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Keyed to current, cutting edge research, this user-friendly guide provides detailed assistance to parents and educators who want to help dyslexic children achieve their best life. Topics include signs of dyslexia parents can watch for at various ages, symptoms that warrant diagnosis by a professional, what to expect during the testing process, tips on working with the school to create an optimal learning environment, how to offer a safe, encouraging space where children can learn to manage the emotional fallout of the dyslexic struggle, and much more.

Every leader and manager strives for success. The problem is, success relies on change and change is difficult. As you know, change affects people differently, which is why organizational change usually fails and why using a method that includes everyone’s needs is critical. The HST Model for Change presents a unique and comprehensive approach to the people side of organizational development. 

Is reading a struggle for your child? Does it cause your child stress or embarrassment? Are you confused by the mixed messages you receive from teachers and other professionals? Then this book is for you! This parent-friendly audiobook will help you understand the various causes of reading difficulties and how you can support your child. With more than 30 years of experience as a teacher, reading specialist, regional literacy coach, and administrator, Faith Borkowsky explains why so many children struggle to read and what you need to know to help your child.

The conspiracy is over the mistakes and cover up are hidden and buried for good. Both sides of the Atlantic can concentrate on the threats from Islamic Terrorism. That is what they all hope. They want to enlist a hidden black asset in the chase, but there are risks to that approach. Meanwhile the FBI is still investigating what really happened. Is the conspiracy really over?

Tour rookie Kevin Turner is within one bad bounce of quitting. If he fails to win a check in Las Vegas, he’s out of money and down the road. Foot, his semi-retired businessman caddie will let him go, too. He hates quitters. Just before the first round, ambitious tour official Bill Henson complicates Kevin’s life by asking help to nab a suspected cheat, veteran player Ben Amaya. Amaya’s disenchanted wife throws herself into the mixture when she finds Kevin in an out of the way bar. It is Tour golf with a few murders, a beautiful woman, a rich caddie and a desperate rookie. 

Golf is tough enough without outside forces coming into play, especially those with superpowers they sometimes abuse. Currently, 23 golf gods control your game. They can support you and they can hurt you; they can even fight over you. It all depends on how you appreciate them and appease them. This book, provided by the golf gods themselves, was designed to help you understand the effect they have on everyone’s game, and how to get them on your side. 

In 1970, the US government launches research into the feasibility of psychic-weaponry, based on growing intelligence reports on secret psychic-based military advances being made in the Soviet Union. After 25 years, the US psychic-weaponry program is publicly abandoned and declassified. Some believed the program went underground.

It was supposed to be an exciting golf tournament, not a life or death struggle. This is a golf story that takes place in the 1990s, when change was slower, before metal woods, before Tiger Woods soared, before some of the greats exited the game and before some of the more powerful antipsychotic drugs were invented. Young pro Kevin Turner travels to St. Andrews, Scotland to play in the oldest major golf championship. Although his caddie Foot is not with him, he has vowed to make the cut, and even contend.

If you’re like most people, your ideal life would include joy, love, happiness, fulfillment, and success. And you would probably like to avoid things like despair, failure, loneliness, fear, and hurt. The problem is, you can’t control life. Nobody can. But unlike most people, you can control your life. You do that by the decisions you make. When earning his doctorate, Robert Brown learned critical life skills from such luminaries as Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow, and Viktor Frankl, among others.

My First Ten Days in Heaven is a delightful look at being dead. Michael Greyson, a good man, a likable man was in the hospital again. He expected to go home, but one afternoon, with his family present, he went to sleep and didn't wake up. At least, he didn't wake up alive. Soon after opening his eyes to discover his new room, a young man named Pete arrived to give him the bad news. Mike listened with growing concern about being in heaven. He had dumped religion in his 40s. God didn't exist. Being in heaven was a mistake. And if Heaven existed.

World-renowned forensic sleuth Dr. Elliott Sumner believes the nightmare is over when heads of board members are found, and a serial killer is dead. But three in Cape Town resurrect a sinister plot to control a genetic mutation with profound implications. When the groundbreaking formula surfaces with a message from the dead geneticist, Elliott knows only he can take the anti-aging biologic to the world. Doubting such fantasy and reluctant to engage in a hopeless battle against deadly minions, Elliott's worse fears are confirmed.

The world-renowned forensic pathologist and serial killer hunter Dr. Elliott Sumner attends a Christmas gala at the mansion of billionaire patriarch Albert Bell. Elliott watches the "Bluff City Butcher" die, moments after learning that they are brothers. Elliott's worst fears are confirmed when attempts on his life soon reveal that he too was part of an inconceivable genetic experiment, and his termination has been ordered.

The Bluff City Butcher was once just an urban legend. Now a real monster has stepped out of the fog of a century-old mystery and thrown a midsouth community into unbridled terror. When world renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Elliott Sumner gets the call from the Butcher, he knows he's not dealing with just any serial killer. Not only is the BCB a genius and psychopath, he is the genetic recipient of a legendary mutation some would kill for. Elliott's battle with his own inner demons could get in the way of stopping the very real monster.

Thin, pale, awkward, bullied, Sam Every is a 13-year-old who finds comfort among his friends and his days at the beach. The ocean beckons to him. It is where he feels safest. Fitting in no longer matters when he is near the Pacific’s rolling waves. Gazing toward the endless blue where it touches the horizon, he imagines the ports he might someday reach and ponders his future. Little does he know an apparition - a hauntingly beautiful girl from the sea - will lead him farther from his home than he could ever dream, for destiny has given him a dangerous legacy. 

Who is the White Knight? He ruins fields so nothing can grow, burns down entire villages, and terrifies the people of Knox. People say it’s the new queen’s fault - that she’s a bad ruler. They want to take her throne away and give it to someone else. But she’s only been ruling for one month! When disaster strikes, can her nephew, Beau, save the throne for the queen and solve the mystery of the White Knight?

Kaye's father is in danger! The young knight, Kaye, and his friends, Reggie and Beau, enter Eldridge in search of the only man who can save his father. During their journey, they encounter and make a powerful enemy of Baron Thomas - the self-proclaimed heir to the throne of Eldridge - who also has his sights set on ruling the country of Knox. Together, the boys dodge the baron's henchmen and race against time to stop an assassination that would plunge the two kingdoms into war.

The beloved tutor Alchir has vanished! And a dangerous criminal with a grudge against Alchir has just escaped from prison. Kaye is determined to find the tutor and earn a fine reputation as a knight. The search leads Kaye, Reggie, and Beau to a sinister manor house at the edge of a dark forest where nearby villagers live in terror of a deadly monster. As they investigate the mystery of the forest beast, they uncover a terrible plot that could destroy Knox. When there's no one to turn to for help, can they save the kingdom - and their lives - by themselves?

After taking down a major drug operation in Detroit, Agent Ann Peabody quits the DEA and heads south of the border to avenge the death of her brother, a U.S. Border Patrol agent. The trail leads to Escobara, a suburb of drug cartel controlled Juarez, Mexico. After an assassination attempt Peabody becomes a security consultant to the newly elected Mayor of Escobara and struggles with the Mayor and her brother to rid Escobara of the rampant drug trade. Along with multiple, horrific drug-related slayings a serial killer is on the loose, and he's prolific.

They all had a system: the professional car thief, the cop, the sex trade operator, the heroin dealer, the DEA agent. But in Detroit all bets are off and you're on your own. Follow Elena Krizi, duped into sex slavery on the promise of a job, dancing and hooking in an 8 Mile Road strip club owned by Vlad "The Dragon" Dragovic. Ride with professional car thief Chris Wolfe boosting Escalades and busting them down at Eddie Siegler's chop shop, deep in Detroit. Take a wild ride on the lawless streets of Detroit in The System - A Detroit Story by John Silver.

Caught in the middle of a fatal car chase and drug-fueled gun battle, Clive Bradshaw decides to call it quits, leave the city and live a simpler life with his wife Emily and young daughter Amy. Emily drops him off at the foot of Detroit on his last day of work. Clive steps out of the car and into a city on the verge of collapse, rife with corruption, no city services, overworked and underpaid police and fire departments manned by skeleton crews, fighting a hopeless battle against brazen, uncontrolled crime...then the pulses hit. Everything that produces or relies on electricity is destroyed.