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Can you imagine living in a town with a mysterious dragon lurking nearby? Join Penelope in this enchanting story as she bravely faces her fear and confronts a huge, ferocious dragon! Deb takes children's audio stories to a whole new level of fun with sound effects, a simple underlying message of kindness, and engaging follow up activities to keep the fun going! Whether you're a parent, a grandparent, a teacher, or you’d simply like to nurture a child’s imagination, this is educational entertainment that you can feel good about.

Follow Penelope as she ventures back up the mountain to the dragon’s cave, only to find that he’s gone! Clues along a path lead her to a dark forest as the mystery begins to unfold and Penelope shows her true bravery. Deb takes children's audio stories to a whole new level of fun with sound effects, a simple underlying message of kindness, and engaging follow-up activities to keep the fun going! Whether you're a parent, a grandparent, a teacher, or you’d simply like to nurture a child’s imagination, this is educational entertainment that you can feel good about.

In 2014, the world was shaken by millions of people undertaking the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge on social media. It raised $115 million. In Wake Up Call: Lessons from the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge for Nonprofit Social Media, Deb Finch uses the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge as a starting point to demonstrate how small nonprofits can leverage social media to increase donations, awareness, and volunteers. She also shares the poignant story of Melanie St. Croix from her life prior to her diagnosis of ALS through her incredible journey learning how to live with ALS.

The cup of author Alma L. Carr-Jones runs over with the need to tell her story about God’s loving kindness, justice, and righteousness! Inside, you’ll discover Sister Alma’s inspirational pieces, written with her delightful and warm voice that makes you feel like she’s your new best friend. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll sigh, and you’ll pray as her stories envelop you, while entertaining, inspiring, and motivating you every step of the way.

Welcome to Deb’s Story Time Adventures! Music and sound effects bring characters to life in this entertaining series of stories that transport children to a land of imagination. Step into the Dark Forest with Penelope and Herbert the dragon as they meet some interesting animals that live there. Herbert is startled by a tiny wood mouse, and as it turns out, they both learn an important lesson.

Welcome to Deb's Story Time Adventures! Music and sound effects bring characters to life in this entertaining story and will transport children to a land of imagination. Get ready for your very own exciting journey, because the character in this story is you! Imagine it’s the morning of your birthday. Follow clues to a strange and magical land and have fun acting out this unique story. Deb takes children's audio stories to a whole new level of fun with sound effects, a simple underlying message of kindness, and engaging follow-up activities to keep the fun going!

We all need a pick-me-up in these trying times. Motivational and inspirational author and speaker Sister Alma has penned a book of poems, and devotionals, to meet that need. Her words, stories, and poems will soothe all that is chaotic in your world, and will help renew the joy that has been buried deep within. Sister Alma’s voice will encourage you, inspire you, and soothe you. Her prayer for you is this: “May your soul be blessed, your spirit renewed, and your joy heightened, as you partake of this offering, given to you, for the glory of God."

It’s a pivotal time for women leaders. On one hand, studies show women are woefully underrepresented in the highest echelons of corporate leadership. On the other, we’ve made huge strides in the political arena, while the global business world increasingly values the “soft skills” we’re naturally good at. So, what does all of this mean for women who aspire to the C-suite? Deb Boelkes has a simple message: Go for it. Conditions have never been more favorable. Boelkes lays out a blueprint for getting out of your own way so you can make real progress.

This collection takes children's audio stories to a whole new level of fun with sound effects, a simple underlying message of kindness, and engaging follow up activities to keep the fun going! Whether you're a parent, a grandparent, a teacher, or you’d simply like to nurture a child’s imagination, this is educational entertainment that you can feel good about.

So what is life after Salvation like? I find a good church to attend, I join the choir and the softball team, go on a mission trip, and put money in the offering? Not exactly! Life after Salvation should be a life based on a close, personal friendship with your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Jesus described life after Salvation as being comparable to a building project. A lot of thought, ideas, dreams, planning, focus, interests, and blood, sweat, and tears go into a building project! So, let’s get started and break ground; our foundation is waiting!

On a skiing winter honeymoon, Alex and Missy Marcus become involved in a nightmare featuring a ghost from their past. Dire psychic predictions, strange behavior including sleep walking, and bizarre events are more than enough to blow a simple vacation into a snowball effect even bigger than the present-time events could foretell. Alex and Missy become victims themselves when they try to help their newly found friend sort out the pieces of her confused past. All become engulfed in an avalanche of fear as circumstances turn deadly in The Snowball Effect.

Why Is Pono Not Pono Today? is a book where kids of all ages easily identify with the normally happy Pono the Bull. Pono snaps after others are mean to him, but his friend Kuleana helps to quickly bring back the best in Pono. Here, tough situations end well through love, creativity, and working closely together. When you know how to work through the toughest situations together, stress becomes your superpower.

Strange things begin happening to Miranda after an oddly familiar doll and a handsome upstairs neighbor both enter her life at once. Invited to a Halloween party by Mark, Miranda finds herself torn between her deeply rooted faith and the yearning to experience something new and different. With the holiday looming and the handsome man willing to be her escort, she makes her choice and chooses her night of excitement.

You’ve tidied your home, and all this decluttering resulted in a big pile of stuff! Now what? It’s payday if you use the power of online yard sales. Filled with stories of selling triumphs (and a few duds), the real-life examples in Best Offer, Best Life! will help motivate you to sell your own household excess through social media and free apps. Expert seller Deb Colameta shares her best tips for navigating the world of online yard sales.

Do your employees think your workplace is the best-ever? Would you like to know the number one thing to morph your workplace from so-so to astounding? Within Heartfelt Leadership, Deb Boelkes reveals how leaders can get through to anyone, even under what many would believe are not the best of circumstances. The result is a workplace that is admired; one that delivers outstanding results; one that employees seek to be part of.

Let’s face it - keeping good employees is hard in today’s competitive job market, with its ever-increasing demand to do more with less. Are you trapped in the hire, train, repeat cycle because your best employees keep leaving? Does it feel like whenever you get someone trained and working like a well-oiled machine, they tell you they are leaving because of company culture or lack of growth opportunities?

Robin Caruso, the girl who sailed around the world, has defied the odds and returned home alive: just barely. Surviving pirates, angry natives, animal attacks, and the fury of the ocean, she now faces the wrath of the authorities that she evaded and the consequences that her actions had on her family. Striking a deal with the government to testify against the leader of the pirates, she is forced to flee when he escapes and places a bounty on her head.

Robin Caruso is a typical teenage girl, who wants to live anything but the typical life. She longs for adventure and attempts to persuade her parents to allow her to become the youngest person ever to sail around the world solo. At first, they refuse, but after their daughter is branded a hero during a dramatic at-sea rescue, they have little choice but to consent. Months later, the preparations are made, but a last minute injunction is filed to prevent the voyage from taking place and Robin must stage a daring escape before she is able to get underway.

Listen to practical advice to help turn you into an experienced cruiser before you ever step foot on a ship. Learn the different kinds of cruise ship cabins; how to plan, prepare, and pack for a cruise; and much more.

Julie McCloud was saved as an infant from a disease-doomed wagon train. Windmillers Cap and Mike Shanahan raised Julie, teaching her their trade. Since then, she has criss-crossed the plains using her skills to bring water and life to the dry land.

She and her mentors wander into a no-man's land where they are met by three scraggly boys. The orphaned boys need a windmill to help them hold onto their land. Cap, Mike and Julie agree to build one, but there are those determined to see them fail.