Download or read book Midlife written by Kieran Setiya and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophical wisdom and practical advice for overcoming the problems of middle age How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you accept the failings of the past, the sense of futility in the tasks that consume the present, and the prospect of death that blights the future? In this self-help book with a difference, Kieran Setiya confronts the inevitable challenges of adulthood and middle age, showing how philosophy can help you thrive. You will learn why missing out might be a good thing, how options are overrated, and when you should be glad you made a mistake. You will be introduced to philosophical consolations for mortality. And you will learn what it would mean to live in the present, how it could solve your midlife crisis, and why meditation helps. Ranging from Aristotle, Schopenhauer, and John Stuart Mill to Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir, as well as drawing on Setiya’s own experience, Midlife combines imaginative ideas, surprising insights, and practical advice. Writing with wisdom and wit, Setiya makes a wry but passionate case for philosophy as a guide to life.

Download or read book Uncaged written by L.A. Boruff and published by The Phantom Pen. This book was released on with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ceridwen Gault—disaster witch extraordinaire. And right now, an involuntary guest in another dimension. Offering herself as a sacrifice to free her daughter from a kidnapping should have been a no-brainer, and it was. Only now Ceri finds herself trapped in a prison dimension, trapped with a magical asshat who is just as desperate to free himself as she is to be out of there. One problem: he actually deserves to be there. Second? There’s a bunch of other people trapped there who don’t deserve to be. Ceri doesn’t want to free he-who-definitely-should-not-be-her-problem. He thinks she’s capable of breaking the magic keeping him there, which should make her feel special but really only makes her feel even more trapped. Now her choice is simple: will she do whatever it takes to save herself and the innocents in this place, or will she choose the greater good by not unleashing an ancient power that could destroy everything she loves in her world?

Download or read book Fanged After Forty Volume 1 written by Lia Davis and published by The Phantom Pen. This book was released on with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jilted at the altar a month before her fortieth birthday. Poor Hailey. Midlife really does have a crisis. Or is it that midlife is the crisis? Either way, it sucks. Hailey Whitfield can’t take any more run-ins with her ex. It’s time for a big change. She’s never considered moving away, but it’s her best plan yet. Bonus – her bestie lives next door! However, her new neighbor is… weird, to say the least. Extremely hot, but odd. So are his friends. But Hailey will take strange neighbors over facing her lying, cheat, deadbeat ex-fiancé all day, any day. Finding a job in a new town is more challenging than she realizes. With her savings depleted from the move, Hailey has to suck it up and take what she gets. After taking a job as a private nurse for an injured bounty hunter, things start to look up. Then a skip falls into her lap. Okay, sure. She was being nosy and reading an incoming fax intended for her patient. But with a little encouragement, Hailey takes on the task of tracking down the skip. It’s easy money. Right? Wrong. This skip is far more than Hailey bargained for. And her life is about to change in a very bloody and pointy kind of way. What a bite in the… Well, you know. With the help of her witchy best friend and her new, very pale neighbor, Hailey is going to collect her bounty. Or die trying. This collection includes: Bitten in the Midlife Staked in the Midlife Masquerading in the Midlife

Download or read book Primetime of Life Volume 1 written by L.A. Boruff and published by The Phantom Pen. This book was released on with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turning forty is less Witches of Eastwick and more Black Widow. Go figure. I've always known I was adopted. It never mattered much...until my birth mother died. I inherited a new power from the mysterious woman. But now she’s dead and I, despite the fact that I have exactly zero training, I’m the next time-traveling assassin. Don’t get excited. The job sounds glamorous, but it comes with a huge learning curve and plenty of mishaps. Then there’s having to actually assassinate people. That part sucks. It could be worse. I could still be working retail.

Download or read book Unbowed written by L.A. Boruff and published by The Phantom Pen. This book was released on with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ceridwen Gault—witch whose life has turned upside down. Her powers now so overused she can’t access them, Ceri finds out the identity of the father of her son from a powerful ally. That's helpful, since she never knew his name or appearance. But now she has to deal with rapid-fire attacks on herself and her family while trying to maintain a façade of normalcy and retain her job. As it all comes to a decisive fight, she discovers that with the help of her almost-boyfriend, Nick, she's able to free Goblins from their enslavement without draining her powers again. Things just keep getting crazier and crazier for Ceri. She's hanging on for the ride at this point, hoping to salvage her sanity. And maybe get to know Nick a little better. **wink**

Download or read book Clash of Twins written by L.A. Boruff and published by The Phantom Pen. This book was released on with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lela finally gets a moment alone with hunky single dad Joseph and what should happen? A knock at the door. Of. Course. A man claims to be their dead father’s hereto unknown brother. Erm, what? Not even Bertha knew about this guy, so the twins dive into family research, both mundane and magical. It would be cool to have an uncle, but what if he’s a swindler? Unfortunately, magical family research isn’t as simple as it sounds. In the process of verifying their new possible uncle’s identity, Lela and Mae unleash something dark and deadly on Wears Valley. It's not all bad, though. Ted and Mae grow closer every day, and Joseph has been so helpful with the new drama. Plus, little Eleanor is a delight and Lela is smitten with the girl. On top of everything else, they still need to learn more about the coins, break the curse on the cauldron, and send Florie to her peace. None of which will be simple. All in a day’s work for a granny witch.

Download or read book Fanged After Forty Volume 2 written by Lia Davis and published by The Phantom Pen. This book was released on with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailey Whitfield is fed up with being told what to do, when to do it, and how she should be going about it. Don’t tell her how to live her life. It’s time for Hailey to stand up and do what needs to be done. First up, saving her brother if he can be saved. Next, completing the mating bond with Jax, the US vampire leader. After that, who knows? Maybe she’ll take on the world. Or at least the vampire council. While she figures out what she’s going to do next, Hailey’s bond recovery agency, The Bond Girls, is thrown into a skip-trace that pulls at the heartstrings. What are the ladies supposed to do when the skip is being unfairly targeted? They do what’s right, of course. Too bad it’s not so cut and dry. But Hailey is determined now. She’s the master of her destiny, and she’ll figure this out, too. This collection includes: Book 4 - Bonded in the Midlife Book 5 - Dominating in the Midlife Book 6 - Wanted in the Midlife

Download or read book Life Reimagined written by Barbara Bradley Hagerty and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic and inspiring exploration of the new science that is redrawing the future for people in their forties, fifties, and sixties for the better—and for good. There’s no such thing as an inevitable midlife crisis, Barbara Bradley Hagerty writes in this provocative, hopeful book. It’s a myth, an illusion. New scientific research explodes the fable that midlife is a time when things start to go downhill for everybody. In fact, midlife can be a great new adventure, when you can embrace fresh possibilities, purposes, and pleasures. In Life Reimagined, Hagerty explains that midlife is about renewal: It’s the time to renegotiate your purpose, refocus your relationships, and transform the way you think about the world and yourself. Drawing from emerging information in neurology, psychology, biology, genetics, and sociology—as well as her own story of midlife transformation—Hagerty redraws the map for people in midlife and plots a new course forward in understanding our health, our relationships, even our futures.

Download or read book Twinnin Ain t Easy written by L.A. Boruff and published by The Phantom Pen. This book was released on with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things are topsy-turvy in Wears Valley, and Lela and Mae must get to the bottom of it all before someone ends up dead… or worse. After barely saving their Aunt Bertha’s life, Lela and Mae know their time is limited to find the attacker. But magical happenings start making local headlines. They can’t help but get involved, and in the process, they discover a whole community of witchy friends who are just as stumped as the twins are about magic suddenly appearing in the mountains again. And now there are any number of suspects. Could it be the handsome nurse, George? Lela says no, but Mae isn’t convinced. Lela suspects Mae’s new professor friend. He seems all stuffy and reserved at first, but Mae soon discovers just how hot things can be under the surface. Bertha is just glad to be alive, and together with her and Harriet, the twins discover more about their heritage, their bond as twins, and their future.

Download or read book Finishing Forty written by L.A. Boruff and published by The Phantom Pen. This book was released on with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gates of Hell are Open. I got a glimpse of our daughter. And I’ve got all of my power back. Everything hangs on our ability to close the gates, but all I truly care about is finding Ariel. I can’t fathom the thought that I might never see her again. I don’t care about all the demons terrorizing the world. I don’t care about the angels, demons, and humans I might have to kill. It’s all going to burn.

Download or read book Primetime of Life Volume 2 written by L.A. Boruff and published by The Phantom Pen. This book was released on with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hold on to your socks, friends, Ro is headed for the sixties. Don't miss out on the exciting adventures of Rowena, the time-traveling witch assassin! And you'll be able to keep up with Cheesecake, Artie, and the ever-frustrating Fred. This book will turn you inside out, rip out your emotions, then put them back upside down. Rowena and crew are in the fight of their lives. And someone's life very well depends on it.

Download or read book Sisterhood of the Stones written by L.A. Boruff and published by The Phantom Pen. This book was released on with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sisterhood of the Stones is a delightfully funny complete paranormal series about three women thrown together by cursed stones: Citrine, Sapphire, and Onyx. The series is light on the paranormal, light on the romance, and heavy on the hilarious. The legend of the stones claims that there was a pirate and a witch who shared an undying love, but something went wrong. What? It's unclear. Fast forward a few years and Cami, Delilah, and Dr. Ember Thorn must work together to solve the unanswered mystery of Renegade Remington and the love of his life, Ariyah, or be cursed by the stones forever. Along the way, if they're open to it and very lucky, perhaps the ladies might find the loves of their lives, lasting friendship, and oh yeah, one very lovable pig. Citrine Wishes: It's inappropriate to wish for your ex-husband to be run over by a truck. Sapphire Omens: If you wish you knew what people thought of you, to be frank, you’re a fool. Onyx Interruptions: Time stops for no man, but with a little luck and a little onyx, it’ll stop for a woman.

Download or read book Keep Your Twin Up written by L.A. Boruff and published by The Phantom Pen. This book was released on with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something is stirring deep within the twins’ unearthed cauldron…and no, it’s not Bertha’s homemade moonshine. Lela and Mae finally found their tribe. After their magic trickles over to other granny witch descendants in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, now they have a coven and a home. Little do they know that the same magical source that supplies them with their powers can also make them deathly ill. Now they’re struggling to offload their magic and share it with volunteers within their coven…even the men. Men with shiny, new magical powers? Surely nothing could go awry. In the midst of the twins’ magical conundrums, a ghost from their family’s Scottish past keeps popping out of the cauldron like a genie from a lamp. She’s returned to issue a warning: the coins that Lela and Mae found on their family’s ancestral farm can’t be used by them, or anyone else, lest they be cursed for eternity. What’s the worst that could happen? Eternal curses? Pfft. Why not? When the coins go missing, the twins find themselves in a race against time to recover them before they are doomed to the same, unfortunate fate as their ancestor. Meanwhile, Lela is intrigued by the professor’s dark and handsome brother, Joseph, who also just happens to have an adorable four-year-old daughter named Eleanor. When an accident sends Eleanor directly to the ER, can Lela use her powers to save her? Or will her true identity push her new love interest away?

Download or read book Trying the Trickster written by L.A. Boruff and published by The Phantom Pen. This book was released on 2023-09-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A muse in the flesh…at least to the shapeshifter who so desperately needs her help. Only one problem: Cathy’s creativity is gone. Kaput. Dead in the water. Without it, she’s a shell of the woman that she once was, lost and bitter without the one thing that makes her who she truly is. Reynard is the trickster king, a shapeshifter of the first order whose purpose is to help bring his kind into the human world. Cathy is a friend of his family, but more than that, he and the rest of his kind need her art and creativity to aid the plan to convince humanity to accept them. Without it, his people will be forced back to the world where they have been exiled for so long. The greater good is reason enough for Reynard to help Cathy regain her creativity, but as they get to know one another more, he realizes that perhaps he is more personally invested. Without Cathy, the plan to rejoin the human world will die, but without her creativity, Cathy will wither, and Reynard isn’t willing to let either of those things happen. Not without a fight.

Download or read book A Girlfriend for Mr Snoozerton written by Lia Davis and published by Davis Raynes Publishing Group, LLC. This book was released on 2023-01-27 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ava doesn't mind raising the dead. It's all a part of being a necromancer. And people keep telling her she's one of the strongest ones to ever live, but she doesn't believe it. Except she can also heal people, living or dead, which is unheard of. And now, her cat, Mr. Snoozerton, has brought home a girlfriend. A dead girlfriend. Snoozer wants Ava to animate the pretty feline, but is that really the right thing to do? Ava doesn't have much of a choice. Snoozer isn't taking no for an answer. And he's pretty much the boss of the house. How can Ava say no?

Download or read book Cloaked Magic written by L.A. Boruff and published by The Phantom Pen. This book was released on with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection includes all of the books in the Midlife Mage series. Teacher and hidden witch, Ceri, has already had a rough day when she’s summoned to a party packed with psychic vampires. She was supposed to be on a boring date with safe and sturdy Nick, not dragging him along so the vampires could stare at him like… well, lunch. Oh, but it gets worse. She returns home to see her teenage son’s girlfriend has been replaced by a fetch. Welcome to a day in the life of Ceri Gault, witch extraordinaire. After staying as far away as possible from the supernatural, Ceri finds herself unable to escape any longer when a death omen brings trouble to her door. Now, she and her children are exposed to magical beings who live disguised among humanity Out of the frying pan and into the fire. Except everyone else is going to burn. Ceri’s just going to light the fire, sit back, and enjoy the show. **Includes all the books in Midlife Mage**

Download or read book The Firehouse Feline The Complete Series written by Laura Greenwood and published by Drowlgon Press. This book was released on with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter a world filled with powerful witches, epic battles for the coven's crowns, a witch who shifts uncontrollably into a cat, and three charming (and hot!) firemen in this complete urban fantasy reverse harem romance series. Join Callie and her fireman in the explosive and magical complete Firehouse Feline series. When Callie moves to a new town in pursuit of the truth about the supernatural, the last thing she expected was to find herself entwined with a plot to take over the local coven or to fall for the handsome firemen next door. Even with new allies, bitter enemies, and her faithful cat by her side, does Callie have what it takes to stop the King's evil plot? The Firehouse Feline Complete Series includes Feline The Heat, Feline The Flames, Feline The Burn, and Feline The Pressure. It is an urban fantasy romance filled with witches, magic, a whychoose romantic sub-plot, and an unpredictable feline. Firehouse Witches Search Terms & Keywords: urban fantasy, supernatural suspense, fantasy, paranormal, friends to lovers, forced proximity, fated mates, paranormal romance, urban fantasy romance, new adult fantasy, fantasy romance, romantic fantasy, complete series, magical, slow burn, witches, reverse harem, rh, whychoose, poly, steamy, spicy, kittens, cats, familiars, royalty, betrayal, hot firemen, tortured past, best friends, save the world