Books with author M. David

Productive, energized, and innovative teams are critical to your success. In The Seven Things Your Team Needs to Hear You Say, author David M. Dye shares practical and encouraging tools you can use to cultivate engaged, responsible, and results-oriented teams. Whether you're a new frontline leader, a small business owner, or a veteran manager, The Seven Things Your Team Needs to Hear You Say will inspire you to inspire your team. You don't need buckets of charisma - they just need to hear you say these seven things.

Sheppard’s Inn was a quiet senior-living facility where people spent the remainder of their golden years relaxing as they socialized, watched television, played checkers, or read a good book. Some of the young at heart spent their time reminiscing about “the good old days.” Others would just lie in soft, comfortable chairs dreaming of the future when they would join their spouses who had passed over to a place of peace, tranquility, and painless existence.All things were good at Sheppard’s Inn until everything began to change. At first, the events were subtle. The building’s heater struggled to keep up with the sudden chills that passed through the hallways. A sickening smell would seep through every nook and cranny. The lights would flicker off and on, and the televisions would go blank. But nothing was worse than the screeching sounds heard during the night—sounds not normally created in the world of the living!Adam Simmons, his father (a former police detective), and his mother (a high school drama teacher) were trying to live under the radar. They had been forced to disappear from Huntingdon Valley because of the arrest of Philadelphia’s biggest mobster. They’d had no idea what would happen when they secured jobs at Sheppard’s Inn. They certainly weren’t expecting something even more sinister and dangerous than the mob. Strange, supernatural events shook their beliefs. Items were disappearing, and people were getting sick.Adam had to push back his fears and help his parents solve this dilemma before someone got seriously hurt. If there was a ghost haunting Sheppard’s Inn, Adam would do whatever it took to expose it. Once again, he would prove that everything is not always as it seems.

Roused from his sleep, fourteen-year-old Adam Simmons is forced into a nightmare of reality. Without explanation, his father hastily packs a bag with the bare essentials and demands that Adam leave immediately through his bedroom window. Glancing back to see his father waving goodbye, Adam watches as his house suddenly explodes, apparently killing his parents. Instantaneously, Adam’s world ceases to exist. With his hockey bag and a face full of tears, he must continue his journey into this nightmare. Armed only with his ingenuity, Adam searches for answers. Discovering that he is being stalked by some very dangerous people, Adam becomes desperate and seeks the assistance of his closest friends, which proves to be disastrous: one by one, they are kidnapped. Feeling responsible, Adam persists through the arduous tasks of finding his friends and solving the puzzle that has become his life. With the aid of some odd newfound acquaintances and using skills he never knew he possessed, Adam learns that even nightmares can have a happy ending—and, yes, there is a Santa Claus!

Riley Porter is being chased. She is caught and dragged to an alternate version of her world. A version that looks the same, feels the same and should be the same. But the details are different. And the details keep adding up. In the first book of the Catalyst Series, Riley Porter finds she is at the center of a disturbing truth: what if there is no choice in our world? What if your life's decisions have already been cast and you cannot change them. What if....one person can start a chain reaction that will collapse the walls everyone's destiny?

When Stump, a chipmunk runt with a chewed-off tail, and Dottie, a chipmunk disfigured by a white spot on the right side of her face, decide to journey over some mountains to The Valley Of The Great Chipmunk, they think that what they'll get on the other side is new bodies, free from their afflictions. What they get, after first gathering gifts for the journey, is a trail that instead changes them on the inside. Trail Of The Magi is an epic Hero's Journey. Set on the first leg of the Colorado Trail, kids will love it for its action, drama, cute characters, and swashbuckling, as Stump and Dottie overcome one obstacle after another in their fight to stay alive on their journey. Parents reading it to their kids, along with the story, will enjoy the archetypes and meaning.

Riley Porter is being chased. She is caught and dragged to an alternate version of her world. A version that looks the same, feels the same and should be the same. But the details are different. And the details keep adding up. In the first book of the Catalyst Series, Riley Porter finds she is at the center of a disturbing truth: what if there is no choice in our world? What if your life's decisions have already been cast and you cannot change them. What if....one person can start a chain reaction that will collapse the walls of everyone's destiny? Catalyst: Day One is the first book in the thrilling series that bends your mind with the single question: What is real?