Books with author Author's Republic

Your commute stinks. Your job's a mess. You didn't win Powerball. Here's help! Get the first audiobook in the humorous Fun Stories series from award-winning writer R. Scott Murphy. Inspired by Friends, Seinfeld, The Office, Saturday Night Live, and The Far Side, the Fun Stories series offers amusing books, audiobooks, and CDs to help lighten your day. Part storyteller, part game show host, part DJ, part madcap tour guide, Murphy shares embarrassing work stories, conducts crazy countdowns, sets out on silly Google safaris, and invites your participation through his interactive storytelling game called mental kickball. An accomplished radio and TV personality, game show producer, author, and four-time winner of the Late Show with David Letterman Top 10 List contest, Murphy takes random fun to the next level. Sample fun: Top-five theater: Count down the top five shamefully suggestive city names Mental kickball survey: Is Starbucks more popular than deodorant in your office? Fun school: Turn an uneasy meeting with a man peeing in the alley into a valuable life lesson Commuter empowerment: Learn the best ways to make fun of other motorists and give clown commuter awards Uplifting adventure: How Chick-fil-A makes Scott feel like Leonardo DiCaprio In a world of superheroes: Proof positive that Scott is the freakin' Michael Phelps of Googling Secret office tips: How to successfully plant decoy food in your work refrigerator Your average daily commute now clocks in at a record 52 minutes (Census Bureau). Your total yearly commute time is now more than nine days. Scott says that's longer than some celebrity marriages. You deserve more smiles. Pick up Fun Stories for Your Drive to Work.

Learn the ropes of contact-building to advance your journalism career. Are you having trouble getting the journalism job you want? Are you terrible at making contacts? Are you worried about what people might think of you as a journalist? You don't know anyone in the industry; where to start or how to approach people, and you're not even sure you have what it takes to be a journalist. This short, sharp, and straight-to-the-point book will help you get the journalism job you want, excel at generating contacts for more scoops, and give you the skills to put your best foot forward as a journalist. Break into Journalism: Contact-Building Tools and Tactics will: Give you a set of personal principles to change how people view you Build on tried and tested principles of networking to help you make contacts Put you at ease to overcome insecurities when starting out Show you how to use contact-building as a learning experience Give you approaches and how to talk to strangers and gatekeepers in various situations Give you super simple strategies for managing your contact book

Lolli comes from the Land of Color and speaks directly to children, guiding them through stories that they themselves adventure on and feel a part of. Kids love the whimsical nature of following where Lolli takes them and learn things incidentally along the way. A fun and creative approach to mindfulness for children. Parents, use these meditations to help increase your children's self-esteem, enhance your child's imagination, and encourage positive thinking. Helps kids with self-acceptance and increases confidence. Lolli's meditation adventures help kids to be happy and make great choices. Lolli helps kids with their emotions and feelings, guiding them to deal with anger, worry, and fear.

People will tell you that there are no such things as monsters. But if you ask Alexander Applebee, he'll tell you another story. He has a math monster, and that monster can be very distracting when it's time to do math. Alex tries telling his math teacher, his mother, and even his grandfather about the blue-eyed monster whose antics make it hard to concentrate on the subject. Alex is flabbergasted that no one can see or hear the math monster, and they just don't understand his problem. He's a bit relieved when he discovers other children have their own monsters. Though this makes him feel a little better, he must figure out how to deal with his own monster. In this audiobook for children, Alex's unexpected adventure with his math monster reminds us that success in life is often a matter of taming our own creatures.

This delightful children's poetry book contains a collection of fun and imaginative poems for fun and imaginative kids (and those adults that still behave like kids). Learn why you should tidy up after yourself, why midnight snacking is not such a good idea, and what to do if you laugh so hard that your socks come off! This book of funny children's poems contains a host of interesting stories and characters for your kids to enjoy. Each story more fun that the last. The poems are written to encourage reluctant young listeners to find enjoyment in poetry, and the wonder of words.

Part memoir and part social commentary, Amanda Kemp's short book provides insight and strategies for creating racial justice and a strong sense of shared community. Her voice is vulnerable and personal as she reflects on her own interracial relationship, parenting her black teenaged son, and making art in the age of Black Lives Matter. Her short essays leave you cheering and hopeful. Kemp's searing and tender commentary about herself, life within her interracial family, and racial justice take the listener on a rare journey into an African American boundary crosser. Kemp grew up in poverty in a predominantly black and Latino neighborhood but went on to graduate from Stanford University and earned a PhD from Northwestern University. Now married to her European American husband, Kemp watches the way that race plays out in her family, her work as a performing artist and professor, and in her spiritual journey. This intimate short collection of essays will leave you pondering deep questions long after you stop listening. A great conversation starter, this short book is a must-listen for people concerned with racial unity, making Black Lives Matter, and educators and youth development professionals.

Darius is a five-year-old dinosaur who is almost ready to start school. He learns an important safety lesson about not running on to the road, and that big boy dinosaurs listen to what their mummies and daddies say to them. When he begins school, he gets ready quickly and feels proud of himself. He likes his teacher, Ms. Swamp, and makes friends easily. He is now a confident, big, dinosaur school boy.

Mystical espionage agency vs. Lovecraftian horrors. Jules was born with a gift, but until now, he's only used it for small and selfish reasons. That will all change as he's inducted into The Circle, a secret international organization that takes the magickally gifted and puts them to work, fighting the forces of darkness, saving an unknowing world from malevolence that hides in the shadows. And Jules knows shadows all too well; he can command them to do his bidding... But it's not just The Circle that has their eye on Jules. There's another Magickian that watches him, intervening in his life, trying to put him on a path to discover the truth. Because The Circle is not what it seems. The world is not as it seems. And soon, Jules will have to choose between the status quo or the greater good. Either way, the lives of everyone he loves will hang in the balance.

Does your child struggle with self-esteem? Suffer from fears, anxieties anger and worry? Or even just have a hard time trying to fit in? Then listen to this audiobook. Lolli and the Superfood Quest, is a cleverly crafted meditation, designed specifically to promote healing and transformation, while being incredibly fun and adventurous for the child. Lolli and the Superfood Quest, helps your child learn about healthy eating while trying to save the Land of Color from being destroyed. Someone is trying to stop Lolli and all of her friends from saving the magical world. Who is it? And can all the ingredients be gathered in time to save the Land of Color? Your child will enjoy this original, full-length guided meditation with a ton of adventures, and a few surprises along the way! Lolli's Meditation Adventures are perfectly designed to help increase your children's self-esteem, enhance their imagination, and encourage positive thinking. The meditations are designed to boost confidence, increase self-acceptance, and help kids make great choices in life. The main character, Lolli, speaks directly to children, making them feel part of the stories, and helping them explore their emotions and feelings in a healthy way. Don't wait to explore the whimsical nature of the Land of Color, a beautiful world that leads your children through stories that they can feel a part of.

Red rain will fall, as too will mankind.... The disappearance of the most powerful magician in all the lands has left a power vacuum. In his absence, something beneath the ocean is preparing to take the world for its own. And as a portent washes upon the streets, making them slick with rain as red as blood, the operatives at The Circle must take it upon themselves to save the world. They are the last bastion, the thin line between survival of the human race...and the death of all things. Red Rain is a gripping supernatural thriller that channels Lovecraft via Stephen King with echoes of Neil Gaiman and Grant Morrison for good measure! Titles in The Circle chronology: Murder at Raven's Lodge (Freelancers case files #1) The Spirit Box (The Freelancers #1) The Loiterers (Freelancers case files #2) Shadowmancer (The Circle #1) The Roving Death (The Freelancers #2) The Knowledge (The Circle #2) The Prince Of Darkness (The Freelancers #3) Red Rain (The Circle #3) Spirited Words (The Freelancers #4) Snake's Kin (The Freelancers #5) The Night Garden (The Freelancers #6) Seed of Evil (The Freelancers #7) The First Men (The Circle #4) Colossus Reign (The Circle #5)

The network wants a revolution. But are they prepared to pay the price? On the run, hunted by AI and pursued by the law, there's nowhere they can hide. But the network is no longer interested in hiding. They're ready to take centre stage and tell the world what was done to them. Their augments are meant to make them better than human. But will it be enough to defeat the NeuralNet? It has been upgraded too...and if they don'e get the word out before it's too late, it will be able to manipulate with mankind without their knowledge...and there's no way to tell what shape its ultimate goal will take. Re:volution Televised is a cyberpunk thriller for fans of Neal Stephenson and William Gibson. The APEX Cycle chronology: The Whistle (Human2.0.1) The Human Trials (Human2.0.2) Testing Ground Footage Beyond Footage Root Protocol (Human2.0.3) Re:volution Televised (Human2.0.4)

Early one Saturday morning, a five-year-old boy named Oliver decides that he doesn't want to be ordinary anymore. He chooses to become a toaster instead. He takes a cardboard box and draws on it all the parts that a toaster would have - along with holes for his eyes and hands! Now that Oliver is a toaster, he does his best to help his mom in the kitchen and his dad in the garden. He visits a friend, and they play video games. All through the day, he works hard to prove that a toaster can do anything an ordinary boy can do. Along the way Oliver learns an important lesson about himself. This children's story explores the use of imagination with one of the best toys of all time - an empty box. It shares a powerful truth - while costumes have their limits, imagination can make everything more than ordinary.