Hunting Life

Sydney Bennett’s life is anything but calm. Sydney is a forty-something high-school teacher and the single parent of a teenager. An unexpected event shakes her pressured but predictable routine. As she tries to regain her balance, she’s drawn to a secret from her past that even her daughter doesn’t know. Nor do her three best friends. Her private quest leads her back to the beach town where she grew up, and her strained relationship with her mother. The last thing she expects is to cross paths with the man who once upended her life, a man she’s never forgotten. As Sydney’s past ...

Connie Ragen Green has experienced more in life than most have been exposed to during one lifetime. In Essays at the Intersection of Hope and Synchronicity, she bares her soul and shares the stories, people, and situations that have been and continue to be the fabric of her life Keep an open heart, mind, and soul as you immerse yourself in these pages...

"Rising To Greatness" is a highly powerful and dynamic book that guides you through your very own process of transformation. Rising To Greatness is essential listening for those wanting a second chance at life, help re-booting their life, or guidance with recovery from trauma and setbacks. Currently happy and successful people will find many nuggets of information to help improve their lives, relationships, and success. The book is for people of all ages, and is considered an owner's manual for all humans.

Alexie Linn is intrigued by Mary Linn’s hobby. What moves a teenager to scout graveyards for other’s lost ancestors? Is she a ghoul? A vampire? A witch in a secret coven? What is she really in search of? Blood? Ghosts? Magic? Or is it her own bloodline? Her father’s secret past that Joan has mentioned? Or is graveyard hunting simply Mary Linn’s way of escaping from the trials and tribulations of being a teenager? So many options…

Has attending church, praying intermittently, and reading your Bible—at times—become more about checking off a to-do list than connecting with God? You are not alone. Author Sam Hunter started 721 Ministries nineteen years ago because he saw a growing trend in the men around him: well-meaning men who were not pursuing a relationship with Jesus, or investing in their marriages and children emotionally. They were missing it, badly. Sam’s clarion call became, “There’s more!” Most of these men are churchians, not Christians. They follow church, not Christ. The stresses and ...

Amanda, a small-town minister's daughter with hopes for a musical career, and Gillian, a hot-tempered aspiring actress from the Bronx, met at college. A decade later, one is happily married to an ambitious lawyer while the other is entangled in a passionate but troubled affair with a young man who's spent five years in a navy prison. The other women in Amanda and Gillian's lives mirror the choices they make and the secrets they share. Gillian's mother-in-law, Julia, is haunted by a wartime affair and its tragic consequences.

Can a stack of old letters written in Italian solve a family mystery? For three years, Julia De Luca has juggled her successful interior design business with caring for her elderly mother. Following her mother’s death, Julia finds old letters from distant relatives in Italy. They remind her of visits she and her mother made when Julia was a child. Could the letters hold answers to the abrupt end of their trips to Italy she was ten years old? These relatives whose names she’s forgotten are the only family Julia has left on earth. How can she reconnect with them after decades? Julia’s ...

If you’re like many people who don’t know what sparks joy or what gives your life meaning and purpose, this book will help provide the answers. If you have been told it’s not realistic to work and live with joy and purpose, this book will help change your mindset. If you’re too busy, too tired, too ill or too stressed out to listen to a lengthy book, this concise guide comes to your rescue.

"Asylum-seeker"; "refugee". All the major British political parties have brought these words to the top of the political agenda. Some newspapers shout about the swarms of refugees arriving on our shores; others criticize our government's lack of humanitarian principles. But what do we know about the refugees themselves what it means to leave your home, your family, your past? Author Rose George has travelled to Liberia and Ivory Coast and also met refugees in Britain to discover what really happens when you are uprooted by war, greed, and guns.

In the midst of a mysterious environmental crisis, as London is submerged below flood waters, a woman gives birth to her first child, Z. Days later the family are forced to leave their home in search of safety. As they move from place to place, shelter to shelter, their journey traces both fear and wonder as Z's small fists grasp at the things he sees, as he grows and stretches, thriving and content against all the odds.

Publicist Hannah can’t believe her luck at a celebrity client lending her a newly renovated luxury penthouse apartment while she gets settled into her new life in New York City and puts her broken heart behind her. What she doesn’t expect is the group of fellow residents who object to their new neighbour, led by the curmudgeon in the penthouse next door…

In the picture-perfect town of Cranberry Falls, where twinkling lights and holiday cheer reign supreme, Samantha “Sam” Parker would rather swing a hammer than hang a wreath. After being left at the altar during what should have been the perfect Christmas wedding, she's sworn off anything resembling holiday spirit. But when Noel Wagoner arrives in town with his adorable six-year-old niece Holly and their golden retriever puppy, the walls Sam has built around her heart begin to crack. Still grieving the loss of Holly's parents and determined to give his niece a magical Christmas, Noel ...

Eden Godfrey has been a widow too long. Or so her friends tell her. For the first time, she agrees, but she has a more pressing objective. Having sold the family business, which occupied her time for over a decade, she now wants to find a bigger story where she can help people in need. Romance would be secondary. Especially since her brief stint with online dating didn’t end so well...as she pushed away the only man with potential. To the surprise of her friends, she decides to return to college to fulfill a long-term desire of finishing her degree. This will help her find her passion and...

I feel like one of the Smothers Brothers. Mom AND Dad always like my brother best. He was always the competent one and I was a baby and by definition incompetent. I was told he had better grades than I did . . .but he didn't. I had a good year once . . . it took my brother getting a divorce for me to be elevated to an exalted state where I could do no wrong. But that ended when my mother learned that my wife was away during a Jewish holiday meditating. I had hair no longer than a finger but was told I had long hair. I was told to eat what was on my plate but then was told I was eating too ...

Calais-born Olivier Le Vasseur aka La Buse is infamous for his 1721 attack on a Portuguese ship docked at Bourbon (modern day Réunion), the island where he eventually met his fate on the gallows in 1730. The raid yielded one of the most spectacular treasure hauls in the recorded history of piracy. The value of the plunder taken - and a fabled incident that occurred on the day La Buse was hanged - have led to enduring claims about the supposed buried treasure of this ill-fated pirate. The recorded facts of Le Vasseur’s life – and their importance in debunking the legend- are the subject...

Stoicism offers rationally grounded, proven psychological techniques for the gradual development of consistent self-mastery, and emotional detachment from those elements of the human condition that tend to cause the most pervasive and unsettling forms of fear, anxiety, and avoidable disquiet. In the essays in A Life Worth Living, William Ferraiolo examines what it means to incorporate Stoicism into 21st century life, adapting classical Stoic philosophy for the modern day.

Scavenger Hunt invites the listener to join in the search for all the items the Rainbow Kids believe will make for a fun-filled day. While no one finds everything, roaming over the neighborhood and scurrying through the house provides a unique experience for each kid. Gathering together at the end of the day provides each one with an opportunity to lay out their treasure and talk about their quest. As usual, the story concludes with the Rainless Rainbow and Sunny Sun reinforcing their day with a brilliant display of colors.

Do you feel there is more you want to experience in your life? Do you sometimes feel like something is wrong, or missing in your life? Does your soul yearn for more than what you are currently experiencing? In Relaunch My Life Juliet Lever shares an intimate journey through the steps she took to relaunch her own life from an anxious overworked employee in an unhappy marriage to an inspired entrepreneur and finding her soul mate. In this life-changing and inspiring book she shares her secrets so you too can live your happiest and most fulfilling life - a life on your terms.

Hugo Hunter, a would-be champion who never quite made it, is on his last legs. Thirty-seven years old, soft around the middle, and broke, he’s plummeted from his glory days of title fights to small-time bouts against brawlers and punks. Watching ringside for nearly twenty years has been Mark Westerly, a sportswriter who has struggled to keep a professional distance from the man whose life and career have become enmeshed with his own tumultuous trajectory.

Perennial questions about leadership are “Is leadership caught or is it taught?” Are persons born to be leaders or are leaders more a product of their environment and the influences that develop them? This volume is rooted in the premise of my observations and findings over 40 years as a practitioner, student, researcher, and leadership teacher that one characteristic/factor distinguishes leaders of thriving, vital, and growing teams and organizations from those that are less effective, and not thriving and growing. This characteristic/factor is what I will discuss throughout this ...