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Working with the Enemy

John Case Adventure Series #1

by Brandan Hadlock

Action-adventure, Thriller, Clean Read

John Case’s ordinary life is about to become not so ordinary.

Cuba and Iran want the top-secret missile schematics someone named Big J has clandestinely auctioned. Thanks to a set-up, they think John is Big J.

Tonight, they’ll make their move, forcing John and his family into a terrifying adventure of international espionage and extortion.

If you’ve been looking for a thrilling, clean, family adventure, this is it!

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Coat of the Ancients

John Case Adventure Series #2

by Brandan Hadlock

Action-adventure, Thriller, Clean Read

Evil men millenia apart…

A coat with incredible powers…

A father who’s intent on saving his family…

Still suspected of treason and under FBI surveillance, John case is once again unwittingly enmeshed in the nefarious plans of evil mastermind El Shah and Iranian intelligence agents.

Iran wants to consolidate power in the Middle East and destroy America. El Shah seeks to exercise his right by lineage to control the Middle East and the Americas. Both believe an ancient artifact can help them achieve their quest for power. The key to finding the mystical object may be hidden in a notebook John Case’s eldest son stole from an Iranian operative two weeks earlier.

Now, someone is intent on getting the notebook from the Cases before they turn it in to the FBI.

When the Case boys go missing, John has one day to deliver the coveted coat of Nimrod and swear allegiance to Islam or else his sons may not survive.

Can John clear his name, rescue his sons and prevent Iran and El Shah from unleashing the coat’s power on the world?

Children’s Books

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The Wing Doodle Rocket

An “And Then…” Adventure

by Anna Christine Burnett

Juvenile Fiction, Humorous Stories

Joshua Hokey-Pokey is one of the Wild Geese. He is a hockey hero. Every game is an adventure, but things really get exciting after the tournament ends. Can he survive a kick to the moon, a rocket ride, a giant marshmallow and a volcano?

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Critter Crew with Melody Lou: Alphabet Songs

by Christine Burnett (Hadlock)

Juvenile Fiction, Humorous Stories, Learn the Alphabet

Children meet Dee, a dog who can dribble; Horace, a horse with a horrible case of the hiccups; Zina, a zebra who zigzags all around the zoo, and many more. Kids learn letter sounds simply and naturally (no need to drill) with catching lyrics full of alliteration and rhymes. This is a book and CD you will treasure.

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I am a Frog

by Christine Hadlock

Juvenile Fiction, Humorous Stories, Learn to Read

Six mini-books about animal friends: I am a Cat, I am a Hen, I am a Pig, I am a Frog, and I am a Bug. These short stories with their delightful pictures are perfect for emerging readers as they enter the magical world of words.

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My Very Own Journal for Kids

by Christine Hadlock

Juvenile books, Journals

Enjoy special time with your child every night before bedtime while you make a keepsake record. This journal is a reminder to you to take time to talk, read, teach, share, work and learn. Get into your child’s world when you help her fill out a record of each day. This volume also includes monthly chore charts and a money record. Choose a Blue or Pink journal.

Journaling and MyLife Books

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MyLife Book

A Yearly Account from Birth

by Christine Hadlock

Record-keeping, Journaling, Personal History

A once-a-year journal, a 100+ year record to preserve an entire life history. Not just a thing to pass on to your children, this is a gift for yourself. As you write, you can look back and see you made it through hard times, things worked out….often better than you could have imagined. It is a simple thing that can become a source of hope, a reason to endure, a dose of patience, and a place to remember miracles.

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Hardbound Journal

With Year and Volume Number

by Christine Hadlock

Record-keeping, Journaling, Personal History

Hardbound, 249 pages. A journal that is perfect for archiving: page numbers for indexing and easy reference, year and volume number printed on the spine–three volumes available per year, and 3 handy, easy-to-make pockets in the back. You’ll love your journal!

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Personal History and Scripture Study Index

A place to index your own journal

by Christine Hadlock

Record-keeping, Journaling, Personal History

Create your own personal index for all those important memories/writings with this easy-to-use personal index. Want to remember where you recorded ideas for that book you keep thinking of writing? Want to easily find entries about one of your children? And where was that inspiring thought about prayer you wanted to share with someone sometime? You’ll create your own subjects, as you go, on the appropriately designated alphabet pages. One index will likely last years. When you write or find something you know you’ll want to find later, make a simple note under your subject: 2018: 3: 165 (designating the journal year, volume number and page number). A few moments will save you hours searching later!

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The Family Dinner Gratitude Journal

Something to talk about and bring joy every day!

by Christine Hadlock

Record-keeping, Journaling, Personal History

This journal is an invitation for your family to diligently look for the good, the beautiful, the bounties, the cherished moments, the tender mercies, and the miracles that are already a part of your lives. Sit down as a family every day. Eat. Enjoy each other’s company. Talk about the blessings of the day. Make a record. What miracles might come? Best guess? Exactly the miracles you’ve needed.

Music Books

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Come Thou Fount

Sacred SATB Choral Collection for an entire year

by Christine Hadlock

Sacred Music, SATB Choir

A year-long collection of favorite LDS hymns arranged for SATB choir, including: Come Thou Fount; Sweet Hour of Prayer; Have I Done Any Good/Love One Another; The Lord is My Shepherd; Joseph Smith’s First Prayer; Behold a Royal Army; Come, Come Ye Saints; High on a Mountain Top; Come Unto Him; O May My Soul Commune with Thee; Count Your Many Blessings; and It Came Upon a Midnight Clear/How Great the Wisdom and the Love. Expect powerful messages from the hymns you love with variety and accompaniments that invite the Spirit. Created by a choir director/composer to solve the headache of finding, photocopying, hole-punching, filing and replacing FREE music. The Choir Binder is sturdy, black and lower cost to your budget than copying FREE music! Plus, there is a beautiful song for every month, January through December, appropriate for Sacrament Meeting.

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The Good Shepherd

Sacred Oratorio

by Christine Hadlock

Sacred Music, SATB Choir

A contemporary composition, this beautiful work is reminiscent of Handel’s, Messiah, inspiring meditation on the glory of God’s plan to give mankind a Shepherd, a Savior. Singers, choir directors and Christian audiences, alike, will savor familiar scripture passages set to Hadlock’s approachable musical style.

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Lead, Kindly Light

Sacred Hymn-Medleys for Solo Piano

by Christine Hadlock

Sacred Music, Piano Music

Piano medleys of favorite LDS hymns appropriate for special musical numbers, preludes, Sabbath music, etc: 1. Secret Prayer/A Child’s Prayer/Don’t Forget to Pray 2. I Know that My Redeemer Lives/I Believe in Christ 3. Onward Christian Soldiers/Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel 4. Keep the Commandments/More Holiness Give Me/I am a Child of God 5. Our Savior’s Love/Come Follow Me 6. Where Can I Turn for Peace/I Need Thee Every Hour 7. Because I Have Been Given Much/I’ll Go Where You Want Me to Go/Called to Serve/Go Forth with Faith 8. Lead, Kindly Light/Abide With Me

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Today I am Baptized

Sacred Songs for Children

by Christine Hadlock

Children’s Sacred Music

A collection of sacred songs for Latter-day Saint children by Christine Hadlock, including The Articles of Faith, Because Your Taught Me, Every Day, Every Day, The Gift God Gave to Me, God is a God of Miracles, The Perfect Example for Me, The Sabbath is a Delight, These are the Things I Know, We are Part of Something Grand, What Would Jesus Do, Today, I am Baptized, Baptism is the Way, I Want to be Baptized, I’ll Remember My Savior, A Shepherd’s Prayer, The Lamb, What Can I Give Him.

Piano Lessons & Music Instruction

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Playing the Piano, Do Re Mi for Beginners, Books 1-4

A Kodály Approach to learning music

by Christine Hadlock

Piano Instruction

Incorporating the renowned music education philosophies of Zoltán Kodály, this method guides students to (1) use rhythm syllables (ta, titi, etc.) to fluently read rhythms without hearing them first, (2) learn solfa (do, re, mi) as a foundation for sight reading, theory, transposing, memorizing and composing, (3) focus on steps, skips and target notes in learning to read notes on the staff, rather than learning “Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge”—a distracting extra step in reading music, (4) play folk songs, the most memorable tunes the world has to offer, within a few weeks of beginning the course, (5) explore their voice and sing, and (6) compose their own songs, because learning to write music is as important–and at least as much fun—as learning to read it. It’s a complete music education, a must for every music teacher and every aspiring pianist, young and old! Book 1. Book 2. Book 3. Book 4.

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The Piano Street

An Outrageously Effective Introduction

by Christine Hadlock

Juvenile Fiction, Humorous Stories, Learn Music

Children are introduced to the “dog who dribbles in the doorway” and a few of his neighbors and…voila!…they know the names of the keys on the piano! Full-color, simple stories, a visual map, songs to learn by rote or to just listen to. An “outrageously effective” tool to teach beginning piano students the names of the notes…and never forget them!

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The Music Mountain

Mastering note names through imagery!

by Christine Hadlock

Learn Music

Children learn about base clef and treble clef as fences on Music Mountain where the C-chord appears as five different snowmen leaning up against, climbing on, climbing under, climbing over and doing flips over on the lines and spaces. It is imagery to that functions as another “outrageously effective” tool to teach beginning piano students the names of the notes on the staff…and remember them!

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Christine Hadlock’s Musical Alphabet Games

Mastering 6 Musical “Alphabets”

by Christine Hadlock

Learn Music, Games

Teach the music “alphabets,” essential understanding the musical language, and then play games to solidify this knowledge. Music, afterall, is a language. What are the alphabets of music students need to know? Here are a few: 1. Notes on the grand staff, 2. Keys on the keyboard, 3. Key signatures and the patterns of the circle of 5ths, 4. Solfa and Curwen hand signs, 5. Rhythms, and 6. Scales and chords

Alphabet knowledge serves our students’ minds in much the same way as shelves in a storage room would; it builds an organized space in which to learn. Creating this mental foundation is building mental shelves, that make for logical, organized synthesis of information and retrieval (remembering what one has learned). Though there is a bulk of information to learn right from the start, the benefits of mastering the basics are well worth the effort.

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Sight-Singing Do Re Mi and Tikitiki Ti

A Kodály music education approach.

by Christine Hadlock

Learn Music

Sight-singing Do Re Mi and Tikitiki Ti for Children’s Choirs is music instruction grounded in the Kodály music education philosophy. This book is a teacher edition and a student workbook combined in one, to facilitate use through elementary and middle school grades. The primary focus is to help students learn to sight-sing using solfa and rhythm syllables. It also teaches fundamentals of reading music on a staff, finding keys on the piano, and more. It includes hands-on classroom activities, take-home rhythm and solfa exercises with practice records, pages of beat squares, composition paper, and vital-for-the-classroom musical learning aids.

Now, you can view lessons from the book. Lesson 1 – Overview, Lesson 2 – Beat & Rhythym, Lesson 3 – Sol & Mi + More Rhythm, Lesson 4 – Solfa Scale

Record-Keeping Books

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Budget Book: Your Financial Fitness Trainer

An Über Ledger

by Christine Hadlock

Record-keeping, Finance

The Budget Book (part B in the Über Ledger: Your Financial Fitness Trainer series) is ready for a full year of your financial records. It includes a to-do list, a place to keep track of your bills, charitable donations, income, and online purchases, plus monthly forms to keep track of what you spend by category, how well you are staying in budget, and how much of your budget remains for the rest of the year.

Use the Budget Book in tandem with the Transaction Log and the 5-Year Financial Planner to become stronger and faster and smarter at avoiding debt, creating and sticking-to a realistic budget, setting and accomplishing goals, being prepared for tax time, and more.

The Über Ledger Series is a set of back-to-basics tools to help you see you can be in control of your situation; you can have hope for your future; and you have the power to make those thousands of choices (big and small) that add up to being financially fit.

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