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Laugh Your Way to a Great Day is a book that explains why meditations and affirmations don’t work for some people and offers a new lighthearted way to move you closer to feeling good.

Her knowledge of a series of car fires has Doctor Trent Henson leaving the safety of her best friend’s car and stepping out into the dark deserted streets of the metropolis night. An established psychologist and life coach, as well as an expert in crisis intervention, she has heard it all and seen it all, having been inside many unhealthy minds. Her oath to herself has always been to take the work seriously, but never take it home. Events of tonight will hit home and change everything.

This book is full of adventures with a character who merely craves a little excitement in her life. Weirdly, she finds herself across the seas more than a few times a year. Most times, her little travel jaunts are colorful but uneventful. That is, until she answers an advertisement to take a short-term job in Fiji. Drawn by the thrill and promise of living abroad in a true paradise, she sets off. Not knowing the many dilemmas she will face, she leaps headlong into the offer.

Welcome to the fascinating world of behavioral paradoxes: apparent contradictions which make sense once we understand the human needs and motivations behind them. This inspiring book invites you to ponder contradictory behaviors which reflect our shared humanity and, surprisingly, offer pathways to improved mental health, meaningful living, and well-being for ourselves and others.

As life became busier, each partner began to devote less time and energy to maintaining the bond. Less nurturing meant less emotional and physical closeness, which led to more irritation. The more distressed a couple is, the less likely they are to speak and connect. It is tough for a pair to escape this vicious cycle on their own, as you and your partner may be experiencing right now. This book, Integrative Couple's Therapy, will help you to break that vicious cycle.

A shy young fairy, named Pansy, longs to have exciting adventures. One day while in the forest with her friend, Lightning the firefly, she loses track of the time and is very late for dinner. In her hurry to get home, she becomes lost in the dark and meets a strange creature. When this happens, she discovers an old secret that could threaten the safety of her town.

Raised on a hard-knock farm in Arkansas and married off to the widowed father of one of her classmates at the age of thirteen, Augusta was not set up for a life of bliss. Abandoned by her second husband in 1920's Detroit, with four children to provide for, she is forced into a decision that will haunt her forever.

A case of mistaken identity plunges Jessica Watson into the dark world of terrorism. Requited by a group that calls themselves The Hand of God, she's to be used as bait to capture Abdul Jamar, a world renowned terrorist. She meets the other team members on a remote ranch in Wyoming and begins training in languages, self-defense, and weapons. Not a religious person, being around people who pray and read the bible is something new to her. They didn't seem like lunatics.

The story begins in 1940s Palestine, where twins Rasheed and Rasheeda Dinar work in the family’s inn. When Rasheed falls in love with Natalia, a Jewish woman, he applies what he learned from the Jesuit priest who mentored him to his budding relationship, but by then relations between Arabs and Jews have become tense. And when those tensions come to a breaking point, Natalia mysteriously disappears, and Rasheed and Rasheeda are chased out of Palestine forced to flee to Beirut, Lebanon. As the years pass and the Dinar family expands and enters the 1970s, their convictions are tested. 

When nurse and fledgling pilot Lucinda Rhodes hires guitar-playing private detective Rolly Waters to track down a Stratocaster guitar owned by her deceased father, Rolly is thrilled to take on her case, especially when he learns the guitar’s original owner may have been Jimi Hendrix.

They thought Melfar and Mundani were the only people left on Earth. They were wrong. The hopeful joy wrought by the dedication of the "Book of All Time", with its heady celebration of Meridia as both Melfar Calumet and Mundani Prophet, is shattered when a ship with expansive white wings drops anchor off Selbourne. The ship and its occupants depart as swiftly as they came, taking with them a mirror and two Melfar—including one of Meridia’s infant twins. They leave behind only mystery: Who are these people? And where did they come from?

In his introduction to the book, best-selling author Loren D. Estleman says "It's hard work being Deborah Morgan". A multiple award-winning author in both the mystery and Western arenas, Morgan has collected here in Junction a selection of stories guaranteed to show you why.  

From the time she was a small child, Donna Lynn experienced night terrors that were so disturbing they affected her waking life and relationships. Eventually she chose to consciously venture into that territory of the unknown to do battle with otherworldly beings who had haunted her dreams since childhood–only to find out they are not here to do battle at all. They come with powerful messages of love and healing on both personal and planetary levels. This book is a message of hope that we as a species can overcome the pervasive consciousness of fear and anxiety in our world today.

Meridia is a healer, but can she heal the deep rift of time that drove Earth’s people apart? Bereft of leadership after a critical ritual goes fatally wrong, stalwart remnants of the Mundani Palinjian cult vow vengeance. They blame the Melfar and their Mundani sympathizers, attacking randomly and with escalating brutality. Melfar and their allies look to Meridia, the mixed-race healer who brought them the miraculous Song of All Songs straight from the wisdom of the Migrant.