Maximum-Strength Motivation-Makers: All the Best Answers for the Worst Kid Problems    by Ruth   Wells
Price: $15.00 USD. 14490 words. Published on February 4, 2009. .
Get hundreds of immediately useable, powerful, surprising new methods to motivate unmotivated students in school. This book even delivers solutions for youngsters who say they don't need school because they will be sports stars, rap stars, become models, win the lottery, or marry a wealthy man. These methods are simply unlike any you have ever seen before, and are designed to work when conventional methods fail. They are perfect for any teacher, counselor, parent or social worker who wants to turnaround unmotivated, bored, disinterested, apathetic or truant student.

Yes You! Yes Now! Leadership: The No Excuses Path to Success by Leading Yourself, Leading Your Team, and Leading Your Leader    by Steve Tarr
Price: $9.99 USD. 50290 words. Published on August 13, 2009. .
50 Entertaining Short Stories about Leadership The premier book for people who want to get things done at work, home, and play. You can make things better right now, right where you are. Inspirational quotes and illustrated with colorful examples from music, business, politics, and sports, this book will help you reach your goals and achieve greater, more satisfying success.

Yes You! Yes Now! Series #1 Leadership Basics: Ask Questions, Seek Understanding    by Steve Tarr
Price: $0.99 USD. 1520 words. Published on August 19, 2009. .
Volume 1 in the series treats the reader with the definition of a Yes You! Yes Now! Leader including a real-life story, followed by one of the basic skills. Ask Questions, Seek Understanding describes what the title means with two real-life stories illustrating its applications: one of an apparently truant high school student and one of a man who saw the need to help a seriously ill friend.

Yes You! Yes Now! Series #2 Leadership Basics: A Beacon to Guide You    by Steve Tarr
Price: $0.99 USD. 530 words. Published on August 19, 2009. .
It’s hard to be a yes-you yes-now leader without knowing your beacon for navigation. Throughout thick and thin, what keeps a person on course? It is often said and it is often true, that people are loyal to a leader. This is a fatal mistake that begs the question, to what is the leader loyal? A Beacon to Guide You is illustrated by a short story about two coaches at Indiana University.

Yes You! Yes Now! Series #3 Leadership Basics: Great Followers Achieve Great Success    by Steve Tarr
Price: $0.99 USD. 800 words. Published on August 19, 2009. .
There is no simple recipe for being a yes-you yes-now leader, but it is not complicated either. By shaping your views from personal experience, you can distinguish yourself in ways that are uniquely yours. Great Followers Achieve Great Success is illustrated by the story of Presidential Medal of Freedom winner John Wooden’s simple principle of success.

Yes You! Yes Now! Series #4 Leadership Basics: Be Pleasant    by Steve Tarr
Price: $0.99 USD. 920 words. Published on August 28, 2009. .
Leadership Basics: Be Pleasant. Yes-you yes-now leadership can be trying at times, testing your ability to balance conflicting demands. When you feel team pressures, remember they are professional, not personal. The story is about Jane, a leader who behaved so badly that team members began to focus on her, rather their work. She was a screamer.

Yes You! Yes Now! Series #5 Leadership Basics: It’s Fundamental    by Steve Tarr
Price: $0.99 USD. 840 words. Published on September 11, 2009. .
Effective yes-you yes-now leadership always focuses on solid execution of the fundamentals. Any number of fancy embellishments can’t compensate for poor basics and sloppy execution. Every profession and every hobby has its fundamentals. Make sure you know them, practice them, and execute them consistently in support of your personal and team goals. (great for iPhone reading)

Yes You! Yes Now! Series #6 Leadership Basics: Active Engagement    by Steve Tarr
Price: $0.99 USD. 780 words. Published on September 25, 2009. .
Leadership Basics: Active Engagement. In a group, active engagement can be hard because often no one is talking directly to you. It is easy to drift off and disengage. A yes-you yes-now leader has to make a special effort to stay engaged and focused, contributing where appropriate and understanding the dialogue as it unfolds. The story tells of a healthcare support team with pervasive apathy.

Yes You! Yes Now! Series #7 Leadership Basics: Accentuate the Positive    by Steve Tarr
Price: $0.99 USD. 1170 words. Published on October 9, 2009. .
Research has shown that the hurt from loss impacts people more than the pleasure from gain. The leading idea is that it’s a survival instinct, so it would be easy for negative thoughts to slow progress towards goals. A yes-you yes-now leader compensates by making extra effort to accentuate the positive. The true story pits a student versus faculty at MIT -- and the student leads the way!

'Fly-Over State' by Emma Straub    by Flatmancrooked Publishing
Price: $3.50 USD. 14860 words. Published on October 21, 2009. .
Fly-Over State is the debut of author Emma Straub, the 08/09 Halls Emerging Fellow at University of Wisconsin. Fly-Over State includes two stories: Fly-Over State and Hot Springs Eternal. Themes of love and aging, loneliness and danger in a new environment, and self-discovery and painful growth run deep in this impressive debut from one of America's emerging power-house authors.