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The MIND Diet: A Scientific Approach to Enhancing Brain Function and Helping Prevent Alzheimer's and Dementia
Maggie Moon - 2016
Enjoying a high quality of life as you get older means taking care of your brain as much as your body. And research suggests that what you eat today will help (or hurt) your cognitive abilities later. The MIND Diet explains the science behind mental fitness in an approachable and understandable way. More importantly, this helpful guide presents an easy-to-follow program for keeping your mind sharp by eating the right foods and avoiding brain-harming ones. Packed with dishes that are not only delicious but also help improve memory, concentration and mental acuity, The MIND Diet’s healthy recipes include: • Brussels Sprouts Frittata • Sweet Potato Lentil Soup • Pistachio Mint Couscous • Guacamole-Stuffed Tomatoes • Apricot-Glazed Salmon • Tango Fish Tacos • Banana Chocolate Cookies • Roasted Chicken with Fennel
One Way or Another
Peter Cameron - 1986
Families, homes, lovers, marriages -- the safe havens they have been taught to depend on no longer guarantee shelter or stability.ONE WAY OR ANOTHER introduces Peter Cameron as an extraordinary writer, one distinguished not only by his prose, which is always abundantly witty and pitch-perfect, but also by a rare generosity of heart.Included in this book are two stories that were selected for the O. HENRY PRIZE STORIES: "Homework," first published in The New Yorker, and "Excerpts from Swan Lake," first published in The Kenyon Review.
A Deadly Bluff: A Dana Madison Mystery
Kathleen Concannon - 2017
Is there a connection to Native-American tribes as the President suspects? Will she survive long enough to discover who she can trust?A DEADLY BLUFF is a captivating literary crime novel for fans of Nevada Barr, Craig Johnson, and Tony Hillerman. If you love a well-researched mystery steeped in our checkered history, and political intrigue that echoes current events, then you will love Ranger Madison and her engaging team as they unearth secrets about who controls America's natural treasures.
The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies - 1979
last year, this updated collection contains the best of Robertson Davies' newspaper and magazine articles written over the past 50 years. "Each piece is entertaining and enlightening. . . ".--Publishers Weekly.
Red London
Stewart Home - 1994
The Skinhead Squad are a new breed of malcontent. Their brand of mayhem has an ideological twist and the gang targets its violence with deadly effect. As class anger explodes from the rotting heart of inner city London, corpse is piled upon corpse, and the streets run red with blood. Red London is an authoritative novel of sex, violence, and pathological sadism that wells over into total mania as the plot races towards its cataclysmic conclusion. Read this book and discover why the wealthy want it banned.
Last Days in Hunting Camp
Eowyn Ivey - 2014
Their letters, picked up and delivered by a bush pilot each week, keep them close. Now in his seventy-sixth year, Walt realises his hunting days may soon be over, and there is a black bear prowling around his camp. Will Millie ever receive the crumpled letter Walt keeps in his pocket?
Coloring for Grown-Ups: The Adult Activity Book
Ryan Hunter - 2012
La Cruz Del Diablo En Espanol 3 (Leer En Espanol)
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer - 1982
He anxiously awaits the hand that will set him free. Level 3 ? Up to 1000 words
Siddhartha, Demian, and Other Writings
Hermann Hesse - 1992
An anthology of the writings of the celebrated German novelist and Nobel laureate.
Jeffrey Archer: The Selected Short Stories
Jeffrey Archer - 1999
Millions of readers around the world have relished Jeffrey Archer's short stories. His first collection, A Quiver Full of Arrows, was acclaimed by The Times as 'stylish, witty and entertaining." Of his second collection, A Twist in the Tale, the New York Times said: 'Jeffrey Archer plays a subtle cat-and-mouse game with the reader in twelve original stories that end, more often than not, with our collective whiskers twitching in surprise.' His third, Twelve Red Herrings, was described by the Daily Mail as 'an exemplary collection of short stories.'
School Law and the Public Schools: A Practical Guide for Educational Leaders
Nathan L. Essex - 1999
today. An essential reference for all teachers, educational leaders, and policymakers at all levels, the book is organized and written in a style that is accessible to all, even those with little or no knowledge of the legal issues in education.
Cuentos de mujeres solas
Sherwood AndersonOscar Wilde - 2002
All women either with impossible or tragically lost loves face solitude at some time in their lives. This anthology presents unforgettable stories that portray a psychological state and a peculiar way of life to which women end up getting used to. This anthology contains stories by Flaubert, O'Connor, Chejov, Cheever, Maupassant, Clarice Lispector, Oscar Wilde and Carlos Fuentes among others.
The Dresden Files Omnibus
Jim Butcher
Science Fiction Book Club Omnibus editionsIncluding:Wizard for Hire (The Dresden Files #1-3)Wizard by Trade (The Dresden Files #4-5)Wizard at Large (The Dresden Files #6-7)Wizard Under Fire (The Dresden Files #8-9)