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This concise guide offers suggestions as well as additional resources to help you deal more effectively with your money challenges and where to seek out further assistance.

A noted time management consultant shows how to identify goals, clarify priorities, and achieve an ideal balance among work, family, and play concerns. Creative Time Management for the New Millennium especially appeals to those who want a time management approach that offers more flexibility while still accomplishing business and personal goals.

A practical guide to developing productive business relationships to hasten your success, whether you work for a major corporation, a small business, or are a self-employed entrepreneur or freelancer.

Whatever your weight or shape, you will find in this inspirational book daily original affirmations to motivate you, to help you to your build self-esteem, and to offer comfort to anyone who is concerned about weight, dieting, overeating, body image, or other weight-related issues.

In Untimely Death, a new amateur sleuth, criminology professor Dr. Kimberly Stone, is introduced. Forced to help detective Blake to solve the murder of her best friend and colleague, Joan Walsh, to avoid her friend's murder being ignored, this well-reviewed novel probes the darkest depths of the human psyche to show how a nightmarish world of twisted sexuality evolves into murderous rage.

Transform your nonfiction writing now! Through concrete examples and clear guidelines, seasoned and prolific writer, teacher, and coach Jan Yager gives solid advice on how to create business and nonfiction writing that will help you to get ahead in your career. Originally published by Arco with the title, How to Write Like a Professional, this practical and extremely useful book provides guidelines for improved nonfiction writing including a self-evaluation to access your current writing skills.

Finally, a book on time management for those who say they don’t have enough time to read a book on this crucial topic. Put more time on your Side is a quick read exploring the key skills of effective time managers, including short- and long-term goal setting, prioritizing, dealing with such common time wasters as procrastination, doing too much at once, perfectionism, and even jealousy.

This fast-paced novel combines two genres - coming of age and crime. It is initially set in Texas but the action moves on to Nevada and Arizona. On the Run has strong themes and occasional violent confrontations as the author explores the motivations behind the characters and the events they find themselves in as well as the aftermath. The two main characters, Angelina and Steven, are 17-year-olds who have grown up in very different worlds.

A collection of 87 poems by a husband and wife, writing separately although several of the poems are about each other. It covers all types of love, from romantic love to the love of a parent, sibling, child, grandchild, pet, and friend, to work, whether that work is serving in the Navy, witnessing the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the way to work, writing, being an artist, and more. There are poems in celebration of birthdays, Valentine's Day, and wedding anniversaries.

Your office can make or break your career. It can effect how well you work and how well you feel. Making Your Office Work for You helps you create a work space that provides a sense of comfort, reduces stress, increases productivity, and makes a strong statement of who you are.

Dr. Jan Yager, who is also author of the award-winning book, Business Protocol, among other titles, covers the 15 international protocol concerns that readers need to be aware of as well as tips on foreign business travel, making your website more global, faux pas to avoid, negotiating styles, contracts and getting paid, gift-giving, legal considerations, and ethics. There is a chapter that provides a country by country etiquette guide and another chapter on how to build a global relationship so that the business will follow.

Just Your Everyday People by Fred Yager and Jan Yager is the second thriller by this dynamic husband and wife couple. In this standalone suspense novel, in addition to being a pause resister of a thriller, the novel deals with the potentially dire consequences of withholding information and practical jokes.

In this engrossing first solo novel - the author is also co-author of two thrillers, Untimely Death and Just Your Everyday People, prolific author Jan Yager tells the engrossing story of psychologist Dr. Emily Taylor who seemed to have it all. She's thin, attractive, happily married with children, and with a successful therapy practice and writing career, when she is interviewed on a major talk show to discuss her new bestseller. The author's strong novel explores how success catapults Emily on a food binge.

Building on two decades of original research into workplace issues and friendship patterns, sociologist and consultant Dr. Jan Yager offers insights into how to succeed by mastering workplace relationships. Based on an international survey of 400 men and women and over 100 interviews, Yager discovered a relationship unique to the workplace and business. She calls it a workship - more connected than an acquaintance but not as intimate as a friendship.

Words of wisdom about life by noted author and sociologist Jan Yager. Inspired by the realization that her oldest son would be leaving for college, this remarkable audiobook will be treasured by graduating seniors, college freshman, teens, and even adults. Covers learning, friendship, family, romance, love, time management, joy, and lots more.

In my memoir, which goes beyond my life to hopefully share useful insights into the world of writing, publishing, and book promotion, you'll meet some of the famous and infamous people I have interviewed over the years.