So Yesterday

Ever wonder who was the first kid to keep a wallet on a big chunky chain, or wear way-too-big pants on purpose? What about the mythical first guy who wore his baseball cap backwards? These are the Innovators, the people on the very cusp of cool. Seventeen-year-old Hunter Braque's job is finding them for the retail market. But when a big-money client disappears, Hunter must use all his cool-hunting talents to find her. Along the way he's drawn into a web of brand-name intrigue- a missing cargo of the coolest shoes he's ever seen, ads for products that don't exist, and a shadowy group dedicated to the downfall of consumerism as we know it.

Promotions Are So Yesterday is the recipient of the 2023 Bronze Medal from the Axiom Business Book Awards in the category of Success/Motivation/Coaching and the 2023 Nautilus Book Award in the category of Business & Leadership (Self Pub/small Press). The time-honored tradition of defining career development exclusively in terms of promotions, moves, and title changes is dead. Beyond, between, and besides the climb up the positional ladder, there are many other ways that employees can—and want to—grow. However, many organizations still operate under the notion that promotions are the only option for career development, leaving employees disengaged, managers frustrated, and the business disadvantaged in its efforts to retain talent. The good news is that career development is so much more than promotions alone, and managers are in a powerful position to redefine career development and create positive results for their employees and their organizations in this area. In Promotions Are So Yesterday, Julie Winkle Giulioni offers you a new approach for developing your employees’ careers and helping them thrive in a company when promotions are not readily available. Discover an easy-to-apply framework of seven alternative dimensions of development (contribution, competence, confidence, connection, challenge, contentment, and choice) that will engage your employees—dynamic opportunities for growth that are completely within your control as a manager. Promotions Are So Yesterday is filled with practical advice, nearly 100 questions to spark reflection and productive dialogue, and actionable templates and tools that managers can use with employees. Help bring your employees and your organization to even greater achievement with a strategy that will increase your employees’ job satisfaction, performance, knowledge, and skills, and strengthen your organization’s workforce.

'So there I was - a twenty-one year old black female university student walking down a suburban street with a gun, no shoes and murder on my mind. I was going to kill the past. I didn't know what else to do with it' Stacey Patton today is a vibrant and impressive young woman with a promising career in journalism. Yet her childhood was a battleground of bullying, abuse and mental torture. Abandoned by her birth mother, Stacey was placed in the New Jersey foster care system and was apparently lucky to be adopted by a hardworking, God-fearing African American couple. Yet something else was going on in this immaculately kept home - punishment in terrible ways, physical, emotional and sexual. Her mother was tyrannical and her father, either so in love with or in fear of his wife, turned a blind eye to the abuse she heaped on their love-starved little girl. Stacey survived by channelling her energy into her school work and her education raised her from the shackles of her unhappy home. Drawing parallels between her own childhood and the treatment of black slaves brought to America, Stacey Patton weaves the moving story of her own painful upbringing with the shameful slave history of America.

A New York Times bestseller! From the author of Today Tonight Tomorrow comes a magical, “emotionally savvy[,] and genuinely romantic” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) story in the vein of Groundhog Day about a girl forced to relive her disastrous first day of college—only to discover that her nemesis is stuck in the time loop with her. Barrett Bloom is hoping college will be a fresh start after a messy high school experience. But when school begins on September 21st, everything goes wrong. She’s humiliated by the know-it-all in her physics class, she botches her interview for the college paper, and at a party that night, she accidentally sets a frat on fire. She panics and flees, and when she realizes her roommate locked her out of their dorm, she falls asleep in the common room. The next morning, Barrett’s perplexed to find herself back in her dorm room bed, no longer smelling of ashes and crushed dreams. It’s September 21st. Again. And after a confrontation with Miles, the guy from Physics 101, she learns she’s not alone—he’s been trapped for months. When her attempts to fix her timeline fail, she agrees to work with Miles to find a way out. Soon they’re exploring the mysterious underbelly of the university and going on wild, romantic adventures. As they start falling for each other, they face the universe’s biggest unanswered question yet: what happens to their relationship if they finally make it to tomorrow?

Majority of us have experienced storms in our lives. Whether it be depression, anger, abuse or any other experience, you are not alone. Dawana has shared her life storms from child to adulthood. She wants readers to understand that they can lead normal, positive lives despite what happened in the past. We all have had unpleasant experiences or done things we're not particularly proud of in life. Such experiences can be overwhelming and affect our lives in the present. How do you lead a normal, positive life after the storms? How do you get over the fear, shame, guilt, or pain? This book will encourage readers to work hard at overcoming unpleasant experiences in life and focus on becoming a better person. It will help you realize that God truly loves you despite your past. He waits on us to seek Him. Dawana shares how God helped her through and shares scriptures to show that He will help you too. Remember: So What! That was Yesterday. God is waiting on you.

One of Japan's greatest classic murder mysteries, introducing their best loved detective, translated into English for the first time In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a son of the grand Ichiyanagi family. But amid the gossip over the approaching festivities, there is also a worrying rumour - it seems a sinister masked man has been asking questions around the village. Then, on the night of the wedding, the Ichiyanagi household are woken by a terrible scream, followed by the sound of eerie music. Death has come to Okamura, leaving no trace but a bloody samurai sword, thrust into the pristine snow outside the house. Soon, amateur detective Kosuke Kindaichi is on the scene to investigate what will become a legendary murder case, but can this scruffy sleuth solve a seemingly impossible crime?

This volume collects, for the first time, all of Thomas A. Easton's GMO-themed work: 12 stories and 5 novels...more than 1,400 pages of great reading. Included are: Short Stories: The 2076 Roachster When Life Hands You a Lemming The Coming of the Mayflower Hard Times Social Climber Lost Luggage Sing a Song of Porkchops Down on the Truck Farm Matchmaker The Homemaker The Last Word The Price Novels: Sparrowhawk Greenhouse Woodsman Tower of the Gods Seeds of Destiny If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

Kathy Mosbys life was fairly routine until 2014. In the beginning of that year, it was as though three bombs dropped in the middle of her life. In January, her mom passed away suddenly from a brain aneurysm. In February, her neighbors dead tree fell on her house during a storm. Then in March, she was diagnosed with lymphoma. The journey that followed is Gather Your Tribe. When Kathy was first diagnosed, one of her doctors said, I know youre used to being the mom and taking care of everything, but now its time to gather your tribe and accept the help. So Kathy did indeed gather her tribe through deeply candid emails to her friends and family, which she wrote throughout her journey. Gather Your Tribe is both painful and uplifting. Kathy hopes that by sharing her story, which includes the emails to her tribe, she will inspire others to face their biggest fears and challenges head-on. Amazing things can happen when you do, like receiving a call from the White House!

Is it fair to keep asking the Gods for favours? More so, if they have been listening to you, is it worth asking for a second chance at love? Vikram was living a reasonably happy life with his wife and two adorable kids and was always thankful to the Gods for whatever they blessed him with. He liked his life, but nevertheless, it was boring and lacked excitement. Vikram then decided to take control of things and of himself; he decided to fall in love. Now, there was a lot of action in life but the price he paid for all the thrills and chills was too heavy. Vikram lost his freedom to another woman. His favourite food, his favourite pastimes, his friends, his outings, and everything else that mattered, ends up being sacrificed at the altar of love. Purvi was living a dull life until she meets Vikram and decides to spice it up. This was a man she was in love with when in college. She was single after being separated from her husband, and ready to mingle. She had been through a lot of drama in the past and wanted a no-frills relationship. In Vikram she found a man she could dictate terms to. Is it worth losing a woman you love for your own peace of mind and then asking the Gods to set you free? ‘Gaafil’ is the story of one such careless man who, for a dash of thrill in his life, ends up throwing all caution to wind; only to go on the brink of disaster himself. Does he survive? Or, does love toss him around like a ragged puppet? Do the Gods give him another chance? Read Sanjana Chhabra’s ‘Gaafil’ to know what fate Vikram meets.