Most Popular Books by Brian SMITH

Doctor Docter's Energy Replenerator turns Daniel (aka Loud Boy) and his superhero friends into prune-eating, cane-wielding old people.

Collecting book 3 (A Jester's Tale) and 4 (The Toy Collector) of the New York Times bestselling series, The Stuff of Legend, this beautiful hardcover edition finds our toys at a crossroads. Unable to find their boy, our loyal toys' bonds have been tested and broken. Now scattered across The Dark, the toys must decide whether to continue their search or admit defeat and return home. Jester chooses to follow his heart in A Jester's Tale, and embarks on a solo quest to search for true love. Will he survive his swashbuckling journey across the perilous sea? Meanwhile in The Toy Collector, Maxwell the Bear, aching to bring the boy home, hunts for a weapon to defeat the Boogeyman for good. However, the Dark One does not play fair, and he is searching for an item as well, one that may very well make him unbeatable.

Unlocking YouTube: Your Guide to Earning Money Online Are you ready to turn your passion for video into a profitable venture? "Unlocking YouTube" is your essential guide to monetizing content on the world's largest video platform. This comprehensive resource explores the various ways you can earn money through YouTube, including ad revenue, affiliate marketing, sponsorships, and merchandise. Learn how to craft engaging content that resonates with your audience, optimize your channel for maximum visibility, and leverage YouTube's algorithm to grow your viewership. Discover the importance of analytics and audience engagement, and navigate legal and ethical considerations to build a reputable brand. Whether you're a beginner or looking to elevate your channel's success, this book provides clear strategies and actionable insights to help you thrive in the dynamic world of YouTube. Start your journey to financial independence today!

The Tempter’s Letters is a powerful Christian spiritual warfare book that exposes the subtle strategies the enemy uses to weaken faith, distract the soul, and lead believers away from truth. Temptation does not always begin with obvious evil. Sometimes it begins as a quiet whisper, a small compromise, a delayed prayer, a hidden resentment, or a thought that sounds reasonable enough to believe. The enemy rarely attacks the soul all at once. He often works slowly—through pride, fear, distraction, bitterness, spiritual laziness, secret habits, and distorted thinking. In this eye-opening and faith-strengthening book, Brian Smith helps believers recognize the hidden battles behind everyday choices. With clear biblical insight and practical spiritual wisdom, The Tempter’s Letters reveals how deception works, how compromise grows, how prayer becomes weakened, and how the enemy twists truth to make sin appear harmless. But this book is not written to create fear. It is written to awaken faith. Inside these pages, you will discover how to guard your thoughts, resist temptation, strengthen your prayer life, return to Scripture, break free from bitterness, reject spiritual sleep, and stand firm in the victory of Jesus Christ. You will be reminded that believers do not fight alone. Christ has already overcome, and through prayer, truth, repentance, obedience, humility, discernment, and dependence on the Holy Spirit, every believer can walk in spiritual strength. This book is for Christians who want to stop living casually and start living watchfully. It is for anyone who feels spiritually distracted, tired, tempted, or distant from God. It is for believers who want to understand the enemy’s tactics without becoming obsessed with darkness, and who want to keep their eyes fixed on Jesus, the true source of victory. The Tempter’s Letters is more than a warning—it is a call to wake up, stand firm, and live with courage, wisdom, and spiritual clarity. If you are ready to recognize deception, resist temptation, strengthen your faith, and walk closer with Christ, this book is for you. Buy your copy of The Tempter’s Letters today and begin the journey toward deeper watchfulness, stronger faith, and lasting victory in Christ.

The Christian Athlete is a gospel-centered guide that assists athletes who identify as Christians and are seeking to understand how to practically apply their faith to their sport. Athletes desire—and deserve—a more substantive expression of the Christian faith in the context of sport, but they don’t know what it looks like or where to turn to learn more. Author Brian Smith shares his story as an athlete and coach, and his experience working with high-level athletes in the last decade to help readers better understand how to integrate faith and sport by: Assisting those who want a wide-angled understanding of how to live the Christian faith in the context of sports Walking through the many questions Christian athletes ask about winning, losing, injuries, practice, and everything in between Moving Christian athletes from simply having clichéd spiritual sayings decorating their bodies or t-shirts to actually living out their faith through all the opportunities their sport offers them The Christian Athlete will show readers how to live out a biblical perspective on athletics and urge them to engage in the gifts they are given to glorify God whether they are the team MVP or riding the bench.

Some people do not just hurt your feelings—they drain your peace, weaken your confidence, confuse your mind, and make you question yourself. 5 Types of People Who Can Destroy Your Peace is a practical and eye-opening guide for anyone who has ever felt emotionally exhausted by difficult, toxic, manipulative, or high-conflict people. Whether it is a romantic partner, family member, friend, coworker, boss, or someone in your social circle, certain personalities can bring repeated stress, guilt, drama, fear, and confusion into your life if you do not recognize the warning signs early. In this powerful self-help guide, Brian Smith helps you identify five common types of people who can damage your emotional well-being: narcissists, manipulators, emotional abusers, victim-minded people, and drama creators. You will learn how these personalities operate, how they twist situations, how they avoid responsibility, and how they pull others into unhealthy patterns through guilt, blame, charm, intimidation, emotional pressure, and constant conflict. This book is not about judging people carelessly or labeling everyone who disagrees with you. It is about protecting your peace with wisdom. It will help you understand the difference between ordinary difficult behavior and repeated toxic patterns that can slowly break down your confidence, self-trust, and emotional safety. Inside, you will discover how to spot red flags before they become deeper problems, set clear boundaries without feeling guilty, stop over-explaining yourself, respond calmly to high-conflict people, and rebuild your confidence after toxic relationships. You will also learn how to choose healthier people, protect your emotional space, and stop allowing other people’s dysfunction to control your life. If you are tired of drama, manipulation, guilt-tripping, blame, emotional abuse, and relationships that leave you feeling drained instead of valued, this book will give you the clarity and courage you need. Your peace is valuable. Your boundaries matter. Your emotional safety is not selfish. Buy your copy of 5 Types of People Who Can Destroy Your Peace today and start learning how to recognize toxic patterns, protect your mind, and choose healthier relationships with confidence.

What does it really take to become a better software engineer? It is not simply about writing more code or learning another programming language. Great software engineering is about knowing how to think, design, test, debug, collaborate, and ship with confidence. The Software Engineer's Playbook is a practical guide for developers who want to build better software and develop the professional habits that make an engineer truly dependable. Whether you are a junior developer building your foundation, a mid-level engineer looking to improve, or an experienced programmer seeking a more disciplined approach, this book provides practical lessons you can apply to real-world projects. Inside, you will learn how to understand requirements before writing code, design solutions thoughtfully, write code that humans can understand, and build meaningful tests that protect important behavior. You will discover practical approaches to debugging, refactoring messy code, managing technical debt, reviewing code, working with Git, and collaborating effectively with engineering teams. The book also explores the challenges that appear beyond the development environment, including security, performance, error handling, continuous integration, deployment, monitoring, release management, and production reliability. Instead of focusing on one programming language, framework, or temporary technology trend, this playbook focuses on engineering principles that remain valuable as tools change. You will learn how to make better decisions, reduce unnecessary complexity, handle failure, communicate technical ideas clearly, and take greater responsibility for the software you build. Most importantly, you will learn to think beyond simply completing a ticket. Professional engineers build software that can be understood, tested, maintained, deployed, monitored, and improved. Whether you are writing your first production feature or working on a large software system, this book can serve as a practical reference throughout your engineering journey. Write better code. Test smarter. Debug systematically. Collaborate effectively. Ship with confidence. Click the Buy Now button today and get your copy of The Software Engineer's Playbook—and start building better software, stronger engineering habits, and a more successful software engineering career.

"On the way home, the Lees waylaid them, and began shooting at Uncle Will. He jumped off his horse, and fired back. The ball struck, Dan Lee's thumb as he aimed his pistol at Uncle Will and the ball went on through Lee's chest. He died that night. Two other men were also shooting at Smith, one from under a horse's neck and the other behind a tree. Uncle Will shot one in the calf of the leg and the other in the heel, having emptied his pistol, he ducked into the brush and escaped." A story of the Smith family of Scotland arriving in the United States of America and traveling westward, as told by Judge Houston Smith. Harrowing tales of indian encounters, horse racing, growing up in the frontier, and treacherous travel by horse-drawn covered wagons. Memoirs originally written in 1930, adapted into a chronological account by Brian Smith in 2012.

The Holy Fear of God is a powerful Christian spiritual-growth book for believers who long to move beyond casual faith and return to a deeper, more reverent walk with God. In a world where Christianity can easily become comfortable, shallow, and distracted, many believers speak of God’s love but forget His holiness. They desire His blessings but resist His correction. They want His promises but struggle with obedience. Yet Scripture teaches that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom—and without reverence, faith slowly loses its depth. This book reveals that holy fear is not terror, panic, or running away from God. It is sacred awe. It is the humble awareness that God is loving, merciful, majestic, righteous, and worthy of complete surrender. When understood correctly, the fear of God does not push believers away from Him; it draws them closer to His heart. Through clear biblical reflection, heartfelt encouragement, and practical spiritual insight, The Holy Fear of God shows how reverence transforms worship, deepens prayer, strengthens obedience, removes pride, protects the soul from compromise, and restores sincere devotion. It calls readers to examine the places where faith has become too familiar, prayer has grown weak, Scripture has become routine, and obedience has been delayed. Inside these pages, you will discover how to: Understand the true meaning of the fear of God Break free from casual Christianity Worship with sincerity and reverence Obey God from love, not legalism Resist pride, compromise, and secret sin Live wisely with eternity in view Return to a fully surrendered life in Christ This is not a book about religious fear or condemnation. It is a call to holy awakening. It is a reminder that God is not ordinary, His Word is not casual, His presence is not common, and His mercy should never be treated lightly. If you are ready to renew your reverence, deepen your faith, strengthen your obedience, and walk closer with God, this book is for you. Buy your copy of The Holy Fear of God today and begin the journey back to a life of wisdom, surrender, and true reverence before the Lord.

What if the better life you are chasing begins with the sleep you keep ignoring? In a world that praises busyness, late nights, constant work, endless scrolling, and the pressure to always do more, sleep is often treated as something optional. Many people push through tiredness, depend on caffeine, sacrifice rest for productivity, and wonder why they feel foggy, moody, stressed, unfocused, and drained. But sleep is not wasted time. It is one of the most powerful foundations for energy, focus, emotional balance, memory, productivity, and long-term well-being. Why Sleep Matters is a clear, practical, and eye-opening guide that helps readers understand the true value of rest. Written in simple, relatable language, this book explains what happens in the body and brain while you sleep, why dreams may matter, how poor sleep can affect mood and health, and why modern life is quietly stealing the rest people need to function well. Inside this book, Brian Smith explores how sleep supports the brain, strengthens memory, restores the body, balances emotions, supports immunity, improves focus, and helps people show up better in daily life. Readers will also discover how stress, screens, caffeine, late-night work, social media, irregular schedules, and noisy environments can disturb sleep—and what simple habits can help create a better night routine. This is not a complicated medical textbook. It is a practical guide for everyday readers who want to understand sleep in a deeper but easy-to-follow way. Whether you struggle with restless nights, daytime tiredness, poor focus, emotional stress, or simply want more energy for your goals, this book will help you see sleep as a serious part of healthy living. Better sleep does not only change your nights. It can change the way you wake, think, work, feel, love, create, and live. If you are ready to stop treating exhaustion as normal and begin reclaiming the power of real rest, this book is for you. Buy Why Sleep Matters today and start building simple habits for better sleep, better energy, and a healthier, more balanced life.

Most Christian athletes know they are supposed to play for the glory of God, but what does that actually mean? How can the Bible be practically applied to sports? In The Assist, Brian Smith combines the wisdom of God's Word and his own experience working with athletes to help readers better understand how to integrate faith and sport. This book will show you how to: Use your sport to grow closer to God. Glorify God in every area of your sport, including practice, injuries, relating to teammates, and winning and losing graciously. Leverage your position as an athlete to maximize your impact in God's kingdom. To be a Christian athlete means much more than just giving your best and making sure God gets the credit. It means living out your faith in every aspect of your sport. Smith's book is aimed at helping you do just that: it is designed to assist you in integrating your faith with your life as an athlete.