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Carey Perloff, Artistic Director of San Francisco's legendary American Conservatory Theater, pens a lively and revealing memoir of her 20-plus years at the helm and delivers a provocative and impassioned manifesto for the role of live theater in today's technology-infused world. Perloff's personal and professional journey - her life as a woman in a male-dominated profession, as a wife and mother, a playwright, director, producer, arts advocate, and citizen in a city erupting with enormous change.

“Profound and delightful. . . . A strange and tender parable of two maddening obsessions; parenting and art-making.” —Max Porter, author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny The ingenious storyteller Edward Carey returns to reimagine a time-honored fable: the story of an...

This bundle includes three Sabrina Kane stories: Fool's Gold, Violet Tendencies, and Rusted Veins.

It's Just Your Imagination explores what it's like to grow up with a mother who insists on putting herself at the center of every situation. This book gives you the tools to live a pain-free life if you were raised by a narcissistic mother. This firsthand account of my personal journey offers a vicarious understanding of maternal narcissism and its implications.

In this eye-opening book, you will reveal the world of NLP - Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Just like a computer code is built from a coding language, the code of our brain is language - the language in which we use to think, to talk, and to communicate, whether that's between us and the world, or between us and our selves. In this book, you will learn how to shift your brain into success, change the brain's program to drive you to success, and transform your life dramatically!

Love Your Team is a conversation-by-conversation survival guide for sales managers who want to thrive in a world where their top talent can walk out the door without taking a single step. Helen Fanucci provides detailed instructions on how to shift focus from merely hitting sales goals to putting sellers first—as people and performers—making YOU the reason they join, stay, and win.

Two girls emerge from a convent in order to marry and assume their places in post-Revolutionary French society. Louise is ruled by passion, Renée by pragmatism, and the intimate details of their trials and triumphs are revealed through their correspondence. Letters of Two Brides follows two strong women across the years as they navigate love, friendship, faith, and the conflicting expectations for women in society.

This book contains all the gods and goddesses from ancient Egypt that you can imagine. The list is long, and the names go on for a while. Needless to say, this book is complete. You won’t miss out on any of the deities they worshipped. Also, some more background information is given about deities such as Thoth, Horus, and Isis. At the end of the book, another subtopic will be addressed, namely: The use of medication and doctors in ancient Egyptian culture.

This is not the stereotypical approach to the biblical record one has come to expect. Rather, Eugenia Price writes with the keen eye, ear, and heart of an authentic storyteller. Her characters act, talk, and feel like real people. People you know. People you cannot forget. People God met on every level, in every conceivable circumstance, century after century. Beloved World is as much a must-listen for the person who has never been acquainted with the Bible, as it is for the minister or teacher looking for fresh, vital material.

Have you ever wondered what makes some people more successful than others? Well, it does not always boil down to talent. Oftentimes there are far more variables involved that cause some to rise above the rest. There is no doubt that we all want to be successful in life. The million-dollar question, however, is: How should we go about obtaining that success?

Positive Self-Parenting Solutions is made for teenagers struggling and dealing with depression. It begins by emphasizing the importance of mindfulness and healing the post-traumatic stress in one's life and the numerous benefits.

You are what you eat. You’ve probably heard that expression before, and this audiobook will show you that it’s true! Your mental health is greatly influenced by your nutrition. Nutritional psychiatry is a science that studies why certain foods tend to trigger mental health issues or greatly contribute to healing. Our mental health - and especially our mood - is dependent on a neurotransmitter called serotonin. Almost all of your serotonin is produced in the gut.

Carey’s journey is compelling, humbling, and gut-wrenchingly honest. No one ever plans on being hit head-on by a drunk driver, being in unbearable physical and emotional pain, nor scheduling the necessary four years of recovery into an already super-busy family life. “I love how you didn’t view your situation as a glass half-full or half-empty—but decided maybe what you really needed was simply a new damn glass!” Now living with long-term disabling injuries, Carey has become an expert at breaking through limitations.

Be prepared to be challenged by Naked and Not Ashamed as you have never been challenged before! Here Bishop T.D. Jakes calls for believers to strip away all layers of superficiality, religious reasonings, and pious pretendings. We need to be real - to be honest before God and man. Our example, Jesus Christ Himself, ministered and died in total openness before us. How can the hurting around us receive help and healing unless we too are naked and not ashamed?

Don’t Be a Puppet–A Teen’s Guide to Recognizing and Avoiding Manipulation is a bold and practical guide for teens who are ready to take back control. Whether it’s a friend using guilt, someone twisting your words, or subtle pressure that makes you question yourself—this book helps you spot manipulation for what it is and walk away from it.

A dark collection of tales from the American South full of twists and turns that you will never see coming. Did you ever have your name on the board for misbehaving in class? If you only got in trouble with the teacher, you should count yourself lucky. Ever find something old in the water? Was it an old box? Did it divide your whole town in ways you couldn’t imagine? What is beauty, and how do you stay forever young? The answer might not be what you want, especially if Joe passes by your house. Where does art come from? An old man’s backyard? Who’s to say?

If you are born into ineffable darkness, can you even comprehend the light? Take one-part volatile home life, two-parts haphazard nomadic existence, zero-parts social connection, and shake well. Our protagonist's only constant is unpredictability: that, and the charismatic, fundamentalist hammerings from the pulpit. But, when a sheltered child goes nuclear? Just pray you are far from the exclusion zone.

At age eighteen, in Edwardian England, Molly fears she has grown dull. Now, what feels like a perilous decision weighs heavily on her shoulders. With only a small window of time to sort out her future, Molly turns to her past. Coming to terms with the fact that she grew up too fast for her own good, she decides its time to become the person her younger self had always dreamt of being.

A collection of the most memorable moments from old-school rural physicians who each practiced medicine for more than 50 years in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Hilarious, heroic, heartwarming true stories of miracle cures, ghost dogs, and much madcap medical mayhem.

Is there something in your life that is keeping you from fulfilling your purpose? What is the mountain standing in your way, preventing you from becoming your best self? In Mountain Mover Manual, entrepreneur, speaker, and executive coach Kevin Carey helps you identify what that mountain is in your life and how to move it.