WHAT WE CARRY

Everyone in the village knows Callen O'Grady. When someone disappears, when violence threatens to tear lives apart, when there is nowhere else to turn, people come to him. Some believe he is a criminal. Others call him a saviour. No one can explain why, after every disaster, life somehow continues.

Linguist Samantha Wagner arrives in rural Ireland to investigate how a people that loses its language can continue living inside the world that this language created without losing itself. She finds herself drawn into Callen's orbit, where an old crime still divides the village, stories carry more weight than facts, and every answer seems to change the meaning of the question that came before it.

As Samantha falls in love with Callen, the boundaries between language and reality start blurring. The deeper she searches for the truth, the more she starts to question not only the village, but every story through which she has understood herself. Callen knows her without her explaining. Sees her without her performing. Offers her the thing that she's been searching for her entire life: to be understood completely. Until she discovers that might not be a good thing.

Some people change your life. Others change the reality you live in.

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Free Life Skills Starter Guide to Help Teens Feel Confident and Prepared After High School

Free Life Skills Starter Guide to Help Teens Feel Confident and Prepared After High School

Is Your Teen Ready for Life After High School?

Whether it's college, work, a gap year, or simply becoming more independent, life after high school comes with new decisions, responsibilities, and challenges that young people aren't always prepared for.

The Life Skills for Teens After High School series was created to help teens and young adults build the confidence, independence, and practical skills they need for that transition.

The main book includes 101 practical tips covering real-world skills such as managing money and responsibilities, communication, decision-making, health and wellbeing, digital choices, relationships, and handling life more independently.

The companion Guided Journal helps teens take those lessons further by writing, reflecting, and considering how they can apply them in their own lives.

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The Essential Starter Pack gives teens and parents a preview of 5 practical tips from the full book, with simple, realistic guidance and actions they can start using right away.

Whether they're preparing for college, a job, a gap year, or whatever comes next, it's a practical introduction to greater confidence, independence, and real-world readiness.

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Set The Tone: What to Say, and How to Lead, When It Matters Most (Coaching Playbook For Modern Times)

  

Set The Tone:

What to Say, and How to Lead, When It Matters Most

(Coaching Playbook For Modern Times)

Restaurant and food service managers do not need more theory. They need something that holds up on a Saturday night when half the team is new, the rush will not stop, and everyone is watching to see how you handle it. This is that system. Written for the people who run the floor, The Coaching Playbook gives you a full framework built on behavior, not personality. You will learn how to build trust fast, cut turnover, and lead with purpose even when you are not the one with the title. At the center is the Coaching Loop: Observe, Coach, Apply, Review, Repeat. Five simple moves you can run on any shift, with any team, starting tomorrow. Around it you get the daily huddle that builds culture in five minutes, coaching logs and behavior scoreboards that actually get used, and feedback scripts written the way people really talk. No corporate language. No binder nobody opens.

Inside you will find four frameworks that work together. The Ted Lasso Effect, on leading with belief. The Shoresy Standard, on holding the line and hating to lose. The Assist Standard, on putting the team above the individual. And the Whole Roster Principle, the idea that you do not have weak people, you have strengths and opportunities you have not coached yet. It is warmth and fire in the same leader. Heart and an uncompromising standard. Written in one voice that reads the same whether you run a line, a floor, a bar program, or a district. Clay David Laugier spent more than twenty years leading teams in restaurants, food service, and hospitality before founding Clay Laugier Ventures. He writes for the person running a double on four hours of sleep who still finds a way to make their team believe the night is going to go well. Your team isn't broken. Your system is. Lead with heart. Coach with clarity. Let's set the tone.

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Sorcery & Subterfuge

Forget what you’ve heard about epic quests – most magic is just a series of awkward mistakes and elaborate deceptions. Welcome to Sorcery & Subterfuge, a collection of short fantasy stories in which you will find ancient sceptres, mystical fogs, forbidden spells, impressive illusions, sneaky plans, daring rescues, stolen gold and sudden bursts of magic.

Join the adventures of an invisible prince, mischievous imps, an elf with ogre genes, a royal assassin, a peasant girl turned queen, a phoenix in human form, dwarf pirates, a familiar that isn’t quite what it seems, and the majestic ryokin – sentient winged sabretooth cats with magic flowing through their veins.

These 14 stories all reveal the same truth: Magic is rarely neat, is often dangerous, and almost always results in something unexpected. If you love magic and twists you won’t see coming, this book is for you.

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The Angry Little Cloud: Children's Book About Acceptance

      

The Angry Little Cloud:

Children's Book About Acceptance

The Angry Little Cloud is a tale about finding your place in the world. Learning what qualities you have to give to your friends. The Angry Little Cloud is sad and feels that no one likes him. When in fact he is very liked and wanted in other places. The Angry Little Cloud learns this message from his friend the Sun. The Sun shows the Angry Little Cloud places where he is more valuable then the beautiful light that the Sun produces. Places that need and desire what the Angry Little Cloud has to offer. Read this book with your child and discuss all the wonderful qualities they have within themselves. Everyone is important and everyone has different talents is the main message of this book.

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Defiance Rising: Fire I Walk with Thee

Bri and Jeffrey, having successfully located the long sought after missing He, accompany his return to the firm’s offices, to initiate their efforts in unraveling the sordid financial uncertainty, caused by the sudden death of one Senior Partner and the comatose hospitalization of another. Upon the three’s return, Jack Corso, once again, revitalizes his appearance; not as the Sin Eater, but as a beacon of survival. 

Working together, the trio initiate their efforts sorting thru the past, known and unknown; attempting to coordinate the relevance of the newfound information, to the present; hoping that their sorting through the quagmire of secrets will prevent the financial collapse of the firm; offset scandal, along with possible criminal charges against the partners, and Bri, herself. In order for their efforts to succeed, they need to successfully wade through the veiled information and hidden agendas of their antagonists, Donald and Larry, the active controlling partners. 

The trios search efforts require initiating travel into multiple States; once again, opening the doors for strange encounters with odd personalities, under the most unusual circumstances; encouraging the chasing of uncertainty, along the way. 

Jack Corso is no longer the sort after mysterious He; the subject matter of a long and extended multi-State search. Assuming the role of an overseer, He sets the tone and the rules that need to come into play, as a praecipe for success. As a powerful, independent and sole sustaining individual, He spearheads a mission, accompanied by Bri and Jeffrey. Together, they follow the trails of uncertainty and develop their own independent story in the process: Defiance Rising. Fire I Walk With Thee. A Jack Corso Novel. Sequel to the Sin Eater and Dismissed Without Prejudice.

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Can We Get a Giraffe?

A little girl longs to have a pet and her choice is an unusual one, indeed: a GIRAFFE. Dad is surprised by this selection. He tells his daughter how impractical it is considering where they live and the room they have for her far-fetched idea. She then suggests other options: 

What about a penguin? 

How do you feel about a sloth? 

Why not a sea turtle? 

But as she continues to negotiate for a giraffe, Dad reminds her that giraffes are endangered animals, and he has another idea for his daughter. What could it be?

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Fundamentals of Power-Filled Living: How to Live a Power-Filled Life Through Daily Application of God's Word

Fundamentals of Power-Filled Living: How to Live a Power-Filled Life Through Daily Application of God's Word

By Robert Canton

What Does It Mean to Live with God’s Power in Everyday Life?

At a time when faith-based and self-help writing often competes for attention with quick fixes and instant answers, Robert Canton’s Fundamentals of Power-Filled Living: How to Live a Power-Filled Life Through Daily Application of God’s Word takes a more grounded approach. Its central concern is not simply what Christians believe, but what those beliefs look like when practiced through prayer, trust, service, forgiveness, humility, and reliance on the Holy Spirit.

Canton writes from years of experience in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, including leading prayer meetings, giving spiritual talks, serving as a Catholic evangelist, and conducting healing and deliverance ministries in the United States and abroad. That ministry background gives the book an experiential quality. Scripture is not presented merely as something to study; it becomes a foundation for responding to uncertainty, weakness, conflict, responsibility, and spiritual struggle.

The scope is notably broad. Christian growth occupies the opening portion, with discussions of faith, surrender, trust, spiritual gifts, leadership, evangelization, forgiveness, and intercession before the book moves into spiritual warfare and healing. This structure makes Fundamentals of Power-Filled Living less like a single-topic devotional and more like a practical handbook for readers seeking consistency between faith and daily life.

That emphasis feels particularly relevant to contemporary Christian writers. Inspirational writing can encourage readers for a moment; application asks what happens after the page is turned. Canton repeatedly brings spiritual principles into human relationships and responsibilities. His discussion of leadership, for example, emphasizes love, compassion, humility, putting others ahead of personal preference, and focusing on the good of those being served. 

Those ideas also give the book significance beyond individual spirituality. A society shaped by more compassionate leadership, forgiveness instead of prolonged resentment, concern for others, and service rather than self-interest has greater room for healthier families, stronger communities, reconciliation, and responsible citizenship. Canton’s treatment of intercession similarly turns attention outward, presenting prayer as an act concerned with the needs and struggles of other people. 

Robert Canton’s work is worth discovering for readers seeking a faith-centered book that does not stop at inspiration but challenges Christian belief to become visible in everyday life. 

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