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Aloha Nui Loa: A Pineapple Plantation Story
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99It was going to be a great summer on O’ahu, enjoying, working, a part timr job, while relishing time off from college life on Maui. Yet culinary student Eden Andres didn’t foresee that her return to her beloved plantation home, after two years away at school, would change the direction of her life. In Aloha Nui Loa, local girl Eden Andres Meets Ben Alexander. She is the daughter of the union representative, and he is the son of the chief stockholder of the corporation which owns the pineapple plantation where her father is employed. They couldn’t be more contrasting in their backgrounds and lifestyles. But frequent encounters cause sparks to fly, and with more lengthy time spent together, love blossoms.
As their relationship deepens, Eden and Ben must face what seem like insurmountable obstacles to their happiness. Ben has ghosts from his past that will challenge the trust and respect they have for each other. It will take a steadfast belief in their love to weather the impending storm in their paths. Will love conquer all?
Aloha Nui Loa paints an accurate and insight picture of pineapple plantation living in Hawaii in the mid to late 1900s. Manu details are provided that could only be known to someone who lived them. This is part pf the real Hawaii, and you’ll be grateful to have an inside view.
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On Both Sides of the River
Price range: $14.99 through $24.99Mark and his men boarded their rafts with the remaining load of high grade cocaine from a cartel in Colombia. Mark was happy. He was crossing the river for the last time.
“I’ll be seeing you in about a month, Don Narciso,” Mark lied.
Mark found a place on the raft to sit amongst the bricks of cocaine. The dope was wrapped with surgeon masking tape.
Mark never looked back.
In the meantime, Don Narciso’s men set the trap. They were not too eager to intercept the load of cocaine under the cover of the vega on the American side. They were familiar with the routes taken by illegal aliens. Narciso’s men followed a familiar maze of trails made by the feral hogs that fed on tender roots at night and during daylight snoozed under the shade of the jaras and carrizales. The fear in their eyes glowed when fireflies shined only to disappear and appear elsewhere. Even the murmer of the river’s swift current could not soothe the fear Don Narciso’s men were experiencing. It was not so smart of Dan Narciso to double-cross Mark Balbuena. The young man was crazy and violent. But, they had to follow orders or else.
-an excerpt from On Both Sides of the River
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A Light in the Darkness
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99Angela Fujiwara enters her sophomore year of high school with a world changed. She apprenticed herself to a necromancer classmate to learn magic and hasn’t told her parents about it. But some of her friends do know, and the final exam will be pass or fail.
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Guilt Factors: Mind Games & Thought Nots
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99A poetic & artistic adventure into the known and the unknown. This is one of the few poetry books written by Robert R. Blondin and the new edition published by Author Reputation Press.
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Jacobus: A Eunuch’s Faith: Book 2: India Connection
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99Jacobus and members of his extended family arrive in Jerusalem for Passover. The day after Passover, they encounter The Prophet in a crowded street in Old Jerusalem. In shock, they follow the crowd toa hill where they watch his execution.
Soon, Jacobus fulfills his dream to represent his family on their first trading mission to India. While there, two local kings gift him with an orphaned baby elephant and its trainer. The next year, while preparing for another Indian voyage in Alexandria, Egypt, Jacobus encountered the Apostle Thomas while entering a local synagogue. Thomas decides to join them when they sail up the Nile and by caravan across the desert to board their ship for India, where he worked for the rest of his life. In Jacobus’ senior years, he is joined by his freed Carthaginian slave as they travel by elephant from south India to Jerusalem and witness another terror in that ancient city.
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Jacobus: A Eunuch’s Faith: Book 1: The Apprentice
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99In the first century Roman Empire at fourteen, the legal age of manhood, Jacobus’ father contracted him to relatives in Sicily as an apprentice learning his Jewish family’s shipping business. Being what the Greeks called a “natural eunuch”, he found himself living with two “cut eunuch” Carthaginian slaves who eventually became his lowers. As his apprenticeship progressed, the family recognized his natural leadership abilities surpassed his age. By sixteen, he developed a strategy to enter the India trade which succeeded beyond expectations. He also became the second “spouse” of his cousin, the director of Aetna shipping.
Everything, in his life changed when his brother-in-law, Simon from Cyrene, was awoken one night by a frightening vision causing some of the family, with their Judeo-Indian partners to take Simon to Jerusalem for Passover.
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2023: World War III
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99In 2023: World War III, the Peoples Republic of China explodes out of its borders. This book presents China’s political, social and economic rationale, military preparations and grand strategy for such a disaster. It discusses the lack of political and military preparations by the West, the consequences for China’s neighbors, and how the world in general and the United States in particular will respond. Events in today’s world makes it all possible. The only way to prevent World War III is to plan for it now.
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An Angel is Born: A Family’s Story
Price range: $3.99 through $24.95It would be impossible to keep track of all the people that we encounter during the course of a lifetime; however, the few that affect and change us forever could be counted on the fingers of one hand. There are people such as those depicted within this book. There are a lot of people whose stories are told here: their lives, their times, and their fate, but there was one who changed everyone around her without ever trying. An Angel is born spans the course of nearly seven decades, and looks back at a time when things were simpler yet not always better.
If you are nostalgic you’ll reminisce, if you are a parent you will appreciate, if you are spiritual you will be sustained, and if you have a heart you will be forever moved. Their lives, their world, their future lay before them sweet and dying… Angel’s parents sat at her bedside holding her hand and whispering sacred words of encouragement with agonizing thoughts of farewell. Then a voice from the Holy Firmaments of heaven spoke to them saying, ”You are now separated…”
…a story about how generations shaped by the unique demands of Appalachia helped one kid to thrive against all odds.
An Angel Is Born is much more than a story about the life and death of an amazing girl with special needs. Nostalgic, honest, and moving, this is a contemplative history of how every life–and every death–adds its own thread to the tapestry of a family and community.
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Pinnacle of Purpose (Challenge to Excel)
Price range: $3.99 through $23.99The book SPLINTERS OF THE CROSS is written for millions of people all over the world to address the subject of suffering. It is written for everyone who has been redeemed by the blood of Jesus the Lamb of God, but it is also written for those who have not yet come to salvation in Christ who wonder and are amazed at why people draw near to Christ regardless to times they may suffer. God has a purpose behind it all. While setting the challenge for us to reach for Him through Christ; His aim is focused on bringing us to the place of rediscovering our purpose hidden behind the cross. Take the challenge.
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The Dark Shines Bright
Price range: $3.99 through $23.99Human beings fall into three distinct groups. There are those who spend the better part of their life playing by the rules and trying to do good while contributing to the betterment of their fellow humans. There are those who spend the better part of their lives breaking the rules and taking whatever they can from their fellow humans, no matter what the cost. Finally there are those who are neither good or bad human beings. They just live day to day, come what may.
The question is where did the rules come from that define what is good and what is bad?
The only thing for sure is that no matter how a person lives his or her life, everyone has one thing in common. Everyone who is born, one day must die. How did human life begin and what happens after it ends?
“The Dark Shines Bright” answers both questions in a carefully crafted, page turning story.
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The History of the Rise and Fall of the World’s Religions and their Evolution
$23.99The History of the Rise and Fall of World Religions and their Evolution chronologically documents the rise and fall of the major religions of the world and explores the role that various cultural factors such as dance, trance, music, song, and language have played in this evolution. The role that leaders play in the evolution of religion is also discussed. Starting from the primitive religions of hunter-gatherer societies in which religion was not part of any institution, the next stages of human life from the agricultural revolution to the modern religions of today are discussed. Among the modern religions discussed are Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Scientology, and numerous others. The reader is further provided with a unique perspective on the potential good and evil aspects of religion and the very reality of the existence of a God or gods.
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To Be a Rose
Price range: $3.99 through $23.99Ed is a retired United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel working for a defense contractor. He has been hired as a Senior Logistics Expert to work with the Afghanistan Ministry of Defense as an advisor and mentor to two senior Afghan officers.
Ed first appears telling an Army Combat Medic he can’t breathe. He is transferred to Camp Phoenix just outside of Kabul for further treatment. Over the next twelve hours, he is treated by a “tag team” of nurses and doctors. During this time he remembers the sights, smells and sounds of Afghanistan and his journey there.
Mr. Mason uses vivid imagery and character portrayals to tell his story from his arrival in Dubai up to the beginning of his eight week dream. Ed describes his day-to-day routine at Camp Eggers, his fellow officers, his family and the dedicated medical teams he encountered on his journey. Ed’s story is straightforward, powerful, yet humorous account of his experiences in Afghanistan and how his battle for survival changes his life forever. -
The Book of Life
$23.99Salt Lake City is proud to see their own citizens embrace the Ameri-can dream. He has gone from a childhood sports champion to Martial Arts Master, to defending our country as a US Naval Veteran during the Viet Nam War. World sky diving champion and Hang-Gliding expert, National Ski and Survival expert, He is the original inventor and patent holder of the Nylon Velcro Locking Wallets and Nylon tool pouches President and owner of the Bear Body Wallets Inc. Born and raised in Denver, CO.
The oldest son of Denver Councilman Sam Sandos.
Currently he is one of the top financial advisors and businessmen. He has now written 7 books on Investing, 6 Do It Yourself books that are also available on CD. They cover everything from mutual funds, business plans, planning for retirement, Investing, protecting your wealth and your fi nancial-self, to Life Insurance.