Jill L Ferguson

El Casey and her best friends Leticia and Teresa are back in this sequel to A Salary Cinderella Story (Or How to Make More Money Without a Fairy Godmother). Told in the same parable format as the first book, A Singles Cinderella begins six months later when Teresa announces her engagement, which sends the single El on a quest to create her own personalized Master's Degree in Relationships so she can understand the ins and out of dating, love, sex, and successful matches. Through literature searches, including the works of Byron Katie and Jen Sincero, original research in online and in-person romance, and hearing experts like Deborah Tannen speak, El and her friends drink, laugh, and learn their way through mastering relationships with themselves and others during the search for love. (And readers end up with helpful guidelines and tools for what could be their own personalized relationship Master's Degrees.) Or as Reader's Favorite Grant Leischman writes, "A Singles Cinderella Story is fun, frothy, and everything you'd expect from a chick-lit romance but it is much more than that. Authors Laura C. Browne and Jill L. Ferguson have used their work to present some real-time theories, books, and systems designed for people trying to discover themselves and their purpose in life. I really love it when fiction authors use their tales to impart useful and potentially life-changing information and advice as part of their narrative. These two authors have done a superb job of this. Yes, I am probably as far as it is possible to get from this book's target audience but that didn't stop me enjoying this fun, fast-paced, romantic adventure. "

A Salary Cinderella Story (Or How to Make More Money Without a Fairy Godmother) is a contemporary retelling of the classic tale. Red-haired El Casey is a project manager a few years into her career who never seems to have enough money and desperately desires a promotion. Her boyfriend, on the other hand, seems to skyrocket in his career endeavors, as does El's entrepreneurial food truck king brother, Jack. After years of commiserating with her female friends, El meets PJ, Empowerer of Women, when they are seat mates on a flight to Florida and El's life is forever changed.

WORK AND CORPORATE AMERICA CAN BE BRUTAL, especially now. Help My Company Swiped Left provides a reality-check-correcting our sometimes delusional expectations on life and work-while offering hope and inspiration to anyone who has left a job-through their own accord or through being fired or laid off. Using dating and relationships as a metaphor and story examples throughout, the authors unpack what happensto us emotionally, mentally, and even physically, when we experience the trauma of parting ways with an employer before offering ways to heal and to move forward into healthier work relationships.

WORK AND CORPORATE AMERICA CAN BE BRUTAL, especially now. Help My Company Swiped Left provides a reality-check-correcting our sometimes delusional expectations on life and work-while offering hope and inspiration to anyone who has left a job-through their own accord or through being fired or laid off. Using dating and relationships as a metaphor and story examples throughout, the authors unpack what happensto us emotionally, mentally, and even physically, when we experience the trauma of parting ways with an employer before offering ways to heal and to move forward into healthier work relationships.

From boardrooms to blockade camps, from the lush East Gippsland forests to the golden Ningaloo Reef, the fight against environmental destruction takes place in many spaces. The Advocates tells the inside story of nine extraordinary women within the Australian environmental movement and the behind-the-scenes efforts that have helped power advocacy across Australia. Over the past fifty years these advocates have held corporations to account, cleaned up toxic waste in their own backyards, and returned biodiversity to our forests. They are not always on the frontlines of the fight or the front pages of the news, but their relentless commitment to making change is both moving and inspiring. In often unseen and unacknowledged ways these women have educated, agitated and pioneered new approaches to the many crises in the Australian environment. Told through richly detailed interviews, these stories get to the heart of why these women have dedicated their lives to environmental causes and the different ways they have persevered. The Advocates shines a light on nine women's tireless commitment to change, and what it means to be an Australian environmental advocate. These stories will inspire the next generation to find a place in that vital fight.