Books published by Clay Bridges Press

In many years of ministry, Adam Kareus kept seeing a common theme. People struggle to live with purpose, and they rarely think deeply about the actions and thoughts of their lives. It is from this dilemma that "Decided" was born. Within this book, you will find short, easy-to-read chapters that help you live with intentionality in all you do.

Do you ever wonder if there is a simpler or more interesting way to learn about the Bible? In "The Bible in Poetry", the books of the Bible are condensed into concise, enjoyable and easy-to-read poems. Enjoy biblical teachings in simple, beautifully-written poems.

Uprooted from his native Brooklyn, yearning for independence from his overbearing father and relief from his obsessive thoughts, young concert pianist Joshua Brightman finds unlikely friends in his New Orleans neighbors, matriarch and gifted healer Annie Faris and her granddaughter, precocious twelve-year-old bookworm Sam. While Sam grieves over the recent loss of her father, Annie struggles to heal Sam's terminally ill mother. In their search for health and peace, Joshua, Annie, and Sam learn what barriers exist between death and life, between disease and healing, and the price they must pay to overcome them. Their stories play out against the backdrop of an Eden lost, a wounded, post-oil-spill Louisiana, and the ongoing struggle for survival of her people, wildlife, and those mysterious, mystical marshes.

An enormous forest fire scatters an elf family. Orion, the youngest, searches for many years, all the while avoiding human contact out of fear. Eventually though, she finds an elderly human couple she can trust with her story. Together they begin the quest to find her lost siblings. Adventures abound, discoveries are made and relationships forged. Together they, and the reader find numerous heartwarming surprises.

A fluffy kitten is born into the Cajun world of the Louisiana bayou. As she grows up with her two brothers File and Bourg, they experience their heritage in their many adventures. Their friend Jacques Uar accompanies them as they romp through the bayou, experience the joys of Thanksgiving Cajun style, receive presents from Papa Noel at Christmas, and celebrate Mardi Gras in the bayou. Some of their adventures take them to a Hoodoo queen, scare them with the "cocodries" and make them fight for their blackberry patch. Using authentic background, history, and vocabulary of the Cajun area of southern Louisiana, the book gives the reader a sense of being in that area and knowing the tradition as a participant. The Cajun vocabulary is defined after each word used, and a glossary is available for reference. Entertaining, fun, and educational, Mademoiselle Meringue Bayou Baby is a view of the world from a growing kitten's eyes, but the insights she acquires are wonderfully human.

A kitten born in the bayou, Mademoiselle Meringue, has grown up and found a home in New Orleans Louisiana. Her adventures are as varied as the city itself, and as the reader sees the city through the perspective of this feline and her friends they absorb much of the rich history of the "Big Easy" as well. With a reference and glossary page included the reader experiences the educational aspect of the book in a more traditional way, also. Meringue may be older, but the scrapes and adventures are no less thrilling than those of her kitten hood. Join the fun, and "let the good times roll."

This science teacher approved book of learning experiences for young children is a fun way for a child to be exposed to many simple scientific principles.While having fun in the tub these simple and inexpensive experiences are created with things found in your home, and serve as not only building blocks for later learning, but are fun. They provide a unique experience, which allows the child and the grown-up a platform for sharing ideas both educational and personal when applied to the experiences they have shared together. Mastery of the concepts is not expected, but as the fun continues with repeated and new "lessons" the ideas will form in the reservoir of the child's knowledge. Bonding with fun With no mess to clean up What could be better!?