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A joyful story with a positive outlook of a young child with a birthmark called Port Wine Stain. Leo is undergoing treatment for the rare skin disease which he narrates along with colorful illustrations. The book teaches our differences are what make us special. For some children, things that make them unique might also make them look different. Includes resources for others sharing Leo's experience.

Foxhole is a deeply personal story of a young man's experience in World War II. George Mullins takes us on his journey as he travels from his isolated home in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia to the beach in Normandy as part of the Allied invasion, then landing in a glider in the liberation of Holland, next came the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium, and on to the occupation of Germany. Mullins shares his thoughts as he fires his machine gun...

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The history of Paxton, California, begins with the 1850s gold miners working the Feather River's rich placer deposits, mining developers who constructed a 30-ton processing mill, and the subsequent acquisition by the Indian Valley Railroad which constructed a rail line from the Western Pacific Railroad connection at Paxton, over 20 miles through Indian Valley. Lawson details the construction of the iconic Paxton Lodge in 1918, a 17-room, three...

The plot is set in Tanzania in the sixties and reaches Sweden and California. It's a story of culture, history, and faith passed from one generation to another including various aspects of African culture, history, Christianity, and missionary work. These Tears is a human story.

Buying and selling real estate is the vehicle by which the complexities of life are shown-the Vietnam veteran who searches for human conection, the spiritualist who dreams of building a Center for Healing that someday will host the Dalai Lama, the San Francisco artist looking for creative inspiration, the homeless man wishing to buy his place in the sun, and the realtor, Ingrid Fromm, whose hopes and longings unfold with story as she tries to ...

July 28, 1926, in the city of Council Bluffs on the shore of the Missouri River, the author's life begins its journey through the Depression, into prosperity and family, to volunteer work and serving others. He finished writing It's Me, One Lucky Guy, then turned the manuscript over to his publisher. The next day his house burned down along with 1000's of others in California's Camp Fire in Paradise. He evacuated to his son's house which was s...

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Dreamscape in A minor captures the short life of a musically gifted and misunderstood young man. Jeff could make you double over with laughter with his comic timing or play a beautiful and complex piece of music simply by hearing it. Author Judi Loren Grace, Jeff's mother, skillfully breathes life back into her son. Judi is a natural born storyteller. She carefully and painfully reconstructs Jeff's life, cut short by suicide. You will cry, ...

An ambulance speeds through the night in tule fog across the Central Valley of California, siren blaring, EMTs ready, racing, praying to save lives. These essays follow Marianne Paiva in her captivating and heart wrenching adventures as she recalls her four-year journey as an emergency medical technician in the small farm towns and back roads of Glenn County, California. Told with an ultimately uplifting and descriptive power, this collection ...

Meant to be a supplementary teaching to A Course in Miracles, providing additional explanation and exposition of some key ideas such as: forgiveness, the illusory nature of the world, and individual responsibility. Covers universal themes of the spiritual path common to all enlightenment traditions, using Christian symbols and terminology.

Shawntel Newton is crowned high school basketball princess but faces criticism. Her boyfriend dumps her after three years. She looks for love while anguishing the decision to follow her father's footsteps, then becomes a funeral director and embalmer. She meets a bachelor on a national reality show, falls in love with the Southern gentleman, but has to compete for his attention with twenty-nine women. Shawntel shares stories about death, c...

Sponsored by Wal-Mart and other corporations, Students in Free Enterprise holds competitions throughout the world for university student teams. The author, advising a SIFE team in California, discovers that some teams received awards without entering. He documents other faults with the organization, subsequently, he founds a new organization targeting innovative teens. His program, unlike SIFE, encourages teens to become entrepreneurs. This bo...

In support of a dear sick friend, Elaine "Petie" Pedersen Koverman, the Mill Valley long distance runner, I accepted the invitation of Clifford Conly, an obstreperous old retired San Francisco architect, to move into the attic of his and his sidekick's nearby Sonoma home rent free. The hijinks that transpire during these six unimaginable months are recorded in 30, 000 words or less.

Life changes, it's unfair, bad things and tragedies happen. Yet, when things go wrong, good can occur and we are changed by it. Dan Irving's challenging quest discards the excess baggage and renews the spirit of a higher calling. This true, heartwarming memoir is about people following their passions. It is a story of humanity often overlooked in today's fast paced, material world. It is a journey with lots of bumps, potholes and detours and w...

Rita's Road is about true friendship at its finest. At age thirteen Judi is lucky enough to meet reckless Rita: she joins Rita's tight-knit group of friends whose lives are full of raunchy language and outrageous pranks. They have wild adventures as they see each other through the growing up years and beyond. Rita's exploits are hilarious and endearing. Her car is fast, her sense of humor biting, her pranks unyielding, and her friendships true...

Hinrich traces the immigrant Schlichting family from the unrest of 1860s Germany to the hope of post-Civil War America. The journey passes through Cincinnati and Milwaukee to the farming frontier of Minnesota and westward to Oregon. The episodic separation and reunion of the family is mirrored by a young nation undergoing similar success mixed with challenges. Like their adopted country, the Schlichtings depended on resourceful leadership, per...

Hinrich traces the immigrant Schlichting family from the unrest of 1860s Germany to the hope of post-Civil War America. The journey passes through Cincinnati and Milwaukee to the farming frontier of Minnesota and westward to Oregon. The episodic separation and reunion of the family is mirrored by a young nation undergoing similar success mixed with challenges. Like their adopted country, the Schlichtings depended on resourceful leadership, per...

Book II in the FTCM series. Continues the main themes such as forgiveness, the illusory nature of the world, and individual responsibility. Places much emphasis on self awareness, the conditions required for spiritual awakening and the relationship with the Holy Spirit. Has one chapter of applied spiritual exercises.

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