While on temporary duty with the US Army in Stuttgart, Germany, a fellow employee asked if I planned to take a side trip to the little village of Conques in south-central France to visit the Ste Foy Church. "The Ste Foy Church?" I asked. I had never heard about Ste Foy of Conques. All my life people had questioned me on the origin of my name since it was so unusual. I shared my aunt's name, but the family had no idea of the origin. More significantly, when I was 18 years old, living in the Philippines, I converted to the Catholic faith. The priest that baptized me told me that Foye was not a Christian name and I should select another name under which to be baptized. So imagine my surprise to find out years later that I had been given a saints name. I never made the trip to Conques, but I started collecting as much information as I could about Ste Foy. I fell in love with her story and decided to write this book for my granddaughter who shares my name.

When it comes to disease, who beats the odds — and why? When it comes to spontaneous healing, skepticism abounds. Doctors are taught that “miraculous” recoveries are flukes, and as a result they don’t study those cases or take them into account when treating patients. Enter Dr. Jeff Rediger, who has spent over 15 years studying spontaneous healing, pioneering the use of scientific tools to investigate recoveries from incurable illnesses. Dr. Rediger’s research has taken him from America’s top hospitals to healing centers around the world—and along the way he’s uncovered insights into why some people beat the odds. In Cured, Dr. Rediger digs down to the root causes of illness, showing how to create an environment that sets the stage for healing. He reveals the patterns behind healing and lays out the physical and mental principles associated with recovery: first, we need to physically heal our diet and our immune systems. Next, we need to mentally heal our stress response and our identities. Through rigorous research, Dr. Rediger shows that much of our physical reality is created in our minds. Our perception changes our experience, even to the point of changing our physical bodies—and thus the healing of our identity may be our greatest tool to recovery. Ultimately, miracles only contradict what we know of nature at this point in time. Cured leads the way in explaining the science behind these miracles, and provides a first-of-its-kind guidebook to both healing and preventing disease.

With her gargoyle companion at her side, Kylie chases the most dangerous story of her life. Dive back into the extraordinary new series filled with elemental magic, mythic creatures, and heroic gargoyles today! Pursuing the story of a lifetime is supposed to be Kylie’s greatest achievement, not her biggest regret. It certainly isn’t supposed to be personal. When her latest lead points to deadly, banned spells pilfered from her parents’ business, Kylie is too late to spare her parents from being thrust into the headlines—or to prevent herself from being dragged into the spotlight with them. Every journalist in the city pounces on the scandal, but none with more relish and venom than Nathan. Kylie’s rival at the Terra Haven Chronicle has vowed to destroy Kylie’s career. He’s more than willing to implode the lives of anyone she loves if it will enable him to enact his vengeance. Kylie must recover the stolen spells before her life, and her parents’ lives, are ruined. With her loyal gargoyle companion, Quinn, at her side, Kylie plunges into the perilous investigation. She’s faced danger before, but this time is different: If she fails, her parents will lose their livelihood. To succeed, she will have to sacrifice her dream story. But first she has to survive. Pick up your copy of this action-packed fantasy today! PRAISE FOR THE TERRA HAVEN CHRONICLES "fun and fast paced and...full of interesting supernatural creatures" Feeling Fictional "there is never a dull moment" Goodreads Review "packed with everything that initially drew me to the Gargoyle Guardian Chronicles: strong world-building, unique magic, derring-do and narrow escapes, and well-rounded characters" Witches & Pagans THE NOVELS OF TERRA HAVEN READING ORDER TERRA HAVEN CHRONICLES Deadlines & Dryads (prequel) Leads & Lynxes Headlines & Hydras Muckrakers & Minotaurs GARGOYLE GUARDIAN CHRONICLES Magic of the Gargoyles Curse of the Gargoyles Secret of the Gargoyles Lured (a newsletter-exclusive novella)

Have you ever wanted to get exposure for your business, website, charity or project but not sure what hook or story angle would interest the media?Well, The Ultimate Press Release Swipe File is the solution.Filled with over 199 hooks and headlines that you can swipe and implement into your next press release, this guide has been designed to help eliminate any procrastination or mental blocks you might have when coming up with a new angle for your media exposure campaigns.Just sit down, turn to one of the pages of the book and you will be presented with a newsworthy headline, hook, rationale as to why this is a killer story idea, and examples that you can legally swipe and use today.It's just like having your own publicist on retainer feeding you new story ideas every day.

Americans have a gift for coining proverbs. "A picture is worth a thousand words" was not, as you might imagine, the product of ancient Chinese wisdom -- it was actually minted by advertising executive Fred Barnard in a 1921 advertisement for Printer's Ink magazine. After all, Americans are first and foremost a practical people and proverbs can be loosely defined as pithy statements that are generally accepted as true and useful. The next logical step would be to gather all of this wisdom together for a truly American celebration of shrewd advice.A Dictionary of American Proverbs is the first major collection of proverbs in the English language based on oral sources rather than written ones. Listed alphabetically according to their most significant key word, it features over 15,000 entries including uniquely American proverbs that have never before been recorded, as well as thousands of traditional proverbs that have found their way into American speech from classical, biblical, British, continental European, and American literature. Based on the fieldwork conducted over thirty years by the American Dialect Society, this volume is complete with historical references to the earliest written sources, and supplies variants and recorded geographical distribution after each proverb.Many surprised await the reader in this vast treasure trove of wit and wisdom. Collected here are nuggets of popular wisdom on all aspects of American life: weather, agriculture, travel, money, business, food, neighbors, friends, manners, government, politics, law, health, education, religion, music, song, and dance. And, to further enhance browsing pleasure, the editors have provided a detailed guide to the use of the work. While it's true that many of our best known proverbs have been supplied by the ever-present "Anonymous," many more can be attributed to some very famous Americans, like Ernest Hemingway, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain, J. Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Alva Edison, Abigail Adams, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, to name but a few offered in this fascinating collection.Who wouldn't want to know the origin of "the opera ain't over till the fat lady sings?" This uniquely American proverb and many more are gathered together in A Dictionary of American Proverbs. A great resource for students and scholars of literature, psychology, folklore, linguistics, anthropology, and cultural history, this endlessly intriguing volume is also a delightful companion for anyone with an interest in American culture.