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Experience peace and joy today with this collection of professionally produced, research-based meditations.

Tired of anxiety and stress running your life? Anxiety and stress suck the joy out of living, take you out of the present moment when you are with loved ones, and lead to long term health concerns. These meditations address anxiety at its root cause...the brain. Recent studies in neuroplasticity have revealed that meditation practice causes the amygdala to shrink. Literally rewiring your brain for relaxation. This series contains three professionally produced twenty-minute guided meditation sessions designed to relieve stress, anxiety, and panic attacks.

Adventure, science fiction, aesop’s fables, classic fairy tales, and Christmas story books for children.

This is a story of an Oklahoma family of four visiting their relatives, also a family of four, in Manhattan, New York. A real family adventure, but it is really all about the kids, Ted and Emma, who live in Manhattan and Pete and Annie, twins who visit from Oklahoma. The kids are having great fun. Ted and Emma visit Santa during their mom’s last-minute Christmas shopping, the four children make a wreath and decorating Christmas stockings, a little suspense around the Christmas tree - will there indeed be a Christmas tree, or will they have to forfeit one?

Mary was born in 1933 in Scott County, Mississippi, to sharecroppers. Her memoir described her two fathers as the most significant people in her childhood. One of them was impoverished and indebted to white landowners and the other owned property and was independent. They agreed to expose Mary to both worlds. Change is hard, but Mary found her way and the inspiration to dream. With the gift of song and the mind to step out of the box, Mary broke ground in business and in song.

This is the story of a happy and lively Labrador retriever and two six-year-old children, who are part of a family living in Los Angeles neighborhood. The family consists of Dadda, who runs a business as a veterinary surgeon, Momma, who works in the practice with Dadda and the two children, a boy named Bart and a girl named Amy, who are twins. The Labrador’s name is Cooper. There is also a Nanny, Gabby, who attends to the household and looks after Bart and Amy and prepares their lunch every day. Bart and Amy adore Cooper and love playing Frisbee with him.

Life isn't easy - especially when you're the reclusive daughter of a melodramatic attorney openly mocked for his commercials, and a free-spirited mother who gives art lessons in the nude. Their over the top personalities make it easy for the sheltered and introverted Magnolia Berrybush to swim in a sea of anonymity - until the day she finally snaps.

Eleven-year-old Neely Evans is uprooted from rural Tennessee to the pristine coast of Malibu, California, when her father takes a position at a law firm in the entertainment industry. Her very first friend in Malibu is the twelve-year-old boy from down the beach, Seth Drake. As they grow close over the next few years, their friendship gives way to something more. Her first crush segues into her first heartbreak when her parents split, and her mother takes Neely back to Tennessee.

Everything Jesse is the 2-book box set: Book 1, Loving Jesse and Book 2, Forever Jesse.

Camilla’s childhood was immersed in love and chaos, and steeped in perfection. As an adult she hasn’t looked back, refusing to acknowledge the people and places that scarred her so many years ago. But a cancer diagnosis forces Camilla to turn to the past, and all its pain, to save her daughter. As Camilla discovers the bittersweet limitations of motherhood and reconciliation, she also awakens an inspiring message about the mortality issues we all must face.

Iris Green is a woman with a plan. Between her role as the director of partnerships at a beauty company and raising her daughter alone, there’s no room in her life for spontaneity. One thing she hadn’t planned for is a certain singer walking into her office and taking her breath away. Angel Harrison has it made. He’s a successful musician and he’s just scored a brand ambassador deal with an emerging beauty company. But he’s still not fulfilled; there’s a gaping hole in his love life. That is, until he meets Iris at the company headquarters and feels like things might be about to change.

The Northern Force adventure continues in Alaska during what the Bible calls the Tribulation. Geo, Izzy, and the Meyers family fight to survive until the the Glorious Appearing of Christ at the end of the Tribulation. The plagues of the bowls from Revelation 16 are poured out onto the world. The effects are felt as far north as Alaska.

For African Americans in the southern United States, the social determinants of health are influenced by a unique history that encompasses hundreds of years of slavery, injustices during the Jim Crow era, the Great Migration, the civil rights era, and contemporary experiences like the Black Lives Matter movement. Black activists, physicians, and communities continue to battle inequities and structural problems that include poverty, inadequate access to health care, incarceration, a lack of transportation, and food insecurity.

Granny and her granddaughter are going on a walk. But this is not just any walk. It’s a walk that must not be missed, one that is more important than ever but has been made increasingly difficult for many to participate in. It’s a walk that joins together a community, that lifts voices, that allows us to speak up, stand up, and say what’s on our minds. It’s a walk for hope.

After surviving her first heartbreak followed by a grueling final two years of college, Nessa returns home, only to be plagued by a phenomenon that she can only attribute to fatigue or possible insanity: a vanishing man.

Rylee Swanson is beginning eighth grade with zero friends. A humiliating moment at the end-of-seventh-grade pool party involving a cannonball, a waterlogged updo, and some disappearing clothes has Rylee halfway convinced she’s better off without any friends—at least friends like those. The one question Rylee can’t shake is . . . why? When a group assignment in journalism pairs Rylee with science geek DeNia Alonso, DeNia’s annoyingly know-it-all, nerdy personality is both frustration and fuel to Rylee’s search for answers.

Grief, pain, hope, and love collide in this short story collection. In New York City, teens, their families, and their communities feel the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic. Amidst the fear and loss, these teens and the adults around them persevere with love and hope while living in difficult circumstances. From award-winning author Mahogany L. Browne comes a poignant collection of interconnected prose, poems, and lists about the humanity and resilience of New Yorkers during the Covid-19 pandemic.

1879, Mississippi. Young dreamer Lettie may have her head in the stars, but her body is on a covered wagon heading westward. Her father, Thomas, promises that Nebraska will be everything the family needs: an opportunity to claim the independence they’ve strived for over generations on their very own plot of land. But Thomas’ hopes—and mouth—are bigger than his ability to follow through. With few supplies and even less money, the only thing that feels certain is danger.