How to confidently talk to people who don't know you well — even if you've always called yourself "too shy" to connect.Are you frustrated finding yourself in awkward, embarrassing social moments? Do you feel like you're drowning when you talk to people because of social anxiety? Are you tired of using "I'm just too shy" as your go-to excuse?The panic that sets in when you try to talk to someone new is real — and it can quietly cost you friendships, dates,...

Are you tired of feeling anxious and awkward when meeting new people?Do you wish that you had some sort of hack to improve your social skills?Maybe you feel comfortable with close friends and family, but when put into a situation with strangers you become a blundering mess?Let's face it, having a lack of social skills can make your life more challenging.You feel like an awkward failure every time an importan...

Dad's Down Under chronicles the tumultuous - and often humorous - funeral of an emotionally abusive husband told from the point of view of the man's 18-year-old son. Present are the distant relatives and immediate family, all of whom have different recollections of what kind of man he was. His immediate family views him as a monster, while his side of the family remembers him as a kind, loving, and generous man.This book is a semi-autobiographical account from the young mi...

Floating death. The evolution of a thousand years of armored combat, grav-tanks are fusion-powered fortresses weighing more than 120 tons and equipped with the latest in high-tech sensors, plasteel armor, and deadly weaponry. They are humanity's ultimate war machines.Samuel Rutger was out of options and out of luck. Broke and jobless, he turned to the only option that could provide for his wife and sick daughter. He became a mercenary. When he joined Breacher's Ber...

What if any dull, stilted exchange could turn into a genuine connection — even if you become a blundering mess around strangers?You are fine with close friends, but the moment a stranger appears you freeze. Your mind goes blank, the silence stretches, and afterward you replay every awkward thing you said.You are tired of feeling anxious at parties, meetings, and introductions, watching other people hit it off effortlessly while you rehearse a line you nev...

What if you could turn any awkward silence into a conversation people actually enjoy?The panic sets in the moment you have to talk to someone new. Your mind goes blank, the small talk fizzles, and thirty seconds later you are both looking for an exit. Afterward you replay every clumsy line, telling yourself you're just "too shy" or "socially awkward."Left unchecked, that quiet dread costs you friendships, dates, opportunities, and the easy connection you ...

Now an Academy Award-winning Netflix film by Jane Campion, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst: Thomas Savage's acclaimed Western is "a pitch-perfect evocation of time and place" (Boston Globe) for fans of East of Eden and Brokeback Mountain.Set in the wide-open spaces of the American West, The Power of the Dog is a stunning story of domestic tyranny, brutal masculinity, and thrilling defiance from one of the most pow...

After a near fatal attack, Veronica Kilter is taken under the wing of an underground cyber criminal who is known as "The Master". He trains her to carry out his elaborate heists which this leaves Veronica living a dangerous double life as an artist by day but a highly trained criminal by night. She accepts the life she leads until she falls in love with a man who makes her question it all.