The (Grown-Up) Girl's Guide to a Great Life: Know Yourself - Live Your Life to the Fullest! (Volume 1)

The (Grown-Up) Girl's Guide to a Great Life: Know Yourself - Live Your Life to the Fullest! (Volume 1) Review

An Instructional Guide and Journal on Living Life to the fullest. Combining practicality, philosophy, and whimsy in word and pictures.

Cuando Eramos Mayores = Back When We Were Grownups (Spanish Edition)

Cuando Eramos Mayores = Back When We Were Grownups (Spanish Edition) Review

Rebecca discovers she has turned into the wrong person. At age 53, she realizes that she needs to gain ownership of her future regardless of what her family thinks. She goes back to school, joins a gym, and decides to open doors from her past that she thought she had forever closed. In this novel, Tyler speaks about the value of memories and the immense courage it takes to re-write a life.

Description in spanish: Aunque las patas de gallo ya crezcan junto a sus hermosos ojos, aunque decenas de familiares -hijas, hijastras, nietos y tíos- aseguren que ya no queda tiempo para emprender un nuevo camino, Rebecca se resiste a convertirse para siempre en una persona que no es ella. Ya no le basta con reinventar la cocina tradicional en su salón de banquetes o cuidar de niños que nunca la llamarán abuela.

Rebecca necesita adueñarse de su futuro. Y retoma los estudios que abandonó el día de su matrimonio, se apunta a un gimnasio, compra ropa interior de seda, se atreve a descolgar el teléfono y a marcar un número que creía olvidado.

Anne Tyler, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y legítima heredera de la gran tradición de narradores sureños norteamericanos, nos habla en esta novela sobre el valor de los recuerdos y el inmenso coraje que se precisa para volver a escribir toda una vida.

Les McGehee Plays Well With Others: A "Grown-Up" Handbook of Improvisation and Play

Les McGehee Plays Well With Others: A "Grown-Up" Handbook of Improvisation and Play Review

Les McGehee s Plays Well With Others, A Grown-Up Handbook of Improvisation and Play is a breezy how-to book by an improvising pioneer that is part autobiography and part field guide to the life and habits of successful improvisers. It offers rare insights gained through over 20 years of improvisational experience in how to incorporate humor and positive affirmation of in-the-moment opportunities guaranteed to enhance both your business and personal life. With techniques McGehee uses in MBA and government programs, Plays Well With Others provides the basics for the layman and clear advanced tricks of the trade for the professional improviser. Cleverly divided into sections that can be read independently, the reader can delve deep or graze into the fields of play Les so clearly describes. It contains autobiographical passages illustrating how the improvisational life works, an annotated list of classic improv games for business and entertainment, diary entries of extensive improv tours, statistical references on the successful implementation of improvisational techniques in business, and recommendations on how to further your improv education locally, nationally, and internationally.

The Joy of Growing Up: Growing Up for Grownups Who Haven't Grown Up Yet

The Joy of Growing Up: Growing Up for Grownups Who Haven't Grown Up Yet Review

Growing up is an ongoing, challenging, exciting and satisfying journey. In this book, Wendy Freebourne takes you through that journey, step by step, giving you the tools you need to navigate it successfully. She shows you how responsibility, chosen carefully and taken on willingly, brings freedom and fulfilment; and how, although your physical abilities change as you get older, this does not mean that illness and infirmity are necessary results of aging. This book is written in an insightful, practical but gentle and compassionate, spiritual style. It gives a holistic overview, while also paying attention to practicality and detail. You will find realistic advice for moving into a maturity that is not painful or burdensome, but joyful, if also less predictable than you were brought up to believe it would be. It gives models for growing up in the twenty-first century. '. . . elucidations of how and why we function within a sometimes highly dysfunctional world and how we can do that more effectively have led me to revelations, research and new training opportunities.' Fraser Trevor MSc, Addiction Counsellor and Research Scientist

A Web of Good Manners: Grown-Up Manners for Young People

A Web of Good Manners: Grown-Up Manners for Young People Review

A book of good manners and proper social behavior in rhymed verse.

The Second Family: Dealing with Peer Power, Pop Culture, the Wall of Silence -- and Other Challenges of Raising Today's Teens

The Second Family: Dealing with Peer Power, Pop Culture, the Wall of Silence -- and Other Challenges of Raising Today's Teens Review

The Second Family: Dealing with Peer Power, Pop Culture, the Wall of Silence -- and Other Challenges of Raising Today's Teens Feature

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If you have a teen or pre-teen, you recognize the phenomenon already-perhaps without even knowing it has a name. "The second family," as uncompromisingly described by renowned therapist Dr. Ron Taffel is the immense collective power of the peer group and pop culture-a force so pervasive, it threatens to, and often succeeds in, overwhelming the first family of adults at home and in school. Derived from thousands of interviews with kids and adults, The Second Family uses real-life, sometimes graphic examples to bare the truth about the world of adolescence today and to illuminate the new set of rules by which kids operate.

The second family can be scary to adults. While many parents bury their heads, insisting "not my child," Taffel reveals that even "good" children:
- Chronically lie without a trace of guilt
- Have sex at astonishingly early ages
- Do drugs and alcohol not to be bad but simply because they are there

Yet there are healthy aspects to the second family that often go unrecognized:
- A secret moral code of peer support that will surprise you
- Boys and girls as best friends
- Boys taking care of friends in emotional need
- Girls becoming powerful group leaders
- A social structure for teens that provides a type of intimacy, support, communication and honesty he or she can't find anywhere else.

It is impossible to understand today's teens or preteens without understanding the Second Family. Taffel opens a window into a closed world of frightening dangers and equally uplifting possibilities.

Islands: A Coloring Book for Adults (30 Drawings, 30 Poems)

Islands: A Coloring Book for Adults (30 Drawings, 30 Poems) Review

Gift-quality, beautiful, twin-wire spiral-bound. 12" length x 9" height. 30 black-on-white original drawings and their 30 interpretive poems. Each drawing is different and has its own theme. Great variety in designs. Easy-to-color spaces: small, medium and large spaces throughout book. Cover graphics are eye-appealing in pure-white heavy card stock. Its 64 pure-white pages are thick 80# stock, suitable for matting and framing.

Enchanting, unique new book. Adults love its creativity and wit as it blends original art, poetry, and ageless recreation. Sophisticated and intellectually engaging. Emotional and meditative. Islands heals the spirit and takes you on a sensual adventure. Within this sanctuary of fantasy are 30 black-on-white abstract and symbolic drawings all begging to be colored. Facing each drawing is an interpretive whimsical poem which translates the drawing's abstract into an aha! Its myriad of delightful themes has something for everyone to identify with: seahorses, Mozart, moons, Odysseus, stars, Pink Floyd, snakes, Jimmy Durante, tropical islands, Galway, golf. And "swimming" on the pages is Apolla Seahorse, Seahorse Publishing's company logo and the book's precious mascot.

"Islands, A Coloring Book for Adults" because adults love to color too.

Why Do Grown-Ups Have All the Fun?

Why Do Grown-Ups Have All the Fun? Review

When Hannah is in bed unable to sleep, she imagines all the fun the grown-ups are having--doing all the things she herself likes to do.

10 Minutes A Day To Reading Success For Second Graders (Ten Minutes Series)

10 Minutes A Day To Reading Success For Second Graders (Ten Minutes Series) Review

At last - books to demystify phonics and whole language for curious parents. You can help your child build a reading foundation and enhance his or her skills! Unlike simple workbooks or broad activity books, 10 Minutes a Day to Reading Success combines the best of both approaches to make for focused reading fun. Providing ample opportunities for parents and children to complete projects in short periods of time, this series promotes the notion that every bit of reading practice counts, no matter how small.

Little Bronze Playfellows: A Fantasy For Children And Grown-Ups (1915)

Little Bronze Playfellows: A Fantasy For Children And Grown-Ups (1915) Review

Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text.

Talking heads: your prospects may be all grown-up, but comic-book-style word balloons still make them stop and stare. (A + ADS).: An article from: Entrepreneur

Talking heads: your prospects may be all grown-up, but comic-book-style word balloons still make them stop and stare. (A + ADS).: An article from: Entrepreneur Review

This digital document is an article from Entrepreneur, published by Entrepreneur Media, Inc. on June 1, 2003. The length of the article is 453 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Talking heads: your prospects may be all grown-up, but comic-book-style word balloons still make them stop and stare. (A + ADS).
Author: Jerry Fisher
Publication:Entrepreneur (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2003
Publisher: Entrepreneur Media, Inc.
Volume: 31 Issue: 6 Page: 84(1)

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Heating Up The Holidays: All He Wants For Christmas...\My Grown-Up Christmas List\Up On The Housetop (Harlequin Blaze)

Heating Up The Holidays: All He Wants For Christmas...\My Grown-Up Christmas List\Up On The Housetop (Harlequin Blaze) Review

All He Wants for Christmas… by Jill Shalvis

EMT Dustin Mauer has one Christmas wish—to make tough firefighter Cristina Lewis realize she's in love with him. And he's using his considerable bedside charm to convince her!

My Grown-Up Christmas List by Jacquie D'Alessandro

Toni Rizzo is done with obnoxious firefighters. But flirtatious fireman Brad Griffin is managing to put himself at the top of her holiday list—one steamy kiss at a time!

Up on the Housetop by Jamie Sobrato

When Dr. Lorelei Gibson gets stuck on her roof half-naked, she's mortified when she's rescued by hunky firefighter Ryan Quinn—her high school heartbreak! Until she learns he'd like to get naked with her…

A Grownup's Garden of Verse

A Grownup's Garden of Verse Review

In this collection of formal verse, you won't see words arranging themselves like players on a stage; rather, they are notes in a musical composition, written with a beat and a careful harmony. At the same time, every effort is made to have the words read as though spoken for their own sake, as prose. In the first portion of this book you will find a free form collection. There are several poems that are acrostic sonnets, but these arrive in an unexpected order. Much like dipping blindly into a box of chocolates, you don't know what you will find on the next page. Separating the first and second sections is a short story, a modest adventure that mingles the mundane and the absurd. Can you imagine what it's like to be James McTavish, professional dockman? The second portion of this book is a sequence of sonnets that is Book One of the legend of the ancient royal knight Ordowahl; it recounts his quest to defeat a dragon and win the girl. A short story that concludes the book introduces Gernelle, a high school junior in the late 1960's American South; a tomboy, she narrates her surprise discovery of boyfriend Matty Buford. A collection of poetry and prose that inspires the mind and lightens the spirit, A Grownup's Garden of Verse sweeps readers up into a lyrical world of sound and sense they won't want to leave. Author Bio: Author Joel H. Hinrichs, Jr. is a married software engineer and father of five, living in Centennial, Colorado. Ordowahl: Book Two is in the works.

Coyote Soup for the Grownup Soul

Coyote Soup for the Grownup Soul Review

Coyote Soup for the Grownup Soul is an audio tape of Trickster Tales. A few of the stories are traditional and some are new by the author. Most of the stories are autobiographical showing the effect of the Coyote Spirit on Sings-Alone's spiritual journey. These are arguably the funniest Native American spiritual stories you are likely to hear.

Facebook for Grown-Ups: Use Facebook to Reconnect with Old Friends, Family, and Co-Workers (2nd Edition)

Facebook for Grown-Ups: Use Facebook to Reconnect with Old Friends, Family, and Co-Workers (2nd Edition) Review

This is the second edition of the best-selling Facebook for Grown-Ups, updated for all the changes Facebook has made over the past year - and there have been a lot. Instead of focusing on youth-oriented activities, this book focuses on what baby boomers and seniors want to do on Facebook. Facebook for Grown-Ups, 2/e offers clear explanations and simple step-by-step instructions from Michael Miller, a world-renowned expert on simplifying complex topics. New to the second edition of this book is coverage of Facebook's new photo uploading/sharing capabilities, new "fan" pages, new groups functionality, and new (and constantly changing) privacy settings. Also new are chapters on Facebook's new unified message center; what you should - and shouldn't - post on Facebook; third-party Facebook tools; and other social networks of interest to grown-ups, including Twitter and LinkedIn. Updated coverage: " Find old friends, family, and colleagues on Facebook " Share family photos and home videos " Decide what to share and what to keep private " Discover the Facebook applications and games that over-40 users are most likely to be interested in " Keep tabs on the kids on Facebook - without driving them crazy " Updating your friends on what you've been up to Every topic is approached from the standpoint of adult users - not kids or grandkids!

TA for KIDS (and grown-ups too)

TA for KIDS (and grown-ups too) Review

Transactional Analysis for everybody series

Grown-Up Leadership: The Benefits of Personal Growth for You and Your Team

Grown-Up Leadership: The Benefits of Personal Growth for You and Your Team Review

Why do leaders fall so short, so often? Typically, Intimidators (leaders who need to control others) and Accommodators (leaders who need acceptance) suffer equally from not knowing and accepting themselves, say leadership coaches Leigh and Maureen Bailey. Taking a holistic approach and guiding readers through a self-discovery process, the Baileys help you identify your "prism" of background and experience and see its impact on your leadership style. Then, by learning to use complementary styles and your deeper self-knowledge to coach, motivate, and direct people, you can become a truly grown-up leader. Proven, practical and positive advice, practices, tools, and stories from real people make this an inspiring, challenging book.