The Marrow of Life

The Marrow of Life
Earth’s Memories Series, Book III
By Nancy Larsen-Sanders

Published: 4/1/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files)
Pages: 302
ISBN: 978-1-47597-651-9
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

It is 1931 in Fremont County, Kansas, and Deborah Nelson’s husband, Christian, disappeared months ago. But Deborah has no time to feel sorry for herself. Two children need her love, livestock require feeding, and farm crops must be tilled. Deborah is desperately trying to survive in a man’s world—an especially challenging task for a woman believed to be an Indian.

Even after a drought begins to cause dire conditions, Deborah refuses to leave, for her soul is still connected with the land. She decides she must sell her cattle and stop planting wheat and then finds herself fighting a field fire that comes close to burning her farmstead and threatens the life of her old friend. Things go from bad to worse when she, her children, and the community experience the first horrifying dirt storm of the drought. Deborah partners with her closest neighbors to share labor and valuable resources, not realizing that very soon, one neighbor will leave her with five more mouths to feed and a promise he may not be able to keep.

The Marrow of Life continues the saga of one woman’s determined journey through the hardships of the Depression and Dust Bowl era as she slowly comes to the realization that she must turn to others for help.

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Crystal Balls

Crystal Balls
By Bill Rogers and Steve Mueller

Published: 4/1/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files)
Pages: 120
ISBN: 978-1-47597-240-5
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Thirty-year-old Roger marks time by the gradual shifting of sunlight and shadows outside his Toronto high-rise apartment. As a freelance columnist, he makes about as much money as a twelve-year-old with a lawn-mowing business. With all his hopes riding on the novel he started eight years ago, Roger is clearly not in a hurry to do anything except dodge life’s ups and downs as much as he can.

While nurturing a crush on the cute girl at the local coffee shop, Roger notices a leaflet on the table advertising a psychic demonstration. Intrigued, he bribes three caffeine-loving buddies to accompany him to the show featuring Anya Dreamchaser, psychic extraordinaire. Anya turns out to be a fake, but the real surprise comes when Roger’s friend Karl begins displaying his own shockingly accurate psychic abilities. As the friends come to terms with what they have witnessed, they each embark on bizarre personal journeys of enlightenment that take one of them straight into a weird New Age cult and another into a confrontation with a maniacal Scottish churchman.

Crystal Balls is a comic tale about the adventures—and misadventures—of four friends who unwittingly change their lives forever after making the fateful decision to step out of their ordinary lives into an extraordinary psychic world.

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Pohoi and Comanche Spirit Power

Pohoi and Comanche Spirit Power
By J. L. Chalfant

Published: 4/1/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files)
Pages: 324
ISBN: 978-1-47597-338-9
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

It is the spring of 1860, and a battle for power looms on the horizon. Within the high plains of the Llano Estacado, a fifteen-year-old Comanche woman pesters her powerful aunt with taboo questions about how to gain spirit power. Pohoi knows a time of terrible change is coming. But no one realizes that she is prepared to risk everything to save her people and her family.

After Pohoi ignores the concerns of her best friend, Yellow Bear, and continues to break tradition, traders murder her father and kidnap her white mother. Pohoi, determined to right the wrongs committed against her family, transforms into a ghost warrior and charges toward the soldier-infested plains, where she believes the kidnappers have taken her mother. But it is only after Yellow Bear tracks her location and brings with him her aunt’s unwanted child that Pohoi realizes her real battle may be in the place she least expected.

In this fascinating historical tale, a young Comanche woman on a quest to earn spirit power learns a shocking truth that quickly blurs the line between friend and foe and reveals a route back to love and to life—but only if she chooses forgiveness over power.

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Bench-Pressed

Bench-Pressed
A Judge Recounts the Many Blessings and Heavy Lessons of Hearing Immigration Asylum Cases
By Susan L. Yarbrough

Published: 4/1/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files)
Pages: 152
ISBN: 978-1-47597-544-4
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Every year, thousands of people seek asylum in the United States because they have been persecuted in other countries due to their race, religion, nationality, social group, or political opinion. In seeking refuge and protection, these immigrants must rely on the American court system to help them achieve safety from the great harm they have suffered.

In her unique and compelling judicial memoir, Susan Yarbrough, a former US immigration judge, highlights five significant asylum cases that she heard and decided during almost eighteen years on the benchcases that profoundly changed her not only as a judge, but also as a person.

Yarbrough recounts heartrending testimony described against the background of the countries in which the persecution took place, following each account with personal reflections on how she was emotionally and spiritually transformed by each person who testified. From Josué Maldonado, persecuted in El Salvador because of his religion, to Daniel Quetzal, an Indian from Guatemala who was tied naked to a pole and tortured because of his political opinion, the cases that the author shares provide an unforgettable glimpse into the lives of courageous people who risked everything for peace and freedom in the United States.

Bench-Pressed is the story of five asylum seekers and the judge who was irrevocably changed by the intersection of her life with theirs.

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Babygate

Babygate
What You Really Need to Know about Pregnancy and Parenting in the American Workplace
By Bakst, Taubman & Gedmark

Published: 4/9/2013
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W)
Pages: 298
Size: 6x9
ISBN: 978-1-47597-568-0
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Mothers-to-be often receive plenty of advice on what to eat during pregnancy, what to buy for the baby, and how to successfully endure labor, but rarely receive words of wisdom on how to keep a job after the baby is born. In Babygate, three legal experts share practical tips, real-life stories, and essential legal information in order to help women learn about the protections they have as expecting and new mothers and, if necessary, ways to address discrimination with their employers.

Dina Bakst, Phoebe Taubman, and Elizabeth Gedmark, who all work tirelessly to advance legal rights for pregnant women and to empower working families, provide a comprehensive guide covering everything from pregnancy to nursing to parenthood and flextime that can help women know what to expect after baby is born and prepare to meet challenges at work. By clearly presenting their interpretation of the law and various employment policies, Bakst, Taubman, and Gedmark provide valuable information that allows women to advocate for themselves, effectively integrate pregnancy and parenthood into work life, and ensure fair treatment after returning from maternity leave.

Babygate is an inspirational and instructive guide that helps expecting and new parents to protect their jobs and paychecks while welcoming their little bundles of joy.

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The Actor

The Actor
By Douglas Gardham

Published: 4/9/2013
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W)
Pages: 406
Size: 6x9
ISBN: 978-1-47597-772-1
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

It is 1991 when Ethan Jones finally wins the role of his dreams in an upcoming, big screen movie. With the envelope holding the script clutched in his hand, he arrives at his California apartment where he can hardly wait to tell his live-in girlfriend the exciting news. But when he finds the door unexpectedly ajar, he has no idea that in just a few seconds, the life he has fought so hard to obtain will be shattered. Eight years earlier, Ethan is attending university in Ottawa, Canada. One evening after seriously contemplating suicide, he finds his way into a club where he meets Mila Monahan, a beautiful acting student who saves him from himself. After he watches Mila rehearse a university play, Ethan catches the acting bug and decides to pursue his own creative passions, causing a collision with his more secure ideals. But when Mila suddenly disappears, Ethan vows he will never stop chasing the dream she inspired in him believing in a world entirely different from the one he is living in.

The Actor is a gripping tale of rejection, hardship, tragedy, and overwhelming joy as one man embarks on an unforgettable journey of self-discovery learning to portray anything he can imagine.

Eight years earlier, Ethan is attending university in Ottawa, Canada. One evening after seriously contemplating suicide, he finds his way into a club where he meets Mila Monahan, a beautiful acting student who saves him from himself. After he watches Mila rehearse a university play, Ethan catches the acting bug and decides to pursue his own creative passions, causing a collision with his more secure ideals. But when Mila suddenly disappears, Ethan vows he will never stop chasing the dream she inspired in him believing in a world entirely different from the one he is living in.

The Actor is a gripping tale of rejection, hardship, tragedy, and overwhelming joy as one man embarks on an unforgettable journey of self-discovery learning to portray anything he can imagine.

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White Thaw: The Helheim Conspiracy

White Thaw: The Helheim Conspiracy
By Paul Mark Tag

Published: 4/15/2013
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W)
Pages: 406
Size: 6x9
ISBN: 978-1-47597-825-4
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Dr. Linda Kipling has had her share of excitement working as a meteorologist with the Naval Research Laboratory. Twice in four years, she and her boss, the arrogant Dr. Victor Silverstein, have faced international crises requiring heroic action. Now, in 2011, Kipling faces her most formidable foe yet: her only remaining relatives, the Müller family.

Debates about climate change continue as two researchers in Greenland mysteriously disappear. Kipling soon comes to a horrific realization: not all observed climatic aberrations are coming from natural variation or an increase in greenhouse gases. Instead, someone is tampering with nature, risking a cataclysmic event that could destroy the world. Her dying father is suspicious; he believes distant relatives in South America are involved.

The Müller family was once part of Hitler's inner circle. They escaped from Germany in 1945 with a fortune in gold, and now they hope to alter the world's climate for their own purposes. Kipling must head to Greenland under the guise of familial reunion in order to dismantle the Müller plan and save the planet from a climatic apocalypse.

"Paul Mark Tag['s] books never disappoint. He is a gifted writer and knows how to craft a great story... White Thaw takes us on a great adventure [involving] global warming [and] poses the question of just how far would a group go to win."

—Simon Barrett, Blogger News Network

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Certain Security

Certain Security
Finding Refuge from Criminal, Economic, and Political Instability through US Investment Visas
By Brian Dickens

Published: 4/25/2013
Format: Dust Jacket Hardcover(B/W)
Pages: 176
Size: 5.5x8.5
ISBN: 978-1-47598-503-0
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Through investment visa programs administered by US Citizenship and Immigration Services, more than 7,000 families have immigrated to the United States, investing more than three billion dollars over the past twenty-two years.

In Certain Security, author Brian Dickens shares proven tools and strategies families can use to achieve personal and financial security through valuable and little-known programs. He describes the history and detailed requirements of the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program and explains why this may be the best time in history to invest and live in the United States. He also discusses choosing a qualified EB-5 investment and introduces his four-step process for successfully navigating US investment visa programs.

Certain Security examines US Citizenship and Immigration Services and its process for administering visas. Dickens then presents general information relative to taxation and immigrant investment and explores how US companies become eligible to attract these investments. He also shares secrets to identifying qualified service providers to help investors through the investment visa process.

Dickens’ personal immigration experience with his own family, combined with his clinical expertise from the investment visa industry and general investment and business-development industries, provides insight into these exciting programs from multiple perspectives. Certain Security serves as a valuable resource for those who wish to learn about these programs, overcome fear of change, and lead their families to safety and security in the United States.

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Blue Ridge

Blue Ridge
By Alison Gieschen

Published: 4/29/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files)
Pages: 178
ISBN: 978-1-47597-745-5
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Growing up in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Laura Atwood endured terrifying abuse at the hands of her alcoholic father. Too many times she felt the brunt of his anger, and at the age of sixteen she ran away, determined to try and make a decent life for herself. Even so, the ghosts of the past aren’t so easily shaken.

Laura meets and marries Jim McBane, a wealthy and successful businessman who sets her up in style. She lives in a ritzy townhouse, drives a BMW, and loves her role as his elegant, beautiful wife. But the modern fairy tale has a dark underbelly. Jim’s overbearing nature begins to tarnish the golden dream Laura has built; even worse, when his criminal business dealings put her in danger, she narrowly escapes with her life.

Starting over again isn’t what she wants, but she has no choice. Laura moves in with her aunt Gracie and begins to rebuild her life. Living in the Blue Ridge Mountains again, though, means her ghosts insist on being confronted. Each day brings a new struggle. But when love turns up again in the form of a kind country veterinarian, Laura finds she must finally face her past, even if it will be her undoing.

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Striving for Perfection

Striving for Perfection
Developing Professional Black Officers
By Gerald D. Curry

Published: 4/30/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files)
Pages: 304
ISBN: 978-1-47598-480-4
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

The success of today’s military officers rests squarely on the shoulders of the men and women of the past. In Striving for Perfection, author Gerald D. Curry, a former US Army colonel, reaches back through the annals of history to help today’s professional military officers navigate a successful career. Curry shares rarely known insights on historical accomplishments from every major war in US history, from the Revolutionary War through the Global War on Terrorism. He pulls unique examples of success strategies, cultural understandings, and sage advice from African American servicemen and women who have worn the uniform.

Striving for Perfection goes beyond the typical leadership principles by offering significant experiences told from an African American perspective—from the only people deliberately brought to America for the sole purpose of servitude. Curry shows how black American patriots consistently looked beyond their current circumstances and served gallantly while seeking equality and social justice.

This guide describes the barriers that have existed within most African American communities, and it narrates how these neighborhoods continually birth great leaders. Although geared toward military professionals, Striving for Perfection can help all leaders in any profession who supervise and work with African Americans. Introducing proven success strategies, it provides a better understanding of diversity and inclusion.

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