Family & Relationships, Life Stages
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The Journey to a Little White House
Anecdotes of Lessons Learned by Lynda M. Buckman
From the Permanent Married Quarters of a naval base to the little white house at the end of the road, Lynda M. Buckman and her family have lived a life of fun, adventure, and great love. Military service in their young adulthood and early marriage ...
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How to Put Your Kids on A Schedule
A Practical Guide for Scheduling and Sleep Training Your Baby or Toddler to A Happier Family Life and Other Helpful Parenting Tips From A Mother of Twins by Lorelei Burk
When Lorelei Burk adopted her twins when they were just a few days old, she only had 9 days to prepare to bring her babies home from the hospital. She had to learn quick how to put her babies on a schedule to survive. Whether you are a parent of one ...
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Ready. Set. Not Yet!
Secrets for Teens about Sex by Marva M. Tyndale
Your Path to Sexual Wholeness In a highly sexualized society and culture, young people can feel overwhelmed with temptation, pressure, and conflicting messages. Ready. Set. Not Yet! reaches teens by building a bridge that breaks the silence between ...
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Why It's Time to Go to Sleep
by Erin Eva Benevoli
The bath is done, the milk is finished, the storybook has been closed. It’s time to go to sleep. The atmosphere of coziness and contentedness is shattered with a single question and the tantrum that goes with it: WHY? Of course, there’s the patient, ...
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Letters to Annie
A Grandmother’s Dreams of Fairy Tale Princesses, Princes, & Happily Ever After by Monika B. Hilder
What do we love about fairy tales? How do they, along with Narnian and other fantasy stories, speak to us at any age? In the fictional voice of a grandmother writing to her granddaughter over the first twenty-five years of her life, Letters to ...
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The Practice of Parenting - A Manual
A toolkit for helping to enable your child to thrive in a competitive world while ensuring they stay confident and happy in their own skin by Larisa Sesterikov
How ambitious are you for your children to think independently, trust themselves, enjoy what they do, and achieve their goals? Do you want them to be successful, self-confident, and yet not entitled? Undoubtedly, the answer is yes. Most of us are ...
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Unsayable Absence
by Deborah G. Dunleavy
In the dusk of a disaster, Una McFadden is faced with indescribable pain and uncertainty in the middle of the Great Depression. She finds herself grieving in an asylum, wondering if she will ever see her children again. As a child growing up on the ...
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From a Clown's Heart
by Todd Canton
Todd Canton has made it his mission to bring laughter to others as a comedian and a clown—but his life hasn’t always been full of joy. After losing his father at the tender age of eleven, his mother’s strength and his own humour were what got him ...
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Just Me
Growing Up in the 30s and 40s by Thomas McCavour
Just Me is a collection of memories narrated by a young boy, growing up during the depression years of the 1930s and the war years of the 1940s. McCavour successfully captures the spirit of the times during those tumultuous two decades. The novel ...
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Over the Rail Fence
Lessons in Life from the Farm by Ken MacKenzie
Life on the farm taught Ken MacKenzie many things: integrity, responsibility, generosity, and stewardship. In this compendium of childhood recollections, Ken shares these lessons through another farm tradition: storytelling. Guided by the wisdom of ...
