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Confidence is a significant life skill necessary to achieving any level of personal or professional success. Yet confidence is often an elusive characteristic. Most people believe that you are born with confidence - either you have it, or you don't. Lack of confidence holds many people back from even trying to reach their goals or achieve their dreams. What if there was a way for you to build your confidence? What if you could learn how to believe in yourself so you could leverage all your skills and talents? What if you could make a difference in your community or become a leader within your organization?

Ice-skater Mina is on a one-track path to Olympic gold and glory—that is, until she totally wipes out at her biggest competition, and is kinda-sorta-kidnapped by undead kids on roller skates. Sucked into the high stakes world of Paranormal Roller Derby, she finds herself "recruited" by a squad of vampires who need a human player to complete their team—just in time to save the league from losing it all.

Smart, determined, and beautiful; college student and art model Nell seemed to be the girl who had it all. A passionate relationship with one of the art students leads to an unplanned pregnancy that threatens to change everything, though, and she must build a very different life than she envisioned.

Despite the anticipated senior tsunami in population emerging across the nation, success in the senior living industry is not guaranteed. In this thought-provoking audiobook, management consultant Jill Johnson discusses the nine market forces that will influence on-going success in an industry over-saturated with competition and complexity. Market Forces offers insight on how these key trends influence the industry and the implications they may have on your occupancy, operations, programming, and desirability of your site.

Stop believing everything you think! Unlock the power of morning affirmations to create new positive thought patterns so you can live a more positive life. Discover how positive daily affirmations helped other women experience tremendous success, feel happier, and more fulfilled. If they can do it, so can you! This audiobook will help you learn how to start your morning with positive thoughts and the intent to have a great day.

Kenna has been living under the shadow of her controlling mother, America’s sweetheart, Tessa Shepherd her whole life. Now, as a 20-year-old student who has made a huge mistake, she seeks freedom and healing and she contacts her surrogate mother, Rachel.

Once upon a time in Atlanta, Georgia, I was invited to a backyard bbq party. I used my cell phone app to order a private ride to the party. I arrived really late at this really big house on a hill after most guests had already eaten, drank, smoked, played games, and had heightened out at whatever else was taking place. As grilled wings normally find me, I went straight to the backyard from the car and was pleasantly surprised at such a warm greeting from new friends and the level of love and respect that was shared.

As a woman you have a unique opportunity to stand out as a leader. With only 24% of senior leadership positions in the global workforce held by women, it's easy to feel like you're fighting a losing battle. But not anymore! World Dominating Leadership for Women provides you with the strategies and action plans you can use to inspire your team, skyrocket your results and lead from the heart, and with strength.

7 Steps to Creating a Thriving Learning Community is a complete guide aimed to assist classroom teachers - novice and veteran - in creating a richer classroom experience and a better world. 7 Steps embodies years of teaching, self-discovery, self-awareness, and private and public successes and failures. This guide is broken into three distinct sections: self-awareness, awareness of others, and awareness of your impact. Each thoughtful step is like an easy-to-follow lesson with quotes, keywords, anecdotes, actions, insights, and reflections.

A book of prayer helping you maintain your relationship with God, a beacon shines out from every prayer to light your path with him and to him all praise eternally be.

A teenaged Natasha Takana seeks to decode the remainder of the hidden DNA code that became the basis for a new religion reviving creationism. Her quest takes her on a voyage to a parallel dimension to learn the fate of the creators’ civilization. The conflict between the warring factions is rekindled, sweeping Natasha into the middle of it in a pursuit that crosses the boundaries of worlds and time.

When physicist Jacob Newman is pulled from his family, his job, and his whole life to investigate a strange vessel discovered at the bottom of the South Pacific, he finds evidence of time travel, along with implications that a judgment day against mankind is imminent. But it isn't until he cracks the time travel technology and uncovers a startling link to his own family history that he undertakes a dangerous mission back to 1924 to kill Adolf Hitler and undo a horrific episode of Earth's violent past.

WKBA news in Chicago is reeling. Their ratings are the lowest in town, and company morale has plummeted. At the end of their ropes, five women band together to correct injustices and hopefully shoot WKBA up the ratings chart. Their ideas are inventive, and their convictions are infectious, but they’ll need to crack the good-old-boys network before they ever get a chance to prove themselves.

Working from home and managing remote workers presents significant issues we do not want to talk about or admit. The challenges for the work-from-home employee include dealing with distractions and lower productivity. In this audiobook, I share how I successfully ran a home office, how I found work-life balance, and how I helped my work-from-home employees become extremely productive.

A hard-driving designer seeks acclaim by developing a Middle Eastern museum only to discover the project’s real value is not what she imagined.

Itra and Danae stumble across an ancient secret kept hidden behind a reflection in time near their Albanian home. A faded memory and cryptic messages have propelled them to risk an encounter with foes from Greek mythology, altering their perception of Albanian folklore and reality. Itra and Danae grapple with events set in motion centuries ago and must choose to protect and serve or risk having the secret exposed.

You don't get to be my age without seein' and hearin' about some very interesting things in this life. Take for instance, the rather mysterious legend clouding the figure of Johnny Durango. As mean a soul as you might hope to encounter, Johnny wasn't so much a criminal as a mercilessly independent soul who always got what he wanted from life, and fiercely challenged anyone who made the mistake of gettin' in his way.

Working in the medical field can be quite poetic, it can also be very funny. This book combines both to deliver what everyone says is the best medicine, but no doctor has ever written a prescription for: a laugh!

The 19th addition of this annual anthology exhibits a collection of short fiction from award-winning Southern authors and rising stars including Edward P. Jones and Silas House. Each story’s derivation is explained in an illuminating note from the author following the rich and entertaining tales.

Adapted for middle-schoolers by Grace T. Hallock from Madame Curie, A Biography, written by her daughter Eve Curie and translated by Vincent Sheean, this concise summary highlights the challenges, successes and struggles Marie Curie experienced throughout her lifetime. This short audiobook dives into her difficult childhood, the hurdles she overcame in order to get an education in Russia controlled Poland, as well as the endless travails she had as one of the few female scientists at the turn of the 20th century.