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Written for children seven years old and younger, Susie is the tale of one father-and-daughter love for baseball with a bit of self-assurance and self-esteem rolled in to give parents a fun way to start important discussions with their children.

Mae Edwards grew up in Houston, Texas. She was number six of seven children. Her faith sustained her through many hardships that would have caused many others to give up. She never met a stranger or let negativity around her keep her down. Her family was split up at age three.

It was tough enough herding longhorns - an undertaking fraught with danger and hardship - to Abilene or Kansas City or Sioux City. So just think what it would be like trailing dragons instead of cattle hundreds of miles across the uninviting terrain of planet Terul. But Buck Johnson, Skeeter Evans, and Snort Jones are attempting it. And if everything goes right, they'll sell the dragons for a good price and finally be able to get off Terul. But things seldom go as planned.

The artificial noise in our lives is a debris field of arbitrary and often harmful signals. Our lives are riddled with sound. Unsurprisingly, the noisy environment in which we live has an immense impact on our concentration, alertness and feelings of anxiety. To help us manage the rubble that hinders our mind and wellbeing, Bernie Krause whisks us through the practical steps that each one of us can take to reduce the unhealthy noise in your life and realize the healing powers of certain acoustic encounters.

Have you ever felt like you weren't hearing the voice of God clearly? God does speak to His people if we would listen to Him. He sometimes speaks in a still small voice. "Part 2 of 180 Days of Communing with God Daily Devotional," will take you straight into the throne room of God. You can feel the fire of God as you read these devotionals day after day. Your communion with God will get stronger and more powerful as each day goes by. You will begin to hear the voice of God louder than you hear the voice of the enemy and louder than you hear your own voice. The true intimacy of being in the ...

Danny and Oliver: A Ferret-Rescue Tale is the first short story of, we hope, many more. Twelve-year-old Danny McGuire loves his pet ferret, Oliver - but Danny's parents don't. They also think he should do more of the things "normal boys" do. Still, Danny manages to remain fairly cheerful and keep his grades up. Oliver consoles him, his mountain-bike rides bring him solace, and his best friend Mike offers some hard-won advice. It all works out, for the most part, until…things go terribly wrong.

When you're a fast-failing organic farmer in New Hampshire, with a known termagant for a wife, an event like this - digging up a human hand in your potato patch - can be devastating to your small profits when the news gets out, especially since that ancient hand has peculiar "qualities." This discovery sets off a chain of inexorable events that lead Leonard Johnson to rash action resulting in a terrible kind of justice. A balance must be restored and a lesson learned.

"It's not every day you find a human hand while digging potatoes. But that's exactly what happened to Leonard Johnson on a Saturday morning not long ago." That's how this quirky little story begins. When you're a fast-failing organic farmer in New Hampshire, with a known termagant for a wife, an event like this can be devastating to your small profits when the news gets out - especially since that ancient hand has peculiar "qualities."

In 1997, Bella Bathurst began to go deaf. Within a few months, she had lost half her hearing, and the rest was slipping away. She wasn't just missing punchlines, she was missing most of the conversation - and all of the jokes. For the next 12 years deafness shaped her life, until, in 2009, everything changed again. Sound draws on this extraordinary experience, exploring what it is like to lose your hearing and - as Bella eventually did - to get it back.

They give you just enough to keep you comfortable and quiet...if you're willing to put up all the burdensome regulations and intrusions into your private. And most people do. But is it worth it? At long last, William Oudeis didn't think so. But then it cost him everything. "SlumberJoy, a global matress-manufacturing company, had its largest US plant in Doulosville, Oklahoma, where William Oudeis lived. And William worked there, had for the past 30 years. He was a forklift operator. Out of a hopeless sense of irony, his co-workers called him 'Billy the Kid.'"

The original Ferris wheel was designed and constructed by George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Roughly 280 million people visit theme parks every year and take approximately 1.7 billion rides. And there are slightly fewer than 10 Ferris wheel-related deaths each year. So the odds are generally in your favor. But Cody Jackson wasn't aware of any of this.

We all think we want 20/20 vision, don't we? But in the metaphysical and psychological realms we often prefer our accustomed blindness. It's far more comfortable. Here are two stories that take a close, 20/20 look at these things.

"It was that most loathsome of all things: an uncanny, routine-disrupting inconvenience and anomaly." That's what, as the result of an unforeseen event, unexpectedly invades and upsets Elmore Wiggins' safely ordered life. For Elmore had never reckoned on the paranormal or the preternatural. But now that he's had his accident, he is "seeing" certain events in the near future - including his own (although he doesn't know it yet).

Note to Self as a 9-Year-Old Child. Hello Child of God, I know you are saying "What?" Your Wisdom at age nine years, tells you to fasten your seatbelt - we are going for a ride. Two days before your ninth birthday Mama goes to her heavenly home. I started my road to alcoholism at 18 yrs. A new day will begin at 29 years, in a strange world of recovery. At 70 yrs, you will learn the concept of Vision Tracking Disability. The first time that you will read a book, not on CD. Beginning with a dream to come true writing your memoir.

Danny is shy and quiet and doesn’t have many friends. He doesn’t like to share his musical talents, afraid that people will laugh. His story is a great way for parents to talk with children about self-esteem and self-confidence.

Billy is a wonderful story of learning to love your gifts even in the face of peer pressure. Author K Wendt brings to life Susie’s friend Billy as he learns to be proud of his special talents.

A novel dangerously close to evil and too close to reality... dabbling in things not of God. Maya is a young woman with extraordinary prospects who is drowning in intense discontent. In the midst of her anguish, she meets Cha Ma, a Hindu guru. Immediately she believes that Cha Ma is an avatar—a human incarnation—of the goddess Kali, the most malevolent and destructive of all Hindu deities. Spellbound, Maya leaves behind her parents, faith, career, life, and moves to India to live in Cha Ma's ashram as a Hindu. Her choice hurls her parents into emotional, physical, and spiritual battles ...

An edifying and uplifting compilation of four previously published books. Enjoy: The Mystic Secret Waiting, Winging & Walking Stop, Look & Listen Wrestling & Winning A four-fold blessing!

We all have a little magic in us. It's usually just a matter of perspective as to how to find it.

WHAT ARE THE GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT? HOW CAN YOU FLOW IN THEM? You can live life plugged into the Holy Spirit zone. God wants people to know him, and you get to be the conduit of his love, supercharged with all God’s tools for purposeful living. Learn how to activate and use the the gifts of the Holy Spirit via: Relationship - hear God’s voice quickly and clearly through the world around you. Revelation - understand the messages God sends through visions, dreams, and prophetic words, and share his words in a healthy way. Revolution – be a powerhouse of Holy Spirit gifts by giving ...