Western Life

From two premiere anti-aging coaches with years of hands-on experience, Lisa and John take you on a journey not only into the science behind longevity but also to explore other influences that may be undermining how well you age. From Macroscopic to the microscopic and beyond The Anti-Aging Revolution guides you on your path to a brighter, healthier lifespan.

Friends at Brown University, Marina, Danielle, and Julius are still looking to make their marks as they approach their 30s. Marina lives with her celebrated parents on the Upper West Side while trying to complete her book. TV producer Danielle's success is due to the puff pieces she churns out. Freelance critic Julius can barely make ends meet. Into this mix comes Bootie, Marina's college dropout cousin, who is just the catalyst the three friends need to start making significant changes in their lives.

In West of the Moon, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Margi Preus expertly weaves original fiction with myth and folktale to tell the story of Astri, a young Norwegian girl desperate to join her father in America. After being separated from her sister and sold to a cruel goat farmer, Astri makes a daring escape. She quickly retrieves her little sister, and, armed with a troll treasure, a book of spells and curses, and a possibly magic hairbrush, they set off for America.

In "Anna-Banana & The Secret Of The Haunted Doll Of Key West," readers are transported to the sun-kissed shores of the Florida Keys, where young Anna embarks on a journey of mystery and friendship. Excitement fills the air as Anna anticipates her spring holiday vacation, although her enthusiasm is tempered by the prospect of traveling with Arturo, a mischievous older boy who delights in teasing her. As their vacation unfolds, Anna finds herself drawn to the historic sights of Key West, including an old fort housing the legendary Key West Doll. Whispers of ghosts and curses surround the ...

Cows wandering on roads are an everyday hazard in rural South Africa. They appear suddenly, and their movements are unpredictable. Hitting them can have dire consequences. Dodging Cows is one man's journey from carefree childhood to lazy student to conscripted soldier to passionate farmer, buffeted by the fault lines in South Africa’s history. Gritty and uncompromisingly authentic, this thought provoking novel stirs all the emotions. Part One Follow the adventures of a young boy, Luke Ayres growing up on a farm in southern Natal barely aware of a country divided along racial lines. Part ...

Grandmother sends a kiss for little bear - via the hen, frog, cat, and two skunks.

The fourth and final book in Dena Smallwood’s SYRIE series. NOAH stands alone, yet closes the Syrie circle. You met – and came to understand – Noah in the first three books. You saw him guiding the Oregon Trail pioneers and learned of his childhood and blacksmith training. You read of a deep relationship with his Cayuse family and friends. And of his ultimate return to the Rye Valley cabin and a life with Syrie and their children. Now, for the rest of Noah’s story. Ride with Noah as he hunts meat for the Army in Oklahoma and meets his first Native American family. Experience the ...

The Mystic Heart chronicled Brother Wayne Teasdale's journey into a multifaceted spirituality blending his traditional Catholic training and the Eastern way of sannyasa (Indian monkhood). A Monk in the World tells what the journey has meant for him - living as a monk outside the monastery, integrating teachings from the world's religions with his own Catholic training, combining his vigorous spiritual practice with the necessities of making a living, and pursuing a course of social justice in a major American city.

She's his boss. He's had a crush on her for a couple of summers now. Can Toni and Griffin mix business and pleasure while making sure the teens they're in charge of stay in line? Griffin Johnson likes getting away from his brothers and the ranch every summer, going to Camp Clear Creek, where he's a counselor for teenage boys. Finally, some peace. He loves his brothers, don't get him wrong. He just needs a break sometimes. His desire to work at Clear Creek has nothing to do with the curvy, gorgeous Toni Beardall. Noo, nothing at all. Toni has just been promoted to the senior director at camp...

Everything Aaron has worked so hard to build in Quill has crumbled. Fallen from the height of power and influence and left for dead in a foreign place, Aaron has lost everything, and now he must humbly beg for food from those who saved his life. In Artimé, Alex chooses his people over his brother and abandons his search for Aaron, closing the door on that relationship forever. The Artimeans need his focus now more than ever as they face the terrifying power of a new enemy who has taken control of Quill.

Thomas Savage, a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and a PEN/Faulkner Award nominee, has long been a critically acclaimed author. The New Yorker calls him "a writer of the first order". This starkly elegant story details the lives of Emma Russell Sweringen and her family in the early 1900s. Emma’s daughter Beth secretly gave up a baby girl for adoption many years ago. Now, Beth’s secret life is being unraveled as her daughter comes looking for her long-lost family.

Welcome to Maple Bay, a small town with heaps of heart—where family dinner is a must, and someone will always leave the light on for you. A small-town romance series enjoyed by fans of Debbie Macomber, Elana Johnson, and Susan Mallery. An inheritance from a mother she never knew. But can this fixer-upper mend her heart? Hazel didn’t think there was anything a homemade apple pie couldn’t fix—until her husband divorced her and left her broke. Trying her best to raise her ten-year old daughter and make ends meet, Hazel is desperate for a fresh start. When she inherits a fixer-upper in ...

With no way into the McMartin house's magical paintings and its three guardian cats reluctant to help, Olive's friend Morton is still trapped inside Elsewhere. So when Rutherford, the new oddball kid next door mentions a grimoire - a spellbook - Olive sees a glint of hope. If she can find the McMartins' spellbook, maybe she can help Morton escape Elsewhere for good. Unless, that is, the book finds Olive first. The house isn't the only one keeping secrets anymore.

This is a four story saga that follows an 1800's fellow through many adventures as he grows up and matures, from serving in the Civil War Navy on an ironclad to becoming a gold miner in California, Travel with him through being robbed of his gold to gambling, yarning and gunfights. Experience his interaction with Native American tribesmen in both California and on the plains. Listen to his tales of walking most of the way across the plains and finally working his way back home on a Mississippi riverboat. The stories are related through a great-grandfather's recollections to his great-...

Christmas is a time for love. BELLE BROOKS loves Christmas. High in the Montana mountains, where she lives on her horse ranch with her son and his family, she has the perfect life. That is until it’s time to hang this year’s Christmas lights. Her son, Ryder’s, busy schedule is preventing him from getting them up by December 1st—it’s a Brooks Ranch tradition. BART STOCKTON, a former bronc rider and rodeo star, has yet to deal with his wife’s sudden death two years ago. Leaving the home they’d shared on her family’s ranch, he’s wandered from job to job, trying to run from ...

Nat Love: The Life and Legacy of the Former Slave Who Became the Wild West’s Most Famous Black Cowboy chronicles the colorful life of Nat Love and the legends that sprung up around him over time. You will learn about Nat Love like never before.

In this first book, young Gabrielle Allan (called Gay) is living contentedly on Drovers Road, her uncle Dunsany’s sheep station in the hill country a hundred miles from Gisborne. Besides her young, bachelor uncle there are her three orphaned cousins - Eve, Hugh and Merry - and their great-aunt Belle. Taken in by Dunsany years before, after her parents’ divorce, Gay now scarcely remembers any other life.

Raised beneath the big Montana sky, Matt Malloy was never meant to be a jet-setting businessman. But he'll do anything to protect the family ranch he shares with his brothers. Coming home after a two-week trip to Italy, Matt wants nothing more than to shed his suit and tie for a well-worn pair of jeans and ride his horse up to the cabin for some alone time. The last thing he needs is a big-city lawyer invading his privacy - even if she is the most beautiful woman he's ever seen....

Head mage Alexander Stowe and his friends successfully fended off the latest threat to their magical world of Artimé with the help of a surprise ally. But old enemies have secretly been plotting against them. Now Alex must lead his people in a final epic battle, one they can't hope to win alone. Will Artimé finally know peace, or will all they've fought for be destroyed forever?

Constellation, the home planet of peaceful advanced beings, is suddenly ravaged by a virus of alien origin. Aquarius, as the leader of Constellation, hatches a plan for a daring mission to break into the top lab of the alien race to find the cure. His own team members, however, have their own hidden agendas. Constellation tasks a team of six brave souls, code named Stealth 6, to set out on a daring mission to break into the alien stronghold to find the virus antidote. Team is led by Scorpio, their master code breaker and a gaming genius recruited from Earth by Aquarius. Scorpio has her own ...