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Train Your Brain

by Ryuta Kawashima

Description

Rejuvenate your brain with simple calculation exercises.

Originally published by Kumon, Train Your Brain was a number-one bestseller in Japan, even outperforming the Harry Potter books at one time. And now, after selling over a million copies and inspiring countless copycats in its home country, this revolutionary title is available in an English-language edition!

Designed especially for readers who want to keep their minds sharp and stave off the mental effects of aging, this book presents a complete program to build a better brain. The program consists of a daily worksheet of simple mathematical calculations that takes less than five minutes to complete. Each week, readers take a short pre-frontal cortex evaluation test to measure their progress.

The world has long recognized that physical exercise helps maintain a healthy, well-working body. Now it's time to acknowledge that our brains need a regular work-out too! Train your Brain is your brain's best friend!

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Praise for Train Your Brain

"Dr. Ryuta Kawashima is a well-known neurologist with long-standing expertise in brain imaging who ha been a leading force in studying brain function at Tohoku University in Sendai Japan. This book makes good use of the well accepted premise that regular mental activity performed in a diciplined way is beneficial to cognitive function."
—John Mazziotta, MD, PHD
Chair, UCLA Department of Neurology

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Previously published by Kumon.

Cover and interior design by Shinju Onuki.
Illustrations by Yasuko Toyoshima.

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Wed by Deception

by Emilie Rose

Series

The Payback Affairs miniseries, part of Silhouette Desire (a Silhouette Books series)

Description

Lucas had supposedly died eleven years ago, in the wedding day accident that had left Nadia in a coma. So who was this man standing outside her Dallas penthouse, claiming to be the man she’d loved? And why did her instant joy at finding Lucas alive suddenly turn to trepidation at the cool disdain in her groom’s eyes?

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Published in September 2008 by Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. and DailyLit.

All characters, places and incidents in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, events or locations is entirely coincidental.

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by Penny Jordan

Series

Mistress to a Millionaire miniseries, part of Harlequin Presents (a Harlequin series)

Description

Jay was a maharaja’s heir and billionaire businessman, and he’d hired Keira as his interior designer. But why did she turn from hot to cold and then back again? Was she a manipulating gold digger who was using the red-hot chemistry between them to try to increase her financial reward?

Then Jay discovered that Keira was a virgin! And, according to his code, the cost of taking virginity was marriage. Was he prepared to pay the price?

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Published in September 2008 by Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. and DailyLit.

All characters, places and incidents in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, events or locations is entirely coincidental.

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Series

Undressed by the Boss, part of Harlequin Presents (a Harlequin series)

Description

It was mortifying! How had Kate ended up in hotel tycoon Zack Boudreaux’s office in nothing but her underwear? Zack appeared to assume the worst and Kate could hardly blame him. But she had no clothes, passport or plane ticket home. She would have to hope Zack could help her....

And he did. First with a bathrobe, and then with a job. She’d be at his beck and call as his very personal assistant....

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Published in September 2008 by Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. and DailyLit.

All characters, places and incidents in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, events or locations is entirely coincidental.

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by Carole Mortimer

Series

The Sicilians miniseries, part of Harlequin Presents (a Harlequin series)

Description

Was Luc short for Lucifer? Darci wondered, because Luc Gambrelli was the most sinfully tempting man she’d ever encountered!

Her plan was simple: she’d teach womanizer Luc a lesson by leading him on then dumping him. But the irresistible Sicilian turned the tables on Darci! Unable to resist Luc’s seduction, Darci feared he’d discover she wasn’t a sophisticated tease, but was an innocent—and in way over her head!

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All rights reserved. Except for use in any review, the reproduction or utilization of this work in whole or in part in any form by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including xerography, photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, is forbidden without the written permission of the publisher, Harlequin Enterprises Limited, 225 Duncan Mill Road, Don Mills, Ontario, Canada M3B 3K9.

Published in September 2008 by Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. and DailyLit.

All characters, places and incidents in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, events or locations is entirely coincidental.

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by Jennifer Lewis

Series

Park Avenue Scandals miniseries, part of Silhouette Desire (a Silhouette Books series)

Description

721 PARK AVENUE: Apt. 12B

TENANT: Sebastian Stone, Prince of Caspia

SCANDAL: Seducing a commoner!

Crown Prince, billionaire businessman and globetrotting bachelor Sebastian Stone needs assistant Tessa Banks to hold his life together. From his Manhattan office she organizes his public and private life with ease. So when Tessa gives notice, Sebastian resorts to what he does best: seduction. Ermine and jewels in his sun-drenched palace...sensual pleasures beyond her wildest fantasies. But when the two weeks’ notice is up, the prince discovers his plan has backfired. He’s fallen for a woman he can never marry....

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Published in September 2008 by Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. and DailyLit.

All characters, places and incidents in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, events or locations is entirely coincidental.

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Pregnant by the Italian Count

by Christina Hollis

Series

An Innocent In His Bed miniseries, part of Harlequin Presents (a Harlequin series)

Description

When shy virgin Katie Carter is summoned to renovate a Tuscan villa, the enigmatic owner, Count Giovanni Amato, soon stirs up emotions she’s long kept buried.

Giovanni is intent on having her but he has two unbroken rules: there’s no room for a wife in his life, and definitely not for a child!

So what will the brooding, aristocratic billionaire do when he finds out Katie is carrying his heir?

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Previously published in the U.K. under the title COUNT GIOVANNI’S VIRGIN

Published in September 2008 by Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. and DailyLit.

All characters, places and incidents in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, events or locations is entirely coincidental.

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Series

Silhouette Desire (a Silhouette Books series)

Description

All her life Lily Malkin has been plagued by nightmares she can never quite remember. Nightmares that haunt her with glimpses of past lives and past betrayals.

And lately, the nightmares—and the memories—have gotten worse. A shadowy figure that destroyed her once before is closing in....

The Night Serpent’s grisly, ritualistic cat killings bring Special Agent Jon T. Patrick to town. But it’s Lily—the intriguing “Cat Whisperer” brought in to help solve the case—who makes him want to stay. Their passion is electric...and dangerous. Because Jon isn’t the only one watching Lily. And as the Night Serpent begins his final strike, the stakes are raised for a battle to the death.

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Published in September 2008 by Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. and DailyLit.

All characters, places and incidents in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, events or locations is entirely coincidental.

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