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More than eighty guided exercises and activities to help you break the diet cycle and create a better relationship with food and your body from bestselling author and Registered Nutritionist Laura Thomas PhD.

The straight-talking guide to Intuitive Eating: how to develop a healthy, trusting relationship with food and your body

Shootings. Snow globes. Secrets. When successful realtor, Alexis James, witnesses a shooting outside the bookstore in her hometown of Hollybrook, she soon realizes the perpetrator has unfinished business, and now she is caught in the crossfire.Tom Harrington is a British, best-selling author who needs to honor a promise and find some answers in this Canadian winter wonderland-but trouble follows him across the ocean. He read her like a book from the beginning... As Alexis is swept up in a festive whirlwind of danger and love, Tom attempts to break through her ice queen persona. But when chilling walls close in, they both have to decide: can they share their truth, rekindle their faith, and risk their lives if they have any hope for a Happily Ever After?

Written as part of a daily writing challenge in October 2022, this is a small collection of rhymes

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A captivating and moving story, set during the Second World War, portraying the extremely harsh living conditions endured by those on the home front.The story follows the life and loves of Violet, and some very tragic events that beset her young life. She lost her parents at a very young age and was taken in and brought up by an elderly neighbour. At age fourteen, she obtained work at a factory and forged some lifelong friendships, which played an important role in her future.Violet joined the army at the age of seventeen, where she was exposed to the many horrors of war on the beaches of Dunkirk.She married Stephen, a Regimental Sergeant Major in the army, but his many deployments to North Africa meant important family milestones were missed.His family supported Violet during his absence, but the question was, would he return from the war and would Violet finally find happiness?