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This book is for every dedicated parent who wants to find a current and popular name for their child, which also has deeper meaning. Do you find that most books of baby names just don't go deep enough into the underlying significance? Or if they do, they tend to be a bit outdated or unfashionable? You don't want your child to grow up feeling isolated with a name that is glaringly uncool, and yet you feel very strongly about it having spiritual value....

Thank You God was designed to help children understand how to be thankful in everyday situations. As we follow Carmen throughout her day, her mother provides examples of patience and thankfulness toward God.

The Journey of a Lifetime is a true story about a young lady who has grown up traveling America with her parents and younger brother. Her daddy is a full-time evangelist, and home is wherever they park their bus. The highlights of life on the road are innumerable, and the challenges are as well. This book is intended to do much more than fill your spare time...It was written to encourage and challenge you spiritually. The practical applications of Scripture and biblical principles make The Journey of a Lifetime an ideal personal devotional or topical Bible study guide.

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.

Rex had always known that he was an intelligent dog. He was very proud of the fact that he could count to 100. He could read some words if they were not too long. He was also the very best at fetching the newspaper for his people. He loved his people. Adam and Sally were his two favorites. They played with him every day. They would throw a ball as far as they could, and Rex would run and grab it in his mouth. If he were exceptionally fast, he would catch the ball in the air. Rex was proud of that too. As far as good dogs went, Rex was one of the best.

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.

New York City, April 2002: Geneva, Crystal, Noah, and Chevy, a close friend group, are all mid-thirty, flirty—and ready to embrace the heat of the summer. But behind closed doors, each of them has struggles of their own. But as the city heats up and tensions keep bubbling under the surface, Chevy gets entangled with a hot and mysterious stranger. The group must come together to save their friend before it’s too late—and before secrets break their forever friendship.

Three years have passed since four friends—Geneva, Chevy, Crystal, and Noah—had a steamy summer of secrets and sleeping around. As another summer is fast approaching, they’ve sworn off any extracurricular activities, but as the temperature rises in the city, the friends find themselves in hot water again.

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.

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

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.

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.

Walking listeners through the key herbal categories, their functions, and how to best use them, Naturally shows how herbalism can be applied to all aspects of our lives—from reducing stress and depression to relieving pain and helping us sleep to stimulating sexual desire, improving liver function, and enhancing cognition—and offers simple recipes and formulas for herbal remedies.

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.

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A powerful, genre-bending mosaic of fiction and poetry that celebrates the humanity, grace, and resilience of teenage New Yorkers riding out the pandemic—from the award-winning author of Chlorine Sky “A gorgeous, tender testament to the generation...