Missing Murray

Missing Murray
By Maxine A. Goldblum

Published: 10/27/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files)
Pages: 184
ISBN: 978-1-49170-767-8
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

This book was primarily written as a history of my life with Murray for my family and friends. It begins with with first thing I can remember and goes through my growing up until I meet Murray at the beach over a game of Scrabble. It chronicles our lives through the tumultuous engagement ring purchase, tragic death of our first daughter, adventurous world travels, and Murray’s mysterious illness which lead to his untimely death at the age of seventy-four. The book ends with my experiences learning to live as a single woman.

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Courageous Love

Courageous Love
INSTRUCTIONS FOR CREATING HEALING CIRCLES FOR CHILDREN OF TRAUMA For Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
By Laura Montané Bailey, LMFT

Published: 9/2/2013
Format:E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) What's This
Pages: 352
ISBN: 978-1-49170-378-6
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Raising grandchildren can be challenging for many reasons. Often, the children have experienced complicated family dynamics, heartbreaking loss, abuse, and neglect – all of which may affect their emotions, behavior, and development.

In Courageous Love, author Laura Montané Bailey draws on both professional and personal experience to offer grandparents the hero status they deserve and the encouragement they need, to continue to fight for the lives of the grandchildren they love. This book explores the devastating impact of trauma to brain development and function, and provides instructions for helping grandchildren to experience Post Traumatic Growth rather than Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Bailey presents the idea of the Healing Circles to provide what traumatized children need most:

• Safety, basic needs, and structure
• Family gatherings that create identity and foster a sense of belonging
• Clear rules, authority agreements and non-toxic relationships

These Healing Circles provide a protective structure that becomes the container for joy, empathy, and love, a powerful combination for delivering hope and healing to children of trauma.

Bailey discusses the three key responsibilities of raising grandchildren in a high tech, high stress, unpredictable world: take care of yourself, un-break the hearts of your grandchildren, and re-wire their brains for success. Presenting easy-to-understand solutions, Courageous Love gives grandparents the tools and confidence they need to run this parenting marathon.

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The Adventures of Deacon Coombs

The Adventures of Deacon Coombs
The Case of the Vanishing Vesper
By Ambit Welder

Published: 11/22/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) What's This
Pages: 480
ISBN: 978-1-49170-562-9
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

It is 3533, and Earth has bonded with her allies, found peace in new friends, and realized the benefits of space trade and space travel in the form of Vespering, a technique perfected long before man evolved on Earth. Even as goodness seems to reign, however, a powerful malice nurturing a limitless hatred for mankind prepares to carry out his evil mission of conquering all life forms.

As the diabolic being puts his plan into action and unleashes his terror on the galaxy, the Tetrad Alliance commissions Earthling detective Deacon Coombs to investigate the alien’s origin and its true, murderous ambitions. Coombs travels to faraway star systems, forges unlikely companionships, and uncovers an age-old mystery. In doing so, he embarks on a dangerous journey into space and mind where only evil has ventured before. With the help of his two androids, Gem and Jim, Coombs answers his own doubts about how to defeat the creature in four startling confrontations.

In this science fiction adventure, a detective discovers the true meaning of friendships and sacrifice, tragedies and triumph, and bonds and betrayal—as the future of mankind awaits its destiny.

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The Excellent Experience

The Excellent Experience
A Blueprint for Organizational, Team, and Individual Success
By C. David Crouch

Published: 11/22/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) What's This
Pages: 482
ISBN: 978-1-49170-934-4
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

In his new guide, author C. David Crouch reveals the eighty-three principles of excellentology to help you build excellence in your life. Using “building a house” as a metaphor, he guides you in your own personal journey toward excellence. You can learn how to
• lay a strong foundation by developing a mission, vision, principles, and standards;
• recognize five pillars of performance that map a clear path toward excellence;
• assemble a roof that allows you to measure your progress at the organizational, team, and individual levels; and
• improve your ability to lead yourself and others toward excellence.

By applying the model in five diverse environments—an organization, a team, a church, a family, and an individual life—Crouch demonstrates its effective use for any endeavor. He also applies his model for excellence to a sixth environment—the United States of America—revealing some interesting considerations.

Build a life of joy, peace, significance, and fulfillment for yourself and those around you with The Excellent Experience.

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The Day of the Lord, Second Edition

The Day of the Lord, Second Edition
An Exegesis of the Book of Revelation and Other Apocalyptic Scripture
By Louis Diedricks

Published: 8/18/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) What's This
Pages: 122
ISBN: 978-1-47599-802-3
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

The Day of the Lord, Second Edition once again investigates the Bible’s apocalyptic texts and reveals flaws in current interpretations, helping readers to clarify the ties between the Bible’s prophecies of the end of days and events unfolding in contemporary culture. Author Louis Diedricks harvests the fruits of years of biblical study and of his reflections on current events in explaining the day of the Lord.

After providing a forewarning of intense imagery and descriptions in the Bible’s apocalyptic texts, The Day of the Lord devotes most of its chapters to intensively examining the Bible’s Revelation. Several chapters also focus on end-time portions of the Old Testament’s Daniel. In the end, The Day of the Lord affords readers with the insights needed to make choices about whether they wish to believe in God’s Word and live a prudent and just life, or whether they wish to not believe in God’s word, so that they may live for their flesh, resulting in immoral and unjust works.

If you have harbored curiosity—and perhaps even fear—about what the Bible really says about the end of days, or if you have wondered about the meaning of the events unfolding in the world today, then The Day of the Lord can guide you to making sense of the present day in light of the Scriptures’ witness to God’s plans.

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Quarter Note Tales #4

Quarter Note Tales #4
An Axel Crochet Trilogy
By Arthur Wenk

Published: 9/13/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) What's This
Pages: 280
ISBN: 978-1-49170-319-9
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Once again Axel Crochet, bearded musicologist-at-large, stumbles into murderous intrigue amid church politics and academic amphigory, where tempers run so high because the stakes are so low.

In “Cat’s Paw,” Axel is convinced by a colleague at Pittsburgh’s Monongahela University to investigate the sudden death of the university organist, putting both his academic position and his life in jeopardy. In “The Carcassonne Codex,” Axel attends a professional meeting in Minneapolis. He soon finds himself thrust in the middle of a murderous plot after he is handed a pill bottle by a hotel housemaid and becomes suspicious about the death of a noted medievalist. In “If Thine Eye Offend Thee,” Axel begins a new position as music director at a wealthy church where abuses by the rector have alienated the congregation and evoked calls for his removal. Axel encounters a warm welcome from the choir, but hostility from the sinister senior warden.

In this trilogy of murder mysteries, a curious musicologist with a propensity for attracting mayhem must overcome professional jealousies, evil plots and bizarre chains of events.

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Rise, Rise, Dark Horses of American Noir

Rise, Rise, Dark Horses of American Noir
A Postmodern Mystery
By Ventana

Published: 11/22/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files)
Pages: 246
ISBN: 978-1-49170-810-1
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Recently drummed out of a prestigious local university and its forensic research laboratory for blowing the whistle on pillars of the community, Dr. Cornell Westerly is a promising forensic scientist with a brand-new diploma and a California license plate. He’s an apprentice crime scene investigator in need of a steady job to pay the rent. Westerly, an expert in DNA analysis, finds that opportunity with Detective Dash Brogan of the Los Angeles Police Department, a man steeped in the hard-boiled, old-school police procedurals of bygone times. Together, they take on some of the city’s most heinous crimes, including Westerly’s first gruesome case involving eight hanging children. Rise, Rise, Dark Horses of American Noir follows this young, fresh-out-of-college protégé as he braves the notorious mean streets of the City of Angels in search of redemption, love, and forensic truth. In blending the innocence of youth with the verve, grit, and pluck of the classic crime novel, author Konrad Ventana pays homage to the dark horses of Chandler, Hammett, Woolrich, and Spillane while exploring the depths of human depravity.

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Cologne No. 10 for Men

Cologne No. 10 for Men
By Richard Morris

Published: 2/13/2007
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover
Pages: 216
Size: 6x9
ISBN: 978-0-59542-431-3
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

“A Superb novel of the Vietnam war, a novel that compares favorably with those earlier 'dark humor' war novels such as CATCH-22 and M.A.S.H. The writing crackles with authenticity."
- Writers Digest

“A funny and serviceable satire about the gross rationalizations that propel war and peace."
- Kirkus Reviews

“I love the way Wilfred recycles the bodies. That's fabulous stuff with a direct line to Heller's Catch-22 and perfectly captures the insanity of the Vietnam War."

- Richard Peabody, Editor of Gargoyle Magazine

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Black Warriors: The Buffalo Soldiers of World War II

Black Warriors: The Buffalo Soldiers of World War II
Memories of the Only Negro Infantry Division to Fight in Europe during World War II
By Ivan J. Houston, with Gordon Cohn

Published: 3/10/2011
Format: E-Book (available as PDF, ePub, and Mobi files)
Pages: 244
ISBN: 978-1-93623-641-1
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Numbering 4,000 select officers and men, Combat Team 370 was part of n Europe during World War II the 92nd Infantry Division, the only all-Negro division to fight in Europe during World War II. In Black Warriors: The Buffalo Soldiers of World War II, author Ivan J. Houston recounts his experiences, when, as a nineteen-year-old California college student, he entered the US Army and served with the 3rd Battalion, 370th Infantry Regiment, 92nd Division of the US Fifth Army from 1943 to 1945.

Drawn from minute-by-minute records of the unit’s activities compiled by Houston during his deployment in Italy, this account describes both the historic encounters and the achievements of his fellow black soldiers during this breakthrough period in American military history. It tells of how the Buffalo Soldiers fought alongside other American troops, including Japanese Americans and soldiers from Great Britain, Brazil, South Africa, and India.

With photos and maps included, Black Warriors: The Buffalo Soldiers of World War II provides a compelling, firsthand account of the segregated Buffalo Soldiers’ experiences while they fought not only the power of the Nazi war machine but also racism and the widely held belief they were not up to the task. Their achievements prove otherwise.

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Harvest

Harvest
By Clarke Wallace

Published: 3/27/2008
Format: Dust Jacket Hardcover
Pages: 394
Size: 6x9
ISBN: 978-0-59570-556-6
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

American writer Jake Bauer faces an ultimatum from his agent: stay in a Paris apartment and don't venture outside until he finishes his latest book. But Alice should have known better than to expect Bauer would follow orders. Instead, he stops in London and enjoys an evening of lighthearted debauchery before sobering up aboard a houseboat moored in the Thames. It's then he meets Tessa, a French woman who delights him with her charm, beauty, and wit. In a moment, she's gone, and it's up to Bauer to track her down. But at what cost?

When he finds her, Bauer discovers Tessa is not all she appeared to be. She's also suspected of being involved in a murder.

The best of Europe, wine, and romance make Harvest a thrilling mystery full of surprises.

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The Tears of War

The Tears of War
By Ingeborg E. Ryals

Published: 11/9/2012
Format: E-Book
Pages: 178
ISBN: 978-1-47593-275-1
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

The small village in Pomerania in northern Germany provided a peaceful haven for the childhood years of author Ingeborg E. Ryals. But in 1939 the beginning of World War II irrevocably changed her idyllic life.

In this memoir Ryals shares her first hand experiences as the war began to affect every aspect of her life. At the age of fifteen, she had to dig trenches behind the front lines and spent many days hiding in fear of the Soviet Army as it invaded and pillaged her village. Diphtheria and typhoid epidemics swept the country. She survived a bout of diphtheria but lingered near death for days on end with typhoid fever. There was little food to sustain them. At the age of eighteen, she was shipped to a labor camp operated by the Russian military on an island in the Baltic Sea. Ryals also recounts her escape and her eventual marriage to an American.

With photos included, The Tears of War narrates a very real story of the tragedy of war. It shows Ryals’ perseverance and her ability to overcome obstacles in an effort to survive.

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142 Wellington Place

142 Wellington Place
By Tim Selvadurai

Published: 8/5/2013
Format: Dust Jacket Hardcover
Pages: 156
Size: 5.5x8.5
ISBN: 978-1-49170-077-8
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Fourteen years after the end of World War II, former RAF fighter pilot Ben Benison gets a frantic phone call from Celia, the wife of his best friend, Don. It seems Don has been unfaithful, and the proof stands in the hallway of the couple’s home: Ada Hamilton, a young, fragile, pregnant girl who clutches love letters written in Don’s hand. Unfortunately, Don is in London, and Celia wants Ben to find out if her husband truly is a liar and a cheat.

Ben heads up to London to confront his old friend and then returns to Celia’s house to deliver the sad news that Don has admitted to the affair. But then things take a strange and sudden turn. Two police inspectors arrive minutes later and reveal that Don’s body has been found in his rooming house at 142 Wellington Place. Whether his death was by suicide or murder, they can’t—or, more accurately, won’t—say.

The authorities open up an inquest into Don’s death, and Ben accompanies the police back to London, where they interview witnesses and gather evidence. Tracking down Don’s mistress complicates things and there is a great twist when a second “Miss Hamilton” turns up. Something is certainly rotten at 142 Wellington Place.

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Exposed

Exposed
A Collection of Poems
By John McCarthy

Published: 11/22/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files)
Pages: 110
ISBN: 978-1-49170-726-5
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Who are we? Where do we come from? What is our purpose? These questions have been asked throughout our existence. Ever since the first campfire was lit, we have asked ourselves if we could do better. And we have wondered what lies in the future.

Exposed is a collection of poetry written by John McCarthy, first as therapy and then as an outlet for a vast expanse of emotions. His perspective has been shaped by thirty years of police and investigation experience and by being an avid hunter and nature enthusiast. This collection is the culmination of a four-year journey that begins with despair over a broken marriage and ends in redemption. It’s an honest reflection of life’s experiences and of a search for a higher calling.

This poetic journey begins with “Something’s Wrong,” in which two strangers in a long marriage pass each other as life goes by. They know everything about each other, but they do not really know the things that matter—particularly how to say the things that need to be said. The author’s melancholy path takes us through periods of reflection and self-pity, but it closes on a note of hopefulness.

Exposed reveals the poet’s enlightenment and purpose—his love of the mountains and the sea, and inspiration passing through old, lonely country towns that time has forgotten. Experience the world through McCarthy’s eyes and words: the tragic, the sadness, the lonely, the joy, the redemption, and the beauty.

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Health-Care Reform

Health-Care Reform
A Surgeon’s Perspective
By Ashraf A. Hilmy, MD

Published: 11/14/2012
Format: Dust Jacket Hardcover
Pages: 120
Size: 6x9
ISBN: 978-1-47595-229-2
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

In this study, Dr. Ashraf A. Hilmy, with a surgeon’s objective, no-nonsense precision and an unabashed lack of political correctness, dissects the current state of health-care delivery in America. In practice since 1979, he is board certified in surgery, anesthesiology, critical-care medicine, and health-care administration. He received an MBA from the University of Texas, Pan Am with an emphasis on health-care administration. He has served as both chief of surgery and staff at several institutions and has practiced in every scale of facility—solo, partnership, and group practice.

Dr. Hilmy is uniquely qualified to render an informed opinion about health care in the United States. In his professional judgment, there is no question that the current system is faltering and in need of radical reform. No other country in the world spends so much on health care and has so little to show for it.

Written with the layperson in mind, Health-Care Reform offers insightful, well-researched, supported arguments. Though it does not set out to offend anyone, people will be offended—as a portion of the drivers of escalating health-care costs are laid squarely on their shoulders.

Health-Care Reform addresses how health care is delivered in America. By comparing our delivery system to those used around the world, Dr. Hilmy breaks down different cost drivers with anonymous case examples, and finally, offers suggestions for realistic reform.

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Hiker and the Stranger

Hiker and the Stranger
By C. E. Young

Published: 11/22/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files)
Pages: 310
ISBN: 978-1-49170-920-7
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Boaz Hiker—called Bo by his friends—enjoys the trappings of success: a large home in suburban Pennsylvania, a beautiful wife and daughter, and a job controlling other people’s money. Even so, something is missing. Before he can figure out what it is, the world descends into darkness, and Bo begins a perilous journey in the attempt to reunite with his family. Traveling through a bizarre new world, Hiker meets prophets, priests, and pilgrims—and eventually encounters a mysterious, unnamed Stranger with tremendous powers. His only guides are a compass of unsurpassed craftsmanship and his own moral compass. These guides will determine whether he can save his wife, his daughter, and the rest of humanity. In this dramatic, post-apocalyptic tale of good versus evil, one good man must make the right decisions and overcome obstacles to save the world. If he doesn’t, a fallen angel will rule over a dark and evil world. Cover illustration by Billie Michael

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Flights of Fancy

Flights of Fancy
A Book of Poetry, Prose, and Imaginative Short Stories
By Bernadette Bland

Published: 2/24/2011
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover
Pages: 64
Size: 6x9
ISBN: 978-1-45028-452-3
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Life is filled with emotional highs and lows. Riding the wave of this experience is part of living, but for poet Bernadette Bland, dreaming was even more important. No matter the attitude, mood, or circumstance, Ms. Bland has always believed in the beauty of life. Never to be deterred from her heart’s desire, she has ridden her own life wave with an eye to her dreams and an eye to the beauty of nature.

In her new poetry collection, Flights of Fancy, Ms. Bland shares her imagery with the outside world. She delves into the lavish splendor of nature in “Drifting Grace: God’s Art Show.” She peers behind the protective mask of a weeping clown in “Behind the Mask.” She recalls watching her mother slowly grow old in the poignant “Mama.” In all her words, she reveals her deepest yearnings and fears with selfless honesty.

Flights of Fancy is an example of an imagination set free. Ms. Bland fills her poetry with wonder and will leave you longing to step out into the sun. She is not afraid to depict the sometimes traumatic rollercoaster of life; yet she encourages us to move on, move up, and not look back. Within every word, she calls to the reader, challenging each one of us to never stop dreaming!

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Among Hibiscus and Roses

Among Hibiscus and Roses
A Retired Nurse’s Memoir
By Sun-Hae Kim

Published: 10/10/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files)
Pages: 308
ISBN: 978-1-49170-276-5
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

A few years ago, Sun-Hae Kim met a female student at a British museum who was studying medieval women’s social activities. She was unable to find information from women at that time because they didn’t leave much in written form. She then looked around for some nurses’ autobiographies and again found very little information available, even by Florence Nightingale. In response to this lack of personal writing from nurses, she presents Among Hibiscus and Roses, an account of her years as a nurse.

She tells of the challenges of being an army nurse and of the fun times with her fellow nurses. She approached each new challenge with expectation and the hope that she would be helping more people. When she immigrated to the United States, she faced new cultures, languages, and social life; she met many new and interesting people. Throughout her transition, she was filled with wonder and excitement for her new life.

Most importantly, she recounts the challenges and rewards of being a nurse for over thirty-seven years, in both South Korea and the United States. She lived proudly a life that was not old fashioned and yet still proved she could be happy and healthy without indulging in drugs, alcohol, sex, and gambling.

Sharing the too-often-unheard story of a nurse, Among Hibiscus and Roses describes a unique and out-of-the-ordinary life journey.

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In the Trough

In the Trough
Three Years on Ocean Station
By Thomas F. Jaras

Published: 10/27/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files)
Pages: 340
ISBN: 978-1-49170-654-1
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

A few months out of college, followed by a sixteen-week course on how to be a naval officer, author Thomas F. Jaras found himself standing bridge watches on the USS Vance in the middle of nowhere, providing navigational aid for aircraft flying to the polar ice. Now, almost fifty years later, Jaras recalls the three years he spent aboard the Vance in the 1960s, on the ramparts of the Cold War.

In his memoir, In the Trough, Jaras attempts to understand his love-hate relationship with the USS Vance, an insignificant radar picket ship that supported Operation Deep Freeze in the Antarctic Ocean for a year and then spent two years on the Pacific Distant Early Warning Line. He describes life on an endurance ship afloat in midocean, battling eighty-foot walls of water crashing over the bridge.

In the Trough chronicles Jaras’s transition from a boy to man as he dreamed of life ashore during long weeks at sea that were punctuated by short, intense visits to terra firma. Young, inexperienced, and naïve, he feared the best years of his life were being wasted at sea. He searched desperately for women, love, and a normal existence while ashore for precious short stints in Tahiti, New Zealand, Tasmania, Australia, Japan, and Hawaii. Despite three stressful, unhappy, and difficult years at sea, Jaras acknowledges a tearful departure but promised himself to never go to sea again.

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A Spiritual Life

A Spiritual Life
Man’s Greatest Challenge
By Rebecca Spiers

Published: 6/30/2009
Format: Dust Jacket Hardcover
Pages: 116
Size: 5.5x8.5
ISBN: 978-1-44015-195-8
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Join Rebecca Spiers on a personal journey, which begins with her days as an innocent child in awe of God’s wonders to her time as an adult eager to learn more about spirituality. Rebecca’s faith in the power of God was confirmed at a young age. While working at a nursing facility, she began to suffer from back pain and wasn’t sure what to do until she saw a church sign that read: “Healing Sessions are on Thursday evenings at 7 p.m.” She gave it a try, and her pain went away. This was just the first of many miracles she’d witness as she moved closer to God. Just like Rebecca, you also can begin a spiritual journey of your own. This book will help you: • Develop faith • Pray and reach out to God • Interpret the Bible • Find the courage to abstain from sin • And much more! Move closer to the Lord and contribute to changing the world through peace and faith as you take steps to live A Spiritual Life.

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The Truth Is...

The Truth Is...
By Monique Antoinette

Published: 6/9/2011
Format: E-Book (available as ePub and Mobi files) What's This
Pages: 116
ISBN: 978-1-46201-644-0
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

This book is a collection of poem that really sincerely express how I view my life, this world, and the people in it.

I dedicate this book to the future. The future of America. The future of the world. The future of every boys and every girl. I also dedicate this in loving memory of falling soldiers do to the war in Iraq, the tsunami and the hurricanes. As well as, my guarding angels Aunt Jessie Mae, Aunt Henrietta Aunt Lucile Mrs. Mildred, Dean Goldsby, Cousin Dorothy Mae, Mome, Daddy Hoesa and, Ronnie. I miss ya’ll so much but I thankful for everything you ever taught me. And to their family and friends reading this book, I pray that supernatural blessings rain down on your lives for years to come. Amen

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A Toothfully Twisted Summer

A Toothfully Twisted Summer
By Ellen Cappello

Published: 6/28/2013
Format: E-Book
Pages: 132
ISBN: 978-1-47599-186-4
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Magnolia Bloomgarden is not excited about spending her summer vacation in Tooth Kingdom working as a fairy for the family business. She couldn’t care less about getting wings, learning to fly, or sprinkling magic dust, especially because she has to leave her best friend, Sun, behind. But all of that is about to change when she realizes Sun’s family is being pursued by dark fairies who need just one thing to survive: teeth.

Magnolia is worried about what will happen to Sun and her family if she does not warn them that the evil fairies are loose in the mortal world. But before she can caution them that the fairies have potentially found a way to open their portal, Magnolia is led to the Tooth Kingdom by her uncle. There she soon discovers a perfect, happy world overshadowed by the threat of dark fairies who want nothing more than to destroy the peaceful kingdom. As the fairies make their presence known, Magnolia embarks on a dangerous journey to save both her kingdom and Sun’s family from their sinister clutches.

In this children’s fantasy tale, a tooth fairy-in-training must summon the courage to battle dark forces as a portal slowly opens and frees what everyone in Tooth Kingdom has always feared.

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SpiritPath

SpiritPath
By Pat Patterson

Published: 4/17/2012
Format: E-Book
Pages: 1
ISBN: 978-1-46978-506-6
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

When Arizona ranch owner, Adam Blake, falls in love with Priscilla WhiteCloud, sister of his Navajo foreman, the catalyst for the terrible consequences of their union is set in motion. Amid the historical and political background of the American Southwest in the early to mid-1900's, SpiritPath paints a fascinating picture of the world of that time, encompassing events leading to World War1, the pursuit of the Mexican bandit, Pancho Villa, after his murderous raids on American soil, the horrendous conditions of the Mission directed Indian schools, the fledgling aeronautics industry, the 1929 Stock Market Crash, coinciding with the Government mandated Stock Reduction Plan, so devastating to the herding culture of the Navajo People. Compelling love stories, interwoven with diverse yet profound values, both Anglo and Navajo, evolve as the children and grandchildren of Adam and Priscilla, seek resolutions to their personal conflicts and discover their individual paths to enduring love and spiritual harmony.

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Drumming Up Dialogue

Drumming Up Dialogue
The Dialogic Philosophies of Martin Buber, Fred Iklé, and William Ury Compared and Applied to the Babukusu Community of Kenya
By Patrick Wanakuta Baraza

Published: 7/25/2011
Format: E-Book (available as PDF, ePub, and Mobi files)
Pages: 420
ISBN: 978-1-46201-621-1
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

If, as they say, we all come out of Africa, then somewhere in Kenya’s Rift Valley we first learned to live as human beings and we quickly learned to quarrel, too. Migration patterns within Kenya are as complicated as any in the U.S. or Europe and its multi-ethnic history is much, much longer. Fr. Baraza, knows both the brightness of human progress in a peaceful countryside as well as the shadows left by war and fighting. He writes about how to resolve conflicts and difficulties by people who have had long life experience.

Drumming Up Dialogue applies the thinking of three leading writers in the field of conflict management to the Bukusu community of Kenya: philosopher Martin Buber, political scientist Fred Charles Iklé, and cultural anthropologist William Ury. These three theorists address the creating of peace between individuals, between opposing factions, and between countries and cultures.

Drumming is a traditional Bukusu way of communication. Fr. Baraza uses the drum as a metaphor for the different ways dialogue can be used and interpreted. Baraza presents one of the very few studies of culture of the Bukusu people and the only one to address dialogue through their religions. Based upon the personal experiences and Baraza’s ongoing contact with his Bukusu people, Drumming Up Dialogue seeks to awaken us to the cultural values of the Bukusu and offer an alternative way to conflict resolution.

Hilary Martin, PhD, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA

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