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Lox is a little boy with a big imagination. He loves to build and create in the sandbox-but sometimes he is bullied for being "different" than the other kids. The Sandbox: Where the Construction Begins is a book about finding your way when you feel out of place, finding friendships that build you up, and never giving up on your dreams and aspirations.

On January 9, 2002, twelve-year-old Ashley Pond left her family's apartment in Oregon City, Oregon, to catch her bus to school. She vanished. Ashley loved her single-parent mother, but she hated her drinking, and the father figures in her life had come and gone. So she had learned to rely on her friends. Recently, however, things had become complicated: when she disappeared, many people believed she'd simply run away. But Janine O'Neill...

Get ready to embark on an adventure and witness the awe-inspiring power of imagination! ¿Milo is a hero who fearlessly takes on the challenges of pediatric cancer with his imagination as his superpower: from speeding down a race track to diving deep into the wonderous depths of the ocean. With every twist and turn, his vibrant daydreams parallel his reality, providing solace and strength during his most difficult days. The Superpower of I...

Life can be fun and sometimes scary, but no matter who you are, there will come a time when it hits you hard and will bring you down with everything it has! Ever since he was a kid, Hunter Carter had always been outgoing. He was, and is, the kid that is always laughing. No one would have thought that he'd dealt with anxiety and depression from an early age. The Midlife Crisis of a Nineteen-Year-Old is a story about those big moments in l...

In Leonard P. Hindsley's translation of The Sister-Book of Engelthal by Christina Ebner, the Dominican nuns of Engelthal were lost in profound prayer while chanting the words of the prophet Isaiah, "I have loved you with an eternal love, therefore I have drawn you to me with my mercy." Then they fell down unconscious and entered into the mystical realm. This event marked the beginning of their spiritual journey as a community and as individ...

Get ready to embark on an adventure and witness the awe-inspiring power of imagination! ¿Milo is a hero who fearlessly takes on the challenges of pediatric cancer with his imagination as his superpower: from speeding down a race track to diving deep into the wonderous depths of the ocean. With every twist and turn, his vibrant daydreams parallel his reality, providing solace and strength during his most difficult days. The Superpower of I...

Death has many ways to take you. But what happens afterwards? Will you fall further into darkness or finally see the light? Death Has Its Ways is a collection of ten stories of everyday people who make ill-fated decisions causing death to take them away. But death doesn't have the final say. Higher powers have an ultimate destination in mind. After their fall from grace, the characters in these stories soon find out that their final chapter ...

Respirator Blues is a collection of ninety lowku poems (senryu) by poet Elaine Parker Adams. Similar to the well-known haiku in structure, lowku focuses on social issues rather than nature. Adams explores the good, the bad, and the ugly of COVID-19, its effects, and the realities and myths associated with the virus. Her poems register a variety of responses to living in a COVID-impacted world-in the neighborhood, at work, in schools, and eve...

The only thing hotter than the coffee spilled down her jeans is the man responsible for it. When aspiring writer Hillary James escapes to New York City, she's ready to find herself and inspiration for her first novel. Instead, inspiration collides with her and her latte, and she finds herself becoming fast friends with the charming and talented actor Dalton Tremaine. Hillary can tell Dalton her secrets-all the messy reasons she left her sm...

Lox is a little boy with a big imagination. He loves to build and create in the sandbox-but sometimes he is bullied for being "different" than the other kids. The Sandbox: Where the Construction Begins is a book about finding your way when you feel out of place, finding friendships that build you up, and never giving up on your dreams and aspirations.

Five years ago, thirteen-year-old Bart attended a Japanese public school with a female friend he's now keen to avoid. He wonders why he isn't in the advanced Japanese class in his new international school in the same city, Kyoto, and if it has to do with his headmaster, a mercurial Englishman who lost his right eye playing rugby. As winter gives way to spring, Bart and his younger brother, Quinn, enroll in judo. Summer finds them jogging bar...

Based on a true story, A Pumpkin Tail is about two sisters on their annual autumn trip to the pumpkin patch. They start out hunting for the perfect pumpkin but discover something much more special to bring home that day. For more information visit www.apumpkintail.com.

Yesterday's Voices: The 12 Universal Laws is the third book in the series of Yesterday's Voices inspirational anthologies. These selections of verse and prose from historical sources refer to and exemplify the timeless and immutable laws that govern the universe and our human experience. Literature over the ages has described these laws with a variety of terms, including "The Twelve Spiritual Laws, " "Laws of Nature, " and "Universal Princip...

Slip between the pages of The Tall Tales of the Sierra and be transported into the adventure and wonder of the Sierra Nevada mountains. In these collected stories, readers will be introduced to Ol' Blue, the rainbow trout that outwitted all who fished the mountain lakes, bank robber Luther Longfoot, who left a trail of stolen treasure along a riverbank, and other characters whose stories unfolded amid majestic scenes of Lake Sabrina, Blue Lake...

In this personal narrative, Nina Reid describes the foggy, winding path that would eventually lead to her calling as a pediatric occupational therapist. After surviving the pitfalls of living in a small town amid family dynamics that undermine her confidence, Nina ventures out as an au pair in Paris during her junior year of college abroad. Far from the rich cultural experience she imagined, she encounters condescension and coldness from the...

Near explosions, bullets whizzing overhead, vehicles skidding out of control! All of these and more in short story compositions of twenty-six different experiences in the author's personal life where he found himself "walking through the valley of the shadow of death." (Psalm 23:4) Amidst the trials, he could trace the hand of God upon his life for protection. Through each incident, he was able to claim, as the psalmist David did thousands...

Who knew commercial roof estimating could be so hazardous? Are you spending more of your time putting out fires than winning bids? Are your projects bleeding money in ways you never expected? Do you sometimes feel that you are at the mercy of forces beyond your control? Within the pages of The Commercial Roofing Estimator's Survival Guide, you will discover a powerful, methodical, and proven system to prevent problems from flourishing and ...

In Fins: A Novel of Relentless Satire, pirates catch sharks in a marine reserve, lop off their fins, and discard the sharks for dead. A series of puzzling, apparently related shark attacks follows, suggesting that sentient sharks are cooperating to exact more than revenge. The carnage escalates until a brilliant, beautiful, beleaguered forensic technician-risking probable death and certain dismemberment-discovers the secret behind the attacks,...

Malakai, or "Super Mali, " as he calls himself, is a remarkable five-year-old boy with a strong sense of self, an active imagination, and extraordinary confidence. Be not deceived-his obvious pint size delivers a really big message: "How others see us is not as important as how we perceive ourselves." This affirmation book is an ode to self-love, self-confidence, and dreaming big. It empowers children to believe in themselves and gives them ...

Malakai, or "Super Mali, " as he calls himself, is a remarkable five-year-old boy with a strong sense of self, an active imagination, and extraordinary confidence. Be not deceived-his obvious pint size delivers a really big message: "How others see us is not as important as how we perceive ourselves." This affirmation book is an ode to self-love, self-confidence, and dreaming big. It empowers children to believe in themselves and gives them ...