This planet can be brutal, can't it? Often it takes a shattering of the heart before we find the courage to journey into the depth of hard questions and self-discovery. Sometimes, it's in our brokenness and deepest suffering where we find healing that lasts. It is where we learn to love and embrace our true selves. We find the grace and grit to keep going, determining we are enough, that our hearts matter. If we allow it, it will also be where we find God.In the pages of this book,...

Kate, a young girl of a proud family, is accused of violently slaughtering her parents during her first shift into her wolf form. Two beloved pack warriors, gone. Though she had nothing to do with their deaths, the guilt of being in the wrong place at the wrong time begins to weigh on her at the young age of fourteen. As an outcast, she endures the belittlement and cruelty of her pack, refusing to give in to their torment for five years.At nineteen years old, she learns quickly tha...

Bringing Hygge into the Early Years is a “how-to” guide for every early educator who wishes to bring more calmness and balance into their day, in turn, leaving them feeling empowered to teach and live well.Drawing from the author’s experience of embracing the Scandinavian way of living well, “hygge,” this book explores how this approach can have a positive impact across your early years setting, from improved mental health and wellbeing, to embracing child-led play and high-quality...

A New Standard for Investigative Interviews For decades, the way workplace and retail investigations were handled followed a familiar script: accusations, pressure, and an emphasis on catching wrongdoing. These models justified themselves by the money recovered or the number of cases “closed.” But they often left something behind—mistrust, conflict, and repeated problems that kept businesses stuck in the same cycle. It’s time for a new standard. The 6-Phase Method was designed with a diffe...

Heaven has a big problem. She loves gold, silver, and jewels and everything that comes with them. However, when her dad points out that true riches are not found in possessions, she has a hard time understanding why. In a dream one night, Heaven's treasure gets stolen, forcing her to make a tough decision. Does she keep it for herself or save her best friend, Carlos?

Maggie lives for Sundays!She races through the moss-covered forest with feet pounding and heart yearning to reach the other side.Her daddy awaits, and she can't fail him!Try and keep up with her on this heartwarming adventure!

As she shares her extraordinary stories of fighting human trafficking as an ordinary mom, Kimberly Smith offers hope for readers who wonder if God is calling them to greater things.Passport Through Darkness takes readers on Smith’s journey from normal family life and business, to Europe, to the deserts of Africa and ultimately, to the deserts of her own soul as she tries to live well as an imperfect American mom, crusade for justice for orphans around the ...

Winner: Merle Curti Intellectual History AwardIn this work of historically informed political theory, Kimberly Smith sets out to understand how nineteenth-century Americans answered the question of how the people should participate in politics. Did rational public debate, the ideal that most democratic theorists now venerate, transcend all other forms of political expression? How and why did passion disappear from the ideology (if not the practice) of American demo...

Willow McLain thinks dragons exist only in fairy tales...until she accidentally wakes one from a thousand-year hibernation. Who knew sneaking away from summer camp with her cousin Ben to explore an old abandoned hotel could land them, and their entire town, in danger of becoming dragon flambé? Who could have guessed that the slender whistle carved from bone Willow found in the hotel attic was stolen from a secret order of Dragon Guardians who'd spent the last thousand years watching over s...

This book is designed as a basic text for courses that are part of an interdisciplinary program in environmental studies. The intended reader is anyone who expects environmental stewardship to be an important part of his or her life, as a citizen, a policy maker, or an environmental management professional. In addition to discussing major issues in environmental ethics, it invites readers to think about how an ethicist's perspective differs from the perspectives encountered in other enviro...

This is more than a journal, it's a sacred space to dream, plan, and grow in alignment with your divine purpose.Within these pages, you are invited to pause, listen, and write your life forward , one vision, one prayer, one reflection at a time.Blending intention with inspiration, The Vision Journal guides you through an entire year of spiritual and personal growth, helping you connect with who you are becoming and the God who is shaping every step.You'll find guide...

Why did it take so long for American law schools to start teaching about climate change? Although most environmental law professors were aware of climate change by 1990, it took nearly fifteen years for them to incorporate the topic into their curriculum. In her innovative new work, Kimberly K. Smith explores how American environmental law professors have addressed climate change, identifying the barriers they faced, how they overcame them, and how they created ᑤclimate law” as a domain of...