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TRUE STORY OF A BABY SLOTH RESCUED FROM THE GROUND. He was being cared for until he was old enough to live in the wild.CAROL CREAGER is an experienced wildlife photographer, author, and Spanish teacher, who travels extensively in Costa Rica.

Father Thomas Riley is a parish priest who is beloved by many. He is respected for his ability to help those who have suffered the loss of a loved one. Unfortunately, Father Riley gets too close to some of the females in his grief counseling groups. When one of the women in the group is found murdered, Father Riley becomes the chief suspect. Despite all the good things he is hearing, Detective Wilcox believes that Father Riley has not only betrayed his vow of celibacy, but in order to cover it up, has committed a murder. When Father Riley is sent to the Vatican on a special assignment, Wilcox is only further convinced of his guilt. At first, Father Riley is concerned about his vocation, as a woman threatens to tell the bishop about their affair. When she is found dead, he is more concerned about a life behind bars, or worse.

Hi, I am J. R. This is the book everyone in the world should read. Now, here is your chance. Don''t get left behind. Your life depends on it! I hope that you enjoy this short story. I hope I help you. This is a story no one knew about God, the Father of light, and the light he put in you, into the darkness of your soul. You must learn to control the darkness. It is hard for you, I know. The darkness that lives in you is very strong. In this book, I will tell you your purpose in life. My hope is you would seek out the light in you and become one of the children of the light (Father). He loves you all. He waited for you. Come all who are troubled and heavily labor. Yes, I know. Where did I learn of this story? Easy. I am living it . . . Right now, The Father of life is my teacher and yours, if you would only listen. Take care, my family. The next time I go out to fight the demon inside a soul, it may be yours. I am here for you now. The Son of the Father did not die on the cross; it was just the body of a man you saw that died. The Father is trying to tell you that this is the fate of man who chooses not to live in the light. Yes, one more thing . . . You must let me in to help you; then I will come to you. I know that it is a strange way to write a story about the Father of light, but I did not know of any other way to reach you to open your eyes. I hope that you learn the meaning of my story. J. R.

I write essays not to dictate, educate or stimulate anyone to do anything at all. Just relax and enjoy them.

A collection of 60 middle-aged man reflections about living and dying, gracefully-aging and trying my best to live a good and honest life. I hope you enjoy reading my book and will share it with others.Thanks for reading my book and have a wonderful life.

At Neve Shalom High, two students meet and cultivate a friendship inspired by their mutual love for opera. Two adults in their lives, a Neve Shalom instructor and a Tel Aviv voice professor, nurture a belief that their artistic contributions could play an unexpected and important role in reactivating the peace talks between the Palestinians and the Israelis. The Ministry of Education even provides funding for the effort; however, family mistrusts from both sides are frequently plagued by cultural prejudices related to decades of territorial and religious disputes. Eventually, as adults, the two students find themselves back where they started, but in a place they could never have imagined because it gives them hope.Educated in Lebanon, Iraq, and the United States, author Jemil Metti has taught international relations at the college level, focusing on Middle Eastern conflicts. Operation Olive Tree is his fictional exploration of something important to all of us: the power of dialogue until a peace accord is reached.

A retirement home is where many end up in their later years, just waiting for the clock to run out, and it's no different for Steve. After a battle gone wrong, he was left to care for a comatose brother-in-arms, Buddy, who had saved his life many times. Steve has devoted his life to watching over his old friend, but more than fifty years later, suddenly one day Buddy wakes up. And powerful old enemies resurface. Can an elderly man rise above the demons of his past to protect his city? Or should he remain where he is and let time run its course?

Luella is unhappy with her lonely life in the huge castle she hates the fancy clothes.The noisy parties. One day she decides to go on a adventure to find the Golden Magic Garden. Then starts her funny adventures, with Many creatures to help her that hey become her best friends. She loves her horse Sunstar and he loves her and listens as she tells him about her new adventures.

Sixteen year old Sam Turner is dating his first steady girlfriend, Angela Williams. Angela is everything he imagined his first girl would be. She's pretty, smart and fun to hang out with. There's just one problem, she's a Christian. A Bible quoting, attend Church all the time Christian. In Sam's mind, Angela's Christian values are a barrier keeping them from moving to the next level in their relationship.Then Sam meets Tanya. Tanya's pretty, smart and fun to hang out with-minus the Christian values. Sam likes Tanya but he likes Angela too. He even enjoys the conversations he and Angela have about the Bible.Sam thought he had to make a choice between Tanya and Angela until his best friend Daryl suggested he date both of them. After all, schools out for the summer, they live in different neighborhoods and have different lifestyles.Sam thought, why not, maybe just for the summer, after all, what harm could possibly come from it?

In 1986, a California nurse made a life-changing decision that would take her away from her rural, wine-country lifestyle among loved ones and place her in the majestic Andean mountain community of Cusco, Peru, and its vibrant blend of Quechua and Mestizo cultures-of the Andean city of Cusco, Peru.After a challenging Inca trail trek to Machu Picchu in 1985, Rae Lewis returned six months later to Cusco to understand more about the deeper emotional connection she felt while on that trek. In no time she was surrounded by the street children who accompanied her on walks, and happily taught her bad words in Spanish. These were not the best times in Peru for a solo woman and these wise ragamuffins she realized were looking out for her. They began to share their raw and dangerous reality.Rae reflected on her own three grown sons when they were this age and knew they would not have survived one night sleeping on cold concrete and harassed by predators. Her heart broke and something shifted - a sudden awareness that she could do something unfolded in her. In 1997 she founded the Chicuchas Wasi nonprofit in California to benefit the abandoned children of Cusco, Peru. The emergency residential shelter fed, clothes, bathed, healed, and educated many street children in the ten years she lived in the shelter and developed the Peruvian team. These children taught us what was needed for greater impact. Educate the indigenous girls left out of education and who will become future teen mothers as it stands now.CW was reorganized in 1997. The Chicuchas Wasi Alternative School for Girls was created by Ruth Uribe - local educator and lead team member with Rae - and passionate about CW. Over the next ten years it grew, from Ruth seeking girls hiding under beds and later to mothers and aunties in long lines to register their girls to our quality academic school created for them - the poor forgotten ones - Girls.One person can make a difference, be the spark to attract others and change the world.Written as a fund-raiser for Lewis's thirty-two-year-old nonprofit, Jump on the LOVE Train: Many Hearts Await You continues to benefit Chicuchas Wasi. All proceeds from book sales go to this nonprofit.

To effectively and successfully deal with conflict, you must understand that everyone has a perspective and agenda. You must listen to and learn from them to be heard yourself. To change another's perspective, you must change their thinking, and you cannot do that if you don't have credibility with them. Understanding them is the first step toward that.M. W. Rollins uses his decades of experiences as a law enforcement officer and minister to help readers of Time Lines: Conflict Resolution Before Conflict Happens deal with and manage conflict and adjust direction even before conflict erupts. Misinterpretation, misunderstanding, selfishness, and self-centeredness too often fuel adversarial roles instead of collaboration and cooperation fueling understanding and resolution. Time Lines helps readers take a new, positive route.

Don't Drop Out on You is a Transformative, Self-Reflecting, Thought Provoking Book for this day and age! It is an Inter-Generational read that has been purposefully put together for youth, young adults, adults, and even elders! The purpose of this therapeutic and interactive piece is to remind and challenge us all not to Drop out on Self! Whitney and I decided to come together once again to continue our effective partnership in authorship and have more dialogue with the masses and communicate how important it is not to Drop Out on You!Our mission with this body of material is to inspire readers to stay on course and finish whatever it is that was started; not allowing the challenges of life to discourage or stop you, but to overcome the difficulties with the right mindset and positive attitudes of not Dropping out on Self! We hope that this collection of meditations keeps you thinking positive and focused on achieving and not dropping out; inevitably becoming a version of yourself that you are happy with! We believe in you and decided to give you some additional tools to help you along the way! Let's aim Higher and Finish Stronger! Don't Drop Out on You!!

After finding a diamond dropped from a bridge in Paris, Grace begins a search for the owner. Others, however, learn of the stone, and Grace and her best friend soon find themselves bound and gagged as two lowlifes from Nice take the diamond. Staying at her gay uncle's boutique hotel in Eze, Grace has few prospects on recovering the property until the owner contacts her, and eventually travels south to join her efforts. Passion, heartbreak, fraud, extortion and some very nasty characters litter this fast-moving mystery/romance. The pace of the book and the many twists and turns will keep the reader engaged to the exciting end.

Hitler's Last Christmas: The Day the Entire Mighty 8th Air Force Entered the Battle of the Bulge provides an account of the history and results of the largest aerial bombing mission ever. The story begins with Hitler's surprise last ground offensive, the Ardennes Offensive, and then details the Allies' response: the dramatic immobilization of air bases, rail yards, stock, and the destruction of bridges and supply facilities. The Germans were forced back to the east side of the Rhine River in what would be their final retreat in a war that would end with Hitler's suicide and Germany's surrender just a few months later.Author Donald F. Kilburg, Jr., has a direct connection to the event through his father, who was the lead bombardier and received the Distinguished Flying Cross for his action that day. Kilburg, Jr., himself sits on the board of the 487th Bomb Group Association, whose members composed the lead formation of the 2046 heavy bombers dispatched that Christmas Eve in 1944. These participants encouraged him to write this book. Until Hitler's Last Christmas, the story of their most memorable mission had never been told in print.

It’s not a novel, they are 34 real cases, but you will feel like you are reading a novel.After her unusual experiences and spiritual awakenings, the author Lotus Zheng created a new healing and therapy method: Lotus Prana Quantum Energy Therapy, which is a revolution of therapy & Healing & Humanity. This therapy has a patent pending in U.S. A  and overseas. In the book, the author gives details about how the therapy works on depression, anxiety, relationships, confidence, addictions, sex performance, psychic abilities and more.At the end of the book, the author gives you an idea about how the Earth and humans might be in the next 3000 years which was based on the visions that she and her clients saw during the therapy sessions.It contains 14 chapters:Chapter One: No More Depression: I am rebornChapter Two: Anxiety? Phobia? That was yesterdayChapter Three: Self-esteem & Confidence : I am a lady killer nowChapter Four: Accept & love yourself: Your heart matters, not your sexChapter Five: Stress & Pain Reduction: May I get some pain back?Chapter Six: Heal From Traumas: Traumas? Treasures nowChapter Seven: Goodbye, abusive relationships; Thank you for loving me, Mr. NowChapter Eight: Addictions? To happiness NowChapter Nine: Turn Back Time: I am in mom’s WombChapter Ten: Did A Ghost Eat All My food At Midnight?Chapter Eleven: Sex Is Life Force: I am a super man Now!Chapter Twelve: Clairvoyance, Clairaudience And Precognition:  Are you making me a psychic?Chapter Thirteen: Moving To Mars: Will humans destroy Mars?Chapter Fourteen: New Earth & New Human: Are you kidding me?

This book is the story of a large group of football-playing teammates at their alma mater, Randolph-Macon College, in Ashland Virginia, during the period 1965-1970-the winningest six-year run in program history there. It has been written to rekindle recall of the halcyon days of their youth, before all their collective memories fade to black. They were bulletproof back then, but now have grown all too familiar with their manifold limitations.It is said that one dies twice. The first time is when your heart stops beating, and the second is when the last person utters your name. This book enables these teammates to equip all their grandchildren and great-grandchildren with the story of a shared past, so as to push the inevitable a little further into the future.The newspaper accounts included here are faithfully re-created, in hopes that those who didn't keep scrapbooks will, long after the fact, be able to have their own. Piecing together events now fifty years old has been at once frustrating and stimulating, and at last very satisfying. In every case where the author may have unintentionally slighted someone, sincere and humble apology is offered. The three-year Conversation that took place among old friends-mostly by email-sparked their mutual memories, and was a thoroughly joyous experience for all who took part.Although this exercise has produced an item that may capture the imagination of friends and teammates, it perhaps will have limited appeal to a broader audience. Student-athletes who attended one of the many colleges Randolph-Macon opposed on the gridiron during 1965-1970 may find it to be of peripheral interest, at least. Many of those men will find their names and athletic exploits recounted in the six-year saga.If you attended Randolph-Macon's arch rival Hampden-Sydney College, you may find the editorial rants of the author a little abrasive at first, but in the final analysis his underlying respect for your fine school must certainly shine through. The author intends to undertake another book that has long needed writing, THE GAME Itself-Ludus ipse, so if you're an alum of the garnet and gray extraction who might like to conspire in that effort with an old Yellow Jacket, please contact Tom Harleman!Written in six parts, one for each year of the run-the tale recounts the experiences of the very flower of American youth … men long since advanced into their golden years. The unofficial soundtrack for this work is Bruce Springsteen's Glory Days-a song that inspired its title, in fact. The Big Man is gone but not forgotten, Bruce. He was a football player, too, and from the author's neck of the woods, Tidewater, Virginia.Lastly, the author holds that playing football in their college days was certainly not the only thing, and probably not the greatest thing most of these men ever accomplished. Small-college football is just a part of life … not a way of life! It was, nonetheless, a wonderful adventure, and for Tom Harleman quite a magical experience, as it transpired at the very most exciting time of his life. He thinks-in fact he's sure-he didn't realize that at the time. His worldview was admittedly myopic, and his situational awareness somewhat less than perfect.Thanks, teammates, for the memories of a lifetime.

Follow the ways of our furry friends and learn to focus on positive thoughts and change habits!Maureen Scanlon is a certified life and spiritual coach and relationship expert with training in cognitive behavioral therapy and NLP techniques. In her book My Dog Is More Enlightened Than I Am, Scanlon offers tips on how to take inspiration from animals to make the most of your life and nurture your relationships. Take time for yourself and find peace. Understand others' beliefs and perspectives to learn compassion. Find the joy and happiness we all seek. All with the help of the animals in your life.

Finally, an address book that’s easy to use, logically organized, with space for plenty of entries per letter, and designed for a social-networking world that forces you to change your password every six months.Are you frustrated that you can't remember the unhackable password you came up with the day before? Tired of hitting "Forgot Password" because your login hints leave you scratching your head? Say good-bye to those sticky notes you've got shingled all over your computer. Most address books being sold today still look exactly like the ones you’d have bought decades ago. But it’s a different world now. Businesses and friends require different sets of information. You don’t need to know Amazon’s street address, nor does your mother’s home address require a password. What you do need are user names, passwords, security question prompts, and IP addresses for your business contacts as well as street addresses and smartphone info for your personal life.In creating Address Book for the Twenty-First Century, Frank Stephenson and Eileen Hargaden recognized this. They've separated those very different types of interactions into two sections: "Businesses and Websites" and "Friends and Family." This address book is for anyone who can log onto a computer or who has even just one friend or relative. Perfect for both business and home use.

In life, one has the unique opportunity to travel with time, and take the time, to experience…experience. I have always enjoyed how a play on words can produce some interesting, and, for the most part, an enjoyable look at the use of the English language.In today’s society, it seems that the rush to have the biggest house, the fanciest car, and the most money, has left many individuals in the awkward position of not really knowing the real reality about reality. I hope that one finds enjoyment within this collection of phrases, sayings, and thoughts. Some may be familiar, and others are an expression of observations among various subject matters. The collection, I hope, will allow some individuals to take a second, to take a second look at life as seen through some notable notables’, along with yours truly.Please enjoy a momentous enjoyable thought, and reflect upon a non-reflected second, in what has become our world of words, today.

We all have everyday struggles in life which are called storms. There are a few ways to survive storms, however, there is only one way to defeat storms. In this novel, the chosen ones are on a quest to not only survive but to defeat "A World of Storms." As the young men enter this world, they meet other people that have their own experiences. They each have life threatening injuries which causes them to enter this world. These storms are continuous, dangerous and physical. All survivors are given great powers and abilities by surviving the storms. For the people that are stuck in this world of violent storms; safety, food and resources for survival are limited. All survivors have rules to follow and if the rules are violated then there are fatal consequences. There are three chosen survivors on this journey, and they must find each other to combine their powers to defeat the storms. In this world, they found a new direction and strength to deal with the storms. The new strength that''s discovered in this world is based on one word and one word alone. Do they have what it takes to survive the storms, or do they run out of time to complete this mission?

This is a true story about a special relationship that developed between a wild desert bird and the owner and friends of a special house in the Western Mojave in California. If you have ever looked into the eyes of a wild animal, especially in its natural habitat, you know how special that moment can be. Anyone with a family pet knows the special bond between animal and man and it can be a truly amazing experience. In fact, most pet "owners" consider their animals to be an integral part of the family and include them in weddings, rely on them for protection and grieve upon their demise. Having an untamed animal not only approach you but maintain a constant presence throughout its life was transformative for me and became a defining part of my life. It is a story that is best shared and will hopefully enrich yours as well.

"Willie has rare lights...rare lights!" Abraham Lincoln said to his secretary John Hay November 4, 1861 after the publication of Willie's poem "Lines on the Death of Colonel Baker' in the Washington Newspaper National Republican.The short life of William Wallace Lincoln has been given little attention in the biographies of his father, or in other writings on the Lincoln family. In 1850, in the Lincoln home in Springfield, Illinois, there came, just four days before Christmas on December 21 the winter solstice, a real live Christmas present, a baby boy. The child was named William Wallace after his Uncle Dr. William Smith Wallace originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania who had married Mary Lincoln's sister Frances Todd. He was of course, promptly called Willie. Ruth Painter Randall and Julia (Taft) Bayne have published books that do some shed some light on Willie's life but do not give Willie his due as a remarkable gifted boy, the favorite of his father and indeed most like him in temperament, intelligence, empathy and wit. When Willie tragically died in the White House at age 11 on February 20, 1862 of multiple diseases, most notably typhoid and smallpox, Lincoln was devastated. Willie's funeral on February 24 was the only time the whole federal government was shut down other than for a president. After years of research and two previously published historical novels featuring Willie Lincoln, the author has tracked down everything ever written about and everything Willie was alleged to have said from primary and secondary sources to finally bring this special lost son of Lincoln back to life and perhaps, as Willie had told his tutor Alexander Williamson in 1861 that he wanted to be a teacher or preacher, had he lived he may have even been president.

Demetrius Ellis is an accomplished and well-respected university-based pediatric kidney specialist. During a career spanning over forty-five years, he has witnessed and also contributed to pioneering advances in science and technology that led to improved disease outcomes. In this autobiography, he reflects on his decision to pursue an academic medical career and shares anecdotes that reflect a lifetime of enriching experiences as a caregiver, educator and researcher. Both health care providers and recipients will readily identify with the characters in these stories and also be intrigued by the author's disclosures concerning his academic career. More importantly, through unique experiences and enduring relationships Dr. Ellis had with his patients, a set of life lessons is revealed. By adopting these tenets, it is his hope that healthcare professionals facing today's challenging medical landscape can be inspired to refocus on getting to know the individual and not just his/her disease. In doing so they will become more efficacious healers and, in the process, rediscover the joy and fulfillment that is at the core of this noble profession.All proceeds to benefit disadvantaged and refugee youth at his birthplace, Lesvos, Greece.

"MAZE'S STORYTELLING IS FAST AND FUN, overflowing with ideas and spiritual insight." ~ Eric Wilson, Fireproof & Facing the GiantsVampires are fiction, but the Rakum are real.Author Beth Rider must die.When the young author's novel series hits number one, her fictitious plot puts her in the crosshairs of an ancient race of vampiric beings known as the Rakum.Spreading evil among mankind for thousands of years, the leadership of this bloodthirsty race now has a singular focus: catch Beth Rider.With her life in mortal jeopardy, she goes on the run, a rabbit desperate to escape the worst of predators. In the climactic melee, it is a race to the death, or if Beth has her way, a race to the life, of every Rakum who makes the choice.Rabbit: Chasing Beth Rider is Book One of Six in the Rabbit Saga.Rabbit Legacy / Book TwoRabbit Redemption / Book ThreeAnomaly: Beyond the Rabbit / Book FourConundrum: The Lost Rabbit / Book FiveThe Vestige: The Final Chapter / Book SixThis novel contains PG-13-level Violence, Language, and Sexual Situations, and is written from a Biblical Worldview.Author's Bio:Raised on Bram Stoker and Stephen King, Ellen read Frank Peretti's "This Present Darkness" in 2000, and has never been the same. Now she takes the horror / paranormal / vampire genre directly into the heart of spiritual matters, pitting good against evil within the confines of biblical truth. With writing as her passion and her main hobby, Ellen lives in Alabama with her family and does NOT have holes in her neck.

Jason is twelve and in a new school with no friends. Worse, he has a nasty step-dad, a girl he likes but can’t bring himself to talk to, and the girl’s annoying younger sister, January. A strange melody draws him and the younger sister into a mythological world from thousands of years ago. It bristles with danger, and is a place from which they may never return.

The Power of Twelve Prayers is Gary’s third book on the power of prayer as expressed in the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. He delves into the history of seven spiritual organizations that preceded AA and takes a long look at AA’s underlying philosophy, Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount. He takes the reader through prayers that express the essence of each of the Twelve Steps, while embracing the Beatitudes, the blessings that start the Sermon on the Mount. As an AA historian who has developed a presentation that he shares with the AA community regarding the foundation and development of the fellowship, Gary is uniquely positioned to inspire others with often unrecognized deep inspiration that illuminates the Twelve Steps.Praise for The Power of Twelve Prayers“Gary has devoted an immense amount of time to learning about, filming, and circulating video materials on where AA comes from and got its ideas. And now he has put together an excellent video series of AA historical materials…accurately and well.” – Richard Burns, AA Historical Author“Gary has always acknowledged his successes to the Holy Spirit. His humility and devotion inspire his words.” – Paul Kominis, longtime AA member and fellowship mentor.“The Power of Twelve Prayers represents a communion of orthopraxis prayer and the practice of twelve-step spirituality—an orthopraxis—for transformational abiding in Him who says, ‘Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing’ (John 15:5).” – Rev. Philip Bjornberg, Trinity Episcopal Church, Portland CT

If there is case against high-stakes testing, The Last One Hundred and Eighty Days is a must read. This book chronicles the challenges of operating an independent charter school, serving a population with ninety-nine percent of students receiving free or reduced lunch in one of the largest school districts in America. It details the most critical year its history, in which the school must make a passing grade in the midst of constant state changes in the state-wide assessment. One questionable policy that was implemented during this time is the decrease in the number of students that are needed in each grade level for a school to receive a grade. The number decreased from 29 to 10 in spite of the fact that statistically, a population size should hover around 25-30 to increase the reliability and validity of the testing results. Ironically, policies are quickly put in place to prevent any school from dropping more than two letters grades, however, there were no policies put in place to account for schools that are ranked at the bottom, but show substantial gains. Painstakingly, if the elementary school is not successful, the fate of school will negatively impact the middle and high school because they share the same facility and resources. The middle and high school was one of the first secondary charter schools accredited by the Southern Association of Schools and Colleges in the southern region of the county. The overall purpose of this book is to highlight some systemic problems that directly and indirectly affect students, parents, educators, and the community at-large in the trenches, particularly in low-income areas.It is the premise of this book that it is nearly impossible to make a significant difference statistically in the performance of low socio-economic and academic performance within a short timeframe on standardized tests without resorting to data manipulation or other undesirable means. It further suggests that in the quest for accountability, the richness inherent in the education process, particularly at schools that have a high percentage of low-performing students has been lost. We are failing to “educate” all our children. It also suggests that the “creaming effect” that is occurring in poor neighborhoods—that is the skimming of the best students to attend magnet or other county schools—contributes to the erosion of our education system, leaving the perception as a whole that some schools are doing better than others. Following rules and guidelines is not enough to truly address the needs of the neediest students which often leaving educators drained and disillusioned without the desired results.The philosophical basis of the Academy was that that learning reaches its optimal level only when students know and expect that all guidelines and policies are set forth as a basis for all decision-making. This requires clear goals and objectives, consistency, monitoring and feedback, clear disciplinary policies, and strong community and parental support. It is essential for the philosophy of the school to shape the culture of school. Interestingly, Lawrence (1995) found that the type of school (magnet school, magnet program, or traditional school), was not as significant as the degree of self-efficacy of the students. The degree of self-efficacy is determined by a student’s perception of control of his/her of their environment and circumstances (Bandura, 1980). The study found students that were at traditional schools with a high degree of self-efficacy generally performed as well academically as their counterparts in magnet programs or magnet schools. Hence, this study suggests that developing a student’s self-efficacy is a worthwhile investment academically.

Fantasy Stories Hollywood Overlooked for Now! is a unique mix of scientific facts, legend, and fiction told in a screenplay-hybrid structure. Do you truly believe there are beings and powers beyond our comprehension? Are you fascinated by mystifying stories of undreamed-of worlds where you can get lost in what-ifs beyond known knowledge? You will love Whit Whitley’s Fantasy Stories Hollywood Overlooked for Now!Most stories of creatures and monsters drift into complacency and present “the beasts as usual” in worn-out sequels and remakes. Although Hollywood has been successful in holding the attention of most young adults, using loud explosions, massive murders, and funky rap music soundtracks, it has failed to put the importance on newer, unique writing. Come along as Whitley does refocus the camera lens.

Ruling the world is harder than you thinkAfter the Third World War, in the year 2264, the entire world joined together under the rule of two royal families. Those families governed together for generations, but now, only one member of each family remains. Harley Lance Price and Elizabeth Kimberly Ryan are the sole survivors of the two royal lines. They found themselves the King and Queen at age eighteen, when their parents were killed in an plane accident. They quickly forged relationships with most of the key district representatives, and for the first two years of their reign, they have only had to deal with the normal challenges of ruling the world. Their lives are once again turned upside down when they learn that someone close to them has hired a hit man to kill Elizabeth. In order to keep her safe, she and Harley must leave the royal compound and go on the run while their top advisor works to uncover the traitor who hired the assassin and have them stopped. Elizabeth and Harley have always lived in wealth and have had an extensive support system, but while they are away from the compound, they have no access to their bank accounts, and are unable to contact any of their friends for help. Because of their situation, they must figure out how to deal with countless unexpected challenges on their own. Together, they must learn to be resourceful while staying hidden, but it may be harder than they expect.

Author Patricia G. Johnson is a licensed therapist, addictions counselor and spiritual director. Over her more than three decades working with active-duty military personnel and veterans, their families, and trauma victims, Johnson has learned that most emotional or psychological problems have spiritual components. Spirituality A-Z: Spiritual Awakening Guide for Healing and Transformation fills the gap in the literature that until now has ignored a simple explanation to begin a practice of spirituality.Slender and straightforward, Spirituality A-Z uses the alphabet as a guide to name, describe, and provide spiritual practices for spiritual awakening to aid personal healing and transformation. Supported by Johnson's research and trainings, the daily resource provides more than sixty spiritual practices for those in recovery.