Hunting Life

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1858-1919), the 26th president of the United States, was a conservationist and writer. Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail - published in 1888 - is the account of his adventures as a cowboy, hunter, herder, and deputy sheriff. The Rough Riders was the nickname given to the First United States Volunteer Cavalry, raised in 1898 for the Spanish-American War. The Rough Riders are best remembered for their charge up San Juan Hill, east of Santiago de Cuba, on July 1, 1898.

A tiny ad in a local newspaper catches Cedric Sapin-Defour’s eye: a litter of Bernese Mountain Dog puppies need homes. A lonely, single gym teacher and mountain climber in the French Alps, Cedric visits the dogs and immediately falls for a puppy with a blue collar who steps over his siblings to get to him. Named Ubac, French for the north side of the mountain—the rainy, cloudy slope—the puppy quickly upends Cedric’s life.

Are you a savage, an aristocrat, or a peasant? Savages make things happen. Aristocrats, like a parasite, live off the success and production that the savages generate, while the peasant is happy to exist from the scraps from the tables of both.

Whether you are stuck in a job you are not passionate about, re-entering the workforce, or a high school or college student unclear about your future, the time is now to start loving what you do for a living. Stop the Vanilla in Your Career and Life Process will help you love what you do, deliver it naturally, excel at it, and get rewarded for it by completing this simple four-step career and life planning process.

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...

In this very amusing, inspiring, and touching installment of the series, our favorite couple finally ties the knot, but this is by no means a spoiler, because there is a twist or two. Meanwhile, our favorite young star manages to increase his star-rating even higher. The hilarious antics come toward the end of the book when father and son must have the “father and son talk.”

Angela Elwell Hunt has worked with middle schoolers for 20 years, but it's her parenting experience that qualifies her as an expert on tweens. With humor and compassion she offers support to parents of children who are at that awkward stage between childhood and adolescence. Hunt does a thorough job of describing the problems, circumstances, and situations affecting children of middle school age--everything from academics to zits. Hunt maints that tweens need special attention because today's children are growing up faster than yesterday's. Parents need to give firm guidance to counteract ...

Eleven-year-old Jaden is adopted, and he knows he’s an "epic fail". That’s why his family is traveling to Kazakhstan to adopt a new baby - to replace him, he’s sure. And he gets it. He is incapable of stopping his stealing, hoarding, lighting fires, aggressive running, and obsession with electricity. He knows his parents love him, but he feels...nothing. But when they get to Kazakhstan, it turns out the infant they’ve travelled for has already been adopted, and literally within minutes are faced with having to choose from six other babies.

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…

Meet the Dearings, a crazy, loving, boisterous family in small-town Mississippi. There's mom and dad, three daughters and their families, and the youngest - 25-year-old Ben. Oh, and the family dog, a Yorkie who thinks she's royalty.

Are you one of the millions of people who feel stuck? Whether due to fear, low self-esteem, or feelings of inadequacy, millions of people feel like their life isn't going anywhere. In Be the Hero of Your Life: Ditch the Excuses, Take Your Hero's Journey, and Find Your Life's Purpose, life coach J. Scott MacMillan outlines a five-step plan to overcome your fears and lead a more fulfilling and purpose-driven life.

In this very emotional, inspiring, and touching installment of the series, the main character and his family must make huge sacrifices for the benefit of the community they love and swore to support. Huge sacrifices made can result in huge blessings given. There are some tears in this one, but also plenty of laughs and priceless banter between the characters you have come to know and love. The Sacrifice will stir within you deep emotions and leave you contemplating your own life choices and possibilities.

The Promise will stir within you deep emotions, and leave you contemplating your own life choices and possibilities. When we have the courage and discipline to do the right things for the right reasons, we are richly rewarded in ways that we cannot even imagine. There are plenty of tears in this one, but they are tears of joy. You will also enjoy an abundance of laughs, as you experience the banter between the characters we have come to know and love.

In How to Reinvent Yourself During Stressful or Trying Times, I reveal how, with the right mindset and mental focus, anyone can remake themselves and put an end to the chronic stress, unhappiness, and dissatisfaction in your career and life. Why not be happy now, life is too short not to be.

This collection contains Book One: Our National Parks, Book Two: Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail, and Book Three: Walden.

Never trust a fae. Lark Mairen knows this. In her village, the border between the fae and human worlds is as thin as a whisper, and fae trickery is nothing new. But Lark’s brother, Galin, has just disappeared into the fae realm while racing in the deadly Wild Hunt, and Lark’s only lead is a mysterious fae boy called Rook. To save her brother, she’ll have to trust Rook—even if it takes her into the dangerous fae kingdom, where she’ll untangle riddles, navigate labyrinths, and face the wicked king himself.

The Crew gives us a closer look into Rudy’s huge inner-circle of friends, and their antics. The Crew is another high-point in the series, as it chronicles Rudy’s growing success, but also a very emotional event which rocks his world. How Rudy handles this “event” will prove him worthy of his destiny. Highly emotional installment.

Written by three career experts, An Intelligent Career is a playbook for the modern knowledge worker, providing a complete guide that will allow workers to take a composite, dynamic view of a life's work in the 21st century.

Ten-year-old Jasper has been waiting all spring for his beloved nightingale to return to his garden and sing. But it's not there, and neither is his sister, Rosie. His parents seem sad and preoccupied, so gathering his courage, his backpack and his treasured Book of Birds, Jasper sets out alone on a walk to find them both. The expedition takes Jasper through town and country, meeting a host of characters who are also searching for lost things.

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 ...