by Philip Eliot | Jul 26, 2025 | Parenting & Family |
“Overwhelmed is encouraging and inspiring! Amanda helps moms understand that homeschooling success starts with mindset and perspective. She provides real-life examples and immediately applicable advice in each chapter. I’m walking into homeschool next year with a vision, a plan, and confidence thanks to Amanda.” – Camella
“The Moana reference had me ??????” – Kristen
“This isn’t just about homeschooling—it’s about emotional regulation, brain science, and connection. It’s everything I didn’t know I needed.” – Roma
You’re doing your best to homeschool… but most days, it feels like you’re barely holding it together.
Between the endless lesson plans, emotional outbursts (yours and theirs), and the guilt that whispers “you’re not enough,” you’re exhausted. You’ve tried homeschool planners, podcasts, and switching up the curriculum—but nothing sticks.
Overwhelmed: A Homeschool Mom’s Rescue Plan for Peaceful Routines offers the lifeline you’ve been searching for.
Written by Amanda Schenkenberger—a second-generation homeschooler, mom of four, and mental health practitioner—this book helps you get unstuck, stop second-guessing yourself, and build routines that bring peace to your home and heart.
In these pages, you’ll learn how to:
Create a daily homeschool routine that supports your sanity
Understand your emotional triggers—and stop the spiral
Use science-backed and faith-rooted tools to calm the chaos
Build a time management rhythm that works—so you can stop feeling guilty and start feeling connected
Let go of perfectionism and recover from homeschool burnout
This is more than a homeschool planning guide—it’s a mindset shift and a heart reset.
Whether you’re brand new or years in and ready to quit, this book will meet you with grace and give you a plan.
Because you don’t need to overhaul your whole life.
You just need a rescue plan—and that’s exactly what this is.
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by Philip Eliot | Jul 26, 2025 | Parenting & Family |
You don’t have to parent alone. God is with you, and He’s inviting you to partner with Him.
In Parenting With His Presence: How to Partner with God to Raise Kingdom Kids, Melinda Meyer offers Spirit-led wisdom and practical encouragement to help you raise children who know God, love truth, and walk boldly in their Kingdom purpose. This book is for moms and dads who long to go beyond behavior management and raise sons and daughters anchored in Christ, even in a chaotic world.
Drawing from Scripture, personal stories, and decades of parenting experience, Melinda shows you how to:
Cultivate a home atmosphere where God’s presence is real
Address discipline and emotional growth with grace and wisdom
Develop a long-term vision rooted in eternity, not just today’s challenges
Grow in your own faith while leading your kids toward spiritual maturity
If you’re tired of parenting on autopilot and ready to invite the Holy Spirit into your everyday moments, this book will help you walk hand-in-hand with the Father as you raise His children, for His glory.
Remember, parenting isn’t just about raising good kids. It’s about raising Kingdom kids, with God by your side.
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by Philip Eliot | Jul 25, 2025 | Fantasy |
A gritty new epic fantasy by New York Times bestselling and Hugo-winning author, Harry Turtledove.A conquered city. A growing resistance. A war for their freedom.For three long years, the militant Chleuh have occupied the Kingdom of Quimper and its great capital, Lutesse. Times are hard since they won the war. There’s not much food or fuel — the Chleuh take anything that isn’t nailed down.People in Lutesse have terrible choices to make. Do they go along with the Chleuh and try to make the best of a bad situation? Or do they try to fight back, hoping the occupation can’t last forever?Take Malk Malkovici, junkman extraordinaire. He’s a foreigner in Lutesse, and one who follows the wrong gods. If he doesn’t make himself useful to the Chleuh, he’s a dead man. If he makes himself too useful and the occupiers lose the war, the resistance will have its revenge. It’s a fine line to walk.Or Guisa Sachry, an actor who craves the attention of an audience to feel alive. But the Chleuh control the theaters the same way they control all the other arts. If he’s going to appear at all, he has to accommodate himself to them. And the longer the war goes on, the deeper in he gets.It can’t go on like this forever. Battle-dragons fly over Lutesse. Resistance rises.Liberation may not be far away. . . .CITY IN CHAINS is a new military epic fantasy by Harry Turtledove, the NYT bestselling and Hugo-winning author of Worldwar. Set in a city reminiscent of occupied Paris during World War II, join a trapped people as they turn to magic to try to make life tolerable among occupation by a Gestapo-like force.
by Philip Eliot | Jul 25, 2025 | Science Fiction |
One of only 18 ALL-TIME FAVORITES FOR SCI-FI/FANTASY selected by Audible, alongside classics by Kurt Vonnegut, Peter Clines, Philip K. Dick, J.R.R. Tolkien, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Margaret Atwood.”A cult favorite for as long as I can remember” — Sam D, Audible EditorSCI-FI ODYSSEY. COMEDY. LOVE STORY. AND OF COURSE… NIKOLA TESLA. I’ll let Chip, the main character tell you more: “I found the journal at work. Well, I don’t know if you’d call it work, but that’s where I found it. It’s the lost journal of Nikola Tesla, one of the greatest inventors and visionaries ever. Before he died in 1943, he kept a notebook filled with spectacular claims and outrageous plans. One of these plans was for an “Interdimensional Transfer Apparatus” – that allowed someone (in this case me and my friend Pete) to travel to other versions of the infinite possibilities around us. Crazy, right? But that’s just where the crazy starts.” CHIP’S OFFICIAL DISCLAIMER: This is a work of fiction: the events depicted in the collection of emails did not happen. I have never been in contact with a covert government group attempting to suppress knowledge of the lost journal of Nikola Tesla. I have not been threatened with death if I divulge the secrets contained inside. They did not buy me this handsome jacket (oh crap, you’re reading this – trust me, it looks great on me). They did not come to my place, and liquor me up, and offer to publish this book as a sci-fi comedy novel to throw the public off the trail of the real truth. Or did they? I’m kidding. Of course they didn’t. Or did they? God, I can’t keep my big mouth shut.
by Philip Eliot | Jul 25, 2025 | Christian Fiction |
When three lives unexpectedly intersect, magic happens in the moonlight.Jamie didn’t knowingly step into the middle of a murder and become the prime suspect. When a man washes up on the beach and asks for help, there is no time to refuse. On the run and terrified, Jamie takes refuge in the woods behind a storybook cottage in a cove where moonlight dances on the water and through the trees at night.Brenley Baker had no intention of spending her summer in Seaside, Oregon. But Mimi, her persuasive grandmother, coerces (also known as guilts) her into coming. Brenley has visions of sunburns, stinky fish, and her grandmother’s senile friends filling her days. What she discovers upon her arrival is a handsome policeman chasing after a killer through Moonlight Cove, the property that has been in her family for more than a hundred years.Time and experience have left Seaside Police Captain Jake Adams more than a little jaded. Naiveté has no place in his life, until a chance circumstances brings a beguiling, shy woman into his world. She’s nothing like the females he’s dated, yet something about her leaves him so intrigued, he can hardly focus on the murder investigation that should be his top priority.Will an alliance between Jake and Brenley as they fight sparks of attraction, race to catch a killer, and seek what is best for Jamie tie their hearts together?Find out in Moonlight Cove, a sweet contemporary romance with a dash of mystery and a sprinkling of humor.
