Stephanie Holland: 6 books

80% of startups fail within the first 18 months. Not because of a flawed business plan, strategy, or model. Not because of a lack of investment or startup capital. Not because they have no customers, or a terrible idea. They fail because the founders burn out. In the excitement of starting...

This highly successful title offers an opportunity for professionals from all backgrounds to develop an understanding of assertiveness, which has been shown to be therapeutically advantageous for all kinds of client groups and can be useful in many contexts. It is a highly practical working manual...

Spontaneous Combustion is the classic "play-in-a-day" theater exercise in literary event form. We gather writers together, provide three story prompts, and give them 24 hours to compose a unique piece of pulp fiction. Our favorites are invited back to prose-slam their short stories for a...

Elizavetta has spent most of her thirteen years living in a Russian orphanage. She's happy there--she has friends, school, and the orphanage is her home. But when Jack and Maggie Cavendish arrive from Montana looking for a daughter, they turn her stable world upside down with the offer of a new life...

By the time Mai Nakahara’s family leaves Tokyo to help run her aunt and uncle’s restaurant in Hawaii, she’s pretty much gotten used to living without the arm she lost to cancer. But life in Honolulu presents its own challenges: a giant ocean she’s too afraid to swim in, mean girls to ignore,...

Iris Beekman is finally getting used to having divorced parents when her mom informs them all that she’s taken a teaching job in America. The panic attacks Iris has had since Dad left start up again, and her older brother Pim makes it clear to everyone that he’s not happy about the move. But with...