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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. So, you think that raising a strong girl in today's world is impossible? This mother's hindsight will tell you something different.Darlene Brock states emphatically, of course, you can Confidence that she gained after raising two daughters while working, traveling, and juggling life. Because she worked outside the home her entire adult life, taking what she learned and breaking up the role of mom into chapters outlining specific jobs seemed only natural. Discovering that each job had a season (you don't do it all at once) made everything more doable. This relatable, honest book will pull from her hindsight to provide a simple how-to for every responsibility a mom faces. Each job outlined chapter encourages all moms that she can successfully manage the tasks ahead on her road to raising great girls.Coach: How to create the rules, strategies, and tactics, and assurance that you can do it Creative Counselor: Discover and nurture the uniqueness and talents within your girl.Time Manager: Ways to determine the activities in your girl's life while keeping your sanity.Media Director: Successfully manage entertainment and social media's influence in your daughter's life.Academic Advocate: Place her on the best road to education within the options available.Professor of Gender Studies: The must-have conversations on equality between sexes and the view of gender.Relationship Counselor: Practical advice to develop great relationships and avoid bad ones.Sex Ed Teacher: Facts and statistics, and the real-life sex talk all girls need to have.Financial Consultant: Provide tools to teach the traps and rewards of proper money management.Security Officer: Discerning when and how to provide protection as well as when not to.Communications Specialist: Tips on how we communicate, when to speak, and when to remain silent.In-Home Demonstrator: What we do will always be more effective than what we say.Military Strategist: The rules of engagement for your mother-daughter relationship.There are also three bonus chapters for dads, crucial roles of a father that every mom can hand over to her man.Master Gemologist: Be the first man to treasure your girl, setting a standard for all men who follow.Stunt Coordinator: Teach risk, safety, and encourage self-confidence.Bodyguard: Protect your little girl and teach her how to protect herself.Be inspired. Be encouraged.Darlene's reassurance will make you believe parenting is a job you can do, raising confident and capable girls with grit and grace. This book is for all the imperfect moms with imperfect daughters. Perfection is not required on the road to becoming great moms who are successfully raising great girls. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. So, you think that raising a strong girl in today's world is impossible? This mother's hindsight will tell you something different.Darlene Brock states emphatically, of course, you can Confidence that she gained after raising two daughters while working, traveling, and juggling life. Because she worked outside the home her entire adult life, taking what she learned and breaking up the role of mom into chapters outlining specific jobs seemed only natural. Discovering that each job had a season (you don't do it all at once) made everything more doable. This relatable, honest book will pull from her hindsight to provide a simple how-to for every responsibility a mom faces. Each job outlined chapter encourages all moms that she can successfully manage the tasks ahead on her road to raising great girls.Coach: How to create the rules, strategies, and tactics, and assurance that you can do it Creative Counselor: Discover and nurture the uniqueness and talents within your girl.Time Manager: Ways to determine the activities in your girl's life while keeping your sanity.Media Director: Successfully manage entertainment and social media's influence in your daughter's life.Academic Advocate: Place her on the best road to education within the options available.Professor of Gender Studies: The must-have conversations on equality between sexes and the view of gender.Relationship Counselor: Practical advice to develop great relationships and avoid bad ones.Sex Ed Teacher: Facts and statistics, and the real-life sex talk all girls need to have.Financial Consultant: Provide tools to teach the traps and rewards of proper money management.Security Officer: Discerning when and how to provide protection as well as when not to.Communications Specialist: Tips on how we communicate, when to speak, and when to remain silent.In-Home Demonstrator: What we do will always be more effective than what we say.Military Strategist: The rules of engagement for your mother-daughter relationship.There are also three bonus chapters for dads, crucial roles of a father that every mom can hand over to her man.Master Gemologist: Be the first man to treasure your girl, setting a standard for all men who follow.Stunt Coordinator: Teach risk, safety, and encourage self-confidence.Bodyguard: Protect your little girl and teach her how to protect herself.Be inspired. Be encouraged.Darlene's reassurance will make you believe parenting is a job you can do, raising confident and capable girls with grit and grace. This book is for all the imperfect moms with imperfect daughters. Perfection is not required on the road to becoming great moms who are successfully raising great girls.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. A mommy manifesto for the mom who proudly strives to be less-than-perfect Michelle Lamar is a wry observer of the politics of elementary schools, the perfect moms who run them, and the kids who are trying to grow up without being embarrassed to death by their parents. This book imparts invaluable advice on how to survive the brutal world of parenting, bake sales, and the PTA. The White Trash Mom Handbook is a welcome and humorous approach to handling the pressures of modern-day motherhood. Readers can get a good laugh while learning the knowledge and skills needed to become a White Trash Mom: Fake Bakin' - transform store-bought treats into bake sale bestsellers! Making Friends - how to spot a fellow White Trash Mom from 50 paces Helping Out - give back to the school without sacrificing your time or sanity. The White Trash Mom Handbook will teach moms to let go of being the best and embrace their inner rebel so they can enjoy their kids more, avoid PTA purgatory, and get a real life. …

Hardback. Condition: Good. Claudia: The last thing I want is a sugar daddy.I might only be twenty-four, but I've always been the sensible one. From my boring call centre job right down to my practical wardrobe; impulsive and extravagant are not part of my usual vocabulary. Ascot, the home of British horse racing might be my home as well, but the filthy rich visitors blocking my route home are more a nuisance than a thrill.Until one of them catches my eye. And I can't help myself but invite him into my home.Peter: It was the worst day of my life, until suddenly it wasn't.All my life I've worked hard to make it to the top of my field, to give my wife all she's ever wanted. After a day of sipping champagne and watching the races, an indiscretion of hers with a colleague changes my picture-perfect middle class life forever. I haven't a clue where I'm going, I just know I can't stand the sight of either of them and I run; right into the arms of a girl nearly half my age.Is it still cheating, if she's done it to me first? I'd like to think not. It's just a chance at a new beginning.It all begins with a chance meeting at the side of the road. Neither of them could foresee just where their one night of passion would lead. Can love conquer all, from class differences to age gaps?Read on and find out.This new adult contemporary romance features an older, mature man and a younger, curvy woman and the various challenges such an age gap may bring.Chance Encounters is a series of stand-alone novellas set in jolly old England, following a set of loosely connected women as they find love in unexpected places. What do these couples have in common? When they meet, it is purely by chance, yet passion strikes immediately. They'll have to deal with the consequences of their actions once the sun comes up.Available titles: One Night StandBeautiful StrangerOnly a Taste.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A Perfect Love is the full text of Wesley's A Plain Account of Christian Perfection edited and updated for the contemporary reader. It also includes in-text definitions and notes that explain names and terms that may be unfamiliar to the reader, as well as hymns by Charles Wesley that describe the work of grace in human lives that leads to perfection in love. The term Christian perfection, as Wesley used and understood it, may be translated as Christian maturity; it is the outcome of a life lived with and for God in Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. A Perfect Love is the full text of Wesley's A Plain Account of Christian Perfection edited and updated for the contemporary reader. It also includes in-text definitions and notes that explain names and terms that may be unfamiliar to the reader, as well as hymns by Charles Wesley that describe the work of grace in human lives that leads to perfection in love. The term Christian perfection, as Wesley used and understood it, may be translated as Christian maturity; it is the outcome of a life lived with and for God in Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. A celebration of a century of cocktails: more than 175 facts, stats, recipes, quotes, jokes, trivia, history and so much more.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. From a doctor and barrierbreaking reality TV star on Bravo's Real Housewives, Joy Prescriptions is an inspiring story featuring hard-earned lessons about overcoming personal and professional challenges to find your true self.

Paperback. Condition: Good. As every parent from the beginning of time has discovered, kids don't come with a manual. Parenting is a learning journey from beginning to end, and like all learning journeys, it is full of lessons, challenges, questions, tests, mistakes, and messes. But what matters most on the journey of parenting is that we lock on to the right goal. One of the biggest reasons so many of us get scared, discouraged, frustrated, and overwhelmed as parents is that we think the goal of parenting is to be perfect parents who raise perfect children. This leads us to adopt fear-driven strategies that focus on avoiding and preventing mistakes and messes and using control and punishment to elicit desired behavior. In Imperfect Parenting, Brittney Serpell lays out the case for the true goal of parenting: a safe, loving, heart-to-heart connection with our kids. Pursuing the goal of connection is what sets us up to influence the hearts, minds, and behavior of our children as we guide them on their own learning journey to become healthy, confident, emotionally intelligent, and strong in character. Filled with relatable stories and real-life examples.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. A New York Times bestseller in hardcover, a chronicle of A.J. Jacob's mission to radically improve every element of his body and mind--from his brain to his fingertips to his abs. From the bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically and The Know-It-All comes the truly hilarious story of one person's quest to become the healthiest man in the world. Hospitalized with a freak case of tropical pneumonia and ashamed of a middle-aged body best described as "a python that swallowed a goat," A.J. Jacobs felt compelled to change his ways and get healthy. To accomplish this epic task, he consulted an army of experts and subjected himself to dozens of different workouts, diets, and devices--from Finger Fitness to Strollercize sessions, veganism to extreme chewing. The story of his transformation is not only brilliantly entertaining, but it just may be the healthiest book ever written. It will make you laugh until your sides split and endorphins flood your bloodstream. It will move you emotionally and get you moving physically in surprising ways. It will serve you up today's best health advice. And it will give you occasion to reflect on the body's many mysteries and the ultimate pursuit of health: a well-lived life.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. As every parent from the beginning of time has discovered, kids don't come with a manual. Parenting is a learning journey from beginning to end, and like all learning journeys, it is full of lessons, challenges, questions, tests, mistakes, and messes. But what matters most on the journey of parenting is that we lock on to the right goal. One of the biggest reasons so many of us get scared, discouraged, frustrated, and overwhelmed as parents is that we think the goal of parenting is to be perfect parents who raise perfect children. This leads us to adopt fear-driven strategies that focus on avoiding and preventing mistakes and messes and using control and punishment to elicit desired behavior. In Imperfect Parenting, Brittney Serpell lays out the case for the true goal of parenting: a safe, loving, heart-to-heart connection with our kids. Pursuing the goal of connection is what sets us up to influence the hearts, minds, and behavior of our children as we guide them on their own learning journey to become healthy, confident, emotionally intelligent, and strong in character. Filled with relatable stories and real-life examples.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. In Hands Free Mama, popular blogger and writer Rachel Macy Stafford provides a step-by-step guide to transforming a distracted parenting life into one of meaningful connection and fulfillment by learning to grasp and appreciate the moments that really matter.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. In Hands Free Mama, popular blogger and writer Rachel Macy Stafford provides a step-by-step guide to transforming a distracted parenting life into one of meaningful connection and fulfillment by learning to grasp and appreciate the moments that really matter.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Let God's Grace Renew Your Heart Here is a delightful women's devotional that reminds Christian women of all ages that God provides daily grace to His beloved daughters. Thoughtful readings will speak to your heart, and lovely prayers, memorable quotations, and scripture passages add to the rich spiritual depth of the book. It's the perfect book to give as a gift or for personal quiet time.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. ".[An]adventure story, a hold-your-breath-while-you-turn-the-page thriller that's also an anthropological study of the culture of cooking" -- Anthony Bourdain, The New York Times The classic account of what drives a chef to perfection by accaimed write Michael Ruhlman -- --winner of the IACP Cookbook Award In this in-depth foray into the world of professional cooking, Michael Ruhlman journeys into the heart of the profession. Observing the rigorous Certified Master Chef exam at the Culinary Institute of America, the most influential cooking school in the country, Ruhlman enters the lives and kitchens of rising star Michael Symon and renowned Thomas Keller of the French Laundry (and Per Se). This fascinating book will satisfy any reader's hunger for knowledge about cooking and food, the secrets of successful chefs, at what point cooking becomes an art form, and more. Like Ruhlman's The Making of a Chef, this is an instant classic in food writing. …

Hardback. Condition: Good. A sparkling celebration of one of the world's best-loved wines, including history, quotes, facts, and recipes for classic and modern Prosecco-based cocktails.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. ".[An]adventure story, a hold-your-breath-while-you-turn-the-page thriller that's also an anthropological study of the culture of cooking" -- Anthony Bourdain, The New York Times The classic account of what drives a chef to perfection by accaimed write Michael Ruhlman -- --winner of the IACP Cookbook Award In this in-depth foray into the world of professional cooking, Michael Ruhlman journeys into the heart of the profession. Observing the rigorous Certified Master Chef exam at the Culinary Institute of America, the most influential cooking school in the country, Ruhlman enters the lives and kitchens of rising star Michael Symon and renowned Thomas Keller of the French Laundry (and Per Se). This fascinating book will satisfy any reader's hunger for knowledge about cooking and food, the secrets of successful chefs, at what point cooking becomes an art form, and more. Like Ruhlman's The Making of a Chef, this is an instant classic in food writing. …