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In Tandem: Pedaling Through Midlife on a Bicycle Built for Two

by Szifra Birke

An amusing and insightful memoir about building a new relationship. The authors’ new tandem bike challenges their fitness, their negotiation skills, and their ability to become a team as these two very different individuals strive to assemble a relationship on the debris of multiple divorces, breakups, and a death. In Tandem easily shifts gears between the couple’s efforts to understand and support each other emotionally and the mechanics of learning to ride a bicycle that demands cooperation.... more

My Mother’s Pearls of Wisdom

by Lisa Chase

Why “pearls of wisdom”? My mom says she always felt she had an old soul, and her mom was full of practical tips for navigating through life, so “pearls of wisdom” became a theme for them. From relationship to investing tips that never wear with time, this book is a compilation of my mother’s “pearls of wisdom,” some of which you may have already heard at your own home. We know you were raised with common sense and that many of these insights will sound familiar to you, but we thought memorializ... more

Costing for Fashion

by Jessel C. Brizan

Costing for Fashion provides a simple yet comprehensive approach to the three stages of costing including an overview of market considerations and customer focus. Additionally, Costing for Fashion comes with our fully customizable Basic Cost Sheet Template for Excel © which provides a key auxiliary component for the systematic and strategic approach to costing for fashion including cost analysis, pricing strategy and profitability analysis sections.

Technical Package Development for Excel

by Jessel C. Brizan

Technical Package Development for Excel © focuses on the art of the Technical Package (Tech Pack) - an important aspect of the global fashion industry and one of the most important components in the fashion design process. It also provides key exposures in labelling requirements and packaging guidelines, and features insight on care symbols under special license agreement with GINETEX (The International Association for Textile Care Labelling). Additionally, Technical Package Development fo... more

Power Glass

by Katherine Cooper

This book primarily focuses on my personal experiences as an engineering student and as an engineer in the nuclear industry. From the lens of those experiences and my own readings on similar topics, I begin a discussion on power. Many aspects of power are discussed, from personal power to the literal power that is generated in a nuclear power plant. This book contains some disturbing content and may be triggering to some. It is a book of catharsis.

Mind Doodles

by Treena Innes

What happens when your thoughts are full of sparks and spirited stories are bursting to be told? Treena Innes has provided life thoughts in a Mind Doodle style that lets the reader unzip the colourful words, then unpack the free-wheeling, zig zagging ideas and questions around these lively, genuine reflections. Readers will join this Mind Doodle journey that will challenge their own experiences and entice an endless flow of questions while being entertained. Vibrant, raw and quirky jus... more

Digest of the Broken Road Traveler

by R. Glenn Kelly

Regardless your trials, hardships, or heartaches, Digest of the Broken Road Traveler presents fifty-two life-changing morals that will excite the spirit, awaken the soul, and deeply enrich your life, beginning with the very first chapter, or Exit, from your own broken road. Each teaching is presented to you in either narrative essay or allegory format, with clear soul-healing revelations. A noted expert and authority on moving forward from life’s toughest challenges, including the loss of h... more

The Celestial Proposal: Our Invitation to Join the God Kind

by Jane Catherine Rozek

Are you world-weary? Do you sense there’s more to life than what you see? Do you want to co-create a better future for yourself and your world? God offers you a plan, a "Celestial Proposal," for you to align with a Higher Power and access supernatural power! Jane Catherine Rozek’s book on Christian Spirituality presents a new paradigm for a Twenty-first Century powerful faith answering the big questions in life: Who are we and why is our world such a mess? God’s pl... more

The Self Sufficient Teen and Young Adult: Skills for Living on Your Own

by Valli Quaintance

This book is a guide for teens and young adults. It is a detailed book on everything you will need to know to set up your new life. From years of experience I am able to show you the way to begin having a happy, healthy, prosperous life. What’s included in this pocket-sized guide: • Tasks that you might already know, or that you would want to learn before trying life on your own. • Communication • Organization • Getting a job, or a better job • Working with computers • Transportation • C... more

Slow Down and Lighten Up: Letting Go of Stress and Tension

by Bob Van Oosterhout

This practical and fun to read guide clearly explains how stress and tension affect body, mind, and emotions in easily understandable terms. It describes simple techniques to restore and maintain physical, mental, and emotional balance and provides a simple three step process to effectively deal with challenging stressors and situations using real life examples. Stories and personal experiences gathered from over forty years of counseling, teaching, and community organizing highlight what works... more

Lizzie and Her Dancing Letters

by Macy Porterfield

This book is about Lizzie, who finds it difficult to read and write due to her Dyslexia diagnosis. She sees the words dancing. How does that make her feel when she sees other children in her class read and write perfectly? She feels angry, sad, and disappointing. Lizzie would become gloomy and think of herself as inferior to the rest of her classmates, thinking she would never be like them. She would have continued to feel this way and stay angry at everything if she had not met Mrs. Jackson.

Ask Yourself This: Ultimate Life Lessons From And For My Girlfriends (The Friendship Series)

by Shari Leid

Find Connection, Confidence, and Happiness with 60 Powerful Questions While you may not have a professional life coach, you have your girlfriends—your ride-or-die friends, your new acquaintances, your colleagues—and now you have my friends as well. Ask Yourself This takes you on a journey of self-discovery as you reflect and journal through its pages. In this final book of the Friendship series, life coach Shari Leid asks simple life questions that lead to thought-provoking answers, prompt... more

The Edge of the Sticker

by Bradley Frank, Ph.D and Bobby Frank

Have you ever tried peeling a sticker off your car? You probably start by looking for a corner that’s raised just enough to get your fingernail underneath. Once you’ve got that edge, though, you can gently pull it away. Sometimes the sticker comes right off with one satisfying tug. Sometimes it tears or separates and you have to start over. Either way, the process begins by getting the edge of the sticker. The same idea applies when life gets sticky. Life is stressful and everyone feels anxious ... more

Family For Life

by Marlene Soto

Are you a caregiver for someone with a disability? I know how hard it is. I talk about my own experiences and what I have learned along the way in this book. What I want is for you to know that you're not alone and that there is hope. I'm also a caregiver. I don't have time to give you my life story, but I want to tell you about one of the most important roles you'll ever play in your life- that of a caregiver. This can be for an aging parent, a friend with Alzheimer's or a physical disability,... more

Happiness to the 10th Power

by T. Calvin Ward

Happiness to the 10th Power is a simple manual on how to find personal happiness that anyone can use. No pie-in-the-sky objectives that depend on wealth or youth or belonging to the "right group.” Instead, Ward presents 10 factors that combine to enhance happiness. Everybody knows what they like and dislike--what brings them happiness (or at least what causes them to be unhappy). This book won't ask anyone to change these personal qualities. Rather, Ward teaches his readers how to prioritize the... more

Conquer Your Fear of Water: A Revolutionary Way to Learn to Swim Without Ever Feeling Afraid

by Melon Dash

Learn the universal steps—every single one—of becoming calm, learning to float, maneuver and rest in water, shallow and deep, peacefully on your front and back. If you cringe when asked to swimming parties, beach vacations, and boat rides, if you don't feel safe in water, kiss all of that goodbye.

Without ever feeling afraid, learn how the water works with your body and how to be in control in water over your head. There's a system for this.

Heal fear in a comf... more

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