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Thomas Edison: Inspiration and Hard Work (Heroes of History)

Written for readers age 10 and up — enjoyed by adults!

With only three months of formal education, Thomas Edison grew up to be one of the most successful inventors of all time. Applying scientific principles to practical use, he made scores of inventions and held over thirteen hundred patents, from improvements on the telegraph and phonograph to the development of the incandescent lamp and a whole system for distributing electricity.

Edison’s rise from humble beginnings and his unceasing struggle to overcome obstacles illustrate the spirit of America. His genius and investigative methods shaped the future and continue to influence new generations.

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Healing with Heart: Inspirations for Health Care Professionals

WINNER: American Journal of Nursing 2008 Book of the Year Award in the Leadership and Management category. Healing with Heart is a one of a kind book written by a health care professional exclusively for health care professionals-whether they work at the bedside or support those who do. It uses everyday stories of life in hospitals, hospices, and medical offices to improve and deepen one’s interactions with coworkers, patients and their families. Healing With Heart is a truly transformational work of heart, spirit and common sense. Its selfless, warm, and personal tone confers a degree of dignity to everyone working in this very important field. Healing with Heart consists of short reflections covering subjects that can be appreciated especially by readers in the field. This gift-quality book is portable, accommodating readers who are on-the-go and want a quick, inspirational message before returning to work. This practical book awakens passion and provides health care professionals with a fresh perspective on work. Readers come away feeling that who they are and what they do is important, whatever their job may be. Author Martin Helldorfer is Senior Vice President, Mission for Exempla Healthcare. Healing with Heart embodies Martin’s unique experiences and perspective formed from years as a monk and training as a clinical psychologist. Hospitals use Healing with Heart in workshops and retreats on Leadership Effectiveness, Resilience, Avoiding Burnout, and Physician Development. They are starting their huddles and staff meetings with reflections. Hospitals are giving Healing with Heart as recognition, holiday, Nursing Week and Staffing Week gifts. Health care vendors who wish to connect more meaningfully with their customers are giving Healing with Heart rather than the usual tote bags and coffee mugs. Patients are giving Healing with Heart to their favorite health care professionals in gratitude for caring for their loved ones.

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End Game (Will Robie Series)

#1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci returns with his most breathtaking thriller yet…

Will Robie and Jessica Reel are two of the most lethal people alive. They’re the ones the government calls in when the utmost secrecy is required to take out those who plot violence and mass destruction against the United States. And through every mission, one man has always had their backs: their handler, code-named Blue Man.

But now, Blue Man is missing.

Last seen in rural Colorado, Blue Man had taken a rare vacation to go fly fishing in his hometown when he disappeared off the grid. With no communications since, the team can’t help but fear the worst.

Sent to investigate, Robie and Reel arrive in the small town of Grand to discover that it has its own share of problems. A stagnant local economy and a woefully understaffed police force have made this small community a magnet for crime, drugs, and a growing number of militant fringe groups.

But lying in wait in Grand is an even more insidious and sweeping threat, one that may shake the very foundations of America. And when Robie and Reel find themselves up against an adversary with superior firepower and a home-court advantage, they’ll be lucky if they make it out alive, with or without Blue Man . . .

PHENOMENAL PRAISE FOR DAVID BALDACCI’S #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING WILL ROBIE SERIES:

“Robie and Reel are complex characters, and anything they do is a pleasure to follow…Baldacci knows how to get readers to turn the pages.” –Associated Press

“A first-class thriller…David Baldacci’s four bestselling novels about government assassin Will Robie have straddled that line of edgy, high-concept suspense, augmented with a bit of the political thriller, and deep character studies. In The Guilty, Baldacci takes a different tack with a more personal, but just as thrilling tale about Will’s past, giving compelling insight about how he became a man so willing to kill for his country.” –Sun-Sentinel (FL) on The Guilty

“David Baldacci has never been better than in The Guilty. His latest to feature conflicted assassin extraordinaire Will Robie takes the character–and series–to new heights….A stunning success from one of America’s great literary talents.” –Providence Sunday Journal on The Guilty

“With a lightning pace, captivating characters, and astonishing twists throughout, The Hit is guaranteed to keep your attention from the first page to the last.” –The Times-News (NC) on The Hit

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The Billionaire’s Secrets: The Sinclairs, Book 6

A Wall Street Journal bestselling series.

Former rock star Xander Sinclair may be out of rehab, but he’s not out of the woods. Still haunted by his parents’ murders, he has secluded himself in his Amesport mansion and dodges any attempted contact from his two brothers. Struggling not to fall into relapse, he believes he’s battling his demons alone.

That is, until Samantha arrives to work as his live-in housekeeper. Effortlessly charming and cheerful and wickedly sexy, she challenges Xander to abandon his isolation. The two embark on a fiery relationship – one that could change them both forever.

Just when Xander is on the verge of reclaiming his life, he discovers that Samantha has been hiding things from him…things that could shatter the fragile future they’ve begun to build together. For Xander, escaping the past is no longer an option. It’s time to face it – even when some secrets seem too heavy for the heart to bear.

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The Motivated Brain: Improving Student Attention, Engagement, and Perseverance

What really motivates students to learn? What gets them interested—and keeps them interested—in pursuing knowledge and understanding? Recent neuroscientific findings have uncovered the source of our motivation to learn, or as neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp terms it, the drive to seek. Seeking is what gets us out of bed in the morning, the engine that powers our actions, and the need that manifests as curiosity.

Informed by new findings on the nature of the brain’s seeking system, internationally renowned educators Gayle Gregory and Martha Kaufeldt have identified key brain-friendly strategies for improving student motivation, knowledge acquisition, retention, and academic success. In this book, readers will learn

* The science behind the motivated brain and how it relates to student learning.

* Strategies for preparing a motivational environment and lesson.

* Strategies for creating engaging learning experiences that capitalize on the brain’s natural ways of learning.

* Strategies for improving depth of knowledge, complex thinking, and synthesis to get students into the ever-desired state of flow.

* How attention to the neuroscience of motivation will improve the classroom environment and student learning.

The Motivated Brain shows teachers how to harness the power of their students’ intrinsic motivation to make learning fun, engaging, and meaningful.

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Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter

“If you watched the entire election cycle and concluded that Trump was nothing but a lucky clown, you missed one of the most important perceptual shifts in the history of humankind. I’ll fix that for you in this book.”

Adams was one of the earliest public figures to predict Trump’s win, doing so a week after Nate Silver put Trump’s odds at 2 percent in his FiveThirtyEight.com blog. The mainstream media regarded Trump as a novelty and a sideshow. But Adams recognized in Trump a level of persuasion you only see once in a generation.

Trump triggered massive cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias on both the left and the right. We’re hardwired to respond to emotion, not reason. We might listen to 10 percent of a speech – a hand gesture here, a phrase there – and if the right buttons are pushed, we decide we agree with the speaker and invent reasons to justify that decision after the fact.

The point isn’t whether Trump was right or wrong, good or bad. Win Bigly goes beyond politics to look at persuasion tools that can work in any setting – the same ones Adams saw in Steve Jobs when he invested in Apple decades ago. For instance:

If you need to convince people that something is important, make a claim that’s directionally accurate but has a big exaggeration in it. Everyone will spend endless hours talking about how wrong it is and will remember the issue as high priority. Stop wasting time on elaborate presentation preparations. In this book you’ll learn which components of your messaging matter and where you can wing it. Planting simple, sticky ideas (such as “Crooked Hillary”) is more powerful than stating facts. Just find a phrase without previous baggage that grabs your audience at an emotional level.

Adams offers nothing less than “access to the admin passwords to human beings”. This is a must-listen if you care about persuading others in any field – or if you just want to resist the tactics of emotional persuasion when they’re used on you.

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Vine Coloring Book: 40 Stress Relieving Inspirational Quotes From Classic Vines

This Coloring Book for Grownup Features over Forty Original Classic Vines & riveting quotes that will Make you laugh so hard You’ll Shit in Your Pants!

Vine Coloring Book offers a beautifully designed reflection of the thought-provoking ideas that spread through the Vine Community and offers an easy way to relieve your stress while you color the Designs accompany each Vines. This Pure and Undiluted Comedy will re-Kindle your home and bring back those awesome memory of this amazing app.

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52 Kids Affirmation Cards for Self Love & Confidence

Our children’s fast pace world is filled things for them to do. Social media and an endless supply of information on the internet. It’s easy to feel small, inadequate, and behind the curve. These Affirmation Cards for Kids are a quick and easy way for our children to build confidence, practice self love and open themselves to healthy lifestyle. In a world where obesity and prescription medications are at an all time high, how do we offer emotional support and teach our children how to love themselves? Sometimes as parents we get so caught up in correcting our children, when do we create time and space for positive encouragement or reaffirming positive verbiage that our children can use forever? Kids Affirmation cards were created to fill this gap! Designed for children ages 3 to 10 and can be a great way for parents to introduce and practice positive self affirming verbiage. With 52 cards in the deck, you can use one for each week of the year or pick one for daily use! Let your children pick an affirmation while waiting in line to drop off at school or before bed. You can say the affirmation aloud or to yourself while looking at yourself – a very powerful technique. It opens the option to elaborate on a topic explain further or share your own experience, which can help create a safe and comfortable space to discuss more than just homework and chores. These are just a few ideas! How do Affirmation Cards Work? REWIRE YOUR BRAIN: THE SCIENCE BEHIND AFFIRMATIONS Evidence-based research shows that affirmations, like prayer, actually change the brain on a cellular level-in other words, what you think about matters-a lot. “Thoughts have a direct connection to your health,” says Dr. Joseph Dispenza, author of Physics, the Brain and Your Reality: “Thoughts make a chemical. If you have happy thoughts, then you’re producing chemicals that make you feel happy. Negative, angry thoughts and fearful thoughts also produce chemicals to make you feel how you’re thinking.”

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The Midnight Line: A Jack Reacher Novel

Number one New York Times best-selling author Lee Child returns with a gripping new powerhouse thriller featuring Jack Reacher, “one of this century’s most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes” (The Washington Post).

Reacher takes a stroll through a small Wisconsin town and sees a class ring in a pawn shop window: West Point 2005. A tough year to graduate: Iraq, then Afghanistan. The ring is tiny, for a woman, and it has her initials engraved on the inside. Reacher wonders what unlucky circumstance made her give up something she earned over four hard years. He decides to find out. And find the woman. And return her ring. Why not?

So begins a harrowing journey that takes Reacher through the upper Midwest, from a lowlife bar on the sad side of small town to a dirt-blown crossroads in the middle of nowhere, encountering bikers, cops, crooks, muscle, and a missing persons PI who wears a suit and a tie in the Wyoming wilderness.

The deeper Reacher digs, and the more he learns, the more dangerous the terrain becomes. Turns out the ring was just a small link in a far darker chain. Powerful forces are guarding a vast criminal enterprise. Some lines should never be crossed. But then, neither should Reacher.