Just Me And My Mind

A cleverly designed book that teaches children to recognize and handle their thoughts and emotions--with interactive pages. Young children have strong emotions, but often are unsure of how to articulate and handle them. Just Me and My Mind aims to help kids recognize their emotions and thoughts -- and then act accordingly. The book includes interactive pages of emotions (happy, scared, sad, loving, angry). The reader pulls an image of the emotion from the mind of the child, helping the reader to understand why emotions might arise. The book continues by illustrating how children can "clean out and settle" their minds with quiet contemplation.

Celebrates the dignity, integrity, and honor of being a father.

A BCCB Blue Ribbon Best Book of the Year ★ "Captivating…. Long's heartening memoir portrays a boy facing challenging situations with hard-won hope and increasing maturity." —Booklist, starred review ★ "A tender, vulnerable portrayal of one kid’s attempt to shore up his strengths to piece together the shards of a deeply shattered heart.... Readers will appreciate Long’s honest exploration of a troubled family that is bound both by love and tragedy." —The Bulletin, starred review​ An award-winning children’s book creator grapples with the darker undercurrents of his childhood in this poignant and honest illustrated memoir, for readers of Free Lunch and The List of Things That Will Not Change. Benny's life is slowly unraveling. His parents are newly divorced, his mom chooses to move away, and Benny and his brother and sister are left with their chain-smoking dad, who has just been diagnosed with lung cancer. Benny is lonely, anxious, and very angry. He can't sleep at night and spends his days trying to survive fifth grade. Writing from a personal place, award-winning creator Ethan Long sheds light on the challenges of growing up amidst family turmoil in this thought-provoking, bighearted story that brims with hope.

This book is directed to every person out there who has lost their beloved father and would give anything to see and touch him again. This book is dedicated to people that woke up the morning after losing your father and felt like you were in a dream. This book is dedicated to the man who was your first role model, first admirer, first supporter, and superman. This book is dedicated to people just like me who must wake up every day and find the strength to go on. This book is dedicated to the many women and men who deal with waking up every morning knowing they will never see their father’s face on this side again. . . . This is Ava Montgomery’s personal story of her dad and his life and all that he meant to her. This story talks about the confusion, anger, and pain she experienced after losing her superman.

Jackson Matthews' entire life has changed in the blink of an eye. Not only is he dealing with a broken heart and guilt over the deterioration of his closest relationships, he learns that everything he has ever been told about his life has been a lie. Now it seems there are more questions than answers. Can he forgive and move forward, or should he let the past remain the past? Is he ready for the truth? How much more can he lose, and what does he stand to gain by seeking the truth? Taking a journey to uncover answers he never thought he would get leads Jackson and his friends into more danger than any of them thought imaginable. Will he pay the ultimate price or gain the ultimate reward?

Diana Abu-Jaber’s vibrant, humorous memoir weaves together delicious food memories that illuminate the two cultures of her childhood—American and Jordanian. Here are stories of being raised by a food-obsessed Jordanian father and tales of Lake Ontario shish kabob cookouts and goat stew feasts under Bedouin tents in the desert. These sensuously evoked repasts, complete with recipes, paint a loving and complex portrait of Diana’s impractical, displaced immigrant father who, like many an immigrant before him, cooked to remember the place he came from and to pass that connection on to his children. The Language of Baklava irresistibly invites us to sit down at the table with Diana’s family, sharing unforgettable meals that turn out to be as much about “grace, difference, faith, love” as they are about food.

Super-feminine and confirmed shoe-a-holic Delaney Morran receives an unexpected inheritance—the keys to a tow truck from a dad she’s never known. Even though she hasn't changed a tire, or even driven any kind of a truck, she's determined to make the rough and dangerous business a success. When she hauls a vehicle with the body of her jerk-of-an ex hidden in the trunk, the small-town cops in Spruce Ridge, Colorado do not believe this a coincidence. They have her in their headlights as the prime suspect. When the news hits, her business stalls. As a woman trying to make a living in a man’s world, she drives her rig in four-inch-heels to set herself apart. But she must toughen up her image and solve the crime or she’ll end up parked in jail.

Ingrid Torfa lives two lives. In one she struggles to get by as a book illustrator in the tiny town of Runde on the North Shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota. But in the other, she serves as a Norse witch, a volva, in the town of Villmark, where the descendants of a lost colony of Vikings hides inside a pocket dimension far from the reach of the modern world. Usually, balancing the needs of those two worlds dominate her time and energy. But this time, Villmark offers her trouble enough to consume her. Young men keep disappearing in the fields south of Villmark, a place of no danger in the past. The council tells her to leave it to the guardians known as the Thors. Then one of the Thors turns up with mixed up memories. And a missing brother. Now not even the council can stop Ingrid from getting to the bottom of this latest mystery. Because her own Thorbjorn just might be next.

Self-Destruction is not pretty and it can be painful as hell. Trust me! Life gives us so many nudges and clues on when we are on the path of self-destruction. If we truly pay attention, we can change the path and reroute accordingly. Life is even so good to us that even when we ignore the clues and nudges, it will stop us right where we are in our tracks, and demand our full attention The pages you are about to read, reflect the stories and lessons of what I call the flip side. The flip side of when I was stopped in my tracks and rerouted. The flip side reflects the path after my own Journey to Unconditional Self Love.