Big and bumbling, young Eldon is no ordinary elf. Other elves tease him for his clumsiness. An overworked Grandfather Christmas suggests that Eldon go out and find his Life's Work. In a snowstorm Eldon rescues eight young reindeer, lost and separated from their herd. He protects them from the Dogs of Winter, saves them from freezing and starvation, then searches unsuccessfully for their family. Living among them a year and furnishing their needs, Eldon becomes a woodcarver. What does he do with this talent? How will it affect his new friends, the now growing reindeer? Has Eldon forgotten the search for his Life's Work? Has he forgotten the family he left behind? And the weary Grandfather Christmas- What lies ahead for him? The answers, thanks to what Eldon has learned from the reindeer, are truly-well-spectacular. This is the first book of the Eldon series.

Jesus does a body good, not just milk. This is words for everyday living that you can apply to your life and change how you view yourself, relationships, and God. Annette Bailey has compiled a work of exquisite poetry that is sure to inspire and also uplift your spirit

This interdisciplinary anthology explores a wide range of intersecting issues contributing to and arising from gun violence. Millions of people are hurt and killed by gun violence globally, and the traumatic realities of these events are navigated by individuals and communities widely. In this context, gun violence fundamentally threatens social functioning in significant ways, and profoundly test the resilience of families. The resulting transformations carry social, political, legal, and economic implications for mothering, family dynamics, and community engagement. This collaborative volume brings together diverse perspectives intended to deconstruct perceptions, realities, risks, and impacts of gun violence, as seen by researchers, educators, community advocates, public health/health care experts, criminologists, social workers, field-based practitioners, and victims/survivors of gun violence. The distinct and broad range of contributions in this volume critically unpacks representations, stress and trauma, resilience, advocacy/activism, policymaking, family functioning, social justice and equity, governmentality and the criminal justice system, public health/health care, and community programs/interventions. Ultimately, the work is a unique contribution to the literature in which there is a lack of wide academic consideration of gun violence and a demonstrably unsatisfactory political response stretching back decades.