This Is How I Do It

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Janet Kirbo

Gardening & Landscape Design

Mountain Arbor Press, an Imprint of BookLogix

Immigration, segregation, control freaks-Chicago in the '50s and '60s, when negativity flourished but humor prevailed. Growing up in the '50s and '60s in Chicago could be crazy, but growing up in Chicago within the immigrant Slovak community was a roller-coaster ride driven by control freaks learning to live in a culture vastly different from their own. Immigration in the 1950s and '60s was full of promise and adventure, but carried with it unexpected dangers. This memoir tells the story of how immigrants from Slovakia learn to thrive in a new world after they and their ancestors lived with the effects of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Slovakian history, World War I, and World War II.

Meet-Up at the Slovak Sokol Club: Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s When Negativity Flourished but Humor Prevailed

Biographies & Memoirs

Richard Majer

Memoirs

The Meditation Sutras

C. Chase Carey

Religion & Spirituality

Having a diverse staff is not enough to construct a premiere culture, it never has been and never will be!If you have ever wondered why your inclusion efforts weren't successful or what was missing and overlooked, here's where to find it. Throughout this book you will be challenged to shift your lens and get comfortable with your mind being the impetus of all your actions. The author takes the brain and helps you to understand how it is the catalyst to how you approach inclusion. She takes you through a series of her lived experiences to encourage you to see Diverse Representation as an essential characteristic but then shift forward to Inclusion, where it becomes instinctive to everything you do.SHIFTFORWARD NOW! challenges us to be both transparent and accountable in our interactions and how we see inclusion in the workplace and our communities. As you navigate the book, you will quickly see the importance of having difficult conversations with teams and facing the harsh realities that come with stagnant or minimal "progress" of diverse groups.When we engage in the hard discussions you will Shift your mind, change your conversation and take a different approach. Inclusion will grow to be instinctual, a must-do action, and second nature to your lives. ShiftForward Now! and realize greatness along the way.

ShiftForward Now!: A Strategy That Makes Inclusion Second Nature

Business & Money

Cherrie Davis

Business Culture

Once upon a time in America, before helicopter parenting and tending to fragile egos, kids actually grew up. Riding bikes without wearing full body protection, playing unsupervised, and staying away from home until time for dinner were acceptable practices—not parental neglect. Competing in sports and games that ended with winners and losers was how kids learned to accept defeat and relish victory. Daring to stand up to bullies, go skinny-dipping, or trespass to go fishing allowed for good times and better memories—not for counseling. There was a time when brothers, no matter what they were doing, ended up in a fight yet were loyal to each other and always ready for the next bout. If you remember growing up without cable television, organized playdates, and a fear of just about everything, you will enjoy the memoirs of five adolescent boys growing up in New England in the days before dodgeball was illegal.

And THAT Started A FIGHT...: Growing Up before Dodgeball Was Illegal

Doug Brooks

Tom Wikiera

Amanda discovers a world of gravel roads and old crank/party-line telephones when she moves from Atlanta to North Dakota. Leaving principalship of an elementary school, she commits to teaching in a two-room school. In the town of 92 people, she encounters unique characters and unusual experiences. As the year progresses, she develops a love for the community and her students. But, she holds a secret of why she left the city for a small town. Mix with this a rancher/horticulturalist, Bill, who spends several months elsewhere. After years of mysterious departures, the town accepts his absence but is happy when he is home. Will Amanda and Bill reveal their secrets to each other, and will their relationship grow? An older woman, Miss Emma, shares a knowledge of life and the world, far beyond her education and travels. You will also meet others: the telephone operator who knows everyone's business, her blind husband who repairs the phone lines, the bashful mail carrier, the owners of the small store, and the students and their families. Activities include western dances, classroom experiences, moving a friend’s house onto wet cement, an auction, a unique cure for an infection, Thanksgiving and Christmas gatherings, and other situations. Woven through the novel are religious concepts as well as information and history of the badlands and the Dakotas.

A Token of Love

Romance

Delia Halverson

Contemporary

Sara and Clay meet late one Saturday night in the bar of the hotel in Minnesota where both are staying while on temporary work assignments. There is an instant attraction, and what could've been a sleazy one-nightstand becomes an amazing love story. There are many odds against them. He's ?fteen yearsolder. He lives in Minnesota, she in Atlanta, Georgia, and he's a Republican and she's a Democrat. By far, though, his alcoholism is their biggest obstacle. Still, for several years they have a long-distance romance ?lled with twists and turns. Only after Clay's untimely death does Sara understand how important she was to him. Friendships with his ex-wife, daughter, sisters, and friends help her see that she and Clay truly had something beautiful to remember.

Something Beautiful to Remember

Literature & Fiction

Sharon Thomason

Genre Fiction

Blessings can awaken our divine identity. Many of us strug­gle to find the Divine within us. Søren Kierkegaard wrote that we all have a defect from childhood, and these defects give us a false impression of who we are. We struggle to overcome these false impressions no matter what our age. Often we use these false impressions in our lives to give identity to ourselves and to mask over our fears and anxi­eties. Many feel burdened, weighted down in carrying the heaviness of their false world. We need to know we are blessed, to really know that we are blessed. Blessings have a power that affirmations do not embody. Affirmations give another emotional support to the projected, egoic self. On the other hand, blessings massage and poke at our original selves hidden beneath our personas. My hope and wish is that these blessings awaken the origi­nal blessing within you.

Forest Blessings

J. David Griffin

A Romance of Flight

Donald Pattillo

Historical

Come along on a delightful retreat to Florida's west coast through lilting poems, descriptive prose, and captivating original art. Experience the area's natural beauty in an era gone by, before condos and high-rise hotels appeared on the scene. Relish youthful adventures in a Florida paradise. Breathe in the fragrance of orange blossoms and wild orchids. Listen to the rustle of palm fronds in the breeze and the peaceful rhythmic sounds of waves kissing the shore. Feel the massage of warm grains of sand beneath your feet. Explore the pristine beauty of rarely visited subtropical islands. Learn the location of fishing grounds in the Gulf of Mexico where the fish are always biting. Discover remote islands for shell collecting at its best. Come walk barefoot through these pages with the author, allowing yourself to be renewed by the sights, sounds and smells of Florida, the Land of Flowers, a masterpiece of God's creation.

Florida Girl: Confessions of Beachcomber

Mary Grable Renshaw

Poetry

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