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Welcome to the Army is a look back at Dennis Schulze's thirty years of service in the United States Army. The story begins in 1968 at the height of the war in Vietnam. A recent law school graduate, Dennis is preparing to take the bar exam when he's drafted. With one letter, the trajectory of Dennis's life changes forever. These are his experiences.

Have you ever wondered… What it would feel like to be a chocolate cake, or How you would react to not getting your paycheck on time, or How to get out of doing your laundry, or What it would be like to have a pet pig, or What it means to be in love?New Love, Spilt Milk, and Potbellied Pigs explores these questions and many more. The diverse stories, plays, and poems in this book are relatable and easy to read. If you are looking to have fun, l...

Jacob's Wood takes place in ancient Palestine during the time of Jesus. It is the story about a farmer named Jacob, his fondness for a certain tree that grew on his land, and how, because of an act of kindness on Jacob's part, that tree was graced by God to follow Jesus throughout his earthly life and beyond.

We all want to be "great" teachers, don't we? But it's not as easy as some might think. Dealing with a variety of learners: those who are academically gifted, those who struggle with learning, and those who come from a variety of different backgrounds and cultures takes a great deal of practice, preparation, and planning. Don't despair, though. This text will help all teachers in all subject areas become better at what they do! We provide a fr...

A sultry Cold War spy.A soldier obliterated under cover of darkness.A kidnapping in the heart of old Berlin.Randy Young is a popular American Forces Network disc jockey when he meets Monica Hansaur, a beautiful young German woman who embodies everything Randy has ever wanted. Blinded by love, Randy fails to see that Monica has been compromised by the KGB, coerced into seducing young soldiers who have access to military knowledge. Danger intens...

If you want an easy and fun way to understand St. Thomas Aquinas's five arguments for the existence of God, this book is for you. Written as dialogue between Lucy and AJ in a coffee shop, these arguments are presented by Fradd and Delfino in every day language, with helpful examples and analogies, and by raising and answering objections along the way. Additional resources at the end of the book will deepen your understanding of the material, h...

ONLY A FEW HOURS FROM NEW YORK CITY, ALONG THE picturesque back lanes of the state and often amid spectacular natural beauty, the countryside is dotted with hundreds of small wineries where world-class vintages are being made. These are the hand-crafted wines with increasingly international reputations that you won't find readily on the grocery store shelves, produced in small, artisanal lots by producers guided by one shared passion: making N...

Welcome to Doxieville! Meet Deuce and Diesel as they lead the dachshund pack on adventures.Deuce is reckless, but fun-loving. Diesel is very responsible, and the biggest and strongest dog in Doxieville.Together, the doxies learn that handicaps should never hold them back in life, and they should pursue their dreams. They also learn how to count, make friends, and deal with bullies.All of the dogs in Doxieville are based on real dogs owned by t...

Michele Moore wanted a unique relationship with God. She found a church family and a pastor to lead her down a spiritual path, but longed for a deeper relationship with the Father. Even as God worked alongside her through her life, a lack of focus kept Him hidden from her sight. She prayed that His presence would be revealed.Be careful what you ask of God, because He might give you exactly what you desire.Michele never could have imagined that...

These are stories…because every creature, place, and season has stories to tell. Stories are the way all things communicate to people, and the way people communicate to each other. Some are about a spider, dogs, children, books, the ocean, dinosaurs, winter, fly fishing, illusions, love, solitude, memory, and moving on. The stories you may not have heard before. The voices you know by heart.

How did you manage a household of eight?"How did you cope with six personalities?"How did you travel with so many children?"If you are raising or have raised a large family, grew up in, know or want to know about a large family, you can relate to some of the happenings, recall similar situations and realize these scenes occur in any era, in any size family, hearing: "I didn't do it!" "STOP IT!" or "My turn…"Each chapter/room reveals stories of...

All of life involves waiting. We wait at stoplights. We are caught in traffic jams. We agonize over medical test results. We hang on to a much-anticipated getaway. Sometimes, we wait to finish a project, welcome a new relationship, or open our hearts to the work God has begun in us. Regardless of how often we wait or upon what, Jeannie Ewing explains with clarity and encouragement how we can use the moments of waiting in our lives to grow spir...

Even nuns get to take a holiday! After all the investigations Sister Philomena's conducted this summer, she needs one. In this adventure, Sister Philomena, her niece, Delaney, and nephew, Riley, are invited to Siena, Italy for the famous Palio horse race and festival. Their vacation plans abruptly change when they stumble upon mysterious documents while visiting the childhood home of St. Catherine of Siena. It's possible they have found a cent...

Do you believe in angels? A special bird shows up by request when the author was going through a really tough time. This is the true story of that inspiring visit and a reminder to all that our angels are near.

Through a radical reinterpretation of classical philosophy as an organizational psychology, The Moral Psychology of St. Thomas: An Introduction to Ragamuffin Ethics just as radically reinterprets St. Thomas Aquinas's moral teaching to be a behavioristic psychology chiefly designed to synthesize right reason and right pleasure to help a person excel at living life as a whole. In the process of so doing, this work demonstrates how the skill of p...

The Magisterium of the Catholic Church teaches that Mary, the Mother of God, is a grace-filled, flesh and blood woman, who unsurpassingly loves each of us by name. Mary, the Beloved, affirms that teaching, providing a theological and philosophical portraiture of our Heavenly Mother that plunges both heart and intellect deeply into her mystery. It's not simply to teach doctrine that this book was written, but to introduce the reader to a real L...

This is my private journal, written during a difficult period of my life. The economy was poor, business was slow. The recession ravaged my private practice as a clinical psychologist. Thrown overboard into a sea of the unknown and the unstable, I fell into unrest and was plagued with thoughts of "going under, " but in my heart, I believed my situation would turn around. In 2013, my office building finally sold. It was located in Flint, Michig...

The 30 pieces of silver that Judas was paid for betraying Jesus were found in Israel. The Franciscan monks of Jerusalem sent the coins to the Vatican Museums for authentication and safekeeping - but then they disappeared! The Holy Father naturally must call upon his special agent, Sister Philomena, to find them. The search for the coins leads Sister Philomena, Riley, and Delaney on a harrowing ride through Rome with that crazy Sister Lisa Rene...

The 30 pieces of silver that Judas was paid for betraying Jesus were found in Israel. The Franciscan monks of Jerusalem sent the coins to the Vatican Museums for authentication and safekeeping - but then they disappeared! The Holy Father naturally must call upon his special agent, Sister Philomena, to find them. The search for the coins leads Sister Philomena, Riley, and Delaney on a harrowing ride through Rome with that crazy Sister Lisa Rene...

Even nuns get to take a holiday! After all the investigations Sister Philomena's conducted this summer, she needs one. In this adventure, Sister Philomena, her niece, Delaney, and nephew, Riley, are invited to Siena, Italy for the famous Palio horse race and festival. Their vacation plans abruptly change when they stumble upon mysterious documents while visiting the childhood home of St. Catherine of Siena. It's possible they have found a cent...