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A poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Preaching vs. Practice and learn more about her poetry.

The Paleo Theater is packed with cheering fans ready for a dance showdown. When the beat drops, can Triceratops win over the judges with his pop and lock? Can Allo's on-pointe ballet moves dominate the solo category? And will Maia and Stego take home the top prize for their sizzling salsa steps? This prehistoric dance competition will keep you on the edge of your seat!

After a police shootout where she killed a man, criminologist Maggie Tall Bear Sloan retires from the force to enjoy peace and quiet in rural California. When sets of young twins are murdered in her town, the local sheriff recruits her to solve the gruesome killings.

When Joe L. Wheeler’s children were growing up, the request that came more often than any other in his home was: “Daddy, tell me a story.” Chances are, the same is true in your house! This anthology of timeless Christian fables, the second in the Great Stories Remembered series, offers parents the chance connect with their children over 35 classic stories. For the second collection, Joe brings back some familiar authors as well as introducing new ones you and your children are sure to love: Arthur Milward, Ida Alexander, Pearl Buck, and many more. The seasonal organizational format ...

Within days of a series of monster solar storms slamming into earth, electrical grids fail and everything in the northern hemisphere with a computer chip ceases functioning. Electricity won't be completely restored for at least a decade, and the result is that everything modern life depends on to function is gone. Chaco is a well-educated freedom fighter on a death list in El Salvador. Having fled to the United States, he is in hiding by working for a wealthy couple as their handyman and gardener. Following the disaster, he reveals his true identity, and convinces his employers and their neighbors to follow him.

A rancher hardened by loss. A jilted woman yearning for a new start. Can love bridge the vast divide of their hearts? After the tragic loss of his wife and son, rancher Frank Gallagher has only his life to the unforgiving Colorado frontier. His ranch is his refuge, and the silence suits him just fine. However, the coming winter threatens to swallow him whole, leaving him no choice but to seek help. Placing an advertisement for a mail-order bride, he’s looking for a practical partnership to keep his ranch running. Nothing more. Charity Patricks has seen her share of heartbreak and betrayal...

Who is a professional daydreamer? Well I would imagine that nearly everyone listening to this audiobook has a job, and the majority of them don’t love their job. It might be tolerable, even good - but probably not what they daydreamed they would be doing for the rest of their working lives, nor providing them with enough money or time to achieve those dreams. How would you like a “magic formula” to make your daydreams come true, and by extension make those daydreams pay you to have a better living and lifestyle? In essence, you would become a professional daydreamer.

Joe L. Wheeler was raised by a mother who loved deeply moving inspirational Christmas stories. It shows: his Christmas in My Heart series is today the longest-running Christmas story series in America. Readers believe there is a reason: unless a given story touches the heart, or takes the reader somewhere new, the story will be rejected. And he considers the spiritual dimension of a Christmas story to be paramount. The theme of this year's Christmas In My Heart volume is "Serenity at Christmas." Joe Wheeler has found that an increasing number of readers are looking for an antidote to the ...

Fun voices and entertaining sounds catch the imaginations of youngsters, delighting them and grabbing their attention. By using playful sounds toddlers and preschoolers are familiar with, we help them to learn their letters and numbers while building their confidence and improving their listening skills; turning learning into a fun game. Your toddler or preschooler will look forward to learning with this fun and unique book while unknowingly enhancing their critical thinking skills.

General William Tecumseh Sherman is known as the man who said "War is hell" and who waged it so fiercely that it left a permanent scar on the Southern psyche. But Civil War historian Richard Wheeler offers a new view of Sherman, as a man of compassion as well as conviction, a military leader who was ahead of his time in understanding that the destruction of supplies and property - the means to wage war - was as important as meeting and destroying enemy armies.

How Sex Became a Civil Liberty is the first book to show how and why we have come to see sexual expression, sexual practice, and sexual privacy as fundamental rights. Using rich archival sources and oral interviews, historian Leigh Ann Wheeler shows how the private lives of women and men in the American Civil Liberties Union shaped their understanding of sexual rights as they built the constitutional foundation for the twentieth-century's sexual revolutions.

The Dino-Wrestling Jamboree is on! Dinos compete in all styles of wrestling at this gigantic event. Allo and Ankylo grapple in a folkstyle match. Lucha Libre fans go wild as the masked Tarbosaurus takes on Iguano. Tricera and Gigano loom large on the sumo dohyo, while over in the freestyle tent, Leso and Compy battle for the pin. Just what will happen when the Diplo and Ptero tag teams rumble in the WWD fight? You won't want to miss this action!

Celebrate with the dinos as they gather flowers for a spring bouquet, throw an egg painting party, pet newborn farm animals, visit a chocolate factory, and join an Easter parade with Peter Clobbertail. At last, it's time for the egg hunt. Will Raptor finally get to eat his treats?

Nella magica terra di Muirwood, Lia è cresciuta conoscendo servitù e sottomissione. È una miserabile, una reietta cui non è dovuto alcun rispetto e alla quale è precluso ogni segreto custodito tra le antiche mura dell'Abbazia che la ospita. Ma Lia sa che, prima o poi, la sua occasione di riscatto arriverà e che i suoi giorni da serva nelle cucine dell'Aldermaston sono destinati a finire.

Down the eastern slopes of the Rockies, out upon the Great Plains, and into the heart of Blackfeet country flows the Two Medicine River. To this wild and beautiful land, come a pair of young wanderers, half-breeds born of two worlds, but belonging to neither. Marie Therese de Paris - driven by the fires in her spirit - sets out on a vision quest, hoping to save the Blackfeet from their cruel fate. Peter Kipp, bold and ambitious, chooses to follow his father. Bound by love, but torn by their loyalties, they share a single destiny.

In this first book of The Good Lord Made Them All series, Joe Wheeler offers introduces a heartwarming anthology of nostalgic dog tales that will thrill, inspire, and cause you to feel young no matter your age. Beautifully written and suitable for the whole family, Owney the Post-Office Dog and Other Great Dog Stories celebrates the timeless virtues of loyalty, honor, friendship, and devotion through tales that are among the most moving and memorable you'll ever read.

Being the Change is written for activists who work in organizations with social missions, and those who are involved in social change outside of their jobs. This book is a practical guide that helps listeners maintain and enhance their ability to be effective agents of change.

The Great Onslaught of 2048 marked the end of mortal rule. Decades later, the vampires united to give birth to the Eternal Age. The years in between, known as the Savage Gap, were ravaged by fear and bloodshed.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox's best-known work Poems of Passion read here by Emma Topping.

In this installment of dino competition, meat eaters face off against plant eaters in three high-speed auto events: drag racing, off-road racing, and stock-car racing. Lisa Wheeler's rhymes explore thoughtful questions such as: Which dinosaurs would make the best chasers for support in a desert off-road race? Does T-Rex's king status transfer to the track? And can Diplodocus actually fit inside a stock car?