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The Power of DRES: DRES System's Guide to Building a Professional Image and Working Wardrobe
Brenda Azevedo; Colleen Bradley; Kira Brown
Holobi, LLC
2012
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It's not easy to know where to find clothes that fit your figure, to feel confident in your image, or to edit your wardrobe. Using the DRES System's scientific approach, Margaret Spencer's national network of Certified Personal Stylists can help every woman learn to love her unique body shape and finally find what fits In this book, we show you how to realize your greatest potential and use your best features to the fullest while creating a wardrobe you love. Discover confidence in balance, realize the gem that you are, and have fun getting dressed again with The Power of DRES "The Power of DRES is a brilliant collection of short stories that teaches women how to feel confident and look beautiful." -Barbara Corcoran, real estate mogul, business expert and investor on NBC's Shark Tank. "Margaret has a professional, pulled-together style that radiates with confidence. Learn her secrets in this book packed with down-to-earth advice." -Lynn Baldwin-Rhoades, Founder of Power Chicks "Margaret Spencer and her network of stylists have created something original and empowering." -Melody Biringer, Founder of The CRAVE Company After reading this book, you will want to join the DRES System's DRES Club
Newlyweds Richard and Sheila Brooks have it all. Sheila is pregnant. Richard's business is flourishing. Their formerly broken lives have been mended, and life couldn't be better.Or so they thought.Just a few years ago, Richard had thrived in Manhattan's fast-paced business world, yet that's the very place he abandoned his faith. Now that his faith is restored, he never planned to return to that old life. But then the New York corporation that once rejected him calls, begging him to come back. Richard knows returning is unwise, but his gut is telling him to go.Sheila yearns to have something from her childhood to pass on to her child, but when her parents abandoned her years ago, they took all remnants of her past with them. Then, out of the blue, her aging father calls, asking to be let back into her life. Her head screams "no," but her traitorous heart is saying "yes."If Richard and Sheila answer these calls from their pasts, will they risk breaking what they've spent so much time mending?
After a troubling encounter with a pregnant teen, Sheila Peterson-Brooks hurries from the crisis pregnancy center into the frigid Minnesota winter where she is mugged and left for dead. After a frantic search, Richard, her husband, finds her, and the police quickly nab the mugger ...A hungry, homeless teen.The brother of the pregnant girl Sheila had just counseled.The girl pleads for her brother, and Sheila and Richard choose not to press charges. Instead, they open their home to the boy, a move that could cost them their possessions, and their hearts.And, in the process, teach them the true meaning of home.
She holds the key to his heart, and his home. Can she risk falling for a man whose house she may have to take away?Bank employee Lissa Morgan likes all the columns of her life to add up. From her job to romance, every major decision is planned out. But before she can go out on a date with Mr. Perfect, she attends a charity auction with her meddling mom who wins Lissa a date with thrill-seeker Caleb Johnson.Caleb lived for adventure until heart disease stole his wife's life. Then debt closed his business and now threatens to take his home. With a toddler to raise, he vows that his risk-taking days are over. But then he meets the cautious yet curious Lissa Morgan and decides it's time to take one more risk-this time on love.When Lissa learns the extent of Caleb's debt, she wonders if she can collect on his heart if she forecloses on his home. And why is she falling for the wrong man-one who challenges her to leap from her orderly life and into his waiting arms?
Their love for a boy brings them together, but the camera could drive them apart.Photographer Haven Carlysle is a changed man. Six years earlier, he had run from his tragedy-filled life in Duluth. Now he's back in town to capture the North Shore's beauty ... and to recapture the love of his son. But that means making amends with his ex-girlfriend too. When camera-leery Callie Beaumont steps in to bridge the relationship between Haven and his former family, he's wary, but she's his only hope.Callie Beaumont is surrounded by beauty. Her parents are local news celebrities. Her sister is a model. And Callie is ... Ordinary. All her life, Callie has longed to work outdoors soaking up God-breathed beauty, and the opportunity is finally on the horizon. But being the liaison between the handsome photographer and his son has thrown her dreams, and her heart, into chaos.Can Haven capture her heart when she won't let him capture her image? And will his poor choices cost Callie her dream job and him the love of his son?
When flowers and chocolate collide, romance is sure to bloom.Family has always been the one constant in Jess Beaumont's messy life, so when her parents separate, she puts "Operation: Planting Hope" into action. All she has to do is recreate the circumstances that helped her parents fall in love. Unfortunately, that includes the daunting task of restoring the family cabin's gardens. When the handsome candy store owner shows up to help, she's certain she has all the elements required for her parents' love to bloom again. After all, flowers and chocolate are the perfect ingredients for romance.Luke Harrison has spent his life trying to win his father's approval, and a promotion in the family land development business would be a step in that direction. But when he inherits Gran's candy store, his dreams of being promoted start melting away. Then his dad dangles a Vice President position in front of Luke, with one caveat--acquire the land on both sides of Gran's store within five months, including the Beaumont cabin, and the promotion is his.What at first seemed a simple challenge for Luke becomes a tangled mess. Buying the Beaumont cabin and land will nip his blossoming romance with Jess in the bud. Even worse, it could end her parents' marriage. But if he doesn't succeed, he could be trading in his corner office for the corner candy store.
Can she forgive the man who once bullied her, and learn that love keeps no record of wrongs?Having overcome the crippling insecurities of childhood bullying, Lauren Bauman is eager to start her new job 1,000 miles away, and road-tripping across the country with her brother Nate and his new friend seems to be the perfect way to celebrate the move. But her confidence is shaken when she meets Nate's friend--the kid who'd bullied her years before, trapping her in a decade-long shell of self-doubt.For Jet Wurm, losing his job and getting kicked out of his apartment were the best things that ever happened to him. Thanks to the friend who rescued him, he's finally shedding the loser label he'd worn for years. Nate even invited him along on a cross-country road trip with his sister, and Jet couldn't be more excited. But then he meets Lauren, and her fearful reaction tells him they must have met before. Where, he can't recall, but he has no doubt he'd somehow hurt her--like he'd hurt so many others in his past. And now he's stuck on a six-day road trip with a woman who obviously deplores him.Though Jet is clearly not the same person who'd bullied her years before, Lauren still struggles to forgive him. But if she doesn't find the courage to forgive, will that convince Jet he's as worthless as he'd always been taught to believe? Or will they learn that real love keeps no record of wrongs?
All she wants is a settled place to call home. He can't wait to make home a life-long road trip. All Tessa Chanson ever wanted was a stable place to call home. She thought she'd found that when she moved in with Jared--until his home became her prison. When his control escalates, the only answer is to escape--an escape that's hampered when she falls and fractures her ankle. While building his graphic design company, Nate Brooks is focused on the future he's dreamed of: traveling around the country from the comfort of his renovated school bus. But when he picks up a wounded, mysterious hitchhiker, those well-laid plans take a backseat to protecting her. Hobbled by her injury, Tessa fears she'll never find freedom. Or has she found it with the family who graciously opens their home to her? And will Nate's protection put his family--and his heart--at risk? PLACE CALLED HOME is Book 11 of "The Potter's House Books," stories of love, hope, redemption, and second chances.
Can a senator's daughter and a convict's son overcome their differences and learn what it means to love?Realtor Dani Chamberlain's passion for bringing attention to the homeless, regardless of the method, has once again backfired. Along with being sentenced one hundred hours of community service feeding the homeless, she's also being kicked out of her home-by her own mother She has less than two months to find a new place, or she'll be living on the street herself.Once a homeless teen, Austin Lang is now a school teacher and coordinator of the Family Table Meal for the homeless in his community. And he can't wait to purchase his own home. When Dani Chamberlain breezes into the Family Table Meal in heels and with an attitude, his life and plans are upended.Dani is instantly drawn to the quiet, selfless man who puts his faith in action, and Austin can't stop his attraction to the passionate woman who dives in to help people without thought to her own safety. Along with working together serving the community, they join forces to search for their new homes, deepening their attraction. Until both receive news that shakes their foundations and threatens to tear them apart permanently.HOME ANOTHER WAY is Book 18 of "The Potter's House Books," stories of love, hope, redemption, and second chances
"With ME, Brenda Ueland wrote a true book and it is her masterpiece."--Patricia Hampl, from the introductionIn work, in play, in marriage, in bringing up her daughter, in her reading (she says she was much influenced by Van Gogh's letters), in the real pressure of experience, the author passed from adolescence to maturity and found her own way to fullness in life.Brenda Ueland (1891-1985) was the author of three best-selling books: If You Want to Write, ME, and Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings (Holy Cow Press).
Do You Believe?: A Story of My Spiritual Transformation and Healing in a Collection of Poems and Stories.
Brenda Jeppesen
Brenda Jeppesen
2011
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