Compiled from years of late night, early morning and throughout the day conversations between two dedicated and committed parents, RAISING SPIRITS is a quick and easy read that is sure to challenge, encourage and even inspire those who are in the midst of their parenting journey as well as those who have yet to begin the journey. RAISING SPIRITS seeks to provoke thoughts which, hopefully, lead to open and truthful conversations between parents as well as between parents and children.

Medications for Older Persons: Recommendations, Harms, Evidence provides a comprehensive resource detailing the benefits of medications for older individuals. It also addresses the potential harms associated with the prescription of potentially inappropriate medications or omissions in prescribing and examines how many adverse events, rehospitalizations, and deaths can be attributed to these medications. The book opens with a summary of medications that most benefit older patients, followe...

What would happen if ... a society ever actually succeeded in eliminating its undesirable members? ... a man was asked to travel through a land he did not know to bring a prisoner before a king he had never seen?The tales in The Last Ugly Person and Other Stories explore these and other themes using a variety of mythological settings. Both entertaining and thought provoking, these short stories are novellas written from an unapologetically Christian viewpoint. Awash in hop...

Counting Dreams tells the story of Nomura Bōtō, a Buddhist nun, writer, poet, and activist who joined the movement to oppose the Tokugawa Shogunate and restore imperial rule. Banished for her political activities, Bōtō was imprisoned on a remote island until her comrades rescued her in a dramatic jailbreak, spiriting her away under gunfire. Roger K. Thomas examines Bōtō's life, writing, and legacy, and provides annotated translations of two of her...

What does heroism look like? When does friendship become too costly? Do we ever truly touch one another, or are we doomed to walk alone forever? Can love survive trials, or does it inevitably wither and die?The Accidental Marriage is a contemporary story that explores these questions through vibrant, sympathetic characters whose struggles and triumphs illustrate that love doesn't always look like you would expect.Scott and Megan are friends who live and work in the...

Finalist for the National Book Award: A deftly comic novel of family and society set in 1960s Chicago"Being free with the permission of society is not being free at all," says William Popper, the central character in this quietly ironic first novel. William and his girlfriend, Jane, are sensible University of Chicago graduates, happy lovers, children of good families—and self-described anarchists. When William accidentally runs over an elderly woman and is charged w...

Welcome to the magical city of Newcastle — where chimney smoke smells faintly of cinnamon, the streetlamps sometimes wink at passers-by, the Pigeon Post Office still delivers handwritten letters (if the pigeons are in the mood) and Mother Toon goes about her business. Nestled on the Town Moor, hidden beneath Cow Hill, lies the smaller city of Hickory Dickory. The home of the Mice. When the coldest winter in a hundred years grips the city, something mysterious begins to stir... the Winter K...

"God's Biology" is the nickname for a new God-based life science about all of us. It outlines how we are so amazingly made and cared for by our superintelligent Creator, the God of our focus nations (USA, UK, Canada, and Australia).The vast majority of people have never had the opportunity to learn how enormously we are all cared for every second of every day. From making all of our grown foods (without which we would have no life) to the brilliant and careful works provided in mak...

Join Snorp and friends on their fun filled adventures through mystical forests to strange and wonderful cities as they journey to fix the broken magical lighthouse. Will Snorp and friends be able to join together to overcome evil or will the planet Glum be cast into darkness forever?

"GOD IS IN THE GROCERY STORE" summarizes a new life science nicknamed "God's Biology." It brings 100% of the credit for all Life back to our Creator, the God of our focus nations, USA, UK, Canada, and Australia. This booklet also simply and solidly verifies the essentiality of superintelligence for creating our grown foods using atoms from the 'dust' of gardens, fields, orchards, and seas. Then the same atoms from our foods are used to build all our complex cell parts, cells, and us. This ...

The raucously sweet sequel to At the ShoresJerry Engels is in his junior year at Penn State. He lives with his fraternity brothers, flunks his classes, lifts weights, and thinks about women—constantly. Insatiable, Jerry devours the Kinsey Report in full, and sets out to test its findings wherever possible, grilling his brothers on their homosexual experiences, getting crabs from a prostitute, posing in the nude for art classes, and romancing a good friend's...

A classic novel of a young man in love with women, the world, and love itselfThe dunes of Jerry Engels's childhood are those of Indiana Shores, a small slice of paradise resting between Gary and the industrial furnaces of Chicago. Jerry loves Lake Michigan and swimming its waters; he loves the beach and the live dune where he plays. But mostly, Jerry loves women.This isn't the awkward lust of an adolescent; Jerry is a boy who loves women and everything about...