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In this groundbreaking new book, leading expert Professor James Goodwin explains how simple strategies concerning exercise, diet, social life, and sleep can transform your brain health paradigm, and shows how you can keep your brain youthful and stay sharp across your life. Combining the latest scientific research with insightful storytelling and practical advice, Supercharge Your Brain reveals everything you need to know about how your brain functions and what you can do to keep it in peak condition.

The brain is our most vital and complex organ. It controls and coordinates our actions, thoughts and interactions with the world around us. It is the source of personality, of our sense of self, and it shapes every aspect of our human experience. Yet most of us know precious little about how our brains actually work, or what we can do to optimise their performance. Combining the latest scientific research with storytelling and advice, Supercharge Your Brain reveals everything you need to know about how your brain functions, and what you can do to keep it in peak condition.

Carny Girl is the story of Alison an eighteen year old girl who grew up on a horse farm. When her father was killed in an accident her mother experienced severe depression on top of long standing psychological problems. Her solution was to marry a controlling man who’d make all the decisions. His sexual assault of Alison was not an issue her mother wanted to deal with. Alison ran from an abusive family relationship because she believed that in trying to protect herself she killed her step-father. Thinking quickly she joined a traveling carnival using false identification and adjusted to ...

This story is more than a love story. It follows the lives of a law enforcement officer and a Eurasian female doctor. One is a Deputy Sheriff who was left as a widowed father of two children after witnessing his first wife dying in a burning car. To adequately care for his children he needs more consistent work hours which means starting a new career as Chief of Campus Security. The other major character in this story is a brilliant Eurasian female doctor trying to adjust to life in rural New Hampshire. The story follows the challenging decisions each has to make in their lives if they are ...

If you told Sandy Long six years ago that she would be carrying a baby that belonged to another couple, she would have thought you were crazy. Then things happened that changed her life. First, her husband died leaving making her a young widow with two children. Next, she found herself barely able to support her family with limited financial resources coming to her. She tried to do the best she could for her children but was watching them quickly move through their teenage years. A chance meeting with a woman who was a surrogate exposed her to something she was previously unaware of. Women ...

Finding a homeless Vietnam veteran dead in his temporary shelter was unusual enough for this small northern Michigan town, but to find he was a highly decorated hero impacted the young deputy working on the case. Many of the characters in the first two books of this series are present in the third book. The central characters are new to the series and it is entertaining to watch their introduction to Manitou. The mystery started when a young women deputy became obsessed with learning the identity of the homeless man. Finding two war time medals in his belongings only increased her desire to...

What would you do if your lifelong ambition was suddenly taken from you? This was Joshua's dilemma. Joshua Walker's goal in life from the time he was a youngster was to be a great teacher and for five years he was the most popular teacher at the middle school building where he taught language arts. Students were always seeking him out for support and advice and they found him open and accepting. To him, Tiffany was just another 13 year-old-girl who regularly visited his room after school and Joshua thought his room was like a sanctuary for her. His life changed when he realized that she was...

In the tranquil heartland of Manistee County, Dave Jacobs, the County Planning Director, stumbled upon an unexpected twist in his newly acquired hobby of magnet fishing. It all began innocently enough when his magnet latched onto a steel case containing a laptop computer as he fished a local river. With the aid of an attractive single mother who was also happened to be the County’s IT Director, Dave uncovered a clandestine journal hidden in the computer. Compelled to return the computer to the original owner he unwittingly found himself thrust into a perilous game of cat and mouse, where ...

This is the 1st book in a series about a fictional City and its citizens called Manitou. Manitou is based on the northwestern Michigan county of Manistee. Drew had all that he wanted in life—a beautiful wife, a bright and alert toddler, a successful small business, and then tragedy took it all away. In a freakish accident, he lost his wife, son, and his own will to live. Money was no longer an issue, the insurance company settled in a huge way. Still he couldn’t beat the depression till he sold every thing and took a road trip that ended in his deceased wife’s hometown in northern ...

Emma Caswell's life spirals into turmoil after her husband is murdered beside her, leaving her a prime suspect amid revelations of his drug dealing. Alone except for her young daughter Abbie, Emma turns to Bartlett Lowell of the Public Defender's Office for help navigating the legal complexities. Financially strained, they moved their belongings into a storage unit where Emma discovers her late husband's secret notebooks. Shockingly, they contain detailed records of drug transactions, with names cleverly disguised as cartoon characters, including possibly corrupt law enforcement officers. ...

Have you ever met someone who seemed to have everything going in the right direction? That was Katrina. Katrina thought her life was going just as she planned. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Michigan and easily passed the Certified Public Accounting examination. She and her fiancé, Bret, were planning on a spring trip to Costa Rica in advance of their summer wedding. She was a woman who thought there would be no surprises in her life, but boy did she have it wrong. The point when everything started to change was the day she asked her mother for a copy of her birth ...

Seth Humphrey, a master carpenter at a boat shop, was in love with the daughter of one of the richest families in town. Seth asked her father for her hand in marriage and he was rejected because he didn’t have enough money. When word of gold being found in California reached his small Massachusetts town, Seth saw this as his way to become rich and prove he was able to provide for his future wife in the way she was accustomed to. Against her wishes, he bought passage on a clipper ship heading for California. Life on a clipper ship provided many challenges and during the trip, Seth was ...

In the depths of unimaginable loss, Chuck Daggett found purpose. His wife's tragic death during childbirth shattered his world, but it was the abduction of his infant daughter that drove him to the brink of despair. Emerging from the abyss of depression, Chuck became an unlikely authority on child abductions, his blog "The Baby Hunter" a beacon of hope for those lost in similar nightmares. Fifteen years of relentless pursuit led Chuck to a remarkable breakthrough: reuniting an abducted child with her birth parents. But when his triumph revealed a startling connection to another case, ...

"The last thing she remembered before losing consciousness was lying prone on the ground after her husband pushed her out of the way. Then she heard the sickening sound of the car hitting her husband and as if in slow motion watched his body fly over her and land several yards away in a field. The car didn’t stop and her husband didn’t answer her mournful calling of his name.” The police classified it as a hit-and-run accident but Beth believed she had uncovered something at her job that led to her husband’s murder. Continued vandalism of her home and property convinced her she was ...

Ethan Taylor thought he had his life all planned out. He married his high school sweetheart after they graduated from college. Their marital life was everything he could dream of and then tragedy took it all away. Lost and depressed, Ethan took a job in Flint, a place he thought was depressed as he was. Little did he expect to find love again but he did. This time it was with a married woman whose husband physically abused her. Confused over her decision to stay with the abuser Ethan ran again. This time he chose to make a major change in his life and attend medical school in Grenada. Love ...

In the quiet refuge of Manitou, Olivia Owen sought solace—a fresh start after her wrongful accusation of murder. The bad press and emotional turmoil had left scars, but the extended care facility seemed like a haven. Residents relied on her, their vulnerability mirrored in frail hands and fading memories. Yet, Olivia’s instincts flared. Three deaths cast shadows across the facility’s polished floors, and fortunes vanished like whispers in the night. Her focus narrowed: Liz Cowell, a fellow nurse with guarded eyes, and Attorney John Underwood, conservator of secrets. Olivia suspected ...

A mysterious phone call leads to a clandestine meeting with a stranger. It changed Mona and her daughters’ lives forever. Mona should have sensed something was different about her husband’s family. They owned the largest waste collection business in New England, but it was the other businesses they were involved in that she didn’t pay attention to. When her father-in-law was gunned down outside a restaurant, she learned the whole truth but still made no changes in her life.She learned through a stranger that her husband was dead. With new identities, she was told to take her children ...

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