My love for animals continues in this book as I reflect on all the animals who have been a part of my life. They want to please us, but they also have wills of their own, which sometimes gets them into trouble. This book explores the humorous side of animals and the funny situations theyand their ownersget into. It also talks about the heart ache of loving and losing your special companion. But when you reflect on your life with them, you wouldnt change a thing. You cherish every memory. Animals are amazingly loyal, curious, and creative, so laugh, cry, and smile with me through my journey and remember the paw prints on your heart.

A Dog Named Chilli: My New Home By: Mark Chartrand Join a dog named Chilli on his greatest adventure yet! Recently being adopted by a loving couple, Chilli meets a ton of new friends, and with new friends comes a wild journey! Chilli and his friends encounter fights, love, and a quest on self –discovery. Being a story for children, Chilli teaches kids that we come across people who may not be like us, but we can learn from each other. The adventure of Chilli and his friends teaches young ones how to deal with bullies, loyalty, and standing up for your friends.

A fun and informative handbook for young readers on understanding and caring for our feline friends from the kid behind the popular Twitter account I’ve Pet That Cat! Pet That Cat! A Handbook for Making Feline Friends is an illustrated guide to understanding, befriending, and caring for cats by Nigel Kidd and his mom, Rachel Braunigan. This fact-filled and fun guide features: • A guide to cat body language—what does it mean when your cat’s tail looks like a question mark or is puffed up? • Helpful tips on how to safely interact with new feline friends. Hint: Let them approach first! • Advice for adopting and caring for your own cat. Choose the perfect cat for you! • Stories of cats throughout history and myth-busting facts—did you know every cat has a unique noseprint? • A cat personality quiz and your very own Cat Tracker to record all the feline friends you meet! This kid-friendly handbook pairs charming illustrations with an interactive format. With step-by-step guides, fascinating stories, and tips from cat experts and Nigel, Pet That Cat! is a must-have handbook for feline fans of all ages. And for dog-lovers and kids curious about dogs, check out Pet That Dog! A Handbook for Making Four-Legged Friends.

Toby and Belle, BFF, never forgot that day, and ever after called it The day everything changed. Because of a family crisis, the friends dreaded this might be the very last summer they would ever spend together. Trying to shake off and forget their gloom, they decided to find comfort in hiking one of their favorite trails. Then things changed. On the trail where they found the tiny Key, gritty with age, they had no idea it was exceptional in any way. Yet soon enough the little Key revealed its power: magic so potent it freed Mennoc, their grandfatherly friend trapped by a spell. In gratitude Mennoc invited the friends to join him in Story-Travel to a Far- Past-Time. As Mennoc explained, Story-Travel would allow them to see into the Past while not actually entering that world. To help them find the cave where the Story-Travel could begin, Mennoc gave Belle The Glass Key: passed down to him by his ancestors. As Mennoc began their Story Travel, he briefly held The Glass Key for emphasis, but accidentally fumbled and dropped it. In a flash, Toby and Belle found themselves inside the world of the Far-Past which only a moment ago Mennoc had described to them: a place he warned them never to enter, a place full of dangers. Transported now into this Far- Past- Time, the bewildered friends found themselves inside a village controlled by a vile, shape-shifting Wizard. With heart-stopping relief the two friends met and were helped by a lad their own age, Enon. His kind family looked after them and helped hide them from the Wizard. Yet safe as they now were, they felt dangers lurked ahead. Can Toby and Belle help Enon rescue the young boys trapped in the caves by the Wizard? Even more important, how will the two friends find a way to get home again?

Beautiful Messages of Hope, Love, and Healing Sent from Spirits to the Loved Ones They Left Behind When a powerful spiritual presence directed Roland Comtois to write down the messages he receives from the other side, Roland decided to do just that ... and the results have been astonishing. Signs of Spirit presents the heartwarming stories of people who have received Roland's Purple Papers and confirmed that the messages are from their loved ones in spirit. In this book, you will read actual messages from siblings sent through Roland to their grief-stricken brothers or sisters. You will discover stories of hope sent to children who struggle with the loss of their parents. You will feel the immense gratitude and relief that comes when messages reveal that loved ones in spirit are safe and at peace. In the Purple Papers, broken relationships are repaired and emotional turmoil is released as one of the world's most remarkable mediums delivers breathtaking messages from loved ones who passed away too soon. You will also discover many photos of the most powerful Purple Papers, as well as messages that haven't yet found their recipient—one of them could even be for you.

I have tried many things in my working years: steel worker, sweeper sales, campground owner, auto salvage yard operator, owner of an air compressor sales and service company, and owner of a miscellaneous metals center. I retired and sold everything. A year into retirement I volunteered to help with a project at church and found myself agreeing to take on the church maintenance, which lasted for four years. I have always had a more than passing interest in the arts. Over the years Ive worked with wood, copper, iron, steel, and in my spare time I painted, mostly outdoor scenes with acrylics. Then I discovered glass etching. In my early years, the everyday work of providing for and raising a family didnt leave a lot of time for serious commitment to my artworks, but since my second retirement I have been able to fl y. Ive etched sixteen windows for St. Anthony Catholic Church, Brooksville, FL; ten windows for The Florida Medical Center, Springhill, FL; six doors for St. Thomas Catholic Church, Homosassa, FL. I have works in restaurants, attorneys offi ces and many homes including that of Architect Hal Lenox. My artworks can be viewed on my web site in completed custom projects and gallery at, www.artworksbyrobertgsmith.com

A pet-lover and award-winning journalist traces the history of cats and dogs and the changing social attitudes that transformed these furry creatures from pests and hunting tools in the middle ages to their current status as beloved family members. 30,000 first printing.

The first major study to challenge the narrow definition of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by rereading six American literary texts, this book argues for the importance of literature in representing not just circumscribed, singular traumatic events, as Cathy Caruth argued in the late nineties, but for giving voice to chronic and cumulative, or complex, traumatic experiences. This interdisciplinary study traces the development of father–daughter incest narratives published in the last hundred years, from male-authored fiction to female-authored memoir, bringing new readings to Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night, Ellison’s Invisible Man, and the Dylan Farrow-Woody Allen case. This study builds on the work of those ushering in a second-wave of trauma theory, which has argued that the difficulty of speaking about a traumatic experience is not necessarily caused by neurobiological changes that prevent victims from recalling details. Rather, it’s from social and political repercussions. In other words, they argue that many who experience trauma aren’t unable to deliver accounts; they fear the results. There is a significant gender component to trauma, whose implications, along with those of race and class, have largely gone unexamined in the first-wave of trauma theory. Exploring two additional questions about articulating trauma, this book asks what happens when the voice of trauma is crying out from what Toni Morrison has called the “most delicate,” “most vulnerable” member of society: a female child; and, second, what happens when the trauma is not just a time-limit event but chronic and cumulative experiences. Some traumatic experiences, namely father–daughter incest, are culturally reduced to the untellable, and yet accounts of paternal incest are readily available in American literature. This book is written in part as a response to the psychological community which failed to include complex PTSD in the latest edition of the DSM (DSM-5), denying victims, many of whom are father–daughter incest survivors, the validation and recognition they deserve and leaving many misdiagnosed and thereby mistreated.