Presidential Conversations for Kids follows the adventures of ten-year-old BFFs Georgie and GiGi and their magical skateboard. The deeply immersive, wildly imaginative story travels back and forth in time as the two G's meet U.S. presidents throughout history, learning a lesson in leadership from each. This richly illustrated young readers edition of the acclaimed political satire Presidential Conversations is primarily geared towards middle grade readers, ages 8 to 12.

Most professionals don't realize they're making major mistakes with their wardrobe that could cost them clients, money, and influence.

Why? They don't look the part.

This is not about faking it until you make it. This is not Dress for the job you want, not the job you have. No! Gone are the days of making a good first impression. It is time to make the right impression the first time.

When you enter a room, your image makes the first (and loudest) statement about who you are, and it could be sending the wrong message. In Secrets of a Well Dressed Brand, Toi Sweeney will show you how to use your wardrobe as a business and career strategy to create the right brand image and increase your perceived value. Perceived value refers to a customer's evaluation of not only your product and services, but their opinion and evaluation of you.

In this book you'll learn to:

• - Analyze and refine your wardrobe to align with your brand image.
• - Understand the psychology behind first impressions and how to make yours count.
• - Leverage your clothing choices as a key component of your business and career strategy.

It's time to embrace the power of dressing with intention and strategy. This book lays the foundation for personal branding and helps you level up, show up, and shut. it. down. This is the secret weapon you've been waiting for!

It's time to become a Well Dressed Brand.

Give a gift of love and magical adventure!

Discover the enchanting world of The Twelve Ravens. Set in lyrical verse, this captivating story follows a girl's epic quest to save her twelve brothers from a curse that has turned them into ravens. Her courage, sacrifice, and commitment to a vow of silence lead to her brothers' rescue. Stunning Baltic landscapes and ornately illustrated characters wrap the action into a charming package for readers young and old to open.

... a gripping reimagining of a classic Lithuanian folktale... -BookLife

Lessons of love, persistence, honor and integrity enhance this beautiful combination of verse, illustration and all-around storytelling. -BlueInk Review Starred Review

...rendered in gorgeous terms. -Foreword Clarion Reviews

An Original and Profound Experience with the Old Testament

With The Hebrew Scriptures, McGahan Publishing House presents an original and profound reading experience of the Old Testament that is focused on the writers' literary artistry that shaped the theological messages.

The book's revised order, aligned to the long-standing traditional order of the Hebrew Bible, also has important implications for interpreting the Hebrew Scriptures as a whole.

There are four major introductions - the Hebrew Scriptures, the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings. Each book in the scriptures also has its own introduction. Each introduction is written by a prominent scholar in the Old Testament and Hebrew. The goal for each introduction is to orient the reader toward matters such as basic background, the material covered, literary movement and shaping, and the theological purpose of the book or sections.

This project will be beneficial for any Christian wishing to fully understand the Old Testament's purpose and usefulness. This volume will be a great resource for a layperson, college and seminary students, ministers - anyone who has a desire to learn about the ancient writings of the Hebrew Scriptures.

Features:

- The arrangement of the books follows the long-standing traditional order of the Hebrew Bible
- Verse numbers have been removed, with chapters only, line numbers in lieu of verses, and a single-column format
- 39 introductions written by 34 Old Testament scholars from across the globe
- Notable contributors include Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford, Stephen Dempster, John Goldingay, Tremper Longman, and more.

One thing Alice knew for sure--she needed to leave right now and take the child with her. Though the literal rain had stopped sometime during the night, she felt a flood rising.

Is there any truth to C.S. Lewis's belief that a Secret Master of Ceremonies is at work in our friendships? In this book you will meet an aging grandmother, a middle-aged widower, and a college dropout. . . three seemingly random players who share the small stage of a downtown Chicago deli during a brief opening scene of intense drama. Can a friendship be forged in a single moment of terror? Can it be sustained after the three players leave the stage for destinations many miles apart in the Deep South and New England? Step into the lives of Alice, Gary, and Fawna as their stories interweave and they discover paths to hope, healing, and faith amid the trials of life, finding courage along the way to open their hearts to others. Reader, author, poet, and book reviewer Sheila Petre writes: Turner's books come bearing gifts, and they change us, make us laugh or cry, gently sympathize or rebuke.

Fiction. On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American newly arrived in a foreign city pays a young man for sex. Over the next months, as what at first seems an uncomplicated transaction deepens into something more intricate and unnerving, his discovery of the geography and griefs of an unfamiliar country is accompanied by the unfolding of Mitko's own narrative, his private history of illness, exploitation, and want. The story of a desire that grows increasingly ambivalent, poised between submission, need, and resentment, MITKO is a powerful meditation on the chances of history and privilege, on mutual predation, and on our inability to know with any certainty the natures of others or our own fugitive selves.

The Blue-Collar Bible Scholar's Reader's Guide to the New Testament is the culmination of what Joel Edmund Anderson has taught in his Bible classes at both the high school level and college level over the past 25 years of teaching. As the title suggests, it really is a reader's guide to help anyone understand what they're reading in the New Testament.

Most Bible commentaries simply are not aimed at the average, sincere Christian who simply wants to make sense of what he/she is reading. Scholarly works are aimed at scholars that not only tend to focus solely on historical-critical questions and issues, but often fail to read any given biblical book as a unified, literary whole. Simply put, most scholarly works on the Bible give a heavy dose of historical, archeological, and textual information about the biblical text, but they make very little effort to actually read the biblical text and help the reader understand it.

This is where the BCBS Reader's Guide to the New Testament is different. To be sure, Anderson gives enough historical background, both of the New Testament world and each individual New Testament book, so that the reader can get a grasp of the general time period, but his ultimate focus is to help the reader understand the biblical text itself.

He does this by doing a number of things with each New Testament book:

1. He provides a brief explanation of the time of writing and authorship of each book, as is generally accepted in both biblical scholarship and Church Tradition.

2. He provides a Big Things to Know section that highlights the major themes and literary imagery in each New Testament book. This essentially is a heads up to the reader to look out for these themes and images as he/she reads any given New Testament book.

3. He provides a Story Chart or Literary Map of each New Testament book that gives the reader a visual of the overall flow of each New Testament book. This is extremely helpful, in that it helps the reader (a) follow the storyline in books like the Gospels and Acts, and (b) trace the argument that is being made in each New Testament letter.

4. He then provides a walkthrough of each New Testament book, passage by passage, helping the reader understand how each New Testament book fits together as a coherent whole.

5. Finally, in the corresponding BCBS Reader's Guide to the New Testament Workbook, Anderson provides study/discussion questions for the reader as he/she reads through each book in the New Testament. The workbook can be used in individual study, a Sunday School or Bible Study small group, or a high school Bible class.

Presidential Conversations for Kids follows the adventures of ten-year-old BFFs Georgie and GiGi and their magical skateboard. The deeply immersive, wildly imaginative story travels back and forth in time as the two G's meet U.S. presidents throughout history, learning a lesson in leadership from each. This richly illustrated young readers edition of the acclaimed political satire Presidential Conversations is primarily geared towards middle grade readers, ages 8 to 12.

For soldiers and their families, wars never end. The memories come home, occasionally in triumph, but more often in unpredictable and debilitating ways barely visible to the larger public. Most accounts rightly focus on the soldier's struggles. Compelling and revealing, Patrick Smithwick's War's Over, Come Home is a rare and intimate account from a family's vantage point, an essential perspective often missed. Their transcontinental efforts to find Iraq war veteran Andrew Smithwick--son, brother and once a friend to many--are a disturbing and eloquent testament to the cascading impact of a single case of PTSD.

Smithwick, a gifted storyteller who has written an acclaimed trilogy about steeplechase racing, has noted elsewhere, Not for a moment did I imagine that one day I'd be pulling blankets off the faces of homeless men in Seattle, San Diego, Santa Fe, New York, Baltimore, Orlando. Or tapping on their shoulders and asking, 'Is that you, Andrew?'

Despite its hopeless moments and recurring despair, War's Over, Come Home is, at its heart, a love story about a family's resilient and at times, blind commitment to finding Andrew. The sightings, the close calls, his brief return home are inspiring, yet thus far confounding and fruitless. When does one stop looking?

War's Over, Come Home will strike home with a wide range of readers, from families similarly afflicted by PTSD to policymakers at the Pentagon, from family counselors to sociologists, and most of all to general readers curious about an otherwise invisible world.

The truth is, sharing your brags, accomplishments, achievements, successes, and wins in a business-savvy manner makes the sales/marketing process, idea sharing, nomination writing for awards, and RFPs/RFQs/grant writing much more manageable and rewarding. In Get Your Brag On! - you will learn in 5 easy steps how to create brags and shamelessly self-promote yourself to win your goals.

vampire burrito is nothing if not cinematic - aware of where the light begins and what it refracts through, a work replete with contradictions, two truths held together, bitterness tangled up in empathy, sadness tangled up in defiant joy, scoffing at the preconception of mutual exclusivity, alive in its very existence, both middle fingers to the sky.

- dan campbell, vocalist of THE WONDER YEARS

From the author of The Neon Hollywood Cowboy comes Vampire Burrito, a convergence of Appalachian heritage, intersex romance, and IVF. The book is a three-part epic that dares to explore how queer bodies can birth new marvels in the wake of personal and ecological trauma. Vampire Burrito is nothing if not a bigmouth. A hillsong. A werewolf in an airport terminal. A tomorrow colored like a goodbye. An eventually, an eventually, an eventually.

The Poems in Verse is Peter Manson s translation of the Poésies of Stéphane Mallarmé. Long overshadowed by Mallarmé's theoretical writings and by his legendary visual poem Un coup de Dés jamais n'abolira le Hasard, the Poésies are lyrics of a uniquely prescient and generative modernity. Grounded in a scrupulous sounding of the complex ambiguities of the original poems, Manson s English translations draw on the resources of the most innovative poetries of our own time these may be the first translations really to trust the English language to bear the full weight of Mallarméan complexity. With The Poems in Verse, Mallarmé's voice is at last brought back, with all its incisive strangeness, into the conversation it started a hundred and fifty years ago, called contemporary poetry.

Bragging in a business savvy manner creates confidence for the job seeker, employee seeking promotions, and anyone seeking new career opportunities.

Bragging wows the recruiter and current/future bosses.

Bragging bridges the gaps between writing your resume, planning for interviews, and receiving job offers. It's not hard. But it does take focused effort.

When done right, you feel good and are amazed by other new job opportunities too.

Once you've created your brags using the 5 easy steps ... you will be able to:

Uncover the hidden job market with easePromote yourself during performance appraisalsDevelop confidence to self-promote and win new career opportunitiesConduct real network meetings that make a positive differenceDiscover the truth beyond the job description and job postingClarify the real challenges and new opportunities in the companyWrite a powerful LinkedIn profile and get better job referralsGet past the gate-keepers and talk with the new boss directlyDevelop the natural confidence that future bosses want to hire

You can achieve this by learning the 5 simple steps to bragging...which is the foundation to building a strong career pathway for success.

Not only will these brags steps help you now...they are great skills to develop for future opportunities.

When my oldest daughter called to say she had an interview the next day and wanted to practice what to say, I got out the brag book. We went through the brag statements, came up with some for her and then went through the interview questions to learn how to use them. She felt very confident going into the interview. The next day she got the job! More money, better hours and potential to advance! Yay! -Mary G., business coach and mom

Bragging gets you on track to enjoy an amazing career and paycheck so you can have more time, money, and energy to pursue other life goals.

When you are focused and doing well in your job, new and other exciting opportunities appear too...along with more money too!

Are you ready to pursue your dream job with confidence and certainty? Learn how to promote yourself for new career opportunities?

Grab The Secret to Winning the Job: Start Bragging! today!

PS: What are you waiting for? Showcase your value today by bragging and winning the job!

The star of the book, Karun, learns all about Halloween from his loving Grandma. He meets a talking skeleton, a mischievous vampire, an artistic witch, and some friendly ghosts on his dreamy journey between our world and theirs.

On the heels of his 2020 debut Love & Solidarity, Brendan has returned with a brand new collection of poems that circle his obsessions; money, class, work and the political economy of ecological collapse. In order to find the language for the means of economic exploitation and immiseration, Brendan focuses on its tempo, reordering our perception of time in the way capitalism imagines it; as a series of equations between commodities.



IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards - Gold Winner, Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book from a New Publisher

Listen to your heart, trust your gut, and dream big!​

Ponies were always coming and going at the barn, that was nothing new, but as summer begins the girl with the long blonde hair notices something about the newest pony that she can't quite put her finger on.

This pony is ordinary, ugly even, and on top of that she is mean. But the girl doesn't seem to care, she is drawn to her and determined to earn the pony's trust. Over the course of the summer, the pair develop an incredible bond. But, tragically, as summer ends the two are separated.

Young readers will eagerly turn the pages to find out if the girl and the pony will ever see each other again.

Beautiful illustrations from award-winning illustrator, Marjorie van Heerdan, paired with a dynamic tale inspired by a true story bring to life an emotional journey that will make readers of all ages cry, smile, and cheer.

Jump the Moon makes a perfect gift for horse-loving kids and will inspire any child to follow their dreams!



Coach Joey D Diovisalvi and Coach K-Wayne Tullier have spent years optimizing the bodies, swings, and careers of the game's top PGA and LPGA Tour players. Now, for the first time, their Tour-proven exercises, drills, and philosophies have been collected in a single volume to let anyone train like the game's elite players.

The walls of the Joey D Golf Sports Training Center in Jupiter, Florida are ringed with banners -- each representing a Tour victory by a player that trains there. Each giant banner is a permanent tribute to the player that earned it and further proof of the unparalleled level of training being done at the facility. Currently, over 60 banners hang on the walls.

Hang the Banner takes golfers inside the minds and methods of two of the most sought after and winningest strength, conditioning, and biomechanics coaches in PGA TOUR history. They understand what it takes to help players reach their goals. And in Hang the Banner, they share their proven methods and fitness program to help golfers of all levels move better, feel better, and play better golf.

How much does hiring the wrong person cost your business?

Are you asking useless interview questions?

Are you hiring people with true interest and talent?

It's become the wild-wild-west of hiring ... we over-rely on instinct, intuition, gut, and other nefarious practices to select our most valuable resource ... our employees! (According to several studies over 60% of hiring bosses use poor hiring methods.)

There's a lot of research available about why, but little about how small businesses can improve their selection decisions using practical systems and tools for new hires, rehires, job transfers and promotions.

The key is to collect valid, objective, and reliable data.

Want to be a well-run small business that attracts and keeps top talent, increases profits, and delivers exceptional results on-time and within budget? Read how to create and follow a practical strategic selection system, as outlined in Hire Amazing Employees, Revised Edition.

Jeannette Seibly is an award-winning Leadership Results Coach with over 40 years of guiding small and family businesses to excel and achieve million-dollar results. Her straight talk with immediate results has impacted many companies to increase retention, revenues, and results!