From David Cottrell, author of Monday Morning Choices and Monday Morning Mentoring, comes Monday Morning Motivation, the latest addition to his Monday Morning series. This step-by-step guide explains how to generate the positive energy found in successful organizations, providing readers with the tools to discover Synchronization, Speed, Communication, Customer Focus, and Integrity-five vital energy conductors to motivate their teams, customers, and...

Maggie unearths dark family secrets after her little sister disappears in this heart-pounding mystery When sixteen-year-old Maggie's father and stepmother leave home for a long-overdue honeymoon, Maggie and her older brother, Mike, must take care of their four-year-old half sister, Courtenay. On Monday, Maggie puts her sister on the bus, but when Courtenay doesn't come home that day, Maggie discovers that she never made it to school. The police and...

Full of quirk and whimsy, Things to Do Before a Monday provides 52 amusing activities to start each week in a positive and joyful way. Ranging from silly, irreverent ideas to self-improvement goals, each prompt encourages readers to shake up their usual routine with fun and attainable exercises such as volunteering at an animal shelter, cooking a favorite meal from childhood, building a pillow fort, or holding hands on a bike with a cutie. With humorous,...

Melissa Gray is National Public Radio's Cake Lady. Every Monday she brings a cake to the office for her colleagues at NPR to enjoy. Hundreds of Mondays (and cakes) later, Melissa has lots of cake-making tips to share. With more than 50 recipes for the cakes that have been dreamed of and drooled over for a lifetime including Brown Sugar Pound Cake, Peppermint and Chocolate Rum Marble Cake, Lord and Lady Baltimore Cakes, Dark-Chocolate Red Velvet Cake,...

Detention, homework, werewolf slaying…what's your Monday look like?All Becca Redford wants is to survive her parents' divorce and get through high school with as few detentions as possible, but her family legacy gets in the way.All Ben Hunt wants is to maintain his clean cut, varsity football image, but he has a secret to keep.They'll need to find a way to be together without Becca and her wolfhound killing Ben, and the werewolf wars bringing about...

A little boy's search for a butterfly takes him on an epic adventure through the woods behind his house in this illustrated children's story. Young adventurer Danny Bundy loves to explore the forest behind his house. There is so much to see in there! The other boys in his class like to trap bullfrogs and other animals, but for show-and-tell on Monday, Danny is looking for something much more beautiful: a monarch butterfly. But, this forest has more...

After 900 years in hibernation, the dragons began to re-awaken to take their rightful and accustomed place back at the top of the food chain.They'd been asleep for 900 years, but the rest of the world hadn't been. It was going to be one really rude awakening.In this corner, the dragons, teeth, claws, vile tempers, always hungry.In the other corner, including but not limited to: The internet, the People's Liberation Army, bullet trains, 345,000 volt...

A five-minute radio segment became the one thing I looked forward to every week. I didn't care what she was saying or who she was…I just wanted to hear her voice.Apparently my obsession with this woman wasn't exclusive. Others were familiar with "Sinclair" and the sex appeal she brought to a simple radio show every Monday morning. I guess I was the last to know about this mystery woman who held so much influence in my own city.Until she directly...

This third and concluding volume of the magisterial Chickamauga Campaign trilogy, a comprehensive examination of one of the most important and complex military operations of the Civil War, examines the immediate aftermath of the battle with unprecedented clarity and detail. The narrative opens at dawn on Monday, September 21, 1863, with Union commander William S. Rosecrans in Chattanooga and most of the rest of his Federal army in Rossville, Georgia....