Everyone is talking about the entrepreneur, animator, eco-designer, and girls’ rights activist Maya Penn. Her TEDWomen Talk has been viewed over 1,200,000 million times (and is one of the top 15 TEDWomen Talks of all time). Now this amazing teenager has written an inspirational handbook for teens and young adults to help them discover their passions and maximize their full potential for a creative, successful life. Maya Penn is a remarkable teen entrepreneur who has given three TED Talks, created her own eco-friendly fashion line, developed animated films, and appeared on The View with Whoopi Goldberg. She has even been name-checked by bestselling authors Gabrielle Bernstein, Steve Harvey, and Eve Ensler. All while still in middle school! Although Maya is extraordinary in many ways, and her success is a testament to her own creativity, passion, and fearlessness—these are traits that can be cultivated in all of us. In You Got This! Maya shares her incredible journey to becoming an artist, designer, philanthropist, and business owner. She provides a creative blueprint for teens and young adults, along with the tools she used to build an authentic, exciting, and connected life, and offers creative prompts for cultivating success. So let your creativity and passion flow freely and watch as your world transforms—it all starts with you!From School Library JournalGr 4–9—Maya Penn is a 15-year-old entrepreneur, inspirational speaker, designer, and much more. Divided into three sections, this title shares her blueprint for success with an emphasis on self-esteem, ambition, and role models. The tone is fun and conversational as Penn identifies common modes of thinking (for example, the flip-flopper), with suggested activities for those feeling unfocused or overwhelmed (dream boards, idea books). The strength of this title is in the discussion of online safety and awareness of one's digital footprint and in Penn's interviews with other young go-getters at the end of the book. Each interview is prefaced with an introduction to the activist or entrepreneur, detailing relevant accomplishments. VERDICT A valuable title for young adults interested in examples of teen involvement in volunteer movements or looking for personal inspiration.—Cynde Suite, Bartow County Library System, Adairsville, GA Review“If Maya S. Penn and her book You Got This! are any indication, the future belongs to girls and will happen happen because of them. Passionate, heartfelt, practical, true. A girl to girl inspiration. May the life force that is Maya S. Penn usher in a new day!” (Eve Ensler )
Penn is an eco-friendly fashion designer, entrepreneur, artist, animator, coder, writer, philanthropist, and activist. She is also, as she puts it, just your average 15-year-old. She started her remarkable career when she was eight and having previously shared her insights through three TED talks and multiple television appearances (including The View), now offers tips to her middle- and high-school peers on how to realize their own ambitions. Her advice ranges from practical (how to start an online business) to motivational (ignore naysayers) and incorporates anecdotes about other remarkable teens. While no one can dispute Penn's impressive accomplishments, it is clear that she has had considerable support along the way (homeschooling, field trips to, among other places, the Museum of Modern Art, summer classes at the Savannah School of Design). While not all young adults have access to these types of resources, everyone needs a little encouragement now and then, and these accessible, breezy doses of positivity go down nice and easy. — Kathleen McBroom (Booklist April 15, 2016) Views: 239
For too long, Violet and the people of the outer circles of the Lone City have lived a life of servitude, controlled and manipulated by the royalty of the Jewel. But now, the secret society known as the Black Key is preparing to seize power and knock down the walls dividing each circle.
And while Violet knows she is at the center of this rebellion, she has a more personal stake in it—for her sister, Hazel, has been taken by the Duchess of the Lake. Now, after fighting so hard to escape the Jewel, Violet must do everything in her power to return, to save not only Hazel, but the future of the Lone City. Views: 239
A dream house that is hiding something sinister; two women having lunch who share a husband; an old woman doing her weekly supermarket shop with a secret past that no one could guess; a couple who don't know each other at all even after fifteen years together; and, in the story from which this collection takes its name, a bird and a servant girl in ancient Pompeii who cannot converse, but share a perfect understanding.
In this new and varied collection of short stories, Penelope Lively shows that she remains a master of her craft, and one of our finest English writers. Views: 239
A delightful tale of victory against all odds from master storyteller, Michael Morpurgo, lavishly illustrated by Michael Foreman.
“Every fox in the whole town, in the whole country just about, is a football fan… And we all have an impossible dream.”
In a cosy den under a garden shed lives a family of foxes. They love to watch football – all foxes do. But their favourite team keeps losing and losing, and it seems like things will never look up.
That is, until Daddy Fox finds the ghost of a king, buried underneath a car park. A king who wishes only to be free.
“Release me,” says the Ghost King, “and I can do anything. Just tell me your greatest wish.”
For these football-loving foxes, might everything be about to change…? Views: 239
A rare and highly regarded collection of the ghostly and strange The author of this collection of tales of the supernatural, Lady Bessie Kyffin-Taylor, undertook few forays into the realms of the fiction of the ghostly and other worldly and the result is this book of seven short stories, From out of the Silence. Originally published in an undated edition, but believed to have been released around 1920, the collection appeared just two years before the author's death. Kyffin-Taylor's style is judged by some to be reminiscent of the acclaimed writer of supernatural tales E. F. Benson, and must therefore be of interest to any aficionado of the genre, because the comparison elevates the quality of these tales into heady company. That said, one might mourn the fact that Kyffin-Taylor's output was so small. So concise a volume, published so long ago and with such an uncertain history must be a rare find indeed on the antiquarian market, and so the Leonaur editors are doubly pleased to make it more widely available by including it in the Leonaur Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction series.Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.** Views: 239
SECRAT COPÉ is a no good thief! However, in his first solo heist, a happenstance, coincidence, and an ill minded decision do irreparable damage.
Consequences happen, and The Thief soon finds himself exiled from The Red Flux by Father Toucan Veras. Relocating in the Whispey Deserts of Maharris, Secrat meets a woman named Christique and spends his days trying to prove himself again to the Flux that rid themselves of him.
But that is only the tip of the iceberg, the book features heists and The Thief tackling insurmountable odds, be it by luck or skill.
The Red Flux and the Wunderkind Thief strives for a minimalist, easily approachable narrative with world building depth. Outlandish action and hilarious situations, Secrat is his own worst enemy in this fantasy fiction. Views: 239
He's not looking for love. She isn't ready for a relationship. Danger brings them together, but will it also tear them apart?
Tucker is more concerned with his duties as the alpha bear of his pack, then finding love. Unfortunately, an ultimatum from a power he can't refuse has made it clear he must settle for someone in order to keep his alpha seat.
Ashlee has been through her share of drama in the love department and the last thing she needs is to find another man to mess things up for her, but her best friend has other plans.
When Ashlee meets a dangerous man at a dating club mixer and another who wants to be her hero, she has some decisions to make. Will she choose love or a normal life? Will she defeat the monster that has her in his sights? Will she find out who set her up and why?
This is a complete story. There are no cliffhangers. It is the first book in the Aphrodite Love Connection series. Each paranormal romance in this series will have a HEA or HFN ending and all books in this series can be read in or out of order.
This book contains adult content and recommended for reader 18 or older. Contains sexual content and violence.
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Trade show stunts. Melt-your-screen fan fiction. Tentacle Porn—Jordan and Chloe’s brash, geeky attitudes have made them tech-blog darlings. But as the media asks what’s next for the camera, the two find themselves wondering the same thing in the bedroom, and it's tearing their relationship apart.Liz is tired of doing what others expect for no good reason other than it’s expected. When she meets open and carefree Chloe and Jordan, she seizes the opportunity to explore the unknown and her sexuality. The three agree to one night of what turns out to be incredible, scorching sex.Then Jordan is falsely accused of assault, and everyone from his employer to the tabloids turn on him. Liz is the only person willing to stand by him and Chloe, and face the full-scale backlash.The clock is ticking toward annihilation for Jordan’s career as well as his relationship with Chloe, and Liz’s help could either be their saving grace or... Views: 239
Eight-year-old Legend Harris isn't talking. At all. He's been through too much trauma. He's seen too much. He arrives at the office of social worker Penny Wade after his school reports a bullet graze wound on his leg.
Penny's job is to advocate for Legend and help him process what's happened, but she has a detective trying to get her to force information out of him. Does Legend know who murdered James Booker the night he was wounded? If so, he may be in grave danger.
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