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Where are the flowers and the birds? What is happening in the park? A nature-themed book, The Picnic in Squirrel Park explains changes that occur when summer ends and the fall season begins. Field mice, Henry and Henrietta Hooper, view the fields after a rain storm and find no flowers. As they go on an adventure of discovery, a squirrel friend helps them discover new fun things.A story to read to Pre-k and K, it is suitable for independent reading in Grade 1 and Grade 2 and ESL. The 800-word book introduces vocabulary about nature, and includes positive interpersonal and action words. Illustrations are colorful hand-drawn artwork, designed to encourage understanding and awareness of the environment.

After around twenty years of reading many self-help books, to see where she went wrong when she was young, L. F. Radley (Lauri) wrote the light-hearted story, Easy Peasy when you know.It's the book she wished she had read when she was young, to possibly save herself a lot of time and grief.

To impress his opera-loving masters, Brio, a too-proud and jealous mixed-breed dog, escapes his fenced yard one Thanksgiving morning to make his way to the Great City. There he plans to lead golden chariots, Arabian horses, elephants, lions, and Egyptian soldiers in a special Christmas Eve production of Aïda. By accomplishing this, Brio simultaneously aims to upstage Sophie, the family's award-winning and spoiled Siamese show cat, and to raise his own status with his family. The reader follows Brio weave his way through the twists and turns of his many adventures including facing the challenges of meeting-up with bounty hunters, a pack of street dogs, a gang of teenage ruffians, wild animal phantoms, and his pandemonium-causing stage entrance at the opera house. Then on Christmas Eve, barely having escaped untimely death, Brio is astonished to find himself chosen to lead a quite different but no less special Grand March.BRAVO! BRIO is a fast-paced book which may be read and enjoyed at multiple levels. It features lots of humorous dialogue, intriguing plot twists, a quirky mix of enticing anthropomorphic and human characters, and a late-chapter action crescendo with an exciting climax and surprise ending. It is sure to be enjoyed by juvenile and young adult readers alike and by dog lovers of all ages.

It's the year 1925 and Autumn Frayley is running from trouble in northern Michigan. Looking for a place to hide, she finds refuge on an old fishing boat and falls asleep. Upon awakening, the young woman finds herself on Little Bear Island where the old lighthouse keeper, Mampy, takes her in.Autumn eagerly learns about what it means to "keep the light" in a charming time when lighthouse keepers were needed to protect ships from peril on the Great Lakes.Learning about the island and its inhabitants is interesting and sometimes amusing, but it becomes evident that not everyone on Little Bear can be trusted. Autumn soon realizes that boat trip across Lake Michigan has now changed her life forever.

In Memories in a Box: Signs of Life after Death, Janice Stork candidly shares true stories about extraordinary people, pets, and places. She takes you into a spiritualist church hidden in a cornfield. Inside a Catholic Cathedral she asks God for help with her unborn child. Through heartfelt losses, including two sons, she shares first-hand signs of life after death. The presence of Swami Kriyananda and Paramhansa Yogananda further confirmed the soul never dies.

Two young hens are chicken napped from the farm they were hatched. After a very scary trip in the trunk of a car the hens arrive at their new home. The coop is brand new. It has new feeding and watering dishes, fresh straw in the nest and no doodle (poop) on the coop floor or roost. The hens love the new forever home, however they can see through the chicken wire the crawling and flying bugs among the fragrant flowers. The hens are hoping soon to be allowed out of the coop to peck and scratch among the flowers and catch a bug.This is the story of two young hens. They have been purchased by Bright Hair and Ball Cap. Bright Hair and Ball Cap are a middle aged couple who do not have any experience raising chickens and their first mistake is not taking the farmer's advice about naming the hens.

Johan Pitka (1872-1944) was born in Estonia, one of nine countries that border the Baltic Sea. Drawn to the ocean from reading tales of adventure as a child, he first saw the sea at age 12. After working aboard ships during summers and attending maritime school during winters, he earned his master's license in 1895. Pitka became captain of a wooden barque named Lilly at age 24. From 1896-1900 he made four Atlantic crossings with this cargo ship and also sailed the Caribbean, Mediterranean and Baltic Seas.Pitka visited many countries and dozens of ports in cities, towns and remote anchorages, surviving powerful storms, mutiny and sickness. He saw wonderful scenery and wildlife, learned from other captains and perceived the intrinsic beauty of indigenous people while lamenting past actions by European nations against them. Working in different cultures and languages, he learned to deal with unscrupulous people, including merchants, harbour captains, customs officers and crewmen. Pitka's autobiography describes his voyages aboard Lilly, giving insight to how they helped him develop the initiative, confidence, character, resourcefulness and will that he showed in later years. His narrative quotes from Charles Darwin, F.A. Mitchell-Hedges and H.P. Blavatsky.When Lilly was sold after her owner died, Pitka worked aboard other vessels until 1907 when he co-founded a shipping agency and chandlery in Liverpool. He moved to Tallinn in 1911 to advise shipping companies and represent the Canadian Pacific Railway in the Baltics.Pitka founded the Estonian Navy during WWI and helped to lead that country's successful War of Independence (1918-1920) against Bolshevik Russian and Baltic German forces. Appointed Rear Admiral in 1919, he received a knighthood (KCMG) from Britain's King George V in 1920.In 1924, Pitka led a group of settlers to homestead near Fort St. James, British Columbia when about 50 Caucasians and 500 indigenous people lived in the region. This area was chosen, in part, because the B.C. government planned to extend the railway northward, but this did not happen for another 50 years. Pitka's group tried sawmilling, growing crops and raising sheep and cattle but sustainability was elusive due to the high cost of moving goods 65 km south over rugged territory to the closest railhead, and devaluation of the Canadian dollar. By 1932 all settlers had moved elsewhere, leaving their names on B.C. landmarks such as Pitka Mountain, Pitka Bay, Linda Lake, Colony Point and Paaren's Beach Provincial Park. A monument to honour Pitka was unveiled in Fort St. James in 2009.When homesteading in B.C. proved unsustainable, Pitka returned to his homeland where he advised shipping companies, explored politics and wrote his maritime autobiography. He also translated two books from English to Estonian. The first, Ways to Perfect Health, by Irving S. Cooper (1912) was published in 1935 and the other, Excerpts from The Book of The Golden Precepts, by H.P. Blavatsky (The Voice of The Silence, 1889), was published in 1939.During WWII, Pitka's three sons were arrested and executed by the Soviets and Pitka disappeared in 1944 while organizing resistance. His wife and two daughters escaped and returned to B.C. in 1948.As reported in an article during the 1960's, the short duration of Pitka's settlement in British Columbia, and his romantic memories of it, reflected his personality, about which someone once said, "It was hard to know where the sailor, the soldier, the merchant, the farmer, the writer or even the artist started or ended, as he had a very sensitive soul."Pitka was a complex man, who thought of his formative years aboard Lilly as the golden years of his youth.

When a small-town's most attractive, ambitious and conservative girl graduate goes missing from her big city college campus, her Bible study girlfriends from high school back home step up to find their beloved friend and sister. Of course, the small-town folk are not at fault, are they They only want to help, right?As Amos Tversky and Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman demonstrate in The Undoing Project (authored by Michael Lewis), impression and bias are flawed, and we don't see the monsters among us until it is too late.Legal Grounds unpacks that dilemma in a small-town vs. urban interplay. #MeToo and #ChurchToo factor in. It's a challenge illustrated in a story, all too real in Average America.Within the framework of the small-town story is the town coffeeshop book club - Bonfire Books - reading a powerful novella. Out from the Jaws of the Dragon exposes a hidden undercurrent of violation of the most vulnerable in their safest places with their most trusted human connections. The book club provides an avenue of discussion among the main characters as their small-town mystery unfolds.Small communities and families and faith friends are relied upon as safe havens. Aren't they? Safe? The questions.

High school sweethearts Ike and Anika Mayhew have hit a rough patch in their 12-year marriage, and neither knows what to do to alleviate the growing tension between them. Then, Ike makes a suggestion to shake things up that Anika initially scoffs at, but finds herself more and more intrigued by...Chrisette and Dorian Clarke were more than shocked when Ike asks them for this huge favor. Chrisette sees it as a way to break out of her good-girl persona, and Dorian only agrees because his wife does. The friends agree to one night together, with no inhibitions and no regrets.But everything changes when both women wind up pregnant. The pregnancies bring one couple closer but drives the other apart, and they all fight for their friendships, their marriages, and their privacy. Many truths are revealed and each of them is tested as they prepare for the births. One couple won't be able to come back from it...

The Last Offering is the story of the young hunter Atírin and the maiden Pazhè, set long ago in a land called Armágin. Here their people, the Arbir, hunt, fish, and garden by its lowland waters. But all is not idyllic, for the people depend upon witches as healers and diviners while fearing their curses, and demand blood vengeance for wrongs.When Pazhè accepts Atírin's proposal of marriage, a rival suitor strikes a deadly bargain with Dahlor Magman, a sorcerer from a far island, to possess Pazhè nevertheless, leading to abduction, treachery, murder, and the waking of an ancient evil.Falsely blamed for Pazhè's disappearance, Atírin must find her before a blood feud destroys both their kin. He journeys the length of Armágin, glimpsing the mysterious Forest People and encountering friends and foes among the Arbir and the mountain-dwelling Hill People, their ancient enemies.Meanwhile Pazhè's journey, fraught with near-escape, near-rescue, magical bondage and magical deceit, leads her ever farther from home and hope and deeper into despair. One of Dahlor Magman's apprentices, the witch-woman Sharsil, reveals that the hideous beings of Pazhè's visions and nightmares are the Primordial Ones. Relics of their pre-human civilization dot the land, dark altars where Dahlor Magman makes his blood sacrifices.Close to death from his hard journey, Atírin is aided by Bekor, an old healer who gives him an emerald within which a spirit seems to stir. Gift-giving is the way of Armágin's people, yet this gift is not disinterested: Atírin is now close to Dahlor Magman's island and all nearby live in fear of the sorcerer, who has subjugated or slain all rival witches and anyone else who challenges his mastery. Though Bekor knows not how to use the emerald's magic, it is all the help the healer can give, save to counsel that Atírin put Pazhè's freedom above all else.Pazhè has now been brought to Dahlor Magman's island, which is covered by a ruined city of the Primordial Ones. She now knows that he is obsessed with their relics, convinced these are the key to unimaginable power by inscriptions only he seems able to read. Yet there is much she does not understand, such as what he intends for her -- whether it is forced marriage or death, or whether these are somehow twistedly confused for him.Dahlor Magman finds that his henchmen cannot be trusted to guard Pazhè and sends her to a house up the coast, where Sharsil alone guards her. To hold Pazhè there, Sharsil reveals her own magical power, showing Pazhè a prowling tiger out of an old tale and an invisible spirit wielding a flaming spear. Pazhè presses Sharsil about the tiger, rescuer of a maiden in the tale, since all the magic she has seen since her abduction has been horrible and threatening. Torn by conflicting emotions, Sharsil says it need not all be so, and shows Pazhè a vision both beautiful and cryptic.Atírin learns Pazhè's whereabouts and comes to the house, where he tries to free Pazhè but finds himself facing Sharsil. Spells are unleashed, loyalties tested as bonds are broken and new ones forged, the Forest People reappear in the midst of fiery magical combat followed by capture and betrayal, and the secrets of magic are revealed. The emerald works a mysterious fascination upon Dahlor Magman, as he prepares to cast a deadly curse and loose destruction upon the earth.The code of vengeance may not provide the courage against impossible odds that Atírin must find in the final confrontation, as reality itself seems to go mad and the power of his love for Pazhè is pitted against the power of illusion.&nb

This is a book that is devoted to helping inquiring spiritual thinkers find a path of genuine spirituality that leads them into spiritual growth and true harmony with the Divine.Three imaginary characters intensely and passionately debate questions concerning the reliability of Judeo-Christian scriptures, questions about whether the concept of original sin (in the Garden of Eden) is a viable concept for the twenty-first century, etc.Intense debates flare over questions about sexual morality, whether Pauline theology can be regarded as credible in our age of scientific knowledge, whether Heaven and Hell are real, and numerous other issues that are of vital concern to spiritual seekers.The three debaters in these dialogues are: 1) An independent spiritual seeker, 2) A Christian apologist -- devoted to a defense of mainstream Christianity, and 3) A devoted skeptic who questions all things religious or spiritual.If you are a spiritual seeker, one who finds that the materialist/secularist scientific paradigm for all reality leaves you cold, this book can engagingly point you in the direction of ever-deepening spiritual insights that will enable you to progressively advance toward genuine harmony with Ultimate Reality -- the Creator and Ruler of our wondrous universe.This book can show you that you need never to abandon intelligence, logic, science, or clear and rational thinking in order to attain a profound spirituality. True spirituality need not be imprisoned in the straitjackets of dogmatic or narrow thinking about reality. The Divine whom you can learn to serve faithfully and devotedly does not demand of you a repudiation of your God-given intellect, and God is never scared of humble and earnest questions. It was not stated flippantly nor erroneously that in regard to true spirituality, "Seek and you shall find; knock and the door will be opened to you".Many of the claims made in this book incorporate the conviction that one must not necessarily buy into the theology of any extant organized religion, but can have a "direct line" to the Creator, receiving thereby inspiration, encouragement, empowerment, inner peace, and growth toward spiritual perfection.For many in our "scientifically enlightened" age, religion is pushed into the "backwaters", and passionate devotion to spirituality is regarded as passe. This need not be so, because the Divine permeates every atom in this universe, and the energy that sustains the universe is also highly willing to inspire, direct, and guide your life. We need not settle for science as the "new god", because powerful though it is as a wonderful instrument, it is nevertheless constrained by the limitations of human powers and our relatively puny intellects.Your life can transcend what science has to offer, because science is bereft of powers to master the mind and the spirit of humanity.By availing yourself of the hints and guidelines offered in this book, you can discover a glorious path of growing inner peace and joys that transcend the powers of human understanding. Freedom of your will opens for you the door to genuine choice -- a choice that could (potentially) have the significance of Heaven versus Hell.

When negativity strikes, what will you do?Rashun Carter utilizes wisdom, life experiences, and scripture as an engine to drive positivity through negative circumstances. Stress, anger, addiction, phones, and envy are just a few of many topics touched upon.

A child lost on a journey to somewhere and found by a woman who was not only lost but hidden from a world she had escaped. On a dock in St. Louis, they found one another and as time continued, the friendship turned into a family structure that would last for decades. It is the story of this child and her life beyond being lost at eight years of age and the life found and lived in the mid-1800s. Of her love for a man, children, and desire to help humanity despite the stigmas of the time. She shares the lives of others that made her life complete in appreciation of family that surrounded her. There are happy times and sad days, but life was more then she had hoped for while standing alone and lost on that dock in St. Louis where her story and life actually begins.

En los últimos años, hemos visto como corporaciones consideradas "demasiado grandes para caer" fracasaron miserablemente, así como bancos de mucha importancia financiera, compañías de automóviles y otros gigantes necesitaron ser rescatadas por el gobierno. Aunque sin ninguna atención por parte de los medios, miles de empresas luchan cada día con retos costosos, requieren mucho tiempo y se desgastan atendiendo a los clientes, empleados y proveedores. Sin embargo, también están aquellas empresas que logran prosperar en tiempos buenos y en tiempos difíciles; cuentan con empleados felices y con legiones de clientes fieles. ¿Cuál es su secreto?Lisa Huetteman sabe cuál es dicho secreto. Basándose en más de 30 años de experiencia y trabajando tanto con empresas que pertenecen a Fortune 100 y con pequeñas empresas, Lisa ha descubierto y presenta los ingredientes esenciales para construir el éxito en los negocios a largo plazo, en su nuevo libro: El Tesoro de los Valores Corporativos: Cinco claves para el éxito organizacional; Liderazgo centrado en valores, Lisa muestra cómo las empresas que identifican y definen explícitamente sus valores fundamentales, contratan a personas que los comparten, trabajando así con una visión unida y un propósito común que conduce a la empresa a un rendimiento excepcional y a buenas utilidades.Resaltando la diferencia entre una cultura del mercadeo basada sólo en las palabras que conviene decir y una cultura de valores fundamentales que son verdaderamente integrados en la vida de una empresa, Lisa se basa en las experiencias de los líderes de éxito y las empresas para mostrar cómo funcionan estos valores fundamentales en la realidad, y ofrece medidas concretas para mostrar a los lectores lo que pueden hacer para obtener beneficios similares.Este libro desentraña los retos que enfrentan las empresas para integrar los valores claves, en las operaciones diarias de las empresas y muestra a partir de estudios de casos prácticos e inspiradores cómo lograrlo de manera exitosa. Lisa ofrece la implementación de cinco claves descritas en este libro, para que cualquier negocio pueda convertirse en una organización centrada en valores, donde el equipo de liderazgo impulsa un cambio en la cultura que lleva a un éxito sostenible y tangible. Más importante aún, los líderes empresarilaes al leerlo pueden reconocer y apreciar que el mayor valor de los valores centrales, es en última instancia, los propios valores.

The Last Wanderer. An unnamed young college professor goes on a summer adventure in northern Canada alone when the highly interdependent world comes apart and he is unable to return to find his sister and uncle after two years of fires and nuclear meltdown leading to nuclear winter and the death of almost all the inhabitants of the earth that he has known.The unnamed wanderer returns to the Indianhead country of Wisconsin and finds no trace of those who he has lost. While finding wildlife are making a comeback, he finds no one alive and begins salvaging supplies and vehicles to begin his search for a safe place to live and find other survivors of fire, starvation, radiation, and disease. Instead, he finds a new Peterbilt 579 tractor with a sleeper that provides not only a safe place to sleep at night, but a means of traveling the interstate highways in search of others, like him, who may have survived somehow, what had killed all of the others.The wanderer's lonely trip across country finds an unlikely old hermit, Charlie Weaver, and they bond in their effort to improve their lots and search for others, but Charlie is dying of lung cancer and there's nothing that the wanderer can do to save his life from ebbing to a close. The wanderer must go on alone.The wanderer's search for warm winter quarters takes him to Hot Springs, Arkansas, where he happens on another survivor, a teenage girl named Lisa Adams who survived because her father took such care to save her that it cost him his own life. Lisa, immediately falls in love with the wanderer in her own, naïve way. It isn't long before they are expecting a child and have found another survivor, Oscar Bradley. But Oscar, like Charlie, is dying from radiation exposure cancer and meets the same fate. Lisa's fetus is also affected, resulting in a stillbirth. And the stillbirth of their daughter leads to Lisa's death from that ill-fated accident and hemorrhaging.Depressed and utterly alone, the wanderer is consoled by a capuchin monkey that the wanderer names Charlie after his friend and they travel the country looking for more survivors. Along the way, he saves a small German Shepherd mix puppy and names him, Rocky. Rocky and Charlie become helpful and loyal companions in the wanderer's travels. Twice, survivors are found, but they are hostile and the wanderer is unable to make contact. And then, like a miracle, the wanderer finds a commune with 47 people that have survived well, only to have them lost by a predictable, but tragic, natural disaster.Left alone without hope and with the southern United States becoming more tropical and uninhabitable, the wanderer retreats to northern Ontario where he stayed the first two winters and where he finally lives out his life to a surprising conclusion.

Have you have ever walked down a health store aisle, with thousands of supplements, and wished you could magically understand which ones really work?Do you want to quickly and easily figure out whether a new fad food or diet is really good for you - or not?If so, then this book is for you.Beyond Foods: The Handbook of Functional Nutrition is a true handbook-short and easy-to-understand. It introduces The 4 Building Blocks of Health, a uniquely simple yet comprehensive health model that explains Functional Nutrition in layman's language. With its clear communication style, Beyond Foods successfully takes the very complex subject of how nutrition creates health and breaks it down into logical building blocks.Each building block is explained, using scientific facts, but in layman's terms. There are no broad opinions, just verified facts about how nutrition is meant to support your body's innate good health. Common sense is the guideline used to explain how you can find your best diet choices. Tips ad quick fixes to common dietary problems make this book immediately useful in daily life.You are not just told what to eat. You are given a clear understanding of why foods are good for you, or not; and this allows you to make ongoing choices in the marketplace long after the book is read.Beyond Foods is award-winning for excellence in the health genre.

In the last twenty years, over ten million Americans have grown up in blue-collar families but have chosen to pursue white-collar careers. Changing Collars is a fascinating and instructional memoir focused upon helping and enabling these and future blue-collar Americans to succeed in their white-collar careers.Drawing upon his own experiences growing up in a blue-collar family, and in his 35 years of gradually learning the ropes and eventually climbing the corporate ladder in a white-collar world, Daniel Muller provides extremely valuable insights and lessons to help millions of 'blue-collar root' employees on their career journeys.The son of a locomotive engineer, Muller grew up in a typical blue-collar small town in Ohio. There he learned the importance of hard work, honesty, and ethics. He became the first in his family to attend college and graduated Summa Cum Laude in his undergraduate and graduate business programs.However, upon beginning his first job in the professional white-collar world, he quickly realized that his blue-collar background and ways of thinking were more obstacles to success than enablers. Unfamiliar with the expectations and social norms within the white-collar world, during the first decade of his career, Muller floundered in achieving the success he desired.Due to his ability to adapt and learn from self-study and from others, he was able to transcend his blue-collar background and achieve career success, albeit as a late-bloomer. He ended his career as a Senior Vice-President / CIO, and also held other executive roles such as leading corporate strategic planning, and P&L leadership roles as President of several operating divisions.Combining personal experiences and observations along with those of highly respected peers in his industry, Changing Collars provides deeply insightful and practical lessons about the significant differences between blue-collar and white-collar cultures and mores, as well as highlighting the common misunderstandings that blue-collar candidates have about the white-collar world. The lessons here are further enhanced by the organization of these lessons into early-career, middle-career, and late-career examples. This extensive set of lessons was gathered, researched, and peer-validated over a nine-year period.These examples and lessons are rarely discussed in college coursework, or in other texts, simply because many of these lessons are held dear and shared only with a select few, mainly others who have grown up in white-collar families and backgrounds, and those on the fast track to senior positions.The lessons shared here are meaningful, readily applicable and entertaining for anyone who is employed, or will be employed, in the white-collar world, and who is searching for keys to future white-collar career success.

Meredith Kendall is a graduate journalist student in Phoenix in the nineties. When a popular attorney/male model is arrested for killing his ex-wife, she decides to study it. She asks people closely connected to the case to contribute a written reaction. Each chapter is a submission to her project. Participants include attorneys, therapists, members of the media, and close friends of the victim and suspect. They each choose which part of the case to focus on. Her project results in a personal look at the secrets, lies, and speculation surrounding the couple's past and the suspect's future.

This book presents a personal non-religious philosophy of life inspired by the 4th Century BCE Daoist philosopher Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu). In the face of our irremediable not-knowing Zhuangzi suggests we abandon all supposedly definitive declarations of Truth and instead follow along with the trustful elan of life itself. This can lead to the deeply mystical experience of releasing oneself in trust into the Mystery that enfolds all things. Identified with Mystery, "hiding the world in the world", one is freed from all fear of loss. When life and death are taken as forming a single string, we can affirm our death just as we affirm our life. When no event or circumstance can happen outside the Great Happening our happiness depends on nothing and we can "wander far and unfettered" through life.If you feel the need for a guru, make one up. Who knows your needs better than your own heart? The author has written many sages and Xudanzi, the sage presented in these lectures, is but the latest. A dao (path) is made by walking it, and we all walk our own. Xudanzi's dao is only meant to inspire; your own authentic dao arises as you walk it.

Single-handedly, Lynn shatters the hopes and dreams of her close-knit family and severs the bond with her twin sister, Ruth. Each person fights to survive in the face of betrayal, deceit, loss, pain, even regret. An unexpected ray of hope occurs but it is only a prelude to more devastation and pain. When Lynn's parents think that things can get no worse, they realize just how wrong they are.Lynn wants nothing more than to be free of her past and is willing to abandon her parents, their rules and expectations, and all that she has known. With a friend's help, she escapes and begins a new life. But is she really free? She soon learns that her trusted friend is not the man she thinks he is and her dream becomes a living nightmare.Amy and Marlo's marriage is destroyed by a chain of unimaginable events that neither could have predicted. Left reeling from the aftermath, divorce appears inevitable. They begin the slow process of picking up the pieces and building lives with new love interests. When a tragedy occurs, they are forced to look within and beyond themselves. What they discover is life-changing but is it too late?A gripping story of self-discovery, surrender, spiritual awakening, faith and unexpected grace.

West along the River 3 is a five-year compilation of essays and musings on the nature and history of the middle Connecticut River Valley.These essays draw on the lore and oral histories of local characters in the many surrounding villages, including tales from the wild days of river log drives, several infamous and lingering memories of local witchery, a hometown hero from the early days of Red Sox baseball, whimsical observations of the earliest days on the New England frontier of the 1700's.The author recounts poignant adventures of summers in France and Brittany, wanderings through the countryside of Ireland and Spain, his return to his ancestral home on the banks of the Millers River in western Massachusetts.Several chapters record the renewal of Native American presence in this region, and serve as a source of record, describing the ground-breaking work undertaken by local communities and tribes to uncover the multiple perspectives on events that occurred in this region during King Philip's War.This eclectic anthology of nature writings, dwelling somewhere on the boundaries of poetry and prose, provides a calm and zen-like sanctuary for the reader. Some have chosen to read the essays aloud, and others, to escape the intrusive nature of the daily news cycle, choose to set aside time to read these stories during moments of quiet reflection.

African American Warrant Officers: Preserving Their Legacy chronicles the achievements and successes of African American Warrant Officers in the United States Military. The book provides historical information and biographies of outstanding African American Warrant Officers and their contributions to our country.Because Warrant Officers are known as the "Quiet Professionals", they are often overlooked in historical books. African American Warrant Officers, a subset of the Warrant Officers Cohort, are even more quiet. This book attempts to tell their stories and the significant impact that they have made to military history.African American Warrant Officers: Preserving Their Legacy is the third book in a series that highlights their achievements and successes.There is an ancient African proverb that says, "Until the lions have their own historians, then the hunt will always glorify the hunter".This book honors African American Warrant Officers and pays tribute and preserves their legacy in the history of the United States Military.

Conscious Love… 7 Relationship Truths for a Modern World will guideyou toward healthier love choices and deeper intimacies.Whether you are looking for a soulmate, reconnecting with anestranged family member, grieving the death of a loved one, or simplyseeking a greater connection with yourself, Jyl's late-in-life love truths willinspire you to consciously wake up and love stronger.This book includes:• Healing Mantras• 7 Relationship Truths• Love Medicine Recipes• Balancing Exercises"Still unmarried at 50, I had almost given up on love. Of course, this isexactly when my soulmate came tumbling in. One might say it was a lastminutemiracle. I say it was Conscious Love."

Incendiary Devices: Investigation and Analysis is the first book on this subject written by an actual arson investigator and profiler with decades of experience.Historically, there have been numerous myths and Hollywood exaggerations regarding the entire world of arson investigation. Chief among these myths is the notion that all arsonists are deeply intelligent, sinister plotters who sit around all day scheming and creating exotic incendiary devices. While there is the odd case of this exact type of offender, the bulk of the arsonists in the world are fairly mundane criminals not unlike a typical burglar.Nordskog combined his twenty-plus years as an arson/bomb investigator in Los Angeles with an intense three year study of actual incendiary devices found at arson events. He has separated the realities of his world from the myths of Hollywood and firehouse war stories. He has compiled a list of nearly 3,500 actual devices used in true cases and has provided comprehensive analysis of each item.Using his unique skills as a profiler of arson events, Nordskog has compared the incendiary devices in the book to the various sub-types of arson offenders. The entire purpose of this document is to use this unique information to identify, apprehend, classify and prosecute arsonists through the exploitation of their incendiary devices.Nordskog laboriously dredged up the historical use of incendiary devices in military actions, and followed the use of those items into the murky world of anarchists, Irish terrorists, animal rights movement extremists, anti-abortion fire bombers, and modern international terrorists.Nordskog explains the concept of learned behavior as incendiary device use expanded into the world of wild land arsonists, serial arsonists, and firefighter arsonists. He breaks down the mystery of Signature vs M.O. in device analysis and describes step by step how to exploit and analyze a device and its deployment by investigators, scientists, techs, and crime analysts.This book is a must read for any prosecutors, profilers, investigators, and crime scene specialists operating within the world of arson and bomb investigation.The details of this study and book have been culled from underground manuals, government documents, military manuals, and the case histories of thousands of arson attacks. The finished book was vetted and underwent technical review by several of the most experienced bomb and arson experts in the United States and the United Kingdom.

"Blessed are they that mourn:for they shall be comforted."-- Matthew 5:4When someone you love dies-especially if he or she dies young-the pain, sorrow, depression, and sadness you experience can feel like rising waters threatening to drown you. Even Christians can find ourselves battling a storm of chaotic questions. We wonder: How could God allow this to happen? Is something this awful really part of God's plan? How can I move beyond such pain and find life again? Now-in the new, God-centered chapter book Strong, Independent Sisters-Tracy Sams offers a poignant, unforgettable novel that bravely and compassionately illuminates these issues … and which points us to the pathway leading to genuine healing.When Grace Underwood's thirty-something sister, Emma, tragically dies from breast cancer, Grace feels as if her life has been torn apart. Battling the deepest sorrow and grief, Grace soon learns she has been given custody of her sister's sons … who themselves must deal with the most painful sorrow and sense of abandonment. As Grace struggles to deal with her own bereavement-and the emotional and psychological stresses wracking her nephews-she becomes aware of a possible pathway back to life … a faith-based group-therapy organization called SIS-Strong, Independent, Sisters. Can SIS offer Grace the support, compassion, and Scripture-based insight she needs to lift up herself and her sister's sons? What life-changing heart-wisdom will she receive from SIS?By reading Strong, Independent Sisters, readers will move to the heart of a story that will bring them close to God's never-failing love-even in life's darkest hours.