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Resilient... It's a word that describes what many of us need today. From time to time, all of us suffer setbacks, disappointments, heartaches. We wonder if we can survive, and we seriously doubt we'll ever thrive again. Where can we find a bedrock of hope? Donna Gibbs has been there, too. She has faced the shock of a discouraging diagnosis, and she's suffered the desperation, heartache, anxiety, and depression that can be the result of a severe psychological blow. In this book, she takes us with her on a journey to be rigorously honest about our fears and doubts so we can find God to be faithful in every situation we face. This 90-day devotional provides personal reflections, biblical insights, and concrete steps toward hope and healing.

Insecurity is easily the most pervasive struggle of women in America today. We have more ways than ever to compare ourselves to others--who are all prettier, thinner, smarter, more successful, and more put together than we are--and our sense of self-worth takes a serious beating on an almost daily basis. We're tired of simply commiserating with writers and bloggers who share their own struggles--we want real, workable solutions about how to find peace with ourselves. This is what professional Christian counselor Donna Gibbs gives women with Silencing Insecurity. Drawing from her twenty years of experience counseling women, she exposes the many lies that produce insecurities in us starting from a young age, the result of letting those insecurities get the best of us, and, most importantly, the way out of insecurity--for good. Anyone who is tired of letting insecurity snatch away the joy from her life will welcome this practical and freeing book.

Everyone suffers disappointment, rejection, injustices, and losses, perhaps even traumatic ones. The spiritual pain born of such suffering can paralyze us, leaving us broken inside and barely getting by with the motions of life. Whether we remain stuck or move forward is determined in large part by our resilience. Concise and compassionate, Becoming Resilient takes our most common question when tragedy strikes--Why?--and replaces it with the healthier, more productive question, What next? A professional Christian counselor for 20 years, author Donna Gibbs draws on her experience helping clients get unstuck, sharing secrets for building resilience that will change readers' experience of suffering. She offers practical tools and effective coping strategies to deal with whatever life throws their way so they can move through suffering--and come out stronger on the other side.

The challenges of 2020 brought a mental health crisis, with nearly every person around the globe experiencing symptoms that threatened their mental health. If you are like most and have wrestled with feelings of discouragement, or experienced unwelcomed mental health symptoms like depression or anxiety, then this 40-Day devotional is for you! Each devotion is specifically organized to facilitate your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual growth, and to provide practical tools for mental health resilience. Every day of the journey also provides validation, education, instruction, and encouragement, a point to ponder (a task for the day that develops resilience), and a single victory verse. It's time to jump-start your bounce back!Donna Gibbs, co-owner of Summit Wellness Centers, PLLC, is author of the recent releases, Silencing Insecurity and Becoming Resilient. Donna has authored numerous other books, her blogs and articles have frequently been shared in various media outlets, and she has been featured on radio broadcasts across America, and internationally as well. Donna has been providing individuals and families the hope and help they need for over two decades as a North Carolina Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Supervisor (LCMHCS) and a Board Certified Professional Christian Counselor (BCPCC). A member of the American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC), she is a professional provider for Focus on the Family, Christian Care Network, r3Continuum, FINDINGbalance, and Samaritan's Purse.

Annotation. We think of retirement as something to be celebrated, even envied, a time when you are finally free to do your own thing. But what do people do for twenty or thirty years without the structures and restrictions of work? Does it mean someone is no longer important if they are not an active member of the workforce? Or is retirement a time for reinvention and refocusing? Through interviews with people ranging from the newly retired to those who have been retired for 30 years or more, from Australia, the United States, Canada, France, Japan, Malaysia, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, Donna Gibbs explores what people who are retired think, feel, and do. Her conversations, insights, and reflections on her own experiences offer a window into the new retirement with all its contradictions and complexities. With warmth, humor, and insight she shows the upsides and downsides, the challenges to one's sense of identity, and issues for couples and singles. It is an inspiring guide to the ways people deal with this new phase of their lives.

Elements of Argument combines a thorough argument text on critical thinking, reading, writing, and research with an extensive reader on both current and timeless controversial issues. It presents everything students need to analyze, research, and write arguments. Elements of Argument covers Toulmin, Aristotelian, and Rogerian models of argument and has been thoroughly updated with current selections students will want to read. It now includes additional support for academic writing, making it a truly flexible classroom resource. An electronic edition is available at half the price of the print book. Read the preface.

_______________ 'In a literary age of diet and dearth, Tartt invites us to feast ... the opening tragedy strikes a note of rich, flamboyant Southern Gothic that resonates throughout' - Independent 'You will rarely have read better ... Because of Tartt's mastery of suspense, this book will grip readers all the way through to its bitter end' - Guardian 'Destined to become a special kind of classic - a book that precocious young readers pluck from their parents' shelves and devour with surreptitious eagerness, thrilled to discover a writer who seems at once to read their minds and to offer up the sweet-and-sour fruits of exotic, forbidden knowledge' - New York Times Book Review _______________ A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The Little Friend, Donna Tartt's huge selling second novel, follow up to the worldwide bestseller The Secret History, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list The sunlit rails gleamed like dark mercury, arteries branching out silver from the switch points; the old telegraph poles were shaggy with kudzu and Virginia creeper and, above them, rose the water tower, its surface all washed out by the sun. Harriet, cautiously, stepped towards it in the weedy clearing. Around and around it she walked, around the rusted metal legs. One day is never, ever discussed by the Cleve family. The day that nine-year-old Robin was found hanging by the neck from a tree in their front garden. Twelve years later the family are no nearer to uncovering the truth of what happened to him. Inspired by Houdini and Robert Louis Stevenson, twelve-year-old Harriet sets out to find her brother's murderer – and punish him. But what starts out as a child's game soon becomes a dangerous journey into the menacing underworld of a small Mississippi town.

Lit Bits is a series of books containing worksheets on popular novels. Created by Australian classroom teachers for middle years students, Lit Bits encourages students to use a wide range of skills from language study to creative writing, listening or debating to drama. Each unit can be adapted for students at different levels.

This book is about my personal journey after discovering the world of Aromatherapy 30 years ago. I developed a passion, to learn more about the healing powers of the herbs and flowers that are steam distilled and produced into essential oils and hydrosols. This desire to educate myself led me to the realization that the hydrosol, the liquid byproduct of producing essential oils should be sitting right next to the essential oil in importance. The Hydrosol has the same beneficial properties as the essential oil, only in a much milder form, which can be applied directly on the skin and is safe for pets and children. The hydrosols uses are unlimited.The history of aromatherapy and its place in ancient times is mentioned in the book, however the books main focus is on the chosen herbs we grow and harvest to steam distill, producing hydrosols as our ultimate goal.The reader will follow our journey discovering which herbs to choose, where to plant them, how to keep them healthy, growing to their potential and walk through the process of how each individual herb is uniquely harvested and distilled. Featured are the Rose, Lavender, Lemongrass, Lemon Verbena, Sage, Rose Geranium, Basil, Peppermint and Rosemary. Uses of each featured herb both in dry and liquid form will be discussed and listed, with recipes, formulas and DIY projects for the bath, home, health, skincare and in the kitchen.Aromatherapy is a growing necessity for the healing world, physically, mentally and emotionally. Its place in the cosmetic industry is here to stay. My ultimate goal is to share my world and show the reader how they can enhance their lives by bringing this natural way of living into their lives.

The 2020 US presidential race was one of the most hotly contested and contentious in recent American history. While the election produced the greatest turnout in American history and the highest percentage turnout in 60 years, the election still came down to a handful of swing states that ultimately decided the election. In their third edition of Presidential Swing States, Rafael Jacob and David Schultz examine the 2020 presidential election, keying in on the few critical states that actually decided the election and why. With cases studies written by prominent political scientists who are experts on these swing states, Presidential Swing States also explains why some states were swing states but no longer are, why some continue to be swing states, and what states beyond 2020 may be the future swing states that decide the presidency. The book contains in-depth case studies of the swing-states and swing-counties that decide presidential elections in the United States. Students in classes on American Politics and Government, Parties, Campaigns and Elections, State Politics, and the Presidency will all be well-served by the analyses in this volume, as will journalists reporting on presidential elections, and the general public.