A powerful exploration of grief and resilience following the death of the author's son that combines memoir, reportage, and lessons in how to healEveryone deals with grief in their own way. Helen Macdonald found solace in training a wild goshawk. Cheryl Strayed found strength in hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. For Carol Smith, a Pulitzer Prize nominated journalist struggling with the sudden death of her seven-year-old son, Christopher, the way to cross the river of ...

Building Your Home provides home buyers with firsthand, up-to-date information about what to expect, who's responsible for what tasks, the questions they need to ask, and the opportunities and options available at each stage of the building process. Carol Smith shares her expertise to help you provide the utmost in customer satisfaction. Help educate your customers about the home building process by providing them with a copy of Building Your Home.

Jambalaya, a tuxedo cat, tells the story of his journey of living in an unhappy home, becoming a shelter kitty, and finally finding his way to his furever family.Co-written with his mom, Carol, and enriched with twenty-five colorful illustrations drawn by Terri Kelleher, Jambalaya Comes Home is a heartwarming tale sure to delight preschoolers, new readers, and animal lovers too.

"The artistry in the book My Cat is excellent. I loved the bold primary color palette and found the blend of realism with kid-friendly illustrations to be really well done. The diversity of characters is also to be praised." Readers' Favorite reviewDiscover the amusing activities children and their pet cats do together in My Cat. Enjoy twenty-five colorful, whimsical illustrations of cats helping their human pals with all kinds of fun thin...

Most parents are intentional about naming their children. Mrs. Dove gives her baby boy bird the most perfect name for him, even though she hasn't put too much thought into a name before he hatched. Buzz is a daredevil almost from birth, as he begins life totally dependent on his mom for everything. Then when his mom also becomes his teacher, he takes his first flight with nearly tragic consequences, until she races in to help.Buzz quickly takes her lessons to heart and soon soars t...

Gardening on a Gradient: Designing and Establishing Sloping Gardens is a complete guide to tackling one of a garden designer's biggest challenges. Whatever the size or the gradient, creating a garden on a sloping site presents lots of conflicting possibilities and potentially expensive choices. Whether home gardener or professional designer, this accessible book will guide you through the challenge, from the initial garden site assessment and survey, right through the design process to the...

Yes, Yes You can is a book geared towards personal growth. With this growth comes a clearer understanding of oneself and, therefore, a clearer understanding of the path of your happinessa happiness you deserve.

Escape into stories, poems, and photographs of nature, laughter, love, and horror. Heed the warnings of unknown dangers in the night, go on an adventure, learn a lesson, cry over lost love, experience the beauty of a single moment. Just find yourself a comfy chair, kick off your shoes, and enjoy some time away from the humdrum.

Val is a young boy living with his mother; his father is gone. In the woods near his home, he meets a giant spruce tree. Spruce, the giant Sitka spruce tree is steadfast; his roots are planted deep in the earth just as his values are planted deep in his spirit. Their friendship matures and endures until the time of Spruce's death. The story combines real life intertwining with the fantasy world that takes place in Wonder Woods. In the fantasy world, a near-fatal rafting trip happens where ...

Five women become unlikely friends when they all stay in the same British public hospital. As they get to know each other, they discover that their lives intertwine--through bosses, ex-husbands and lovers. And the death of one of them, apparently from complications from surgery, seems to bring the others even closer. But when another is brutally attacked, the three remaining friends realize these deaths are connected and they must uncover a dangerous, psychotic killer who may be within the...

Ever wonder how forest creatures celebrate Christmas and the holiday season? Well, here's the inside scoop! Forest Christmas is a happy, heartwarming story brought to life with whimsical full-page illustrations. It's for the young and the young at heart.The proceeds from Forest Christmas will be donated to FeedMore the Central Virginia Food Bank, Meals on Wheels, and Community Kitchen.

Want to know the future? Discover more about it in God’s Word! This careful study of the Bible’s prophetic passages provides intriguing insights into each one. Throughout its pages, the Bible offers glimpses of what is yet to come—the end of the world as we know it. Some of those glimpses are beautiful, others mysterious. . .all of them fascinating. Reviewing relevant passages from the Old Testament books of Ezekiel and Daniel and the New Testament’s final Revelation, the Bible Prophec...