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What Else Could Go Wrong? : Dixie J. Whitted
What Else Could Go Wrong?
If you love Gary Larson’s THE FAR SIDE or Chad Carpenter’s TUNDRA, don’t miss WHAT ELSE COULD GO WRONG?, Dixie’s collection of quirky cartoons with a skewed view. Filled with full-page B&W comic creations. Good, clean, twisted fun. Think Sunday comics filled with strange situations.
The “not-sequel” to WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
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The Year Santa Stubbed His Toe : William M Hayes
The Year Santa Stubbed His Toe
The Man in Red really exists.
If you are one of the people in the world that say Santa is just a myth, you are simply and completely wrong. Many tales have been told about the Man in Red. Some true—some as true as two-headed unicorns with wings living in the city of Atlantis … this tale is true.
A year not so long ago, Santa was ready to take his yearly pilgrimage on the night before Christmas when disaster struck—he stubbed his toe, twice. The toe ballooned to nearly triple its normal size. He could not make his yearly run by himself; he needed help. So on that fateful night, he enlisted four of his best elves, along with his reindeer, to help him make his deliveries around the world: Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa, South America, and North America.
Although the reindeer made this trip with Santa every year, his elves had not been away from the Pole in many years, if ever; they had no idea what they would encounter on this journey. However, the deer and the elves knew what was at stake. It was well known at the Pole that Santa needed to make all deliveries to the world on Christmas Eve or he would lose the gift of being Santa—the rules were very clear.
So … with a magically altered 24 hours, four elves and four bucks set out on a journey fraught with mishaps, misplaced presents, and some misbehavior in an attempt to save the Man in Red.
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The Unconquered : Tolagbe Ogunleye
The Unconquered: The Yamassee and Gullah-Geechee Wars
The Unconquered, is an historical novel about the 1715 Yamassee War and the first of three successive Gullah-Geechee Wars that were fought and won by the Yamassee people and the Gullah-Geechee men and women held captive in the United States during the 18th and 19th centuries.
It is a riveting but entertaining period-piece based on factual historical documents and accounts dealing with the fearless men and women who fled their oppressors and captors in South Carolina, fought back, outwitted and defeated their former enslavers, and thrived in the autonomous settlements they built in Florida.
Atlanta’s Most Eligible Bachelor III : Mia Mae Lynne
Atlanta’s Most Eligible Bachelor III
In Douglas Arthur Bader’s perfect world, everything is coming up aces. He’s about to give up his title as Atlanta’s Most Eligible Bachelor to be with the woman of his dreams, so why does he keep having nightmares of losing the last woman he loved?
Lisa Dunbar never thought she’d settle down, but with a baby on the way and an attorney waiting at the altar, how can she say no?
Of course, “I do” might not be all it’s cracked up to be when her new husband decides he knows best and her life of independence has a new catch to it.
“I now pronounce you husband and wife…”
Will Doug learn to let go of the past before it destroys his relationship with his new wife? Will Lisa be able to accept Doug’s control for the love he intends it as?
Can they find happily-ever-after in the South, before burning up in the heat between them?
Only one way to find out…
The Forgotten Lands : Justin Warren
The Forgotten Lands
Dylan Harper is a young, up and coming detective with a point to prove. But when he and his mentor Detective Joe Gardella are summoned to the office of the Chief of Police and given an assignment that is outside their jurisdiction they sense that something is up.
Sent across the country to investigate the disappearance of a small town newspaper reporter who hasn’t been seen or heard from in four days, Harper and Gardella will be a long way from home and working on their own.
But almost as soon as they arrive on the scene Harper becomes aware that someone is watching them. As the detectives begin to sift through the evidence and zero in on a suspect, strange things start to occur.
Chasing down a lead late one night Harper glimpses a shadowy figure lurking in the fog and after a frantic search, all he hears is an eerie laugh trailing off into the mist. The next morning Harper wakes to find his tyres slashed and then Gardella is called back to the city leaving Harper alone and exposed.
When someone scrawls a mysterious set of numbers on the wall of Harper’s hotel room it sends the case in a whole new direction and threatens to destroy his career before it’s even truly begun.
The Good Russians : Artem Medvedev
The Good Russians
Why?
Because I’ve been experiencing it more and more over the past few years.
Because it’s making me sick to my stomach.
Because it has to stop.
It’s very hard to watch or read the news nowadays without coming across the image of “the Russians”. These “Russians” are around every corner, inside every computer programme, behind every hacking, scandal, crisis, and so on and so forth. These “Russians” helped Donald Trump win the US Presidential Election. These “Russians” wish to undermine democracy, humiliate the West, flame the horrors of war, and overall be the monsters that they are indefinitely.
The “Russians” here. The “Russians” there. The media, the politicians, the public are all getting so engrossed into the idea of this apparently clear-cut mutual enemy that they do not recognize just how much pain and confusion they are actually causing.
Most of the time, the enemy they actually mean to target is Vladimir Putin and his regime, but, oh well, who said that collateral damage is something to worry about? Let’s just use a more inclusive term, “the Russians”? Everyone good with that?
The vivid imagery of the clumsy angry bear, the weird fur hats, the tanks rolling in, the half-human monsters, the Hollywood-created “Russian” accent, courtesy of the definitive “Russians” Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dolph Lundgren… all of that is back.
Meanwhile, of course, Putin and his “Russia” continue to bomb hospitals, violate international treaties, and find new ways to show the world that they are to be reckoned with. That doesn’t make the situation any easier to deal with or the Russophobia any easier to fight against. Many would say that that facts are there to condemn and charge the “Russians”.
This book is meant as an attempt to reframe the discussion and point out that by fuelling further Russophobia, the media and other influencers are playing right into Putin’s hands. For years, he has been searching for a national philosophy that would unite the people behind him. By turning not just him and his regime, but the Russian people and Russia as a country into a pariah and a monster, the West gives Vladimir Putin what he has been seeking all this time – the battle cry of courage under fire and unity in the face of universal treachery and the global plot to strangle Russia.
Different Russians are talked about here. These are all real people that have nothing to do with Putin’s crimes, plans, thoughts, or feelings (if such exist). These are not the “Russians” you hear about on TV or read about in the blogs. They are the real Russians that, in their lifetimes, made the world a better place, and whose influence continues to this day. The chapters can be read in any order. It is my hope that reading about these ten remarkable individuals will help you shed some of the stereotypes and imagery being carefully fostered today.
NEON Calico : J. Webb Garrett
NEON Calico
What is the worth of one’s humanity in the age of cyber-augmentation? What is the value of flesh when ceramics and chrome can make you stronger? Faster? Smarter? Better? A cyborg is the hybrid of man and machine, but how much “machine” can a person become before they lose the “man?”
Calico, a young cyborg Troubleshooter, struggles with these questions as she makes her way in the shadowy underbelly of the Chicago Metropolis. Having spent years running from a past that she can never escape, struggling with the heavy toll her freedom has cost her, Calico finds a chance to put it all behind her when her half-brother shows up from Hong Kong asking her to steal a data-file from their father’s company. The file – Project: Stray, her father’s final solution.
When? : Galixna
When? Behind the Curtain
This beautiful story begins with a young boy who finds himself trapped between the physical and the spiritual realms of life behind the Iron Curtain.
This young boy grows into a young man who begins to experience what he had never expected to face. This young man’s story deepens when his daughter Halia is inspired and, as a teenager, joins him in his fight for freedom.
This powerful tale is based on the real-life experiences of a family and their friends in the Soviet Union. Defying the imprisoning, brainwashing ways of the Communist system, they battled for their freedom, never doubting in their hearts that one day they would be free. Waiting behind the curtain, Halia’s heart could only wonder, “When?”
As the story progresses, the focus shifts to Peter’s daughter as she experiences prejudice from her peers as well as many other terrible obstacles. As her journey takes her to the New World, she surprisingly meets the same prejudices she had faced in the Soviet Union. But through Peter’s life and the life of his daughter, you will come face-to-face with a power that can change your world, as it did Peter’s.
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Stolen Laughter : Tess Thompson
Stolen Laughter
Bryce Cameron is a struggling author who plans to isolate himself in the woods of Colorado to write his second novel. He isn’t looking for anything permanent when he encounters Hannah Brody, a bright optimistic professional just beginning her career. Their chance encounter on a plane ride to Denver turns their lives upside down, because Bryce doesn’t believe in happy endings and Hannah isn’t looking for romance.
Bryce is the good son who always did what was expected to please his overbearing, dominating father and his pretentious mother while his younger brother Quinn could do nothing right. Quinn, the rebel, falls for Dixie Lee King, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks. He runs as far away as he can from his past only to come full circle for the love of his life.
Although the brothers have taken different paths in life, they reunite when a sudden tragedy strikes Bryce, and the two men begin a quest to find the truth about Hannah’s life that is shrouded in secrets.
At a restaurant, when Bryce hears laughter from across the room, he is sure that he has found Hannah, the girl of his dreams that he cannot live without. Through a series of unexpected twists and turns, Bryce and Quinn must confront true evil to find the happiness they both deserve.
Mindfulness Meets Emotional Awareness : Jenny Florence
Mindfulness Meets Emotional Awareness. 7 Steps to Learn the Language of Your Emotions. Change your Perspective. Change your Life!
I wrote this book to create REAL change in REAL lives!
Use this book to:
• Change Negative Emotions into Positive Experiences!
• Turn Life problems into Challenges & Challenges into Opportunities!
• Manage Challenging Emotions Differently!
• Build Emotional Resilience and Durability!
• Discover Yourself as the Source of Emotional Empowerment!
• Unlock your potential for Emotional Freedom!
So many of us get tangled up in overwhelming and powerful emotional states that leave us feeling overwhelmed, out of control and not in charge of our own lives. This book is designed to tackle exactly this problem.
In Mindfulness meets Emotional Awareness I have taken our most common but challenging emotions and without any jargon, explained why we need these emotions and more importantly, how to transform your experience of them so that you can use them as a friend and ally in navigating your way to a thriving and successful life.
“Thoughtful, Articulate and Essential… This book will teach you how to establish a healthy communication between your reason and your emotions.”
Alicia Heraz, Eng. PhD. Founder and CEO Emotions Matter
“A step by step, low technology, high impact, guide to emotional awareness. This lovely book takes the reader on a profound journey. It is a significant resource that really creates genuine opportunity for self-development and growth. The steps are clear and the processes simple.”
Libby Alderson, Chartered Fellow FCIPD Organisational Coach and Supervisor. Learning Excellence Manager
It is inevitable that we will all find ourselves feeling powerful emotions at times of stress and duress. This is understandable, we are after all only human, however what we do in response to these feelings will to a very great extent determine whether a stressful situation will become a space of growth and learning or a situation that floors us, leaving us feeling disempowered and fearful.
This is the second book in my series, the Intelligence of our Emotions. Using a formula of 7 days of reading, 20 minutes each day, this small and accessible book is designed so that even the busiest of people can make time to empower, enhance and enrich the quality of their daily lives through the empowerment of emotional literacy.
“This book has thrown light on specific emotions, such as anger, fear, anxiety, sadness, envy and shame and challenges us to engage differently, using positive thinking and acceptance of our difficult feelings. A book which is accessible to everyone, easy to read and can be referred back to time and again.”
Jo Turner, PG Dip. Mar. Th. Psychodynamic Relationship Psychotherapist
On a daily basis we bear witness to emotionally reactive behaviour all around us. We are living in an extremely reactive world!
If we wish to create real and lasting Change we will need to shift from living from a position of Emotional ‘reactivity’ to a life of Mindful Consideration. This book gently guides readers to a whole new level of emotional self-awareness with real tools to integrate and transform your understanding and perspective of even your most challenging emotional states.
AMAZON REVIEWS:
“Wow! This book is simply jam-packed with gems of wisdom. In my opinion, this book has the potential to have a profound effect on individuals, families, communities, countries and if shared and read far and wide enough it could help begin to heal the world.”
“Jenny turns the problems of life into challenges and the challenges into opportunities. What could be better? It is brevity with clarity expressed in layperson’s terms for every one of us. So, trust, read, and wholeheartedly benefit!”
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