Join MEEP and MOOP on their very first adventure!

When Leo loses a treasured ring that once belonged to his grandfather, he doesn't know where to turn. But MEEP, the clever detective, and MOOP, her fearless sidekick, are always ready to help.

With the Sniffle Detector leading the way, the two friends search for clues, follow every lead, and discover that solving mysteries takes teamwork, determination, and a caring heart.

Perfect for children ages 3–8, The Mystery of Grandpa's Ring is a fun and uplifting story that teaches important values such as kindness, helpfulness, fairness, respect, love, and being true to yourself.

The first book in The Adventures of Meep & Moop series.

Because Every Sniffle Matters.

The Cylinder Turns is more than a timeline of firearms. It is a narrative journey through nearly two centuries of revolver history, combining carefully researched facts with engaging storytelling to bring the people, inventions, and moments that shaped the revolver to life.

Written by U.S. military veteran, retired Chief of Police, firearms instructor, and lifelong student of firearms history Jim Watson, this illustrated history reflects a lifetime spent around firearms—not only as tools of service, but as remarkable examples of engineering, innovation, and craftsmanship.

Throughout his career, Jim served as a certified firearms instructor through the Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission (OPOTC), the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, the Ohio Department of Parole and Community Services, and the National Rifle Association (NRA), and numerous law enforcement and criminal justice agencies. Drawing upon decades of professional experience, historical research, and a deep appreciation for the stories behind these iconic firearms, he presents the evolution of the revolver in a way that is both informative and enjoyable to read.

From Samuel Colt's first inspiration aboard a sailing ship to today's modern wheelguns, readers will discover the inventors, engineers, soldiers, lawmen, sportsmen, and innovators whose ideas changed firearms history forever. Richly illustrated and supported by extensive historical sources, The Cylinder Turns is written for collectors, enthusiasts, historians, shooters, competitive shooters, law enforcement professionals, and anyone who appreciates the fascinating stories behind one of history's most enduring firearms.

Calling all junior detectives!

The official companion to The Adventures of Meep & Moop: The Mystery of Grandpa’s Ring invites children to continue the adventure through coloring, puzzles, creativity, and kindness.

Inside this 20-page printable activity pack, children can:

• Color Meep, Moop, Leo, the Moop Mobile, and the Sniffle Detector
• Help the Moop Mobile travel through a maze
• Invent their own Sniffle Detector
• Search Meep and Moop Headquarters for hidden details
• Put scenes from the mystery in order
• Complete a Meep & Moop word search
• Take the Six Ways Kindness Challenge
• Design their own detective headquarters
• Earn an official Junior Detective Certificate

The easy coloring pages feature thick outlines and large open spaces for younger children, while the puzzles and creative challenges give older children plenty to enjoy.

Recommended for ages 3–8, with grown-up assistance for younger children.

This is a printable PDF download. One purchase permits printing for children in one household. The digital file and printed pages may not be resold, shared, uploaded, or redistributed.

Because Every Sniffle Matters.

Addiction, trauma, abuse, grief, and human struggle never affect just one.

They create ripples—through families, friendships, workplaces, courtrooms, churches, communities, and generations.

In The Storm Is Still the Storm, Jim Watson draws from more than four decades of experience in law enforcement, corrections, probation, parole, ministry, and family life to share real stories about people living through some of life's most difficult moments.

These are not stories told from a clinical textbook or from a comfortable distance. They come from living rooms, jail cells, prison ranges, police calls, probation offices, church pews, family struggles, and conversations that stayed with the author long after they ended.

Some stories may make you laugh. Some may hurt. Some may make you angry or uncomfortable. And some may cause you to recognize a piece of yourself—or someone you love.

This book does not ask you to excuse harmful behavior or abandon accountability. It asks something much harder: look beyond the outer layer. Ask another question. Listen a little longer.

Because people are more than labels. More than mistakes. More than addictions. More than the worst moment of their lives.

The Storm Is Still the Storm is ultimately an invitation to look at human struggle differently—not from across the room, but close enough to remember that behind every label is a human being.

Real people. Real stories. Real life.

The gun is famous. The road that made it possible isn’t.

Long before Samuel Colt met Samuel Hamilton Walker, generations of inventors, gunsmiths, soldiers, craftsmen, and ordinary working people had already been asking the question that drives this book:

What happens when I fire my last shot—and the fight isn’t over?

The Great Horse Pistol follows that question across centuries—from the earliest horse pistols and the search for another immediately available shot, through repeating firearms and the Colt Paterson, to the moment Samuel Colt’s engineering met Samuel Hamilton Walker’s hard-earned experience.

But this is not simply the story of a gun.

It is the story of the people who made the gun possible.

Meet the young Samuel Colt before the famous name: the boy experimenting with explosives, the sixteen-year-old sailor, the struggling inventor, the traveling “Dr. Coult,” and the young man spending nearly every dollar he could find trying to turn an idea into steel.

Follow Samuel Hamilton Walker from Maryland to Florida, Texas, Mier, captivity in Mexico, the Black Bean Episode, Walker’s Creek, and the battlefield experiences that taught him what a fighting revolver could do—and what it still needed to do better.

See their history through surviving letters, original patent drawings, period newspapers, archival documents, historical firearms, factory photographs, and the words of the people who were actually there.

Then continue beyond the main story with a special feature inside: THE PATENT TRAIL, a reader exploration containing 150+ patent drawings that lets you follow inventors, ideas, mechanisms, successes, failures, and questions across the development of repeating firearms.

You do not have to be a firearms historian to take this journey. You only need to be curious about the people who looked at what already existed and wondered:

What if there were a better way?

Because history is rarely made by one person standing alone. One person imagines. Another builds. Another fails. Someone else sees possibility in that failure and tries again.

Eventually, two young men named Samuel approached the same problem from very different directions.

Samuel Colt brought the dream.

Samuel Hamilton Walker brought experience.

And the Great Horse Pistol was born.

The guns give us the history.
The people give us the story.

History is changed whenever passion finds purpose.