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Welcome to the corporate world, friend! A world where things aren’t fair, some people are mean, and if you want to succeed, your boss has to like you. In her new book: Corporate Survival Guide for Your Twenties: A Guide to Help You Navigate the Business World, Kayla Buell, founder of the award-winning blog Lost GenY Girl, helps you face the corporate world post-college. Navigating a corporate working world filled with pitfalls and traps is not easy – there’s no app for that. Should you speak up in meetings? Should you stay quiet? Should you eat at your desk? What should you wear? And what do you do when someone blasts you via e-mail? In Corporate Survival Guide for Your Twenties, Buell helps the early career professionals get their kick-ass career running!

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Zen Cat Mindfulness Readers of  Start With Why ,  You Are Here  and  Whatever You Are, Be A Good One  will love the quotes and teachings of  Zen Cats Advice from Zen Leaders:  Join some cuddly kittens for a collection of sayings from the Buddha in  Zen Cats . Don’t let the adorable cats fool you—they have plenty of mindfulness wisdom to share in the form of quotes and verses. These timeless verses, taken from the Dhammapada, will continue to be helpful and relevant to your life for years to come. Daily Mindfulness:  Meditate along with these verses daily to gain a greater understanding of you, your life and your purpose. Learn from the clever cat to be true in body and mind. If you appreciated the mindfulness encouragement from  Peace Is Every Step ,  The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching  and  Together Is Better , you will love the quotes in  Zen Cats . Let your inner Zen Cat guide you to enlightenment.

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This one-of-a-kind tome takes a tour with Sylvia Beach and other booksellers as well as librarians, editors, writers, bibliophiles, and celebrated book clubs. Join women’s studies scholar Anders as she takes you on a ribald ride through the pages of history. Chapter titles include «Prolific Pens» (including Joyce Carol Oates, author of over 100 books), «Mystics, Memoirists and Madwomen», «Salons and Neosalons», «Ink in Their Veins» (literary dynasties), and the titillating «Banned, Blacklisted, and Arrested.»

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The simple act of praying Wisdom, inspiration and prayer:  As recent scientific research shows, the simple act of praying can be emotionally, spiritually, and even physically healing. With  Prayers for Hard Times , author Becca Anderson offers solace in bringing together the wisdom of great thinkers, spiritual leaders and writers who have faced difficulty and learned from it. Sacred and inspirational sources:  Organized in daybook form, the book draws from sacred sources such as the Bible, the Torah, Buddhist and Native American texts, as well as inspirational writings of: Joan DidionElizabeth GilbertMaya AngelouRumiMark NepoHarriet TubmanDave EggarsAbraham LincolnAnne Morrow LindbergMartin Luther King Jr. Consolation and renewal:  Together, these wise words create a tapestry of consolation and renewal for those times when it all seems “too much.” In a world that feels increasingly fragile and, at times, fractured, people need answers and prayers. Becca Anderson’s collection focuses on prayers for a wide range of life challenges, from the personal to the global.  Prayers for Hard Times  covers issues facing individuals such as loss of loved ones, illness, anxiety, divorce, depression and addiction, as well as those challenges communities face in natural disasters and violence. The writers in Anderson’s devotional address the world at large, as well, with words of hope and help for global poverty, hunger, war and the environmental.  Prayers for Hard Times  offers readers solace, comfort, and support, drawing from the wisdom of every era, every major faith and tradition, and the important voices of those who have lived through such experiences themselves.

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#1 Best Seller in Popular Culture, Feminist Theory, Quotations, and Social Science ─ Positive Affirmations for a Badass Fans of Rachel Hollis and  Girl, Wash Your Face  will love Becca Anderson's  Badass Affirmations Even a badass needs daily affirmations.  We all need reminders. You don’t leap out of bed knowing you are amazing and about to have an incredible day. All of us have a lot of demands, pressures, to-do’s and responsibilities. We find ourselves rushing around, working hard to please others. Often we find ourselves at the back of our own bus, having made everyone else happy but our own damn self. Then you go and beat yourself up about it. Let’s stop that, shall we? The incredible art of self-affirmation.  Positive living and affirmation queen Becca Anderson reminds you that you are pretty darn great. I had to learn to remind myself, but you know what? It feels pretty darn good. It is even kind of addictive in the best way. There are reasons we need esteem boosters. We pick up scars and get bumps and bruises in daily life. If you had a bad childhood, you have old “tapes” from poor parenting looping through your unconscious brain. “You’ll never amount to anything. You’re not good at sports. Your sister has a better singing voice than you, so we’re sending her to music camp and you can stay behind and babysit.” Even nice moms and dads perpetrate these parenting errors that leave marks on our souls. But, we can overcome with the right mix of badass affirmations. Every day and in every way, you can learn the art of self-affirmation. Self-affirmation adjustment.  If you find yourself feeling overwhelmed and drained by life’s busyness and demands, stop in your tracks and do an attitude adjustment, or more specifically a “gratitude adjustment.” You have need for some “me TLC” and a dose of radical self-affirmation. In Badass Affirmations you will: • Learn the habit of affirming yourself daily• Experience a life filled with love, joy, fulfillment and satisfaction• Take control of your destiny• Strengthen your self-esteem

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A Tribute to Female Friendships Celebrate the bonds you’ve built with the wonderful women in your life.  The bond shared among girlfriends is like no other. Whether the friendship is decades old or just beginning, we share a unique relationship with these women, a connection wholly different even from what we share with husbands or boyfriends. Share in the wit and wisdom of fellow women.  Strong female friendships are inspiring because they foster the practice of women supporting and enabling other women. Author and blogger Becca Anderson has long been moved by the inspirational quotes and stories of groundbreaking women (as seen in her bestselling title,  The Book of Awesome Women ), and she shares some of that female empowerment with us in this book. Fill your heart with gratitude for your soul sisters.  We know how much we love our girlfriends, but do they know? This book reminds us just how valuable our bonds with our gal pals are. These are the women who answer the phone at 4 a.m. and drop everything to help a sister out, the ones who are there for both the tearful wine nights and the champagne-worthy celebrations. As author Becca Anderson says, “Our friends are some of the great loves of our lives. Mine have seem me through tough times and we have so much shared joy. My life advice is simple: make friends and treasure them.” By reading  Friendship Isn’t a Big Thing, It’s a Million Little Things , you will find… Renewed value in the friendships you share with womenInspiration for growing in those relationships and further supporting your friendsReasons to celebrate the unique love you find in female friendshipA perfect inspirational gift for the women in your lifeIf you’ve enjoyed books such as  Beautifully Said ,  Badass Affirmations ,  That’s What She Said , and Cleo Wade’s  Heart Talk , you will love  Friendship Isn’t a Big Thing, It’s a Million Little Things: The Art of Female Friendship by bestselling author Becca Anderson.

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Inspirational Words to Meditate On If you liked  Healing After Loss  by Martha W. Hickman and  Together is Better  by Simon Sinek, you’ll love  The Lighten Up Book An Upbeat Guide to Positivity in the Midst of Chaos:   Allen Klein is the world's only «Jollytologist». As a keynote speaker and bestselling author, he has mastered the art of choosing the right quote at the right time. In  The Lighten Up Book , he has gathered his favorite wise words to help readers power their lives with the positive. We have all weathered a lot of storms in recent times, literally with hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, and what seems like unrelenting strife in our daily discourse. We all need reminders of what we truly value in our life – family, friendship, community, leadership, service, helping others. An Inspirational Book for the Ages:  As inspirational as it is instructive,  The Lighten Up Book  is a treasury of moving and meaningful sayings that spurs readers to live life to the fullest. Readers can take this encouraging book on the go to get a quick shot of inspiration at any time, or they can select one quote every day for in-depth thought and meditation. However readers choose to use these uplifting and inspiring quotes, they all have the potential to be life-changing. The Lighten Up Book  offers endless encouragement. The quotes in this book will help you to: Feel inspiredRecover from lossGet back up after a hard day knocks you downAnd much more!

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A Year of Daily Meditations Learn how to start meditating.  Learning how to meditate and how to be mindful is simpler than it looks. The whole purpose of your meditation is to show up as awake and aware as possible to your everyday life. Longtime therapist and meditator David Kundtz gives you permission not to fret about whether you're getting your meditation practice right or not. It's right. Ponder daily quotes to help you live in this moment.   Being Present  has one purpose: to give you an opportunity to live in the moment once a day, every day. As you start to accumulate these mindful moments, your life will become more peaceful, more rewarding, and more awakened. Discover the benefits of meditation for yourself.  In  Being Present , Kundtz guides us through the seasons of a year—and the seasons of a life—drawing inspiration and mindfulness quotes from poets and scientists, spiritual teachers and children, butterflies and big cities. With the help of this book, you will discover how to: Be present and become a more mindful personMaintain the focus, awareness, and equanimity that you need for getting through stressful situationsExperience the peaceful moments of mindful living If you found the daily reflections in inspirational books like  A Year of Positive Thinking ,  The Daily Book of Positive Quotations , and  Greatest Inspirational Quotes , then you'll love meditating on the mindfulness quotes and thoughts in  Being Present .

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#1 Best Seller in Aging, Gerontology, and Volunteer Work. Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2018 on Aging Well ─ Over Fifty, Retiring and Childless? Are you among the fifteen million Americans over fifty and childless? Solo aging gracefully and a happy retirement can be yours! Baby Boomers retiring:  American Baby boomers are aging and fifteen million of them never had children. Who will take care of them? Unprecedented in U.S. history, this demographic will create challenges for these individuals as well as for society.  Essential Retirement Planning for Solo Agers  is a passionate exploration of the path ahead for “Solo Agers.” It includes choices in housing, relationships, legal arrangements, finances and more – and urges the solo ager to plan for the future as though their life and well-being depended on it, as author Sara Zeff Geber believes it will! Solo Agers aging well:  In  Essential Retirement Planning for Solo Agers , Sara Zeff Geber, a Ph.D. in Counseling and Human Behavior and a Certified Retirement Coach, coins the term “Solo Ager” to refer to the segment of society that either does not have adult children or is single and believes they will be on their own as they grow older. However, it’s not just the Solo Ager that can learn from this book. Financial advisors, elder law and estate attorneys, senior care managers, and others whose clientele is on the far side of sixty will benefit as well. Retirement and good living:  With a compelling and readable style, Geber takes her readers on a journey, starting with the choice for childlessness and why so many boomers were able to make that decision. She then reviews the role of adult children in an aging parent’s world and suggests ways in which Solo Agers can mitigate the absence of adult children by relationship building and rigorous planning for their future. Geber shares her expertise on what constitutes a fulfilling older life and how Solo Agers can maximize their opportunities for financial security, physical health, meaning and purpose in the second half of life and, finally, planning for the end game. Retirement guide:  Through stories and narrative, the author explores housing choices, relationships, and building a support system. You will learn about: different levels of care and independence in various types of living arrangementshow to initiate discussions among friends and relatives about end-of-life treatment‘what if’ scenarioswho to talk to about legal and financial decisionsGeber's stories of Solo Agers are gleaned from friends and clients in a variety of circumstances. Each one demonstrates decisions and choices these people have made and illustrates the importance of thinking ahead and taking action now. Essential Retirement Planning for Solo Agers  is pragmatic and provocative, but softened with humor. Many of the chapters include worksheets or checklists, encouraging the reader to go beyond imagining and begin his or her own planning for the voyage ahead.

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