This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to develop the grit you need to achieve your goals.Grit itself sounds like a difficult skill to harness. And while it truly is not easy, there are techniques that you can apply to help you develop grit more effectively and efficiently than you ever did before.In this book, you will find these techniques. Your journey starts with understanding the driving force behind grit and why some people find...

Mom's stranded out of town, Dad injured his leg, and Derrick's family Christmas feast is in jeopardy. With the help of his brother, Blake; his friend, Grace; and a bargain involving some chickens and the old ladies down the street, maybe Derrick can still pull off this holiday meal. Or maybe it'll all go up in smoke! "A Fowl Christmas" is a collective short story written sequentially in individual pieces by seven Catholic Teen Books authors and originally...

AbbyMy heart races, palms sweat and knees go weak.I've never seen anyone like Drew in a science lab. He's made me a firm believer in chemistry existing outside a textbook. Until his ego shows up. Nope - No thank you. Moving on. I mean… who has an entourage in college?When our professor announces we'll be stuck as lab partners, I nearly lose my mind - I'm certain my dreams of becoming a doctor will go up in smoke with a distraction like him around....

In 1996, during a ceremony as part of his spiritual-shamanic training in Arizona, Sten Linnander unexpectedly experienced the Earth speaking to him in a clear, unequivocal voice, asking him to go up on a mountain and "speak normally" to it. Thus began a three-month series of communications between the author and the Earth. It then took Sten fifteen years to overcome his doubts and skepticism, both about the statements made by the Earth and how they...

Two missionaries started an evangelical radio station in the secular New England state of Montshire. An arsonist soon burned the station down. Now the missionaries will try again, broadcasting from a two-acre island not far outside American waters. They will face Atlantic storms, committed apostates, and resolute terrorists. Along the way, their tiny island will become important to America's national security. One shy, devout man will share the...

""For far too long, I was told I was just like everyone else. All my struggles and feelings were supposedly universal, and the real difference was that I was just a weak, manipulative, selfish, emotional baby. I had to toughen up. But as much as everyone tried to convince me, I knew it couldn't be true. Living just seemed so much harder for me than everyone else. Whilst the people around me seemed to have no problem being calm and happy, I had panic...