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Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to The Book of Morals to experience 35 short stories with a moral lesson behind them...

A collaboration of short stories and poems to warm the soul.

A collection of short stories to inspire and motivate. Enjoy!

this is not just another parenting book. This book is a game-changer in the parenting world. Built on three decades of sound parenting philosophy—and put into practice with thousands of parenting groups throughout the world that began with the author’s best-selling classic The 10 Greatest Gifts I Give My Children—this book picks up the message and moves parent-children interaction into 21st century parenting practice.

Soul Speaking is a collection of emotional poetry straight from the soul. Every human emotion from love to hate, joy to grief, celebrating newfound friendships to healing from toxic people, is captured in these free verse poems. Whether these words haunt you or heal you, their beauty, depth, and power will certainly never leave you.

From the author of The Ten Greatest Gifts I Give My Children comes a collection of inspiring stories and life lessons parents across the nation have learned from their children, lessons about sharing, courage, trust, and love. 

A psychopathic killer brutally rapes and murders young women in Cologne, Germany. After the murder, he posts pictures of the dead women on their Facebook profiles. Office Lasse Brandt and his new, inexperienced partner investigate swiftly, as the killer taunts them by announcing his next crime. Can the Cologne Criminal Investigation Department catch the perpetrator before the next young woman falls victim to him? Or could Brandt become the psychopath’s target?

When Ben and his grandson Charlie build a fort out of blankets one evening, little Charlie feels the fort is magic. They fall asleep in the fort, and little do they know that the next morning they will wake up in a magical land. Every 200 years, humans are brought to this land for a very specific purpose. After one of their new friends goes missing, the two begin a journey of discovery and purpose.

For more than 20 years, The 10 Greatest Gifts I Give My Children has been helping parents to put the joy back into parenting. Steven Vannoy’s unique parenting style is designed to create a harmonious family atmosphere with self-esteem, compassion, balance, humor, communication, integrity, responsibility, conscious choice, and full expression of emotions.

Klarinda Snow is the innkeeper of Mistletoe Manor in beautiful, remote, Windy Pines, Idaho, where she brings her unique brand of hospitality to the tiny mountain town. When she finds her inn unexpectedly fully booked on a snowy Tuesday night in November, it brings back memories of a tragedy years before. Before she knows what hit her, she and her trusty team of employees (Myrtle, Pierre, and her new night manager, Josephine), have found themselves back at the task of solving another mystery at Mistletoe Manor.

Dennis and Sarah Coleman wake up one Sunday to find the message "You’re all grounded!" on both of their phones. They at first think it’s a prank, but they soon figure out that they and their two young children are locked in the house and their communications with the outside world have been severed. They then get a phone call and learn that they are at the mercy of a psychopath hell-bent on punishing them for their sins. They must do as he says if they ever want to leave their house alive.

Descent is about Jesus' resurrection and ascension that preceded the descent of the spirit - an event that purportedly made saints of ordinary men and women. This is the historical setting and the spiritual landscape upon which two outsiders intruded: Flaccus, a Roman legionnaire and deserter and Jeshua, a Judean healer and rogue.

Feeling overwhelmed when it comes to building your professional network? I'm not looking for a job you say. I learned that it's important to get to know people and to have a network before you really need to use it. Back in 2013 I was suddenly faced with the prospect of switching careers from something that I truly enjoyed, luckily for me someone in my network (all be it on the opposite coast) offered me a job and we moved from Boston to California.

Join me as I share with you tips and tactics you can apply to conquer your own fear of public speaking and ways in which you can practice without standing in front of a large audience. I'm excited to share my lessons learned with you so you, too, can apply the same strategies in raising your confidence and becoming the next speaker everyone can't wait to come see! 

These adorable furballs embody the essence of Zen Buddhism - harmony of body and mind and living fully in the present moment. Kittens exemplify the Power of Meow with their simplicity, grace and blissful Buddha nature. Each feline Zen Master in this lovely volume will get you one step closer to enlightenment as you follow the Four-Pawed Path. If you are looking for calm, clarity, and insight into the teachings of Buddha, this is the purrrrfect book for you!

Bringing the question of whether or not children are mature enough to have their own smart devices, this downward spiral of a spoiled kid gone rotten will show the consequences of giving a child gifts for which they’re not ready. From accidentally flushing the phone down the toilet to crying for the next gadget update, parents will learn that if you give a kid a smart phone, you’ll only cause trouble.

Riley Lewis is an omega for hire, and he offers a specialist service - he can take an alpha knot without any of the emotional baggage. And now he’s got a client: a rich alpha who needs him to be a fake boyfriend. But Chase is adamant it’s just business. A fake relationship for show, to keep his father off his back. No sex. Definitely no knotting. But what’s Chase supposed to do when the immediate connection he feels for the omega turns into a soul-deep craving to be close, too overwhelming to ignore?

My Many Miracles: A Spiritual Journey describes a dozen actual miraculous events which occurred to the author of the book over many decades of his life. Each of these events helped to shape a life and are unexplainable by any ordinary means. These events began in the 1940s and have continued to the present decade; they cover a very wide range of situations and behaviors - and they are all described accurately, thoroughly, and convincingly.

This book has to be read for it's too much to explain. 

From the silly and cute, to the horrific and sad. Each short story was made up on one day in Fountain Park, as the author began wondering who all was passing him by...where were they going and where did they come from? Listen for more.