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1) Disconnected
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In 2020, The Covid-19 pandemic swept across the world like a tsunami, uprooting the anchors that create our identities. With his marriage in shambles, Christopher Gajewski was already adrift. He had sold his business, listed his house, and planned to take refuge overseas-from what his friends and family called a midlife crisis.
The lockdown changed everything. Upset that the world's existential dilemma was interfering with his own, he finally...
2) Disconnected
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The first book in the upcoming Arden Series, takes you into a compelling new futuristic realm, when people are technologically connected like never before by a formidibly powerful system. A story of innocence, secrets, power, and love, that begins with young Keralan's sudden transfer to a new and dizzying world of luxury, to the interrupted solitude of a simple monk, and finally a lost soul whose lies become exposed, along with his true identity....
3) Disconnected
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Seventeen-year-old Milly is continually bullied by Amelia Norris. Day in and day out, Amelia torments Milly and even threatens to hurt her, but Milly can't tell anyone - not a soul. Why? Because Amelia is Milly - they both co-exist as one in the same body. Milly is so disconnected from her past that she feels compelled to find out what truly happened to her when her parents were still alive. After a mysterious fire, she and Grandpa George move into...
4) Disconnected
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Chiara was born a mistake. An Anomaly. In her struggle to belong in Unity's genetically engineered social system, Chiara finds herself in the crosshairs of Auto, the ever-watching AI.
When her parents and grandfather are killed in a series of mysterious accidents, the teen is plagued by disturbing fragments of memory that suggest the deaths were no accident. Only Kaynine, her loyal robot dog, knows for sure what happened, and Chiara must find...
5) Disconnected
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Simon & Schuster Audio
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2014
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From #1 bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a haunting tale of addiction and obligation, secrets and redemption. Now available on CD and as an audio download for the first time!
Shannon Will is nearing thirty and has already made six trips to rehab (not that anyone's counting). But this time, she swears, will be different. She'll clean up her act, go to meetings, find a sponsor, and make a clean break with her past—starting with a new...
Shannon Will is nearing thirty and has already made six trips to rehab (not that anyone's counting). But this time, she swears, will be different. She'll clean up her act, go to meetings, find a sponsor, and make a clean break with her past—starting with a new...
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The real battle is not in the amoral and immoral influences of our culture, but in the hearts of our young people, says author and speaker Josh McDowell in The Disconnected Generation. And our young people are losing hope because they feel isolated and alienated from their parents. They are the disconnected generation. This book shows parents and youth workers how to understand and close the isolation gap to form nurturing, enduring relationships...
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These powerful audio-guided meditation techniques on death were collected from ancient Buddhist and Hindu practitioners of mindfulness meditation of death. 16 practical self-guided audio meditation scripts that guide you beyond the boundaries of mortality to develop an open-minded state and gratitude for what you have, even for the smallest things.
Confronting the universal truth of death, this book invites you to face impermanence through imaginative...
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Lockdowns, Zoom meetings, and reduced physical contact have made us more dependent on the internet than ever before-and now we want to log off.
Disconnected is a little book about reclaiming our humanity in our increasingly digitized, monetized world. Our focus on community and real connection has been sent off-course, and we're becoming more aware of how the algorithm manipulates us and how our data has made us a product to be sold. So, where do...
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For the last thirty years, award-winning children's book author Trevor Romain has been working with children from all walks of life. In the last decade alone, he has presented to over a million children across the globe. Connecting With Kids In A Disconnected World is the culmination of Trevor's life-long work and his mission to help kids become happier, healthier, and more confident.
The book is filled with practical, proven strategies, effective...
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Disconnection has become an epidemic, and it may require a revolutionary effort to get us back together—a reconnection revolution.
Staying connected in this human race is the most direct route to happiness. But never have we been more disconnected. A call to simply connect isn't enough any longer. Connection is what we're wired for, and it can be easy: waving at your neighbour, going on that second date, buying coffee for the person behind you....
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Revolution: a radical or pervasive change in something.
Seeing, hearing, and truly understanding someone else is an intimate act of great change. Too long our fight for survival has predominated our relationships at the expense of intimacy. When all most of us wants is to feel love and connection.
This book is a blueprint for knowing ourselves, and the ones we love more deeply.
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Parents worry they don't have the understanding or training to be able to care for their kids in a world that is increasingly superficial, politicized, and performance driven. Disconnected makes the concepts and strategies described in the bestselling Hurt: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers accessible to parents. After the overwhelming response to Hurt, authors Chap and Dee Clark here equip parents with an up-to-date, realistic parenting book...
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