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Having recently lost his mum to cancer, when eight-year-old Tom comes to live with Maggie, he is scared and alone. Tom has been taken into care following concerns from his teachers about his dad Mark's ability to cope as a single parent following the death of his wife. As a former soldier, Mark has resorted to his military training in order to cope with his young son, forcing him to scrub the floors until his hands bleed and perform repeated push-ups as punishment for his misdemeanors.

In awe of her DNA, at war with her anxiety and at odds with her heartstrings, author Kaitlyn Wylde is never at a loss for words. In her new collection, The Head, The Heart & The Home, she gives her listeners orchestra seats to a timeless drama of love and intimacy, and struggling with the absence of them. Under the white-knuckled grip of anxiety, the chainmail blanket of despair and the windless knock of heartache, Wylde thrives as a storyteller.

When death touches your family, you are never quite prepared. Complicating your personal pain and the need to grieve is the equally important task of helping your children understand and process the loss of a loved one. How should you answer your child's questions about death? Should you let them see you cry? How can you support their resilience? How can you help preserve memories? Drawing from their own personal and professional experience, Erin Nelson and Colleen Montague help you navigate loss alongside your child.

D'Anne Burwell's smart, athletic son - raised in a loving and prosperous home - begins abusing OxyContin as a teenager, and within a year drops out of college, walks out of rehab, and lands homeless on the streets of Boulder. Struggling with fear, guilt, and a desperate need to protect her son, D'Anne grapples with her husband's anger and her daughter's depression as the family disease of addiction impacts them all. She discovers the terrifying links between prescription-drug abuse and skyrocketing heroin use.

Let’s say you’ve got a dream. A big dream. A huge dream. You want to open a coffee shop. Let me guess - your friends and family have told you it’s a risky idea. At least a hundred people have told you “you don’t know what you’re doing”. And that’s probably true!

America’s number one small-business expert is back with a brand-new, updated, and expanded edition of her essential handbook, Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months. Using her years of entrepreneurial experience, Melinda Emerson guides you through the process of opening your own business with step-by-step instructions for leading effectively, developing a winning marketing plan, setting a budget, and maintaining your business once it’s up and running. She also offers new strategies for social media techniques, customer engagement, selling online, and more.

From New York Times best-selling author and reality television star Bethenny Frankel, the modern woman’s guide to looking fabulous while balancing health, home, and career. With Bethenny’s favorite tips for managing every aspect of her nonstop life, including the launch of her new daytime talk show, Skinnygirl Solutions gives all women the skills to make smart, everyday choices that will lead to a fabulous Skinnygirl life.

At its root, creativity is the practice of engagement; it's the marriage of feminine and masculine energy. By restoring that creative energy—and thus seeking our dreams—we can realign ourselves with an ancient, limitless presence, and reawaken the wild creative within. In Wild Creative, Tami Lynn Kent shows you how to tap into your creative center and access the natural, sustaining energy that is inherently yours. In doing so, you'll embark on a journey to achieve your dreams and restore your inner creative map.

Our tastes in coffee vary from person to person. Everyone is looking for the best cup of coffee, from lattes and cappuccinos to French press and drip-brew. Author Stella Perry prepares the listener for a career in coffee with a walk through different types and preparations of coffee, including tips you should always keep in mind to make the perfect cup.

Tackling some of the world’s most profound questions through the intimate lens of fatherhood, Bayo Akomolafe embarks on a journey of discovery as he maps the contours of the spaces between himself and his three-year-old daughter, Alethea. In a narrative that manages to be both intricate and unguarded, he discovers that something as commonplace as becoming a father is a cosmic event of unprecedented proportions.

You’re a maker, a creator, an expert at your craft. Building a profitable jewelry business doesn't have to be a dream any longer if you know how to connect with your audience and create desire for your brand. Whether you want to grow a six-figure lifestyle business or a multi-seven-figure empire, now more than ever, consumers want to support emerging talent and small businesses like yours. They just need to find you.

Have you ever told yourself, 'I’m just not wired to be organized,' and given up before you even tried? Does it feel like no matter how many times you try to get organized, nothing ever sticks? Do you think organizing your life will take hours that you just don’t have? This doesn’t have to be true for you. In this book you will find many ways to understand your abilities and use them to your advantage.

Did you know that if you clean just 2 houses a day/5 days a week, you could make $3,700- $5,000 a month? Don’t believe me? Let’s do the math. The average house cleaning price today is between $90 to $150. Let’s go with the average of the two $120. Now 2 houses a day means $240 a day X 5 days a week = $1,200 weekly X 4.2 (weeks in a month) = $5,040! Simple. Average commercial (office/retail) cleaning price is between $220 to $450 X 2 a day = $440 to $900 a day!

Are you sick of your office job? Sick of office politics? Then consider working from home. Discover the benefits of working from home; types of work from home jobs; how to find work from home opportunities; important skills to learn; building your online portfolio; networking online; getting your first paid client; and much more.

With a bachelor's and master's degree in education and over 30 years of experience, plus training in trauma sensitivity, author and mother of two, Jennifer Alushan, is ready to give parents and caregivers proven techniques to effectively understand and authentically interact with children so the healing process can begin.

A visionary carpenter shares meditations on work, creativity, and design, revealing powerful lessons on building a meaningful life through his experience constructing some of New York’s most iconic spaces.

Suzanne suffered five heart attacks and made it through open heart surgery. But even that pales in comparison to the horrors she faced as a young girl. Her childhood became the ‘stuff of nightmares’ after her father passed away and her mother, unable to get a job in Ireland, had to seek work in London. So ‘Mammy’ was forced into the heart-breaking decision to put Suzanne and her five siblings into church-run orphanages in Dublin while she worked away. It was just meant to be temporary.

Recognizing the survival mode in which your family has been living, experiencing the overwhelm of grief and loss, accepting your own strengths and struggles, and feeling desperate for solutions are just a few heart-wrenching steps you may experience with an adolescent or young adult in out-of-home mental and behavioral health treatment. If you are on this path, you might feel isolated and confused as you wade through the waters of the treatment process with your family. H.O.M.E. offers insight into the journey of wilderness therapy and other treatment experiences.

Whether the confrontations are taking place at home, at work or online, the emotional toll of dealing with an angry person day-in day-out can be huge. As we often can't cut ourselves off from these angry people (although terminating the relationship is an option that’s explored), this audiobook draws on the author's years of research and clinical practice to help listeners manage potentially explosive situations for the best possible outcomes. This audiobook reveals the psychological factors that underpin an angry personality, offers ten key strategies for dealing with angry people.

"With Lease Options and Subject-To deals, investors can control properties worth much more than what they could normally afford. These are two of the “little or no money down” type of techniques to invest in real estate. The potential for profit is great and the cost of getting started is low.