Carla Dijs has created another winning pair of heart-tugging pop-up books. Daddy, Would You Love Me If . . .' stars a baby penguin who is wondering if she'll grow up to be like her father. Mommy, Would You Love Me If . . .' is a piglet's story as he, too, wonders aloud if he'll grow up to be just like his mom. Full color.

The United States is the world's leader in fatherless families. Marginalized by society into a distant and unemotional role as the family's bread winner, we are only now beginning to understand the devestating effect of emotionally distant fathers on their daughters' health and well-being-- and for some, even on their spirituality. Millions of women have suffered physical and emotional scars due to absent fathers, and have experienced the painful void not having this vital connection has created. Both authors write from personal experience overcoming emotionally distant fathers, offering practical solutions and hope for healing this emotional and spiritual rift. From how to forgive an abusive father, coping with loneliness, to nuturing healthy relationships, and much more-- this book is a tremendously empowering and enriching journey for women out of sadness and pain, breaking a legacy of loneliness and regret, to a renewed hope for their lives. Included are chapter questions, pages for journaling, and a list of counseling resources.

Mother had seen the vultures outside and feared that they would steal Papa away from us. I hugged her tightly, and we sobbed together. Mother shook like a leaf as we cried. She was afraid, very afraid. Then, she blessed me: "You will not experience this. Your husband will not do this evil to you." If I had known then what I know now, I would have asked her, "Mother dear, can you make him your husband? Can you spend some time with him?" I would have said, "Don't leave him alone. Stay with him while we stay with the dogs. They all need our love and protection, men and dogs."

We each have a story to tell and a unique perspective from which to tell it. The same event becomes a thousand different realities when sung by a host of crescendoing voices. Yet, ironically, the sweeping scope of each perspective is equaled only by its familiar undercurrent of commonality. It is this idea of humanity's sameness that is the basis for this book. Kaleidoscope: A Collection of Writings contains a wonderfully diverse body of work from many different authors, yet one essential message comes shining through: that only in a kaleidoscope of being and blending does our life take on purpose and validation. We cannot experience or extend healing in a state of fragmentation. Indeed, transformation comes only to the whole. And of all man's most worthy aims, transformation must be the zenith of tomorrow's horizon.

On December 7, 1941, Keiko Tanaka finds her whole world affected by the Pearl Harbor bombings. Normally friendly neighbors are suddenly suspicious of her Japanese ancestry, and her engagement to James Armstrong—a Caucasian—becomes a crisis rather than a celebration. Despite their parents' protests, Keiko and James decide to marry before she is sent to the internment camps and he to the war. Nearly sixty years later, Keiko's daughter, Kazuko—born in the camps—attends to Keiko on her deathbed. However, a chance incident makes her suspect that her mother is harboring a secret. The truths she is about to uncover might unravel the family . . . and change her very perception of abiding love.

Can he let go of the past… …and commit to the future—as a dad? Paramedic Marty Graham doesn’t do commitment—he knows all too well how damaging family life can be. But single mom Dr. Emma Crawford is different, and she’s looking for a dad for her adorable twin boys… Will one night of sizzling passion change everything for Marty and Emma?