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What does Forrest Gump have in common with each of us? A life of unplanned yet meaningful escapades. At least, that is what Dayna Adelman believes. In her literary debut, Dayna takes you on a behind-the-scenes journey through the first decade of her career-as the youngest one in the [board] room. She showers us with personal anecdotes and adventures as she distills her lessons learned along the way-all while living Gump's mantra: Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
We first meet Dayna as a twenty-something straight out of college-in the waning days of the global financial crisis, and the book comes to a conclusion when she is a thirty-something-during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dayna regales her readers while meandering through a significantly defining decade-from the entry-level days at a New York City-based communications consultancy through her rise as a corporate affairs professional at a multinational corporation.
Whether you are just entering the workforce, in a place of professional transition, or looking to understand the past to define the future, Dayna's human approach to sharing her lessons inside and outside the boardroom-while revealing both the joy and pain of the self-discovery process along the way-will resonate with you.
Be forewarned: this book does not contain a magic list of what you should do to achieve success. Rather, this is one young professional's personal account shared in the hope that readers will feel inspired to continue seeking their own fulfilling adventures.
For generations, expectations for a good life in America have remained the same: go to college, get a job, find a partner, get married, and have children. But what happens if someone decides to accomplish all of those things except have a child?
In Milk Drunk: What to Expect When You Are Not Expecting, Danielle Schwartz details her very fulfilling but child-free life with her husband, Jim, while facing constant criticism about their family decision.
By sharing conversations with friends, family, coworkers, and even strangers, Milk Drunk explores a wide array of topics and opinions. Some people view Danielle as strong and independent for knowing who she is and what she wants, while others believe her choice is disappointing God and attempt to convince her that as a woman, she must use God's given gift of fertility.
Milk Drunk: What to Expect When You Are Not Expecting explores a slew of opinions surrounding the sensitive and personal topic of remaining child-free and provides insight for those who either need support in a similar decision or do not understand why someone they know or love has turned down the choice of parenthood.
...the very definition of a page-turner. READ THIS BOOK! - Colin Mochrie, Whose Line is It Anyway?, Hyprov
Featured on Watch What Happens Live! With Andy Cohen, People Magazine, Queerty Magazine, Fox Digital News, The New York Post, The Daily Mail, The Hollywood Reporter, and Out Magazine.
The Girls: From Golden to Gilmore is the story of Stan Zimmerman, a gawky Jewish boy who dreamed of becoming a wildly successful actor, rich enough to build his own mansion in the Hollywood Hills. While the actor part didn't quite pan out, Stan found success as a writer, producer, director, and playwright, working on such shows as The Golden Girls, Roseanne, and Gilmore Girls.
Growing up in a small suburb of Detroit, Michigan, Stan was surrounded by three strong, intelligent women-his mother, his grandmother, and his sister-all of whom supported his imagination and creativity. Instead of playing outside, he spent time in his basement directing and acting in plays with the neighborhood kids. At seven-and-a-half years old, he was the youngest student accepted into a prestige summer theater school program.
After high school, he was awarded a work/study scholarship to NY/Circle in the Square, where he met his first serious boyfriend and became Andy Warhol's unwitting photo subject one night at Studio 54. He also met Jim Berg, a journalism student at NYU's University Without Walls, forming a writing partnership that continues to this day. Their latest project is naturally an all-star, female ensemble Christmas comedy movie for Lifetime!
Throughout his life, most of Stan's friendships have been with females. He credits those friendships and the women in his family with his ability to connect with creative women who have played a part in his career success.
Accompanied by journal entries, The Girls details Stan's relationships with some of entertainment's most notable women, including Roseanne Barr, Lily Tomlin, Sandra Bernhard, Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel, and, of course, all four Golden Girls.
The Girls: From Golden to Gilmore is a candid, funny, and sometimes poignant testimony about how a young boy turned his dream into reality.
If you're ready to make lasting changes when it comes to your body and your life, BE-Friend Yourself can help you finally find the freedom and peace you truly deserve. - Marc David: Founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, and author of Nourishing Wisdom and The Slow Down Diet
In BE-Friend Yourself: Finding Freedom with Food and Peace with Your Body, author Marla Mervis-Hartmann invites you to resoundingly answer, Yes!
As the creator of the program, Love Your Body, Love Yourself, Marla draws upon her two decades of expertise as a body image and food freedom expert and healer to empower you. With a mission to silence the relentless noise of the diet industry, Marla guides you on a journey to rediscover yourself.
Discover Your Yes!
Through chapters on intuitive eating, embracing movement as a tribute to your body, exploring sensuality and spirituality, and becoming your own best friend, BE-Friend Yourself unveils the path to stepping out of the mental mire and into unshakable confidence and clarity.
Healing Emotional Connections with Your Body and Food
Body image and food challenges often conceal deeper emotional wounds. BE-Friend Yourself compassionately address the discomfort within, even when you want to escape. Discover the path to healing your relationship with your body and food by slowing down, feeling, and breathing-especially when activated.
Transforming from Opponent to Ally
BE-Friend Yourself challenges the paradox of living in opposition to the joy of food and the wonder of our bodies. Imagine the ease of being consistently kind to yourself!
Embrace the Art of Self-Love
BE-Friend Yourself teaches this art along with embracing your life by feeling more deeply, grieving more intentionally, and celebrating your body-for how it is, no matter where you are in your journey.
Ready to Say Yes! to Yourself?
Dive into BE-Friend Yourself and embark on a life-changing adventure towards loving your body, achieving freedom with food, and finding peace within.
Set in the heat of Arizona's landscape in the mid-90s, Falling from Grace follows the fictional story of a pregnant eighteen-year-old hoping that she can save herself and her unborn child from the emotional and physical abuse of her father.
Nestled within the confines of a weather-beaten trailer park, Grace Callaway's life unfolds amidst a tapestry of Arizona heat, dusty roads, and the hum of a community where everyone is grappling with their own set of challenges. In the shadow of the Catalina Mountains, where dreams seem distant and aspirations often fade, Grace hopes for a better life for her child than she had growing up.
Between the mother who abandoned her and the father who resents her for it, Grace has never had it easy in life. Her only hope is to leave behind the life she has known and create something more for herself. Whilst navigating the complexities of her fractured family, Grace finds unexpected solace in her new neighbor, Peter. Peter becomes the needed support in her journey toward leaving her current life behind.
Will Grace's strength be enough to sever the ties to her abusive past and create a new legacy for her child? Falling from Grace is a powerful exploration of resilience, redemption, and the enduring spirit that can arise from the darkest corners of life.
...this book is uncompromising, authentic, deep and true. - Michael DeMaria, Bestselling author of Peace Within and four-time Grammy nominee
An end-of-life story of awe, Rosemary, Now and Then ventures back and forth through death's door with stark truths, vibrant compassion, and afterlife intrigue. Strokes untether Rosemary from known reality, yet dementia uplifts her spirit, compelling her paramedic daughter to reconsider definitions of mental disorder in particular and the nature of death in general. A clever nurse translates dementia findings into a poetic image for family: Rosemary's brain is like lace.
Fine threads of brilliance weave intricate Irish-veil thoughts through her filigree mind. Her three-year-old self emerges, radiant and quizzical. Grappling with the nature of existence, Rosemary laughs her way to the grave. Devoted daughter Christina devises caregiving innovations and connects dots of amazing coincidences. Paradoxes of mortality balance gravity with hilarity, pain with joy, absurdity with wisdom, practicality with mysticism.
The Now and Then format depicts leaps in time, place, and person that challenge reality, in league with Rosemary's mind.
A journey of wit, wisdom, and sheer determination, Rosemary's story concludes with her signature cinnamon bun recipe for readers to bake and share with loved ones . . . as Rosemary would do.
If you like political intrigue, this is the book for you. - Marjorie Margolies, former Democratic Congresswoman
This book gives you a sense of how politics happens in real life because Craig Snyder has lived it. - Andrew Yang, former Democratic candidate for President of the United States
As November approaches, two near opposites clash for the nation's highest office. It's Ven Hess, firebrand populist breaking all the old rules, known as The Hessian for his intimidating tactics on the pitcher's mound, versus Democrat Alec Maynard, an African American Admiral with his own flaws but who offers the nation at least some hope of normalcy.
Pete Vankov, a political operative known as the Dark Angel because of his reputation for winning at all costs, spearheads the Hess campaign. Meanwhile, an estranged colleague, David Gruber, together with The Globe's political reporter, Jane Berglund, devises a plan to thwart Vankov's march towards a dirty and dangerous victory.
Who wins?
With Guile, veteran political strategist Craig Snyder has written a thriller exposing the dark underbelly of American politics, a novel rich in suspense and intrigue that will have readers turning its pages quickly in rueful anticipation of the next election.
Snyder has been a national political insider and highest level operative for three decades and it shows in the authenticity and details on every page of this gripping 'House of Cards' style novel. - James Greenwood, former GOP Congressman
Snyder outlines how ethically compromised these relationships can be. How tough... how impossible... when they find themselves flying too close to the flame. There is sizzle and scandal. They get so far, they can't turn back and typically they're convinced that they must win at any cost... that the ends justify the means. It's ripped from the headlines, you will recognize the players. Sometimes it becomes a battle between the bad and the worse. Snyder provides a surprising and rather uplifting ending. If you like political intrigue, this is the book for you. - Marjorie Margolies, former Democratic Congresswoman
If you're ready to read a realistic approach to the possibility of alien life and whether we are visited by them, you will love Are They Out There? Diving for Answers In a Sea of Cover-Ups. - Readers' Favorite
Nothing in the universe is unique and alone, and therefore in other regions there must be other earths inhabited by different tribes of men and different breeds of beast. - Titus Lucretius, De Rerum Natura circa 50BCE
The question, Are They Out There? is not a new one. Since ancient times, humans have wondered about the potential of alien life. Between May 1, 2023, and June 1, 2024, alone, sightings of more than seven hundred unidentified aerial phenomena were reported-and twenty-one of these cases are still under investigation. They can't be explained by common objects.
In Are They Out There? retired Colonel Gene P. Abel sifts through the accounts of military professionals and eyewitnesses alike in search of the truth about extra-terrestrial visitors. Discover what Colonel Abel has uncovered, and what the government might not be telling us, in this gripping new look at the history, and potential future impact, of UFOs, and alien contact.
A newly released US report on unidentified flying objects says 143 sightings since 2004 remain unexplained. It does not rule out alien activity. - The New York Times, June 25, 2021
If you want to make history with your brand, read this book! - Jonathan Randall, President of Mack Trucks North America
Two facts to consider. There are over 500,000 brands in 2,000 categories worldwide. And nearly fifty million Americans left their jobs in 2021 alone. Realizing all this underscores how challenging, critical, and rare a brand is to be valued and loved by not only its customers but its employees as well. According to Barry LaBov, it comes down to just one word: Differentiation.
LaBov, author of dozens of books including The Power of Differentiation, is founder of LABOV Marketing, Communications and Training. In this book, he draws on his firm's forty years of differentiating hundreds of companies in dozens of industries. LaBov and team have inspired leaders to identify what makes their brand, products, technology, and services unique and to then celebrate it, first with the most important audience, their employees.
The Power of Differentiation reveals the steps needed to uncover the magic and genius in a company's manufacturing and engineering because your brand lives inside your products and technology. It shares case studies of service enterprises that separated from the pack as they focused on their customer treatment because your brand is your experience to customers. It reveals the secrets to mobilizing the sales channel to represent your company as if its logo is tattooed on their heart. And it focuses on the power of a brand's lexicon or language because words create worlds.
It's not about being perfect, either, as LaBov shares stories of flawed organizations that dominated their rivals. And you'll learn how to build your brand while defeating the competition as they lower prices by commoditizing or homogenizing their product.
The Power of Differentiation is an uplifting, insightful journey into discovering and celebrating what makes your brand uniqu
...a must-read for anyone at the cusp of a career change or those looking to follow a new path. - Cate Luzio, Founder & CEO of Luminary
What do you want to be able to say about the life you've lived and the dreams you followed?
Dreaming on Purpose: A Manifesto for Black Women on Taking the Leap, Building Your Dreams, and Being Your Own Boss is a care-centered career roadmap for Black millennial women who dare to look beyond outdated career norms, redefine professional ambition, and center their desires.
Featured in CNBC, Business Insider, and Fast Company, Career Equity Consultant and author Ariane Hunter empowers you to redefine success and build sustainable businesses on your own terms. Whether you're just starting out or considering a career change, Dreaming on Purpose is a timeless companion for those ready to turn their dreams into reality without sacrificing well-being.
From overcoming imposter syndrome to navigating systemic barriers, Ariane draws from her personal experience as a Bronx-born, suburban Long Island raised trailblazer to provide practical strategies and candid advice with a side of humor.
Dreaming on Purpose meets the moment as the number one guidebook for visionary Black women to reimagine their career path as a vessel for self-discovery, healing, and liberation.
All Marin has ever been-and ever will be, as far as he knows-is a servant.
He's grown up working for an evil witch called Ilth, never having any idea who his parents were or where he came from.
But then comes the day he and another servant, Aster, find the courage to run away to seek their fortunes in the great wide world...The only problem is that the world holds much more danger than Marin and Aster ever expected-tyrannical kings, vengeful demigods, goblin armies, and legendary monsters. And Ilth is tracking them down with wicked schemes of her own. The greatest challenge comes when Marin learns he must seek out a long-lost magic sword he'll need if he's going to save the life of Princess Elspeth and the entire kingdom of Blunia. It's a dangerous quest to expect of anyone-least of all someone who is nothing more than a runaway servant.
Have you ever wondered how to bring sustainability practices into your own life but found the whole idea overwhelming? Simply Sustainable: Simple Behaviors for Sustainable Living brings an easy transformative approach to embrace healthier choices through weekly facts and simple action steps. Designed for families, this book provides encouragement and hope for creating a sustainable future.
Ethan Fisher's entire focus and agenda in life was where he would play basketball, who he'd drink with on a given night, and who'd have the drugs. But he loved hoopin'! From an early age, Ethan felt alive-powerful even-while dribbling a basketball down the court wearing headphones that beat to the sounds of his favorite hip-hop artists. Nothing could stop Fish-he had a dream to become a pro.
An unhealthy dependence on alcohol and drugs masked years of social anxiety and depression-stopping Ethan in his tracks. After a night of bad decisions, an overtly drunk college student got behind the wheel of a car. The consequences were catastrophic.
Fish has lived through sensational failure and eventual success. With the help of God and a tenacious drive to make something of his damaged life, Ethan developed and used Five Keys for Profound Change-which he will share in this book.
If you are interested in learning about real estate investing and finding out what type of real estate interests you, this book is for you!- Carol Carpenter, author of the bestseller The Elegant Disruptor: Breaking through Barriers and Limited Beliefs to Success.
From the entertainment value of home flipping on reality television to managing rental properties or partnering on an apartment complex, the tantalizing possibilities of real estate investing are everywhere.
Despite the enticement, attempting to buy, manage, or sell property is not a venture for the ill-prepared. Fortunately, real estate investor Mark Hayes is here to help you get ready.
Dip Your Toe into Real Estate Investing offers an easy-to-follow guide for newcomers and old hands alike. Discover the pros and cons and the ins and outs of real estate investing. Determine what kind of investor you want to be and learn what you need to know about the different types of properties available, purchasing your first piece of land or a home, and acquiring financing. More experienced investors will find tips for building a team of professionals to improve and sell properties for the best profit possible. With Mark's experience and insights, you can make the tantalizing dream of profitable real estate investing a reality.
If you think viral marketing only refers to making videos or memes to get shares on social media, there's a reason you've found it difficult to grow your business. In Viral Hero, serial entrepreneur and growth engineer Travis Steffen reveals his comprehensive, battle-tested strategy for building products capable of true viral growth. Developed over years of research and more than a decade of starting, growing, and selling startups, Viral Hero includes a detailed breakdown of the many types of viral marketing, their various techniques and strategies, clear explanations of abstract and often misunderstood theories, simple tactics for measuring and predicting your viral growth, and actionable steps for making your product spread like wildfire. Using detailed examples from real high-growth companies, Viral Hero is a comprehensive, approachable resource that gives you all the tools you'll need on your journey toward becoming a viral hero for your business.
On the beautiful beaches of the Gulf of Mexico, a group of young men who call themselves the Hammerhead Gang create the Shark List, a file of people who commit civil wrong doings and sometimes criminal acts. Their motive? To seek punishment for these unruly citizens. Typically, punishment is either humorous or embarrassing for the perpetrators. However, when the Hammerhead Gang discovers a serial killer in their midst, they decide to stop him. Prior to turning evidence over to the police, they plan a heist to steal the killer's wealth. From the beautiful beaches of Florida to the rural woods of Mississippi and all the way to the Virgin Islands, The Shark List explores romance, adventure, and the unconditional loyalty of the Hammerhead Gang.
...draws from the best traditions of southern literature and children's literature to tell a tale that is both deeply rooted in place and universal in appeal. - Dr Susan McCready, Professor of French at the University of South Alabama
In Big Creek, Alabama, just outside Mobile, a family of foxes compete against coyotes on Farmer Reynolds' farm near the Escatawpa River. The fox family has a treaty. If the foxes don't eat the chickens, the farmers' dog and cat will steer hunters from the fox den. Mistletoe, a fox from last year's litter, is keen on upholding that treaty and protecting his family.
But Mistletoe is up against a strong and wily foe. Coyote Thorn and his pack intend to claim the chickens for themselves, and they are prepared to fight if the foxes choose to warn Farmer Reynolds of their plans.
With the help of the majestic stag, Ahwi, and a magical oak tree portal to another world, Mistletoe gains a powerful tail that launches fireballs. Can his newfound power and bravery end the battle between the foxes and coyotes?
