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In the 1990s a cat named Cougar is born in a stable in New York City. When he's old enough, he goes out into the world to explore and finds himself alone, encountering many dangerous experiences. He narrowly escapes more than once due to his wit, intelligence, and charm. Cougar's adventures finally lead him to understand himself and what he wants in life.

Cerebral palsy is the most common physically disabling condition affecting school-age students. Why, then, are so many educators and parents confounded by the multiple and often interrelated aspects of this group of disorders? Using easy-to-follow, demystifying language, Educating Students with Cerebral Palsy details how the physical, medical, sensory, cognitive, and social-emotional elements of cerebral palsy impact learning-and therefore tea...

Could a young and inexperienced listener ever truly grasp the lessons of a storyteller with decades more wisdom under his belt? Nicholas George and his grandfather Daniel Eliopoulos had a unique friendship and way of reading each other's minds. Their aaadeep emotional tie led Nicholas to want to preserve his grandfather's life story in writing. The two spent memorable nights discussing life over orzo soup (a Greek dish). His grandfather's reco...

When Kevin Barry turned sixty, his internal alarm clock went off. It was time. Thirty-plus years after his previous cross-country road trips, after the demands of raising a family and a long legal career had worn low the tread on his psychological tires, he could no longer ignore the itch. So he took an extended leave from work, upgraded his camping gear, and hit the open road. For the next sixty-seven days, he and his beloved Subaru (a.k.a. S...

Everything I Needed to Know is a small book, but a big shortcut to success-in the insurance industry or any commission-based sales position. Easy to read, entertaining, and inspiring. For those who are just starting out in their careers or those who are ready to go to the next level, this book offers a clear pathway to success. Each chapter provides a simple step-by-step guide to get where you want to go. A common-sense approach that offers am...

Growing up in the small town of Grand Island, Nebraska, left Michael Monk with no shortage of stories to tell-stories he was more than happy to share when a friend approached him about writing a column for his high school's alumni newsletter. Collected here in A Distant Mirror Anthology, Monk's essays encompass a lifetime of memories, observations, experiences, and wisdom gained. Through reminiscences about the first day of school, a teacher w...

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Occasional Poems is a selection from more than fifty years of Frank Thomas's observations and musings on the world around him. Many of the poems celebrate people and occasions that have been an important part of the poet's life. Yet even these very personal poems are meant to speak to a broader audience-to what is most deeply human in us all.The poems reflect many verse forms, moods, and mental landscapes and, at their best, demonstrate the qu...

Cynthia SKidmore was raised in church and has faithfully worked in every church she's been a part of her entire adult life. She thought she understood who God was and what He was like. Her God was predictable. She was a good girl, a good Christian, and a hard worker in the church. But when she reached her sixties, God decided it was time-time for Cynthia to take a journey of self-discovery and God-discovery. She found Him to be more than she h...

Earth, our home, is a heartfelt place. It's where we learn ways to be (in) love and to deal (with) heartbreak. What if we desired to practice more intentionally and compassionately? How might living feel if we attended to, cultivated, and perhaps dared to savor the ways we love through heartbreak? A book of (h)ours opens a space for you to contemplate these questions, and it illuminates the possibilities that can emerge if you are devoted to f...

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Cephalos was a very late patriarch within a well-arrived age of illustrious mythic personages. By this serialization in restoration of what Classical Greek Myth­ology has expunged of his robust youth, we have arrived at the apex of his covert and multifaceted subversion to destroy imperial Crete and its Great Minos. Cephalos has also finalized the formative coalition of small navies for two great sea battles-the Annihilations of 1365 attendan...

Personal Brand Planning for Life is not the typical book on how to find your brand. It is the recipe book for building a better career and life by using your brand. Personal Brand Planning is the first book to walk you step-by-step through a well-defined process of defining, managing, marketing and monetizing your brand. The book spends very little time telling you how important branding is and dives right into showing you how to assess your b...

Meet Walt Walthers, elderly weather watcher, and his rascally roommate, Stumpy the stub-tailed gray squirrel. From their cozy cabin on Kibbee Pond, the two buddies embark on adventures that include exploratory boat rides in Walt's skiff, Nelly, as well as road trips in Lulu, the 1960 Chevy pickup, to such exciting events as Squannacook Squealing Squirrels baseball games, annual pie-baking contests, riverside picnics, and local music concerts. ...

Joseph H. Dabby was ten years old when he discovered he had three older siblings. His parents, facing increasing persecution in Iraq, had sent their older children to Israel when Dabby was five and planned to join them a few weeks later-but they never made it. Instead, the family was split in two, forced to live in separate countries at war with each other. NO LOOKING BACK is the story of one man's childhood and adolescence under a repressive ...

After five years of marriage, Gary and Kathy are still madly in love with life and with each other. Now in their late twenties with flourishing careers, they live comfortably and happily in their modest home in Baltimore. But Gary's fantasy of watching his beautiful wife with another man begins to dominate his thoughts. Ever open and honest with one another, he reveals his secret to his conservative wife. Kathy's love and devotion to her husba...

What if that voice in your head was always reminding you of the good things you already are, instead of berating you for what you are not? What if you appreciated the you that you are at this moment, instead of measuring yourself against some ideal of future perfection? What if you gave yourself permission to simply be and let your own personal evolution take place in its own time? So begins your journey of I AM . . . After a couple of challe...

In the summer of 1955, a high school graduate from Pennsylvania and a high school dropout from Florida enlisted in the U.S. Navy and were sent to separate boot camps in Maryland and Illinois for basic training. They were given aptitude tests and were selected for electronics schooling with the Naval Security Group (NSG), the U.S. Navy's top-secret military arm of the NSA, in Washington, D.C. Following extensive training at a secret intelligenc...

Written nearly two decades since Ellison's film-adapted book, Miracles Happen: One Mother, One Daughter, One Journey, LOOK BOTH WAYS offers a more mature, more contemplative look at life after the accident that left her paralyzed from the neck down at age eleven. Using personal and, at times, emotionally challenging events in her life as a platform, Ellison compels readers to reflect upon experiences in their own lives and thrive as a result o...