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Tales of Gratitude is a collection of positive short stories with happy endings that will inspire thankfulness in the young and the young at heart. Tom Klobucher's stories are a touching and optimistic take on the American Dream. Each of his heroes confronts towering obstacles and overwhelming odds with little more than the support of their families, their sheer determination, and their ever-grateful spirits.

When Niki Rellon fell 45 feet from the side of a Utah mountain in 2013, she thought she was going to die. She didn't, but the devastating injuries she suffered may well have put an end to her thrill-seeking outdoor lifestyle. But Niki is tougher than that. Not only did she bounce back, stronger and more determined than ever, but she took on a challenge which defied the odds and had many friends, family and medical experts advising against it. Now you can hear Niki's incredible story in Push On: My Walk to Recovery on the Appalachian Trail.

Letters From Rebecca is a play for two actors reading selected letters from a 12 year correspondence between Rebecca Bruns, a New Orleans writer, and Michael Corrigan from San Francisco. The letters were written before email and the Internet exploded, and concern love, art, writing, travel, and relationships. The letters take a dark turn when Rebecca is diagnosed with cancer. The play opened in Ketchum, Idaho and was subsequently broadcast by NPR Playhouse. Rebecca was a dear friend and a wonderful writer. This play is meant to celebrate Rebecca's memory and give her a voice, once more, through her eloquent yet earthy letters.

In the past when people mentioned Joel O'Brien, they talked about "the quiet one". The boy who was the family's voice of reason and their go-to guy for wisdom well beyond his years. Nowadays, they whisper about the "crippled one". The man who radiates darkness, who wallows in his self-pity, and refuses to find a way to deal with the injuries he sustained at the beginning of the war that's threatening to engulf the Black Shamrocks MC.

Omalvus is a snail who loves to draw with his rainbow-colored slime trail. He is very proud of his beautiful, brightly colored pictures. His peaceful life is one day disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious brown slime that is ruining his colorful drawings. Each day. he creates a new drawing. and each day, when he is not looking, his drawing is destroyed. Oh no! He must find out what or who is responsible for this destruction.

Wendy Markham. Gentle. Compassionate. Loyal. Stepmother to five headstrong children, longtime partner of the cantankerous ex-president of the Black Shamrocks MC, and the woman everyone turns to in a crisis. Patrick "Beast" O'Brien. Brutal. Merciless. Duplicitous. A father in name only, traitor to his own club, and a man living on borrowed time. He's broken all of the rules, hurt the one's closest to him, and then run away like a coward. She's been left behind to clean up his mess.

Rock bottom...some would say Benjamin O'Brien has finally reached it. When you've ruined your life and brought your loved ones to their knees in the process, you'd assume you couldn't fall any further. Lacey Marquis is done. Ruined. Deserted by the man she thought was the love of her life, she's reached her breaking point. It takes a lot to make the Black Shamrocks MC abandon their family, yet Benji has almost managed it. When the club discovers Lacey's involvement in his deception, they're both given one final chance. Make amends or die.

Every year Santa is so busy delivering presents to all the boys and girls around the world. In fact he is so busy that he overlooks Marshmallow the snowman and all the woodland animals deep in the forest. Berry the Cardinal comes up with a plan to get Santa's attention. All the forest animals and snow people team up to make this a very unforgettable Christmas.

Laney Alberts should be enjoying her senior year of high school. Instead, she's mourning the death of her beloved father - her hero. Even after a year without him, she still feels directionless. Things take a complete 180 when she literally walks into Jason Magnus, the hot new guy at school. He's different from anyone she has ever met and intrigues her in ways she never guessed possible. But there's more to Jason than Laney realizes.

As you may have noticed, marriage is in crisis! Experts tell us that 50% or more of marriages in the US end in divorce. Living together prior to getting married, increases the likelihood of getting divorced by 40%. 43% of American children are being raised without their fathers. What really matters, Tom says, isn't what you expect to get out of the relationship, but what you expect to bring into it. The best marriage doesn't start with you looking outward at your spouse. Instead, Tom invites you to look inward, at yourself.

Can you redeem your life in a corrupt world? That's the question for Callie Byrne, a street savvy Iraq vet recently out of drug rehab for heroin addiction, trying to reignite her life and regain custody of her son. Bartending in Philadelphia when a friend gets entangled with her ex-dealer, Callie must navigate the underground world of drug and sex trafficking between the jungles of Guatemala and a shady Manhattan leather import business.

The metal horned unicorns are doomed! That's what Lauda Lead Horn wailed when she first saw the tribe's new savior. OK, so his horn was not metal...and he did not have a magic power...and he was really a puny little runt. But doomed? Were things really that bad?

Trace the trajectory of this resilient young man's harrowing transition from foreigner to fixture - from day laborer to successful entrepreneur - in his new country. Experience this moving account of the founding of a Slovenian-American family, as John woos and wins the love of his life, sets up his tailor shop in small-town America, and raises five children with his beloved bride in their modest home behind the shop.

Chaos. Conflict. Lawlessness. An uncertain future in a strange place. The American republic has crumbled. Joshua Winston, a reluctant leader who had hoped to enjoy a quiet, peaceful retirement from....

Tony is late for school and stumbles upon a Northwoods resident that is not often seen. A brilliant plan develops and Tony brings his new friend to school for show and tell! It turns into an adventurous day filled with fun!

Retirement: The Best Is Yet to Come provides the retirement roadmap for the time of your life! What is the secret to a successful retirement? Tom shares 25 bold steps to a happy, positive, fulfilled, and engaged retirement.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis loved literature, especially poetry. "Once you can express yourself," she wrote, "you can tell the world what you want from it...All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words". Now, Caroline Kennedy shares her mother's favorite poems...

On a chilly evening in fall of 1966, Annie Jean Barnes left her home in East Brewton, Alabama, to spend time at a secluded fishing camp owned by a local doctor. Less than 48 hours later she was hospitalized - beaten and abused. Within a week, she was dead. And, it would seem, willfully forgotten by the citizens of Brewton - the more prosperous area on the west side of Murder Creek - who soon came to refer to the fate of Jean Barnes as an "unfortunate incident."

The modern life makes us take decisions and act faster and faster. But not all people are capable of doing all things that were planned on time. So how is it possible to spend time effectively and consciously? What rules can help you to keep up-to-date with work and to complete projects according to deadline? This practical audio course will answer on all these questions.

Cornbread is a power food. Every southerner knows that the reason our women are beautiful, our boys good football players and our people highly intelligent is because we eat cornbread, not to mention it keeps our hounds fat. If you don't believe it, just look around.