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From author Laurie Boyle Crompton comes Pretty in Punxsutawney, the story of 17-year-old Andie who's stuck repeating her first day at a new school over and over. Andie's convinced she needs true love's kiss to break the curse but instead discovers how a high school filled with cliques and misfits can find common ground despite their differences.

Between Before and After, by award-winning author Maureen McQuerry, explores the nature of family secrets, resiliency, and redemption as seen through the eyes of two young adults told in dual narratives between 1918 New York City and 1955 San Jose, California.

When Evalina Cassano and Taichi Hamasaki are torn apart by the events following the attack on Pearl Harbor, they must fight to return to one another before World War II steals their future together. From Stephanie Morrill comes Within These Lines, a Junior Library Guild selection, perfect for fans of Monica Hesse, Ruta Sepetys, and Elizabeth Wein.

In Remnants: Season of Glory, the final book of bestselling author Lisa T. Bergren's Remnants series, more and more people are drawn to the Way and begin to oppose Pacifica's plans for domination. The time for a showdown between the Remnants and the followers of darkness is nigh.

In Lorie Ann Grover's YA novel, Tiadone has been forced to live her entire life as a female accepted as male in her community in order to survive as a firstborn child. But when she needs to pass the rites of manhood, she finds the Creator may have use for her feminine traits after all.

How do you know whether a promising interview candidate would be a great hire--or a disaster in the making? These revealing interview questions guide managers and human resources professionals to identify and hire the best talent.

If you want to see your dream come to fruition, you must learn how to develop the leaders around you.

For anyone suffering under the crushing weight of debt, author JoAnneh Nagler has something to tell you: there's a much simpler way.

Lost meets Stranger Things in this eerie, immersive thriller. Told through a series of journal entries from Sia to her father, Fractured Tide is both a horror story of survival and redemptive journey towards forgiveness ... if the water or forest don't swallow her first.

Discover the potent business playbook that will pack your pipeline and turn you into a selling champ!

Don't let your customer interactions go astray. Develop the customer service skills necessary for the success of your company.

Introverts can not only still be salespeople; they can be incredible salespeople--without changing who they are!

No other sales book will tell it like, in this guide that Hubspot has called "the funniest sales book of all time."

You don't have to build a mountain of debt getting an MBA. Instead, you can MOOC your way to your dream job at low or even no cost!

Meyer shows managers, executives, and business owners how to identify the right market to create, use common denominators for success, avoid common and costly pitfalls that can easily derail efforts, find funding to support a new market, and more to build an exciting, profitable venture.

Your company may be profitable today, with a solid product, plenty of buyers, and healthy pricing. If so, congratulations-it's an enviable position.Now, throw out everything you're planning to do to stay competitive. Your future survival means keep­ing pace with a world in flux, as expanding global markets, shorter and unpredictable business cycles, and increased ROI pressures reshape industries and erode market share for even the most venerable com­panies. "Cheaper, bigger, faster, and newer" are the imperatives driving organizations, no matter how thinly spread their people and resources.So how can your organization stay ahead of competitors ready to spring from any corner of the globe? Learning to Succeed provides a deceptively simple, yet effective solution: Become a dynamic learning organization that actively embraces learning across the ranks, from the executive offices to the mailroom.Expanding on Peter M. Senge's The Fifth Discipline, corporate learning expert Jason Wingard draws from hundreds of interviews with senior executives, surveys, and questionnaires with division heads and business unit managers, and personal observations at companies big and small to:• Detail the pressures and opportunities of the global marketplace, with its expanding pool of resources, customers, and competitors.• Supply a Continuous Integration of Learning and Strategy (CILS) model that takes you through the process of analysis, strategic planning, implementation, and evaluation of learning programs.• Make a compelling argument for naming a chief learning officer, who assumes a top strategic role.• Blend thought leadership initiatives, development programs, and advisory services, and ensure that they link to corporate strategy.• Overcome culture and cost obstacles that can stand in the way of CILS and perpetuate the status quo.• Quantify how your learning initiatives impact the bottom line using the Return on Learning (ROL) formula.• Create a culture of excellence that attracts and retains top talent, and nurtures manager effectiveness.As this deeply informative book shows, corporate learning is not just an "intangible" or hit-or-miss pursuit. It's a critical shift achieved through careful implementation-and the most reliable solution for anticipating change, shifting gears, and thriving in our fast-paced world.

True operational excellence is not about a method but a mindset . . . and a relentless pursuit of doing things better.

For anyone who feels incapable of big-time success, boxing great and business icon George Foreman has an important life principle to share: Champions are not born. They're made.

How can you grow to your fullest potential and become someone who spends your years until retirement working for meaning, not money?

Where do you spend your time? As a salesperson, chances are you're wasting it on things that aren't professionally impactful or personally fulfilling. Learn the key to gaining more of everything you want--sales, time with family, and money--by making the most out of your day.

Apply the seven universal elements of powerful stories to dramatically improve how you connect with customers and grow your business through social media channels.

In The Leader's Greatest Return, Maxwell shares the most important lessons he's learned about the leadership development process over the last quarter century, from identifying high-potential leaders to coaching leaders to develop others.

In this eleven-lesson workbook, bestselling author John C. Maxwell shares how to become a leader who not only develops leaders but also helps those leaders to develop their own followers into leaders.

How many of us follow the same advice our grandparents followed: contribute whatever we can to our 401(k) and hope it's enough when the time comes to retire?

With advice from Daymond John, Bobbi Brown, Marc Cuban, Sallie Krawcheck, Max Levchin, Alexa von Tobel, and other successful early stage startup investors, Inc. magazine shows you how to attract and wisely apply your firm's first precious sources of cash.

Legal constraints, trolls, and technical issues can all turn the excitement of running an online community into chaos. This book shows site administrators how to create a safe, entertaining, and informative community.

Do you have the talent it takes to succeed? According to New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell no one does--because talent will only take you so far. Learn the thirteen attributes to add to your talent that will make a real impact.

Working people of every conceivable age, sex, marital status, career path, tax bracket, and seniority have at least one thing in common--they all feel overworked, overwhelmed, and underpaid. Learn how to make a change toward a more fulfilling life.

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Do you sometimes feel like you're so busy trying to make a living that you're missing out on life? Motivational expert Todd Duncan uses five life-enhancing questions to guide readers to let go of excuses and live the life they deserve, starting right now.