How to Find Strength When Nobody Is Coming to Save YouLearning to Stand Alone is an honest and emotional self-help book about what happens when life takes away the people, relationships, and support systems we once depended on.The book begins with loss and the painful realization that life does not always give us the answers or support we expect. It explores the fear of being alone, disappointment, rejection, grief, failure, and the moments when you look around and realize that you may hav...

Perhaps the most challenging project under Stalin's first five-year plan was the race to build Europe's largest automobile factory and an adjacent city in just 18 months. The site was Nizhny Novgorod, later named Gorky. To design and construct both factory and city, Soviet officials approached the premier industrial builder in America, the Austin Company of Cleveland, Ohio. From near-breakdown during the initial months, through a Russian winter that called for bravery and ingenuity, to a f...

Nurturing Healthy Relationships: A Comprehensive GuideBuilding and maintaining a healthy, fulfilling relationship requires effort, communication, and a deep understanding of both yourself and your partner. Here’s a comprehensive guide to relationship advice that encompasses various aspects of fostering a strong and lasting connection.Effective Communication: The Foundation of Strong Relationships.- Active Listening: Practice truly hearing your partner, unde...

Foamsmithing: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners helps you make beautiful, comfortable pieces of low-cost costume armor. Learn everything you need to know about making, painting, and wearing your eye-popping foam armor creations.In this book, you will learn:The basic tools and materials needed to turn your foam into true works of wearable art.Basic fabrication techniques to design, plan and fabricate extraordinary pieces of costume armor.Simple, low-cost methods...

Chip Carving: The Complete Beginners Handbook covers everything you need to know about chip carving including primo carving woods, holding and sharpening of chip carving knives, and transferring of patterns. Chip carving is a great starting point for hobbyists and beginners. You need only a few cutting tools. And if you have a penchant for math or design, you may already have the necessary supplies such as a T-square, tracing paper and a compass.Once you master a few basic cuts, yo...

Kitchen Cabinet Making for Beginners makes it possible for the devoted do-it-yourselfer to build new cabinets for a fraction of the cost of purchasing them. When you build your own cabinets you are not just saving money but also completely transforming your space and adding significantly to the value of a home. Cabinets come in a variety of types and finishes, but one thing they all have in common is how much they can affect a kitchen's overall appearance.This technical handbook ex...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Steal Like an Artist**, an even more forward-thinking and necessary book on how to take that critical next step on a creative journey—becoming known.**Show Your Work! is about why generosity trumps genius. It’s about getting findable, about using the network instead of wasting time “networking.” It’s not self-promotion, it’s self-discovery—let...

In Turbo Racers: Trailblazer, twelve-year-old Mace Blazer gets the chance to pilot a state-of-the-art vehicle that transforms at the touch of a button from race car to jet plane to single-person sub, in the biggest race in the world.The roar of the crowd, the glow of the spotlight, the thrill of the race—Mace Blazer dreams of going TURBO.TURBOnauts thrive on the thrum of trimorphers’s rocket engines as the vehicles morph from super-powered race cars to speeding jet aircraft...

Newly pinned deputy Jolie Murdoch's first big job as a McIntire County deputy is to locate a missing girl. What Jolie doesn't expect is to stumble upon a corpse—the girl's father--with a prime suspect still hanging around. But why would local bartender Xavier Hartmann go off the deep end and bludgeon a man to death?A former marine, Xavier is barely coping with a traumatic brain injury, and he has no memory of what happened at the crime scene. He came to Eider to confront his past, ...

In 1897, Geesje de Jonge is asked to write a memoir about her experience emigrating from the Netherlands to the Michigan wilderness in honor of her town's fiftieth anniversary. As Geesje recalls the events of the past, a young visitor, Anna Nicholson, mourns a broken engagement. Over the course of one summer, the lives of both women will change forever. Austin Returns with a Multi-Generational Historical Novel Geesje de Jonge crossed the ocean at age seventeen with her parents and a small ...

In this gripping portrait of war and its aftermath from bestselling author Lynn Austin, a young woman searches for the truth her childhood friend won’t discuss after returning from World War II, revealing a story of courage, friendship, and faith.Peggy Serrano couldn’t wait for her best friend to come home from the war. But the Jimmy Barnett who returns is much different from the Jimmy who left, changed so drastically by his experience as a medic in Europe that he can barely functi...

Beck Elliot thought he'd never again see the woman who broke his heart, but when Tansy Calhoun moves back to Misty Bottoms, she's impossible to avoid—and so are his old feelings.A brokenhearted hero, struggling to trustA single mom, full of regretA meddling small town determined to bring about a second-chance romanceBeck and Tansy were inseparable—until Tansy left Misty Bottoms, Georgia, promising to come back after she fini...