This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.When Emma reaches under her bed for a bedtime book, she discovers something extraordinary — a glowing doorway to a hidden world of stories. Shrinking down to the size of a mouse, she enters a magical library where books float, candles talk, and a wise little owl named Pip guards shelves filled with imagination.In this heartwarming bedtime tale, young listeners will join Emma on an enchanting adventure that celebrates kindness, c...

Winner, 2022 PNWA Nancy Pearl Award for Memoir! At age forty, Parker surrendered to her Swept Away meets Swiss Family Robinson fantasy of owning an inn in Latin America, far from her home in the Pacific Northwest. For the next twenty-plus years Parker ran La Finca Caribe, an eco-lodge in Vieques, Puerto Rico. What started as a "half-baked duct-taped dream" grew into an acclaimed, rustic inn, frequented by guests from around the world. Sketchbook in hand, Parker chronicled her daily adventu...

From an author with a psychology background, a candid memoir about the interior of her own psychotic episode. After the culture shock of moving from a small Wisconsin town to the tumult of Los Angeles in 1967, Linda's family disintegrates: her parents decide to divorce, and she and her younger brother, Brian, suddenly must fend for themselves. While she finds a foothold in academic pursuits, Brian spirals downward into schizophrenia and, finally, commits an irrevocable act. Plagued with gu...