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Leslie thought she was running from these two words, “Pizza Face”, but couldn’t ever quite shake them off. The words were spoken to her and about her, defining her - and she felt those words to her core. Her rare skin disease gave her spots that covered her entire body. When those words were spoken to her, she could have curled up in a ball and gave up, but actually the opposite became true. Negative words and bullying were behind her driving force her entire life.

A high-performing sales force is the backbone of any organization. They give value to a company's products and services, and they carry their brand in the marketplace. There is one consistent problem that many businesses share - finding, hiring, and motivating the best salespeople who will not just make calls and generate leads, but will close deals.

Having a unicorn as your best friend is so much fun! You can do many cool things together - eat breakfast, race across the meadow, slide down a rainbow, and a lot more! But most importantly, a unicorn is very wise and smart and often sits with you for hours to talk about important things like kindness and how to spread kindness every day at home and at school.

I have a unicorn for a pet. She’s my best friend. We do many cool things together - eating breakfast, racing across the meadow, then sliding down the rainbow, and a lot more.... But most importantly, my unicorn is very wise and smart and often sits with me for hours to talk about important things. Recently she taught me that I’m not only growing up with a bigger body, but I also need to grow my heart and soul.... She explained and encouraged me to develop a growth mindset, and how challenges makes me stronger.

Miller Hollenbeck dropped the screw she was about to tighten with her electric drill and it slipped to the floor. The door dropped away from her hand and fell over onto her shoulder. She swore loudly and expressively and pushed the door to one side as she retrieved the escapee screw. Hanging doors was something she had learned how to do but it was never easy. Dressed in her favorite attire of jeans and a skimpy tee with a tool belt around her waist, Miller was determined to make this house just the way she imagined. She wanted to do it herself.

Can a unicorn help me deal with bullying? I have a unicorn for a pet.... She’s my best friend ever. We do many cool things together - eating breakfast, racing across the meadow, then sliding down the rainbow, and a lot more.... But most importantly, my unicorn is very wise and smart and often sits with me for hours to talk about important things. Recently, I didn’t feel very happy, and I didn’t want to go school, because there was a girl and her friends at school who decided to pick on me, and I felt bullied.... Luckily, my unicorn told me just what to do to deal with bullying!

Sue Nilson Kibbey follows up the Abingdon Press leadership classic, Ultimately Responsible, with her latest experience-based research about how your congregation can make the shift from plateau or even decline - to opening the flood gates of spiritual upsurge. This resource is a practical “how-to” guide for pastors and church leaders who dream about releasing holy momentum in their current setting.

Can a unicorn really help me make better choices? Yes, I have a unicorn for a pet. She’s my best friend. We do many cool things together - eating breakfast, racing across the meadow, sliding down the rainbow, and a lot more. But recently, I’ve been upset because everything I did seemed to be awful. Starting with my little brother to my dad to my friends at school. There was always a good reason for what I did, but it seemed I always made big mistakes, and it was always my fault. Life is so unfair. And I didn’t know what to do.

Peggy was born on the eve of the Great War and lived well into the 21st century. She grew up in rural Britain when horses jostled with cars on the streets and the country had not yet broken with the values of the previous century. Many of her experiences were shared with other women of the time. She saw her young husband leave Britain for the next war and did not meet him again for several years. She gave birth to her children when peace was new but England was a ravaged country with rationing still in place.

Adding a Breakthrough Prayer Initiative to the teamwork of your church or ministry’s leadership will change everything - and transform what may have become routine administrative work, into riding the exciting rapids of a God-led spiritual adventure together. This new resource that will strengthen the "flood gate" of your breakthrough prayer practices both collectively and individually. Each chapter includes discussion questions, application ideas, a breakthrough prayer practice for the week or month.

How can you get a unicorn for a pet? Are unicorns even real? Yes, they are. But, a unicorn is not the kind of pet that you can buy! To get a pet unicorn, first you have to believe unicorns are real, and then you have to find where they are. But, even after you find a unicorn, she will not just let you ride her, and she will not home with you. Why? Because unicorns do not like angry kids. I’ve been mad because I think people around me made me angry. When I found a unicorn, I thought she would make all my problems go away.

When a twin girl goes missing, an anonymous request for the Clue Queen herself is granted. But Detective Dedra Kare finds the obstacles of her own past in this case first! She must emotionally outrun her flashbacks as the current investigation turns into a game of hide-and-seek but on a legal field of child custody, narcissistic parenting, and a single teddy bear. But with every hidden motive playing too, is Dedra the one who’s it?

In this fourth book in the series, Filomena meets Andria, a teacher who teaches students who have left their home countries and become refugees. As the teaches them how to gain voice through the arts, Andria and Filomena discover how much these students can teach them.

In a small town near the city of Boston lives Filomena, a 12-year-old parakeet. In the first book in this series Filomena discovers that we all see the world through a frame of mind, and that observation is a powerful tool to help us understand how others see the world. In the second book in the series, Filomena spends many days in the garden during the summer with a diverse group of friends who enrich her life. They discover together how much friends, working together, can achieve.

Through the insightful and reflective lens of wife, mother of five, special needs advocate, coach, and public speaker, Sue Lachman’s everyday events and stories reveal the simplicity of life when experienced from Mind, Thought, and Consciousness - the Three Principles that changed Lachman’s outlook on life. Once a fighter whose response to life’s curveballs was to shout louder, Lachman shares how our thoughts create our reality and how we can learn to live a happier life to the fullest by a shift in our perspective.

For years, Jesaela has longed to visit the home of the Eldar, but what happens when your dream becomes a nightmare? Ripped from her family and home in the forest to become companion to a princess she’s never met, Jes soon discovers the far-off beauty is a lie. The Citadel is a den of darkness and cruelty, with forces and prophecies lurking within the crystal battlements, ready to ensnare the innocent and unwary. Caught up in an ancient war she never knew was being fought, Jes may be her people's only hope.

In the summer, Filomena goes to the garden where she has a diverse group of friends who enrich her life. Through their conversations, Filomena learns about the long journey to and back from Mexico, which some of the birds and butterflies in the garden take each year. She enjoys seeing the squirrels, and the birds take turns eating from the bird feeder that hangs from a lamppost. However, Liberty, the blue jay, does not see why she needs to be considered with other birds as she eats her fill. But she is in for a surprise that will help her understand how much friends can achieve.

Sara is a young heroine who gets caught up in her mother's stories. Questioning what's real and what's her imagination, she is swept away on an adventure of her own to a castle ruled by a dragon and his goblins. In a plot to return home she tricks the goblins, wanders the castle, and meets a trickster - a pooka whom she names Fairy. Sara and her story of learning to read offer some valuable lessons on overcoming struggle. In this introduction to a series, Sara begins an epic adventure in story.

Joining us in the Audible Studios to talk about her book Wally Funk’s Race for Space is science writer and broadcaster Sue Nelson. Wally Funk was one of the 13 members of the 1961 Women in Space Programme. The female aviation pioneer also became the first female air safety investigator for the NTSB and the first civilian flight instructor at Fort Sill, with over 19,000 flight hours. Sue Nelson, former BBC science correspondent and Radio 4 presenter, documents Wally’s extraordinary life in her new book, Wally Funk’s Race for Space, published in 2018.

More than a travel memoir, Novel Friends is a second coming-of-age story where at 51, I go beyond the social norms for a woman my age and develop unexpected friendships in doing so, from Online to real life. With this group of younger friends, I become Susie and go back in time to the days of my youth - the days of slumber parties and teen idol crushes - and the result is invigorating. Novel Friends is an uplifting, fun listener that leaves the listener thinking about taking some social risks themselves, no matter how small.