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This audiobook answers the need for leaders with integrity, authenticity, empathy, and the understanding of others to move your organization in a direction that keeps employees motivated and committed.

Packed with case studies, anecdotes, and scientific evidence, The Science of Happiness is an engaging and informative guide that is sure to inspire and empower listeners to take control of their own happiness. Whether you're a seasoned self-help listener or just starting out on your journey to happiness, this book is a must-listen.

Passive income is one of the best ways to make money. It’s a great way to have residual income that comes in month after month, without having to do any extra work. In this book, find the best work-from-home business ideas that will help you build passive income and quit your 9-5. It's perfect for any beginners who want to start making money online from home.

Do you ever feel like you are in a rut? That you’re going nowhere, wasting away your days and not getting anywhere? This book is specifically designed to help you break free of those feelings and take action to achieve success in your life.

When it comes to financing and saving, many teenagers don’t seem to understand the kind of power and responsibility that comes with money. Whether you have a part-time job or you get an allowance from your parents, saving and budgeting are a huge part of what makes you independent.

Why this book? Why now? Being a teacher is more demanding than ever. Up to 50 percent of new teachers leave the field within five years, and many veteran teachers are pondering second careers. With the guidance and proper support offered in this book, teachers can find joy and success in education and make a difference in the lives of our youth.

Dan spent most of his childhood trying to hide in plain sight. A raw, abusive upbringing tarnished his entire family. Dan and his older brother Chris were born under the brutal fists of their father, impacting them emotionally and physically. Somehow, Dan found his way out through sports, and with one success after another. Chris wasn’t so lucky. Most say Chris never had a chance. When Chris died, Dan knew this story needed to be told. For anyone going through a hard time, this is the book that will give hope to continue on.

The year 2020 brought a renewed awareness to the deep-rootedness of racism and white supremacy in every facet of American life. Until now, however, there has yet to be a book published for a general audience from the perspective of Black scholars and experts proposing ideas from a policy-oriented standpoint. The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System features Black voices across economics, education, health, climate, and technology, speaking to the question "What's next?" as it pertains to centering Black people in policy matters in our country.

The Five Solas of the Protestant Reformation are a set of keys to salvation, theology, belief systems that have been building blocks the reformed/protestant churches have recognized the past 500 years. But as Christians, we must never stop seeking direct ways of leading a with-God life. With this book, discover the need for a sixth Sola to be added to your daily consciousness: Sola Spiritu Ambulatio, or Walking in the Holy Spirit Alone.

Are you a fan of the upside-down worlds of the Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, or Black Mirror? How about Stephen King or Neil Gaiman? Then spend some time reading these 26 twisty, turny stories that cross genres and blur the lines between reality and fantasy. In "Seven Hundred and Seventy-Six", a timid bank clerk working in the Arizona frontier encounters a strange man and an even stranger gun. In "Captain Coffee", a caffeine-powered superhero comes to the rescue...and many more fun ways to spend a few minutes of your day.

From Jack London comes another tale of the wild. In this story the wild half-wolf White Fang survives a harsh living in America's frozen northland. First in the wild, then as a dog of the Indian peoples, then as a fighting dog, before at last finding a good home in the south.

This rip-roaring 19th-century adventure yarn by Anthony Hope tells us the adventure of Rudolph Rassendyll, who, thanks to his bearing an uncanny likeness to his distant relative Crown Prince Rudolph of the fictional land of Ruritania, is forced to swap places with him in order to secure the throne from Black Michael the usurper. What follows is a fast-paced adventure replete with derring-do, romance, and heroism.

Stolen by a gardener's assistant, Buck, a St. Bernard cross, is taken from his comfortable life in the south and sold as a sled dog at the height of the Klondike gold rush. Thrust into the savage world of the frozen north, Buck must reconnect with his old ancestry to survive in this forbidding environment. Written by Jack London who spent a year himself in the Yukon, The Call of the Wild has never been out of print since its initial release in 1903.

When a troubled schoolboy forges a cash coupon to pay off a debt, his deed starts off a chain reaction of tragedies that effects the lives of dozens, leading to thefts, imprisonments, murders, and in the end redemption. Originally published posthumously, this was one of the last works of Tolstoy, now excommunicated and raging against the hypocrisies of the Russian state and church.

The Cricket on the Hearth is a homely tale about stout parcel carrier John Peerybingle; his small young wife, Dot; Caleb Plummer and his blind daughter, Bertha; their employer, the gruff old Mr. Tackleton, and his young bride-to-be; and what portentous consequences the arrival of a mysterious old man means for them all.

Written as a bedtime story for her niece and part of Louisa May Alcott's Lulu Library, A Christmas Dream is the tale of a privileged little girl and a fantastic dream of Christmas, teaching the value of giving to those in need.

When an elderly widower takes up lodgings in London, she develops an interest in the mysterious house to let across the way. What follows is a collection of stories and poetry of the house's previous occupants that gradually builds up the history of the house before the mystery is revealed.

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly magazine. Classified as both Gothic fiction and a ghost story, the novella focuses on a governess who, caring for two children at a remote estate, becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted. A cornerstone text of academics who subscribed to New Criticism, the novella has had differing interpretations, often mutually exclusive. Narrated by Michael Ward, and intended as a companion to the Kindle edition.

Opening with the poem that made Poe a household name overnight, this collection of his short works includes the narrative poem "The Raven", the short story "The Fall of the House of Usher", and the first of Poe's "ratiocination" tales: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", featuring the first of the fictional detectives: C. Auguste Dupin.

A volume of selected stories from Washington Irving's The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Praised by Walter Scott and Lord Byron for its prose, this collection consists of his most famous works, "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", as well as the praised short stories "The Broken Heart" and "The Widow and her Son".