My Journey with Ernie


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In a sleepy town in Virginia, Heidi Speece was a high school teacher in search of something new. The overachiever with a penchant for "to do" lists had grown bored with life. She knew she needed a change, and she found it when she rescued Ernie Bert - a mischievous golden retriever living on the streets of Istanbul, Turkey. When the two met, chaos commenced. Heidi thought things would calm down after the elaborate rescue mission that covered two continents, four states, and five thousand miles to save the Turkey Dog. She was wrong. Within his first week in America, Ernie Bert committed a felony, became a social media star, and turned his human's world upside down. Along with Heidi's eccentric mother and a host of other colorful characters, the self-proclaimed perfectionist quickly lost control of the life she had so carefully planned. Join along on this true story and madcap adventure as human and dog learn to navigate life together, and the teacher ends up learning the greatest lesson of all.




Ernie's Journey


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Uncle Ernie is a daring adventurer and an enchanting storyteller. He travels to far-off places, where he encounters wonderous and sometimes very rare creatures. Are these places real? Are the creatures he meets? It's up to you and his nephew Eli to decide. All Uncle Ernie can say for sure is that when you travel, sometimes you reason and sometimes you run. But you always end up with a story to tell. David Woodland's extensive and award-winning experience in the film and animation world has influenced and inspired his captivating, cinematic artwork.




By the Grace of the Game


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A multi-generational family epic detailing history's only known journey from Auschwitz to the NBA When Lily and Alex entered a packed gymnasium in Queens, New York in 1972, they barely recognized their son. The boy who escaped to America with them, who was bullied as he struggled to learn English and cope with family tragedy, was now a young man who had discovered and secretly honed his basketball talent on the outdoor courts of New York City. That young man was Ernie Grunfeld, who would go on to win an Olympic gold medal and reach previously unimaginable heights as an NBA player and executive. In By the Grace of the Game, Dan Grunfeld, once a basketball standout himself at Stanford University, shares the remarkable story of his family, a delicately interwoven narrative that doesn't lack in heartbreak yet remains as deeply nourishing as his grandmother's Hungarian cooking, so lovingly described. The true improbability of the saga lies in the discovery of a game that unknowingly held the power to heal wounds, build bridges, and tie together a fractured Jewish family. If the magnitude of an American dream is measured by the intensity of the nightmare that came before and the heights of the triumph achieved after, then By the Grace of the Game recounts an American dream story of unprecedented scale. From the grips of the Nazis to the top of the Olympic podium, from the cheap seats to center stage at Madison Square Garden, from yellow stars to silver spoons, this complex tale traverses the spectrum of the human experience to detail how perseverance, love, and legacy can survive through generations, carried on the shoulders of a simple and beautiful game.




Elmo's Magical Mix-Up


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Ernie dreams that he and his friends, Bert and Elmo, are at wizard school.




Ernie the Blue Beagle


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Have you ever heard of a Blue Beagle? Wait until you meet Ernie. He's funny, he's smart and he's blue! Ernie is a special dog, that's for sure! He snorts just like a piggy and has a crooked little tail. He is also very silly: tripping over his ears, splashing in mud puddles, rolling around and howling loudly while singing and dancing! He might be the smallest dog in the Rescue Me Park but he has a big personality and a huge heart. What Ernie wants most is to find his forever family. Ernie remains hopeful even when the other dogs keep getting chosen over him. He believes someone will love him just the way he is. This story will inspire courage, confidence, diversity, and compassion. WARNING: Your child might ask for a puppy after reading this book!




Unscripted


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Ernie Johnson Jr. has been in the game a long time. With one of the most recognized voices in sports broadcasting, he is a tireless perfectionist when it comes to preparing and delivering his commentary. Yet he knows that some of sports' greatest triumphs--and life's greatest rewards--come from those unscripted moments you never anticipated. In this heartfelt, gripping autobiography, the three-time Sports Emmy Award-winner and popular host of TNT's Inside the NBA provides a remarkably candid look at his life both on and off the screen. From his relationship with his sportscaster father to his own rise to the top of sports broadcasting, from battling cancer to raising six children with his wife, Cheryl, including a special needs child adopted from Romania, Ernie has taken the important lessons he learned from his father and passed them on to his own children. This is the untold story, the one Ernie has lived after the lights are turned off and the cameras stop rolling. Sports fans, cancer survivors, fathers and sons, adoptive parents, those whose lives have been touched by a person with special needs, anyone who loves stories about handling life's surprises with grace--Unscripted is for all of these.




My Journey Down the Reincarnation Highway


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In this personal account, one man details how he discovered the fact of reincarnation and explores what he did in his prior lives. More people than you would believe have prior life memories. In his new spiritual memoir "My Journey down the Reincarnation Highway: The True Story of a Man who found nine of His Past Lives" author and businessman Frank Mares tells how he acquired psychic ability in his middle age. With this new gift, he recovered facts about nine of his prior lives, most of which involved violent, bloody deaths. The most recent life was that of a young German Wehrmacht sergeant who was ambushed and killed by Russians during the night of May 1, 1944 in a dark Estonian farmhouse. Not being satisfied with just discovering his past lives, Mares goes on a spiritual mission to find out why he kept dying violently. The answers do not come easily, but by using a team of three world class psychics he eventually tracks down the shocking reason for all his brutal deaths. The psychic team finds that within the soul of this normal small businessman resides a brutal, stone cold killer from the 1600's who surprisingly was the revered founder of a gentile noble family.As part of his soul's continuing quest for redemption, Mares hopes to salvage the dark time in his soul's past into something that could help others today. His experiences show that death is only a transition phase, and that it should not be feared. His book also reveals that reincarnation is actually a well designed, organized system that allows souls to learn personalized life lessons over a surprising number of lives. If you read this book, you will never look at life (and death) in the same way again.




Ernie O'Malley


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The Journey Part 2


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Henry ponders the cards he's been dealt at this time in his life as he drives leisurely on the dirt road toward his place. The bright headlights of his GMC extended cab truck form a wide tunnel through the thick woods banishing the darkness surrounding him on this moonless night. Henry's so engrossed with his thoughts he's oblivious to the magical moment created by the bright headlights; closely accompanied by the humming of the engine and the occasional crackling sounds of the fallen twigs and the small branches breaking under the all-weather tires running effortlessly on the dusty road; all, leaving in their wake the predictable darkness engulfing the woods. If only Henry knew what awaits him, surly his thoughts would be a great deal different. Henry's first journey was ~life altering~ and it came just as unexpectedly. And again the question still remains, are you ready, are you willing to journey with him?




Brought to You by . . . Sesame Street


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Favorite Sesame Street characters appear in seven short stories.