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Hello! We are Richard and Linda Eyre. For more than 30 years we have been writing books for parents on families, life-balance, and parenting.

We have published with Random House, Simon and Schuster, St. Martin’s Press, Deseret Book, McGraw Hill, and Penguin, but we have found a publisher that we like better than any of them. It is us. It is ourselves. It is avoiding all the middlemen and getting books to those who want them for free. And it is getting them to people quicker, with more interaction and more feedback for us.

We hope you will like this approach as much as we do! Here is our new philosophy of what books should be in today’s world and our new mission statement about how we hope to make it happen:

The Goal:

Make all of our books available online for free. How is it possible? It’s possible because these are our books, we own the copyrights, and we are more interested in getting them to the maximum number of people than in making them generate the maximum amount of money.

Why are you doing it?

Parenting is difficult today—harder and fraught with more challenges than at any time in history. Kids don’t come with owner’s manuals or assembly instructions, and most parents and grandparents don’t have time to analytically and deliberately calculate a family and parenting strategy to match the needs of their kids and the trauma of our times. We have been able to do exactly that kind of analysis and strategizing because of the freedom and access that some of our bestselling books have given us.

Because books have been good to us, we are now at a point where we want to give back, and to give their content to the growing number of parents who need help. We think families are the basic unit of our society and of our economy and we believe that the most important work anyone does is within the walls of his or her home and that no other success can compensate for failure in the family. Thus if anything we have learned, or done, or written can be of help to parents trying to do their best by their children…we are happy to give it.

In addition to the free books offered here, you can now order the Eyres’ newest books for 40% off by using the access code EYREFRIEND at our publisher’s website.

The growing list of free books is below. Click on book titles to read descriptions. View a list of all of the books we have written on the Books Page.

[sg_popup id=”1″ event=”click”]I Challenge You…I Promise You[/sg_popup]
by Richard M. Eyre and Paul H. Dunn
(1972)
Category: Perspective
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[sg_popup id=”2″ event=”click”]Relationships: Self, Family, God[/sg_popup]
by Richard M. Eyre and Paul H. Dunn
(1974)
Category: Relationships
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[sg_popup id=”3″ event=”click”]The Discovery of Joy[/sg_popup]
by Richard Eyre
(1975)
Category: Perspective
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[sg_popup id=”5″ event=”click”]The Birth That We Call Death[/sg_popup]
by Richard M. Eyre and Paul H. Dunn
(1976)
Category: Comfort
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[sg_popup id=”6″ event=”click”]What Manner of Man[/sg_popup]
by Richard M. Eyre
(1979)
Category: Spiritual
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[sg_popup id=”8″ event=”click”]Teaching Children Joy[/sg_popup]
by Linda and Richard Eyre
(1980)
Category: Parenting
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[sg_popup id=”9″ event=”click”]Simplified Husbandship, Simplified Fathership[/sg_popup]
by Richard M. Eyre
(1980)
Category: Fatherhood
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[sg_popup id=”11″ event=”click”]The Awakening[/sg_popup]
by Richard M. Eyre
(1980)
Category: Novel
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[sg_popup id=”13″ event=”click”]Teaching Children Responsibility[/sg_popup]
by Linda and Richard Eyre
(1982)
Category: Parenting
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[sg_popup id=”14″ event=”click”]The Secret of the Sabbath[/sg_popup]
by Richard M. Eyre
(1982)
Category: Spiritual
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[sg_popup id=”16″ event=”click”]A Joyful Mother of Children[/sg_popup]
by Linda J. Eyre
(1983)
Category: Parenting
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[sg_popup id=”19″ event=”click”]The Change That We Call Birth[/sg_popup]
by Linda and Richard Eyre
(1984)
Category: Parenting
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[sg_popup id=”20″ event=”click”]Mother, Father and the Family That Worked[/sg_popup]
by Linda and Richard Eyre
(1984)
Category: Parenting
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[sg_popup id=”20″ event=”click”]Teaching Children Charity[/sg_popup]
by Linda and Richard Eyre
(1986)
Category: Parenting
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[sg_popup id=”24″ event=”click”]LifeBalance[/sg_popup]
by Linda and Richard Eyre
(1987)
Category: Balance
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[sg_popup id=”26″ event=”click”]I Didn’t Plan to be a Witch[/sg_popup]
by Linda Eyre
(1988)
Category: Motherhood
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[sg_popup id=”28″ event=”click”]Stewardship of the Heart[/sg_popup]
by Richard M. Eyre
(1990)
Category: Spiritual
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[sg_popup id=”31″ event=”click”]Three Steps to a Strong Family[/sg_popup]
by Linda and Richard Eyre
(1994)
Category: Parenting
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[sg_popup id=”32″ event=”click”]Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There[/sg_popup]
by Richard Eyre
(1995)
Category: Perspective
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[sg_popup id=”33″ event=”click”]The Wrappings and the Gifts[/sg_popup]
by Richard Eyre
(1996)
Category: Religion
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[sg_popup id=”35″ event=”click”]Spiritual Serendipity[/sg_popup]
by Richard Eyre
(1997)
Category: Perspective
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[sg_popup id=”34″ event=”click”]Spiritual Stewardship[/sg_popup]
by Richard M. Eyre
(1997)
Category: Perspective
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[sg_popup id=”37″ event=”click”]How to Talk to your Child About Sex[/sg_popup]
by Linda and Richard Eyre
(1998)
Category: Parenting
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[sg_popup id=”38″ event=”click”]Life Before Life[/sg_popup]
by Richard Eyre
(2000)
Category: Spiritual
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[sg_popup id=”39″ event=”click”]The Happy Family[/sg_popup]
by Linda and Richard Eyre
(2001)
Category: Parenting
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[sg_popup id=”40″ event=”click”]Empty Nest Parenting[/sg_popup]
by Richard and Linda Eyre, with Saren Eyre Loosli
(2002)
Category: Parenting
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[sg_popup id=”9116″ event=”click”]Opening the Door to Family Revelation[/sg_popup]
by Richard and Linda Eyre, with Saydi Eyre Shumway
(2021)
Category: Spirituality
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