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The inspiration for the book, "Precious Memories" is to preserve the legacy of our beloved family members, in particular, family members who have been diagnosed with dementia and/or Alzheimer's disease. Often times, family members pass on and we have never taken the time to really get to know their history, beliefs, thoughts, interests, talents, desires, etc. For example, recipes for our favorite foods or meals, and we never took the time to get the recipes to pass on to the next generation of family members. "Precious Memories" is also a wonderful way to interact and bond with family members on another level, especially with our patriarchs and matriarchs for our families, to explore interesting facts and to better understand and confirm our familial relationships.

In 1975, Askara Timlen wins a journalism contest to report on a sacred ceremony in Madagascar called Walking the Dead. A family honors their ancestor by exhuming the corpse, wrapping the remains in a new silk shroud, and reburying him. But the family accuses Askara of a severe taboo, photographing their ancestor's face. Dire consequences arise that extend beyond time and place when the distraught ancestor wedges open the spirit door to NoTime, a world guarded by Madagascar's mythical Kalanoro people. Caught between feuding factions-a Catholic church monsignor and the most influential family in Madagascar, each with secrets to hide-Askara plays a dangerous game. She must secure her exit visa before the spirit door closes at the new moon. Time is running out.

Thirty top athletes share running advice and stories that could help improve your own running. Ultra-running is on the rise year by year, and so are the standards being set. If you have ever run an ultra-marathon, you will understand how physically and mentally demanding these are. Most runners will never know what it is to experience running one hundred or two hundred miles, running through the night, and having hallucinations, and yet some of the runners in this book not only complete these distances but complete them in phenomenal times. But what sets these elite ultra-runners apart? Ultra-Success delves into the minds of top ultra-runners who have completed and won the most gruelling ultra-runs on the planet. Some of the races won by these athletes include Western States 100, Moab 240, Comrades, and Barkley Marathons, plus much more.

Henry and Henrietta Owl''s Tea Party is a story of two wise owls who enjoy practicing hospitality with their other owl friends.At Henry and Henrietta''s tree house, friends share wisdom, gifts, their favorite books, and their own tales of adventure. They celebrate each day with a tea party and have a hoot of a wonderful time. With the help of Henry and Henrietta, the owls grow closer over the years as they build kind, healthy, and safe friendships.

Fred Liljegren was born during the Baby Boom. He grew up in the Cold War and came of age during Vietnam. Raised in rural Minnesota, he milked cows during the farm crisis years and witnessed the decline of the small dairy farmer. We all live history in our own unique way; how we respond to the barrage of life is what makes us who we are. In Fredtime Stories: A Mostly Rural Life, readers take a walk through the fields of the family farm, foreign shores of military service, the halls of academia, and home again, as described by Liljegren with wit and wisdom, story by story. Fred and David met while serving as substitute teachers at Parkers Prairie High School. Fredtime Stories is the most recent of a number of projects they have worked on together.

This companion volume to the first anthology, Yesterday''s Voices on the Inner Life, continues with more selections illustrating timeless meditations and reflections on the inner life found in literature from the past. The power of words can uplift our spirit, inspire us to live successfully, and help us find inner peace. Thoughts from the world''s awakened and liberated souls have passed down through the ages for our benefit in these times. This collection is for the reader who has an ongoing thirst for timeless wisdom and its practical use in everyday living.

Mixing and blending the genres of detective noir and music, Conflict in the City takes place in greater Los Angeles, home to both classic and modern fictional L.A. detectives like Raymond Chandler''s Phillip Marlowe and Michael Connolly''s Harry Bosch. Los Angeles is also the center of the music universe, where the Doors, Van Halen, and N.W.A., among so many others, got their starts. It''s in this world that we find Johnny "Whoops" Watson and Billy Bates, young guitarists/singers and their band, Conflict, playing clubs in modern LA, where the days of rock''s zenith and ascendance in the 1960s and 1970s has faded but the hopes and dreams of aspiring musicians haven''t. Conflict is struggling and chaos ensues when someone linked closely to the band is killed. Billy and Johnny become swept up in the mystery, ill-prepared as they are to confront it. The novel is the first in a series.

¿Will Rogers Medallion Award FinalistThe year is 1897. Julianna Lampert and her eight children depend on the family working the farm-recently cleared soil on land so rugged and windswept it defies their very existence. Join the family's journey, from grieving their father's passing and the death of their baby brother, to the arrival of Frank, who strikes a bargain with Julianna, a widow desperate to save her homestead. Follow the Lampert family and their neighbors into the twentieth century, amidst a tragic drowning, disastrous blizzard, and a fire that demolishes a town-devastations tempered with romance and marriage. All the while, their remote, isolated Pleasant View community is transformed: brought into the modern era by the horseless carriage, telephone, women's right to vote-and the neighbor's still.

Kyle the Caterpillar hatched from an egg and ate the shell right away. Then he munched and munched and munched on leaves all through the day. What else does Kyle do all day? Join the little caterpillar as he leaves home to explore the world, facing danger and surprises along the way. What will be his biggest surprise yet?

What if you never had to make another important decision in your life? Four friends travel down a notoriously dark road and within the blink of an eye end up in a mirrored world where they are thrust into the lives of their mirrored counterparts. Separated and scared, they fall into their prospective roles hoping to buy time and freedom so that they can find each other and get home. Grayson returns home from the dead, to the surprise of himself and the people around him. Farrah becomes what stands between the innocent and a war as she walks towards the throne, tied hand-in-hand with a darkness she can''t escape. Liam awakes in his own personal nightmare: as a war machine-the person he swore he would never be. And Sloan wakes to magic, where reality is written from the inside-out of a person. Is she the reason they are all here to begin with? Will they ever make it home or will they be swallowed by their roles and lost to the Ink?

A bride withholds a shocking secret from her new husband. Could you keep a secret from your daughter forever? Louie plans to. Is love enough to keep the marriage together? When a quiet Midwestern family receives flawed medical advice, psychotic post-partum depression is misdiagnosed and catastrophe ensues. Louie attempts to raise Laurie, his daughter, while perpetuating a devastating lie. Laurie, a desperate, lonely New Jersey teenager, connects with a cunning cult leader and a devious psychotherapist, but they are no match for the two strong women who thoughtfully upend societal expectations and provide wisdom and stability. Family relationships are complicated; love shows up in many forms.