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After The Sucker Punch : Lorraine Devon Wilke
After The Sucker Punch
They buried her father at noon, at five she found his journals, and in the time it took to read one-and-a-half pages her world turned upside down…he thought she was a failure.
For Tessa Curzio – thirty-six, emerging writer, ex-rocker, lapsed Catholic, defected Scientologist, and fourth in a family of eight complicated people – the one-two punch of her father’s death and posthumous indictment proves an existential knockout, leading to a wild ride of discovery and reinvention.
AFTER THE SUCKER PUNCH takes an irreverent look at family, faith, creativity and love in a story wrapped in contemporary culture but with a very classic heart.
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A Thinker’s Daily Challenge : Ken Havelock
A Thinker’s Daily Challenge : Volume 1
Celebrity endorsed by Alex Trebek, Jeff Foxworthy, Professor Philip Bigler (1998 National Teacher of the Year) and four others! Book is a May 2014 Mom’s Choice Awards® recipient, and more recently, it received an “Honorable Mention” in the Cover Design category of the LuckyCinda Book Contest.
Young and old alike love “quiz shows,” and this budding educational book series provides a similar experience. VOLUME 1 masters the formula of making “learning fun!” Its inspiration and driving force is the popular old adage, “you learn something new every day.”
The volume follows a unique “daily format,” it offers four months of daily challenges plus two dozen bonuses, and covers geography, history, and the sciences. It features rebus and word finder puzzles, image identifications (in b/w and color), short stories (intriguing little mysteries in which the reader must determine the final geographic location of one or more characters), questions presented in a variety of formats (multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, true or false, and simple construction), along with many surprises!
Readers with a Smartphone get an added treat, for if they scan the QR codes contained within the book, that action will reveal beautiful full color images of animals taken by professional wildlife photographers!
Recommended Readership (age 12 through Adult).
Shaman Lujan Matus Has Answers : H. R. Phillips
Shaman Lujan Matus Has Answers
What happens when a top UFO blogger with an esoteric bent interviews a modern day Shaman? The result is this four star Kindle book – jammed packed with intriguing questions and amazingly thoughtful answers about phenomena such as UFOs, Orbs and entities.
If you were a reader of Carlos Castaneda, like the author H.R. Phillips – this book becomes a near necessity as Shaman Lujan Matus maintains he receives `answers’ in his own lucid dreams with direct contact with Socerer Don Juan Matus of the Carlos Castaneda book series. While it would be easy to dismiss such claims, the answers that Phillips beckons literally come through with the stinging realness of when Don Juan spoke in the Castaneda books.
So, begin your journey onto the path of knowledge shared between modern day shamanism and the speculative thought of one of today’s top UFO bloggers.
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On The Move : K.V. Flynn
On The Move
Seven middle school kids, living in Surfside, CA, are best skateboard buddies. When the oldest of the gang, Justice, gets permission to take the bus down to the city, the whole posse decides to join him. They’re supposed to be just skating around their high school then studying for finals, but if they’re back in time, no one will know. It is a sweet trip full of laughs and tricks until Justice crashes on a 9-stair, crushing his shin and dislocating an arm. The boys are NOT supposed to be 25 miles from home, so they try to smuggle the bleeding buddy back on to the public bus and up to Surfside Urgent Care. But when the bus driver dials 911, their secret is blown. They are almost grounded from 8th Grade Promotion and all the celebrations marking the end of middle school.
The whole town sobers up when Justice goes missing on the eve of exams. The sheriff and counselors come to his home room and lay a rose on his desk; the kids are sure this is one of those “Every 15 Minutes” exercises to scare them all into drink-free driving and a sober prom. But wait: they aren’t even in High School yet! They don’t have Prom. This must be serious…and it is. Justice’s car has been found flipped into the surf at Matador Beach and burned; only his crutch and cast were recovered.
The kids’ band, Heart Attack, was slated to perform at promotion. Instead, they play Justice’s wake, then organize a paddle out to send his skateboard off to sea. Summer’s somber start does have one great light on the horizon, however: PEAK Skate Camp in Visalia. Two perfect weeks of skating and buddies, 24/7.
It is a blast: tricks with the pros, nature hikes that end in a skate launch off into the cool lake, late-night edit sessions and videos, more practice right after breakfast. Perfect—until our narrator, Callum, gets a crazy package at mail call that includes a mysterious note.
The boys are freaking out, not sure who to tell as they go over and over every possible meaning, when suddenly life becomes very complicated. The War that’s been brewing between Iran and Israel, then Israel and China, then China and the U.S., has escalated with the summer heat. The boys have seen the reports, heard their nervous parents, huddled with the camp counselors.
But when the War moves home, and major cities all across the country come under attack, the boys don’t have their own parents to turn to about what to do next.
A second clue sends them on the road, headed north to meet their Native American buddy Obbie, who seems to have escaped the city with his cousin, Suri. They have a car at least, and maybe some additional information about their families, too. Obbie’s dad lives near Spokane, on a reservation—they were headed there for summer break, but now this becomes a possible safe haven where the boys can sort out a world gone crazy while they are on the move.
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Simple Sleep Solutions and How to Profit from Your Dreams : JP Nicolais
Simple Sleep Solutions and How to Profit from Your Dreams
Simple Sleep Solutions, An E-book by JP Nicolais, (2nd edition, published by Xlibris, July 2014)
- Improve your sleep naturally
- Profit from your dreams
This image-rich guide to better sleep provides the author’s proven solution with a 90% success rate. Available on Amazon.com, Amazon and iTunes, iTunes, this book is accessible on all Kindle devices as well as Android and Apple devices. A Spanish language eBook has been published on Amazon.com and iTunes, under the title of Soluciones Simples a los Trastornos del Sueño.
You can learn how the author developed his approach and adapt it to develop your own sleep solutions. The technique is ideal for falling back to sleep in the middle of the night and can also be used to fall asleep initially. The author shares his recommendations for activities and life styles that promote or inhibit sleep. You don’t need special training or equipment to personalize this proven technique, but creativity, a willingness to experiment and an active imagination are very helpful. It’s so simple, you probably won’t believe it until you try it.
Because sound sleep promotes dreaming, the book also guides readers to understand how they can profit from their dreams. An expert in the psychology of dreaming describes why we dream, how to access our dreams and how to interpret our dreams in ways that lead to creative solutions for our waking life.
The information and opinions contained in this book are intended only for informational purposes and is derived from experiential data and other sources believed to be reliable. It has not been scientifically evaluated and should not be considered a proven medical solution.
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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).
