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Fate Rides a Tall Horse : Gary Church
Fate Rides a Tall Horse: Johnny Black Man and Legend 1869
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Johnny Black is the man chasing down his brother’s killer.
Jake is the good-looking younger cowboy drifting along, trying to find a purpose for his life.
Johnny and Jake both end up in Flat, Texas and quickly become best friends, watching each other’s back and always being there when needed.
Charity is the love interest that comes to Flat to live with her sister and her family.
Baggett is the bad guy who has no scruples and will do whatever it takes to get what he wants, including killing, stealing and looting.
This adventure has soldiers, Indian attacks, bad guys, murder, love, history, and everyday life in the uncivilized early frontier town.
Life is hard but Johnny and Jake always try their best to come out on the winning side, no matter what situations they find themselves in.
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7 Checklist Items for Success : Jean G. Mathurin, M.D.
7 Checklist Items for Success: A Guide to a Richer and More Successful Life
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A U.S. Navy physician shares his secrets for a more successful life in this self-help work.
Mathurin conceived of his debut book when he realized how critical checklists are in the worlds of naval aviation and medicine. Itemized lists, he says, help avoid flight mishaps and operating room errors, so he wondered, “Why not apply this same concept to people’s lives to help them achieve their highest potential?” That epiphany resulted in this book—a kind of instruction manual for living that breaks achievement into seven “checklist items”: “Goals,” “Take Action,” “Courage to Consistently Commit,” “Value Resources,” “Investing in Yourself and Others,” “Giving Back,” and “Create a Legacy of Service to Others.” An introductory section helpfully explains each of the core concepts, in brief, and these same blocks of text are repeated at the beginning of each of seven chapters. The items themselves are unlikely to be new to most readers, as many of the ideas are common in self-help literature (such as “Have the courage to go the extra mile with everything that you do, each and every time”). But the presentation of the material feels more novel, as the overarching checklist concept isn’t taken literally; the book’s merit derives from the idea that one can systematically address several broad areas in the quest for a fuller life. At the very least, this notion gives the book a highly focused structure that makes it easy for readers to navigate.
Unsurprisingly, given the author’s military and medical background, there’s a sense of logic and precision to this book. Each chapter’s content is uniformly positive and always emphasizes proactivity, but it’s also clear that the book isn’t intended to highlight step-by-step procedure. Instead, it offers a wide-ranging, general discussion of each list item, using examples and personal anecdotes to illustrate specific points. To that end, Mathurin writes from a very personal perspective—sharing, for example, how he grew up in poverty in Haiti—and he explains with some eloquence how he used the principles that he lays out in his book to “transform [his] life from famine to abundance.” He writes with a great deal of insight, as well, offering not only accounts of his own experiences, but also the wisdom of others, such as investor Warren Buffett and the late self-help authors Zig Ziglar and Napoleon Hill. Mathurin’s style often takes an inspirational tone, as he exudes a sense of confidence in his approach to life: “Success,” writes Mathurin, “is only ten percent intention and ninety percent action.” About leading others, he writes, “always strive to be the leader you would want to follow; strive to be the calm voice in the midst of the chaos, and—while you are at it—strive to be the change that you want to see.” Finally, Mathurin stresses that you can “lay the path to your legacy by focusing on giving back the acts of kindness you have received along the way.”
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Help Yourself To Success : Jonna Capps
Help Yourself To Success
This book will help you to broaden your perspective and knowledge about yourself and the world around you. You will embark on a journey of unfolding pleasure and accomplishment. This short book will help you to understand important things about yourself and your life.
All of the tools that you need to experience a truly successful life are actually available to you. You just need to learn how to properly use your own tools. Ask yourself if you want a higher level of success in your life. If you do, give yourself a chance.
Learn about some of the power that literally surrounds you, and learn to use this power to propel yourself to the achievements that you desire. Whether you’re stuck in an unsatisfying routine or spinning like a confused top, herein you will find specific strategies to map your own personal plan to exponential life improvement.
You are unique in your own combination of personal experience, teaching, personality characteristics, genetics, and a host of other things. There isn’t a ‘one size fits all’ method to success. For most people, determining and achieving goals isn’t simply a matter of will or circumstance. You can learn from your circumstances and strengthen your will, and you can make your hopes become reality. You are absolutely entitled to live a happy and successful life.
This book includes thought derived through metaphysical and scientific understanding. Here, you definitely find powerful new ideas to explore and utilize in your journey to ever-increasing success!
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Captured By Cupid : Annette Towler
Captured By Cupid
Claire and Sam have nothing in common. Claire is a refined English woman with a doctorate and good looks. Sam is an American Geek with a slight belly whose only friends are a bunch of misfits. However, when they meet there is a mutual attraction between the two. However, a dangerous woman is also drawn to the couple and her scheming ways threaten to destroy them both. Can their friend Joshua save them and strengthen their relationship?
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Conquering your Stress and Fears : Gustavo Kinrys
When you realize that anxiety, stress and even fear permeate every aspect of your life, you begin to wonder how you can eliminate these all-encompassing feelings. How can you reclaim those precious minutes of your life and become truly at peace with your mind?
Conquering Your Stress and Fears by Dr. Gustavo Kinrys, M.D. quickly and easily guides you through the various options for tackling these feelings naturally, before you turn to conventional medications and treatments.
From the nuances of supplemental approaches such as herbs or vitamins, mindfulness meditation and even emergent technologies, Dr. Kinrys’s guide tells you what you need to know about usage and dosing, providing detailed instructions in an easy to approach and practical guide to get you on the path to wellness.
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Liquid Death : Mitzi C
Liquid Death
HER BLOOD COULD SAVE THE WORLD… OR DESTROY HUMANITY.
KANDI is a 19-year-old girl who harbors extreme social anxiety as a result of past torture and certain uncanny abilities. The last place she wants to be is anywhere near people.
JUAN is an 18-year-old boy born to an underage, single mother. His dreams of a brighter future were crushed when he was arrested for killing his father.
Cleverly orchestrated circumstances drive Kandi and Juan to meet and form a peculiar bond that may end up saving the galaxy. But first they must overcome their own trauma in order to destroy a government-funded organization set to unleash a devastating contagion upon humanity… one which could only be cured by Kandi’s blood.
In Liquid Death, Kandi must conquer her fears and defeat her only friend and worst enemy: her father. Meanwhile, Juan must do all he can to save the girl… if only to learn the truth about himself.
** this is a sci-fi/fantasy novel suitable for mature young adults, 14+ **
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Everything Is Always Perfect : Ivan Paganacci
Everything Is Always Perfect
A banal man finds himself on an astonishing journey, much to his annoyance; a lonely man starts a unique dating service in his quest to find a perfect wife; a college girl learns that her roommate isn’t what she seems; an annual meeting of the global elite gets a surprise, deadly guest; a first-grader needs to use the bathroom but the teacher won’t let him; and a man discovers that leaving reality for something potentially much more interesting is as simple as walking through a door… with one important catch.
These and other stories in Everything Is Always Perfect deliver savage humor in their investigation of assumed truths and imagined possibilities.
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Acne : Aarti Patel
Put acne in your rearview mirror, once and for all.
For those of us who have struggled with chronic acne, we know that these irritating bumps don’t just mess with our skin and appearance. They also curse at us every day, affecting our confidence and self-image. When you look in the mirror, you may hear the words acne uses: It throws out insults and belittling messages, and it tells us not to bother trying to make our skin better. It says just give up. At the same time, acne also demands that we drop everything we’re doing and give it constant attention. This four-letter word is a bully, not just a diagnosis and physical skin condition the way we’re taught to think by mainstream medicine and the skincare industry. To truly defeat acne once and for all, both the mind and body have to get involved.
We need a better approach to treating acne than simply face washes, creams, supplements, pharmaceuticals, and dietary changes. These methods don’t address the bullying tactics acne uses to try and control our lives, so they don’t tend to be long-term solutions. Acne often just bulldozes over these efforts, costing us the money and time we spend on trying to fix our skin, and leaving us frustrated.
Well, now there’s a way to talk and fight back. You don’t have to sit there silently while acne tries to take away what’s yours, including your skin and your life. You can start recognizing the false messages that this four-letter word is sending you and separate your identity from them, reclaiming your skin in the process. You can stand up for yourself in the face of acne and refuse to revolve your life around it. Acne: Just Another Four-Letter Word shows you how to do just that.
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Prayer is Good : Brette Petway
Prayer is Good: A Path from Grief to Peace
Prayer is Good: A Path from Grief to Peace is ideal for someone who is dealing with emotional pain and offers positive coping techniques. Brette Petway, prayer positive activist and artist, opens up about her own story of grief and loss and invites you into the world of “healing art.” Brette shares interactive ways to pray and experience your personal conversation with God creatively through art and intentional journaling. Feel the healing miracle of prayer and nurture your beautiful self through your senses. Take a prayerful journey with your head, heart, and hands and overcome emotional pain in a positive and healthy way.
If you or someone you know is experiencing negative emotions resulting from divorce, depression, pet loss, job loss, death of a loved one or a stressful family life, then, Brette Petway’s, Prayer is Good, A Path from Grief to Peace, is an excellent resource. Her new book contains inspirational words, a scripture from the Bible, blank pages for journaling, and creatively designed featured words such as Peace, Thankful, Comfort and many others that can be colored. Truly, this is an interactive book that can be used for prayer, sharing your thoughts with God, and used as a workbook to deal with troubling times.
What makes Prayer is Good, A Path from Grief to Peace inspirational?
• Interactive product – you can write, color, draw, and journal in the book.
• Promotes prayer positivity, gratitude and daily devotionals.
• Helps relieve the pain and anguish from loss, grief, stress and/ or depression in a positive and healthy way.
• The book can be used to share with family or friends who want to pray together or color inspirational words together.
• The thoughtfully designed blank coloring cards are on thick stock that can be removed or framed.
• The book contains ideas for bringing peace and comfort to your home by decorating a table space with flowers, a calming stone, candles, an inspirational card and/ or scripture.
Nurture yourself through your senses and feel empowered as you disconnect from the digital world with Prayer is Good, A Path from Grief to Peace. Feed your spirit with prayerful pauses, gratitude, “Altar-ations” that will stimulate your senses with through collaging, painting and journaling to unravel whatever is tugging at your heart. Calm your mind and soothe your soul as you take control of your well-being, and move down a path toward comfort and peace.
2018 SILVER MEDAL WINNER – LIVING NOW BOOK AWARDS
“…4 out of 4 stars” — Online Book Club
“…Speaks directly to the heart and soul of the reader.” — Midwest Reviews
“Delightful, Healing and Inspiring” — Dr Mary Oz
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The Illusion of Competence : Mark Branson
The Illusion of Competence: An Innovative Leader’s Guide to Innovative Leadership
Prior to an important store visit, the store is cleaned top to bottom, all administrative paperwork is processed, associates are coached on executing customer service standards. There is one little problem. The entire exercise is an illusion. You know it, your boss knows it. Everyone knows it, but fail to put on the charade and there will be hell to pay, but what if I told you, the same forces at work during your store visit carry over to every aspect of your leadership interactions. Your boss, peers, associates, and corporate are subject to the same forces at work during your store visit, every day. It’s not really an illusion. It’s The Illusion of Competence. An Innovative Leader’s Guide to Innovative Leadership.
The truth is irrelevant. Perception is the truth. If your boss thinks you are doing a good job, you are doing a good job. Conversely, if your boss thinks poorly of your performance, your hard work and dedication are for naught. Since perception is reality, why not craft your boss’s perception to your advantage.
The Illusion of Competence is the most advanced “perception” leadership concept ever created. Not only does The Illusion craft the perception of hard work and dedication, it also spurs innovation and improves overall sales and increases profits. The best part of The Illusion is leaders truly become competent when executing The Illusion.
The Illusion of Competence uses emotional intelligence to secure desired results, but not in a typical way. Instead of trying to improve a leader’s emotional intelligence, The Illusion takes advantage of the existing emotional intelligence of the leader’s bosses and associates to secure desired results. Humans are very predictable, and The Illusion maximizes this predictability.
The Illusion of Competence contains three sub-theories to help craft The Illusion. “Micro-Efficiency” eliminates inefficiency hiding in plain sight at every corporation, in order to create more time to focus on customer service and employee coaching and development. Micro-Efficiency ties certain kinds of inefficiency to The Second Law of Thermodynamics in a way never before seen. The Creation of Micro-Efficiency Theory speaks to The Illusion of Competence’s innovative nature.
“Food Poisoning Theory” is The Illusion of Competence’s second sub-theory. Food Poisoning Theory is a customer service model predicated on the idea that customers are only as loyal as their last transaction. Every time an employee says no, fails to deliver on a promise, or quotes policy, the company runs the risk of giving customers food poisoning. Read your company’s online customer reviews and food poisoning will be identified far and wide. Every employee, from top to bottom, has the responsibility to avoid giving customers food poisoning.
The third sub-theory is called “The Theory of Deep Understanding”. The Theory of Deep Understanding explains why top executives are disconnected from mid-level leaders and front-line associates. Once understood, corporate executives not only close the “understanding” gap with lower level leaders, they can identify and embrace innovations from all areas of operations.
The Illusion of Competence is based on 30 years of leadership experience with some of the most respected names in their retail fields, and the completion of MBA and Master of Science in Leadership degrees in 2016. In fact, advanced degrees were sought primarily to add validation of The Illusion of Competence. Two advanced degrees only reinforced the need to craft The Illusion of Competence.
I did not create The Illusion of Competence. I discovered The Illusion of Competence, and now, you can too.
Mark Robert Branson
MBA, MSL