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Peaceful Public Speaking: Spiritual Meditations to Calm Your mind before the Big Speech by Rhonda Davis Smith

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1961601567

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Peaceful Public Speaking is a practical guide to overcoming the fear of public speaking. This book starts a new conversation about the dynamics of public speaking that will transform the way you think about giving a speech and can turn your anxiety into anticipation. If you could imagine, even if briefly, that the thoughts you are thinking are the cause of your upset. Setting the self-doubt aside just long enough to imprint a new or different idea on your consciousness can lead to a confident, authentic, joy-filled speaking experience.

Allow me to whisper these kind words to you…When the time comes, Stand TallYou are EnoughWhen you hear the audience applause, RememberWe are OneAfter you research, write, and prep, KnowYou are ReadyThe world awaits.

In The Mangrovesby Melodin Trammel

https://www.amazon.com/Mangroves-Melodin-Trammel/dp/B0F6D854NN

Bobby, a young manatee, is the adored baby in his family. By day, he’s adventurous, playing with his brother and sister; and at night, a sweet, cuddly baby snuggling with his mommy and daddy. He is completely unaware that he is about to become a big brother.

Follow Bobby’s emotional ride as he navigates his feelings and perceptions. Through his eyes, we discover resilience, animal conservation, and heroism.

Co-Founder Richard Foos on How Rhino Records Turned Out-of-Print Music Into a $100M Business

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Rhino Records & Shout! Factory Co-Founder Richard Foos on Building the Reissue Business

Richard Foos co-founded Rhino Records and Shout! Factory (now Shout! Studios), and he’s known as the godfather of reissue culture. The record industry was always chasing the next hit. Foos found his value in old music, film and TV catalogs that the labels had written off. Rhino grew from $91,000 in first-year sales to more than $100 million a year before Time Warner bought it.

Richard talks about starting with a $140-a-month record store near UCLA, the novelty single that turned the store into a label by accident, and how Rhino invented reissues and remastering. He also covers how Shout! Factory brought Freaks and Geeks and Mystery Science Theater 3000 back, and what he’s working on now.

Key takeaways

Value where others see obsolescence. The labels thought old music was worthless. Rhino built a $100M+ business on it.

Care about quality. Remastering from the original tapes made old records sound better than they ever had.

Persistence pays. Shout! Factory would spend a year or ten clearing rights if that’s what it took.

Experiment and adjust. Keep going with an idea that’s working slowly, and keep changing it in small ways.

Start on the side. Nights and weekends count. Online tools make it cheaper to start than ever.

Quotes

“Previous to us doing it, there was really no such thing as reissues.”

“We cared about the music or show so much we would never give up.”

“Just keep doing it and make little adjustments to the right and the left.”

“We had no idea that it would be successful.”

HATCHEPSUT: FEMALE FALCON OVER EGYPT A NOVEL by WILLIAM S. ROBERTS

https://www.amazon.com/HATCHEPSUT-FEMALE-FALCON-EGYPT-NOVEL/dp/1105261948

In an age when kings ruled Egypt and women stood in the shadows of power, one woman rose above tradition to claim the throne of the greatest kingdom on earth. Hatshepsut defied convention, political rivals, and the expectations of her time to become Pharaoh of Egypt. William S. Roberts Set against the splendor and danger of the ancient world, this novel follows her extraordinary journey through ambition, sacrifice, love, and betrayal. As alliances shift and enemies gather, Hatshepsut must prove herself worthy not only of the crown, but of history itself. This is the story of the woman who became a falcon over Egypt.

Bedtime Stories That Will Terrify Children: … and keep them awake all night long by Randolph B. Schiffer

https://www.amazon.com/Bedtime-Stories-That-Terrify-Children/dp/1738339440

What if the stories we tell before sleep aren’t meant to quiet the dark, but to awaken it — to understand it, and to open a child’s mind to wonder?

These are bedtime stories for adults who still remember the shadows.

Bedtime Stories That Will Terrify Children may sound like a provocation—but it isn’t, not really. These stories aren’t about horror for horror’s sake. They’re about the way children actually see the world—alive with mystery, shadow, and the possibility that magic and menace coexist just beyond the edges of the nightlight.

Children already sense that darkness holds both danger and wonder. What they want from stories isn’t protection from fear, but fairness in it—a sense that even in the strangest tale, things make sense somehow. That’s what these stories offer: not terror, but truth told through the eyes of imagination unafraid to look into the dark.

“I wrote this book for my children. Not because I had the answers—but because the stories might ask the right questions.”~Randolph B. Schiffer

AUTHOR’s NOTES

In the spring of 1990, my wife and I were told that our three-year-old son, Brenton, had acute lymphocytic leukemia. At that time, survival was uncertain, and treatment was long, painful, and unforgiving. We could not control the disease — but we believed we might help him endure it.

Small children do not fear death; they fear abandonment. So we restructured our lives to ensure that Brenton was never alone. And when doctors later warned us he might be relapsing, I began telling him stories at bedtime — stories of danger and courage, fear and resilience. In them, I reversed the roles I wished I could have reversed in real life: the father became the one in peril; the child, the witness to strength.

These eight stories are not gentle tales. They are stories of suspense and moral reckoning, of animals and ancient spirits, of cowardice and bravery. They were told by candlelight during the hardest year of our lives, in the hope that story might fortify where medicine could not.

The doctors were wrong. Brenton survived. He is now grown, with a child of his own.

I have written these stories down in the hope that somewhere, another child — and another family — might find in them what we did: not comfort, but courage.

— Randolph B. Schiffer

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Randolph B. Schiffer

Author Neurologist Psychiatrist Marine Corps Veteran

Dr. Randolph B. Schiffer is a Yale graduate, Marine Corps veteran, and retired physician who made his mark as the only U.S. doctor listed in Best Doctors in America for both neurology and psychiatry. Over his 35-year medical career, he held senior academic roles and co-founded the American Neuropsychiatric Association. He is also a widely published medical researcher.

Since retiring in 2010, Dr. Schiffer has turned to writing, blending medicine, memory, and myth. His literary works include David and Lee Roy: A Viet Nam Story, Goodbye Stories from University Hospital, and the forthcoming Bedtime Stories to Terrify Children (Omera Press)—a poignant and eerie collection drawn from stories he once told his children.

He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and writes from his cabin on Bois Blanc Island, Lake Huron.