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The Last Writer : Cameron Nickels
The Last Writer
Tranquility. In a world balanced between Biological and Technological needs, tranquility had become the goal of both humans and their artificially intelligent partners; and there was a high price to pay for upsetting it.
Dissenters had been rooted out, imagination and creativity had been voted out and the once clearly defined roles of both the Biologics and the Technos had been blurred to the point that recognizing one from the other was as difficult as seeing the difference in the real and artificial grass surrounding the featureless buildings of the new world order that both man and machine had built.
Surviving in a world where every artificial flower in this Garden of Reason was watching would not be easy; recording the truth would be even more difficult; finding out who you really were, almost impossible. And what would happen to Tranquility if you did? What price would you pay if you were the Last Writer?
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The Weight of it All : Kathryn Rishoff
The Weight of it All
Wealthy, beautiful, triathlete, happily married, mother-of-two. Lyndsey Watkins leads an enviable life, until one Sunday afternoon when laden with packages, she is taken from a mall parking lot.
When her bloody clothes are found in the hills above Malibu California everyone assumes her dead. Ten months after having gone missing, Lyndsey is dumped at a park unrecognizable to anyone who knew her before the kidnapping.
Everyone keeps asking the same question—why? Why Lyndsey?
A thought provoking page-turner, The Weight of it All explores our society’s preoccupation with physical beauty, the media’s role in establishing impossible ideals, and the relevant issues of bullying in the cyber era. It also examines one woman’s desperate journey back to herself and the family she is determined not to lose, the weight of it all, sometimes too much to bear.
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The Extraordinary Journey of J.J. Pips by J.J. Pips
The Remarkable Story of a Young British Bulldog
J.J.’s life is turned upside down when his beloved brother is dognapped and sets off to rescue him on what will become the adventure of a lifetime.
One day, without warning, his life is turned upside down when his beloved brother, Arty, is dognapped by a press gang.
Armed with nothing more than loyalty and determination, J.J. quickly sets off to rescue Arty on what will become the adventure of a lifetime.
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On Life : Don Avila
On Life: Life Stories and Insights on Living: 14 Men Share Their Journeys
In “On Life: Life Stories and Insights on Living – 14 Men Share Their Journeys,” author Don Avila gleans many profound lessons and life experiences from men who have traveled the path before us.
How does a young man who joins the merchant marines become a successful entrepreneur at the height of the computer revolution? What insights on living can we find from a nuclear physicist who was on the front row seats during the atomic age? How does a man survive being trapped in a prison kitchen during an inmate riot? How does a man overcome a physical disability to become a champion coach?
The true life stories these men share come laced with lessons learned through experience, hardship, love, life and adventure, that can be applied in the life of anyone seeking to find a more successful way to navigate their own journey through life.
We invite you to explore these pages and take in the adventures, lessons and insights of a group of men, at once remarkable and ordinary, who have much to share.
Get ready to be entertained, enlightened and inspired.. as you get a first hand peek into the lives of fourteen remarkable men.
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Tom the Good Luck Black Cat : Kirk Aurandt
Tom the Good Luck Black Cat
A baseball short story for young readers.
Relive the 1925 World Series between the Washington Senators and the Pittsburgh Pirates with a black cat named Tom, as he overcomes adversity to help the Pittsburgh Pirates fight their way back from the brink of elimination to win their second World Series Championship in team history.
Inspired by a true story. Ages 5-10. 42 pages. A great book for young baseball fans.
Teachings of a Shaman : Corey Stultz
Teachings of a Shaman: A Story of Deliverance & Redemption
Teachings of a Shaman is a heartwarming story about a troubled youth who’s taken in and nurtured back to health by an elderly Navajo medicine-man; it’s a coming-of-age story chock-full of humor, adventure, and magical realism.
When Dwayne Rader gets caught stealing to support his heroin habit, a judge mandates he complete a drug treatment program in Arizona, but on his second day there, he’s accidentally knocked unconscious and abandoned by his group in the middle of the desert!
When he comes to, sheer terror floods through his body! He has no food, no water, and no idea where he is. Although his demise seems inevitable, he’s rescued in the nick of time by a Navajo shaman named Rising Water. But when Rising Water asks what his name is, he doesn’t know; he can’t remember!
Sympathetic of Dwayne’s dilemma, Rising Water insists he live with him until his memory returns. The pair of them bond almost immediately, and soon, a father-son relationship develops. In his new role, Rising Water proudly mentors Dwayne, and Dwayne absorbs his teachings like a sponge!
Ultimately, he proves to be such an amazing prodigy that Rising Water makes him a shaman, and bestows upon him the unfathomable powers that accompany the all-important title — powers that he must master very quickly! For there’s no way anyone could’ve anticipated the life-or-death situation that’s awaiting him just around the corner!
* Teachings of a Shaman is a proud recipient of the renowned READERS CHOICE FIVE STAR AWARD! Buy your copy now!
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The Man From South Sudan : Deng Atak Ken
The Man From South Sudan
My name is Deng Atak Ken. I was born in Aweil, Sudan, in January 1981, before the separation of South Sudan on July 2011.
This book tells of the struggles, hardship and triumphs of myself and my family growing up in South Sudan.
I witnessed our family as strong and awesome until the second Sudanese civil war, which started in April 1983 and reached our State in North Bahr el Ghazal, particularly Aweil North.
The civil war was between the central Sudanese government and the Sudan people,s Liberation Army. It was virtually a continuation of the first Sudanese civil was from 1955 to 1992.
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A Ball’s Game: Baseball : Stefan Mathis
A Ball’s Game: Baseball
This is the story of a baseball that comes to life at a major league stadium. Bennie the Talking Ball explains the game of baseball from his point of view. From the first pitch to the last out of the game Bennie shares fun baseball facts. And there’s a post game Rock and Roll concert that may add to the laughter and hijinks of the story.
What happens when a talking baseball, rock and roll music, and a Major League baseball game come together. A day filled with laughter and mayhem. Join Bennie the “Talking Baseball” as he takes the reader thru the most unlikely game ever played. It’s nine innings of Major league Baseball at its best.
Witty, and funny. Sure to be a hit with kids. Being short (64 pages) and easy to read will also keep their attention. Adults will love the heartwarming story line. But it’s not all giggles, there are also a lot of baseball facts. Some of the things a reader will learn from this story are: 1) how/where Major League baseballs are made, 2) how to get a professional ball of your very own, and 3) what are the things a ball must go thru in the course of a game.
You need not be a baseball expert to enjoy this story. Bennie breaks down “The Grand Ole Game” in simple, easy to understand language. Available in print or ebook formats. Enjoy.
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Time, for a change : Adam Eccles
Time, for a change
Terry Ward is a lonely, sarcastic, and utterly burnt-out IT project manager. He’s in a dead-end rut with his job and his life. Sound familiar? Time for a change.
When clearing out his late-father’s workshop in the wild west of Co. Clare, Ireland, he finds a box full of mysteries. It leads him on a nostalgic voyage of discovery through his long forgotten past.
Can a journey through the past help him with his future? Will he complete his most technical and challenging IT project on time? What unexpected benefits could possibly come from a cloud-security startup in Columbus, Ohio?
Technology, toilet-humour, the occult and rural Ireland combine into an hilarious tale of self-discovery and realisation.
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The Conspiracy of the Ravens : Nelson McKeeby
The Conspiracy of the Ravens: A biomythographic metafictional hypernarrative
It is not to unusual when a dying author sits down to pen his last book.
What makes it unusual is when the book is about Rains-a-Lot, the warrior who ate Thomas Custer’s Heart, Ivy d’ Seille, a child soldier and veteran of the French Resistance, Dr. Kelle Brainerd, holder of three Ph.D.s in Reality Physics, and a purple 1957 Chevy holding the spirit of a New Orleans Macumba from the 19th century.
What makes it even more unusual is that McKeeby, as his brain is destroyed by constant epileptic seizures, follows the characters in his book to a magical land and forms a conspiracy with a group of magical ravens to propel the characters forward across the land, hoping that the story will be completed before he suffers the ultimate fate of brain damage and death.
Throw in to this a sinister corporation, rumors of a war brewing across time, a undead master of time named Darkness, Janis Joplin caught in a time loop, the rock band the Portals, and the powerful bipolar Queen of Fire and Ice, and you have a book that a marginally famous person speaking under the influence said was “ten pounds of crazy in a five pound sack,”, a popular government official said after reading the book “everything that is wrong with the 420 movement,” and a homeless veteran living near the 405 overpass in Glendale said, “makes perfect sense to me.”