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Sweet Tea for the Soul - Porch swings. Watching fireflies. Sipping sweet tea on a warm summer night. These southern winks of contentment are just downright comforting! This 90-day devotional features truthful and whimsical reflections on what truly matters. Each devotion will bring your heart to a quiet, slowed-down pace and be a reminder of God’s calming, down-home peace in the midst of your busy life. The Lord will bless His people with peace. Psalm 29:11 KJV

Think, Learn, Succeed - Our thought lives have incredible power over our mental, emotional, and even physical well-being. Our thoughts can either limit us to what we believe we can do or release us to experience abilities rather than placing limits on ourselves, we will experience greater intellectual satisfaction, emotional control, and physical health. The only question is…how? Backed by up-to-date scientific research and practical insight, Dr. Caroline Leaf empowers you to take control of your thoughts in order to take control of your life. Dr. Leaf shows you how to combine three powerful tools in order to improve your memory, learning, cognitive and intellectual performance, work performance, physical performance, relationships, and emotional health. 

The Soldier’s Lady: 4 Historical Stories - Join four brave women making their home at Old West forts. Faced with daily challenges—and stubborn men—they bring civility to the frontier. 

  • The Colonel’s Daughter by Gabielle Meyer: Major Nathaniel Ward is tasked with guarding his commanding officer’s daughter, Ally Benson, from the amorous soldiers at Fort Snelling, but he finds the hardest person to keep in line is himself.

  • Frontier of Her Heart by Susanne Dietze: All is fair in love and war, but the contest of wills between fort cook Emily Sweet and assistant surgeon Boyd Braxton is all about pride, not romance…until they must work together to stop an epidemic. 

  • Save the Last Word for Me by Lorna Seilstad: Determined schoolteacher Adelina Dante believes every man, woman, and and child deserves the opportunity to read and write, but when she approaches Colonel Isaac Scot about why he should allow his illiterate soldiers to attend classes, she’s the one who gets educated in matters of the heart. 

  • Winning the Lady’s Heart by Janette Foreman: Annie Moreau arrives at Fort Garland to marry her soldier pen pal, Martin, but encounters two surprises—Martin died in battle and she’s been corresponding with dashing Captain Jefferson Gray all along.