During an intense struggle in my life, I became more aware and more submissive to God's will. I was seeking a deeper relationship with Him. And for the first time in my life, I made myself open and vulnerable to the teaching of the Holy Spirit. God had already put me on a trajectory of herding sheep and learning about them. He used my time in the sheep fields to teach me how my relationship with my ewes paralleled the relationship between me as a sheep with God and the Good Shepherd, Jesus...

Athens, Rome, Florence, Paris… Helena plans to see them all. Though she loves her life in the Arkansas Ozarks, her yearning for adventure cannot be contained. Passport in hand, she says goodbye to her family and small hometown and departs for the journey of a lifetime, leaving behind a piece of her heart.Raised in the big city of Houston, Dr. Joe Blake never thought he’d find happiness in a small town, but Buffalo Springs, and its beguiling librarian, have grabbed a hold of his hea...

No disease has upended life more in the past fifty years than COVID-19. As the pandemic unfolded, coeditors Christine Crudo Blackburn and Gerald W. Parker saw how many areas of society are impacted and how those impacts can ripple through to other sectors.Seeking to provide both warnings of these vulnerabilities and direction for future efforts to address them, Blackburn and Parker have assembled a cross-disciplinary, multinational team of researchers and writers to provide a criti...

At a moment when the discipline of Canadian art history seems to be in flux and the study of Canadian visual culture is gaining traction outside of art history departments, the authors of Negotiations in a Vacant Lot were asked: is "Canada" - or any other nation - still relevant as a category of inquiry? Is our country simply one of many "vacant lots" where class, gender, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation interact? What happens to the project of Canadian visual history if we...

Andi Nelson’s dream was to go to the Naval Academy and serve her country. As an intelligence commander with SEAL Team Three, her life is what she always imagined until a lapse in intelligence leads to the death of her team and the man she loves. Plagued with survivor’s guilt, Andi returns to her hometown in the Arkansas Ozarks only to discover that Buffalo Springs is as depressed and broken as she is. Wade Montgomery, a mover and shaker in New York City’s world of finance, has closed his h...

May, a young teenage girl, traverses the city streets, finding keepsakes in different places along her journey. When May and her kookum make these keepsakes into a necklace, it opens a world of danger and fantasy. While May fights against a terrible reality, she learns that there is strength in the spirit of those that have passed. But will that strength be able to save her? A story of tragedy and beauty, Will I See illuminates the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women.

Ancient herbal secrets for healing and wholenessDesigned specifically for women, this is an introduction to Ayurveda—one of the most ancient and holistic forms of medicine in human history. Developed in India over five thousand years ago, Ayurveda is a complete system for healing and rebalancing the body.This fascinating book features an A-to-Z of herbs with their description, history, and uses, and easy-to-prepare home remedies. There is also an A-to-Z sec...

Jeanne Robertson, one of America's most loved and respected speakers, is a humorist who has helped thousands of people add humor to their lives. Now her phenomenal success becomes an open book as she pulls the cork.....and out pop seven 'potions' for developing a sense of humor. Those who sample her potions will develop a refreshing new approach to humor and the magic it works in our daily lives. Jeanne believes a sense of humor is one of the most important assets a person can possess. Her...

Michael L. Printz Award WinnerAmerican Indian Youth Literature Award WinnerOdyssey Award HonoreeFeaturing the voices of both new and acclaimed Indigenous writers and edited by bestselling Muscogee author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of interconnected stories serves up laughter, love, Native pride, and the world’s best frybread.The road to Sandy June's Legendary Frybread Drive-In slips through every r...

Angus is a landscape of dramatic glens and rich farmland, ancient weaving towns and fishing villages, from the city of Dundee in the lee of the Sidlaw hills in the south, and the Grampian mountains in the north. The tales of Angus are as varied as the landscapes they are tied to, told through the years in castles, bothies, tenements and Travellers' tents. Here, historical legends tell of Caterans roaming the glens, Jacobite intrigue in Glenisla and pirates roving the storm...

Back of book:Thundersnow and Lightning by Del RobertsonDo you really, truly believe? Just one look into sultry blue eyes is enough to raise Sam's Christmas spirits. But, the woman in the Santa suit can't be the real St. Nic, right?Maybe This Christmas by Jen SilverWith the festive season looming, Emma Jones is faced with constant reminders of being dumped by her girlfriend on Christmas Eve the previous year. Can Emma overcome her fear of having her heart stompe...

A small boy and his grandmother set sail for China in the mud of her back yard; a supermarket car park becomes a graveyard of strewn blueberries; migratory birds fly over a marshland ringing with the sound of wooden spoons on kitchen pots; and the breaking of a silence between two roommates leads to disquieting revelations. Eliza Robertson's delicate and startling stories tell of the adventure of the ordinary and the magic within the everyday.