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Home Run (Novelization) |
3/1/2013 |
Dove "Family-Approved" - Recommended for ages 12 and over
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 Baseball star Cory Brand knows how to win. But off the field, he’s spiraling out of control. Haunted by old wounds and regrets, his future seems as hopeless as his past.
Until one moment—one mistake—changes everything. To save his career, Cory must go back to the town where it all began. His plan is simple: coach the local Little League team, complete a recovery program, and get out as fast as possible. Instead, he runs headfirst into memories he can’t escape ... and the love he left behind.
Faced with a second chance he never expected, Cory embarks on a journey of faith, transformation and redemption. And along the way, he discovers a powerful truth: no one is beyond the healing of God.
Based on the motion picture starring Vivica A. Fox and Scott Elrod, Home Run is an inspirational story of the hope God offers each of us.
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October Baby (Novel) |
9/1/2012 |
Dove "Family-Approved" - Recommended for ages 12 and over
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Not long after Hannah, a college student, experienced increasing anxiety and a sudden collapse, all signs pint to the surprising circumstances of her birth. Hannah soon learns from her parents that she was adopted and is the survivor of a failed abortion attempt.
Bewildered, angry, and confused, she turns to her oldest friend, Jason, for support. Encouraged by his adventurous spirit, Hannah joins his friends on a road trip, embarking on a journey to discover her hidden past and find hope for the unknown future.
Along the way, Hannah finds that every life is beautiful, and that life itself can be so much more than what we might have planned.
Based on the popular movie of the same name, October Baby brings to life powerful themes of hope, love, forgiveness, and redemption.
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Last Martin, The (Novel) |
5/1/2012 |
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Dove "Family-Approved" - Recommended for ages 12 and over
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Thirteen year-old Martin Boyle, the most fearful hypochondriac born into a family of worriers, doesn’t want to visit the family cemetery. Truth is, none of the Boyles are thrilled about the annual trip to visit their war dead. It shames Mr. Boyle to think of his once courageous family line, and Mrs. Boyle is certain the greenish moss growing on the headstones carries disease. But after strict no-touch warnings from Mrs. Boyle (and an anti-bacterial scrub down), Martin ventures into the private cemetery for a grim remembrance. He’s surrounded by stones that bear his name. Martin, the Boyle family name, has been given to the firstborn male in each Boyle household for centuries. While his father offers a speech honoring Martins who have gone before, Martin wanders among his ancestors. The writing on the old headstones is hardly legible, and he scratches at birth and death dates with a stick. His analytical mind gravitates toward the numbers, and his stomach sinks. The pattern is clear: Martin 1770-1819. Martin 1819-1835. Martin 1835-1899. Martin 1899-1956. Martin 1956-1996. There’s always a Martin. Only one Martin. Martin panics. Not because he was born in 1996—that only fits—but because his uncle and aunt are expecting their first child, a boy, in three months. Tradition dictates they will name him Martin. He’s seen the graveyard. He has proof of the curse. When the next Martin is born, he’ll die. Martin’s parents believe the cemetery pattern is a coincidence, and a sign that their son needs professional help. It’s a belief that’s about to get stronger because their son, with the help of a homeless boy named Poole, is about to make his first decision of consequence: with twelve weeks until the baby’s arrival and no time to waste, Martin chooses to live. Little does he know that the key to his survival—the cornerstone of the curse—lies embedded beneath two hundred years of history, in an inscription that dooms the entire Boyle family line.
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Halflings (Novel) |
1/24/2012 |
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Dove "Family-Approved" - Recommended for ages 12 and over
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After being inexplicably targeted by an evil intent on harming her at any cost, seventeen-year-old Nikki finds herself under the watchful guardianship of three mysterious young men who call themselves Halflings. Sworn to defend her, misfits Mace, Raven, and Vine battle to keep Nikki safe while hiding their deepest secret--and the wings that come with it.
A growing attraction between Nikki and two of her protectors presents a whole other danger. While she risks a broken heart, Mace and Raven could lose everything, including their souls. As the mysteries behind the boys' powers, as well as her role in a scientist's dark plan, unfold, Nikki is faced with choices that will affect the future of an entire race of heavenly beings, as well as the precarious equilibrium of the earthly world.
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Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 (Novel) |
8/9/2011 |
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Dove "Family-Approved" - Recommended for ages 12 and over
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Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 is the first book in the Michael Vey series from #1 bestselling author Richard Paul Evans.
To everyone at Meridian High School, Michael Vey is just your average, ordinary fourteen-year-old. But Michael is anything but ordinary – in fact, he is electric. When Michael’s best friends, Ostin Liss and cheerleader Taylor Ridley, make an accidental discovery, the three of them learn that there are other kids with similar powers – and that someone, or something, is hunting them.
After Michael’s mother is kidnapped, Michael will have to rely on his wits, his unique power, and his friends to combat the hunters, free his mother, and save the others.
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Hawgeye (Novel) |
2/1/2011 |
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Dove "Family-Approved"
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Suitable for any age
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Twelve-year-old Billy loves to fish. He always treasures the times he can sit by the water and wait for the fish to bite. But Billy longs for someone to fish with. His dad is busy with work, and his few friends don't share his passion. However, Billy learns there is one person whose love for fishing equals his own--the mysterious W.R.R. Show trophies hang on the supermarket wall and the brightly colored, handmade lures line the cases. Billy wants to be just like him, but he doesn't even know who W.R.R. is.
When a big fishing tournament is held, Billy is convinced W.R.R. will win. Billy can't participate in the tournament himself because he doesn't have a partner, but he's anxious to watch everyone else, especially if he can see someone catch the great fish he battled earlier. Possibly he can meet the elusive W.R.R. There's a big surprise in store for Billy and an ending you'll not soon forget!
Hawgeye tells the story of a young boy's passion for fishing, but it's much more. Chris W. Weston's captivating tale will leave readers reflecting on simple joys, love, and their own family dynamics. A story children, parents, and grandparents will cherish, Hawgeye will bring a tear and a smile.
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Champion Behind the Champion, The (Illustrated) |
7/15/2010 |
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Dove "Family-Approved"
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Suitable for any age
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The message of BarbarAnn Fitzgerald's illustrated young person’s book, The Champion behind the Champion is that being a champion isn't just about winning. It's about doing your best, learning to excel, thriving through adversity including injuries, and understanding both how to win and how to lose with grace and good character. And if you do all this, you're still a champion, even if someone else walks away with the gold medal.
Suitable for all child athletes (especially skaters), The Champion behind the Champion follows a lamb through her career as a competitive skater, starting with falling in love with the sport as a toddler watching skating on TV, and going all the way to the national championships as a teenager. LambieAnn walks the reader through a scrapbook of her skating life in a playful, straightforward style, accompanied by endearingly cute original illustrations.
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Yeah Yeah Out Loud Kit (Book) |
1/22/2010 |
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Dove "Family-Approved"
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Suitable for any age
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YYOL® is a self-esteem kit that can successfully be used by educators in classrooms AND by parents one on one with their children to empower them to discover their inner “cheer” leader (a “voice” that can help guide them from an early age and remain through tough times growing up). The magic is in hearing the YEAH YEAH cheer from your kids!
Hur-Ray© and Kiddazy® are puppets that can play in all environments. In the YYOL® picture book (translated to German and Spanish) Hur-Ray© (notice the YYOL® face) encourages the flower to grow, which it does and then in thanks, acknowledges Hur-Ray’s© cheers by encouraging others (no narcissism here)! At that point, the flower becomes Kiddazy® (who also now has a YYOL® face).
YEAH YEAH is a mantra to embrace; something a little easier than “I think I can, I’ll try my best”….and YYOL® is a new text acronym meaning: “way to go, you did it all by yourself”! Instilling this will help give them the confidence to say “no” to the variety of obstacles they could face as they mature (bullying, substance abuse) and help enhance self-confidence!
As a parent, by telling the story and incorporating the YEAH YEAH cheer at appropriate times, your child will begin to be their own best cheerleader knowing when the going gets tough, they can find it inside! YEAH YEAH.
As an educator, you can introduce the story in many educational areas, sending the YYOL® message and fulfilling an educational requirement at the same time with coordinating worksheets. Math, science, reading, religious aspects….it’s all up to you.
There are FREE YYOL® activities that teach children how to be proud of who they are; learning how to introduce themselves; experiencing and putting a face to emotions; as well as coloring pages to help solidify the theme on a daily basis.
Classroom “aides” include stickers (come with the educator’s kit). Also available is a YYOL® poster to which you can add classmates names when nominated for being YYOL®.
Become a YYOL® community and find YOUR inner “cheer” leader. Easy and fun….for you the parent/educator and the children! YEAH YEAH
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Little Pot, The (Illustrated) |
5/1/2009 |
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Dove "Family-Approved"
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Suitable for any age
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How do you teach young children about the value of patience and the loving omniscience of their Creator? Introduce them to "The Little Pot", a wise and winsome tale. Soon after a potter lovingly forms a new pot and declares that he has important plans for his creation, the little pot begins to wonder what its purpose will be. Will it be used to hold important documents? Great riches? Beautiful flowers?
As various expectations prove wrong, the little pot is cautioned to wait and see. Gradually, Little Pot comes to realize that its creator knows best and has the most wonderful of all uses planned for it. A valuable teaching tool for parents and educators.
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Wish, The (Illustrated) |
3/20/2009 |
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Dove "Family-Approved"
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Suitable for any age
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The Wish is a heartwarming, inspiring , adventure story that deals allegorically with the real plight of America's Medically Fragile Foster Care preemie infants and children. Told in fun rhyming verse, this story follows four precious, adorable, orphaned, Special Needs, baby animal friends ,who meet and join together along a mutual path and journey to seek homes where they will find the love and special care they need to heal. A touching, unforgettable tale, colorfully and sweetly illustrated, 'The Wish' imparts an important moral of hope, compassion, and unconditional love.
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Pro Wrestling Kids Style (Book) |
1/1/2009 |
Dove "Family-Approved"
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Suitable for any age
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In 1984, a new wrestling league was formed. "The Kids' Quad Cities Pro Wrestling Show" started out as fun and games, but soon grew into thousands of living rooms all across the country through Cable TV and was known as NWF Wrestling. And as a result, the National Wrestling Federation took Kids' Pro Wrestling to a whole new level.
For five years, the NWF was managed and promoted by a young and ambitious kid named Shawn Crossen, or as Crusher Crossen in the ring. In 1984, Shawn was just 14 years old, but by 1986 he was promoting matches at live venues where hundreds would pay admission to see the shows all across the Twin Cities metro area from school gymnasiums to local armory halls.
But going from bed mattresses in a basement to live public cards in a professionally-sized wrestling ring did not come easy - it took years to accomplish with many obstacles along the way, yet somehow they managed to do the impossible. And all the while, this league had positive community support with several newspaper articles written about them, long before any “backyard” type wrestling leagues ever existed.
The wrestling show they produced on Cable TV was a popular attraction to kids and adults alike, and seemed as though it would last forever. But an outside force would interfere, causing the dismantling of what once was a milestone in the history of professional wrestling.
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Journal Buddies: A Girls Journal for Sharing and Celebrating Magnificence (Book) |
10/1/2008 |
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Dove "Family-Approved"
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Suitable for any age
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Journel Buddies is a whole new idea of a book. It is a journal that you share! By completing this journal, a girl learns to cultivate a personal belief system that affirms her positive aspects. Additionally, she builds an encouraging support system of buddies. And, Journal Buddies becomes a cherished keepsake that can be reflected upon time and time again.
What is the essence of Journal Buddies? The answer is simple: Sharing, Creativity and Kindness combined with guided journaling creates an unforgettable experience in building and improving a girl's self-esteem.
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Cinnamon Bear, The: In the Adventure of the Silver Star (Illustrated) |
5/1/2008 |
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Dove "Family-Approved"
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Suitable for any age
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It all started with a 1937 radio serial, created by Glanville and Elizabeth Heish, the kind they don't make anymore. Funny, though, how this particular one has endured, for here we are 70 years later, with our tribute to "The Cinnamon Bear", a true classic that has a special place in the hearts of those who live in the Northwest, where perhaps it is best remembered. Now it has been our pleasure to translate audio into visual, via this children's book. Though this is a necessarily condensed adaption, we feel it captured the spirit and spark of the original series.
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Loving Marley (Book) |
4/1/2008 |
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Dove "Family-Approved"
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Suitable for any age
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"Loving Marley " is the first in a groundbreaking new series of children's picture storybooks - PugTale Adventures - that will help parents and children understand how to prepare for the lifelong commitment that is needed to be a responsible pet owner.
"Loving Marley" focuses on humane education, character education, responsible pet ownership skills and family values and instills a good, solid, moral and humane value system. Development skills addressed are: compassion, empathy, fairness, honesty, integrity and responsibility. Humane educational values like teaching children about animal welfare, how to nurture a pet, empathize with a pet's feelings while giving and receiving unconditional love are also a focus of the PugTale Adventures.
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Lesson in Red Beans and Rice, A (Novel) |
1/1/2008 |
Dove "Family-Approved" - Recommended for ages 12 and over
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"A Lesson in Red Beans and Rice" is a contemporary high concept novel about life's do's and don'ts as one struggles to make transition from being a child to becoming an adult. It boldly addresses the tough decision each human being has to make as to when and how the invisible line separating the child from woman or man is crossed. Written in form of fiction, the book opens with a conversation between two best friends two weeks before their Junior Prom. The friends, two sixteen-year-girls, have shared almost every first experience in their lives. These include: their first birthday party at the nursery they attended; first Christmas in their yards next door to one another and first grammar, middle and high school days. Also, they attended their same church services and took their first religious training and oaths together. However, as the story begins, there's a sharp division between them on if, when and how another first event should be shared. Marie, the carefree adventurous one, is convinced that Junior Prom night is when they should share their first lovemaking session with their boyfriends with whom each girl is madly in love. Lisa, more serious, is set on them saving themselves until marriage in accordance with the pledges they made to God. Alone with only themselves present, Lisa looks on in surprise as Marie boldly proclaim, "If you really love him and he loves you, then you owe it to each other to share your love. Humph! Girl, you had better wise up and stop all that old timing stuff." In response, Lisa cocks her head to the side and echoes Marie's statements followed with a profound questions when she said, "Old-timing stuff? Since when do you call having good morals "old-timing stuff", my friend?" From those statements, the girls continue to speak openly and honestly about their hopes, fears, and desires for love and happiness.
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Tooth Fairy Legend, The (Illustrated) |
12/1/2007 |
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Dove "Family-Approved"
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Suitable for any age
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Dr. Mac, a dentist, wanted to give his patients and children everywhere a story to sink their teeth into, so he wrote "The Tooth Fairy Legend." Dr. Mac is the pen name used by Francis B. McAllister, D.D.S. and Frances A. McAllister, Ph.D, his wife, who co-wrote various books with her husband. The McAllisters' son, Stephen, illustrated the book. The story reveals the genesis of the Tooth Fairy, and how the Fairy began removing milk teeth from under children's pillows at night and left change in exchange for the money.
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Gods Incredible Creatures - The Gift of Sharing (Illustrated) |
12/1/2006 |
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Dove "Family-Approved"
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Suitable for any age
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3D Board Book. Sammy the squirrel has just found the largest acorn ever...and he doesn't want to share it. On his quest to hide the acorn he meets a few of God's incredible creatures. Each one seems to have a special gift and soon Sammy learns that he too has gifts. Travel with Sammy as he discovers the gift of sharing. This character building series, draws important lessons from nature. Sammy's quest will teach your child that everyone has been given important gifts in life. And gifts are for sharing.
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Guardian Knights (Novel) |
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Dove "Family-Approved" - Recommended for ages 12 and over
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Over 4,000 years ago in the land of Sumeria in ancient Mesopotamia there was a mighty kingdom, revered as the Land of the Gods. The inhabitants knew the divine secret of connecting their energy to create a prosperous existence. Other, more ancient civilizations, foretold of a time when the world would be divided. Darkness would enter man’s heart and humanity would have to choose sides. Mother Earth would suffer tremendous catastrophes from human choices; a new era would begin.
The prophecy is about to be fulfilled...
Seventeen-year-old triplets Monaco, India and Egypt Waters are seniors at a Washington D.C. high school. Monaco is a social butterfly; India, the bookworm, is focused on her entrance into Harvard; while Egypt, diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, is a physics genius. Each of the girls, like most members of their family, has a special ability, a psychic power about which they never talk to their friends, but which they’ve always taken for granted … until they’re forced to think differently one seemingly ordinary day. What the girls don’t know, but are about to find out through a terrifying series of events, is that they come from a family that is far from ordinary, and they are about to become part of world-changing events that are almost too big and too frightening to comprehend.
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Woofi: The Missionary Puppy (Illustrated) |
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Dove "Family-Approved"
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Suitable for any age
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A delightful, heartwarming adventure story, of how a curious little puppy, followed his puppy instincts, in search of his mommy, but found not just a home filled with love, but so much more!
This is the first book in an exciting new Missionary series that your children will enjoy, while following Woofi and his friends around the world, as he shares the love of Jesus. It will encourage them to follow the virtues and character qualities that are found in the scriptures, by teaching them to be an obedient child of God.
Woofi says, "Just follow my tracks to Jesus,"
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Woofi: The Key to a Christmas Miracle (Illustrated) |
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Dove "Family-Approved"
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Suitable for any age
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The story is told through the eyes and heart of this adorable and endearing little puppy, with his best buddy Gabriel, a highly spirited little mouse, whose mommy named him after the angel who announced the birth of Jesus.
Follow these two buddies as they travel from their cozy, warm home on Christmas Eve, to where they witness the birth of the Baby Jesus in Bethlehem
More valuable than any gift you have ever received, is the one true gift that God gave us, when He sent His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, that first Christmas; His gift of eternal life, to all who would believe and accept His sacrifice for the payment of our sins.
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Mother, If in Heaven There Are No Apples, I Dont Want to Go There (Book) |
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Dove "Family-Approved"
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Suitable for any age
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With a glimpse of life on "the other side of the pond," Christel Decker Bresko shares vignettes, anecdotes, and short stories from her childhood during World War II and afterward as she sets out to explore the world.
Growing up in her native Germany, Ms. Bresko relates hair-raising tales of war as she and her family struggled to stay neutral during the conflict and her father was sent off to fight the war on the Russian front. Often going without many necessities and suffering through the usual childhood illnesses, she nevertheless retained her optimistic outlook for the future and dreamed of the day she would again be able to taste freedom.
After hostilities subsided, she chose nursing as a career and details her education and experiences while living in several other European countries and working in a variety of locations, eventually settling in America with her husband.
Through her fascinating and historical look into the past, readers learn that children are the same the world over--dreaming of the future, and acting on those dreams as soon as they are given the chance.
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Dove "Family-Approved" - Recommended for ages 12 and over
