Fatherhood is about loving, living, and learning alongside your kids. AND playing with them.If you don't like to play, learn! Kids are fun teachers; ask them how to play. It is important that you do not shut them down.Here are fifty ways to be a fun-loving father - including but not limited to:Being athleticBuilding a fortReading and playFunny facesSarcasmAffection and funHolidaysPleasure in life itself

My Dog Joe is the heartwarming story about a loveable collie-shepherd mix who loves life and everything in it. He shows his owner how to love life too-just when he needs it most.

Captain Siobhan Dunmoore no longer enjoys the freedom to fight the Shrehari Empire on her own terms aboard the Q-ship Iolanthe. Special Operations Command has assigned her to Task Force Luckner, whose mission is replicating Iolanthe's success on a larger scale. Unfortunately, neither her new superior, Rear Admiral Kell Petras, nor any other captain in the task force understands successful commerce raiding requires a different mindset. Instead of sheepdog...

Captain Siobhan Dunmoore wanted to believe the long war against the invading Shrehari Empire had finally banished the ghosts of her past. But when her ship Iolanthe, a heavily armed man-of-war masked as a bulk freighter, finds itself in need of replenishment after a long patrol spent stalking human and alien foes, she is confronted with events eerily reminiscent of a past she thought buried. When evidence of treason and marauders bold enough to strike a Navy outpost leave her no c...

What is the value of one life in an interstellar war that has already claimed millions? And if that single life doesn't matter, are any others worth saving?A distress signal draws Siobhan Dunmoore's Q-ship Iolanthe, a battlecruiser disguised as a bulk freighter, away from her devastatingly successful hunt through Shrehari occupied space and plunges Dunmoore into a dark, merciless universe of competing government organizations, undercover warfare, and organ...

All good things must end, and a reluctant Siobhan Dunmoore trades command of her battle group for a staff job ashore.Yet her appointment to the headquarters of the 3rd Fleet, responsible for humanity's most restive frontier, is no accident. Things aren't quite right in what was once the most ferocious and effective formation in the Navy, and its control over the Rim Sector's outer edges is failing.When Dunmoore investigates, she finds herself adrift on stor...

Life hasn't been easy for Siobhan Dunmoore and many of her fellow veterans since the Shrehari War ended.The Fleet's quick return to a mundane peacetime footing left them unmoored and incapable of fully readapting after years engulfed in an existential struggle. Meanwhile, the memories of all those hard-won lessons, paid for with humanity's dearest blood, are fading as careerists, bureaucrats, and politicians in uniform replace the leaders who brought about the war'...

Hell hath no fury...A woman who has ignored her fears for far too long. A foreign army just miles away. Can she deal with her past—and the inside threat—in time?Karen Kirkland senses the serpent in the group. After the Acme Ranch group’s initial showing of strength and trustworthiness, the woman’s fears from her past surface when a charismatic member makes secret moves for control. But when the group’s leaders suffer a series of unplanned absences, Karen decides she must bu...

Fourteen-year old Eador has never remembered a time he wasn't a slave to the goblins. In their dark kingdom underground, he works blindly at their tasks while suffering their belittlement. Finally, though, two warriors named Thorsen and Coreon rescue Eador from the creatures' grasp. The three humans journey to the village on the rocks of Tyvar River, but not everything is as it seems.Who is the mysterious goblin girl who spied on Eador all the time while he was imprisoned? Wh...

JULIAN WAS NOT PREPARED TO BECOME A WIDOWER. After his wife's sudden death from a vaccine reaction, he struggles with his faith and cannot find peace. His personal grief takes a backseat when he's unexpectedly drawn into a confrontation with a global conspiracy. Despite his loss, rebels who are fighting against evil recognize Julian's unique abilities and need his help. Once a teenage hacker, Julian's curiosity turned into expertise. Now, those skills are precisely what the rebels are miss...

In a world where fear of difference has caused unimaginable pain and sorrow, this powerful work seeks to bridge the gap between the gay and straight communities. Through heartfelt storytelling, it highlights the devastating impact of intolerance-from mass shootings to the tragic killing of a classmate, and the painful separation of families.This book is a call to action, urging us to use the power of our voices to foster understanding and compassion. Let the conversation begin, and...

A hero condemned. A nation betrayed. A rebellion ignited.The surprise arrest of Lou Caldwell is a gut punch. Every member of the Rampart Edge program is now considered a traitor to America. Even after his old mentor is executed by firing squad, Lou declines to give in—deciding death is preferable to dishonor.Refusing to cooperate during a rushed trial for supposed war crimes, Lou finally seeks to make peace with God for past anger... preparing himself for the inevitable... ...