Showing results by author "Kris" in All Categories

Thirteen-year-old Ava loves to surf and to sing. Singing and reading Rumi poems settle her mild OCD, and catching waves with her best friend, Phoenix, lets her fit in - her olive skin looks tan, not foreign. But then Ava has to spend the summer before ninth grade volunteering at the hospital, to follow in her single mother’s footsteps to become a doctor. And when Phoenix’s past lymphoma surges back, not even surfing, singing, or poetry can keep them afloat, threatening Ava’s hold on the one place and the one person that make her feel like she belongs.  

It has never been easier to start your own business. But avoiding the many pitfalls can be a challenge. As a solopreneur, you need to think not only as an employee but also as an investor, manager, salesperson, bookkeeper, and more. But it is worth it. If you’re aspiring to be in control of your life and willing to do the research to successfully transition to your ideal life, Kris Kluver can show you the way. In The Aspiring Solopreneur, Kris provides the tools you need to define success and to research and launch a spectacular solopreneur life.

Drawing from stratification economics, intersectionality, and respectability politics, The Love Jones Cohort centers on the voices and lifestyles of members of the Black middle class who are single and living alone (SALA). While much has been written about both the Black middle class and the rise of singlehood, this book represents a first foray into bridging these two concepts.

As her Pappi fights to save his family during the Holocaust, Irene's childhood is lost. Play is restricted. Family and friends disappear. Finally, with the Dutch police at their door comes the reality that Irene's father has not moved his family far enough from Hitler's Germany. By January 1945, the family is struggling to survive a death camp. Irene's first-person memoir, Shores Beyond Shores, is an account of how the heart keeps its common humanity in the most inhumane and turbulent of times.

April is running late for an important interview one day. She's always been a studious college student, but on this day everything seems to be going wrong. She accidentally slept in, she had trouble finding a parking spot at the mall where the office building is located, and then, to top things off, she trips and breaks her heel, skuffing up her perfect interview shoes. This is not a good day.... But then she finds a very special shoe store in the mall, where all the customers leave with all their needs satisfied.

Samantha Moon is about to discover that going back in time comes with some complications. Like having two memories of returning home from the Civil War. With no explanation for why a second memory appears, Sam is left contemplating the nature of time itself, parallel worlds, and a love that might have been. Along with her own sanity. After all, this second memory feels just as real as the first. Perhaps even more so. Samantha may not know why this alternate memory has appeared, but she does know one thing.... It all begins on a train....

When FBI Agent Leo Xanthus invites the beautiful and beguiling Polly Benson to his family home in New Orleans, he does so knowing an introduction to his concealed life could change hers forever. As his plans to sweep her off her feet unfold, Leo learns every family has secrets - some more deadly than others. With ties to a high-profile mafia family and the FBI, Leo and Polly’s worlds collide in and out of the bedroom, and their insatiable need for one another will blur the lines between what is right, what is wrong, and what is impossible to resist.

When Emma Lawson, the youngest lead government-ethics investigator in California's capital, takes a day off to help her best friend, Kate, prepare for the opening of her new preschool, the morning takes a shocking turn. The school's most high-profile enrollee - Vivian Lange, the governor's granddaughter - is kidnapped at the same time Kate's teenage son, Luke, goes missing.  

Bethany Ann Crane is a motherless eight-year-old living in Grover Springs, SC, at the beginning of the Cold War. After her patriotic small town agrees to enter into a government experiment geared to give the Americans an edge over the Russians in space, she, along with the rest of the town, is preserved in a scientific stasis state, and Bethany Ann becomes ensnared in her preadolescent body. As the girl matures mentally, she experiences more grown-up emotions and aspirations, but her family and neighbors refuse to recognize her as anything but a child.

FBI Agent Win Holloway is going home to Kentucky. At odds with his family, he carries not only a badge and weapon, but the unwarranted guilt of his mother’s death 23 years ago. When his father is found murdered in their family estate in an identical fashion, Win is forced to face his family’s past and the history of Winter Bourbon while searching for answers to not only his father’s death, but his mother’s unsolved murder.

Building your own home is a sizable task and, of course, when it’s been your dream for so long, you want things to be right. But this doesn't have to leave you frozen in your tracks. Building a house is just like any other great journey—it unfolds one beautiful (and sometimes tiny) step at a time. The good news is that what this path of tiny steps looks like is very clear and straightforward. Finally, a specific and detailed guide to help you maneuver these first steps and get your land ready for the build is here!

Nobody is born understanding money. The vast majority of us were never taught the basics or how to handle an emergency, much less the secrets of healthy money."Money 911" is your first responder when it comes to finances.Simple, focused advice about protecting your money and your future.As each day passes, we come face-to-face with an ever rising tsunami of money challenges. Out of control inflation, skyrocketing taxes, the feast or famine of home prices, the unpredictable frenzy of Wall Street, unexpected illness, failure to plan for retirement - these are all "emergencies" we do battle with ...

A building is only as tall as its foundation. Getting a building’s footing right is key in preventing structural issues in the future. The foundation distributes the weight of the home, ensuring the subsoil doesn’t spread away from the structure and cause unbalanced settlement. Not all foundations are made the same...and the requirements differ based on many factors. If you’re on the journey to homeownership, then consider making a stop here and learning foundation basics so that you can proceed with great confidence and grit.

This powerful message is taken from Kris' personal journey out of a life of insignificance, into a place of leadership. His words will confront the "pauper" and call out the "prince" in you. Kris explores the destructive nature of the "pauper" mentality and brings wisdom to escape its claws.

The world wants to make us into its image. The cares and pleasures of this life demand our hearts' devotion. We are always in the process of being transformed. We become like what we worship—which means we will find true rest only as we worship Christ and become more like him. In his revised devotional work, Kris Lundgaard invites us to forsake unfulfilling idols and set our hearts on adoring Christ instead.

With rent and home prices going through the roof, it’s natural to doubt your financial abilities to afford your home. But here’s some good news–you don’t have to worry about paying hefty amounts to landlords. You can build your own home instead!

Tom wished for a meaningful job with the chance to make things. Someone listened. Judged by a masked demigod, Tom gets sent to another world with magic, game-like rules, and massive opportunity for a clever inventor. He's been handed a new identity and adopted by a loving family. As a young man with otherworldly knowledge, he tries to recreate technology from humble beginnings. There are spells to learn, too, and he wants to treat his sister and parents right. His river homeland seems idyllic, but there are problems brewing.

Cozen Taylor has more than earned her place as one of North America’s most successful thieves. Her name is whispered among criminal elite as the go-to thief when someone needs a heist. She has never failed. A call from the Miami-based Astor family could change all that with a job that seems almost impossible to complete. The mark should be simple - a stolen family heirloom, the man who has kept it hidden for more than 20 years, and six months to return the piece to its rightful owners. Nothing is ever that easy.

Success and happiness are the predictable and guaranteed results of living natural laws - specifically, the six laws of conscious creation. These powerful, universal laws are detailed in this audiobook, which is written as a parable. Through the story of Shaun Porter, you'll learn how you can conquer your personal limitations, discover your unique purpose, and exercise the power of creative manifestation.

In a remote corner of the Chickasaw Nation, tribal Lighthorse policeman Bill Maytubby and county deputy Hannah Bond discover the buzzard-ravaged body of Majesty Tate, a young drifter with a blank past. They comb Oklahoma's rock prairie, river bottoms, and hard-bitten small towns for traces of her last days. Tate was seen dancing with Austin Love, a violent local meth dealer fresh out of prison. An Oklahoma City motel clerk connects her with an aspiring politician. An oil-patch roustabout and a shady itinerant preacher provide dubious leads.