Bøger af Jeff Miller

Through lively anecdotes, colourful pictures and delicious recipes, Jeff Miller explores the meteoric rise of the avocado.

Paradox strikes Kinsley's life to the core in this page turning conundrum that strangely moves the Ghost Hunting club from Luisiana to California and engulfs them in the most dangerous mystery yet. As divine intervention plays a role in saving their lives and they are brought into a treasure trove of unpatented inventions and unpublished manuscripts of a time traveler, who has mysteriously disappeared from Providence Place. Set a course with these teen sleuths as they venture into trouble and engage in their most daring adventure coming face to face with the spiritual beings and the unknown.

Chronic pain and illness forces a person to their knees. It leaves us grasping for the lifeboat, but each time our hand reaches out-the boat gets a little further away. It has the potential to torment a person until they lose sight of their dignity and self-respect. "Spring Devotions" is the fourth and final book of the "Broken Body, Wounded Spirit: Balancing the See-Saw of Chronic Pain" series. It is a book of tips and strategies for rebuilding life, finding balance, rediscovering passion, overcoming fear and isolation, and standing toe to toe with chronic pain and illness. It is priceless to anyone seeking to renew his or her inner strength. Sharing their medical expertise, and Celeste as patient and advocate, the authors add a flavor of ancient traditions of healing to contemporary thoughts, as they nudge their readers into realizing their own potential. This is your lifeboat, reach out and grab it, climb in and hold on tight for a wild ride. You will explore things you never thought possible.

Imagine a dragon breathing its inferno and then, watch it engulf everything in its path. Chronic pain acts like that. It is a raging fire that devours logical thinking. It incinerates comfort, companionship, dreams, and goals. When pain dominates, it's a force that must be challenged. Celeste Cooper and Jeff Miller have provided an arsenal to fight this dragon that threatens energy, growth, and healing. By focusing on each summer day, the authors send their readers on a personal journey of mindfulness and self-awareness, allowing the reader to create enduring images on how pain is perceived. Summer Devotions is the second of a four book series, Broken Body, Wounded Spirit: Balancing the SeeSaw of Chronic Pain. It is a tribute to everyone committed to living a fearless life despite the roadblocks caused by living with chronic pain and illness.

Learn about the wildlife of the Bay Area from a lifelong protector of endangered species, and enjoy the wild ride.Jeff Miller's quirky guide to the coolest animal neighbors in the Bay Area will have you gawking at elk, whooping with cranes, and crowning yourself a crossing guard for newts before you know it. Join Jeff on a local safari to meet more than sixty species of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and insects, and discover the fascinating and sometimes bizarre mating, feeding, and athletic antics of our most charismatic animals.Portraits by Obi Kaufmann, the renowned conservationist artist who created The California Field Atlas, bring each animal to vivid life alongside fun facts, comical photos, and maps to help you scope out the best spots to find your furred, feathered, slimy, and slithery friends. Imbued with the author’s deep compassion for the well-being of our local fauna, Bay Area Wildlife reveals why each of these creatures matters, as well as the threats that loom over our region's incredible biodiversity.

Jeff Miller's heartbreaking, coming-of-age middle-grade novel--inspired by his personal experience living through his own parent's heart transplant--invites readers into the world of a twelve-year-old birdwatcher looking for a place to call home and a way to save his mother, even if it means venturing deep into Florida swampland. Twelve-year-old Graham Dodds is no stranger to hospital waiting rooms. Sometimes, he feels like his entire life is one big waiting room. Waiting for the next doctor to tell them what's wrong with his mom. Waiting to find out what city they're moving to next. Waiting to see if they will finally get their miracle--a heart transplant to save his mom's life. When Graham gets stuck in Florida for the summer, he meets a girl named Lou at the hospital, and he finds a friend who needs a distraction as much as he does. She tells him about a contest to find the endangered Snail Kite, which resides in the local gator-filled swamps. Together they embark on an adventure, searching for the rare bird . . . and along the way, Graham might just find something else--himself. Jeff Miller crafts a heartfelt story about what it means to live in this unforgettable middle-grade novel. Rare Birds is a rare find that will resonate with fans of the Carl Hiassen's Hoot and Melissa Savage's Lemon. For readers looking for novels with literary appeal and classic themes of family, friendship, and the meaning of life, Rare Birds is a perfect pick. Hardcover with dust jacket; 288 pages; 5.5 x 8.3 in.

Being forced to look at life through a peep hole is petrifying, and that is exactly what chronic pain and illness does. It isolates, dominates and threatens the things all human beings hold dear. Chronic pain and illness is a bully with a ravenous appetite for creating mayhem in one's life. Anguishing physical and emotional pain is often overlooked. After all, "the person doesn't look sick." From the outside pain isn't visible, but from the inside, it is an unwanted intruder to the person experienced it. It is a thief of goals and dreams, finances and socialization. Finding balance and avoiding isolation when struggling with chronic pain is difficult. But, this book bursts from its bindings a metaphor for the reader to break free from the shackles it imposes. The authors expose their readers to infinite possibilities for viewing life through a door wide open to a landscape of honor and hope. Using their expertise as RN, educator, and clinical psychologist, the authors guide their readers through the physical and mental chaos.

Finally, a book that explains the endless competition, along with all this gun violence, addictions, and suicides. In fact, this book reveals the cause for most human woes. It's this constant drive among people around us-to win. And how do they do that? By making us lose! All our lives we've have been aware on some level that people were secretly competing with us to come out on top, we just haven't realized the extent of it or how far some are willing to go. Yet you've sensed it time and time again: the feeling that someone is trying to one up you, make you look bad, or toying with you to entertain themselves-attempting to get the advantage in some sort of game they were playing. Then, there have been all of those who are so controlling in your world and others who are subtle in their manipulation, confrontational, or just plain mean. And let's not forget the ones that have purposely sought to demean, belittle, or destroy us. Yet perhaps most devastating of all were those who blocked you from accomplishing your goals in life and following your dreams. Would it surprise you to know that all these individuals have been playing the same game? It's time to figure out what's been going on all along and how deep this rabbit hole goes.

Amazing stories are shared throughout generations. Stories of miraculous healings, out-of-body experiences, spiritual voices and visions are nothing new in the faith community. When Pastor Tucker passes away, no one is more surprised by these revelations than his granddaughter. Hazel Grace, a college senior, mourns her grandfather. When she learns that his bible and last sermon, with a name she doesn't recognize is left for her, sadness turns to curiosity. She suspects there's a story to tell and she's supposed to find it. Zachary Stone is a down on his luck ghostwriter who could use a break. After growing up with a deadbeat drunk as a father, he doesn't believe in God, Christianity or anything else. Hazel is convinced Zachary's not the right person to tell her grandfather's story, but she wants to fulfill her grandfather's wish, and Zachary needs a paycheck. As they peel back the layers of Pastor Tucker's life, Hazel and Zachary start to find love and redemption, one amazing story at a time. Can Zachary escape his demons and find a path forward with Hazel or will the strain of past mistakes and doubts stand in their way?

Six schoolgirl friends form a club to investigate ghosts. Yet as they get pulled into the Knick-Knack Man legend, and "this old man" appears when they summons him, one by one it claims their lives. Just like the rumor Jena first heard at school, and they researched during their sleepover, the internet legend proved true. But defying their vote, two of them experiment with it, and Jena if the first to go. Next, Kelsey gets abducted, and her little sister, Kinsley, will not let it go. Yet then, the third one--Taylor, is murdered also, and three remain to take on a new challenge: figure out how to stop this phantom's siege of terror and death. You won't want to miss what is about to unfold in the first book of this ghost hunting series, as an age-old nursery rhyme comes to life--in a malevolent way: a secret that only the blackbirds seem to know, while the scarecrow stands and watches.Once you recite the incantation: "This old man, he played four. He played knick-knack on my door," then go and unlock your front door-inviting him in, he is summonsed. Then he sneaks into your bedroom at night, with his scroungy little dog following, and leans on his cane staring at you. And if they don't get what they are after, they'll come back. The first morning, you wake up and your thumb hurts. On the third day your knee aches, and the fifth morning, you're dead (this old man, he played five. He played knick-knack on my hide). Find out what unfolds as Tiffany, Hailey, and especially Kinsley are left to solve this intense page turning mystery.

There is nothing charismatic about chronic pain regardless of its source. Pain is greedy and demanding. It consumes our time, our relationships, and our function. It threatens everything that is important in our lives, our character, and our dignity. The winter season is often compared to death. In this case, it is the dying off of old thoughts and behaviors. It is a season that offers the experience of many feelings and the opportunity to be born into a new way of thinking. Winter Devotions provides the necessary tools to fight the grotesque monster that plays on fear, agony, loneliness, and resentment. As patient and professional, the authors use their practical advice for coping. Their readers start with a blank canvas as white as the pure driven snow, full of possibilities. Offering a blend of integrative therapies and day by day tidbits of wisdom and famous quotes, the authors help their readers finalize a picture worth a thousand words, encouraging them to explore their unique, and sometimes, universal experience. Readers have the opportunity to devise their own plan bringing hope to the challenges of living with chronic pain. Come with us as we walk the barren winter land appreciating that it is necessary to rid ourselves of previous conceptions in preparation for the spring season of rebirth.

A compendium of the witty, wise things we've heard from Donald Trump over the last four years. OK, so it's basically 149 blank pages. But it makes a nice coffee table book, journal or in a worst case scenario, can be used as TP.

Steven F. Gray II spent his life in a living Hell. Being abused, rejected, and imprisoned multiple times instilled in him an unquenchable rage that came within inches of destroying him and everyone he had ever loved. For years, God stood at the door and knocked, but it wasn't until he was completely desperate and ready to die that he answered to let Jesus Christ into his life. Steven lived through the nightmare of drug and alcohol addiction, and a series of unholy and sometimes violent romance relationships. He was imprisoned several times for a gamut of crimes. But now, Steven is overjoyed to find that Jesus Christ is everything that the addictions promised, but could never deliver. Now he knows that his horrific past was necessary to give him the life he has today, having walked away from everything he ever was and ever owned to gain Christ (Phil. 3:8). By the power of total surrender, Steven is finally free, finally not trying to tell God how to do His job, and living his life in the center of God's will. Trusting God to give him back who and what He wants him to have, Steven has totally surrendered.

God's Abundant Provision. A Promise...and A Right! Lack is more than just a financial matter. Much of the hardships in life are the result of wrong thinking and wrong decisions. We must learn the importance of renewing our mind with God's higher thoughts. We can only prosper to the degree that our souls (thoughts) prosper. It is imperative that we seek first His kingdom, and not money or material possessions. Prosperity is never to be our goal in life. Many Christians are living far below what Jesus has purchased for them. They are struggling to attain what God has freely provided. Jesus came that we might have an abundant life. Living in lack is not abundant living. Lack goes against the very nature of God. Financial provision is not only a biblical promise, but the right of every born-again believer. In his book, Thou Shalt Not Lack, Jeff Miller presents reasons that Christians suffer lack, and what they can do to release the blessings of God in their lives. The same covenant that provides us with forgiveness and healing also provides us redemption from the curse of lack. As you apply the Biblical principles contained in this book you will begin to experience the goodness of God in a fresh way and will move out of the land of lack into God's full supply.

From the storming of the Capitol and the rise of authoritarian rhetoric and politicians to the challenge of global warming, liberal democracy faces a twin crisis of legitimacy and efficacy. Democracy in Crisis points to long neglected resources from the world's first democracy - Ancient Athens - prompting us to think beyond our current practices.

A guide to doing research in the burgeoning field of food studies. It details the predominant research methods in the field, provides a series of interactive questions and templates to help guide a project, and includes suggestions for food-specific resources such as archives, libraries and reference works.

The incredible story of the maverick American Football League to life through the words of the players, coaches, owners and others who lived it. This story of the AFL is filled with legendary names such as Bob Griese, Joe Namath, Lamar Hunt, Jack Kemp, Len Dawson and more.