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Are You For Real?! : David Stern
Are You For Real?! Going from Excuses to Authentic Selling and Living Your Dreams
“The business of selling brings freedom—it allows you to live your dreams.”- David Stern
David Stern discovered the value of freedom that a career in sales affords. Born to business-owning Holocaust survivor parents, he helped his parents with their small business before starting his own entrepreneurial venture at the age of 15.
Now, after more than forty years in sales, he shows audiences and coaching clients their opportunity of freedom through mastering the strategies of selling.
At the heart of his sales philosophy is the question, “ARE YOU FOR REAL?!” (The title of David’s book) This question embodies the essence of selling—nothing happens until you are honest, authentic, and confident.
In this book, David shares his wisdom and sales secrets, tells humorous and inspiring stories, and asks introspective questions to guide you on the path to success.
In ARE YOU FOR REAL?! you will discover how to:
- Deal with and dispose of your excuses once and for all
- Find perpetual job security through sales
- Sell yourself to sell your product
- Master effective communication skills
- Being persistent without being “pushy”
- Develop essential negotiation and decision-making skills
- Set realistic short-term goals while focusing on the big picture
- Plan for success and prepare for the unexpected
- Create a work/life balance through proper time-management
No more layoffs, tyrannical bosses, or the 9 to 5 grind. Freedom awaits you, and it begins by saying “Yes” to sales and getting real.
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Decoding Air Travel : Nicholas Kralev
Decoding Air Travel is the most comprehensive and insightful work to date on the intricacies of the modern air travel system from a customer perspective, and the most effective tool for making travel more affordable, convenient, comfortable and fun.
It’s the only book that can teach you how to save hundreds — even thousands — of dollars per ticket by building your own airfare, how to fly in Business and First Class for the price of coach, and how to enjoy various travel luxuries at no additional cost.
The book has two goals: Improving your travel life and saving you lots of money. It seeks to achieve those goals by helping you become a knowledgeable, empowered and sophisticated traveler who has mastered an increasingly complex and frustrating system and can work it to his or her advantage.
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Cutting the Soul : Theresa Larsen
Cutting the Soul: A journey into the mental illness of a teenager through the eyes of his mother
Theresa Larsen’s son, Matthew, comes to her with a cut on his hand, explaining it away as an accident with a pocket knife. But as she cleans and treats the wound, she discovers dozens of slashes covering both of his arms. Thus begins Larsen’s compelling personal memoir about what it’s like to be the parent of a mentally ill teenager.
“Cutting the Soul” offers a firsthand look at mental illness, both financially and emotionally. Matthew, fourteen years old when he starts cutting, goes on to face other hardships, including suicide attempts, severe depression, and multiple stays in psychiatric hospitals.
Readers get an inside look at Matthew’s life through the inclusion of his selected journal entries, and Larsen shares her own struggles of pain, fear, and helplessness as she tries to save her son. “Cutting the Soul” is an inspiration for anyone traveling a similar challenging journey. At its heart, it is a story of recovery for it shows that recovery is possible even when it appears all hope is lost.
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Gravity’s Eye : Ian C Douglas
On Mars, your best friend sometimes turns out to be your worst enemy. Zeke Hailey is struggling with life at the Chasm, the 23rd century school for psychics. His extrasensory skills have dried up and there’s a prehistoric robot out to kill him. At least he has a new mate, in the shape of latecomer Fitch Crawley.
Only there’s more to Fitch than Zeke realizes. The boy has a genius for hypnosis, making fools of the teachers. Fitch has an invisible pet too, the Spikeworm, a creature armed with a deadly venom. Zeke teams up with Fitch and an old foe, setting off on a Martian road trip. But this search for answers will bring them face to face with monsters and, most dangerous of all, a demon from beyond time.
Zeke will have to do more than survive his mind-bending friend and the ancient robot. As the universe starts to unravel, Zeke must choose between saving his friends or the human race. For nobody but Zeke can stop the apocalypse of Gravity’s Eye.
The Infinity Trap and Electron’s Blade by Ian C Douglas are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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Phase : Les Farley
Phase
Nelvin Crumbholtz is anything but your regular guy, as much as he would like to be. Skinny, nerdy and trapped in a dead end job as a telemarketer. The job market is just too competitive for him to find anything better. Huhh. Anything better. Boy! Was he in for a surprise.
His car is on its last leg, he barely makes ends meet and no girl will look his way because of his anemic appearance. He works out faithfully to improve his appearance; but to no avail.
Countless hours have been spent keeping his resume in tip top shape and every evening he is at the computer surfing the web for companies that he can submit it to. One night after doing so he experienced something that defies description. To try and relate his experience to someone would only invite laughter or ridicule.
He wants something better. What he gets is . . . well . . . you just won’t believe it.
There’s a new superhero in town. Meet . . . PHASE.
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The Guardian : Jack Eason
In the twenty-second century, war is still rife thanks to its normal causes, politics, greed, and religion. Then there is the continuing problem of pollution caused by heavy industry. The only thing the moguls of industry have ever understood is profit. So what if their factories continue to belch out thousands of tons of pollution into the atmosphere? Who cares? They certainly don’t! Situation normal – right? Wrong.
Something has to be done before their greed finally puts paid to the Earth as we know it, once and for all. Enter the no-nonsense CEO of the newly created Earth Corp, Magritte Peneaux, who’s first act is to end all wars, or more importantly their causes, by ensuring that all forms of religion, financial greed and politics become illegal overnight. A consequence of her actions make literally millions of servicemen and women redundant overnight. Magritte is determined to tackle the very real problem of the Earth’s heavily polluted atmosphere by commissioning the mining of Olivine on Mars, necessary for the Earth’s carbon dioxide sequester process to clean up the atmosphere.
Combine all of that with her sending a team to investigate the mysterious disappearance of not one but two groups of technicians in a remote olivine mine situated in the Ganges Chasma, an offshoot of Valles Marineris, the great rift valley that scars Mars, and you realise that all is not necessarily as it should be. Then there is the highly illusive and seemingly sinister Guardian who is always in the background, ever watching and scheming. Who or what is it?
Threaded throughout the tale is the relationship between the hero of the story Major Adler Stevens, a redundant by the book British military policeman, and Lieutenant Lynne Crawford, formerly employed by the Canadian Airforce as a fighter/bomber pilot.
Combine all of these factors and you know you have a tale you simply must read.
Turning Point, Globular Van der Graff’s Goblin Tales for Adults, The Forgotten Age, The Next Age, Céleste, Race Against Time, Autumn 1066, The Magisters and The Forgotten People by Jack Eason are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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Artists Of Sedona, 1930—1999 : Gene K. Garrison
Artists Of Sedona, 1930—1999
Artists of Sedona is a narrative art history book about successful artists who lived, or currently live, in the beautiful small town of Sedona in northern Arizona in Red-Rock Country.
It covers an exciting period from 1930 when a young man named Bob Kittredge and his brother, Dan, roared into the area on a Harley Davidson motorcycle. A tiny Asian ape called a gibbon clung to the back of the driver. A baby coyote was tucked away somewhere. Bob became a sculptor of note.
A dynamic artist from Egypt, Nassan Gobran, set off an explosion of artistic activity. His energy, determination, education and talent changed the direction of the town. An apple-packing barn was became the Sedona Arts Center. All sorts of creative classes were held, painting, sculpture, ceramics, as well as art shows and plays. It truly became the social center of the area.
The Cowboy Artists of America met at a local bar and formed what became a well respected organization. Joe Beeler, Charlie Dye, George Phippen, and John Hampton made it all happen.
All over town you can see monumental and life-size sculptures by Joyce Killebrew, Susan Kliewer, John Waddell, Clyde Ross Morgan, John M. Soderberg, PhD, James Muir, Leslie B. DeMille who also does portraits, and Ken Rowe. Paintings by Joella Jean Mahoney, Stephen Juharos, Jeffrey Lungé, Adele Seronde, Jan Sitts, Bearcloud, M. L. Coleman and a couple of movie poster artists who became fine artists—Zoe Mozert and Frank McCarthy who also qualified as a Cowboy Artist of America member. An outstanding artist in another medium is Holy Stedman who makes her magic happen in glass. Bonnie Burkee is an etcher, photographer, sculptor, and painter. Nancy Robb Dunst is an installation artist.
Gene K. Garrison, a writer with an extensive arts background, has her own ideas about how to write history. She writes in a narrative, insightful style, and uses anecdotes as well as professional credits to introduce readers to the fine artists of Sedona.
She explained it this way: “I don’t want the book to be of interest only to artists. I want to make it so interesting that even people who ignore art will want to turn the pages.” She has done it before in There’s Something About Cave Creek (It’s The People), Widowhood Happens, From Thunder to Breakfast, and a childrens’ book titled Javelina (Have-uh-WHAT? as well as approximately 560 magazine articles.
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In His Keeping: Taken : Mia Frances
In His Keeping : Taken
Out of work and on the verge of being homeless, Sylvie Jenkins is desperate. Her desperation leads her to take a job with a reclusive writer living in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York.
She’s never heard of Connor Hudson, but the man is offering her room, board, and an extremely generous salary. How bad could he be?
Sylvie is shocked to learn that she might not know who Connor Hudson is, but millions of readers do, scarfing up the books he writes under various pseudonyms.
And Connor’s not just a bestselling author. He’s a billionaire entrepreneur whose publishing and media empires span the globe.
Her new employer is a drop-dead gorgeous hunk, but he’s also surly, dominating, and demanding. He’s accustomed to being obeyed and kowtowed to, but he soon discovers that his feisty new assistant refuses to do either.
Sylvie thinks he’s an arrogant, condescending jackass!
Connor is shocked that this little imp isn’t cowed by his wealth, power, or position. That fascinates him. The Dom in him is determined to have her…and her obedience and submission as well.
Naive and nerdy, Sylvie mistakes sex for love. But Connor can’t love her. He’s keeping secrets: dark and dangerous secrets. He says he’s incapable of love.
But as the body count begins to rise, you can’t help but wonder…is he capable of murder?
IN HIS KEEPING Book #1 TAKEN is an erotic romance murder mystery thriller with a cliff-hanger ending. The story continues in Book #2 BANISHED and concludes in Book #3 CLAIMED.
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Show Time : Phil Harvey
Future viewing audiences have become totally desensitized to violence and entirely dependent on sensation to escape their boring workaday lives—an addiction nurtured by the media with graphic portrayals of war and crime and with so-called reality programming.
Now, TV execs in pursuit of the only things they care about—higher ratings and bigger paychecks—have created the ultimate reality show: Seven people, each bearing the scars of his or her past, are deposited on an island in the middle of Lake Superior. Given some bare necessities and the promise of $400,000 each if they can endure, the three women and four men risk death by starvation or freezing as the Great Lakes winter approaches.
The island is wired for sound, and flying drones provide the video feed, so everything the contestants do and say is broadcast worldwide. Their seven-month ordeal is entirely unscripted, they can’t ask for help or they forfeit the prize, and as far as the network is concerned—the fewer survivors the better.
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Stop The Diet, I Want To Get Off! : Lisa Tillinger Johansen
Stop The Diet, I Want To Get Off!
The Paleo. The Zone. The Gluten-free. Another day, another diet. We’re caught in a never-ending merry-go-round of weight loss plans, fueled by celebrity endorsers, TV doctors and companies angling for a piece of a $60 billion industry. But do these diets really work? And how healthy are they?
Registered Dietitian Lisa Tillinger Johansen examines dozens of the most wildly popular diets based on medical facts, not hype. And along the way, she reveals tried-and-true weight loss strategies, relying on her years of hospital experience, weight-loss seminars and community outreach efforts.
With insight and humor, Stop The Diet, I Want To Get Off! shows that the best answer is often not a trendy celebrity-endorsed diet, but easy-to-follow guidelines that are best for our health and our waistlines.
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