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  • Honey in Shimmer Island

    Poppy Collins

    language (Scholastic Fiction, March 6, 2014)
    Princess Honey has invited the fairy princesses for a holiday on Shimmer Island! The fairies fly to the island where they are welcomed by Honey and the other sand fairies. But the next day, they find the islanders in uproar. The bottles of sunshine, stored behind the waterfall, are missing! The fairies must work together to trace the sunshine.
  • The Simple Life Guide To Decluttering Your Life: The How-To Book of Doing More with Less and Focusing on the Things That Matter

    Gary Collins

    eBook (Second Nature Publishing, March 26, 2019)
    Overwhelmed with unnecessary stress and piles of useless stuff? Discover how to ditch society’s expectations and live by your own rules. Exhausted from chasing ill-fitting definitions of success? Struggling to manage your daily to-dos while failing to make progress on what truly matters? Author and digital nomad Gary Collins has thrived since walking away from a stable, unfulfilling job to build a joyful, debt-free, and off-the-grid lifestyle. After teaching thousands of people to step off the burnout treadmill, he's here to share the step-by-step process for living your dream. The Simple Life Guide To Decluttering Your Life: The How-To Book of Doing More with Less and Focusing on the Things That Matter provides realistic solutions to guide you toward a genuinely happy life. With straightforward, no-nonsense advice, Collins demonstrates how to overcome crippling frustration to reorder your priorities. The book's path to your new purpose will help you once and for all usher in a healthier, better way of living. In The Simple Life Guide To Decluttering Your Life, you’ll discover:What freedom really looks like and how to harness itInspiring models for uncovering your purpose and visionA healthy money mindset to make your assets work for youA fresh outlook on your physical and mental health to invigorate you for your new lifestyleHow to tidy up your life inside and out with actionable solutions, and much, much more!The Simple Life Guide To Decluttering Your Life is the third book in an eye-opening series that provides time-tested steps to create your new definition of success. If you want to break free, be true to yourself, and live your best life, then you’ll love Gary Collins’ transformative advice. Buy The Simple Life Guide To Decluttering Your Life to gain more by letting go today!
  • Writing Workbook: Ages 3-5

    Collins UK

    Paperback (HarperCollins UK, March 18, 2016)
    This range of Maths and English activity books really helps to boost your child’s progress at every stage of their learning. The series aims to build up important skills through activity-packed fun.Each activity is designed to give your child a real sense of achievement.• Help boost confidence and develop good learning habits for life.• Motivate children to learn at home using colourful activities that make learning fun.• Include helpful tips and answers so that you easily support your child’s learning at home.
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  • The Confessions of Frannie Langton: A Novel

    Sara Collins

    eBook (Harper, May 21, 2019)
    One of BOOKRIOT’s Best Books of 2019One of POPSUGAR's Best Books of 2019“A startling, compelling historical debut novel. . . should be on top of your vacation reading pile.” -The Washington Post“A stunning debut. . . . I love this book.” -Guardian "Reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace . . . [a] devious, richly detailed debut." -O: The Oprah MagazineA servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this astonishing historical thriller that moves from a Jamaican sugar plantation to the fetid streets of Georgian London—a remarkable literary debut with echoes of Alias Grace, The Underground Railroad, and The Paying Guests.All of London is abuzz with the scandalous case of Frannie Langton, accused of the brutal double murder of her employers, renowned scientist George Benham and his eccentric French wife, Marguerite. Crowds pack the courtroom, eagerly following every twist, while the newspapers print lurid theories about the killings and the mysterious woman being tried at the Old Bailey. The testimonies against Frannie are damning. She is a seductress, a witch, a master manipulator, a whore.But Frannie claims she cannot recall what happened that fateful evening, even if remembering could save her life. She doesn’t know how she came to be covered in the victims’ blood. But she does have a tale to tell: a story of her childhood on a Jamaican plantation, her apprenticeship under a debauched scientist who stretched all bounds of ethics, and the events that brought her into the Benhams’ London home—and into a passionate and forbidden relationship.Though her testimony may seal her conviction, the truth will unmask the perpetrators of crimes far beyond murder and indict the whole of English society itself.The Confessions of Frannie Langton is a breathtaking debut: a murder mystery that travels across the Atlantic and through the darkest channels of history. A brilliant, searing depiction of race, class, and oppression that penetrates the skin and sears the soul, it is the story of a woman of her own making in a world that would see her unmade.
  • The Simple Life Guide To Financial Freedom: Free Yourself from the Chains of Debt and Find Financial Peace

    Gary Collins

    eBook (Second Nature Publishing, Sept. 5, 2019)
    “If America is the richest nation in the world, why am I so broke?” Every year, you’ve promised yourself… "This is the year I’m going to get ahead.”So, why are you still broke? We live in the wealthiest nation on the planet, yet 69% of us have less than $1,000.00 in savings. This puts most in the dire position of being just one paycheck from financial disaster and destruction.If you sense a conspiracy at work, you'll be shocked to realize how right you actually are. Once you have the right information you will be able to break the chains. The tools, strategies, and tactics shared in this book don't take a financial genius to use--anyone can do it! Simply, we ALL have the potential to become secure and stress-free. We just don't know it yet.In this one-of-a-kind book, best selling author and simple living expert Gary Collins lays out page after page of easy to understand, honest, mind-blowing research. It reveals the eye-popping reasons most Americans will NEVER live to see financial independence in their lifetimes. In The Simple Life Guide To Financial Freedom, you’ll discover:- Why average Americans fall far short of their millionaire potential, and how you can avoid going down the same path- Simple tactics to break free from the cycle of debt and make the most of your money- Proven strategies to achieve the financial independence you need to follow your dreams- Real-life success stories to guide you down the path to stress-free fiscal security- Condensed and clear explanations of budgetary concepts, the perils of consumerism, and much, much more!Read the first page of this book and see for yourself. By the time you're done, you won't be able to look at money, or your life, the same way again.
  • Collins Bradford’s Crossword Solver’s Dictionary

    Collins

    Hardcover (HarperCollins UK, Dec. 1, 2018)
    This latest edition of the much-loved Bradford's offers even more. Available in a jacketed hardback with a clear text design and quality paper, this edition is durable and easy to use. Users will never again be short of answers to their crossword clues! A unique type of crossword dictionary having been compiled and crafted by a single author based on her over 58 years' experience of crossword solving. Every word in this dictionary has appeared as a solution to a real crossword clue. Previous readers have found this book an invaluable reference work for both cryptic and quick crosswords, and new users will be quickly converted!
  • How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In

    Jim Collins

    eBook (CLBusiness, Sept. 6, 2011)
    Decline can be avoided. Decline can be detected. Decline can be reversed. Amidst the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to wonder: How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early and avoided? How far can a company fall before the path toward doom becomes inevitable and unshakable? How can companies reverse course? In How the Mighty Fall, Collins confronts these questions, offering leaders the well-founded hope that they can learn how to stave off decline and, if they find themselves falling, reverse their course. Collins' research project—more than four years in duration—uncovered five step-wise stages of decline: Stage 1: Hubris Born of Success Stage 2: Undisciplined Pursuit of More Stage 3: Denial of Risk and Peril Stage 4: Grasping for Salvation Stage 5: Capitulation to Irrelevance or Death By understanding these stages of decline, leaders can substantially reduce their chances of falling all the way to the bottom. Great companies can stumble, badly, and recover. Every institution, no matter how great, is vulnerable to decline. There is no law of nature that the most powerful will inevitably remain at the top. Anyone can fall and most eventually do. But, as Collins' research emphasizes, some companies do indeed recover—in some cases, coming back even stronger—even after having crashed into the depths of Stage 4. Decline, it turns out, is largely self-inflicted, and the path to recovery lies largely within our own hands. We are not imprisoned by our circumstances, our history, or even our staggering defeats along the way. As long as we never get entirely knocked out of the game, hope always remains. The mighty can fall, but they can often rise again.
  • Joyful Toddlers and Preschoolers: Create a Life that You and Your Child Both Love

    Faith Collins

    Paperback (Hohm Press, Oct. 1, 2017)
    Are you committed to positive, respectful parenting, but frustrated when your child acts out? This book offers practical tools to side-step power struggles and set limits without punishing or yelling. Research-based and clearly written, you'll learn:How to use connection to transform "no" into "yes."What to do when you can't get buy-in from childrenTo enforce boundaries in ways that strengthen relationshipsSupport children's emerging self-regulation skillsGet your housework done while children help or play happilyCreate more time for yourself Whether you are at home with children ages 1-5 or work long hours, this book shares ways to create a healthy home home life that meets the needs of adults and children alike. Create a life that you and your child BOTH love.Buy this book today and get started!
  • The Confessions of Frannie Langton: A Novel

    Sara Collins

    Hardcover (Harper, May 21, 2019)
    One of BOOKRIOT’s Best Books of 2019One of POPSUGAR's Best Books of 2019“A startling, compelling historical debut novel. . . should be on top of your vacation reading pile.” -The Washington Post“A stunning debut. . . . I love this book.” -Guardian "Reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace . . . [a] devious, richly detailed debut." -O: The Oprah MagazineA servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this astonishing historical thriller that moves from a Jamaican sugar plantation to the fetid streets of Georgian London—a remarkable literary debut with echoes of Alias Grace, The Underground Railroad, and The Paying Guests.All of London is abuzz with the scandalous case of Frannie Langton, accused of the brutal double murder of her employers, renowned scientist George Benham and his eccentric French wife, Marguerite. Crowds pack the courtroom, eagerly following every twist, while the newspapers print lurid theories about the killings and the mysterious woman being tried at the Old Bailey. The testimonies against Frannie are damning. She is a seductress, a witch, a master manipulator, a whore.But Frannie claims she cannot recall what happened that fateful evening, even if remembering could save her life. She doesn’t know how she came to be covered in the victims’ blood. But she does have a tale to tell: a story of her childhood on a Jamaican plantation, her apprenticeship under a debauched scientist who stretched all bounds of ethics, and the events that brought her into the Benhams’ London home—and into a passionate and forbidden relationship.Though her testimony may seal her conviction, the truth will unmask the perpetrators of crimes far beyond murder and indict the whole of English society itself.The Confessions of Frannie Langton is a breathtaking debut: a murder mystery that travels across the Atlantic and through the darkest channels of history. A brilliant, searing depiction of race, class, and oppression that penetrates the skin and sears the soul, it is the story of a woman of her own making in a world that would see her unmade.
  • Collins International Primary Maths – Student's Book 4

    Collins UK

    Paperback (HarperCollins UK, Dec. 1, 2016)
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  • Living Off The Grid: What to Expect While Living the Life of Ultimate Freedom and Tranquility

    Gary Collins

    eBook (Second Nature Publishing, Dec. 25, 2018)
    Worried that living off the grid means a life without comfort and convenience? Discover how to unplug without sacrificing the joys of the modern world. Wondering if an off the grid lifestyle is right for you? Scared that it'll be too challenging for you and your family to handle? Author and speaker Gary Collins literally wrote the book on how to transition to a life off the grid. After almost a decade of walking the walk, he's sharing his successes and failures alike so you can live the simple life without missing out on creature comforts.Living Off The Grid: What to Expect While Living the Life of Ultimate Freedom and Tranquility is a comprehensive shake-down of what this unique lifestyle looks like in practice. Told through Collins' much-loved conversational tone, you'll see complex subjects distilled into easy-to-apply lessons. Let the book calm your anxiety about taking this next step and find out how easy it can be to live a life of freedom. In Living Off The Grid, you'll discover: Practical day-to-day tips to make off-grid living simpleStrategies for running a business or telecommuting while remaining mostly unpluggedWays to remain socially and professionally connected in your new lifestyleHow to make the most of your newfound freedom and decreased cost of livingMistakes, expensive errors, and bonehead blunders Collins made so you don't have to… and much, much more!Living Off The Grid: What to Expect While Living the Life of Ultimate Freedom and Tranquility is a detailed account of the ins-and-outs of a simplified off-grid existence. If you like practical instruction, time-saving tips, and hard-earned wisdom from a man who's "been there, done that," then you'll love Gary Collins’ invaluable guide.Buy Living Off The Grid to embark on an exciting new lifestyle today!
  • Stumbling Into Sobriety: And the Things I Learned on the Way Back Up

    Tracy Collins

    eBook (, April 1, 2019)
    Tracy Dot Com was a morning show personality in Jacksonville, Fla., dedicated to promoting awareness for non-profits and business for local owners. She earned the title Official Funologist for her daily zany TV live shots. Always with a smile and a positive message.What the audience didn't know, as well as family and most of her friends, is Tracy hid a dark secret. Daily binge drinking. Which only worsened when she left the fast-paced media world behind to pursue a more stable career. The free time worked against her. Intensifying the disease of alcoholism to near death.In Stumbling into Sobriety, Tracy shares intimate details from her final weeks of spiraling out of control, how she masterfully kept the drinking a secret, what it took to finally ask for help, and all the things she learned on her way back up.This book is for anyone who struggles with or has overcome alcoholism. It's relatable to readers wanting more information about alcoholism or fearful of what sobriety looks like on the other side. It is also a good resource for those who love an alcoholic and yearn for a better understanding of what that person is thinking. Experiencing. Grappling.Stumbling into Sobriety is raw. It's brutal honesty is, at times, hard to read. But the memoir is balanced with humor. The end result is a message of hope.