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Today's read – Boring to Bravo

Boring to Bravo: Proven Presentation Techniques to Engage, Involve & Inspire Your Audience to Action

By Kristin Arnold

This book shows experienced presenters how to transform boring monologues into scintillating dialogues by employing simple yet powerful presentation techniques. It features 90-plus practical techniques for engaging and interacting with an audience. Drawing from her extensive experience as a nationally recognised speaker, the author gives readers tips that apply to any presenter. Readers will be amazed at their ability to attract, involve, and inspire by incorporating just a few of the author's suggestions. It offers a proven methodology for upgrading any presentation. By taking a collaborative approach to the communication process, the author shows the reader how to care, connect, and converse with the members of any audience. Incoming NSA president with strong promotional platform: as the incoming president of the National Speakers Association, the author will promote the book on a nation-wide tour. An experienced team facilitator and military veteran, the author has a large platform of clients, including the Coast Guard, NASA, and the IRS.

You can get the book here => http://bit.ly/9gbnXz

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Today's blog posts: for teachers, public speaking, books for adults and for young adults

From the Pivotal Teachers Blog:

New iPrep Academy gives students technology-rich environment

From the Pivotal Public Speaking blog:

Use volume for power in your presentations

From the Words, Reading and Books blog (WRB):

E-reading: Revolution in the making or fading fad?

From the Pivotal Kids book blog

Purple Heart, by Patricia McCormick Trailer

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Today’s blog posts: for teachers, public speaking, books for adults and for young adults

From the Pivotal Teachers Blog:

New iPrep Academy gives students technology-rich environment

From the Pivotal Public Speaking blog:

Use volume for power in your presentations

From the Words, Reading and Books blog (WRB):

E-reading: Revolution in the making or fading fad?

From the Pivotal Kids book blog

Purple Heart, by Patricia McCormick Trailer

Today’s must-read – a tense love story with a haunting ending

The House at Riverton: A Novel

~Kate Morton

 

This debut page-turner from Australian Morton recounts the crumbling of a prominent British family as seen through the eyes of one of its servants.

 

At 14, Grace Reeves leaves home to work for her mother's former employers at Riverton House. She is the same age as Hannah, the headstrong middle child who visits her uncle, Lord Ashbury, at Riverton House with her siblings Emmeline and David. Fascinated, Grace observes their comings and goings and, as an invisible maid, is privy to the secrets she will spend a lifetime pretending to forget.

 

But when a filmmaker working on a movie about the family contacts a 98-year-old Grace to fact-check particulars, the memories come swirling back.

 

The plot largely revolves around sisters Hannah and Emmeline, who were present when a family friend, the young poet R.S. Hunter, allegedly committed suicide at Riverton. Grace hints throughout the narrative that no one knows the real story, and as she chronicles Hannah's schemes to have her own life and the curdling of younger Emmeline's jealousy, the truth about the poet's death is revealed.

 

Morton triumphs with a riveting plot, a touching but tense love story and a haunting ending.

 

Amazon stocks the book

 

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Thought for the Day

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy. ~Edward P. Morgan

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Diary of a disappointed book

I enjoyed this little video ... but I'm not sure that the book was disappointed. During its short life, I think it was loved and appreciated a great deal.

The Diary of a Disappointed Book from Studiocanoe on Vimeo.

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Today’s must-read – “a searing and intimate drama” – Union Atlantic

Union Atlantic


~ Adam Haslett

In Haslett's excellent first novel (following Pulitzer and National Book Award finalist short story collection You Are Not a Stranger Here), a titan of the banking industry does battle with a surprisingly formidable opponent: a retired history teacher. Doug Fanning has built Union Atlantic from a mid-size Boston bank to an international powerhouse and rewards himself by building a rural palace in Finden, Mass. The land his house is built on, however, had been donated to Finden for preservation by Charlotte Graves's grandfather, and Charlotte believes she now has a claim on the lot. This book should be of interest to readers fascinated but perplexed by the current financial crisis, as it is able to navigate the oubliette of Wall Street trading to create searing and intimate drama.

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Get Ready For School – Reading Tips For Young Kids

Wondering how to help your child get ready for school? Good habits are best formed when kids are young. In the primary years, kids sit on the floor to hear stories read by the teacher from a story book. In the middle and upper primary years, kids are expected to read independently and quietly to themselves as well. Preparing the foundations for good reading habits can begin as soon as your baby can sit up, from six months onwards.

Even before then, propping your baby on your lap with a book often, helps baby to associate holding books with being in a fun, safe environment. After your child is asleep in her cot, leave one or two picture books within reach so that she sees them when she wakes up. This can delay her crying out for you.

She learns very early that books are a fun, interesting companion, especially if one of them squeaks or is tactile made from various materials, or has shiny pictures and shapes that glitter from different angles. The best environment for reading is away from distractions like TV or computer screens. This can be on a designated 'reading couch' or bean bag, on a mat or on a bed.

If parents (or carer) are consistently relaxed and unhurried when reading together, kids are likely to follow suit, and remain calm and engaged with their book. Carers reading to kids often - even if only for short periods - prepares kids from a young age to enjoy listening to stories. It helps get them ready to engage with story-time at school.

Encouraging young kids to 'read' aloud as well - i.e. tell a story with book in hand while turning the pages - lays fabulous foundations to enjoy quiet reading in the future when they reach middle and upper primary school.

Author, Karen S. Thomas say she "is currently writing a fictional story in my blog, http://tommyswritingblog.wordpress.com. I am writing as I go without really knowing what the characters will do next. Check it out! Read it out aloud to your kids or to kids you know. Tell me what you think and where you want the story to go."

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Have you read Lunch in Paris yet?

"As charming and coquettish as Paris itself, Lunch in Paris reawakens our tired hearts and palates with a deliciously passionate journey through the city of lights. Be prepared to be seduced by french kisses, the richest chocolate, and the sweet charm of Bard's prose."

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