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Hockey for a Lifetime
by William “Bill” Christian
Hockey Hall of Famer Bill Christian has lived a remarkable life. From the frozen river of Warroad, Minnesota to winning the 1960 Olympics in Squaw Valley, California, Bill’s story is one of passion, determination, community, and love for the game that shaped his world: hockey. In this stunning memoir, Bill recounts his humble beginnings and his introduction to hockey as a child in rural Minnesota. Before professional leagues, training camps, and financial compensation for career players,...
Chippy's Family Helping Others
by Linda Stoner
Chippy is a young chipmunk who loves spending time with his family. His relatives have many different occupations and interests. Chippy enjoys seeing how they help others. It is amazing how they all got involved in so many ways, from teaching music and art, to giving special rides in an airplane and a sailboat. Chippy must decide just how he is able to help others.
The What and How of PTSD
Understanding and Moving Beyond by Céline Paris
"What is happening to me? Nothing feels the same. Why me? I used to be in control of my emotions and my life. I want it back." Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can happen to anyone, including the strongest and the bravest. It makes you feel like you are losing control of your mind. Trauma is daunting. PTSD is daunting. Understanding PTSD is not daunting, or at least it doesn't have to be. In flipping through the pages of this book, you will find that it is not intimidating. ”The What...
Suitcases, Schools, and Survival
by Stephanie Kauffman
Join the impulsive and adventurous Stacy once again in this sequel to The Girl with Nine Lives. Stephanie Kauffman’s second book, Suitcases, Schools, and Survival shows Stacy as an eighteen-year-old heading off to teach in small, private Christian schools. Her imagination creates many interesting moments with students in and out of the classroom as she teaches academics, and shares her love for God. Readers are invited to travel along with Stacy in her adventures as she journeys across North...
The Girl with Nine Lives
by Stephanie Kauffman
The Girl with Nine Lives is a true adventure story—a candid personal memoir describing the first eighteen years of the author’s life, which began in foster care until she was adopted by a hardworking couple of faith. The book explores the author’s experiences growing up on the farm; her struggles learning to walk, run, ride a bike, and the many scrapes (both figurative and literal!) she got into as a daredevil and a dreamer. Born with a serious balance issue, doctors said Stephanie (or...
Choices, Changes, and Challenges
by Stephanie Kauffman
The true-life adventures of Stacy Kanner, a single school teacher working in various small Christian schools around the world, continue in Choices, Changes, and Challenges, Stephanie Kauffman’s latest installment in her series of memoirs. As always, accident-prone Stacy witnesses the grace of God in her life in moments that could be pulled out of an action film. From riding a motorcycle with a freshly-plastered cast on her leg, to swimming with a shark in the Caribbean Sea, Stacy keeps you...
Decisions, Departures, and Destinations
by Stephanie Kauffman
In the fifth installment of the series tracing the true-life travels and adventures of Stacy Kanner, readers follow the Christian school teacher to the Cotswold District in England, where she serves in a kitchen, the classroom, and the office of a Christian school! Readers will be thoroughly engaged in the story, as Stacy can turn the most mundane of tasks into a hilarious adventure, and she has an uncanny way of surviving dangers and calamities that she faces on her journeys—all thanks to...
Laughter, Loss, and Living
by Stephanie Kauffman
More true-life adventure and calamity await Stacy Kanner in the sixth installment of Stephanie Kauffman’s series that outlines the antics and experiences of a Christian school teacher who works in various locations around the world and daily discovers new depths to the love and power of God. Laughter, Loss, and Living spans the years 1999 to 2002 and takes readers to South Carolina, British Columbia, and the Mediterranean. From fire ants to hurricanes to poisonous snakes, Stacy faces new...
Trouble, Trials, and Trust
by Stephanie Kauffman
Having buried her brother less than a month earlier, Stacy Kanner makes her way back to Mayerthorpe, Alberta, to resume a teaching position and begin the healing process as she works through her grief. Her time there is filled with school outings, renewed friendships, and honest conversations with God—along with many tears and times of laughter. When an opportunity comes to travel to Peru, however, Stacy has an important decision to make. After much prayer and wise counsel, Stacy and a newly...
Larry's Lives
Tragedy, Trauma, Triumph by Larry Rotenberg
The death march to Nazi-occupied Ukraine of tens of thousands of Romanian Jews is one of the most horrifying—yet one of the least known—of the Nazi’s wartime atrocities. In this gripping memoir, Larry Rotenberg, now in his nineties, recalls in vivid detail his childhood in a loving, deeply religious, Romanian Jewish family and his experience of the brutal winter march into Ukraine and the starvation, disease—and deaths of his parents and brother—that followed. It is a story of cruelty and...