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At age 16, most high schoolers are trying to navigate college applications, Friday night football games, and SAT scores. But for Jess Kimball, age 16 meant graduating high school and moving abroad, alone. Her decision to focus on running a business instead of going to college is one that she had no regrets about - except for her curiosity about college life. At age 19, Jess decided to audit classes at Dartmouth College; an experience that would change her life. What resulted was the social experience of college, minus the debt and anxiety - a pseudo-college experience.

The Accident captures the sweet, playful, and giggly personality of Gayle as a near three-year-old. She's off with her mom to a grown-up tea party. Her life is suddenly changed by the physical and emotional scars left after a terrible accident.

Punching Bag is the compelling true story of a high school career defined by poverty and punctuated by outbreaks of domestic abuse. Rex Ogle, who brilliantly mapped his experience of hunger in Free Lunch, here describes his struggle to survive; reflects on his complex, often paradoxical relationship with his passionate, fierce mother; and charts the trajectory of his stepdad’s anger. Hovering over Rex’s story is the talismanic presence of his unborn baby sister.

Journalist Diana Kapp has crisscrossed this country writing for and about empowered girls, girls who expect to be leaders, founders, and inventors. This book takes it a step further. It says to girls: While you’re striving to be CEOs and world leaders, consider solving the biggest challenge of our lifetime, too - because you can do both at the same time, and here are 34 women doing just that.

This journal was created with today's young adult in mind. It explores topics such as social media, parents, college, and more and provides ideas and examples of how young adults might handle various situations that they deal with on a daily basis. There are no right or wrong answers. It is a guided journal with prompts to help you think through the questions and write out your responses. It is a roadmap to help you identify where you are today and how you can make your life better in the future.

There’s only me. The silent room. The beating of my heart. And the grip of my anguish. That was just last year. Now, I stroll the halls between classes offering a smile to anyone I meet. There is an air of mystery surrounding me they cannot quite figure out. But they respect it – because I respect it. I can no longer be touched by their frivolous ways, and now I’m going to show you how....

If you’re a teenager or young adult asking this question, there’s probably a reason. Have you heard rumors about someone you know getting assaulted? Do you worry about date rape? Or perhaps you’ve experienced sexual assault and didn’t know what to do or where to turn. Be Strong, Be Wise will help!

Of course, everyone wants to succeed and earn a lot. But can you be a young entrepreneur who runs a great business, exactly like the young entrepreneurs discussed in my book? The answer is yes! In 6 Figure Teens: Make Six Figures Before Your 21st Birthday, I will show you exactly how this mission is possible.

Through a series of heart-breaking and poignant letters, come explore the 20-year journey of a child longing for the love of his mentally ill mother while facing seemingly insurmountable odds. Witness Manny's transformation in this coming of age story of a forgotten and disfigured child, born into spirit-crushing poverty in Houston, Texas, and thrust into adulthood all too soon. Crying out to the world for understanding and forgiveness, Manny battles the silent and treacherous enemy of mental illness in his mother's often erratic and sometimes terrifying behavior.

Does your teen need a more positive outlook on how they approach certain problems in life? Are they sad and closed up in their room and need a bit of a wake up call? It really doesn't have to be the end of the world, as much they might make it seem.This book will engage the listener through life's ups and downs as a teen! We all know it's not pretty, but a sprinkle of positivity can go a long way!

Controlling the feelings does not imply containing them and driving them deep inside since this is how people develop anger management issues. This guide will teach you how to understand and channel your emotions so that they do not negatively affect you or those around you.

Are you troubled financially? Do you struggle with budgeting your finances? Well, if you answered yes to either of these questions, then this tool may be incredibly useful. In this book, I cover how to budget and give you tips and tricks to help get your finances back on track.

Do you find yourself struggling with navigating relationships of any kind? Are you constantly fighting with your relatives or your friends? Do you have problems with communicating in an intimate relationship of any kind? Jason Francis has your back! As an observer of the human experience, he examines relationships in intimate detail.

This audiobook offers guided prompts to help promote positive thinking and gratitude. This book will help you identify everyday stress points so you can work on effective solutions to resolve any issues. In turn, this will help to reduce stress, control emotional triggers, and help you find a healthy way to manage your mood, anxiety, depression, or PTSD.

Some romance and self-love and deep, inspirational poems that I hope you all can enjoy.

This audiobook was developed to release a simple but effective step-by-step process on ways to protect your peace and mental state. Each step is relatable to just about every person on earth. We all have gone through things that have interrupted our peace and negatively effected our mental state. As a result, these past traumas, hurts, and circumstances play a huge part in our decision making. If we are not careful, our thought process can cause us to become stagnated in life or even cost us our peace. It is important that we take the initiative to grow and move forward.

Are there times when you might have reacted in an emotional way that made you feel you had no control over yourself? It could be some action done in a fit of rage or breaking down in front of someone (that made you cringe later), or it could even be an act of kindness that made you take a particular step. Do you see something common in each of these situations? In every situation, you acted based on the desire of your heart over the logic of your mind.

We all want to look good and for teenage girls, this is particularly important. The right size, the right hair, perfect legs, and beautiful skin are just a small fraction of what a teenage girl wants. The reality, of course, is that there is no such thing as a perfect body. Each one of us has something (or several things) that aren’t quite right, but it’s when we allow these small issues to become big one that the problems can start.

What does being successful in life mean to you? What do you think you need to do or know to become successful in life? Living Your Dreams is a book written for everyone who wants to achieve their goals and become successful in life. In this book, you will get to know the true meaning of being successful and living a life of purpose.

Clinical social worker and psychotherapist Annette Poizner suggests it does: young women will be fascinated to learn about the map of meaning that they harbor within, a map that the unconscious mind builds to manage chaos, an inherent part of reality. In this book, listeners access a summary of some of the 'rules for life' they can use to architect their best self and enhance self-image; rules which provide an anchor, in the face of today's normlessness.