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Approximately four years ago (in 2010), I saw the most unbelievable happening. My adorable Yorkshire Terrier, named Wizzie, saved a drowning kitten from my family's pool in San Diego. It was an astonishing act of bravery for this 6 and a half lb. bundle of fur.

You will be introduced to what is achievable today in technology that has massive implications and applications for senior living care and design. Imagine 19 years ago and your first experience with the internet, 7 years ago and your experience with your phone. How the internet and iPhone have changed our connection to each other and the information available to us in seconds - it is a drop in the bucket to the disruptive changes coming. This is going to be a wonderful ride if you're prepared for it!

It's the first day of snow, and Gabi and her siblings are about to get creative. They have the most brilliant idea: they will build the best snow-woman ever! This book will not only empower your child by sending the message that children can trust their own thinking and ideas, and implement them all by themselves, but will also emphasize the importance of team work.

Meet Rayne: she ain't getting any younger, and it's slim pickings for eligible men in her tiny Wisconsin town of Taylor Falls. Her sense of adventure and encouragement by family to go out west and seek love kicks in! She travels two weeks by train and three days by a bouncy horse stagecoach that leaves her bruised and battered so she can arrive in a newly developing town called Bozeman to marry the local veterinarian whom she has never met.

Meet June Dennings - her husband died, she's running out of money, there is no good local man left to marry. She takes a giant leap of faith accepts an offer of marriage and a train ticket to becoming a mail-order bride on a faraway dry, dusty desert town of Amarillo to marry a cattle rancher that she had corresponded with only four times and has never met!

Meet Summer Percy. She lost the only family she had, there's no work to be found for her in Pennsylvania, and her meager savings is almost finished. After her father died in a carriage accident, she finds herself traveling for three weeks by train to the tiny town of Laramie to marry the local US Marshal, which she has never met. She meets Mary, an older woman who was a successfully married mail order bride. She shares a secret that could change everything.

This much-loved historical, inspirational Western romance series, based in the mid-18th century of the old West, is about empowered women who turn around their hopeless circumstances, with strong faith, and discover authentic men and true love. Meet Winter: she has been scandalized and put to shame in her beloved town of Bangor Maine. Unable to go to her local church and support herself after the incident, she takes the only option she has to seek marriage far away from all of this pain and suffering.

Come on up and celebrate the first 100 years of America in this newly incorporated town in the mountains of Arizona called Flagstaff. Enjoy the fresh air from the tall pine trees and the rough and gruff Mr. Ryan Anderson, who's just sent off for a new bride, the most helpful local folks, 12 chickens and the lovely, with a positive attitude, Autumn Clancy.

Off to see the world you go, with Michael, Mommy, and Lola! School is out, and that means adventure, travel, and the great wonders of the world. Join Michael on his summer break as he travels far and wide to amazing places and countries with his mother and grandmother. Eat all the pizza you can ever imagine in Italy, and walk like an Egyptian under the great shadows of the pyramids. Where adventure meets imagination, you too can travel the world with Michael and experience all there is to see in some of the coolest places on Earth.

Sometimes it seems like the world is unfair. It would be so much better if we lived over there and not here. Forgetting to be grateful is a very bad habit, but we can learn to remember with Blade the Rabbit. Join Blade the Rabbit on the day of his party! It’s going to be super fun and filled with laughter, friends, and games! However, Blade doesn’t seem too happy on this day, for it seems he’s made himself sad thinking about all the things he doesn’t have. But when his friends arrive to play, they show Blade the Rabbit to think a different way.

Over the last few years, many of us were forced to work from home. Whether you are still working from home or going into the office decompression time is key to a healthy life. This book will give you the tools you need to decompress, be more productive and learn some simple ways to make money with your new found time!

As a new parent you will find the steps in molding your child's personality as parents. Including: tips for effective parenting, physical development, tips for family fitness, childhood stages by age, and responsibilities of being a parent.

A self-help guide to disconnecting from the digital world and reconnecting with the real world.

Do you ever worry that the insecurity and instability of the modern world will have a negative effect on your children as they get older? Maybe you're worried that the impact of social media will lead to your children feeling insecure about themselves, damaging their self-confidence and self-belief.