Jason and his loving mother live a simple but good life in the Ozarks of southern Missouri. Jason is a shy, yet still happy teenager who loves his car, nature, and life. He becomes acquainted with Greg through Young Life, a Christian outreach ministry for youth, and they become fast and strong friends.This story is based on Greg's witness of a young man whose life was tragically interrupted, leaving many questions concerning the fairness and just nature of a loving God's interactio...

They didn't know if he would live, he didn't know he was dead.In this novel of the near-death experience, Greg Stone takes his readers on a rare journey into the Afterlife. His clarity and insight make this adventure a trip you will not want to miss.After the crash, Ray Carte finds himself in a strange world. He meets a spirit guide that he calls Alice who must help him understand his spiritual condition. His only hope for returning to those he loves lies i...

As we know from Greg Stones's first breakout hit book, zombies hate stuff. It's less understood that the undead also struggle with the stuff of everyday life usually navigated by the breathing. Zombies have issues with yoga, bad hair days, chopsticks, the morning commute, touch-screen technology, and more. They kind of enjoy skunks, gardening, and acupuncture, but they have major issues with banana peels, Renaissance fairs, bear traps, and bunnies. In the face of such adversity, all zombie...

Garden gnomes may be small, but their problems are often very big. They have issues with snowmen, magnets, bubblegum, and mimes. They really enjoy romance, skinny-dipping, and paper airplanes, but they have major issues with watermelons, mousetraps, trampolines, and teddy bears—and through it all they especially love one special thing. Artist Greg Stones turns his popular, playful illustration style to the tiny troubles of these beloved characters, presenting their inner lives with a warm ...

Sock Monkeys have issues with moths. They also have trouble with pterodactyls, home improvement projects, kittens (who tend to unravel them), and paparazzi. They really like bananas, jet packs, sock puppies, and romance, but have MAJOR issues with clowns, embarrassing relatives (King Kong), and gym socks. Through it all, they really adore one thing. Author of the breakout hit Zombies Hate Stuff, Greg Stones turns his popular, playfully absurd illustration style and subversive humo...

Defining Hybrid Heroes: The Leadership Spectrum from Scoundrel to Saint defines the hero (and his or her journey) from a hybrid perspective, exploring the spectrum from scoundrel to saint. It utilizes a more dynamic and situational outlook, regarding heroism not only as a personal characteristic, but also as a series of heroic acts within a given situation.The book examines the hybrid hero from several distinctive points of view, e.g. through lenses domin...

Whether you are branding your company, your product, your service, or yourself, learn to boost the power of your story and convey a compelling message in any setting by incorporating villains, victims, and heroes.Compelling stories exalt, motivate, and acculturate every worker in an enterprise. They also attract customers and media alike. Imagine an elderly man, snowed in, unable to shop for groceries until a supermarket comes to the rescue and delivers his food. T...

Ninety-nine Stormtroopers join the Empire, and then their troubles begin. One takes a lunch break in the carbon freezing chamber. Two underestimate a princess. One picks the wrong time to ask for a promotion. Another fails to show Jabba the proper respect. And one interrupts Lord Vader's private time, failing him for the last time. A lifelong Star Wars fan, Greg Stones brings a playful wit and sympathy for the plight of the troops as they meet their amusing ends, filling each colo...

In this story, Pickles is a very nice and friendly alligator. He lives near a swamp in the middle of the forest. His real name is Arthur, but everyone calls him Pickles because that is his favorite snack and he is always eating them. On this bright, sunny day, Pickles is in a happy mood until he sees his friend Teddy the turtle coming. Pickles can tell that something is wrong by the way his friend is looking. Teddy seems to be very sad about something. Teddy explains that his mom had to gi...

A solar-heated pit greenhouse combines the energy-conserving features of the traditional pit greenhouse with newer techniques and materials used in standard heated greenhouses. The result is a simple, inexpensive structure that blends into its environment and needs little or no heat from any source other than the sun. Greg Stone’s simple, illustrated, step-by-step instructions show you exactly how to design, site, and build your own solar-heated pit greenhouse from start to finish.

A mother of small children trusts her 'gut feelings' and it saves her life.A young dad is able to grieve for his lost baby – using a song.What if there were parts of our minds which we never use, but if awakened, could make us so much happier, connected and alive? What if awakening those parts could bring peace to the conflicts and struggles we all go through?Here, one of the world's best-known psychotherapists and educators shows h...

Henry Lawson captured the heart and soul of Australia and its people with greater clarity and truth than any writer before him. Born on the goldfields in 1867, Lawson became the voice of ordinary Australians, recording the hopes, dreams and struggles of bush battlers and slum dwellers, of fierce independent women, foreign fathers and larrikin mates. Lawson wrote from the heart, documenting what he saw from his earliest days as a poor, lonely, handicapped boy with warring parents on a worth...