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An illustrated children's book about the special bond between grandparents and grandchildren.

This is a story about Starlee, a baby sea turtle who is born on Sanibel Island. She is protected by her human, Grama Marion and the children, the Children of the Sea. Starlee as a baby leaves the Island and grows up to be a strong woman, beautiful, powerful and free. During her travels, she learns about life, nature and our wonderful ocean. One day, like her ancestors before her, she returns to the island guided by the stars and the circle of life, a new mother to be - after earning her Ocean Degree. Her story is a legend, that is still told today by the children that wander these sandy shores...when it is still early, just barely light and the moon and the sun wink in the dawn of the morning light.

Surviving your life - making your way through the good and bad - nudges you to make a record of it, to leave signposts for those who come after, especially your children. That was Sharon Emery''s plan in writing It''s Hard Being You, A Primer on Being Happy Anyway.She had survived perhaps the most heartrending loss of all, the death of a child. But she also faced the less wrenching challenge of having a disability that was incurable, though not deadly (stuttering). Life is hard, but, so what?This memoir became Emery''s so what. She has recounted her challenges and achievements and given them meaning, and found where they fit in her life. It''s a process she considers vital to surviving what happens to you - telling the story.As the title suggests, Emery writes with both hard-eyed realism and compassionate humor. Readers can listen in on what Emery wants her children to know about the losses and the limits that keep happening despite our desperate attempts to avoid them.Her memoir resides in the everyday struggle to live as best we can, providing insights on how all who struggle - which is to say all of us - can survive well.

Ask the Animals and They Shall Teach Thee is a STEP BY STEP guide to help you prepare for any New Year by harnessing the energy of  Feng Shui and the aspects of the Chinese Zodiac Animals. The guide is full of rituals and advice to start your year off right. This information can be used for the New Year or any time throughout the year to kickstart your energy. The New Year, whether traditional or Chinese New Year, is a time of new beginnings. It is a time to reduce all that needs to be cleared from your life. It is time to reboot and remember all that is solid and stable.  It is the time to manifest and put into motion all that is desired. In Chinese lore, the Jade Emperor called together the 12 animals of the Chinese Zodiac to teach mankind lessons to learn from the animals.  For eons of time, soothsayers have looked to the animals, stones, and plants for answers. They believe the animals hold the answers from God for their existence. The animals provided food, clothing, and transportation. Signs and metaphors from heaven guide us daily. God speaks to us through the animals. The wind, sky, sun, and moon guide us. Our instincts keep us alive. The oracles learned how to harness the energy of the animals, the earth, and sky to thrive; and so-- can you. This guide will help you find out which animals you relate to by your birth year and how to begin preparing yourself for the year to come using Feng Shui advice. This book is general information and not specific to any one year. Some intellectuals have a hard time with the idea of the esoteric realm without scientific proof. Science is a metaphoric actualization of reality to explain life, as is spirituality. The guide to understanding your potential is seeing the science within spirituality and the spirituality within science. The heart may feel the belief but the mind needs proof.May you believe and harness the energy of the New Year and prosper in health, happiness, and wealth throughout the year. 

A fresh, biblical paradigm for choosing a spouse. Done with dating? Don't know where to start? Here are 12 questions that help you confidently make the huge decision about whom to marry.

Everything you need to refresh your health and blood sugar naturally-starting now!"Paula''s lifelong passion for healing foods, and strong desire to help a family member and others find the world''s most powerful healing foods and lifestyle approaches for prediabetes and healthy blood sugar, prompted her to write this invaluable and well-thought-out book. Anyone looking for a natural path to healthy blood sugar will find one in these pages." - EditorPower Healing FoodsΓäó  provides everything you need to naturally refresh your health and support healthy blood sugar. Discover the world''s most successful lifestyle approaches, powerful foods, and superfoods for prediabetes and healthy blood sugar. There are delicious low-glycemic foods in every food category. You will also find balancing power shakes, helpful nutrients, an ancient healing spice, and the world''s best olive oil. Find out what works and what doesn''t with new research, expert tips, and firsthand insights to help you stay on track every step of the way!What''s inside:The world''s best foods for prediabetes and low blood sugarDelicious low-glycemic foods and meal plan ideas in every food categoryThe surprising link between the Mediterranean diet and blood sugar Energy-boosting snacks for steady blood sugar throughout the dayThe truth about artificial and sugar-free sweetenersEnergizing power shake recipes and a remarkable balancing spice What are the healing benefits of non-GMO, clean, and organic foods?What type of olive oil is the best and healthiest choice?With expert tips, new research, personal insights, and much more.

Dirty pictures, secret wars and human beasts. Detective Maier is back to investigate the politics of murder.When award-winning German conflict photographer Martin Ritter disappears in a boating accident in Thailand, the nation mourns the loss of a cultural icon. A few weeks later, Detective Maier's agency in Hamburg gets a call from Ritter's wife. Her husband has been seen alive on the streets of Bangkok.Traveling to Thailand, all Maier finds is trouble and a photograph. But as soon as Maier puts his hands on the Monsoon Ghost Image, the detective turns from hunter to hunted. The CIA, a doctor with a penchant for violence and a mysterious woman known as the Wicked Witch Of The East all want to get their fingers on Ritter's most important piece of work.From the concrete canyons of the Thai capital to the savage jungles and hedonist party islands of southern Thailand, Maier and his sidekick Mikhail race against formidable foes to discover some of the darkest truths of our time - and save their lives.

"Shadows on Light: Rise of the Dark Shark" is a contemporary supernatural/spiritual thriller about the complexities of good and evil, clashing and colliding into each other in modern times, much like a lethal virus attacking a healthy cell. The novel tells the fictional account of two ex-specially trained military men, who together, competing in a challenge maneuver in Southern Jamaica in the early 1970s, are both struck and wounded by a lightning flash. They both survive their life-threating injuries and learn that they have been blessed with unique gifts to heal hurting and wounded people. The protagonist hero of the story is an ex-Navy Seal turned Catholic priest; the antagonist/villain is a middle eastern governmental lobbyist, who also happens to be a cultic leader for a historically factual doomsday cult, which has survived centuries into the modern era. The novel advances the power of the spiritual realm as a most vital perspective to meet, confront, and defeat the challenges of evil within these modern times, while touching on moral, racial, and ecumenical issues of timely concern.

Kibibi is a dancer with the ultimate dream: to be the most famous dancer in her native Africa! She has the gift, talent, and drive to be the best, despite the many obstacles presented to her.

What will Ella and Nella, the twin mermaids, see under the sea? Follow them, and you will see.

(From the pen of the chief editor Mei Zihan) Although I am Chinese, as a child I seldom heard adults tell stories of Chinese ancestry or tradition. Stories of our heritage, are important us. Folk tales teach and give children identity yet, there were barely any stories in my heart. Later, even after becoming a writer, and later a professor, I still experienced an emptiness. That is why I think children should have traditional stories as part of their healthy upbringing; stories about ancient China, of inspiration and magic, beauty, bravery, kindness and poetry, rich Chinese ideas, full of intelligence. This ideal also applies to children worldwide.This four book series is evidence of our rich culture. Without doubt, they are equal to the beautiful work of the Brothers Grimm, just as inspiring, and with as much colour, as much fun, that will often leave the child in awe.Readers will learn about China and its long and varied history; about its multi ethnic people, its traditions, about the foods they eat, their clothes and architecture. Perhaps just as important, they will learn about our etiquette and that respect for another, which is, and has always been, the cornerstone of the Chinese way.Each folk/fairy tale is of a different nation within the great land of China. So readers will learn about that land, and those people, about their customs and traditions, their suspicions, heroes and villains.

The Way of The World is not always the right way because we often get caught up in it. Once this happens, we slowly loose our sense of direction. If we all would be pro-active and take that next step to look within before we act upon-most of the world's "people problems" would gradually fade away. Which would lead us living in contentment with one another. This is the meaning of the Lord's Prayer were it says: Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Just think about it; we do not have to wait to get to Heaven to have peace and contentment. We can all start here.

FATHER TIME tells a story of fatherhood from a child''s perspective. This bittersweet novel embraces themes of parenthood and family dysfunction within the African American community.Trevor Russell, our protagonist, is suffering from writer''s block after his first novel''s success. In between success, he tries to find inspiration to write his next project, which is due in a week, or the agency he works with will drop him. Trevor receives a call from his estranged father, KWESI BLACK, who is in Atlanta Georgia, visiting for a trucking convention. Not seeing one another in several years, Trevor and Kwesi meet up for a tense coffee shop reunion.Kwesi reveals that he has been diagnosed with Alzheimer''s disease and has finally come to grips with his tainted past. He wants to make amends for his lack of responsibility as a father. By this time, it is too late. Trevor feels Kwesi lived his best life, but now that his father is dying, he wants to mend his relationships with his children. Trevor is also in a stagnant relationship that takes an exciting twist once he finds out his live-in girlfriend is expecting. The news of becoming a father frightens Trevor due to the lack of his father in his life growing up, and he packs a bag and leaves.Trevor escapes for the weekend and heads back home to Arkansas to get away from his pregnant girlfriend, the pressure of writing, and the unexpected visit from his father. Coincidently the weekend he goes back home is the same weekend as his 20-year High School Class Reunion.Trevor settles in his old bedroom and finds some of his childhood belongings scattered around in the room. Under some old magazines, he finds an old senior year scrapbook. When Trevor opens the first page of the old album, he discovers a list of people who did him wrong at one point during his school years. Amongst the list is a few names of classmates, including his father, Kwesi.Trevor finds inspiration and starts writing a compelling memoir walking us through memory lane of growing up yearning for a father who wasn''t in his life. Titled Daddy Issues, the book delivers a funny yet brash story that navigates through the crack-infested 1980s, growing up with his mischievous brother in the nineties and becoming an adult in the new millennium. The journal highlights childhood memories of being raised by a struggling single mother who works three jobs with the support of Trevor''s silly bickering grandparents.Trevor decides to attend his class reunion to get revenge on old classmates and reconnect with his childhood crush, Sade. During Trevor''s visit back home, Kwesi''s wife tragically dies in a car wreck to end the almost perfect weekend. This sequence of events ultimately leads to Trevor orchestrating a family trip up in the Rocky Mountains as an olive branch to reconnect his terminally ill father with his estranged siblings. During the Thanksgiving getaway, Kwesi finds out Trevor''s book highlights his philandering past, and all hell breaks loose.As time passes along, Trevor has become the father he always wanted growing up. He makes one last attempt to rekindle his relationship with his Kwesi, but Father Time waits for no one.

Multifunctional hybrid materials based on polymers have already displayed excellentcommitment in addressing and presenting solutions to existing demands in priority areassuch as the environment, human health, and energy. These hybrid materials can lead tounique superior multifunction materials with a broad range of envisaged applications.However, their design, performance, and practical applications are still challenging.Thus, it is highly advantageous to provide a breakthrough in state-of-the-artmanufacturing and scale-up technology to design and synthesize advancedmultifunctional hybrid materials based on polymers with improved performance.The main objective of this interdisciplinary book is to bring together, at an internationallevel, high-quality elegant collection of reviews and original research articles dealing withpolymeric hybrid materials within different areas such as the following:- Biomaterials chemistry, physics, engineering, and processing;- Polymer chemistry, physics and engineering;- Organic chemistry;- Composites science;- Colloidal chemistry and physics;- Porous nanomaterials science;- Energy storage; and- Automotive and aerospace manufacturing.