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Hit the Reset Button on Leadership. The world is chaotic, and leadership has never felt more complex. You’re already deep in it, navigating uncertainty while attempting to guide people through messy, awkward, and deeply personal challenges. But without the right foundation, even the best efforts can lead to exhaustion instead of progress. Lifting Up: The Transformative Power of Supportive Leadership is not your average leadership framework; rather, it’s the essential human foundation that makes all leadership work.

Eine Geschichte über Liebe, Tradition, Selbstaufgabe und den Mut, sich selbst zu finden. Was passiert, wenn ein Leben, das auf Anpassung und Harmonie aufgebaut ist, in sich zusammenfällt? Wenn man sich in einer Ehe verliert, die eigentlich Halt geben sollte? Radikal ehrlich und erschütternd offen erzählt Yin von ihrem Weg: von der Last kultureller Prägungen, von einer Liebe, die zur Fessel wurde, und vom verzweifelten Versuch, es allen recht zu machen – bis nichts mehr von ihr selbst übrig war.

Parfois, survivre implique de ne pas être vu. Je devrais le savoir. C'est ainsi que j'ai survécu. Être admise dans une université prestigieuse, c'était ma chance d'être libre, de m'échapper et de vivre sans peur et sans ressentiment. Et sans aucun attachement émotionnel… du moins, c'était le plan. Jusqu'à ce que je croise Egan. Il est sexy, mystérieux, et il a des muscles partout où il faut. Il éveille des sentiments dont je ne veux pas et que je ne comprends pas.

Communiquer avec mon dragon pourrait tous nous tuer. Après avoir complété mon lien d'accouplement avec Egan, les choses auraient dû être faciles, mais le danger rôde en permanence. Alors nous avons fait la seule chose possible : nous enfuir et nous cacher. Cependant, et quel qu'en soit le coût, nous devons poursuivre un objectif clair : protéger le tonnerre. Chaque décision qu'Egan et moi prenons conditionne la place des dragons métamorphes dans notre monde. Nous ne nous laisserons pas abattre sans combattre, mais j'ignore si nous en sortirons vivants.

A wife waiting for her husband to come home ... in vain. A young woman searching for a new apartment ... and finding a trap. A scientist and his servant exploring a mountain that holds a magical secret. Two escaping prisoners discovering a gruesome truth. Stories that make you shudder, shed a tear, and may never let you go.

He’s a man with a secret. She’s honest to a fault—and about to blow his cover. Alice Taylor is ready to leave her small-town life behind and start fresh. When the opportunity to work for billionaire Billy Baxter—who’s launching a professional soccer team—lands in her lap, she jumps at the chance. Adventure, a new city, and a career? Yes, please. Only Alice didn’t plan on Will.

Miss Camilla Pierpont, a renowned matchmaker and influential member of the New York Four Hundred, has vowed never to marry after suffering a devastating heartbreak during her debut years ago. However, when she is nearly abducted along the Hudson River, she finds herself rescued by an annoyingly outspoken, albeit fascinating, gentleman who challenges her in a manner she wasn't expecting.

Gus Van Sant’s film and the ’90s cult of the alternative Gus Van Sant’s 1991 indie darling My Own Private Idaho perplexed and provoked, inspiring a new ethos for a new decade: being different was better than being good. Gentlemen of the Shade examines how the film was a coming-of-age for a generation of young people who would embrace the alternative and bring their outsider perspectives to sustainability, technology, gender constructs, and social responsibility.

Once upon a time, Dr. Emily Nichols—the academic kind, not the physician kind—was an eco-crusader who was shot with water cannons, hunted by poachers, and chased by a bulldozer. Now? Action Emily lives in a bland condo with gray walls and teaches disengaged students at a university alongside a risk-allergic boyfriend, asking herself every day: How did I get here?

Throughout our lives, we experience countless periods of waiting. Some moments are mere nuisances—others are daunting seasons filled with intense worry and doubt. We grow impatient by immovable traffic or crave an impending answer to a medical condition. Whatever our current circumstances, our innate response is to take action rather than stay still. In Waiting Isn't a Waste, author Mark Vroegop calls believers to resist the human urge for control and lean on Christ for comfort while we wait for the uncertainties of life to unfold.

With my fated mate at my side, we face the final showdown for survival. The attacks on wolf shifter packs continue to rage on. Humans will stop at nothing to see us wiped out. And those we once trusted continue to help them. Deception is our game now. We must use all our resources to rescue the captive packs. Before it's too late. The only thing stronger than the bond with my mate is my determination. Blood will be shed in this fight. But we're willing to risk it all to save our species. Survival of the supernatural world hangs in the balance. It's a battle I can only hope we won't lose.

After five unsuccessful Seasons on the marriage mart, Miss Adelaide Duveen has resigned herself to the notion that she's destined to remain a spinster forever—a rather dismal prospect, but one that will allow her to concentrate on her darling cats and books. However, when she inadvertently stumbles upon Mr. Gideon Abbott engaged in a clandestine activity during a dinner party, Adelaide finds herself thrust into a world of intrigue that resembles the plots in the spy novels she devours.

If you're tired of youth ministry that fails to change lives, it's time to change youth ministry. Building on two decades of the Fuller Youth Institute's work and incorporating extensive new research and interviews, Faith Beyond Youth Group identifies the reasons youth ministry often flops both short-term and long-term, and offers five ways adult youth leaders can cultivate character for a lifetime of growing closer to Jesus rather than drifting away. 

Trivia is the magic in the mundane, the connection in the commonplace, and Maxine Hart’s second-favorite pastime. A self-proclaimed Brooklyn street rat and a high school dropout, Maxine has never been a fan of formal education, but thanks to her ADHD “superpowers,” she’s a glutton for knowledge—and a good fight. And when Maxine enters the trivia game show Answers!, her brilliance, coupled with her penchant for big bets, devastates her competition. Even record-holding, 76-time-winner Teddy Ferguson.

Whether we're trying to find time, save it, manage it, or make the most of it, one word defines our relationship with the clock: anxiety. Yet is productivity really the only grid for the good life? Have you ever imagined a life without hurry, relentless work, multitasking, or scarcity? A life that is characterized instead by presence, attention, rest, rootedness, fruitfulness, and generosity?

A keen awareness of this present moment, and real gratitude for it, will bring you ever closer to the inner joy you long for. In Life's a Mango, Jen Compton applies universal ideas to remind us that there's always a kinder way of dealing with life's situations.

Millicent Chalmers isn’t here to make friends. She’s here to win, and she’s on track to set a record if—no, when—she wins the state debate tournament for the fourth year in a row. Millie doesn’t care what anyone thinks of her, least of all the sexist bullies bent on destroying her reputation. Taggart Strong couldn’t care less about winning debate, much to the consternation of his teammates, school, and parents. But when a tournament takes a scary turn, Millie and Tag find themselves unexpectedly working together. Maybe they can teach each other a thing or two.

Self-professed diva Erika Greene has it all: a starring role on Broadway, legions of fans, spectacular natural talent. But after an accident on stage leaves her face scarred and her career in shambles, Erika retreats to Paris, Nevada, where she’s inherited a ramshackle opera house in desperate need of some TLC. Erika pours her savings into the building, but it’s not enough to stave off casino developer Raoul Decomte’s avaricious gaze. With foreclosure imminent, she leases the space to some unexpected tenants: a German hair metal band, fronted by glam rock god Christof Daae.

Born without Legs, She Inspires Others to Overcome Jen Bricker was born without legs. Shocked and uncertain they could care for her, her biological parents gave her up for adoption. In her loving adoptive home, there was just one simple rule: "Never say 'can't.'" And pretty soon, there was nothing this small but mighty powerhouse set her sights on that she couldn't conquer: roller-skating, volleyball, power tumbling, and spinning from silk ribbons thirty feet in the air.

As Christians, we’re squeamish about desire. Isn’t wanting sinful and selfish? Aren’t we supposed to find and follow God’s will rather than insisting upon our own? The story of each person is a story of want—desires unmet, hopes dashed, passions pursued and ambitions fulfilled. Our wants cannot be ignored. But when desire is informed by Scripture and re-formed by our spiritual practices, it can root us more deeply in the fundamental belief that God is good and generous and can invite us into active kingdom participation.