Food awareness, nutrition, and meal planning advice for people with diabetes Diabetes Meal Planning and Nutrition For Dummies takes the mystery and the frustration out of healthy eating and managing diabetes. Both the newly diagnosed and the experienced alike will learn what defines healthy eating for diabetes and it’s crucial role to long term health, why healthy eating can be so difficult, and how meal planning is a key to successful diabetes management Diabetes Meal Planning and Nutrition For Dummies takes the guesswork out of eating and preparing diabetes friendly foods. You'll learn whether popular diets fit (or don’t fit) into a healthy eating plan, what to shop for, how to eat healthy away from home, which supplements you should consider, and how to build perfect meals yourself. To get you started, this book includes a week's worth of diabetes-friendly meals, and fabulous recipes that demonstrate how delicious food and effective diabetes management can go hand in hand. Includes helpful information for people with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes as well as exchange lists for diabetes Explains how your surroundings and your biology conspire to encourage unhealthy eating, and how you can gain control by planning in advance Helps you to understand that fabulous, nutritionally-balanced food and diabetes management can go hand in hand If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with diabetes, Diabetes Meal Planning and Nutrition For Dummies is packed with expert advice, surprising insights, and practical examples of meal plans coupled with sound nutritional advice.
If Lisbeth Salander and Jack Reacher had a Black/Thai love child…she would be SOPHIE. ✅ Brilliant hacker, MMA fighter, domestic abuse survivor, chronic depressive ✅ Likes kids and animals more than people ✅ Likes to go off the grid and hide under a fake identity ✅ Never, never gives up on a case. Never. Paradise is drowning in lava. What would you do to survive during a volcanic eruption? Security specialists Sophie and Jake take a job to rescue a teen girl shacked up with a dangerous meth cooker on the Big Island, and their wilderness destination turns out to be in the path of the biggest eruption Hawaii has seen in decades. Soon, they’re embroiled in a natural disaster too hot for anyone to handle. Trapped underground in a lava tube, engulfed by darkness and heat, they struggle to outrun a deadly force that consumes everything in its path. “I rapidly devour each book in this series as soon as they're released. Neal's writing immerses you into the story, with multi-faceted characters that you'll be interested in and care about. Cannot put them down!” — Reviewer
Food awareness, nutrition, and meal planning advice for people with diabetes Diabetes Meal Planning and Nutrition For Dummies takes the mystery and the frustration out of healthy eating and managing diabetes. Both the newly diagnosed and the experienced alike will learn what defines healthy eating for diabetes and it’s crucial role to long term health, why healthy eating can be so difficult, and how meal planning is a key to successful diabetes management Diabetes Meal Planning and Nutrition For Dummies takes the guesswork out of eating and preparing diabetes friendly foods. You'll learn whether popular diets fit (or don’t fit) into a healthy eating plan, what to shop for, how to eat healthy away from home, which supplements you should consider, and how to build perfect meals yourself. To get you started, this book includes a week's worth of diabetes-friendly meals, and fabulous recipes that demonstrate how delicious food and effective diabetes management can go hand in hand. Includes helpful information for people with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes as well as exchange lists for diabetes Explains how your surroundings and your biology conspire to encourage unhealthy eating, and how you can gain control by planning in advance Helps you to understand that fabulous, nutritionally-balanced food and diabetes management can go hand in hand If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with diabetes, Diabetes Meal Planning and Nutrition For Dummies is packed with expert advice, surprising insights, and practical examples of meal plans coupled with sound nutritional advice.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️WIRED ROGUE, second in series, is FREE! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ If Lisbeth Salander and Jack Reacher had a Black/Thai love child, she'd be Sophie... and she's a badass. 💥 BUT SOPHIE'S IN TROUBLE. ✅ Her mom is an assassin who wants to kill her and take her babies ✅ Her cyber-vigilante ex-boyfriend is now a cult leader ✅ There's a handsome Frenchman making eyes ✅ She has a newborn baby, a toddler, a ninja nanny and two dogs to deal with while trying to move into a new house ✅ But right now, maybe she should just put on a bra and get ready for a showdown,, because Mama's comin' to get her. Paradise can’t contain an evil that’s sworn revenge. What would you do if your mother wanted you dead? Sophie has fought hard for a measure of peace and safety for her loved ones, but her assassin mother, hidden behind a beautiful new face, has other plans for the family. Sophie will need her friends, lovers, and dogs to have her back when she takes on an enemy that no one ever sees coming. “I love how this author keeps changing it up! I never know what to expect in these books.” R, Goodreads
This new book from Toby Miller engages with journalism from within the cultural studies tradition, addressing fundamental claims for the profession and its biggest contemporary challenges: critiques, objectivity, and insecurity. Why Journalism? A Polemic considers four key aspects of contemporary journalism in terms of theoretical relevance and historic tasks that are not usually considered in parallel: Citizenship: political, economic, and cultural Environment: the climate crisis and reporters’ material impact Sports: the importance of the popular; and Technology: its former, current, and future significance With examples drawn from Latin America, Spain, and France as well as the US and Britain, the query animating these investigations returns again and again, implicitly and explicitly: why journalism? Miller argues for an answer to that dilemma that will involve a fundamental shift in how reporters, proprietors, professors, students, and states view the profession. This is essential reading for scholars and students of media and cultural studies as well as journalism studies.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️WIRED ROGUE, second book in series, is FREE. Grab yours today!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ If Lisbeth Salander and Jack Reacher had a Black/Thai love child…she would be SOPHIE. ✅ Brilliant hacker, MMA fighter, domestic abuse survivor, chronic depressive ✅ Likes kids and animals more than people ✅ Superpower: everyone falls in love with Sophie ✅ Likes to go off the grid and hide under a fake identity ✅ Never, never gives up on a case. Never. Paradise is stalked by a relentless evil. What would you do if your family was threatened? Sophie just wants to settle down with her unusual family—but a powerful presence sweeps in to steal her joy. At her most vulnerable physically and emotionally, Sophie must rise up to hunt down those who would take what’s most precious to her. The boundaries of love and friendship are tested as the men in her life grapple with their roles, each trying to help—but in the end, it’s Sophie who must face the darkness from her past and vanquish it. “The Paradise Crime books really should be picked up as a film script…they’re that good!” ~ Nancy S., Reviewer
This series is my favorite new addiction! I can escape to Maui anytime with Kat and crew."~Reviewer My new life as postmaster of the tiny town of Ohia on Maui was beginning to settle down. No new dead bodies had turned up for months! And then, the UPS guy spotted a little girl in the window of a house where no child was known to live. My former Secret Service training kicked in. I had to investigate, no matter what Mr. K, my boyfriend, attack cat Tiki, or Aunt Fae said about how far I'd go to find out what happened… to a child who might not even be real. "I don't ever want these books to end!"~Reviewer
If Lisbeth Salander and Jack Reacher had a Black/Thai love child, she would be Sophie... What would you do if the crime you were hired to solve tugged at your heartstrings? Private investigator Sophie's latest case weighs heavy: someone has desecrated the nesting grounds of the majestic Laysan Albatross on Oahu, annihilating a generation of endangered birds--and the outrageous crime appears to have spread to other islands. Sophie teams up with Sergeant Lei Texeira on Maui to search for a killer whose brutal activities appear senseless. Meanwhile, killer grandma Pim Wat continues to threaten the fragile peace Sophie is building with her family. Will Sophie and Lei be able to find the answers they seek in time? "Action. Adventure. Intrigue. Suspense. Sophie's story jumps off the pages and pulls the reader into a world that's hard to leave at the end of each book!" ~Deb L., FB
If Lisbeth Salander and Jack Reacher had a Black/Thai love child…she would be SOPHIE. ✅ Brilliant hacker, MMA fighter, domestic abuse survivor, chronic depressive ✅ Likes kids and animals more than people ✅ Superpower: everyone falls in love with Sophie ✅ Likes to go off the grid and hide under a fake identity ✅ Never, never gives up on a case. Never. Paradise hides a master thief. What if diamonds aren’t a girl’s best friend? A heist at a high-end auction house sends tech specialist Sophie on a new case hunting down a thief whose skills match her own. Even as she chases a cache of precious gems, events begun in a distant land threaten the fragile happiness Sophie’s building—and an enigmatic new partner brings challenges close to home, luring Sophie into the world of vigilante justice. “Great character development, twists and turns! You never know how these books will end.” ~Tango
First published to celebrate Faber's 90th anniversary, this is the story of one of the world's greatest publishing houses - a delight for all readers who are curious about the business of writing.'A striking drama.'SUNDAY TIMES'Never less than fascinating.'DAILY TELEGRAPH'This book will fascinate anyone with an interest in twentieth-century literature . . . a treasure trove.'SCOTSMAN'The details here do consistently shine.'NEW YORK TIMES'Ingeniously compiled . . . charming and quirky'EVENING STANDARDTold in its own words, this is the story of one of the world's greatest publishers, capturing the excitement, hopes and fears of the people who published and wrote the books that line our shelves today. Including archive material from T. S. Eliot, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, P. D. James, Kazuo Ishiguro and Philip Larkin, this is both a vibrant history and a hymn to the role of literature in all our lives.
Download this FREE thriller starring a female crime fighter in the best vigilante justice mystery series! Escape with a multiracial female investigator to the dark side of Hawaii paradise and enter a world of colorful characters and riveting mystery/thriller novels that you'll never want to leave. "Neal's writing is persistently riveting... Masterly." ~Kirkus Reviews ✅ If Jack Reacher and Lisbeth Salander had a black/Thai love child, she would be SOPHIE. ✅ Domestic abuse survivor, MMA fighter, brilliant hacker, chronic depressive, Sophie is a complicated woman ✅ Brilliant, sexy cyber vigilante plays mind and crime games with Sophie. Is he friend, foe, or…? ✅ Big, bad, rude, loud ex-Special Forces partner Jake Dunn gets in Sophie’s space—and under her skin ✅ Sophie goes off the grid and takes a new identity—but her best friend Agent Marcella Scott is always there for her ✅ Sophie’s yellow lab Ginger is the only companion in her bed—for now. ***Award Finalist in Thriller/Adventure, Best Book Awards*** ‘Wired in’ to her computers, tech agent Sophie Ang has been content in her clean, cool tech lab, where she chases criminals online, continuing a dance in the dark with the enigmatic vigilante known as the Ghost. Tumultuous changes eject her from her FBI agency cocoon to the front lines, where she finds herself in partnership with a brilliant, overbearing, larger-than-life ex-Special Forces operative, Jake Dunn. The two climb walls, dodge bullets, free captive children and dig up bodies for a case that might cost her life—and has already taken her badge. "Neal's writing is persistently riveting... Masterly." ~Kirkus Reviews Wired Rogue is a full-length standalone thriller novel that you can read by itself or as part of the larger Paradise Crime World in which Sophie is an ongoing Black/Thai heroine who metes out justice for those who need it most. "One of the best crime thrillers I've read! I never wanted to leave the Paradise Crime World. Thank goodness there are so many books in this series!" ~Reviewer
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️WIRED ROGUE, Second in series, is FREE! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ If Lisbeth Salander and Jack Reacher had a Black/Thai love child…she would be SOPHIE. ✅ Brilliant hacker, MMA fighter, domestic abuse survivor, chronic depressive ✅ Likes kids and animals more than people ✅ Superpower: everyone falls in love with Sophie ✅ Likes to go off the grid and hide under a fake identity—but her BFF Marcella Scott can always find her Paradise can’t contain a thirst for revenge. How would you handle a sadistic stalker? Security specialist Sophie Ang returns to Maui, working alongside dynamic partner Jake Dunn to solve a series of bizarre and escalating threats against a rocker with a beach mansion. But soon, catching a crazed stalker becomes the least of Sophie’s problems: a deadly enemy is hell-bent on taking her down, along with anyone she cares about. Sophie’s very identity is tested as she grapples with issues of conscience and survival in a struggle that takes her to the edge of heartbreak, and beyond. "One of the year's best books!" — KC, Goodreads
I’m Kat Smith, a Secret Service agent turned postmaster sleuth, assigned to cover a cozysmall town on Maui called Ohia. Things have been nuts since I got here; I’ve been dealing with murder, mayhem, and a cozy little mystery since I moved into a shack near the beach and was adopted by a stray cat named Tiki who has a nose for dead bodies. Now it’s “Hawaii time” to solve another murder mystery in paradise with new friends Opal, Artie, the Red Hat Society ladies, and a hot pilot named Mr. K. Assisting us are tech whiz Sophie Smithson and Detectives Lei and Pono of the Maui Police Department. If we’re lucky, no one will get hurt solving this latest small town cat-astrophe—but I’ve never been particularly lucky. "My new favorite cozy mystery series. A laugh on every page!" ~Reviewer
🔥 WIRED ROGUE, BOOK 2, ALSO FREE! Get yours NOW! And the rest of the series is O N S A L E briefly! Paradise hides a Lahaina thief with an obsession about the buried Hawaiian palace on Maui, and SOPHIE is the one to solve this crime. If Lisbeth Salander and Jack Reacher had a Black/Thai love child…she would be SOPHIE. ✅ Brilliant hacker, MMA fighter, domestic abuse survivor, and chronic depressive, Sophie is complicated ✅ Likes kids and animals more than people ✅ Never, never gives up on a case. What would you do to save something priceless? Security specialist Sophie Ang has a new case: someone is looting artifacts from a royal Hawaiian archaeological site in Lahaina on Maui. Things get deadly fast, and Sophie’s friend, Detective Lei Texeira, takes the case. The women track a killer whose tangled motives extend high into the world of Hawaiian cultural affairs, and deep into the darkest of human motivations—and all the while, Sophie walks a tightrope between new love and heartbreak. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Finalist: Best Indie Book Contest ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "This thriller explores a little known and culturally important archeological site hidden under a baseball diamond in the center of Lahaina. Exhuming it could point a way forward to restoration of the town." ~Reviewer “Neal’s female leads are strong, fierce, independent, and fabulous although rough around the edges. She writes with such exquisite detail...immersing you in the island surroundings as though you are there. Exhilarating, suspenseful, thrilling, fast-paced, action-packed, easy flow, engaging, immersive, vulnerable, and scintillating.” ~F. Thorn, reviewer FREE MYSTERY SET IN LAHAINA ON MAUI~ GET IT NOW!
If Lisbeth Salander and Jack Reacher had a Black/Thai love child…she would be SOPHIE. ✅ Brilliant hacker, MMA fighter, domestic abuse survivor, chronic depressive ✅ Likes kids and animals more than people ✅ Superpower: everyone falls in love with Sophie ✅ Likes to go off the grid and hide under a fake identity ✅ Never, never gives up on a case. Never. Paradise is a hotbed of deadly motives. Is it wrong to steal from the rich and give to the poor? Sophie and her team delve into a new case involving missing funds from a prestigious private school with connections to Hawaii’s royalty—but the online grifter might have justice on their side Would you choose poison or a knife to kill someone you cared about? An international task force tightens the net around the vigilante known as the Ghost, but forces from within might just drive him to murder as he tries to prevent a plot that threatens Sophie and her family.
The Create-Your-Plate Diabetes Cookbook is the foolproof guide to diabetes meal planning you’ve been waiting for! The Diabetes Plate Method is an effortless way to plan diabetes-friendly meals without any counting, measuring, tracking, or calculations—the only tool you need is a plate! Learn how to build perfectly-portioned meals with a healthy balance of vegetables, protein, and just the right amount of carbohydrates to manage diabetes and support a healthy lifestyle. With 125 mix-and-match recipes to choose from, you’ll never run out of ideas for easy, delicious meals the whole family will enjoy. You’ll find recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks, such as: Avocado Toast with Turkey Bacon Mediterranean Stuffed Pitas Cinnamon Roasted Nuts Roasted Salmon with Chimichurri Sauce Sheet-Pan Chicken with Artichokes and Onions Weeknight Vegetable Stir Fry More than just a cookbook, you’ll also find: A step-by-step guide to using the Diabetes Plate Method to plan perfectly-portioned, diabetes-friendly meals An introduction to cooking and eating well to manage diabetes and support heart health A one-week meal plan including breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks plus over 15 additional sample plates Photos of sample plates to give you a visual guide to the Diabetes Plate Method approach to meal planning Every recipe in this essential diabetes cookbook was designed to meet the nutrition guidelines of the American Diabetes Association, so you can create your plate with confidence knowing you’re preparing fun, flavorful, and nutritious meals. Whether you’re new to managing diabetes or prediabetes or are simply looking for a stress-free approach to healthy meal planning, this book is the first step on your journey to a healthier you!
A cat hunt at Christmas on Maui… I'm Kat Smith, Secret Service agent turned postmaster sleuth in the small town of Ohia on Maui, and I'm dealing with my first private investigation at the holidays: Lady Sapphire, a pedigreed feline expecting her first litter on Christmas, has been stolen from her elderly owner. My hot pilot boyfriend Mr. K and I are up to our eyeballs in cozy mystery motives when we discover that Tiki, my beloved stray, has also disappeared. Now the hunt is personal, and I'll leave no furball unturned to bring these cats home. "This story has ALL the feels. The perfect escape holiday read set in Hawaii!" ~Reviewer "The way Ms. Neal describes the small town, inhabitants and scenery leaves me in a warm glow, and I can't wait for the next one." ~N, Reviewer
If Lisbeth Salander and Jack Reacher had a Black/Thai love child…she would be SOPHIE. ✅ Brilliant hacker, MMA fighter, domestic abuse survivor, chronic depressive ✅ Likes kids and animals more than people ✅ Superpower: everyone falls in love with Sophie ✅ Likes to go off the grid and hide under a fake identity ✅ Never, never gives up on a case. Never. Paradise is filled with deadly secrets. What would you do if you were a killer’s loose end? Palm trees, volcanoes, and black sand beaches are the backdrop for murder as security specialist Sophie Ang, and her dog Ginger, are swept up in a multi-layered case on the Big Island of Hawaii working with a US Marshal to protect an important witness. A ghost from Sophie’s past returns to haunt her, and a love triangle tears at her heart. Sophie will need all of her friends, lovers, tech-savvy, and skills to stay alive...and that’s just her day job. “Toby Neal has an amazing talent for weaving a complex and exciting plot together with fascinating descriptions of the characters’ emotions and fears. I can’t wait for the next book!” ~Walt, Advance Reader
A chuckle on every page!" Nothing’s ever as it seems in Ohia, Maui, especially for me, Kat Smith. I’m Secret Service, not Postal Service, but I’m stuck in the back end of paradise and making the best of it when grasping plans of a developer threaten to take out half the town. Even Tiki the evil post office cat is outraged by the hostile takeover of our “small island.” Somehow, I have to find a way to help my cozy small town survive—or lose a place and people I’m coming to love. “These funny cozy mysteries set on Maui are addicting, and Kat is my new favorite heroine!”~ Reviewer
**Want to start reading where it all began? Blood Orchids, book 1 in the Paradise Crime Mysteries, is free! Paradise is filled with dead men walking. He had everything ahead of him. The handsome son of a Senator lay posed on his bed, drug paraphernalia on the side table, along with a goodbye note...but something doesn’t add up to suicide for Special Agent Lei Texeira and tech agent Sophie Ang. An angel of death is still an angel. Even dying people need a little help taking that last step to die with dignity, and Lightbody is the one to push them over the edge. Can Lei and Sophie stop a criminal who’s sure he’s doing the right thing? "Toby Neal scores a royal flush in this fifth of an unmissable crime series for mystery fans!" J.C. Martin, author of Oracle Grab this fast paced mystery with a twist of romance, and take a trip to Hawaii with the series that’s sold more than a million copies!
Professional sports promote their green credentials and yet remain complicit in our global environmental crisis Sports are responsible for significant carbon footprints through stadium construction and energy use, player and spectator travel, and media coverage. The impact of sports on climate change is further compounded by sponsorship deals with the gas and petroleum industries—imbuing those extractive corporations with a positive image by embedding them within the everyday pleasure of sport. Toby Miller argues that such activities amount to "greenwashing". Scrutinizing motor racing, association football, and the Olympics, Miller weighs up their environmental policies, their rhetoric of conservation and sustainability, and their green credentials. The book concludes with the role of green citizenship and organic fan activism in promoting pro-environmental sports. This is a must-read for students and researchers in media, communications, sociology, cultural studies, and environmental studies.
This exciting literature anthology is the brainchild of a workshop at the University of Vermont during which literature professors discussed effective ways to teach reading and responding to the genres - fiction, poetry, drama, and the essay. Introductions to each genre are written by teams of workshop participants. In kind, the anthology stresses collaboration in both learning and writing. The selections are especially contemporary, with many pieces written from multi-cultural perspectives by multi-ethnic writers. Angles of Vision is right for both the second semester of freshman composition and introduction to literature classes with an emphasis on writing.
If you like the Miss Fortune series, you'll love Kat and her clue crew on Maui!" ~Reviewer The coconut wireless is humming in Ohia, Maui, and the latest topic of gossip is me, Kat Smith. I’m Secret Service, not Postal Service—but I feel like a criminal when I’m appointed postmaster to a cozy little village on Maui. Turns out I’ve stolen a well-earned promotion from beloved Auntie Pua Chang, who’s been there forever—but all I want to do is hide out in paradise until the witch hunt to kill my career is over. I haven’t been in Ohia a day when Tiki the post office cat brings a prize to my doorstep—a piece of the woman who had the job before me. I’m thrust into the middle of a murder mystery, and if I don’t help solve it, I might be next—but it’s hard to tell whom to trust. A fortune-telling general store owner, a hunky Hawaiian pilot, Tiki the cat, and a couple of well-meaning cops named Lei and Pono seem to want to help—but they're all Auntie Pua supporters, and she'd be happy to see the last of me. This Hawaii village has more factions than a Mafia convention in Vegas, and I’m on my own tracking a killer with only a grumpy cat for backup. “Can't stop reading and chuckling! Kat is my new favorite heroine!”~ Reviewer
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