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BARR NONE is a story of corruption, secrets, alliances, betrayal, and an unsolved murder case, all set against the backdrop of New York City Big Law, written by former Big Law insider, Amy Impellizzeri. Carly Jenner is a rising star attorney at one of the most prestigious law firms in New York City: Barr Knoll LLP, named for the larger-than-life founder for whom Carly has wanted to work since she was a little girl. Carly's closest friend at th...

This book is an absolute must-read for educators. Educator fatigue and burnout are at an all-time high. Students are carrying their mental and emotional exhaustion into the classroom. Intentional Neuroplasticity explores the plasticity of the brain and nervous system, while learning how adversity and trauma impact a student's developing nervous system to affect behaviors--which ultimately changes the way educators approach discipline and engag...

As featured in Bloomberg Law, Boston Business Journal, Medium, and more! From the acclaimed authors of LIFE AFTER LAW (Liz Brown, Harvard-trained lawyer turned business professor) and LAWYER INTERRUPTED (Amy Impellizzeri, former Skadden Arps litigator turned novelist) comes a new guidebook for lawyers who find themselves asking "How do I leave the law?" or "How can I find a more fulfilling career?" With case studies and practical steps on how ...

Emmy-winning journalist, congresswoman, and the first single American to adopt internationally, Marjorie Margolies masterfully blends her personal narrative with national history and politics in this call-to-action memoir. Filled with the wisdom Marjorie Margolies gained as an athlete, educator, TV reporter, congressperson, world traveler, adoption advocate, parent, and grandparent, this memoir provides readers with an abundance of upbeat, pr...

Emmy-winning journalist, congresswoman, and the first single American to adopt internationally, Marjorie Margolies masterfully blends her personal narrative with national history and politics in this call-to-action memoir. Filled with the wisdom Marjorie Margolies gained as an athlete, educator, TV reporter, congressperson, world traveler, adoption advocate, parent, and grandparent, this memoir provides readers with an abundance of upbeat, pr...

Crianza con Conexión es un premiado y clásico de siempre, de Pam Leo, líder de opinión del Movimiento de Crianza Consciente. Se basa en la serie de talleres de parentalidad que dictó durante cerca de treinta años. Su premisa es que la mayor necesidad de los niños es tener un vínculo sólido con al menos un adulto. Pam nos enseña que el nivel de cooperación que se obtiene de los hijos generalmente es equivalente al nivel de conexión que los niño...

Great musicians, Olympic athletes, comedians, and others have been demonstrating how to harness the phenomenon of transmuting pain, loss, and failure into tremendous inspiration-but how? LIFE IS DISAPPOINTING uses humor and personal stories, mixed with psychological research on coping skills, to help you better understand disappointment and how to use it as fuel to propel yourself forward.

2020 IPPY GOLD AWARD WINNER ~ Memoir A not-so-nice Jewish girl, expelled from Yale Drama during the Vietnam protests, abandons her acting dream to follow the man she loves to an off-the-grid commune in Oregon. At 23, Carol Schlanger was an insecure upper middle class radical. Her parents spoiled her and she expected the universe to follow. It didn't. After being expelled from Yale, losing a coveted Broadway lead, and seeing a suicide splatte...

ANTONIO, WE¿KNOW¿YOU follows the life of a migrant farmworker kidnapped at age four, trafficked through age ten at a famous California Ranch, until being saved from an attempted suicide and taken under Cesar Chavez's wing. Antonio eventually graduated from law school, become a labor lawyer, and found the strength and resilience to be reunited with his long-lost family after 24 years. Antonio aims to offers hope in desperate circumstances in sh...

ANTONIO, WE¿KNOW¿YOU follows the life of a migrant farmworker kidnapped at age four, trafficked through age ten at a famous California Ranch, until being saved from an attempted suicide and taken under Cesar Chavez's wing. Antonio eventually graduated from law school and found the strength and resilience to be reunited with his long-lost family after 24 years. In telling his story, Antonio aims to offer hope in desperate circumstances. He shar...

Ingrid DiLaurio lives in Riversedge, New York, four express train stops from Manhattan. Don't be fooled: With its tree-lined Main Street, and quaint ambiance, Riversedge is only impersonating a small town. While it's a place small enough for everyone to know each other's secrets, few do. The town revolves around the prestigious Riversedge Law Club, where deals are made and cases are resolved and where Ingrid DiLaurio -- a former lawyer turned ...

Little Garlic is a delightful way to inspire children with spiritual wisdom. The stories evoke Richard Bach's Illusions and Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince, with a young protagonist "Little Garlic" and his guide "Onion, " whose layered wisdom provides a passageway to spiritual discovery for all ages.Little Garlic will nurture a feeling of being at home in the universe. ADVANCE PRAISE"Nothing exists like this book by Avideh Shashaa...

An entertaining and insightful pageturner about modern marriage and a tight-knit group of friends navigating their 30s and beyond. It's tradition that on everyone's birthday, the three couples gather to celebrate. They've toasted each other's big life milestones, and been there for each other through loss and disappointment, too. Nathan is the first to turn 40, and when the cake arrives, he makes a shocking announcement. The birthday ritual, a...

When their Ukrainian grandmother is lost on a trans-Atlantic Flight, two sisters are swept into a quest across eastern Europe to find the woman who had always told more tales than truths. From Poland to Slovakia to Hungary and beyond, Larissa and Ira navigate the steps of Ukrainian folk dance, the cliff-side paths of Slovak Paradise National Park, and the stark realities of war, folktales, and feminism, all for the sake of chasing who they're ...

The LITTLE GARLIC COMPANION is a tool to explore the lessons in the book LITTLE GARLIC by Avideh Shahshaani. It includes questions for discussion, quotes to consider, meditations, art, and activities.LITTLE GARLIC is a collection of timeless spiritual parables which provide a passageway to spiritual discovery for all ages, honoring a child's ability of knowing and engaging multiple levels of consciousness, the dream world, companionship, natur...

LOVE, ALICE follows Alice, a middle-aged literature teacher whose lifelong loneliness is exacerbated upon her move from the French countryside to Paris. Alienated from her only daughter and hungry for comfort and companionship, Alicebegins to develop romantic feelings for her quiet, reserved Japanese masseur, Akifumi. Too guarded to tell him the truth face-to-face, Alice instead writes Akifumi a long letter in which she reveals not only her bu...

Connection Parenting" is based on author Pam Leo's seven week parenting series, "Meeting the Needs of Children, " that she has been teaching for over sixteen years. The premise is that a strong parent-child bond is the key to children's optimal human development and our most effective parenting tool. Connection Parenting is a proactive approach to parenting that supports parents and caregivers in creating and maintaining the strong bonds child...

The eyes of troubled youth are communicating in all moments.Hurt people hurt people. Our children can become violent, detached, or shut down when early development is toxic, severely disrupted and is met with significant adverse childhood experiences. Children are our nation's greatest natural resource and their emotional, mental and physiological well-being are at stake. What can we do? We begin with the awareness and research that adversity ...

Julie spent twenty years building a rewarding career as a well-respected newspaper executive. However, she was unaware that the company was merging with its digital counterpart until she was abruptly and unceremoniously relieved of her duties. While adapting to her new, slower-paced lifestyle, Julie realizes that there are only so many episodes of The Real Housewives of (fill in the city) that she can watch before she goes out of her mind. A...

The developing brains of our children need to "feel" safe. Children who carry chronic behavioral challenges are often met with reactive and punitive practices that can potentially reactivate the developing stress response systems. This book deeply addresses the need for co-regulatory and relational touch point practices, shifting student-focused behavior management protocols to adult regulated brain and body states which are brain aligned, pre...