First words are everywhere you look, especially in a house! This visually striking picture book catalogs an impressive array of household items, naming the delightful miscellany that comprises a life. The charming collections are creative and unexpected, providing the sweetest of visual snapshots that reinforce word recognition and understanding. In addition to the everyday kitchen, living room, and garden items, there are surprising and smart illustrated spreads featuring "everything for resting," "everything for warming up," and "everything that gets lost." Plus, a seek-and-find element (a hiding cat!) offers bonus amusement. Children will savor the delicate illustrations of things they are learning to recognize, things they are discovering every day, and things they will cherish and use as they grow.

Welcome to Connor, My Hometown is a novel about a small town in Ohio and, more importantly, its various people, their lives, loves, failures and successes, and their interactions with one another. It employs a device, first seen in Thornton Wilder's Our Town, whereas, in that play, the stage manager would talk to the audience several times throughout the play. In this case, the town's editor of the Connor Gazette speaks to the reader. He himself is one of the strongest characters in the novel, and his love of the town and its people becomes readily apparent. There is romance. Jenna, owner of the Chit Chat Cafe, which is the public gathering place for many of the town's locals, meets Brian, an engineer and contract specialist from Sedwick Electronics, and they fall in love and get married. Both of them are in their mid-thirties. Pastor Barry Yoder and his wife, Sherry, are among the most beloved of the town's inhabitants, and they minister to the people. They come alongside a couple who have separated and help restore the lost love from their marriage. Jim and Bessie Benson are loved by everyone. He owns the town's Marathon gas station, and Bessie makes the best pies in the town, but she finds out she has cancer, and the whole town comes together and prays for her. There is Miss Ruth Hennessey, principal of Marshall Middle School, who is a no-nonsense woman on the outside but has a heart of gold on the inside. There's Jim Morrison, general contractor, and Randy Colthirst, the town's dentist. All three hang out nearly every weekday at the Chit Chat café, and their interactions and banter make for some lively discussions. And that's what makes the Chit Chat Cafe seem more like a home than a restaurant. There are many more memorable characters, including the mayor, police chief, fire chief, other pastors. You will grow to love the town and its people. The editor, who used to be a columnist for a major Chicago newspaper for twenty years, brings it all together. I would love to live in Connor myself!

This book contains some of the thousands of communications and healing I have done with live and deceased animals, domesticated and wild animals worldwide over the past 76 years. The heartache/ love the blessings that these animals give to me for their human guardians and the healing messages that they entrust to me to pass on to their guardians, also the very private thoughts and feelings that they ask me to reveal to their guardians, can be exhilarating and also very emotional, as I tune into their energy and feel all that they are feeling, sadness, pain, happiness, grief all is revealed when I connect to these dear beautiful innocent souls. With the help of our dear Lord God and the Archangels on my spiritual journey. I have had the honor of helping wild animals in distress Horses/Badgers/ foxes/Elephants/Large cats/ Dolphins/Whales and so many more, Birds of all kinds and even domestic kept snakes.

This book also tells a story of not just this woman but also of her parents and other characters that are involved in this book. I hope this book will inspire each of you to be yourselves and to really embrace your life live everyday like it is your last and really live in the moment because it could be gone before you know it. This book also shines the light on important issues that a lot of us face in this life like drugs, alcohol, eating disorders, crimes, obesity, suicide, death, abuse, torture and violence and family/relationship drama. I hope this book will give you insight and a different perspective when it comes to life we all have our story to tell and this is Jamie's story in this book.

LIVE, LOVE, LAUGH Live, love, laugh and linger a while Let the sun lead your life while you’re young Ignore rainy days, thunder and lightning When things go wrong just break out in song Feel your heart beat and push out a smile Now hold that pose for a little while The world will smile with you, a happy day You’ll find that things are going your way. Live, love, laugh and wonder a while How do the seasons change without our help? The moon and the sun complement their style Flowers and leaves, come back by themselves The earth turns, seasons change, secret unknown So live, love, laugh, mind the seeds you have sown.

Kahn's heartwarming collection of anecdotes presents life lessons for all and provides a first-hand account of the lives of mentally ill patients for anyone considering a career in the psychiatric field.--Publisher's website.