Victoria Smith

Back CoverLittle h Dog is no ordinary dog and Big H is no ordinary owner. What will Big H do to help his little pup's poorly muscles? Where does the Super Vet fit in? And will Little h Dog ever get to chase a ball in the park again? Meet 'Big H' and 'Little h Dog' in this heartwarming children's story, based on the real life endeavours of a father to save his son from the cruel muscle wasting disease 'Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy'. The story provides a wonderful opportunity to spark conversations around disability/accessibility/inclusiveness, and that rather than being something to be dreaded, a wheelchair can open up a world of opportunity and adventure for children with a disability. In real life, 'Little h Dog' is a 14 year old boy called Harrison, but in this story, Harrison is a dog, because research by the charity Harrison's Fund has shown that dogs get more 'click-throughs' The Author & Illustrator TeamWritten by debut children's author Victoria Smith (Harrison's Aunty Vix ), 'Big H and Little h Dog' includes 32 pages of delightful hand-drawn, hand-water coloured all-original illustrations by the debut book illustrator 'Sketchy La Rue'; his humourous style and characterisation oozes from every page. More children's books from this dynamic duo are in the making -)For Charity100% of profit from book sales will be donated to Harrison's Fund, a charity on a mission to get as much money as possible into the hands of the world's best researchers, who are working hard to find a cure for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

Journey into the first installment of The Seed Book and learn about the processes of spiritual growth through the perspective of the growth of a seed. In book one, our author gives us a look at the methods God uses to prepare our spiritual soils for our spiritual seeds, and how He optimizes our spiritual soils to make us prime for planting. This fresh perspective of spiritual growth takes us through new, exciting, and eye-opening perspectives that help us to understand better why we go through the things we journey through in life and elaborates on how God uses these experiences to shape, mold, and nurture our spirits until we are prime for planting. Our writer also provides a full explanation of why this preparation of our spirits is necessary for us to reach our optimum potential for God's glory and our good, as she reaches back to the fall of man and rapidly brings us into how it still affects us to this day. This read is one unlike any other, and that helps one to understand better the ups and downs of life, the growth of the spiritual self, and why our relationship with the Lord is of the utmost importance. The writer, Minister Victoria Smith, takes a down-to-earth, no-holds-barred, tell-it-like-it-is approach to the realities of spiritual growth, and why so many fall away when the process begins after they give their life to Christ. She shares this revelation from the Lord with the goal of ministering to those who are new in Christ, and to those that are well into their spiritual walk. Helping others better understand the changes they undergo and to bring clarity to those that have not been able to grasp a full understanding of what is going on with them and in their lives as they grow in spirit.

Captivity was endemic in Arizona from the end of the Mexican-American War through its statehood in 1912. The practice crossed cultures: Native Americans, Mexican Americans, Mexicans, and whites kidnapped and held one another captive. Victoria Smith's narrative history of the practice of taking captives in early Arizona shows how this phenomenon held Arizonans of all races in uneasy bondage that chafed social relations during the era. It also maps the social complex that accompanied captivity, a complex that included orphans, childlessness, acculturation, racial constructions, redemption, reintegration, intermarriage, and issues of heredity and environment. This in-depth work offers an absorbing account of decades of seizure and kidnapping and of the different "captivity systems" operating within Arizona. By focusing on the stories of those taken captive—young women, children, the elderly, and the disabled, all of whom are often missing from southwestern history—Captive Arizona, 1851–1900 complicates and enriches the early social history of Arizona and of the American West.