The Eyes in the Tree

The Eyes in the Tree By Carolyn VanderBeek Published: 7/31/2013 Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) Pages: 204 ISBN: 978-1-47598-919-9 Print Type: B/W Overview: Blondos thinks she is the most magnificent chick in the cage she shares with other feathered friends inside a feed store. Forced to constantly preen in front of perfect strangers so as not to be overlooked during the selection process, Blondos is prepared to do more of the same when a kindly man enters the store one day. After a series of mishaps that nearly stand in the way of her opportunity, Blondos can hard

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Cat House

Cat House Adventures of a Real Estate Madam By MK Sandoval Published: 7/31/2013 Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) Pages: 386 ISBN: 978-1-47598-944-1 Print Type: B/W Overview: Niki Brooks’ life is crumbling beneath her Manolo-clad feet. As a Luxury Home Real Estate Broker trying to survive one of the worst bubble bursts in thirty years, she is barely hanging on. With her own house under threat of foreclosure and her retirement holdings worthless, Niki thinks “outside the house” for a way to survive and decides selling fornication instead of foreclosures will be more

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Endlessness of the Stars

Endlessness of the Stars By Dale Boynton Published: 6/28/2013 Format: E-Book Pages: 208 ISBN: 978-1-47599-132-1 Print Type: B/W Overview: In a rural farming town in Saskatchewan, two teenagers have been engaged in a dance of flirtation for quite some time. Michelle, a ninth grader, is the epitome of the girl next door. Landon, a senior, is an all-around good guy who also happens to be a star athlete. But just as their relationship moves to the next step, Landon is killed in a tragic car crash. As the families and community attempt to deal with the loss of Landon, Michelle seeks solace wi

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Mediocre

Mediocre Making Fun of Life By Julie McCulloch Burton Published: 2/28/2013 Format: E-Book Pages: 202 ISBN: 978-1-47597-596-3 Print Type: B/W Overview: Drawing on a lifetime of experiences, author Julie McCulloch Burton shares a compilation of short stories and vignettes that reflect her self-deprecating sense of humor and her positive outlook on life, turning ordinary moments into meaningful lessons. Including personal photographs of a wide range of subjects—food, flowers, animals, people, landscapes, seasons, studies in lines, and studies in water movement—Mediocre also presents a varie

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Paola

Paola Beyond Words By Matilde Calamai Published: 5/31/2013 Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) Pages: 82 ISBN: 978-1-47598-748-5 Print Type: B/W Overview: In the beautiful town of Pistoia, in Tuscany, forty-eight-year-old Paola is preparing to meet the man who might become her lover. Married with two children, Paola is resigned to living a lonely life separate from her husband, who works in Brazil. And yet she is desperate to experience joy again. As Paola enters her potential lover’s office, she faints. In a matter of seconds, her life has been transformed forever.

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The Restless Wind and Shifting Sands

The Restless Wind and Shifting Sands By Harry J. Sweeney Published: 1/12/2010 Format: Perfect Bound Softcover Pages: 536 Size: 6x9 ISBN: 978-1-44015-931-2 Print Type: B/W Overview: With 1.4 billion practicing Muslims in the world it is necessary for all to better understand the culture and belief system. In The Restless Wind and Shifting Sands, author and Islamic scholar Harry J. Sweeney explains the intricacies and tenets of Islam. The educational discourse provides insight into the religion practiced by one out of five people worldwide. The Restless Wind and Shifting Sands explores the

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Life Stories of a Hero

Life Stories of a Hero Selections from the poetry of Howard Palmer, native Oregonian, 1907-1988 By BC McGregor Published: 4/28/2009 Format: E-Book (available as PDF, ePub, and Mobi files) Pages: 152 ISBN: 978-1-44012-217-0 Print Type: B/W Overview: At a time when things may seem a bit out of control, here's a chance to enjoy some enchanting stories about a time the world almost forgot. Stories like, "Ode to the Pioneers", Grandpa's view of what life was like for the early settlers. Or "Just a Fisherman's Dream", a humorous look at the classic fish tale. All together he churned out some

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The Cradle of Texas Road

The Cradle of Texas Road A Model of Cultural Integration for the Nation By Robin Navarro Montgomery Published: 3/23/2013 Format: Dust Jacket Hardcover Pages: 232 Size: 5.5x8.5 ISBN: 978-1-47598-006-6 Print Type: B/W Overview: The region north of Houston, Texas, is a cultural enclave of communities and sites distinctive in Texas history. Here, significant contributions to the history of the great state of Texas emerged, along with some of its most noted and distinctive personalities, communities, and historical sites. Thoroughly researched and ambitious in scope, The Cradle of Texas Road

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Masters of the Sea

Masters of the Sea The Adventures of Jules Verne’s Mathias Sandorf By George J. Rios Published: 7/1/2010 Format: E-Book (available as ePub and Mobi files) Pages: 252 ISBN: 978-1-45021-734-7 Print Type: B/W Overview: Jules Verne, the “Father of Modern Science Fiction,” is indeed immortal and eternally young across three centuries. In Masters of the Sea: The Adventures of Jules Verne’s Mathias Sandorf, we pay tribute to Verne, who inspired pioneers throughout the world for generations. Here, we take Verne’s ultimate prediction of communication with our friends of the watery deep to its oute

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The Door

The Door My Twenty-Six Years Working inside Canada’s Prisons By Vern Thibedeau Published: 1/12/2012 Format: Dust Jacket Hardcover Pages: 292 Size: 6x9 ISBN: 978-1-46202-926-6 Print Type: B/W Overview: For Canadian corrections offi cer Vern Thibedeau, it all began at “Disney World”—or at least the penitentiary that ironically carried that nickname. Within ten months, he is seriously injured. One year later he has a pistol aimed at his head during an incident in which two officers and a civilian are shot. Four years later, an inmate murders a correctional offi cer, who is Vern’s friend, an

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Pacific LST 791

Pacific LST 791 A Gallant Ship and Her Hardworking Coast Guard Crew at the Invasion of Okinawa By Stephen C. Stripe Published: 7/13/2011 Format: Dust Jacket Hardcover Pages: 148 Size: 6x9 ISBN: 978-1-46203-247-1 Print Type: B/W Overview: On the evening of March 31, 1945, hours before the invasion of Okinawa, Max Stripe, Billy Thornhill, and five other crewmen manned the forward twin 40 mm mount of LST 791. Riley was stationed up in the Conn, tracking enemy planes from bogey reports that came in over the radio. An increase in air attacks could be expected at sunset and dawn because—for a b

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The Fibber's Club

The Fibber's Club Remembrances of Boys Growing Up in the Thirties By Angela Saale Helmandollar Published: 6/28/2013 Format: E-Book Pages: 238 ISBN: 978-1-47598-894-9 Print Type: B/W Overview: It is 1984 in a used car lot in Chillicothe, Missouri, as a group of old fibbers share stories of their good times and misadventures while growing up together in small town America during the 1930s. As Max and his aging buddies play cards and swap tales, they all agree that there’s nothing like stories of the good old days. Max begins by recalling the summer he turned eight and traveled with his fam

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El arte de convivir en sociedad y evitar el reachazo

El arte de convivir en sociedad y evitar el reachazo Maneras practicas para evitar ser excluido, el comportamiento ideal, para siempre ser aceptado By Francisco J Palacios Published: 3/29/2013 Format: Perfect Bound Softcover Pages: 372 Size: 5.5x8.5 ISBN: 978-1-47598-192-6 Print Type: B/W Overview: This work is made to change behaviors and manners at every person looking for that level of acceptance achieved with an overwhelming personality and charisma. I’ve interviewed thousands of people looking for that you fail beings who disqualified before entering his world and now I’ve been acco

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Windows and Holidays

Windows and Holidays By Ejike Igboanugo Published: 2/7/2013 Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) Pages: 82 ISBN: 978-1-47596-644-2 Print Type: B/W Overview: Windows and Holidays is a collection of poetry that resonates with a young person’s expectations of a world which unfolds disquietingly. This is a collection of dreams—the dreams of a young man about his immediate surroundings. Conflicts here and there are poet Ejike Igboanugo’s major concerns, and his poetry gives him the voice to express those concerns. He considers the future, contemplates the religious, addresse

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Trudy

Trudy By C. S. Ross Published: 5/31/2013 Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) What's This Pages: 98 ISBN: 978-1-47598-665-5 Print Type: B/W Overview: This is a story of a washed – up detective who can’t resist trying to solve a mystery. In spite of trying to stay out of other people’s business, this character always manages to get tangled up anyway. Without trying the detective gets involved in the life of a little girl who just happens to be the sole hair to her family fortune. And, where there’s a lot of money involved, there’s always some sleazy characters trying to

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MOM'S THE WORD

MOM'S THE WORD A Memoir of Love and Survival By E. Stoddard Published: 4/13/2006 Format: Dust Jacket Hardcover Pages: 196 Size: 6x9 ISBN: 978-0-59583-772-4 Print Type: B/W Overview:As the third of nine children in a tight-knit Catholic family, author E.M. Stoddard learns how to be resilient early in life. Although her childhood has many happy memories, Stoddard is determined not to re-live her mother's life-burdened with too much responsibility and dependent on an emotionally distant husband. Soon after her high school graduation, Stoddard marries her boyfriend Patrick, whose personal pro

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Family and Relationships, iUniverse Bookstore,

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Pieces of Broken China

Pieces of Broken China By Dean R. Blanchard Published: 7/11/2012 Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) What's This Pages: 118 ISBN: 978-1-47593-062-7 Print Type: B/W Overview: In life, one either chooses to rise above temptation or fall into a black pit of despair and oblivion. In Pieces of Broken China, his first collection of short stories, author Dean Blanchard introduces a group of compelling characters who march on an unforgettable journey through the heartrending emotions that accompany a dysfunctional life. A father struggles to tell his long-lost daughter that h

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The Measure of a Leader

The Measure of a Leader A Review of Theories About Leadership and a Methodology for Appraising Leader Effectiveness By Robert I. Mann Published: 3/27/2013 Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W) Pages: 470 Size: 6x9 ISBN: 978-1-47596-794-4 Print Type: B/W Overview: What makes a great leader? Personality? A response to the demands of time and circumstance? Where is leadership located in modern organizations? Has it a place in the management of corporate enterprise? What contributes to a leader’s control? These and many other questions are explores in the theoretical background of this work. An

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Business and Economics, iUniverse Bookstore,

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Guardians of the Amulet

Guardians of the Amulet The War for the Galaxies By Amy Zhang Published: 6/28/2013 Format: E-Book Pages: 122 ISBN: 978-1-47598-579-5 Print Type: B/W Overview: Upon the heartbreaking loss of her colleagues and mentor, Sable, the guardian of darkness, finds herself facing a new battle with enemies rising darker and stronger than ever before. But it is her destiny to unite the others and save the galaxy as we know it. Although her loss has left her feeling ashamed, frustrated, and betrayed, Sable gets back on her feet and shoulders the responsibility to search for and train the next generat

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Who We Are

Who We Are Our Lives and the Human Condition By Herbert Spohn Published: 2/28/2013 Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) Pages: 76 ISBN: 978-1-47597-056-2 Print Type: B/W Overview: Herbert Spohn’s poetry is rooted in his life experiences. In his collection of free verse, Spohn illuminates elements of the human condition, such as romantic love, identity, aging, death, and childhood in post–World War I Germany. Spohn, an émigré from Nazi Germany and decorated World War II veteran, relies on both his personal and professional backgrounds to share his unique reflections on

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Unlikely Warriors

Unlikely Warriors The Army Security Agency's Secret War in Vietnam 1961-1973 By Lonnie M. Long Gary B. Blackburn Published: 5/28/2013 Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) Pages: 488 ISBN: 978-1-47599-059-1 Print Type: B/W Overview: In early May 1961, a U.S. military aircraft taxied toward a well-guarded terminal building. The plane slowed to a halt; steps were maneuvered up to its side, and the door was pulled open. The tropical night air was heavy and dank, and the moon shone dimly through high thin clouds. On board the aircraft were ninety-two members of a specially s

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I Am Dianna

I Am Dianna By MJR Published: 9/19/2012 Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) Pages: 420 ISBN: 978-1-47593-560-8 Print Type: B/W Overview: Modern day Manhattan artist Dianna Dubois is experiencing Salem, Massachusetts, of the1690s in the most bizarre way possible—in nightly dreams that have the potential to kill her. She has spent a lifetime futilely seeking answers from the best doctors, the finest hospitals, the latest medicines, and exhausting therapies. With the dreams worsening, Dianna’s nights are cursed with visions of death and seemingly endless suffering at the

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Of One Womb

Of One Womb The Essence of Two Families By G. Paul Lawrence Published: 6/28/2012 Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) What's This Pages: 208 ISBN: 978-1-47592-472-5 Print Type: B/W Overview: In 1969, newlywed Dorothy Tucker envisions herself living with her husband in quaint Minden, Louisiana, surrounded by their families, raising a family of their own, and becoming part of Minden history. The joy doesn’t last long. After the birth of their child, James Lee, Dorothy obtains a divorce from her abusive and philandering husband, Fred. But Fred’s parents are not about to lo

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Delicious Rejection

Delicious Rejection The Memoirs of a Hopeless Romantic By James Robert Russell Published: 8/2/2010 Format: Dust Jacket Hardcover(B/W) Pages: 176 Size: 6x9 ISBN: 978-1-45024-335-3 Print Type: B/W Overview: Neither a salacious tell-all book nor a venomous bashing of the participants, Delicious Rejection shares the depths of emotions that James Robert Russell experienced in his relationships with the women in his life, both past and present. This autobiographical collection of stories and poems follows his amazing emotional ride on love’s roller coaster. He recounts the details of those rela

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The Seven Sages

The Seven Sages By Patricia Anne Dye Published: 4/30/2013 Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) Pages: 478 ISBN: 978-1-47597-677-9 Print Type: B/W Overview: Many world legends suggest that at any given time, seven sages walk the Earth, tasked with the responsibility to anchor wisdom on behalf of humanity. Each one stands as the personification of a different rung of human consciousness. Together, they represent humanity’s innate ability to save itself—or doom itself. • Earthwhisperer knows the secrets of the Earth, its pleasures, and its pains. • Lila understands the nat

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Asses and Angels

Asses and Angels A Journey from Abuse to Achievement By Gail L. Black Published: 9/19/2012 Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) Pages: 353 ISBN: 978-1-47594-048-0 Print Type: B/W Overview: Gail Black is living proof that success and failure in life are interwoven like the tangled brambles in a thicket of wild berries. Asses and Angels shares the moving story of her personal path through life as it wove through tangled fields of good and evil. She learned to hope and survive on her journey from abuse to achievement. Born just as World War II intensified, Gail grew into

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Elements

Elements Prism’s Edge By Grace Snow and Jack Wilde Published: 7/5/2013 Format: Dust Jacket Hardcover(B/W) Pages: 364 Size: 6x9 ISBN: 978-1-47597-724-0 Print Type: B/W Overview: After the death of Lily’s sister, Star, Elder Karyn assigns fifteen-year-old Lily to the office as the Light Element of Earth—a role for which she feels very unprepared. She finds herself facing a foreign culture in which she must learn to avoid the Dark Elements, navigate the nuances of human society, and graspthe Elemental laws, all while struggling to control her burning hunger to find her sister’s killer. With

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In a Cottage We Once Knew

In a Cottage We Once Knew Eldric and Matilda By Robyn Tocker Published: 1/31/2012 Format: E-Book (available as PDF, ePub, and Mobi files) Pages: 212 ISBN: 978-1-46973-827-7 Print Type: B/W Overview: As the children of Snow White and Prince Ferdinand, twins Eldric and Matilda are born into the wealth and privileged life of royalty. But when a witch seeking revenge against their parents kidnaps and then abandons the babies, they are discovered by seven little men. With no knowledge of their past life, the children are raised by their foster fathers, who shelter them from the outside world—p

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