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Chrissie’s Run : S. A. Mahan
Chrissie’s Run
Recent Winner of Reader’s Favorite 5-Star Seal with three 5-Star reviews.
Reader’s Favorite reviewer Patricia Reding says it best:
“Just sixteen, pregnant, betrayed by boyfriend and family, alone . . . and an outlaw, Chrissie is in big trouble. So opens Chrissie’s Run by S.A. Mahan, a story sure to have readers turning pages quickly and furiously.
In the dystopian world of the New Republic, Chrissie does the unthinkable. When ordered to show up for an appointment at which the authorities will abort her child, one they say would be born handicapped, Chrissie runs.
She finds her way to the underground of the city. Vulnerable, in part due to the hefty price upon her head, Chrissie struggles to protect herself and her child.
Enter Moses, a gifted man and a protector, who helps Chrissie on her journey to find the mythical land of Haven. He is followed by Samson, Angel, and others, each of whom is willing to risk death in an effort to protect life.
Meanwhile, Chrissie’s pursuers become more plentiful and stronger. How many will be willing to pay with their own lives to protect the single life of an innocent?”
Chrissie’s Run is a young adult, dystopian edge-of-your-seat page turner that you will literally not want to put down. S. A. Mahan explores a future society that embraces full governmental control and social engineering. It is a story of hard choices, and even harder consequences for Chrissie. She hears ‘the voice’, the voice that tells her that her unborn baby is Daniel. Daniel in the Lion’s Den.
Chrissie makes the hard choice. Will she and Daniel survive?
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Phosphor : R. C. Ray II
Phosphor
Stuck with the graveyard shift outside Seattle, veteran homicide lieutenant James Cattell, and his young partner, Dave Fosse, are called to the scene of an amazingly unusual murder at a nursing home.
Teaming up with their deadpan colleague Ed Wazetski, the aging director of the police forensics lab, they begin to investigate a stunning death that defies all known physical law. Because only the body of the victim has burned – incinerated completely in a matter of seconds, not hours – while leaving everything else around it virtually untouched. Even the strange reports of spontaneous human combustion don’t seem to fit.
Yet even as they stand speculating, another murder is occurring at a motel only a few miles away. And this time, there is a witness. Wounded and in shock, a woman is taken from the scene of the crime and placed in the care of Dr. Sandy Hansen, head of the psychiatric wing of the local hospital.
Forced to work together, Lt. Cattell and Dr. Hansen reawaken a past love affair, as they sift through clues and an old, unsolved FBI report about similar murders of male family members from a small New England town. Woven through it all is the one, cryptic name veiled in myth and fear that keeps recurring ominously.
Phosphor.
Who is this shadowy killer? The deeper they move into the case, the more they uncover a vendetta that spans decades and generations – and a fabulous secret held by the people being stalked. But first, you have to survive.
In a race against time to find the last victim, Cattell realizes that the woman he loves may hold the only thing that can save him, in a stunning finale where ghostly memories and luminescent dreams collide in an iridescent tale of life and existence.
Phosphor is a fabled story of multiple creation; of living energy and breathing humanity linked within a never-ending chain of renewal and entropy, in a technological age where our waking nightmares may still be made of more than science and sealed circuitry.
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The Profound Truth of Divine Existence : Paul Hume Brewster
The Profound Truth of Divine Existence – A New Modern Teaching
Take an amazing journey with Paul Hume Brewster as he explores the universe, our perception of it, the reason for it, and why it was created. Learn about the mind and consciousness—how and why they differ from each other—and how the ego fits into it all. Higher dimensions, God, knowledge and truth connect in unexpected ways, altering our perceptions of the universe and all it entails.
Expanding definitions of the universe and its creation require opening your mind and enjoying the ride that follows, reaching ever-higher dimensions and different states of consciousness, freeing the mind by healing it. The Profound Truth of Divine Existence makes readers think, challenging them to discover that knowledge must precede perception and turns traditional wisdom on its head with a view of the universe never before presented.
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The Inventor – A Tale of Old San Francisco : Steve Bartholomew
The Inventor – A Tale of Old San Francisco
San Francisco, 1880: The city is already more than thirty years old, but she’s still having growing pains.
There’s corruption at City Hall, and riots in the street. The mayor’s son is a murderer and Denis Kearney wants to burn down Chinatown, as well as the mansions on Nob Hill. Young Jeremy Fantom, reporter with the Evening Bulletin, finds himself in the midst of this chaos. He’s thinking seriously of quitting his job and joining a circus, or going to sea.
That is, until he’s assigned to cover the story of Worrell, inventor extraordinary. Is he a genius ahead of his time, or a humbug? And there’s his beautiful daughter, Hollyhock, who has been kidnapped by forces unknown. Jeremy finds himself on a strange and winding path to enlightenment.
This book is one of a series of tales which take place at least partly in San Francisco, in the latter half of the nineteenth century. One of my other books, Journey to Rhyolite, stretches the envelope by playing out in Nevada in 1910.
None of my stories use the same characters, but most of them involve people who really lived in that time and place. Jeremy Fantom is fictitious, but he’s a fellow who might well have lived. The inventor himself, Worrell, was inspired by another genius of his time who some readers may recognize.
San Francisco and the West of that century hold thousands of stories, legends, yarns and tales waiting to be told. In the end we discover that after all we have not changed that much.
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Tithing & How To Get There : Paul Stephenson
Tithing & How To Get There
Have you ever noticed how it always seems to be the “season for giving”? Giving to the church for stewardship; giving gifts for Christmas; giving thanks on Thanksgiving; giving presents for birthdays, anniversaries, showers, and all those other “special” occasions.
With all this giving, did you ever wonder where the money tree is so you could afford all this giving?
This short course on tithing, offers some suggestions and commentary on how we look at giving (stewardship/tithing) and ways to make it affordable (financial planning).
Welcome To Mineola : A. Louise Robertson
Welcome To Mineola
Rachel stands at the stove about to throw some spaghetti into a pot of boiling water. The radio announcer just said that there had been a horrible and bloody train wreck on the Long Island Railroad this Thanksgiving Eve, 1950. Matt and Tommy were planning to be on the evening train.
Before this day is over, Rachel faces an uncertain future, if she is able to keep from losing her mind. WELCOME TO MINEOLA spans the next fifty years of Rachel’s life. The story is character-driven, told from the perspective of several key players as they “take the microphone” to share their perspective.
Rachel and Matt arrive in Long Island, after being reunited at the end of World War II. They participate in the neighborhood barbecues and card games typical of suburban living in the late 1940’s.
While becoming part of this new lifestyle, Rachel finds that she misses the women in the city brownstone who sustained her during the war. She is devastated when one of them takes her own life.
She contends with suspicions of her husband’s infidelity and is further challenged as she experiences the birth of her fourth child; her mother’s death; her neighbor’s shocking anti-Semitic behavior; and a dear friend’s stroke.
Her children grow up and begin their own families, counting on Rachel’s encouragement and support. The family matriarch is always there to lean on offering her sage advice and her continual strength and presence, until sorrow overtakes the celebration of the Millennium New Year’s Eve.
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Old Friends Are Hard To Kill : Gary Towner
Old Friends Are Hard To Kill
When an American CIA agent is ordered to terminate a fellow agent who has gone rouge, he is conflicted to learn his mark is his best friend.
He finally decides the edict is warranted and fires the fatal shot. But the event leaves him devastated and he resorts to drink to ease his pain.
Then comes the improbable news that that maybe his old nemesis didn’t die after all. There are reports that a rebel leader in Guatemala eaves a trail of bloody ruthlessness identical to that his old friend exhibited.
When they finally reunite, it’s a fight to the death.
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Vishwaroop : Rajendra Kumar
VISHWAROOP (The Face of the Universe)
VISHWAROOP is a collection of 20 short stories about the face of man within the universe.
The portrait of man, complex, diverse. Like a tapestry woven with multitudinous threads. Sometimes saddening, infuriating, revolting, frightening, at other times uplifting, calming, happy, hopeful; but always interesting, entertaining, even hilarious. Within it we see a kaleidoscope of images, all different, all fascinating, even enlightening, a jumble we call life.
A lot of content is adult oriented, uninhibited, not only sexually but also philosophically, politically, socially, and any other way imaginable.
The stories are entertaining, but they are thought provoking, too. They are filled with philosophical musings, many of them are unconventional. If you like a take on man and the universe which is exasperatingly, even inflamingly, different from what a lot of our religious, political, and social leaders have been presenting for thousands of years, then this book is for you.
VISHWAROOP is a Sanskrit word with philosophical connotations. It refers to the cosmology and the place of man within the cosmic structure. No place for the concept of God is posited.
While filled with philosophical ideas, it is not a book on philosophy. It is fun fiction. Man is presented in realistic form, in his stark nakedness, the way he really is, not the way we wish him to be. Although fiction, it is not fantasy. Realism does not mean dull. Once started on a story, you may not be able to put it down. And once you have put it down, you will start to think. The characters, the settings, and the ideas within, will linger in your mind, for days, months, even years.
So, take a plunge, and you might find yourself enjoying a very different kind of universe, submerged in reality, not dogma.
Yohannes Ishi : Nabse Bamato
Yohannes Ishi
Born in Ethiopia, but adopted by a British couple, Yohannes grows up far from his cultural roots. Following the death of his adoptive mother, he is persuaded to return to the beautiful, yet seemingly impossible nation, to take on a teaching job.
With no memories of the land of his birth and no knowledge of the language or culture, Yohannes finds himself a virtual stranger. He meets a whole raft of interesting characters, each with their own story to tell, including Abeba, who helps him not only to learn about his country, but also to make discoveries about himself.
Yohannes Ishi is a light read, but, at the same time, it paints vivid pictures of contemporary Ethiopia and successfully explores issues of identity and belonging. It is full of memorable and, often humorous, characters and evocative locations. While introducing you to, or reminding you of, Addis Ababa it will certainly raise a smile or two along the way.
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How’d I Get Here? : Dan Beckmann
How’d I Get Here And Why Am I Stealing M&M’s From Air Force One
A quirky journalist stumbles his way to the top with the famous and the infamous on the journey of a lifetime.
Dan Beckmann appears to be an average guy living a common life. That is, until he begins to share his extraordinary collection of surprising stories. He finds adventure the way he finds friends-everywhere.
Through his witty, light-hearted, and entertaining tales, he reminds us that the best things in life are free, that extraordinary adventures are always waiting just around the corner – and that it’s never too late to laugh your way to the finish line.
No matter where you are in life – there are people around you who help you step up, step over or step to it. Even if you’ve stepped in it!
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