Bright Sky Press: 49 books
Historic Houston Streets
The Stories Behind the Names
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Houston has grown quite a bit since the Allen Brothers landed on the banks of the Buffalo Bayou, and every bit of that expansion required streets. Just how did those highways and byways get their intriguing names? Now Marks Hinton has expanded and updated his popular Historic Houston Streets (previous...
Something From Nothing
Joe B. Foster and the People Who Built Newfield Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Something From Nothing explores the remarkable rise of Newfield Exploration, an independent crude oil and natural gas exploration & production company, from a nine million dollar start-up to a thriving nine billion dollar conglomerate and explains the vital role its founder, Joe B. Foster, played....
Racing Forward
Faith, Love & Triumph Over Loss
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Mica Mosbacher was barely hanging on. A single mother of a son, she worked in retail while she established a career as an award-winning writer. Feeling unlucky in romance after two failed marriages, she gave up on her dreams. In her early 40s, she met the love of her life, oilman mogul and 28th US...
Stephen F. Austin
The Son Becomes the Father of Texas
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Stephen F. Austin is known as the Father of Texas. At the age of twenty-one years, he was elected to the territorial Legislature of Missouri, and served there until 1819, when he moved to Arkansas. While Stephen was making laws, his father, Moses Austin, received a grant of land in Texas to form a...
Miss Fortune’s Last Mission
Uncovering a Story of Sacrifice and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Twenty-five years after his death, I wanted to know the things my father would not discuss about his time as a 19-year-old waist gunner in a B-24 bomber. I found the man who could tell me. He was Ray Noury, who flew with my father over Europe in late 1943; saved my father's life; and, after my wounded...
by Venerable Master Miao Tsan
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Zen practice seeks the purification of the mind, and meditation is a very important part of the process. Through meditation, you will gain the ability to integrate your practice and life, and consequently the benefits of practice—purity and peacefulness of mind—can be achieved. Venerable Master...
by Joanne Bamberger
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Mothers of Intention debunks the commonly held notion that motherhood renders women mute when it comes to public policy and electoral politics. With the authority of a veteran political commentator, Bamberger documents the emergence of a collective female voice in politics. Describing today's complex...
Sophia Rising
Awakening Your Sacred Wisdom Through Yoga
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Sophia is the incarnation of wisdom, personified eloquently by the writer of the Wisdom of Solomon. She surfaces repeatedly in both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, yet her identify remains unclear. Some see Sophia as a deity in her own right, others see Her as representing the Bride of Christ...
Jane Long
Texas Journey
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Jane's father died when she was not yet one, and she lost her mother as a young girl. Orphaned, she went to live with her older sister in Natchez, where she met her husband, physician James Long. Jane followed James to Bolivar Point, a peninsula opposite of Galveston Island. On an excursion to Mexico...
A Tale of Three Ships
Setting Sail for Your Extraordinary Dream
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Using a metaphor based on the story of Columbus and his three ships, this extended parable outlines the three possible directions every person's life may take: the sinking ship, the cruise ship, or the battleship-respectively symbolizing personal survival, unbridled enjoyment, and meaningful influence....
Journaling Through: Unleashing the Power of the Authentic Self
Unleashing the Power of the Authentic Self
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
We have approximately 60,000 thoughts a day, many of which are repetitious. When we think a thought, we make a molecule. We have a thinking body. Thoughts are not only contained in our minds, but they are also carried throughout our cellular being by the chemicals they create. As our sensory system...
Journaling Through Loss to Transformation
Loss to Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Journaling Through Loss to Transformation is a guided journal to help cope with loss. This consumable journal asks important questions and offers meaningful quotes used by Anglea Caughlin in her practice as a licensed therapist and grief counselor. Questions encourage the reader to delve more deeply...
by Karen Walrond
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Constantly bombarded with messages on how to think, how to feel, how to look, it can be very easy to fall into the mindset that we somehow fail as individuals, that we are not enough. But the truth is, those aspects of ourselves that make us individuals are actually the source of our own beauty, our...
by Andrea White
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
A girl's 11th birthday always brings big changes to her world, but for Katya Dubko, it is truly the end of the world as she knows it. In the northern Ukraine, an area of dense forests, abundant wild life, and sparkling rivers, Katya's little village of Yanov has been a fairytale home. Her family life...