Many of North America’s most beloved regions are artfully celebrated in these boardbooks designed to soothe children before bedtime while instilling an early appreciation for the continent’s natural and cultural wonders. Each book stars a multicultural group of people visiting the featured area’s attractions—such as the Rocky Mountains in Denver, the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, Lake Ontario in Toronto, and volcanoes in Hawaii. Rhythmic language guides children through the passage of both a single day and the four seasons while saluting the iconic aspects of each place. The Mississippi River, the Gateway Arch, the Ozarks, and Route 66 are some of the places and features highlighted in this board book of all things Missouri.

Thumbs Up, V for Victory, I Love You chronicles a special time, from the early 1940s through the mid-50s. It reveals how people moved forward in a world in tumult, and the payoff they received having survived it. Its about a handful of kids who because they were in the right place at the right time were provided an education well above the norms of the day. It reflects the melodrama that is real life, when young and old lived each day to the fullest while making the most of what they had. Its an oral history that tells how the wonders of discovery, communication, education and the opposite sex changed an impressionable boy into a determined young man. A period that has not been afforded the coverage it deserves, Thumbs Up, V for Victory, I Love You reveals a softer time, but one no less significant or singular than any other.

Daughter and mother pregnant at the same time? Do they even know? Is this one of the many secrets members of the Turret/Rawls family are keeping from each other? Grandparents, parents, children, siblings, cousins, aunts. Who is keeping what from whom and why? The young ones grow up dealing with death in the family, pregnancy and consequences, relocation, intergenerational relations. Secrets...secrets...secrets. As the adult world becomes wider these have their influence on choices. Mort and Sarah Turrett are "from the '60s" and "seem more like parents than our own parents" to Ronnie, Rosie and Bucky Rawls. Circumstances take them separately and together between suburban southwest Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Seattle and Portland, Oregon as they test the bonds of family and explore family alternatives, and what friends can and cannot do for each other. You are immediately drawn into this saga of a 21st century extended family moving beyond conventional boundaries to separate and sort themselves out, finally realizing relationships that bind them as family and community in new ways. Choices...choices...choices.

The biography of the founder of Jacob's House at Thunder Ranch, a private placement children's home, who was diagnosed with polio as a child.

Anthony “Tony” Roddy at age 56 put talk with walk, and walked the talk. Tony is living proof of some harrowing experiences that worked out, while over in Iraq. It wasn’t easier once I got back to the states. I found myself divorced after 21 years of marriage. Out for a walk is filled with empowering motivational useful advice, animated by moving stories. With “Esmeralda” my granddaughter’s stroller which has been modified to carry all my supplies for the trip, we walked from Wells Beach, Maine, to Imperial Beach, California, between April 19th and December 15th, 2015. I crossed 13 states in 244 days, walking approximately 3,073 miles. The book summarizes the formula for daily peace and happiness. This book is told with style and with a little suspense from state to state. Changing negative criticism to positive thinking is my goal with one step at a time.

Now captured by LeCroix on their plane, Kingston and Shade have to figure out a way to not only free themselves but their parents. They put up one helluva fight but LeCroix and his men were able to subdue the treacherous husband and wife team. They gave LeCroix a preview of what all the people of Kingston, Jamaica were talking about. And he realized that Shade was the flicker to the flame of Kingston and his emotions. Cynthia’s house had become the prison for all of her naysayers and they would soon find out that Chauncey’s rotting corpse is being kept in a room just down the hall. Cynthia is happy that Kingston was caught because she wanted to gloat about the fact that she married Chauncey and will soon be the person in control of his fate. However, she underestimates the love that Shade has for Kingston. And will soon find the one person that she hates more than Shade; her mother Palms, will be the one person who continues to get in her way. What will happen when everyone is forced to sit at the dinner table together and LeCroix is the master of ceremonies? Will secrets that loom over people’s heads be revealed to a room full of shocked attendees? Will Cynthia’s devious hand be revealed by a surprised dinner guest who showed up to dinner unbeknownst to everyone except LeCroix? And how will Kingston and Shade respond when the stranger reveals an unforeseen blow to the loving couple? Family is everything to Kingston and he’ll be damned if his goes down in flames!