Live Work Shine

Are you facing the challenge of not having enough hours in the day to meet your competing needs, wants and desires. Are you pulled in many different directions, often feeling you just can’t have it all—a happy home life and a successful career. Is there really a way that you could spend less time at work and be a better leader, employee, friend and family member as a consequence? Is it really possible? With positive changes it is very possible! Live Work Shine will provide you the tools and techniques to achieve a healthy integration of life and work. Learn how to use your time for what matters. Drawing on her experiences in corporate life, author Rowena Hubble, shares her story on how she achieves the perceived Nirvana of life-work balance. She explains how she makes time for work, home, family, health and the community. And you can find this time too. Do yourself a favour – take time out from your busy schedule and let this book take you on a journey from being perhaps stressed and having no time, to learning how to re-shape your world into something extraordinary.

We all have good days and bad days at work. Some days you feel bullet-proof. People listen to you, your meetings run like clockwork, and you keep having new ideas. Other days are like wading through quicksand. You can’t get anything done, and when the printer jams (again) you want to quit. Wouldn’t it be great if every day went your way? If you jumped out of bed every morning ready for anything? You can stand out, break the rules, and making things happen. You can be a bit more ‘Elvis.’ You can love every minute. The only limitation is you: your energy, your belief, your perspective.

An instant New York Times bestseller Crazy Rich Asians meets Gossip Girl by way of Jenny Han in this knockout debut about a Korean American teen who is thrust into the competitive, technicolor world of K-pop, from Jessica Jung, K-pop legend and former lead singer of one of the most influential K-pop girl groups of all time, Girls’ Generation. What would you give for a chance to live your dreams? For seventeen-year-old Korean American Rachel Kim, the answer is almost everything. Six years ago, she was recruited by DB Entertainment—one of Seoul’s largest K-pop labels, known for churning out some of the world’s most popular stars. The rules are simple: Train 24/7. Be perfect. Don’t date. Easy, right? Not so much. As the dark scandals of an industry bent on controlling and commodifying beautiful girls begin to bubble up, Rachel wonders if she’s strong enough to be a winner, or if she’ll end up crushed… Especially when she begins to develop feelings for K-pop star and DB golden boy Jason Lee. It’s not just that he’s charming, sexy, and ridiculously talented. He’s also the first person who really understands how badly she wants her star to rise. Get ready as Jessica Jung, K-pop legend and former lead singer of Korea’s most famous girl group, Girls’ Generation, takes us inside the luxe, hyper-color world of K-pop, where the stakes are high, but for one girl, the cost of success—and love—might be even higher. It’s time for the world to see: this is what it takes to shine.

With a "headstrong heroine on par with Katniss Everdeen and Tris Prior" (Kirkus) this debut thriller combines a pulse-pounding scifi thriller with a new adult coming-of-age story set at Texas A&M University. When Ren Sharpe was fourteen, she was kidnapped by a shadowy organization called FATE and trained to be a human weapon. Now, four years later, she receives her assignment: protect Gareth Young at all costs. Currently a student at Texas A&M, Gareth will someday change the world. FATE calls people like Gareth “FIPs”—future important people—and they’re everywhere, each with a FATE-trained shadow. But when disaster strikes, Ren will have to turn on her maker. Together with Junie, a fellow abductee and the one person she trusts, Ren takes Gareth on the run. Because whatever else happens, failure is not an option. From the Hardcover edition.

“I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.” - Yeonmi Park "One of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard - and one of the most inspiring." - The Bookseller “Park's remarkable and inspiring story shines a light on a country whose inhabitants live in misery beyond comprehension. Park's important memoir showcases the strength of the human spirit and one young woman's incredible determination to never be hungry again.” —Publishers Weekly In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions of North Korean people continue to endure to this day, but also onto her own most painful and difficult memories. She tells with bravery and dignity for the first time the story of how she and her mother were betrayed and sold into sexual slavery in China and forced to suffer terrible psychological and physical hardship before they finally made their way to Seoul, South Korea—and to freedom. Park confronts her past with a startling resilience. In spite of everything, she has never stopped being proud of where she is from, and never stopped striving for a better life. Indeed, today she is a human rights activist working determinedly to bring attention to the oppression taking place in her home country. Park’s testimony is heartbreaking and unimaginable, but never without hope. This is the human spirit at its most indomitable.

shine is a guidebook for self-discovery and identity to help you find yourself, know yourself, and BE yourself! i like to think that your light is made up of many colours (like a rainbow) or facets (like a chandelier) or twinkling little bulbs all in a row... in other words, you contain multitudes! there is so much to who you are, and who you are is brilliant and unique and inherently enough... i promise you this. this guidebook has no author named on the cover because YOU are the author. this is the book of YOU and with it you will explore 21 themes and questions, along with inspiring messages, powerful lessons, and helpful strategies to help you learn about you. if you have felt like... you've lost your self, or want to embrace and honour yourself more deeply, or feel like you are ready to explore new layers of who you are here to be, or have experienced a change or period of stuckness in life and want to find yourself again, or wish to give yourself permission to be authentically you, or need to build your confidence, self-worth, and self-belief... this is the guidebook for you!

We live in a world of time famine, stuffocation and addiction to entertainment rather than education. So it's time to eliminate some of the noise and distraction and get back to the basic essentials. It's time to start living on purpose again. From The Essentialists comes Shine- a short and stylish guide to twenty simple life skills that will help you to thrive. From 'Clarity' and 'Mindfulness' to 'Declutter' and 'Sleep', each chapter is enormously practical and truly inspiring - explaining the game-changing potential these techniques hold, and how to master them in easy steps. Discover the power of having a vision, learn how to set effective boundaries, and understand why keeping a journal can make you happier. It's not about doing more - it's about doing what's right for you so that you can truly shine.