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"Leaders, coaches, and mentors are charged with helping others to stretch their limits. However, few people enjoy hearing the messy--and sometimes painful--feedback it takes to overcome a personal obstacle. Marcia Reynolds shows how to use the discomfort zone to help others grow, not suffer"--
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"Our culture is adrift in division and distrust, and we need everyday heroes more than ever. Drawing from his own remarkable journey, Steve Pemberton shares stories of the ordinary people who quietly change lives and bring change to their communities. Compelling and insightful, this book will inspire you and renew your hope for the future"--
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IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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Jason is being forced to have a third-grade buddy for one of his classes. He has to help the little kid learn about science. And as if that weren't boring enough, he also has to miss basketball practice. Is there any way that helping some kid learn about science is going to be fun?
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When it comes to mentoring, women face more barriers than men. Here's how men can help change that.
Increasingly, new employees and junior members of any profession are encouraged--sometimes stridently--to "find a mentor!" Four decades of research reveals that the effects of mentorship can be profound and enduring; strong mentoring relationships have the capacity to transform individuals and entire organizations.
But the mentoring landscape...
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The path to success is rarely easy or direct, and good mentors are hard to find. In Getting there, thirty leaders in diverse fields share their secrets to navigating the rocky road to the top. In an honest, direct, and engaging way, these role models describe the obstacles they faced, the setbacks they endured, and the vital lessons they learned. They dispense not only essential and practical career advice, but also priceless wisdom applicable to...
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"Executive coach Jerry Colonna encourages leaders to consider the ways they have been complicit in, and benefited from, the conditions in the world they say they'd like to change and shows them the path to creating new systems of inclusion for everyone." -- Amazon.com.
9) Chasing hope
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A Personal Drama of Shattered Dreams and Second Chances A talented runner fully committed to Olympic dreams, Sabrina Rice's future was shattered by a devastating diagnosis. One forfeited scholarship and several years later, she has new goals and dreams that have nothing to do with running--something that's become far too painful to think on. Until the day she sees Brandy Philip running across the community college campus, easily outpacing security....
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Who's pulling for you? Who's got your back? Who's putting your hat in the ring? Odds are this person is not a mentor but a sponsor. Mentors can build your self-esteem and provide a sounding board-but they're not your ticket to the top.
If you're interested in fast-tracking your career, what you need is a sponsor-a senior-level champion who believes in your potential and is willing to advocate for you as you pursue that next raise or promotion.
In...
12) Kick
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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Told in their separate voices, thirteen-year-old soccer star Kevin and police sergeant Brown, who knew his father, try to keep Kevin out of juvenile hall after he is arrested on very serious charges.
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"A ... book of lessons on mentorship, teaching, and learning from New York Times bestselling author Tim Gunn, host of the Emmy Award-nominated Project Runway and the reality show Under the Gunn ... who's known for his kind but firm approach in providing wisdom, guidance, and support to the scores of design hopefuls"--Provided by publisher.
14) Hacks: Season 1
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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2022
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Hacks explores a dark mentorship that forms between Deborah Vance, a legendary Las Vegas comedian, and an entitled, outcast 25-year-old comedy writer.
15) Hex
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Viking
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[2020]
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"Nell Barber, an expelled PhD candidate in Biological Science, is exploring the fine line between poison and antidote. Her mentor, Dr. Joan Kallas, preoccupies her thoughts. Nell frequently finds herself standing in the doorway to Joan's office despite herself. Surrounded by an ex, a best friend, a boyfriend, and a husband, the two scientists are tangled together at the center of a web of illicit relationships, grudges, and obsessions. The six are...
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"Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle, the team behind How Google Works, return with the story of Bill Campbell, the greatest executive business coach the world has ever seen, responsible for creating more value than just about anybody else on the planet"--
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The number one reason cited in exit interviews for an employee quitting is "my manager." Most managers and executives not only aren't aware of this obvious problem, but probably wouldn't know what to do about it if they did.
Today's employees do not respond to the old hands-on, militaristic management styles. They are highly independent, individual professionals with their own fully developed ideas. Leaders and managers who try to micro-manage them...
19) Balancing act
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Chloe by design volume 2
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In this collection of four previously published works Chloe, winner of the Teen Design Diva contest, embarks on her prize--an internship with a famous fashion designer in New York City.
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"I call this book a novoir--a memoir with true characters and actual dialogue, but with the structure and stylistic elements of a novel. It is my story and that of my mentor Anaïs Nin, intertwined as we were, based on her diaries, published and unpublished, and on mine. I have taken liberties with chronology, point of view, and dramatization of events, disguised a few identities, and used novelistic devices to quicken the narrative--but the emotional...