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  • Zen and the Rescue Dog: Journeying with Your Dog on the Path to Enlightenment

    KJ Fallon, Pico Iyer

    eBook (Post Hill Press, April 30, 2019)
    A practical guide to more tranquil living for stressed-out humans and their adopted dogs.Think you don’t have time to really get to know your shelter dog?Using the steps in Zen Buddhism as a starting off point, this book offers insights, practical tips, and exercises you can use to bond with your adopted dog and achieve a more relaxed and enjoyable life together. While feeding, walking, and occasionally petting your dog is a good start, no matter how busy you are, you will be able to better connect with your dog by trying the suggestions in this book.With entertaining stories about the author’s particularly idiosyncratic dog and the trials and tribulations that others have had with their rescue dogs, the author shows us that owners of an adopted dog can peacefully coexist with their pets. Observations and advice from animal experts at rescue organizations, vets, and experienced dog owners also provide insight about how to better succeed at understanding your adopted dog. Readers will also discover why adopted dogs are often best suited to rehabilitating humans in need.If you have a rescue dog or are thinking about adopting one, and are looking for ways to help the two of you have a more peaceful existence together, this book is for you.
  • Zen and the Rescue Dog: Journeying with Your Dog on the Path to Enlightenment

    KJ Fallon, Pico Iyer

    Paperback (Post Hill Press, April 30, 2019)
    A practical guide to more tranquil living for stressed-out humans and their adopted dogs.Think you don’t have time to really get to know your shelter dog? Using the steps in Zen Buddhism as a starting off point, this book offers insights, practical tips, and exercises you can use to bond with your adopted dog and achieve a more relaxed and enjoyable life together. While feeding, walking, and occasionally petting your dog is a good start, no matter how busy you are, you will be able to better connect with your dog by trying the suggestions in this book. With entertaining stories about the author’s particularly idiosyncratic dog and the trials and tribulations that others have had with their rescue dogs, the author shows us that owners of an adopted dog can peacefully coexist with their pets. Observations and advice from animal experts at rescue organizations, vets, and experienced dog owners also provide insight about how to better succeed at understanding your adopted dog. Readers will also discover why adopted dogs are often best suited to rehabilitating humans in need. If you have a rescue dog or are thinking about adopting one, and are looking for ways to help the two of you have a more peaceful existence together, this book is for you.
  • Love is Bubblegum

    Kailyn Lowry, Fuuji Takashi

    eBook (Post Hill Press, Nov. 17, 2015)
    In her debut children’s book, Love Is Bubblegum, New York Times bestselling author and reality TV star Kailyn Lowry explores the meaning of love through a joyful chorus of children's voices. Alternately heartwarming and hilarious, each child’s unique perspective is brought to life with playful illustrations by breakout children’s book illustrator Fuuji Takashi.
  • From Me to You: Stories about Life, Love, Family, Faith, and How to Negotiate a Bigger Allowance

    Norman Aladjem

    (Post Hill Press, Aug. 7, 2018)
    A father creates a remarkable coming-of-age gift for his daughter: stories of love, wisdom, and family that have guided his path through life as she prepares to embark on her own.How does a father tell his child how to live a meaningful life? How does father tell his child how to avoid the mistakes he made? How does a father tell his child how much he loves her? The answers are here, in From Me to You, for the author’s daughter, Mackenzie, to discover when she turns 18. From generation to generation—and full of humor and heart—Norm Aladjem’s gift to Mackenzie is the wisdom of his years. * * * * * Norm Aladjem is a successful Hollywood talent manager and producer. As an immigrant child from Uruguay, he started with nothing but the support of his principled and hard-working family, and a strong desire to make something of himself. When his youngest daughter, Mackenzie, turned eleven, Norm wanted to share some of his well-earned life lessons with her and to share some of their family history. But eleven-year-old little girls aren’t always ready to hear what their fathers have to say. Instead, he wrote her letters, one each week for a year, as a memoir that they could one day savor together when she was ready. He shares powerful stories from his life and hers, lessons he learned, mistakes he made. He warns her of pitfalls and of people to avoid. He tells her how to ask for help when she needs it, and how to help when she recognizes that need in others. He tells her how to spot a business scam, how to negotiate for herself and others, how to navigate difficult times, and how to find both faith and purpose in life. He passes down some family lore about how he met her mother, about the day she was born, about her grandparents, about her great-grandparents, and more. And in every letter, he tells her how much he loves her. Norm is now ready to share this book with Mackenzie—and with the world.
  • Persistence, Then Peace: one writer's relentless journey

    Tom Mach

    language (Hill Song Press, May 5, 2016)
    This is more than a memoir. Mach had written an honest review not only about his life, but has shown the many obstacles he faced as a writer. He had demonstrated his writing prowess by showing how he wrote a novel at 17, then later became stringer for a newspaper chain, then an editor of two magazines, a university lecturer, and an award-winning author of fiction and poetry. He concludes with listing ten important lessons he had learned,and from which readers would benefit--whether they are writers or not.
  • The Blue Elephant: A Story of Grief, Loss, and Friendship

    Elizabeth Ann Liechty, John "Charlie" Hanson

    Hardcover (Post Hill Press, March 20, 2018)
    Join Joy the elephant and her butterfly friend Hope as they go on a journey together, exploring grief, loss, friendship, and love, opening Joy to her true gift in life.Joy, the little blue elephant, knew from birth that she was different from the rest of the herd. The Blue Elephant is Joy’s courageous story of grief and loss, as seen through the eyes of her wise butterfly friend, Hope. Be a part of their incredible journey as they discover Joy’s unique purpose in life.
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  • The Invisible Twins: ~ Is it fun when no one can see you? ~

    Tom Mach

    language (Hill Song Press, May 25, 2015)
    Amy and Becky, identical 10-year-old twins, find that their grandpa, a retired chemist, had accidentally discovered a formula which will make things disappear as well as another formula that will reverse the process. When grandpa is away, they apply the potion on themselves, hoping to have fun by being invisible while they play a trick on their friends. When they return, they apply the formula which was supposed to make them visible again, but it doesn't seem to work. What will they do? Will they miss out on the rest of their lives because of this?
  • Something Eternal

    Joel T. McGrath

    eBook (Post Hill Press, Jan. 9, 2018)
    In our time, faith and wonder have disappeared. Most believe in what is seen, others in what is heard, yet a few know something eternal guides them. Once, immortals had a singular vision—until the Shroud appeared. Now thousands of years of human history have been shaped by something other than humankind. Two immortal factions have developed a long-standing and ever-growing divide. Unseen to human eyes, immortal knights are trying to protect our world from the Shroud’s manipulations.Yet as the pendulum of power fluctuates between the immortal knights and the Shroud, an ancient evil arises. Dwellers threaten to unveil the immortals’ mystical, cloaked presence to the eyes of humanity.Today, the most dangerous is that which is least likely, and the truly impossible lies in changing one’s mind.And so begins the epic journey…
  • Shame ON You:

    John W. Mefford

    Paperback (Sugar Hill Press, Jan. 21, 2018)
    Two shattered lives bound by one haunting secret.Chantel hasn't been the same since her sister went missing ten years ago.Ravaged by drug addiction ever since that fateful moment, Chantel vanished a month ago.Could the same kidnapper be involved? Pulled into the investigation by his friend, Ivy Nash, Ozzie quickly learns the art of the addicted: deceit is a way of life.The hunt for Chantel takes Ozzie and Ivy to the most dangerous places in Austin. A girl is bludgeoned to death -- they believe they have a key witness, but he slips away.When Ozzie and Ivy finally get a clue from Chantel's feisty grandmother, what at first seems unthinkable could be reality. But there's far more to unraveling this bizarre set of events. Could this all circle back to his high school class?Two girls connected to one tragic event. Years have passed…people have died, and more could follow. But there is one demented soul who shames those he was meant to save.Will Ozzie be able to solve this twisted mystery and save the ones who've suffered the most?Get Shame ON You now!
  • Beginning With Xs and Os: The Evolution of the Alphabet

    Etta Zasloff, Sam White

    Paperback (Skunk Hill Press, Nov. 29, 2017)
    Beginning With Xs and Os is an alphabet book for all ages. Rhyming verse tells the whimsical tale of the development of the alphabet, one letter at a time. The Os are the first to experience life-altering events that change their shapes and The Rounds are born. Then come The First Straights, who evolve from Xs. The saga continues, as some Straights have humps, some have style, and some grow bellies. Every letter has a story. Humor tempers the tragedies, conditions, and choices that spark the formation of new letters, as they accept themselves and each other. Sam White captures the stories in his edgy drawings that breathe life into each letter and reflect the grandeur of the story.
  • ON The Run:

    John W. Mefford

    Paperback (Sugar Hill Press, March 3, 2018)
    They are the winds of fate.They lift your spirit to soaring heights.And then there is that one staggering, but unforgettable, moment…A body plummets into the stormy water and, along with it, swallows Ozzie’s heart.Can it actually be true?But mourning isn’t painful enough. Not by a long shot.Determined to disprove the unthinkable, Ozzie hunts every possible suspect. Along the way, he’s exposed to those who have axes to grind and those with not an ounce of human decency. But could any of them actually pull off something like this?Old friends from Ozzie’s past are just the steady hand he needs to separate fact from fiction and end this pursuit for good.But in blows another breeze, and this one carries a stench so rotten, Ozzie is nearly destroyed.Could Ozzie have predicted that fate could be this cruel?There is still one innocent soul to save, and Ozzie will do anything to ensure his life with his daughter is secure. Even if he has to kill for it.Get ON The Run now!
  • Denial of Justice: Dorothy Kilgallen, Abuse of Power, and the Most Compelling JFK Assassination Investigation in History - Large Print Edition

    Mark Shaw

    Paperback (Post Hill Press, Jan. 15, 2019)
    *LARGE PRINT EDITION* Why is What’s My Line? TV star and Pulitzer-Prize-nominated investigative reporter Dorothy Kilgallen one of the most feared journalists in history? Why has her threatened exposure of the truth about the JFK assassination triggered a cover-up by at least four government agencies and resulted in abuse of power at the highest levels? Denial of Justice—written in the spirit of bestselling author Mark Shaw’s gripping true crime murder mystery, The Reporter Who Knew Too Much—tells the inside story of why Kilgallen was such a threat leading up to her unsolved murder in 1965. Shaw includes facts that have never before been published, including eyewitness accounts of the underbelly of Kilgallen’s private life, revealing statements by family members convinced she was murdered, and shocking new information about Jack Ruby’s part in the JFK assassination that only Kilgallen knew about, causing her to be marked for danger. Peppered with additional evidence signaling the potential motives of Kilgallen’s arch enemies J. Edgar Hoover, mobster Carlos Marcello, Frank Sinatra, her husband Richard, and her last lover, Denial of Justice adds the final chapter to the story behind why the famous journalist was killed, with no investigation to follow despite a staged death scene. More information can be found at www.thedorothykilgallenstory.com.