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Your voice matters. Your ideas, your vision, your work-they all have the potential to make a significant impact, but only if your message touches a nerve and sticks with your audience long after you've spoken. Voices of Reason equips leaders to communicate with impact. Drawing on Aristotle's timeless principles-ethos (character), logos (logic), and pathos (emotional resonance)-this book offers a roadmap for persuasive leadership. Learn strategies...

This title is part of the Orange County Library System's ePULP collection.

On Earth, red wolves are extremely endangered, and one of the last forest areas set aside for red wolf reintroduction has been sold for a housing development. Taylor has been watching a family of red wolves who will lose their home, and he wishes he could save them, but how could he save them and where could they go? Trusting a stranger to help, Taylor reaches the wolves in time; but how can they get the wolves out of the construction site without...

"Do you know who Lilya was? Was she here?" Megan was talking slowly – deliberately choosing her words, she was trying to retain control of her emotions. This man knew something about Lilya, and Megan had to remain calm enough to find out what he knew. This question made the man stop yelling, but he still pointed to the door, gesturing with his arms that they must leave. He would say no more, he had revealed too much already. "Was Lilya...

"No time to explain — they will see you, now run!" Learning that an expedition was studying a group of endangered terns, Jan joined the group with her father, to help him with his research and see if she could do anything to protect them. While at the nesting site on the cliffs, she finds a small silk bag in a cave, and so starts an adventure with many unexpected surprises. When she learns poachers have stolen many tern eggs, she is determined...

Immigrating from Europe, and many years of hardship, Betsy did not want the struggles her parents endured running a bakery in NYC. After their death, Betsy sold the bakery, eventually saving enough money to be trained in Paris before becoming an accomplished culinary and pastry chef. She soon discovered that life gets in the way, when you're making plans. Set in the 1940s, Betsy, tired of slinging Blue Plate specials at the Crosstown Diner, takes...

A young adult girl adopted by a preacher and his wife is forever changed by a cunning predator on one dark night. Religion can no longer protect her, but a heart of a servant may still live within her. Rachel learns the far-fetched truths of her past that is masked by deceit, death and blood; meanwhile becoming skilled in her new existence by the very animal that altered it. While Rachel's plausible unknown dark past bleeds into her present and future;...