Books with author Allison

It’s time to take charge of your life—and do that thing you’ve always wanted to do. Personal (R)evolution is your very own life coach in your pocket. Best-selling author and coach Allison Task will help you take control of your life and move from where you are now to where you want to be.Inside this refreshing how-to book filled with humor, inspiration, real-world client examples and tools, Task will help you: Create a clear vision for what you want out of life, so you know where you’re going and why you’re going there.Remove the frustrating blocks that are holding you back from achieving your goals and replace them with positivity, possibility, and momentum. Develop a detailed weekly action plan that will drive you to where you want to be. Build and nurture the network that will help you create your future. This book is your step-by- step guidebook to clarify the vision you have for yourself, believe that it’s possible, and pursue it. If you’re ready to go after a better life, you are ready for Personal (R)evolution.

I ruined everything. Myself, him…us.Now all I have left is deep-seated regret—an ache that never goes away. Every day and every night, I’m tortured by the pain of losing him. Grey. The man I had fallen hopelessly in love with.The worst part—because of me, he’s no longer the Grey I loved. He’s much worse. His rage turned him into someone dark, vicious, and cruel—and it’s all my fault. No matter what I do, how hard I try, he won’t let me atone for what I’ve done. There’s no room in his heart for forgiveness, but I can’t stop myself from trying. I have to. I can’t give up. I won’t give up…even if it means enduring his ultimate retribution.

Never before has mankind changed so much so fast—but we still rely on outdated demographic stereotypes to understand groups of people and target audiences. Now there’s a better way to discover what matters to the people you are trying to motivate: a brand-new big-data tool that will change audience profiling for everything—forever. In We Are All the Same Age Now, David Allison, creator of Valuegraphics, explains how you can increase efficiency, create strategies that are eight times more effective, decrease internal politics around decisions, and be better equipped for disruption. He explains what Valuegraphics can do and offers the data samples and tools you need to get started using Valuegraphics immediately. He also shares how to make powerful values-based decisions throughout your organization and how to take your insights further. It's time to change the way you see the world—and motivate more people more often—by embracing the power of Valuegraphics.

A brave teen recounts her debilitating struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder—and brings readers through every painful step as she finds her way to the other side—in this powerful and inspiring memoir.Until sophomore year of high school, fifteen-year-old Allison Britz lived a comfortable life in an idyllic town. She was a dedicated student with tons of extracurricular activities, friends, and loving parents at home. But after awakening from a vivid nightmare in which she was diagnosed with brain cancer, she was convinced the dream had been a warning. Allison believed that she must do something to stop the cancer in her dream from becoming a reality. It started with avoiding sidewalk cracks and quickly grew to counting steps as loudly as possible. Over the following weeks, her brain listed more dangers and fixes. She had to avoid hair dryers, calculators, cell phones, computers, anything green, bananas, oatmeal, and most of her own clothing. Unable to act “normal,” the once-popular Allison became an outcast. Her parents questioned her behavior, leading to explosive fights. When notebook paper, pencils, and most schoolbooks were declared dangerous to her health, her GPA imploded, along with her plans for the future. Finally, she allowed herself to ask for help and was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder. This brave memoir tracks Allison’s descent and ultimately hopeful climb out of the depths.

I had a plan. Graduate college, acquire my dream job, settle down with a good man, and live a normal, content life. But that’s not how it played out. Instead, I met the dark, brooding, misunderstood Grey Wyler, and my perfectly planned life got derailed. Now I’m a girl who managed to survive a mass shooting, desperately trying to hide how broken I truly am. Everything I’ve ever dreamed of is slowly slipping through my fingers—including a future with the man I fell hopelessly and irrevocably in love with. Grey owns every last part of me, and loving him has been both the worst and the best part of my life.But what if that’s not enough?

For fans of Miranda James and Jenn McKinlay comes an enthralling series debut featuring a librarian who solves mysteries with the help of a ghost in the stacks. New librarian Carrie Singleton stumbles across a terrifying age-old murder only for it to be followed up by a new murder in her very library.Carrie Singleton is just about done with Clover Ridge, Connecticut until she's offered a job as the head of programs and events at the spooky local library, complete with its own librarian ghost. Her first major event is a program presented by a retired homicide detective, Al Buckley, who claims he knows who murdered Laura Foster, a much-loved part-time library aide who was bludgeoned to death fifteen years earlier. As he invites members of the audience to share stories about Laura, he suddenly keels over and dies.The medical examiner reveals that poison is what did him in and Carrie feels responsible for having surged forward with the program despite pushback from her director. Driven by guilt, Carrie’s determined to discover who murdered the detective, convinced it’s the same man who killed Laura all those years ago. Luckily for Carrie, she has a friendly, knowledgeable ghost by her side. But as she questions the shadows surrounding Laura's case, disturbing secrets come to light and with each step Carrie takes, she gets closer to ending up like Al.Now it's due or die for Carrie in Death Overdue the delightful first in a new cozy series by Allison Brook.

Take a trip through the past in these rare Giant Days stories, to learn the origin of Daisy, Esther and Susan’s friendship, and see them embark on orientation, getting-to-know-you-exercises, and collisions with a secret society devoted to Black Metal, among other exploits! Collecting creator John Allison’s (Bad Machinery, Scary Go Round) original self-published Giant Days stories, Giant Days: Early Registration takes us back to our favorite characters’ first quarter of university for their initial misadventures for the first time!

In the land of Faerie, lies are easily disguised as truths. They were raised like sisters, the heir to the Court of the Day and her guardian.And as rebellion darkens the land of the Day—and the faeries of Court fall under a dark magic that disconnects them from the land, dooming them to a slow, agonizing death—they will question all they know to be true.Sevelle, the Light of the Day, is destined to rule one day. She possesses a rare form of magic, the ability to heal the powerful connection between faeries and the magic in the land, the connection that gives them life—if only she could figure out how to use this magic, or even find it within herself.Jae lives in the shadows, watching over Sevelle as her guardian and listening to the whispers of Court brought to her by the winds. She longs for a life outside of Court, but knows her duty to Sevelle is more important than her own desires.But when an unexpected proposition comes from none other than Lex, son of the rebel leader, Sevelle and Jae realize their lives will never be the same—and that evil may be within their own court more so than in the rebels that oppose them.Walking paths far different than they imagined separates the sisters, but then a secret is revealed that may break them apart forever.Fly Free is the first installment of the Light of Faerie series. Enter a land of magic in the midst of a power struggle, where all is not as it seems and love may be found in the most unlikely places.

Ghosts aren’t meant to stick around forever…Shelly and her grandmother catch ghosts. In their hair.Just like all the women in their family, they can see souls who haven’t transitioned yet; it’s their job to help the ghosts along their journey. When Shelly’s mom dies suddenly, Shelly’s relationship to ghosts—and death—changes. Instead of helping spirits move on, Shelly starts hoarding them. But no matter how many ghost cats, dogs, or people she hides in her room, Shelly can’t ignore the one ghost that’s missing. Why hasn’t her mom’s ghost come home yet?Rooted in a Cree worldview and inspired by stories about the author’s great-grandmother’s life, The Ghost Collector delves into questions of grief and loss, and introduces an exciting new voice in tween fiction that will appeal to fans of Kate DiCamillo’s Louisiana’s Way Home and Patrick Ness’s A Monster Calls.