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The Bow of Destiny : P. H. Solomon
Haunted by his past. Hunted in the present. Uncertain what is real.
Athson suffered hallucinations ever since he was orphaned, including a dog no one else sees. The will in his possession, bestowed in a dream, can’t be real. But the trolls now hunting him are. A destiny, both inconvenient and unavoidable, drags Athson into an unwanted quest that challenges all his assumptions.
Can he trust anyone?
Sworn to secrecy by his dead father about the bow, Athson wants nothing to do with it. A dragon and a wizard want the bow – and Athson dead. Running from the quest and his destiny are tempting options.
Then he finds something unexpected.
Will his discovery destroy him before he recovers the bow?
If you love classic fantasy with new ideas, read The Bow of Destiny because it’s quietly addictive.
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NORVEL: An American Hero : Kenneth F Conklin
Norvel Lee spent his childhood in a rustic, segregated black community nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. His father was a day laborer for the railroad while his mother expected her children to get an education and become involved in community affairs. In spite of obstacles such as Virginia’s Jim Crow laws, limited schooling opportunities, and a speech impediment, Norvel’s life journey led to exceptional accomplishments in the larger world.
After graduating from high school, he was selected for flight training at Tuskegee Army Airfield. He served in a segregated unit in the South Pacific during World War II. Afterward, he enrolled at Howard University to pursue engineering and took up intramural boxing. As a pugilist he excelled, becoming the national AAU heavyweight champion. In 1948 and 1952 he was on the U.S. Olympic team, making history at the Helsinki Games in 1952.
Norvel married Leslie Jackson of Leesburg, Virginia, graduated from Howard University, and started a family. Later he received several advanced degrees and devoted himself to a career in education. He and Leslie became prominent mentors and sponsors of young people in the greater Washington, D.C., area. He also served as a senior officer in the U.S. Air Force Reserves.
Based on true events, NORVEL is a meticulously researched story about a remarkable, resilient, heroic man.
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Walks in the Garden (The BackYard Trio Bible Stories Book 1) : Sara Kendall
Go on an adventure with The BackYard Trio as they Walk in the Garden of Eden.
EZ shares the story of God’s creation on this Earth with Avra and Scooter.
Learn what God did in six days, and what He did when Adam and Eve disobeyed Him. (Gen 1:1 – Gen 3:24)
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Bear with Me (Strawberry Shifters Book 1) : Marilyn Barr
Blue eyes, dimples, and silky brown hair; Grant Luther has all of Alison’s weaknesses.
When he asks for one last chance to save their marriage, she agrees to relocate their family to isolated Strawberry, Kentucky in pursuit of his career dreams. Grant views Alison’s sensory issues as limitations and protects her from outside threats. When he finds his new job includes changing him into a shifter in a war against the soul-sucking Sluagh he vows to keep the changes a secret. What he doesn’t know is Alison has been hiding a magical secret of her own. One that makes her a target of the Sluagh.
Will Alison emerge from Grant’s shadow to protect her family? And can Grant learn that being different can be a strength not a weakness?
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Paranormal Investigators’ Club: Mysterious Blackwell Mansion : JD Broyhill
One rainy and spooky Halloween night, three brothers- Jeremy, Stephen, and James -set out to explore the mysterious Blackwell Mansion, a legend in the town of Pineville. Their best friends, Brandon and Sheila, are also eager to have some Halloween fun and agree to join them on the adventure. The five children have no idea that the mansion holds more secrets than they can solve in one night.
As the group wanders around the abandoned house, two of the kids get separated from the others and experience something very strange and creepy. Once the five are reunited, they head for home-but their encounter with Blackwell Mansion is only just beginning. Their presence may have triggered something unexpected. The kids decide to go back and discover all the house’s secrets, and they form an investigating group that they name Pic5-the Paranormal Investigators Club-5, because there are five of them. But back at the mansion, they face scary supernatural events that make them wonder if they can make it out safely.
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Love’s Deception : Nicolas Russo
A middle-aged man enjoying a night out sits at a bar in a restaurant when his haunting past walks through the door. The love of his life whom he hasn’t seen for some thirty years.
The initial shock sends Rick Martella into a frenzy of emotions while attempting to evade her detection. As he contemplates what to do, his mind races back in time to a love that began so pure and innocent to one riddled with lies and betrayal. A love that left a hole in his heart of which he could never fill and so much pain his dazzled eyes refused to see. A love that broke him but in time made him stronger to move on to a happy life.
Love’s Deception is a unique story of the joys love can bring and the devastation it can bestow on someone so young and not prepared for the power of its wrath.
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The Boy in the Barn : James Kramer
This is a riveting story about child abuse, toxic stress, and murder occurring in the 1960s when many people looked the other way, and there was no such thing as mandated reporters.
Suffering silently and blaming himself, a little boy struggled to understand his world. It wasn’t until school authorities had to intervene due to obvious and severe injuries that his life started to change.
This autobiography describes the events of the author’s childhood that permeated his life. Joy was non-existent. Life was bleak.
Living in the most extreme isolation and placed in a barn, the author was subjected to extreme mental and physical abuse. He survived to tell the tale and encourage others to move forward. He encourages prevention, early recognition and intervention, and forgiveness.
Elephant : Natalie Rodriguez
When was the last time you were shut down for experiencing a mental health struggle or feeling unheard by others, including those closest to you?
Summer of 2006. Four childhood best friends. A family secret.
After a strange encounter leaves him hospitalized, a timid teenage boy named Matt “Matty” Smith comes home to a continuous series of events met with anxiety, depression, and PTSD.
Under the guardianship of his grandma, Lucia, Matt lives with unspoken questions about his grandfather and parents. The elephant in the room. As Matt develops over the summer, the secrets only grow more profound and complex. Will the answers ever come? While searching for answers, Matt and his three childhood best friends encounter the meanings of love, forgiveness, and fate.
This story is for those who feel their voice is unheard and for children, teenagers, and the adult who never had the chance to heal from their pain.
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City of Sound and Light : Dave Walker
Tera knows a secret… Someone is going to die on election day. But that’s not what worries her.
She learned the secret from a dying spark, one of the fairy-like companions people in her world use to communicate, and she found the spark in her father’s office.
A radical leader is on the rise, and the old factions are determined to stop him at any cost. If anyone finds out her father’s involved, it might be the end of him. If anyone finds out what she knows, it might be the end of her.
The only way to keep her city, her family, and her life from ripping apart is to follow the spark deeper into this deadly game of politics that no one can know she’s playing.
Her only advantage is her obscurity. She has no following. No one listens to her or even knows her name. But that’s about to change.
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Christianity a Flawed Religion : Warren William Luce
How Christian Dogma Inadvertently Keeps Humanity in Bondage to Sin and a Suffering World and How To Fix It
This book shows how Christian dogma has strayed far from God’s word and the teachings of Jesus Christ, the harm it does, and what to do about it. That dogma claims that sin is innate in our character, having inherited it from Adam, and there is nothing we can do to change that. Therefore, not being perfect, we are deserving of God’s condemnation to hell.
But God says we are magnificent beings, like Him. We are not at fault for Adam’s disobedience. He says we can turn from any sin, do what is right and good and He will forgive us as long as we forgive others
Jesus said go and sin no more and told us how to do it. He said we are the light of the world, let our good works shine. He said when you show kind caring and forgiving love to everyone, you will enjoy life and your destiny will be heaven.
Based on the words of God and Jesus, this book explores a new reality of religion which, when followed, will make our world better, perhaps even the paradise that was intended for us.