Books

“My truth? I’ve killed men who deserved it. My dare? Stay in this water with me after hearing that.” Being a nanny for the world’s grumpiest single dad should’ve been easy. But Roman Barinov is thirteen years older, stoic, controlled, and sinfully gorgeous. A billionaire CEO who built his empire with ruthless precision. Until one night, a reckless game of truth or dare in his hot tub undoes it all— His control, my resolve, and every scrap of clothing between...

The psychology of the body provides profound insight into behavior, yet most people greatly overlook it.Your life will change when you realize that how you think and feel transforms your body tissue. Body Psychology brings to life, through descriptions and illustrations, the psychological and physical issues written on our bodies and how our thinking/feeling can change the body both immediately (such as with depression) and over time (such as when one develops a hunched back from long-held feelings and thoughts...

At 12:42 p.m. on a Tuesday, 9.23% of the human race vanished — and the planet started healing. Five Hours is a novel about what remains after the worst thing happens. It is a story about a mother who refuses to let her son become a statistic, a pastor who must dismantle the most comforting sermon he ever preached, a spy who learns that the hardest intelligence to gather is the truth about grief, and a scientist who discovers that...

When college student Muriel Aubrey inherits an old house in a small town, she imagines that moving into the rural community will be deathly dull. But the old house once belonged to her eccentric granduncle, a professor said to be researching something mysterious before his untimely death. Then Muriel finds the research notes that had been hidden away in the old Victorian; and she discovers what the professor was researching: vampires. It isn’t long before Muriel meets residents of the...

The Healing of Horses – Carrie Eastman’s latest book – is a guide for unique ways to determine the health of your horse, and holistic ways to prevent disease, treat minor injuries and ensure the highest quality of health for your horses. Eastman shares the techniques, methods and philosophies she has found most useful. In this introspective work she introduces readers to: Diagnosing maladies and nutritional and medicinal needs through surrogate reflex analysis - Understanding reflex points on horses -...

Ideas such as "crop and soil weatherproofing," the "row support system," and the "tillage commandments," exemplify the practicality of the soil/root maintenance program that serves as the foundation for Schriefer’s highly-successful "systems approach" farming. Schriefer was a pioneer in developing an awareness of the relation of tillage to soil fertility, focusing on three major soil basics — soil aeration, soil water, and soil decay. This book covers such topics as soil chemistry, plant and soil dynamics, above- and below-ground plant...

The practical side of using rockdusts as fertilizers, compost enrichers, and plant growth enhancers is discussed in this exciting book from Acres U.S.A. Beginning with an explanation of the spiritual, cosmic side of rocks and drawing from his extensive knowledge of biodynamic techniques and dowsing, Lisle explains how to utilize these materials in agriculture. Peppered with in-depth quotations from other writings on the forces within rocks, this is destined to be the definitive work on the subject. Life's tenuous connections...

Farmer's daughter Maureen agreed completely with her mother's admonition: Never marry a farmer. Her marriage to a science geek with a good job meant a house on a lake and clean hands-until the farmer hidden inside him started scrabbling to escape. What began as a willingness to put up with his buying a tractor and renting a field becomes an all- encompassing endeavor to learn how to drive, raise, train, and work draft horses, grow and sell their crops, care...

Kossman's vivid picture of life behind the Iron Curtain and her notes at the end of the book will be useful discussion starters for classes studying political changes in Eastern Europe." - Booklist "13 short pieces...pungently convey the effects of growing up under a totalitarian regime." - Publishers Weekly "Young readers will identify readily with the impetuous Nina." - Kirkus Reviews "This child's eye view of Soviet Russia is original and, not withstanding its brevity, surprisingly perceptive both of Russian...

In these times of ecological peril, looming agricultural production problems, and creeping human health disaster it behooves all farmers and eaters to turn attention systems which are time-tested. And “time-tested” means millennia, not mere decades. The several decades since the advent of chemical farming have thrown challenges to ecologies and humans as not experienced in the thousands of years prior. In this multi-authored work readers will connect the dots between the cause of modern disease in toxic farming fields and...