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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What We Leave Behind has been chosen by the North Dakota Center for the Book to be included in the 'Great Reads from Great Places' list for the 2025 National Book Festival of the Library of Congress!\*\*\*Martin and Asta came to America in 1913 to homestead and create a better life for themselves and a hoped-for family. Nineteen years later during the difficult years of the Great Plains Dust Bowl, they intend to improve the lives of three of their nine children by sending their eighteen-year-old daughter with her two younger sisters to Norway to live with relatives for two years.But things do not go according to plan.The oldest sister falls in love with and marries a young Norwegian man leaving the two younger sisters with no one to take them home. By 1940, when Germany invades Norway, the two younger sisters were living with the family relative who in the meantime married a Quisling, a member of the Norwegian Nazi Party. The two sisters miss the last US evacuee ship out of Petsamo, Finland, and soon German soldiers take one sister to Grini, a concentration camp north of Oslo. Eventually she and her older sister both marry men active in the Norwegian Resistance Movement of WWII.Will the entire family ever reconnect.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Laura Drummond was brutally attacked and left for dead when she was just 14 years old. Now, twenty-four years later, she's a homicide detective for the Columbus, Ohio, police department. Laura spends her days working her case files and her nights at a bar called Griff's. Laura's not only a cop, and she's a badass. Tough as nails, a military veteran, a martial artist, a runner, but when it comes to relationships, she prefers casual sex to commitment, until she meets a beautiful real estate agent named Sharon who might just change everything.Laura and Sharon's budding romance is interrupted when a young college co-ed is murdered, and the m.o. matches the assault Laura suffered as a teen. Shortly after that, a second victim is killed in the same way. It's clear to Laura that there is a serial killer on the loose in Columbus. Laura has to use all of her skills to uncover the truth.As Laura investigates, she finds almost incomprehensible connections to her past. Will she be able to confront what happened to her to catch a killer Conceptus is the first book in the Laura Drummond Mystery series with richly drawn characters and fast-paced action.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - TWO PSYCHOLOGICAL LANGUAGES¿Psychology provides the choice of two thinking and reasoning languages. First, the non-labeling language of The Applied Natural Science of Event Based (E-B) Psychology, guides thinking about behavior based on observed truths. The other, a labeling language of mainstream psychologies reduces our thinking in believing behavior can be explained by abstract-labeled determiners. The purpose of this work is to replace the labeling language of pseudo-scientific mainstream psychologies with the non-labeling language-of E-B Psychology. The language of E-B Psychology opens the door to an awareness of how and why people respond to specific events. With a novel understanding of behavior, people will be able to communicate responsibly and effectively, based on the observation of specific events.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - If one meets a stranger in most awkward circumstances, is there anything one can predict from the encounter Perhaps not.So, there should be no surprise by what happens to those who meet in such a way, should there But it is outcomes that concern us and not predicting.It certainly hasn't started out like a story with a happy ending. People with conflict and confusion dominating their lives, and none of them knows what is coming.Max has lived a lot of life, after all he has reached typical retirement age. He has encountered many crossroads and knows he will encounter others. Yet he is still surprised by the choices he now faces and wonders what is next.Eva, the single mother just starting her career, faces a crossroads of her own. A crossroads that has her frightened and confused. She is frightened not only for herself but for her infant daughter as well. Her fear is not just for the new job or her new life as a single mother, but more basic than that, she has no experience with a newborn.Carly, the infant daughter, seems not to care about any of that. She does seem to care about Copper, the puppy she meets.Then there is the wild card. Is he to be a part of the tale or is he just a casual acquaintance Everyone knows that rain falls in our lives, but will it be a gentle rain or will it be a storm Will we face it alone, or will someone help us And if someone helps us, how will they find us, and will we recognize them.…