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A Father Takes All : Irma Mathis
Four Generations of Growing up in Single Mother Homes–Grace Abounds
A spiritual journey in search of understanding and a mission to discover family roots set the stage for God’s most significant work in the life of one woman.
Success can often be measured by a person’s life chances. And nothing interferes more with life chances than a divorce. When fathers withdraw from their children, they leave them with fewer opportunities to succeed. They also leave wounds deep and wide that can take years to heal. The struggle for survival and achievement is profound.
Growing up fatherless is disconcerting as children learn to navigate their world in a society quick to slap a label on them. From infancy, a child’s identity is framed by his family life, a self-fulfilling prophecy is set in motion. The factors involved are many and varied. The statistics show a high percentage of children growing up in single-parent homes, also grow up in poverty.
The author shares personal stories of the struggles encountered through four generations of women raised without the love, the influence and the support of a father. Discovering four generations of single parenting in her lineage was astonishing. Nonetheless, it was a reality for this author. It’s a curse that she prays will end with the current generation.
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Law of Necessity : James Rhodes
When Cochise County Sheriff Harry Wheeler swore an oath to uphold the law, he never dreamed he would be forced to make the most difficult choice imaginable: strike first or innocent people would be stricken. That decision led to the infamous Bisbee Deportation, which crippled a radical labor union’s progress in the Southwest and sounded the death knell for Wheeler’s law enforcement career.
In the early morning hours of July 12, 1917, an armed “posse comitatus” rounded up two thousand men in the mining town of Bisbee, Arizona. They were marched to a ballpark, where almost twelve hundred of them were loaded onto cattle cars, shipped 176 miles to a remote location of New Mexico, and abandoned in the desert. Law of Necessity recalls the paranoia and violence of a time when the nation was at war with enemies foreign and domestic.
Based on a true story, it examines the courageous struggle of a small-town sheriff, forced to take a drastic measure that remains controversial to this very day. Is it sometimes necessary to break the law to protect lives and property? Read Law of Necessity and decide for yourself.
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Career by Design : Ron Willbanks
A Career Guide to Help Students, Veterans, & Career-Changers Find Their Dream Job and Succeed Once They Find It!
In an ideal world, we would all be divinely inspired at a young age as to what our career calling is and everything we did from that point on would be laser-focused on becoming the best Widgeteer we can be. However, things don’t work out that perfectly in real life. Many of you did not have a wise and all-knowing mentor to help guide you when you were young. After high school, you stumbled, took a detour, and now need a do-over.
Without a career plan, you could hop from one job to another without purpose or aim. As the great Yogi Berra once said, “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” In this book, I provide examples of how people have re-made themselves – both early on and later in life.
Career by Design provides guidance on how to figure out what you want to do with your career and research potential employers to narrow down your job search. Having been a successful RECRUITER early in my career, I provide structure on how to write a resume that pops and tips on how to interview well. Likewise, I offer advice on how to succeed at work, with your co-workers, and with your boss.
I wrote this to be a concise yet practical career-planning guide you can read in a day. If you want a great career you’ll love and that allows you to live the kind of life you want, add this to your toolkit. For about the price of a combo meal at your favorite fast-food restaurant, it can change how you approach your career and how you plan your life.
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Going off Center: Observations from an At-Risk Teacher : Donna Pfannenstiel
The author invites anyone that has ever worked with young people, intends to work with young people, or knows some young people, to travel along on her sojourn into the world of being an at-risk high school teacher.
Take a look at this unique world of academia through her lens. Join her in the ups and downs and the laughter and tears of getting to know her remarkable students, all the while getting to know the profession she has chosen.
Going Off Center employs a little laughter, a little sass, a little sadness, and a lot of reflection of being an at-risk teacher.
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Children Of The Dark Star : Royce R Garner II
It is the story of a teenage boy named Xavier. He was born of mixed human and alien DNA. With his mother being human and his father from the planet of Galatian, his conception brings about interesting consequences for all those involved.
Xavier has always known he was different, and the story picks up when Xavier is just about to turn sixteen. The day before, repercussions of the past show up on his doorstep and he is thrust into a dangerous world with an interesting cast.
This is a constant adrenaline ride, with DNA enhancements and robotic implants making up the attributes of the cast and the clashes are epic!
With constant reminders of the alien traits and the technology they use for combat. This story continuously ups the ante on what is possible. The fantasy of a new world of characters with deep plot twist inspires the story of Children Of The Dark Star.
The story is an action science fiction adventure, with many other elements for all readers to love. Just as in real life, there is love, loss, betrayal, family, power, and intrigue, intertwined in the telling of the story. The aim is to allow you, the reader to immerse yourself into the manuscript, and grow and feel with the characters as they embark on this journey.
Children Of The Dark Star is the first in a series of three books that sets an intense and quickly developing story in motion, that will connect across multiple genres of writing.
Fitly Spoken : Tamara M. Jones
Spoonfuls of Practical Wisdom To Encourage and Inspire You
A dynamic, compact everyday life coaching book designed to inspire and help you to live your best life.
This book is written in a simple and easy to read format that appeals to readers of all ages, looking to live a life of purpose and fulfillment. The content is filled with practical wisdom addressing the “little” things that we often overlook that can hinder our lives in major ways. This book handles “the small foxes that spoil the vine” head-on.
The reader is challenged to take a look at their life as a whole, spirit, soul, and body. Applying the practical counsel found throughout this book from start to finish will move you from complacency to productivity.
This is truly a life-changing book for those who want to live the life that they were created to live above and beyond the norms of average existence.
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Until the Ice Cracks : Jan Turk Petrie
The year is 2068. It begins with an act of audacious mass murder by a seemingly invisible killer – a police ‘decoy’ agent who has gone rogue. Homicide Inspector Nero Cavallo must identify her before she can strike again.
Nero’s investigation takes him and his team into the forbidden areas of the prosperous city-state for the first time. On the seedy fringes of the conurbation, they encounter, Harris, another decoy agent, who patrols the streets as a would-be victim flushing out petty criminals with the aid of his tame pack of genetically altered foxes.
Meanwhile, Bruno Mastriano, a young man hiding his extraordinary telepathic abilities, wanders into the territory of a ruthless gang of rebels. Imprisoning him in a disused factory, they try to recruit him to their ranks.
Set in the divided city of Eldísvík, ‘Until the Ice Cracks’ is a fast-paced, riveting story of survival, loyalty, betrayal and love in a place where the fragile balance between the legitimate and criminal worlds rests on a knife-edge.
Until the Ice Cracks is the first volume of a groundbreaking, futuristic, Nordic noir thriller series set on the edge of the Arctic Circle.
This book should appeal to fans of Margaret Atwood, Jo Nesbo and Peter Hoeg.
Too Many Heroes by Jan Turk Petrie is also on Whizbuzz Books.
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Sons of the Soil : Lucas Dines
The year is 1902. The German war machine and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire loom over Europe as the Great Powers jostle for position in the Balkans.
Jon Ahmeti, a young Albanian man living in Macedonia, is drawn into a web of conspiracy with Macedonian separatists, Greek rebels, and Bulgarian nationalists as he fights for the survival of his family while facing the horrific realities of ethnic cleansing.
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Out of this World Ideas: And the Inventions they Inspired : Edward M. Wysocki, Jr.
Works of science fiction contain many strange and fantastic concepts. Have any of these concepts served as the inspiration for inventions that have been used to solve real-world problems?
Various people have claimed that a particular invention was inspired by a work of science fiction. Out Of This World Ideas looks at a number of cases where such inspiration has been claimed to determine the validity of the claims.
Was a type of holography inspired by a story of the discovery of an alien artifact from the time of the dinosaurs?
Was the Combat Information Center inspired by a story that contained a system used to manage massive battles in space?
Was a problem that arose from the Suez Crisis solved by a device inspired by a story of submarines in a future conflict between Eastern and Western powers?
These are just some of the cases analyzed and presented in Out Of This World Ideas. Also considered are science fiction authors who were able to start with an idea and develop it not into a work of fiction but into an actual invention.
What Has Been Will Be Again : Russell Nickel
The strongest warning Jesus gives to the church deals with the issue of deception. It should be no surprise Satan’s primary goal includes planting seeds of doubt in the minds of people regarding the truth of God’s word. When a person rejects the spiritual truths recorded in the Bible, the end result always leads to deception having eternal consequences.
In Ecclesiastes, Solomon warns all people willing to listen, civilizations have historically struggled with the same types of sins, and people tend to repeat mistakes in life over and over again. Solomon brings up the truth both history and prophecy repeat themselves. Any nation forgetting the mistakes of their past, is doomed to repeat them and fall from within. A key spiritual truth Solomon stresses most fail to recognize, is the cataclysmic events recorded in the Old Testament such as the Flood, the Exodus, and the destruction of Sodom, were literal events meant as prophetic pictures of cataclysms repeating themselves again.
According to Solomon, these events recorded in the Old Testament should not be taken as mere allegorical stories. These stories should be viewed as literal historical events, intended as prophetic warnings of future worldwide catastrophes coming upon the earth. A detailed description of these events is laid out as a warning for all people in Revelation. Jesus warns many people have eyes that cannot see, and ears that are unable to hear. We truly serve a God who loves mankind so much, He goes to great lengths warning all people of the eternal consequences of rejecting the love and grace God freely offers. Most people even in the church, will be shocked when they finally understand the information the Bible is really trying to tell them.
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9
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