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Seeds of Excellence For Teens : Jon Hansen
Seeds of Excellence For Teens: 24 Life Principles For Those Who Want To Stand Out From The Crowd
In a world full of copycats and teenagers trying to blend into the crowd, you will be taught how to explode through barriers of mediocrity and reach new heights of impact and influence at your school, job, and with your family and friends.
The 24 principles taught in this book can be readily and easily applied to your life today. Get ready to stand out from the crowd and become a difference maker!
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Toil and Strife : Mary Brock Jones
Toil and Strife: Hathe Book One and Two
When two opposed worlds fight for survival, what chance have a pair of duty-plagued lovers caught in the middle?
Five long years ago, the Terrans invaded Hathe and life on a once peaceful and wealthy world changed forever. Major Hamon Radcliff is one of those Terrans. He does what he can to mitigate the brutality against the Hathians yet knows their occupation must succeed. Earth cannot survive without the urgonium found only on Hathe.
But all that changes when Hamon falls for a woman of the long-lost Hathian ruling class. He suspects Marthe asn Castre of being an undercover agent, but she’s so much more. She’s a key player in a secret resistance force.
Now Hamon must choose.
Protect the woman he loves and watch millions of his people die.
Or break her, find out what she knows, and save Earth.
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Stay Safe and Travel On : M. Armstrong Jr.
Stay Safe and Travel On
Do you want to travel? Do you like to travel? Is traveling part of your DNA?
This is a book about the love of traveling and staying safe while traveling. It’s a book for anyone who has ever thought about traveling and how to travel safely.
When an accident happens at home, you know how to call for an emergency – but do you know how to in a foreign country? Do you know how to make an international phone call? Do you know the safest place to stay in a hotel? Do you know what to look for when getting into a taxi? Are you aware of the scams in the country you are going to? Do you know how to plan and budget for a vacation?
All these questions and many more are answered in this book to make your traveling a more safe, secure, and fun adventure.
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The Forest Beyond : Christine DeYoung
Two stories blended into one.
On the one side, Charlotte is up against a jealous ex-boyfriend who is determined to disrupt her life and break up her relationship with handsome new guy, Brock.
On the other side, she has an amazing ability to transfer her Spirit into the body of a Native American Osage girl living in the past named Indigo. When she learns Indigo is to marry a warrior named Stomping Bull, Charlotte is torn between her life in the present and wanting to stay in the past.
In 1988, Charlotte is ready to turn 16 and finally have some independence. She also longs to have a steady boyfriend, and when handsome new guy, Brock, comes to town, she thinks he is just the one she has been looking for. But, a jealous ex has other plans and he keeps disrupting her dates making it hard for her to find any happiness.
One day when she is walking with her dog in the forest, she has an out-of-body experience. Her spirit travels back in time into the time when the Osage Nation roamed Arkansas. When she meets her apparent soon-to-be husband, Stomping Bull, she quickly falls in love.
As she goes back and forth between Charlotte’s life and Indigo’s life, it gets harder for her to decide which life she wants to live. Which life will she choose? Which one will be safer?
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Hippies : Gary Gautier
Hippies
By 1970, the hippie scene was faltering, a victim of both inner contradictions and external forces. The Vietnam war resistance, psychedelic drugs, sexual openness, the freedom of the commune – it seemed that everything about the 1960s could be incredibly liberating or wildly destructive.
Against this backdrop, Jazmine, Ziggy, Ragman and a coterie of hippies discover an LSD-spinoff drug that triggers past life regressions. Jazmine, a sweet soul with a hidden past, volunteers to test the “tan acid” and becomes torn between her hippie life and a medieval alter-ego. Ziggy tries to keep her grounded without revealing his own secret. Throw in the snarky bisexual Pepper, Tex Whittaker, Stormy, and the lovable giant, Hoss, and open love and friendships flow along wacky and tragic paths, until things fall apart and the group starts hurtling toward a dramatic climax.
This epic tale of hippiedom is intimate in the lives of its characters but panoramic in its coverage of the sights, sounds, and ideals of the Age of Aquarius. Hippies is well-suited to readers of historical fiction, literary fiction, and anyone interested in the 1960s or the history of countercultural movements.
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Beyond the Rise : Gloria Bucco
Beyond the Rise: Poems of Nature and Love
This is a slender volume of poems, micropoetry, haiku and three short prose pieces each featuring the uniqueness, consequence and simplicity of nature’s beauty. Birds, trees, mountains, rocks, animals and even a mouse are all here.
There are also a few selections about love for those who may have loved and lost.
This is a poetry book for those who say they don’t like poetry. These poems are clear and straightforward… no hidden meanings or confusing word placements.
I want you to enjoy these poems. I want you to smile as you read them.
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Confessions of a Rodeo Clown : Peter Schutes
Confessions of a Rodeo Clown
Rodeo is the toughest sport. It’s savagely violent; even the clowns are made of steel. It’s no surprise the cowboys are strong, deep and brutal in bed. Confessions of a Rodeo Clown is a dark, carnal road trip into the world of the lonesome cowboys and the clowns who love them.
This early (1961) masterpiece by Peter Schutes is one of his finest works of literature, and one of the raunchiest. The story reads like a romance, but the novel itself is pure smut. Shocking for the era in which it was written, the book was banned in the US until the Supreme Court widened its definition of acceptable art. This book is a work of art in every way.
The narrator, Brightie, is a naive young clown. When he meets Cody, the bull rider who makes his heart jump, together they descend into an underground network of sex, domination, and drugs, cushioned only by their mutual love. From motel rooms in Wyoming to bathhouses in Peru, the pair discover the joys of sex without bounds.
Cody struggles to keep his past buried. His colossal endowment harbors a dark secret. When Brightie stumbles into that secret, he is nearly destroyed by it. Only love, patience, and a high tolerance for pain can save the tender relationship these two have forged from bull sweat and arena dust.
N.B. Peter Schutes is a nom de plume for a modern author. His past is fictitious. The books are homages to a style of writing that vanished with the internet: the paperback smut book.
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Survival : Rachel Watts
Survival
Ignorance is cheap. And then it costs you everything.
Perth author Rachel Watts’ latest release delivers a devastating vision of a post-climate change world in which governments have collapsed and corporations rule with an iron fist.
In this world two young women from different backgrounds find themselves unexpectedly aligned in their pursuit for the truth.
The world has suffered economic collapse and multiple environmental crises.
In a flooded city, Ava Murasaki is searching for her activist sister Sophia.
Meanwhile, Valerie Newlin lives in the secure complex of the Scylla Corporation, the world’s only remaining multinational. There, she finds evidence of something horrifying in the Corporation medical research data.
Set in a searingly real near-future, Survival is a story of what people will face for those they love.
Survival is accompanied by four of Watts’ previously published dystopian and post-apocalyptic stories.
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The Case of the Disappearing Amur Leopard : Kirsten Usman
The Case of the Disappearing Amur Leopard (Judge Birdie – Volume 1)
Preservation over profits or profits over preservation? What would you choose?
A lawsuit declaring a new construction project threatens the endangered Amur leopards just landed on Judge Birdie Barringer’s desk. She and the members of the jury hold the fate of the leopards in their hands. One wrong decision and the leopards could disappear from the face of the earth – forever! Obnoxious attorney conduct, haunted secret tunnels and her love for new adventure keeps Judge Barringer living life to its fullest. Time may be running out for the Amur leopards. Will anyone step up to protect them?
Stand up for our endangered species and become a Planet Protector with this illustrated adventure. Included with your purchase is an official Planet Protector Member Log. You will learn facts about endangered species, the United States judicial branch, and United States case law.
Join us in making our planet a better place – one child at a time.
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Gone But Not Forgotten : Jacqueline Brindle
Gone But Not Forgotten
A young couple falls in love and marries. They want to start a family. Their love is strong, and life is wonderful until the fateful day when everything changes.
Is it her fault? Maybe. His fault? Possibly. Does it matter? No. How do they cope? More tragedy befalls the couple. They endure it though, eventually life is great again. They do not walk away from the tragedy unscathed though.
Then the unthinkable happens, how is it possible? Will there ever be peace. When they feel like they cannot go on that is when their inner strength emerges and they persevere. Will there be a happy ending for this brave little family? Perhaps…. but then again perhaps not.
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