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A Raft of Dreams : Geoff Ward
A Raft of Dreams
Geoff Ward is an author, poet, journalist, musician and songwriter who lives on the Beara peninsula in the south-west of Ireland, and his latest book, A Raft of Dreams, is a collection of short stories and poetry.
The stories, set in Ireland, America and England, walk between worlds of magic, mystery and myth, while an intense selection of finely crafted poems, speaking often of love, passion, longing and redemption, reflects our precarious but privileged place in the universe.
The stories, beautifully illustrated by Rachael Harrison, tell of life-changing encounters – a woman escaping from a miserable existence finds her whole world transformed when a Navajo artisan befriends her in the Arizona desert… a reclusive writer enters a new reality after a character he thought existed only in a classic novel arrives on his doorstep… a woman visiting the ruin of her family home on the west coast of Ireland finds the spell of midsummer unlocks a secret of her childhood… a travelling musician following his muse across the country is inspired by a chance meeting with the archetypal hobo in a California railyard…
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Zero Point : Tim Fairchild
Zero Point
While on a routine archaeology project in the Canary Islands, two members of The International Consortium for Artifact Preservation make an amazing discovery in an ancient burial tomb; a discovery that could lead to the location of an ancient Christian artifact. In an effort to preserve the discovery from looters, Dr. Eli Turner and Maria Santiago begin the excavation. Little do they know that malevolent eyes are watching them from above.
Sinister forces led by Japanese mob leader, Yagato Osama and a self-exiled industrialist, Robert Pencor are driven by greed and revenge and will stop at nothing in their effort to control the world’s newest energy source; an energy device that will make oil obsolete. Their Zero point energy devices will ultimately change the geopolitical structure of the world as we know it, but it comes with a price; the death of millions. A new and powerful weapon of mass destruction is locked on a final countdown to unleash nature’s ultimate fury; the likes never before witnessed by mankind.
Eli Turner’s son, and archaeologist, Josh Turner along with his longtime friend Samuel Caberra, are unwittingly thrust into a life and death struggle as the ICAP team is marked for death by Osama and Pencor in their effort to protect their plans. Adding to the peril is Alton Burr, the fanatical leader of a secular movement who will stop at nothing to ensure the ancient discoveries are never brought to light, even if it means – murder.
It’s a race against time as archaeologist, Josh Turner, and his friends, set out to stop the threat and save the lives of millions while seeking to discover the ancient artifacts before they are lost forever.
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A Twist of Fortune : Mike Martin
A Twist of Fortune
The small town of Grand Bank in southeast Newfoundland, at the very eastern tip of Canada is in crisis. Their largest employer and a link to the glorious past, the fish plant is closing. Sgt. Winston Windflower’s personal life is also in crisis since his longtime girlfriend, Sheila Hillier is leading a community protest to try and stop the closure. It may be too late for the fish plant, but is it too late for Windflower and Sheila?
A Twist of Fortune is the fourth book in the Sgt. Windflower Mystery Series and it continues the adventures of Sgt. Windflower as he tries to solve crime and experience the joy and the sadness of life in a small Newfoundland community. Follow along as he feels the sometimes bitter taste of an east coast winter and the unique culinary delights of this part of the world. This story is like the weather in Newfoundland. It can twist and turn at any time.
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City Times and Other Poems : Vihang A. Naik
City Times and Other Poems
Vihang A. Naik throws light on the life of a city in all its shades, glory and misery in his City Times and Other Poems. It is an anthology of his intuitive and philosophical poems. The Poems are divided in 6 segments. ‘Love Song of a Journey Man’ is more or less an inner travelogue, The segments, for instance, ‘Mirrored Man’ is about the other chimeras in the city .
The people in the city are capricious like the walk of a crab or the colours of a chameleon. While, ‘The Path of Wisdom’ is about the beginning of meditation and knowledge. ‘At the Shore’ records the poet’s sense of futility, memory, pain, exile and alienation at the shore of life.
The title of this collection is also the heading for the last of its six sections, in which the city is unfolded as a market place, as a heaven for underdogs, and as a seed bed of change and is observed at evening, at mid-night, by moon light and through fog and haze.
The poem titled ‘Self Portrait’ starts with the diagrammatic sketch with 7 blank pages where the reader finds only 3 words at the tail-end of the page…Here “the poet envisions in an epiphanic moment, the true nature of ones self when he wakes up, ‘to see my / Self ‘ ‘discovered beyond thought’ . Between ‘my self’ and ‘discovered beyond thought’ are five blank pages. The ineffable epiphany of ambiguous. It may either suggest the discovery of a transcendental Self beyond all thought and language or it may suggest the discovery of an Absence beyond the human thought and speech.
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A Patient’s Guide to Pain Management : Harvey Jenkins MD PHD
A Patient’s Guide to Pain Management
I’ve written a book about pain management and navigating through the stigma that encompasses people in pain to find the care that they need.
It is written in plain english, rather than medicalese, and hopefully will help someone out there in pain. It explains how to find a doctor, what to expect when you are there, and how to avoid the “traps” of being “fired” as a patient.
As the climate of treating pain and seeking pain treatment become increasing repressive, this ebook will put you ahead of game, so you can worry about the more important things in life, and not just your pain.
Anatomy Of An Affair : Melissa Martineau Alexander
Anatomy Of An Affair: Part I
From the outside, Lily Wentworth seems to have it all; she’s the daughter of seventies rock legend, Hugo Wentworth, has a loving husband, beautiful young daughter. Looks can be deceiving though, because Lily’s “perfect” life is far from perfect.
There are circumstances happening in her life that she must deal with. In order to do so, she needs to divulge her secrets, specifically, the passionate affair she embarked on with her husband’s best friend, Kyle O’Reilly.
Lily is at a loss. In order to move forward, she must go back and retrace her steps to figure out how she got to this place in her life. She isn’t looking for excuses or your sympathy. Lily just wants to tell her story with all its sordid details in the attempt to figure out her best course of action.
By breaking down her life, Lily is on a quest to discover what drove her to do the unthinkable. She must understand not only her actions, but the anatomy of an affair.
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Kidney Friendly Recipes : Derrick Chambers
Kidney Friendly Recipes
Kidney Friendly Recipes covers all diet needs while supplying healthy dishes from main courses to deserts. Derrick Chambers developed these recipes during his time on dialysis. To this day, he continues to enhance them. Derrick’s recipes have not only provided tasty meals for himself, but also for his friends on dialysis as well. Enjoy!
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Moon & Ocean – No Barriers : Breeze Marturell
Moon & Ocean – No Barriers
PJ is a proud member of the gay community of the city: Director of the District Art Gallery, self confident and possessive man. In the most casual way, he met Brigitte, a school teacher who enjoys the nightlife without concern.
The unusual encounter will let them emotionally engaged. The initial attraction confuses PJ but it does not mean that he will give up. Brigitte knows that she is playing with fire and has high possibilities of being hurt. Her efforts to walk away from this relationship that only can give her frustration are useless.
They have no alternative but to explore this attraction in the middle of a society that is not ready to accept them. In a city near the sea, in the middle of anonymity, arises this story about the complexity of an out-of-common relationship. A gay man. A straight woman. It is just absurd.
But despite society, reason and even themselves, their love survives and remains almost intact across a journey of self knowledge, overcoming discrimination and, at the end, the evolution of their souls. They will discover that nothing is predetermined by the rules and that barriers are useless when an authentic feeling is burning their hearts.
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In The Blood Of The Greeks : Mary D. Brooks
In The Blood Of The Greeks (Intertwined Souls Series, Book 1)
Historical Lesbian Romance in War Ravaged Greece
Secrets. Passion. Destiny.
In the Blood of the Greeks is set against the backdrop of World War II.
The novel begins in a most troublesome period of human history, where subjugated by the might of Nazi Germany, two women meet under extraordinary circumstances.
This is the story of Eva Muller, the daughter of a German Major, in command of the occupying force in Larissa, Greece in 1942. Through the intervention of the village priest she meets Zoe Lambros, a young Greek woman with vengeance in her heart and a faith in God that has been shattered by the death of her family.
Eva and Zoe must work together and overcome their hatred for each other while facing down their own demons. Hatred turns to friendship as they find common ground while helping Jews escape from the Nazis.
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1914: First Blood : John Hughes Wilson
1914: First Blood – A Tommy Gunn Adventure
Meet T.O.M. Gunn, a young infantry lieutenant in the Sherwood Foresters, just back on leave from India as Europe catches ablaze in the chaotic summer of 1914. The British Expeditionary Force is off to France and Gunn is determined to join the war before it’s over
He joins a hastily formed mixed battalion of reservists, regular and territorial soldiers to find themselves pitchforked into the mayhem of the Battles of the Marne, the Aisne and then the drawn out agony of Ypres as the high hopes of summer sink into the frozen trenches of the winter of 1914.
But by the time of the Christmas Truce with the Germans, Thaddeus Gunn and his men begin to realise that this is going to be a long war – and they will be lucky to survive.
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