The result of thirty years experience playing and winning, Jay Moore’s new book Blackjack Secrets offers rules that are of deciding importance in everyday play. Even if you don’t know anything else about blackjack, if you follow these tips, your game will improve and you are more likely to win. Know when to stand, when to hit, when to double, and when to split. Casino blackjack is a huge amount of fun-even more so when you have the confidence that will come with knowing the secre...

Abilene History in Plain Sight is a guide to the people, places, and events that define Abilene. It provides the high vantage point from which you come to know the lives behind the names--Cooper High School, Shotwell Stadium, and Maxwell Golf Course--and to meet those who are honored by the naming of a park or street (such as Egbert Kirby, Nelson Wilson, Vera Minter, and Walker Ely).In this engaging book, the past is picked up, dusted off, and given a new shine. As you learn the story behi...

What if faith and spirituality were not opposites - but partners in growth?Many people today find themselves standing between worlds. They may cherish religious tradition yet long for a more spacious, inclusive spirituality. Others have stepped away from organized religion but still seek meaning, connection, and belonging.Rooted in Faith, Embracing Spirit is a thoughtful, trauma-informed guide for those who desire integration rather than division. ...

Soul Alignment: The Companion Journal to Self-Discovery is a thoughtfully guided space for reflection, healing, and intentional growth. Designed to accompany Soul Alignment: A Journey of Inner Work and Self-Discovery, this journal invites you to move beyond reading and into lived experience-where insight becomes integration.Blending therapeutic structure with mindful awareness, this companion journal offers guided prompts, somatic reflection, and grounding practic...

Soul Alignment: A Journey of Inner Work and Self-Discovery is an integrative guide to emotional healing, personal growth, and mindful living. Written by a Registered Psychotherapist, this book bridges therapeutic insight with reflective practice, offering readers a grounded yet holistic approach to self-understanding and resilience.Drawing from principles of emotional intelligence, somatic awareness, and mindfulness, Soul Alignment provides practical tools for nav...

A Compassionate Guide to Grief Recovery, Spiritual Healing, and Meaning After LossGrief can be overwhelming, isolating, and deeply disorienting. Whether you are coping with the death of a loved one, navigating bereavement, facing the loss of a relationship or pet, or adjusting to a life-changing transition, Grief to Spiritual Awakening offers grounded grief support and practical tools for healing after loss.Written by sisters Dianne Jay, an Engineer with...

A collection of fascinating and colorful stories spanning the history of Abilene, Texas.Although Abilene has long lived in the shadows of the literary limelight, it has not been for a lack of good writing, good writers, or interesting stories. Now coming out of the shadows, Abilene Stories: From Then to Now offers a community scrapbook, a gathering of the civic congregation where more than a hundred friends have stopped by for a visit. The laughter is robust and the smiles broad as stories...

A collection of fascinating and colorful stories spanning the history of Abilene, Texas.Although Abilene has long lived in the shadows of the literary limelight, it has not been for a lack of good writing, good writers, or interesting stories.Now coming out of the shadows, Abilene Stories: From Then to Now offers a community scrapbook, a gathering of the civic congregation where more than a hundred friends have stopped by for a visit. The laughter is robust and the smi...

What was the bloodiest war in American history? Most people with at least a little knowledge of history would quickly say that it was the Civil War (1861-65), and they would certainly be correct overall. In recently-updated numbers, it is thought that over 750,000 Americans died in the Civil War from battle wounds, diseases and other causes. In a single day at the battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862, almost 27,000 soldiers were killed, wounded and missing.However, when histori...

Every year, supporting members of WorldCon (one of the largest speculative fiction conventions on the planet) nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year for the prestigious Hugo Awards, the top six most popular of which make the final ballot in each category. Those works that do not make the final ballot are colloquially referred to as "the long list." This anthology series aims to show those amazing works a little more of the spotlight and, hopefully, share t...

Almost all current wars are primarily intra-state, involving complex societal conflicts with at least one party a non-state community. Second Track/ Citizens' Diplomacy is broadly defined as facilitated dialogue to address conflict issues between unofficial representatives or equivalent opinion leaders ?from communities in conflict. It is an essential complement to official (first track) diplomacy for responding to the enormous challenge that these complex conflicts pose to buildi...

ALL BUT ONE is a 19th Century account of the Putman children of Gonzales, Texas, who were kidnapped by Comanche's, and their father’s relentless search to find and bring them home.Spanning four decades—the 1820s to 1860s—this dramatic novel, rich in historical detail, begins with Mitchell Putman—who fought in the War of 1812 and Indian Creek War—before migrating from South Carolina to Mexican Texas. Like thousands of Americans, lured by the promise of cheap land by the Mexican gove...