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This work is intended to be a simple guide to living at peace in a world that often surrounds us with negativity. The basic tenant is, Attitude is everything. It is not what happens to us in lifewhat is important is what we think about what happens. The author hopes that this guide will help all those who read it to be more mindful and find contentment.

Born to immigrant parents and growing up during the Depression, Harvey learned many life lessons as he grew, some harder than others. He loved school, especially geography and social studies, but eventually joined his father in his hardware business. While he was famous in town as Harvey Hardware...

In my last few days of life, I began to understand the Great Keeper of this earth was calling me home. Though sick and not knowing what my real illness was at the time, I began reflecting on my past experiences. As I backed out of the trailer for the last time on this earth, taking two mouthfuls of...

America would be very different if William Harding Jackson (1901 1971) had not put his indelible stamp on the US government as OSS / War Department chief of secret intelligence in World War II Europe, cofounder of todays Central Intelligence Agency, and his work as Eisenhowers national security adviser....

In Civil War author C. Kay Larsons new work of fiction, South Under a Prairie Sky: The Journal of Nell Churchill, U.S. Army Nurse & Scout, our teenaged heroine grows up in Monmouth, Illinois in the antebellum era. Nell begins her journal entries in 1856, as unrest breaks out in Kansas over the...

Christianity receives a lot of attention in the media, but the most frequently discussed version represents a type of Christianity that sometimes turns people away from the Church. Kissing Fish presents a postmodern systematic theology of progressive Christianity, a growing movement that reclaims...

Through this second volume of selected essays, the author continues to bring attention to the Spanish Mexican foundation roots of Texas and the Southwest. As with volume 1, this book focuses on a most intriguing questionthat is, if mainstream historians tell us that Texas history begins in 1836 with...

A beautifully touching portrait of that most difficult person to write aboutone blessed with gifts beyond what we can imagine for ourselves (which might be an alternate definition of prodigy or of genius). Ruthann Moyer not only brings her great uncle to life on the page, but helps us, the ordinary...

I could have done better For my mother and my dad But I thought they were content With everything they had I could have helped with prescriptions Took them for a dinner or two But I had my own family Just had too much to do I guess, now that I think of it They were both ill for a while But dad, he...

Where Theres Hope - Theres Love is a collection of poems that inspire with hope for today and tomorrow. The author shares poems of hope for brighter tomorrows. In the poems A Rainbow of Hope and Over the Horizon, the author expresses that even through the most challenging of times in ones life, tomorrow...

Not All Scars Are Wounded centers the good and bad of human connectionnot only with those around us but just as important within ourselves. At its heart, each poem shares the internal yet eternal conflict between our wanting for everything and our not wanting for anything. In other books, love and...

Fourteen Growing up is the thing Im thinking about right now. Not how fast I can grow up, because the truth is Im not going to grow up as fast as I can at this age, Im 14 and its pretty fun just the way it is so Id like to keep it this pace for a little longer because I know the older I get the more...

Joe is the only son of George and Ruth Mitchell. Toiling endlessly on their dairy farm, he has rarely dated and has never participated in sports or other high school activities. Then a chance at love with Annie Jensen convinces Joe to join the track team. Freeing Joe from much of the dairy work at...

Empty shells are on the shore The living ones are out to sea. Come then and follow me I have some friends with a boat AWS from And He Descended Into Hell So begins an invitation to a journey. In this moving collection of poems, Al Starkey travels into vast and often uncertain territory. He...