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"A goblin-inspired lifestyle guide that focuses on embracing imperfection in areas such as dressing, decorating, foraging, and crafting"--

"The author of Minimalista brings her signature organizational mindset and step-by-step approach to elevate and streamline all aspects of your life"--

¿Por qué hay personas que a pesar de su edad se sienten siempre jóvenes? Disfrutar de una vida larga y lo más saludable posible es una de las máximas que toda persona quiere llegar a alcanzar, y, aunque son muchos los factores que intervienen en el proceso del envejecimiento, existen una serie de circunstancias que demuestran que se puede disfrutar de una vida larga y disminuir las limitaciones tanto físicas como mentales propias de la edad. Con...

The sitting disease is the state of physical, mental, or emotional pain that results from being sedentary. Symptoms include neck and back pain, depression, obesity, and heart disease, and it may even lead to cancer. Fortunately, much can be done to reduce, eliminate, and reverse the plethora of health problems that the modern sitting epidemic has created in today's society. This book is dedicated to providing readers with a better understanding of...

"After an abusive, neglected childhood spent on welfare and in and out of homelessness in Alaska, raised by a mother who believed she was the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary, Carrot Quinn moved out on her own. She found a sense of belonging with a bunch of straight-edge anarchists who taught her how to traverse the country by freight trains, sleep in fields under the stars, and find her food by foraging in dumpsters. Her new life was one of thrilling...

In this novel the author takes us to Telegraph Avenue. It is a story that explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland, California families, one black and one white. Here he creates a world grounded in pop culture: Kung Fu, 1970s Blaxploitation films, vinyl LPs, jazz and soul music, and an epic of friendship, race, and secret histories.

A down-on-his-luck chef with gambling problems flees to a Latin American villa, where he assumes the identity of another man.

"Evans looks at several prominent ski towns in the West (including Crested Butte, Jackson Hole, Telluride, Lake Tahoe, Park City, and Mammoth) and the ski bums who either flourished or fled. He chronicles the American West transformed by rising real estate costs, an immigrant workforce, misguided values, and corporate-owned resorts. The story he tells is that of quintessentially American characters--rejecting materialism, taking risks, following their...

He's everything she doesn't need. The quiet horse whisperer whose touch still ignites her dreams--and is everything wealthy Lauren Prescott is not. She can think of a million reasons why she should never ever fall into Sky Fletcher's sure embrace again. Until she clashes head-on with the dangerous complications of her privileged life and needs his protection like air to breathe ... She's more than he can resist. The heiress Sky can't get out of his...