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The Blue Journal : I.B. George
THE PAST IS JUST THE BEGINNING OF DESTINY!
The story follows the destiny of Robert Anderson, a little boy of only ten, and his quest to find the truth about his parents. Unsuspecting at the beginning of his journey, Robert finds that his future has already been decided by the prophecy of the Oracle of Konaar.
The adventures he encounters help little Robert discover astonishing things and allow him to develop abilities he didn’t know he was capable of. With the help of a few loyal friends, the boy overcomes one by one all the obstacles that fate throws his way.
The denouement is unexpected, while the exploits taking place until the prophecy is fulfilled are a mixture of adventure and fantasy, alongside undertones of mystery and comic interludes.
Within the pages of this book the readers will rediscover the thrill of adventure stories, regardless of their age because, as the famous sculptor Constantin Brancuși once said, “When we are no longer children, we are already dead.”
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Can We Live a Happier Life?! : Dr. Zeev Gilkis
Can We Live a Happier Life?!
The book interleaves understandings about happiness, brain, mind and how to live a better and happier life with a personal story of a diversified career, interrupted by an advanced stage cancer, the battle, deep meditations, and discovering the answers.
It contains short stories and original illustrations exemplifying the understandings and making the reading more fun. It is a very practical book.
Many people who read this book found it enjoyable, motivational and the practical tips very useful.
The Altar Boy : Phil Stephens
The Altar Boy
Black-robed nuns, priests, bishops, the select fraternity of Altar Boys, and the ancient ceremonies of the Catholic Church. Music of the ’60s, boyhood shenanigans, Cootie doctors, and coming of age. Set in the socially and politically tumultuous period of the 1960s, The Altar Boy is the fictionalized memoir of Carl Sanders, a funny, sensitive kid, who’s caught in the middle when his family is fractured by the intrusions of a priest. We follow Carl’s confusion and pain as he watches the pious façade of the Church fall away to reveal unholy carte blanche, cover-ups, and collusion.
The book opens in the late 1980s. Carl and his brother down beer after beer at a favorite pub, trying to piece together their family’s chaotic past. The stakes are high—someone is about to return after a 20-year absence, threatening to re-ignite the family conflict. As the brothers’ painful recollections of their past become more traumatic, Carl drifts back in time to the era he tried for so many years to forget.
The story is realistic, poignant, and at times very funny. Stephens shines a timely spotlight on the then-unquestioned power of the Church, while taking the reader back to the ’60s era of rock & roll, Catholic schools, social upheaval, and boyhood pranks.
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Fanny Fun : M. Cassol
Fanny Fun
Fanny Fun is a sexy and gripping novel that explores the ideas of bisexuality and lesbianism. Through an honest glimpse into the lives of the characters, readers are taken on journeys of self- love and discovery.
Everyone struggles against adversities, but the characters in this novel all handle them in a unique way that reflects each individual character’s personality. As they grow and mature they learn what they want in life and how to go about getting it.
The theme of acceptance is a strong one throughout the story. It gives readers a glimpse into the ways in which several characters have to face a reality that is not what they expected.
This story does not lack intrigue and mystery. The reader gets sucked into the story and starts caring about the fate of the characters. Easy to relate to, these characters could easily make a reader laugh, cry or gasp in shock and amazement.
Any woman that has ever struggled with her sexuality will be able to draw inspiration and guidance from this novel. Each character’s story is poignant and can serve as an example of the ways in which women can overcome the issues they struggle with.
Have you ever stopped to think about how your actions affect the world around you? A simple word, a reckless action, what would be their consequences? Our history metamorphoses regularly and we are the sparkle of every life’s chain reaction.
Fanny Fun is about connection and the impact of our decisions and how the world can become a small place on the eternal quest for love.
How many heartaches does it take to learn to choose the right person? And is the “right person” really the one?
Immerse yourself in this lesbian melodrama, following its domino effect around the world.
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The Yoga of Sailing : Dyana Wells
The Yoga of Sailing
Sailing – a life on the ocean that can be like an extreme sport, with all the pressures, emergencies, delights and exhilarations.
Alice enjoys sailing, the thrill, the exhilarating physicality of the tug of war with nature. That’s with nature, not against it, because Alice feels more in tune with the sea and land and wide seascapes than, often times, her family.
Alice’s determination to investigate the real meaning of life, on an ocean wave, turns into an adventure that’s revealing and disturbing. She rides the inner and outer storms of each new experience – sailing, cycling, backpacking – and falls into an encounter with life that is mystical and earthy.
The Yoga of Sailing details the true life adventures, and thrills and spills of Alice, her daughter and father as they meet challenges on a small yacht in a large ocean. Fiji becomes the backdrop for family adventure and melt downs.
When a new man sweeps her off her feet, it leads to romance, passion and heroic confusion. And all the while Alice keeps juggling the spiritual and the physical. The natural world was Alice’s retreat – now who or what is supporting her?
Join an intrepid journey that is poignant, funny and inspiring.
The Yoga of Sailing is book one of the Anchors in an Open Sea trilogy by Dyana Wells.
What drives the desire for spiritual experiences?
What is this human life?
These and many other questions are explored by Alice and her family.
The Anchors in An Open Sea trilogy is packed full of sailing adventures and romance, never far from the search for meaning and love. Alice explores life in the Pacific islands – sailing, cycling and backpacking – to find her answers.
The autobiographical honesty and poetical language make this story compelling. Hang on as you sail off with her into the ocean of stunning sunsets and wild waves.
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Flowers In December : Jane Suen
A man goes home to bury his mother but finds himself.
Connor Norton returns to his hometown, following the death of his mother, knowing that he will have to confront personal feelings of guilt and regret. It is a place he has barely set foot in for the past 20 years.
Caught in the period of his life where the vibrancy of youth has diminished and the prospect of becoming middle-aged is looming, Connor finds that he is suddenly alone in the world and must somehow reshape his future and face his own mortality.
With only Tom, the family’s orange tabby cat, as his constant companion, he considers new possibilities and new directions. But will Connor be able to lay the ghosts of his past to rest? And will his return later, to the place he once called home, be enough to let him break free from the remorse which he has carried since he was 18?
In this tender, heartwarming portrait of a man who finds himself trapped between his past, his present and the future, where will this new journey lead Connor and what will the future hold when he gets there?
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Fated Memories : Joan Carney
Fated Memories
PNWA AWARD WINNING NOVEL OF TIME TRAVEL AND ROMANCE
A woman, a war, a vision of the future past…
Burdened with the scars of a tortured childhood and a shattered romance, Kitty is being forced to resign from the dull, anonymous job she’s been hiding behind. With her life in shambles and her friends moving on without her, she jumps at her cousin, Maggie’s, invitation to visit.
However, Maggie’s new boyfriend, Simon, has a secret that accidentally hurls the trio a hundred and fifty years into the past.
Trapped in the midst of the bloodiest war in American history, and acutely aware their actions might trigger a butterfly effect on the future, the events that unfold will require more mettle than Kitty’s ever had.
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The Road to War : Steven Burgauer
The Road to War : Duty & Drill, Courage & Capture
A riveting first-person account of a brave young man caught up in a cataclysmic World War.
This is the story of Captain William C. Frodsham, Jr., who — shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor — enlisted in the U.S. Army Infantry, where he excelled in basic training, became a junior officer, and eventually led a combat boat team ashore on OMAHA BEACH.
Six days later, in French hedgerow country and under withering German fire, Frodsham was wounded and taken prisoner. He spent the next year as a German POW, where he suffered great deprivation before finally being liberated by advancing Russian forces.
His training, his courage, his capture. The reader is taken for a first-person tour of the times at home and then tunneled into a vastly different world on the battlefield and in a German prisoner-of-war camp.
A truly remarkable story.
“Five-plus unequivocal stars to The Road to War. It’s an extraordinary read that everyone should enjoy.”
— October 20, 2016, Publishers Daily Reviews
4 stars out of 5
— October 28, 2016, “The Book Reviewers,” a division of Full Media Ltd. (UK)
“Personal, inspiring & insightful. This book is precious.”
— November 3, 2016, The Book Bag Reviewers (UK)
“An intimate and often daunting portrait of one man’s life-changing confrontation with war, The Road to War: Duty & Drill, Courage & Capture is highly recommended.”
— November 11, 2016, BookViral Reviews
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Life Support : Nicole S. Brown
Life Support
This is a poetry journal depicting a thug Donnie Stacks traveling from wrong to right. Donnie Stacks is recovered from death in a lifelong walk of pursuing false wealth. The stealth is lost from Satan and gets taken over by the power of God. A nice young lady Nicole Broussard warns Donnie repeatedly of his demise.
Visions are seen over and over again that Donnie will get beaten to death by so-called friends. As a result, Donnie rejects what the young lady sees while he is still being used by the power of the enemy. Donnie finally sees that she was telling the truth when it is too late and powerful punches is on his plate. Donnie receives days in the hospital dying while his family is crying and calling out to Nikki who keeps responding that Donnie is doing okay, and that God had to fix him that way.
After many days of family calling her to see about Donnie, she reports to hospital to see this prophecy fulfilled. Then many believe that true life support comes from God and God only, and that Donnie’s life in God is real, and that the other life was phony.
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ARIA: Left Luggage : Geoff Nelder
ARIA: Left Luggage
A silvery case is found in the external struts of the International Space Station (ISS). It is opened on Earth releasing a virus that causes retrograde amnesia at the rate of a year’s memory per week. No one is immune. It is tragic – as after a week or so people forget where their new homes and jobs are, and children lose speech, medicines are not produced.
Yet there is humour – who is that you wake up next to, and did you both make out? Ryder realizes what’s going on in time to persuade a handful of professionals to barricade themselves in a remote Welsh valley. The uninfected crew of the ISS join them.
Can they survive intruders? This is a human disaster yet with romance, betrayal, survival, mystery and an exploration into what is so important in life it must be preserved.
ARIA: Left Luggage was voted the best SF novel of 2012 at the P&E Readers’ Poll for its original concept & dynamic characters.
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