"The first question I get asked a lot is, why a 28 year old single guy loves working with moms. Well the answer to that question goes back many years to when my mom raised my 3 younger siblings and me, along with my dad. She was a stay-at-home mom and did so much for her 4 children. Looking back, I realized that she spent so much time taking care of her kids that she didn’t take time for herself. I also realized that she didn’t have a good support group of other mothers who were motivated to get in shape and lose the baby fat. I was very blessed to have a mom that was health conscious and cooked very healthy. I learned a lot from her as she taught me what it meant to eat well. I have also realized that when I can help a mom change the foods that she buys for her family and begins to exercise, her kids want to do what she is doing! So not only do I get to help the mother out, but I get to help out the kids and maybe the husband (once in awhile) out as well."Dustin is all about helping moms understand the realities of exercise and eating. After every chapter there are "Fit Moms for Life Transformations" that include a some of the women who really put to use that chapters main goals. These are real women, not paid actors, that have used his system to becoming a healthier version of themselves. I really liked this part and it drove home that his book really does work!
Forget Me Not (#2, The Mystic Wolves)
Wow! This is the second book in the series, which is amazing. I love series books because I get to know the characters as if they were real. Belinda Boring definetly adds extreme details into her story, which allows me to see it come alive while I read. As with any book with multiple men who could be enticing and amazing, this was no exception. It is hard for one to decide which one to like better, Mason or Devlin. Darcy shows absolute femininity when she does not fight with the she-dog, Amber, when she is set on destroying her life. Throughout the book I knew there had to be a reason why Amber was so attached to Mason, which reveals itself when she claims her dad will kill her if she does not marry him. Want to know why? Well go get the book on Amazon and read it yourself! 
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Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test (second edition)—NNAT2 uses progressive matrices to allow for a culturally neutral evaluation of students’ nonverbal reasoning and general problem-solving ability, regardless of the individual student’s primary language, education, culture or socioeconomic background.
I received the workbook to try out and it can easily be made to use with as a whole class exercise, 5 minute warm-ups, or a bell ringer. If you are not really sure what a 'Bell Ringer' is then you are in luck! In the first 5 minutes or the last 5 minutes of class you have your students sit down, collect their thoughts and complete an activity. I would use my projector, an overhead camera, or for specific students a copy of the question(s) you are giving out. The thing I liked most about the NNAT2 book is it is spiral bound, which makes it extremely easy to manipulate and use. I hate when workbooks are in the thick binding, which often wears out and pages disappear. With the NNAT2 workbook you will always have the pages in a neat and orderly manner. 
The author, Jim Tilberry, has his tongue firmly planted in his cheek, while taking humorous jabs at a variety of easy targets. Get a silly lesson on how to deal with meat eaters in social situations. Read hilarious interviews with famous dead vegetarians such as Gandhi, Socrates, and Ben Franklin. You'll even get a comical look at how the English language would change if an overly zealous vegetarian politician got his way. 
The book also poses a lot of "what ifs." What if there was a "Vegetarian Olympics"? What if vegetarians ruled the country? And what would a vegetarian horoscope tell you about your future? Also you'll learn some laughable techniques meat eaters can use to more easily quit their carnivorous habit. 7. It's easier to pick up women. When you're at a bar or party, tell the women you just met that you're a vegetarian because you care about animals.
"Super Born: Seduction of Being" 
Corporate attorney Samantha Greco needs some peace and quiet to come to a decision about her career. Instead, while an icy nor’easter rages outside, she finds herself trapped in a cottage on Fenwick Island with Aiden Rourke, a man she used five years ago when she ran from the heartbreak of her fiancé’s betrayal.
Aiden Rourke has loved Sam for years. For one glorious night she was his. But then she fled, wounding his ego and his heart. Thrown together again, they soon discover time hasn’t diminished their fiery passion for each other. Only Aiden has ever been able to melt Sam with just a look or a touch. But the fear that she’s like her mother, who used men mercilessly, scares Sam to death.
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Toni went from being a doctor, to the lover of a god in an instant. Remembering who she was, she's now torn between her past self and her current love. Ben is stunned when Toni leaves and at the arrival of his long lost love, Catherine, but her arrival doesn't eradicate Toni from his mind. Unlikely allies will team up to get Toni back from the Lord of the Underworld, Hades, but it's not Hades they need to worry about.
In the small town of Willow Eve, Arkansas, feisty bartender, Delia Rhodes, lives a pretty normal life; if you consider having a ghost for a roommate, pixies as best friends and being one of the rarest hybrids to exist, normal. Her life is turned upside down when someone or something begins kidnapping pixies and she is forced to find out who is behind it and why. If that wasn’t enough for her to deal with, Delia meets a delicious vampire hybrid with a very important event coming up; his registration. Will he survive? Will Delia solve the kidnappings or get dragged into the middle of something much deeper?
Veiled from her previous existence as a gifted Angel, Tess is now a mere mortal growing up in foster care with her autistic foster brother, Dorian, and a twisted foster sister, Agatha—whose main goal in life is to torture them both.
Tess’ life has been dull and average at best; but all that changes with one look. When she inadvertently gazes into the eyes of the most popular guy in school—Alex Preston—Tess sees a glimpse of her previous existence.
Uncomprehending, Tess, wonders what those memories are and why she now feels like she knows Alex better than anyone in this world. More importantly, why is he haunting her dreams? Dreams so vivid, that they blur the lines of reality, awakening a slew of inexplicable paranormal abilities she didn’t know she possessed. 
Bawling cattle tore Shelby Flint from her bed. With lawyer fees to pay in her struggle to keep her ranch from the clutches of her greedy cousins, she couldn’t afford the loss of even one calf. When she sees a large wolf circling her cows, she aims and fires. While the wolf escapes, Shelby can’t seem to get away from her troubles when a marijuana grower sets up shop on her land, sabotaging her property and eventually coming after her. Adding to that, a handsome game warden is poking his nose into her business and working his way underneath her skin. Shelby will have to fight harder than she ever fought before to keep from losing her heart and everything she ever loved. 
"On my tenth birthday, I am baptized by fire."
So begins Erin Solomon’s story, on a remote island in Maine where the Payson Church and thirty-four of its members have just burned. When the smoke clears, only Erin and her father remain. The police rule the tragedy mass suicide, but Erin knows the truth: no one in the Church wanted to die. She just isn’t sure how much her father had to do with their deaths.
More than twenty years later, Erin is an investigative journalist still burdened with her father’s secrets. When she receives incontrovertible evidence that the Payson congregation was murdered, she can no longer hide from the truth. She returns to her hometown only to find an intricate conspiracy involving her parents. 
Murder, romance, secrets and hidden pasts. Deception from every angle—who's telling the truth?
Cheyenne Wilson's life is thrown into turmoil after her adoptive parents are killed in an accident. With only her best friend Colt to comfort her, she scours through the family archives, hoping to quell her grief. Instead she begins to unravel the mystery behind her birth parents, and her secret heritage. She is a Timeless- a being that ages one year for every hundred human years when they reach their twenties- and of the royal line, destined to gain great power.
But Cheyenne has other problems. The ones who killed her parents want her too, and Colt is hiding something of his own. Surrounded by danger and with few she can trust, Cheyenne must face the dark truth of her past, and choose between a forbidden love that will forever hold her heart, or her destiny..
Cheyenne is determined to seek the light of truth in a web of darkness, but at what cost?
Still reeling from the revelations of her secret birthright and fated betrothals, Cheyenne's thoughts tumble over the whirlwind of life since the death of her parents. Vowing to close herself off to spare her heart more pain, she keeps her distance and seeks her own path. But Colt, Daniel and Callon are constantly at her side, not giving her room to breathe or let her come to terms with her destiny. At the same time, her transformation into a Timeless begins; a process that could very well kill her. As if that wasn't enough, her enemies are still out for her blood, and no-where is safe. Though new allies appear to protect her from the unseen dangers, which ones are friend and which are foe?
And can Cheyenne stand the ultimate pain of all.
Cursed with an intense version of empathy Alice runs from a wasted life to start a new one somewhere no one will know her; Hell, Michigan. Alice works at a hole-in-the-wall bar in the middle of nowhere mostly keeping to herself to avoid the overwhelming emotions of those around her. Alice allows her best friend to convince her into taking a few college classes without realizing it would drastically change her life forever. From her first day of class she was hooked on him; his scent, his eyes, the way he talked to her inside her head.
Throughout her struggles she learns about true love, true pain and the truth of her own heritage. Alice must quickly find out who she is because after all everyone else is out to find her. With Angels and Bounty Hunter’s in constant pursuit she finds protection within a group of Fallen Angels. These Fallen Angels vow to do anything to protect her; for it is their belief she will save their kind and all of mankind. 
Synopsis: Jessie moved from New York to North Carolina one week after school
let out for summer break. Her newly single mother and Jessie move in
with grandma Gayle. Being a teen in a retirement area, is one more thing
to add to her ‘this sucks’ list. It’s bad enough to have to move, but
even worse her alcoholic father left them as he went on a quest to be an
artist in Greece. Things begin to look up when she is reintroduced to Caleb, the dorky
boy that saved her life one summer at the beach. Caleb is no longer
scrawny and nerdy, he is now tall, dark and handsome. Caleb is a Light
Tamer. Jessie and Amber become fast friends. Amber is a no frills girl, her
snarky comments and sassy attitude will raise a few eyebrows and have
you laughing out loud. Amber is rough around the edges, a light tamer
with only two years left to find the one she is bound to. Her father’s
surfing accident left her dad paralyzed and her brother dead. This paranormal romance will keep you on the edge of your seat with
humor, romance, and determination. Fall head over heels for Caleb and
Jessie.
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I also read(and owned) every single Nancy Drew book growing up. I eventually moved on to reading Agatha Christie and I believe this is one reason I love reading to this day.
Synopsis: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man is a
new philosophy of history. This volume outlines how sustainable history
is propelled by good governance, which balances the tension between the
attributes of human nature - emotionality, amorality and egoisms - and
human dignity needs, such as reason, security, human rights,
accountability, transparency, justice, opportunity, innovation and
inclusiveness. The author proposes minimum criteria for good governance
that are sensitive to local cultures and histories but meet certain
common global values to ensure maximum and sustainable moral and
political cooperation. Using an ocean model of a single collective human
civilisation, the author argues that we should think in terms of a
common human story that is comprised of multiple geo-cultural domains
and sub-cultures with a history of mutual borrowing and synergies. The
author argues that, today, all geo-cultural domains must succeed if
humanity as a whole is to triumph. This collective triumph will also
depend on reason and a recognition that a great deal of knowledge is
indeterminate and may be temporally, spatially and perhaps culturally
constrained, as is outlined in the author's new theory of knowledge:
"Neuro-rational Physicalism". 
Synopsis: The enduring assumption that human behavior is
governed by innate morality and reason is at odds with the persistence
of human deprivation, injustice, brutality, inequality and conflict.
This book offers a fresh look at human nature and universal security by
proposing a new general theory of human nature, "emotional amoral
egoism", and a specific theory of human motivation that draws on a wide
range of philosophical, psychological and evolutionary approaches to
human nature as well as neuroscientific research. It argues that human behavior is governed primarily by emotional self-interest and that the
human mind is a predisposed tabula rasa. The author argues that most
human beings are innately neither moral nor immoral but rather amoral.
Circumstances will determine the survival value of humankind's moral
compass. This insight has profound implications for the re-ordering of
governance mechanisms at all levels with a strong emphasis on the role
of society and the global system. This book is essential reading for
anyone interested in the substrates of human nature and its universal
security implications in relation to identity, conflict, ethnocentrism,
xenophobia, morality and global governance. 
Before the time of the great pyramids, there was a place like none other, a city of glass and metal rising from the depths of the ocean. Shrouded in mist, the island of Hy-Brasil and its capital Atlantis lay hidden from the rest of the world by its people, a race of long lived, interstellar nomads.
What secrets would you keep to save your kingdom? On the Queen’s deathbed, the son less King Rowe is force into a promise to allow his five daughters to marry for love. A promise he wished he had never made, and one he will have to break, to save the kingdom from his squabbling, incompetent son-in-laws.
The youngest of five daughters, Jael, spent most of her time at her father’s side learning to run a kingdom. Believed to be the King’s favorite, Jael is shocked when he betroths her to a longtime friend of his, Prince Sarik of Hy-Brasil. Soon she will learn that world is full of secrets and one of them is her very own birth. Will the secret that bonds her to Sarik be the ultimate downfall of a kingdom?
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