Woman Cycle

During her more than 20 years of research and treating thousands of patients, Karchmer found that most period problems women experience - even the most painful ones - are totally correctable and more surprisingly reflective of overall health and fertility. In this forthright, spirited, and all-encompassing guide, Karchmer draws on her decades’ worth of experience as a women’s health expert to break down the myths so many women have been led to believe about their periods.

In Not Just a Period, bestselling author Dr. Hazel Wallace sets out not only how you can have better periods, but also how your menstrual cycle affects your health and wellbeing generally, from immunity and cardiovascular issues to gut function and even the speed of your metabolism. Not Just a Period is a truly pioneering look at seven key aspects of women’s health: nutrition, movement, sleep, mood, libido, body image, and skin and hair, examined for the first time through the lens of the menstrual cycle.

Have you ever felt like losing control over yourself? Are you a strong confident female in all walks of your life but feel helpless when you get angry? You will be encouraged to learn what anger is and how it is different from aggression, the adaptive value of anger and effective ways to express it, regulate your emotions, manage your lifestyle, learning when to confront and when and how to avoid. You will also learn to direct your anger towards productivity. You will be encouraged to understand different types of strategies to manage your anger.

Major Crimes Detective Samantha Reilly prefers to work alone - she’s seen as a maverick, and she still struggles privately with the death of her partner. The only person who ever sees her softer side is Michael Turcotte, a teenager she’s known since she rescued him eleven years ago from the aftermath of his parents’ murder-suicide.

Laura’s twin brother was a misogynist. The family knew for years that he harbored mean feelings toward his sister. Lars’ father had talks with him as he begged that he change his ways, but the boy couldn’t do it. Eventually, he was sent away to Phillips Academy. Keeping the twins apart helped but when they were together, the same behavior surfaced. What was the answer? Laura loved Lars deeply even though he treated her with disrespect. Eventually, his actions demonstrated the most depraved and extreme misogyny on record.

What to Eat on Your Period aims to support every girl/woman during their period by suggesting foods to overcome the problems they are likely to face. Educating them about the food that will ease menstrual cramps and neutralize their hormonal fluctuations. The goal of this book is for them to learn the basics of the menstrual cycle and get an understanding of foods, exercises, and other self-care activities to benefit from.

Moving from Los Angeles to small, picturesque Mackinac Island to work in a bike shop might seem crazy, but Evie knows it's the best decision she's ever made. But things go downhill when a ferry full of tourists - including Evie's friend Fiona's former boss, the editor of a sleazy rag in LA - arrives on the island. No one knows why Peephole Perry came all the way to Mackinac, but things aren't looking good for Fiona when Peep is found dead. Now Evie has to gear up and get a grip on the truth if she wants to clear her friend's name....

After solving two murders, bike shop owner Evie Bloomfield thought life on Mackinac Island would settle into boredom until she finds out Nate Sutter, island police chief and once-upon-a-time under cover cop is on the run. Some bad-ass guys from Nate's Detroit days think he stole money from them in a champagne smuggling operation, and now they're headed to the island to get their loot. Evie is determined to help Nate because he's a good cop; Nate is determined to keep interfering Evie and island locals out of harm's way.

"The Road Taken" is a coming-of-age memoir in which a woman discovers her independence on the wheels of a motorcycle traveling the world and competing in the Peking to Paris Car Rally. She also draws upon her training as an artist to create an Australian homestead for herself in Sonoma, California.

An epic motorcycle ride through 15 countries took Jack Monig across as many internal as political borders. Hurled headfirst into a career block, she decided at middle age to go full throttle on an adventure of self-discovery while circumnavigating the globe in four months. This book shares the wisdom you can only get by crossing 37,350 kilometers by bike as the only woman in a group of male riders.

After her father was murdered in the line of duty, ATF agent Samantha Vargas is determined to take down the scumbags of the drug trade. When her partner takes on a case to infiltrate the Hells Raiders MC, Samantha agrees to go undercover as his old lady, but is surprised to find herself drawn to the very man she is investigating. Benjamin "Bishop" Malloy has worked hard to carve a place for himself both in and out of the MC world.

At 31, Tricia Downing was in the best shape of her life. In the summer of 2000, Tricia, an avid cyclist, drove across the country for what amounted to 18 races in 23 days. She returned from her adventure to a fresh start: a new job awaited her, and determined to make the next summer the year she would make her mark on the world of cycling, she began a rigorous training strategy. But on September 17, 2000, Tricia Downing's life took a detour. While training on her bicycle, Tricia collided with a car that turned directly in her path, and instantly became paralyzed from the chest down.

“Proceed as the way opens” is how William Least Heat-Moon put it in his book, River Horse. The line becomes a sort of mantra for Pulitzer Prize-winner Elizabeth McGowan, a melanoma survivor. Having been given a five-year clean bill of health, McGowan decides to bicycle all 4,000 or so miles from America’s West to East Coast. She wants to help other melanoma victims and sets out to use her many miles to raise funds for cancer research. She also wants to better understand her late father, who died of melanoma at the age of 44, when Elizabeth was just 15.

Many men tend to react to their partner's emotional outbursts or harsh comments because they don't understand why she feels so unsatisfied in their relationship. They become confused as to why the same behaviour that had their partner loving them one week has her completely turned off the next. Both parties are left feeling misunderstood, disrespected, and abandoned. This book helps men to navigate their way through the cycle of relationship stress and equips them with the essential skills that are required to respond and communicate.

No woman had ever joined the Rising Sons...until now. Raven is tough and strong, and she lives for the rush of the open road. She's trying for something that no woman has ever done, and the Rising Sons aren't going to make it easy for her. When trouble comes to the Rising Sons, though, she might be the only one man enough to stand against it. Gunner is ride or die. The club was the only thing on his mind until Raven showed up. As soon as he saw her, he had to have her. She's not just another lay to him but an equal.

Spin Cycle tells a wickedly funny, shamelessly erotic story of lovers and liars, exes and children, parents and other strangers. This hip and hilarious new novel by the acclaimed author of Neurotica introduces a heroine who never loses her sense of humour and who discovers, somewhere between the rinse and spin cycles, that love - and laughter - can truly conquer all.

Pourquoi est-elle montée seule sur les terrasses de Corviale, la petite Sara, le soir de sa disparition ? À Rome, paralysée par des pluies torrentielles, alors que la ville se déchire pour ses deux équipes de football, les nerfs de l'inspecteur principal Mariella De Luca se trouvent de nouveau mis à rude épreuve. Macabre, cette découverte d'un petit groupe d'archéologues sur la colline du Palatino ! Du désespoir d'une jeune mère aux mouvances d'une nébuleuse pédophile, une ténébreuse affaire se tisse autour de Corviale, cet impressionnant immeuble d'un kilomètre de long construit à la fin des années 70.

Rome, automne 2006, la Nuit blanche bat son plein, la ville est en ébullition. Des torrents de jeunesse se déversent dans les rues, envahissent les quais pour converger vers le Gazomètre, nouveau symbole des nuits romaines, véritable phare dressé face à la Ville éternelle. Mais l'aube sera sanglante, une jeune fille est retrouvée atrocement mutilée sur les berges du Tibre. La fin des vacances prend alors des allures de cauchemar pour l'inspecteur principal Mariella De Luca, qui se retrouve subitement plongée dans l'univers fragile et cruel de l'adolescence.

Eté 2003, en pleine canicule, les catacombes romaines battent tous les records de fréquentation... jusqu'à ce qu'un groupe de visiteurs réfugié dans ces chambres froides d'un genre nouveau tombe nez à nez avec une tête coupée. L'inspecteur principal Mariella De Luca se voit rapidement contrainte d'interrompre son idylle amoureuse en bord de mer. D'autant que les catacombes ne sont pas les seules à faire perdre la tête aux Romains... L'enquête vient à peine de débuter que déjà les décapitations se multiplient.

Au cœur de la Ville éternelle ensevelie sous la neige, dans le très populaire et très branché quartier romain de Testaccio, une troisième jeune fille vient d'être assassinée, au beau milieu des fêtes de fin d'année. Le commissaire D'Innocenzo ne croit pas à l'hypothèse du tueur en série que les journaux se plaisent à rabâcher, mais ne sait plus comment maîtriser la peur qui gagne les habitants du quartier et cette population jeune et nombreuse qui fréquente, le soir, ses restaurants et ses discothèques, son théâtre et son cinéma.