Beyond Duty

Beyond Duty
By James DeVries

Published: 6/7/2007
Format: Dust Jacket Hardcover(B/W)
Pages: 334
Size: 6x9
ISBN: 978-0-59568-749-7
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

BEYOND DUTY

The continuing story of Lt. Jeff Lacy is dangerous and sad. The story opens with Jeff's participation in a Top Secret mission to observe Russian Submarine missile tests. When he has a change of duty station Jeff lands in the middle of a dangerous plot and his beloved wife Molly is killed. In despair Jeff retires from the Navy and soon finds himself working as an agent for the CIA in the United Arab Emirates. While there he becomes partners in the Mid East Construction Company which leads him into unexpected and interesting situations. Jeff finally tracks down Molly's killer. \

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The Diary of a Gunfighter

The Diary of a Gunfighter
By Eddie L. Barnes

Published: 11/4/2011
Format: Dust Jacket Hardcover(B/W)
Pages: 360
Size: 6x9
ISBN: 978-1-45029-478-2
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

In a country ravaged by the horrors of a brutal civil war, there were countless families torn apart by conflict and violence. This is the story of one ordinary man driven by loss to extraordinary acts and circumstances.

Simon James Sublette lost his entire family during the Civil War. He dreams of coming home and settling into a quiet, peaceful life on his family farm—until those dreams are shattered by a stray bullet. Forever scarred, inside and out, he abandons all he knows and loves. He sets out on a lonely journey, wandering the West in a desperate quest for peace and order. But with each passing day, serenity still eludes him and his heart grows ever heavier. Torn by grief and fighting off hopelessness, he finds beauty in a more poetic way of life. He develops the unusual trait of speaking in rhyme, especially when provoked.

This trait earns him the name “The Rhymer,” and he becomes a fearless gunfighter who has no equal when it comes to killing. The Rhymer is a hero for women and children everywhere—and a nightmare straight from hell for those evil men in need of killing.

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Blue Period in Seattle

Blue Period in Seattle
Selected Poems ( 1991 - 2011 )
By John W. Gorski

Published: 10/3/2011
Format: E-Book (available as PDF, ePub, and Mobi files)
Pages: 92
ISBN: 978-1-46205-417-6
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

John Gorski’s Blue Period in Seattle traffics in a play of atmosphere, both meteorological and psychological. These atmospheres evoke a kind of emotional synesthesia: “I get off the bus/ at 64th and Linden/ because the dark organ chords of alcohol laughter/ are playing out of tune.” Blue Period in Seattle dares us to partake of a fretted, penumbral world, haunted by muses who are alternately flushed from “the rose pink immanence /of the morning horizon” and morbidly pale: “her pre-Raphaelite face—a lunar masque /advancing out of the night.” It is not surprising that Gorski is drawn to the lives of the artists, and to their “progenitor” muses. These artists record their findings and, in the process, see what others tend to overlook. Fascinated by artists in their old age and even decrepitude, Gorski seems to be asking himself what the upshot of such a vocation, finally, turns out to be—what, in short, are the wages of art? Yet in other poems, such as the “The Five-Year-Old Sheriff,” Gorski’s droll side reigns, as the mood strikes. All in all, Blue Period in Seattle represents a particularly fertile moment in Gorski’s oeuvre. For those as yet unfamiliar with his work, it’s a great place to start.

-Deborah Woodard,
author of Plato’s Bad Horse

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Algebra 1 Activities

Algebra 1 Activities
By James H. Smith

Published: 12/6/2012
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) What's This
Pages: 262
ISBN: 978-1-46973-696-9
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Welcome to the wonderful world of algebraic computation!

This activity book offers puzzles, games, and activities suitable for students who want to have fun while becoming more adept in mathematical skill and ability. Algebra provides many of the core foundations for a large number of career paths. Algebra 1 Activities provides students with a practical, useful, and fun way to learn while preparing for studies in medicine, architecture, computer science, meteorology, media, statistics, accounting, engineering, industry, and parenting.

Designed with both the instructor and students in mind, Algebra 1 Activities facilitates meaningful teaching and learning opportunities. It covers various mathematics topics that may be used as follow-up or supplementary activities to guided instruction at the teacher’s discretion. Several activities are included for extended practice if required. They are logically arranged for a smooth progression through mastery of mathematics skills and can be adapted to fit the students’ needs, abilities, and learning styles.

Algebra 1 Activities allows for creativity, flexibility, and the enhancement of learning experiences in mathematics. Equip your students or yourself for the careers and challenges of the future.

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My Life Experiences

My Life Experiences
From Having Cancer to Finding Out God Is the Answer—A Little Bit of It All
By Evenell Sanders

Published: 6/24/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) What's This
Pages: 176
ISBN: 978-1-47599-519-0
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

My Life Experiences presents a collection of poetry written by Evenell Sanders focusing on her life experiences. She lost her father and brother in the same week; a year later she experienced a second divorce, and in 2006 she was diagnosed with lung cancer. During all her trials and tribulations, she found solace in reading her Bible and praying to God. It was then that she began writing the poetry and songs that comprise this collection.

My Life Experiences includes vital information that could help anyone who is interested in finding a more faithful life in God or who needs help discovering themselves.

Let Me Tell You

Let me tell you how good Jesus has been to me.

He picked me up out of the lost and found.

He healed me when I was sick and down.

He turned my life clean around

He blessed me in the nick of time and restored my life with peace of mind.

Let me tell you how good Jesus has been to me.

He made a way out of no way, and He continues to bless me each day.

If you try Him for yourself, you will see.

He will make a believer out of you as He has me.

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Working My Way through Retirement

Working My Way through Retirement
E-Mails from Afar
By Lola Albion

Published: 8/14/2012
Format: E-Book (available as PDF, ePub, and Mobi files)
Pages: 244
ISBN: 978-1-47593-422-9
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

In Working My Way through Retirement, author Lola Albion finds that retirement has many surprises and totally unexpected opportunities in store for her. She shares her unique trek in a series of e-mails written to family and friends from locations throughout the world over a period of nearly eight years. Her travels spanned far and wide, with her messages relayed from places as diverse as Doomadgee, an Aboriginal community in remote Australia; Labrador on the Atlantic edge of Canada; Montenegro in the Balkans; Tanna in the Pacific; Qatar in the Middle East; Italy; Jordan; and Cambodia.
Albion shares her extraordinary experiences with a great deal of humour, gentleness, and wise insight into the human condition. She also considers themes of change, ageing, the universality of human hopes and dreams, and the wonder of the world and its people throughout.

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The Physicist

The Physicist
By Mitchell Frogge

Published: 9/13/2000
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W)
Pages: 276
Size: 6x9
ISBN: 978-0-59512-155-7
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

The world is shocked by the Nobel Prize Massacres. The lone survivor is rushed to surgery where time splits into two different dimensions, one where he lives and one where he dies. Brian's Dimension Brian Field is rushed back to the United States under government protection. At Nellis AFB he is held practically as a prisoner while the military forces him to work on weapons technology. After two years he escapes with the help of the FBI and creates Field Corporation. Field Corp used technology developed by Brian to fight terrorism and prepare to fight World War III, which is rapidity overtaking the entire planet. Sandy's DimensionSandy Williams inherits Brian's research and discovers a shocking truth, World War III was coming and no one left alive could stop it. The research also said that no one would survive unless Sandy followed Brian's instructions precisely. The plan leads Sandy to Yale then to an isolated spot in northern Canada where she creates a colony designed to allow humanity to survive. But their survival was questionable, even using Brian's greatest secret.

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Labor of the Heart

Labor of the Heart
By Arlene Warner

Published: 7/5/2004
Format: E-Book (available as PDF files)
Pages: 334
ISBN: 978-0-59576-859-2
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Katerina Zanonna and Clemente Basetti meet aboard an immigrant boat to America, in 1893.

Years later, their paths cross in a small town in Kansas. Katerina is planning life as a nun, and Clemente is beset with family problems.

Katerina's renewed attraction to Clemente shakes her resolve in her calling to serve God, but she can't ignore Clemente's lack of faith, her mother's disapproval, and her compulsion for perfection, while Clemente is determined to marry Katerina at any cost.

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Shadows Present, Shadows Past

Shadows Present, Shadows Past
A Ghost Story
By J Sanderson

Published: 4/8/2007
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W)
Pages: 186
Size: 6x9
ISBN: 978-0-59539-873-7
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

A mysterious legacy from an old neighbor is a dream come true for the Evans sisters.

However, the unexplained phenomenon they encounter soon turns the dream into a nightmare.

The search to discover the explanation for these events uncovers secrets that were never meant to be revealed, including murder!

Will the search for the truth put all this to rest, or plunge them in deeper?

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I Made My Choice—Have You?

I Made My Choice—Have You?
One Man’s Thoughts on Issues in Our National News and Possible Solutions
By Blair Stevens

Published: 12/6/2012
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) What's This
Pages: 116
ISBN: 978-1-47595-893-5
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

The twenty-four-hour news cycle brings the issues facing America to the forefront every single day. Author Blair Stevens sees parallels between many of these issues and his own life experiences. He offers his unique take on them in I Made My Choice—Have You?

A husband, father, and businessman, Stevens discusses several of the most pressing concerns facing Americans today. He explains how working in Mexico City as part of his job shapes his observations on illegal immigration and reveals some possible solutions that America can take to stem the tide.

When Stevens’ unwed daughter became pregnant, another hot-button issue—abortion—landed right on Stevens’ front doorstep. With warmth and honesty, he shares how the family navigated his daughter’s decision to keep the baby and opens up about his views on the right to life. In addition, Stevens discusses other important topics including drug abuse, teen suicide, education, and racism, all within the prism of his experiences.

Down-to-earth and engaging, I Made My Choice—Have You? seeks to help you look at today’s current events in a different light.

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Beating the IRS Tax Squeeze

Beating the IRS Tax Squeeze
From $78,000 to $32,000 to $12,000 to $0
By Yi Qian

Published: 1/20/2009
Format: E-Book (available as PDF files)
Pages: 428
ISBN: 978-0-59585-284-0
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

For anyone who has had to endure an IRS audit-or hopes they never will-Beating the IRS Tax Squeeze is the story of one woman's journey through an IRS tax audit that lasted five years.

Qian Yi began to chronicle her interactions with the Internal Revenue Service soon after her third office audit on December 5, 2002, shortly after she had returned from Shanghai with her husband. By that point, the audit on their 2000 tax return had been going on for twenty months, with eight intimidating IRS CP notices and three office audits-the tax assessment on her and her husband's joint 2000 tax return having escalated from approximately $9,000 to a whopping $78,000.

All the while, from the very beginning, Qian arduously negotiated with the IRS and hoped for a quick resolution, but it was everything but quick. Never could Qian have foreseen that their 2000 tax return audit could drag on for five years and that while it was still pending for a resolution, all their tax returns for years 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and even 2005 would all come under IRS's unrelenting and unremitting scrutiny.

In this smart, worldly, and candid book, Qian adheres to the facts of her dealings with the IRS as she recounts her many telephone calls, multiple correspondence audits, and five office audits. Her uplifting tale of survival proves that perseverance is the key-only if you believe you are right-to success with IRS audits and, perhaps, in all aspects of life.

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National Past Time

National Past Time
Kingpin Alley
By Jude Morgan

Published: 4/30/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) What's This
Pages: 306
ISBN: 978-1-47598-362-3
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

For Peter Fox, being a bowling alley proprietor was a calling. Right from the beginning, the Upstate New York village of Koopersville embraced Peter’s glistening new bowling alley with its modern automatic pinsetters, and Koopersville Bowl quickly became the heart and soul of the village.

Peter’s dream business opened in 1962, and year after year, the bowling alley was the place where the trials and tribulations of growing up in a small New England town were transformed into the dreams and hopes of the future. Anything was possible at Koopersville Bowl. But one day Peter Fox died, and the village stopped breathing.

The moral fabric of the entire community broke, yet Peter’s extended family tried to adjust to their loss. As Peter’s eldest son, Paul Fox knew it was his duty to help his mother carry on; what’s more, it was what his father would have wanted. And that’s exactly what he did. Even so, sometimes unexpected things do happen.

In the game of bowling there is only one way to salvage your score, and that is to throw strikes. Perfect games are hard to come by. But in life, as Paul soon finds out, there are always new beginnings, new games to be played, and old memories that can never be taken away.

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Traitors or Patriots?

Traitors or Patriots?
A Story of the German Anti-Nazi Resistance
By Louis R. Eltscher

Published: 7/9/2013
Format: Dust Jacket Hardcover(B/W)
Pages: 434
Size: 6x9
ISBN: 978-1-47598-144-5
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Little is known today of the extent and intensity of the anti-Nazi activity that occurred inside Hitler’s Germany. Even less is known about those whose courage and conviction drove them to risk—and lose—everything to bring the Third Reich to an end.

Drawing on extensive sources, author Louis Eltscher examines the role of German anti-Nazi resistance inside the Third Reich in Traitors or Patriots? Beginning with the post–World War I German society that led to Hitler’s role as f hrer, Eltscher documents the rise of anti-Nazi activity, different types of resistance groups, and the difficulties in achieving organization.

In addition, Eltscher discusses the role of the German Army in great detail. He reveals how the resistance determined that Hitler’s elimination by the Germany Army remained the key to success. Eltscher profiles key resistance figures, considers the reality of an omnipresent totalitarian police state, and studies the moral issues the resistors faced.

Presented within the broader context of German history and contemporary world events, this comprehensive study relies on extensive historiography by noted scholars to produce a well-balanced, timely narrative of the German resistance to one of history’s most violent regimes.

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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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Walking with Spirit

Walking with Spirit
By Joy Brisbane

Published: 12/6/2012
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files)
Pages: 140
ISBN: 978-1-47596-347-2
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Since the age of seven, author Joy Brisbane has known that she walks with spirit. Her abilities as a psychic medium—one who is connected to the realm of spirits—continued to develop through her school years, nursing training, and education in counselling. In Walking with Spirit, Brisbane shares her experiences as a medium, explaining how she helps lead others out of their dark night into a new day.

Brisbane discusses her journey as a psychic medium and shares insights and information about what it’s like to walk with spirit. She discusses her work with a wide range of people—helping them to heal, find direction in life, discover their own beautiful selves, and awaken them to the help they have from the realm of spirit through their guides and loved ones who have died.

The message communicated in Walking with Spirit seeks to touch the lives of others and help them to find joy and peace. It asks you to open your mind and heart to the possibility of healing yourself. When we step into our divine heritage of living a joyful life—when we find the courage and strength to be who we truly are—then we enter into the experience of discovering inner freedom. We find our divine essence.

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The Dinosaur’s Descendants

The Dinosaur’s Descendants
By Mark Ellsberry

Published: 6/28/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub and Mobi files)
Pages: 336
ISBN: 978-1-47599-018-8
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

DR. STEVEN ANDREWS is an assistant professor of paleontology at Montana State University when he is recruited for a top secret National Security Agency job—a mission so secret that not even the President of the United States is aware of it.

He is joined by Colonel Eleanor Johnston and other specialists who form Team T-REX. The team is an elite group tasked with exploring an exotic, previously unknown jungle—accessible via time travel. In the depths of nature, however, they discover something shocking: the source of terrorist plots in the Middle East, China and America.

Someone is planning to blow up the Rose Bowl in California, as well as the Three Gorges Dam in China. Steven and Eleanor work closely as they begin to realize that possible alien involvement is suspected. A romance blooms, but as they fight to save thousands, Eleanor is given a new objective: kill Team T-REX—Steven included.

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A Peck of Trouble

A Peck of Trouble
Mr. Teve’s Tall Tales
By Steven P. Locke

Published: 6/28/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files)
Pages: 228
ISBN: 978-1-47598-698-3
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

In his humorous memoir, Steven Locke chronicles the mishaps, adolescent hazing, general confusion, and breathtaking stupidity exhibited by himself and experienced by those unfortunate enough to be in close proximity. He presents a whimsical journey through his experiences as he matured from an adolescent focused on creating a revolt in the high school cafeteria into a young man ready to tackle a warped world.

Recalling a lifetime of adventures and misadventures, Locke shares vignettes describing run-ins with high school principals, military policemen, irate hotel managers, firemen, university police officers, and Columbus cops. From rural Centertown, Ohio, to Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and from Ohio State University to the classrooms of Ohio’s public schools, Locke takes a humorous romp through nearly fifty years of existence as he somehow manages to learn valuable life lessons while on fugitive manhunts, in emergency rooms, and atop snowy Alpine slopes.

A Peck of Trouble offers an entertaining collection of stories that detail one man’s coming-of-age journey on the Big Blue Orb as he evolves from youthful barbarian to enlightened adult.

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It's Just a Matter of Balance

It's Just a Matter of Balance
You Can't Put a Straight Leg on a Crooked Man
By Kevin S. Garrison

Published: 12/8/2011
Format: Dust Jacket Hardcover(B/W)
Pages: 160
Size: 5.5x8.5
ISBN: 978-1-46206-286-7
Print Type: B/W

Overview:RECOMMENDED READING BY THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOTISTS & PROSTHETISTS It was 1969 when author Kevin Garrison was diagnosed with cancer. Not long after that, Garrison’s doctor informed him his right foot needed to be amputated. In that moment, Garrison knew his life would be changed forever.

In his true story of survival, Garrison shares his incredible journey facing uncertainties and anger, struggling with emotional and physical pain, and fighting fear as he moved further away from his normal routine and into the world of the permanently disabled. As he chronicles the events leading up to his loss, his recuperation, and the adoption of a prosthetic foot, he poignantly details his true feelings, triumphs, setbacks, and positive choices as he learns how to focus on his abilities instead of his disabilities. Through his exploration into his deepest, most personal thoughts, Garrison illustrates a descriptive and sometimes shockingly funny journey as he discovers what it is like to be an amputee and what it really means for his love life and his future career.

It’s Just a Matter of Balance shares an eye opening glimpse into the inspiring life of Garrison, who demonstrates to others that with genuine acceptance of our fate, we can finally begin to live the life we were meant to have.

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Stay Ahead of the Game

Stay Ahead of the Game
By Arlindo Fernandes

Published: 6/26/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files)
Pages: 206
ISBN: 978-1-47599-001-0
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Build power, take control of your life, and spring ahead by making a critical decision to stay ahead of the game. In this volume—part one of a three-part series—author Arlindo Fernandes presents the first step on a road that can help you reach your maximum potential. He shares ways for you to

•develop the confidence to pursue your goals;
•prepare for challenges large and small;
•make necessary sacrifices to achieve success; and
•keep your life under control—
all the way to the end.

To accomplish these steps, it’s important to understand who you are and divide your life into two sections. The first section consists of learning about ancestors and figuring out where you’ve been instead of where you’re going. Only then will you have the knowledge to focus on the second section: determining what you need to do to get where you want to be.

By learning about the smooth and rough roads traveled by others, you’ll be equipped to avoid pitfalls and capitalize on opportunities. Use your wisdom and achieve more than you ever thought possible by staying ahead of the game.

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The Boy Who Became an Early-Childhood Educator

The Boy Who Became an Early-Childhood Educator
Reflections, Memories, and Future Thoughts about Our Field
By Manuel Kichi Wong, M.Ed

Published: 5/31/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub and Mobi files)
Pages: 204
ISBN: 978-1-47598-486-6
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

A male educator explores the joys of working with children in this inspirational account.

Manuel Kichi Wong shares his personal journal entries that consider the challenges and obstacles of being a male educator in a field dominated by women. Whether it’s cooking, cleaning, changing diapers, dealing with parents, or interacting with children, he does whatever it takes to get the job done.

Find out what it really means to pursue a career as an early-childhood educator. Wong discusses ways to

•apply different methods to help children learn;
• work with children in various settings, including at school and at home;
•balance the demands of your job and personal life; and
•communicate better with parents and fellow teachers.

He also provides candid stories about the questions a man fields when he is an early-childhood teacher. Life in this profession isn’t easy, but the joys of giving and of working and being with children make it all worthwhile.

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The Unforgotten Prayer

The Unforgotten Prayer
By Danny Rittman

Published: 2/9/2011
Format: E-Book (available as PDF, ePub, and Mobi files)
Pages: 220
ISBN: 978-1-45029-117-0
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

This is my story - my life from the horrors of war and slaughter to the travails of change and atonement. For much of my life I lived in fear that my past would catch up to me. I hid my beliefs and prejudices and walked among the gentle, unsuspecting people of a small American town. I am, or was, an embodiment of madness, atrocity, cruelty and horror.

I had to remind myself how to behave, react and interact with those around me. I could not pick my friends, neighbors or the people I would like to associate with. I could not express my desires and thoughts. I could not do what I wanted to do. I was locked inside a mad world without the ability to make any contribution, as I used to do - during the war and before it.

Friends and neighbors? I shunned them. Social groups and religious organizations? I shunned them as well. Often I thought it better to turn myself in or die one way or another - just to get everything over with.

That changed one day - a miraculous day when a young child came into my life and helped me back into life, reappraisal, and a quest for atonement.

That young child was Jewish.

And I am a former SS officer.

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Target … Cop!

Target … Cop!
By Chuck Johnson

Published: 5/31/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files)
Pages: 108
ISBN: 978-1-47598-843-7
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Jason Shaw is a police officer in Huntsville, California. A former US Marine, he is a happy father and husband who takes his job seriously and has just been transferred from narcotics and vice to the Huntsville Gang Task Force Unit. A month after the transfer, mysterious attacks begin one night when a criminal sets a trap outside the Shaw home.

Although the Shaws escape the clumsy attempt, there are no suspects, and Shaw believes the amateurish trap might have been a juvenile prank. As time passes, however, the attacks escalate. Who is trying to terrorize the cop and his family? Is it an ex-con Shaw put away or gang member with a beef?

Someone is desperately trying to put Shaw in the ground, but the police have no leads. As a media frenzy ensues after every attack, a community once thought to be safe falls further into the grip of panic and terror. Meanwhile, Shaw will do what it takes to keep his family safe, even if it means taking matters into his own hands and letting the attackers know that no one messes with a cop on his own beat.

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Mentoring Human Potential

Mentoring Human Potential
Student Peer Mentors as Catalysts for Academic Success
By Scott Seldin

Published: 10/12/2011
Format: E-Book
Pages: 176
ISBN: 978-1-46204-020-9
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Mentoring Human Potential is a cutting edge manual for creating dynamic, holistic student peer mentoring programs. This is a revolutionary book. While giving practical information about how to train mentors and supervise a mentoring program, Scott Seldin asserts that spirit, personally defined, is an ally in waiting for every student—a powerful resource for academic achievement. Therein lies the revolution. Mentoring Human Potential provides the reader with a field-tested way to use holistic peer mentoring and spirit as powerful resources for increasing student retention, persistence, and wellbeing. “Scott Seldin will lead you toward the ways that mentor and mentee can open themselves to being moved by Spirit. He will courageously point the way to the greater mysteries that bless those who dare enter with an open heart. In Spirit, we find the soulful life and the path worth living and dying for. I encourage you to trust his guiding voice.” Dr. Bradford Keeney, author, psychologist

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Education, iUniverse Bookstore,

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The 3 "P" Man

The 3 "P" Man
Memoirs of a Perfect Life Adventure: A Preacher, a Pilot, and a Police Officer All in One Person
By Steve Grizzle

Published: 6/25/2013
Format: Dust Jacket Hardcover(B/W)
Pages: 300
Size: 5.5x8.5
ISBN: 978-1-47599-126-0
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

In this memoir, author Steve Grizzle recounts the story of his perfect life adventure as a preacher, a pilot, and a police officer—the three Ps of his life. He reveals the details of a life lived as an exciting journey, leading him from preaching in the pulpit to traveling the world as a pilot to serving as a police officer. As a man with a true need for speed, Grizzle’s journey has been one of exciting and unforgettable events.

For example, he was almost killed by a pilot who flew Air Force One for a living. He met and worked for the great Sam Walton and encountered numerous celebrities over the course of his various careers. Over the years he has regaled his friends with the stories of his adventures in each of his three careers, who agreed that if they were able to trade places with anyone in the whole world, it would be him.

Sharing stories full of action, inspiration, and adventure, The 3 “P” Man presents a unique and intriguing memoir.

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Biography and Autobiography, iUniverse Bookstore,

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Saints and Heroes

Saints and Heroes
By Andrew Schultz

Published: 3/14/2012
Format: E-Book (available as ePub and Mobi files)
Pages: 244
ISBN: 978-1-46977-489-3
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

This book is about hope, despair and faith. It follows Anselm from his boyhood on the rugged Isle of Iona through a course of study at Glastonbury and ultimately through his long association with King Malcolm Caenmore, a ruthless despot who begins a 300 year dynasty of a united Scotland. AUTHOR BIO: Teacher, professor and writer, Andrew Schultz lives in Lincoln, Nebraska where he works with wood, walks his dog Seanie and ponders small questions.

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Fiction, iUniverse Bookstore,

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God’s 9 & Moses’s 1 Commandments

God’s 9 & Moses’s 1 Commandments
By Rubye C. Wright

Published: 11/17/2012
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W)
Pages: 118
Size: 6x9
ISBN: 978-1-47595-346-6
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Throughout the centuries, man has interpreted the Bible in a variety of ways. In some instances, it was for personal gain or power. This has resulted in sin in every segment of society and a skewering of the message God intended to send to His people through his Word.

Provocative and eye-opening, God’s Nine and Moses’s One Commandments offers an intriguing interpretation of why man has decided to corrupt God’s holy word for his own base needs. Author Rubye C. Wright shows why men, motivated by greed, have historically assumed that each knows better than God what is best for all of God’s people. Beginning with Adam and Eve, Wright contends how the events recorded in the Bible have been changed to suit man’s own purposes.

Wright breaks down each of the Ten Commandments and reveals how men of power have broken them time and time again, even when they believed they were doing God’s work. She also charges that men of God, including Moses and Joshua, explicitly went against God’s instructions and were thus not worthy of their chosen roles as leaders of God’s people.

This hard-hitting study pulls no punches and offers a thought-provoking narrative on the Ten Commandments.

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iUniverse Bookstore, Religion,

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Parcae’s Wish

Parcae’s Wish
By J. Nicholas

Published: 2/20/2013
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W)
Pages: 346
Size: 6x9
ISBN: 978-1-47597-631-1
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

It is July of 1987, and Christof Douglas, president of an entertainment company, which is part of a multinational conglomerate, has just arrived at his summer cottage to meet his wife, Katya, for much-needed respite when he receives two urgent messages from a Miss Kelso, who implies he knows her. But there is only one problem: Douglas has never heard of her—or so he thinks.

Douglas, who has been working incessantly ever since his daughter was killed years earlier, continues at a frenetic pace, even when he should be reconnecting with his wife. When a big deal suddenly falls through and Douglas learns that Kelso has been murdered, however, he finds himself in the midst of a homicide investigation where he soon discovers that Kelso is really his former fiancée, Maria Ladillya. When he finds out why Maria contacted him after all those years, Douglas must rely on his instincts—and fate—as he is unwittingly pulled into an illegal, international operation that exposes lies, revenge, and cover-ups.

In this espionage thriller, a broadcasting executive who is about to face loss like never before is consoled by a mysterious woman who encourages him to take a brave journey through his past, present, and future as he questions his true destiny.

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Fiction, iUniverse Bookstore,

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Too Big to Succeed

Too Big to Succeed
Profiteering in American Medicine
By Russell J. Andrews, MD, DEd

Published: 2/20/2013
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W)
Pages: 192
Size: 6x9
ISBN: 978-1-47597-128-6
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Medicine in the United States is big business. We spend 50 percent more on health care per capita than other developed countries, but a multitude of measures indicate that we are not getting health-care value for our money. In Too Big to Succeed, author Dr. Russell J. Andrews details why health care in America has become more expensive but less effective and outlines a new paradigm for health-care delivery.

Too Big to Succeed describes how American medicine is on an unsustainable course: costs are increasing while benefits are deteriorating in comparison with other developed nations. Beginning with the Hippocratic Oath and the the premedical student, Andrews traces the myriad ways in which the profit motive has infiltrated American medicine—including medical school training, current models of health-care delivery, medical professional societies, medical research, and medical drug and device development.

Presenting an insider’s look into the current crisis in health care, Andrews demonstrates that until both the physician and the patient return to the relationship that underlies medicine, physicians will not experience the joy of healing those who seek their help and patients will not appreciate that a good physician is a permanent part of their lives.

Sources: http://bookstore.iuniverse.com/Products/SKU-000602756/Too-Big-to-Succeed.aspx

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iUniverse Bookstore, Medical,

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