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The Diaries of Liberty the Pug : Barb A Poole
The Diaries of Liberty the Pug Book One: Going Home
This is the true story of a little pug by the name of Liberty (Libby). Libby was born in a puppy mill, sickly and alone. Libby was soon sent to a pet store to be sold. With her health problems she waited many months in a little glass case at the pet store before her day came to be loved and taken home. Libby’s Mum and Daddy were thrilled to find her. At that time they were unaware of her poor health, but were soon to find out.
Libby finds out the world is not such a bad place after all when she realizes she now has a forever home. With health issues to overcome, Libby writes her diary with courage and humor. The story is real; the situations are real. I can assure you when you have pugs at home there is n ever a dull moment.
Lobby will take you on her journey and then interact with each young reader with questions and suggestions for the reader, making the world a better place for pets everywhere. This is the first of Libby’s Diaries, with more stories to come. As the years go by, Libby first welcomes into her life a little black pug Ebony Rose in “Book Two” and later, a fawn pug puppy whose name is Pippa in “Book Three”.
This book will lead you into and let you peek at the life Libby adjusts to after surgeries on both her eyes and the challenges of going blind.
Libby’s Diaries are uplifting. positive, brave and full of humor. I promise reading this book will give you a light heart and a smile on your face.
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Legends : Image Curve
Legends
Legends is a collection by multiple authors curated out of thousands of stories published on Image Curve. In one word Legends is a wise collection. In one sentence it is a collection of stories that will stay with you after you read them and will remind you of the facts of life when you need them most, like a good friend.
In so many words in Legends you will find literary fiction worthy of the greatest minds. Quirky contemporary stories that will make you laugh to tears. Lengthy dramas following characters through the darkest corners of life. Unique stories that you would wish were made into movies. Science fiction of the highest quality and detail that will make you want to live in a space station utopia.
Fantasy stories that will push your imagination into parallel worlds, homes of curious creatures and tribes. Above all these stories are well written and wonderfully absorbing. Image Curve takes pride in sharing these tales and many more, free and open for all. Image Curve believes in a free, self-regulating literature world, in letting creativity flow freely out of anyone with a sharp pencil and letting the readers decide its fate.
This is a collection for those who believe reading is the best way to travel.
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Is This Your Man? : Colin Tate
Is This Your Man?
Is This Your Man is designed to help you spot the wrong man coming from “3 miles” away.
This book will give you a checklist and a blueprint to learn how and why men cheat, why men refuse to explain why it’s over, the reason they send confusing mixed signals and why they delay marriage.
You will read about Real Men telling Real Stories; the names of the men willing to tell their stories have been changed to protect their identities. With that being said, the men fully exercise their freedom to speak candidly and honestly about how they romance, flatter, manipulate, confuse and deceive women.
If you’re dating a Total Package, an Online Player, a Baby Boy, a B.S.er, a C.E.O. or a Chameleon, Is This Your Man will give you the insight to recognize the type of man you are currently dating, will date and most importantly, should not date.
You will also learn how to decipher which ones are the keepers – that could lead to a sustainable healthy relationship.
No matter what stage you are in on your dating journey, Is This Your Man is a self-help relationship book that is both informative and entertaining.
This book is going to give you the answers to all of your questions, but also give you the answers to the questions you didn’t even know to ask.
So if you are tired of being on the dating roller-coaster and can’t figure out what you’re doing wrong or you’re just looking for an enjoyable read, Is This Your Man is the book for you.
So, the question is….Is This Your Man?
Wildfire : K. Vann O’Brien
Wildfire
Savanna arrives in Jessop, Texas with memories of her mother throbbing in her chest and a grumpy rescue dog trailing behind. Her father’s goal is to renovate and sell her mother’s childhood home. And to piece Savanna back together after her mother’s death. But the people in this small dusty town look at her – the girl with her mother’s eyes – and see someone else.
They see someone they loved – or hated – someone who left them long ago. When a wildfire breaks out across neighboring farmland, the boy next door calls on Savanna to help the victims driven from their homes.
Dev is an artist with kind eyes and a fierce painting of her mother on his bedroom wall. But Savanna is drawn to Blake, a reclusive boy with a scar running down his face like a teardrop, who looks at Savanna as if she put it there. The three friends rally to bring relief to the evacuees.
But when they face the fire of prejudice, they must rely on each other to get through the blaze unscathed.
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The Girl With the Blue Umbrella : Heather Awad
The Girl With the Blue Umbrella
The Girl With the Blue Umbrella is Heather Awad’s first published collection of poetry. She has been writing for most of her adult life, self-schooled in poetry writing and influenced by some of the greats, such as Billy Collins and Stephen Dunn.
Awad’s poetry is simplistic in style yet she manages to pull you into each poem as if you were wandering around inside her mind, seeing the world as she lays it out for you.
Much of her work comes from her own personal life experiences and then some is from her whimsical imagination. Imagery in her poetry is crystal-clear and free of confusing verses. In each of the sixty-two poems in this collection, you can see Awad’s sense of understanding and compassion within herself and the world around her.
Keep this collection with you wherever you go, to read your favorites again and again.
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In Kala’s Hands : Mary Crocco
In Kala’s Hands : A Lakota Sioux Proclamation,
by Mary Crocco, is about a special young woman named Kala, who spends her first twenty-four years as a wannabe artist. Kala has no talent, which makes her life miserable as she suffers humiliation from her teachers and classmates. Always having support from her friends and family doesn’t make up for her pensive sadness. Aware her daily scribbles lack talent, she retains her passion.
Living in Rapid City, South Dakota, Kala visits art galleries and museums so often, the staff knows her intimately. Hoping to work at a gallery is a dream that she prepares for by educating herself through college in art history.
Washing dishes at home, Kala suffers a horrific accident and mangles her right hand. During her emergency room visit, an unexpected visitor appears, Howahkan, from the Lakota Sioux Nation, and wraps a sacred blanket around her shoulders while reminding her of a proclamation declared on the day of her birth. Before she leaves the hospital, her hand is miraculously cured, which results in Kala possessing artistic talent. Shocking Kala, but understanding she now has a destiny to fulfill, absorbs her existence.
Family and friends step up to assist Kala with her new purpose in life as an artist. Her boyfriend, Todd, suggests a trip to The Pine Ridge Reservation. The trip reveals Kala’s destiny and she fulfills her proclamation by opening her own art gallery while using the profits to build an art school near the reservation.
Unconditional support from Kala’s family and friends, before and after her accident, plays a major role in her success. Life events provided Kala the tools for her trips to the reservation, where she maintains much needed art education for the residents. I recommend this book to readers who like stories of family, history, and culture.
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Queen of Green : V.E. Rooney
Queen of Green
How, in the space of six years, did Alison Reynolds rise from a street-wise teenager to become the head of one of the most feared and sophisticated organised crime rings in the world?
In 1997, she was convicted for her part in organising one of the UK’s largest and most audacious drug smuggling conspiracies, which involved a consignment of 520 kilos of cocaine with an estimated street value of almost £40 million being shipped directly from Venezuela to the UK.
Two years into her sentence, Reynolds agrees to be interviewed by a journalist about her criminal career and the events that led to her being imprisoned. Expecting a reluctant and impenetrable interview subject, the journalist is shocked at just how open Reynolds is about her drug-dealing exploits.
Starting from early childhood, Reynolds recalls the defining – and sometimes traumatic – moments of her life as she was growing up, which put her on the path to becoming the UK’s single biggest cocaine importer.
As a teenager selling £10 bags of weed to her friends, Reynolds’ life is changed forever when she comes face to face with Sean Kerrigan, one of Liverpool’s most feared gang lords. Unknowingly, they find in each other their ideal accomplice – their perfect partner in crime.
Reynolds’ disclosures shock the journalist to her core – and it becomes chillingly clear that imprisonment is not the end of Reynolds’ story.
“So you want to know how I got started?
Well, you could talk to the people I grew up with, you could talk to old friends and neighbours, some of the people I worked with. But there are some people who won’t talk to you. Some are in jail. Some have disappeared. Some are dead. And you may find your house firebombed as a warning to you to stop being nosey and mind your own business.
You may want to dig up the newspaper reports, Police files, talk to Customs officers, lawyers, judges, politicians. Do you seriously think any of them will cough up?
Well, I have plenty of time on my hands and it’s time to correct some lies, dispel some myths and give it to you straight. You may be wondering whether I’m exaggerating or making stuff up. After all, on the surface, it does sound far-fetched, even to me. Sometimes even I can’t believe how it all happened. But I have no reason to lie. This is how it all happened. I was at the centre of it. I made it happen.”
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The Art of Destiny : Laura Groenveld
Eric prefers to hide from a hostile world. A shy reclusive, he works by day as a computer analyst in London and by night as a talented artist whose work the world is not intended to see. However, the theft of his art releases a chain of events that force Eric to re-evaluate his place in the world. Subsequent experiences bring him face to face with the love of his life and imponderable questions about the nature of destiny and the invisible line that divides prescience from creative intent.
Eric’s journey emphasizes the power of positive thought and visualisation in achieving our goals. As the story opens Eric is in a rut. Afraid to move out of his comfort zone he stays with the tried and tested until circumstances force him to change his outlook.
Eric suffers from the advantage and disadvantage of being a genius in an ordinary world. He struggles with deep social anxiety and a total failure to appreciate his own strengths.
His story raises the question about the extent to which pre-destination plays a part in our lives compared to our own ability to shape the future. If you visualise the future, are you making that future or merely foreseeing that which will come to pass?
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Psychology and The Near Death Experience : Roy L. Hill, Psy.D.
Psychology and The Near Death Experience: Searching for God
Near death experiences tantalize the public’s interest in what lies beyond the final human breath.
Answers have been streaming by the thousands during the last few decades from people who have had them. However, grand designs can only be splendidly revealed by connecting thousands of NDE accounts like a jigsaws puzzle.
In his groundbreaking book, Psychology of the Near Death Experience, Roy L. Hill roughly sketches God’s canvas by integrating hundreds of NDE testimonies within the context of human psychology.
As an inquisitive psychologist with strong spiritual roots, Roy’s book uniquely mixes academic curiosity with a deep reverence for the sacred. The reader can expect exposure to profound spiritual insights throughout the book. Systems of meaning will be challenged, new purpose will be defined, and the nature of self will be primed for discovery.
Dr. Roy Hill covers diverse number of topics that include the true meaning of the NDE, the nature of soul, personal mission to serve the God in love, knowing how to love, spiritual beings, lost souls, God’s diversity, the purpose of time, and the need for global spiritual transformation. Roy also includes several amazing case interviews with people who had near death experiences. Through this presentation, it is hoped that Psychology and the Near Death Experience may aid the spiritual explorer in their search for God.
Roy L. Hill, Psy.D. has worked as a clinical psychologist for over twenty years. During his professional career, Roy supervised prison departments, managed mental health programs, provided general clinical services, and actively participated in crisis management teams. Despite a rewarding career, Roy believes that his most important work lies ahead; lending voice to our ambassadors from heaven.
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The Story of Teddy and Eddie : James Halat
“How does a 12 year old obtain a pint of whiskey?
He makes friends with the junior high school alcoholic.”
Nino is an atypical child growing up in a conventional New Jersey suburb in the 1960s. By the age of 12 he carries a bottle of whisky in his backpack and spends his days studying boys from a distance. His only rule: Look but don’t touch. Then, in a way peculiar to being adolescent, he falls into a routine of mild detachment that never quite feels right; it often feels good, but it never feels right.
Now, at age 20, and long settled in his ways, Nino is approached in the university library by a winsome looker named Aki. He suddenly finds himself looking for a place that isn’t on any map, and wanting to go there.
Not knowing what to do, he turns to his best friends, Teddy and Eddie, for help. Thus embarking on a breathless joyride of the senses that, in the end, drops Nino off at his destination.
Compelling, sexually charged, and awash in anxious uncertainty, The Story of Teddy and Eddie follows Nino as he makes the terrifying choices no one should ever have to make, illuminating the indelible impact of childhood and memory on decisions so close to the heart.
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