeking a fresh start for herself and her young daughter away from her late husband’s controlling family. Seagull Cottage appears perfect, by the sea and with a low rent. The snag is it comes with a resident ghost, Daniel, a sea captain who died 70 years ago in 1946. He built the cottage and objects to anyone not family living there. He and Annabel have to come to terms with sharing what he still considers to be his home. After a difficult start they begin to share their pasts ...

The author introduces you to the illness, its symptoms, and causes. Stephanie Anne Allen goes on to share her own intimate battle with the devastating mental illness. She then describes exactly what methods, tips, and guidelines she used to cope with and overcome the illness. She provides you with hope, by her own example, that recovery from this mental illness is possible. And to top it all off, Stephanie ends with some very deep inspirational quotes dedicated entirely to those who suffer from schizophrenia.

How to Survive Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is an inspirational and insightful look at a topic that is often much misunderstood in today's society. This book offers knowledge and hope to the listener. The author discusses coping methods, and she uses her own personal struggle with the illness as an example of how to overcome BPD. Author Stephanie Anne Allen has educational, professional, and extensive personal experience when it comes to this disorder.

How to Survive Addiction is an empowering and uplifting self help audiobook. It is totally unique and one-of-a-kind as it combines both knowledge and heart. This audiobook offers insight, inspiration, encouragement, and tips on how to successfully cope with addiction of all sorts. This includes drug dependency and a number of behavioral addictions, including but not limited to shopping, working, eating, and gambling.

To survive depression, you must first understand and accept it. Then, you can draw on the appropriate coping skills and techniques to overcome it. This self-help audiobook was written to educate, motivate, and inspire those who suffer with this mental illness. "If you are sitting in the darkness (due to depression), turn on the light. If you cannot find the light switch, seek out the help of someone who can!"

How to Survive Bipolar Disorder is the second book in the How to Survive Series. It provides education, hope, inspiration, and tips on how to cope effectively with bipolar disorder. This self help book was written by a survivor who shares her own personal secrets on how she was able to find resilience and recovery from bipolar disorder.

This powerful and concise series of self-help books aim to inform and inspire listeners. They offer hope and effective methods of coping. The author, Stephanie Anne Allen, has both professional and extensive personal experience when it comes to anxiety and other mental illnesses. Having both sides of experience makes these books both intelligent and easy listens. With the author's well-rounded experience, she is able to get real about anxiety and other mental health topics.

Empowering and uplifting self-help book that explores all eating disorders. Offers hope, inspiration, encouragement, insight, and tips on how to cope successfully with an eating disorder. Contents include: introduction, eating disorders defined, symptoms, causes, my own personal struggle, coping skills, recovery and outcome, and inspirational quotes.

Post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, can cause much unrest in a victim's life, not to mention the severe damage it can cause those who suffer and their loved ones! But the good news is that you can recover from PTSD and move forward with your life in a positive direction. You can gain control and begin to rediscover who you truly are. I wrote this book to assist on your journey to overcome this distressing mental illness.

It’s time to put a spotlight on a unique profession that provides more wake-up calls than an alarm clock. Located at a small, remote drive-through window is a seductress that serves a different type of espresso. She is sexy, cool, and sweet like an extra dose of chocolate syrup. Say hello to the bikini barista! The 21 Laws of Being a Bikini Barista is an audiobook that serves as a useful guide for ambitious, young women who want to partake in a growing industry that demands a mix of barista skills, crafty customer service, and sex appeal.

Perennially down-and-out socialite Camilla Randall - aka The Manners Doctor - is a magnet for murder, mayhem, and Mr. Wrong, but she always solves the mystery in her quirky, but oh-so-polite way. Usually with more than a little help from her gay best friend, Plantagenet Smith. In this hilarious episode she makes the mistake of responding to an online review of one of her etiquette guides and sets off a chain of events that leads to arson, attempted rape, and murder.

Some stories, like "Vive La Revolution", which first appeared in the edgy humor magazine Opium, are satire, and others are more heartfelt. But they are all humorous portraits of rebellious women at various stages of their lives.

Food of Love tells the story of Regina, a former supermodel, now princess of a tiny European principality, who has lost her skeletal figure and finds herself threatened by an unknown assassin. Fearing her royal husband wants to kill her now that she’s not model-thin, she seeks protection from her estranged African-American foster sister, conservative Christian television pundit, Rev. Cady Stanton.

Comedy with a conscience: The uber-rich editor of Home decorating magazine loses everything, including her Ponzi-schemer husband, when their luxury wine-country home mysteriously goes up in flames. But that's just the beginning of Doria's problems.