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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A raw, compelling memoir of baseball, family, fame, addiction, and recovery, by one of the most beloved baseball players of his generation, Hall of Famer CC Sabathia “Beautifully rendered... The author's candor humanizes the game.”—The Wall Street Journal How does it feel to be born with enormous gifts, in a life shadowed by tragedy? What does it mean when the gift that opens the world for us is not enough to stop us from losing the things we love? And what new gifts do we find in that loss? Baseball had been CC Sabathia's life since he was a kid in gritty, baseball-obsessed Vallejo, California. He was a star by the time he was a preteen and a professional athlete when he was still a teenager. Everything he knew about how to be a person—an adult, a husband and father, a leader—he learned in rhythm with the baseball season, the every-fifth-day high-intensity spotlight of a starting pitcher, all while dealing with one of the sport's most turbulent eras: racism in a sport with diminishing Black presence; the era of performance-enhancing drugs; and the increasing tension between high-value contracts and sports owners who moved players around like game pieces. But his biggest struggle was with his own body and mind: Buoyed his whole life by talent and a fiery competitive spirit, CC found himself dealing with the steady and eventually alarming breakdown of his own body and his growing addiction in a world that encouraged and enabled it.Till the End is the thrilling memoir of one of the most beloved players in the game, a veteran star of the sport's marquee team during its latest championship era. It's also a book about baseball—about the ins and outs of its most important and technical position and its evolution in this volatile era. But woven within it is the moving, universal story of resilience and mortality and discovering what matters.

FROM EXCITING AUTHOR OF COZY MYSTERIES, CC DRAGON Book two in the Southern Belle Cozy Mysteries series Everyone has secrets…even a pastor. Life had been back to normal in Sweet Grove, with smoothie sales up and murders down to zero. With Gran's shop doing well, Belle helps her best friend by tending bar at the Honey Buckle whenever needed. Belle tries her best to like Pastor Luke, who she's been dating for the last few weeks, but when she finds out he's been less than genuine, things end badly. Their break-up is epic gossip all around the small town. When the pastor turns up dead, people rush to suspect her. Apparently, their fight about her spending so much time in a bar was overheard. Belle knows she didn't do it, but who would kill a pastor? Who else would have a motive? With the handsome but romantically complicated sheriff asking her a lot of questions, Belle decides she needs to get to the bottom of it, ASAP. This had better be the last murder in Sweet Grove or Belle's amateur sleuthing might become a habit…

Au regard des debats actuels polarises autour du concept de personne, notre objectif a ete d'explorer l'approche du theologien orthodoxe Dumitru Stăniloae relativement a la personne dans son versant anthropologique. A cet effet, le present travail a repere et revele d'une part les elements qui edifient sa reflexion de la personne, a savoir les composantes de la personneite humaine, et d'autre part, les sources a la fois theologiques et philosophiques ayant inspire et influence de maniere determinante notre auteur. Expression d'une jonction de la theologie patristique orientale (byzantine) et de la pensee moderne, la personne comporte ainsi, chez Stăniloae, une structure ontologique-communionnelle, dont le pole ontologique plonge ses racines dans l'heritage des Peres et le pole relationnel ou communionnel, dans les avancees de la reflexion moderne: associee a l'hypostase des anciens, la personne se definit comme mode de subsistance ou d'existence reelle de l'etre, tandis qu'assimilee au sujet et au moi modernes, elle se presente comme facteur conscient et libre en relation d'amour avec autrui. Representee donc comme subsistance en soi et existence en communion, la personne manifeste, chez notre auteur, l'aboutissement de toute une serie de confluences: du passe et du present, de l'Orient et de l'Occident, de la theologie et de la philosophie, de l'orthodoxie et d'autres confessions chretiennes. Cette these doctorale a ete recompensee en 2019 avec le Prix de la Societe des amis des universites de l'Academie de Strasbourg.

FROM EXCITING AUTHOR OF COZY MYSTERIES, CC DRAGONBook one in the Southern Belle Cozy Mysteries seriesAh, sweet home Tennessee, with the Music City, Dollywood and Murder...Annabelle ‘Belle'Baxter returns home to her small southern town after studying catering and hotel management, to help her Gran, the only real family she has. Determined to make their preserves shop a success, Belle expands the menu and boosts business—until the pompous sheriff drops dead, poisoned, after trying one of her signature smoothies.People looking down on Belle is nothing new, but this time they're quick to point a finger as well. Now it's not just her high school rival or the perfect church ladies—the bumbling deputies want to pin it on her too, leaving her no choice but to find the murderer herself. If the preserves shop goes under, she and her gran are ruined.But it's scary how many suspects her poking around turns up—the sheriff's jealous deputy, his pissed-off wife, the girlfriend he was about to dump his wife for, or even the handsome new deputy, Gus Haywood, whose city ways riled the stuffy sheriff. Belle can't let this handsome stranger distract her, not when she has to clear her name and protect the town she loves, despite its people.Well, maybe he can distract her a little...

Book one in the Southern Belle Cozy Mysteries series Ah, sweet home Tennessee, with the Music City, Dollywood and Murder… Annabelle ‘Belle'Baxter returns home to her small southern town after studying catering and hotel management, to help her Gran, the only real family she has. Determined to make their preserves shop a success, Belle expands the menu and boosts business—until the pompous sheriff drops dead, poisoned, after trying one of her signature smoothies. People looking down on Belle is nothing new, but this time they're quick to point a finger as well. Now it's not just her high school rival or the perfect church ladies—the bumbling deputies want to pin it on her too, leaving her no choice but to find the murderer herself. If the preserves shop goes under, she and her gran are ruined. But it's scary how many suspects her poking around turns up—the sheriff's jealous deputy, his pissed-off wife, the girlfriend he was about to dump his wife for, or even the handsome new deputy, Gus Haywood, whose city ways riled the stuffy sheriff. Belle can't let this handsome stranger distract her, not when she has to clear her name and protect the town she loves, despite its people. Well, maybe he can distract her a little…

Heaven Corp: Book TwoThe truth could lead to war. Henry “Hank” Abraham enjoys being one of the most sought-after personalities in Heaven. Life is good in the floating city for someone born to one of the wealthy and influential Founding Families. Hank parties with the privileged and beds someone different every night, flouting the morality laws that control the lives of the common people on the city's lower levels. Then someone tries to kill him—repeatedly. Terrorists have Hank in their crosshairs, and his long disinterest in politics has come home to roost. Ian Caldwell has been a security guard for the Abraham family for years. He survives the hypocrisy by sneaking away to the BDSM clubs on Earth to feed his baser desires. When he's assigned to protect Hank, Ian pushes his attraction for his client aside. That kind of thing could get him reprogrammed. But he doesn't count on actually falling for a man who isn't as shallow and self-absorbed as he seems. Neither of them is prepared for the truth behind the attacks. Their journey will take them from Heaven to hell and beyond… and it might bring the tension between the classes to a violent head at last.

Katherine Hart a fait beaucoup de chemin depuis le jour où elle a accepté le poste de comptable judiciaire pour les Entreprises Knight, le domaine étincelant du PDG tombeur de femmes Dominic Knight. Avec sa réputation de pervers, personne n'aurait pu imaginer que la soif de Dominic Knight puisse n'être assouvie que par une seule femme… jusqu'à ce que les yeux verts de Katherine suscitent seuls sa fascination et provoquent chez lui le plus ardent désir. Maintenant enceinte de son enfant, Kate n'a jamais été aussi dorlotée non plus qu'aussi terriblement satisfaite. Mais quand la tragédie survient et que Kate et Dominic se voient forcés de réévaluer leur relation, ils doivent se demander si un tel plaisir en vaut finalement la peine.

Heaven Corp: Book ThreeBetter to reign in hell…. Uriel 3019 has been a cybernetically altered angel since he volunteered for the program fifteen years ago. His devotion to the floating city of Heaven is fierce, and he'll follow any command he's given. But Uriel's orderly world is crumbling. Angels are going mad, even hurting people. Some are rebelling, and the noble families are vying for control—by any means necessary. Uriel's latest assignment brings him into a secret society, where his partner, Raphael, is working for freedom and equality for all angels. Could their group be responsible for the angels'recent erratic behavior? Uriel is determined to find out—and report on his findings. But he doesn't count on Raphael's confession—that he has feelings for Uriel—or the memories slowly starting to return from the time before he became an angel. Is he on the right side? Does he dare to stand against Heaven, even if doing so will save his fellow angels from becoming soulless automatons? Uriel has to decide if his loyalty belongs to his superiors… or to the angel who's stolen his heart.

Katherine Hart est ravie d'avoir été embauchée par les Entreprises Knight, la plus prestigieuse société de capital de risque au monde. Enfin… jusqu'à ce qu'elle fasse la connaissance du tristement célèbre pdg de la société, Dominic Knight. À 32 ans, Dominic est un milliardaire qui a réussi par ses propres moyens et dont l'effroyable ambition n'a d'égale que son mauvais caractère. Il est aussi terriblement séduisant et dangereusement charmant quand il le veut. Aux yeux de Kate, Dominic représente le parfait prédateur, et elle est résolue à demeurer sur ses gardes malgré leur évidente attirance réciproque en se disant qu'elle peut toujours partir si Dominic devient trop exigeant. Ce qu'elle ignore, c'est que la décision ne lui appartient pas... Dominic Knight a trouvé un nouveau jouet, et monsieur Knight obtient toujours ce qu'il veut.

Heaven Corp: Book OneA deal with the devil…. Gabriel 1089 is an angel—an enhanced and cybernetically modified human designed to protect the city in the sky called Heaven. He follows Heaven's orders and fights its enemies. But when an attack by demons leaves him trapped on the earth below, missing both a metal wing and his network-enabled halo, he's cut off from his home for good and at the mercy of one man. Jeff Werth is used to demons in need of his mechanical expertise showing up on the doorstep of the junkyard he runs in Old Trent. However, he doesn't expect to be stuck with an injured angel. Jeff owes the demons for saving his daughter's life, so he does what they demand—he nurses the angel back to health and keeps close track of him as a possible pawn in the high-stakes war between Heaven above and the demons below. But he doesn't expect the effect Gabe has on his heart, or having to choose between his daughter and the man he's come to love.

Elementary school art teacher Cole Peters is expecting a lonely Christmas this year while his longtime boyfriend, James Carducci, is on deployment with the Army. However, a box from James contains puzzles that lead Cole on a scavenger hunt through the greatest moments of their relationship. Together with his best friend Liz, Cole works his way through each clue. The final puzzle could lead Cole to a gift beyond his wildest expectations.A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2017 Advent Calendar'Stocking Stuffers.'

The night Nick Henderson storms into Martelli's Pizzeria, he's just looking for something to eat. Along with dinner, he finds Lou Martelli—pizza cook extraordinaire and Jersey Shore native. Nick is renting a Shore house for the winter while taking classes at the local community college as he devises a way to escape the accounting major his father chose for him. When Lou offers to show Nick around, heat flares between them as they realize they have more in common than domineering families. But it's not all fun and games on the boardwalk. Hurricane Sandy blows ashore, changing the place Nick was starting to think of as home. His peace is shattered, and it will take everything he has to keep his relationship with Lou from being torn apart by the storm brewing around them.States of Love: Stories of romance that span every corner of the United States.

Katherine Hart a fait beaucoup de chemin depuis le jour où elle a accepté le poste de comptable judiciaire pour les Entreprises Knight, le domaine étincelant du PDG tombeur de femmes Dominic Knight. Avec sa réputation de pervers, personne n'aurait pu imaginer que la soif de Dominic Knight puisse n'être assouvie que par une seule femme… jusqu'à ce que les yeux verts de Katherine suscitent seuls sa fascination et provoquent chez lui le plus ardent désir. Maintenant enceinte de son enfant, Kate n'a jamais été aussi dorlotée non plus qu'aussi terriblement satisfaite. Mais quand la tragédie survient et que Kate et Dominic se voient forcés de réévaluer leur relation, ils doivent se demander si un tel plaisir en vaut finalement la peine.

Two lonely men, a lost teddy bear, and a sprinkle of holiday magic…. On a snowy night before Christmas Eve, Tyler Martin finds himself stuck in a Chicago airport, unable to get home to his family on the East Coast. After missing last year due to his jerk of an ex-boyfriend, the idea of not making it this time hurts. When he finds a lost teddy bear in the waiting area, his night changes for the better. Aaron Klein is a bored airport worker, taking the Christmas shift because he's Jewish. He doesn't expect to hit it off with the hot guy who brings a lost teddy bear to his desk, but it might end up being everything he didn't know he was looking for.A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2015 Advent Calendar package'Sleigh Ride'.

Heaven Corp: Book TwoHenry “Hank” Abraham's privileged status in the floating city of Heaven lets him flout Morality Laws that control the lives of others. But when he wakes up in the arms of another stranger, only bodyguard Ian Caldwell's quick thinking saves his life. Though Ian's from the low levels and the labor class, he's used to dealing with the pampered society of Heaven. He's assigned to protect Hank while angels, cybernetically modified humans who defend Heaven, investigate the assassination attempt. Doing his job means Ian must ignore his growing interest in Hank. Acting on their mutual attraction would certainly get Ian reprogrammed, something neither of them can afford. When Hank follows Ian to a popular BDSM club in Downside and his ID chip is lost during a nearly fatal mugging, he finds himself locked out of Heaven. As Ian fights to get them home, rumors of impending war begin to circulate—along with more troubling news that Ian is wanted for Hank's murder. While struggling to keep the man he has come to love safe, Ian must find out who's behind the plot and if it's a catalyst for war or just a convenient excuse.

In 1960, Barry Goldwater set forth his brief manifesto in The Conscience of a Conservative. Written at the height of the Cold War and in the wake of America's greatest experiment with big government, the New Deal, Goldwater's message was not only remarkable, but radical. He argued for the value and importance of conservative principles--freedom, foremost among them--in contemporary political life. Using the principles he espoused in this concise but powerful book, Goldwater fundamentally altered the political landscape of his day--and ours.

Telling the story of a unique and successful experiment, this history traces the delivery of health services in the Katherine region in Northern Territory, Australia, being handed over to a group of grassroots-oriented Aboriginal people.

Indispensable for all plant biologists, this is a fascinating and thorough examination of those factors which affect the sex determination of plant species, describing all of the main classes of plant with unisexual flowers hermaphrodite, monoecious and