It's Not Bragging If It's True

It's Not Bragging If It's True
Author: Zaila Avant-garde
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2024-05-07
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0593706935

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Kids will be inspired to embrace their inner weirdness and persevere through obstacles after reading this empowering collection of true stories from teenage Scripps National Spelling Bee champ and Guinness World Record holder Zaila Avant-garde! Includes 8 pages of never-before-seen photos. After Zaila Avant-garde became the first African American student to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 2021, she turned into an overnight sensation. People wanted to know who she was and how she'd achieved so much while so young. In this nonfiction book, Zaila shares the personal anecdotes that have shaped her life and extends advice to readers on living authentically. While Zaila is an exceptional and inspiring young woman, she has fears and anxieties just like everyone else; what makes her remarkable is the way she chooses to move through the obstacles in front of her. Zaila shares about her family, her accomplishments, her experience of being homeschooled, and so much more in order to motivate and uplift other kids who have small-, medium-, and even big-sized dreams.

Brag!

Brag!
Author: Peggy Klaus
Publisher: Business Plus
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2008-11-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0446550310

It is well-documented that working hard isn't enough to keep your professional star rising: Self-promotion is recognized as one of the most important attributes for getting ahead.

Fashionably Late

Fashionably Late
Author: Danne Reed
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2015-07-07
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1630475793

It’s never too late to become that courageous, captivating, confident gal you always knew you could be! Feel like life is passing you by while you’re busy earning a living, running errands, and doing the laundry? Ever ask yourself what happened to that fun and fearless gal you used to be? Well, it’s time to dust off, doll up, and arrive Fashionably Late to your own life! All you need is a Sexy Little Twist: Sexy, as in confident, courageous, determined, energetic, and playful. Little, as in small steps back to the real you. Twist, as in a plot twist, a twist of fate, and that little fruit curl that makes a dull cocktail a party in a glass! You’re not out of the game yet, girlfriend. It’s the point in your life story where we come to the unexpected plot twist, and in this book you’ll be inspired to: * ’Fess up to your brilliance * Wipe out what’s holding you back * Wake up your imagination * Step into the purpose of your life * Show off your inner beauty * Breathe new life into your relationships Fashionably Late: A Sexy Little Twist to Revitalize You and ReDesign Your Life! will take you on an adventure to rediscover and recapture the beautiful, passionate, fulfilling life you always dreamed you’d live.

Forward

Forward
Author: Elizabeth Moran
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2023-01-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1782792910

Every week thousands of leaders have to guide their teams through a change that they didn't initiate. They do what they can, but too often they feel unprepared and pressed for time. Needing to quickly get the word out, they announce the change through an email and hope for the best. If there's resistance, they increase the frequency and pressure in their messages. Not surprisingly, this rarely works. Dr. Elizabeth Moran is a self-described “change nerd” who guides some of the most successful companies in the world, and /Forward/ outlines her practical, communication-based approach, offering proven advice, actions, and tools to help team leaders navigate their own transformation challenges. Grounded in neuroscience and written with humor, this is the playbook leaders need, complete with beginning-to-end action steps, team and individual conversation guides, and a clear approach to measuring success. Specific chapters help readers tackle some of the toughest and yet most common transformation challenges happening today, like changes that involve job loss, and how to build long-term resilience.

Juneau to Kenai

Juneau to Kenai
Author: Debra Dunbar
Publisher: Debra Dunbar
Total Pages: 85
Release: 2017-10-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Fall in love with this fun, sexy paranormal romance series by author Debra Dunbar. *** Brent fell in love when he and a group of humans were pulled through an interdimensional rift, but he’s the Alpha of the Juneau Pack and she’s a trauma surgeon from Seattle on vacation in Alaska. His responsibilities make relocation impossible, and he can’t imagine she’d want to leave her friends, family, and career to be the Alpha’s mate in a werewolf pack. Kennedy found there was more to Alaska than beautiful scenery: angels, monsters with laser weaponry, and werewolves. One werewolf in particular has occupied her every thought since they returned home from the other side of an interdimensional rift. But five minutes after their rescue, Brent walked away, leaving her to continue her vacation of hiking and climbing in the Kenai wilderness with a werewolf guide. But a group of shifter hunters has Kennedy’s guide in their crosshairs—and they don’t care if a human becomes collateral damage. Suddenly love isn’t the only thing on the line as Brent races to find Kennedy and get both her and her guide out of Kenai before the hunters can track them down. *** If you like Shannon Mayer, K.F. Breene, Hailey Edwards, or Yasmine Galenorn, you'll love this series. The Northern Wolves Series is set in the Imp world and includes werewolves, bear shifters, fae, and more in a modern-day Alaska setting.

The Toxic Parents Survival Guide

The Toxic Parents Survival Guide
Author: Bryn Collins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2018-10-09
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0757321208

If you or someone you love grew up with an emotionally unavailable, narcissistic, or selfish parent, you probably struggle with residual feelings of anger, abandonment, loneliness, or shame. For anyone who endured a nightmare or a wasteland instead of a nurturing childhood, The Toxic Parents Survival Guide will offer you the clinical insights and the day-to-day tools so you can break the chains of toxicity that bind you in a mess you didn't create. Psychologist Bryn Collins pulls back the layers to explore the very complicated relationship with an emotionally unavailable parent. Whether they were unavailable because of addiction, mental illness, or being overly controlling or an iceberg, this imminently practical book will help validate your frustration and emotional struggles, help you set clear boundaries, and learn how to un-mesh yourself and move forward to a place of strength and peace without any guilt. Using case studies, quizzes, and jargon-free concepts, Collins profiles the most common types of toxic parents and offers the tactics and tools you need to change and break free of these painful associations. Your wounds can be healed and you can move forward. The Toxic Parents Survival Guide will help you find different ways of dealing with your parents' painful legacy so that you don't suffer and don't pass along emotional unavailability to the next generation or your current relationships.

A Nanny Under the Mistletoe

A Nanny Under the Mistletoe
Author: Teresa Southwick
Publisher: Silhouette
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2009-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1426844654

Nanny extraordinaire Libby Bradford spent her life nurturing children. So when her best friend's daughter was left unexpectedly orphaned, Libby lost no time in opening her heart to Morgan. Yet, she never expected to feel sparks for Morgan's guardian, real estate billionaire Jess Donnelly. Libby had felt overlooked by Jess for years, yet that didn't stop her pulse from careening into overdrive whenever she laid eyes on him. And when she moved into his home as Morgan's nanny, she was shocked to realize that her burning attraction for Jess was mutual. But this reluctant dad didn't know how to open himself to love. It was Libby and Morgan's job to show him the way….

Kiss the Dead

Kiss the Dead
Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2013-05-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0515153001

When a fifteen-year-old girl is abducted by vampires, it’s up to U.S. Marshal Anita Blake to find her. And when she does, she’s faced with something she’s never seen before: a terrifyingly ordinary group of people—kids, grandparents, soccer moms—all recently turned and willing to die to avoid serving a master. And where there’s one martyr, there will be more… But even vampires have monsters that they’re afraid of. And Anita is one of them…

Brag Better

Brag Better
Author: Meredith Fineman
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2020-06-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0593086813

This effortless and unapologetic approach to self-promotion will manage your anxiety and allow you to champion yourself. Does talking about your accomplishments feel scary or icky because you're worried people will think you're "obnoxious"? Does it feel more natural to "put your head down and do the work"? Are you tired of watching the loudest people in your industry get disproportionate praise and rewards? If you answered "yes" to any of the above, you might be self-sabotaging. You need to learn to Brag Better. Meredith Fineman has built a career working with "The Qualified Quiet": smart people who struggle to talk about themselves and thus go underestimated or unrecognized. Now, she shares the surefire and anxiety-proof strategies that have helped her clients effectively communicate their achievements and skillsets to others. Bragging Better doesn't require false bravado, talking over people, or pretending to be more qualified than you are. Instead, Fineman advocates finding quiet confidence in your opinions, abilities, and background, and then turning up the volume. In this book, you will learn the career-changing tools she's developed over the past decade that make bragging feel easy, including: Get remembered by focusing your personal brand and voice on key adjectives (like "effective, subtle, and edgy") Practice explaining what you do in simple, sticky terms to earn respect and recognition from the public and people at work. Eliminate words that undermine your work and find better ones--like your bio saying you're "trying" or "attempting" to do something instead that you ARE doing it. If you're ready to begin Bragging Better--to telling the truth about your accomplishments with grace and confidence--this book is for you.