USE THE SECRETS OF THE STARSFrom one of Hollywood's premier star-makers--a four-step plan for becoming a star in everyday lifeFrom the high school homecoming queen to Hollywood celebrities, the boss's favorite employee, or a beloved relative, there is always one person whom everyone thinks is fantastic--a person who glows with star quality. What is it about some people that makes them so special? Now Larry Thompson, one of Hollywoo...

Everybody in Widow's Point knows the Wharf Rats. Sam, Max and Blinker have been fixtures at ball games and barbecues, graduations and block parties. They have tended to the needs of their families and done the best they could. But the cannery, the town's main employer, has laid them off. Out of work and with no plan for their futures, they are now faced with the question they have never had to confront: what's next?This funny and touching novel follows the boys as they stumble throu...

Say hello to Izzy Croat-he's everybody's Wingman. He tends to the needy, encourages children, loves dogs, ans suffers fools gladly. But now he needs to give attention to the one person he has always neglected: himself.A widower with a son who has gone wandering, Izzy is trying to mend a life that feels aimless and tinged with loss. A mainstay in Widow's Point, he finds himself in the position of taking a job running the Retention Room at his old high school, a place where he had bee...

Yippee-Ky-Yay Haiku! is a collection of original haiku by Cowboy Poet and Storyteller Larry Thompson. Haiku short form poetry and is easy to consume by the reader. Cowboy Poetry can be long-winded and stretched out, just like most Cowboys. Delivery in haiku gives the reader quick bursts of energy and thought without the overload.

Texas storyteller Larry Thompson entertains with Cowboy rhymes and back stories.

This book is fictional comedy about two angels that receive a message from God, telling them that they have to return to Earth. The older angel is wiser and more experienced and is sent to help his partner with supervision and companionship through their ordeal.In their journey to Earth they travel to different cities in search of the younger angels people contacts that he has to get reacquainted with. One problem is how to recognize these same people after years past. If he finds ...

"We all should heed the lessons I've learned and what I continue to believe: the law, properly applied, is a powerful force for good in our society."In this thoughtful and candid memoir, former Deputy U.S. Attorney General Larry D. Thompson explores the big questions of his life and career, from his childhood in Hannibal, Missouri to his time advising the nation's most powerful figures in government and business leadership.With a strong belief in the princi...

Foster responsibility, empathy, and self-regulation in every learner.Hundreds of schools across North America are embracing Larry Thompson’s Responsibility-Centered Discipline (RCD) – a groundbreaking approach that supports students in developing intrinsic motivation and growing as conscientious and active members of their school communities. Emphasizing responsibility, empathy, and self-regulation, RCD offers a transformative whole-school method to create a thrivi...

Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology is a collection of classic articles by some of the best known proponents of oral history, demonstrating the basics of oral history, while also acting as a guidebook for how to use it in research. Added to this new edition is insight into how oral history is practiced on an international scale, making this book an indispensable resource for scholars of history and social sciences, as well as those interested in oral history on the avocational lev...

"We all should heed the lessons I've learned and what I continue to believe: the law, properly applied, is a powerful force for good in our society."In this thoughtful and candid memoir, former Deputy U.S. Attorney General Larry D. Thompson explores the big questions of his life and career, from his childhood in Hannibal, Missouri to his time advising the nation's most powerful figures in government and business leadership.With a strong belief in the princi...

As demographic trends shift toward an aging population, there is a growing need for improved mental health treatment for older adults. With depression as the leading mental health concern in later life, one of the greatest challenges for treatment providers is the wide variability of life circumstances that accompany depressive symptoms for clients across outpatient mental health, integrated primary care, and inpatient psychiatric settings. Treating Later-Life Depression: Clinician Gui...

“So many superstar Western authors. So many stunning stories. This one’s a keeper.” —DAVID MORRELL, New York Times Bestselling Author of First Blood and Last ReveilleJustice is never clean. Out here, it’s personal.From the dust-choked trails of the frontier to the shadowed backroads of the modern West, Hard Country portrays the raw, unflinching heart of Western crime, as...