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Sage of the Mountains is a powerful, soul-stirring journey about grief, transformation, and the courage to let go. For anyone who's ever lost their way and wondered if the journey itself could be the answer—this book is for you. Blending adventure fiction, spiritual depth, and symbolic storytelling, this novel invites listeners into an immersive experience—one that unfolds slowly, reveals itself deeply, and lingers long after the end.

A Quest for Alex is a heartwarming story based on real-life events following a couple’s journey to create a family through international adoption. It reads like an action-adventure novel, as their quest goes from what they thought would be a straightforward process to a protracted, contested case that winds its way through multiple hearings, all the way to the Supreme Court of Chile.

The Quest of the Fish-Dog Skin is a story of the adventures of two Indian boys or, rather, of an Indian boy and a white boy, Indian. These two set forth from the lodges of the Blackfeet, in company with an older Indian who acts as their guide, philosopher, and friend, on a far quest to the salt water to find the medicine-animal that is called "fish-dog" because it lives only in the water, swimming like a fish, yet has the face of a dog and barks like a dog.

Living to be righteous born into a cult Maxwell White believed, in his youthful vigor, that he undoubtedly lived a fully righteous life. In his early twenties, however, Max found himself excommunicated and abandon in an evil world. Like a caged bird released to the wild and with no rule book to guide him Max was compelled to learn experientially what it meant to live a righteous life pleasing to God and to be part of his church.

Follow the widowed Margaret Ralston Kennedy (a relative of the author) in this second book of the Trail of Thread series, as she travels with eight of her thirteen children from Ohio to the Territory of Kansas in 1855. Thousands of American headed west in the decade before the Civil War, but those who settled in Kansas suffered through frequent clashes between pro-slavery and free-state fractions that gripped the territory.