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  Wild in Seattle - Stories at the...

  David Williams

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  For award-winning natural history writer David B. Williams, to be connected to a place you need to pause and look deeply at it. Wild in Seattle is Williams's delightful journey of discovery in this city where not only is nature all around, it's also written in the stones of the urban landscape. Explore the geologic history of glaciers, tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanoes as well as the ways humans shape the Seattle topography. From backyards to downtown, watch for coyotes, crows, seals, otters, owls, and so much more wildlife who also call the region home. Look up at the buildings to find terra cotta eagles, stone that traveled over millions of years from Asia to the San Juan Islands, and clues to the horses who used to power the city's transportation network. Wrap your arms around a giant Douglas-fir, appreciate the unsung yet remarkable skunk cabbage, stop and listen to the spring chorus of frogs. 
   
   
   
  Williams's lively essays will fire up the curiosity of both residents and visitors alike, inspiring all to take a fresh look at the Emerald City.

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  Affirmations To Attract Wealth

  Max Topoff

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  This new program will help you have a successful and abundant life. Your subconscious mind is a fertile soil that accepts any seed thrown into it. The thoughts, feelings, and words you speak or hear are those seeds. Everything that you now have in your life, you created yourself. And if you want change, then you need to start with your thoughts. Our thoughts create our reality, our present and future. And affirmations are the most powerful and very simple way to influence your subconscious. With repeated repetition of these affirmations, neural structures are activated and your subconscious mind is tuned to achieve what you want. Listen to them regularly before bed and during sleep for a month, and then these formulas will penetrate your subconscious and become part of you. Set your mind to acceptance.

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  Just Aspire

  Ajai Chowdhry

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  'When I left Jabalpur, the small town where I grew up, to pursue a career, I could not have dreamt that I would find myself at the vanguard of pathbreaking revolutions that would transform India.' 
   
  Entrepreneur, sportsman, salesman, engineer, educationist, jazz aficionado and investor-meet Ajai Chowdhry, the HCL cofounder who dons many hats, all with equal ease. Growing up in the sleepy town of Jabalpur in a family that had migrated from Abbottabad post India's Independence, Ajai's life was set for a linear trajectory-engineering, a well-paying job and a comfortable life-but for the year 1975. 
  This was the year when Ajai quit his job at DCM Data Products and jumped into the uncharted waters of entrepreneurship, founding HCL with Shiv Nadar, Arjun Malhotra, Yogesh Vaidya, Subhash Arora and D.S. Puri. In the 1970s, leaving a stable job with one of India's leading brands was nothing short of crazy. To add to that, not many Indians knew what a computer was. The word 'start-up' was decades away from its use in common parlance. 
  Over the next four decades, HCL would go on to become one of the largest IT companies in India and a household brand. In Just Aspire, Ajai not only shares the story of a successful business behemoth but also of dreams, aspirations, hope and achievements from the eyes of a small-town boy. Along this journey, he shares timeless lessons on entrepreneurship, technology and the future. For all dreamers and doers, this book is a treasure trove of inspiration.

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  The Wild Side Volume 2

  Scott Shalaway

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  The Wildside Volume 2 highlights seventy five of the best of Scott Shalaway's syndicated nature columns. Let Scott introduce you to the natural history of creatures you see and enjoy every day--birds, bats, butterflies, and many other animals and plants. Compare personal perspectives on nature. Tag along as he describes his outdoor adventures, from the wilds of West Virginia to the Galapagos Islands. And learn how to attract more wildlife to your backyard with food, nest boxes, and wildflowers. 
  Scott Shalaway (1952-2025) earned his PhD in wildlife ecology at Michigan State. After working first at the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and then as a zoology professor at Oklahoma State University, he moved to West Virginia to fulfill his dream of becoming a freelance nature writer. Scott’s life “on the wild side” encompassed 33 years writing more than 2,000 columns, seven books, and several hundred magazine articles--many of which won writing awards. For 22 of those years, he also hosted live weekly radio shows in Pittsburgh and Wheeling, West Virginia. Scott led 13 birding tours to Mexico and 11 more to Ecuador, the Galapagos, Maine, the Everglades, southern Arizona, Hawk Mountain and Cape May. 
  This audiobook is brought to life by Scott's eldest daughter, author and voice actor Nora Shalaway Carpenter.

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  Heal the Beasts - A Jaunt...

  DVM Philipp Schott

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  How and why did humans begin to treat sick and injured animals? And how did those practices, and the associated attitudes, evolve from prehistory to the present day? 
   
   
   
  To answer these questions, Dr. Schott shares stories of twenty-two different animal healers and veterinarians from across eras and continents, examining the always fascinating, often unexpected, and sometimes hilarious veterinary methods employed by these people and their colleagues. But at the heart of the tale lies the evolution of the human-animal bond, which has been more cyclical than linear. 
   
   
   
  James Herriot will be familiar to many people, but most of the other featured vets will be new. They range from Palakapya, who treated fighting elephants in India almost 3,000 years ago, to Dr. Louis Camuti, who had the first feline house call practice anywhere, tending to the cats of celebrities in mid-twentieth-century Manhattan. Along the way, we see every kind of person trying to heal every kind of creature. 
   
   
   
  Whether you have a passion for animals, the history of the medical sciences, or just quirky history, this light-hearted exploration of the empathetic relationship between man and beast will entertain and delight.

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  Sanctuary - The True Story of an...

  Patrick Barrett, Susy Flory

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  Torn between a sense of duty and her dreams of living an independent life, a young woman wrestles with the pain of her past and her hopes for the future in this emotive retelling of Jane Austen’s Persuasion set along the shores of Lake Erie.Ohio, 1899. Since her mother’s death years ago, Alice Elliot has endeavored to keep her family afloat, despite her father’s foolish spending and mounting debts. A skilled artist and capable household manager, Alice struggles to read, which has proven an obstacle in securing a life outside her father’s control. When he rents out the family home for the summer to vacation among high society, Alice must choose: go with him or travel to the shores of Lake Erie to learn the sailmaking trade at her brother-in-law’s company. Alice quickly seizes the job opportunity, believing it could be a pathway toward an independent future. But it also means returning to the place where she rejected the man she loved, convinced he was too much like her father.Following nearly a decade of scrimping and saving, Captain Frederich Wycliff is about to prove to himself―and others―that he is a trustworthy businessman. All he must do now is see his schooner’s sail mended and earn the last of the money required to sail for Canada and purchase a fleet of ships for his own company before the offer expires. After discovering Alice, who once shattered all his future hopes, has returned, Frederich is desperate to avoid reliving past heartbreak. He throws himself into work and turns his attention toward spirited Leah Musgrove. But as he and Alice continue crossing paths, he remembers everything that drew him to her that long-ago summer.Despite himself, Frederich wonders if he could dare offer Alice his heart one last time. And as summer marches toward autumn, Alice must reckon with her past mistakes and find the courage to claim the life and love she truly wants, before the chance is lost forever.A clean second chance romance retelling of Jane Austen’s PersuasionChristian historical fiction set in the Great Lakes region in the late 1800sGreat for book clubs who enjoy novels by Sarah E. Ladd, Mimi Matthews, Pepper Basham, and Julie KlassenIncludes discussion questions and themes of resilience, love, hope, and new beginnings

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