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   The e-book edition of  Lessons of Labor by Julia Aziz is on Kindle Countdown Sale tomorrow, Mother's Day, only. A special for mothers - grab it early! Book Description What if labor-raw, painful, and unpredictable-wasn't something to be feared or managed, but something to be learned from ? What if motherhood wasn't about doing everything the way the experts tell you but about growing as a person? In Lessons of Labor , Julia invites readers into the intimate, unfiltered stories of her three births and one miscarriage, each illuminating different key turning points in her journey through motherhood. But this is not a how-to guide. It doesn't offer advice or prescriptions. Instead, it offers something more powerful: an honest exploration of how birth and motherhood, with all their chaos and intensity, can become one of life's most profound teachers. With grace and vulnerability, Julia challenges the cultural obsession with control-especially among women who strive ...

Some cats dislike the vet. Some fear the vet. And then there are the rare few—like our beloved Happy Cat —whose fear is so overwhelming that the trip itself becomes the medical emergency. Happy Cat, our self‑rescuing tuxedo boy, came to us at four or five years old with a history we could only guess at. He trusted us completely at home, but the moment the carrier lifted off the ground, his body went into full physiological panic. Even with gabapentin on board, he would hyperventilate, drool, froth, and arrive at the clinic nearly unconscious. The staff knew him by name and always met us at the door to whisk him straight to oxygen. We tried every desensitization trick in the book—carrier left out all week, soft bedding, treats, naps inside the carrier. But the instant it moved, his body remembered whatever trauma had taught him that confinement plus travel equaled danger. My son would sit in the back seat, talking to him and petting him through the openings. It didn’t stop the panic...

  Today's publisher's pride is Travels with Elly by Larry MacDonald, which reached #145   in travel with pets books. Book description: Discover Canada like never before -- from a personal perspective, similar to John Steinbeck's view of America in his 1960 book Travels with Charley . The author travels from coast to coast in a trailer with his wife and pets, including their Standard Poodle, Elly, in order to gain a better understanding of his adopted country. Interspersed between descriptions of history, cultures, places, and icons are the author's reflections on various things such as Elly's antics, signage, ferries, political injustice, environmental issues, and animal instincts. To provide a canine's perspective, Elly reflects on things of interest to her, including cats, cows, and other critters...but especially cats! Where was Canada's first settlement? What is its prettiest town? When and where was its most devastating shipwreck? And who was its greatest...