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Have you ever gotten caught up in office drama with toxic coworkers? Are you tired of being taken advantage of at your job? In Office Politics: A Guide to Overcoming Workplace Adversity, career strategist and coach Linda Raynier will help you navigate a complex workplace, make your life at work easier to manage, and get the respect you deserve.

A young woman with a passion for television finds herself thrust into the chaotic world of showbiz in this captivating debut novel. The ‘Bu the boo 1: popular nickname for California’s legendary Malibu Beach, as in Malibu. 2: the hottest teen beach drama ever to hit TV land (see inside...

Every life journey is filled with personal and unique experiences, and when enough time has passed, each event is worth a story. The angle from which the story is told can be dictated by one’s memory and impressions of the moment. Author Bakilinna Warjri believes her experiences are for telling, and she shares them in this collection, The Fanfare of Life. Whether one experiences loss as a group, as told in “Brownie the Bulldog”, or on one’s own at center stage in “That Sunshine Mountain”, Warjri communicate that no situation is a lost cause.

“God, I’m not ready to go home yet…but if You want me to, I will.” Maryann P. Hobbie said those words after she found herself in an intensive care unit, unable to move. A voice answered, “I am not finished with you yet. I have work for you to do.” In this book, she traces her journey after becoming paralyzed from the neck down. Whether you’re battling a physical injury or supporting someone facing such an obstacle, this account provides a detailed look of how one woman found the courage to become whole again.

Becoming a caregiver for a terminally ill family member is an enormous challenge. This guide is a gift to my late husband, who not only taught me how to live well, but how to die well. I hope it will carry on his legacy of always teaching and sharing, even as he faced the end of his life. A compact guide that you can easily reference along your personal journey, it is filled with practical suggestions to help you, as the caregiver, honor the way your family member would like to create his or her final journey toward paradise.

Whether you are just starting out, investing in an existing franchise or making the move to expand your current operation, Live It 2 Own It is your ultimate franchise guide! Live It 2 Own It is your personal guide to what really matters in selecting the franchise opportunity that’s right for you. Deciding to invest in or expand an independent business involves much more than finding a hot franchise opportunity, running a few numbers, and figuring out what you’ll do with all the profits.

In Lib’s world, it’s dangerous to deviate from the norm. In fact, for someone who doesn’t live up to the Artificial Intelligence’s standards, it’s practically a death sentence. Lib learns this the hard way when she wakes up in a barren wasteland, with her memories erased, and only one thought lodged in her mind:

Dying with His Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Love and Grief is the revealing portrait of a real, faults-and-all, shiningly beautiful relationship, a multi-faceted diamond in the rough. Reconstructed from the author's journal entries and other writings poured out during the two years after her husband of 30 years slipped agonizingly away, the book moves back and forth through time fluidly, reflecting on how its passage is shaped and altered by grief.

GPS for the Soul—the contemporary Everyman’s search for truth. Finding one’s center and inner guide is essential on the road called life. Join the author, Dana Hayne, in her global travels and real life experiences of living communally for thirteen years with a hundred-year-old sage from the jungles of Sri Lanka as she discovers the awakening of that inner guide. Enjoy the author’s wit and wisdom as she explores topics such as the first years of marriage, miracles, addictions, fairy food, SIDS deaths, transplants, world peace and more under the tutelage of this master—His Holiness M.R.

Our personal and professional lives are a collection of relationship-based experiences. The quality of our lives is impacted by the quality of our relationships, beginning with the relationship we have with ourselves. When at odds, using a map helps us find our way back to one another more quickly, stay in alignment with our values and our purpose, and take full responsibility for our actions. The end result is relationships that generate greater creativity, happiness, fulfillment, and growth.

Sam is a business turnaround artist. And, he has the mentality to match, a deeply ingrained pattern that plays out in all aspects of his life. Nothing about Sam Calastri is easy. Gruff, intimidating, and deeply private, he’s built a career on dominance and grit, not self-reflection. New hire Sally Cain, armed with curiosity, experience, and just enough personal baggage of her own, must find a way to meet him in the middle in their corporate world.

Gideon has spent his life doing things the right way—the disciplined way. He’s built a career on relentless standards, moral rigor, and unyielding ambition. But as judgment day arrives, the cracks begin to show. An explosive confrontation with a fed-up colleague, a shocking admission from his wife, and memories of a distant son collide in Gideon’s tightly controlled world. When the decision doesn’t go his way, he is forced to sit with a kind of failure he’s never known, not just at work, but in his marriage, his faith, and his sense of self.

Veri Archer, an operating executive in her mid-forties, is recruited to be CEO of a high-tech start-up, replacing the founder-CEO, Sanjay Cherry. He stays on as CTO. For Veri, it becomes a rite of passage twice over. Behind the scenes, the transition of power is anything but smooth. Sanjay, a brilliant but beleaguered visionary, is forced to face the harsh truth that innovation alone isn’t enough to lead. Neal Armbruster—venture capitalist, mentor, and the man behind the curtain—must navigate the delicate politics of replacing a founder without fracturing a friendship.

Maxine Cooper is tasked with leading her company headfirst into the introduction of cutting-age technology. At work, she’s all business and no play, but despite her success, struggles to keep her life in balance. Maxine cannot quite shake the feeling of being stuck in her profession, and the quiet voice in the back of her mind asking her for more.

Philip Konig had been recruited personally by the megabank’s CEO, Martin Middleton. His mandate: to fix investment banking. But much more that, Philip was brought in to be the heir apparent to replace Middleton. There were rumblings about Philip, to which Middleton turned a deaf ear, but the corporate head of HR, Frank Brescia, did not.

Coming In from the Rain features EmmaJean, who must bear childhood emotional scars throughout her life. She comes to a crossroad when these scars rear their heads, and start affecting her life as a leader, a mother, and a spouse.

The book will encourage you to try new things to brighten your days. I tell the funny stories of my childhood so you can get an idea of who I was and tell you why I needed to change. Bipolar was the worst thing that ever happened to me but it was the best too because I needed to change. By searching for answers and help I met other people that help people and they helped me through some hard times, but it came down to the work I did for myself putting into practice the things I learnt.

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“Wind and Waves: Resting in His Promises,” is a 40-day devotional book written to encourage and bring peace in the middle of the storms of this life. While we may not be able to control the storms, the Lord teaches us that we can still trust that He is good and that the wind and waves still know His name.

Fortuna Page is a practicing witch in Massachusetts USA and has dabbled in poetry, the craft, Eastern meditation, song, acting, vegetarian cooking, and world travel. She loves to spend time with her familiars, cats, Gatto and Barnabus and her meditation groups. A few years back she visited a witchcraft shop in Salem MA. She experienced a vision of sights and sounds of nature there. This particular visit the nature phenomenon did not occur but something else did. Leaving the shop Her companion bought a pen in the next shop and then dropped it.