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The Sober Journey, A Guide to Prayer and Meditation in Recovery: Dirk Foster
Sobriety is The Gift. Serenity is The Goal.
After many years of addiction that resulted in depression, financial ruin and a near-death experience, Dirk Foster managed to finally get sober. However, long-term serenity and emotional sobriety proved to be extremely difficult to achieve. Like many recovering addicts, Dirk needed to discover a way to find lasting peace.
For those who are newly sober or dealing with emotional or spiritual health issues, the quest for serenity can be a difficult challenge. Once someone becomes sober, or rebounds from an emotional crisis, peace of mind becomes an essential part of long-term recovery and spiritual stability. Prayer and meditation are simple, reliable and time-tested methods that can help anyone find contentment, peace and joy.
The Sober Journey: A Guide to Prayer and Meditation in Recovery offers easy-to-follow guidelines for people who are newly sober or just want to improve their mental, emotional and spiritual health.
There are many forms of prayer and meditation in the world. In fact, there are so many choices that it can become overwhelming and confusing. The challenge is finding what works best for each of us as individuals. Prayer and meditation are not one-size-fits-all spiritual tools. Each of us has to find the path that works best, based on our own needs and personalities. The Sober Journey is written with “newcomers” in mind; anyone who is either new to sobriety or new to prayer and meditation and the search for a Higher Power and a productive, successful life.
Covers a Wide Variety of Topics Including:
- The importance of prayer and meditation in your recovery (or in the recovery of someone you love)
- The physical, spiritual and mental benefits of prayer and meditation for people new to sobriety
- How to pray in an easy and effective manner
- How to incorporate simple meditation techniques into your daily life
- How to develop a personal understanding of a Higher Power working in your life
- How to find peace and serenity, especially in the early stages of recovery
The Sober Journey: A Practical Guide to Health, Nutrition and Fitness in Early Sobriety , Polluted! My Sober Journey and Sobertude by Dirk Foster are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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True Course : Brigid Johnson
Lessons From a Life Aloft
From award-winning, best-selling author Brigid Johnson comes the tale of how one woman’s life in the sky forged an unforgettable destiny.
Raised in a small factory town in the 1960s, when aviation was predominantly a male profession, with parents who didn’t support her ambitions, Brigid nevertheless learned to fly. Hers was a busy life of setting limits and learning philosophies of growth and risk well beyond her years, even as she juggled two jobs, college, and a rescue Siberian husky whose wandering spirit put her own to shame.
From first solo to an airline career, and finally a decision to hang up her wings for another profession when her elderly father needed her care, Brigid captures with understanding, humor, and grace the moments that change the path of our lives.
With lyrical expression of her love for flight, she writes old and new stories of family, adventure, and the thrill of taking to the sky.
True Course is more than a memoir or a story of the lure of aviation—it’s a story of learning to let the spirit soar and unfurling the wings of personal freedom, an inspiration to adventurers everywhere.
“The writing is mesmerizing. She has created aviation writing as poetic and lyrical as that of Saint-Exupéry.” J.A. Schneider: best-selling Author & former writer at Newsweek.
Small Town Roads and Saving Grace by Brigid Johnson are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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Kitties Don’t Eat Quesadillas : Patty Adams Martinez
…And 24 other things finicky felines won’t even touch—let alone swallow
In this picture book, Izzy the cat explains why kitties don’t eat quesadillas (Too ooey! Too gooey!)—and 24 other A-to-Z things this finicky feline won’t even consider swallowing (and one she happily will).
Picky-eater Logan, age 6, thought maybe his picky-eater cat Izzy would like quesadillas, like him.
When his mom said, “Kitties don’t eat quesadillas,” he said, “that would make a good book title!” So they worked on it together, with all illustrations done by Logan, now 7.
Many kids (especially those in our special-needs community) have very—ahem—discerning palettes that their caregivers have to learn to understand.
Logan and Patty hope this book will start those conversations of why being picky isn’t always a choice.
50% of proceeds will go to animal rescues.
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The Stolen Dream : John Devaney
Men’s Australian Football 1951-1986
The book examines a period when football underwent a seismic and ineradicable change brought about by the determination of the Victorian Football League to wrest control of the game’s development and destiny from the various state controlling bodies and the Australian Football Council.
Whereas the VFL had initially been the first among equals, it gradually assumed the role of the sole and undisputed guardian of the code. The AFC, once football’s ostensible national controlling body, became an irrelevance.
Instead of a national sport with a national remit, we ended up with an expanded VFL with a majority of Victorian member clubs supplemented by a token sprinkling of teams from interstate.
Such teams were in most cases created from scratch and could in no way be said to derive directly from the states’ unique and distinctive football traditions and culture.
For some, it was a brave new world, but evolution does not inevitably entail improvement.
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My Sinking Heart : Claire Ang
Climate change. It affects you and me. Polar was one of the first to be affected, and it completely turned his life around.
Born in the Arctic, Polar grew up happily surrounded with large pieces of ice he called home. Where he fearfully stands now, is another temporary support before he searches again. Regardless, Polar and his comrade, Sparta, make the best of their lives.
My Sinking Heart touches on the reality and issues faced in our present times and explores the unknown future.
For everyone who has a heart, a mum, a sibling and a friend. For everyone who is living on Earth. When we eventually cease to exist…
What is it that we want to leave behind and what is that really matters?
A short, fictional story that is inspired by real events. It tells of Life, Humanity, Co-existing, Love and Hope.
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The Far-Off Kingdom : Joseph S Samaniego
A young king is tested by forces wishing to conquer his lands – and from rebels within his own kingdom!
Two hundred years after the Gota settled on the Central Continent the world has moved on – but change is coming!
Queen Aiko of the Quarmi Domain wishes to cleanse the world of heretics and the Sile Emperor, Kishtos III, seeks a mythical kingdom of power.
Together they help a usurper regain his family’s throne but the puppet knows the truth. The old gods are never far away when such hatred and evil surround mortals.
Join the Kingdom of Lotcala, the Amazonian Queendom and their new dwarven allies as they battle the forces of evil in an attempt to protect their lands, their people and the mortal world!
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Our Human Herds : Stephen Martin Fritz
The Theory of Dual Morality
Three hundred years ago, if a woman was raped and became pregnant, we’d kill the rapist and spare the unborn child; today we kill the unborn child and spare the rapist. Two hundred years ago Americans fought the British for their freedom; seventy years later they fought each other for the right to own slaves. How can we understand such phenomena?
Our Human Herds introduces a new theory in moral and political philosophy that explains these anomalies and many more. Just as our physical senses of sight, smell and taste evolved to help us navigate our physical environment, our two “social senses” evolved to guide us through our social environment.
These “social senses” manifest themselves in many ways, the most common of which are our political feelings of “liberal” or “conservative” and our economic preferences for “socialism” or “capitalism.” But the theory extends to all areas of human morality, explaining why it was once imperative that a woman be a virgin on her wedding night, or why it could have been considered “right” to deny women the vote.
Understanding our “social senses” allows us to decipher the perplexities of human morality as it has manifested itself throughout history.
The Loss Prevention Officer : Jon Jordan
Have you ever been shopping and felt like somebody was following you, and observing your every move? Have you ever noticed the camera domes scattered along the ceilings of your favorite department store, and wonder who might be operating them, and whether they might be staring at you? Have you ever felt strange getting undressed in a fitting room, and wonder whether someone might be watching you?
Those feelings may be telling you something. They may be telling you that you are being watched by a Loss Prevention Officer.
The Loss Prevention Officer is a thriller that tells the story of Crane Jefferson, a third-year law student at the University of Miami, who takes a job in the Loss Prevention Department at Taylor’s department store.
Through the eyes of Crane, the underground loss prevention world involved in catching shoplifters is explored, a shadow world of violence and perversion that the retail establishment does not want you to know about.
Crane enjoys working in his position, until things go horribly wrong when an innocent man is nearly beaten to death. His position then comes back to haunt him as a storm of vengeance develops, threatening to destroy him and everyone else in its deadly path.
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The Argument : Kenneth Michael Plaisance
Attorney Kenneth Starr’s client, a DNA expert, found out some serious espionage regarding DNA sampling and Labrador Inc. contract with the United States government regarding DNA child support reports against men across the nation.
The reports were false, and the government has a president-elect who’s a dominant lesbian feminist of the liberal party whose objective was to dominate men, through any means necessary, by serious social engineering of men, estrogen in the water and air to make men more effeminate, legislating pro-women criminal and anti-discrimination laws against men, conducting manhunt (witch hunts or warlock hunts), and enslaving men by putting them in jail for failing to pay child support.
All this goes with the mission of feminists as described in the dictionaries. His client went to the Justice Department under the False Claims Act, but the Justice Department, who was also run by a dominant lesbian feminist, hid the file, and Kenneth Starr’s client was found dead in bed.
The journey begins.
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Hornswoggled at Hell Creek : Jack Hazen
The Wild West just got wilder.
A band of eclectic characters pursue and are pursued by a psychotic, cannibalistic, and sexually deviant serial killer in remote 1867 Montana Territory.
Among the pursuers are a beautiful blond paleontologist from Philadelphia, an exotic Arapaho princess, a transgender Pinkerton agent, and various circus performers. A mountain man and owner of a secret gold mine, a very short sheriff who doubles as a circus clown, a paraplegic Irish leprechaun, a sanctimonious fire and brimstone preacher, and the prodigal dog join the parade, among others.
Tasked with keeping each other alive in harrowing situations, they are forced to endure the misogyny, racism, and homophobia of virtual strangers and develop a bond of loyalty despite the danger, disease, and death around every corner. They live by the motto: ‘Don’t give up; don’t ever give up,’ especially when one of them is in the death grip of a giant gator.
The question becomes how many are going to die before justice is served. During the course of the adventure, the paleontologist Lady Hannah Monroe makes monumental scientific discoveries and one objective becomes to get dinosaur fossils Back East to her sponsor Professor Joseph Leidy at the Academy of Natural Sciences. She is a precursor to Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope who waged Bone Wars a decade later in these same badlands that became known as the Hell Creek Formation.
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