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didn't grow up painting. I had not picked up a brush since elementary school. I just thought it might be something I'd enjoy trying someday, and then, after a little concentrated class time, I realized there was a basic M.O. connecting all the lessons that could keep me going on my own. I haven't stopped painting and learning since. That's what this book is–A straightforward, repeatable way to take an image you like and turn it into a painting you can enjoy every day, or give away. The approach is simple: break everything down into steps. Choose an image. Sketch the major shapes.

A Slim Book of Advice on Money, Work, and Freedom unlocks the key insights that can take you from just treading water in a job to putting yourself on a path to financial freedom. There are no gimmicky schemes or impossible feats. This is a lifetime’s worth of sensible steps boiled down into an easily digestible set of aha moments. And it’s all oriented so that as much as possible can be done in a set-it-and-forget-it mode, so money doesn’t have to take over every aspect of your life.

A Slim Book of Advice on Winning Your Race for Local Office speaks directly to the local candidate at the moment of decision, skipping the obvious and focusing on the hard-won insights that make winning at the local level a very different animal. Local politics is smaller, more personal, and cannot be run by remote control. Candidates find those rare creatures, municipal election voters — one by one at their doors. Sometimes those doors remain closed. Sometimes they open, and in a matter of seconds, a real connection must be made. This book shows how to do that well.

Tad Friend's family is nothing if not illustrious: his father was president of Swarthmore College, and at Smith his mother came in second in a poetry contest judged by W. H. Auden -- to Sylvia Plath. For centuries, Wasps like his ancestors dominated American life. But then, in the '60s, their fortunes began to fall. As a young man, Friend noticed that his family tree, for all its glories, was full of alcoholics, depressives, and reckless eccentrics.

A rallying cry to fight the commodification of human attention, with the tools we need to reclaim our humanity, by a group of writers, artists, and activists in the vanguard of the movement “A stirring battle cry on behalf of our shared humanity against the forces that seek to diminish and...

India's scariest incidences are often witnessed by the most unexpected storytellers.

Follow Icy on his incredible journey.... Beginning his life as a sparkling snowflake. Finding himself squeezed for hundreds of years beneath tons of snow. Emerging as a beautiful, blue, floating iceberg. Making friends with all kinds of creatures in his amazing adventure.... You will fall in love with Icy the Iceberg!

These are public radio stories made in recent months and over many years by acclaimed producer Jay Allison - working together with friends, colleagues, neighbors, strangers and whoever would take the loan of one of his tape recorders. They are stories about life as we find it, and record it.

The Bottomless Cloud challenges the scarcity-driven mindset by taking a hard look at how industrial-age business models are failing us by regarding data as a commodity and a cost that needs to be constrained, rather than a near-infinite resource that can be mined to build entirely new sources of value and insight. From Uber to Nike to Netflix, The Bottomless Cloud is defining the tenets of success in the 21st century by changing the way we view data, from being a byproduct of business to a foundational driver of radically new business models.

The roles of faith, belief, and spirituality in Heroin Anonymous are covered, but mostly this audio book is about behavior motivating beliefs, like those of the cognitive model. The beliefs of using heroin addicts about their addiction, their life and heroin are what keeps them using. These beliefs are shaped by the addict’s mental obsession which excuses and justifies using at every turn. Obsessions of every kind function by excusing and justifying aberrant behavior.

For sixteen years, Josie Gardner and her mom, Kate, have been a team. It's been the Gardner Girls against the world, and that's how Josie likes it. Until one day, they find out that Paul Tucci, Kate's high school boyfriend-the father Josie has never met-is back in town. Josie's mom suddenly...

These real-life stories of senior dogs who found forever homes through Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary will delight any young animal lover. The Homecoming Tales of sweet, sassy, and sometimes hilarious old friends offer kids a unique reminder that no one is too old to give or receive love. Meet...

What do you do when you love your farm...but it doesn’t love you? After 15 years of farming, Catherine Friend is tired. After all, while shepherding is one of the oldest professions, it’s not getting any easier. The number of sheep in America has fallen by 90 percent in the last 90 years. But just as Catherine thinks it’s time to hang up her shepherd’s crook, she discovers that sheep might be too valuable to give up. What ensues is a funny, thoughtful romp through the history of our woolly friends, why small farms are important, and how each one of us - and the planet - would benefit from being very sheepish, indeed.

Brought to you by Penguin. We all feel it: something is seriously wrong. Our attention—that essential ability to give our minds and senses to the world—is being trapped, gutted, and sold out from under us by an industry of immense technological and financial power. The heedless exploitation...

First-time novelist Natasha Friend is a writer with a talent for realistically expressing the fears and uncertainties of today’s adolescents in a good story. Perfect has received the Milkweed Prize for Children’s Literature and is a Book Sense "Winter Picks" selection. This is the moving story of a young girl who develops a dangerous eating disorder while dealing with intense grief.

In this era of information overload and real-time communication where anyone can publish and broadcast to millions of people with the click of a button, there is no shortage of people talking about the need to get their message across, or having a "narrative." But for business, marketing, and political campaigns, there is no definitive how-to on crafting a compelling narrative that achieves lasting results. On Message solves that problem, illustrating how effective communicators understand the power of narrative, emotion, and simple messaging.

The story of the intellectual and spiritual Astrid Goldstone’s lifetime of loving, devastating loss, and abuse who, in her refuge, is offered an unsurvivable covenant for a noble cause and boldly bargains for an impossible personal demand should she survive. The cat who has become her companion is her only tenuous tether to reality. It’s only through her concern for his well-being that she finds unorthodox help for him and inadvertently for herself so that she can re-live her own harrowing life, fulfill promises and realize all who she is and her very important role in womankind.

In this poignant narrative of middle age, each woman brings newfound wisdom and fortitude to the circle of fellow readers, uplifted by enduring bonds forged through shared experience. Novel Women is not just a trilogy — it's a celebration of love, resilience, and the profound impact of friendship. After all, book club is so much more than just reading. Bri leaps into entrepreneurship after facing the sting of dismissal from a callous boss. Ava seeks refuge amidst the wreckage of her divorce, attempting to reignite a long-lost romance from her twenties. Yet can the past be resurrected?

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Pauly gets candid about being caught between two worlds: neurotypical and neurodivergent. Pauly and his mom use a touch of humor to walk you through the experiences of a neurodivergent brain. Inside this book, you’ll find: Pauly's heartfelt personal experiences with the pangs of loneliness and the joy of forming genuine friendships. Realities of navigating multiple educational and social programs as an autistic individual, including the challenges of academic support, social integration, and finding the right fit.