Most of us were never taught how to say no. We were taught to be kind, helpful, and easygoing, and by adulthood the word no feels less like a normal part of speech and more like a weapon we are afraid to pick up. We say yes when we mean no, and then we pay for it with resentment, exhaustion, and quiet anger toward the very people we were trying to please.This book exists because you already know how to say yes. What you are missing is permission, practice, and a set of words you ca...

Jimmy and Kat, 13, were just ordinary kids until they met on Christmas Eve while imprisoned inside two ornaments on an evil Christmas tree. The tree's keeper held captive many prisoners. The one good thing that came out of that unexpected experience was that Kat would become his new girlfriend. Jimmy had no idea then, but his life would be quite different from that point forward.Then New Year's comes around, and time literally stops for everyone except Jimmy and Kat who have little...

Three romances. Three disasters waiting to unravel. And three moments when love barges in uninvited.In Dorm Room Disasters, two college guys crash into each other’s lives with late-night pranks, busted furniture, and way too many cafeteria mishaps. What begins as a string of comic accidents grows into something that interrupts more than just study plans.Love, Interrupted flips time upside down. A stubborn student gets stuck in a loop with the one person gu...

Love has a habit of showing up where no one expects it.In Almost Real, a man agrees to fake a relationship just to quiet family pressure. But every look, every touch, makes it harder to tell what’s staged and what’s breaking through for real.Roommate From the Afterlife twists ordinary living arrangements when a ghost refuses to leave a cozy apartment. What starts as irritation soon shifts into companionship and a connection that pushes past the line between life and death.

America’s Two Constitutions explores the history of the treatment of dissenters in time of war, beginning with the treatment of Tories during the Revolution, followed by description and analysis of the Lincoln administration’s treatment of disloyal persons during the Civil War, President Wilson’s organized plan to curb anti-war, anti-draft groups including the Socialist party during World War I, President Roosevelt’s handling of the Japanese internment program and trial of U.S. citizens by...

Introduction to Coaching Sports is unique and offers information that other texts on the subject may not offer. The authors add their personal expertise and include the "why" behind the "what to do." Both students and practitioners will benefit from this text because of the comprehensive presentation of coaching protocols explained in this book, as well as the practical application of this research as it applies to training and counseling athletes.

A guide to empowering your psychic abilities—inspired by the influential and beloved clairvoyant.Foreword by Charles Thomas CayceWe all have psychic experiences without even realizing it. Now you can harness the power of your inborn psychic awareness.In his lifetime, American visionary Edgar Cayce introduced thousands to the wonders of psychic awareness. Now his carefully preserved writings are illuminated by well-known psychologist...

Brought to you by Penguin.The war, they said, would be over by Christmas. That was in 1939, and it is now January 1944. An exhausted Britain faces another year of conflict.Meanwhile, small coastal villages in Devon are facing an invasion from an army just as foreign as that of the Germans. The Americans are smart, well-fed and well-equipped, and they have swept the bewildered citizens of South Devon from their homes in deadly earnest rehearsal for D-Day.

King David is arguably one of the greatest kings to ever live. He was an unparalleled military leader, unifier of a nation, and exhibited spiritual leadership to name a few of his accomplishments. Although King David was a man after God's own heart he was imperfect and sinful. Throughout David's life he was blessed to encounter connections (both positive and negative) with other men that made David who he was.God has built us for connection, and your destiny and success is intertwi...

This is an ethnographic collection of 12 edited talks and conversations from a conference on violence, conflict, and the world order held at Eastern Kentucky University. The conference was organized by Carole Garrison, Chair of Criminal Justice and Police Studies at EKU, who arranged for video recording and transcription of the talks and conversations. The collection is divided into two parts: domestic and global issues. Some of the topics examined include violence against women, restricti...

From The New York Times–bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello, a groundbreaking collection of Thomas Jefferson’s writings on race that every American should readAmong America’s Founding Fathers, none was more deeply, personally, or controversially entangled with race and slavery than Thomas Jefferson. The man whose Declaration of Independence proclaimed that “all men are created equal” enslaved more than 600 ...

Provides a balanced portrait of Cherokee health issuesFor the Cherokee, health is more than the absence of disease; it includes a fully confident sense of a smooth life, peaceful existence, unhurried pace, and easy flow of time. The natural state of the world is to be neutral, balanced, with a similarly gently flowing pattern. States of imbalance, tension, or agitation are indicative of physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual illness and whether caused i...