Buying for someone younger
Books a child or teenager will actually read, chosen by an adult who seeks a conversation. Popular as birthday, graduation and holiday gifts.
What Brave Looks Like
A boy learns from his great-grandfather that courage takes many forms. For the child who says they do not like history, and for the grandparent hoping to be asked about it.
Paperback, hardcover, ebook and audiobook.
Mind and Money Mastery
How money actually works, explained to someone who has never had any, and how understanding the feelings underneath a money decision is vital. Good to hand over before the first job or the first credit card.
Paperback and ebook.
Smart Money Skills for Teens
Budgeting, saving and investing set out plainly, with the reasoning left in so a teenager can argue with it. A standard graduation and birthday gift, but an essential one.
Paperback and ebook.
Smart Money Skills for Teens and Parents Collection
The teenager's book and the parent's companion together, so both sides of the conversation are singing from the same hymnal.
Two-book bundle. Paperback and ebook.
ALPHA, Book One: The Ring That Catches the Sun
The first book of a science fiction series for middle-grade readers. Plainly told, and built so a child who is not yet engaged with science and technology can see that science fiction is fast becoming science fact.
In production.
Buying for someone older
Written for capable older readers, and usually bought by a son or daughter who has run out of patience explaining it over the phone.
A Senior's Guide to AI
Your mother or father is being asked to use something amazing that nobody is explaining to them, and what they hear is confusing and often scary. This answers those questions honestly, clearly and calmly. What it is, what it is good for, and how to tell when it is trying to take advantage of them. Written for an intelligent adult who simply was not “there” when this arrived.
Publishing shortly.
For you
The two where the person “in the middle” is the reader, not the buyer.
Listen to Your Children
About conversations that go wrong, and what is usually sitting underneath them. For the parent who has noticed that being right is not the same as being heard.
Paperback and ebook.
Smart Money Skills for Parents of Teens
The companion for the adult in the room. How to teach money without lecturing, and what to do when your own not-so-good money habits are the examples being copied.
Paperback and ebook.
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One book that sits outside all of that, and is none the worse for it.
3 Days in Valencia, Spain
A short, usable guide to three days in Valencia, written by someone who lives there. History, food, and the walk between them, with itineraries you can actually follow.
Paperback and ebook. Published as Rino Smith.
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