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  Conquer Your Bad Habits -...

  MD Amen

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  Habits, whether good or bad, run our lives. What if there's a simple, practical way to get rid of the bad ones and replace them with healthy ones?
  If you find yourself habitually overeating, overspending, procrastinating, getting distracted, interrupting, people-pleasing, wasting time, automatically saying no, or drinking too much alcohol, neuropsychiatrist and best-selling author Daniel Amen, MD, has encouraging news for you: Your brain does what you train it to do. So even if you've trained your brain to normalize unhealthy behavior, you can also train it to turn bad habits into good ones in order to experience more joy and contentment.
  In Conquer Your Bad Habits, Dr. Amen combines approachable neuroscience and years of clinical research as he reveals:
  
  - the six most important brain systems that run your life
  - the five basic steps to conquering your unhealthy habits and setting new goals
  - how to overcome ten common bad habits
  - what to do when bad habits become addictions
  There's no better time than now to let Dr. Amen show you how to retrain your brain and eliminate your negative behaviors once and for all—so you can live a happier, healthier life.

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  Pirates of Empire - Illicit...

  Davis Truman

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  In the turbulent centuries of empire, the Caribbean was not merely a battlefield of nations, it was the beating heart of a global underground. Pirates of Empire reveals how smugglers, privateers, and rogue traders built an illicit economy that reshaped the Atlantic world, fueling fortunes, revolutions, and the birth of modern capitalism itself. 
  From Havana to Port Royal, from Bristol’s counting houses to the hidden coves of Hispaniola, Davis Truman uncovers the shadow networks that thrived beneath imperial rule. These were the real architects of the empire’s wealth, men and women who blurred the line between outlaw and entrepreneur, freedom and servitude, conquest and survival. Their ships carried more than plunder: they carried people, ideas, and commodities that transformed continents. 
  With gripping storytelling and cutting-edge scholarship, Pirates of Empire reframes piracy not as rebellion against empire, but as its indispensable partner. It exposes how colonial powers quietly relied on black markets to sustain their ambitions, and how these hidden economies gave rise to the modern Caribbean, multicultural, volatile, and endlessly creative. 
  Blending adventure and analysis, Pirates of Empire invites readers to sail into the murky waters where legality and legitimacy collided, and where the foundations of the modern world were forged in contraband and courage.

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  Thanddi Agg

  Seema Verma

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  The book "Thandi Agg" by Seema Verma is a collection of short stories, with around 60 stories included. The stories are full of emotions and engaging plots. The titles of the stories match well with their content, and many of them touch on important social issues as well as relationships and real-life experiences.

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  The Little Colonel's Christmas...

  Annie Fellows Johnston

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  In this delightful story ”The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation” by Annie Fellows Johnston the Little Colonel, Lloyd Sherman. together with her friends Betty, Kitty and Allison are starting the schoolyear at a new school, Warwick Hall, a Boardingschool for girls in Washington. They find it a wonderful and stimulating place, make many new friends and have many experiences and also adventures there. But Lloyd comes down with high fever shortly before Christmas, and while home on Christmas Vacation she almost breaks down, and the doctor says she must not go back to school but stay at home to regain her health.Lloyd is very, very disapointed at first but by and by finds that Lloydsboro Valley holds so much of interst and interesting people which she really didn't know or had noted before. During her forced Vacation she learns to see herself and people in a new light. She sets out to to help and to cheer people up, with some strange results to herself sometimes, but she is also the instrument of changing the life for some. When Spring comes her health is fully restored and she is turning sixteen, and at her Birthday a very astonishing letter arrives, and there it ends with the scene set for another story. (Summary by Lars Rolander)

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  A Simple Guide to Life

  Robert Bogoda

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  Innumerable books have been written about Buddhism, but most of these are far too exhaustive, too specialized, or too scholarly to be of much practical help to the busy lay Buddhist in search of concise guidance. A short, clear, and simple handbook on how to live a proper Buddhist lay life was therefore a much felt need. The present essay attempts to fill that gap by providing exactly what its title offers: A 
  Simple Guide to Life. 
   
  For easy reference the essay has been divided into short, convenient sections. The first section is theoretical in emphasis. It attempts to fix in the reader’s mind the essential principles of the Buddha’s teaching, without complicated and sophisticated explanations. The principles discussed here should serve as a clear-cut philosophy of life, a framework which illuminates the meaning and purpose of the Buddhist life. These principles will enable the lay Buddhist to understand his or her place in the larger scheme of things, to order priorities, and to devise a proper way to achieve them. The lack of a clear philosophy of life, so widespread today, is largely responsible for the steady decline in ethical standards, both individually and socially,...in the world as a whole.

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  Population: 485

  Michael Perry

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  Mike Perry’s extraordinary and thoughtful account of meeting the people of his small hometown by joining the fire and rescue team was a breakout hit that “swells with unadorned heroism” (USA Today) 
  Welcome to New Auburn, Wisconsin (population: 485) where the local vigilante is a farmer’s wife armed with a pistol and a Bible, the most senior member of the volunteer fire department is a cross-eyed butcher with one kidney and two ex-wives (both of whom work at the only gas station in town), and the back roads are haunted by the ghosts of children and farmers. Michael Perry loves this place. He grew up here, and now-after a decade away-he has returned. 
  Unable to polka or repair his own pickup, his farm-boy hands gone soft after years of writing, Mike figures the best way to regain his credibility is to join the volunteer fire department. Against a backdrop of fires and tangled wrecks, bar fights and smelt feeds, he tells a frequently comic tale leavened with moments of heartbreaking delicacy and searing tragedy.  
  Tracing his calls on a map in the little firehouse, he sees “a dense, benevolent web, spun one frantic zigzag at a time” from which the story of a tiny town emerges.

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