Julius is a quiet young boy searching for confidence, friendship, and a place where he truly belongs. When he discovers his parents' hidden history in boxing, he begins a journey that leads him toward an unexpected passion of his own.Through challenges, fear, and determination, Julius learns that being a champion is not simply about winning. Julius: Heart of a Champion is an uplifting story about courage, family, perseverance, and believing in yourself, reminding y...

Book 2 of The Dreams of Phillip Aisling. Each book stands on its own, so new readers can begin here, but you'll get more out of it if you start the adventure from the beginning in Book 1, and the Numinous Nagwaagan.For readers of every age. Younger fans will love the cruise-ship adventure, the mystery, and the friendships, while older readers who enjoy the genre will find deeper themes here too: premonitions, the weight of choices, and whether the future is truly s...

For readers of every age. Younger fans will love the dreams, the adventure, and the friendships, while older readers who enjoy the genre will find deeper themes here too: lucid dreaming, the power of belief, and the nature of reality. A layered series that grows with you.Synopsis:Phillip Aisling is just like any other boy. Every night he dreams, and bymorning he has forgotten most of them. But on the night of his thirteenthbirthday, one dream i...

February 6, 1884Nebraska Sandhills"Sam is the dynamite and Nate is the fuse. Those two cowboys work together like a couple of old spinster sisters."When Sam Rankin and Nate Hawkins left their homes in the Wyoming Territory in 1880, they had no idea that short trail drive would result in them being gone four long years with no return date.The two young men had met in 1879, and their friendship grew out of like interests-cowboying and fishing.Four year...

This book is among the first comprehensive efforts to collectively and academically investigate the legacy of the Euromaidan in conflict-torn Ukraine within the domain of civil society broadly understood. The contributions to this book identify, describe, conceptualize, and explain various developments in Ukrainian civil society and its role in Ukraine’s democratization, state-building, and conflict resolution by looking at specific understudied sectors and by tracing the situation before,...

Imagine waking up one day and realizing that everything you thought you knew about the world – literally the world – might not be true.The Earth, that trusty old spinning marble we call home, isn't a sphere at all. No, according to some, it is flat as a pancake (or a pizza, if we're being generous). Planes are flying in carefully orchestrated circles, horizons are playing optical tricks on our eyes, and astronauts are really just actors with good CGI.Sounds like the plot of...

Gabe Hawkins and his crew of cowboys are preparing to cross the South Platte River in Nebraska. Ogallala, the town that claims to be too tough for Texas, is in front of them.As trail boss, no women on drives were always Gabe's most important rule. However, he broke that rule twice this trip. The first was when Laurel Evans married one of Gabe's best hands and signed on as cook's helper. The second took place when Merina Montero and her four-year-old sister joined their brothers in ...

This book is about Chinese cooking is a significant piece of Chinese culture, which incorporates food starting from the various areas of China, just as from Overseas Chinese who have settled in different pieces of the world.

There is a reason your pulse quickens when you turn to that one particular scene in a book – the one where tension spills over, where restraint shatters, and where characters surrender to something primal, something undeniable. That moment, the one so many readers secretly crave, is smut.Once whispered about behind closed doors, hidden beneath the guise of "guilty pleasures," smut has clawed its way into mainstream literature, proving that what was once considered taboo is now a ge...

Before you promise your life to someone else, do you truly know the person making the promise?Marriage can deepen love, but it cannot erase old wounds, end unhealthy patterns, create emotional stability, or give you an identity you have not yet built. Before the Promise is a compassionate and thought-provoking guide to the inner work that should happen before marriage. Rather than teaching readers how to find the perfect partner, Wilson Bosse invit...

May, 1868You are on your own, Molly Brewster, and you had better get used to it.Alone, frightened, and pregnant, Molly had no idea where she was going or how she was to support her baby when it arrived. Her father had sent her away when he found she was with child. She was to stay with her aunt in New Orleans until she gave birth and then give the baby away...but Molly didn't stop. When she rushed off the train, she bought passage onto the first riverboat headed no...

"If those cattle behind us are stampeded tonight, they will run right over our herd."Outlaws, rivers, and stampedes made cattle drives a dangerous business in 1879. Still, money was to be made, and the large herds continued to move north.As trail boss, Gabe Hawkins wanted his herd to be one of the first on the Western Trail. The young cowboy bossed his first trail drive at age nineteen. This would be the seventh herd he led north from Texas to Kansas and would like...