Jen Hatmaker

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Florida

When Jesus Wrecks Your Comfortable Christianity

The author describes how God interrupted her comfortable faith and awoke in her a "holy passion" to serve the least, the forgotten, and the forsaken.

Interrupted

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Dena Yohe

Hope for Hurting Parents of Troubled Kids

You would go to the ends of the earth for your child. So, if your teenager or young adult is in the midst of crisis due to self-injury, mental illness, depression, bullying, or destructive choices, you probably feel broken, powerless, and isolated.
 
Dena Yohe wants you to know you are not alone. You are not a bad parent. And you are going to be okay.
 
Dena has been where you are. In You Are Not Alone, she speaks from experience as she offers healthy ways to maintain your other relationships, suggestions for responding to friends who don't understand, and ideas for keeping up your emotional and spiritual well-being when your world feels as if it's crashing down.
 
It is possible to find purpose in your pain, joy beyond your fear, and hope for every tomorrow.
 
Includes prayers, exercises, websites, and other helpful resources.

You Are Not Alone

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Douglas B. Reeves

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Blueprint for Educational Equity and Excellence

In today's school environment educational leaders are mandated to use academic standards to measure the progress of their school's teachers and students. Despite the wealth of material that addresses the topic of academic standards there is little written for those who must lead the effort to put in place an effective standards system. The Leader's Guide to Standards is a landmark book— written by Douglas Reeves, an expert in academic standards, performance assessment, and accountability— that shows school principals, assistant principals, teachers, and district-level administrators how to build a comprehensive accountability system for standards-based reform that focuses on leadership skills. Reeves offers practical recommendations for assessing and nurturing teacher performance, setting up balanced assessment and accountability policies, and making the case for standards to the public. In addition, the book addresses the vital role that policymakers from the local school board to state and national leaders play in the successful implementation of educational standards.

The Leader's Guide to Standards

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Mark Miller

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

What Great Teams Know and Do

Presents a business fable that discusses the three elements that successful teams have in common and how to implement them into one's organization.

The Secret of Teams

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Tommy Spaulding

How Living and Leading from the Heart Will Change Your Organization and Your Life

New York Times bestselling author Tommy Spaulding shows you how looking inwards--and leading with your heart--can transform your life. In his New York Times bestseller, It’s Not Just Who You Know, world renowned leadership speaker and former CEO of Up with People Tommy Spaulding talked about the power of building genuine and lasting relationships both personally and professionally. In The Heart-Led Leader, Spaulding turns his focus to ourselves--to who we are. Authentic leaders, Spaulding says, live and lead from the heart. The values and principles that guide our lives and shape our ability to lead others is far more important than our title, or our ability to crunch numbers, or the impressive degrees we display on our walls. To effect true transformational change, heart-led leaders draw on the qualities of humility, vulnerability, transparency, empathy and love. Illustrated with stories from his own life, and from some of the exceptional leaders he has met and worked with over the years, Spaulding unpacks what those qualities mean, talks about the 18-inch journey from the head to the heart--from our intellect to our emotions--and shows us how to incorporate them into our careers, into how we manage and lead others, and into how we live our lives. It is a vision of leadership that has the power to transform everything we do, and the lives of everyone we touch.

The Heart-Led Leader

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Patrick M. Wright

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Leveraging Human and Organization Capital to Create Value

Today's business environment is volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA), which presents huge challenges for organizations that seek to build capabilities that can provide advantages now and in the future. How can they leverage their people to effectively compete in this environment? View from the Top: Leveraging Human and Organization Capital to Create Value brings together some of today's leading chief human resource officers and other HR thought leaders to share their expertise in addressing this very question. Through case studies, conceptual models, and empirical research, these authors provide a roadmap to help HR leaders develop and implement HR strategies that will build their organization's human and organization capital as a source of competitive advantage.

View from the Top

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Kathleen T. McWhorter

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

English

Skills, Strategies, Learning Style

Click here to find out more about the 2009 MLA Updates and the 2010 APA Updates. Reading specialist Kathleen McWhorter understands that students are often lacking in the skills they need to succeed in the first-year writing course and need a text that doesn’t assume they have mastered all the basics. Successful College Writing meets students where they are, offering extensive instruction in careful and critical reading, practical advice on study and college survival skills, step-by-step strategies for writing and research, detailed coverage of the nine rhetorical patterns of development, and 64 professional and student readings that provide strong rhetorical models, as well as an easy-to-use handbook in the complete edition. McWhorter’s unique visual approach to learning uses graphic organizers, revision flowcharts, and other visual tools to help students analyze texts and write their own essays. Her unique attention to varieties of learning styles also helps empower students, allowing them to identify their strengths and learning preferences.

Successful College Writing with 2009 MLA Update

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Stefanie Weisman

Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College

Straight talk and tips from top students to help make academic excellence a lifestyle.

Getting a passing grade is one thing--cramming to memorize facts, knowing what's on the test, finishing a paper just before the deadline--but being a top student is something else entirely. So what makes the difference between a good student and a top student?

Being a top student is a lifestyle, not just an A on your transcript. The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College offers advice from lifelong top student, Stefanie Weisman, to help you learn the keys to studying smart, staying motivated, and making academic excellence a part of your life.

Tips from 45 Top Students

Learn strategies on making the grade with first-hand advice from valedictorians, Rhodes scholars, Fulbright scholars, Intel Science Fair finalists, a National Spelling bee champion, and more!

Lifestyle Tips and Techniques

Discover tips and mantras that will keep you on the road to academic success.

Helpful Exercises

Practice makes perfect. Put what you've learned to the test with easy exercises on taking notes, staying motivated, and more.

Secrets of Top Students

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Katharine Brooks

Mapping Your Path from Chaos to Career

You Majored in What?

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Muriel G. Harris

Jennifer L. Kunka

Thirty years of experience at the Purdue University writing center told Muriel Harris that few students could effectively use their handbook. A truly useful textbook, she felt, would have ways to help students find the information they were seeking without having to know the terminology, would be clear and easy to understand for all students, and would be written in a student-friendly language and tone to avoid the intimidating formal instructional tone of some handbooks. These principles became the foundation of Harris's Prentice Hall Reference Guide. Check us out on Facebook at www.facebook.com/HarrisPHReferenceGuide!

Prentice Hall Reference Guide

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Kristen Feola

With 21 devotionals and 100+ recipes, this book is your ultimate plan of action and toolbox as you commit to the Daniel Fast. You'll not only embrace healthier eating habits, you'll also discover a greater awareness of God's presence.

Divided into three parts--fast, focus, and food--this book is your inspirational resource for pursuing a more intimate relationship with God as you eliminate certain foods such as sugars, processed ingredients, and solid fats from your diet for 21 days. Author Kristen Feola explains the Daniel Fast in easy-to-understand language, provides thought-provoking devotions for each day of the fast, and shares more than 100 tasty, easy-to-make recipes that follow fasting guidelines.

In a conversational style, Feola helps you structure the fast so you can spend less time thinking about what to eat and more time focusing on God.

As Feola writes, "When you want ideas on what to cook for dinner, you can quickly and easily find a recipe. When you feel weary, you can be refreshed through Bible verses and devotions. When you are struggling with staying committed, you can refer to the information and tools in this book to motivate you."

The Ultimate Guide to the Daniel Fast

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Mary Crawford

This groundbreaking text presents a framework for understanding how the lives of all people are shaped by gender. Instead of presenting gender as a collection of individual traits, Transformations presents gender as a social system that is used to categorize people and is linked to power and status. Mary Crawford's readable and lively style, and her presentation of a balance of classic and cutting-edge research, provide an engaging overview of the psychology of women and gender. Instructors and students can now access their course content through the Connect digital learning platform by purchasing either standalone Connect access or a bundle of print and Connect access. McGraw-Hill Connect® is a subscription-based learning service accessible online through your personal computer or tablet. Choose this option if your instructor will require Connect to be used in the course. Your subscription to Connect includes the following: • SmartBook® - an adaptive digital version of the course textbook that personalizes your reading experience based on how well you are learning the content. • Access to your instructor’s homework assignments, quizzes, syllabus, notes, reminders, and other important files for the course. • Progress dashboards that quickly show how you are performing on your assignments and tips for improvement. • The option to purchase (for a small fee) a print version of the book. This binder-ready, loose-leaf version includes free shipping. Complete system requirements to use Connect can be found here: http://www.mheducation.com/highered/platforms/connect/training-support-students.html

Transformations: Women, Gender and Psychology

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Azara L.  Santiago-Rivera

Patricia Arrendondo

Maritza Gallardo-Cooper

Science

A Practical Guide

Counseling Latinos and la familia provides an integrated approach to understanding Latino families and increasing competency for counselors and other mental health professional who work with Latinos and their families. It provides essential background information about the Latino population and the family unit, which is so central to Latino culture, including the diversity of various Spanish-speaking groups, socio-political issues, and changing family forms. The book also includes practical counseling strategies, focusing on the multicultural competencies approach.

Counseling Latinos and la Familia

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Jeffrey L. Helms

Daniel T. Rogers

Achieving Your Educational and Career Goals

Updated to reflect the latest data in the field, the second edition of Majoring in Psychology: Achieving Your Educational and Career Goals remains the most comprehensive and accessible text for psychology majors available today. The new edition incorporates the most up-to-date research, as well as recent changes to the GRE Reveals the benefits of pursuing a psychology degree and shows students how to prepare for a career or to continue with graduate study in the field Features a wide range of supplemental exercises and materials plus topical contributions written by national and international figures in their respective psychology subfields Online support materials for instructors include Powerpoint slides and test banks to support each chapter

Majoring in Psychology

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Ruth Ware

"What should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Ware's suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller. Leonora, known to some as Lee and others as Nora, is a reclusive crime writer, unwilling to leave her "nest" of an apartment unless it is absolutely necessary. When a friend she hasn't seen or spoken to in years unexpectedly invites Nora (Lee?) to a weekend away in an eerie glass house deep in the English countryside, she reluctantly agrees to make the trip. Forty-eight hours later, she wakes up in a hospital bed injured but alive, with the knowledge that someone is dead. Wondering not "what happened?" but "what have I done?," Nora (Lee?) tries to piece together the events of the past weekend. Working to uncover secrets, reveal motives, and find answers, Nora (Lee?) must revisit parts of herself that she would much rather leave buried where they belong: in the past. In the tradition of Paula Hawkins's instant New York Times bestseller The Girl On the Train and S. J. Watson's riveting national sensation Before I Go To Sleep, this gripping literary debut from UK novelist Ruth Ware will leave you on the edge of your seat through the very last page"--

In a Dark, Dark Wood

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Nora McInerny Purmort

(Crying Is Cool Too)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Thank you for the perfect blend of nostalgia-drenched humor, wit, and heartbreak, Nora.” — Mandy Moore comedy = tragedy + time/rosé Twenty-seven-year-old Nora McInerny Purmort bounced from boyfriend to dopey “boyfriend” until she met Aaron—a charismatic art director and comic-book nerd who once made Nora laugh so hard she pulled a muscle. When Aaron was diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer, they refused to let it limit their love. They got engaged on Aaron’s hospital bed and had a baby boy while he was on chemo. In the period that followed, Nora and Aaron packed fifty years of marriage into the three they got, spending their time on what really matters: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, each other, and Beyoncé. A few months later, Aaron died in Nora’s arms. The obituary they wrote during Aaron’s hospice care revealing his true identity as Spider-Man touched the nation. With It’s Okay to Laugh, Nora puts a young, fresh twist on the subjects of mortality and resilience. What does it actually mean to live your “one wild and precious life” to the fullest? How can a joyful marriage contain more sickness than health? How do you keep going when life kicks you in the junk? In this deeply felt and deeply funny memoir, Nora gives her readers a true gift—permission to struggle, permission to laugh, permission to tell the truth and know that everything will be okay. It’s Okay to Laugh is a love letter to life, in all its messy glory; it reads like a conversation with a close friend, and leaves a trail of glitter in its wake. This book is for people who have been through some shit. This is for people who aren’t sure if they’re saying or doing the right thing (you’re not, but nobody is). This is for people who had their life turned upside down and just learned to live that way. For people who have laughed at a funeral or cried in a grocery store. This is for everyone who wondered what exactly they’re supposed to be doing with their one wild and precious life. I don’t actually have the answer, but if you find out, will you text me?

It's Okay to Laugh

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Allison Caruana

40 Day Devotional for Trauma Survivors

Walk with the author through the land of Israel. Pause a moment with her and ponder the spiritual truths that she found. Sit back and think about what you need to do in order to heal from your past/present traumas. Let the Lord reveal and heal what is needed.

Where Am I?

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Rhonda Byrne

Argues that The Secret, a way of thinking, has been found in oral traditions throughout history and that by understanding it and using it in every aspect of life, money, health, and happiness will follow.

The Secret

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Lysa TerKeurst

Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

Connects a woman's desire to be healthy and the spiritual empowerment necessary to make that happen, providing both diet inspiration and advice as well as Bible study to make healthy lifestyle changes.

Made to Crave

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Beth Moore

You've Been a Bad Friend to Us

Addresses insecurities felt by Christian women, including body image and success as measured by money, power, and status.

So Long, Insecurity

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Kira Tejada

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