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What happens when soldiers who survived overseas military deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan come home? We might believe that once they get home, everything will be fine. Life will go on like it was before the war, back to normal. That's what the soldiers thought, and that's what their spouses and families thought. The reality is different, because war changes everything. Returning soldiers are different. Spouses are changed. Children grow up and leave home. Then it's the next deployment, and they do it all again. Bulletproof Vows: Stories of Couples Navigating Military Deployments and Life's Battles tells the stories of eight post-9/11 Army couples, exploring the challenges and demands of combat deployments, as well as the resilience of the human spirit. This book is intended to shatter our assumptions about war, combat, and PTSD. Everyone who has served-and anyone who loves someone who has served-knows that war changes people, whether overseas or back at home. These eight couples navigated military deployments and life's battles, demonstrating their resilience and reinforcing their bulletproof vows.

Wild Rose, Jennifer Merschdorf's debut novel, will forever alter your beliefs of what happens after someone dies.The year is 2021 when Julia, alone and grieving, purchases an abandoned hotel named Wild Rose. After an unspeakable tragedy, Julia throws her soul into renovating the hotel and uncovers its mysterious secrets.Over 175 years, three women perish within the luxurious Wild Rose hotel. Each finding their ghosts trapped within its walls by their own secrets. Through the decades they watch the living and witness their sins, never seen or heard. Until Julia steps through the doors.As Julia brings light into the deserted hotel, she learns that she is the only person that can see the trapped spirits. For the first time a living person can see these three women born a century apart from each other, together.Can Julia free these three tortured souls from eternal imprisonment? Time may tell.

There is one word that can make consumers clamber, manipulate stock markets, and excite employees to come to work-Innovation. It has grown in popularity over the last half-century with over 2,000 books and reports arising annually. Philosophies and frameworks are released faster than iPhone models. And mantras like "innovate or die" and "fail fast" are pounded into company cultures. It is an arms race to get ahead. But what does innovation mean in these days of a post-COVID world, where results are needed instantaneously.Companies today move at high speeds innovating just for the sake of innovating, generating concepts that have us scratching our heads in frustration, rather than focusing on creating strategic change. Matt Mueller's The Mindful Innovator deploys awareness to uncover the secret formula to business success. The journey begins by slowing down to reflect on one question-What was innovation like before there was a book or a process? The Mindful Innovator strips the industry to its foundation and shows how to build a powerful structure that will turn you into a change agent. You will be able to:identify real problemssupercharge your creativitycollaborate like a probecome a mindful Jedi getting others to adapt easilyAfter reading The Mindful Innovator you will become a beacon of clarity and purpose, creating meaningful change within your company, business, or entrepreneurship.

Anything and everything is now called art. The Art Market is global, and some people make millions while others never find their footing. With changing algorithms and a cryptic Art World, how do you stand out as an artist? The Artist's Creative Vision: How to Create Art that Makes Change and Earns a Living teaches how to make unique art that makes you proud and earns a living. The book aims to eliminate the phrase "starving artist" by helping people create more interesting art, more sustainably, regardless of location. We will answer questions like:Why is originality not such a good thing?What can different professions teach us?How do you build marketing into the subject matter of your art?Kamar Thomas' The Artist's Creative Vision teaches us how to bring humanity and creativity to our art and pay our bills.

Imagine going to war for a year with no assurance that you would ever return. In Dr. Robert Elliott's Citizen Soldier: From the Land of Lincoln to Iraq and Back, readers learn what it is like to say goodbye to a wife and three children and then travel across Iraq by convoy and helicopters. You'll learn about the stressors, the dangers, and the risks taken and retaken.The author gives vivid accounts of:Walking the ancient ruins of BabylonTransporting detainees to Abu Ghraib PrisonMeeting with Ukrainian soldiers near the Iranian borderCalling in a medevac after a roadside bomb attackSustaining a mortar attackCitizen Soldier: From the Land of Lincoln to Iraq and Back is written from a soldier's perspective, inviting you to experience the emotional roller coaster that service members and their families voluntarily endure to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.

How have you dealt with those unexpected curve balls life has thrown at you? Because how we deal with them can greatly impact our life, relationships, happiness and peace.A Million Little Miracles: A Common Sense Intro to the Law of Attraction seeks to guide you in creating the life of your dreams. Author Lisa Kentner shares stories of how she manifested things and people into her life while going through an unplanned divorce. She provides exercises to help train your brain to look at things from a positive mindset, and details how she was able to navigate her divorce and come out better on the other side. In this book you will:Learn how to focus on the positiveRedirect your thoughts and perspective in potentially negative situationsManifest things and peopleImprove your love of yourselfLearn to create and live the life of your dreamsA Million Little Miracles is your loving nudge to start living a joyful life by loving yourself and retraining your brain to think positively. Practice the exercises and know the universe is abundant and provides what you ask for. Dream big!

How can you make a greater impact?Why Change Dies: Unleashing Your Potential for Social Impact is for changemakers determined to make a difference. It traces the stories of past change efforts to better understand why some have succeeded and others have failed. The book analyzes power structures across the three common domains of social change - the private sector, public sector, and social sector - to illuminate opportunities for individuals to operate effectively within those systems. It includes frameworks, tools, and discussion guides to help you along your own journey in overcoming the barriers that are holding you back. Insightful, cutting, and funny, Why Change Dies doesn't shy away from the complex questions individuals must face in their dreams of social progress. Whether you are starting out in your career, feeling unsatisfied in your current role, or just want to get better at separating the facade of change from the real thing, this book is for you.

"We struggle together and we recover together . . . I promise you. You are not alone."Healing Words: My Journey to Contentment chronicles the real and difficult conversations between author Krish Shah and his friends, family members, professors, and counselors that profoundly humbled, motivated, and enlightened him. These introspections offer more than simple advice. With the incorporation of credible research and methods from philosophy and psychology, they pull back the curtain on mental health and challenge conventional thinking about happiness, success, love, belonging, and more.Shah's vulnerability and affability make his plight all the more relatable and his guidance more welcoming. It is with his sincerest hope these Healing Words have the same effect on you as they did for him.

What wisdom would you want to pass on to those you love?On the day of his grandfather's funeral, Rick was handed a very special gift: an old weathered teal journal. Inside were pages upon pages of musings, lessons, experiences, quotes, and wisdom from the very man he had just laid to rest. Unbeknownst to him, his grandfather had been scribbling things for him in this journal since Rick was born, as a way to share, with his only grandchild, the wisdom he had gathered through the years. Now, thirty years later, author Rick Roth has compiled his own Teal Book of Wisdom to share, not only with his loved ones, but with you. Within its pages you'll find stories, not only from his own life, but from the lives of many remarkable people he has met along the way. Each story carries a lesson or piece of wisdom that you can then carry with you on your own life journey. And who knows, maybe along the way you'll be inspired to create your own Teal Book of Wisdom.

Approachable, fun, and practical, Innovation for Everyone is a next-generation guide for students to take action within their communities using innovation. Young inventor and author, Neha Shukla, is passionate about doing her part to address global challenges with science and technology. Her innovations and outreach are recognized on the New York Times, Nasdaq screen in Times Square, ABC, Harper's Bazaar, and commended by the Presidential Gold Service Award from President Biden and the Diana Award from the Royal Family. Her debut book, Innovation for Everyone, details her simple 4-step framework for students to solve real-world problems. It combines already-popular techniques in business innovation and strategy with scientific methods, in a way that's easy for youth to understand.The book illustrates the process of creating solutions for students, going from idea to tangible innovation, and includes interactive worksheets to support students in their unique journey. It features interviews with the Former Advisor to Bill Gates, expert scientists, CEOs, content creators, and community leaders, to spotlight diverse leaders for students to see representation in STEM fields. Together, we can create a rich innovation ecosystem with the next generation of problem-solvers and companies coming together to create sustainable solutions for a better future.

Unstuck: Disrupting the Status Quo will give you the tools to change your organization, and the way you think and lead. You can do things differently.Whether you're in nonprofits, government, or the corporate sector, the same systems and thinking problems persist. Organizational leaders, regardless of their particular background, personal strengths, or specific title, can recognize and disrupt status quo traps that keep us stuck. We can develop skills and practices that make change in our sphere of influence, and beyond.In this book, you will...Learn how cognitive biases affect everyone with a human brain, shaping our thinking, our work, and our relationshipsSee why "e;nice"e; is a problem that can block change and how scarcity thinking traps usReflect on a variety of questions about why we do things the way we doDiscover tools and strategies for challenging the status quo and creating change in your own sphere of influence, from asking powerful questions to developing values that ground your leadershipUnstuck will show you we have more power than we think to change the culture and systems we exist within.

Doing. Being. Becoming: For the Love of the Creative Arts is a nonfiction book that makes a compelling case for why the creative arts should be at the center of everything we do in society.Using her personal stories from growing up in Festac Town, Lagos, Nigeria to her engagement with the youth as a grassroots organizer, author Rita Ezenwa-Okoro shares concepts about creative arts as a revolutionary activity and catalyst for building ecosystems where youths can thrive.In this book, you will learn how:The Global South can rise above the limitations of poverty by engaging in play and performance.Asking questions can make young people become culture creators.Creative Arts can be placed at the heart of society's leadership, recreational, and wellness development through intentional investment in creative infrastructure.Each chapter of Doing. Being. Becoming: For the Love of the Creative Arts ends with improvisational creative exercises to inspire you to build with whatever life throws at you.

September 11th, January 25th, January 6th. No one knows a date will become shorthand for a world-changing event when they are brushing their teeth and getting ready for their day. Barely a teenager on 9/11, Catherine explores her journey from small-town Florida to Cairo, Egypt and back, an unexpected road that put her in a country navigating a decision about which direction it would take. Catherine talks about her perspective on the events leading up to the Egyptian revolution in 2011, the exhaust of hope, fear, and uncertainty it left behind. She also explores how current day America can learn from the events in Egypt, appreciate and protect our democracy, and work to extend those benefits more equitably. She also fell in love. And met the man that would become her husband. Not There Yet is a memoir about making a different country and culture home, falling in love, living through revolution, and realizing in the process the fragility - and frequent inequity - of all that makes America special. It is about finding hope in uncertain times and a call to action to stay engaged.

Have you ever felt adrift?Author Nicole Buntgen, an international closed adoptee who grew up in a rural, predominantly white town, has plenty to say. Everyone has faced labels in their life. For Buntgen, some of hers include the whitest Asian, well-spoken, dramatic, mature, lazy, and professional. Although she has struggled with how they have shaped her self-image, Buntgen presents her memoir, Onward and Upward, to untangle these titles and go anywhere but backward.Buntgen's journey covers topics and narratives including:Challenges of closed adoptionDiagnosing a rare illnessDepression, anxiety, and other mental health issuesOnward and Upward is a vulnerable deep dive that addresses diverse, complex experiences and serves as a guide for empathy toward ourselves and others. Readers will see facets of themselves in Buntgen's experiences and hopefully recognize they can tackle their personal struggles. When life has you down, remember that things can get better.

UnCeiling Your Career - At Any Age offers readers a different method that helps them battle self-doubt, build strategic plans, and maintain a positive attitude to get ahead in their careers. If you are stuck and looking for more out of life, this book will help you effectively handle setbacks and network with others to achieve and reach your unique destiny.