![]() ![]() Includes a Note to Parents and Caregivers by psychologist and author Dawn Huebner, PhD. ![]() This interactive self-help book is the complete resource for educating, motivating, and empowering children to work toward change. And step-by-step instructions point the way toward becoming happier, more positive kids. Lively metaphors and illustrations help kids see life's hurdles in a new way, while drawing and writing activities help them master skills to get over those hurdles. What to Do When You Grumble Too Much guides children and their parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques used to treat negative thinking. If you're a kid who feels so frustrated by those tricky spots that it's hard to enjoy the good things in life, this book is for you. Did you know that life is like an obstacle course? It's exciting and fun, but full of tricky spots to get through. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Yet, a solid landing doesn’t make it memorable. Sticking the ending can be just as important and I know it has rescued more than a few reading experiences. Of course the idea of a confession and an possible execution doesn’t hurt either. Franny Billingsley does when she opens Chime with: “I’ve confessed to everything and I’d like to be hanged.” The resignation, the casual disregard, the impropriety and all in the use of contractions/the informal in that line and it sets the tone. One of the first lessons of storytelling is minding your entrance and many heed this well enough. ![]() How’s a girl to keep her masks and secrets with both a Boggy Mun and a charming boy determined to interfere? While Briony’s life had begun to disintegrate into madness much earlier, she’d become resigned to her new normal until the swamp cough and a certain young Mister Eldric Clayborne came to Swampsea. They cannot hang an Old One without a trial, and we can’t have a confession without the story behind it. ![]() ![]() ![]() The van drove over a large hole in the road and Felix’s body raised into the air before thumping back down against the vehicle’s top. But the straps he’d purchased had torn almost the moment the van first accelerated, of course, only minutes after that poor sixteen-year-old had been blindfolded and led inside. He was supposed to be safely hooked in place, not clutching the roof rack’s sun-hot metal with bare, tiring hands. That’s why he’d brought the ratchet straps and carabineers. It wasn’t supposed to have been like this. ![]() The voice he heard was muffled, but some of the words came through clear: dead, teeth, don’t panic. He pulled himself forward against the sixty-miles-per-hour wind and leaned his ear against the metal below him. The vehicle ran across another bump in the road and Felix’s hands tightened. Losing his grip now would mean losing the van and probably worse, his life. ![]() It had been five hours now they had to be getting closer. Felix snapped himself awake as his left hand began to slip from the roof rack. ![]() ![]() ![]() Looking at the dark, starless night skyline, I let my thoughts sink into its blackness. I opened my eyes and stared out the window at the night sky, blocking the terrible ordeal Sebastian was putting me through. I was crying more than I had ever cried in my life but it wasn’t doing me any good, because he couldn’t have cared less about my tears. I muffled my heavy sobs and allowed a silent stream of tears to fall down my face. It felt like I was being cut open, but he wasn’t paying attention to my display of pain. Slowly, he pulled out from me and panic gripped me when the next thrust was more painful than the first. There was no tenderness, no mercy, and no reassurance. A shockwave ran through my body and my back arched from the sharp ache that tore up my insides. Without a warning, he took my virginity in one sudden, rough move and I screamed from the pain of the intrusion. ![]() ![]() ![]() While GETTING THINGS DONE remains the definitive way to gain perspective over work and create the mental space for creativity and mindfulness, THE GETTING THINGS DONE WORKBOOK enhances the original by providing an accessible guide to the GTD methodology in workbook form. ![]() Around the world hundreds of certified trainers and coaches are engaged full time in teaching the process, supported by a grassroots movement of Meetup groups, LinkedIn groups, Facebook groups, podcasts, blogs and dozens of apps based on it. The incredible popularity of GETTING THINGS DONE revealed people's need to take control of their own productivity with a system that reduces the stress of staying on top of it all. ![]() An accessible, practical, step-by-step guide that supplements GETTING THINGS DONE by providing the details, the how-to's and the practices to apply GTD more fully and easily in daily life ![]() ![]() ![]() Since their discovery 150 years ago, Neanderthals have gone from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins. ![]() This book sheds new light on where they lived, what they ate, and the increasingly complex Neanderthal culture that researchers have discovered. In Kindred, Neanderthal expert Rebecca Wragg Sykes shoves aside the cliché of the shivering ragged figure in an icy wasteland, and reveals the Neanderthal you don't know, our ancestor who lived across vast and diverse tracts of Eurasia and survived through hundreds of thousands of years of massive climate change. bold and magnificent attempt to resurrect our Neanderthal kin.- The Wall Street Journal Kindred is important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity.- The New York Times Book Review ![]() ![]() ![]() What Christianity has almost singlehandedly done to foster true tolerance in the world. Why relativism doesn't even work "in real life." How relativism is counterproductive to the true practice of tolerance Why religion which makes claims to absolute truth is finally more tolerant than relativism. ![]() How relativism has a direct influence on the morals and virtues of a nation. What makes it one of the worst ideas in the history of ideas. He recognized this in his homily on April 18, 2005, "We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires." Through a down-to-earth, easily accessible Question-and-Answer format, Stefanick's book Why relativism inherently contradicts its own claims. Pope Benedict XVI, Christ's personally chosen defender of the Truth is fighting back. Welcome to the new tyranny "If it feels good, do it." "That's your opinion, and this is mine." "I don't want to impose my beliefs on others." And thus the Dictator of Relativism speaks as he has always spoken to seduce humanity into a false sense of freedom. ![]() ![]() ![]() He makes it clear that we are all linked and that we need to realize that and act like it. In this collection, Hayes is the assassin but so are we if we feel as angry as he does. The first line of each sonnet with its page number moreover when you read each line in the index it makes another poem. ![]() One of the coolest things about this collection is that there is a sonnet index at the back. ![]() Every sonnet in the collection has the same title, ‘American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin’. How does a poet cope with the election of a new president? Lyrical and rhythmic, Hayes let’s us know what the deal is. This collection was savvy, intelligent, angry, creative, and has its pages and words on the pulse of what’s wrong with America. I don’t often read poetry but when I do it’s because I’m sure the collection is going to move me. When I heard about the release of this American Sonnets for My Past and F uture Assassin, I knew I had to read it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then read reviews from past clients to get a feel for their experience and professionalism. 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Christian comedy shows can be a great choice for church events like worship services, youth group parties, and fundraising events. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the space of just twenty years, from October 1795 when as a young artillery captain he cleared the streets of Paris of insurrectionists, to his final defeat at the (horribly mismanaged) battle of Waterloo in June 1815, Napoleon transformed France and Europe.Īfter seizing power in a coup d’etat he ended the corruption and incompetence into which the Revolution had descended. Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. ![]() ‘A Napoleonic triumph of a book, irresistibly galloping with the momentum of a cavalry charge’ Simon Sebag Montefiore’Simply dynamite’ Bernard CornwellFrom Andrew Roberts, author of the bestsellers The Storm of War and Churchill: Walking with Destiny, this is the definitive modern biography of Napoleon. ![]() |