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A heartening and supportive guide to raising authentically confident kids In the Beginning provides Christian parents with faith-based encouragement and guidance for raising healthy, confident children from birth through age seven. In it, pastor and father John Kaites details how repetitive brain patterns formed between the ages of zero and seven can significantly influence how we approach things as adults, contributing to how we think throu...

If you liked Patrick O'Brian's epic Aubrey/Maturin series, Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See, or Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, you'll love 1836. Europe, beautiful and cultured, is roiling in post-Napoleonic chaos... ...the only way out is to cross a dangerous ocean. Can this desperate family reach the shores of America? In 1836, Europe is still haunted by the Napoleonic Wars, and battle-weary veterans get the worst of it. Reactiona...

Reading Female Firebrands is like getting to listen to a private conversation among powerful, smart women sharing their war stories about the challenges of being a woman in the workplace." -Julie Pham, Founder of 7 Forms of RespectTM and CEO of CuriosityBased Women of all generations will nod in recognition at the stories of thirteen professional women from diverse backgrounds and industries as they recount the career challenges they've face...

Integrity. Kindness. Hard work. Substance and value. Are these the words that describe a media mogul? They are when it's the late Frank Biondi, the former CEO of HBO, Universal Studios, and Viacom, who leaves a legacy far beyond the movies and TV you love. Through Frank's example, we can learn how to make good relationships alongside great deals, earn respect while earning multi-million dollar returns, and maintain character even when surround...

Jump into the action-packed life of a Hollywood stuntman-and discover how to find your own success and happiness. Stuntman Kevin Cassidy offers a rarefied glimpse into his life as a Hollywood performer and how he overcame personal hardships to reach success both professionally and personally. Cassidy shares not only exciting details from behind-the-scenes on some of the biggest movie sets in recent memory-such as The Dark Knight Rises and m...

Mystery and Suspense in Kazakhstan! Sea Fever is a mystery thriller surrounding clandestine activities on Voz Island in the desiccating Aral Sea of Kazakhstan, when Ayan Kazbekov was growing up in a fishing village by the Aral in Soviet time. When two locals are murdered while taking a couple of strangers to the now-abandoned Voz Island in the post-Soviet era, Ayan and his friend Grace, the wife of an American expatriate, are incited to deciph...

Get off the blood sugar roller coaster! With Doing Diabetes Differently, Chad Lewis offers down-to-earth perspectives and approaches for all who struggle with diabetes. Lewis combines years of research with firsthand experience as he covers-sometimes provocatively-the mental, nutritional, exercise, and drugs-and-devices aspects of the disease. To present additional perspectives, the book includes commentaries from notable experts in the diab...

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Can a love that spans lifetimes be ignored?Two people on seemingly different paths, Emery and Rose come from vastly different backgrounds and places in the world. Emery is a wealthy Englishman feeling pressure from family ties to marry his childhood friend Juliet. The very spiritual Rose lives a comfortable life in small-town America with her more analytical husband, Phillip. But both Emery and Rose are inquisitive, and their search for answer...

The Future Is Now Video games are more than interactive entertainment, they are part of a multibillion-dollar industry you may have never heard of. Beyond the stereotypical isolated teenager, today's players represent every demographic and every part of the world. Championship competitions in esports-complete with professional players, teams, and lucrative sponsorships-are often broadcast to audiences rivaling that of the Super Bowl. And the...

You don't have to be a natural leader to learn to be an effective one Are you an aspiring leader who is eager to advance your career and make a positive difference in your organization and your life? Or a current leader who wants to improve your performance and the results you can achieve through others? Leadership Worthy is packed with valuable information to help propel you to that next level. In it, business and leadership expert Bill Del...

Alzheimer's is a merciless thief, but it can't steal love.Dementia is a terrifying disease, snatching away memory and independence from those close to our hearts. Early-onset Alzheimer's takes even more, stealing whole chapters of people's lives. But love and hope do not have to fall victim to the disease.In Love Remembers, Kathe Ambrose Goodwin shares how her family has coped with her husband Steve's battle with early-onset Alzheimer's, from ...

BESOTTED by the women who inflame, entice but usually elude or ignore them, What Now, Lieutenant tracks three men from the Second World War into the present century.Dr. Elder is a well-intentioned classicist/polytheist, who, having been flung into the Battle of the Bulge, emerges physically intact and embarks on a quest for a congenial wife and a stress-free life.Freddy (he'd much prefer "Fred"), Dr. Elder's unprepossessing son, aches to excel...

A Death in Durango is an epic novel telling the story of the Vanderhorns and Stricklands, two family dynasties whose battles helped shape the history of southwest Colorado. The investigation into a mysterious death leads to a rich journey through the truth, legends, and lies of the Old West. This fast-paced romp through the events that shaped the West after the Civil War and up to the present day includes shoot outs, train robberies, archaeolo...

Grief is a strange thing, you're crumbling, everything is crumbling, but you're hyperaware. It's as if everything is magnified, and you're shrinking. I nod my head. Silence. In my ob-gyn's office, I am rational and quiet, composed. I can hear my doctor explaining that the fetus's heart has stopped beating. The "fetus." My baby . . . my fourth baby. The words seem to be flowing in slow motion. My husband, Clay, is arguing, insisting that we d...

Could simple changes to your brain and nervous system make your life easier? Drawing on humorous examples, true stories, and playful analogies, Connection Mode shows how our nervous system-including a surprisingly common missed opportunity to finish our lower brain development-often interferes with our lives in ways we don't even realize. The book answers questions such as:How can I stop feeling anxious, tired, and overwhelmed so much of the...

Your path to a healthy mind, body, and spirit Are you tired of feeling unwell? Have you made many lifestyle changes with little to show for it? Looking for ways to improve your physical and mental health? This book is a comprehensive guide to wellness, offering the tools you've been searching for to get well and thrive in mind, body, and spirit. With Me All Along includes personal experiences, clinical observations, and information gathered ...

In Spirit of a Hummingbird, Felicia Thai Heath, the daughter of Vietnamese and Chinese immigrants who met in the United States, gives us a disquieting, eventful memoir based on her early childhood on the run with her father-a notorious Vietnamese kingpin and escaped convict-and her conflicted mother. Clever and mature beyond her age, young Felicia experienced poverty and witnessed abuse as her dysfunctional family bounced around in the United ...

It's time we take an honest look behind the veil of marriage.Few talk about it, but even the best marriages struggle sometimes. While no marriage is perfect, your marriage can be vibrant and fulfilling, and that is worth working for.Sherry Cassedy, JD, MA, prominent family lawyer, mediator, and marriage teacher, shares the honest and vulnerable story of her own marriage woven with wisdom gained from her years working in the trenches of marriag...

Exploring the different ways families come to beFrom the Start: A Book About Love and Making Families is an inclusive and heartfelt love letter to adopted children and children born through the help of fertility treatments such as IVF, sperm and egg donation, or surrogacy. Through age-appropriate language and sweet rhyming prose, authors Stephanie Levich and Alana Weiss weave together themes of hope and gratitude to highlight the special roles...