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Set the Tone

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        Set the Tone Belief without accountability goes soft. Accountability without belief breaks people. Great leaders do both. The workforce has changed. A new generation walked onto the floor carrying different expectations, and many are doing it in the middle of a workplace mental health crisis. The old playbook of pressure and fear no longer builds loyal teams. Neither does being everyone's friend. Set the Tone is a leadership book for restaurant managers, retail leaders, shift leads, and owners who want teams that care and deliver. Hospitality leadership coach Clay David Laugier draws on more than 20 years on the floor, verified research, and two unlikely coaches from television to show how belief and accountability work together. Inside, you'll learn: • The Ted Lasso Effect: how belief and curiosity build people who coach each other • The Shoresy Standard: how to hold a high bar without breaking your team • The Assist Standard: how to reward the people ...

Bid Whist at Midnight

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              Bid Whist at Midnight By Marva Washington History does not only live-in textbooks—it lives in the people who had to survive it. A card table, an empty chair, and nearly twenty years of silence provide the deceptively intimate setting for Marva Washington’s  Bid Whist at Midnight . What begins as a late-night reunion among former college friends Sardis, Grace, and Dorcus gradually becomes something far more revealing: an examination of friendship, memory, identity, and the history people carry long after the defining moment has passed. The novel opens in February 1988, when the women reunite for the game that once helped bind them together in college. Their familiar rhythm cannot completely disguise what has changed. Four chairs surround the table, but Taletha will not be joining them, and the absence immediately gives the gathering emotional weight.  From there, Washington reaches back into their college years, placing personal ...

Broken Pieces: There is beauty in scars a Kaleidoscope of colors

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  Broken Pieces: There is beauty in scars a Kaleidoscope of colors By: TL Stankus Can a scar become more than a reminder of pain and instead become part of a larger picture of faith, endurance, and purpose? Some Christian living books teach through principles. Tracey Stankus’s  Broken Pieces: There is Beauty in Scars | A Kaleidoscope of Colors  takes another path: it places faith inside the complicated realities of lived experience. Written as a faith-centered memoir,  Broken Pieces  moves through family fractures, addiction, grief, relationships, caregiving, difficult choices, and the long process of learning when to hold on and when to establish boundaries. Stankus makes clear from the beginning that the purpose of revisiting the past is not simply to recount hardship. Her hope is that people facing their own struggles may recognize that they are not alone and that darkness does not have to be the final destination.  That perspective gives the book partic...

The Global Gratitude Show Rocks Rob Alex Metaphysical Leader

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  The Global Gratitude Show Features Dr. Rob Alex,  Metaphysician Click here to listen to the show Listen in as we discuss his book,  Making Peace With Life , Dr. Rob Alex takes you on a deeply human, refreshingly honest, and surprisingly humorous journey through the chaos, beauty, heartbreak, energy, and wonder of being alive. This isn’t a book about chasing perfection. It’s about embracing the full spectrum — the ups, the downs, the middle ground, the transitions, the questions, the endings, and the beginnings. Inside these pages you’ll explore: Why there is no real “finish line” in life — and why that’s good news How life’s hardest moments often become your greatest teachers The metaphysical energy that connects you to every other life on the planet Why your life is both a tiny drop… and an entire universe How music, memories, impact, and love glue everything together Why asking better questions may matter more than finding answers How to stop defining yourself by age,...

Make Peace With Life

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                Make Peace With Life What if the meaning of life isn’t something you find… but something you learn to make peace with? In  Making Peace With Life , Dr. Rob Alex takes you on a deeply human, refreshingly honest, and surprisingly humorous journey through the chaos, beauty, heartbreak, energy, and wonder of being alive. This isn’t a book about chasing perfection. It’s about embracing the full spectrum — the ups, the downs, the middle ground, the transitions, the questions, the endings, and the beginnings. Inside these pages you’ll explore: Why there is no real “finish line” in life — and why that’s good news How life’s hardest moments often become your greatest teachers The metaphysical energy that connects you to every other life on the planet Why your life is both a tiny drop… and an entire universe How music, memories, impact, and love glue everything together Why asking better questions may matter more than finding answers Ho...

The Big Black Book of Sex Positions

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          The Big Black Book of Sex Positions From the writers who brought you  The Little Black Book of Sex Positions  comes a bigger and better manual than ever before.  The Big Black Book of Sex Positions  is your go-to guide if you feel like your sex life has gone stale. Spice things up with these tantalizing positions that will enhance your sexual experience like never before.  Within this accessible and approachable guide, you’ll find exciting and steamy sex positions like Bottoms Up, The Joyride, The Lotus, Spread Eagle, as well as more than twenty less-frequent, but more adventurous sexual topics and positions. You’ll also discover sections about foreplay, toys, setting the mood, exercises to improve your performance and flexibility, why size only matters when it’s wrong, and many other burning topics that are often overlooked.  Get ready to take your sex life to a whole-new level with  The Big Black Book of Sex Positio...

The Evolution of Ignorance: Life’s Poetry by Linwood Tracy

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          The Evolution of Ignorance: Life’s Poetry by Linwood Tracy The Evolution of Ignorance: Life’s Poetry is a raw and reflective poetry collection exploring love, identity, masculinity, wisdom, family, and the difficult lessons hidden within everyday life. Through the shifting perspectives of a young man coming of age, Linwood Tracy examines the beautifully decorated traps, heavy burdens, personal misunderstandings, and defining relationships that shape the journey into adulthood. Each poem invites readers to look beneath appearances, question what they believe, and consider how ignorance can gradually evolve into understanding. With honesty, vulnerability, and emotional depth, this collection captures the challenges of walking blindly into life’s tests while searching for truth, purpose, and self-awareness. Thought-provoking and unforgettable, The Evolution of Ignorance: Life’s Poetry is for readers who appreciate introspective poetry about: Coming of...