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The Untold Stories of a Water Dragon : Carmen Cardashian
The first book in a series about an orphan water dragon named Nesy who was born in a renowned loch in Scotland.
Young readers will love getting to know Nesy as she builds friendships with the animals that live on a nearby farm. As a result of the interactions between these animals, many exciting adventures are born as Nesy learns new tricks and discovers more about the world in which she lives.
More than anything, she wants to learn how to blow fire through her nostrils like her cousin, Alex from Transylvania, who is also a dragon, only he is a Fire Dragon!
Can the animals help our orphaned Water Dragon discover the secret of blowing fire?
You will have to read to find out!
Inspired by the dramatic landscape and folklore of Scotland, my book seeks to illustrate the powerful bond of friendship and the importance of finding a connection to nature and animals.
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Training Your Own Full Potential Service Dog : Lelah Sullivan
This book is dedicated to my Uncle Joseph, who introduced me to the art of dog training more than 50 years ago. He’s been my inspiration all these years!
When I was growing up, some of my relatives raised and trained dogs for the circus (as well as other purposes) and I loved to spend time working with them, learning to train dogs.
One of my uncles used to brag that he could teach an intelligent dog to do anything that was physically possible for a dog to do, and he did some pretty amazing training, even with “average” dogs!
Service dogs as we know them today are a product of our modern life, but dogs have served man in similar ways for eons. It isn’t a new concept.
Although my uncle trained a dog to assist a deaf man when I was a child, I’d not given that much thought to Service Dogs until a decade or so ago when I myself acquired a disability.
I have wonderful family and friends who helped me in the beginning, and they were awesome (although it turns out that there are a couple of things that my Service Dog is able to accomplish more efficiently than a human helper can, due to certain dog senses being more acute than human senses) but it’s more than I want to ask of my two-legged loved ones. I don’t want my disability to affect those I care about any more than it has to.
Anyway, to make this long story shorter and wrap up the “About Me” stuff, I’ll just say that because I now use a Service Dog myself, and because I have a lifetime of dog training experience to share, I am uniquely qualified to write this book.
I believe that everyone who needs (and wants) a Service Dog should be able to have one, so I retired from my Service Dog Training Coach business, started a 501c3 nonprofit, and am focusing on consolidating my lifetime of training experience into books.
If you are training your own Service Dog, this book will help guide you through the process. It starts with the basics, creating a firm foundation to build upon for any type of Service Dog that you may be training.
When you finish the “Basic Foundation Intensive Training Program” included in this book, your dog will have several foundation behaviors that he’ll need in order to do his Work as a Service Dog, as well as one Task that can be customized to the individual for a number of types of disabilities.
Your dog will learn to have good manners in public, and also to conduct himself in a way that will allow him to keep his attention on his Service Dog Work.
I’ll show you how to teach your dog to help you deal with your life challenges, and with this method of training, he will “learn how to learn,” which will make your job of continuing his training even easier!
Note: The method taught in this book can be used to train ANY dog, including pets, to reach their full potential and become awesome, well-behaved companions.
Here is the Facebook Group that I mentor in order to provide additional support for readers of my books: Please join us there!
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Cross Roads: Pick a Path : Janaath Vijayaseelan
Arrun Durai an orphaned common man living his life as a software engineer from Toronto, Canada, had his life in order. He was orphaned but found a family, had the perfect job, and even the perfect girl, Hasini Ravichandran.
All was well up until Hasini suddenly parted ways in his journey, sending him into a spiral of lost control. We follow him on an adventure of growth in darkness.
How does a common man from Canada, end up being a part of a criminal organization in Chennai, India? What led him down this road? What happened to Hasini? Let’s find out what exactly happened at his crossroads.
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Madison’s Horse : Bob Stockton
More Stories from the Old School, Politically Incorrect Navy
“Driving across the Zambales Mountains in a rental car with a diapered pig. A submarine’s up close and personal encounter with a snoozing whale. A dilapidated bread truck forging fearlessly ahead in a blizzard. A beautiful and enigmatic waitress who lived her life on her own terms. An alcoholic horse who refuses to leave a bar. Twelve stories that cover the emotional spectrum from hilariously funny to tragic are found in award-winning storyteller Bob Stockton’s tenth book, Madison’s Horse: More Stories from the Old School, Politically Incorrect Navy.”
Madison’s Horse gives the reader another sampling of retired Chief Petty Officer Bob Stockton’s retrospection from the U.S. Navy spanning three decades of the Cold War and Vietnam War era, where young men went to sea, fought a war and came ashore after long periods at sea to let off steam in the ports of far-off and not so far-off lands.
Grab a cup of coffee, get comfortable and delve into the memories of an old school Navy veteran who has a unique flair for spinning a ripping good story.
150 pages with end-of-chapter illustrations.
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Spirit of Broo: A Book to Sing About : James Palmer
Motivated by greed, Sydney Downe wants to bulldoze a beautiful piece of Australian bushland and turn it into a housing development.
Sensing disaster, the bush dwellers fight to save their home.
Using all their powers and invoking the Dreaming Spirit, Broo leads her fellow creatures and Sydney Downe to a greater understanding.
Spirit of Broo (pronounced ‘brew’) tells a poignant story of the consequences of destruction of habitat on the animals that live there. It’s filled with light-hearted humour and songs, but is no Disney Story.
This beautifully illustrated 32-page family storybook includes an eight-track CD of original songs whose lyrics are part of the storyline. This is of course for the hard copy book
The songs are embedded in the e-book and will play when the ‘play’ icon is clicked.
Originally written by James as a musical for children and performed to thousands of children in Perth, Western Australia, the adaptation to a hard copy book or e-book works well.
The illustrator Owen Bell, a.k.a ‘Omega’, has captured the beauty of the Australian bush and animals in this publication. Owen’s previous works include the original Thomas the Tank Engine illustrations, many children’s books and of course his stunning painted images of wildlife worldwide.
Rocks Don’t Cry : Jaime Bartolotta
I am Nobody. But I have a story to tell. I’ve always heard the adage that to write well, you must write what you know. This story is what I know…
“Something’s wrong with me. I need help. I don’t know who, but I need help.” Thus, punctuated the beginning of my ascent out of the viscid, oppressive tar pits of black goo accrued across my thirty-five-year suffering borne of the dark arts: neglect, emotional and psychological abuse, manipulation, guilt, unrealistic expectation, dysfunction, and ultimate lack of love. What was left behind was a latent cycle of restricted eating, a completely fractured psyche, a ceaselessly stormy sea of repressed emotions, and me desperately searching for the purest love of all – self-love. Floundering in the funk of rock bottom is where Jenn found me, my literal and figurative mischievous imp of a therapist.
Together we traversed the wrecked landscape of abuse, hugged my inner child and rebalanced my damaged chakras in the parallel world of hypnotherapy, exorcised and burned down a dollhouse, broke free from the shackles of Time, embarked on a galactic mission to retrieve pieces of my soul, painstakingly glued each shattered shard of me back together, and laughed our way through every nasty bit of it.
Braiding memoir with an empowering guide to awareness, Rocks Don’t Cry is not just another stranger’s story because it aims to draw you in, enveloping you to become a part of the story, because ultimately the story behind the story is about you. How, you ask? Well, let me tell you what I know…
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Quantum Cannibals : Nathan Elberg
A genre-bending novel that weaves intersecting narratives that span time, from Bronze Age Mesopotamia to a Post-Modern city-state.
It’s the epic story of three incarnations of two people- alternately son and mother, husband and wife, father and daughter, savage and scholar, who simply want to return to the home they were brutally evicted from.
Osnat and her husband have been exiled to a frozen wasteland along with the rest of the Eber people. Facing starvation, they are brutally assaulted by savages.
A transgender shaman adopts Osnat after butchering her husband. Previously an eminent quantum biologist, Osnat knows she is stuck with the savages. Amid her grief and hatred, she realizes she must become one of them in order to save the remains of her people. Terrified by her own behavior she goes to war, armed with bone knives and improvised nuclear weapons. As she makes a new home for her family and people, she discovers that paradise is the place she previously thought of as hell.
Saima, a northern savage, has been brought across the barrier from the cold, primitive Edge of the World to the high-tech but effete Modern Age. At first, life here seems pleasant: plentiful food, warm houses, and casual sex. However, he isn’t here to fix machines, but on a mission to take back from this world what its ancestors stole when they sent the Ebers away.
In the bucolic Bronze Age, the chieftain Taiku, prepares for an epic confrontation. Rumors have been building of a vast army led by a pious, bloodthirsty conqueror. Taiku turns to Asenath, the wise leader of the Ebers, as he tries to unite the disparate, squabbling tribes of the region.
Quantum Cannibals brings together authentic cultures from Melanesia, Siberia, Europe, the Americas, and more. Drawing on history, anthropology, quantum science and authentic mysticism, this ambitious tale will inspire, horrify, amuse and entertain readers.
Harry and the Pelican – Coloring Book: Amy Leaf
This is the coloring book companion to Harry And The Pelican.
Color the illustrations, while following the story of Harry And The Pelican.
Harry visits his grandpa. Harry’s cousins decide to walk to the lighthouse. Harry decides he can make it to the lighthouse, too. Along the way, Harry meets a new friend and sees many of nature’s treasures. Harry has a great day!
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Lost & Found : Uncle Bounce
Xavier Steele lives an unhappy childhood on a Georgia farm under the yoke of a hateful single father. He seems plain and poor, but he carries a secret kept closely guarded: he is not normal, possibly not even human.
Puberty, which has always been complicated for normal humans, soon manifests in Xavier with inhuman developments and life-altering hazards.
When his past launches into the present, Xavier must fight to discover himself and to not be destroyed by the immense legacy being thrust upon him.
Lost & Found is the first book in the “Crown of Roses” series, written and published by author Uncle Bounce.
Lost & Found is an erotic science-fiction novel with unorthodox coming-of-age and romance elements. This book’s story takes place in a fairly realistic 2010-ish rural setting. Science fiction elements are introduced gradually and lay an elaborate groundwork for the series, which will develop beyond Earth and into an erotic space-opera.
Note: The novel includes graphically described scenes, some of which are violent and sexual.
Song of the Avatar: Visual Riffs on the Bhagavad Gita : Gary Whitney
A book for anyone who has ever taken a hatha yoga or meditation class and might have an interest in learning about the philosophy behind these practices.
This book is a graphic novel style introduction to The Bhagavad Gita, one of ancient India’s most sacred texts, which deals with the different yogic paths that ultimately lead to Spiritual Enlightenment.
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