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Everything is interconnected; always was; always will be. Mr Brown's poems span all the genres of his own life. From being a driver of a food truck turned ambulance at the '69 Woodstock concert, to his musings on the current political climate. His rhetoric sometimes is brutally honest and pulls no punches, while at the same time his soft touch can melt the heart.
In the year 1840 of the First Age, the Selestian kingdom of Gorn is ruled by the Ri Arda Emalda and the Ri Ardan Aneric. Sierra bir Anona, a young Selestian from an ancient family, has been appointed Emalda’s apprentice, the Ri Keta of Gorn. Sierra is known and loved by the people of Gorn, but not all those in power are pleased by her popularity. When a menacing shadow begins terrorizing Gorn's eastern border, tensions rise at the palace. Frustrated by the court’s reluctance to act, Sierra and her loyal friends set off to identify the enemy and fight to protect their people. Will they learn the truth in time?
What would you do if Death knocked at your door? For Isis, it was the day her whole life changed. The day retired Army vet Isis Black accidentally knocks a man off a crowded fire escape at a wild party is the day she can't seem to forget. But when she answers her door to Death standing on the other side with a job offer, she is convinced she's stuck in a dream she can't wake from--or maybe a nightmare.
This is Jack’s story. Jack grew up on a rough council estate in London and has hit a rough patch with his business going to the wall. His Uncle Stan is ready to retire and suggests that Jack take over his long-standing Starlight Cafe. With the help of his partner and friends, Jack transforms the rundown Cafe into a successful gourmet burger bar. With the future looking bright, the Starlight Cafe begins to attract the attention of ruthless burger chain Mack ‘n’ Morti’s. With the local health inspector on its payroll, Mack & Morti’s plots to bring the Starlight Cafe to a close. But Jack isn’t going to give up without a fight. As the battle of burgers escalates, Jack uncovers a dark secret that reveals things are not all as they seem at Mack ‘n’ Morti’s. The Starlight Cafe is a story with the lot - gourmet burgers, friendship, love and the power and greed of big business.
t’s In the Bag: How to turn a passion into a new business is an inspiring business memoir. Entrepreneurs will find invaluable business advice in this remarkable story of how a flight attendant turned an idea into a product category that didn’t exist and created a multimillion-dollar global brand—the iconic SHERPA BAG, the world’s top selling, soft-side pet carrier. Pet lovers who fly with a dog or cat, have Gayle Martz to thank for revolutionizing pet travel on airlines, and for making pet travel in every mode, safer. This is her story. Gayle’s journey to becoming one of the top successful women entrepreneurs, is not a fairy tale in which everything went smoothly. Her story began in 1987, when she was furloughed from the job she loved as a TWA hostess (now known as a flight attendant). Shortly after, she lost the man she loved, her fiancé, who died in his sleep. Her saving grace was her little dog named SHERPA, who became her life. It was on a cross-country car trip with SHERPA, that the idea of a soft-sided pet carrier came to her.
Grief Healed: A Physician’s Prescription for Thriving After Loss. This memoir chronicles Sona's journey through a time with grief so devastating that it could be paralyzing. Heart-wrenching, but ultimately triumphant, this is a story of recovery and hope for the future.
Life in the Academic Fast Lane Martin Quint, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Cambridge Technology Institute, is at the top of his professional career. Beloved as a teacher and internationally lionized as a researcher, he enthusiastically embraces his academic overload. But with a baby on the way and a critical tenure case for a junior female colleague hanging by a thread, life throws more at Martin than he can juggle.
Sarah is a Thirteen year old girl who starts experiencing memories that are thousands of years old. She is initially confused when vivid memories from an unknown woman suddenly manifest within her mind when she’s threatened with danger. She uses the knowledge in those memories to help her get out of trouble. But a DNA swab exposing a unique gene has brought her to the attention of a company that specializes in genetic research. Sarah eagerly seizes the chance for a better life and the fact that she must share her memories as a condition of being accepted in a research project doesn’t raise any red flags for her. Not yet.
Who was George de Morhenschildt, and what was his connection to Lee Harvey Oswald? This book tells the amazing true story of Dutch journalist Willem Oltmans, his ten-year investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and his efforts to find the truth by developing a close personal friendship and relationship with the mysterious de Mohrenschildt. After exhaustive research and an in-depth study by the authors, the thrilling details of Oltmans' journey in pursuit of the facts, as documented in his personal diaries and notes in archives stored in Den Haag, The Netherlands, are finally brought to light in Walking The Razor's Edge: The Dutchman and The Baron. You don't have to be a history buff to enjoy this engrossing tale.
A blend of fact and fiction, drawn from true life classroom experiences that draw attention to the issues affecting and challenging young people today. A novel for middle grade readers (10-14yrs) which focuses on replacing self-doubt with self-belief. Emily is in her second year at West End Academy, she is almost thirteen years old and struggling to come to terms with her brother Robbie’s near fatal road accident and her increasingly distant mother. She worries her warring parents will divorce and abandon her. Everything around her is changing and so is she. The behaviour of little Jacob Gilbert, whom Emily vowed to protect, after the Aled’s death, leaves her feeling worthless and a failure when he becomes hostile towards her after falling in with a bad crowd. He tells her to mind her own business and leave him alone.
A blend of fact and fiction based in a North East, fictional High School. Emily is eleven years old and having to adjust to her new life at West End Academy; a loud, noisy and hostile place. She wishes she could go to her big brother for help, but he’s got his own problems that will ultimately lead to a run in with the law. She is lonely and feels isolated from the friends she has left behind at her old school. Her confidence is crushed when Aled, a young boy mercilessly bullied by old boys, is found dead. Emily blames herself. While struggling to come to terms with her increasingly distant mother, Emily learns through the help of her after school discuss group, and the kindly teacher, Mrs. Cosby, how to cope with the bullies and she sees a whole new world before her; a world in which she is strong and confident.
Zak and Amelie are enjoying the sights and sounds of Whitby, nestling on the storm lashed coast of Northern England; a place steeped in myths, folklore and legend. Amelie meets the strange old man, Billy Peanut and the even odder twins, Pearl and Boyd. But is there something even weirder about these people – do they even exist? Zak is forced to use his mystical powers, guided by his guardian, the wizard Osran when Amelie suddenly disappears whilst out riding on the North York moors. With his connection to the spirit world, Zak’s enhanced senses enable him to discover the reason for her disappearance, which is connected to mythical creatures of the sea and to embark on a hair raising quest to rescue her.
Zackery Grimm can see ghosts and talk to spirits of long ago. They are drawn to him and seek his help in laying their souls to rest. While on holiday with his young cousin, Amelie, Zak learns to use his special gift. Their hotel, set high on the cliffs above the sweeping bay of the seaside town of Scarborough, North Yorkshire, is haunted by the ghost of a woman in Victorian dress. With the guidance of the ancient wizard, Osran and the spirit which resides in the Fountain of all Knowledge, Zak’s investigation triggers a series of events that will take him and Amelie on a terrifying ride to set right past wrongs and smooth the spectral journey of Lady Agapantha Claypole to a better place of peace and happiness. A nostalgic trip down memory lane for adults who love Scarborough too!
A Marriage at Cross Purposes Martin Quint and his wife Jenny have moved to a small college, where Martin hopes to write his ground-breaking book on the role of live conversation in education. This lofty goal is repeatedly challenged, not least by a shocking revelation from Martin's past that threatens to careen everything out of control. This novel provides an eye-opening look into the academic life, but at its heart, it's about a marriage at cross purposes, about trust and betrayal, anger and forgiveness.
Come on an interactive adventure, where the star of the story is YOU! A wizard named “The Maestro” asks for your help to find the missing Earth Fairy, Gwendle. Journey to Mother Nature’s Garden. Meet Aziza, the little Sprix, who is half Pixie and half Sprite. Climb through the Mystic Evergreen tree to save Happy’s Farm by bringing in the season of Spring. Fly down the lane like a fairy. Join the celebration behind the big red barn. Just keep the cat, Pip Pip Piper away from Toddwick and the other Gnomes as she loves to chase them around! (hehe) Read as a traditional story or choose options to increase the fun: one gives tasks which can be done lying in bed, another uses mild physical actions (Great for the Elderly!) and the last can help wear out more active listeners. Although a stand-alone, the Fairy Wobble is Book 1 in the Garden series, celebrating with a twist, the color of yellow and the season of Spring!
The “Elves Up North – A Family for Castor” – NEW Illustrated Chapter Book – where the readers are part of the story! Come meet a magical wizard named “The Maestro” and help save Christmas this season for Santa Claus:•Soar through the clouds•Bounce along with your new friend, Misty the mouse•Meet the “Elves of Table 12″•Discover why Castor the Elf is feeling down this year•Search for all the “blue” presents he has wrapped to save Christmas•Help him find a family and learn that sometimes they don’t always have to be related•Just don’t get hit in the head with the Cod Fish Biscuit whizzing through the air as you go past! (EWWW!!!)Mildly interactive, this story can be read as a bedtime tale with chapter breaks to stop for the night, or as a read out loud for groups to make new yuletide traditions, as even the elderly can participate and get involved. “Elves Up North – A Family for Castor” offers a unique way to enjoy the holidays, while making smiles and new memories along the way with your family and friends.
Griselda Holzinger Lobell (1916- 2006) was born in Queens, New York into the world you read about in this book. It was a world that had as many horse-drawn carts in the street as cars and trucks. A world in which family members lived nearby. A world in which New York City schools were among the best in the world, and in which Griselda’s Latin teacher, on figuring out who she was, could say to her, “Your mother was one of the best students I ever had. I expect the same from you.†Griselda lived in Queens; Washington, DC; Great Neck, Long Island; Manhattan; and Wilton, Connecticut. She was among the first women to attend Columbia Law School, worked in the New Deal, and was a mystery writer. This memoir describes her life up to the age of sixteen.
What would you do if you had nothing to lose? Angela has reached the end of her rope. Bills are piling up, money is sparse, and her two-timing ex-husband traded her in for a “Barbie” lookalike. Depression and lack of hope put her in a world filled with never-ending pain, and when she loses the one thing she has left—her will to live—she knows there’s nothing left to go back to. Until an unexpected knock on her door wakes her up.
Part medical thriller, part spiritual awakening, part artistic curiosity, and all heart. Richard candidly recounts his decades-long struggle against cancer and unique approach to his treatment — allowing an artist to sit in during his surgeries to create paintings. This book will resonate with anyone who has faced life-threatening circumstances—or loves someone who has. Richard faced his mortality head-on with great ingenuity and courage. As he once said to his doctor, “I am what I am. No more, no less.”
A Playbook that gives Entrepreneurs the Tools Needed to Avoid Quicksand & Build on Solid Ground GeekWire Magazine called 2019 the “Year of the Bootstrapper.” But this concept can’t be confined to a single year. We have entered into a new era—an era Marty calls Generation Bootstrap. This is where countless young men and women pursue their passions by building meaningful businesses. You can build your own company without the obligations that come with outside investors. By bootstrapping, you can become a successful entrepreneur—on your own terms. If you believe in yourself, this book will show you the path.
This book describes how to build a church intramural sports league that engages people beyond worship attendance, promotes community and strategically moves participants deeper into church life to make a spiritual impact.
This book is a summary of how I started out shooting food photos for the microstock industry using on-camera flash techniques. It is geared towards photographers who cannot afford studio equipment but own a speedlight, or for those who would like to try my method to succeed at microstock. You should know how to use your camera in “manual” mode.
Christians differ in their beliefs. And that sometimes makes Christianity seem confusing to those outside the faith. It isn’t. This book offers a simple, conversational explanation about its main concepts–the ones that support everything else. It is written in plain, everyday language for those with little or only a superficial exposure to Christianity that are exploring it for a better understanding of its basic belief system.
Olivia Xiao carries with her a difficult-to-pronounce Chinese last name and a passion for all shades of red. When she arrived at Tuffmore University at the prime age of eighteen, she caught the eyes of Dennis O’Connor, a fellow student with mixed English and Chinese descent. What would happen in the next decade of their lives? What would they experience and accomplish, where would they travel to, and would they shed tears of sadness and joy together, or alone?
This collection of stories is told from a humorous perspective about our middle class, suburban family. Parents will laugh as you relate to them. And hopefully be encouraged by some insights. You’ll definitely chuckle at the professionally illustrated cartoons.
This book outlines a strategy to plan purposefully, market successfully and produce quality events in a church environment that attract participants and make a spiritual impact.
An honorably discharged Navy SEAL, Jack Sterling moves to Dayton to emotionally support his recently divorced mother. Rather than find her crushed as he expected, she’s surprisingly energized by a new, religious faith. Hired as a bounty hunter, Jack begins tracking down a war veteran fugitive that jumped bail, while encountering his own spiritual crisis. There’s action, humor and personal reflection as Jack, in a dual pursuit, searches to find a brother in arms and his own soul.
Demi-human creatures, rivaling gods, and a crumbling kingdom threaten to drag the world into the depths of the ocean. There is only one with the power to stop the coming apocalypse, but will she? This debut novel opens the Hybrid series with a display of literary fireworks. The classic tales of War, love, magic, loss, and the discovery of one's self take you on a ride that will leave you breathless and seeking your own absolute truth.
The QvO is a leviathan space ship which is lurking hull down behind the moon. Its’ crew are quietly recording Earth’s public broadcasting channels and gathering samples of flora and fauna through specialist equipment which is located at the rim of the moon. Through a combined accident of nature and technology a lone Earth man is transported; from the Earth’s surface to the QvO. There is no way that his journey can be reversed and the Earth man joins the crew of the alien space ship. During the voyage he becomes embroiled in many space adventures and wars. The QvO, he comes to understand, employs a novel system of travel in the cosmos which is, by description, called Dark Matter Transit (DMT), which consigns worm hole and warp drive theory beloved of Sci-Fi writers, to the waste bin of history.
Angelie Thompson invented a time machine in 2015 and her boyfriend, John Salvador, was accidentally transported back to 1970. Left with no other option, Angelie journeys through time, searching for John. Along the way, she encounters several adventures, meeting new people on her desperate search for her lover. Meanwhile, stranded in 1970 and with no hope of ever returning back to his own time, John begins a new life, working as a receptionist in Lesti Hotel where he finds a new love, Elisha. Conflict arises among the characters due to their complicated relationships and when disaster strikes, it's up to Angelie to save the world with her time machine invention. The tale of ‘Time Travel’ highlights love, determination and friendship.
Annagram is a Fantasy Fiction story about three countries: Yatil, Alami and Cordie fighting for islands due to natural resources but First World War happens. Few Years later, main characters: Angelie Jasonse, Annie Santiago, Robert Raxnone meets in Universty of Annagram and tries their best to resolve the world issue.
This book is about the interesting journey of a rural guy, who happens to be a first generation graduate. It details all the joy and struggles he encounters entering the world of IT. All the valuable facts and lessons learned in his life are featured, along with the real life incidents for the reader to relate to appropriately. The focus of the book is not only towards reaching the goal and sustaining it, but also on never missing the other hidden treasures in life during the travel. Though the journey is towards the IT field, the reader can relate regardless of the profession they are in. It's not just a success story, it's a story of all the many failures leading towards success. Success can never be tasted easily and this book conveys that fact eloquently. Lessons learned from Palaniswamy's struggles can be applied as such so that you need not undergo the same pain.
Followers of Dian Griesel’s highly regarded SilverDisobedience.Rocks blog and her social media pages @SilverDisobedience have long asked for her essays in book form. This book is her response. Daily, thousands of people from all walks of life read and respond to her Silver Disobedience® essays published on a variety of social media accounts.
Included are nearly 300 of Elliott’s classic photographs that helped define the Woodstock Era with intimate images of some of the greatest music legends of the Sixties at home and in concert. This new edition features a new 90-page Woodstock Festival section which captures and preserves the true vision and spirituality of the Festival and the time.
When a tornado hits my Illinois home and forces my early retirement, it sends me into the heart of the Ozarks. This is when life gets interesting.
Angel of the Ghetto tells the remarkable story of Sam Solasz, a boy born into a warm and loving Jewish family in Poland in 1928. Sam inhabited a protected world until the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939 which tore his world apart.
Flynn the Loh'li has a problem. He doesn't know how to encourage his little brother to overcome his fear of water, or how someone can overcome their fears at all. So, before he thinks he can help his brother, Flynn embarks on a mission to conquer his own fear of heights by climbing the tallest mountain in Lok'Ree Valley. But it's not the climb up that gives him trouble, it's the climb down!
Herb Halbert doesn't like taking high-profile cases. When the Gale examination request came across his desk, he had to take it. With two young kids of his own, this one hit too close to home. Young Dorothy Gale has committed one of the most gruesome mass killings in Kansas history, and now resides in an asylum. The state, however, isn't convinced of her diagnosis and wants a re-investigation of the facts.
It should have been a simple field experiment. Go in, prove I can do what I claim, and walk out with the cash. If they could see what I see. Feel the helplessness I do when something else takes over. I’ll bet they’re not kept awake at night by the voices in this place. They don’t see the darkness with eyes that follows us all around this estate as we gather proof. This money was going to help my little sister with her surgery. Good intentions and the road to Hell.
A series of children's fairy tales first appearing in the Los Angeles Times. Vols. 1 -5
When the god Anubis needed a friend, the universe sent him the most unlikely companion: a feisty little cat. Discover how the infamous five-thousand-year-old talking cat, Constantine of the Intern Diaries, became a permanent fixture in the life of Death. This fast-paced, action-packed Novella will have you turning the page and falling in love with the most unlikely of duos.
Rhone McLean can only watch his entire world burn as his wife’s lifeless body disappears into the raging inferno. A mysterious cowboy in black emerges from the ashes of Rhone’s home with a message of hope. His words push McLean into a quest to free Clara, but how much of himself is he ready to sacrifice? As the nation heals from the deep wounds of a bloody Civil War, McLean ventures into the underbelly of the Western frontier. Here Rhone must confront his worst fear if he is to lower the veil and cross the fog in to the macabre world where Clara is imprisoned.
When Sergeant Lawrence Taylor was accosted by a distraught homeless man, he had no idea that a cold case involving a missing child was about to be reopened. Could this new information be the break that turn’s Taylor’s investigation on its head, or could it end his career…
Struggling New York actress Alison has an outwardly good life: toned body, plenty of dates, a comfortable daily regimen. Still, she feels stagnant, empty, and as blocked as the river view from her Upper West Side apartment. Now divorced and in her mid-thirties, she has never gotten past an early childhood trauma of being torn away from her brother and sister when her parents separated. Since then, nothing sticks. No one stays. She craves a sense of permanence, a place to call home. A Place Called Grace is a humorous, hopeful, bittersweet contemporary memoir that shows how a seemingly unmoored existence can find its safe, solid center after all.
Cimmy & Baird speaks to the human animal bond that runs deeply when one's heart is open. It speaks to the ability to communicate and understand other beings as well as to the power of love , friendship and loss. As Cimmy loses his human rescuer, he runs free, making friends with a sad orphaned bear. Cimmy and the Bear quickly become closer and experience many adventures together. This book also speaks to the horror of hunting as the bear gets shot and Cimmy and the bear run for their lives, landing in a wonderful glen where the Cimmy does not know if he will lose his bear friend. Magic, healing and the power of love combine to assist these unusual and strongly connected friends.
The poems in this collection are easy on the eyes. After half a lifetime in the gritty, barter and bluff, penny-profit-on-a-ton world of scrap plastic trading, Mike knows how to focus on the essential ingredient of what’s in front of him. And he knows how to transform it into something that he can put in his pocket (or his Blackberry). He writes with the same directness and intensity that he brings to everything that he does. As a trader of plastic, he’s made a reputation of being true to his word. As a poet this trait takes on new meaning.
Photos by the famous photographer of ‘The Band’ from the period between 1968-1969. This edition includes a bonus three page foldout sheet showing the thumbnails and captions for all the photos in the book. It is designed to be inserted into the back of the book and folded out as a reference while reading.
J. R. Camelback's intriguing international crime caper taking place in opposing lenses of time Taking The Queen – a Caper sets up when an odd team of investigative journalists receive a whistler blower's tip about a botched FBI enticement operation hidden in government agency redacted & general files under the Freedom Of Information Act.
“Do I have any talents?” For years many children, and some adults, have been asking themselves this question. In this fun and charming tale we explore the concept of talents and how to find them. Charlie, normally a happy little boy, is upset and hating school. Charlie is hurt and believes he is useless and without talent. We invite you to join Grandma, as she helps Charlie finds his own talents after a terrible day at school.
One in a series of a current children's book series that Carol is working on. Other titles include How did the Elephant get its Trunk? and How did the Goldfish become Orange?