New Release Books by Mary Bell

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Adventure begins when six Minnesota women head out to the Black Hills of South Dakota for a fun-filled trail ride. While telling wild tales around a campfire, they witness a mind-blowing, spectacular aurora borealis. Early the next morning they ride a little-known trail only to get lost. When they return to camp, exhausted, they find that a massive solar flare has damaged the electric grid. In a changed world, with no electricity, no cell phone service and no gasoline, these stranded women take control and decide to ride their horses back home. What started as an adventure turns into a test of survival. They must work together to find food and water, face rattlesnakes, suffer through brutal thunderstorms and wrestle with their personal demons--all without succumbing to fear. These female centaurs ride out of the hills, through the Badlands and into a new awareness.

Move past anxiety and discover what really matters to you. Written by three experts in teen mental health, this powerful workbook offers evidence-based activities grounded in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help you cope with anxiety, build resilience, stop avoiding the things you fear, and lead a fuller, happier life. Anxiety is what we feel when we’re scared about some future event that may or may not happen. When you’re struggling with anxiety your mind is trying to protect you from danger, so it’s busy telling you about all the things you can’t do. Along with these thoughts come a host of feelings and bodily sensations—such as sweaty palms, restlessness, lightheadedness, and stomach aches. But it’s not the anxious thoughts that make anxiety a problem. It’s the actions we take, or don’t take, as a result of these thoughts. In The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Teen Anxiety, you’ll find helpful alternatives to the ineffective strategies and habits you’re currently using to deal with anxiety, such as avoidance. You’ll find basic information about anxiety to help you recognize what it looks and feels like, mindfulness tips to help you stay in the moment when you feel worried about the future, and tips to help you connect with your own values so you can start putting the important things in life first.

In this much-needed guide, a clinical psychologist and a social worker provide a flexible, ten-week protocol based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help adolescents overcome mental health hurdles and thrive. If you’re a clinician working with adolescents, you understand the challenges this population faces. But sometimes it can be difficult to establish connection in therapy. To help, ACT for Adolescents offers the first effective professional protocol for facilitating ACT with adolescents in individual therapy, along with modifications for a group setting. In this book, you’ll find invaluable strategies for connecting meaningfully with your client in session, while at the same time arriving quickly and safely to the clinical issues your client is facing. You’ll also find an overview of the core processes of ACT so you can introduce mindfulness into each session and help your client choose values-based action. Using the protocol outlined in this book, you’ll be able to help your client overcome a number of mental health challenges from depression and anxiety to eating disorders and trauma. If you work with adolescent clients, the powerful and effective step-by-step exercises in this book are tailored especially for you. This is a must-have addition to your professional library. This book includes audio downloads.

More Love at Home is an homage to the beautiful family-building doctrines and practices of LDS families. It''s a template for new members, non-members, less active members looking to return, and of course, for all active members also seeking to enjoy More Love at Home: ). This book is infused with love: love for the Savior, love for the gospel, and (as subtext) a love of missionary work. It''s comedic and instructive by turns, as each chapter discusses a different aspect of family life and how to enhance it. Families are the basic building block of society. When families are strong, we are all stronger. When they are weak, mankind suffers. Latter-Day Saints have a plethora of knowledge about how to properly build well-constructed families. It''s more than time to bring that knowledge further out of obscurity and into the world

"Rejoice" is the third volume of poetry published by Mary Angeline Bell, known as Angie to family and friends. Angie grew up in Portland, Oregon and obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from Lewis & Clark College in 1961 and a Master of Arts from the University of Oregon in 1965. She spent some time teaching, and in 1968 she married Rex Bell. They lived in Portland and adopted a daughter, Janice Elizabeth (now called Jennie), in 1971. Angie has enjoyed music and poetry from her childhood. She plays the piano and has sung in church choirs. She has enjoyed her travel opportunities, having been to Europe in the summers of 1965 and 1969, and also to a number of American cities for Right to Life conventions. Angie worked as an office specialist from 1977 to her retirement in 2003 at the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries, Civil Rights Division. She has been a member of Toastmasters International since June, 2000. Each of Angie''s parents came from a large family, so there were lots of aunts, uncles, and cousins. Her father passed away in 1990, and her mother in 2009. She is much involved in the lives of her two granddaughters, Jessica (born in 1993) and Jasmine (born in 1995). Jessica has a son and daughter and a third child on the way. Jasmine has a two-year-old daughter. Angie''s world view is one of faith and hope.

One of America''s first national parks, Hot Springs has welcomed the famous and the infamous, all seeking the healing elements of her waters. Hot Springs was one of the first areas set aside as a federal land reservation in 1832--predating the first national park at Yellowstone by 40 years. In 1921, it was officially designated a national park. Physically the smallest of the 59 US national parks today, Hot Springs measures just larger than 5,500 acres. Its 47 on-site springs produce more than 700,000 gallons of thermal water per day. From early natives who quarried novaculite found in the surrounding hills to famous politicians, performers, and athletes, people have been coming to these springs for thousands of years to partake in the supposed healing powers of the water. President Franklin Roosevelt, boxer Jack Dempsey, and French opera diva Lily Pons are a few of the visitors who made the trek to the Valley of the Vapors. The history of Hot Springs National Park revolves around people''s'' interactions with its thermal water.

Far from being a fad, food dehydrating is one of the most ancient, effective, and nutritious ways of preserving food. Now, at last, there is a book that teaches absolutely everything there is to know about using an electric food dehydrator to dry foods at home -- and gives more than 100 foolproof recipes for scrumptious snacks and meals made from dried foods. With this extraordinary book, you can learn how to cross junk food and expensive store-bought snacks off your family''s shopping list -- and add to your cupboard homemade, preservative-free fruit leathers, candied apricots, beef (and fish) jerkies, "sun" dried tomotoes, corn chips, banana chips, and so much more! Mary Bell gives specific techniques and instructions for preparing every kind of fruit (from apples to watermelon) and vegetable (from asparagus to zucchini). She also provides important shopping tips for buying an electric food dehydrator. The recipes for cooked meals (including mushroom soup, sloppy joes, pesto, and moist banana bread) will make this book a kitchen classic. And recipes for lightweight, filling trail snacks mean that the book will travel, too. Additional chapters explain to how make herb seasonings, granolas, celery powder, cosmetics, dried fruit sugars, potpourri -- and even pet treats! Food drying is an excellent way for gardeners to preserve their produce. It is a great way to make healthful snacks for the kids. It''s perfect for the new wave of thrifty consumers who can''t bear to spend dollars at health food stores for treats they cold make for pennies themselves. And food drying doesn''t use chemicals or preservatives—so it''s great for you and for the planet, too!

An anecdote is a short entertaining account of some happening. Continuing the style of her first two books Moments and Snapshots, Mary Bell tells accounts of nature, family, and love. You have just discovered a different, fun, and interesting word search.... Why just work through lists of words when you can read some great short stories by Mary Bell and enjoy some stimulating Circle It word search too. The words for the Circle It word search are in bold within the short stories. No more boring lists of words . Enjoy reading the short story and then search for the bold words in the word search puzzle on the opposite page. It is commonly said that your brain is a muscle that should be exercised to keep it strong and sharp. What better way to keep your mind stimulated than with very descriptive short stories. Why just work through lists of words when you can read some great short stories by Mary Bell and enjoy some stimulating Circle It word search. Be sure to look for all of our Circle It "Facts" and "Stories" word search puzzle books. "