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Set in the early 1600s, this novel describes the adventures of young Mayflower Pilgrim, Elisabeth Tilley, who early in life became wise beyond her years by her participation in the ultimate immigration experience. The story also follows two Native Americans, the enigmatic Squanto and the fictional Hurit. Squanto was kidnapped from the Plymouth area, lived in England, returned to his homeland, and played a key role in helping the Pilgrims survive in the New World. Hurit, a daring and beautiful young girl, became a close friend with Elisabeth in Plymouth.  

Five P's to a Wow Business focuses on a proactive system of professional management best practices that will help your business to truly excel. Using practical terms and an easy-to-follow presentation, author Bill Matthews, lays out the business road-map to success within the outline of five areas: planning, people, processes, performetrics, and passion.

Authors Jim Stovall and Ray H. Hull, PhD, are lifelong learners and teachers of successful best practices across a wide spectrum of topics including education, communication, and influence. The Art of Influence, written in Jim’s entertaining, story-telling style alongside Dr. Hull’s straight-forward, factual approach is a must-listen for businesspeople, salespeople, entrepreneurs, and anyone wanting to improve their place of influence in life.

This book gives a voice to thousands of families and patients who have experienced neglect and abuse while in a nursing home. 

We struggle making decisions, and most times, we just wish someone would make them for us. What if that could all change, and you could master the decisions you face in your life? In Making Accountable Decisions, Sam Silverstein presents ways to approach our life's decisions and how we interact and affect others. He does this by focusing on the most substantial decisions in our lives, how they impact us, and what decisions we can make to add value and meaning.

Wisdom for Winners, Volume Two contains a unique combination of guidance for the career professional and the entrepreneur combined with spiritual wisdom that prompts self-reflection. Organized into small sections, the material can be listened to incrementally for greater impact.

In 1952, Napoleon Hill spoke at a dental convention. He was introduced by insurance tycoon W. Clement Stone. Stone had been given a copy of Hill's best-selling book, Think and Grow Rich, and was so impressed that he gave away thousands of copies. Hill and Stone jointly wrote Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude in 1960, and it became an immediate best-seller. Over 50 years later, the book still sells well in the United States and all over the world.

When Napoleon Hill was asked to deliver the baccalaureate sermon on June 2, 1957, at Salem College, it had been 35 years since he had delivered a commencement address to the 1922 graduating class at the same college. He was introduced as the man who developed the "science of success". This science was an exact study which laid down the principles by which anyone could realize his or her material goals no matter what ambitions they may be.

In 1922, Napoleon Hill was invited to give the commencement address at Salem College in Salem, West Virginia. He was 39 years old at the time, and he spoke of what he had learned from his failures in life up to that point. His personal adventures in the business world illustrated for the students the cyclical nature of success and failure as well as the lessons one can take away from each of life's experiences.

Every day, many people lose loved ones and face the grieving process. They suffer while coping with the loss of a child, spouse, parent, friend, or sibling. It is perhaps the most difficult and devastating challenge any of us face in our lifetime. In this book, the author supports the idea that you can survive and thrive after grief and loss. This is not a predictable five stages of grief book. In The Sun Still Rises, Shawn Doyle uses his heart-wrenching personal story of bereavement to supply you with tools, tips, and techniques for dealing with loss and grief.

What is a winning strategy? Why do some people, families, and organizations take dives and some merely survive while others thrive? What leads up to a disaster or collapse? Why do some squander success while others continue to elevate? How do we build a solid foundation that assures solid, authentic growth?

This book will show you the proper steps in managing people and how to make them respond to your wishes. One of the important lessons in life is discovering how to sell yourself to others and get them to help you in anything you may want to attempt.

The lives of Wilbur and Orville Wright are quintessential American stories. Growing up in America's heartland, the boys lived very ordinary lives with five other siblings and worked printing and repair jobs that involved tinkering with tools and bicycles.

Hollywood is full of cautionary tales for child actors like Judy Garland, Jackie Coogan, and Macaulay Caulkin, who all soared to fame in their youth only to suffer family feuds, drug addiction, or other ill effects of becoming famous so early in life.

J. Massey wasn't always a highly skilled investor, but through action steps that he shares in this book, he amassed an impressive portfolio of hundreds of properties in just six years using an intensive approach to learning and then putting to use what he learned immediately and at the Speed of Instruction. Starting from less than zero, he used other people's cash and credit to invest in properties, from single-family homes to multi-family dwellings and large apartment complexes to commercial properties.

In Finding Your Voice, life coach and motivational speaker Joel Boggess empowers you to live an authentic and more meaningful life. Using his own story of trauma, tragedy, and triumph, he demonstrates that although your past plays into your present it doesn't have to determine your destiny. In addition to his own experience, Joel offers a number of real-life accounts of the growth and success his clients have experienced. These examples bring to life the truths Boggess offers.

In the global turmoil of 2008, Andrew Moore took charge of a declining real estate business in a troubled market. Managing short-term behavior through the language of organisational values, he and his team developed a culture that not only steadied the business, but reversed its fortunes. This book explains how. Andrew Moore has done something remarkable - he's made culture real, tangible and actionable. This is a wonderfully honest and well-written testimony to the power of organisational culture.

What happens when bestselling author Jim Stovall comes into contact with the previously unknown work of deceased poet Joye Kanelakos? The result is artistic, compelling, practical, and life changing.

In 1973 our nation legalized abortion based on the belief that legal abortion would be "safer than childbirth" for women. We were told then that the tiny being that was aborted could not feel pain and was not a person; in fact, was not yet even a baby, but a cluster of pre-human cells.

President Eisenhower led us to victory in World War II. He then led our country as President for 8 years. He understood war and he understood how Washington worked. The major message he gave us as he left the presidency was: Beware of the Military Industrial Complex. His warning was very appropriate but it was not heeded by our nation. I know because I not only witnessed it being ignored, but I participated in using the power of the Military Industrial Complex during my aerospace career. Reagan's Star Wars describes why and how the power of the Military Industrial Complex gave birth to the Strategic Defense Initiative known as Star Wars.