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Closet : Eric John Swanson
Closet
Derek just graduated from seminary and is having a hard time finding a job. Out of frustration he starts to read a book with all the answers, but all it does is open a dark portal to another world. A gruesome looking demon and his sinister servant Sally leverage this opportunity to kidnap his wife and mentally disabled son. Now Derek must enter the closet to embark on a nightmarish adventure into the depths where no man would dare to go.
But Derek is not alone. The Holy Spirit comes to aid him on this quest, but will this be enough? Will Derek listen to what the Spirit is telling him or will he give into fear and lose those he loves? Then again, does he really love his son and wife enough to save them? His wife hasn’t been the most loving and his son doesn’t even talk. Derek will have to fight off thoughts of giving up as he makes his way through utter darkness.
He will also need great amounts of fortitude as he comes against the likes of Sally and other servants bent on his ultimate destruction. There will be zombies who desire nothing but blood. There will be sand creatures dragging unsuspecting people into the ground. Then there is always the demon, Rah, who can destroy a person from the outside and if that fails who will go inside and break a person down until there is nothing left but a servant yearning for blood and destruction.
Join Derek on this epic adventure to rescue his family with the help of the seven fold nature of the Holy Spirit.
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The Star Who Ran Away : Steve O. Boyo
The Star Who Ran Away
Fame comes at a price. Lars Brunner had the world at his feet, dashing good looks, a beautiful wife, money and rock star fame. Having conquered the world with his band the X-Cult, his neglected wife, Annie, deserts him on the eve of a tour. Lars returns triumphant and desperate to find his wife. However, there are forces beyond his control and after a brief reunion, Annie is found dead.
Lars is accused of murder but is granted bail. His life descends into Dante’s inferno as he is set adrift by the winds of fate from the shores of Texas to the Canary Islands and into the mysterious world of Basque shipping heiress, Renee de Haro and her friends. From Barcelona to the Pyrenees and Basque country, Lars discovers a world he could never have imagined.
Rock star excess, a memorable Holocaust memoir, the unraveling of secrets and an ETA-led Basque rebellion in northern Spain, brings The Star Who Ran Away to a thrilling climax.
How to Become a Food Budget Ninja : Jeff and Crystal Sykes
How to Become a Food Budget Ninja
Do you feel like there’s never enough time in the day to do what you want to do?
Do you yearn for a simple way to balance your hectic 8-5 lifestyle?
Is trying to eat healthy burning a hole in your wallet?
We’ve been there. We understand what it’s like to feel out of balance with your daily and weekly routine. We know what it feels like when there aren’t enough hours in the day to do what you need to do. We’ve been so frustrated with grocery budgets that we just didn’t know where to start. We wasted countless hours trying to find an easier way to shop at the grocery store, saving time and money. Through trial and error, we’ve discovered a simple system that works.
This guide will show you how easy it is to budget your monthly grocery expenses while entertaining you with a little humor along the way. Say goodbye to the days of wasting food and wasting money with these money saving tips!
While it may seem that being prepared requires a tremendous amount of time and energy, you really have nothing to fear. This guide will give you the knowledge you need to save both energy and time, while saving you money. This guide provides the tools you need to succeed.
Get the most out of your pantry and fridge by making them work for you!
Alleviate headache and frustration at the grocery store by creating a weekly menu to save you time and money!
Become a Food Budgeting Ninja:
- Choose from two helpful weekly menu templates to fit your style!
- Save time every day with our simple method of planning ahead.
- Learn how to use the price comparison method to choose the best deal.
- Write a grocery list to keep you on track at the grocery store.
- Money management is made easier with our budgeting tips.
This guide will get you into a routine that will help keep your pantry and fridge properly stocked. By creating a menu plan and using leftovers effectively, you stand to save hundreds of dollars per month as well as countless hours.
If you feel like you’re wasting time and money at the grocery store and in the kitchen every day, this guide is for you. It will help you minimize time spent shopping and cooking, maximize your free time, and allow you to spend it the way you want.
You could potentially decrease the time you spend at the grocery store by 700%, and have six extra hours free a week! What do you have to lose?
*Bonus*
As a bonus, you will get a week’s worth of healthy food recipes and a 7-day menu template preloaded with those recipes; such as homemade breakfast sandwiches, make-ahead parfaits, pecan crusted tilapia, salads, sandwiches, homemade pizza, oven-crisp chicken strips, fish tacos, turkey meatball soup, vinaigrette dressing, and whole wheat pasta with red sauce.
About Jeff and Crystal:
We are two regular people with busy 8-5 lives. We love food, and have developed a system to make shopping easier, faster, and less expensive.
Before mastering menus and budgeting, Crystal and Jeff would spend upwards of $600 a month on groceries. After developing the techniques in this guide through trial and error, their monthly grocery budget is $300, and they have cut their calorie intake dramatically.
Testimonials:
“This is just what I needed! THANK YOU, CRYSTAL!” – Levi, Without a Gym
“Crystal, this is awesome!” – Bethany, Project White Space
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Code Human : N. Paige
Code Human
It only takes a few seconds for your life to change; for everything you believed in to become lies; for lies to become hate; and for hate to lead to an uprising.
Fenesia Thornbark believes that her life will remain the same, forever, in a autocratic society, where she and others like her are the chosen, and call themselves Purestkind, far above the others who are called Underkind, including the Shillers, the Rubrics, and the Besmirchians, untill one day, at the start of an uprising, she, and the rest of her family are marked as traitors to the Purest government because they dared to show their humanity; they dared to sympathize with the Underkind. And now, are forced into hiding, where they are hunted like animals by the Kakus army on orders by the Purest, rulers of this post apocalyptic country, Kakus.
However, after loss and sacrifice…paralyzing fear, this fear becomes determination and unimaginable bravery, which changes her very essence.
Now, nothing will ever be as it was before.
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Pegasus to Paradise : Michael Tappenden
Pegasus to Paradise
Ted and Florrie were childhood sweethearts who in 1936 married at the church on top of the Hill where they both lived, unaware of the dark rumblings from Europe, which in a few short years were to change their lives for ever. Ted is called up in 1940 and joins an elite Airborne glider force tasked with attacking, capturing and holding bridges in enemy-held Normandy, vital to the success of the D-Day invasion. At sixteen minutes past midnight on 6 June 1944, he and his comrades clamber from the wreckage of their gliders and successfully capture and hold the Pegasus and Horsa bridges.
From there he continues to fight at the bloody Rhine Crossing, across Germany until finally meeting the Russian Army on the Baltic. The casualties are terrible. In 1946 Ted is demobbed and returns to Florrie and his young family unscathed. Or apparently so, for Florrie doesn’t know the man who returns and soon the trauma of constant death and battle takes its toll and both struggle to understand and come to terms with such a destructive problem in the buttoned-up society of the 1940s and 50s. To make matters worse Florrie’s mental health deteriorates. How will Ted deal with this?
With the same heightened sense of duty and loyalty that won the war or will that same stubborness turn on him and destroy him? Based on a true story, Pegasus to Paradise is an ode to both the extraordinary efforts of ordinary men and women during the Second World War and a moving portrait of trauma, survival and the power of love in post-war Britain.
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While one might expect the soldier’s heroic figure to dominate a war tale, here, it’s the soldier’s wife who steals the show. The novel opens with Florrie’s unorthodox tomboy childhood and then portrays the burgeoning relationship between her and Tappenden (then a soon-to-be soldier).
Soon they’re married: he’s called to war, and Florrie is left to navigate the trauma of repeated bombings and uncertainty at home. Meanwhile Ted miraculously survives his part in the D-Day assault on the Pegasus and Horsa bridges. The actual events of the war skate by fleetingly in the first third of the book, but they colour all the rest of it, which is dedicated to Ted and Florrie’s attempts to reignite their connection.
He comes home physically unscathed but emotionally absent and while she at first appears to be the more sound if the two, that changes as the years go on. Tappenden creates some beautiful descriptions, even in the midst of tragedy, as when he describes what Florrie sees after a German plane crashes just two doors down from her house.’’(S)he recognised a large piece of red chimney pot lying like a wound amongst the dark green cauliflowers and, nearby, a sliver of tile, razor sharp, was embedded in the trunk of an apple tree.’’
WW2 buffs may enjoy a glimpse into the lives of real people not just during but after the war – and current veterans or those that love them may find the intergenerational similarities intriguing.
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Organic Beauty With Essential Oil : Rebecca Park Totilo
Organic Beauty With Essential Oil
Looking for that perfect all-natural bath product? One that will keep your skin looking great, is appealing to smell, has actual therapeutic benefits, and doesn’t break the bank? Well, here it is! S
weep aside all those harmful chemically-based cosmetics and make your own organic bath and body products at home with the magic of potent essential oils! In this book, you’ll find a luxurious array of over 400 Eco-friendly recipes such as Exotic Patchouli Massage Oil, Zesty Banana-Lemon Foot Cream and Jasmine Bath Bombs filled with breathtaking fragrances and soothing, rich organic ingredients satisfying you head to toe.
Designed with the naturalist in mind, each formula draws from essential oils’ well-known skin rejuvenating effects, showing you how to best care for your unique skin and hair type using all-natural botanicals.
Included you’ll find helpful tips and customizable recipes – all with step-by-step instructions – so you can have the confidence knowing which essential oil to use and how much when creating your own body scrub, lip butter, or lotion bar!
Discover how easy it is to make bath treats like fragrant shower gels, dreamy bubble baths, luscious creams and lotions, deep cleansing masks and facials for literally pennies using only a few essential oils and ingredients from your own kitchen with Organic Beauty with Essential Oil.
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The Fine Art of Boxing : Geoff Dale
The Fine Art of Boxing – No Stooge In The Ring
For more than 80 years the world has known Larry Fine as the frizzy-haired middle man of The Three Stooges. A fall guy always on the wrong end of Moe’s infamous eye-pokes and face slaps, he’d still jump into the fray with fellow masters of mayhem – Moe, Curly and Shemp.
Few knew his hidden talents – his prowess as an amateur boxer; his untapped musical gifts as a classical violinist. He was a marvelously entertaining comic, dancer and singer but much more.
In the fictional biography The Fine Art of Boxing – No Stooge In The Ring, author Geoff Dale mixes real places and people with fantasy. Taking a ‘what if’ look at Larry’s life, he considers how the diminutive comedian might have ended up, if he’d continued his quest for boxing fame or studied to be a concert violinist.
The book covers his early years at the turn-of-the-20th-Century in South Philadelphia’s Jewish Quarter to the month before the world was engulfed by the Great Depression. Along the way, readers discover what prompted the youngster, born Louis Feinberg, to lace up the gloves.
Louis, who adopted the name Larry Fine, succeeded as an amateur fighter behind the backs of his disapproving parents, aided by prominent promoter Philip Glassman. Fighting as the feared Kid Roth, he racked up wins in ferocious style, until one fateful event stopped him dead in his tracks.
What might have happened’ if circumstances had been drastically altered. Where would Larry have headed? Could Glassman have helped his young protégé climb back through the ropes?
With the Roaring Twenties captivating young Americans, Larry moved upward in two different worlds – entertainment and fighting. He rubbed shoulders with theatrical giants Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor while avoiding notorious mobsters like Al Capone.
What was his fate?
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The Doomsday Genie : Frank P Ryan
The Doomsday Genie
An Apocalyptic Thriller
05: 17/ 08h45
In the Middle East Apache gunships attack an agricultural station in the desert.
In Thirless, Arizona, MayEllen Reickhardt is waiting to meet her friend, Lucille Cordoba. MayEllen and Lucille are cactus growers. They plan to visit the annual convention in Phoenix. They will never make it.
At the Ivan Wallin Field Reserve, an ecology station in the southern Mojave, Ake Johansson is carrying a roll of computer printout back to his office from the mainframe computer in the lab. The printout – covering the last few days’ measurements in Sector 5-32 – is alarming. Soon Johansson will make an urgent call to his colleague, Kay McCann, at Berkeley.
In Atlanta CDC-based Will Grant is woken from sleep by a call from the ITU doctor at the Thirless Memorial Hospital. ‘Well, I’m telling you this is a very strange case. We’ve already sent you specimens. I certainly hope you can help us.’
They don’t know it yet but it is already too late. Something extraordinary, something very frightening indeed, is emerging – and their lives will never be the same again.
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34/4 : Jonathan Gunger
34/4
By all accounts, the Taylors have a perfect life: a happy marriage, two vibrant sons, and a wonderful home full of love and respect.
But when disaster strikes on a frozen New England river, everything they believe in is called into question. One tragic day, Isaac Taylor steps on to the frozen Housatonic River—only to feel the ice give way beneath him. Although Pete tries to save him, Isaac doesn’t make it. Now the surviving family members struggle to come to grips with the loss of a beloved brother and son. As the rest of the nation prepares for the glorious festivities of the bicentennial, the Taylors begin to face the horrifi c reality that is their life
after his death.
Pete Taylor is plagued by memories of that day and by the specter of what he could have done to save his brother’s life. Bill Taylor is haunted by what he built and wonders how he could have changed fate and saved his son’s life. Anne Taylor, a grieving mother and wife, wonders if the eff ort to keep her fractured family together is really worth the fight.
In search of a new life unburdened by painful reminders of their loss, the family escapes to build a new life on the bayous and rivers of northwestern Florida. But will a change of scenery bring about a change of heart—or will old demons continue to drag them into the agonizing past they so desperately want to leave behind?
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Goliath : Richard Turner
Goliath
In the summer of 1931, the British Airship Goliath on her maiden flight vanishes without a trace over West Africa, taking with her a secret that people are willing to kill and die for.
In the present, a team of mercenaries attempt to kidnap historian Jennifer March from a dig site in the Philippines; setting off a deadly chain of events that could threaten millions. Drawn into the race to find the Goliath and her hidden secret, Ryan Mitchell, a former special operations soldier, and his team must try to protect Jennifer March from a deadly and well-financed group that intends to change the world.
From the deserts of Africa, to the snow-covered forests of Alaska to a rocky island off Iceland the hunt for the truth is on.
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