Skye Butterfly has a problem. Winter is fast approaching, and the creatures of the land keep telling her that she must fly south with the birds. One after another, they ask her to bring an assortments of strange things back. Back what exactly are they up to? And where will the journey ultimately lead her? Approximately 3,400 words. For children ages 6 to 8. Descriptions of my other popular children’s books are included after the main feature (an additional 5 pages). NOTE: This is a story about peer pressure.

**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** 'Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful,' Atul Gawande, bestselling author of Being Mortal What makes life worth living in the face of death? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity - the brain - and finally into a patient and a new father. Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all. When Breath Becomes Air is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both. 'A vital book about dying. Awe-inspiring and exquisite. Obligatory reading for the living' Nigella Lawson

Four children and a dog travel with a mischievous gnome through the underworld. In the underworld, one of the children is captured by a troll, and Gnome is injected with a poison. The children must carry an ailing gnome and search for the antidote to the poison before it is too late. They travel through dangerous worlds, and meet evil characters who try to harm them. They journey onward despite this roadblocks, and eventually find the cure for Gnome in a very heavenly place. The book is comical, and has religious overtones.

A man with no known past and no name as been dispatched to the deserts, ghost towns, and underbelly of drug-infested Mexico to uncover a secret that could forever change the scope and teachings of Christianity. A DEA agent has written that he possesses the unmistakable and undeniable proof that Christ did indeed return to earth again and walk the land of the Aztecs almost fifteen hundred years after his crucifixion on the cross. But has the agent found a relic? An artifact? A long lost manuscript of the written Word? No one knows, and the agent dies before he can smuggle the secret out of an empty grave. Ambrose Lincoln can’t dig past the charred fragments of his memory, but he must unravel the legend of Quetzalcoatl, the white-skinned, blue-eyed, god figure whose sixteenth century ministry, death, resurrection, and mystical promise to return someday to gather up his people closely parallels the Biblical story of the man called Christ. Is Quetzalcoatl merely a myth, or was he Christ himself? Lincoln’s quest to find the answers, he becomes involved in a rogue CIA plot to invade Mexico and wage an unholy war on drugs, financed by operatives working for Hitler’s Germany. He finds himself pursued by the same mysterious assassin who struck down the DEA agent. Does the artifact actually exist? Who possesses it now? Lincoln battles an unseen and unknown enemy in an effort to survive long enough to discover the truth. If he doesn’t, he knows that death awaits him on the desert sands of a land held sacred for centuries by the mysterious and holy ones.

We all have the power to improve, filling us with love, peace, and happiness. We are no less of a person due to any illness. Our personal goals can be achieved with coping tools described and demonstrated in Journey. Suggestions, thoughts, advice, and encouragement toward recovery are given through my life expertise. I will guide you to your potential power and recovery. This easy-to-read true story is not geared toward just the mentally ill but also any ailing soul and for health care providers. Differing from most books, I show exactly what its like to live through years of hardships and struggles from the perspective of the mentally ill. I have graphically and explicitly detailed the unimaginable pain and suffering of myself and many others. Journey is highly instrumental in understanding and coping with an illness and can be a great aid for caregivers in supporting the needy. I demonstrate paths to a happy, constructive, and prosperous life. My experiences with violence, rape, anorexia, depression, suicide, psychosis, self-mutilation, and more are explained, as I reach out to others with compassion and support.

Cruel beetle fashionista, Lucretia Cutter, is at large with her yellow ladybird spies - and she has a devious plan. Darkus, Virginia and Bertolt are determined to stop her, but Darkus's dad is dead set against their involvement. Hope rests on Novak, Lucretia's daughter and a Hollywood actress, but the beetle diva is always one scuttle ahead ...

Caskets should only come in one size. This was Jim's observation on the worst day of his life. Or was it? Jim was a typical father both loving and involved. But on this day, Jim's Tradition, charms on a bracelet, caused him to doubt how he fathered the most wonderful seven-year-old girl, Zoe. Jim traded this doubt for his sense of peace, and nothing he was doing helped. He needed help and the Journey, along with Zoe and the mysterious Abe, was there to do just that. With a sense of wonder, Jim was carried through a series of places and events. Each setting was more spectacular than the last, and each place was set up to teach and make Jim understand reality. Jim's search for peace could only be found through turmoil and hard work. And with each setting came a charm, a charm that was made by his own hard work and example of a father. In the end, he would find peace right where he left it, right in the middle of the truth. Jim was a great father, and all of heaven was there to teach. All Jim needed to do was let go and listen. All he needed to do was seek and find. The Journey was real, and Jim's Tradition didn't stand a chance.