Download or read book Getting Good at Being You written by Lauren Alaina and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a little bit of country, a whole lot of faith, and a healthy dose of sass, award-winning singer-songwriter Lauren Alaina's debut book, Getting Good at Being You, invites you to take the road less traveled as you step right up to who God calls you to be. After years in the spotlight on American Idol and Dancing with the Stars, country music star Lauren Alaina has learned a thing or two about fighting self-doubt and feeling at home in her own skin. In Getting Good at Being You, Lauren shares stories about everything from lost loves to getting a nose ring to battling an eating disorder to grieving a loved one’s death. Each story leads to practical tips, take-it-on-the-road strategies, and encouragement for your own personal and spiritual growth. In this book, you will be inspired to: speak to yourself with kindness and compassion chase the dreams that light your spirit on fire cultivate rich relationships with family and friends identify self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviors offer forgiveness for yourself and others Throughout the book, you will find: behind-the-scenes photos from Lauren's career in country music. lists, tips, and strategies to boost your self-confidence. prompts to help you dream big and run toward who you are. This beautiful book is a perfect gift for women who celebrate other women birthday celebrations or career promotions high school and college graduations fans who want to know more about country music stardom Each of us deserves head-over-heels, can't-get-enough, shout-it-from-the-mountaintops self-love. By the final page of Getting Good at Being You, that's just the kind of confidence you'll have. As Lauren discovered, maybe life is getting good after all.

Download or read book Networking for Nerds written by Alaina G. Levine and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Networking for Nerds provides a step-by-step guide to understanding how to access hidden professional opportunities through networking. With an emphasis on practical advice on how and why to network, you will learn how to formulate and execute a strategic networking plan that is dynamic, multidimensional, and leverages social media platforms and other networking channels. An invaluable resource for both established and early-career scientists and engineers (as well as networking neophytes!), Networking for Nerds offers concrete insight on crafting professional networks that are mutually beneficial and support the advancement of both your career goals and your scholarly ambitions. “Networking” does not mean going to one reception or speaking with a few people at one conference, and never contacting them again. Rather, “networking” involves a spectrum of activities that engages both parties, ensures everyone’s value is appropriately communicated, and allows for the exploration of a win-win collaboration of some kind. Written by award-winning entrepreneur and strategic career planning expert Alaina G. Levine, Networking for Nerds is an essential resource for anyone working in scientific and engineering fields looking to enhance their professional planning for a truly fulfilling, exciting, and stimulating career. professional planning for a truly fulfilling, exciting, and stimulating career.Networking for Nerds provides a step-by-step guide to understanding how to access hidden professionalopportunities through networking. With an emphasis on practical advice on how and why to network, youwill learn how to formulate and execute a strategic networking plan that is dynamic, multidimensional, andleverages social media platforms and other networking channels.An invaluable resource for both established and early-career scientists and engineers (as well as networkingneophytes!), Networking for Nerds offers concrete insight on crafting professional networks that aremutually beneficial and support the advancement of both your career goals and your scholarly ambitions.“Networking” does not mean going to one reception or speaking with a few people at one conference, andnever contacting them again. Rather, “networking” involves a spectrum of activities that engages bothparties, ensures everyone’s value is appropriately communicated, and allows for the exploration of a win-wincollaboration of some kind.Written by award-winning entrepreneur and strategic career planning expert Alaina G. Levine, Networking forNerds is an essential resource for anyone working in scientific and engineering fields looking to enhance theirprofessional planning for a truly fulfilling, exciting, and stimulating career.

Download or read book Underneath It All written by Cassandra Carr and published by C-Squared Publishing. This book was released on with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional hockey player Rob D'Amico is confused when he's chosen to take part in a reading program for inner-city students. While athletes are role models, he tends toward the gregarious and playful side, rather than a studious bent. Despite the lack of funding plaguing her inner-city district, every day kindergarten teacher Alaina Rossa ensures her students learn something to prepare them for life. At first she's unsure how a hockey player will help her achieve that goal. When Rob visits Alaina's class for the first time, they welcome him with open arms, despite the lack of even the basic supplies for their education. He takes it upon himself to get the students what they need, sweeping Alaina up in the excitement. As time goes by and she learns more about Rob, Alaina finds her heart opening to him. Is it possible her soul mate could be found in a world so different from her own? And for Rob, the last person he thought he'd find forever love with was an elementary school teacher wearing clothes permanently stained with finger paint. But when you're playing for keeps, sometimes you have to get a little dirty.

Download or read book And Then Everything Changed written by Alaina Isbouts and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Today is the first day of my new life, I am certain of it."Thus begins Adriana's journey from the familiar comforts of suburban Colorado to the unknown and foreign cobblestone streets of Prague. Adriana seems to have everything a twenty-one year-old could want: steady boyfriend, a good job, her own apartment, and full schedule of college classes. But when tragedy and deceit tear apart the worldview she once held, she impulsively embarks on a quest of self-discovery she never expected. Halfway across the world, in a country she's never been to, with a language she's never spoken, living with people she's never met, Adriana finally finds the courage to confront truths about herself that she never before had the courage to embrace.Set across the grand landmarks and charming alleyways of modern day Europe, And Then Everything Changed reveals how one genuine leap of faith can change your world forever. It's a story of travel, exploration, and how to find what you really want in life - as long as you have the courage to look for it.

Download or read book The Ghosts We Keep written by Mason Deaver and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything happens for a reason. At least that's what everyone keeps telling Liam Cooper after his older brother Ethan is killed suddenly in a hit-and-run. Feeling more alone and isolated than ever, Liam has to not only learn to face the world without one of the people he loved the most, but also face the fading relationships of his two best friends in the process. Soon, Liam finds themself spending time with Ethan's best friend, Marcus, who might just be the only person that seems to know exactly what they're going through-for better and for worse. The Ghosts We Keep is an achingly honest portrayal of grief. But it is also about why we live. Why we have to keep moving on, and why we should.

Download or read book HOT Limit written by Lynn Raye Harris and published by H.O.T. Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A single mom,roommates to lovers, found family, military protector romance from New York Times Bestselling Author Lynn Raye Harris. A sexy soldier saves a single mom’s life, then offers her and her young son a place to live… HOT soldier Ryder “Muffin” Hanson didn’t plan on diving into a frigid lake on a freezing day, but finding an unconscious woman in the water leaves him no choice. Single mom Alaina Montgomery does the best she can to take care of her six-year old son, working as a cleaner in a women’s crisis center. It doesn’t pay a lot, but it’s enough to keep them going. Until someone brutally attacks her and leaves her for dead. Now, Alaina is terrified to be alone and fearful for her son’s safety. When Ryder offers her a place to stay, she can’t refuse. He’ll protect her and her child, plus he’s the kind of man her little boy can look up to. As the feelings between her and Ryder grow, she finally lets herself believe the future looks bright. But the danger isn’t over yet. Someone is watching and waiting. And when the time is right, they’ll strike again… **Find out what makes the men of H.O.T. so HOT! Start reading the Hostile Operations Team Series - Strike Team 2 today and enjoy an action-packed, seriously romantic and steamy-good-fun military romantic suspense. Each book can be read as a standalone. No cliffhangers or cheating and a guaranteed happily-ever-after ending! Keywords: protector hero, forced proximity, damsel in distress, escaping a killer, small town, found family, single mom, roommates to lovers, new girl in town, starting over,

Download or read book The Great Blue Hills of God written by Kreis Beall and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creative force behind Blackberry Farm, Tennessee’s award-winning farm-to-table resort, reveals how she found herself only after losing everything in this powerful memoir of resilience. “I couldn’t put down this wise, honest, beautifully written story.”—Shauna Niequist, New York Times bestselling author of Present Over Perfect and Bread & Wine Born with the gift of hospitality, Kreis Beall helped create one of the nation’s most renowned resort destinations, Blackberry Farm, in Tennessee’s Smoky Mountain foothills. For decades, she was a fixture in the travel and entertaining world and frequently appeared in the pages of popular home and design magazines. But at the pinnacle of her success, Kreis faced a series of challenges that reframed her life, including a brain injury that permanently impaired her hearing and the conclusion of her thirty-six-year marriage to her best friend and business partner, Sandy Beall. Alone and uncertain as her world shifts and marriage ends, Kreis begins a new journey to find her faith and find God. After spending years on her beautiful exterior life and work, she begins the hardest undertaking of all: reclaiming and redesigning her interior life and soul. Kreis retreats to Blackberry Farm, moving into an unassuming, 300-square-foot shed with peeling paint on the exterior walls, “where I met myself for the first time.” She examines what it takes to redefine life after deep loss and acknowledges, for the first time, often unbearable truths that existed beneath the beauty she had created. By turns fiercely honest, heartbreaking, and warm, Kreis Beall’s story will resonate with anyone who can benefit from her discovery that “All it takes is all you’ve got. And it is worth it.”

Download or read book I ve Been Here All the While written by Alaina E. Roberts and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"—the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, we meet the Black people who actually received this mythic 40 acres, the American settlers who coveted this land, and the Native Americans whose holdings it originated from. In nineteenth-century Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma), a story unfolds that ties African American and Native American history tightly together, revealing a western theatre of Civil War and Reconstruction, in which Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Indians, their Black slaves, and African Americans and whites from the eastern United States fought military and rhetorical battles to lay claim to land that had been taken from others. Through chapters that chart cycles of dispossession, land seizure, and settlement in Indian Territory, Alaina E. Roberts draws on archival research and family history to upend the traditional story of Reconstruction. She connects debates about Black freedom and Native American citizenship to westward expansion onto Native land. As Black, white, and Native people constructed ideas of race, belonging, and national identity, this part of the West became, for a short time, the last place where Black people could escape Jim Crow, finding land and exercising political rights, until Oklahoma statehood in 1907.

Download or read book At Wild Rose Cottage written by Callie Endicott and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If these walls could talk… Trent Hawkins won't rest easy until his childhood home and the secrets it holds are finally demolished. So he's shocked when a contract for its renovation comes across his desk. When the new owner, Emily George, refuses to sell, Trent's only option is to take the job. Straitlaced Trent and free spirit Emily don't exactly see eye to eye. But she's not the flaky city girl he took her for at first, and before long her enthusiasm for renovating Wild Rose Cottage reminds him of better times. Trent's first priority is protecting his family's reputation. But the closer he gets to Emily, the less concerned he is with the past.

Download or read book The Missing Mom written by Ann Evans and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was the love of Maggie Tillman's life. But when she and Will Stewart broke up, she was forced to make a decision—one that cost her far too dearly. And now a twist of fate brings her face-to-face with her past, and with the secret she has kept…for eight long years. How can they possibly keep their relationship professional? As they work together old angers erupt between them…along with the fiery attraction that always got Maggie and Will into trouble. But now there's much more at stake than their hearts. Because Will's hiding his own secret. And this one could cost him his daughter and a second chance with Maggie.…

Download or read book Storm Series Boxed Set written by Cassandra Carr and published by C-Squared Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boxed set featuring all the stories (so far) in the Storm Series. Should've Known Better, a #1 bestseller in Sports Romance, Moving Day, Underneath It All, Scorin' on the Fourth of July, and The Big Man Falls. SHOULD'VE KNOWN BETTER: Sarah Jenkins, a math geek and hockey fanatic, is thrilled when the NHL hires her as an advisor for the Buffalo Storm. She meets Sebastian St. Amant, a young hockey player looking to make the jump from the minors to the big leagues. When Sarah and Sebastian meet, sparks immediately fly. A relationship is out of the question—Sarah’s an influential staff member and Sebastian’s a player, not to mention over ten years her junior. But the impossible becomes the necessary when they can no longer fight their attraction. Will they weather the storm, or should they have known better? MOVING DAY: It's moving day for Sebastian, who's making a home with Sarah. Though Rob couldn't be happier for his friends, after the move has been completed he finds himself at loose ends, questioning the direction his own life is heading. Unbeknownst to him, Sebastian and Sarah are worried about the same thing and hope he can find someone special. Will he ever get his happy ending, or is Rob doomed to eternal bachelorhood? UNDERNEATH IT ALL: Professional hockey player Rob D'Amico meets kindergarten teacher Alaina Rossa through a reading program for inner-city students. When Rob observes the lack of even the basic supplies for their education, he takes it upon himself to get the students what they need. Is it possible Alaina’s soul mate could be found in a world so different from her own? And for Rob, the last person he thought he'd find forever love with was an elementary school teacher. SCORIN' ON THE FOURTH OF JULY: Mikael, who just signed a free agent with the Storm, agrees to play in a charity hockey tournament over the Fourth of July weekend, where he meets Terri, a female goaltender who recently won an Olympic gold medal. Both Mikael and Terri are facing turning points in their careers. Will they have to leave their passion on the ice? THE BIG MAN FALLS: When the Buffalo Storm's head coach, Jon, meets smart, sexy, sophisticated Mari, he'll have to toss aside the playbook if he wants to follow his heart. But Jon has never backed down from a challenge. Game on.

Download or read book Crushin It written by ,Alexandrea and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life gets crazy for a group of friends at Lakeview High School. Violet Owens has a problem. But the thing is, it would ruin her relationship with her sister. So she enlists the help of her best friend's brother. Nicole Taylor has a secret. She realizes she has feelings for someone whom she can't possibly like. He's her best friend, for goodness' sake! Julia Owens is depressed. After a terrible accident, her life is changed forever. She just doesn't know whether it is good or bad. Ashlynn Reilly is a mess of emotions. Her sister is getting close to her crush, and she isn't sure she can trust them to do what's right. Things get out of control, leaving Ashlynn very confused and heartbroken. Alaina Pierce is having a midlife crisis at seventeen. She wants to know where she comes from and who she is. Things take a turn for the worse, and Alaina doesn't know what to do. Blake Reilly is lonely. The boy she likes is distant, and her friends are occupied with their own things. Miracles happen, and Blake finally realizes that God has a plan for everything. Each girl has her own struggle to go through. They said they would go through everything together, but what happens when boys divide them up?

Download or read book The Night the River Wept written by Lo Patrick and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An increasingly gripping southern-crime tale" for readers of Where the Crawdads Sing and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. (–Booklist STARRED review) One of Atlanta Journal-Constitution's "Hot New Summer Books"! Everybody's got good and bad in them. In the end, it just depends which side wins out. Arlene has lived in a small town on the edge of nowhere Georgia her whole life. Now married to her long-time high school sweetheart, Tommy, Arlene is itching to start a family and become the mother she always dreamed of being. But that's proving more difficult than she thought, and Arlene is desperate to find something to do to keep her mind off things. And get some distance from her husband, who is increasingly getting on her nerves. As the summer gives way to a chilly, lonesome fall up in the mountains of northern Georgia, she takes a part-time job bagging evidence at the local police department, which involves about twenty minutes of actual work, and the rest of her shift she reads over old cold cases. One in particular fascinates her: the mysterious deaths of three young brothers murdered on Deck River, followed by the suicide of Mitchell Wright, the prime suspect in the murders. Arlene becomes obsessed with the case, and with the help of the police department's receptionist and a family friend of the Wrights, she sets out on discovering the truth. She can't help but feel that if she solves the case of the Broderick boys' deaths, she'll find her footing in her young marriage and maybe find what she's been looking for all along. From the author of The Floating Girls, a finalist for the Townsend Prize for Fiction and a Reader's Digest Editor's Pick, Lo Patrick has once again crafted a story bursting with charm, heartbreak, and memorable characters that leap off the page, a true delight for fans of Southern fiction.

Download or read book HOT Strike Team 2 Complete Series written by Lynn Raye Harris and published by H.O.T. Publishing, LLC. This book was released on with total page 2130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love hot military protector heroes who fight for what’s theirs? Then start reading this complete collection today by New York Times Bestselling military romance author Lynn Raye Harris! Eight full-length military suspense novels about the Hostile Operations Team heroes and the women who capture their hearts! This set includes books featuring enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, opposites attract, small town, single mom, single dad, reverse grumpy/sunshine, second chances, and found family tropes for readers to enjoy. Includes these books: HOT Angel HOT Secrets HOT Justice HOT Storm HOT Courage HOT Shadows HOT Limit HOT Honor Grab the complete collection today! Perfect for fans of Janie Crouch, Brittney Sahin, and Riley Edwards.

Download or read book Quiet Sanctuary All That Follows written by G.B. Hook and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where some people are born with abilities and some are made, Quiet Sanctuary houses what ordinary people believe are criminals, the insane, and those with extreme addictions. The truth is much more sinister. Olivia only ever wanted the truth behind the unimaginable power she was born with. What she found at Quiet Sanctuary, was much more than she ever bargained for. Damien, a Sanctuary guard, lives his life in a self-inflicted exile, having abandoned everything and everyone he loved to protect them from the monster he was becoming. When a ghost from his past reappears in a startling way, he'll begin to question everything he thought he knew. When helping a friend brings strangers with unbelievable powers into her home, Alaina's once peaceful existence is suddenly plunged into chaos. In her desperation to return to a normal life, she'll charge headfirst down a path with devastating consequences. After making a dangerous escape with Olivia's help, Kasimir is more determined than ever to protect those he cares for. However, when the Sanctuary hunts them down and disaster strikes, everyone must face the inconceivable truth that not everyone should be saved.

Download or read book Cowboy Wild written by Maisey Yates and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunter McCloud is the wildest cowboy of all…until he meets the one woman even more untamed than him… After growing up around Hunter McCloud, Elsie Garrett considers herself immune to his particular brand of cowboy. Her brother’s best friend is too big, too broad, too everything for comfort. But when relationship-shy Elsie decides it’s finally time for her to get some romantic experience, Hunter suddenly might be useful after all. Maybe he, with his many casual hookups, is the perfect cowboy to teach her how to flirt? Elsie is the best horse wrangler around, but Hunter can see she doesn’t know anything about men—orphaned as a child and brought up by her brothers, she’s so wild she’s practically feral. But Hunter has always looked out for her, and he’s not about to stop now. Until Hunter realizes he’s playing with fire. Elsie might not understand the chemistry slowly building between them, but he does, and it’s burning stronger and hotter than anything he’s ever experienced. And when Elsie decides to act on it, Hunter knows that it could threaten to consume them both. In the bonus novella Her Wayward Cowboy, can a returning cowboy win back the love of the woman he left behind? Four Corners Ranch Book 1: Unbridled Cowboy Book 2: Merry Christmas Cowboy Book 3: Cowboy Wild

Download or read book Alaina Claiborne written by MK. McClintock and published by Trappers Peak Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How far would you go to avenge your family and save the one you love? Claiborne Manor, England - 1889 In nineteenth-century England, Alaina Claiborne had a loving family, a cherished friend, and idyllic life. Then tragedy strikes and her world is forever changed. Searching for those responsible is her only focus . . . until she meets Tristan. Tristan Sheffield, a man of many talents, seeks out those who don't want to be found. His past is filled with secrets and deeds he would rather leave deeply buried. However, when his life unexpectedly entwines with Alaina's, he soon discovers they share more than a mutual desire to catch a murderer. On their hunt for a man driven by greed, Tristan and Alaina find that love is the greatest weapon against evil, and they'll stop at nothing to survive. Be swept away by the stirring romance and unforgettable adventure of Alaina Claiborne, MK McClintock's first British Agent novel. If you love romance, adventure, and mystery, then you'll fall in love with the British Agents in Victorian England.