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In The Playground Leader, Dr. Autumn Swain offers a transformative approach to developing our children, from toddler to teen and beyond, as leaders for today. Too often we speak of youth development as something preparing our young people for the future, but we should be forming them into the leaders they were meant to be today.

Do you doubt yourself? Or feel like a fraud? Do you feel that, one day, people will expose you for all the things you don’t know but should? Perhaps, you are waiting for the other shoe to drop, the bad news to arrive, or you are insecure about getting fired for poor performance. You are not alone.

Toffy is a rising star, a successful engineer at J Enterprise, the megacorporation that looms over J City; its pyramid-shaped headquarters always visible. The J Enterprise screens watch him and everyone in J City, tracking productivity, suggesting appropriate behaviors, and adjusting social scores in the divided city.

If you are ready to embark on a transformative journey of healing, growth, and empowerment, Precious Rising: Embracing All That I Am is the audiobook that will guide you towards a brighter future. Let Precious McKoy be your beacon of hope and inspiration as you discover the path to a life filled with joy and purpose.

To help combat this growing epidemic, author Sam Perez’s parents made a decision that changed her family’s life forever. In 2017, they opened DV8 Kitchen in Lexington, Kentucky. The restaurant and bakery cooks up life-changing food for more than one reason: not only does it serve mouth-watering cinnamon rolls; it hires people in recovery from substance use disorder.

After his father passed away, author Michael Biarnes struck out to learn more about happiness, fulfillment, and balance in his life. During his journey, he spoke with countless individuals who, regardless of career accomplishments, at some point struggled to feel truly happy or fulfilled with life. He discovered that they had undergone a transformation like he had, one that highlighted the need to redefine success and embrace a new mindset.

Personal Finance in a Public World: How Technology, Social Media, and Ads Affect Your Money Decisions by Bob DePasquale gives you the tools to improve your financial situation, use technology to your benefit, and better manage your financial planning.

In Karen Hermann-Cacioppo’s dating memoir Swiping For Love in All the Wrong Places, we are taken on a whirlwind adventure filled with restaurants, travel and most importantly, a dreadful series of men who just don’t fit the bill for a successful relationship.

Have you ever been told that you can’t do something, even if that something is your dream? Mohammed Yousuf’s Ascending Adversity will prove to you that you can.

These are the words Lenox’s dad excitedly exclaimed over dinner. Never having been out of the country or even to the airport, Lenox will finally get to accomplish his dream of boarding an airplane and traveling to a far-off land.

Amy knew the climb was harder and longer for women. Tough, determined, and focused on her career, she persevered. Yet she didn't anticipate how gender barriers in male dominated systems could wear women down—even her. Amy was among women making bold career changes in 2021. Infinitely More is her journey to understand why. Amy’s story is an intriguing, thought-provoking, and heart-opening discovery of how a warrior career mom was lured into believing she could win over the system and beat the odds.

Raise Your Hand!: A Call for Consciousness in Education reimagines the current education system by shifting the old paradigm of academic achievement, to integrate key consciousness components in the classroom from day one. Come along and hear reflections, insights, and visions of over seventy leading educators and parents working together to build the new educational pattern to benefit all children. Raise Your Hand! ignites passion for transformation in the educational system to raise up empowered children who will uniquely contribute to society.

From the bushfires in Australia to the outbreak of COVID-19 and America’s greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, It Took a Crisis outlines how the events of 2020 underscored the need for a serious assessment of the status quo. Through interviews, research, and storytelling, Jordan Johnson takes a multidisciplinary approach to exploring how the COVID-19 pandemic revealed wide-ranging cracks in our social structures and accelerated a global call to action. Against this backdrop, Johnson asks if we should ever go back to normal. Perhaps normal never quite served us.

Fast Forward to Hope: Choosing to Build the Power of Self recounts Indira’s journey from fear to hope as she struggled to face various challenges, particularly related to her advanced breast cancer diagnosis. Bolstered by her strength of fighting cancer, she fully discovered her true capacity and reconsidered life choices to create the reality she desired. This book is an homage to the journey of life. It is a tribute to the struggle of finding one’s own power, and cultivating life’s trajectory.

In 2014, the world was shaken by millions of people undertaking the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge on social media. It raised $115 million. In Wake Up Call: Lessons from the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge for Nonprofit Social Media, Deb Finch uses the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge as a starting point to demonstrate how small nonprofits can leverage social media to increase donations, awareness, and volunteers. She also shares the poignant story of Melanie St. Croix from her life prior to her diagnosis of ALS through her incredible journey learning how to live with ALS.

Future Minded: Preparing Today’s Youth for Tomorrow’s Workplace delves deep into how students are being educated in a system created more than 100 years ago; a system that could not anticipate current or future jobs. The book emphasizes the intersection of education, workforce, and preparedness for the fourth industrial revolution.

Many of us remember where we were in the moments of 9/11, however few of us can say we personally know someone who was impacted by this tragedy. Payton Lynch, the author of Rise from the Ashes: Stories of Trauma, Resilience, and Growth from the Children of 9/11, shares the story of her husband Jon Lynch and other 9/11 surviving children. Their stories are a few of the 3,000 stories (not including the 2,000 adult-age people who lost a parent that day and the countless others who have gone on to lose a parent due to 9/11 illnesses) that need to be told.

If you're an entrepreneur, you have great ideas all the time. But if you’re stymied by shiny object syndrome or a thousand projects and detours, you need this book. Eureka Results: How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Their Best Ideas into Reality is for you if you think you’re too disorganized or creative to implement your best ideas. You don’t have to steal a productivity expert’s personality to change the world with your work. This book is an indispensable guide you can use to transform the great ideas in your head into bona fide eureka results.

Ruth Amundsen grew up poor in Michigan’s rural Upper Peninsula during the 1920s and 1930s. As she ventured beyond the village of Big Bay, she left her real home - the shores of Lake Superior. After nursing training, she joined the US Army Nurse Corps, serving during the last year of World War II in the war-torn Philippines. When she returns to postwar America, she finds her independence, sense of contribution, and hard-earned status as a war nurse of little value to a country seeking to get back to an outdated normal, whatever the cost.

Do you believe that the future is bleak? Are you disillusioned with your faith tradition or religion in general? Are you strong in faith but in need of some encouragement? Despite contemporary misunderstandings that faith is exclusive and outdated, faith is still relevant. Stronger Than Trust explores how you can and should find it in your own life.