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.

Behind every great person, there is always a great teacher. Meet Miss Reilly, the favorite teacher at the front of the class. She's smart and she's smiley, a natural-born teacher who loves to see her students learn. Her classroom is warm, colorful, and welcoming to students and families alike. She knows the name of every future star in her class, seeks out their passions, and helps them imagine the answers. She's funny as heck, but she'll keep you in check if you drift off the right path. ...

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'...

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...

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...

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...

Before setting out on revenge, first dig two graves...At home and in China, Americans and their allies tempt fate to fulfill impossible missions. The odds of survival are slim. Will the risky gambles turn the tide of the invasion?Lou Caldwell doesn’t expect to survive this flight. He’s left his faithful dog Rusty with a friend, knowing in his gut that the unbelievable mission to deliver payback in the heart of China can’t possibly be survived. And as the bleak, likely outco...

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... ...

The character Count Dracula is well-known throughout the world. He is a dark, seductive, pale man wearing a cape. His gaze is quite literally captivating, and he has the strength of ten men. The story, written by Bram Stoker in 1897, has been retold hundreds of times, but is there a historical figure upon whom the character is based? Is there really a Dracula? Many scholars argue that Vlad III Dracula, also known as Vlad the Impaler, is the real Dracula. He was known in western Europe for ...