Collection: Self-Development

Are you tired of putting in endless hours and energy into writing a book, only to have it fall flat due to a dull book cover? Your book cover is the first impression readers have of your work, and you want it to be a good one. This is where "Top Ten Mistakes Authors Make When Creating a Book Cover" comes in - a comprehensive guide designed to help you avoid common mistakes and create a cover that accurately represents your book.

Inside this book, you'll discover the top ten mistakes that authors commonly make when designing their book covers. From low-quality images to confusing typography and cluttered designs, you'll learn how to steer clear of these mistakes and create a cover that not only grabs the reader's attention but also accurately communicates the tone and genre of your book. Additionally, this guide is filled with practical tips and advice, including how to choose the right colors and fonts, create a standout design, and ensure your cover looks amazing in both print and digital formats.

Don't let a poorly designed book cover hinder the success of your work. Whether you're a self-published author or working with a traditional publisher, "Top Ten Mistakes Authors Make When Creating a Book Cover" is an essential read for anyone looking to create a cover that truly stands out. So, order your copy today and take your book to the next level!

Mad Libs is the world's greatest word game and the perfect gift or activity for anyone who likes to laugh! Write in the missing words on each page to create your own hilariously funny stories all about surviving the end of the world!

When the world ends, be sure to pack your PLURAL NOUN in your survival bag--you're going to need them! With 21 "fill-in-the-blank" stories about navigating deserted cities, running into other survivors, and planning for the apocalypse, Mad Libs Survival Guide is the perfect activity for any young worrywart! Play alone, in a group, or in a nuclear bunker! Mad Libs are a fun family activity recommended for ages 8 to NUMBER.

Mad Libs Survival Guide includes:

- Silly stories 21 "fill-in-the-blank" stories about surviving the unknown!
- Language arts practice Mad Libs are a great way to build reading comprehension and grammar skills.
- Fun with friends each story is a chance for friends to work together to create unique stories!

A spellbinding coloring book featuring over fifty intricate illustrations from The Illuminated Tarot.

Step into the world of The Illuminated Tarot, an illustrated celebration of the varied history of tarot and its many forms. This coloring book brings artist Caitlin Keegan's bestselling tarot deck to new life, featuring black and white line drawings of each of the cards in the 53-card deck. The sturdy pages can handle colored pencils, crayons, or markers, and feature insight into the history of tarot, cartomancy, and playing cards throughout.

Color the illustration of each card as you read about its traditional meaning and symbolism, perhaps using the mindful experience as a meditative form of studying the tarot.

Mad Libs is the world's greatest word game and the perfect gift or activity for anyone who likes to laugh! Write in the missing words on each page to create your own hilariously funny stories about the baddest bad guys in the DC Universe!

Call all your most dangerous hench-PLURAL NOUN, because it's time for trouble! With 21 "fill-in-the-blank" stories about devastating superpowers, defeating superheroes, and planning the perfect apocalypse, DC Super-Villain Mad Libs is the perfect activity for any aspiring evil mastermind! Play alone, in a group, or in a secret underground lair! Mad Libs are a fun
family activity recommended for ages 8 to NUMBER.

An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House.

In a time of great division and discord, our capacity to listen deeply and with compassion is paramount to solving pressing issues--across the realms of global politics, interpersonal relationships, and our own hearts and minds.

In How to Listen, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh demonstrates how deep listening is a fundamental building block of good communication. But perhaps more fundamentally, listening is central to our practice, a basic ingredient to strengthen our capacity for mindfulness, concentration, insight, and compassion. Learning how to listen with equanimity to life itself, we generate insight into the true nature of our deep connection to all things. And from this place of understanding--when we know that we aren't separate--our capacity to listen deepens even further.

With clear and gentle guidance from Thich Nhat Hanh, we learn how truly listening--to ourselves, to each other, to Mother Earth, and to the many "bells of mindfulness" that are available to us in each moment--is the foundation of our practice, an expression of love, and a solution to our deepest and most urgent large-scale conflicts.

All Mindfulness Essentials books are illustrated with playful sumi-ink drawings by California artist Jason DeAntonis.

Magnetism is all about creating alignment between your authentic self + your actions. The more aligned we are, the more opportunity, flow, and joy we invite into our lives.

We each hold the power to attract the life we want, the one we deserve, the one we dream of. Yet so many of us get stuck in a cycle of self-doubt, insecurities, and old patterns of behavior. Through simple guiding principles, Amber Lyon shows you how to embrace and enhance your own power and magnetism. You are a Magnet shares powerful magnetic mindset shifts, practical tools and reflections to help you discover the limitless potential for growth that is at your fingertips. What if you could change your life, simply by changing the way you see it? Through her four-part framework--Alchemizing Fear, Cultivating Courage, The Magnetic Mindset, and Living Through Joy-- you will be gently guided along the journey of seeing your life through new eyes and learn to align your thoughts and behaviors with your most magnetic self.

Adorn your life with crochet stars!

These easy and fun to crochet stars can be used for so many things! Start by making the seven star designs in various sizes. Then use your stars to create projects such as a picture frame for your favorite "star," a holiday ornament, or a magic wand. Decorate a journal cover or make earrings. Make multiple stars into a garland or mobile. The stars can be sewn or pinned onto clothing as mending patches or a fashion accessory. Once you've mastered the basic stars, customize with beads, ribbons, lace, and other embellishments to make each one your unique creation!

These little stars are perfect for using up small bits of yarn and for keeping in your bag for crocheting on the go. The 28 ideas presented in the book are a great place to start, but once you start crocheting stars, the sky is the limit!

Don't be afraid to mix colors and cables!

The often-repeated advice that it is best to choose solid-color yarns when you crochet cables is not always true. With a little bit of knowledge and planning, you can crochet beautiful Celtic cables and enhance the design with your choice of a multicolored yarn.

Author Noelle R. B. Stiles is a vision scientist and has done extensive research into the art and science of color play (so that you don't have to!). What she brings to this book is the practical side of color usage. She gives you a broad look at how colors and designs work together and illustrates how color choices affect the final outcome of your crochet pieces. She specifically sets out to prove that multicolored yarns should not be sidelined in your textured crochet pieces and can be used to great advantage. With practical examples and 20 patterns, she shows how crochet designs can feature both a multicolored yarn and an intricate cable to gorgeous effect. Patterns include eye-catching scarves, hats, mitts, blanket, cardigan, and more. If you are new to cabling, there are step-by-step instructions and several beginner patterns. Pull out your favorite hand-painted or variegated yarn and give it a try!

Conquer five cross-stitch designs from the world of Game of Thrones with this officially licensed, all-in-one mini craft kit!

• Includes all materials: The kit contains 3 pieces of 4 x 4-inch 18-count cotton Aida cloth, a 3-inch embroidery hoop to stitch and display designs, 2 tapestry needles, and 4 skeins of embroidery floss
• Book included: A 32-page, fully illustrated mini book with cross-stitch instructions and 5 patterns: the Stark direwolf sigil, a Daenerys "Mother of Dragons" design, Arya's catspaw dagger and "Not Today" quote, Tyrion's "I drink and I know things" quote, and the bell from Cersei's walk of shame.
• For any skill level: With basic cross-stitching instructions and simple patterns, this kit is perfect for beginners and advanced stitchers alike
• Display or gift your masterpiece: The tiny embroidery hoop can serve as a frame for your finished work
• Officially licensed: An authentic Game of Thrones product

The magic of the Night now made thrilling for a middle-grade mystic: Learn the basics about magic, divination, spells, rituals, and more in this enchanting and practical guidebook for middle grade mystics by award-winning author Maia Toll.

You, young Firefly, have been chosen to join into the Night School's esteemed program for the study of mysticism. Your teacher, Bea Marlowe, will guide you as you embark on five eye-opening, educational, and enlightening field trips to better connect with the magic of your Night self. From astrology and divination to creating rituals and spellcasting, middle-grade readers interested in magic and mysticism will delve into the mystical depths of both the Universe and the You-niverse--the mysteries that exist outside oneself, and those they will discover in their very core.

A very practical guide set within a creative fantasy school setting, young witches will learn the basics of a magical existence tfrom the author of The Night School and the Wild Wisdom series, Maia Toll. Including illustrations by Khoa Le, sidebars, and a glossary of unfamiliar terms, The Night School for Young Mystics promises to be a fantastical guidebook and a captivating read for middle graders interested in the world of magic and mysticism.

This adorable Little Deck of Abuelita Wisdom is filled with 100 cards of wisdom, trips, tricks, abuela sayings, and more, all in abuela's signature voice, with Spanish included throughout. A wonderful self-purchase or perfect gift for graduation, mother's day, or any occasion.

Specifications: A mini deck containing 100, 2 1/2 x 3- inch cards filled with abuelita sayings, wisdom, instructions, tips, lists, and more
Book included: In addition to the 100 cards, package contains a mini book filled with sage abuela advice and tips
Keepsake Box: Packaged in a keepsake box with a magnetic closure, perfect for travel and safekeeping
Perfect gift: A thoughtful gift for mother's day, birthdays, graduations, celebrations, or self-purchase

A unique approach to healing that emphasizes changing our perspectives instead of changing ourselves. Instead of struggling to change our inner experiences, we transform the container in which they are held. From here, wholeness and healing are possible; this is where actual change lives.

One of the most significant sources of suffering comes from our human tendency to avoid difficult emotions. We are not taught how to face these unpleasant, often daily inner experiences (mind-body energies) and so we tend to push them away, ignore them, or become unwittingly overwhelmed by them. Yet how we meet and greet these difficult emotions has everything to do with our well-being, resilience, and ability to connect with ourselves and others.Instinctually, we fight against our uncomfortable emotions; in doing so, we reinforce messages of "not good enough" or "something is wrong with me that I am feeling this way."

In You Don't Have to Change to Change Everything, readers learn that instead of forcing themselves to feel "happy" and pushing away what is unpleasant, or instead of getting hooked by intense emotions, another path can lead to more profound well-being. Rather than trying to change one's inner experiences, this book offers six ways to shift one's vantage point when difficult emotions arise. Being aware from each of these six vantage points allows readers to cultivate inner stability, willingness to turn toward rather than away from themselves, greater perspective, internal strengths and inner resources, self-compassion, connection with the "Whole Self" versus identification with "hole self," and interconnection with the world around them.

Discover how to build your very own incredible LEGO(R) robots! With building instructions for more than 40 awesome creations!

Be inspired by more than 40 LEGO robot ideas, from a hip-hop bot to a space probe and an underwater explorer.

Each robot idea is broken down into three, four, or five important building steps.

Learn essential building techniques to create articulated arms, grabbers, power displays, textures, and much more, for your own wonderful models.

You can build anything.

The extensively updated second edition of Suicide in Schools provides school-based professionals with practical, easy-to-use guidance on developing and implementing effective suicide prevention, assessment, intervention, and postvention strategies.

The Suicide in Schools Model provides readers with clear, step-by-step guidelines on how to work proactively with school personnel and community professionals, how to screen, assess, and monitor suicide risk, create collaborative safety plans, and plan for reentry after a suicidal crisis. The authors expand this new edition with detailed case examples and innovative approaches such as upstream prevention strategies, usable handouts, and internet resources to effectively work with youth facing a suicidal crisis as well as students, families, and school staff who have suffered a suicide loss. Updates include expanding the literature on cyberbullying and social media, the higher risk of suicide in ethnoracial minoritized youth and LGBTQ+ students, and the role of suicide in school violence.

This book is essential reading for school-based administrators, crisis team members, and mental health professionals as well as for outside providers who work collaboratively with school districts.