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Sam is used to being what everyone needs him to be. So when his family falls apart and he has to change middle schools, he keeps his feelings buried. Willa, an isolated 7th grader who doesn't speak, captures his attention just by being herself. The two unlikely friends challenge each other to speak up in a story about the true power of friendship and what can happen when we believe in the importance of what we have to say.

Bob Dahms has had a long and diverse career in business and in business advisory roles.In this book he shares 50 Things You Need to Know About Starting and Managing a Small Business. Everyone who reads this book will learn something that they didn't know before. Actually, it's way more than 50; check it out.To support the author directly, find your copy today at Village Books (villagebooks.com).

Ravished by abuse, parental addictions, and the Murrah Federal Building bombing as it echoes her own losses, Hooper picks her way forward through life's dark ruin. Evocative, descriptive language captures the devastation and the changes that converge with far-reaching consequences. At the heart of Where the Sky is a Wall, as the generations turn, Hooper's survival and the reminders of comforting normality sustain her. Husband, daughter, and ordinary blessings, connect her to love and light, epiphanies in this, Hooper's debut book of poems.

This is the story of how the North Cascades Institute grew from humble beginnings to become a model nonprofit environmental education organization admired throughout the United States.

Five years ago, when I returned from a deployment to Bastion Hospital, a British trauma unit just west of "The Most Dangerous Place in the World," I thought I could resume a normal life. But neither the Navy nor my nursing experience could have prepared me for the devastating injuries that had poured in from the Sangin Valley between 2010 and 2011. Then, one night, after rescuing the family dog from a painful, but otherwise insignificant, household accident, I ransacked the bedroom and screamed at the top of my lungs--forcing an unsettling question from my spouse: What's happening to you? At the urging of a trusted colleague, I was transferred from my station as a hospital director to a locked psychiatric facility called The Willows with other convalescing service members in similar predicaments. There, I meet Riza, a no-nonsense social worker bent on demystifying man-made trauma, both at home and abroad. To pass the program, each patient must compose a combat timeline to be read aloud in The War Room: A place that means more than stories being told...the place where the strongest people in the world share their battles within themselves. With fear and triggers mounting, I must be dying, I think, as Riza begs us to cut through our traumas to live. More sea story than PTSD clinical narrative, Standby follows the--sometimes humorous--cockeyed drama of my recovery at The Willows, and later at home, alerting everyone to the slow and not-so-obvious fallouts of war.

Philly's Bridge: In the blazing heat of an Indian summer, five members of a ragtag woodsworking cooperative from the small town of Glacier, Washington set out to prove that old fashioned methods of treating roadside vegetation are a better alternative to the Forest Service's preference for spraying deadly poisons. Kicked back around campfires under a canopy of stars, their efforts hardly feel sacrificial, taking communion with potato chips and beer in the storied deeps of the forest. At the end of the contract they reward themselves with a backpacking trip to the high country, where the true meaning of sacrifice, or a reckoning with fate, is the last lesson one of them will learn. Whose Woods These Are: A young man with a backpack and a mind filled with myths ventures to the valley of his family's past which he'd only heard spoken in whispers. What he finds there is nothing like the history he'd hoped for, and in fact is a dark revelation, a landscape of violence, self-destruction, and perhaps, some said, even murder. A grizzled old logger tries to ease the boy's pain in learning the truth of his heritage, softening the portrait of a brutal grandfather by offering the balm of forgiveness. Overcome by the images of beatings and bears and rituals beyond understanding, young Will returns to the solace of mountains, where he finds his own truth by the side of a river in the benevolent heart of the wild.

Living High is the compelling story of June and Farrar Burn and their unconventional lifestyle, philosophy, and experiences-homesteading a small island in the Salish Sea, living north of the Arctic Circle before Alaska became a state, touring the U.S. in the Burn Ballad Bungalow (pictured on the front cover), and how they lived in a covered wagon while June, at age fifty, earned her master's degree in soil science and nutrition. This seventh edition includes additional photographs and an epilogue by Skye Burn, June and Farrar's eldest granddaughter.

The Writers' Corner Anthology is a snapshot of some of the best work being written by the Village Books Writing Groups in Bellingham, WA. In it, you will find short stories, poetry, and essays from the prolific writing community.

Point Roberts Backstory tells the fascinating story of a one-of-a-kind American town. Perched on the tip of a Canadian peninsula which extends into U.S. waters, Point Roberts is a community like no other. Residents - including the school kids - have to drive through Canada to get to this unique "exclave" from the U.S. mainland. Point Roberts has seen it all: mysterious middens, smugglers, pirates, squatters, Icelandic-speaking settlers, rock stars and thousands of Canadians. They all mix in an unbelievable history all the more amazing when you learn it all happened in its tiny five square miles. Join Point Roberts Backstory for a tour of this incredible town in an isolated corner of America.

Zora's friends often told her how much they learned from the stories she told of her experiences in the occult. They learned not to doubt themselves. They learned to recognize patterns. Having heard and absorbed Zora's narrative, they were able to recognize evil when they encountered it and where able to distinguish human evil from demonic evil. Zora hopes her insights into her own ordeals will help others when they face the unimaginable.Evil is real.Demons are real.But sometimes, one person's stories can mitigate the destruction.

The Kabul Conscript is a "Conrad Slocum" novel, and a prequel to Cape Decision. It is a tale of friendship, intrigue, and deception set in Afghanistan during the summer of 1973.

For centuries the Psalms have been a source of prayer, inspiration, comfort, thankfulness, challenge, and blessing. In the sixth century my ancestor, St. Columcille, copied a Psalter that is now the oldest book in Ireland. I have lived with the Psalms for more than 40 years. Last spring I wondered if I could put a few memorized lines of Psalm 90 into the form of a haiku, not thinking at all about making a book. Then I tried putting parts of a few more Psalms into haiku. Some months later there was a haiku for each of the 150 Psalms, and a few more too. The process was for me almost like playing. Perhaps playing and praying are not that far apart. Columcille must have discovered that too.

How do two star-struck teenagers living on a small island north of Seattle break into show business? EASY! They were in the right place at the right time TWICE! The first time they had travelled to Seattle to audition for the chorus line at the Showbox and were hired. Three months later, still in Seattle, the two (now experienced) performers went out on their own as The Halliday Sisters. Disaster!They were not ready to be an act.Before they left Seattle to return home, broke and discouraged, they were once again in the right place at the right time and had their second chance.With the encouragement of the colorful vaudevillians who shared their experiences in show business and their knowledge, they felt ready for the next stage in their careers

This book contains almost 200 poems and/or prayers, a few comments, and over 50 photographs. Some of the prayers are of a standard kind - a prayer on Earth Day, a prayer of thanksgiving, and an evening prayer. Some may be familiar like the Beatitudes and the Lord's Prayer, but written here in the unfamiliar format of Japanese renga.

The kids at the zoo love to see Ella the funny baby gorilla. She dances and climbs and plays pranks on the kids.She's always getting into trouble with her mom and dad. This is a sweet story that follows Ella's adventures at the zoo.

A collection of poems by the actor and writer, Paul Austin.

The deep labyrinthine Alaskan fjords do not readily divulge their secrets. In a land wherebears out-number people, the constraints of civilization can disappear and the lines between Justice and Vengeance blur. When a promising college student, Marshall Stuckrath, is killed in prison while serving time on a drug charge, his family explodes in grief and anger. Two fathers-the one who raised him and the other who sired him-have their own ideas of retribution. But the most majestic rain forest left on earth has seen far worse and does not take sides in the affairs of men-or does it?

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Tristan, Dylan and the Dream Machine is a bedtime book created to spark a child's imagination, inspire positive thinking through the use of bold, vibrant imagery paired with a fun, clever tale. Take a journey with the boys and their father as they explore a world of dreams.

With his father lost to the Influenza Epic of 1918 before he was born, a boyhood divided between two homes, and a working mother, teaching to support her new family, John Spence learned early to find friends wherever he landed--even when he landed behind enemy lines in a momentous jump from a falling B-17 during World War II. After his release from the Army Air Force, John got his first job as a reporter and married the boss's daughter, the beautiful Mary Ann Simonton. Making daily rounds in Memphis, collecting opinions from City Hall official to the local gas station owner, John listened respectfully and reported objectively. He formed a lunch group, the Wolf River Society for the Preservation of Taking Oneself Too Seriously, and developed a knack for getting like-minded and not so like-minded people together to work toward a common cause. John served as an assistant director of the mid-South office of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights during a crucial era for racial equality in America. Though sadly disillusioned with what seemed then, like the failure of his beloved Memphis to cope during the crucial events surrounding Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination, John continued to promote purposeful gatherings. He demonstrated against the Vietnam War, became a teacher, and formed the Wolf River Conservancy. John Wilson Spence died in 2008. Crossing Borders is the memoir he worked on before his death and which was completed and edited by George W. Grider, Jr.