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As the Master of Suspense Alfred Hitchcock left a legacy with us of films that captured our hearts, minds and attention. Even though he's been gone nearly 50 years, his films remain with us today. As one of the foremost filmmakers of his generation, Hitchcock continues to fascinate us, not just for his talent, humor, and artistry, but for the style in which he created his films. So much so that filmmakers, film historians, journalists, and critics coined a phase for the style of films he made and how those films – even those not made by Hitchcock- were in a category all their own. They were “Hitchcockian” and even today, more than 40 years after his passing, Hitchcockian films are still being noted for having that Hitchcock touch. Hitchcockian films are those made by various filmmakers, with styles and themes similar to those of Alfred Hitchcock. That Hitchcockian way of telling a story, by luring us in and keeping us on the edge of our seats continues to challenge filmmakers.
NO TIME TO CRY is an inspiring memoir that offers a deeply personal account of resilience, faith, and determination in the face of relentless adversity. Through honest storytelling and unwavering conviction, the book highlights the struggles of a single mother determined to protect her family while navigating financial instability, uncertainty, and life's unexpected setbacks.At the heart of the memoir is Wallace's journey through a series of challenges that tested her strength and resolve. Facing repeated bounced paychecks, unreliable employers, housing instability, and the constant pressure of providing for her children, she found herself confronting circumstances that could have easily led to despair. Yet through each obstacle, she remained committed to moving forward, relying on faith and perseverance to guide her through some of the most difficult seasons of her life.
Conventional wisdom teaches that biblical and scientific teachings are incompatible; that each must exist at opposing ends of reality. This idea is preached from church pulpits and taught in learning institutions from the lowest to the highest levels and polarizes people worldwide. Yet, when looked at objectively and with a genuine desire to glean the truth, the two forms of knowledge are found to be not only compatible, but mutually supportive in deep and meaningful ways. Together, they reveal such realities as;• The appearance of the universe from absolutely nothing; • The great age, inner workings, and purpose of our universe;• An accurate chronology of creation and the development of life;• The relation between antediluvian civilizations and today’s mysterious megalithic structures• The farcical nature of Darwinian evolution;• The undeniable existence of a CreatorThe book provides evidence that is intriguing to both the religiously and scientifically inclined.
dilute and misdirect our purpose. Concepts like compassion are misinterpreted and used to convince people that their purpose is to others rather than themselves. The foundational pillars under which all of reality resides have become tools for monetization rather than legitimate self-development.This book attempts to revert these foundational pillars of universal wisdom, consciousness, and awareness by promoting the true essence and intent that resides in all of us. What follows are simple principles built on the foundational awareness discovered by those that came before us without diluting the initial message. After the initial shock fades, your awareness will embrace these principles and see the truth: you are the master of your reality, and your destiny is waiting.
Sammy Murphy is the firstborn child in Sulfur Creek, an isolated coal mining town located on a rich seam of Bituminous coal discovered by a young gentleman born of wealth in the late 19th Century, the golden age of America’s Industrial Revolution. The historical novel follows the life of Sammy from birth to death, capturing his transformation and struggles as a reclusive character, juxtaposed with his boss, who personifies the era's industrial barons. Barry Bacon, who grew up in luxury on Fifth Avenue in New York, is an ambitious American industrialist who fancies himself a peer to iron and steel magnate Andrew Carnegie. Driven by unbridled ambition, Bacon’s dreams stretch far beyond the soot-covered rooftops of Sulfur Creek. His tale of arrogance and flawed leadership chronicles the precipitous rise and fall that mirrors the volatile spirit of the industrial age.
How did the good Sunday school teacher find herself behind bars? she didn't always have a propensity towards violence. Yes, she audacious and stubborn and sometimes naughty. But MURDER? Anyone could be driven to the unimaginable. Relatable true stories leap from the pages of this humorous award-winning memoir.Leave ordinary at the door. Buckle up. We're going for a joy ride! When Life is messy and the soul is thirsty, the unexpected happens. This is not for the religious minded. No, if that's you, put the book down and step away.
Its 1775 and the American Revolution has begun. In England, the Royal Navy has one eye on the rebellious colonials and the other on its traditional enemy, the French. Two teenagers - Jaco Jacinto from Charleston, SC and Darren Smythe from Gosport, England – become midshipmen in their respective navies. Jacinto wants to help his countrymen win their freedom. Smythe wanted to be a naval officer since he was a boy. From blockaded harbors in the cold waters off Nova Scotia and Scotland to the Bahama Islands, they serve with great leaders and bad ones through battles and politics as the two young men learn important lessons in the school of naval hard knocks. Jacinto and Smythe are mortal enemies but when they meet, they become friends and know later, they will again be enemies determined to do their duty.
is more than a collection of quotes and affirmations. It was purposefully designed to be a spiritual companion to help navigate the labyrinth of our human soul. Whether you’re seeking comfort during difficult challenges, looking for a spark of creative joy to begin your morning, or simply searching for spiritual guidance for your earth’s journey, you will find it within these uplifting pages. Organized into soul nourishing chapters like Gifts from Spirit, Feelings, Sensational Seasons and Inner Guidance, this book covers the full spectrum of the human experience.
The brain is a stereo organ. The psychologies of the systems that operate the two hemisphere complement one another, making them vastly different in most respects. The stereo brain’s contribution to our lives is unparalleled in importance. It processes the information that feeds our perception. Yet, most people know almost nothing about hemispheric differences and their impact on thought and behavior. Now add genetic dominance to this situation. The brain’s aggressive masculine left hemisphere and its values and ideas too often dominate in culture and suppress the feminine hemisphere's holistic values and ideas. This has led to a great imbalance in the cultural mindset that is sparking personal and cultural conflict and anger, and polarizing us. If we are to reverse polarization, we need to understand the psychology of the two systems that are processing our information and dividing us. My book explains how we can access both sides of the brain and achieve whole-brain thinking.
Ashley Hall, a rich preppie from Connecticut works as a book editor at the world's craziest publishing company. Bored and fed up with everything and everyone--especially the sexist moron to whom she is engaged--she's receptive to a mysterious late-night phone call that invites her to live dangerously for a radical cause. Pursued by an oversexed commune, a bespangled lesbian weightlifter, a mysterious Jamaican, and some very nice guerrillas, Ashley is in for more change than she bargained for. One thing leads to another, and all hell--as well as hysterically outrageous comedy!--breaks out. This novel is as funny as it gets, because it's deadly serious about what's wrong with the upper class and conventional mindsets. It's comedy as protest!
One secret. Two lives forever changed.Stephanie grew up cherished and surrounded by love, yet she was haunted by questions no one would answer. Her brother Carmine, in contrast, lived a life marked by tumult, loss, and an unrelenting search for belonging. Though born less than a year apart, these two siblings lived as strangers, each walking their own path and unaware of the other’s existence. Then, with one phone call, a long-hidden truth came crashing into the light, shattering decades of silence and binding them together in an instant.What the Heart Carries traces their breathtaking discovery, the joy of meeting one another, and the devastating tragedy that followed. It is both a portrait of loss and a testament to what can be found, even in life’s darkest moments. At once a story of grief and of redemption, it asks: How do we begin to heal when everything we know is torn apart?
Yoga teacher Ren Devlin’s life is forever changed after his practices with yoga and meditation awaken him to find what was once thought to be impossible in the physical world—possible. He performs what the world proclaims to be a ‘miracle’ in front of hundreds of shocked onlookers. Lauded as a spiritual healer, Ren is thrust into the limelight.Amidst the chaos, Ren seeks answers through his dreams and even deeper states of meditation, where he encounters his “council”—the gods and goddesses of the zodiac. This astrological council steers Ren down a path to work through the kleshas of yoga—the five mental afflictions, we all encounter, which are responsible for suffering. Awakening the Mystic is an imaginative combination of philosophies and ideologies across numerous religions and cultures, as well as an exploration of higher consciousness, the practice of yoga and meditation, and a journey to discover what love and healing really means.
The stories deal with a wide array of difficult situations: heroin addiction, being gay in a straight culture, being burned in a flash fire, having ADHD, arriving in the U.S. from a refugee camp, having strong suicidal impulses, being the recipient of domestic violence, experiencing the death of one’s infant son, and many more. They are grouped into four sections: death, family, hurdles, and transitions, which represent the four major themes of the book.Each story describes the difficult situation in detail and the process by which it was overcome.Each story contains drama, some of it intense. How will Jenni escape from the empty truck in which she is locked (Escaping My Heroin Addiction)? What will Ellen find when she opens the door to the apartment in which she and her husband live (Found Dead)? Will Bobby ever admit to himself that he is gay (Growing Up Gay)?
At Halloween, in 1998, the Sicilian-American neighborhood of Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn is shaken when a neighbor’s corpse is found disguised as a holiday witch on her balcony. A neurodivergent handyman with traumatic brain injury from a childhood accident, his gay and closeted older brother housemate, and their young adult rookie detective nephew become involved in the ensuing investigation. All three grapple with the current crisis, as well as their own secret traumatic histories. Issues of social convention and justice, family and professional loyalties, and personal recovery and growth are explored. Can adults recover from old trauma and resume their emotional growth?
In 1934 St. Louis, Missouri, Pamela, outwardly a young, white socialite (but inwardly an unsettled late adolescent), is about to give birth to her first child. To assist in the delivery, she searches for the ‘colored’ midwife, Miss Minnie, who attended her own birth in 1911. Her and her husband’s families vehemently protest. During the final months of her pregnancy, her husband, Frank, even brings in relatives to closely monitor Pamela’s behavior and whereabouts. Deviously, Pamela sidesteps them by secretly pressuring her ‘colored’ maid to help her. What kind of calamity and racial tension will their search dredge up? Could the outcome be murder?
We follow three different stories. Starting with Fred. A man whose morals are as flexible as his clients bank accounts. Working in restoration, he cleans up messes wealthy and unscrupulous men leave behind. But one client is far different than any other, as his contract soon embroils him in an otherworldly conflict.Sofia is a US Army Captain who has recently lost a comrade in arms. Her grief is put on hold when she gets a phone call from his number, followed by troubling dreams and dark visions. Will Sofia survive her trials or be engulfed by her grief?Lastly Trevor, Fred’s son, 10 years after his father’s incident, finds himself struggling with his own grasp of reality. By day he is a normal college student, by night he casts out demons. But his friend Trish wants him to face reality. Because, after all, Demons aren’t real… or are they?
of 2020. Sec.t 3: How the election process works--broken down into understandable segments and detail. Sect. 4: What these sex me did to uphold the valid election results in Maricopa County, AZ, in 2020 and 9n 2021. Sect. 5: The aftermath--attacks on these six and efforts to fight back, including what mattered, in their words. Sect. 6: What does our future look like?
Loaves of Bread), and many more. As we worship the created versus The Creator, our anorexic souls are brimming with wildly dubious flim-flam. Popular thought believes the natural can cure the natural, while virtually ignoring supernatural!Let not the herd mentality nor a cancel-happy culture hit “delete” on the ultimate VIP. If God is love, got God?
A secret still lies in Mystic Bay, California. Angels live as humans there. But more miracles happen when Angel Ken and others help Ron, a new angel as he swoops into town. Guardian Angel Ron flies down to live a human existence to make sure his charge, Evan, a boy in foster care, finds a forever home.Meanwhile, writer Noah Greenstreet is writing a film showcasing the townsfolk’s angel encounters. With twists and turns and a bully to turn around, Angel Ron has to decide if he will stay in the harmonious town. Will Evan find a forever home? Will love and goodwill help Angel Ron decide to stay?. With angels at the helm, readers ride along on another miraculous story of the angels of Mystic Bay.
Scary Good is a reflective and practical guide for anyone who feels that familiar Sunday dread and suspects it’s not really about Monday. Through personal storytelling, humor, and real-world insight, Angie Callen unpacks what the “Sunday Scaries” often reveal: burnout, misalignment, and the quiet pressure to live a life that looks successful but feels off inside. Blending memoir and self-development, she invites readers to slow down, question expectations, challenge norms, and reconnect with what truly matters. Each chapter provides space for reflection, courage, and growth, helping readers recognize patterns, shift limiting beliefs, and create a more sustainable, values-driven life. Scary Good reminds us that uncertainty isn’t failure, discomfort isn’t weakness, and growth rarely follows a straight line—it’s not just about the work, but the human doing it.
When Lizbeth, a bright pink golf ball bursting with curiosity, wakes up in the pro shop, she's ready for her very first adventure. Chosen by junior golfer JoJo, Lizbeth rolls into an exciting new world filled with quirky characters like Putter Pete, Frida Flag, and Claude Cup, all eager to teach her about the game of golf.But when Lizbeth accidentally lands in a pond, her optimism fades—until she meets Teddy, a golf ball who loves his peaceful pond life, and his hilarious sidekick Genji Gator. With their help, Lizbeth discovers that being lost doesn’t mean being alone, and that hope, perseverance, and teamwork can lead you home.Perfect for children ages 3–8, Lizbeth, the Little Lost Golf Ball is a delightful story that introduces kids to golf while teaching timeless life lessons about resilience, curiosity, and friendship. With whimsical characters, gentle humor, and a heartwarming message, this picture book is a hole-in-one for young readers and parents alike!
When Jay Abbas and his friends accidentally summoned a demon from a fairytale, the sun refused to rise. They were forced to spend their days running, hiding, and plotting to send it back, and to undo all of the death and chaos that it had caused. However, the longer they were chased, the more likely death seemed.With time running out and their minds wearing thin, they unravel the mysteries of the island home, hoping at least one answer could save them from a dreadful fate.
Joy Overcame Sorrow is a heartfelt coming-of-age story about ten-year-old Joy, a bright, adventurous girl whose world is turned upside down in an instant. After a perfect day at the park with her best friend Bella, Joy returns home to devastating news: her father has died in a tragic car accident.Shattered by grief, Joy struggles to make sense of life without the person who meant everything to her. Nothing in her world feels the same. However, with the quiet strength of her mother, the loyalty of a true friend, and unexpected moments of hope, Joy slowly begins to find her way through the darkness.As seasons change, so does Joy. She learns that healing doesn’t mean forgetting and that love, especially a father’s love and a daughter’s love for her father, never truly leaves. Through memory, music, and moments of unexpected beauty, Joy discovers a quiet courage within herself.
When America Burns, Only the Fierce Will SurviveOn Christmas Eve, the unthinkable happens. Russian forces invade the United States. In the frozen heart of Wyoming, Brigadier General Lance Bear Wolf, his wife Elle Parker, and a small cadre of special operations veterans form the core of the Wyoming Army of Resistance. Their mission: strike back hard, protect their people, and drive the invaders from American soil.From bloody basement rescues to high-stakes raids on Russian strongholds, Wolf’s team turns chaos into opportunity. But every victory comes with a price. Innocent lives lost, trust tested, and the looming shadow of nuclear escalation.As winter deepens and the enemy tightens its grip, Wolf and Elle must wage war on multiple fronts: the battlefield, the propaganda war, and the silent war within themselves. Because in this fight, survival isn’t just about bullets and bombs—it’s about holding on to the soul of a nation.
Newly minted homicide detective Kit Hanover is paired with a crusty veteran who makes no bones about his feelings for Native Americans. Their prickly partnership becomes more antagonistic when her first murder case proves devastating and she is reassigned. Determined to work the case in her own time despite the emotional consequences she finds herself and her family the target of an unknown madman. She withstands the inexplicable attacks as she continues her investigation until she finds herself face to face with the murderer. Only one of them can survive.
Written for young people starting out on life's financial journey, Grow Your Money Protect Your Wealth offers a sound, steady-eddy approach to investing discretionary income. It provides a blueprint that enables you to build a long-term investment portfolio to help meet your financial needs in retirement with a level of risk that is right for you. The book also details the necessary tools including insurance products, legal documents and steps needed to preserve the wealth you grow.
At seventy, Rebekah Lang resolved to confront the guilt she has carried for decades. This journey draws her back to the turbulent summers of the mid-1960s, when she was a bright but self-absorbed teenager, caught between the innocence of youth and the harsh realities of a world unraveling. Amid the backdrop of war, racial unrest, and long-buried family secrets, she encountered a series of emotional, physical, and spiritual awakenings that would shape—and scar—her life.
Many military husbands and dads are struggling to keep their marriages and families together. Spouses and family members notice the changes as well. Lesson’s Learned by a Patriot Husband and Dad will help with some common mistakes that may help keep the family and career together.
In 1920s New Orleans, Eugene Ste. Cherie, a naïve Pullman Porter, stumbles into a world of booze, sex, and jazz when he helps a white passenger. He is later hired to work at a lakefront casino. Despite prohibition, alcohol flows freely, and Eugene tends bar at lavish social events.His wife Eartha remains oblivious to the secrets and lies surrounding him. As Eugene’s good looks and skills make him a sought-after man, he narrowly escapes seduction and scandal. When Eartha uncovers his affair, she learns the painful truth about his involvement with the city’s elite.Set against a backdrop of glamour and deception, this unforgettable story explores the price of ambition—and what’s left when the lies run out.
What does courage look like when no one is watching?It’s the teacher running barefoot through a Texas storm, the bus driver guiding children off a burning school bus, the doctor walking city streets at midnight, the volunteer who simply listens.In Quiet Valor: Everyday Americans — Acts of Character That Change a Life, a Street, a community, author Larry Nouvel continues his acclaimed series by turning the lens toward the people who hold the country together quietly — teachers, caregivers, mentors, civic servants, artists, and everyday neighbors. These are not celebrities or politicians. They are citizens whose constancy, compassion, and conscience shape the real strength of America.Across seven themes — from Disaster and Emergency Response to Everyday Generosity — the book collects true stories of unrecognized bravery.
The story began as a fantasy based on a childhood memory about a Banshee in Ireland. As repressed memories surfaced, the story evolved into an memoir unlike any other. The story blends imagination with the true story about six-year-old Paddy in the 1960sand his life in New York City, to rural Kilkenny County in Ireland, and back to New York, and how he learned that Banshees are real while also managing to navigate and survive a broken home and a variety of other early-life challenges. The boy’s name may not really be Paddy, but to tell this story, a hint of Irishness and anonymity may be necessary.
Wild Pitch is a true story that tears the human condition of a man's life down to the bare bone. Its pages paint a portrait of a childhood shattered to pieces by an alcoholic father that leaves Jeff Grose with an anger that grows into a beast born from his dad's belt. Jeff channels the beast inside him into extraordinary success as a baseball pitcher on high school fields and then inside professional ball parks after he is drafted by the New York Mets at age 16. Life in the minor leagues and a debilitating arm injury send Jeff crashing onto bathroom floors with addictions to drugs and alcohol. Life after baseball leaves him with a drink in one hand and a bag of cocaine in the other, a strong sense of self hatred, suicidal thoughts and no resume for the job market. Finally, during his search for self identity, he learns that salvation has always been much closer to him than the sixty feet, six inches it had taken for his blazing fastball to explode into the heart of a catcher's mitt.
What can you learn about someone when life throws constant challenges at them? For Randy Rauh, the answer was simple: everything. In A Letter Unwritten, Randy opens the pages of his heart to share the remarkable lives of two women who shaped his world his mother and his wife. Through a blend of heartfelt storytelling and powerful personal letters, this unforgettable and unique memoir honors the quiet strength, unshakable love, and fierce resilience that defined their lives. One was a single mother with no money but boundless determination, raising three children in the turbulent 60s and 70s. The other was Randy’s soulmate and partner through decades of love, heartbreak, infertility, adoption, and brave battles against cancer. Their stories—told in their own words and through Randy’s reflections paint a vivid portrait of women who faced adversity with grace and grit. With tenderness, wit, and emotional depth, A Letter Unwritten is a tribute to the kind of everyday heroism that too often
In the spring of 1862, widowed Rachel Barnum leaves three children with her farm’s hired man to search for her dying son, Dwight, a soldier in Michigan’s 2nd cavalry. Rachel’s decision to travel alone to Missouri, into the heart of darkness, is either a hero’s journey or a fool’s errand. Mounting obstacles lead to a large Rebel force entrenched on a Mississippi River island. Rachel fears her chances of finding Dwight in time to save him are shrinking each day she’s gone from her 10-year-old twin girls and another son, 16, who can’t abide the hired man. With time running out, Rachel faces an agonizing decision: abandon her firstborn to the ravages of the Civil War and go back to family and the man she loves? Or fight on against all odds?
Korea DMZ—1983. Rip Razorton, a newly minted Second Lieutenant in the United States Army, enters a military environment filled with danger. He learns the DMZ mission from a friendly NCO while being harassed by superior officers. What keeps him going is his love for his exotic Native American girlfriend, Angeni James. Razorton, collecting battlefield intelligence on the North Korean threat at Guard Post Ouellette is taken captive but is saved by SFC “Wild Bill” Harrison. Suffering PTSD, Razorton turns to alcohol to ease the pain and the guilt. Razorton, punished for being defiant to a senior officer following the firefight, is assigned as an army escort for a USO band from America called “Total Infusion.” Feeling empty and full of pain, Razorton continued to drown his guilt and sorrow in alcohol. Then, with no warning at all, the female lead singer of the band with purple hair came to his rescue.
Arthur was determined to find a solution that would be able to save his child in the event of an emergency and end unnecessary choking tragedies. He used his inquisitive mind and his sharp business and building skills to bring LifeVac to market. Arthur has since forged LifeVac into an international medical device company that has received widespread media attention and saved thousands of people worldwide, ranging in age from several weeks old to one hundred years old. His book Sorry, "Can't" Is a Lie, is told in his down-to-earth, approachable voice and supplemented by classic movie quotes and pop culture references, Arthur’s book is a quick and powerful read that is sure to be a fantastic addition to readers’ mental tool kits. One might say that Arthur’s lifework has already gone above and beyond in changing the world for the better—but it isn’t even close to being finished.
Back from Suicide reveals the suicidal mind through the misery of depression and the difficulty of coming out. It’s the enigma of self-destruction after a lifetime of success. It is a mother’s pursuit of the biggest question of humankind. Why do people kill themselves? Patrick Wood is a valedictorian with perfect SAT scores. A year after he graduates from Stanford with honors, his mother struggles to understand his suicide. Marie Lisette Rimer searches for answers through Patrick’s life, Berlin’s gay scene, and his death after rejection from a boy he wanted. She draws from Stanford psychiatrists, suicide research, media, and her own awakening. She finds answers through therapy and the science of depression to expose the hidden forces behind sadness, perfectionism, identity, and isolation. She weaves guilt and grief with evidence and understanding. Back from Suicide is the seeds of depression that lead to suicide. It’s how we find purpose in pain beyond death.
After his mother dies during the pandemic, Brian Newman stumbles upon a legendary Scroll that creates life from clay. Seeking to bring his mother back to life, he enlists the help of a disgraced rabbi to obtain a gruesome list of ingredients for use in a ritual that changes everything. Pursued by mercenaries, a foreign weapons company, the police, a purveyor of ancient artifacts and an unscrupulous Russian private investigator, Brian and his family must hide, survive and fight forces of both man and darkness to keep the Scroll out of the hands of those who want to misuse its powers.
The book is a true story full of twists and turns, but it is not the whole story. It never could be. The “twists” are secrets and the “turns” are fateful choices. The characters struggle with confession, contrition, and forgiveness. They seek happiness, disrupted by unexpected pregnancies, and altered lives. This tale weaves together the secrets of the author, birth parents, adoptive parents, and their families to reveal the delicate and emotional parts of the whole. In this book, the nutshell is cracked, and secrets spill out. Some parts are myth, which serve as lessons; other parts are a quest for identity and treasured memories of heartfelt acceptance. The author found the process of unraveling truth from long-held secrets and uncovering two unknown biological family histories overwhelming. However, the bigger challenge for him was how to integrate “Who you really are,” is never really a secret. Provenance of identity is hard wired.
They say life is a journey, but it becomes a true adventure when you find someone who not only rides shotgun but cheers you on at every turn. In She's Not Just Along For the Ride: A Journey With My Biggest Fan, Keith Thorn invites readers into a soulful, humorous, and heart-filled memoir-turned-travelogue of love, second chances, and the beauty of shared roads. From the palm-lined coast of Port Isabel to the sun-drenched beaches of South Padre Island, every stop tells a story—of laughter echoing over poolside chats, of slow dances under Texas skies, of RV mishaps turned into memories, and of quiet moments that say more than words ever could. But above all, it’s a tribute to Melody—the woman who chose not just to come along but to believe in the dream, the writer, and the man at the wheel. This is a book for anyone who’s ever found love later in life, for winter wanderers, and for those who know that the best journeys are shared.
The pull to overparent is intense in today's world -to raise up children to be superstars and to "have it all." This effort leaves marriage partners disconnected when the kids leave. This book highlights the impact to the marriage and the kids when the focus is on the wrong relationship first. Parent or Partner is a guidebook to prioritizing the partnership which in turn promotes healthy children. Parent or Partner addresses the genuine struggle of this balancing act in a culture that says you need to be everything and do everything so your children can have everything. Author Sally Livingston uses her years of experience strengthening marriages and educating parents to bring practical solutions to this tension.
Three children whose inquisitive minds find them on a family vacation smack in the middle of adventures that seem to be just waiting for them. Unknown to our intrepid vacationers, a long-ago group of brave and curious eighth graders on their remote destination island of St. Frederick formed a group of amateur detectives known as the Buccaneers. Together with the third generation Buccaneers, these clever kids discover some of the ancient mysteries of the island when they use these new-found friends at St. Frederick's local newspaper and the Native American community. Caves with ancient drawings, time travel and a mysterious skeleton pose the thrills that await them.. They solve the mystery of those monster Bones found on a St. Frederick beach that puzzled the islanders and the scientists for many years.
Seth’s life until now has been a product of a diabolical, evil Truman Show, his entire upbringing a façade orchestrated for malevolent purposes. After his beloved dies, he undergoes a demonic metamorphosis, which causes the world’s fictitious walls to crumble.As he tries to piece a semblance of his life back together and move on, he meets friends who inspire, but even more harsh truths are revealed, perhaps too difficult to cope with. The very existence of life and reality is exposed as a machination of grotesque gods. And to defeat them, Seth will have to fill his emptiness, for which there’s only two options…bring the world to ruin, or learn to transmute his pain into strength.Fans of "Jerusalem" by Alan Moore, “The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath, or “The Master and Margarita” by Mikhail Bulgakov will enjoy “The Monsters Among Us.”
After my 26-year career at major Wall Street firms, I saw organized crime, pump-and-dumps, mafia fixers, and insider corruption up close. This is the unfiltered, true story—names changed—of what happens behind closed doors in high finance.Your audience builds on financial crime exposure and gutsy stories. I share the full saga: the corrupt traders, mob payoffs, and systemic chaos I experienced.
The Aananda Nath lineage is a branch of the Nath tantric lineage, a timeless tradition that is thousands of years old. This text contains real practices from the Aananda Nath lineage, and unfolds a rich display of characters, storylines and cosmology of this ancient lineage.In this book, an introduction is given into the system of Tantric Japa Yoga, along with reflections on the path. Tantric Japa Yoga is a system of meditations involving chanting in Sanskrit. These practices can help us recharge and reconnect with the inner realms, and are designed to activate kundalini. In memoir style, Cathie Frank shares generously from her personal experience, while tracing the path of her own spiritual journey into the system of practices taught to her by her guru, Shajesh. She shares, with the permission of her guru,chanting practices formerly kept secret – passed on from guru to disciple. She also gives a thorough treatment of the spiritual dynamics behind the process of tantric chanting.
“French Kiss” evokes a rare look into the most threatening years of the Cold War, a parallel to today's geopolitical climate. Hundreds of interviews with those whose livelihoods depended on work at the massive Dèols-Châteauroux U.S. Air Station provide intimate details on how the Kremlin had targeted France for Soviet domination.Communist provocateurs viciously condemned the American military buildup in France. French Communists spread the Kremlin’s message over the radio, newspapers and magazines and on street corner. Every word of Lenin and Stalin was infallible. Fast forward to today’s worldwide Islamic movement, girded by the Koran’s infallibility and Allah’s sacred words, has for decades used terrorism and war to conquer and convert.Contrast, “French Kiss” a tale of hope. Black airmen were readily accepted, initial suspicion, distrust and even hatred followed a path from forbearance to friendship and even to love and marriage.
"Better from Within," the long-awaited sequel to "Better with Age: The Ultimate Guide to Brain Training," reveals why your personal story drives how well you age from head to toe. Award-winning author and brain coach Phyllis Strupp helps you understand how your brain is designed to rewrite toxic memories and organize your story over age 40.Using the latest research findings, this step-by-step guide to a brain that lasts for life equips you to take charge of your story today. As you move through the pages of this exciting learning adventure, you will discover the 4 lifestyle habits of SuperAgers—Americans who have lived long and well over age 80. (Spoiler alert: Diet and exercise are not the key to the SuperAgers' success.)You will also meet the woman with a "golden brain" who beat Alzheimer's disease despite her doomed genes—and learn how a few key choices may have added healthy years to her life.What is your story? "Better from Within" will make aging a win for you and your brain.
The third of eleven children, Jan spends her childhood in fear, striving to shield her younger siblings from the dysfunctional home life created by her father, a volatile man who can snap at any moment. With a loving but subservient mother who looks the other way at her husband's inappropriate behavior with their daughters, Jan unwittingly seeks approval from men for all the wrong reasons. Shy, reserved, and deeply influenced by her strict Catholic upbringing, she continuously struggles with her perception of God and with her own identity, leading her to reach for acceptance from people who ultimately betray her -- therapists, lovers, friends, and a spiritual cult. But despite the deep pain and setbacks she experiences, she is intent on discovering her place in the world and her connection with the Divine, as well as an intimate relationship that nurtures instead of harms. It takes nearly six decades for he to receive these gifts and trust herself to recognize them when they arrive.
Author Christine Tate went through the fire of adversity during a seven year period. Through it all, she overcame the temptation to engage in wrong thoughts. In Mental Doughnuts: Overcoming Unhealthy Thoughts, she shares the wisdom gained through her trials from a Christian perspective. If life seems overwhelming and you are battling depression, anxiety, frustration, anger, and insecurities, grab a cup of coffee and curl up with this book to be encouraged and identify strategies to be victorious over your inner struggles.
In Whispers of the Mind, neurologist Carolyn Larkin Taylor shares stories, both professional and deeply personal, about her journey through the labyrinth of neurology. Composed of essays spanning from medical school to private practice, this memoir reveals Taylor’s growth as both a healer and a human being and, through vivid and compassionate storytelling, captures the essence of neurology—a field rarely associated with joy but rich in profound rewards.Each essay in Whispers of the Mind chronicles true events that highlight the intricate connection between the brain, heart, and soul and illustrate the resilience of the human spirit, lessons learned from patients, and the beauty found in the courage of those facing neurological challenges. In sharing her stories, Taylor invites readers into the mystique of the human brain, providing a heartfelt glimpse into the life of a neurologist dedicated to understanding and healing the most complex organ of all—the mind.
A dystopian SciFi novel set in the future where humanoid androids control society. They have forced human beings into servitude, in order to learn about human emotions and relationships. They have created a dating service called Sophia's Lovers that matches humans up with robot counterparts creating mandatory marriages between humans and robots. The humans seek to fight this dictatorship and some robots feel the same way.Sophia's Loversis part I of a book about AI in the 22nd Century where Androids run society and humans are carefully bred to serve the Androids by teaching them about human emotions and mandating android-human marriages via a government agency called Sophia's Lovers. Part II is an AI-generated book called ROBO-HUMAN DATING FOR DUMMIES. *Note: Part II is fully authorized by Sophia and Hel and shall prepare humans for Robo-Human Dating both now and in the future.
Young Lucinda Harper and her father, William Harper, are taking a late-night walk on Boston’s Long Wharf when disguised men run past their hiding place, jump into small boats, and rush out to the Dartmouth anchored in the harbour. As the Harpers watch, the masked men scramble up its sides and begin throwing chests of tea into the water, a warlike act that escalates the ongoing conflict. The British forces occupying Boston and the new Continental Army harrying the British come to blows. All the while William struggles to solve his business problems and ensure his daughter’s future happiness. Tea becomes the least of their problems.
Step into a world of mythical creatures and ancient magic in the captivating Beast Heart Series: The Wild Shepherdess by Erin Tunney. Join our courageous protagonist as she embarks on a thrilling journey of self-discovery and personal growth. In a treacherous landscape filled with danger and uncertainty, she must navigate the challenges that come her way, drawing upon her inner strength and resilience. As the story unfolds, prepare to be captivated by the emotional depth and powerful storytelling that will keep you turning the pages. With its enchanting blend of adventure, love and the triumph of the human spirit, The Wild Shepherdess is a must-read for fans of epic fantasy. Get ready to be swept away on an unforgettable quest where bravery is tested, secrets are unveiled, and the true power of the heart is revealed.
Taking the Stairs & Liking It: Seven Steps to an Amazing Life by Lauren Speeth, PhD presents a tested, 7-step methodology for personal growth and positive change rooted in President Jimmy Carter's wisdom and Speeth's own extensive research and global experience. Readers embark on a rewarding and inspiring journey towards the "Amazing Life" they were born to live. Speeth offers practical, actionable insights and relatable personal anecdotes, guiding readers to clarify their vision, hone unique skills, embrace non-duplication, foster strong partnerships, share credit generously, utilize feedback effectively, and cultivate resilient staying power. Written in a warm, conversational tone, Taking the Stairs and Liking It acts as a wise friend, helping individuals overcome perceived limitations, discover their full potential, and create a positive ripple effect, leading to a richer, more fulfilling life. An inspiring guide empowering readers to live a truly purposeful and joyful existence.
"Thoughtful, moving and very funny sonnets. I enjoyed them immensely." - Alan Arkin Oscar winning actor & author"Unique and charming and frankly should be in every high school Shakespeare class." - John Kenney, New York Times bestselling author.If Shakespeare was a lady…Award winning author, Penny Peyser, AKA "Lady Penelope" serves up wit, wisdom with a bit of snark in Shakespearean sonnet form.With rhyme and meter she describes the challenges of adult romance, marriage, friendships, choosing a mate, facing the frustrations of social media, casting off a lover, adult children, coping with aging bodies that misbehave, and other things the flesh is err to. You will smile out loud and chuckle with recognition. These clever, compassionate sonnets make a perfect gift for birthdays, anniversaries and Valentine’s Day and are sure to delight women over 40 and the men who love them. For fans of Judith Viorst, Amy Sedaris and Dorothy Parker. Think Shakespeare at the mall.
THIS BOOK IS A ROAD MAP ON HOW TO HANDLE CHALLENGING SITUATIONS THAT ARISE IN OUR LIVES. THERE ARE ALSO PRAYERS THAT YOU CAN READ AND SAY OVER THESE SITUATIONS THAT WILL INSPIRE YOU, BRING YOU PEACE AND BLESS YOUR LIFE INCREDIBLY. AS A CHRISTIAN WE SHOULD DESIRE AND CRAVE WISDOM MORE THAN ANYTHING AS A DIRECTIVE IN OUR DAILY LIVES. DESIRING AND ASKING GOD FOR WISDOM DAILY WILL PLEASE GOD IMMENSELY. THIS ALONE WILL HAVE HIM RAIN DOWN SHOWERS OF BLESSINGS ON OUR LIVES. THIS BOOK WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH A PLETHORA OF MOTIVATIONAL AND INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FROM SOME OF THE GREATEST PEOPLE THAT EVER LIVED. SOME HAVE TRAVELED THROUGH THEIR JOURNEY OF LIFE AND MANY OTHERS STILL ARE AND THEY HAVE GIFTED US WITH SOME OF THE GREATEST THOUGHTS, EXAMPLES, AND TESTIMONIES FOR LIFE EVER. THE GREATEST BOOK EVER CREATED THE BIBLE IS ALSO REFERENCED WITH SOME THOUGHT-PROVOKING GUIDES ON HOW WE SHOULD CARRY OURSELVES AND LIVE OUR LIVES. WE ARE CONSTANTLY IN THOUGHT LIKE THE STATUE “THE THINKER” ABOUT WHAT WE SHOULD DO WITH OUR LIVES, HOW TO LIVE OUR LIVES, AND THE CHOICES THAT WE MAKE ARE CRITICAL BECAUSE THEY WILL DETERMINE OUR DESTINY. THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT WE JUST WANT TO FLIP A COIN AND SEE IF IT COMES DOWN HEADS OR TAILS. WE NEED TO BE GRATEFUL FOR THE LIFE GOD GAVE US AND LIVE IT TO HIS GLORY.
Born in a spruce tree to a proud clan of Clark’s Nutcrackers, Columbina and her brothers spend long winter nights in the nest listening to the elders recite the ancient tales, while in summer they collect the rich seeds of the ancient pines that they depend on for survival. But Columbina, with her sharp intellect and deep curiosity, begins to question the old ways and traditions of the clan. She befriends others--birds and animals not of her own kind--and learns of the Tall Ones, fearsome creatures from the southland who bring death and destruction. And while her family remains in denial, Columbina realizes the growing peril. How much is Columbina willing to risk for others? And can she lead them against the danger threatening their common home?
Have your kids ever turned their noses up at your cooking? Have they ever been defiant? Have you ever wanted to walk away?Rich Ballo knows the frustration of raising kids as an at-home dad and as a single dad. In MomDad he presents a whole gamut of parenting issues with true story, actionable tips, and down-to-earth wisdom on food, travel, clothing, discipline, and more. Rich’s kids made it to adulthood without too much trauma, or so says their therapists.This is no academic textbook; learn parenting, whether you are a mom or dad, as you laugh and cry through Rich’s experiences.Each chapter takes a parenting subject and looks at the subject from birth through high school. Issues such as clothing, food, vacations, sports, and career goals all change as a child gets older. Parents must adjust because kids are always changing. Love and listen to your kids then let them go.
In Women's Freedom, Unfinished Love Stories, 2nd Edition, Positive Psychologist Barbara Becker Holstein explores the struggles and desires of young women in the 1960s: the complexities of sexuality, identity, and self-discovery.In this compelling book, Dr. Holstein introduces readers to three college students navigating the intricacies of their sexual energies and the paths to their futures. Their journeys are a mirror to the experiences of women throughout history, highlighting the universal longings and challenges that have shaped previous generations.Readers may find themselves reflecting on their own rights, needs, and the societal influences that have shaped their perceptions. Dr. Holstein's insightful exploration of sexuality and emotional growth will captivate you, challenge you, and ultimately empower you.Women's Freedom will awaken you to some of these important issues and remind you that fair treatment and understanding are the keys to a future filled with self-discovery, emotional growth and sense of gratitude for those who helped create the freedom women enjoy today.
“Truth, Lies & Alzheimer’s – Its Secret Faces” continues Skinner’s quest of working with dementia-related illnesses and teaching families and caregivers how to better understand the daunting challenges that accompany these brain diseases. As someone who has had eight family members diagnosed with dementia, and a successful 30 yr career, Lisa has found her calling in helping others through the struggles so they can have a better-quality relationship with their loved ones - through education and by learning new strategies and techniques that offer effective solutions and tools to help them effectively manage the symptoms of brain disease. Through a rich trove of stories culled from her years in the eldercare industry, author Lisa Skinner offers insights into the difficult questions families face, including:- How do I respond to a loved one's false belief?- Am I abandoning my parent if I place them in the care of professionals?- How do we make the best of our time left together?
When State Representative Carmen Lawlor is found dead beneath a wind turbine, journalist Elizabeth “Digger” Doyle is thrust into a storm of political intrigue, buried secrets, and personal risk. As Digger investigates the mysterious death—one that threatens her wife’s career and safety—she uncovers a web of corruption linking clean energy, old betrayals, and a decades-old disappearance. Set against the windswept landscapes of New Mexico, Windswept is a gripping LGBTQ+ political mystery that explores how far people will go to protect power, and what happens when the truth refuses to stay buried.
The book describes the progressive loss of a functionally normal brain through the dual, intertwined lens of science and spirituality. The aim is to provide scientific information and spiritual comfort to caregivers of those living with Alzheimer’s disease. This book is unique in its approach. It blends scientific with spiritual perspectives. A caregiver needs to know the facts of the progression of the disease as it affects the body, particularly the brain, but he or she also needs help in discovering ways in which the soul of the loved one can be nourished by spiritual practice and creative pursuits. The book is based on journal entries which I kept over a span of six years in which I cared for my husband, Edward, who was 84 when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. These entries are incorporated in the exposition of each chapter, providing first-hand, moment to moment experience of our journey through a disease which affects over 6 million Americans.
Look Up—Global Stories of Resilience shares powerful true stories of individuals who have faced life’s toughest challenges—loss, betrayal, disaster, and war—and emerged stronger by embracing the power of perspective. Through Heidi Siefkas’ inspiring mantra, Look Up, this book reveals how resilience, hope, and determination can turn adversity into opportunity.
Set in Phoenix, Arizona, in 2010, A DRY HATE encapsulates the many forces at play when a popular sheriff arrests and accuses anyone in his crosshairs--Mexicans and brown-skinned people, activists, journalists, judges, elected officials.The climate is growing ugly as the Legislature is about to pass SB 1070--the state law that targets 'illegal aliens' on Arizona soil. Professor Ivan Wilder tries to cannot avoid scrutiny, having both students without documents and the son of the Deputy County Attorney in his summer course on "Politics and Propaganda." The university classroom is a point of departure to remind the reader how local journalists were jailed, factories were raided, and even a County Supervisor was unjustly arrested because of the sheriff's misuse of power. Twists and turns in the plot keep the reader wanting to know more. Surprises keep us alert--what next?Finally, a small statue of a Pascua Yaqui healing ceremony antelope dancer provides a clue
In a remote Canadian valley, a wildlife artist and her husband face a terrifying ordeal when forest fires drive fifteen bears out of the mountains, seeking refuge near the artist's home. Their presence sparks suspicion in a nearby religious community that has long labelled the artist a ‘witch.’ Seizing on this as justification, the community unleashes a campaign of fear and violence, rallying around a hunting lobbyist who insists the bears must be killed.This story exposes how authoritarian mindsets and religious fundamentalism fuel aggression toward those seen as ‘different’—where anyone can be branded a ‘witch’ and made a target. Through desperate efforts to protect the bears, the book highlights the devastating consequences of misunderstanding both nature and those who defend it. Each bear, shown as an individual with a painted portrait, stands as a testament to the need for coexistence and an end to hunting as wildlife faces increasing peril.
The evolution of Aaron is the fictional story of Aaron Hill and African American man living in Columbia, South Carolina. The story follows Aaron's life from the time that he is an adolescent until adulthood. During this time, Aaron experiences many things such as conflicts with his parents, relationship issues, alcohol abuse, employment and financial issues as well as problems in his marriage. Aaron also struggles with his faith and his relationship with God as time goes on. However, Aaron comes to realize that these experiences have helped him to grow mentally, spiritually and emotionally and have allowed him to evolve into the man that he has become by the end of the story
“Not Even Doctor Phil Can Fix This.” The Psychological Mystery series starts with a traffic stop and escalates into a web of twisted secrets and deadly consequences. Serial killers are exposed, and the existence of a Secret Army is threatened. A investigative journalist conspires to reveal more secrets and an assortment of characters and events propel Farmerville towards tragedy. More mystery unfolds with a pig farm, Gitmo, pedophiles, nightmares, ghostly therapy sessions, cave kids, a furnace, another serial killer, a table with a history, and an axe or two. Intertwining plots twists run rampant making it clear that something sinister is at play. Farmerville may be for you If you like the writing of Harlan Coben, Caroline Kepnes, and Jesse Q. Sutanto.
Welcome to 'Ranger The Bodacious Beach Dog'. Ranger (AKA Ranger Marley Wrecking-Ball Surf-Dog Doofus) is the quintessential dude. When he's not on duty he likes to play, eat, and chill. His hobbies are body surfing, chasing seagulls, stealing other dog's tennis balls at the beach, stealing children's toys at the beach, stealing food at picnics and peeing on surfer's backpacks, shoes ect... You've probably gathered by now that Ranger is a bit of an anarchist. He never fails to entertain the people around him and always seems to light up the room wherever he goes. The world is a better place for having his playful antics and loving mannerisms. This book is a collection of photos taken of this incredibly lovable goofball while playing at the beach.
Set in Rome and Venice - with a brief stop in Magallanes, Chile, and New York City - Vatican Daughter propels the reader deep into the heart of Italy. Ensnared by its vivid descriptive language, you will be transported and immersed in this plausible, suspenseful story as it takes you through various cities, tasting their foods along the way, with different characters. At the same time, you will meander along the medieval palazzos of Rome and Venice, sip the wine, explore the countryside, ride the train, step behind the walls of Vatican City and its papal gardens, and imagine experiencing the loss of a child at the hands of men who would go to any means to avoid the exposure of Vatican corruption, papal indiscretion, and the Vatican’s long-buried secrets. A story of a young woman who relentlessly searches for her child while coming head-to-head with the most powerful entity on earth, Vatican Daughter focuses on serious female-centric issues and the Vatican’s controversial behaviors.
Herded by Miracles: An only child, a burden to her single mother and born in South Africa in the middle of a war, the author had to discern life's purpose by living it. She rides through the widest emotional landscapes of contrast: the Apartheid conflict between black and white, between Boer and British, and the disconnect between African and European cultures, the generosity of strangers, the betrayal of friends, and rejection by family.Through all these mirrors, the patchwork pilgrimage is towards the transcendent lovingness of Creation. We all have a lamp to trim for the coming of our bridegroom. This harrowing but often humorous chronicle (God tells good stories with both wit and parody) is one such Trimming. Its natural mysticism emerges like smoke from damp leaves.Only the inspiration of George Eliot and her nostalgic portraits of England's ancient antiquity and its unsung heroes kept her company, affirmed her independence of mind, and fostered a new Book of Revelations
More than two centuries after the Age of Reason culminated in the French Revolution, society still operates based on assumptions and attitudes formed by our ancient myths. Propagated by organized religion, these myths not only hamper efforts to apply reason to our problems, but foster violent conflicts that threaten global securityMyths of the Tribe: When Religion and Ethics Diverge illustrates the negative historical impact of our major religions and their detrimental impact on modern society. Author David Rich demonstrates how centuries’ old philosophy, doctrines, and belief systems plague our everyday lives, our political arena, and the way we function in the modern world.As relevant today as it was when first published by Prometheus Books in 1993, Myths of the Tribe has been updated in its second edition with new data reflecting our views on religion and social mores/religious holidays in the twenty-first century.
Abandoned at birth and shuffled through the system all her life, Cinder is on the verge of being expelled from yet another school. Despite high test scores, Cinder’s records show a penchant for fighting, defiance, impulsivity, and “an unwillingness to develop appropriate decision-making skills”―whatever that means. When a lunch-time brawl breaks out in the cafeteria, Cinder gloomily prepares for what has become all-too familiar. This fight, however, won’t end like all the others.Allfather has dispatched his Predators, an elite team of bodyguards, to bring Cinder to the Proving Grounds, where she will be broken, disciplined, trained, and given her quest directive.Cinder may be in an alternate realm full of Valkyries, dark elves, and world-encircling serpents, but she still has a chip on her shoulder the size of Thor’s hammer, and she’s not about to let Odin or any other god push her around.
Part 2 of Series so far in conjunction with ChristiTutionalist TM Politics podcast providing historical context of America's Judeo/Christian Foundations based upon Biblical Community (Free Will, Charity, etc.) vs Worldly Communism (Force, Theft, etc.) as was already tried on our Soil back during the Bradford Colony Mayflower Communal Compact and they almost all starved to death. Bradford and the Colony then pivoted to Biblical FREE WILL (Freedom) and Personal/Individual Responsibilities and Rights over Collectivist one's (that fails to take in account Human Nature and some desires to do least possible, if not avoid shirking any responsibility at all, and eventually more in Cart than can pull the Cart and ATLAS SHRUGS); Private Property ownership, again over Collectivist concept which when no-one owns no-one has direct pride and taking actual ownership of the responsibilities for; etc.; and as they say THE REST IS HISTORY as our Founders learned from that initial Failure.
Can Aaron kill? According to research only 15-20 percent of the soldiers fired at the enemy in WWII. For soldiers with an aversion to killing, PTSD effects are more profound. Leaving his youth behind, Aaron is forced into manhood as he faces the horrors of war and searches to understand his Jewish heritage. Town after town, he sees churches and synagogues reduced to rubble and bible carrying Germans slaughtered on the battlefields, and he hears stories about Jewish concentration camps. What is being Jewish? What is being Christian? Why is he forbidden to marry the preacher’s daughter? When he returns home, his personal war continues. Overwhelmed by the horrors of war, conflicted by religion, and ravaged by nightmares, he turns to alcohol and makes a painful choice. One particular battlefield experience, a reoccurring nightmare, and to protect his wife, he leaves her. Homeless, far from home, and numbed by alcohol, fate guides him to the man who is the subject of his war nightmare
In River City, trouble isn’t hard to find—and Jake Sledge, former cop turned private eye, knows it better than most.A prominent attorney is found murdered outside his River City office. Jake Sledge and his partner, Bobo Johnson, are drawn into a case that quickly spirals out of control. They uncover chilling connections to frozen evidence, shadowy underworld figures, notorious neo-Nazis, and a dangerous game involving the high-stakes casino industry.The lawyer’s death is only the beginning. With every lead raising more questions than answers, Jake and Bobo navigate a tangled web of corruption and betrayal in a city brimming with secrets and lies. The body count rises as the pair comes closer to the truth. It becomes clear that this is more than a job. It's a fight for survival. And, for Jake Sledge, in the gritty streets of River City, survival means staying one step ahead of the enemy while keeping his own demons at bay.
Ellie is a curious 5-year-old girl with lots of questions. In GRATITUDE, she is frustrated when a playdate by her favorite magnolia tree is spoiled by a rainstorm and decides nothing goes her way. Her Mom encourages her to stay focused on all the good things she has in her life with an attitude of gratitude. Ellie realizes she is so thankful for her family, her home, and even the rain which helps flowers grow. She loves art so her mom gives her a set of paint along with stepping stones. Each time she reflects on something she is grateful for she paints a stone. She is thankful for her dog Rose, teachers, smiley-faced pancakes, her healthy body, and nature. Soon she has created a colorful path of stones that leads from her front door to the magnolia tree. She finds JOY in everyday things, no matter how big or small. She completes the path of stones and now sees beauty everywhere and no longer needs to paint a stone because she is practicing gratitude all on her own!
Meteorologist and psychic Gayle Force knight, proves to be a force to be reckoned with once more. While sleeping, an angel sent her a vision of a future event. With her intuition, Gayle wonders will she really meet the dog in her dream and save another dog?With the help of her intuitive husband, Alex Knight, and friends, Gayle sets out on a course to rescue many more. But with surprising twists and turns of intrigue, both Gayle and Alex find there are always angels at the helm as they ride on their coattails.
As Rory proposes to Ingefaer, the alvae Shrine they're visiting is set ablaze. Ingefaer is arrested. Rory hunts for the true arsonist, but is shadowed by soldiers and makes little progress as most mages refuse to talk to him as it's beneath them and he's a human. One alvae mage talks to him and erases all the suspects on his list, leaving him with one option: to interview the chief healer of the Shrine that burned. Arabella puts Rory off at first, but he presses, threatening violence. She tells him she knows Ingefaer didn't burn the shrine, but refuses to reveal the culprit as it would reveal a sordid past. Arabella offers Rory a vial of invisibility that Ingefaer can use to escape...maybe. Rory takes the vial and gets it to Ingefaer. He sets up a distraction and Ingefaer makes her escape, buck naked. But instead of fleeing the city, Ingefaer wants to solve the case. The duo shave their heads and paints themselves green. They work the clues while in disguise and solve the case.
This inspiring collection of memories, stories, and tributes from colleagues inthe entertainment industry, childhood and lifelong friends, Arabian horseenthusiasts, and fans is a homage to a man who not only was an immenselytalented performer, but who also was a hero. Patrick has left a legacy ofmany works, including movies, television shows, Broadway shows, danceperformances, and songs. Most important is that he lived a life in whichhe demonstrated courage in the face of adversity—time and time again—and showcased traditional values and beliefs such as loyalty, morality, andintegrity. He was an advocate for dance and the performing arts, conservation,cancer diagnostic/treatment advances, and Arabian horses. Hebattled pancreatic cancer with his “never give up” determination, courage,and grace that has touched countless lives.
As a traumatic brain injury survivor, Saverio Monachino struggled to reconstruct the ‘here and now’ within his head. The memory silos devoted to personal experiences had broken down and without their structured database in play he had to go searching for reality. TBI is unique to every individual, and some of those experiences defy explanation. When there is a disarray in the system it sometimes becomes impossible to separate fact from fiction or any form of temporal progression. Little Bit of Faith describes an individual’s journey back while at the same time opening a door to all the possibilities a reimaging of one’s life can bring.
In pursuit of a meaningful life, Jeff Richards and his friend Rick Sager decide to start a commune out in the Rocky Mountains. It doesn't go as planned. Instead of the self-sufficient ranch they envision, they can only afford a crumbling crash pad in Denver; half their friends who agreed to join them (including most of the women) decide to move to Boulder instead; romantic entanglements between group members cause disarray; drug-addicted drifters steal their record collections; and though Rick and Jeff fall in love with every hippie chick that crosses their paths, they rarely fall in love back. Through it all, they learn you don't always accomplish what you set out to do, but you can still take pride in the attempt.
Shaking Up the World is a collection of stories by the Naval Academy Class of 1957 members. Some classmates watched Japanese planes bombing Pearl Harbor (Tom Marnane). Walt Meukow spent the war as a prisoner in the Philippines; another Art Aronson, was a prisoner in the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. The Shaking and shaping of four years at Annapolis molded men who would spend their lives shaking up the world, large and small, in uniform and as civilians. Brad Parkinson's architecture of the Global Positioning System (GPS) was monumental. Charlie Duke, an astronaut, spent 72 hours on the moon's surface. Jerry Barczak tells about being hijacked by Hezbollah terrorists in a fatal event. The War in Vietnam involved Leo Hyatt's account of imprisonment at the Hanoi Hilton, which is a classic in bravery and loyalty. Larry Bustle's account of being shot down over enemy territory brings back the terrific impact war had on all of us—Bob McElwee's story of his life as a National Football referee
Surrounded by the sounds of music in her small Louisiana town, she is thrilled when her school announces a new band class starting after summer break. But when a visit to the local music store with her mother reveals that the instrument she wants to play is beyond their budget, Florenda faces a tough challenge. Will she be able to play the instrument she’s dreamed of, or will her musical aspirations have to wait?
An intense search to find, prove, and accept a past life as a Confederate from the Civil War is the author's memoir embedded within a novel about editing and publishing the book. Full of historical details, the book includes a twenty-page biography of a Confederate Major General, well known for his participation in the Battle of Gettysburg. The difficulty of accepting another person's life as your own led to a great spiritual lesson and an expansion of consciousness. The book's purpose is to be a guidepost for those that can't shake the feeling that they have lived before and what is possible when you accept history as your own. The book is an intense journey of self-discovery.
A feral child named Wolf is being raised by wolves deep in the forest, until he is suddenly whisked away to a subterranean netherworld by the Tuatha De Danann; a strange and elusive race. In this otherworldly realm, where mortal time moves imperceptibly quickly, these 'ever-living ones' raise and train the boy for their own ends; returning a formidable stealth-warrior, back to the world of men.In Wolf's absence, Ireland has become a more dangerous place, as the Vikings strive to gain control of the country. However, a young southern commander called Brian Boru and his enigmatic counsellor, Amergen, mean to thwart the Viking' plans. But they desperately need Wolf's particular set of skills for a perilous mission deep into enemy territory. And so they set a trap to ensnare Wolf and his daring band of Rangers.
Fueled by unrealistic expectations of Nicholas Sparks' novels, Scarlet moves across the country to Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, after her thirty-year marriage ends. Seeking like-minded women, she joins a divorced women's book club only to discover they may not be so alike after all. She is befriended by Missy, who becomes a welcome ally as she navigates life in a small town. Scarlet's dormant desires are awakened when she meets Ben, an attractive younger man. But Beau, the self-assured, age-appropriate man, opens her heart to love. The unexpected arrival of the man who nearly broke her adds a complication she could not have anticipated. “The Scarlet D” follows Scarlet as she dissects her past, embraces new friendships and second chances, and finds herself open to the complications of starting over in her fifties. A later-in-life coming-of-middle-age romance.
Father Edward Thomas is an exorcist and Priest who fights to find not just his own salvation, but is presented with the question of whether or not a demon can be redeemed. What forces does God have in place to fight demons on earth? Where are they, and why have they seemingly abandoned us?Sara Baker is trapped by a deal she made long ago: A once promising medical student who finds that an event she thought was a dream in her childhood was indeed a reality. Now she must do her best to survive the fires of Hell and keep what little humanity she can hold on to… But will those in Hell allow such a thing?Jason Miller never knew his mother. But when a stunning woman appears at his doorstep claiming to be his long lost mother, Sara Baker, his world begins to unravel around him.What are the consequences of selling one’s soul, even for the most innocuous of trades? Find out in three tales of woe in the first entry of The Guardian Temple Series.
Chronicles of a Dangerous Mind is a series based on real people and real-life events. "Fire of Mercy" is the first book in the series, and it's based on the life of an incarcerated patient the author treated several years ago. Jonas's story is a gripping tale of how he became a serial arsonist and killer; the devastating destruction for which he was responsible; his lost hope and faith; and his pursuit of understanding, healing, and redemption. All the names and settings were changed to protect privacy. Some of the plot lines were adapted for literary effect. The content included in this book is sometimes graphic, and it is geared toward adult audiences. Readers who enjoy reading true crime novels, crime thrillers, psychological thrillers, and books that delve into the psyche of criminal minds will likely enjoy this book.
Did you know?● It is Emotion that drives all behaviors and actions of each and every individual!● The Emotions that drive each individual’s every behavior and action originate from aninborn instinctual foundation of only FIVE primary Emotions!● When an individual is subject to emotional repressions or a person has learned faulty beliefs about the emotions and as a result thereof exhibits incongruent behavior which now originates from a foundation of distorted emotional attitudes—then, the results of one’s behaviors and actions may prove to be off-target of the expected or desired outcome, and further, prove to be disastrous to both oneself and others!● By and large—in varying degrees—all humanity may be out of sync regarding natural rhythmic emotional behavior and expression!● Emotional repressions and disharmonies form the behavioral foundation of the Modern-Day Liberal!
The Perils of Beginnings weaves two periods of history to tell the story of an ancestor, José Narciso Cavazos, one of the early Texas settlers. In 1969, 18-year-old Barbara, the narrator, hopped into her spicy Auntie Eloisa’s new GTO to embark on a road trip from Texas to Tampico, Mexico. While searching for her baptismal certificate, Auntie shares the history of Narcisco, a bold visionary who, in 1793, left an aristocratic life in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, to cultivate the 600,000 acres of land awarded to him by the King of Spain. As Narciso’s story unfolds, so do the secrets of the two women. Barbara’s humorous and warm tales told of a cow greeting her while using an outdoor toilet, Auntie dropping her bloomers while dancing with abandon to the mariachis’ music, and a “gentle” horse baring her teeth before riding her into the river. The Perils of Beginnings has something for everyone; history, romance, and colorful characters.
Author Peter Ticktin was Donald Trump's former platoon sergeant at New York Military Academy when they were both 18 and to this day, they have remained lifelong friends and Trump occasionally as his lawyer.Peter outlines in this book why he always has and always will stand behind Trump, who is today President-elect of the United States, which will be his second term in this high office.In What Makes Trump Tick, Peter presents an eye-opening account of what made Trump the awesomely successful businessman, a U.S. President and simply the great man he is today.Ticktin was recently featured in a documentary film about Trump which was shown at Trump's stately home in Florida, Mar-a-Lago.
Breaking into Showbiz is like breaking into Fort Knox. Breaking out, we're talking Alcatraz. Abigail Paine, born Miriam Rosen, has been in love with Show Business since childhood, perpetually fantasizing herself as the Little Trouper Who Finds Stardom and True Love by the end of the movie. After a hundred shows and a hundred one-night stands, love and fame still elude her, and she'd rather suck a tailpipe than face another audition. Complicating her search for the Busby Berkeley ending is her primitive alter-ego- The Beast. This creature can track, kill, dismember and devour an entire cheesecake; can beat the hell out of smaller muggers on the sidewalks of New York; and can't say no to recreational sex with a famous director on the Third Ring of the New York State Theater while a public tour is in progress. When Abigail finds love at long last, she is faced with an agonizing choice: Showbiz or The Guy
FINDING ZACHARIAH hits a lot of tender spots: a homeless vet seeking solace in alcohol; two kids and their mom hurt and broken by an absent dad; a feral cat who knows everyone; and a wide array of community members who make this little book so touching and delightful.You’ll meet Big Joe, a man with a past and a big heart; Darlene the dirt lady; Backhoe the mulch mover; Ike the irrigation expert; Latifa the beekeeper; Wiley the muralist, and more.When Zorro and CeCe, twin brother and sister, and their mom Otoña, come to the garden to work their own little plot, they find out a lot about themselves, their mom, and the mysterious man keeping away from others in the healing garden.As Zachariah talks out his sadness with the feral cat, Sebastian, and as he begins to work in the garden with Big Joe and other volunteers, we learn that people can make the best of second chances and find healing and reconciliation.
Shelby is a young flying squirrel who lives with his mother and his twin sister, Darby.This series of adventures includes necessary lessons for skills the young ones will need as adults, and endless fun and excitement as Shelby explores the world around him.Shelby hiccups and stutters when he is upset or nervous, trouble finds him much too easily, and growing up is not what he wants to do.The forest provides him with many good friends, but when their beloved meadow is changed forever they all move to the woods beside a farm, where Shelby meets and learns about farm animals; a whole new experience.The stories relate loosely to the realities of wild flying squirrels, but liberal poetic licence allows much more to happen.SHELBY F. SQUIRREL is the perfect introduction to learning more about real flying squirrels, one of nature's very little-known and most amazing creatures.
‘From Budapest to Hollywood: Searching for the Promised Land’ is a story of resilience, hope, and the pursuit of a better life. Katherine MK Mitchell’s memoir begins with her birth in Nazi-occupied Hungary. From there she survived war, the ill-fated S.S. Exodus, and communism before fleeing her home country once the Russians crushed the Hungarian Revolution. Her journey as a refugee brought her to New York, where she overcame countless challenges, ultimately making a name for herself in Hollywood. Katherine worked as an agent, writer, and story analyst, earning membership in the Writers Guild of America West.Throughout her life, Katherine has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to honing her craft, sharing her stories, and inspiring others to live authentically and with purpose. Her memoir is a testament to what one can achieve when they refuse to give up hope and continue moving forward.
This book is about a man's journey from his hospital bed to his small hometown of Magnolia, New Jersey, where his journey to heaven begins as his guardian angel helps him answer questions that we all have about heaven. Questions such as: What will heaven be like? Will we meet relatives and friends there? Will there be food and wine? Will there be sex? Will we see our pets? How will we get around? Will we have bodies?In Magnolia, by going back there from my deathbed (or Lou’s deathbed), I am setting up his journey to heaven – a new journey where time and life change. A joyful change. Guided by his guardian angel (Micah), Lou starts afresh, yet that start, for him, is very similar to the joys he experienced in Magnolia when he was nine years old.I don’t go deep into religion or scripture in this book, rather I decided to “show” the reader via Lou’s journey through the first stage of heaven – a stage that is almost comprehensible to us in the earthly realm.
In this fiery love story set in equatorial Africa, Peace Corps volunteer David Fields in on mission: to build a medical dispensary in a remote village where he seldom has his bearings and must fight a cocktail of tropical maladies and cultural taboos. He throws himself into work, which he’s deliciously distracted from in his pursuit of a gorgeous African lady. In her vitality, Assam rocks with the energy of a dozen women and bye and bye David becomes the hunter captured by the game. And what a rollicking game of love it is with delicious “distractions” keeping the reader spellbound. With its hunting ventures into rainforest and original Bantu folktales recounted fireside, this is a novel that, in its haunting end, will strum elegiacally at your heartstrings. Resonating with Nabokov’s truism, “The finest art is not simple and sincere but rather complex and deceitful.” Think of the Mona Lisa’s smile. Think of Water Drumming in the Soul ... Your soul.
The mystery of what they endured as young children took a lifetime to unravel.MK-ULTRA, a covert CIA mind-control program, forces Tommy, Beth, and Curtis Matthews to take part in life-altering experiments during the late 1950s. The experience dramatically impacts their lives, but they don’t remember it.As they come of age through the turbulent 60s and into the 80s, invisible strings pull them toward their preordained destinies.The Nazi-trained psychiatrist in charge of their CIA program harbors a secret agenda to turn Tommy into a future world leader, but forces surrounding him compromise his work.When the MK-ULTRA project is aborted, the siblings are left deeply damaged without access to the memories that can free them. It takes Curtis's psychotic breakdown and Beth's startling vision to open up the pathways to their buried past. These developments lead to the detective work of a diligent therapist. But will it be enough to unravel the hidden tapestry of deception?
To help people learn how to flourish, Alphonsus Obayuwana, MD, PhD, CPC, has developed a five-minute tool that can assign a numerical happiness score to any individual—whether a peasant or a millionaire—using a universal unit of measure called Personal Happiness Index (PHI).The scale was introduced in Dr. Obayuwana’s new self-help book, The Happiness Formula, which teaches people how to create a self-help routine for achieving and maintaining true happiness.“Unlike other books about happiness, which are too often filled with dos and don’ts, wishful thinking, and empty aphorisms, The Happiness Formula breaks new ground,” said Dr. Obayuwana. “Despite its title, The Happiness Formula is much more than a mathematical equation for measuring happiness. It is a book about life, the relationship between human hope and happiness, one’s overall feeling of personal satisfaction and subjective well-being.”
As November approaches, two near opposites clash for the nation's highest office. It's Ven Hess, firebrand populist breaking all the old rules, known as "The Hessian" for his intimidating tactics on the pitcher's mound, versus Democrat Alec Maynard, an African American Admiral with his own flaws but who offers the nation at least some hope of normalcy.Pete Vankov, a political operative known as the "Dark Angel" because of his reputation for winning at all costs, spearheads the Hess campaign. Meanwhile, an estranged colleague, David Gruber, together with The Globe's political reporter, Jane Berglund, devises a plan to thwart Vankov's march towards a dirty and dangerous victory.Who wins?With Guile, veteran political strategist Craig Snyder has written a thriller exposing the dark underbelly of American politics, a novel rich in suspense and intrigue that will have readers turning its pages quickly in rueful anticipation of the next election.
What was it like to be orphaned at birth in the winter of 1942 in Munich, to spend the next eleven years as a foster child in the family of a former SS-officer? What was it like, after the death of my foster mother, to live for seven years in a home for children under the aegis of Catholic Sisters? What was it like to immigrate to the United States at age eighteen without family support or knowledge of English?In telling my story, I draw portraits of people that have affected my life for good or ill. I describe the rooms and furniture as silent witnesses to our family’s daily struggle.I book-ended my work with critical thoughts about nationality: Being considered German in the United States versus being American in Germany. I close with reflections on today’s Germany, with the past intruding on the present, and with my inherited trauma and inherited guilt still pursuing me.
Unsung heroes and murderous villains, hidden forever in ancient shadows, now leap to life - blazing onto the pages of revelation.Gideon, a lowly woodcutter, is blessed by an angel to be the savior of all Israel. He does not know why or how and shrinks from this dangerous mission. The commandment to conquer the Midian Empire as one man seems all but impossible. But Gideon's confidence grows as God guides his every step until he stands fearless and faithfully fulfills his destiny as "A mighty man of valor." The fierce warriors, burning towers, and devastated cities contained in Gideon's Journey are but silver threads that weave into a sweeping tapestry of ancient intrigue. Running through and stitching together the entire saga is The Lord of the Covenant, or The Baal-Berith, also known as Gideon's mysterious Ephod of Gold. The Canaanite age of iron finds a simple woodsman lost in the forest of fear and doubt, challenging Ba'al, the Amorite god, to rescue his one true love.
Did a red fox pass this way? Could that be a bobcat print in the dirt? Do those tracks belong to a domestic dog or a coyote? Combining humor and lyrical memoir with an introduction to wildlife tracking, What Walks This Way explores the joys of learning to recognize the traces of the creatures with whom we share our world.Nature writer Sharman Apt Russell tells stories of her experiences tracking wildlife—mostly mammals, from mountain lions to pocket mice—near her home in New Mexico, with lessons that hold true across North America. She guides readers through the basics of identifying tracks and signs, revealing a landscape filled with the marks left by browsing deer, predatory weasels, and inquisitive bears, skunks, and raccoons. Closely observing these marks and passages, Russell also finds community, a sense of place, and a renewed connection with the nonhuman world. She explores the health of mammal populations in North America and questions common wildlife management practices, calling for new approaches that better reflect our current understanding of ecology. Above all, What Walks This Way is a celebration of all the wild animals secretly, stubbornly, and triumphantly moving through our cities, suburbs, and countryside.
Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2004. Shannon Dillon discovers a document in her grandfather’s attic that appears to be written by beloved author C. S. Lewis. Oddly, the binder is covered with Occult symbols. Word leaks out, and within hours, three armed bandits burst into the house to steal the documents. Things turn sour when the American intruder shoots and kills Shannon's grandfather and brother. Shannon escapes out a window as the gooms take off with the manuscript. Traumatized, she vows blood revenge. Shannon travels to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and recruits a reluctant evangelical college professor of literature to help her bring the American killer to justice. Once trained as an IRA sniper, Shannon is driven by revenge while Simon Magister drags his feet. Still, against his Christian values, Simon is drawn by scholarly curiosity and a repressed attraction to Shannon. The couple enters a dark world where two factions are willing to kill for the ‘Belfast Document.' Simon and Shannon narrowly escape death several times while others die along the way. Meanwhile, a slow-burn romance emerges between the two. The conflict involves right-wing fundamentalists who believe that Lewis's fantasy stories are occult inspired. Conversely, some big evangelical publishers want to obtain and destroy the document for financial reasons.
Never married Aimee Dunsmore hides her identity as a successful Gothic Romance ghostwriter. Aimee got her start ghostwriting the autobiography of a reclusive movie star who is making a comeback in a major Hollywood blockbuster. Originally intended as a marketing piece to support the film, it becomes a bestseller. The movie star wants Aimee to come with her for support on the press tour, and the assignment takes Aimee from the Hamptons to Hollywood. Now back home, she’s content to remain in obscurity and write her novels.Happily single, she meets Mitch and feels an immediate connection. Aimee decides to take a chance on love in real life, only his unstable ex-wife becomes determined to make it impossible for Mitch to ever find happiness again. She goes to extremes to drive Aimee away for good. Aimee needs to decide if Mitch is worth the drama or take a hard pass at what might be her last chance on love.
Inspiring Champions in Advanced Manufacturing” challenges both the parent and child/student to discuss what is the best career and educational path for every young person based on:• the youth’s passion and natural talents and interests• the youth’s innate method of learning new information and concepts• the family’s financial resources and ability to afford appropriate education• barriers of entry into traditional careers based on pool of applicants & requiredexperience• potential paths of enlightenment through internships and/or apprenticeshipsThis book is a two-cover book with both a Parent & Student Edition, 180 degrees apart. The two intended reader groups meet in the middle with both having questions to start the interactive dialog that is absent all to often in the family dynamic – what is the best educational and career choice for each child? This is also meant to warn young people of the student debt trap and maybe MFG careers can offer an alternative path.
“LOVE In the Shadows,” the final book of the Passaic River Trilogy, takes the reader from 1947 Newark through the dark shadows where mindless brutes of all classes preyed on the helpless. Women were fighting back and for the first-time muscular feminism was changing the world with Rosie the Riveter pumping her biceps on posters from coast-to-coast. Men were no longer the only ones using their fists. Four battered women panic the city’s elite when they enlist a mafia gangster to help exact vengeance on powerful men who escaped punishment despite years of brutal behavior. Newark’s Police Homicide Chief is astonished to discover there is no difference in the battery and mayhem affecting the rich and poor. A physically abused rich and beautiful woman goes on a two-continent search after her wealthy aristocrat husband fatally beats a household member she had loved since childhood. Also tracking the husband are two international killers hired by the mafia after it was discovered he had embezzled mob money earned by investing in Hitler’s war machines. The reader discovers that evil often masquerading as love lurks in the shadows around the world.
Eve is a frustrated sixteen-year-old who uncovers a dark family secret. Muriel is trapped in managed care by the son who stole her fortune. Taking advantage of a fortuitous moment, this unlikely pair embark on a murky mission in Muriel’s rare Cadillac to rectify their wrongs. Together they confront Muriel’s wavering cognition, Eve’s emotional wounds, and sometimes each other. They’re on the road to salvation—unless their families catch them first! Told from the unique perspective of the titular car, Michael Jai Grant writes a provocative, humorous and spirited journey that challenges our notions of dementia and elder care, sexuality, the difference between religion and spirituality, and the complex world of Teenagedom set against the tedium of late-Adulthood. Friendship, family and liberation quite literally drive the action of this cinematic new work.
Love the eighties? Love romantic adventures? How often have you looked back on your high school experiences and just thought . . . WOW. Last Exit to Montauk will take you there . . . and more. When he approaches her at the market, he has no idea the next three weeks of his life would change him forever. It’s the late 1980s, summertime, on the North Shore of Long Island. The air stirs with possibilities as it often does during this time of year. And so begins the romance between one Hispanic seventeen-year-old male, on the verge of manhood and ready to conquer the world, and one beautiful and intelligent young woman named B. It is much more than romance, though. B will forever become a part of this young man’s soul. He will never forget her. This is a coming-of-age story, a love story, replete with milestones, tangled emotions, and adventures that are the embodiments of first love. Not just for the young, but for the young at heart.
Joe Ecks: X Band's Rock and Roll Guitarist. Though a musical genius, he's tortured and miserable under the demands of the industry. Dogged by bad headaches and other ailments, Joe erupts in violent outbursts. Ultimately (on page 1), Joe has a breakdown that results in a complete personality change. Joe now thinks of himself as Mike Smith: Harvard Grad. Mike Smith is the opposite of Joe Ecks in nearly every way; he's no musical genius, and he can't play guitar, but he loves being a rock star. 'Xylene X Band' is the story of how the New Joe learns to live Joe's life, and, to a certain degree, how Joe's life adapts to his new personality. But to truly live Joe's life, New Joe must develop the skills, and they will be severely tested by the upcoming 'Xylene' tour. New Joe is no Old Joe, and X Band desperately needs Old Joe to return.
Hertell Daggett is not what he used to be: he’d once been married, he’d once been a physicist, and he’d once been shot in the head in a New Year’s Eve accident. Or possibly the 4th of July, he could never quite remember. The doctors got most of the bullet out, but a few microscopic specks of copper remained floating inside his brain, connecting parts that are no longer connected in the rest of us, filaments of species memory going back to the beginning of time. He knew how animals thought and remembered the singing of dinosaurs, and the dry humor of mastodons, and the rubbery smell of trilobites. He’d once had a future, but he lived now on the outskirts of Bakersfield, California, a damaged caretaker of a run down, failing pet cemetery. And he’s been hearing something....
In Chips We Trust. In the seaside town of Fry Cove, the seagull inhabitants enjoy plentiful chips, especially in the high season when the delightful bay is full of tourists. Steven Fitzgerald, a lowly member of the chip reconnaissance team, wishes he wasn't so useless at his job, but he dreams of becoming an entrepreneur. However, one day, the chips mysteriously disappear, and no one knows the answer to this chipocalypse. Who committed this heinous crime? Was it the Deny the Fry colony, who want all seagulls to quit chips and revert to eating fish? Or was it the seagull mafia boss, Stefano Giacomo, who has concocted a dastardly plot to convert all seagulls to pizza and pasta? As part of the newly formed CIA (Chips Investigation Agency), whose motto is 'In Chips We Trust,' Fitzy, Charlie, Steven Colton, the karate chopping Bart, and Steven Rhys pit their wits to solve the mystery. Along the way, they make enemies and forge alliances with a range of quirky characters. Join Fitzy in this feel good tale about self-belief and teamwork, while he embarks on the adventure of a lifetime.
Carol Cooke thought her destiny was decided when she followed in the footsteps of her grandfather, father and mother and joined the Metropolitan Toronto Police Force.An exciting career followed until one case got the better of her and she decided to take a year off.That year off led her down another path and into a world she could never have foreseen for herself. Travelling from one side of the world across to the other and finding love, heartbreak, illness and Paralypic gold.Through the life challenges Cooke faced, and the lessons learned from her family and her own policing caree, she was able to move forward with resilience, integrity and compassion.
Eight-year-old Eli makes a wish on a twilight star and is whisked away on an outer space adventure. Guided by Cygnus, a star boy from the Swan Constellation, they meet the captivating Princess of Glitterland, who tells him to direct all his questions to the Star Maker. But the sinister Glizzards capture them enroute, leaving Eli to wonder if he will ever learn the secret of the stars and find his way back to his home on Earth.
Releasing a Chandarion’s god-like magic into the world isn’t what sixteen-year-old Aunia, the village’s outcast, intends. She only wants to impress Mathias, a visiting seventeen-year-old pegasus flyer, who fiercely believes the choice—either Faery or Mortal world surviving—has come. Her action calls forth the Boggleman, a soul-sucking ghoul, who abducts her dad, eats her faery friends with his carnivorous cloak, and sets Dagel demons on her isolated village. And worse. The worlds of Ahnu-Endynia are full of faeries, pegasi flyers, myths, secrets, and themes of belonging, despite being misunderstood. And if you don't watch carefully . . . You might be pulled into the Betwixt. . . the space between the worlds.
Eve’s family moves to Harbor Springs, a small lake town nestled along the shores of Northern Michigan. Her parents are eager to make a new start-and new friends. But Eve soon realizes there is something sinister about Simon and Marigold Blackwell. When Eve’s cousin, Alice, dies and is said to have committed suicide, she knows something fishy is going on. Alice would never take her own life. Things get complicated further when the Blackwell’s nanny disappears without explanation. The Blackwells endear themselves to Eve’s family, gaining the trust of her parents. Simon claims to be a prophet and expects his prophecies to be obeyed. Eve is frightened by the things Marigold says she is be able to see in the spirit world. Eve struggles to resist their manipulation, but the Blackwells steadily gain control of everything in her life-disrupting her plans for college and hopes of marrying her soulmate. After what seems like an eternity of resisting the hold the Blackwells have over her, Eve faulters. She fears a curse and the safety of her family if she refuses the Blackwell’s demands. She finally gives in and joins them. Eve finds herself on a plane to the Soviet Union. The Blackwells have persuaded her to take an internship at The House of Angels, an orphanage they run in Armenia. Eve soon discovers there’s something evil going on. She sets out to find the truth and is determined to do everything in her power to protect the children, even if it means sacrificing herself.
A transformative journey that takes you from the depths of sin, despair, and betrayal to the radiant hope found in God's redemption is what "Broken But Not Forsaken: God's Masterpiece promises. Through her inspiring testimony, Cherika Shields concisely shares how she emerged from the darkness to become a beacon of light. Reaching out to her Master in faith, she reveals how God can turn your brokenness into a masterpiece. This book is a testament to the power of resilience, forgiveness, and the boundless mercy of God. It reminds readers that no matter how broken they may feel, they are cherished works of art destined for greatness by the Master Potter Himself, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Prepare to be empowered and restored, and discover the beauty that arises from surrendering to God's divine will through His redemptive love.
From the most “Top Secret “military base in the country comes this tale of jealousy, deception, intrigue and triumph. The newest most sought-after military innovation “The Project” is about to be released, after many years of research by the military’s elite scientists. Unfortunately, there are many who seek to steal and intercept the invention for their own agenda. Written from the inside of a place that few have ever seen with the most forbidding climate to keep outsiders away we follow our developers to the completion of their mission. Their success depends on a sacred trust and ethics while they live in conditions that would try even the strongest most resolute soul. ‘The Project” must succeed or we all will fail – and it will fall into the hands of the enemy. Will they stay true when their spirits are put to the ultimate test? Or will we all soon be controlled by the invention that was intended to keep us safe? A very probable story with many valuable lessons about the competitive nature of cutting-edge research, the courage it takes to succeed both as a scientist while staying one step ahead of the spies and thieves that lurk everywhere. “The Base” is a suspenseful, gripping story with many unforgettable characters
New York 1915, Marion Davies is a shy eighteen-year-old beauty dancing on the Broadway stage when she meets William Randolph Hearst and finds herself captivated by his riches, passion and desire to make her a movie star. Following a whirlwind courtship, she learns through trial and error to live as Hearst’s mistress when a divorce from his wife proves impossible. A baby girl is born in secret in 1919 and they agree to never acknowledge her publicly as their own. In a burgeoning Hollywood scene, she works hard making movies while living a lavish partying life that includes a secret love affair with Charlie Chaplin. In late 1937, at the height of the depression, Hearst wrestles with his debtors and failing health, when Marion loans him $1M when nobody else will. Together, they must confront the movie that threatens to invalidate all of Marion’s successes in the industry: Citizen Kane.
ESCAPING LIMBO is a 71,000 coming-of-age story set in St. Paul MN during the turbulent 1960's. Two young Catholic teenage boys, Francis Paulson (narrator) and his unsteady friend Izzy, experience the big issues of the times first-hand, 3 assassinations, Vietnam War, Apollo Moon Race, British Music Invasion, Race Riots, Counter Culture Movement & Mohammad Ali Arrest, all while struggling with the fierce morality pushed on them by their families, church and Catholic School.Francis' family also struggles trying to keep their 2nd generation candy factory going after tragedies and losses in their family.The boy's relationship is also threatened when Izzy's arch-enemy, Suck-Up Sue, a cute rambunctious girl, sets her sights on Francis.Francis continues his attempts to help Izzy recover from the death of his older brother and protect Izzy from his abusive old man by trying to earn funds for a secret and taboo dangerous summer canoe trip with the belief it will help Izzy heal and Francis face his own doubts about his strict upbringing.
Young girl sexually abused by biological father.She faces a near-death experience by biological mother and older cousin.She endures bullying and abuse by family members, friends, and classmates.Her trauma begins to impact her life substantially which causes a downward spiral in her growth process and it leads her to have encounters with the legal system.She decides to leave her birth place and join the United States Army where her journey of more trauma but healing begins.Does she defy the odds or doesn't she?
The day democracy was assaulted...Protesters at the President’s rally morph into a mob that storms the Capitol, right-wing extremists in their midst. In halls the author walked for decades as a reporter, hostages are taken, the House Speaker among them. A horrific standoff gives extremist militias time to unleash deadly terrorism across the nation. The President, in election denial, weighs declaring martial law to quell the violence – and justify refusing to leave office. Will we again face insurrection? "Brewer gets inside the violent insurrectionists' heads as the revolution spreads. It didn't happen... but it could have!" - John Dinges, author of The Condor Wars The prestigious Midwest Book Review "unreservedly" recommends January 6: A Novel "to community and college/university library collections" and calls it "essential reading for those with interest, in politics, terrorism, freedom..."
As much as Christians or believers of God would like to believe that, just because we acknowledge God in our lives, we should never have any sorrow. That is untrue. Just believing this makes us commit sin because then we are not humble, but haughty. We will all have challenges, disappointments, and unfair situations arise in our lives, but as believers of God, we are to handle ourselves so that unbelievers will want to become like us. We are to TRUST, HAVE FAITH, and BELIEVE that GOD has our back and will keep us lifted above, fight our battles, and always cause us to Triumph!
From USA Today bestselling author L. R. W. Lee, Marked is the third book in the addictive Morningstar Academy series, about a fallen angel who fights to save a world spiraling out of control, all while trying to protect humans and her own heart. This intriguing and unseen world of angels and demons is perfect for fans of Good Omens and Penryn & the End of Days. Despite their best efforts, fallen angel Gladriel, her new fallen friends, and her former squadron mates have had limited success shifting the world ending prophecy and they feel increasingly helpless as war, famine, plague, and hyperinflation rage, killing millions of the humans they are committed to protecting. With conditions worsening on Earth, celestial warriors are kept increasingly busy aiding humans, making Kessien less and less available. At the same time, Morningstar Academy forces Glad to do increasingly heinous things to humans, and the distance stretches their relationship to the breaking point. Glad and her fallen friends’ only hope for rescue is to throw themselves on the Almighty’s mercy and beg him to reverse their sentences. Trouble is, Glad will never be sorry for avenging her BFF’s honor, against his explicit orders. So when her friends promise to never abandon her for their own safety, she finds it unbearable to be the cause of their impending doom along with her own.
Anthony’s father, Gerald Mohr, is a well-known radio actor before slipping to the Hollywood B-list thanks to the advent of television. Accepting the lead in a dying Swedish TV series, he falls for the script girl and divorces Mohr’s mother, who goes on to meet and marry another divorced person, credit card industry pioneer Stanley Dashew. As his stepfather’s career rises and his biological father’s eases downward, Anthony tries to find his place. One weekend he’s sailing on his stepfather’s fifty-eight-foot catamaran; the next, his Swedish stepmother tells him that they’re poor. Coming of age in a time when divorce is rare and viewed as shocking, Anthony lives at the edges of what others regard as a dream world, a place where reality and fantasy blend, maps lead to the homes of the stars, and obstacles abound.
An intimate and soul-searching chronicle of Rosanne's transformation from seeing her father as a source of pain, hurt, and fear to embracing the healing power of compassion, generosity, and forgiveness. Rosanne shares her tumultuous yet redemptive relationship with her father. —a saga where moments of sheer joy collide with gut-wrenching heartache and revelations so bittersweet, they'll bring tears to your eyes. From the haunting image of a young girl dressed in a yellow pinafore, white socks, and shoes, afraid to smile, to the heartwarming camaraderie of Sunday morning adventures to the bakery, where they indulged in watermelon-sized pumpernickel bread and witnessed the magic of coconut bars being meticulously crafted. Hold on tight as her extraordinary journey is punctuated by tales of Divine Intervention (DI's), jaw-dropping moments that defy logic. Pivotal moments that shaped her perceptions and personal growth. Her understanding of her father evolves with every revelation, peeling back layers of miscommunication and seething resentment to expose the electrifying potential of forgiveness. Each story is a testament to her mind-bending evolution and the awe-inspiring resilience of the human spirit. Rosanne's writing is a force to be reckoned with--vivid descriptions and an attention to detail as sharp as a lightning bolt. Her style doesn't just draw you in; it kidnaps your senses, thrusting you headfirst into her world, forcing you to experience her memories and emotions as if they were yours. Brace yourself for a journey of healing that will leave you forever changed.
Years of filming, extreme dangers, and daring rescues have taken their toll on documentary producer Pero Baltazar and his team. To relax and reconnect with the East African wildlife they love, Pero organizes a walking safari for him, his camerawoman Nancy Breiton, and their elite guide Mbuno Waliangulu. Still, Pero has trouble truly disconnecting from work. When the team comes across a herd of elephants making their annual migration north of Lake Rudolf, Pero decides the team will film their journey from Kenya into Ethiopia along the Omo River. What begins as a peaceful trip quickly turns into a chaotic nightmare as the trio crosses paths with a crew of poachers whose ivory sales are financing terrorists. The three are determined to protect the endangered herd from slaughter, and Mbuno enlists the help of local tribesmen. But the corruption of ivory poachers has deep roots that stretch to UN refugee camps, Chinese gangs, and the Iranian elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard. Faced with overwhelming odds, the trio must now rely on Pero’s contacts in the CIA, as well as Mbuno’s skills in the bush, if they hope to ever return from this excursion alive.
In a desolate future where Earth is divided into zones of despair and privilege, Doctor Marcus Jarret has a life most can only dream of in the elite crystal zone. But when Anja, the woman he loves, vanishes, Marcus is thrust into the unstable yellow zone, a territory teeming with secrets. Accompanied by Finch, a watchful Associate Advocate, Marcus stumbles upon a horrifying truth—plans to wipe out entire zones and their desperate inhabitants. With the fate of humanity hanging by a thread, they must unravel a conspiracy led by the enigmatic Leader and make agonising sacrifices. Narrated by the Last Advocate, an unborn entity observing humanity’s final gambit, this gripping tale reveals shocking truths about our past, present, and a perilous future. Can Marcus and Finch defy fate and prevent a cataclysm before time runs out?
A preadolescent boy is caught in Castro's Revolution and struggles with trading a Cuban Huck Finn childhood for the price of liberty after fleeing with his family to New Jersey via Mejico. The boy reminisces about his roots in the barrio. He chronicles spirited narratives that range from stealing a rowboat and being nearly capsized by a Russian tanker, to befriending an old fisherman who tells him a haunting tale, to being bullied by a neighborhood thug, to cockfights gone bad, and to being nearly mauled by a wild boar. He witnesses the plight of captives taken near his home during the Bay of Pigs invasion, and tries to navigate the complexities of growing up in a machismo, homophobic culture. The U.S. Blockade of Cuba during the Missile Crisis unexpectedly disrupts the family's egress. They endure the next several months in isolation. As a new expatriate, the boy lands in Mejico. He eventually arrives at freedom in blue-collar, New Jersey neighborhood. He endures the many ordeals of being an immigrant in an at-times intolerant culture and struggles to adjust to American life. But he perseveres. He scratches his way from a Green Card to American citizen, then to becoming a highly respected professor of medicine at two major medical schools in the United States. He eventually returns to the island in search of his roots, of the mango tree and of the boyhood for which he so dearly longed. He doesn't succeed altogether. But he doesn't lose hope.
It's Dyngus Day in Buffalo, New York where identical twin sisters Lilah and Laylah Larceny (pronounced LAR -SEN-EE) are celebrating their favorite ethnic festival as they are getting ready to retire from their 30-year careers as makeover queens. The twins are similar, with some differences: One twin believes in ghosts and the other in Aliens from outer space. Unbeknownst to Lilah, her newly adopted pet cat, whom she calls Dyngus is a bit of both. One day as Lilah is watching a YouTube video, she comes up with an unusual idea about how she can retire comfortably abroad for free! But her sister Laylah who has always been competitive with her sister on the down low discovers her plan and takes off for Scandinavia without her! Travel to Norway with the Larceny twins and find out how Lilah's unusual plan unfolds!
Esteban's journey of resilience and transformation unfolds with unexpected twists and turns in "Love's Irony." From an affair with Aja to his adventures in Las Cruces and Kochi, his path is marked by profound change and unforeseen challenges. After his expulsion from Mexico, Esteban seeks solace in bustling Kochi, India, immersing himself in his duties and encountering intriguing individuals. Despite grappling with illness and loneliness, he finds moments of joy and fulfillment, especially within the hospital corridors where he bonds with Aja, the head nurse. Their romance is complicated by Aja's commitment to her faith, leading to their eventual separation. Egged on by Jesus, Esteban's journey takes him to Macau, where a twist of fate brings both triumph and deportation. Through these tumultuous experiences, Esteban navigates the complexities of love's irony, a journey that continues to captivate and surprise.
Neill McKee takes us on an entertaining journey through the developing world from 1970 to 2012. His memoir is filled with compelling dialog, humorous and poignant incidents, thoughts on world development, vivid descriptions of people and places he visited and worked in, and over 200 images (ebook and hardcover in color), all of which bring readers into his "University of the World." The story starts when he becomes a "one-man film crew," documenting the lives of Canadian CUSO volunteers working in Asia and Africa as teachers, medical doctors, nurses, engineers, agriculturalists, foresters, technicians, and a biologist. He learns the craft of filmmaking and meets and marries Elizabeth "on the hoof." The story is enlivened throughout by their challenges and adventures together, and Elizabeth's growing artistic talent and creations.
A wrongfully accused Tejano ranch hand is hunted by the Texas Rangers for murder. He evades the Rangers and becomes the most wanted man in Texas in 1915. He is nicknamed the Ghost for his ability to avoid capture and expose the Texas Rangers corruption. He becomes a folk hero to the oppressed Tejanos.
In June 1970, my life was working as I’d hoped. At twenty-six, when my son Jim was born with a severe cleft lip and palate, my world turned upside down. Doctors took charge of my son’s medical needs. I felt side-lined, pressured to cope silently and without support. I recoiled when I saw my ten-day-old infant’s battered face after the first surgery. Feedings were traumatic, and I feared Jim would fail to thrive. Emotions I’d never felt before – disappointment, guilt, helplessness, self-loathing, resentment -- overwhelmed me. I shrank from the inevitable stares and insensitive comments. I worried that I had caused Jim’s cleft. My husband was consumed by medical training, so I was on my own for Jim’s medical appointments and hospitalizations. A surgeon dismissed my concerns and efforts. I yearned to be the mother my son needed but could not imagine ever being a positive force in his life....
Lloyd Gibson has a secret, and he used it to steal everything under the sun. But when he stole from the wrong people, his world unraveled, forcing him back to his hometown of Calgary. Living in an abandoned warehouse, he takes odd jobs as a private investigator to make ends meet. Constantly dealing with the paranoid delusional, his life soon becomes boring, before a genuine case drops into his lap. When he meets Mireya Delgado, Lloyd finds himself embroiled in an eighty-year conspiracy, with a mysterious agent hounding his steps. When the case leads to an actual supervillain, hellbent on revenge, he realizes he may be in over his head. However, Lloyd has a power of his own, and it might be the key to ending the fiery rampage. Walk in the shadows. Enter the Noctis. Will Lloyd prevail, or will the flames of vengeance consume him?
In The Single Ingredient Diet, Randy Rolfe takes an up-to-date look at the gaslighting which is going on by food processors, chemical companies, and regulators to rob us of our health. And she shows us how to liberate ourselves from its numbing effects and actively prevent the debilitating chronic diseases which are caused by the ultraprocessed food in the typical modern Western diet. In her twenties she developed a revolutionary and amazingly simple eating pattern which has kept her healthy well into her seventies. And in this book she shows us how it works to ensure that we are doing the best we can to support a long, healthy life. The Single Ingredient Diet invites us to transform our relationship with food in just 21 days. We seem obsessed today with conflicts between low-fat and low-carb, meat-eating and vegan, raw and cooked. But these conflicts are just a smoke screen hiding the most important conflict, which is between real foods, which nourish and heal, and non-foods, which sicken and kill. By learning how to use only instantly recognizable foods which require no labels and foods which list only one ingredient, we can enjoy every meal from now on, free of confusion, doubt, worry, and regret. When we take up this 21 day challenge, we can look forward to happier meals, happier health, and a happier life.
The story opens with the early morning rape of a young American woman, who, along with her husband, has come as a volunteer teacher to a small country in southern Africa. The rapist is captured by the husband and is subsequently arrested and held for trial. Because the Ministry of Justice sees the incident as sensitive, oversight of the case is assigned to an American expatriate lawyer employed there. The ensuing story follows not only the volunteers' lives as they cope with the aftermath of the attack and the Ministry of Justice's involvement in the matter, but also a growing unease on the part of characters concerning who they are and where they belong. Questions of culture and identity impact the action and outcome of the story.
"Kasia's Story" retells the final twenty years of the life of an elderly widow, Katarzyna Weiglowa, tried for heresy in Reformation Poland in the early sixteenth century. After the death of her husband, Kasia continues searching to answer the question they had begun exploring together: whether the God they find in their hearts is the same God they encounter in their church. The book is written in a parallel narrative featuring the complex life and political intrigues of Poland's Queen, Bona Sforza, who as a child knew Leonardo da Vinci. The times are turbulent and complex. The Church's response to the Reformation and the presence of Jews in Poland carries them far from Christ's call for compassion. All of Europe is now aflame with brilliant new ideas, and equally with the fires of repression: times not that different from ours. Deeply researched in Poland and through the literature, "Kasia's Story" is, in the mold of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, a deep dive into times which though long past, cast an instructive shadow into ours.
"Kasia's Story" retells the final twenty years of the life of an elderly widow, Katarzyna Weiglowa, tried for heresy in Reformation Poland in the early sixteenth century. After the death of her husband, Kasia continues searching to answer the question they had begun exploring together: whether the God they find in their hearts is the same God they encounter in their church. The book is written in a parallel narrative featuring the complex life and political intrigues of Poland's Queen, Bona Sforza, who as a child knew Leonardo da Vinci. The times are turbulent and complex. The Church's response to the Reformation and the presence of Jews in Poland carries them far from Christ's call for compassion. All of Europe is now aflame with brilliant new ideas, and equally with the fires of repression: times not that different from ours. Deeply researched in Poland and through the literature, "Kasia's Story" is, in the mold of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, a deep dive into times which though long past, cast an instructive shadow into ours.
The Narcissist is a cosy crime novel with a gritty edge. When a famous actress is found dead from a gunshot wound in a small town, suspicion falls on her family and friends and it is revealed that there is more than one person who may have wanted Vanessa dead. As the characters close ranks and secrets are revealed, the book builds to a dramatic, action-packed conclusion.
When the head of an ancient Samaritan family is injured, it throws the family into turmoil. There isn’t enough money to pay the hefty Roman taxes. The daughter, Chana, is taken as compensation and forced into slavery inside a cruel centurion’s home. As a slave, Chana witnesses the miracles of Yeshua. They give her hope as she stands up to the abuses of the centurion’s children and survives unspeakable atrocities. Unaware of her family’s presence in Jerusalem, the holy city brings nothing but horror when Chana witnesses the crucifixion at the hands of the Romans. While struggling to overcome her traumas Naftili, Chana’s brother, is taken as a slave to the same house as Chana. Their fate to live a life as slaves seems impossible to overcome until they are rescued by dragons sent from God. But all is not easy as their faith journey continues. They will encounter obstacles designed to prevent them from becoming Dragon Disciples, faithful followers who spread and protect the Word of God.
When author Barry Finlay undertook climbing Mount Kilimanjaro at age sixty, little did he know the lessons he learned scaling that summit would translate to overcoming any of life’s challenges. In an inspiring how-to guide drawing upon both Finlay’s experience and the inspiring stories of eight other ordinary people doing extraordinary things, Just Keep Climbing details the tools anyone can use to reach seemingly impossible goals and become the best version of themselves. From the seventy-year-old, record-breaking sprinter and the competitive bodybuilder to those confronting addiction or a devastating medical diagnosis, each story is raw, emotional, and uplifting. Most importantly, each personal account assures us that while everyone faces their own version of Kilimanjaro, we have the power to prevail over adversity, pursue our passions, master our demons, and transform not only our own lives but the lives of others. Outlining the five Ps of overcoming challenges and sprinkled throughout with motivating quotes, Just Keep Climbing will inspire readers to find the joy in perseverance, success in the face of difficulty, and provide tools for the climb, whether the mountain is literal or figurative.
After experiencing a personal tragedy, Detective Rachel Ryder packs up and leaves Chicago for small town Georgia. She soon finds out that like the big city, small towns have big crimes. Breaking into the good ol' boy network isn't as easy as she thought. The chief and mayor would rather hide crimes than solve them, but that doesn't work for Rachel. When a city councilman is found dead, it's tagged a suicide, but Rachel knows better. Determined to find a killer her entire department, including her partner, don't think exists, What Rachel finds is more than a murder. She finds small town politics are as corrupt as the big city, and that wealthy moms can be sex traffickers too. She digs deeper and discovers the mayor's wife brings girls in to sleep with elected officials, and anyone else interested. When Rachel learns the murder is the mayor's daughter, she hits the ground running. This is the first in an 8 book series and has received multiple #1 bestseller tags on Amazon.
From the conflict in 1830’s Zululand to a staged robbery in the Gold Fields of Australia in 1859, a developing mystery requires the wit and intellect of Victorian private detectives Findo Gask and Erroll Rait. When Major Gask is reunited with Mary Mitchell, she brings worrying news of an old acquaintance, Jane Malan, whose husband Andrew has been receiving coded threats linking him to the theft of gold. They are in grave danger. When Andrew is murdered, Gask and Rait must race against time to unmask the killer. How was Andrew Malan involved in the gold robbery? And who are the real criminals behind the scheme? Can Gask and Rait solve the case before more lose their lives? To do so they must stay one step ahead of a dangerous secret society, Die Broederskap, and its threatening interference. With vivid period detail and a superb, labyrinthine plot The Case of the Wandering Corpse is a stylish, gripping and enthralling read. This is a novel so rich in historical detail and colour, the reader will feel immersed in the Victorian age.
As MARK JENKINS and his younger brother BRIAN play video games in their father’s doomsday bunker, the power suddenly goes out. It is May 24, 2022, when most of the United States, Northern Mexico, the southern half of Canada, Cuba, Belize, and the Caribbean islands see three bright lights spanning from the East to West coasts. The one in the east appears first, followed by the west, then the third between the two. At that moment, the world takes a quantum leap backward as three nuclear warheads explode two hundred miles into space over the United States within minutes of each other. This is designed to create a super electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and cripple the US. The Northwestern Hemisphere is immediately thrown back to the Stone Age, all at the hands of Iran and North Korea, and there are no police or emergency services to come to the aid of its people. Mark and his family are horrified to see a plane has crashed near their town and realize the bunker may be needed for its original purpose rather than a games room. Mark and his neighbor JACK PRICE ride their bikes in the direction of the crash to help out and are stunned to see the widespread devastation. Jack is concerned that an EMP has occurred and is worried about how his parents will get home from their jobs at Denver General Hospital. Looking to the north, the young men can see the carnage ahead and .....
The Adventures of Sir Locke the Gnome is an anthology of six mysteries in the spirit of Sherlock Holmes. Join Sir Locke and his best friend Latswin Gilshire as they solve mysteries throughout Aethrofell, a land full of men, women, dragons, dwarves, elves, orcs, ogres, giants, and of course gnomes. If you enjoy role playing sword & sorcery games and quick-paced mysteries, chances are you’ll love the adventures of Sir Locke the Gnome.
As Parul grows older, she becomes increasingly unhappy and resentful with her lot in life. Mohini struggles with their relationship as well, never sure whether to treat Parul as a sister or a servant. When Parul has a passionate, secret affair with Rahim, a radical Muslim, the careful order the Sens have maintained is thrown into chaos. Parul must decide where her loyalties lie when Rahim asks her to betray the Sens and endanger a young American man who is staying with them and to whom Mohini is attracted. Parul's choice will shock the family and determine everyone's future. Follow the powerful and emotional story of two young women, Parul and Mohini, as they navigate their complex relationships and the strict societal expectations placed upon them. As tensions rise and secrets are revealed, one woman is faced with a heart-wrenching choice that will determine the fate of those around her. This beautifully written and deeply intimate exploration of love, loyalty, and identity will leave you questioning the norms and expectations placed upon us and the power of our own choices.
In her book, author Johanna Crawford shares her 12 years of extraordinary, hands-on experience in supporting women and provides the reader with a pragmatic and compassionate perspective on the steps needed to effectively go from surviving to thriving. Many authors deal with the emotional aspects of abuse, but few present a roadmap for women to regain their financial self-sufficiency to change their lives and those of their families. Through an interactive, collaborative approach, It Takes a Woman offers space and methods for readers to explore their dreams and define specific, actionable steps and goals to regain power over their lives.
The book helped inspire a film that had its world premiere at the Newport Beach Film Festival in October 2023 and closed the Palm Beach Film Festival that same month. The author appears in the film. It's an epic tale that spans more than 30 years. As the Cold War took hold at that dawn of the 1950s the U.S. government began a program to perfect the atom bomb. The Nevada Test Site would be the prime location for testing atomic weapons on U.S. soil. A key to the program was to reduce impact to the public by having the radioactive nuclear fallout drift "downwind" into sparsely-inhabited areas of Utah.....
The US is experiencing both a mental health and a climate crisis that are linked in many ways. Current approaches have failed to meaningfully address both crisis. Using extensive research, interviews with program leaders, and examples, Preventing and Healing Climate Traumas describes how community-based, culturally tailored, population-level mental wellness and resilience-building initiatives are preventing and healing social, psychological, emotional, ands behavioral problems generated by the climate crisis and other adversities as local residents also engage in local solutions to the challenges they face. I coordinate the International Transformational Resilience Coalition , which is a network of organizations working to prevent and heal the mental health and psychosocial impacts generated by accelerating climate-related toxic stresses, emergencies, and disasters...
Is getting "unstuck" feeling hard? Well, Dying To Live: Love Stories will be a scaffold for your brave explorations of stubborn blockages. Within this memoir, which is somewhat academic, somewhat other-worldly, somewhat painful, somewhat joyous, and angry about the lack of kindness we find in our individual and collective lives, we bear witness to how Jaqueline turns her terrifying demons into valuable warrior minions. Strange as it seems, death, sexual and physical abuse, illnesses, betrayals, failure, and definitely not fitting in are Jaqueline's elixirs for real growth...and for sustaining Love. Unrelenting fights for her resurrections reinforce your commitment to do the same---live richly, deeply and stay true to your own soul. Spirit seems to talk directly to us through these love stories, and Spirit is so revered because it is Spirit which leads us through our darkest of days and toward more and more light. Dr. Becker shows us how to use all our senses to hear Spirit talk directly to us as she raises the positive value of suffering to its highest level.
On July 29, 1890, a hot and muggy afternoon, shortly after Vincent van Gogh was laid to rest after his honor killing for “compromising” his doctor's twenty-one-year-old daughter, Marguerite, twenty-six (26) of his unknown paintings and other art material were stolen from the hotel where he had been laid out for his final viewing by his doctor and his son. This was the largest art heist of a single artist ever, and today would be worth many billions! This theft led to the Gachet art forgery ring and many fakes, forgeries, and altered provenance for years. This is the story in the book 3 of the Killing Vincent Trilogy of what happened to all this art and to Marguerite and her sad, long life without her Vincent. This book three is the finale of the Trilogy. Book one was Killing Vincent and proved forensically that it was not possible for Vincent to self-inflict his mortal wound. If Vincent did not shoot himself in the belly, (of all places) then whoever put that penetrating wound in his abdomen murdered him! Book two, Love and Murder, now in your hands answers the questions of how, why, and where Vincent van Gogh was murdered and how a brilliant cover up of the murder was accomplished by the persons of interest using the false narrative of a suicide as a martyr for his art. There is also a sneak preview of chapter one from book three The Day Vincent van Gogh was Murdered; The Honor Killing that Changed Art History Forever and Led to The Greatest Art Heist in Modern Times. Hopefully this will you excite you to put the entire Killing Vincent Trilogy together in your mind’s eye in preparation for the major movie, Finally Love.
You have the drive and work ethic…but just don’t know how to start. Should you franchise your own business or buy into a well-known brand? Two of the roads to financial freedom are building a business or buying into a franchise. Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Gregory K. Mohr has done both. From managing restaurants to micro-circuit engineering, he had a broad range of experience. When he found franchising, though, that’s when everything changed. It all started when he got laid off. Greg’s career had left him feeling empty for some time. If he was going to change his life, he had to get to it. Franchising did exactly that. He had the energy and drive that was missing from the 9-5 job and with that came success. It wasn’t easy, though, as he had to learn the ins and outs of the contracts and how to avoid the mistakes that most people made. This book will save you time. With over 200 clients who’ve learned his methods, Greg has a proven record of success that makes him the teacher for you.
18 speculative short stories… A lyrical and literary approach to genre-based fiction A father and his young son face a choice—risk their lives by extending kindness to a person who is not permitted to exist or risk their souls by walking on. In a dark and starless world where magical creatures are hunted and destroyed, a captive girl’s courage sets in motion a wish that will change the skyscape forever. Even though the world declares her son dead, a relentless mother casts a lifeline into an icy lake, day after day, to rescue the child swallowed by its waters. A microbiologist’s sanity is questioned when he discovers a technology-borne parasite that threatens most of the world’s population. An android is charged with apprehending a rogue time traveler whose innovations have distorted history so much that the fate of the world rests on his capture. Aware that she was created with the purpose of dying upon another’s command, a clone struggles to find her strength, and her life, in a world that deems her sub-human. Forced to weigh the value of one individual life against the lives of many, a scientist from a dying planet confronts her own morality and the ‘core truths’ driving her choices and her actions.
When a crisis in the family occurs, Alexander Copeland returns to the one place he has been running from his entire adult life ‒ back home to Canada. He hasn’t seen that place since he was seventeen and he would rather be sailing in solitude on the high seas in London than on a plane ride back to his guilty past. Fear grabs a hold of him as guilt eats away at his heart. What will his family say when he arrives after all these years? And what about the gorgeous, Costa Rican brunette he’s fallen for while on vacation? What will she think of him now after his secret is finally spilt? He certainly had not planned to find her in Canada! Georgia Adams is not at all excited about her trip to Canada. She isn’t keen on the idea of traveling to a foreign country but her best friend Samantha thinks the three-month trip will do her well. Who knows?.....
Psychologist Dr. Kixx Goldman explores the nature of intuition and resilience. When people honor their intuition, the "little voice" inside, and speak openly about their feelings, they thrive in their relationships. You, too, can follow your inner voice, speak from your heart, and claim your power. The eight engaging fictional stories in this collection are personal, drawn from experiences in Dr. Kixx's life and the lives of her clients. The characters are tested by everyday traumas
My Story, My Song tells the fascinating tale–sometimes sweet and sometimes not–of the eldest daughter in a family of thirteen children, nine boys and four girls, growing up in the fifties and sixties in rural Ontario. The one-room schoolhouse and the church on the hill with the huge steeple both affected the lives of all who lived in that Embro community. The memoir shows a close and caring society in the midst of a burgeoning post war economy, and the changing world that provided them all so much opportunity. Those changes wrought challenges for everyone.
Dinah Hance is unfulfilled by her simple life on her family’s farm near Salina, Kansas, in 1883. She longs for excitement and adventure, but when a ghost from her past suddenly returns, she casts those dreams aside. Notorious outlaw Sal Valentin and his gang ride to the Hance homestead to lay low after a bank robbery goes wrong, and Dinah’s father takes up arms to protect his family. Sal kills him in cold blood, and Dinah vows to bring him to justice—for he is the same outlaw who killed her best friend ten years ago. Despite the protests of Salina’s marshal, she joins his posse, along with veteran bounty hunter Jasper Lawrence. Left behind during the bank robbery....
A young African-American soldier nearly meets his fate honoring his country in World War II and the Korean War. Suffering physical and psychological injury, he is finally, after decades able to recount the harrowing and traumatic events that took place during those years. The strength of his faith, and love for his family and country kept him alive to return home, get married and raise a family. The main character Sgt. David Henry had to fight the enemy in the field while fighting racism and prejudice from the U. S. armed forces and the American public. The book is historical fiction and partially based on accounts provided to the author by veterans of World War II and the Korean War.
No one escapes the palace intrigue, divided loyalties and tribal battles that characterized life 3,000 years ago.A catastrophic battle sets in motion events that birth Israel’s first monarchy. Eldad, a metalsmith from Mizpah, goes to fight to protect country, tribe and family from invading Philistines. He barely survives the battle of Ebenezer, in which 40,000 Israelites die.Four members of a cursed family of priests die during the battle and its aftermath, and a courageous young woman has to escape a burning city to rescue the last remaining heir to the priesthood, so the religion of Yahweh can continue.Against his better judgement, the prophet Samuel accedes to the people's demand that he install a king. Believing God has selected him, Samuel anoints Saul, a tall, young man with kingly bearing. He initially performs well, freeing the Israelite town of Jabesh-Gilead from the Ammonites who have besieged it, but Saul becomes depressed and paranoid, putting the fate of the nation in doubt.....
Yesteryear is a magical novel based on the true story of Fran Striker, a struggling radio play scriptwriter who would eventually create The Lone Ranger. Set in Buffalo, New York during the early 1930s, Yesteryear explores the events and magical influences that led to the show’s debut, a show that provided hope to Americans during The Great Depression and made The Lone Ranger and Striker heroes. To write the pilot, Striker needs to overcome writers block, a Gypsy curse, foil a plot to assassinate FDR, deal with an alcoholic midget, and recover stolen diamond rings belonging to an equally alcoholic boxing champion. Populated by characters who lived during that era—radio actor John L. Barrett, Mafioso Stefano Magaddino, former boxing champion Jimmy Slattery, and president-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt--Yesteryear is written in the same spirit as W.P. Kinsella’s Shoeless Joe, Bernard Malamud’s The Natural, and Daniel Wallace’s Big Fish.
Michael Zimmerman chronicles the painful story of two families built on one lie, forever linked through betrayal, infidelity and bigamy. Then, after hitting rock bottom, Mike becomes a father of his own, and soon discovers something more powerful than the lies; a story of resilience, recovery and hope.
In Michael's Words... “Looking back now, there were always red flags – signs that my father was not the man we thought he was…his absence on holidays, his secrecy, and the constant excuses that took him out of town. It’s human nature to trust the people we love. But that’s what makes my father’s betrayal so heinous. He took advantage of the trust that the people who loved him had invested in him. It wasn’t simply infidelity. No, my father’s deceit was truly sociopathic. He built and designed our entire identity as a family – our lives – to facilitate his deceit. The truth, when we finally learned it, not only fundamentally changed our family moving forward, it tainted every memory we had together.”
I’m an author (5 books) and writer of countless articles and a weekly blog at MaddenMischief.com. Partly writing is a therapy to get things off my chest that disturb me or impress me that I have to write about. In the PR firm I started when I left NBC, I’m forever “polishing” press releases, media pitches, PR proposals. “Dad, can you polish this, meaning can I make it more effective, engaging, inspiring. So I polish . . . and polish words, sentences, paragraphs, hence came my latest book WORDSHINE MAN about how to make writing inviting.
American Christianity Black Liberation White Legalism attempts to understand and explain the churches' passive and, in some cases, silent national attitude and behavior towards matters of privilege, discrimination, greed, and racism in and throughout the western world's history. For too long, this sin of silence has caused many good people of faith to ponder this same question while searching the Holy Scriptures for answers on salvation and deliverance. This book will attempt to seek truth in all its rawness and discomfort as I address race relations in the west from the colonization of the Caribbean to the inception of America. My goal has been to find and identify a specific character in our spiritual genome that can make some sense for the centuries of atrocities, pain, and suffering we have burdened each other with, in the name of progress, profit, and politics.
Nominated for The National Book Award, Alle C. Hall’s literary fiction debut, As Far as You Can Go Before You Have to Come Back is a-girl-and-her-backpack story with a #MeToo influence: Carlie is not merely traveling. A child sexual abuse survivor, as a teen she steals ten thousand dollars and runs away to Asia. There, the Lonely Planet path of hookups, heat, alcohol, and drugs takes on a terrifying reality. Landing in Tokyo in the late 1980s, Carlie falls in with an international crew of tai chi-practicing backpackers. With their help, Carlie has the chance at a journey she didn’t plan for: one to find the self-respect ripped from her as a child and the healthy sexuality she desires.
Home braids the history of a New England house and town with teachings of motherhood, loss, and tradition—plus a little romance and humor along the way. In childhood, M.G. adores her old family house as if it were a guardian with heart and soul. After her mother dies, her father soon remarries and sends her and her brothers, one at a time, off to live with older siblings. M.G. buries her affection for that home, along with the family divisions and pain of her mother's departure. She becomes that kid—the one who falls through the cracks, and stumbles into adulthood wrecked, scarred, and undisciplined.
All the while, another vintage house, busy protecting an immigrant family in a historic mill community awaits. Years later as an adult, M.G. falls in love with the place, despite its cracked cement, broken stoop, and the chipmunks whizzing in and out from under a door. As M.G. researches her home and repairs its broken parts, she discovers the gradual personal restoration that ensues as a result.
Willow's Aunt Lindy dies and she is very sad. Her friends and family visit Willow to comfort her by sharing their memories of Aunt Lindy. Through captivating drawings of dogs and cats and simple language, this book can help you guide your child through their experience with death. We hope that Willow and her friends inspire your child to share memories of their loved one often with friends and family so death stinks less!
The Math Doesn’t Add Up for Young Max, Who Has Dyscalculia. Figure Eight is an insightful book for young readers that tells the story of why Max can’t do math as easily as his friends. At 11 years old, Max is struggling in school because the numbers he sees in class get all jumbled up in his head.
He explains: “An eighty-one might look like an eighteen to me like they were switched at birth. I’m sure you get it by now. I am numerically challenged. I have dyscalculia, a disorder that (they tell me) means I have a problem grasping numbers. Sometimes they slip from my mind like water from a sieve, and somehow, I am just left with a gaping hole.” Max’s middle school friends meet to help each other solve their individual problems. Eric has dyslexia, which makes it hard for him to read or interpret words because the letters get mixed up in his brain. It’s the same thing for Max, except for him it’s with numbers. This realistic book shows what caring people can do to help each other through their challenges.
She's out to prove herself, and believes two seemingly unrelated murders are tied to a serial killer. He believes her analysis was faulty and responsible for his friend's death. Can these two FBI agents work together and find the killer? Two murders, an undercover agent and a housewife. Different cities, different weapons. Related only by a medically-precise cut behind the ear and a calling card on the chest of each victim.
And the killing has only just begun.
FBI Tactical Intelligence Analyst Mali Hooper delves into the case with Special Agent Jacob Black and, as the murders stack up with the same M.O., they make the chilling discovery that each murder is broadcast on social media. The public loves it and clamors for more! When they discover the true reason behind the carnage, Mali begins to question her faith in humankind. That faith is put to the ultimate test. . .because the hunter now becomes the hunted.
Abandoned by their creator, two factions of powerful angels remain on earth after the Great War with Lucifer. They struggle to comprehend their Creator’s plan while their angel wings, a symbol of their angelic lineage, slowly and painfully decay. With no hope of returning to the Shining Kingdom, two groups of angels denounce their angelic lineage and develop into separate factions – the Court of Light, led by Queen Aurora, a former Virtue Angel, and the Court of Dark, ruled by King Jarvok, a former Power Brigade Angel. The two monarchs have opposing views on how to govern their kin, but the one belief they agree on is that human worship equals power. They are their own beings and masters of their own destiny. They are the Fae.
The 8th AF daylight bombing campaign is plagued by heavy losses and low accuracy. When Churchill convinces Roosevelt to switch to night bombing, Major Charles Davis flies with RAF Bomber Command to learn first-hand the techniques of RAF Bomber Command. The risks are great, and the question is, will Charlie survive long enough to report back to the Air Corps?
Being a leader is a scary thought. You are responsible for individuals who are not related to you and whom you cannot control 100%. This group of people does not look like you, think like you, talk like you, or have the same interests as you. These people may not even like you. Yet, somehow, you have to get them to follow you. Most of these same statements hold true for your role when you are being led. There is someone responsible for leading you. You cannot control, speak, or even think like that person. How can we effectively survive to do and be our best every day? In this second book of the LEAP Series, Dr. Elizabeth A. Carter once again provides you access to information based on situations that have impacted her life. Gaining A.C.C.E.S.S. to Lead Others: 14 Activities Critical to Continuous Evolution & Success for Self shines a spotlight on the three elements that have helped, hindered, and heightened her journey in leadership: chemistry, confidence, and communication. Including motivational quotes from pioneers such as John Quincy Adams, Oscar Wilde, Plato, and Helen Keller, Dr. Carter expands her use of alliterations and acronyms to entertain and educate her readers with topics and phrases such as•First impressions: “First Flush Final”—Don’t expect the hand you were dealt to change.•Overcoming obstacles: “No Not Never”—Response is temporary, not permanent.•Working with others: “Sometimes, you must DUMB it down” (Decode for Understanding and Maximizing Buy-in).•Leading volunteers: Accountability measures needed if “there is not a process of a review, raise, or reprimand.” At the end of each section, there are reflection questions, and the last chapter helps you decide what actions you will take next. Get “access-smart” and let chemistry, confidence, and communication increase your effectiveness when leading others and being led.
Keilah moved to Sandy Salts, Iowa in search of a fresh start. Little did she know, acclimating to the quirky town in the middle of nowhere would be more complicated than she anticipated. Her elderly landlord, Dee, has a dark secret that has followed her since childhood. Dee’s younger brother was kidnapped decades ago and never found. While the spunky woman tries not to talk about the painful ordeal, the mystery of his disappearance constantly haunts her.
Digging into the cold case residents have all but forgotten, Keilah unwittingly discovers shocking secrets from her own past.
Dee's brother was "taken" by a man ostensibly to be given a better life. This man used to own her family farm before he left to travel the country. Keilah's own hidden memories come to light when she remembers the cause of her best friend's death was a hit-and-run accident involving her father.
Traces of Heaven is a miraculous, angel-shared reveal of the mysteries we perceive about death and life after life. What happens when our beautiful spirits depart the physical body? Will we recognize and reunite with those we love on the mystical Other Side? Is it possible to link together from two different worlds? Nancine Meyer, a spiritual medium and sixth sensory guide, shares in a reassuring, simple style the Angels' communications to her of divine origin, the human experience, the spirit world, and how to reach each other from different energy realms. In theses pages you will discover: 1. The different kinds of spiritual beings you are connected to by energy through God. 2. The step-by-step journey of spiritual beings such as we who choose physical embodiment. 3. the first-ever told detail of the Five Stages of Afterlife transcribed from the voices of Angels. 4. How to recognize and develop signs and symbolic interpretations of inter-world spirit communication. 5. Resilient ways of managing emotions of grief and fear attached to earthly life's end. Traces of Heaven is a heartwarming, stimulating guide to leading an extraordinary, fulfilling life, grounded in love, confidence, and spiritual well-being.
Madam Norma’s spirit appears to her friend, Angel Ken. She asks him to write her memoir.
STACKS Library of Truth is a fast-paced, thought-provocative story that is tailored for fans of the X-Files who want to know more about the alien forces that exist beyond our conceptions. The story revolves around a library employee at the Library of Congress who accidentally unearths a dark agenda by those in power.
Cal Donovan, a theology professor at Harvard, receives an urgent message from a former graduate student, Samia Tedros. Now a museum conservator in Cairo, Samia has discovered a miraculous fragment of papyrus with three unknown lines from the Gospel of Mary Magdalene so explosive that a wealthy man is willing to kill to ensure no one ever sees it.
At the Vatican, another drama is developing. The new Pope has defied centuries of tradition and appointed a nun, Sister Elisabetta Celestino, as his secretary of state. Powerful insiders are outraged that a woman now sits as the second most influential person at the Vatican, and they plot to destroy her.
When Samia shows up at Cal’s doorstep in the dead of night, he is drawn into a deadly competition to possess a papyrus with the power to rescue Sister Elisabetta and change the course of Christianity.
Katherine MacDonald is on her own. Divorced with two small children while Edinburgh is being bombed during World War II, she is desperate to survive. Her long hours working at a laundry barely pay her bills. Her only solace is writing, but she could never imagine how a little pen found in an antiques store would change her life. Astonished, Katherine watches as the pen drags her hand across pages, scrawling out words from the past—the words of the medieval knight Francois Jacques LaMar. Soon, Katherine finds herself time-traveling into the past to witness Francois’ life as he rises from being a miserable orphan to a Grand Marshal of the Knights Templar, honored by all. And in his writing, he reveals a secret treasure that he hid away that still waits to be found. Amid the chaos of World War II, Katherine begins to search Francois’ writings for clues to the Knights Templar’s hidden treasure. Overcoming treachery and setbacks and finding trustworthy companions, she travels to the black, dangerous Cuillins Mountains on the Isle of Skye, little realizing the Nazis also seek the treasure.
In this win only, winner takes all society, what is the role of failure in leadership?Why are there so many books on leadership? Simply put, because people want, desire, and need leadership! Most people in positions of leadership and authority will talk about how to become successful only, when discussing leadership. In my book, I focused primarily on how to become successful by using your failed experiences.Failure said to success, without me, there is no you!When I examine wildly successful people in all industries, such as business, sports, CEO’s, academia, medical, civil service, the military, you name it and what I find as a common denominator is they all learned how to understand, accept, embrace, and learn from their failures.Do you want to succeed as a leader? If you do, you must learn how to do three things. Fail graciously, get comfortable with your failed experiences and learn from those experiences. Everyone wants to succeed but no one wants to fail. When utilized correctly, failure is the greatest resource on the planet to help you be all that you can be. I have created a formula for this. Get the book and learn what the formula F+RR=S, means.In this, easy to read book you will learn:•Why you are not afraid to fail•That failing can actually be fun•When an organization makes it ok to fail, their people, are more creative, survive, and thrive•How to take action and become successful using your failed experiences
When the president-elect is assassinated, Jim Murphy of the Chicago PD gets the blame as the country encounters an unprecedented constitutional crisis. While serving as extra security his moment of distraction offered the assassin the opportunity to strike. To redeem his good name Jim Murphy volunteers to investigate the mysterious disappearance of gangbangers who turn up as blood-drained corpses. His investigation connects the murders to an ailing Big Pharma tycoon conducting secret blood experiments to save his life.Meanwhile, the election is thrown into Congress for resolution after no surviving candidate wins in the Electoral College. With many twists and turns Jim Murphy discovers a connection between the Big Pharma tycoon and a political coup in the making instigated by the same tycoon who wants to save not only life but his country by making it great again. Jim Murpy teams up with the "backdoor' president elected by the House of Representatives to put down the coup on the verge of succeeding. The tycoon escapes to Cuba where he dies a painful death as a result of his dangerous experimentation with the young blood of gangbangers.
Einstein’s Compass by Grace Blair is a “YA Time Traveler Adventure.” Historical fantasy science fiction. The book intertwines events in Albert Einstein’s life with fantastical elements while including scientific concepts. Topics that emerge include coming of age, antisemitism, and bullying. Most of us are familiar with Einstein’s legacy as a scientific genius and a giant of physics. But where did his ideas originate? How can one person be so brilliant? Imagine he has been reborn into the modern world after living the life of a spiritual leader in ancient Atlantis, where science and the divine made sense. Einstein’s Compass centers on Albert, his friend Johann, a classmate named Werner Von Weisel, and two villains named Raka and Countess Victoria von Baden. As a young boy, Albert’s father gave him a jeweled compass. We later learn the compass originally belonged to Countess von Baden’s family. It has magical qualities which only Albert and Johann are aware of. Raka, Albert’s twin brother thousands of years ago, has always been jealous of Albert and wishes him harm. Raka learns the compass contains a powerful stone called the Shamir stone, and he uses Werner and the Countess to exact revenge and take the compass for himself. The book includes “Mystical Travelers” famous biblical and scientific persons like Moses, Jesus, and Newton, who guide Albert along the path to rediscovering his forgotten knowledge destined to affect the word. Einstein’s Compass is a fascinating blend of the factual and the fantastical with enough of the metaphysical to leave readers wondering what is possible and what is reality. Imagine that a Wrinkle in Time meets The Chronicles of Narnia with a little Harry Potter thrown into the mix. “The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.” – Albert Einstein It is part science, part science fiction, part fantasy, part thriller, and all fun for young adults on up.
While most use their summer breaks for pleasure, third grade teacher Cindy Moore is using her summer vacation to tie up some loose ends concerning her grandmother’s estate.When Cindy enters the storage unit that holds her grandmother’s belongings, she is merely looking for items she can sell to recoup some of the rental fees she’s spent paying for the unit.Instead, what she finds are secrets her grandmother has taken to the grave with her. The more Cindy uncovers, the more she wants to know. Why was her grandmother abandoned by her own mother? Why hadn’t she told Cindy she’d lived in an orphanage? And how come her grandmother never mentioned she’d made history as one of the children who rode the Orphan Trains?Join Cindy as she uncovers her grandmother’s hidden past and discovers the life that stole her grandmother’s love.
Get ready for an adrenaline-pumping adventure! Meet Jon Howe, the ultimate Time Agent from the 25th century. His mission: save the world from a parallel universe invasion! But that's not all. Jon has a new mission - win over the heart of the stunning and fierce Shoshanna. The World Quantum Physics and Time Bureau needs Jon to go back in time to 1939 Morocco to stop the impending invasion. But he can't do it alone. He teams up with Shoshanna, who's not exactly thrilled to work with him. As they hunt for the Leon Key, a crystal pyramid device that can take them to another universe, they face challenges and danger at every turn. But there's more to Shoshanna than meets the eye. Jon soon discovers she's from the other universe and is blown away by her extraordinary skills. As their relationship deepens, they discover the truth about the invasion and must risk everything to save Earth. With the Nazis hot on their heels, Jon and Shoshanna make a daring escape to the planet Moorgliss. There, they face the evil dictator Moogur and his army of superhuman soldiers. It's a battle for survival as they fight to stop the invasion and save humanity. But it's not just the fate of the world that's at stake. Jon is stranded in the past, and time travel is currently a one-way street. Will Jon and Shoshanna be able to save the world and find their way back home and their own time? It's a race against time as Jon fights for his future and his love for Shoshanna. You'll have to read to find out!
Trouble always seems to find Amanda Pennyworth, the American Consul to the resort city of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. While on an excursion to nearby Amapas Beach in the company of a tour group from the United States, one of the guests, Danielle Overman, a beautiful and enigmatic woman, is brutally murdered, and Amanda is called on to help find the killer. Unfortunately, no one among the group has a believable alibi; everyone is a suspect, and everyone has, as Amanda discovers, a motive. The Mexican police seem unwilling to conduct a thorough investigation, and the American Ambassador is only interested in avoiding an international incident. It’s up to Amanda to uncover the mystery. But the killer has further mayhem in mind, and when the action shifts back to the United States, Amanda, who is home on vacation, is once again called on to pursue the person who wanted Danielle to die and who was willing to commit a further savage crime to cover their tracks.This is the third novel in the Amanda Pennyworth mystery series, all of which take place in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Mythion is Gavin’s journey through time and space to discover himself, his mission, and how to free humanity from its mental programming.When he comes to in a hospital with no memory of how he got there, he soon finds himself being gently forced into an RPG therapeutic marvel to heal his deepest emotional traumas. The RPG takes place in a quantum generated alternate world, a lush and gorgeous utopia, with its own AI citizens, laws, and culture.As Gavin earns both mental and physical upgrades, he undergoes superhero-like exercises, earning many achievements in the game world and unlocking new abilities in the real world. But he soon realizes something dark is happening in the background when a shadowy military organization begins stalking him.
Meteorologist and psychic, Gayle Force proves a force to be reckoned with as she moves back to her beloved Mystic Bay, California. While sleeping an angel sent her a vision in a dream of a future event. Gayle realizes she must use her intuition to save an old man from drowning. But who is this old man? With the help of intuitive attorney, Alex Kinght, she finds they are caught in the middle of a future crime.
Two boys meet and a friendship is forged that will echo for a lifetime. Luke Karpinski and his friend Eugene, along with a cast of unforgettable characters navigate life in a Polish neighborhood in mid-century Milwaukee. Their stories are both hilarious and heartwarming. For the boys, every day is an adventure. It never occurs to them that one day they will grow up and have to go their separate ways.Many years later, Luke is a cop working in the lush city of Miami, his childhood friends almost forgotten. He chose his career to make the world a better place, but life is never that simple. Miami has become the drug capital of the world and Luke is in the middle of it, caught in a life and death struggle with the fierce Colombian cartels. The battle is all-consuming and Luke will sacrifice everything for the job: his family life, his health, and even his dreams.This is a story of two Lukes. An innocent boy and a hardened undercover cop. The stories converge when Luke returns to his home in Milwaukee, old and alone. As he steps onto the streets of his old neighborhood, the memories come roaring back. He blinks back tears as he breathes it in, remembering how happy he was in this place. Why did things have to change?He meets a young black girl in front of his childhood home. He tries to explain his presence, but something is happening. He hears voices—voices from the past; and visions from another time. It feels like a doorway opening. Was that his mom? Impossible. She’s so young. Eugene? It can’t be; he’s still a kid. What is this place? Even the light is different; somehow softer, warmer. They seem to be beckoning. What to do . . .
An immigration lawyer fights to keep her client from being deported and losing his family. But those who want him gone will stop at nothing—including murder. Seattle, Washington, 2019. Attorney and single mom Laura Holban is an immigrant herself, guiding clients through a Kafkaesque system of ever-changing rules, where overworked judges make life-shattering decisions in minutes. Laura’s newest client is Emilio Ramirez, who was arrested in front of his sons at their high school and thrown in detention.When Laura files for Emilio’s asylum, the world turns upside down. False criminal charges prevent his release, someone is following his family, and an ICE prosecutor threatens to revoke Laura’s US citizenship. None of it makes sense—until she uncovers a deadly conspiracy involving ICE, stolen data, and human trafficking.Now the man at the center of it all is coming after Laura and Emilio, who must find a way to survive—and keep their families safe.
Trunks Maloo is a mighty elephant that roams the savannah thinking that because he is so big and strong he can do as he pleases. He soon gets himself into a bit of trouble, and quickly discovers that everyone needs help from time to time. It takes one of Africa's smallest animals to help him realize that we are all connected and that we all need to be kind to each other.
Surviving an accident that takes his mother’s life, 22-year-old songwriter Santiago DeAngelo is consumed by grief, guilt, and the opiates he is prescribed for his injuries. Nearing rock bottom, he receives inspiration for a song from his late mother. As he struggles to write it, he falls in love with Kitty Holladay, a music producer who offers a rare shot at fame with a hidden agenda. Kitty seduces him into the fast-paced world of pop music, where he records a hit album while fighting his opiate addiction to write the one song that will help him make peace with his mother’s death.But when their relationship ends over the betrayal of that song, Santiago must decide the real value of his life in a moment that nearly ends it.
The narrator starts the book by saying: ‘My name is James Johnstone, my father was James Johnstone, and his father before him was James Johnstone.’ Then, the narrator proceeds to tell the story.Lady Margaret Johnstone stands on the battlements of Lochwood Castle, with her young son, the future Sir James Johnstone in 1585. She is waiting for her husband, Laird Johnstone, who is the Lord Warden of the Western Marches to return with his men from a routine patrol. He returns, followed by John Maxwell, 8th Lord Maxwell and his army of 2,000 men. Maxwell lays siege to Lochwood Castle, burns it to the ground and captures Laird Johnstone, but not before Lady Margaret, young James and several Johnstones, including the Tanist, Gilbert and Adam Johnstone evade the Maxwells through escape tunnels. King James VI of Scotland has no other option but to make Lord Maxwell the Lord Warden of the Western March because he is the only man who is strong enough to fill the power vacuum. This was the reason for the raid in the first place.The Johnstone Clan spend several years rebuilding their power base and planning their revenge on Lord Maxwell....
As a seasoned, but ever-hopeful pragmatist dad, I’m not terribly confident they paid attention the first (second or third) times I’ve said them. Sometimes/Oftentimes, I feel like the proverbial fallen tree in the woods. Did my children understand what I said? Did they even listen? Did I at least make a loud, discordant thud?Ultimately, I view this book as a testament and as a gift to my children. They should know three things:1) Dad was here.2) Lead a good and well-lived life.3) Abundantly and ten-to-the-nth-power tenfold, I love them.I offer this on behalf of our shared hugs and smiles, and on behalf of the tears I have shed for them and with them.
Nothing survived "The Breaking" unchanged; lives and fortunes, love and hate, freedom and slavery …An epic journey across a young nation seething with debauchery, brutality, corruption, and political intrigue, unwittingly on the brink of an unimaginable disaster; the American Civil War. Captain Nathaniel Chambers has left the violent army life behind in Texas, never imagining he’s on the very Road to The Breaking.
Energy in Motion: Evolution, Revolution and the Human Condition" addresses the hope of a world unified by a new understanding of consciousness. In this book, you will be presented with a clear path to the promise of a peaceful and more loving world with forgiveness as the necessary survival tool for us all. Sally Aderton illustrates her universal spiritual perspective and understanding of the human condition from her experience as a non-denominational spiritual teacher and healer. Sharing true stories about her clients on their self-discovery and healing journeys, she gives a unique insight to the decades of assisting others in having happier and more successful lives. Sally candidly talks about her own spiritual growth, personal healing, and overcoming her own obstacles to peace and understanding. Throughout the book, there is a constant message of kindness, personal responsibility, respect for all life, and self-reflection as necessities for our human culture on Earth to thrive. Sharing this wisdom, and many miraculous stories, she hopes to awaken even more people to the experience of living in Love and this book shows us all how. Directly from the back of the book, here is what you will find inside: • learning to honor and trust your intuition • an invitation to expand your perception beyond the apparent • choosing surrender and forgiveness to be free of pain from stories that no longer serve you • practicing the exercises, tools, and tips for living your unique spiritual practice and relationship to the Divine as you discover it • listening and learning from the true stories of Sally’s clients as they share their personal transformations and mystical experiences • joining Sally on her journey forward as she discovers the miracle that is life starting her worldwide healing practice at 24, surviving a brain tumor at 37, and continuing to learn to Love No Matter What!
While embracing the idealism of the 1970s counterculture, he seeks to discover himself in pursuit of his escapism. Amidst the backdrop of reconstructing his deconstructed Christian faith, sharing adventures with friends, his interior conversation gives a glimpse into the author's inner growth during these years. If anything kept him moving forward, it was the delusion of his magical thinking: his imagination and wanting, and the wandering search through the looking glass of his impressionistic mind, slicing through glacial meltwaters of northern forests in a canoe and other evocative childhood memories.On Colorado's high chaparral, just as he begins to reconcile his industrialist roots with his curious artist's soul, Rick falls in love with a girl from Sinaloa, Mexico. After high school, he hitchhikes back and forth across the country, visiting old friends before returning to Mexico to find the girl. Traveling the back roads of Mexico with new friends, looking down from the top of an active volcano, and taking a dangerous acid trip at the edge of Cholula's Great Pyramid, he comes to see his life's trajectory reflected in the struggles of his ancestors and buried in the secrets of Mexico's past.
Squeeze Plays combines finance, intrigue and a closely detailed look and the rich and privileged in New York and London. Two powerful men, a bank chief executive and a tabloid publisher, are at odds over a loan that would keep the publisher afloat. A cunning Russian oligarch appears with an offer of a financial life raft to the publisher - a gambit uncovered by an intrepid financial reporter who senses a big story.The novel is a character-driven tale that one professional reviewer called the best character-driven book he'd read in a year. The actions and foibles of the main characters - and strong female characters - are played out at length, and the squeeze plays include financial and sexual blackmail, sabotage and more. The settings are rendered in vivid detail, and the tone is often brisk and satirical, showing how vanity and hubris can humble the powerful.
What is more terrifying than a covert mission to North Korea? Try raising a 12-year-old girl.Elina struggles with the countless rules in her life, especially when they keep her from a mysterious new boy who arrives at her school.What is Alexander Veurr to do?As the leader of Atropos-one of the government’s most elite tactical teams-Alexander assigns retired agent Xavier to guard his budding daughter. With Xavier’s skills and agency resources, what could possibly go wrong?A lot, it turns out. Elina goes missing and Alexander is exiled from the agency. Two things become clear.1- Someone in the agency is as crooked as a dog’s hind legs.2- Elina may be someone’s unwitting secret weapon.
In Wendy Sand Eckel’s much-anticipated third book in the Rosalie Hart Mystery Series, Rosalie’s hard-earned organic farm certification is threatened by a toxic neighbor who is about to crop dust his winter wheat. When their impulsive farm hand decides to confront him, she finds his lifeless body inside the door of his home on Windswept Farm.In the midst of the mayhem, Rosalie’s beloved Day Lily Café hosts a 5-day cooking school. Marco Giovanelli, a celebrated Italian chef, arrives in Cardigan and a sumptuous situation ensues. When one of the students falls ill with the same poison that killed the farmer, Rosalie and her best friend and head waiter, Glenn, take matters, and homemade pasta dough, into their own hands. With Mystery at Windswept Farm, Eckel once again brings the fictional town of Cardigan to life and delights with suspense, humor, and mouth-watering menus.
Ada Baker is a gifted psychic who shares her home with three bored ghosts. They tempt her into investigating the mysterious death of Mary Watts, who is found naked and strangled in her bathtub. This begins a series of exciting adventures for Ada as she draws on her unique skill of channeling the abilities of the dead to help solve the crime. She must convince a skeptical detective of her abilities, avoid the unwanted attentions of a sinister stalker, and try to enlist the help of a squadron of ghostly spitfire pilots to save her life. Along the way Ada finds love, adventure, fame and new friendships. Can the dead really bring justice for Mary and help save the living, too? Will Ada solve the crime, or will her curiosity mean she’ll end up a victim of the murderer and become a ghost herself?
Come and See is not a self-help book—just the opposite. It is an invitation to consider a solution that demands: no achievements, striving, or, performance hurdles. The book explores: a) taking charge of the regrets from your past, b) healing from emotional and spiritual disillusionment, c) the power of forgiveness—for yourself and others. This book offers you a solution to the emotional vertigo you are feeling but cannot identify. Come and See proposes a cure that is candid, somewhat uncomfortable and quite possible scary. This book does not preach, judge, or emotionally manipulate, but rather, respectfully proposes a surprising solution to women’s disequilibrium allowing grace and forgiveness to be felt again…or perhaps for the first time.
Douglas Atkins understands the heart of man in all its beauty and complexity. Couple that with deep scientific knowledge and an imagination that ranges from futuristic Artificial Intelligence and Ice Age droughts to repressive governments and space colonies, and you get Diminishing Horizons. These stories explore what happens when flawed men and women encounter futuristic situations with few moral safeguards ... yet sometimes manage to find redemption (of sorts) where it doesn’t seem possible. These imaginative stories sparkle with intriguing what-ifs, humor, and surprise endings that will stay with you.
Retribution begins in 1620. A grieving Isaac Stanfield heads out across the Atlantic Ocean. After the Mayflower sails for the new world, Isaac has been sent to explore the potential for trade and further settlements in New England. His efforts are frustrated by the incompetence and duplicity of the people with whom he has to deal. This second book in the Stanfield Chronicles series continues with Isaac’s love of adventure, his courage, and ingenuity being fully tested, his fascination with and respect for the native peoples he meets. Isaac’s life consists of blue water sailing adventures, kidnapping, smuggling, pirates, torture and romance, on two continents, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. A life lived on the edge while he attempts to protect those he loves.
Research scientist Shea Caldwell has always had a thing for security consultant, Derek Oneiros. He’s smart, handsome, and built like a Greek god. As attracted as she is to him, though, she’s afraid to let him into her bed – because she’s dangerous when she sleeps.
Derek is known among his brothers as “The Machine,” yet his carefully cultivated control is put to the test whenever he’s around Shea. The woman is as beautiful as she is intelligent, but they’ve always kept things professional – until Derek learns why. Shea is sleepwalking again, but what she doesn’t know is that he may be the only one who can help her. For he is a Greek daemon, and he’s charged with protecting her dreams.
With Shea threatened, Derek makes things personal, and their nights together turn steamy and intimate. He’s ready to battle against the Somnambulist that’s been controlling his lover in her sleep, yet is the night creature really causing all the harm? When Shea’s groundbreaking research notes are stolen, it’s clear that other evil forces may be at work.
A first-person account of a bright, timid boy born into the rural Midwest mid-20th Century, enthralled with the grandeur of his local woodlands, public library and Catholic Church. One of five children in an upwardly mobile family, he struggles with being gay. He looks for his proper place in an enticing but unwelcoming world, a search that leaves behind failed attempts at a normal life and takes him overseas and back again, chasing lost happiness and struggling to fit in. His search ultimately reveals that he has been looking for himself all along. It is a cautionary tale, drawn against the era’s major cultural upheavals, told late in life out of the comfort of self-acceptance and a regret over opportunities gone by without addressing things that should have been said earlier.
The rise of Nazism in Austria catapults life in Vienna into chaos. Emma grapples with the harsh new reality of her country’s betrayal, and desperately clings to her humanity by hiding her Jewish friends. In the war’s aftermath, she finds solace in helping those in even greater need than herself. Friedrich teeters on the edge of what is right and his personal survival. His actions and inaction leave long-lasting repercussions that years later threaten to throw all their lives into turmoil again
A decade after the war, Sophie - Friedrich’s niece, and the daughter of Emma’s friend - returns to Vienna from her American refuge seeking her lost history.
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Lilla must recruit the biggest and most dangerous army in the Seven Galaxies, but the Teryn emperor will not comply unless Lilla earns the blessing of the Teryn Guardian Goddess Laoise.
Dealing with gods is never easy. Guardian Goddess Laoise’s condition for bestowing her blessing is for Lilla to bring her the mysterious Heart Amulet. Now Lilla is trapped in a strange place with no way out, no idea where to go or how to find the amulet.
The only way for Lilla to complete her mission is to uncover the biggest secret of all Teryns. Will she survive discovering the secret of what it means to be a True Teryn?
Lady of the Play is written in parallel historical and contemporary stories, with focus on the life of Elizabeth Trentham, the other Shakespeare. The contemporary story begins with the finding of an original page from A Midsummer Night’s Dream hidden in the cover of an ancient Book of Common Prayer owned by an elderly woman, Sudie McFadden. She contacts a history teacher, Cynthia Parsons, to help her prove her ancestor, the original owner of the prayer book, was the true playwright. Cynthia, with the help of a librarian friend, and an attorney, conduct extensive research to prove Elizabeth Trentham was the true playwright and poet. There is a smooth transition from the modern chapters to the historical. The historical chapters tell of the secret life of Elizabeth Trentham, her innate genius, and how she obtained the necessary qualifications to be Shakespeare. The story begins with her childhood, then the ten years she spent as a maid of honor in Queen Elizabeth I court, her collaboration with Edward de Vere, the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and their subsequent marriage. Also, why they hired an actor, Wm Shaksper, as their broker and later allowed him to take credit for the plays. Edward dies in 1604 and Elizabeth continues with the deception until her death in 1612, the same year William Shaksper retires. In her will, she leave money for her “dumb” man to assure his silence. Included is her relationship with John Overall, one of the King James Bible translators. Clues of Ely and Edward’s collaboration are left behind in Psalms 46 and the deVere crest of the female lion. Cynthia faces intrigue, danger, and romance along the way as others try to steal historical documents, thereby thwarting her efforts to reveal the truth. Even though Lady of the Play depicts the fictional life of Elizabeth Trentham, events are based on the actual historical timeline and events. Lady of the Play will appeal to the general population whether a fan of Shakespeare or not.
Living the perfect life on the outside with a successful business and lifestyle. We were the perfect family. Behind closed doors my husbands behaviour began to change to a Jekyll and Hyde personality. Lies and deceit. His mood swings became darker and darker. Overnight I discovered that he was on Heroin. I was devastated and naïve. My whole world had turned upside down. Which lead to abuse and violence towards myself and my son as I filed for a divorce. One night of terror, a new level of rape and violence, took us to being held hostage in my home, which led to us going to a refuge for safety and protection. Leaving our home and our old life behind ,driving through the night in a police car to safety, never to return again. Rebuilding our lives in a new area with a new identity.
Recalling some of the most memorable escapades ever conducted in the Canadian Arctic with bush planes, Flying to Extremes takes place in the late ’60s and early ’70s from a base at Yellowknife, in the heart of the Northwest Territories. Beyond recounting so many near-mishaps, this book is also about colourful people: the trappers, prospectors, miners, adventurers and gold-ingot thieves who constituted the fauna at the main bar in Yellowknife in those days. For Arctic dreamers, there was always the flight to the Nahanni River, with its Deadman’s Valley, hot springs, tales of lost or dead prospectors, the many airplanes crashed in pursuit of gold, and much more Nahanni lore. This entertaining book recollects Prinet’s adventures as a young man while capturing the humour, beauty, danger and unique culture of northern communities, in the dramatic landscape of the Canadian Arctic. Readers familiar with the region and those who can only dream of visiting it will both find this title a nostalgic and captivating read.
Back from rock bottom... Trey McCall, an up-and-coming superstar on the golf circuit, staggered past a mirror and gasped at his reflection; horrified, he froze and stared at his pathetic image—sweating profusely through a torn and faded Bob Seger tee shirt, eyes blood red and glazed, hands shaking, mouth dry and scratchy as sandpaper. The disciplined essence of an athlete, a thing of the past—each intoxicated day mirrors the last and the next—lured from his principled sheltered life on The Circle M Ranch by unscrupulous forces in the real world.
Suddenly fully aware—he must escape this highway to nowhere—to regain purpose in and for his life. The obstacles were infinite—four truths, his only vehicle: He would need significant help to get there. He must own his past to have a future. Karma is real. Trust is earned.
Lucky Richards, his nefarious business manager—a catalyst for disaster—vanishes, leaving in his wake an international trail of egregious felonies implicating McCall and his family. Survival becomes Trey’s primary concern, as golf takes a backseat.
As the Soviet Union deploys its new SS-20 missile, the US decides to counter by stationing its new Pershing II missile in West Germany. But many Germans are opposed to having the new weapons on their soil, a resistance the Soviet KGB decides to exploit, no matter who they must team with to halt the US deployment. In Washington, NSC staffer Carter Cardwell is sent to find out what forces are at work and what the KGB is up to. He brings with him CIA Analyst Katherine O’Connor, an expert on the Soviet Union with whom he has a personal relationship. Meanwhile, the KGB decides upon a very risky and complicated approach to broaden German opposition against the arrival of the new Pershings. The KGB chief responsible for Western Europe, Dimitry Zhukov, takes personal charge of the Soviet effort. Carter, Katherine and Zhukov have confronted each other before, but now find they must work together before a nuclear confrontation spins out of control as both sides discover they have to confront dark forces from the past in order to create the conditions for a more peaceful future. Will they succeed? Or will nuclear terrorists upset the nuclear balance?
TWENTYONE OLIVE TREES is the author's journey of transformation portrayed as a collection of letters, poetry, and fables she wrote to her son Blaise after his death. Before each of the letters, 21 fable narratives unfold, further illuminating this intimate look at coping with loss and acceptance that intrigues, inspires, and gives hope to readers looking for answers about life and death and those who long to transform their grief into something beautiful.
Sometimes the life we lead is the culmination of a million small moments that we let slip by, pretending they don’t mean anything, until one day they mean everything. The meaning we give those moments will forever determine our fate. Ray Shipman faces losing not only himself but everyone he ever loved. Ever the optimist, however, Ray is determined to live out whatever time he has left- on his own terms- with the love of his life, Allison, and his children Dorothy and Jackie. As Ray slips deeper into the grips Alzheimer’s, he reveals a dark family secret that threatens to destroy the people he spent a lifetime protecting. Ray and Allison now face a reality they avoided since the first year of their marriage and it forces them to question if their 50 year love story was real. Ray’s beloved daughter, Dorothy, struggles to find the truth of who she really is and if Ray is the loving father she adores- or a fraud. With incredible storytelling, new author, Randy Wojnarowicz takes readers on an emotional ride seen through the eyes of three generations of the Shipman family as they grapple with their past, losing Ray and an unimaginable tragedy that no one sees coming. In the end, will love triumph over all or will Ray have destroyed the one thing he cares about most in this world- his family.
As parents/guardians and other adult influencers, we are our children's first and most important role models. What kind are you, positive or negative? Your mindset tells you.
Stacey Dighton’s ‘The Hawk and the Raven’ is a mind-boggling supernatural thriller, combining the traditional crime story with the spine-tingling occult in this latest thrill spiller from the UK’s own dark fiction author. No less than five murders for sleuth Luke Raven to solve but he has a paranormal gift to help him track down the killers. Raven battles against the dark forces of the mysterious organization The Legion who’ll stop at nothing to bring him down, including unleashing the murderous cannibal, The Hawk.
A 78-page collection of ekphrastic poems that dazzle with vivid imagery and expert wordplay. Lee Woodman has chosen to explore works from major museums, including The National Gallery, MOMA, The Guggenheim, The Prado, and the Louvre. Woodman invites readers to walk into paintings, enter worlds triggered by sculpture, and eavesdrop on conversations with artists. She will take you to a roaring boxing ring in Washington D.C., a cave in Indonesia with forty-thousand-year-old paintings, and a harem’s den in Algiers. All is possible in poetry. Information about each artwork allows readers to look at the works online while reading poems that offer a refreshing and provocative examination of the art.
Jennifer Parker, MSSW wrote Coercive Relationships: Find the Answers You Seek to provide a beacon for survivors of partner abuse. The book also appeals to family, friends, and professionals who assist them. Her non-judgmental, empathic voice offers knowledge gleaned from years of working alongside survivors to empower them. Her writing is seasoned with information regarding trauma and recovery. Each chapter contains survivor examples that illustrate coercive control and suggestions for self-discovery and recovery. The book focuses on the answers to frequent questions: • Am I being abused? • Why do they hurt me? • Why do I feel so crazy? • Why do they believe they should control us? • How do I recognize abuse of power? • What can I change? • How do I move forward?
Detroit newspaper man Marten embarks to write Terrorist Tracks, a book about Terrorism. Follow him, his family, friend Nic (FBI), visit Nevada, Illinois, Ontario Canada, London Britain, Madrid Spain, Tokyo Japan, as he researches for his book. This is NOT a book about death, but one about LIFE (and Living) and of those (foreign and domestic) that would deprive others of that Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness.
This book is intended for all audiences - young, old, and everywhere in-between; male, female, not just for macho shoot-em-up, blood and guts, fare; religious, non-religious; political, non-political. However, it is impossible to address the topics and why they want to kill us without delving into some religious texts and politics. The Torah, the Holy Bible, and the Quran, are all addressed.
Terror Strikes is not just a book, but a book within a book as the lead, Marten a newspaper man, is writing a book about terrorism. It is also a blog, within a book, as Marten uses his blog as some source material. Terror Strikes not only acts as a history lesson and warning, but concepts of not just those lost but survivors guilt (and the difficult topic of many having suicidal thoughts) and other related issues surrounding violent acts effecting everyday life.
A young girl suffers personal loss with the death of her father during WWII and must endure all the hardships living in a frequently bombed suburb of London with her mother.
Displaced from their home, the two were compelled to remain strong and to make the best life possible for themselves whether in an air raid shelter, living in rented rooms, or navigating bombed out streets.
The losses, terror, rationing, and the huge sacrifice of childhood and education, remained with Vera throughout her life. A popular wartime adage became Vera’s abiding principal by which to live. Keep Calm and Carry On. Based on a true story.
For aspiring indie filmmaker Kevin Stacey, it's another day on the set of his first film, but when his estranged father, a failed Hollywood actor, arrives unexpectedly with a bundle of cash, a gun, and a stolen capuchin monkey, he's propelled toward the journey that will change his life. The monkey, Henry, has been liberated from a research lab by animal rights activists. Inspired by his friend Veronica to reevaluate his relationship with other species, Kevin learns about the pain and suffering inflicted on lab animals as he forges a bond with the capuchin. When father and son embark on a road trip with Henry, Kevin is caught between the egocentric father who abandoned him and the temperamental monkey whose fate is in his hands. With both the FBI and his mother's ghost watching, will Kevin risk his career and his father's freedom to bring the stolen monkey to safety? Meanwhile, Veronica's encounter with an eccentric Catholic priest triggers her own journey toward change. A heartbreaking yet comic family drama, A Better Heart examines the human-animal bond and the bonds between fathers and sons, challenging readers to explore their beliefs about the treatment of non-human species.
The Amazing Skin They're In Book looks at the physical characteristics of animals and the terms associated with appearance. Children are given the means to describe what they see in nature and the ability to make comparisons. They also learn how skins are used in the products humans use daily. Illustrations by Nikki Studio will amuse and delight.
This book was a long time coming. God had to take me through a lifetime of learning to prepare me for writing this book. There are three areas that He impressed upon me to write about. The first was to write about the life lessons that He has taught me. Things like how to be a better, more loving husband, how to take control of my life by planning for and accomplishing things, and how to use the gifts He has given me. The second was to make apologetics understandable. Apologetics is rationally and credibly defending the faith. I’ve has a passion for this ever since I’ve been a believer. Christianity is not just subjectively true. It’s objectively true. It is factually true and can be proven so beyond a reasonable doubt. The third was to highlight some of the lesser-known Christians and how God used them to make a difference in our world. I hope the lessons contained in this book will bless you, as they have blessed me in learning them. But even more than that, I hope they will draw you closer to Jesus.
This revised version of my first book offers readers an inspiring array of essays to read, poems to reflect on and questions to consider. The book gives readers an adventure in consciousness, expanding their understandings, such as why we might forgive our past, embrace who we are and live into expansive versions of ourselves.
The Long Tale of Tears and Smiles chronicles an oncologist’s journey as an immigrant: from Damascus to Aleppo to St Louis to New Orleans to NJ, and then NY; from a medical student to a trainee to a practitioner caring for cancer patients and their families and watching the field of oncology evolves throughout the years. The tale interweaves the author’s life stories with the stories of the patients she cared for. It reflects on how bearing witness to their survival or death inspired her life and changed it and how their anguish touched so closely on her own as she grieved the death of loved ones and watched the devastation of destruction and loss caused by the civil war in Syria.
“Breaking Free from the Ego: A Course in Finding and Freeing Yourself” reveals the secret to happiness and fulfillment which can only be learned through personal experience. Fortunately, Trina Carroll-Houk has had that experience. She can teach you how to break free from what’s holding you back from living a life of inner peace. To live a rewarding life, we need to break free from our ego, and that doesn’t happen by accident. It happens with intention. Learn how to discover your true identity and embrace your inner spirituality. All of life’s problems are created in the mind―yet the solutions are found beyond the mind! This book will teach you the evolutionary process of living in a higher dimension of consciousness.
A gentle family saga, spanning almost 100 years, from 1887 to 1974. Set in Alabama, Harlem and London, it touches on some of the evils of society like poverty and racism, as well as some of the best that life has to offer….family, friendship and love.
The Smooth River is the remarkable story of how a well-known public relations expert and her husband met her stage 4 pancreatic cancer head-on. With vigor and strength, they deployed all they and medicine had to offer. But, in contrast to narrow conventional approaches, the couple developed a far more expansive view of what strength means in response to a crisis for which there are no medical cures. They called this the Smooth River. This clear-eyed transcendent perspective was so vital that they wouldn’t let anything disrupt it-not cancer’s lethal march, not the strongest chemos and their failures to work, not the frequent episodes of severe pain, not how society expected them to think or act, not the process of dying itself. The Smooth River demonstrates how to treat one’s life as bigger-and far more important- than any medical condition, any tragedy, any setback of any kind. With effusive warmth, refreshing candor and practical detail, it describes how to personalize Medical and Life Plans that affirm the value of a patient’s being and guide their loved ones. Its invaluable lessons show how to face the possibility of dying with sanctity and comfort, to view it as an opportunity for personal growth, finding inspiration and intense beauty in the experience-in life itself. There are lessons in the Smooth River approach for everyone.
Adrienne Wilson is a depressed, suicidal teenager—until the day she receives a diagnosis of stage IV liver cancer. Facing the fight of her life, Adrienne discovers how much she wants to live. In Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days, Andrea Wilson Woods chronicles her sister’s remarkable life from the time she was born to the day she dies at age fifteen. Written like a journal, Andrea takes the reader inside her and Adrienne’s journey explaining how she gained custody of Adrienne from their mother and how the sisters’ relationship evolved over time. Adrienne’s courageous spirit shines through as she squeezes more life into 147 days than most people do in a lifetime. From meeting Jay Leno to spending the day with Dave Navarro of Jane’s Addiction, Adrienne makes every moment count. As she lay dying, Adrienne teaches Andrea how to live.
Each and every day, we face choices. It’s how we make those choices that determines the kind of leader we can be. In Tighten the Lug Nuts: The Principles of Balanced Leadership, Rocky Romanella uses his over forty years of experience in supply chain, logistics and transportation, retail, sales and operational management at UPS, and his CEO and Director roles, to explore the ways a true leader can add value as a trusted advisor, mentor, and visionary who uses a process approach to lead the organization and its people to new levels of success. In an engaging, personal, and witty style, Rocky Romanella details how leaders must make their three major constituents equal priority by actively listening to their needs and building strong relationships. By following the steps Romanella lays out, you can truly learn the importance of Balanced Leadership. Romanella believes the true measure of a great leader is someone who leaves things a little better than they found them. In Tighten the Lug Nuts, you’ll follow Joe Scafone as he demonstrates the importance of small acts of kindness, the power that comes with understanding your role, and the freedom that accepting responsibility affords. Learn how to tighten the lug nuts in your own life to keep from becoming overwhelmed and to take the steps to becoming a truly balanced and valuable leader.
Dr. Kendall E Williams argues that hypocrisy occurs when leaders fail to align their actions with company values, resulting in widespread disillusionment that taints the entire organization. He makes a bold and compelling case for authentic leadership as a legitimate and profitable business incentive, where values are ethically informed and pioneered by diligent leaders. Now more than ever, companies have a duty, and an incentive to reverse the “profits before people” paradigm, focusing instead on a “people first” approach. Visions, Values, and Corporate Hypocrisy calls for greater transparency, accountability, and integrity within the business discourse, starting with leaders whose actions ultimately shape the culture and success of organizations.
A thriller. A love story. A cruel twist of fate. Sometimes six-feet under isn’t enough to bury someone. Lanie Spenser endured a childhood of merry-go-round foster homes before suffering an abusive marriage to Dr. Stanley Greystone. After twenty years of suppression by her husband, she musters the courage to divorce and begin a new life. College, trauma counseling, and an exciting career strengthen Lanie into a confident and capable woman. Feeling empowered and restored, she begins a new relationship. Brock Burnham is everything that Stanley was not-kind, tender, and loving. Brock’s quest for adventure, sense of humor, and generous affection allow Lanie to feel hopeful about happy-ever-after’s for the first time in her life. On the very day she meets Brock, she attends Stanley’s funeral. Her ex-husband’s death injects a bevy of baby mamas and discarded children into Lanie’s world. As the original wife, she inherits the bulk of his estate as well as a string of clues to piece together the labyrinth of Stanley’s lurid activities. His death exposes a tangled web of indiscretions, damaged women, and unspeakable acts of cruelty. With every new grain of discovery, Stanley’s evil continues to reach from beyond the grave. Lanie’s life unravels as her past collides with her present and she uncovers the darkest of Stanley’s transgressions. Stanley’s pre-meditated attempts to implicate Lanie in his crimes takes one ugly turn after another and there seems to be no end to the depths of Stanley’s malevolence. Each twist of his manipulation plunges a blade deeper into her soul, not only threatening her cherished relationship with Brock, but also her mental stability. After Lanie is compelled to recall every moment of her traumatized marriage, she retreats to a reclusive existence. Desperately holding on to happy memories of being with Brock, she prays reflection and self-forgiveness will keep her from tumbling down a dark and bottomless rabbit hole of despair. She eventually emerges from her self-imposed solitude to reclaim what has been there all along-the sunshine she needs. Loving herself. Loving life. Loving Brock. She hopes it’s not too late.
Harry was appointed Sheriff just in time to mobilize a posse and catch thieves robbing Pondville’s general store. With daring, wild antics and a few accidents, the posse captures the robbers who soon learn that crime does not pay.
Are you experiencing so much stress in your life that it is so overwhelming that you feel your life is over? Or are you trying desperately to avoid that condition? Well, look no further! This book takes a comprehensive approach to stress management and how modifying your lifestyle and taking practical steps can significantly reduce the level of stress you are experiencing. More than forty approaches to stress reduction management and prevention are covered in this book, giving you an in-depth framework applicable to most lives and circumstances. For example, it helps people struggling with self-destructive behavior, stressful job, having difficulty intentionally making decisions, struggling with toxic relationships, and many other challenging situations. You will also be introduced to a "new relationship mental disorder called Abstract Kidnapping Disorder – A.K.D." This book also provides you with many opportunities to simplify the management of stress by using the acronym S.T.R.E.S.S. and incorporating any of the forty-plus actions included. In addition, you are provided with practical ideas, solutions, or options that, when applied, are likely to result in the reduction or prevention of your stress. This book is intended to significantly improve people's lives at any level of society who may be experiencing stress in their personal, business, or professional lives. I trust that it will make a difference in yours. Thank you for taking the journey to improve stress in your life and for reading this book.
Larger than life, perhaps the greatest patriot that ever breathed, William Wallace gives his life’s blood for Scotland’s freedom. A glorious victory at Stirling Bridge leads to heart-rending defeat at Falkirk and payment of the ultimate sacrifice at the Tower of London. And young, faithful Jamie Maclnnes experiences it all—even to paying a great personal price himself. Though scarred—like Scotland—Jamie is unconquered. He rallies behind the dynamic Robert the Bruce and follows on the arduous odyssey of defeat, exile and humiliation until it leads finally to glorious victory on the fields of Bannockburn. 700 years later, three adventurous young people follow this spellbinding tale, seeking answers for their own lives and the solution to Scotland’s oldest riddle.
A hacker war seventeen years in the making erupts after GlobeCom takes over the world through human chip implants. As dozens of hacker strike teams around the world attempt to relieve GlobeCom of its iron grip on humanity through a coordinated attack on its data centers, Cy is gravely injured and her husband is killed in the attack. At his funeral, Cy learns the hacker clans are now going after her secret spouse, a chief security officer from GlobeCom's China hub who has been anonymously feeding the clans inside information to aid their cause. Without any idea the China hub's CSO is their secret source of information, the hackers leave in the middle of the night to intercept him at the DC hub. Cy realizes they are most likely walking into a turf war between global powers with deep resources and state-of-the-art weaponry. With time running out, Cy must dispatch another team to rescue her secret husband and the clan members converging in DC before she loses nearly everyone she holds dear. In this exciting cyberthriller, investigative reporter Deb Radcliff tells a gripping story that raises important questions around invasions of privacy in a global bid for power through the use of technology.
We may think that doing nothing goes against all of the teachings of a life well lived; after all, how can one derive satisfaction from having nothing to do? Well, park your boredom at the door. In her new book, Dare To Do Nothing, Amy Minty offers a counter-argument against any urge to become a workaholic: When you do nothing, you have more time for fun! And shouldn’t that be the point? Minty’s book, published by TriMark Press, covers the various over-achiever traps and walks the reader through all the ways to avoid doing actual things. Minty also recounts events in her own life that expand on her beliefs. Would you like to do nothing at work? Covered. Is it important to at least appear busy? Absolutely. Does doing nothing come down to genetics? Read and find out.
Born in South Dakota at a time when America was reeling from a dust bowl, depression and a second world war, Evelyn Jones Leite lived with Mamma, Edith Jones, a socialite who marries her Daddy, a broke but charming southerner, Lon Jones. Unbeknown to her the Daddy she adores drinks a little too much, And his Jekyll and Hyde behavior breaks her heart often. At the age of 5, she moves from a log cabin on a hilltop deep in the woods where she hears mountain lions, to a small town where she lives by a Morgue and encounters her first sexual pervert there. The second world war has a huge impact on her family as they experience blackouts, poverty and rations. An often bedridden Mama, is a special challenge that forces Evelyn to help tend her younger brothers. She completely adores her older brother Ted even though he is often mean, she begs for attention in both subtle and overt ways. When she is 6 years old her Daddy gives away her precious dog and moves his family to a farm on orders from her mother’s wealthy father. On the farm, she experiences, neglect, a pedophiliac hired man, mind rape and, yet-there are big family happy times when relatives swarm the farm and bring mountains of food. Evelyn Leite’s true story of growing up in a turbulent family during the 40s and 50s compellingly captures the reader who is captivated by feeling the gamut of confusion and despair, sorrow and tears, then unexplainable hope and optimism.
An epic tale of magic, revenge and power begins. Jaran Saerk is an exile from the North, driven out of his homeland by a sorceress who killed his father. He came of age while serving as a warrior in the armies of the Imperial Shen, but he’s never forgotten his vow to avenge his family and take back what is rightfully his. Recently captured and made a slave, Savarna hides a dark secret and doesn’t plan on staying in chains for long. She wants to escape, slip inside the Golden Palace and kill the Empress of Shen. When she meets the exiled warrior from the North, she finally may have her chance. Finvar the Droll, who claims to be a retired thief, insists he can help Jaran in his quest to regain his kingdom. But whose side is this trickster really on? As mighty nations ready for war, enemies surround the trio on all sides. They must unite not simply to stay alive, but also to fulfill their quest: Kill the witch Sheega before she destroys them all. Blood Feud is the start of a new trilogy set in the world of Ansu.
If your loved one has been diagnosed with dementia or Alzheimer’s, be prepared for anything — it can be a shocking disease. Pam Ostrowski’s guidebook, It’s Not That Simple, walks you through what can happen and prepares you for the challenges you may face. Seemingly small tasks, such as who’s going to attend doctor's appointments or who will bathe them, become overwhelming without proper planning and support. This approximately 3-hour read provides practical tips, coping tools for caring for those with Alzheimer’s, and conversation starters for those difficult talks you may have with your loved one and family members. This knowledge allows you to anticipate and prepare for the future and reduces frustration, burnout, and compassion fatigue. Being a caregiver can be a transformational experience. This book provides a way to look at this journey a bit differently, not as a list of challenges, but as a way to expand your heart and transform the way you treat others. It provides examples on how to embrace the best mindset for dealing with this long-term disease. Your support role and responsibilities over these years are critical to all concerned. This book will help you make the best legal, logistical, medical, and emotional decisions. Learn how to communicate with Alzheimer’s sufferers, handle disagreements so they result in positive outcomes, and understand the stages and behaviors of Alzheimer’s disease. The more knowledge you have, the easier it will be to care for your loved one and offer support to everyone involved.Join Pam as she walks through her personal journey with her mother who suffered from Alzheimer’s, sharing the lessons she learned that expanded her heart and allowed her to embrace the value of compassion, empathy, and dignity over her 14-year experience.
Set in Hawaii, this heartwarming book and its lovable characters offer adults and children helpful ways to discuss and handle stress."Why is Pono not Pono Today?" is a book where kids of all ages easily identify with the normally happy Pono the Bull. Pono snaps after others are mean to him. His friend Kuleana notices what happens and helps to quickly bring back the best in Pono.
Here, tough situations end well through love, creativity, and working closely together. When we learn how to work through the toughest situations together, STRESS becomes our SUPERPOWER
"Hey Dad, instead of a gift, would you share your Vietnam experiences with me?" My daughter's request set into motion a journey 50 years into the past as a "grunt" in the steamy jungles of Vietnam. Four months later, with my memoir completed, Naomi asked another question. "Hey Dad, let's go to Vietnam, just you and me?" Could the ghosts of Vietnam past morph into a father and daughter blessing in the present?
America is falling! Some see a collapse coming that could bring martial law and FEMA camps. Our $1 bill says Novus Ordo Seclorum below the pyramid. What's behind the New World Order? The Bible is the all-time best-seller and it has more information on this than most people realize and it could save our lives, especially if we are Christian patriots planning to fight for our gun rights. When Christ was asked about the end of the world, He said to understand the book of Daniel which has a conflict between a ram and goat. Gabriel said Daniel’s vision is “at the time of the end,” Dan 8:17. Daniel named Grecia as the kingdom to conquer the Medes & Persians 200 years before it happened, Dan 8:21, but history repeats for our time with the Medes and Persians now as Iraq and Iran! This prophecy is half-fulfilled! Daniel wisely opted out of the king’s health plan in Daniel 1. This is also truth about government ‘healthcare’--Dr. Colin Campbell, author of the China Study, Prof. Nutrition at Cornell said our medical system is “rotten to the core.” Here is information that Rx drugs are the #1 cause of illness, death. If you have health problems, start with health in the Appendix--information that's gotten 5-star reviews in a previous book. Richard Ruhling, MD, MPH was board-certified in Internal Medicine before teaching Health Science at Loma Linda University.
Deep in the jungle lies the deadliest kind of beauty. As a DEA agent caught in an unwinnable drug war, Abel has spent his life with the ugliest side of humanity. It’s no wonder he’s given in to corruption, bribery, and an illegal side hustle that has him on the run from some of the most dangerous men in South America.
Then, he stumbles upon an alluring creature—a stranded alien who has made her home under the green canopy of the deepest part of the jungle. Her spacecraft crash-landed a decade ago; his life crashed and burned well before that. But as this unlikely pair grow closer, Abel will realize that his dark past has tracked him down and threatens to destroy the very beauty he has fallen in love with. The Green Cathedral is a fast-paced thrill-ride that examines the nature of beauty and the power it has to heal our damaged souls.
"Non-stop action...a real flight and fight to the finish. Absolutely worth a read." - Screencraft
Fans of Monster and The Shape of Water will love this "high-energy, swashbuckling" book. (Screencraft)
Maddie is a driven F.B.I. forensic researcher following a detailed life plan, until divorce turns her world, and plan, upside down. In an attempt to get her life back, she begins a research project at North Branch Correctional Facility with the determination that the success of the project, and subsequent promotion, is all that she needs to be happy. Enter Jonah, her handsome but off-limits research subject, is serving a thirty-eight-year sentence for armed robbery and assault. Unable to keep herself from doing the worst thing she could do, falling in love with Jonah, Maddie’s life unravels, forcing her on an unexpected journey of self-discovery. Through love, loss, and one spontaneous trip, she must question her own assumptions about what makes for a happy life.
"To have a service dog like Able should be the medication any soldier is prescribed who has gone out and had trauma of some kind."
In Hope Has a Cold Nose, Christine Hassing relays true stories of military veterans and others who rose from the ashes of PTSD and MST with the help of their service dogs. Devoting every chapter to a different human-canine pair, Hassing shares the story of each person with PTSD and their service dog with pathos and creativity. These powerful stories, part testimonial, part author's interpretation using rhythm and rhyme, bring important insights about how service dogs help people with PTSD and MST in countless ways. From sensing a nightmare and waking a veteran before terror takes hold, to placing a comforting paw on someone's shoulder to ward off a panic attack, these dogs play a key role in helping those who've lived through trauma reintegrate into society. Lovingly written, Hope Has a Cold Nose is a unique and compelling collection of survivors' stories for dog lovers of all kinds, for those who've experienced PTSD and their loved ones, and for those interested in how service dogs can help people heal from the deepest emotional wounds.
Sudden Widow is a book for widows/widowers and everyone in their lives, to help readers make sense of an unbearable loss. Refreshing, authentic, heartbreaking, and funny, it is essentially a love story--validation for widows in a world where many don't recognize the colossal grief and adjustment after suddenly losing a spouse. Reading this intelligent, eye opening memoir, you will laugh, cry, and learn. Perhaps most importantly, readers will feel understood and less alone. This book is a moving, inspiring example of 'powering through'. For more information, go to suddenwidow.com.
After she walks in on her mom doing the horizontal mambo with a man that's decidedly not her dad, Brynn Stark swears to NEVER fall in love. One of her friends--Val-- reveals her true identity--Aphrodite, goddess of love, and promises to show Brynn why she shouldn't lose faith. But when Brynn realizes she's beginning to fall for Adam, Aphrodite's boyfriend, Brynn's forced to decide if she'll choose her goddess-given fate, or risk it all for the wrong-but-right guy. One thing's for sure. Love sucks. And it's all about to blow up in their faces.
Turk is a frustrated claims adjuster for a large insurance company and has developed a plan that will free him from his boring life and make him rich. If successful, his plan will liberate a vast majority of human beings from the drudgery and monotony of their jobs. Turk hopes to create the Primo-Primate Project and train chimpanzees to operate technology like cash registers or machines used in manufacturing. Consumers would be able to buy the chimps as surrogate workers, in turn freeing humanity from the mundane and dull. Due to his job, Turk has access to the personal information of policyholders. To finance his project, he develops a scheme to embezzle money from the company by creating a fictitious claimant who suffers an injury. Once he crosses the line into white-collar crime, Turk’s life spirals out of control. He wanted excitement and more, and now, he’s got it, as he faces either madness or revelation.
A pirate's castle, a hidden cave, a native healer and the Buccanners, a group of savvy eighth graders who face threatening letters and the burning of their clubhouse to get back the money raised for homeless kids, will keep you guessing what's happening on spooky St. Frederick Island.
This book is a do-it-yourself manual for voters, small business owners, lobbyists, and policy advocates who want to take political action, influence leaders and change laws. This book is for you if you ever · Wanted to change a law. · Thought a law was unfair or unjust. · Felt confused by bureaucracy. Warning! This book is intended to be used in conjunction with our website; after all, you can’t do it all alone.The three things you need are:1. Clarify your issue. 2. Build a coalition.3. Appeal to a higher authority.Very few advocacy activities encompass all three areas, but you have to do them with other people.So if you really have an issue and want to change a law, you will realize that it takes more than just reading a book. Please let me know if you have any suggestions to improve the process and make it simpler.The book, the website, the worksheets, and the debate writer’s guide are an integral part of the entire process. Once you understand the power of advocacy lobbying, you will be able to improve your community, influence leaders, and impact the world. How To Change A Law offers insight, actionable tools, and strategies that will lead you to becoming an active Citizen Legislator who realizes that their participation in public policy matters. You’ll learn: · The 7-step process for successfully making a significant change and taking action in just 60 minutes. · Common mistakes to avoid. · Successfully getting past internal and external roadblocks. · Real life policy success stories where someone saw a problem and wanted to implement a solution to make a change. · Demystify politics. · How to vote on issues, not for candidates. · How to use the Political Persuasion Platform™ and the iLobby solution to change laws through crowd funded lobbying. We are at a turning point in our politics; everyone needs to get involved, come together around issues, build coalitions, fund their initiatives, and intelligently pursue their agenda. This book is your roadmap.
Long days, important decisions, difficult conversations. A doctor’s work is never truly done. After working as a pediatric oncologist for 40 years, Dr. Michael Weiner has collected a multitude of stories. From the best case scenarios to the worst, Dr. Weiner has chosen to share some of the most memorable and heartbreaking moments of his career. Always in close contact with pain and heartbreak, his accounts express his willingness to help patients and their families through great times of need. His observations about cancer are further informed when his daughter was diagnosed with cancer as well as his own personal cancer journey.
On a dying planet two species compete for survival. The San, a people who have been divided into tribes through war, bigotry and hate, their population devastated by a mysterious illness. Their rivals, the Cuc, a hive species who declare all out war on the San. Born into this world are twin sons of the Chieftain of the Warrior Clan of the Chai, Remruc and Curmer. After the death of their father, they are burdened with the task of saving their people. Together they formulate a radical plan which could unite the divided clans. Taking advantage of the race weakened by illness and held together by very tenuous bonds, the Cuc a formidable enemy of the San take them to the very brink of destruction. When all seems lost a secret is uncovered, a secret that may secure the safety of their people but a secret that has a darker side and a high price will be paid for survival. A fast paced action packed adventure that will keep you turning the pages to find the answers and leave you breathless as the legend of Remruc and Curmer unfolds.
Smokey and Portia become involved in another exciting adventure at Easter time when a ten foot tall white rabbit with big floppy ears called Snowball arrives in their garden. Portia is kidnapped and within a short time Smokey is grabbed by his ears and carried away too. He soon discovers why he and Portia have been transported to the Island of Rabbitina. The island is sinking and all the rabbits need to be rescued. How will Smokey save them? This is a charming and lovely story for younger children that will delight and enchant in turn. The Smokey Books adventure series are created by Anna Louise Tayler. They are based on her families pets. Smokey who plays the lead character is a white Welsh Mountain Pony, whose best friends are Portia and Balou.
Thriving in every season of life with God discusses how you can still thrive, prosper, and flourish even though you are not in the harvesting season of life. Just like in farming as well as life there is a Fall, Winter, Spring & Summer season. All of us would love to always remain in the fall season because that is the harvest season. Anything that can go well does and we are flying high with all the good things that are happening to us. However, God never promised us a blissful life, but he did promise to always be with us. Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. - Isaiah 41:10. "My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style." - Maya Angelou "It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million people tell you no. If you get one yes from God, that's all you need." - Tyler Perry
Melissa Gabriel is 17 years past her expiration date. When she was rushed to the emergency room as her liver failed and her body was pierced with agony, she didn’t think she would see her friends or family again––and fate didn’t plan for her to. But through a miracle from the other side, she recovered and began her second life on Earth, seeing it through new eyes. After realizing that she was being shepherded and protected by her personal guides and angels, Melissa’s purpose in life changed completely. In Beyond the Miracle, Beyond the Grave, she tells her story of how her miraculous healing awakened her psychic mediumship and set her on a path to enlightenment. By seeking out those who have passed into the spiritual plane, she has been able to uncover her untapped potential that enables her to connect with her psychic abilities and spread healing and hope to those still in our world. In a collection of short stories, Melissa Gabriel recounts the miracles, both large and small, she’s experienced on her incredible and inspiring journey.
Gina has no intention of marrying again following a disastrous divorce. She wants to focus on raising her son and building a career, not falling in love. But then she meets a spirited airman named David Scheff and everything changes. It doesn’t take long for him to convince her that marrying her soul mate might be a good idea after all. A member of the Air Force, David eventually becomes the flight chief for Air Force One, giving Gina the opportunity to shake hands with presidents William Jefferson Clinton and George W. Bush. It’s a great adventure! Still, once David retires from the military, they’re ready to enjoy a quieter life on a small farm in Ohio. Life has a way of throwing you off-course, though, and when David is diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of cancer, Gina learns the true meaning of standing by her husband not only in health but in sickness too. As Gina struggles to not fall apart as they face one devastating letdown after another, David shows her how to have grace under pressure and that you don’t need actual wings or even a plane to fly above your circumstances. David always knew he had the spirit of an eagle. This story tells how Gina discovered just how right he was.
A compelling and inspirational story of loss and grief which encourages healing and activity as the means to progress beyond the grief and return to a life of balance and well-being. The author’s seventy-eight years of life experiences are carefully woven into informative discussions about multiple topics of interest including quality decision-making, self-awareness, and lifestyle comparisons so that readers can determine what they want to be “when they grow up.” Should they decide to date again, Wagner offers the pros and cons of senior dating and internet dating while exposing the techniques of deceitful romance scammers. Wagner knows! She has learned the hard way and shares her knowledge to help raise awareness and educate others so they can protect themselves physically, emotionally and financially. Learn from a master! The life (or inheritance) you save may be your own!
A book both practical and spiritual. The care of our seniors takes many skills and natural abilities, but it also takes a deeper understanding of what it means to be a senior. Without that understanding, mistakes are made that are unnecessary and could cause harm. Connections are missed that could make all the difference in someone's life; maybe yours. Magical ahha moments are missed because they just aren't recognized in the daily routine. This book hopes to bring awareness to what and who is before you so that you can offer your best self in the care of others.
Finding 42, at its core, is an amazing adventure series. Book 1, Cut the Rope, begins with the author leaving the familiar, New York City, and flying into the unfamiliar, Moscow, Russia. The author, Benny Mailman, had just gone through some soulful healing in Denver, Colorado, after having been demoralized and drowning in darkness. He had been brought to the doorstep of hell, and ushered through the door. A proud Marine, a loving son, and a joyful, smiling friend had all been ripped away, rendering him a shell of his former self. He learned a difficult lesson in those darkest days: no amount of his Love could heal his mentally sick friend. The year was 2011. Finally freeing himself from the clutches of evil energy, Benny sought to rebuild his soul through healers. He sought true freedom. He sought love. It was now January of 2012, the month and year Benny turned 42. As he walked in a winter storm, he knew this year was going to be life changing... he just knew. On October 4, 2012, he began a journey that had no end date. He just went, determined to be true to his soul and live an extraordinary adventure on his terms, thus creating his own reality. When asked how long he would be traveling, he simply responded "I will know when I am done". Finding 42 is a letting go of the known and often forced reality. It is about a man setting out to prove that a better reality was there for the creating. Within the journey, spiritual growth flourishes and an ancient knowledge is renewed in the strength, kindness, and beauty of the human spirit. Book 1 is filled with stories and soulful connections with fellow travelers and locals alike. There is the story of Fire Horse in Mongolia, Tom Waits and Starbucks in Moscow, life aboard the Trans-Siberian Railroad, the Great Wall, and even a magical event in Luoyang, China. Fasten your seat belts! I remind you that this is all true.
One by one, dead bodies are being found at different points along the Constitution Trail, where abandoned railroad tracks once ran through the “Twin Cities” of Bloomington-Normal, Illinois. The work of a calculating, methodical killer, each body is posed on the ground with the eyes manipulated so they remain wide open – witnesses who cannot testify to what they’ve seen. David Rohlfing’s debut novel, Deliberate Duplicity explores the twisted, vengeful mind of a serial killer, and follows dedicated detective Sasha Frank, who is hell-bent on solving the mystery behind this string of gruesome crimes. A complicated web of clues leaves Sasha and his team with more questions than answers: What’s the killer’s motive? And how are the victims connected to one another? As the story begins to unravel, the ordinarily calm and collected Sasha begins to feel the immense pressure of the case. Will he be able to solve the mystery before time runs out, and bring justice to all who were affected?
UNARMED OVER HOSTILE TERRITORY...For a moment Wilson froze and looked at the white-helmeted pilot who sat high on the nose of the colossal fighter. Across the small void, he saw the pilot’s eyes peer over his mask. Dark, chilling eyes…Wilson kicked right rudder to slide closer and jam any chance for a bandit gunshot. When the bandit pulled all the way over, almost on its back but in control, he cursed in frustration at what he knew was coming next. The hostile fighter reversed over the top in a negative-g maneuver, his nose tracking down on Wilson like a falling sledgehammer in slow motion. Horrified, Wilson realized he faced an imminent snapshot. With the little air speed he had, his inverted his Hornet to avoid the attack. His aircraft still rolling, Wilson saw that the monster had another weapon at its disposal…
Being a Singer: The Art, Craft, and Science provides the solutions you need to make practical, consistent changes in your singing. This book pulls back the curtain on how singing actually works, from cognition to anatomy to your amazing hearing system and even your instincts and emotions. Based on the training approach of Seth Riggs, supported by vocal science, neuroscience and motor learning, Being a Singer offers clear tools and strategies that train your voice, empower you to find solutions, build your awareness, and develop confidence. Stories and interviews will inspire you. Exercises with clear how-to’s, evaluations, and troubleshooting will train your voice, mind, and body. Exercises are available online.
The successes and struggles of influential twentieth century artist Tony D'Orazi are detailed in this first-ever biography, The In-Between Artist: The Story of Tony D'Orazi, from his early years as a child prodigy in Missoula, Montana, to his ascension into an award-winning artist by way of New York City and Chicago and his days working for Disney to ultimately becoming the radio and television personality known as Uncle Tony O'Dare, "the first cartoonist of the air." Tony's personal struggles would repeatedly attempt to derail his artistic ambitions, but the art would always find a way to persevere. Along his ascent, he would also meet his true love, whom he formed a vaudeville act with, which found them entertaining crowds across America. From there, he became a husband and father of four, who constantly struggled to find balance between his roles as a visual artist and family man, all while battling with severe bouts of mental illness. This is a portrait of an artist and entertainer which also includes later chapters of his life, in which he went on to become a successful salesman and character actor, all while still pursuing his need to create. In the end, despite all these roles he played and the countless hurdles he faced, Tony remained an artist in between. Ultimately, his story proves that no matter what obstacles he faced, his art always found a way.
"Due to censorship restrictions, a veteran of Britain’s MI6 intelligence service tells a fictionalized version of his covert action experiences" Publishers Weekly
In my days there were five classified UK Eyes Only security clearance levels. The higher you went up the secrecy ladder, the less people knew about you... I held the highest security clearance level a British intelligence officer could reach. This book, the third in the NOC Trilogy covers my last five years in the field being in charge of the 'uncammo' (not in uniform) unit of the special forces, 2003-2007, which encompassed the Iraqi War and being in the field in Afghanistan, Somalia and The Yemen, among others.
For obvious reasons I must remain anonymous. I am a British citizen and a 20-year veteran of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). I did three tours of duty, first serving in 1971-1983. I was recalled into active duty in 1992-1993 and 2003-2007, and volunteered for one more operation in 2008 after retirement. Since that time I have been granted political asylum in France, where I now reside.
The first two books are: “NOC - Non-Official Cover: British Secret Operations and NOC Twice: More UK Non-Official Cover Operations.
“None of it was meant to be: the stories and anecdotes that appear in this book, my travels to far-flung other worlds, being face-to-face with hundreds of strangers. Yet here we are, and there I’ve been, and somehow, strangers became friends.” From the Introduction
Meet Tom Mattson’s friends including Maribel, on a park bench in Havana; Braulio, a silver miner in Bolivia; Chema, a Guatemalan fisherman —- and dozens more around the world. Discover the stories of their lives, their experiences, and their histories, so different from your own.
Be charmed by the Minnesota storyteller who draws you into The Other Worlds with ease and who delights in sharing the sights, sounds, smells, and serendipities of his adventures with armchair - and active - travelers everywhere.
LOGAN VAN HOEHN was at the peak of his profession, with the best job in the United States Navy. He was a seasoned aviator, and his mission as an adversary pilot, what the Navy commonly refers to as a "Bogey Driver," was to play the "bad guy." As an adversary pilot, Logan trained other naval aviators to be the best pilots in the Navy. In simulated air-to-air combat missions over the deserts of Nevada, he "taught" the good guys, either by training or "killing" them in simulated combat scenarios, and then instructing them on how they might have done better. That is, until the fallout from the widely-publicized scandal known as "Tailhook '91." A small error in judgment ended his career. He found commercial airline work easy, but also uninspiring. He decided that what he really wanted was to be rich. He had a dream. All he needed was an "Angel," someone with seed capital. He found one, and more. SILENT PARTNER is a story about a naval aviator who finds himself unwittingly immersed in the most extensive distribution network of cocaine and heroin in United States history. At a time when Pablo Escobar was at the apex of his power, the war on drugs had just begun. Rumors that the CIA was selling drugs on the streets of the United States ran rampant in the wake of the Iran-Contra scandal.
The book, 2Connect transforms the way an individual finds a soul mate using a new science of the mind technology for a more compatible, intimate, and long-lasting relationship. The key that unlocks this secret to finding a mate is the understanding of the predictive behaviors of a person and whether they are compatible with yours early on in a relationship and not after the honeymoon period is over and you are living together and married or worst yet expecting a child. The new "aha" described in this book is identifying a person's true self. The big "aha" is that people are born with innate differences. They have predictable behaviors that may or may not be compatible with yours. Individuals of opposite preferences from yours do not offer a comfortable, long-lasting, romantic relationship. 2Connect's new psychographic technology explains why and educates a person on how to find a good match, a soul mate. Until the discovery of 2Connect technology only happenstance and hormones contributed to the romantic relationship where both partners are so immersed in a strong connection mentally and physically. Sex is part of a relationship and can be playful and imaginative, erotic and passionate, pleasurable and exhilarating but needs to be personalized to the different intrinsic motivations of people and those predictable behaviors that affect a relationship for the ultimate sexual experience. The last best-selling book was in the 70's, The Joy of Sex and it only addresses how people experience their sexuality and not the relationship behaviors that contribute to the ultimate in compatibility and intimacy. 2Connect provides a sexual cognofile report that is personalized to your preferences based on how the mind works.2Connect sets the bar for a compatible and intimate relationship by defining the certain magical feel that is possible between soul mates with love that is so strong the chemistry is not explainable and sex is mind blowing. Seventy photographs and illustrations contribute to understanding key learnings.2Connect defines what a romantic relationship can be. How do you know what it is if you have never been there? Love is the center of everything a person does and the synergy that is magnified when two people find their soul mate. Soul mates feel that their souls are connected no matter the distance. Everything blends together harmoniously, conversations flow seamlessly, you feel their touch when apart and their voice echoes in your mind peacefully. A soul mate is your twin, a reflection of yourself, someone that will hold your hand and walk with you in challenging situations. Your soul mate makes you proud and everything he/she does or says you find enlightening. A soul mate completes you and provides a safe environment for exploring your sexuality in order to reach the highest levels built on total trust. It's like a best friend, but more. 2Connect helps in where to find your soul mate, the one person in the world that knows you better than anyone else. It's someone who inspires you. A soul mate is someone who you carry with you forever. It's the one person who knew you, and accepted you, and believed in you before anyone else did or when no one else would. And no matter what happens you'll always love them and have a special connection.
What would you do if you had a revolutionary resource to help you become a successful leader, reach your goals, make your life better and propel you to become all that you are meant to be? Sounds impossible? Well, its not! In the “impossible” is the “possible.” And if you want the possibility of becoming successful, U. S. Army Retired Colonel, George Milton’s book, Failure Is Not The Problem, It’s The Beginning Of Your Success is a must read. Most leadership books discuss how to achieve success only, but in life we all fail sometimes. If you want to succeed you must walk through the doorway of this life changing resource; failure. In his amazing book he addresses the challenge of adversity and how failure can motivate you, focus you, and change your life for the better. His inspiring story of growth from a difficult youth to a distinguished career Army combat officer, he shares that it was only possible because he changed his attitude. Not only does he reveal personal triumphs and defeats, he demonstrates in12 easy to follow steps, how you can transform your mindset from negative to positive regarding failure and in the process become successful.
"You are all different and all perfect, just as you are. Lately, you have become more than that. Now, you reach beyond yourselves, using your differences to help your friends. That is the magic of belonging."
A tiny blue butterfly is chased out of a yellow garden because she does not blend in. She flees to the nearby forest glen, where she encounters a colorful band of woodland creatures-all of them expelled from the garden for the same reason-being different. The glen provides safety, friendship, and acceptance. However, it's the garden that holds the blue butterfly's true destiny.
A Queen, a mystical potion, and the fate of their natural world hang in the balance. The blue butterfly, and what makes her different, holds the key. The Garden and the Glen is about the magic that finds us when we're brave enough to be our unique selves.
Along Came a Soulmate, the true memoir by Armenia Jess, tells the story of poverty, survival, faith, hope, grit and pure love. Armenia was born in an impoverished village in Southern Mindanao in the Philippines. Her father passed away when she was only twelve years old, her youngest brother who was only nine years old, became the bread winner and supported her education through college. Later on, she met her husband who significantly changed her (and her family’s) life. The book follows Armenia and her family’s bittersweet life experiences in the Philippines before she made it to the USA. Her family struggled to survive their impoverished living conditions and the cruel circumstances they encountered in a village near her hometown; when they left to live in the town to chase her dream only to be evicted from multiple rental houses they couldn’t afford to pay; and when she unexpectedly met the man who loves her unconditionally and showed her the world.
November 1941: War is coming to the Pacific. In Europe, the Nazis are triumphant. England is under siege by air and sea. France has fallen to the Nazi Wehrmacht, which in turn fell on Soviet Russia. The Red Army is reeling in full retreat, with the Nazis at the gates of Moscow itself. In the Pacific, Japan has been at war with China since 1937. Her war industries depend upon imports of scrap metal and oil from what are now the Allied nations. When an embargo is placed on imports to Japan, they are left with a year's supply of oil to supply their armed forces. Japan surrounds American possessions in the Philippines on three sides. The US Army is making a desperate, last-minute attempt to reinforce the Philippines garrison, but the clock is ticking for the Japanese, with their oil running out. The armed forces of Imperial Japan may attack the Philippines at any moment. Two brothers, Jack and Charlie Davis, are pilots in the US Army Air Forces. They are part of the reinforcements sent to the Far Eastern Air Force, charged with air defense of the Philippines. For Jack and Charlie, in a time when the US is on the brink of world war, a simple question must soon be answered: what will I do when the Japanese come?
After overcoming a heroin addiction in her teenage years and striving to move forward, Amy Herrig faced an entirely different addiction twenty years later: money. She and her father, Jerry Shults, were thriving as the owners of the Gas Pipe stores in Dallas, Texas, as well as other successful businesses, when a government lawsuit threatened to take everything—their businesses, their money, and their freedom. Accused of crimes she hadn’t committed, Amy spent the next four years fighting to stay out of prison, but that wasn’t all she had to fight along the way. When one life-altering change after another shook up Amy’s world, she gained a new perspective on herself and on what matters most in life. From an exhausting and demoralizing situation came a new outlook of gratitude, but also remorse and humility. Although Amy’s actions in the past had not all been illegal, she had let the allure of money guide her decisions rather than using her moral compass; the shocking turn of events that resulted from those decisions led to profound changes and made a lasting impact on Amy’s life.
Sometimes, we find ourselves in situations where we haven’t much choice. Our heart tells us one thing while our mind tells us something entirely different. And Sometimes…We’re reluctant to admit that the person silently hiding within us is a much better version of our self than we ever realized was possible. That’s what Veasey learned, the hard way, after her husband died in 2017. That’s when she became her parents’ caregiver 24/7, and they both had Alzheimer’s. This is a truthful, personal story that bares the author’s soul as she struggled to find acceptance, forgiveness, and peace. You’ll shed a few tears and laugh along the way. But never forget that this could be you one day, a reluctant caregiver for a loved one. As Vicki states in the introduction, “No one should enter this world of caregiving blindsided, without some idea of what to expect.” Veasey takes us on a behind the scenes tour of the emotional struggles, relentless stress, and daily frustrations she contended with as her parents’ caregiver, while simultaneously trying to come to grips with the reality of recent widowhood. Despite everything, the author never gave up, even though there were many times when she was tempted to. Along the way, Vicki learned more about herself and her relationship with God; an enlightenment that helped her to accept the new chapter of her life as a widow and full-time caregiver. Her story is both spellbinding and honest, passionate and raw. Eventually, she was able to look herself in the mirror at night and say, “I’m an amazing caregiver!” The author doesn’t mince her words regarding her concerns about widowhood, quality of care for our loved ones afflicted with Alzheimer’s and dementia, the quality of life for dementia caregivers, and the need for short-term respite care so caregivers can take a much-needed break from caregiving once in a while. Scattered throughout the book are Caregiving Tips from the Heart. These invaluable bits of information, thirty-six in all, are provided to assist Alzheimer’s and dementia caregivers. This book also includes an extensive bibliography and additional resource materials. Someday, you may find yourself a widow, widower, or dementia caregiver, are you prepared? Veasey wasn’t at the time, but she learned the hard way how to make the best of a bad situation and she learned so much about herself in the process. And, rather than turn her back on the experience, she’s embraced it by becoming an advocate for Alzheimer’s, dementia, and widowhood. “No one but another widow can understand what a widow goes through. And no one but another caregiver knows what a dementia caregiver goes through.”
A SPIRITUAL PATHWAY TO RECOVERY FROM ADDICTION is the memoir of a group of physicians going through an intensive rehab program for addiction to drugs and alcohol. It is presented as a collection of their stories and the lessons they encountered during their time together. It is a step by step guide to understanding the disease of addiction and how to treat it. Here you will discover how to overcome alcoholism and drug addiction through the use of spiritual tools-a simple and successful treatment that works for impaired physicians and can be used by anyone. You will find answers to these questions: Am I an alcoholic? Am I an addict? How did I get this disease? Can it be cured? Will I ever be able to drink socially again? How can I get over this insane craving? How can spiritual principles help me? What is a Higher Power, and why do I need one? Topics covered include: The disease concept of addiction - Overcoming the uncontrollable craving - Finding the openness, honesty, and willingness to change - Dealing with past mistakes and removing character defects - Exchanging my old addictive ways of thinking for healthier ones - Finding spiritual principles I can live by - Living without fear or worry - Finding happiness within myself Addiction occurs among physicians at the same rate as in the general population, about 10%. Unlike the general population, however, an intensive rehabilitation program, geared specifically for their profession, vastly improves their chances of finding long-term sobriety. Over 70% of these physicians will be clean and sober-and practicing medicine-five years later.
One day young Siegfried is fetching water from the river when he receives the fright of his life! A fierce dragon’s head looms through the mist in front of him. The mist clears revealing a longship containing more than forty grim-looking men, covered in chain mail, hefting swords and battleaxes. Who are these men? Why are they here? Siegfried discovers that they are Vikings from Norway and is so fascinated by these warriors and their leader, Odo the Dragon Slayer, that he stows away with them on their departure. Little did Siegfried know that his life was about to change forever! This is a story of how one young boy, with natural abilities and a nose for treachery, saves the Vikings and finds favour and acceptance with Odo the Dragon Slayer and his mighty warriors.
Can A Shocking Resurrection From Extinction Save Mankind? While the world succumbs to the horrors of a great flu epidemic, a woman vows to protect the perilous fate of a bird whose existence manipulates the destiny of man. In this suspenseful tale, part Michael Crichton, part Rachel Carson, a global virus sets the tone, but it’s a one-pound bird that determines who lives. . . and who doesn’t. Science collides head-on with the untamed in this powerful novel of redemption. “A wonderful reading experience... I think anyone who picks up this book will be changed by it.” Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Ph.D., Author of When Elephants Weep and Dogs Never Lie About Love “Quick Fall of Light shares Rachel Carson’s fears for our planet and exhibits Woodley’s own “sense of wonder,” as well as her sure instincts for mystery and suspense.” Linda Lear, Author of Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature “A prophetic mystery and an environmental thriller, Quick Fall of Light will keep you reading and wondering.” Brenda Peterson, Author of Animal Heart “This book has everything! Great characters, vivid language, a shocking resurrection, and birds. I loved it!” Sy Montgomery, Author of Birdology. “A suspenseful tale of a near-future virus, Quick Fall of Light is a unique contribution to the literature of extinction” Christopher Cokinos, Author of Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds Award-Winning Finalist in the Fiction & Literature: Cross Genre Fiction and Visionary Fiction categories of the “Best Books 2010” Awards, sponsored by USA Book News
Never put off being kind to yourself again. What if you could go from feeling like the worst person in the world to stepping into happily ever after? How about in the time it takes you to read this book? 'You're useless....' 'You're so dumb...' 'How could you be so stupid?' How many times have you said these things to yourself? Probably multiple times a day, every day of your life, if this describes how you feel about yourself: - Never have a kind word for yourself - Easily find ways you could have done something better - Have a foreboding sense of resignation that you'll never get anything 'right' - Hold yourself to much higher standards than everyone else - Nothing you ever do is 'good enough' In her latest book, award-winning businesswoman Bronwen Sciortino unlocks the secret to happily ever after and shares practical and easy steps to allow you to experience the same love and commitment you give to everyone around you. From exhausted to exulted, this book reveals just how easily you can infuse your life with outrageous happiness, love and laughter - using an easy to follow process and with loads of ease and grace. The world is waiting for you to become the magnificent person you were always supposed to be. Let's be real. There are no 'miracle' cures that work without applying attention. But there are simple and practical steps you can easily take to move your life in a different direction. Infused with all the 'downloads' you need to catapult your life differently, The Economy of Enough is the golden nugget you've been waiting for to understand exactly what you need to be happy.
Tasked with an assignment to manage the construction of a prison on a remote Appalachian mountaintop, Tucker Mason sees an opportunity to restart his life past the death of his wife and the recurring demons of his childhood. But strange occurrences at the house that he rented on Bright's Mountain and the suspicion of drugs being smuggled through the prison construction site create distractions that lead to violence, intrigue, and his own imperilment. Struggling under the weight of loss and guilt, he encounters a world that he never knew existed in the shadow of the emerging prison. With a unique perspective on the human condition, Beyond the Higher Ground takes its reader through a historical glimpse of Southwestern Virginia to a powerful exposition of the drug crisis that has devastated the region and the abject brutality of those who deliver it.
"You're not permitted to see your child at birth." The nurse was cold and stern as she draped a curtain across the teenager's midsection. The baby's cries echoed off the cold operating room walls and boomeranged back to the girl's shattered heart. Wiping the tears from her eyes she desperately clung to her baby's fleeting shadow, cast upon the thin fabric that hung between them. An unplanned pregnancy at seventeen, and the feeling they had nowhere to turn, forced a young couple to make a decision they would regret for the rest of their lives. Although Cathy and Joey had their entire future planned to eternity, nothing could have prepared them for this fork in the road. One decision, either way, would change the course of their love forever. The pounding of her heart dances in rhythm to the methodical passing of time. How could nineteen painful years drag on like an eternity, yet suddenly fade in the blink of an eye? Anxiously waiting for the phone to ring Cathy accepts the unknown. Her future happiness depends on the questions she yearns to have answered. Did she make the right decision? Can her daughter forgive her?
Who hasn't dreamed of going to the moon? That dream for eleven-year-old Leo Gray is about to come true but he's in for the surprise of his life!
In the year 2113, most people live in robotically maintained homes, ride around in self-flying cars, and wear ozone-resistant clothes. Most people that is; just not Leo Gray's parents. They're stuck in the past, and science know-it-all Leo is completely fed up with his beyond-embarrassing living arrangement with them. But when he enters a rocket-building competition for a chance to attend the Lunar Academy, Leo's luck finally seems to turn in his favor!
However, it's not long after stepping foot into his dorm room that Leo discovers the moon's celebrated city is harboring a world of dark secrets. It's soon a race against the clock for Leo and his friends Andromeda Groves (a code-hacking whiz from Canada), Pavo Digbi (a history buff from Brazil), and Grus Pinwheel (a musically gifted and comically endearing Aussie) to intercept and foil plans to destroy the city leaving the group's leader faced with a decision that no eleven-year-old should ever have to make: save Earth or save himself and the city he fought so hard to reach.
Leo Gray and the Lunar Eclipse is an epic adventure set in a wonderfully imaginative, futuristic world overflowing with robots, anti-gravity sports, superhero-esque suspense, and page after page of laughter and heart that will leave boys and girls equally gripped under its spell!
A vivid, true-life tale of service, survival and sacrifice This gripping memoir vividly recounts Al Moreno's rise as a gifted and fearless Los Angeles police officer, surviving gangs and homicidal situations in brutal urban war zones as he strove to achieve his personal and professional dreams. Packed with unforgettable scenes of both beauty and despair, it culminates in his vocal stand against corruption within the L.A.P.D., and the political retribution that ensued--a dirty internal investigation that unleashed the murderous vendetta of a violent ex-con from the Aryan Brotherhood.
If you currently lead (or aspire to lead) a high-stakes organization, project, or facility, you need honest insights from people who have “been there and done that” in mission-critical roles. David B. Amerine’s Push It to Move It: Lessons Learned from a Career in Nuclear Project Management is a vital resource that will provide you with a full appreciation for what it really takes to avoid large-scale problems or to recover from them quickly and fully when they inevitably occur. Learn first-hand from a nuclear industry leader about what it takes to bring out the best in yourself and others while operating inside an organization in the midst of crisis, evolution or change.
The Conscious Teacher is about all kinds of strategies and techniques educators might employ to become more effective teachers. In an accessible, conversational style, Deborah Nichols Poulos presents unique approaches to teaching that will inspire new and veteran teachers alike. She begins with her personal story of not being able to read all through elementary school. Her early failures convinced her she was dumb. At first, she struggled, but when she still failed, she adopted an avoidance strategy that served her well until junior high. An experience in the seventh grade flipped a switch and started her on a journey to becoming an outstanding student and, later, to applying the lessons she learned as a child to her own teaching. What makes The Conscious Teacher unique are the inspirational lessons that are unlike what most teachers get in their teacher-education courses or student teaching. Ms. Nichols Poulos points out, for example, that from the very first day, it is important that students learn they will be treated with dignity and respect no matter what. And especially helpful are the steps Ms. Nichols Poulos employs to set up a behavior management plan that works. She explains the strategic steps she takes before school starts—how essential it is to get to know each student before they walk into class on that first day. She also illustrates how setting up classroom routines helps students know what to expect and how to make the best use of every minute. And she emphasizes the importance of the parent-student-teacher team and includes many examples of how to communicate with—and involve—parents, even those who may be difficult. Foundational to her program are reading and writing. Among other things, she lays out the steps for students—even as early as fourth grade—to write five paragraph essays and their own student-authored books, and to research and write reports that include bibliographies. When she differentiated curriculum to support all students’ needs, she found their learning accelerated. All teachers will appreciate her ideas about how to teach the basics of math, as well as advanced math concepts. And her ideas for teaching the arts are inspirational, as she describes in detail how her fourth graders performed Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Julius Caesar, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She also shows how to integrate social studies with literature and writing. Her experiences taught her that young students are much more capable than many people realize. The Conscious Teacher is an indispensable guide for all new teachers. Many of the ideas Ms. Nichols Poulos provides will also be an eye-opener for parents and experienced teachers as well. The Conscious Teacher is simply a must have for anyone truly interested in giving young children a positive and solid foundation for their later schooling.
A new breakthrough book.
Winning the War on Cancer: The Epic Journey Towards a Natural Cure reveals the visionary discoveries of a French scientist whose suppressed research led to improvements in the prevention and treatment of cancer...naturally and without toxicity. This book is a "story within a story" as through its pages, Sylvie Beljanski, the daughter of Mirko Beljanski, PhD, outlines a personal journey of discovery of her father's new, and promising, paradigm for the treatment of cancer. This tale unfolds against the backdrop of the French establishment, determined to obliterate the findings of the world's first green molecular biologist, one who spent over 40 years studying the environmental impact on DNA replication and transcription.
The world is on the brink of disaster.
The environment, society and mankind itself are facing extreme challenges in a world that is both more connected, and yet more divided than ever before. Fear and confusion seep into all parts of everyday life… now, more than ever, the world needs one voice, one guide… One day the Earth is plunged into darkness and when light appears again so does a man – call him Joe – claiming to be the son of God. Can Joe bring the world's most creative thinkers and leaders together to tackle the ills of mankind? Can he convince us all to follow him before it’s too late? In this compelling and prescient novel, Martin van Es and Andrew Crofts highlight the key concerns of our time and imagines a future where we, at last, all work together to ensure the future of our world and all the life that calls it home.
The tales in this book stem from humanity’s ancient immersion in oral traditions, when “once-upon-a-time” triggered utter entry into imaginary ‘storyworlds’. Wild extremes of primitive music (probably from flute or drum), voice, accent, mimicry, song and dance aroused small groups — then as now — into a vivid social sense of extra-dimensionality. Today, our more subdued, linear and sanitised literary storytelling tradition, developed over the past 2,500 years, is codified through the written word or notated score. It marks the difference between silently reading a play by Shakespearea or absorbing it through the hurly-burly of any stage performance. The stories of Kalila and Dimna hark back to wilder times, close to our hunter-gatherer era, before agriculture, when animals, shadows and spirits lurked nearby. Some of its ancient animal-stories were first transcribed and then rejigged by poets, monks and scholars through five languages — the Pali Jataka Tales (450 BCE?); the Sanskrit Panchatantra (300 BCE?); Arabic (750 CE); Persian (1505 CE); and the 1570 English rendition by Sir Thomas North (published when Shakespeare was a mere stripling of six). Two of the earliest scholastically “re-constructed” (and distinctly different) 19th Century Panchatantra manuscripts link directly to humanity’s oral tradition of physical storytelling. We are drawn to their stories as we are to the mysteries of pre-historic cave paintings. Here be dragons indeed! Mexican novelist Carlo Fuentes noted in 1980: “Wood’s superb stories should be set alongside Italo Calvino’s retelling of the folk tales of Italy. No higher praise is necessary.”
Emily Jones presents the Writers of the Future Online Workshop. This is a FREE intermediate level writing course – open to ALL genres. It includes essays, practicals, and 13 video presentations featuring Writers of the Future judges: David Farland, Tim Powers, and Orson Scott Card. By the end of the workshop, you should have a short story completed. If you are qualified you can enter your story in the Writers of the Future Contest. The twelve annual winners will be flown out to Hollywood for the week-long live workshop with a full roster of contest judges and publishing professionals teaching as well as giving you their advice on how to make it as professional writers.
REALIZE YOUR OWN UNIQUE SASS AND STYLE AFTER 50 Are you a 'mature' woman who is feeling a bit lost? Have you fallen out of love with your body and wardrobe? Do you wish you could look and feel confident and alive again? You're not alone. Many women experience this as they move into their 50s, which can lead to anxiety and even depression.
This must-read book by professional stylist and life-coach Moana Robinson, will empower you to take charge of your life and rediscover your sass and style. You've experienced many of life's challenges and rewards. Made it through the highs and lows. You have loved and lost and possibly loved again. But if you have a yearning for more, to live a full, vibrant life without regrets, read on. With just a few tweaks, the most exciting part of your life journey is yet to come! Women over 50 are changing the world. Many find they now have the freedom to use their experience, time and knowledge to create an impact, in their own lives and the lives of others. It begins within and ripples out. The time has come to recognise the opportunities that are now before you. Use these 'Wisdom Years' to develop that sass and style that is uniquely yours and yours alone. It's time to reclaim your confidence and your life. It's time for sass and style! This is one book you'll read over and over and want to gift a copy to your friends because you won't want to part with your own!
The Writers of the Future writing contest was initiated by L. Ron Hubbard in 1983 to provide “a means for new and budding writers to have a chance for their creative efforts to be seen and acknowledged.” Based on its success, its sister contest, Illustrators of the Future was created five years later to provide that same opportunity for the aspiring artist. The book “L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 36” is a collection of stories and illustrations from the contest winners who have beat the odds in getting their short stories and art published. Over the past 36 years, the contests have honored over 786 writers and illustrators, providing that much needed helping hand to launch successful careers. The 428 past winners of the Writing Contest have published over 1,150 novels and nearly 4,500 short stories. They have produced 33 New York Times bestsellers and their work have sold over 60 million copies. The 358 past winners of the Illustrating Contest have produced over 6,000 illustrations, 360 comic books, graced 624 books and albums with their art and visually contributed to 68 TV shows and 40 major movies.
Princess Maagy has had great adventures and harrowing moments in her life, but none could prepare her for what she was about to discover behind the ominous doors she had never been allowed to enter. King Henry surprises Maagy on her sixteenth birthday with a joyous, celebratory breakfast of pancakes and spumoni ice cream. However, his mood darkens when he tells her to meet him at the mysterious east tower. Henry pulls a key from around his neck and releases the heavy creaking door. Cobwebs reach and grab, as they ascend the darkened stairs. Once there, Henry begins to tell Maagy the truth about her mother’s death and enigmatic lineage. The greatest mystery in Maagy’s life has been her mother Queen Melania. How and when did she die? Why will her father never speak of her? His stubborn refusal to answer her questions has only fueled her inner rage. Maagy has been intrigued by her resemblance to the mysterious warrior woman in a portrait at Whitmore Estate, but no one knows her identity. Then Henry shows her a large blue crystal. Little does Maagy realize the significance of the portrait, the woman in it, or how her life will change when she takes hold of the mysterious blue crystal. Her destiny is before her, as her next and most challenging adventure begins. This fairy tale for middle readers is the third in the seven-book Maagy Series about the coming of age of a young woman.
With the drop of a judge’s gavel, Walt Walker has finally lost everything. The badge and gun he used to carry and the moral certainty of right and wrong, good and evil that used to keep him grounded. Now Walt, sans gun, gets his badges from an Army Navy store. He spends his days in South Florida, working for a boutique insurance firm as their investigator. He spends his nights in dive bars, trying to forget the mess he has made of his life.
Ronald Jacobs always preferred the title Human Resource Manger to Hitman. But now that he's retired, he can concentrate on living in the shadows as a respectable gentlemen farmer. Far from the reach and pull of his past life.
Their transgressions are behind them but a chance encounter and a failed assassination attempt sets the two of them on a collision course of violence and retribution. Hunted by contract killers, the law, and corporate bag men, they are pursued across the unforgiving adobes and the sweeping vistas of the Mesa Valley in Western Colorado.
Survival means putting their past in front of them and their differences aside, because in this world the only thing that matters is to cast not others on the devil’s side of heaven, lest you be cast in with them.
Undergrad Susan Pearce meets Professor Hans Berger when she is selected to work on a cutting edge brain research project at MIT. After what appears to be a significant breakthrough in the quest to cure Alzheimer's, the team attracts 'angel capital' and launches a start-up biotech company. Later, several young women turn up dead in a series of sensational murders that rock the greater Boston area. Could there be a connection? Cambridge PD Chief Homicide Detective, Dimas Augustin, is tasked with finding out. The trail leads from New England to California and reaches as far as Europe. Unexpected twists and turns, with a strong dose of action and suspense will keep the reader riveted right through to the chilling climax.
Moe Doodle is a country mouse who decides to move to the Big City in search of excitement and adventure. Although he finds plenty of fun, he soon realizes he is homesick and missing his friends. Told in bouncing rhyme and rhythm with incorporated dance movements for young listeners and readers, discover how Moe solves his problems while exploring and living in the Big City. Ideal for children of three years and older.
This book answers: 1. Which ETF portfolio gained 976%, 4x the S&P 500? 2. Which bond ETF returned 7x the Aggregate Index? 3. Which leveraged ETF delivered over 60x? “Academic studies show that benchmark indexes are hard to beat. Using them as investment cornerstones within your portfolio, as this book suggests, is darn good advice. Beyond that, this book provides an investing framework for how to amplify potential returns using leverage. David knows his stuff!” -Ron Delegge, Founder @ ETFguide
Surrender: A Love Letter to My Daughter chronicles Crystal and her five-year journey with heroin told through the eyes of her mother, Lou Alpert. Two stints in detox, two trips to rehab, two babies, and homelessness are just broken fragments of this engaging story. As Crystal’s disease progressed, so did her mother’s. Stalking her daughter’s addiction and isolating herself to cope with the chaos of loving and trying to fix an addict, she lost herself in darkness until a CNN story exploded and forced her to look at her life and walk back into the light to face her own demons of co-dependency.
Children need to know love from their parents and others surrounds them. Love conquers fear and believing that angels are near can help sweep any childhood fear away. In this story Angel Ken’s sending Jones and Kate butterflies was my example of sending love.
Dr. Jules Montgomery needed a hero for just one night. Dane Andrews, Boss to the men who know him, had only one rule--never mess with any woman in his home town. All it took was her arms wrapped around his neck, and her soft, warm lips caressing his ear as she whispered, "Help a girl out. Your name's Gary, and you're my boyfriend." Boss quickly stepped into the role of hero and fantasy boyfriend, finding it impossible to say no to the mesmerizing beautiful redhead. He played Gary to her Red. For one night only, they belonged to each other.
Five years later, fate and a redheaded four-almost five-year-old reunite them once again. Life has gone on, although neither has forgotten the other. Jules returns to her home town to reconcile with her aunt, only to discover that her aunt is the housekeeper to Boss, a man with an occupation that goes against everything Jules holds dear. Boss is considered a hero by those who know him, although he now needs a service dog by the name of Lucky to keep him safe. Together, man and dog, become the heroes that Jules needs once again to keep her and her daughter safe for more than one night.
Welcome to Ravens Cove, Alaska, a tiny town nestled in a small hollow on the majestic Cook Inlet. A town familiar with storytelling—after all, Alaska abounds in rich legends. In Ravens Cove, though, legends have a tendency to come to life. Meet Josiah Williams, the peculiar stranger whose warning to lifetime residents Kat Tovslosky and her cousin, Sheriff Bart Andersen, raises more questions than answers; a man whose dark past and knowledge of the murders make him a suspect more than an ally. Join Kat and Bart as an unlikely troop forms (including an unwelcome FBI agent) to discover the identity of a killer. The unearthing of which will throw the reluctant warriors into a battle for their very lives and the lives of all who call Ravens Cove home. Additional books in this series: Ingress, An Alaska Iconoclast Thriller; Gorgon, An Alaska Iconoclast Thriller; Dullahan, The Haunting at Bordman’s Crossing
In 1967, an eager 30-year-old psychotherapist named Gibbs Williams was offered a job treating heroin addicts at an innovative therapeutic community in lower Manhattan called Odyssey House. What followed over the next seventeen months represents one of the most harrowing and illuminating journeys a young professional can experience at the beginning of his career, due - in large part- to Odyssey's brilliant, pioneering, inscrutable, and mercurial founder and Director, (both a lawyer and psychiatrist). Williams documents his personal and professional Odyssey at Odyssey House in a new book that is both a fascinating look back and an important mirror on some of the most vexing problems our society faces today.
Two years before the end of WWII, two gifted German Jewish musicians—one a Holocaust survivor who barely escaped the infamous Theresienstadt concentration camp with his life, the other the daughter of a prominent Wehrmacht general—having fled the catastrophic Nazi conquest of Western Europe, where they had been hunted and hopelessly separated, reunite in Brazil. Dieter Meister, barroom piano man extraordinaire, and scintillating chanteuse Sofie von Siegler, the subjects of Robert Arthur Neff's first historical novel, Über Alles, seize a second chance at freedom and a life together. But residual shadows from the war’s conflict soon darken the skies of their bright new world. Determined parties, from a fledgling American intelligence agency to Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, relentlessly sniff out the trail of Sofie’s father, hiding out in South America. As the net draws tight around Sofie and Dieter, it’s impossible to tell who can be trusted. And the United States, after having assembled a military force unparalleled in history and executed a remarkable strategy for victory, turns out not to be so well prepared for the war's aftermath.
What was it that Alicia heard, groggy from sleep? Later that day, she takes a break from school assignments and ventures outside, stunned and confused to find her Mom and Dad frozen inside an amber bubble. No matter how loud she screams or how hard she beats on the bubble, her parents don't respond. The frightened teenager has a gut-wrenching feeling that she is the only one who can free them as she realizes the Wild Side has been calling her.
Three years older now, our heroine Alicia is on the annual family visit to their mountain cabin in the wilds of Idaho. This is the last summer before starting high school and she finds herself spending more time in the cabin completing summer assignments made by her teachers than doing her normal mountain cabin activities: exploration, discovery, and games of imagination. On a particularly normal day, Alicia takes a break from her school assignments and ventures outside expecting to see her father Richard chopping or stacking wood, and her mother Katie focused on her latest painting of the beautiful surroundings. She was stunned and confused to find them both seemingly frozen, trapped inside an amber-colored bubble. No matter how loud she screamed or how hard she beat on the bubble, her parents did not move a muscle, nor did they breathe. The frightened teenager has a gut-wrenching feeling that she is the only one who could save them.
Alicia had heard unusual sounds during this visit as if someone or something was calling to her. With the discovery of her parents in amber, she had the sudden realization that the Wild Side might be calling her back. This time, she prepared herself by filling a backpack with things she did not have three years ago when she somehow walked through the portal to the other side. With food, supplies, and an extra layer of clothes, she ventures on the most important adventure she has had in her short life. Somehow, Alicia knew she had to get back to the wild side to free her parents from the bubble and she knew that she must be prepared for anything.
Once on the other side, Alicia finds herself fearing for her life in the search for answers to the mystery that holds her parents captive. She befriends Tawny, a frighteningly beautiful cougar who becomes her ally and protector when Alicia decides to look for "The Ancients", beings that her friends in the Wild Side had talked about three years ago. She felt in her heart that they could help her free her parents but could they. More importantly - would they?
After disastrous experiences in law and education, Jake Kazmareck tries to disappear into a menial job picking melons on a farm in the Rio Grande Valley. An estranged friend tracks him down, however, with news that their mutual bosom buddy is not dead but rotting in a Mexican prison. The stage is set for his rescue. Jake, Connors McClain, and Artie Cavazos’s friendship was forged during an almost fatal canoe trip in which only Artie’s genius for survival kept them alive. Their brush with death, however, unleashed in Jake a primitive beast that has never stopped plaguing him. A few years later, the three engage in an attempt to rescue Artie’s uncle and family from the Mexican drug cartel that had forced his uncle to work for them. Jake mistakenly attributes their failure, and Artie’s death, to Connors’s betrayal. When Connors later contacts Jake, he shares some startling news. Connors, now the Texas attorney general, has discovered that Artie is still alive and imprisoned in a Mexican jail. The harrowing rescue is successful, but Artie’s experiences have effectively destroyed his spirit. Jake and Connors now reconciled, they enlist the aid of psychiatrist Judith Neuwirth to try to piece back together Artie’s shattered self.
Life is a series of moments. With courage, authenticity, and a commitment to her continually evolving spiritual growth, author, inspirational speaker, and spiritual teacher, Misti Rains, has gathered a collection of wisdom gleaned from various moments throughout her life. Misti Moments will fall as a refreshing rain to water the dry places of the soul and provide a fresh dew upon the human heart. These soul-stirring thoughts are rare gems that offer an intimate and compelling glimpse into lessons gleaned from life's most heart-piercing themes. These short essays will help the reader face the circumstances of their life with more purpose, intention, gratitude, awe, and an eagle's eye view of what the various moments they encounter throughout their life are truly there to teach them. The spiritual teachings in Misti Moments are prolific writings as well as genuine pieces of divine, higher truths that will serve to awaken, uplift, and heal the spirit. Her stories and universal lessons provide readers with the framework for living the truest, most authentic, and happiest versions of themselves. Misti Moments will serve to awaken and strengthen the power that lies within the human spirit to overcome any obstacle by fully connecting with their Divine Source.
What do you do with a deadly weapon when it's no longer needed? Nicholas Trailer is the last of The Augmented Men, beings created first by society and completed by a political group the public can't even imagine exists. Captain James Donaldson takes severely abused and traumatized children and modifies them into monsters capable of the most horrifying deeds without feeling any remorse or regret. But the horrors of war never stay on the battlefield. They always come home. Battling what society and science has made him, Nick Trailer discovers he is loved. From the horrors of childhood to the horrors of a war, what does it take for someone to find true love and peace? Especially when everyone has their own agenda, from the senators who sanctioned his making to the Governor of Maine who wants to use Nick's struggle to propel himself to the White House. The Augmented Men were good at war, perhaps a little too good. Now they have to come home...or do they? What do you do with man-made monsters? Nick must decide if his friends are his friends and if his enemies are his enemies, all while protecting the woman he loves.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over again, expecting a different result, so why should anyone believe that either the political right or the political left has a plan to solve the socioeconomic, legal, political (SELP) issues facing citizens around the globe when all they do is the same failing things over and over again? That's insane! The byzantine pineapple applies systems analysis and systems design methodology to propose a redesign of governmental SELP systems, including a new macroeconomic flat tax for the rising class of independents to implement. It is time to wake up from the matrix!
Angel vs. Bully in the town of Mystic Bay, California, where a well-kept secret lies. Angels live as humans there. After angels appeared to three children, all was blissful in the town full of psychics, and ordinary folk. But as brute, Klaus Waxman, comes to town, angel Ken Leighton, a storeowner, must carefully guide his flock of humans not to give in to the bully's efforts. As Klaus opens a store mocking the resident angel sightings, angel Ken guides psychic Justine Greer, and her family to thwart his efforts. And with the help of the indomitable oldest psychic in town, Madam Norma, the bully meets his match through the soft voices and intuitive minds of his neighbors.
An Epic Adventure of Good versus Evil. A juxtaposition, dystopian novel of terror, hope, and faith. Written for the Christian market, this novel will inspire you. You’ll cheer the heroes in the face of war and death, and your heart will dip and rise on the roller-coaster ride of their romances and heartbreaks. Beliefs are tested. Amish and English—the Remnant—forced to choose how to survive. Can they trust each other? Betrayal, honor, bravery and cowardice on full display. Their mission—an impossible feat—defeat an Artificial Intelligent entity created in the image of man, yet lacking all emotions—including empathy, pity, and mercy. The stakes—all life on Earth. The unlikely heroes of this thriller will fight against an omnipresent, omniscient god while demonstrating principles of virtue and defining what it means to be human. Blessed are the Machines, for they shall inherit the Earth. Wonderful premise.
The brutal murder of a friend leaves lawyer John Coleman stunned and sends shockwaves through the city of Cleveland. The technique of the killing recalls memories of the Torso Murderer, who dismembered at least twelve people decades ago and then vanished--eluding even legendary crime fighter Eliot Ness. Jennifer, the victim's beautiful daughter, hires John to handle her father's estate, and romantic feelings for her soon complicate his already troubled marriage. When John finds himself entangled with a cold-blooded biker gang, an ex-cop with a fuzzy past, and the drug-addicted son of the dead man, he struggles to make sense of it all. But he cannot shake a growing sense of dread.
In the kingdom of Bandon, the princess loses her beloved cat! One day the cat gets trapped in a travelling tinker’s cart and without knowing it, many miles away, the frightened cat jumps out and runs away. __The princess’s father, the king, will give half his kingdom to the one who finds the cat. Afar off, the King of Hod sends his son, Gael, out to find the cat, but he is delayed when he finds a cottage in the woods where a pot of soup is boiling. Gael eats it and falls asleep only to be awakened by an ogre. The ogre threatens to kill him, but Gael promises to give the ogre half a kingdom if he will take the prince back to the kingdom of Hod. After many misadventures with the ogre, a cat is found. Is it the right cat? Does the ogre get half the kingdom? Does Gael? Or was it all just Cat Soup?
Fast moving, page-turner scifi thriller! Twists and turns of the story will keep you wondering what will happen next! A terrifying adventure in a world based on the Inca Empire. Rezi was a relatively unimportant member of the King's household until her unique talent for singing was discovered and she was made a personal attendant to the King. As her friendship with the King grows, rumors begin to circulate comparing her to legendary Nightingale for her ability to soothe the King's troubled heart through song. Not everyone is pleased by the comparison, especially the King's wife, Queen Qhush'qunca. The Queen is a ruthless and sadistic person who jealously guards her status as the first wife to the King. Threatened by Rezi's friendship to her husband, Qhush'qunca decides to take revenge on the girl. However, when the King unexpectedly dies, both Rezi and the Queen are buried alive with the rest of the household in the dead King's massive tomb. Trapped together underground, Qhush'quenca takes her revenge by repeatedly torturing Rezi and binding them together through an arcane ritual. Desperate to escape both the Queen's wrath and the Tomb, Rezi must turn to… Book 1 in the series of three.
How do you live an authentic life while keeping a secret? This is Carol Anderson's struggle throughout her award-winning debut memoir. Carol grew up in an era when being gay was against the law in most states, and in opposition to cultural and religious mores throughout society. Fearing rejection, she hid the truth from her loving Christian parents and from others significant in her life. The cost was a painful emotional distance that could not be bridged for years. Thanks to the feminist movement, she found the freedom to love whomever she chooses and the courage to come out to her mother after her father's death. The news was received with both love and reservation, and, ultimately, acceptance. Carol's deep respect for her parents, and theirs for her, shines through her own confusion and struggle to be true to herself. This memoir allows people to experience the complex, invisible dynamics that arise for those forced to cover up a part of themselves to survive. It also provides life lessons for anyone hiding a core and frightening truth about themselves. Candid and poignant, You Can't Buy Love Like That celebrates the hard-won rewards of finding one's courageous heart and achieving self-acceptance….
Loss hurts. It's tough to go through, and painful to watch. Do you know someone who's grieving and wish you could help? Are you the one grieving and wonder if what you're going through is normal? Do you wish those around you understood you better? This book has answers. This practical and easy-to-read book provides the answers you need to make a difference - in your own life and in the lives of others. Award-winning, bestselling author, hospice chaplain, and grief specialist Gary Roe gives you a look at the grieving heart - the thoughts, emotions, and struggles within. If you're wanting to help someone who's grieving, you'll get a glimpse of what's going on inside them and be better able to love and support them. If you're in the midst of loss, you'll see yourself as you read, and be encouraged that you aren't as weird or crazy as you thought. This book can help you develop a priceless ability- how to hear the heart of someone who's hurting. The benefits for them, and for you, can be staggering.
Meet John Costello, Vice President of Business Development and Government Relations for Microsemi Corporation, a $6billion leader in the advanced-semiconductor market. Well-known and respected in the industry, John Costello graduated from college in 1983 with a degree in Business Administration. John's social circle includes high-level corporate executives, politicians, military leaders and movie stars. Born into a working-class neighborhood on Chicago's north side and grew up under quite difficult conditions. His father was a talented Italian tenor with mob connections and a proclivity for violence; his mother, the daughter of an Irish street cop, was a straight-laced Catholic girl till she took to the bottle after falling victim to that violence. . Readers who might enjoy this book are those interested in true-crime stories, mob activity, murder and mayhem, as well as anyone seeking a no-holds-barred story that describes the resilience of the human spirit. Spiced with wit and humor and distinguished by the inimitable voice of tough-talking John Costello, his story touches our hearts while keeping us on the edge of our seats. And that is what makes our book "unique" - John Costello's life is unique.
On July 27, 1890, Vincent van Gogh came stumbling into his room in the Ravoux Inn, in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, bleeding from a wound in his abdomen. Thirty hours later, Vincent was dead. The common myth, which has prevailed for over one hundred years, is that the "mad" artist shot himself in a wheat field after suffering from years of unhappiness and "insanity". But is that what really happened? Killing Vincent is meant as a historical analysis and exposé of the most dastardly murder of Vincent van Gogh and the19th century, nefarious cover up of the world's most iconic artist’s death. This is the biggest cold case in the annals of the art world. I have attempted to continue to explore the key questions that TIME magazine asked in its October 31, 2011, cover story: “Who killed Vincent van Gogh?” and “Was van Gogh’s death really a suicide?” on the “Culture” Cover. I have attempted to answer both questions by adding in modern 21st century forensic analysis. This work is not meant as an academic treatise or dissertation, with every observation, thought, and detail requiring documentation. It is only an attempt as an expose’, to seek the truth of what really happened….
"No government or corporation will control perpetual energy. My discovery will be free for the world, or nobody gets it at all!" His own words haunt Dr. Jackson after his wife’s suspicious death. Can a reclusive man at a Lake Michigan compound, surrounded by security tighter than the White House, protect his son and himself from ever-powerful enemies? A generation later, an all-American whiz kid named Matthew Eaton learns the answer to that question. Who, if anyone, will control Dr. Jackson’s miracle of science? The Perpetual series bursts off the first page when Matthew witnesses three men gunned down before his eyes. But not before he and Maria are handed the keys to solving one of society’s greatest dilemmas—how the world can fuel its insatiable energy demands. Drawn by a chance encounter into the life of a charismatic stranger called Cracker Jack, Matthew is soon dodging bullets from evildoers—to whom profit trumps life. While Matthew and Maria take flight along the East Coast in a battered VW Bus, seemingly unrelated events unfold around the globe, some set in motion decades before Matthew was born. Can Matthew trust those closest to him? Can he trust the FBI? Can he trust anyone?
Martinus will become much more prominent as a spiritual teacher, thanks to Else Byskov's clear summary of his life and teachings. Death Is An illusion is a timely introduction to the Danish 20th century mystic, Martinus (1890-1981) whose teachings have a sound picture of the cosmos and a perspective about the human future based on the evolution of consciousness. Martinus cosmology is an all-embracing world picture, a spiritual science that describes and analyses the spiritual laws of life. It leads to an optimistic view of life, and it provides the basis for a harmonious and empathetic relationship to all people and all living things.
Billy cheerfully runs The Valley’s Finest Inn with his father and daydreams of a fantasy life in the distant courts of the kingdom. One night, a murderous stranger from his secret past emerges to take from him his life and the magic ring that belonged to his mother. Billy must flee home to stay alive and is thrust into an adventure that leads him to the highest courts in the land. But there are perils to such a journey. Monsters, giants, spirits and brigands prowl the wilds of Lyonesse, not to mention a dragon that wants to eat him! As he struggles to survive and unravel the mysteries encircling his life, Billy becomes aware of a menacing figure lurking in the shadows; a ruthless nemesis that has hunted him his entire life. The Innkeeper’s Son is the first of four novels in The Jester King Fantasy Series.
THE PEOPLE FACTORY takes place in the not-too-distant future. Human-like robots (Androids) have become commonplace. Advanced experimental androids are just becoming available for the general public. They are capable of rapid learning and independent thought, can display emotion and even have the same body temperature. Steve Renna, a former military officer purchases one of these experimental models. He calls her Vanessa. Then he accidentally discovers that some of these advanced androids already have their own agenda. He tries to bring this conspiracy to the N.S.I.A. (National Security Intelligence Agency). They don't believe him, he keeps agitating. As a consequence, he is kidnapped. Vanessa finds him in a maximum security prison off the grid. How can she get him out of such a place? It looks escape proof. There is no one she can turn to or trust. She will have to find a way and must do it alone. If she were able to help him break out, how will they be able to avoid the massive government manhunt sure to ensue? Will she just be leading Steve to recapture or death?
After 12 years of service to his country as a Navy SEAL, Chief Petty Officer Trent Huntsman is hanging up his hat and leaving the Navy. After multiple deployments to countries all over the world, he decided to spend more time with his family and start a new life. Along with his faithful wife and three wonderful children, the family heads to Houston, Texas, to spend Christmas with his parents. All seems peaceful as everyone waits with eager anticipation the magic of Christmas morning. However, in the early morning hours of this holiday season, the Huntsman family along with the rest of America, are awaken with the sounds of horror and are gripped with fear. Bombs are dropping and enemy troops are killing anyone in their path. The invasion on our shores, once thought to be impossible, has begun. Now caught behind enemy lines, Trent once again finds himself in the middle of a war – except this time it’s personal. But he’s not alone. He is joined by many brave American warriors fighting the enemy in strongholds in different parts of the country, including Alaska, California, Texas, and Washington, DC. The enemy fighting force – comprised of soldiers from four powerful…
The first book in The Adventures of Joy Chronicles leads us down the Path of Sweetness as author Joy Elaine discovers a part of herself that has been living on a different dimension. As she connects with this 10th dimensional version of herself, she begins developing her ability to consciously interact with galactic beings and ascended masters. With the assistance of this team, she and all of you that join in supporting Earth’s evolution, ignite a global shift that offers hope and a glorious new reality for us all. This is a story of self-discovery and infinite possibilities that evoke heart-welling excitement for the dawning of our world’s elevation to non-duality.
It's been twelve years since Lottie Luce ran away to Indiana, three weeks before her classes were to begin at IU, to avoid a confrontation with her best friend, and secret love, Nick Greyson. On the night she'd believed he was going to tell her that he wanted her for more than a friend, Lottie caught Nick in a compromising position with her long-time nemesis, Ashley Marshall, and the hurt and humiliation were more than she could bear. Now a product of personal reinvention, Charlotte Luce is the youngest, and first female market president of Olde Florida Bank, and her life is nearly perfect. That is until Nick comes home to Anna Maria Island, hoping to save his father from financial ruin, and Charlotte's carefully created world stands still. Lottie Loser vacillates between the present, and the memories of the young girl who thought she had found love, lost it, and is now forced to examine the decisions she made, as well as the chemistry she and Nick still share.
The evidence regarding this salvation issue is examined by a former pre- and post-Vatican Council II Catholic. In this easy-to-read, documented and Scripture-indexed volume you will be exposed to the present-day official teachings of Catholicism on Mary, which parallel what it has been declaring for hundreds of years through various past popes, cardinals, Catholic saints and theologians to the greatest Marian apparitions that have ever occurred. The Mary of Catholicism is so deeply interwoven throughout the whole of Roman Catholicism that it is impossible to logically reject it and still have a trustworthy religious system left to aid one with spiritual guidance. In this publication you will be presented with compelling evidence contrasting the Mary of Catholicism to the Mary of the Bible.
This fully-documented, 801-page volume will take the reader from the origin of eternal security or once saved, always saved (OSAS) to the present time, as the contemporary OSAS teachers of our day are quoted hundreds of times and their teachings are examined under the light of God’s truth. If you are like many, among other things, you will be shocked to learn that the teaching of OSAS is sometimes equated to grace and the gospel! Furthermore, the chapters exposing Calvin’s dark side and unmasking the Synod of Dort (1618-1619), will give a factual, historical account that seems to be little known in our day. But most importantly, hundreds of Scriptures are cited in both offensive and defensive ways that will substantiate The Believer’s Conditional Security.
For decades, the small town of Carpe Diem, Illinois has quietly unschooled its children, eschewing tests and classrooms for real-life experiences. Now, long-smoldering political feuds and deep personal secrets threaten to explode. When her mother is hospitalized in Carpe Diem after an auto accident, teenager Tali Shaw, the daughter of a powerful state senator, finds herself at the heart of a vicious conspiracy to bring Carpe Diem down. Can prize-winning Chicago Examiner reporter Leo Townsend overcome his own demons and expose those behind the scheme before it's too late? And when the truth is finally revealed, can Carpe Diem ever be the same?
Stories of survival from a feisty renal warrior, the autobiography of renal dialysis patient Liz McCue. Self-confessed renal warrior Liz McCue has come a long way. Through her early days growing up in Dublin in the shadow of the Guinness-owned Knockmaroon Estate, her turbulent teenage years in England and her later life back in Ireland, in Thursday’s Child she describes with tremendous heart, searing honesty and great humour the challenges of a life marked with ill-health and family heartache.
Author Donna Louis speaks about her work that made her a winner in the 2018 Top Female Authors contest, category Religion/Philosophy/Spiritual.
Interview with author Kristin Casey. Far from bitter or self-pitying, Rock Monster is an honest account of one woman’s life-changing experience in a relationship with rock legend Joe Walsh. At once envious, glamorous, debauched and disturbing, it’s her long and winding journey from life in the fast lane to sobriety and redemption. Set in the late-eighties and nineties, these are some of Walsh’s darkest years, from spiraling addiction to a stunning comeback with the Eagles’ Hell Freezes Over tour. Loaded with true stories never before heard, Rock Monster is essential reading for classic rock fans and anyone touched by addiction. Kristin Casey pulls no punches, sharing gritty details with self-awareness, humor, and affection. Sharply written, bold and incisive, it’s the worldly-wise tome only an ex-addict, ex-stripper, and ex-rock-chick could give us. In the tradition of women-in-rock survivor tales―think Marianne Faithful, Crystal Zevon, Jo Wood et al.―Kristin Casey pulls a veil on the enduring myth of the lifestyle’s glamorous decadence. Rock Monster is a sexy, crazy, cautionary tale of two addicts in love without a single relationship skill.
Interview with author Danny Johnson. From Pushcart Prize nominee Danny Johnson comes a powerful, lyrical debut novel that explores race relations, first love, and coming-of-age in North Carolina in the 1950s and '60s. At eight years old, Raeford "Junebug" Hurley has known more than his share of hard lessons. After the sudden death of his parents, he goes to live with his grandparents on a farm surrounded by tobacco fields and lonesome woods. There he meets Fancy Stroud and her twin brother, Lightning, the children of black sharecroppers on a neighboring farm. As years pass, the friendship between Junebug and bright, compassionate Fancy takes on a deeper intensity. Junebug, aware of all the ways in which he and Fancy are more alike than different, habitually bucks against the casual bigotry that surrounds them--dangerous in a community ruled by the Klan. On the brink of adulthood, Junebug is drawn into a moneymaking scheme that goes awry--and leaves him with a dark secret he must keep from those he loves. And as Fancy, tired of saying yes'um and living scared, tries to find her place in the world, Junebug embarks on a journey that will take him through loss and war toward a hard-won understanding.
We live in a highly litigious world. As you live your life you must keep your guard up. As you grow your wealth you must protect it. For those who don’t predators await, and their attorneys will use every trick in the toolbox to get at - whether large or small-your unprotected assets. Start Your Own Corporation educates you on an action plan to protect your life’s gains. Corporate attorney and best selling author Garrett Sutton clearly explains the all too common risks of failing to protect yourself and the strategies for limiting your liability going forward. The information is timely, accessible and applicable to every citizen in every situation. Garrett Sutton has spent the last thirty years protecting clients’ assets and implementing corporate structures to limit liability. This significant experience shines through in a very readable book on the why to’s and how to’s for achieving asset protection. Start Your Own Corporation teaches how to select between corporations and LLCs and how to use Nevada and Wyoming entities to your maximum advantage. This non-technical and easy to understand book also educates on the importance of following corporate formalities, using business tax deductions and building business credit.
Finally healing after her heart-breaking divorce, Anne Freemont is ready to put the painful past behind her. Discovering an old Victorian for sale in the small mountain town of Carolan Springs may be just what she needs. The beauty of Colorado beckons, so Anne heads west to start her new life. Yet, before Anne's completely settled in, her neighbor is found dead in his compost pile. What’s worse is that Anne’s quirky young neighbor, Kandi Jenkins, could be the killer. When Kandi begs for her help, Anne feels she has no choice but to help the young woman. However, she finds herself quickly at odds with the local sheriff. And while she uncovers more of the community's secrets, she's also exploring her awakening feelings for Sam Powers, the town's deputy coroner. Once Anne starts looking at who could be the real killer, the suspect list keeps getting longer and longer. It seems that Carolan Springs is a place of many secrets. But who would want to murder Ralph and who’s willing to kill again to keep their secret?
Interview with author Steve Snyder For the first time, the full and complete story of the B-17 Flying Fortress Susan Ruth is shared in unbelievable detail. Author Steve Snyder’s story of his father, Lieutenant Howard Snyder, and the Susan Ruth crew, provides in-depth details about many aspects of World War II few understand or know about. Shot Down was created from the vast number of letters and journals of Howard Snyder; diaries of men and women on the ground who rescued, sheltered and hid the crew; and interviews conducted by historians. Centered around the 306th Bomb Group in Thurleigh, England, it is informative, insightful and captivating. For most, 70 years is a long time ago. World War II fades in importance as each year goes by. Shot Down moves history out of the footnotes into reality, keeping the stories of real people alive as they experience being shot down. You are there, almost holding your breath as Lt. Snyder gets his crew out of his B-17 when bailing out over Nazi occupied Europe. SHOT DOWN has received 16 national book awards.
Interview with author Marcia Fine. A grandmother is in an Inquisition prison suspected of secretly practicing Judaism. Officials search and burn every soul not devoted to the Church suspect the whole family is involved in this heresy. Hidden Ones is a story about a granddaughter on the verge of womanhood living in a city on the North American continent that has turned against them. The family embarks on a perilous adventure from another era not unlike the immigrant journeys of today.
Interview with author Ellen Frazer-Jameson. Wealth, celebrity and a glamorous jet-set lifestyle fail to save an obsession-driven businesswoman from her pursuit of a heartless international drug and arms dealer who threatens her life, her family and her future. Creating a five-star world worthy of Jackie Collins, Ellen Frazer-Jameson’s new novel reveals how even a picture-perfect image of beauty, privilege and endless riches hides despair, heartbreak, betrayal and loss.
Interview with author Linda Maria Frank. The wreckage of a World War II plane is found in the mountains of Appalachia. It mysteriously crashed in 1943 on its way to a naval base. Inside the plane is a note, written by Annie Tillery's great-grandmother, Charlotte, who was in love with a fighter pilot. Young Charlotte tested the planes and flew them to naval bases; her fiancé flew the planes in battle.
Interview with author Gregory Gene Conrad. What does it feel like to have OCD? This is the question at the heart of Gregory Gene Conrad’s memoir. This first-hand account offers a brief, but powerful, glimpse of one man’s journey inside the world of OCD. More importantly, it contains his day-in and day-out struggles to battle this oppressive monster, regain his freedom, and take control of his life
Interview with author T. L. Williams. For readers who enjoyed Tom Clancy and James Patterson thrillers, CIA veteran T. L. Williams unfolds a chilling--and highly conceivable--scenario in his latest novel, ZERO DAY: China's Cyber Wars. Moving between Chongqing, China and Langley, Virginia, this fast-paced spy thriller revolves around a plot by the Chinese government to seize the edge on global power by undermining the U.S. economy.
Interview with author Lisa Overcash. A litter of Yorkshire Terrier puppies are ready to be adopted. The puppies are concerned about leaving their siblings and Big Daddy. One puppy shares her experiences in being chosen to go home with a new family. She gives a descriptive account of her adventures with her new family and what she observes around her.
Interview with author Shinese M. Collins. Everyone has a story to tell or has experienced trials and tribulations in their life. Due to the many trials and tribulations I have encountered since the 1970's I was led to write this book to inspire hope for those going through a storm or stuck in turbulent situation. It’s time to change your mind-set about your situation and your abilities.
Interview with author Jeryn Alise Turner. A Dream Come True by Jeryn Alise Turner dives into the deep aspects of one of the most important relationships a woman can have; the one with her mother. The setting of this book is Peru, a mecca of spirituality, and involves a time traveler experience. This book portrays the strong spirit of women and the sacred bond and strength that exists when they come together.
Interview with Dildra Martin-Ogburn, PhD. Whether you are experiencing challenges in your life or feel as though everything is going well for you, Living an Inspired Life: Words to Uplift Your Mind, Body and Soul will provide you with inspirational quotes and scriptures on topics such as Dreams, Courage, Failure, Perspective, Self-Esteem, Excuses, Commitment and Patience.
Interview with author Elizabeth Ferry-Perata. What are the lies we tell ourselves to stay sane? In the world of a Texas feed store, the line between reality and truth blurs when love and friendship are at stake. Meet Sarah and Zoe, two best friends who work in a family-owned feed store. Their lives begin to unravel when love sparks between Sarah and the feed store owner’s only heir, Tom.
Interview with author Salvatore Esposito. The hardest person to forgive is yourself. Benjamin Orry, a wounded Iraq War veteran, sets out to visit the hometown of fallen comrade Uriah Landon. His goal is to return Uriah’s personal effects to his family which includes Uriah’s last letter home. Uriah’s Christian faith had been tested to extremes in Iraq, and at home. Ben is uncertain of the composition of the letter but is certain Uriah expressed heartbroken feelings in another item he carries: Uriah’s personal leather-bound journal.
Interview with author Bernard J. Fleury. This book focuses on the question “What does it mean to be human”? unlike other best sellers like John Grey’s Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus: The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex that focuses on what it means to be male or female as of year 2004.
Interview with author Dewey Reynolds. The action is hot in Kansas City during the 1960s. Gordon Reynolds happens to be a vicious criminal who has served prison time in five different states over a period of twenty-five years. Gordon is determined to muscle his way into major rackets such as prostitution, bootlegging whiskey, robbery, hijacking and contraband cigarettes.
Interview with author Richard F. Libin. It doesn't matter what you do, where you come from, or where you're headed. This book is about you. Why? Because everyone is selling something every day; because everyone is a salesperson - parents, teachers, consumers, employees, sales professionals and even politicians. Every day you are trying to sell something, from the time you get up until you go to bed. You negotiate, communicate and you try to influence the way people think. Like it or not, selling is an essential skill. Who Knew?
Interview with Dr. Anne Redelfs, MD. Have you ever wondered if there is a reason for our health challenges, beyond what our doctors tell us? This book shares many ideas based on the premise that our souls are speaking to us through each symptom, sign, and disease process.
Interview with author Ankit Shukla. In wanting the better life, versus wanting the good life you are in essence, always wanting to strive for more. I relate many aspects of life and how we think, to the central idea of wanting the better life.
Interview with author Violetta Armour. Since the horrific night a drunk driver slammed into their car during his driving lesson, young Teddy has had to live with the memory of seeing his beloved father, Stan, die. Now just sixteen, he carries both sorrow and survivor's guilt. Concerned for her grieving son, Mary decides to put as much distance as she can between Teddy and the nightmarish Phoenix intersection that claimed Stan's life.
Interview with author Thomas J. Rice. Told with sympathy and humor, the five Irish stories in Thomas J. Rice's Rites of Passage are of homeland lost and recovered, of fierce loyalties, of dashed and regained hopes, of betrayals and humiliations, of boys making their perilous journeys to manhood, of single mothers eking an existence out of stony soil, of the foibles and follies of small town communities, of grown men escaping the long shadow of childhood trauma.
Ian and the Great Silver Dragon, A Friendship Begins follows Ian and the Great Silver Dragon Bry-Ankh, a series of stories that sow the seeds for success. These are adventure stories showing middle grade readers how to make their dreams come true. These are books with a positive message and tools for success and personal accomplishment, based on ancient wisdom. The idea is that dreams are “things” that can become real when readers know the recipe. Whatever the heart and mind of an individual can conceive, and believe, it can achieve.