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Young Tabitha Sparks has the most wonderful life that any little girl could ask for. She has loving parents, a kind tutor, and a comfortable home. But, as Tabitha ventures into the woods to play with her animal friends, her life takes a sudden, mysterious turn. You see, when Tabitha returns home - well - there simply is no home. Taken by Child Services to live with her cold-natured Aunt Demonia Van Vile. She finds a mysterious door to everywhere that, when entered, leads her to a world of nothing but doors - one door for every place in the universe.

Featuring season two of Jae El’s popular flash fiction, along with several new and previously unreleased tales, this volume brings the focus of the genres to the forefront. Whether your literary tastes are for alien invaders, unusual planets, dystopian futures, artificial intelligence, technology, cannibalistic tribes, kindly witches, people seeking revenge, or even kids with a curiosity over where babies come from, you’ve come to the right place.

Need something quick and entertaining to listen to while traveling, on break at work, or in between classes? Freaky Fiction on the Go is just what you're looking for! Filled with super short stories and flash fiction, this collection will keep you enthralled and on the edge of your seat! Featuring tales of horror and science fiction, this collection contains Jae El Foster’s most beloved pieces of flash fiction, available here together for the first time. Also included are three brand new stories that will curl your toes and chill your bones!

Beyond Tips & Tricks: Mindful Management will help you understand your ability as a manager to intentionally create a connected, conscious, engaged organization. Regardless of how you feel about the topic of balance, the impact of imbalance has become one of the core issues most managers face today. Mindful management explores the topic as the confluence for how people engage at work, combining strategies and guided conversations to address work-life balance, workload balance and energy balance.

Is it possible to have balance and success? That is what Stop & See: Developing Intentional Habits is about: your ability to consciously choose to create a life that is both balanced and successful through understanding the habits that support or sabotage your desired outcomes. This book will explore why you do what you do and look at the anatomy of a habit so you can create intentional habits that support your meaning of balance and success.

Stop & Listen: Practicing Presence is about working with your choices to create deeper engagement. People talk about this concept quite a bit, but what does it really mean to be present? Is it a feeling, a perception, a way of life, a state of mind, all of the above? This book will explore what it means to be present at work and how your choices can help you create deeper engagement with your environment, others, and yourself. Through this content, you will understand your ability to intentionally create deeper presence in your life.

If you are like most people, you feel out of balance some of most of the time. And like most people, you are seeking a way to reduce stress, create joy, and have meaningful connection between the roles, relationships, and responsibilities in your life. Using mindful awareness, this reflective workbook introduces The Awareness Framework®, a tool to help you see your behavior and the impact it has on creating the type of work-life balance you desire. Short and direct, this book teaches the skill of awareness and how it applies to values, communication, stress, time, and boundaries.

I love nothing more than my job. As a local celebrity and businesswoman, I’ve worked my way up through the ranks to become the biggest news publisher in the area. Everything’s perfect, except my love life. But it’s complicated. This town is nothing short of conservative and would never understand me. And my mother? She’d think I was going to hell. I’m a lesbian, and it has to stay a secret.

The reality is some days rock, some days are so-so, and some days really suck. For the days that really suck, there are questions to help make it suck less. Jae Ellard has spent the last decade working with people who feel stuck in some way, dealing with work-life balance struggles, stress overload, communication challenges, distraction, and disengagement.

Most stress can be traced to communication - or a lack of it and the conversations we are NOT having or are too scared to have about what we value, and our boundaries to uphold those values. Just like balance, stress means different things to different people. Jae Ellard has spent the last decade working with people who feel stress in some way. Jae wants to shift their relationship with stress, but they just don't know where to start. You will experience stress, that is just life. So why not become more mindful and proactive about how you manage stress when it comes around?

How do you know when you are out of balance? Jae Ellard believes that balance has nothing to do with gender, geography, income, education, or job type - you don't even need a job to feel out of balance! Rather it's about the conversation we have (or don't have) about how these issues impact life. Drawing on thousands of conversations over a decade, Jae takes listeners through five simple truths about work-life balance that can liberate any person seeking to create easy joy and meaningful engagement between the interconnected roles and responsibilities that make up life.

The Blackbird Battle has left all sides devastated. The wind spirit Suriel has disappeared. A hard winter is coming, and famine stalks the land. Kateiko Rin returns to her people, ready at last to rejoin her community, but the dangers of the unsettled times come raging to her doorstep. Kako is left with no choice but to battle the forces that seek to open a rift between the worlds. Leading an unlikely alliance that includes her new love Airedain and her old one Tiernan, Kako must risk all to try and stop the coming disaster.

Seventeen-year-old Kateiko doesn’t want to be Rin anymore - not if it means sacrificing lives to protect the dead. Her only way out is to join another tribe, a one-way trek through the coastal rainforest. Killing a colonial soldier in the woods isn’t part of the plan. Neither is spending the winter with Tiernan, an immigrant who keeps a sword with his carpentry tools. His log cabin leaks and his stories about other worlds raise more questions than they answer.

Jasmine and Dylan are madly in love, and they hope to start a family. In need of work, Dylan takes a job playing Santa Claus at a department store. Jasmine finds the idea humorous, until a centuries-old demon by the name of Nicholas Von Barron is unleashed from a forced hibernation and begins to destroy the city. Fabled as the original Santa Claus, Nicholas - who has a reputation for eating children and turning people into ice - sets his sights on Jasmine and the unborn child in her womb. Will Jasmine and Dylan live to see Christmas Day?

When Shirley receives the news that she’s being both honored and retired at the city’s annual tree lighting ceremony, her quiet and peaceful life gets flipped upside down. A fall on slippery ice and a trip to the hospital add to the drama when they bring the arrival of her daughter Brandy, with husband Ryan and their three small children in tow. For the first time since her husband’s passing, Shirley’s house is bustling with activity, but between Brandy’s overbearing nature and an embarrassing photo of Ryan going viral, a calm and serene holiday is not in the forecast.

Known for his distinctive voice, this North Carolina native brings a refreshing perspective to the world of Hip Hop and the music industry. With a keen eye for detail and an unapologetic approach, his commentary is consistently informative, engaging, and well worth listening to.

Welcome to The Ruth Effect Podcast! This inspiring Christian show empowers women to discover their true identity and purpose through the transformative power of faith. Just like Ruth in the Bible, who made a bold decision that changed her life's trajectory, we’ll explore how stepping out of our comfort zones can lead to incredible future possibilities. Join us as we delve into themes of faith over fear, character, submission, servitude, obedience, and unwavering tenacity. Together, we'll learn to embrace the Ruth Effect and create a positive impact in our lives and the world around us!

I have learned most of my lessons the hard way and because of the hard lessons, I feel like that is why some stuck while others did not. I have chosen to live a fairly transparent life; walking in my truth no matter how ugly or how it may make others look. (Be careful how you show up in people’s life because you never know if or when they will tell their story/truth).

Suggesting this historic anthology is just a regional horror collection is like calling Frankenstein's monster a simple misstep in medical technology. Road Kill is no longer just an annual anthology of horror stories. It's a serial collection of some of the most serious voices in Lone Star literature. It's a chronicle of Texas terror, and Vol. 9 is eerie, edgy and feral. It will haunt you long after its first reading. It's as fine a selection of horror fiction as you'll find today. It's alive!

He was Adam. He was straight. He was just my friend. We weren’t actually dating. This was the year that my Mom’s guilt trips finally worked. I was going home for Christmas. Although the prospects of this trip didn’t seem too great. I hadn’t been home since I’d come out as gay a few years ago. And I certainly wasn’t planning on bringing anyone home with me.