Collection: Adult

Steve Bartlett has lived a full and meaningful life, "a life well-lived." From growing up on a farm in Central Texas to serving in the U.S. Congress, as Mayor of Dallas, and as CEO in the financial services industry, he has led with purpose at every step. In this book, he shares his journey through bite-sized stories, AH HA! moments filled with lessons and guiding values.
Each AH HA! moment unfolds through the real people who shaped his life and leadership: George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Ann Richards, Mother Teresa, his wife Gail, and many others.
Inside, you will find memorable stories, including:

• When Ann Richards called President Bill Clinton to jump-start approval of NAFTA
• The breakfast where George W. Bush confided he would buy a baseball team rather than run for governor
• The first words Gail (his wife) ever said to Steve (Hint: it was not "I love you")
• The lawnmower accident that may have saved Steve's life
• The White House picnic when six-year-old son Brian tapped Ronald Reagan to say, "Hi, remember me?"
• The final provision Steve added to the ADA, ensuring Congress was included in its coverage
• Police Chief Rathburn declaring there would be no more excessive force by the Dallas Police Department
• Daughter Allison's "helluva party" in Washington that resulted in an eviction notice
• A spiritual revelation from Jesus' "Feed My Sheep" message, echoed years later by Mother Teresa
• The moment Steve "educated" Ronald Reagan on education reform
• A campaign strategy session where Jim Oberwetter ordered Steve, "Sit down and do not speak"

And many more. Each story carries a lesson. Each lesson carries a purpose.
Read. Enjoy. Reflect. Be inspired to live your own life well-lived.

Now a beloved motion picture.

When Persephone Lancaster receives a marriage proposal from the ill-tempered Duke of Kielder, she refuses--and then reconsiders. The obscene sum of money he's offering Persephone would save her family from ruin. With her characteristic optimism, she travels to the far reaches of Northumberland to wed a greatly feared stranger.

Lodged deep in a thick forest infested with wild dogs, the duke's castle is as cold and forbidding as the duke himself, a man with terrible scars on his body and his soul. But the Duke's steely determination to protect his heart at all costs is challenged by his growing attachment to his lovely and gentle bride. With caring persistence, Persephone attempts to pierce the duke's armor and reach the man beneath. Yet he cannot tolerate such exposure, and his repeated rejections take their toll. But when grave danger arises, the duke realizes he must face the risk of revealing his true feelings or lose the woman he cannot live without.

What if your child knew how to spot trouble early, make smart choices under pressure, and stay calm when life gets confusing?

School teaches reading, writing, and numbers. But many of the most important life skills are learned somewhere else. Children still need help learning how to handle bullying, avoid unsafe situations, speak up with confidence, think for themselves, and make wise decisions in a fast-moving world.

Raise Children Street-Smart gives them that help.

Inside this practical and child-friendly guide, your child will discover 150 essential lessons designed to build real-world awareness, stronger judgment, healthy confidence, and everyday wisdom. Each lesson is written in clear, simple language that children can understand and parents can easily use.

Inside, your child will learn how to:

- Notice warning signs before problems grow
- Stay calm in scary, stressful, or confusing moments
- Say no to pressure from other kids
- Make better choices at school, online, and in public
- Understand people, protect boundaries, and ask for help
- Recover from mistakes and grow stronger through challenges
- Build confidence, responsibility, and wise thinking step by step

Whether you read it together, talk through one lesson at a time, or use it as part of your family routine, this book helps turn everyday situations into lasting life lessons.

Because growing up takes more than knowledge. It takes awareness, courage, and wisdom.

Give your child the tools to walk through life more confident, more prepared, and more aware.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE is already here - in our world, our classrooms, and our students' pockets.The question is: are they ready for it?

AI Literacy for Any Class is a practical guide for K-12 teachers who want to prepare students for an AI-shaped future without adding more to their plates. Author and educator Matt Miller shows how to weave AI literacy into everyday teaching through small conversations, "by-the-way" lessons, and classroom-ready examples for every grade and subject.

Equip your students - and strengthen your teaching - for a world where curiosity and critical thinking matter more than ever.

Belmont Rocks: Where Chicago Went Queer in Broad Daylight

A Place for Us: Gay Life at Chicago's Belmont Rocks by Owen Keehnen is a vivid work of LGBTQ+ history, queer Chicago history, and oral history that brings a legendary lakefront gathering place back to life. Before rainbow flags, before open-door bars, and before Pride was a season on the calendar, Chicago's queer community carved out freedom on a jagged stretch of Lake Michigan shoreline at the end of Belmont Avenue. It was not a beach. It was rock, concrete, sun, and possibility. Everyone knew it as the Belmont Rocks.

Often remembered as a big gay carnival, a gay paradise, and a place where everyone could just relax, the Rocks became an outdoor home base for gay men, lesbians, and the wider queer community. People came to meet friends, flirt, cruise, people-watch, welcome newcomers, and feel, for a few bright hours, unafraid. In an era when many gay bars still had blackened windows, the lakefront offered something radical: visibility, community, and belonging in broad daylight.

Drawn from interviews with more than 100 firsthand witnesses and illustrated with more than 115 photographs, this powerful oral history captures the humor, heat, music, codes, courage, and everyday humanity of a beloved gay beach that helped shape queer Chicago long before the wider world caught up.

Rich in memory and cultural detail, A Place for Us is essential reading for anyone interested in LGBTQ+ history, gay history, Chicago history, queer community, and the places where belonging was built in public. Owen Keehnen is also the author of Man's Country: More Than a Bathhouse and Gay Chicago Memories: 1300 N. Wells.

T.E.A.M. Leadership is a program directed toward student-athletes of any age, gender, or athletic team. T.E.A.M. stands for Team Expectations & Mindset. This is about creating a "oneness" on your team and preparing everyone to live a life of victory. On a team, an alignment of expectations, mindset, and player leadership is critical to success. How do we know if this is present within your team? The simple answer is: "Are the players modeling the behaviors and communicating the expectations without the coaches." Whether the answer to this question is "Yes" or "No", the response in the same.... We have to get better! The best way to get better in this area is to have an intentional plan that creates ownership. They say we learn by our education, examples, and experiences. This program is going to give you all 3, along with an opportunity to become a player led team.

T.E.A.M. Leadership focuses on 8 lessons to be completed individually or within a team framework. The first four lessons are about the T.E.A.M Expectations of being a student-athlete, being coachable, being a great teammate, and playing for a larger purpose. The last 4 lessons will cover the T.E.A.M. Mindset of sacrifice, discipline, toughness, and relentless effort. Players have the opportunity learn, have meaningful reflection, great dialogue, set goals, and become better team leaders. This program is a major difference maker and will help you maximize your potential!

Empieza a aprender inglés de forma y fácil y visual con ejercicios prácticos e ilustraciones.

Este libro de inglés pensado para principiantes ofrece ejercicios que refuerzan el vocabulario, la gramática y la comprensión del idioma de manera sencilla, y te ayuda a consolidar todo lo aprendido en el Libro de estudio Nivel 1.

• Más de 1000 ejercicios para practicar la escritura, lectura y comprensión.
• Con ejercicios autocorregibles para evaluar tu progreso de forma independiente.
• Encuadernación plana para escribir más fácilmente.
• Incluye audios de hablantes nativos, gratuitos y accesibles a través del sitio web y la aplicación.
• Ilustraciones claras y atractivas que te ayudarán a retener lo aprendido.
• Sigue una estructura progresiva, avanzando gradualmente unidad por unidad, para un aprendizaje paso a paso y sin frustraciones.
• Un recurso ideal para preparar exámenes internacionales de inglés, como el TOEFL o el IELTS.

EFE Libro de ejercicios Nivel 1 Inicial pertenece a la colección English for Everyone de DK, un innovador curso de autoaprendizaje pensado para todas aquellas personas que quieren aprender inglés por su cuenta de manera práctica y visual. Está formada por cuatro libros de estudio y sus correspondientes libros de actividades, entre los que podrás elegir dependiendo de tu nivel del idioma (inicial, intermedio, avanzado).

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Start learning English as a second language with this visually stimulating practice book for adults.

Accompanying the English for Everyone Course Book Level 1 Beginner, this illustrated workbook features abundant vocabulary and grammar exercises for adults learning English as a foreign language.

When it comes to languages, practice really does make perfect! This workbook guides linguistic learners through exercises and activities to consolidate what they've learned and build confidence in their skills. Using a range of familiar and new exercise mechanisms, this practice book is an invaluable research tool to test the vocabulary and grammar structures taught in the course book.

Immerse yourself in this practical ESL learning material, which includes:

• Over 1,000 vocabulary and grammar exercises
• Lay-flat binding, making the book easier to write in
• Extensive accompanying audio resources that can be accessed via the website and the app
• The same unit-by-unit structure as the English for Everyone Course Book Level 1 Beginner, making it the perfect learning accompaniment

This book is part of DK's best-selling English for Everyone series, which is suitable for all levels of English language learners and provides the perfect reading companion for study, exams, work, or travel. As you work through the units, you'll cover all the language skills, vocabulary, and grammar needed for the major global English-language exams, including TOEFL and IELTS.

Now What? is a practical resilience guide for anyone searching for clarity, direction, and a way to move forward during life transitions.

Life doesn't always unfold the way we planned. A career shift, burnout, unexpected loss, health challenges, or another major life disruption can leave even the strongest people asking the same question: "Now what?"

International speaker and resilience strategist Lisa K. Boehm has spent decades helping people navigate life's hardest transitions. Through both her professional work and personal experience, she has seen how quickly uncertainty, stress, and burnout can leave people feeling stuck and unsure of their next step.Now What? offers a compassionate roadmap for rebuilding resilience, regaining clarity, and moving forward when life feels uncertain.

At the heart of the book is Lisa's RESET Framework, a simple yet powerful approach that helps readers navigate change, rebuild emotional strength, and take meaningful steps forward.

Through this step-by-step framework, readers learn how to:

• Release what no longer serves them
• Envision new possibilities after life shifts
• Strengthen resilience and emotional capacity
• Rebuild energy after burnout or adversity
• Take action with confidence and clarity

Instead of staying stuck in uncertainty, readers learn how to create forward momentum-one small step at a time.

This book is for you if you are:

• Navigating a major life transition and wondering what comes next
• Feeling stuck in life or work and searching for direction
• Experiencing burnout, uncertainty, or unexpected change
• Ready to rebuild resilience and regain clarity
• Looking for practical tools to help you move forward

Unlike traditional personal development books focused only on motivation, Now What? combines real-life insight, resilience strategies, and practical tools readers can apply immediately.

Inside, you'll discover how to:

• Navigate change with greater clarity and confidence
• Rebuild resilience after adversity or burnout
• Find direction when life no longer looks the way you expected
• Develop the emotional strength needed to adapt to change
• Take meaningful steps forward-even when the path ahead feels uncertain

Change is inevitable, but staying stuck doesn't have to be.

If you've ever asked yourself "How do I move forward when life no longer looks the way I planned?" Now What? will help you regain clarity, rebuild resilience, and take the next step forward.

A pint-sized romantic and his long-legged crush are clearly smitten with each other, but her signals keep going over his head. From festival fun to after-school shenanigans, this three-volume rom-com is packed with peak pining vibes and height-gap hijinks. A Kodansha Print Club series.

SHORT KING, BIG FEELINGS

Chitose Oki has a huge crush on his next-door neighbor Tomo, but there's one small problem--his height. Back as kids, when his dream girl said she wouldn't marry him until he grew up, poor Chitose took that quite literally. These days, it's not just height--one embarrassing misunderstanding after another keeps them from seeing eye to eye. The truth is, they're both head over heels for each other, but it's a tall order to confess your feelings to the one you love.

What began as an ordinary January day in 2017 became every parent's worst nightmare when Maureen and Doug Walgren's sixteen-year-old son, Corey, died under shocking and tragic circumstances. Invisible Threads addresses the unanswered questions, rumors, and truths that followed-and the lasting impact on a family and community searching for meaning.

Maureen, Doug, and their two surviving children faced a grief that reshaped everything they knew. As they struggled to endure the unthinkable, they were confronted not only with loss, but with public scrutiny, a malicious internet troll, a serious hospital HIPAA violation, and a two-year legal battle with the local school district and police department-whom they believe literally scared Corey to death during a school disciplinary incident that ended in tragedy.

Covered by national and local media, the case exposed troubling gaps in how schools handle discipline and student vulnerability. The Walgrens found purpose in helping to get a new law passed and in starting a non-profit in Corey's memory.

At its heart, Invisible Threads is a deeply personal memoir about love, resilience, and connection. It is one mother's honest account of grief and healing, and the unexpected ways a life and a loss can continue to connect us, weaving people together in ways both seen and unseen.

In a world that often mistakes silence for absence, "Heartily, Shine" reveals the vibrant, neurodivergent inner life of a non-speaking autistic teenager. Through a collection of private letters and profound reflections, Shine bridges the gap between worlds-providing that a lack of spoken words is never a lack of thought. Each word is a hard-won victory, a testament to the power of self-expression and the light that shines within everyone, regardless of how they communicate.

Operation Science Applied offers a fundamentally new approach to the management of operations. It does this by first recognizing that operations in manufacturing, health care, construction projects, restaurants, etc. share the same fundamental issues that must be addressed. These are demand, transformation, response time and whether to have inventory. What makes management difficult is the variability that affects all of these. The book is filled with case studies from the real world along with the analytics that show how to mitigate the corrupting influence of variability and succeed. Designed for advanced students and practicing professionals.

Con mas de 50 recetas para ofrecer una amplia variedad de opciones a la hora de introducir esos alimentos a nuestros hijos de una manera amigable ya que sabemos que son necesarios para su desarrollo y crecimiento. Cada receta que encontrarás aquí ha sido probada, compartida y celebrada por muchas personas como tú. Encontrarás platos para todos los gustos: desde recetas rápidas para el día a día hasta preparaciones especiales para sorprender. Todo explicado paso a paso, con mucho cariño y pensado para que cualquiera pueda cocinar, sin importar su nivel de experiencia.
Espero que este recetario te acompañe en tu cocina como lo hago yo en tus redes: con alegría, sabor y mucho amor por la comida casera.

Hijinks and warm fuzzy feelings ensue in this romcom between the popular girl in school and an aloof boy with a hiss...terical secret! Includes Volumes 3 and 4 of the Japanese edition. A Kodansha Print Club series.

TURF WAR

As if their time together in classes wasn't enough, Nekoyama the cat has found his way into Erina's home yet again! But these days, the usually aloof Nekoyama gets jealous of other critters, likes to tease Erina, and always comes to her aid. At school, when the extroverted Inui sniffs Nekoyama out to befriend him, the newcomer gets friendly with Erina, too. What's more, the close encounter leads to a spicy discovery: There's a way to stop Nekoyama from turning into a cat with every kiss! Now, Erina's excitement will bring Nekoyama to first dates and beach trips!

A wake-up call sends a 30-year-old couch potato on a zany husband-hunting mission! This spin-off series of the Eisner Award-winning Tokyo Tarareba Girls is a charming dramedy with a younger, messier, scarily relatable heroine. A Kodansha Print Club series.

ANOTHER CHANCE

30-year-old Reina Hirota's chill life of snacking and binge-watching TV shows gets a wake-up call through a forgotten childhood dream buried in a time capsule. Suddenly, her content solitude seems more like a forever-solo voyage, prompting her to crawl off the couch and start husband hunting--not just to find love, but to help her family find their groove again. Now, if only she knew what she wanted--not just in life, but in a guy, too.