After years of working as a waitress in fine dining, psychology student Beth Taylor reveals ways to behave and encourage maximum tips from customers. A far cry from squatting at the table, Taylor teaches aspiring waitresses simple and subtle ways to behave and interact with fine dining customers. Maximize your efforts as a waitress and make the biggest tips.

The Gospel is a clear invitation to come near. To draw close, to breathe Him in, to know Him deeply, and invite others to do the same...well, that is the very answer to the beckoning question that He is asking of us all when Jesus asks Peter, "Do you love Me?' If the answer is yes, then come near. Come near in your living, in your leading, in your marriage and your parenting, in your creativity, in your solitude...in all of your moments on this earth, come near.

We are convinced that much of the world and even the church is missing it when it comes to Christmas, Advent, and the Holidays. The busyness of our lives has stripped the holidays of wonder and, yes, the glory that they were meant to possess. Join Us on this annual pilgrimage through His Word as we celebrate His arrival on the stage of history…His Story. There was nothing about His birth, His life, or His death that fit into the expectations of humanity, and yet He completely transforms us...

Leadership is both a journey forward and a legacy we leave behind. Every gentle curve and jagged edge along the pathway serves to illuminate His great grace towards us. In these pages, we are invited to become who Jesus designed us to be and encourage others to do the same.

On November 16, 1965, Beth Taylor’s idyllic childhood was shattered at age twelve by the suicide of her older brother Geoff. Raised in an “intentional community” north of Philadelphia—a mix of farm village, hippie commune, and suburb—she and her siblings were instilled with nonconformist values and respect for the Quaker tradition. With the loss of her beloved brother, Taylor began her complicated journey to understand family, loss, and faith.Written after years of contemplation,

In the pages of "To a Blank Sheet of Paper," Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. invites readers on a captivating journey through the realm of literature and life. With his signature wit and wisdom, Holmes explores the power of words, the complexities of human nature, and the enduring legacy of great minds. From the musings of a blank sheet of paper to the profound insights of literary giants, this collection of essays and poems offers a timeless exploration of the written word and its profound imp...

In the year since the publication of her second memoir, Resilience, Elizabeth Edwards has once again found herself living in the glare of the media spotlight. Now, in an eloquent, intimate, and emotionally powerful new afterword to her #1 national bestselling book, she offers readers a window into her world at a time when she is required to adjust once more to a new reality and to forge a new life for herself and her children.In writing candidly about the gulf between her p...

The bestselling author of Saving Graces shares her inspirational message on the challenges and blessings of coping with adversity.She’s one of the most beloved political figures in the country, and on the surface, seems to have led a charmed life. In many ways, she has. Beautiful family. Thriving career. Supportive friendship. Loving marriage. But she’s no stranger to adversity. Many know of the strength she had shown after her son, Wade, was killed in a f...

The story of a daughter coming to know her father at last—a deeply personal literary memoir about William Styron, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Sophie’s Choice and Darkness Visible—“ardent, sophisticated, and entirely winning…this is a grown-up memoir…taut and true” (The New York Times).Part memoir and part elegy, Reading My Father is Alexandra Styron’s intimate portrait of her father, William Styron, one of the defining American novelists of the 20...

From the acclaimed musician comes a tender, surprising, and often uproarious memoir about his dirt-poor southeast Texas boyhood.The only child of a hard-drinking father and a Holy Roller mother, Rodney Crowell was no stranger to bombast from an early age, whether knock-down-drag-outs at a local dive bar or fire-and-brimstone sermons at Pentecostal tent revivals. He was an expert at reading his father’s mercurial moods and gauging exactly when his mother was likely to erupt, and eve...

A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz"The world is abundant even in bad times," guest editor Kathryn Schulz writes in her introduction, "it is lush with interestingness, and always, somewhere, offering up consolation or beauty or humor or happiness, or at least the hope of future happiness." The essays Schulz selected are a powerful time capsule of 2020, showcasing that even ...

A tour de force about three friends affected by a campus murder, for readers of Donna Tartt, Meg Wolitzer, and Jeffrey EugenidesGeorgia, Charlie and Alice each arrive at Harvard with hopeful visions of what the future will hold. But when, just before graduation, a classmate is found murdered on campus, they find themselves facing a cruel and unanticipated new reality. Moreover, a charismatic professor who has loomed large in their lives is suspected of the crime. T...