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In a collection of personal stories and essays, award-winning and bestselling artists from Matt de la Peña and Veera Hiranandani to Max Brallier and R.L. Stine write about how hope always wins, even in the darkest of times. Where does hope live? In your family? In your community? In your school?...

In this insightful book, you will find the collective wisdom of 15 international thought leaders, scattered across three continents and multiple industries, as they share their best strategies for building influence and authority. Covering everything from video and print media to social media and consulting, Authority lets you inside the minds of experts who have built their own authority and helped countless others do the same.

It was a killer year for horror fiction of the harder kind. Authors, editors, and publishers presented readers with some startling works of horrific imagination, stories graphic in the extreme yet with subtleties suggesting larger meanings, tales that explore humanity by plumbing depths of soulless inhumanity and, in some cases, outright depravity. The stories here represent the best of them, disturbing tales that dig deep and take you into the dark heart of horror itself, unrelenting and unapologetic.

One of the greatest responsibilities all Christian parents have is to be disciple makers in their homes. Discipling your family can feel like an intimidating task, but it doesn’t need to be overwhelming or complicated. With a simple plan in place, discipleship is something every parent can do...

The performance review stopped being an HR ritual and became a legal document. Stack ranking is back. Layoffs run as scheduled programs. The software wants to write your reviews for you. And the words you put in a review this year become the explanation your employer hands to a pay-equity regulator, and to the attorneys reading discovery, next year. Most managers walk into review season unarmed for any of it. The Performance Machine is the field manual for the system as it runs right now.

Most business books about consulting are written by people who have never made payroll. This one isn't. Adam Mattis started his first consulting company in a college apartment and named it after an empty liquor bottle. Over the next twenty years he built firms, sold them, watched the pieces get absorbed into one of the largest professional services organizations on the planet, then sat on the other side of the table as the executive deciding which firms to trust. Small Firm, Big Impact is what he learned in between, written so you can skip the tuition he paid the expensive way.

If you prefer to take your horror yarns with copious amounts of spilled blood, eviscerated guts, dollops of messy gore, and dark, disturbing themes, then boy howdy, does HellBound Books have a terrifying treat in store for you! If not, please not this book is definitely not for the faint of heart! With a foreword and brand-spanking-new, never-read-before short story by the grand maestro of extreme horror himself, Matt Shaw, this collection of eighteen stomach-churning tales of terror is guaranteed to have the bile rising and heart thumping with each turn of the page.

Ever since our ancestors first discovered fire, we have used it to sit around and scare one another silly with creepy tales of ghosts, ghouls, bloodthirsty creatures, maniac killers, and everything in between. But, what if those stories, related in the dark of night with trembling voices, flashlight held resolutely beneath the chin, are more than just horrifying tales meant to send shivers down the spine and cause a few sleepless nights?

When results depend on your availability and constant rescue, growth never feels stable. It feels like pressure—like you’re always on. Results on Repeat is a multi-author playbook for founders and leaders who want predictable growth without becoming the bottleneck. It replaces hustle with operating systems built on four levers: capacity, delegation, structure, and trust.

The word "nostalgia" is defined as a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or a place with happy personal associations. Our podcast is three friends who move throughout the past and share their experiences, everything from a love of pop culture to food or just general life experiences. Also? It's pretty damn funny, too. Connect with us on social media! We are FBNPod on Facebook, BlueSky and Instagram.#FueledByNostalgia #NostalgiaPodcast #RetroStories #PopCultureTalk #Generational Vibes #MemoryLaneMedia #BackInTheDayPod #ThrowbackVoices #VintageVibesOnly ...

Eleven wonderfully fun and festive audio stories to entertain little ones over the Christmas season. Get in the Christmas spirit with this entertaining audio collection of funny festive stories! From a monster searching for the perfect gift, to a carol-singing unicorn and a baked-potato Santa...

If you’re wondering whether there’s life on the other side of deconversion, or if you’re trying desperately to understand a loved one who is losing their faith—this book is for you. Edited by philosophy of religion scholar, Sarah Bacaller, with a foreword by Bart Campolo (the first humanist chaplain at the University of Southern California), this book offers gripping insights into the deepest aspects of the deconversion journey.

A comedy pick’n’mix of unheard & exclusive BBC Radio panel shows, sitcoms, sketches and satire – featuring some of comedy’s top names, including Armando Iannucci, John Oliver, Nicola Coughlan, Jimmy Carr, and more. First up is the unaired 2005 pilot for Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive...