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At forty-two, Kathryn Monaco-Douglas never expected to become a widow. In an instant, her world turned upside down, leaving her to navigate the grief of losing her husband while raising three children alone. As she faced the overwhelming challenges of widowhood, she quickly learned she was not the only one walking this lonely path-many others were widowed even younger.
In this heartfelt and empowering book, Kathryn shares her own story of survival, as well as the stories of other young widows and widowers she's met and counselled along the way. She reveals the emotional complexities of grief, the secondary losses that come with losing a spouse, and the resilience required to keep going when life feels impossible.
More than just a personal account, this book is a resource for those lost in the fog of grief, offering insights, tools, and a sense of community for anyone experiencing the early loss of a spouse. With raw honesty and profound compassion, she addresses the societal blind spots that leave grievers feeling unsupported, and offers a voice to those who feel silenced by their pain.
Whether you're a widow, widower, or someone trying to support a loved one through loss, Because I Lived It provides wisdom, comfort, and hope. This book is a testament to the healing power of sharing our stories-and the strength that comes from finding our way through the darkness, together.
On November 10, 1975, the massive ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald succumbed to a stormy Lake Superior, leaving no survivors. Memorialized in song and legend, the Fitzgerald's tragic final voyage is a compelling story. As Canadian author Elle Andra-Warner tells of the most famous Great Lakes shipwreck, she masterfully weaves in the lore and history of the men who sail these unsalted seas.
Feeling overwhelmed by AI? It's not you-it's the breakneck speed of technological progress. To quickly get into the AI conversation, you need a clear and simple foundation of knowledge to build on. This book is a friendly primer on the basic concepts of AI, how it's already snuck into our daily lives, and what we need to know to prepare for the future.
Ben Jones, an expert at breaking down technical concepts from teaching thousands of people the basics of data literacy, lays out everything you need to know to join the AI conversation, from the history of AI to the deep learning revolution happening today. This technology is here to stay. Time for you to pull a seat up to the table.
Before the night monster, there were the sacrifices.
THE FALLEN DEVIL
Aspyn Faye never viewed herself as a spark to a rebellion, but then the Night Monster was created.
Content living as one of the Elites with her brother and best friend by her side Aspyn is ready to take on the Iunctura Ceremony head on. But when the ceremony to match her brother with his mirrored soul takes a turn for the worse, the Faye Twins find themselves thrust into a plot to deceive the council led by Xander Caldwell. When she refuses to participate, the fallen devil forces her hand with the condition of keeping her blue-eyed lover away from the action. Aspyn must decide if she will fall from grace or betray the only family she has ever had.
THE PREACHERS DAUGHTER
You know Claire Halloway as the town ghost. Now meet her as his reason live.
Claire knew her friends weren't normal, but she could never have imagined that she was walking amongst heaven's elite angels. After a few close encounters with a dark-haired devil, Claire falls into a plan to save a child that the Elites want to abolish. As she falls harder for the outcasted angel, danger begins to brew, and her lifeline begins to thin - Claire must decide what sacrifices she is willing to make in the town of Idelwood.
Plan and implement a day hike or thru-hike on northeastern Minnesota's Superior Hiking Trail with this handy guide.
The Superior Hiking Trail (SHT) is Minnesota's premier hiking trail. It offers 310 miles of rugged terrain along the North Shore, with sweeping views of Lake Superior, cascading waterfalls, secluded lakes, endless boreal forests and close encounters with wildlife. Thru-hiking the trail--completing the entire distance in one trip--is a dream of many hikers and backpackers. It is an extraordinary accomplishment.
Expert hiker and Minnesota author Annie Nelson shares her advice, research and experience to help you plan a successful trip. In Thru-Hike the Superior Hiking Trail, she answers questions like why thru-hike and how far to hike in a day. She delves into planning your trip, navigating the trail, and safety on the SHT. Annie further includes a detailed list of available food stops, lodging and amenities along the way, as well as a quick reference guide to campsite mileages.
With an emphasis on Leave No Trace principles, this is a useful book for anyone who loves the Superior Hiking Trail and for those who are experiencing its unparalleled beauty for the first time.
This full-color guide presents photographs and history of 41 lighthouses and navigational beacons between Duluth, Minnesota, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.
Lighthouses of Lake Superior's North Shore is the first comprehensive guide to the lighthouses and navigational beacons from Duluth, Minnesota, to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Noted author and Lake Superior historian Elle Andra-Warner of Thunder Bay, Ontario, spent several years researching the North Shore's maritime history to create this well organized and highly readable addition to anyone's Lake Superior library.
Amply illustrated with color photography of nearly every lighthouse, as well as rarely seen historical photos, the book includes chapters for 41 lighthouses located in Minnesota, on Michigan's Isle Royale and in Ontario. Discover the lighthouses you can visit, from locations in state and national parks to remote wilderness islands. Learn about the storms and shipwrecks that led to their construction, the lonely lives of the light keepers and the role the lighthouses play in present-day maritime navigation. Included are stories of famed lights such as Minnesota's Split Rock Lighthouse, Isle Royale's Rock of Ages and Ontario's former Lighthouse of Doom.
Lighthouse lovers will find Lighthouses of Lake Superior's North Shore to be a treasure trove of photos and information, while tales told by Andra-Warner will captivate anyone who loves the big lake.
Charles H. Meacham was born and raised in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, in a hunting and fishing lodge hand-built by his father. As a free-range child, he hiked, camped, fished, and hunted his way through childhood and adolescence.
At age seventeen, Charles enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and served with the elite Marine Raiders Special Operation Force in WWII, surviving brutal campaigns at Bougainville/Puruata, Emirau, Guam, and Okinawa. After the war, Charles went on to catalyze his experiences and adventurous spirit, along with a biology degree specializing in fish and game, to become a vital force in the American fisheries industry.
This autobiographical memoir chronicling Charles Meacham's military, professional, and family endeavors over the course of nearly a century is a remarkable and valuable snapshot of a period of American history full of heroism, adventure, and pioneering spirit. In these pages, you'll meet a man who lived life to its fullest, served his nation well, and left a powerful legacy to his family, community, and countrymen.
The data revolution has transformed how we work, live, and make decisions-yet most of us never received the education we need to keep up. Data Literacy Fundamentals breaks down the barriers to understanding data, offering a clear, engaging guide to help anyone move from data anxiety to data confidence.
This newly expanded second edition arrives at a critical moment, as artificial intelligence reshapes our relationship with data. Through real-world examples and practical frameworks, the book illuminates essential concepts that everyone should know: how we measure and categorize the world, what different types of analysis reveal, and how teams work together to turn data into insight.
Author Ben Jones has taught thousands of people worldwide how to work with data more effectively. Drawing from this extensive experience, he distills complex topics into accessible lessons that resonate with both beginners and experienced professionals. Readers will master fundamental concepts like the DIKW pyramid, learn to balance analytical and intuitive thinking, and develop critical skills for evaluating AI systems.
Whether you're looking to advance your career, make better decisions, or simply understand the data-driven world around you, this book provides the foundation you need. Clear, concise, and remarkably relevant, Data Literacy Fundamentals is an essential guide for anyone seeking to thrive in our data-rich era.
The work world is becoming increasingly projectized. More and more of what we do these days is project work. There was a time when projects were what people did in addition to their primary work responsibilities. Today it is the reverse; non-project work is what we do when not working on projects. As a result, success in business increasingly depends on one's ability to manage projects.
There is a wide assortment of approaches to managing projects; success depends on applying the right tools to the right projects in the right way. Given the amount of money currently spent on projects, it is imperative that organizations learn to manage them effectively and efficiently-on time and on budget.
In this concise and readable handbook for today's project managers, you'll learn how to:
- Develop a realistic project plan that maximizes the probability of success
- Create a workable project schedule that maximizes the use of project resources
- Develop an effective project team
- Keep projects on time and on budget
- Make meetings work
- Ensure that the project results meet customer requirements
- Wrap up a project so there are no loose ends
Suitable for individual reference or classroom instruction, On Time, On Budget will be a valued resource for project managers in any field.
John Shoemaker has extensive practical and academic experience in project management. He has managed projects in the advertising, marketing, and marketing research industries and worked as a corporate trainer and seminar speaker throughout the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates. His client list includes small businesses, not-for-profit organizations as well as many Fortune 500 companies. John has taught courses in project management, public administration, quality management systems, statistics, research methodology, and marketing research at a number of colleges and universities. He holds a B.A. from Pacific Lutheran University and an M.A. from Western Washington University, and received his Ph.D. at the University of Kentucky after completing his doctoral research at the University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Rose loves her dog Roscoe, but there's just one thing that he's missing - good manners! This story celebrates a child's innocence as Rose does her best to try and understand what dog school is like for Roscoe. Through Rose, our early readers will learn that being respectful is not only a requirement for them but also for their furry friends.
Children will find her misconceptions about dog school both funny and possibly relatable as they see themselves in her. Follow along and enjoy Rose's laughter-inducing misconceptions about dog school as well as all of the lessons she learned.
Many said it couldn't be done. But God had other plans.
Forsaking home and all that was familiar to pursue a divinely inspired vision, Trace and Beth Embry knew only that God was calling them out of their comfort zone and into the great unknown of a life of radical faith. This is the true account of one family's journey to unfamiliar territory where, with only two hundred dollars and a handshake, they would be launched into a more than thirty-year odyssey of miraculous events and struggles that defied all odds. Out of this odyssey, a globally recognized healing work to troubled teens and families was birthed-Shepherd's Hill Academy.
James Holloway has just lost his wife and daughter. His older brother won't let him try any new ideas at the bakery which has been in his family for generations in Ely, England. When he runs into recruiters for the 43rd Regiment of Foot, he decides to sign up, never realizing it will take him to Boston on the eve of the American Revolution. He is assigned as an orderly to Governor Gage where he gets a first-hand view of all sides of the unrest.
Newlywed and historian Daphne Andrews is married to the newly appointed Consul General in the British Consulate in Boston. She quickly wishes she hadn't married without knowing more about her husband. Only after she joins up with the wife of the French Consul General and they decide to create a comic book about the American Revolution does she begin to recapture her own sense of identity.
What about the story behind the story? How did D-L Nelson make certain decisions on what to write? Notes on the creation of LEXINGTON: Anatomy of a Novel add a different dimension to this unique work of historical fiction.
Meet Cosmo! The friendliest dog in all the land, Cosmo is a great farm dog who loves to run and play on the Kansas prairie. But when he and his young owner, Jack, go to the Big City, they find out the city is nothing like life on the farm.
Follow Cosmo as he and Jack embark on a great adventure that takes them to several stops including the Dog Bowl, and Central Bark in this funny, heartwarming story that parents, teachers and children of all ages will enjoy.
Welcome to Fester, Pennsylvania. Population: weird.
Chief Constable Billy Snyder keeps the town in line, enforcing the law with an iron fist while he runs his own lucrative scams on the side. He serves as guard dog for the elite Top Hats, descendants of Fester's original settlers, who for centuries have been keeping a dark secret in the Wizard's Woods south of town. When circumstances threaten to reveal the Top Hats' secret, Snyder puts his best man on the case: Inspector Martin Prieboy. The Batman-obsessed inspector-one of Fester's few honest cops-soon finds himself in over his head.
Now he has to contend with two big cases: a murder/suicide at the local college and the mysterious disappearance of a well-respected nurse. Further complicating matters are the machinations of a drug-pushing rodeo clown, a group of cataclysmically inept Satanists, a family of crazed hillbillies, and an old-school Germanic witchdoctor. And that new drug that's going around town-is it just bad medicine or a genuine gateway to the spirit realm?
Against all of these odds and oddities, Snyder and Martin struggle to keep a lid on the town's troublemakers. When two love-struck teens make a fearsome discovery in the Wizard's Woods, the volatile mixture of mystery and greed begins to burn, threatening the Top Hats' secret and the future of Fester!
Wally Wallace Goes To The Vet is the second of the Wally
series. It is a preschool/elementary age book. In this story
Wally is sick and is afraid of going to the doctor.
This story teaches that the doctor is not something to be
feared, and that the doctor is here to help, and make us feel
better. The concept of what a Veterinarian does, and that
they help animals just like human doctors.
This story demonstrates feelings children my experience
when going to the doctor, or staying in the hospital. I hope
Wally's experience can help them gain trust and learn that
we all feel afraid at times.
Life at Ellwin Hall used to be easy. There was just mum, dad and me - Adam. And Hobin, of course. He's our resident boggart - the last of the fairies. Or that's what we thought.
Then I went and rescued Holly, a starving brownie. One thing led to another, and now we have more fairies than we know what to do with. There's Holly, driving mum crazy in the kitchen. And Granny Goggie, the scrumpy-loving maniac in the walled garden. And little Gunna roaming around with his adoring flock of chickens - and tearing down the fence around the chicken-run, just when dad was done rebuilding it...
It's like they want to get me in trouble. Dad's put his foot down. The Fairy Rescue League is out of business. Sophie, Ginger and I are not to rescue any more fairies - or else.
But nobody's told the fairies that...
Hobin is the boggart of Ellwin Hall. Not so very long ago, there were boggarts in all the big houses, but not anymore. Now there's just Hobin - the last of the fairies.
Or so twelve year old Adam Ellwin has always believed. Then one day he happens upon a starving fairy and brings him home. Hobin isn't at all pleased to share his family or Ellwin Hall, and when Hobin's not happy, everyone knows about it.
But Hobin going on the rampage is only the start of Adam's problems. It turns out that there are more fairies out there - and they all have a knack for getting Adam into trouble. So does Sophie, Adam's best friend, with her crackpot idea about the Fairy Rescue League...
The Fairy Rescue League Omnibus contains books 1 to 3 of The Fairy Rescue League - book 1: The Fairy Rescue League, book 2: The Wildwood, and book 3: The Little People
The Winter Heals is book #2 in the Honey Cove series. It is a contemporary romance, coming of age novel. This title is a stand-alone story the follows Shelby Rowe as she finds her place in the world.
It was almost impossible to heal when everyone was out to get you.
Shelby Rowe was stuck between two worlds-the one she wanted and the one everyone else wanted for her. As the daughter of a prominent family in Honey Cove, Shelby's life was out of her control. Her friends, interests, and even her love life was controlled by others.
When a new girl moves to town, Shelby's life was turned upside down as she gets a glimpse of what life could be like-no obligations, no pressure. As the Christmas break begins, Shelby is left stuck between what is expected and what she feels is right. Split in half, Shelby has to make decisions to correct her life and heal her spirit.
Will she allow others to control who she is? Or will she finally go out on her own?