• Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World

    Based on a Navy SEAL's inspiring graduation speech, this #1 New York Times bestseller of powerful life lessons "should be read by every leader in America" (Wall Street Journal).If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.On May 17, 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven addressed the graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin on their Commencement day. Taking inspiration from the university's slogan, "What starts here changes the world," he shared the ten principles he learned during Navy Seal training that helped him overcome challenges not only in his training and long... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1455570249
    • ASIN: 1455570249
    • ISBN: 1455570249
    • Brand: Grand Central Publishing
    • Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

  • Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations

    In this instant New York Times bestseller, the celebrated author of Make Your Bed shares amazing adventure stories from his career as a Navy SEAL and commander of America's Special Operations Forces.Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some of the most famous missions in recent memory, including the capture of Saddam Hussein, the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, and the raid to kill Osama bin Laden.Sea Stories begins in 1960 at the American Officers' Club in France, where Allied officers and their wives gathered to have drinks and tell s... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1538729741
    • ASIN: 1538729741
    • ISBN: 1538729741
    • Brand: Grand Central Publishing
    • Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

  • If God Gave Your Graduation Speech: Unforgettable Words of Widsom from the One Who Knows Everything About You (Inspired Gifts Series)

    With refreshing honesty, winsome humor and a keen understanding of human nature, Payleitner delivers a surprising and thought-provoking commencement address from God's point of view. Every remark is a fresh and relevant restatement of truths found in Scripture, which are shown in subtle, yet profound footnotes at the bottom of each page. Graduates are reminded of God's love, faithfulness and trustworthy plan for their lives. In the final pages, Psalm 37:4 yields a surprise ending for those who trust God.-An inspired gift for high school and college grads.-Vividly "Imagined" from God's eternal... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1609367545
    • ASIN: 1609367545
    • ISBN: 1609367545
    • Brand: FaithWords/Hachette Book Group
    • Manufacturer: Ellie Claire Gifts

  • Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

    #1 New York Times Bestseller  An inspiring and thought-provoking graduation gift: At last, a book that shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage  Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve. In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a li... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1101875321
    • ASIN: 1101875321
    • ISBN: 9781101875322
    • Brand: Knopf Publishing Group
    • Manufacturer: Knopf

  • The Last Lecture


    • ASIN: 1401323251
    • ASIN: 1401323251
    • ISBN: 9781401323257
    • Brand: Hyperion Books
    • Manufacturer: Hyperion

  • The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation: An Easy-to-Use Guide with Clear Rules, Real-World Examples, and Reproducible Quizzes

    A revised and updated new edition of the bestselling workbook and grammar guide The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation is a concise, entertaining workbook and guide to English grammar, punctuation, and usage. This user-friendly resource includes simple explanations of grammar, punctuation, and usage; scores of helpful examples; dozens of reproducible worksheets; and pre- and post-tests to help teach grammar to students of all ages. Appropriate for virtually any age range, this authoritative guide makes learning English grammar and usage simple and fun. This updated Eleventh Edition reflects ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1118785568
    • UPC: 001118785568
    • ASIN: 1118785568
    • ISBN: 1118785568
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Wiley

  • Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life

    Powerful, life-changing messages for a vital time in life.Graduation is a time of excitement and uncertainty. For graduates the question is, will they face the future with or without God? Let the Journey Beginrepack is filled with godly wisdom, encouragement, and guidance from bestselling and trusted author Max Lucado for students about to embark on new steps in their life journey. Graduates will be reassured that they are not alone—God is with them every step of their way.This bestselling book will include thirty-two additional pages of new content, all consisting of excerpts, quotes, and ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0718030494
    • ASIN: 0718030494
    • ISBN: 0718030494
    • Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
    • Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

  • Interplay: The Process of Interpersonal Communication

    With its unique blend of compelling topics and rich pedagogy, the thirteenth edition of Interplay: The Process of Interpersonal Communication offers a perfect balance of theory and application to help students understand and improve their own relationships. Interplay's inviting visual format and rich pedagogy continue to make this text the market leader in Interpersonal Communication.NEW TO THIS EDITION:* Expanded and updated coverage of social media's impact on interpersonal communication, with new material in every chapter* Significantly revised and updated Chapter 2, Culture and Interperson... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0199390487
    • ASIN: 0199390487
    • ISBN: 9780199390489
    • Brand: Adler Ronald
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

  • This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

    Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and the London Times,... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0316068225
    • UPC: 884643861019
    • ASIN: 0316068225
    • ISBN: 0316068225
    • Brand: Little Brown and Company
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

  • The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For

    A New York Times Bestseller A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States—winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others—that reminds us of fundamental American principles.Over the course of his distinguished career, David McCullough has spoken before Congress, the White House, colleges and universities, historical societies, and other esteemed institutions. Now, at a time of self-reflection in America following a bitter election campaign that has left the country divid... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1501174215
    • ASIN: 1501174215
    • ISBN: 1501174215
    • Brand: SIMON SCHUSTER
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

  • If This Isn't Nice What Is?, (Much) Expanded Second Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By

    Best known as one of America’s most astonishing and enduring contemporary novelists, Kurt Vonnegut was also a celebrated commencement address giver. Vonnegut never graduated from college, so his words to any class of graduating seniors always carried the delight, and gentle irony, of someone savoring an achievement he himself had not had occasion to savor on his own behalf. “But about my Uncle Alex, who is up in Heaven now,” Vonnegut, an avowed Humanist, would say sometimes in a graduation speech, “one of the things he found objectionable about human beings was that they so rarely... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1609806972
    • ASIN: 1609806972
    • ISBN: 1609806972
    • Brand: Seven Stories Press
    • Manufacturer: Seven Stories Press

  • The Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need: A One-Stop Source for Every Writing Assignment

    The Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need is the ideal resource for everyone who wants to produce writing that is clear, concise, and grammatically excellent. Whether you're creating perfect professional documents, spectacular school papers, or effective personal letters, you'll find this handbook indispensable. From word choice to punctuation to organization, English teacher Susan Thurman guides you through getting your thoughts on paper with polish.Using dozens of examples, The Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need provides guidelines for:Understanding the parts of speech and elements of a sentenc... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B0047T748Q
    • ASIN: B0047T748Q
    • Manufacturer: Adams Media

  • Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This inspiring meditation on kindness from the author of Lincoln in the Bardo is based on his popular commencement address.Three months after George Saunders gave a graduation address at Syracuse University, a transcript of that speech was posted on the website of The New York Times, where its simple, uplifting message struck a deep chord. Within days, it had been shared more than one million times. Why? Because Saunders’s words tap into a desire in all of us to lead kinder, more fulfilling lives. Powerful, funny, and wise, Congratulations, by the way is an i... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0812996275
    • ASIN: 0812996275
    • ISBN: 0812996275
    • Brand: Random House
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories


    • ASIN: 147675361X
    • UPC: 884957227334
    • ASIN: 147675361X
    • ISBN: 147675361X
    • Brand: Scribner Book Company
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

    J.K. Rowling, one of the world's most inspiring writers, shares her wisdom and advice. In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, VERY GOOD LIVES presents J.K. Rowling's words of wisdom for anyone at a turning point in life. How can we embrace failure? And how can we use our imagination to better both ourselves and others?Drawing from stories of her own post-graduate years, the world famous author addresses some of life's most important questions with acuity and emotional force.

    • ASIN: 0316369152
    • UPC: 884571210019
    • ASIN: 0316369152
    • ISBN: 0316369152
    • Brand: Little Brown and Company
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

  • If God Gave Your Graduation Speech : Unforgettable Words of Widsom from the One Who Knows Everything About You

    If God Gave Your Graduation Speech: Unforgettable Words of Wisdom from the One Who Knows Everything about

    • UPC: 22023339
    • Rating: 5.0

  • Putting the Antics Back in Semantics Speech-Language Pathologist : SLP Gifts, Speech Therapist Notebook, Best Speech Therapist, Floral SLP Gift for Notes Journaling, Speech Therapist Gifts, Speech Therapy Gifts, 6x9 College Ruled Notebook

    This SLP notebook features a beautiful floral journal design and makes a perfect Speech Language Pathologist Gift! SLP gifts are so nice to give at the end of the school year or when dismissed from

    • UPC: 761770274

  • Everyone Deserves a Voice Speech-Language Pathologist : SLP Gifts, Speech Therapist Notebook, Best Speech Therapist, Floral SLP Gift for Notes Journaling, Speech Therapist Gifts, Speech Therapy Gifts, 6x9 College Ruled Notebook

    Everyone Deserves a Voice Speech-Language Pathologist: SLP Gifts, Speech Therapist Notebook, Best Speech Therapist, Floral SLP Gift for Notes

    • UPC: 781763474

  • If This Isn't Nice What Is?, (Much) Expanded Second Edition : The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By

    Chiefly consists of selected graduation speeches given by Vonnegut at various educational

    • UPC: 47477972
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Best SLP Ever : SLP Gifts, Speech Therapist Notebook, Best Speech Therapist, Floral SLP Gift for Notes Journaling, Speech Therapist Gifts, Speech Therapy Gifts, 6x9 College Ruled Notebook

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    Speech-Language Pathologist: Large Heavy-Duty SLP Notebook, SLP Gifts, Speech Therapist Gifts, Speech Therapy Journal, Best Speech Therapist,

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  • Speech Therapists Are Fabulous and Magical Like Unicorns Only Better : Best Speech Therapist Ever Unicorn Gift Notebook

    Best Speech Therapist Ever Unicorn Gift Notebook. 6x9 lined

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  • College Greatest Quotes - Quick, Short, Medium Or Long Quotes. Find The Perfect College Quotations For All Occasions - Spicing Up Letters, Speeches, And Everyday Conversations. - eBook

    This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across,

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  • SLP : SLP Gifts, Speech Therapist Notebook, Best Speech Therapist, Floral SLP Gift for Notes Journaling, Speech Therapist Gifts, Speech Therapy Gifts, 6x9 College Ruled Notebook

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  • Take This Advice : The Best Graduation Speeches Ever Given

    Bark compiles the 40 most powerful, affecting graduation speeches delivered in the last 10 years by popular speakers such as Toni Morrison, Judy Blume, Mister Rogers, Al Franken, Gloria Steinem, Jon Stewart, and many

    • UPC: 4125018

  • Harvard Graduation Speech Called 'The Most Powerful' EVER [FULL SPEECH]

    Funniest Graduation Speech of All Time

    Best HS Graduation Speech Ever! Weber High Graduation 2015