What You've Been Missing


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Populated by characters as frank as their midwestern settings, What You’ve Been Missing, Janet Desaulniers’s debut collection, explores the unsettling moments when ordinary life ceases to exist. Parents, confused by their five-year-old’s refusal to sit up in her chair, lift her blouse to find she’s been beaten. A woman returns from a shopping trip just in time to see her husband kissing a young co-worker. A young husband constructs an elaborate and romanticized version of his new marriage and then ruins it in one gesture. These singular moments propel each person on a journey beyond the realm of everyday existence. Vividly portraying the possible horrors and detours that can mark anyone’s life, Desaulniers beautifully captures the vast and often conflicting emotions that humans endure at times of loss and sorrow—loneliness, pain, desperation, desire. Yet this balletic push and pull of emotions will challenge, wound, and ultimately enlighten her characters, transporting them to a place beyond individual sorrow. At times unbearably heartbreaking, What You’ve Been Missing is not just another set of stories about bad things happening to good people. At its heart, this award-winning collection is about people continuing to talk—rather than shutting down—as bad things happen to them. As the recently divorced Liza thinks in “The Good Fight”: “Words do ease us. They comfort us. Maybe they protect us in a way, rescue us from the agony of what our bodies feel.”




Stress Management: Find Out What You've Been Missing and Avoid Burnout (Your Strategy Guide on How to Manage Stress, Deal With Changes)


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Learning how to manage your stress shouldn’t be stressful. With The Stress Management Workbook you’ll get the relief you need in a time frame that works for you. With concrete exercises that require no more than The Stress Management Workbook will help you build sustainable stress management skills for significantly reducing stress—now and for the future. In this guide that serves as your armor against stress, you’ll discover: · Ways to spot everything that is adding to your stress, from financial worries to strains of daily life · Effective strategies to help you manage your stress and find balance in life – never miss important events with your loved ones again · Burned out already? – expert tricks that can help you recover faster · A daily relaxation planner and other practical tools for lowering your stress · And much more! Many people often wait until stress becomes crushing before taking a step to deal with it; this isn’t the right approach. You increase the risk of developing the various health issues associated with stress. If you’re lucky not to have developed any of these health issues, then don’t delay further in dealing with your stress.




The Lover You Have Been Missing


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The Lover you have been missing is one of its kind, a book that talks of the essence of Love. Till now we have found love to be referred in personal aspects or rather, as an image or person. The author has vividly talked of the Love that is universal, beyond persons and images. The Love that is your true nature. The Love that once tasted, becomes one with you. He retorts on how love has been brought down to a 'rotten' definition by us. He talks on an immersion in love that brings courage and completeness with it. He shatters all the misconceptions and conceptions around Love, beautifully elucidating how men and women stand at two ends of duality. Author, sensationally, breaks all 'images' associated with love and brings you to Love in its truest form.




What We All Been Missing


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Do you feel something is missing from your life? What We All Been Missing was written to help people build a personal relationship with God. The book tells the author's story of his experiences at church as a kid and the factors growing up that built him into the man he is today. In his book, Rodney H. Lewis discusses all the questions he had growing up. A lot of the answers, many people today still have trouble answering. Rodney seeks the truth, to show that getting close to God can allow you to see the world differently and get a better understanding of reading the Bible. With the Grace of God, in writing this book, Rodney "wanted to connect with God and help others do the same." All his life, he has found his own way of interpreting the Bible. "No one I knew ever looked at the Bible the way I did; most people don't read it." He is now sharing his belief of What We All Been Missing.




Monday's Not Coming


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"Jackson’s characters and their heart-wrenching story linger long after the final page, urging readers to advocate for those who are disenfranchised and forgotten by society and the system." (Publishers Weekly, "An Anti-Racist Children's and YA Reading List") From the critically acclaimed author of Allegedly, Tiffany D. Jackson, comes a gripping novel about the mystery of one teenage girl’s disappearance and the traumatic effects of the truth. Monday Charles is missing, and only Claudia seems to notice. Claudia and Monday have always been inseparable—more sisters than friends. So when Monday doesn’t turn up for the first day of school, Claudia’s worried. When she doesn’t show for the second day, or second week, Claudia knows that something is wrong. Monday wouldn’t just leave her to endure tests and bullies alone. Not after last year’s rumors and not with her grades on the line. Now Claudia needs her best—and only—friend more than ever. But Monday’s mother refuses to give Claudia a straight answer, and Monday’s sister April is even less help. As Claudia digs deeper into her friend’s disappearance, she discovers that no one seems to remember the last time they saw Monday. How can a teenage girl just vanish without anyone noticing that she’s gone?




The Joy of Missing Out


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This book is two things. It’s an eye-opener to the fact that we don’t have to do a million things to be productive (or successful). And it’s a coach that helps us trim the fat, get real with our purpose, and start living more intentionally-Goop Dalton helps readers by teaching us to focus on the most important things and create our own operating systems that are exclusive to our lives as individuals. By doing this, we can simplify and make life even better- San Francisco Book Review Dalton’s ground-up approach to productivity teaches readers to identify their real priorities and, in doing so, cut their massive to-do lists down to size by learning to say no to the tasks that pull them away from their North Star-Grateful Overwhelmed. Do you wake up in the morning already feeling behind? Does the pressure of keeping it all together make you feel anxious and irritable? Tanya Dalton, CEO and productivity expert, offers you a liberating shift in perspective: feeling overwhelmed isn't the result of having too much to do -- it's from not knowing where to start. Doing less might seem counterintuitive, but doing less is more productive, because you’re concentrating on the work you actually want to be doing. Through this book, you can learn how to: Identify what is important to you and clarify your priorities. Develop ways to streamline your specific workflow. Discover your purpose. Named Top 10 Business Book of the Year by Fortune magazine, The Joy of Missing Out is chock-full of resources and printables. This is a legitimate action plan for change. Once you reject the pressure to do more, something amazing happens: you discover you can finally live a guilt-free, abundant life.




Hear What You've Been Missing: How to Cope with Hearing Loss


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An Indispensable Guide to Better Communication. Our ability to hear keeps us connected to the world, and any degree of hearing loss can be frustrating and isolating. If you or someone you love has trouble hearing, this book will help improve your communication and quality of life. Hear What You’ve Been Missing outlines the many tools and strategies available to overcome the effects of hearing loss. Audiologist Donna Wayner answers common questions about causes and treatment of hearing loss, hearing aids and other assistive listening devices, medications and surgery, and more. This reassuring guide provides solutions that will help you: Make conversation easier Communicate well in social situations Enjoy music, radio, and television Improve performance at work or school Determine which assistive listening devices and systems are right for you




Slow Down


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The days are long, but the years are short. No matter if it’s your child’s first step, first day of school, or first night tucked away in a new dorm room away from home, there comes a moment when you realize just how quickly the years are flying by. Christian music artist Nichole Nordeman’s profound lyrics in her viral hit “Slow Down” struck a chord with moms everywhere, and now this beautiful four-color book will inspire you to celebrate the everyday moments of motherhood. Filled with thought-provoking writings from Nichole, as well as guest writings from friends including Shauna Niequist and Jen Hatmaker, practical tips, and journaling space for reflection, Slow Down will be a poignant gift for any mom, as well as a treasured keepsake. Take a few moments to reflect and celebrate the privilege of being a parent and getting to watch your little ones grow—and Slow Down. Nichole Nordeman has sold more than 1 million albums as a Christian music artist and has won 9 GMA Dove Awards, including two awards for Female Vocalist of the Year and Songwriter of the Year. Nichole released a lyric video for her song “Slow Down,” and it struck a chord with parents everywhere, amassing 14 million views in its first five days. She lives in Oklahoma with her two children.




Taste What You're Missing


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"The science of taste and how to improve your sense of taste so that you get the most out of every bite"--




Since You've Been Gone


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Haunted by guilt since the brutal murder of her beloved younger brother after she proves unable to find his killer, clairvoyant Rebecca Ryan must again use her talents, this time to find her cousin's missing son.




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