Collection: Self-Development

Honorable Mention, Inspirational Category

20th Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards

"This book is invaluable for its brevity, wealth of information, and the emotional account of the author's experience. She ends the book on a hopeful note, acknowledging that although she will always miss her brother, she will also always hold him close to her, in her heart."

-- Rheta Van Winkle, BookLoons Reviews, 2013

This book is meant for anyone who has lost a brother or sister to suicide - and those who want to support them. Any loss is difficult, but a loss to suicide is heightened because of the helplessness and confusion surrounding it. A sibling loss to suicide is even more unique because the sibling(s) left behind are often forgotten - mourning the loss of their brother or sister alone in the shadows of their parents' grief.

This book discusses some of the distinct challenges sibling survivors of suicide face, such as:

What can I expect during the grieving process as a sibling survivor of suicide?

How can I take care of myself?

How do I answer questions about my now-departed sibling?

What can I do to get through the holidays and anniversaries?

How do I keep my brother or sister alive in my life, without him or her physically present?

Magdaline answers these questions and more directly from her experience following the loss of her 18 year-old brother, John, to suicide in November 2001. Hopefully, her story will give readers a small piece of strength, faith, and peace in navigating the long road to healing ahead.

Part of the Art of Coloring series, which has sold over 2 million copies across the U.S.

This stunning collection of postcards features original vintage illustrations from Disney parks around the world--each inked with care by the masterful graphics team at Walt Disney Imagineering.
Color in the cards and bring to life gorgeous attraction posters featuring the Haunted Mansion, Pirates of the Caribbean, It's a Small World, and more! Perfect for cultivating creativity, relaxation, and focus, these postcards are for you to keep and enjoy or mail to your friends and family.
Includes:

• a convenient "lay flat" trifold cover
• thick cardstock pages with perforated edges
• 36 postcards to inspire creativity and relaxation

Collect the entire Artof Coloring series!

• Art of Coloring: Mickey & Minnie
• Art of Coloring: Descendants 2 A Wickedly Cool Coloring Book
• Art of Coloring: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Art of Coloring: Golden Girls
• Art of Coloring: Muppets
• Art of Coloring: Beauty and the Beast
• Art of Coloring: Disney Villains
• Art of Coloring: Disney Animals
• Art of Coloring: Disney Princess
• Art of Coloring: Disney Frozen
• Art of Coloring: Star Wars
• Art of Coloring: Maps of the Disney Parks: 36 Postcards to Inspire Creativity
  

A world of enchanted castles to color - including hidden objects to find!

Enter a majestic world of awe-inspiring fortresses and timeless wonders. Fabiana Attanasio's Mythographic Color and Discover: Enchanted Castles is a unique blend of creativity, beauty, and illusion. Through elaborate illustrations that morph, bend, and come alive with every crafted detail, you'll enjoy getting lost in a mesmerizing realm of color and wonder.

Color this collection of more than 40 stunning, hand-drawn illustrations, and discover the hidden objects that add intriguing detail to each one. Make your way through a dream world of architecture, lush scenes, and thrilling imagination.

- Open the door to a secret world of more than 40 incredible illustrations
- Discover the secret objects hidden within every illustration
- Color a captivating array of whimsical illusions and magical scenes

This comprehensive guide to floor loom weaving begins with the basics--parts of the loom, how to wind your warp and dress your loom; how to read and weave drafts--but then goes so much farther, explaining the different types of weaves and how to read and weave from charts, and exploring a variety of weaves in depth. The author covers each topic in detail, with illustrations, photos, and charts to guide you. The first half of the book is devoted to the basics of weaving, and the second part teaches a variety of weave structures and how to use them and adapt them to whatever you want to make. The Art of Weaving is extensive in its scope, and a reference book appropriate for all skill levels.

* Preparing your yarn and threading your floor loom

* Understanding and working from drafts

* Exploring weave structures

* Finishing

* Troubleshooting

Zen and the art of falling in love . . .

At once practical, playful, and spiritually sound, this book is about creating a new love story in your life. Drawing from Christian, Buddhist, Sufi and other spiritual traditions, If the Buddha Dated shows how to find a partner without losing yourself. Kasl, a practicing psychotherapist, workshop leader, and Reiki healer for thirty years, offers practical wisdom on using the path to love as a means of awakening.

If the Buddha Dated teaches that when you stay loyal to your spiritual journey, you will bring curiosity, fascination, and a light heart to the dating process.

Use the latest technology to target potential employers and secure the first interview--no matter your experience, education, or network--with these revised and updated tools and recommendations.

"The most practical, stress-free guide ever written for finding a white-collar job."--Dan Heath, coauthor of Switch and Made to Stick

Technology has changed not only the way we do business, but also the way we look for work. The 2-Hour Job Search rejects laundry lists of conventional wisdom in favor of a streamlined job search approach that produces results quickly and efficiently. In three steps, creator Steve Dalton shows you how to select, prioritize, and make contact with potential employers so you can land that critical first interview.

In this revised second edition, you'll find updated advice on how to efficiently surf online job postings, how to reach out to contacts at your dream workplace and when to follow up, and advice on using LinkedIn, Indeed, and Google to your best advantage. Dalton incorporates ideas from leading thinkers in behavioral economics, psychology, and game theory, as well as success stories from readers of the first edition.

The 2-Hour Job Search method has proven so successful that it has been shared at schools across the globe and is a formal part of the curriculum for all first-year MBAs at Duke University. With this book, you'll learn how to make it work for you too.

The Secret Problem Solver For All Those Negative Thoughts!

Cognitive Distortions: How to Catch the Top Ten Most Dangerous Thinking Villains is about common, everyday, negative, thinking patterns that affect people's self-esteem. Danielle and Gaelle explain how cognitive behavior therapy improves people's thoughts and actions and boosts their positive feelings.

This is a book the whole family will enjoy reading together. There are fun activities for kids and short stories that are easy to comprehend. The stories are fun and designed to help the reader understand the origins of anxiety and how everyday acts and thoughts can reduce those anxieties.

Cognitive Distortions: How to Catch the Top Ten Most Dangerous Thinking Villains de nes cognitive behavior therapy and illustrates many practical tools that help explain different negative thinking patterns. This book takes the reader through the journeys of unique

characters that have common negative thinking patterns.

Some of the patterns discussed include polarized thinking, mental filtering, mind reading, personalization, and emotional

reasoning. This will be a useful teaching aid for everyone.

Seize the potential of natural remedies!
Master the art of crafting them at home and cultivate your vibrant Midwest herb garden- even if you've never thought of yourself as "a green thumb!"
Empower yourself to promote long-term health and fight common ailments for both you and your family. Act now and embark on this herbal journey

Have you always had a curiosity about herbal medicine and its ability to soothe a plethora of physical and mental symptoms?

Interested in growing an herbal garden that is not just beautiful and fragrant, but filled with the ingredients you need to make a host of herbal formulas?

Have recent world events led to a deep desire to be more self-sufficient or to supplement commercially available goods with your own produce?

If so, welcome to the homegrown natural remedy movement!

Around 80% of people across the globe rely on herbal products to boost their health and well-being, and around 55% of households in the US have a garden or grow plants on their balconies or indoors.

While around half of people grow plants to create a space of beauty, a very high percentage do so to boost their health with healthy, pesticide-free produce.

When it comes to growing herbs for health and wellness, the one thing that holds many people back is that they simply don't know where to start.

If you live in the Midwest, perhaps you wonder which plants can grow well in your area, what medicinal properties each plant has, and the precise care that each plant needs to thrive.

If you don't have a garden, or you are just not that interested in growing plants - that's perfectly fine. This book guides you in creating sustainable herbal remedies at home for long-term health, helping combat common ailments for you and your family.

Consider this book as a complete guide that will make you see how easy and fulfilling it is to create a remedy-filled apothecary from plants grown in your own Midwest home. Within its pages, you'll discover:

• What herbal medicine can do for you, when to consult an herbalist, and all the useful terms you will come across in the world of herbs
• 38 local plants - all their most powerful medicinal properties and where you can easily find them
• An easy, step-by-step guide on growing herbs outdoors or in containers
• How to store herbs so they maintain their aroma and medicinal properties for as long as possible
• All the tools and techniques you need to prepare your own herbal formulas
• How to harness the power of herbs to the fullest - from using proper herbal dosages, self-monitoring, and tackling specific ailments
• How to make 6 remedies with various uses and create a basic first-aid kit for everything from pain and inflammation to fevers, colds, and headaches!
• How plant medicine can form part of a holistic lifestyle - and how to make herbal ingredients part of your mind-body-spirit boosting plan!

And so much more.

The Midwest is filled with an array of plants you can easily grow at home-even on a small budget, with no experience or little free time.

What's more, you don't even need a garden to start one-you can simply use containers if space is an issue!

Tap into the ancient wisdom of plant medicine and embark on a journey of self-sufficiency, wellness, and harmony with nature.

Explore over 70 countries and cultures around the world in this globetrotting activity and sticker book. Race camels through the Algerian desert, spot the difference between Bangladeshi rickshaw drivers, unscramble anagrams to name the US presidents on Mount Rushmore, and even perform the haka with the New Zealand rugby team.

Your adventure begins on Baffin Island in northern Canada, where you will learn about the mysterious Sasquatch and Ogopogo creatures that are said to live there. Then travel across each continent before finishing your journey in the Mariana Trench, the lowest (and darkest!) point on the Earth's surface.

With over 250 stickers and a mix of colorful illustrations and photos, The Travel Activity Book is your ticket to learning all you want to know about tropical rainforests, bustling cities, soaring mountains, wild animals, diverse people and cultures, and more.

Activities include:

• Adding butterflies to Mexico's great monarch butterfly migration
• Filling the Bahamas' tropical waters with flying fish
• Spotting the difference between colorful vintage Cuban motorcars
• Adding moai head stickers to fill in the skyline of Easter Island
• Completing the world-famous Tour de France bicycle race
• Finding your way out of Hampton Court's garden maze
• Adding cars to Copenhagen's famous wooden roller coaster
• Coloring in a set of beautiful Russian nesting dolls
• Writing a letter to Santa Claus, Finland's most famous resident
• Connecting the dots to reveal a Uganda mountain gorilla
• Bungee jumping off the Victoria Falls Bridge, Zambia
• Completing the view of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in Iraq
• Creating an amazing Great Barrier Reef underwater scene

Also available:

The Cities Activity Book

About Lonely Planet Kids: Lonely Planet Kids-an imprint of the world's leading travel authority Lonely Planet-published its first book in 2011. Over the past 45 years, Lonely Planet has grown a dedicated global community of travelers, many of whom are now sharing a passion for exploration with their children. Lonely Planet Kids educates and encourages young readers at home and in school to learn about the world with engaging books on culture, sociology, geography, nature, history, space and more.

It's time to go pro! This independent and unofficial new Ultimate Roblox Handbook gives you the advanced skills to take your Roblox play to the next level.

Roblox is promoted as a place to come and create adventures, play games, enjoy role play and learn with friends in a family-friendly environment. But even existing Roblox fans need an in-depth, accessible guide. For anyone who's looking for the next Roblox challenge, or wants to finally get to the top of the leaderboard, this prolevel book is for you.

Roblox is the largest user-generated online gaming platform, with 12 million monthly users worldwide. Parents will appreciate the online etiquette tips and guides on how to stay 100% safe online.

Accept your thoughts, start living your life with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Thoughts are simply a normal part of being human, but we've all had them disrupt our lives. Reclaim Your Life teaches you to accept and manage your thoughts with evidence-based principles and strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Discover ways to increase your flexibility in thinking, get some distance from your thoughts, and work toward a life full of values and purpose.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps you get a handle on your emotions and find more adaptive responses from difficulties like panic attacks and low self-esteem. When strategies like labeling, visualizing, chatting with your mind, and others are implemented, they bring a positive change in your life.

This book about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy includes:

• The program-Apply the six core processes to each week and then bring them all together during the seventh and final week.
• Broad array of issues-Acceptance and Commitment Therapy can help with mental health issues like obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
• Hands-on-Use the six chapter lessons, worksheets, and exercises to learn each step of the process.

Reclaim Your Life is everything an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy book should be. It allows you to live the good life you deserve.

Brain Games Stress Free Word Search Puzzles lets you tune out all your worries with the word search puzzles you love. This collection is designed to be straightforward and relaxing to solve, engaging your mind while also helping you relieve stress.

• Solve a collection of 70 puzzles in a variety of themes and difficulties.
• Topics include gardens, national parks, vacation destinations, exotic birds, snack foods, your favorite pastimes and hobbies, and so much more!
• Answer key found in the back of the book.
• Spiral bound, 160 pages.

Brain Games - Birds Word Search Puzzles contains 70 word search puzzles and facts about the world of birds to keep your brain humming.

• Every puzzle is bird themed and includes interesting facts about birds of all shapes and sizes, including parrots, kingfishers, vultures, birds of prey, owls, ibises, hummingbirds, and many more.
• Find hundreds of bird names and read dozens of fascinating facts.
• Answer key found at the back of the book.
• Spiral bound, 160 pages.

The puzzles found in Brain Games - Birds Word Search Puzzles will keep you looking for your favorite birds while you focus and search the grid. Start solving!

While preserving the elements that have made the previous two editions so successful--such as chapters on sleep, exercise, memory and mindset--this third edition introduces students to wholly new aspects of brain function and how they impact learning; and furthermore, addresses the challenges of learning online.

By introducing new concepts, strategies, and applications related to learning and memory that are based on current findings in cognitive, social, and motivational psychology, this text offers a richer and more complete picture of how brain science illuminates how we learn. Students assigned this book will be equipped to design effective learning plans, employ new strategies, recognize learning traps, discover ways to work effectively in groups, improve recall, and realize better academic performance through test-taking and paper-writing strategies.

This new edition also addresses the concerns of all students--particularly those unfamiliar with the college setting and its expectations and assumptions--and offers strategies for success. In keeping with the preceding editions, this book introduces students to concepts, techniques, strategies, tips, and ideas to help them be academically stronger students, advance faster in their studies, and demonstrate what they have learned more effectively--in short, how anyone can learn to be a better learner by learning how to learn in harmony with their brain.

The book remains compact and student-friendly, offers examples of practice, and includes discussion questions at the end of each chapter.

Take a refreshing puzzle break with this collection of classic word searches!

• Includes 112 word search puzzles.
• Topics include vacation destinations, television shows, nature, foods, and more.
• Word list and puzzle grid are presented across 2 pages.
• Complete answer key is found at the back of the book.
• Spiral bound, 256 pages.

Keep your brain humming while you de-stress and have fun!

Complete a variety of fun craft projects using pipe cleaners. Crafters practice reading comprehension as they follow the steps for each project. The easiest crafts are at the beginning, to allow the reader to practice scaffolding their knowledge as they learn the domain-specific vocabulary.