The Backpack: How to Understand and Manage Yourself While Loving Others Along the Way tells the story of Jon, Sofia, and Buddy, whose pathways merge on a life-changing flight. Written by a senior consultant with the Flippen Group (a worldwide leader in self-awareness training), the book brings together an angry passenger, a wise flight attendant, and a down-home cowboy. Their chance meeting leads to the ride of their lives as they fully grasp the importance and meaning of their ba...

A guide for being fully equipped to succeed on the journey of lifeThe Backpack: How to Understand and Manage Yourself While Loving Others Along the Way tells the story of Jon, Sofia, and Buddy whose pathways merge on a life-changing flight. Written by a senior consultant with the Flippen Group (a world-wide leader in self-awareness training), the book brings together an angry passenger, a wise flight attendant, and a down-home cowboy. Their chance meeting ...

Explore twenty-four imaginative tales crafted by some of today’s best writers of science fiction and fantasy, all guests on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers during its second year, and including several international bestsellers and winners of every major award in the field, as well as newer authors just beginning what promise to be stellar careers.A woman seeking the power to see the evil hiding within others regrets receiving it. Letters written by a wizard in th...

Witnessing your loved one suffer hurts. Find out what you can do to support them without putting your relationship at risk...Post-traumatic stress disorder, also known as PTSD, is an anxiety disorder that can develop after having witnessed or experienced a traumatic event. Contrary to popular belief, this condition doesn't only affect soldiers, but also people from all backgrounds and of any age.Did you know that an estimated 8 million adults are affected b...

For years, Christians have been told that sex is God's creation, designed by him as a gift to husbands and wives. Yet few couples actually experience sex as a spiritual, God-ordained experience. Rather than admit their lack of fulfillment, many couples hide their disappointment and confusion, while others attempt to solve the problem through better sexual technique.Unfortunately, all the advice on improved technique fails to explain the one thing that makes sense of it all. Despite...

Go ahead. Leave your loneliness behind.We all want to matter to someone, but the risks of relationship can seem far too great. It’s easier to just keep our distance.We fear embarrassment, misunderstandings, and even rejection, so we silently endure our loneliness. We work on trying to be nice–rather than being real–hoping that others will like us. Or we might simply give in to the path of least resistance–the life of hurry, impatience, and fatigue–which feels familiar and s...

5 Reasons The Introvert Love & Wealth Bundle Should be an Important Part of Your Love Life: 1. The methods and strategies help introverts succeed at dating, relationships, and marriage. 2. You do not have to change who you are in order to accommodate an extroverted partner. 3. Stay ahead of the game by learning how to spot and meet a fellow introvert at a party. 4. Learn how to understand your introverted personality and its implications. 5. Discover the unique stren...

When Tim Lefens walked into the Matheny School in New Jersey to show slides of his paintings, his one-hour visit became a life-changing experience. The students he met had severe physical challenges: only one of them could talk, none could walk, and all lacked the use of their hands. As a painter facing his own gradual loss of eyesight, Tim had come to fully appreciate the power of art, and he was determined to enable the students to paint despite their physical limitations.Lefens ...

A laugh-out-loud young middle grade animal caper about a hapless ferret who decides to prove himself to his furry crime family by foiling a plot to sabotage the Baskerville Dog Show—from the author of the Horace & Bunwinkle series. Perfect for fans of A Boy Called Bat and Wedgie & Gizmo!Fil Furetto is a terrible criminal. He can’t pick a lock or crack a safe, and he’s hardly menacing. The only things he’s good at are cooking and watching over the ...

Brian Timilty is running for mayor on an anti-superhero ticket, and the amazing Spider-Man is his biggest target. But Timilty is secretly the pawn of Tyler Stewart, a wealthy businessman seeking to take over New York's mobs. To ensure his success, Stewart hires two of Spider-Man's deadliest foes, Electro and the Rhino, and executes a plan guaranteed to keep the wall-crawler from interfering with his grand designs: He frames Spider-Man for a grisly murder! Forced into hiding, Spider-Man mus...

Scripture has brought us light in darkness, strength in weakness, comfort in sadness. It isn't difficult to endorse the Psalmist's experience that the words of God are 'more precious than gold... sweeter than honey'.So it's distressing to watch the Bible being dislodged from its position of authority, not only in our nation but also in the church.Here we focus on the urgent need to continue in, respond to, interpret and expound God's Word.

Many Christians are nervous about politics - isn't the political world murky and sleazy, a den of deceit and backstairs deals? At the same time, the image of Christians in politics isn't great either - often seen as judgemental hypocrites, intolerant and hateful control freaks... shouldn't this mean that faith and politics should be kept firmly apart?In A Mucky Business, Tim Farron, former Leader of the Liberal Democrats Party and friends, explore and defend why Ch...