UNDER THE SKYFLOWER TREE

UNDER THE SKYFLOWER TREE Reflections of a Nun-entity By Mona Castelazo Published: 3/3/2005 Format: E-Book (available as PDF, ePub, and Mobi files) Pages: 194 ISBN: 978-0-59578-466-0 Print Type: B/W Overview: A memoir told with candor and humor, Under the Skyflower Tree follows one woman's spiritual journey in the Catholic faith. Author Mona Castelazo shares the humorous stories of growing up Catholic in Fresno, California. Her calling to the religious life, her subsequent formation in the convent, and her early teaching career occur at a time of sweeping changes in the Catholic Church-V

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The Journey

The Journey By Stephen Rosenzweig Published: 11/17/2009 Format: E-Book Pages: 1 ISBN: 978-1-44016-158-2 Print Type: B/W Overview: Sometimes we live a life that inspires others. It’s not about whom we are and who we choose to be with, but how we spend that time together. Stephen Rosenzweig takes us on The Journey through the maze of his life; a unique life that few people will ever have the chance to experience. His is a life encompassing both the joy of love and the pain of loss. He encourages us that to really live a full life, a part of us must die. We must let go of the past negativit

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A Collection of Souls

A Collection of Souls Tales of Terror, Delight, and Magic By J. C. Miller Published: 7/11/2012 Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) What's This Pages: 192 ISBN: 978-1-47591-709-3 Print Type: B/W Overview: Imagine a world in which witches and curses exist and in which each one of us has an evil double somewhere in the world. In A collection of Souls, J. C. Miller shares terrifying tales that encourage us to believe in magic-even just for a moment-while imagining the consequences if creatures of myth suddenly appeared or whether it is possible to fall in love with a ghost

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The Coachable Leader

The Coachable Leader What Future Executives Need to Know Today By Peter J. Dean with Molly D. Shepard and Monica L. Warner Published: 2/29/2012 Format: E-Book (available as PDF, ePub, and Mobi files) What's This Pages: 304 ISBN: 978-1-46204-890-8 Print Type: B/W Overview: The Coachable Leader speaks to executives who are serious and willing to reflect upon, refine, and possibly reconstitute their leadership practices. If you want to be one of those people, it’s imperative that you remain coachable so you can gain insights on how to encourage positive behaviors and avoid executive actions

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"Salafi Jihadi Discourse of Sunni Islam in the 21st century"

"Salafi Jihadi Discourse of Sunni Islam in the 21st century" "The discourse of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi and Anwar al-Awlaki" By Daurius Figueira Published: 4/13/2011 Format: E-Book (available as PDF, ePub, and Mobi files) Pages: 208 ISBN: 978-1-46200-899-5 Print Type: B/W Overview: This work is a deconstruction of Salafi Jihadi discourse in the 21st century with special emphasis on the works in English of Muhammad Maqdisi and Anwar al-Awlaki. The work reveals the diversity of strategic positions that exist with reference to war with/on the West, the role of the Muslim minority of the West

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Quest for Peace

Quest for Peace Peace Is the Natural Balance By Amrik Binapal Published: 2/24/2012 Format: Dust Jacket Hardcover Pages: 240 Size: 6x9 ISBN: 978-1-46976-389-7 Print Type: B/W Overview:The fast pace of the technological development during the past about two decades, particularly in television and information technology, has put up such an enormous and sudden pressure on the human mind that the man of today has difficulty bearing it. Quest for Peace examines the gap between the reality and the illusions of life that is widening every day. Man’s desire for material things has increased to the

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Let's Talk about Hair

Let's Talk about Hair The Truth beyond the Looking Glass By Lynn Gauthier Published: 5/18/2013 Format: Perfect Bound Softcover Pages: 50 Size: 6x9 ISBN: 978-1-47599-014-0 Print Type: B/W Overview: Through the lens of her hair struggles, Lynn Gauthier takes us on her life’s journey: hair salons, hairstylists (some she'd rather forget), and unforgettable hair stories. Gauthier’s experiences not only shaped her hair but also brought her astounding insight into the nature of her personal struggle with vanity and the search for perfection. She begins her story with excerpts from her daily jour

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The Breakthrough

The Breakthrough Breaking the Spells of Painful Emotions and Finding the Calm in the Present Moment How to Build a New Outlook on Life By Fredric Hartman Published: 2/13/2009 Format: Dust Jacket Hardcover Pages: 216 Size: 6x9 ISBN: 978-0-59568-697-1 Print Type: B/W Overview: In The Breakthrough, Dr. Fredric C. Hartman paints a compelling picture of emotional pain and its context within the human mind. Set in the dramatic backdrop of a therapy session as a stage play, featuring Dr. Hartman as the psychologist and Human Consciousness itself as “the patient,” this is a practical guide for an

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OUR LORD WAS BAPTIZED, YOU KNOW

OUR LORD WAS BAPTIZED, YOU KNOW Reflections on a Spiritual Adventure By Marta Weeks Published: 3/29/2007 Format: Perfect Bound Softcover Pages: 338 Size: 6x9 ISBN: 978-0-59540-501-5 Print Type: B/W Overview: This inspirational memoir is a testament to how an ordinary person with a few extraordinary experiences and challenges can become a cleric at a time when many in the clergy did not welcome females. Raised on two continents, author Marta Sutton Weeks describes her road to the seminary against the backdrop of a family that has been caught up in Mormonism and non-Mormonism. She details

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Prey for the Soulless

Prey for the Soulless By K. R. Lugo Published: 8/15/2013 Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) Pages: 392 ISBN: 978-1-47599-474-2 Print Type: B/W Overview: Society is in a complete shambles, leaving behind a bloodthirsty world that practically worships pain and suffering. Sitting at the helm is Marcus Powers, the most powerful individual the world has ever known and the person controlling so many aspects of life with his tremendous financial influence. He’s the impetus behind the popular Games, a highly publicized, fight-to-the-death drama that pits prison inmates again

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Guys

Guys Growing Up By R. H. Morrison Published: 5/31/2013 Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) Pages: 218 ISBN: 978-1-47597-841-4 Print Type: B/W Overview: It is 1944 in Ontario, Canada, and Scotty is fifteen. World War II is coming to an end, although the war has left countless scars on Canadian families and the world at large. Scotty has his own problems at home, including an alcoholic father and the fear of being stuck as a small-town nobody his whole life. He can’t wait to turn sixteen. Once he’s sixteen, he’ll be able to go his own way. Maybe he’ll drop out of high

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The Rider

The Rider By R. D. Amundson Published: 7/31/2013 Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) Pages: 240 ISBN: 978-1-47599-503-9 Print Type: B/W Overview: After marrying his childhood sweetheart, Virgil John Jordan is pulled into the Civil War as a captain in the Confederate Army. He is a dedicated and brave soldier—until news reaches him that his family, including his new wife, has been murdered by marauding Blue Coats. Rage takes over; as Virgil becomes a murderer, the man he once was disappears. He becomes “The Rider,” a vengeful, ghostly foe. Justice is decided by his han

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Nephilim

Nephilim The Long Journey Home By Jeffery Lyles Published: 4/19/2013 Format: Perfect Bound Softcover Pages: 290 Size: 5x8 ISBN: 978-1-47597-880-3 Print Type: B/W Overview: Adam always knew he was different then other people. Even as a child, he knew things he accepted as normal wouldn’t be considered normal by other people. In spite of that, all he wanted was a normal life. Then a twist of fate changed his life dramatically. He found himself in situations he could have never foreseen. He rose to meet the new challenges. He found himself making decisions that would not only have a major im

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Chasing My Tail

Chasing My Tail By Earl Russell Published: 7/31/2013 Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) Pages: 214 ISBN: 978-1-47599-652-4 Print Type: B/W Overview: At the age of fifteen, Earl Russell’s life was ripped out from under him. His uncle, the only father he ever knew, banished Earl from the only home the boy had ever known. Earl found himself a teen outcast in a state of despair that sent him spinning without direction or hope for years. His vision and dreams blurred by tears, he walked blindly through life. Desperate, he turned to the military for salvation and structure

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Life Reclaimed

Life Reclaimed Rural Transylvania, Nazi Camps, and the American Dream By Paul N. Frenkel Published: 4/30/2013 Format: E-Book Pages: 184 ISBN: 978-1-47598-029-5 Print Type: B/W Overview: In April of 1944, during the last year of World War II and two months before the D-day landings at Normandy, Paul N. Frenkel was a fourteen-year-old living happily with his family in the rural Transylvanian town of Hadad, Hungary. Suddenly, without explanation or justification, the family was rounded up with other Hungarian Jews, confined in a factory yard, and then herded into cattle cars and shipped off

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Finding My Voice with Aphasia

Finding My Voice with Aphasia Walking through Aphasia By Carol M. Maloney Published: 5/31/2013 Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) Pages: 84 ISBN: 978-1-47598-670-9 Print Type: B/W Overview: On June 9, 2009, Carol M. Maloney, a veteran teacher, experienced a transient ischemic attack in the left hemisphere of her brain. She helplessly observed her mind deteriorate to the point where she could not speak, walk, read, identify household objects, or recall her family. Maloney traveled between the worlds of the surreal and the logical. The stroke resulted in aphasia, the l

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Dental Dilemma

Dental Dilemma My Experiences in the Dental HMO Field By James Pedersen, DDS Published: 3/3/2010 Format: Dust Jacket Hardcover Pages: 152 Size: 5.5x8.5 ISBN: 978-1-44018-598-4 Print Type: B/W Overview: When James Pedersen, DDS graduated from dental school, he knew how to make his own gold castings, build his own porcelain crowns, cast his own partial denture frameworks, weld the fixed bridges together, prepare teeth for crowns and bridges without a chair-side assistant, fabricate full dentures, and pour his own plaster models. Because of his excellent dental education, he knew precisely h

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Parallel Paths to Personal Growth

Parallel Paths to Personal Growth The Search for Something Beyond By Eugene X. Perticone Published: 12/12/2012 Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) Pages: 172 ISBN: 978-1-47596-070-9 Print Type: B/W Overview: Many often wonder about who they really are, why they are here, what their existence signifies, and how they should conduct their lives. In Parallel Paths to Personal Growth, author Eugene X. Pertione provides both a personal and philosophical look into the question of existence and details a search for the seemingly unknowable answer by looking to both nature and

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From Troublesome Creek

From Troublesome Creek A Farm Boy’s Encounters on the Way to a University Presidency By Duane Acker Published: 6/26/2013 Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) What's This Pages: 304 ISBN: 978-1-47599-357-8 Print Type: B/W Overview: Near the banks of Troublesome Creek in Cass County, Iowa, a boy happily grows up on his family’s farm in the 1930s and 1940s. He helps his father milk cows and harvest hay, reads newspapers, and listens to radio serials. But it is when he is seventeen and hears his mother excitedly shout, “You won!” that everything suddenly changes for Duane A

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A Forty-Year Retrospective of President Nixon’s Committee on Health Education

A Forty-Year Retrospective of President Nixon’s Committee on Health Education A Whistle-Blower’s Diary By Cauffman and Ronald L. Linder Published: 8/18/2013 Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) Pages: 158 ISBN: 978-1-47599-585-5 Print Type: B/W Overview: Corruption within the Nixon administration was not limited to Watergate; his Committee on Health Education ignored and suppressed the opinions of professional health educators. In this history, two education insiders explain why and how the committee was a sham from the beginning. One of the authors—Joy Garrison Cauffm

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Take the Wings of a Morning

Take the Wings of a Morning By Kathy Wilson Published: 11/9/2012 Format: E-Book Pages: 258 ISBN: 978-1-47594-920-9 Print Type: B/W Overview: This memoir relates the journey of a young English girl from the deprivation and uncertainty of World War II to her marriage to a fellow teacher and their subsequent emigration in search of a better life. Kathy seems to find endless opportunities to simply "make the best" of whatever experiences confront her and her immigrant family as they make their home on the Canadian prairies. After the loss of her husband at age 54, she set out on a grander a

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The Art Lover’s Pocket Guide

The Art Lover’s Pocket Guide Where to View the World’s Great Masterpieces By Henry P. Traverso, PhD Published: 8/18/2013 Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) Pages: 902 ISBN: 978-1-47599-089-8 Print Type: B/W Overview: Art lovers are passionate seekers, but locating the works of the great masters can often present a challenge. In The Art Lover’s Pocket Guide, author Dr. Henry P. Traverso offers a guide to locating the works of the most popular and well-known Western visual artists worldwide. Featuring diverse artists such as Joseph Albers, Picasso, Monet, Francisco de

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Understanding Change

Understanding Change A Personal and Professional Management Strategy By Dr. Albert de Goias Published: 3/22/2013 Format: Dust Jacket Hardcover Pages: 272 Size: 6x9 ISBN: 978-1-47597-029-6 Print Type: B/W Overview: We live in times of great change—a time when our personal strengths are stretched, sometimes even to the breaking point. The results are disheartening. Many of us fail at our jobs and our relationships; others become addicted to substances or activities that offer only temporary respite. In Understanding Change, Dr. Albert de Goias offers a formula to manage people and situation

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Getting Your Affairs in Order

Getting Your Affairs in Order How to arrange things to simplify your life so that others can easily pick up where you left off By Edward Mendlowitz, CPA Published: 12/21/2011 Format: E-Book (available as PDF, ePub, and Mobi files) Pages: 140 ISBN: 978-1-46207-090-9 Print Type: B/W Overview: How to declutter your life, what happens if die without a will, uses and purposes of essential trusts, the responsibilities of trustees and executors, a dire warning to your IRA beneficiaries, how to provide protection if you become incapacitated, your other wills, business buy-sell agreements, what r

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1957 Expeditions Journal

1957 Expeditions Journal Baja California American Museum of Natural History Expedition Journal Spring 1957 Huautla Mexico Seeking The Sacred Mushroom With Gordon Wasson Summer 1957 By Oakes A. Plimpton Published: 7/31/2013 Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) Pages: 134 ISBN: 978-1-47598-973-1 Print Type: B/W Overview: Log of Expedition to Baja California (March - May, 1957) This voyage on a 100 foot schooner, all sponsored by a California millionaire who is some 73 years of age, is the result of my yearning for adventure (I had imagined a safari into the depths of the

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The Sixty Seconds

The Sixty Seconds By Ted Jackson Published: 2/25/2013 Format: Perfect Bound Softcover Pages: 108 Size: 5x8 ISBN: 978-1-47597-659-5 Print Type: B/W Overview: What would you do if, one day, you happened to discover that you were able to transport yourslef back in time for sixty seconds at will and redo things? Would you abuse that power or would you use it for the benefit of mankind? Jason Bricker is faced with that exact question and has some difficult decisons to make. Sources: iUniverse Bookstore

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At the Feet of Angels

At the Feet of Angels By Vernon Bargainer Published: 3/14/2012 Format: E-Book (available as ePub and Mobi files) Pages: 272 ISBN: 978-1-47590-208-2 Print Type: B/W Overview: This is the tale of Jenny Burnett, a young child, kidnapped by her uncle and sold on the black market to a childless couple. It is the compelling drama of Jenny's endless pining for her real mother, of her instinctive, yet daring, attempts to escape, of growing abuse at the hands of her adoptive mother, and of the hapless effort of a sympathetic but inept adoptive father. It is a story of the child's quest for salvati

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Dragon Chaser

Dragon Chaser A Memoir By Mark Lloyd Published: 6/28/2013 Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) Pages: 304 ISBN: 978-1-47599-456-8 Print Type: B/W Overview: When nineteen-year-old Mark Lloyd entered the US Army in Seattle, Washington, in 1968, he thought he was invulnerable. His induction that year marked the beginning of a long career in public service. In Dragon Chaser, he recounts his journey—entering the army, earning a green beret, serving in Vietnam, working as a police officer on the streets of south central Los Angeles, and joining the DEA. In this memoir, Lloy

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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 out

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Animal Eye Colors

Animal Eye Colors Yellow-eyed Stalkers, Red-eyed Skulkers & Black-eyed Speedsters By Morgan Worthy Published: 12/22/2000 Format: Perfect Bound Softcover Pages: 164 Size: 8.25x11 ISBN: 978-0-59515-115-8 Print Type: B/W Overview: Eye colors are given for 5620 species of animals. This list includes information on thousands of species of birds and hundreds of species of mammals, reptiles and amphibians. A theoretical pattern is offered to show a correlation between animal iris pigmentation and behavior. Sources: iUniverse Bookstore

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Jasmine

Jasmine A Novel By Winston Aarons Published: 11/14/2011 Format: E-Book (available as PDF, ePub, and Mobi files) Pages: 180 ISBN: 978-1-46206-143-3 Print Type: B/W Overview: “Trace the curved line between love and obsession in this steamy novel… Aarons artfully portrays the demise of his lead character’s control in the stable world he once inhabited. Vivid characters enliven a compelling story that reveals Sor’s innermost thoughts and personal letters. The style and pacing of the narrative realistically parallel the timeline of Sor’s affair, while rising to meet his transformation from a

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I Dreamed I Was Human

I Dreamed I Was Human Awakening from the Illusion By Carolyn Gervais Published: 2/20/2013 Format: Dust Jacket Hardcover Pages: 238 Size: 6x9 ISBN: 978-1-47597-314-3 Print Type: B/W Overview: From the time she was a little girl, author Carolyn Gervais has been haunted with questions about why she was here on Earth and why God created humans. Now after more than thirty-five years of study and research in metaphysical spirituality, Carolyn has discovered her own view of spirituality and its connection to the dream of life. In I Dreamed I Was Human, she tackles thought-provoking concepts that

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The Book

The Book Why the First Books of the Bible Were Written and Who They Were Written For By Allen Wright Published: 2/28/2013 Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) Pages: 206 ISBN: 978-1-47597-243-6 Print Type: B/W Overview: This study, by author Allen Wright, offers an entertaining, informative, and fresh interpretation of the Bible’s first books, Genesis through Kings II. Part One compares two of the Bible’s most familiar tales—Noah and the flood and David versus Goliath—with a much earlier ancient Mesopotamian text originally written in cuneiform long before the biblica

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Easy Money Smarts

Easy Money Smarts Quick and Practical Financial Help for All Income Levels and Age Groups By Jim W. Mathe Published: 8/8/2011 Format: E-Book (available as PDF, ePub, and Mobi files) Pages: 176 ISBN: 978-1-46203-543-4 Print Type: B/W Overview: Even a small amount of money can be used to establish a solid foundation for financial success, but you need to make your cash work for you. Author Jim W. Mathe, a successful real estate investor and entrepreneur, helps everyday people achieve their financial dreams in this moneymaking guidebook. You’ll learn what actions to take so you can use the l

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