An Italian memoir. Laine gave up her job as a nurse, sold her home and gave away most of her belongings. She had three desires bubbling at the heart of her choice: to write a book, paint a picture and climb a mountain before she died. A man with a van took most of her remaining belongings, along with her basset hound Basil, down to the heel of Italy over 1,500 miles away, where she would spend the next four years. If it all seemed like a folly, then she was willing to take the risk. She mo...

It has been wisely said, “Change your focus, change your reality.” With this collection of daily meditations and prayers, the authors hope to come alongside people who face difficulties, obstacles, and a general mood of self-defeat and help redirect their focus upon God, and the tremendous resources of our faith, so that their reality is changed. This collection of thirty-one daily meditations is not a substitute for the Bible. Rather, each meditation is an invitation into the vast treasur...

An Italian memoir. Laine gave up her job as a nurse, sold her home and gave away most of her belongings. She had three desires bubbling at the heart of her choice: to write a book, paint a picture and climb a mountain before she died. A man with a van took most of her remaining belongings, along with her basset hound Basil, down to the heel of Italy over 1,500 miles away, where she would spend the next four years. If it all seemed like a folly, then she was willing to take the risk. She mo...

When Angela Landon accepts a position as a live-in nanny in the remote Eastern Sierras, she's hoping for a fresh start. What she finds is a dangerous game of love and survival.Astronomer Kirk Andersson is struggling to balance his research with raising his niece Dahlia, whose father has gone to jail. The brilliant but guarded scientist never expected the warm-hearted nanny to break through the walls he's built around his life and heart.As Angie and Kirk forge an unexpected ...

In this completely revised and updated edition of the customer service classic, Carl Sewell enhances his time-tested advice with fresh ideas and new examples and explains how the groundbreaking “Ten Commandments of Customer Service” apply to today’s world.Drawing on his incredible success in transforming his Dallas Cadillac dealership into the second largest in America, Carl Sewell revealed the secret of getting customers to return again and again in the original

BULLIED LUNA, REJECTED MATEHe rejected her in front of the entire pack.Eighteen months later, she came back wearing a different name.Nadia Voss knows exactly what it costs to be the omega who reached too high. Four years of systematic humiliation. A Claiming Ceremony that ended in eleven words and a Grey Elder's pen. Twenty-two wolves who watched and said nothing.She counted every one of them on the way out....

What happens when the wind becomes too curious?High above the sea, in a city that never sleeps, the wind loves to run, play, and whisper ideas into children's ears. But one night, the wind makes a mistake and carries all the words away.Suddenly, books are empty. Stories are gone.And the city grows quiet.

Unfortunately, the world is full of screwed-up people. But the good news, says Elizabeth Brown, is that your world no longer has to revolve around them. With brilliant insights and a keen sense of humor, this trusted author and sought-after speaker shows readers how to:• stop the power of whatever is eating them alive• productively respond when confronted• remain poised and in control when everyone around them loses it• win fairly in unfair battles• let g...

80+ Creative ways of letter writing, tons of paint, shades, bubbles, glimpses of wisdom, true craftsmanship.

The City Where the Wind Went to School / La città dove il vento andò a scuola is a charming bilingual children's book told in English and Italian, perfect for young readers and families who love stories that travel across languages.

THE ARCHITECTURE OF BLISS follows Lazar, a senior specialist at the Ministry of Intangible Assets, whose job is to inventory emotions, memories, and states of being. When happiness begins to appear without authorization, Lazar is sent to investigate.What he finds is a city unraveling: kebab stands that rotate the world, children who author reality, plumbers who fix the universe with a wrench—and a mysterious button that can stop meaning itself.Blending absurdist humor with qu...

Lazar works for the Ministry of Intangible Assets, cataloging things no one can touch—nostalgia, regret, silence. His life is orderly, gray, and safely meaningless until an expired packet of powdered soup lets him see the world's hidden metadata.Suddenly, objects have souls, people come with warning labels, and a mysterious group known as the Happy People threatens the foundations of a society built on control and quiet despair. Sent to inventory happiness before it spreads, Lazar ...