Creative Survival

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An inspiring and practical catalyst to break out of survival mode and walk in the fullness of God’s plan for your life—from the New York Times bestselling author of When God Speaks. “This book will stir your faith and push you—fearlessly—into the next...

"Help your firstborn welcome a new baby with love, not jealousy." Preparing your child for a sibling can feel overwhelming. Tantrums, clinginess, regression – and you’re running on half the sleep you used to get. This practical guide for parents expecting baby #2 or #3 gives you step-by-step strategies to make the transition smoother for everyone. Inside The Firstborn and the Newborn, you’ll discover how to: Prepare toddlers and preschoolers for a new sibling so they feel secure, not replaced Handle firstborn jealousy and regression with calm, proven parenting techniques Spot early ...

POST-APOCALYPTIC FICTION BY JERRY D. YOUNG Rudy owns a preparedness shop, but is enough to survive nuclear war? More Survival Fiction Library titles from Jerry D. Young Survival Fiction Library Series Survival Fiction Library 1: The Hermit Survival Fiction Library 2: Low Profile Survival Fiction Library 3: Home Sweet Bunker Survival Fiction Library 4: Planning Pays Off Survival Fiction Library 5: Ozark Retreat Survival Fiction Library 6: Cowboy Survival Fiction Library 7: Keys to the Kingdom Survival Fiction Library 8: True Terror Survival Fiction Library 9: What if? Survival Fiction ...

Are you feeling uncertain about what comes next? Retirement was supposed to feel freeing—but instead, it can bring unexpected stress, loss of routine, and quiet doubts about your purpose. You may find yourself wondering how to structure your days, stay mentally strong, or truly enjoy the life you worked so hard to reach. If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone—and you’re not stuck. The Ultimate Retirement Survival Guide is your practical, encouraging roadmap to creating a life that feels stable, meaningful, and genuinely fulfilling.

From “one of America’s smartest and most charming writers” (NPR), an archaeological romp through the entire history of humankind—and through all five senses—from tropical Polynesian islands to forbidding arctic ice floes, and everywhere in between. Whether it’s the mighty pyramids of...

What does it take to be creative? To make your art despite objections, self-doubt, and procrastination? This book is for artists of all kinds. Whether you are a professional artist, painting for fun or thinking about art when you retire one day.I have collected a series of ideas, thoughts, tips, and observations over the years and included them in this book. Some practical, heartfelt and others irreverent, but all part of my journey. I do hope you find a few useful nuggets amidst the other bits. This book would also make a lovely gift for artists. Just saying.

A man and his brother escape to a rural retreat when disaster strikes America.

Danielle Boone thought she was signing up to test an experimental fantasy game. Instead, she wakes up inside one—with nothing but a magical spoon, a cursed water farm, and a dangerously literal pun‑magic that can turn monsters into five‑star entrées. The Pun Chef is a cozy portal fantasy romance about building something from nothing, one terrible pun at a time. With a sushi boat she made in a panic, an extremely opinionated otter, and a water garden that floods every three days, Danielle is either going to build the life she never knew she wanted—or she's going to make a very ...

POST-APOCALYPTIC FICTION BY JERRY D. YOUNG A strong-willed heiress leads an Expedition to the Amazon Jungle in hopes of finding growth opportunities for her family’s empire. Accompanied by professional adventurer Jack Sandusky and a team of well-trained experts, she struggles to balance the responsibility of being in charge of the Expedition with the fact that she herself has no personal experience and must trust her team. She quickly learns the difficulty and the frustration of leading others in such a dangerous venture. Perhaps most frustrating is that fact that Jack Sandusky not only ...

If you’ve already fought your way out of burnout, you know the truth: Recovery is not the same as stability. Life comes back fast with work, expectations, noise, and decisions. Before long, you’re right back on the edge of exhaustion. Adult Autism Survival Playbook is the next step. This is not about surviving burnout. It’s about building a life that doesn’t keep causing it. Designed specifically for autistic adults, this practical, systems-driven guide replaces willpower, masking, and constant overthinking with clear, repeatable frameworks that reduce effort and increase stability.

The true story of one family's struggle and triumph creating a self-sufficient life in the wilderness. Join the Horn family on the adventure of a lifetime. Learn how a couple from the city moved to the wilderness with three small boys and carved out a life in the middle of nowhere that has endured for nearly 50 years. Impossible Beyond This Point is a compelling must-listen for anyone interested in (or contemplating) getting away from it all.

This is the story of the Painter family’s black Labrador “Princess” who was with them in the Rock Creek campground in the 1959 Yellowstone earthquake. She was missing and presumed to have perished in the quake. Princess wandered away from the site of the earthquake slide for nearly two weeks, being found outside Virginia City, Mt,. This was nearly sixty miles away from the Rock Creek campground where the family had camped. This is an account written in her words if she could talk, of what she may have experienced on her journey to find her family. For more information about this ...

The Autistic Adults Survival Guide is built specifically for autistic and neurodivergent adults who are tired of forcing themselves into systems that don’t fit. This is a practical, real-world system designed to help you function, recover, and build a life that actually feels manageable. Inside, You’ll Learn How To: ✔ Reduce overwhelm before it spirals into shutdown or burnout ✔ Manage executive dysfunction without relying on motivation ✔ Build routines that work—even on low-energy days ✔ Handle social situations without masking exhaustion ✔ Create structure that supports ...

Post-Apocalyptic Fiction by Jerry D. Young The Mechanic An expert mechanic adds prepping to his long list of skills when he meets a woman that opens his eyes to the world around him. More Great Stories by Jerry D. Young The Hermit Low Profile Cowboy Home Sweet Bunker Habitat The Liddy Scenario Scavenger A Penny for Your Thoughts Ozark Retreat The Dark Times The Keys to the Kingdom Disaster in the Burbs Shipwrecked And many more! ABOUT AUTHOR JERRY D. YOUNG Jerry D Young was born at home, in Senath, Missouri July 3, 1953. At age 5 the family rented a small farm house on an active farm 40 ...

You Have What It Takes to Go Over the Top! Drawing on forty years as a world-class motivational speaker and author, Ziglar identifies and outlines in his best-selling Over the Top precisely how to achieve what people desire most from life—to be happy, healthy, and reasonably prosperous and...

The world is on fire, your rent is a Hunger Games simulation, and your "morning depression" starts the second you hit the first scroll. Do you feel like you're "living on autopilot"? Like you're stuck in a loop of doomscrolling, ghosting, and performative exhaustion? You are not broken! You're actually reacting normally to an abnormal world. It's time to change the battlefield.

This book is dedicated to the twenty-eight victims of the 1959 Yellowstone earthquake, and their families. Nineteen of those people still lie beneath the 300 foot deep slide. A 7.5 magnitude earthquake shook an 8,000 foot mountain loose, splitting it in half and sending a landslide of dirt, rocks, boulders and pine trees cascading down like a waterfall in the moonlight. The slide crushed cars, tents and trailers in a matter of minutes and it forever changed many lives.

In a world preparing for war, two young artists discover that creating beauty isn’t frivolous—it’s revolutionary. She paints to remember who she was. He carves to become who he could be. Together, they create something neither expected: hope. MEI came to the stars to escape her past. Instead, she crashed into a war. The only thing keeping her sane is her art—painting murals that transform cold caves into spaces of beauty. It’s frivolous, she tells herself. Pointless. But she can’t stop. TOREK is everything a young Vothren warrior should be: strong, eager, ready to fight. No one ...

An unpretentious man lives humbly while his braggadocio neighbor buys the latest gadgets and status symbols. When hard times come, his humble lifestyle pays off, but his neighbors believe they are entitled to the resources he sacrificed to obtain. As society collapses around him, can John Havingsworth stick to his values and also keep his friends, not to mention his life?

POST-APOCALYPTIC FICTION BY JERRY D. YOUNG NEAL GRANT WATCHED SILENTLY AS THE CEMETERY WORKERS BURIED HIS FAMILY It was just him now. Alone. Something he'd never been before. First his parents and siblings and then his wife and three wonderful children. All of them were gone forever now. All dead at the same time because of a drunk driver and a foggy road. Little did Neal know that this was only the beginning of things to come. Soon he would realize that he had not only lost his family but must also deal with a failing economy and a nuclear war. ABOUT AUTHOR JERRY D. YOUNG Author Jerry D. ...