This delightful read-aloud tale of sharing and friendship is based on the African-American folktale, Why Dogs Chase Cats. Dog and Cat are good friends until they buy together a chunk of cheese. As they carry their cheese home to eat they sing. Dog sings, "Cheese, cheese I'm carrying OUR cheese." Cat sings, "Cheese, cheese I'm carrying MY cheese". Suddenly the chase begins. This story is brought to life with this participatory cheese chant and Brian Wolf's fanciful artwork.

The Cheese Chase

Children's Books

Toni Simmons

Literature & Fiction

Beaver's Pond Press, Inc.

Have you ever wondered what would happen to your spouse if you passed away? Would they be able to find all of the important estate and financial documents required shortly after death? How would they handle organizing your funeral arrangements? How competent would they be handling all of the ongoing financial matters such as investments, insurance and budgeting? 
In many instances, these questions are hard to answer. But they should not be left to chance, and that is why this book is so important. In an easy-to-understand fashion, David Herbeck lays out the important planning steps needed to ease the burden upon the death of a spouse. You will learn what tasks should be done in the first nine months after a death and how a surviving spouse can make decisions that will help them face new challenges in the future. 
David Herbeck has worked with dozens of widows. While he taught them about money and financial decision-making, they taught him him a great deal about life. With their encouragement, he has added a touch of humor to An Act of Love to help readers deal with a difficult topic.

An Act of Love

Business & Money

David J. Herbeck

Personal Finance

The Real Estate Agent Redefined is a practical guide to running a successful referral-based real estate practice. By incorporating the strategies, concepts and exercises outlined in this book, you will benefit from delivering the ultimate client experience in a world of evolving technology and changing consumer behavior. Whether you are a seasoned veteran looking to redefine how you do business or a rookie agent searching for direction and ''How to's,'' this book is your answer. Everyone wants a piece of your action by reducing commissions and treating your service like a commodity. Add to that a new generation of clients whose attitude of entitlement is the norm and you can understand why goods and services are no longer enough. If you want to remain the center of the real estate transaction and build relationships that matter, you have to redefine yourself and your business, and The Real Estate Agent Redefined shows you how.

The Real Estate Agent Redefined

Jim Jaeckels

Finance

Let's face it: there's a lot of sucky selling going on in the world today. Sellers have been trained to use artificial tactics in pursuit of the sale. Like a woman in a bar bracing for another cheesy, tired pickup line, customers are now warier than ever. 
In Love and Selling, Dan Smaida uses the Lens of Love to call out all those cheesy, cringe-worthy ''tactics'' and offer more authentic alternatives. The book uses the simple lessons we all understand about love and relationships to transform the way we think about selling. No ''sales processes,'' no seller-centric models, just tried-and-true behaviors that work in business . . . and in love. 
When sellers ditch the tricks and focus on developing true relationships, they create real partnerships with customers, enjoy their jobs more, and see better results.

Love and Selling: Suck less at selling

Dan Smaida

Marketing & Sales

Product Description A group of unlikely friends live together in Bastyberry Village, home of the Bastyberry Jelly Company. Join their adventures as they work together, find their way out of trouble, and celebrate the importance of friendship. About the Author Cathy Hall Nottoli lives in Normal, Illinois, with her husband, John, and their playful dog, Coco. Cathy has two grown sons. Cathy loves to make up stories; grow fruits, vegetables, and flowers; take pictures; travel; cook and bake; write; and be with her friends. Cathy has been a physician recruiter for twenty years. Sara Weingartner loves to grow raspberries in her garden and make raspberry jam. She paints in her home studio and lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with her husband and two kids. She grew up in a Minnesota town about the size of Bastyberry Village. To see more of Sara's work, visit creativesouldesign.com.

Bastyberry Friends

Cathy Hall Nottoli

What I Do Know is a one-of-a kind book that speaks from a parent's heart to an adopted child. The book's repetition of ''I don't know'' and ''I do know'' creates a flow and allows parents to share honestly with their children, while also giving them glimmers of security. The whimsical illustrations add warmth, beauty, and joy celebrating the gifts of adoption. The images of diverse families, created by the talented D.C. Ice, portray the beauty of unique family situations. The intertwining words and illustrations throughout this book have created a keepsake that will be cherished by young and old, making a perfect addition to the bookshelves of all that are blessed by adoption. What I Do Know will inspire open, honest, and heartfelt discussions amongst those who read it.

What I Do Know

Lori Schlecht

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Here is a magnificently illustrated story of one whooping crane, Wakanda, who, through her curiosity and questions to her parents, shares the story of an incredible species being saved by caring biologists.This delightful, educational children's chapter book takes place in central Wisconsin's Necedah National Wildlife Refuge, the starting place of the new eastern flyway to southern wildlife refuges in Florida.Whooping cranes, the tallest birds in North America, came so near extinction thatWakanda Whooperoffers an incredible story of survival. With seventeen cranes left in the wild by the 1940s, humans finally came to their rescue in 2001 at the eleventh hour. The effort continues to this day.Included in this 72-page book are many full-page illustrations, multiple hands-on activities, a glossary, and crane trivia pages. Through this story, the author hopes young people will be inspired to care for and help save our environment with its beautiful and varied species.

Wakanda Whooper: The Curious Cinnamon Crane

Sandia Kosmo

Science, Nature & How It Works

Honor your feelings &amp; expand your insights! 
Have you often wondered how to access your intuition? 
Jodi Livon's charmingly candid approach to everything intuitive is designed for people who want to fully understand the language of their own intuition--whether they're just curious or more metaphysically inclined. 
This compelling and engaging little book is packed with insight-popping, mood-elevating techniques that can be applied in a parking lot, a mall, or a boardroom. 
The Happy Medium: Speaking the Language of Intuition shows you how to use every bit of your natural intuition to successfully flow through life and live in a place of abundance, acceptance, and soul. 
This book is about freeing the psychic in you!

The Happy Medium: Speaking the Language of Intuition

Religion & Spirituality

Jodi Livon

New Age & Spirituality

By itself neither deploring the problem nor reaffirming the goal makes anything happen. To solve a problem and to reach a goal, to get a system restructured or a new idea passed into law, there has to be a How. This book is about how one American state successfully reinvented its regional governance . . . revised its public finance . . . reorganized its hospital system . . . is re-forming its public education and reconceiving its system of urban transportation. It is hopeful about our public sector. But the story it tells is clear: Politics can't do it alone. Government needs a strong civic sector to push elected officials to think about the causes of problems, and to provide them radical but implementable strategies for policy action. Unhappily, our civic infrastructure today might not be up to the job at the state and local level where that has to happen. This description of its essentials, this analysis of its successes, shows what will be needed to revive that essential civic dimension of public life.

Thinking Out the How

Ted Kolderie

Floating into the air with an enormous gum bubble, Alvin lands in a strange world where everything is gray. The trees, the flowers, the dirt, the sky, the animals, and even the people are all missing their color.  Confronted with the mystery of the missing color, Alvin teams up with some unexpected friends to battle man-eating plants, outsmart the bumbling Crimson Guards, cross the Sugar Desert, overcome the two-headed dragon, and find the color-stealing goblins to restore color to the kingdom.

The Land without Color

Benjamin Ellefson

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