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Charlie No Face : David B. Seaburn
Charlie No Face
“Everything in my life changed, just like that. I mean everything. This summer was supposed to be the best time of my short life. And up until the middle of July, the summer of ’59 was. But then everything changed. My dad started acting, well, different. He wasn’t completely ‘there’ some of the time, and I didn’t know what to think of it. And on top of that, there was the whole thing about Charlie No Face.”
Jackie
So begins Charlie No Face, a coming of age story about an 11 year old boy, Jackie, growing up in the late 1950s in western Pa. He lives with his father, his mother having died when he was an infant.
The biggest preoccupation of Jackie and his friends (and many others) is Charlie No Face, a severely disfigured and deformed hermit who roams country roads at night and is reputed to kill children, animals and just about anything else he can get his hands on. Jackie and Charlie No Face eventually form an unlikely friendship that transforms them both, shedding light on Jackie’s mother’s lifer, helping Charlie make peace with his past and teaching Jackie how to look at people with his heart.
It is a story for anyone who has ever been abused, bullied, rejected or misunderstood. It is for those who feel their true face has never been recognized. This is a story about the power of compassion and the importance of seeing with one’s heart.
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Chimney Bluffs : David B. Seaburn
Chimney Bluffs
When state park ranger Clancy Brisco discovers two bodies and two sacks at the bottom of 300 foot high Chimney Bluffs, he is shocked. When he discovers what is in the sacks, his life is changed forever. Chimney Bluffs is a story about the power of relationships to foster hope and enable healing.
Kate and Mitch Duncan adore their young son, Danny; when he dies unexpectedly after a brief illness, they are inconsolable. Mitch believes their only option is to join their son in the afterlife so he will not be alone; Kate agrees to Mitch’s proposal of suicide, not because she believes in the afterlife, but because she feels responsible for Danny’s death. They put two sacks in the back of their VW van, one containing their son, the other containing his toys, and go to their favorite place, Chimney Bluffs, Ice Age spires carved out of the Lake Ontario shoreline. Mitch jumps to his death; Kate lives.
Clancy and his young co-worker and friend, Bobby, are overwhelmed by what they find in the sacks. Clancy, furious at what he thinks has been the murder of a little boy, curses Kate as she lies silent on the shore.
Over the course of several months, Clancy, Bobby and Kate will not only become friends, but will live together, their private stories mingling in an unexpectedly transformative way. Clancy, the failed husband who always hoped for a family; Bobby, whose brother’s death when he was a boy destroyed Bobby’s relationship with his father; and Kate, who struggles with loss and guilt and, in the end, healing and hope.
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Cold Warriors : Clare Dargin
Cold Warriors
Left in cryogenic stasis for nearly a century, Caitlin Driskoll is awakened and drafted into a war she knows nothing about. Expected to defend a world where her kind is despised and expendable, she discovers love and respect from the one man who can’t be associated with her.
Lieutenant Colonel Medoro Keegan has spent a lifetime in the Marines. With no family to speak of, the Corps and his ship, the USS Blanchard, are all the loved ones he needs…until Caitlin sparks a fire within, that threatens to consume him if he doesn’t walk away.
Will he choose a life of certainty in the only world he knows or give it all to Caitlin and run the risk of losing someone, yet again?
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Seven Minutes Without Air : M.K. Harvey
Seven Minutes Without Air (A Jack Larsson Story)
Still recovering from a harrowing incident in Afghanistan, which ended his illustrious army career. Recently released from army prison, Jack Larsson returns to his boyhood home of Yorkshire. He hopes to discover the truth surrounding the death of his younger brother, move on from his dis-honourable discharge and banish his demons.
Jack meets up with his uncle but soon becomes tangled in a complex web of corrupt businessmen, his brothers ex-girlfriends, eastern Europeans and a police force who don’t want him to discover the truth surrounding his brothers death.
With the help of an ambitious journalist he gets closer to the truth, discovers family secrets and realises all isn’t quite as it appears. He is left in a desperate race to save not only his sanity but also his soul.
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DARE : Scott Weiss
DARE: Accepting the Challenge of Trusting Leadership
After a decade of unrelenting dishonesty behind a string of national scandals and a financial debacle that created one of the worst recessions in eighty years, the trust of America’s consumers—and especially its youth—is at an all-time low. In this climate of distrust, Scott Weiss shows CEOs, managers, or anyone in a position of leadership how they can achieve success by returning transparency to their communication and making honesty a radical business strategy. It’s a revolutionary proposal—a DARE to go against the grain of “business as usual.” It’s a DARE be honest.
Leaders will learn how to develop greater self-awareness and a more empathetic understanding of those around them. It’s an approach that leads to more genuine and productive relationships— driving greater commitment and energy—both in and out of the workplace.
Weiss encourages leaders to give up the go-to crutches of everyday business communication: kissing up, endless euphemisms, exaggerations and “spin.” Through case studies from leaders who have faced these challenges, you’ll get an inside look at their organizations’ communication and learn how you can initiate profound change in yours. But it’s not just internal relationships that have to get more real. In today‘s world market, your customers want the truth, too. With social media, buyers’ forums, and on-line product ratings, if customers aren’t happy, they’ll let hundreds of people know. Weiss offers practical solutions for creating a positive emotional connection with customers, clients and consumers while sharing real-world examples in which honesty and trustworthiness create a powerful competitive advantage.
If you accept the DARE, execution may take some grit. As a leader, you will become a “Connector in Chief” who knows how to communicate a vision, how to carry on high-stakes conversations, what to do when you don’t have all the answers and how to achieve greater transparency and honesty with your workforce and your customers.
Are you ready for the challenge? Go ahead, take the DARE and put your business on the road to integrity, honesty and new levels of prosperity.
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The Blue Moon Catastrophe : Justin Bauer
The Blue Moon Catastrophe
While going through the motions of hotel management, Jessie Wilson’s apathy is shaken when presented with evidence of a violent crime committed by an employee.
In poor judgement, he turns a blind eye to the horror until another incident forces a response. A repeating cycle of murder surfaces and leads Jessie to take action with his back against the wall.
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The Dark Horde : Brewin
The Dark Horde
1989, rural Victoria, Australia. Something is preying upon the township of Howqua Hills. Brian Derwent, head of the local Police Station, must simultaneously grapple with the investigation, his disintegrating personal life and unseen forces that are not of this world.
Part thriller, part crime-fiction, all supernatural horror, The Dark Horde tells of the return of an ancient evil that is neither stoppable nor comprehensible…
• Indie Excellence Awards 2013 – Finalist (Horror)
• Indie Excellence Awards 2013 – Finalist (Thriller)
• Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards 2012 – Honorable Mention (Genre Fiction)
• Coffin Hop Flash Fiction Contest 2012 – First Place
CRITIC REVIEWS:
“The Dark Horde is a wild, foul-mouthed, bloody, creative, demented, scary, and hilarious thrill-ride of a horror novel.” – Writer’s Digest
“Horror tales often run the risk of following genre conventions too closely, but The Dark Horde has plenty of genuine surprises. Highly recommended!” – Indie Bookspot
“This book managed to hit me where it hurts at every single point. Not only was it just scary it was creepy and at certain points it made me feel uncomfortable … Brewin shows extreme potential and I hope to read more of his work.” – Fiction Love
“The meticulous effort and detail that Brewin’ has put into this book is outstanding on all fronts and is evident from start to finish.” – Metal Obsession
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In Search of the Warrior With-in : Rod Power
In Search of the Warrior With-in and the Battle of the EGO
One man journeys on his Quest In Search of the Warrior With-in due to co-dependency. Because the only problem with co-dependency is? You just lost control of half of you.
He will do Battle with the human EGO against 36 years of disciplined Martial Arts training and philosophical learning as his journey takes him to Thailand, Japan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Singapore the Philippines and finally into the War torn Karen State of Burma (Myanmar) with the K.N.L.A. Karen National Liberation Army. This War is the world’s longest Civil War…61 years so far and also the world’s most undocumented War…
Learn of the silent line of communication between left dominate brain and the passive right.From the duality of souls to the duality of solar and lunar currents he searches for the Way of following the least resistant path. Rod Power is a 10th Dan teacher of the fighting arts…6 times Australian OPEN Martial Arts Champion and 2 times Australasian OPEN Martial Arts Champion.
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Laura A. Ellison : The Last Girl
The Last Girl
Sonya Neslund has gone through some serious changes over the last year. Her mother Carolyn has died from lung cancer and the home she shared with her mother and stepfather Cal had to be sold, forcing Sonya to live with her unemployed father Aron and Uncle Bill Neslund, who has early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
Sonya manages to make two new friends during her first day of high school; Bobby Chambers, who is openly gay, and the beautiful Piper Jones. Piper’s friend Jessica Holden does not show up for school, and they soon find out she was viciously attacked, her face slashed.
Sonya and her new friends launch their own investigation to find the slasher, who calls himself the Ravisher, as they deal with pain from their pasts, including a former friend of Piper’s, now institutionalized, who may know the identity of the Ravisher, but uses her information to control Piper as the Ravisher plans his next attacks.
Meanwhile, Sonya could be putting herself in more danger as she uses her photography hobby and budding investigative skills to bring herself closer to the Blue Diamonds, a notorious motorcycle gang, that may hold the key to the Ravisher’s identity.
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Our Love Could Light The World : Anne Leigh Parrish
Our Love Could Light The World
You know the Dugans. They’re that scrappy bunch down the street. Their yard is overgrown, they don’t pick up after their dog. The father hasn’t earned a cent in years. The wife holds them together on her income alone. Their five children run free, leaving chaos in their wake. You wouldn’t want them for neighbors, but from a distance, they’re quite entertaining.
Of course, alcohol is an issue. You can tell from the empty bottles lying under the bush out front.You can hardly blame the wife for leaving one day. Without her at the helm, the rest carry on the best they can.
Their strong sense of family keeps them going. They help each other, and in some cases, rescue each other. They struggle for a better life. While they never follow the rules, or completely conquer adversity, they stare it down, meet their challenges, and earn some much needed respect. They might even make you proud.
Set in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, the twelve linked stories in Our Love Could Light The World depict a dysfunctional family that’s messy and rude, cruel and kind, and loyal to the end.
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