The Boogie Man’s Birthday is a good story about people coming together and trying to stop evil from coming back. Author Eric D. Williams loves writing supernatural stories about witches and ghosts. He came up with the idea of The Boogie Man’s Birthday while reading the last book in the Bible.

How come controlling, abusive people find their way into my life? How do I heal from Post Traumatic Stress? How do I protect my children from sexual predators? How do I get free from pain, shame and guilt? How do I heal from childhood sexual abuse? Is the Boogie Man real? There are answers to these questions and many more in The Boogie Man. I told my children that 'The Boogie Man' didn't exist; I was wrong! He is real and he lives in the shadows only to come out when no one else is around to witness him. Our kids love and trust him while at the same time are being violated by him. The Boogie Man exposes the strategies used by sexual abusers to manipulate our innocent sons and daughters right under our parental noses. Kate uses her professional skills and knowledge peppered with her own personal experience to show the reader how to understand the "grooming" process better. She clearly explains how a sexual abuser skillfully and insidiously approaches a child, while simultaneously grooming the parents. She uses her own personal story of childhood abuse to show how it had an affect on many of her decisions in life, including being manipulated into a marriage to a pedophile. Her courageous healing journey clearly shows the reader that healing is possible and there is a powerful future ahead. She provides practical suggestions, clear explanations and hope to the survivor of child sexual abuse.

Sam and the boogie man is a wonderful tale of a little boy that conquers his fears of the boogie man in his closet. Sam begins the story sleeping with his parents in their over crowded bed. As the story continues, Sam tries several ideas to rid his closet of the boogie man. After all esle fails, Sam uses music to cause the bogie man to boogie away. The whole family will enjoy this funnny and enpowering story.

Be Still! Departure from Collective Madness echoes the call of the Navajo sage and the psalmist who invited their hearers to stop--"If we keep going this way, we're going to get where we're going"--and be still--"Be still, and know. . . ." Like pictures in a photo album taken from a unique lens, these essays zoom in on singular moments of time where the world is making headlines, drawing attention to the sin of exceptionalism in its national, racial, religious, cultural, and species manifestations. Informed by Japanese Christian theologian Kosuke Koyama, Elie Wiesel, Wendell Berry, and others, the author invites the reader to slow down, be still, and depart from "collective madness" before the Navajo sage is right. Told in the voice familiar to listeners of All Things Considered and Minnesota Public Radio, these poetic essays sometimes feel as familiar as an old family photo album, but the pictures themselves are taken from a thought-provoking angle.

Many years ago on Christmas Eve, a reindeer black as coal was born at the North Pole. He had a sapphire blue nose that would brightly glow, whether he wanted it to or not. This makes Randolph the Blue-Nosed Reindeer feel alone, because he stands out from everyone else. Even though he is very close to his cousins, who are like a brother and sister to him, what Randolph really wants is a friend outside his family. One day he builds a snow fawn to get his mind off things. Little does he know that the snow fawn will change his life forever. Randolph learns why he was gifted with a blue nose. He meets many creatures, gains new friends, and finds love in this very special children’s story. Unfortunately, in the darkest part of the North Pole, where the sun never shines and it is always bitterly cold, lives a warlock whose heart is blacker than darkness itself. This evil warlock seeks to kill the kind-hearted blue-nosed reindeer and take over everything he sees. Randolph bravely chooses to use his glowing nose in an attempt to save the world, hoping to put a stop to the warlock’s threat once and for all.

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. This unique anthology comes complete with: * seven of Split Britches' best loved performance texts * a critical, historical introduction by Sue-Ellen Case * programme notes to accompany each of the plays * a range of stunning photographic illustrations The publication of the Split Britches play texts, collected here for the first time, provides invaluable access to these celebrated performance pieces for both the student and contemporary arts audience.

So many books are coming out today about different ways of running companies. Several of these books envision some historical figure as the CEO: Lincoln, Attila the Hun, Jesus and others. Only one person is CEO to everyone, and that is our mother. Everyone is molded by the teaching of their mother, and taught the same things that they later apply to their business career. I had the pleasure of interviewing many successful people for the book, Don Kirshner, Ken Anderson and Jeff Webb, just to name a few, and found that they all had a lot in common: first they have a passion for what they do; have a purpose to succeed; moved ahead with total determination; but first and foremost they owe their success to the role their mother played in shaping their respective lives. Each chapter of the book is a lesson my mother taught me while I was growing up. They are the same ones all children hear from their own mother. The first part of each chapter tells the story of how I learned one of my own mother's lessons. Most people who read them will see themselves, since all children go through many of the same trials and tribulations. The second part of each chapter relates to a specific individual who used their mother's lessons to be successful in their chosen field. Some are funny, some are sad; but all are about life...and all true. Having interviewed each of these people for the book, I wish I could show the raw emotion on each person's face while relating what their mother meant to their individual success. I hope everyone takes away from this book that success is not easy, but everyone receives the seeds for their success from their mother.