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God, by Man
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99In this bound-to-be controversial work of theological scholarship, Oguchi H. Nkwocha, M.D., propounds some fascinating and bold theories about religious beliefs. Rather than support his contentions with an abundance of scriptural quotations, the author skillfully builds the case for his unorthodox views with deductive reasoning.
Taking an antifundamentalist stance, he asks readers to reexamine man’s relationship with God. The author reveals how various religions and religious sects function by inventing gods and then assigning those “creations” the qualities of omniscience and omnipotence. Evading the reality of the real Supreme Being, mankind has often manufactured his gods in his own image.
Instead of presenting his striking theories in an abstract manner, this writer/philosopher relates the shortcomings of many religions by juxtaposing them with such contemporary issues as homelessness, sexism, and ecology-issues which most religions fail to address squarely, if at all. Dr. Nkwocha’s book is at its most compelling when it dissects the way in which religions have evolved from mankind’s need to understand the complex mysteries of nature.
Students of religious history will be eager traveling companions on this journey through times as Nkwocha delves into pagan rituals, the traditional political power of the priesthood, and the manner in which our gods continue to fail us when we seek answers to cosmic enigmas.
Whether you are an atheist, an agnostic, or a true believer, this profound treatise offers grounds for enlightened spiritual discussion.
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Prayer: The Believer’s Spiritual Umbilical Cord; Concepts, Principles and Value
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99The present piece is a treatise on one of the greatest Biblical principles on which the life and well-being of human beings on earth depend: prayer. In this book, the man of God apostle Onório Cutane, inspired by the Holy Spirit, brings profound revelations and valuable teachings about prayer: from the concept, importance, principles, and typology. The detailed explanation and contextual examples will help the reader to pray the right way and receive answers to his prayers. God wants to answer them, and the man of God explains how the reader can make this possible. Furthermore, this book presents the ABCs of prayer in a very understandable way with practical guidelines and steps. It’s a practical guide on how to pray according to God’s will. Dive into the deepest divine intimacy and program your spirit for the highest flights with God’s Spirit. Learn biblical principles by which you can pray effective prayers and obtain positive results for yourself and humankind’s good.
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Your Army of Dollars
Price range: $3.99 through $22.99Right now you are a kid…
But once you get an army of dollars, you will become a commander.
A commander must know what orders to give when he gets an army of soldier dollars.
Read along and learn commands to make soldier dollars protect you for the rest of your life!
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The Angels of Opi
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99Seven Boys Held Captive for 11 years! When Daniel Ciarletta and his father, Pete, boarded a boat in 1947 bound for Italy, to visit Pete’s ailing father, they could not have known what awaited them. Everything changed for Daniel and the Ciarletta family. Daniel was abducted and taken to Opi, a rural mountain community that had survived for centuries by sheep herding until 1943, when retreating German soldiers seized all the boys and able-bodied young men as work prisoners. Daniel soon became a work prisoner as part of a devious plan by the citizens of Opi-including the local priest who had evidentially lost his “moral compass”- to abduct young foreigners to take the place of the men they had lost. With no idea of where he was or why, and unable to speak Italian, Daniel began working in the fields and plotting his possible escape. Meanwhile, back in America, the once happy and loving Ciarletta family began to slowly disintegrate under the burden of conflict, anger and guilt caused by Daniel’s mysterious disappearance.
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The Man Who Transformed Africa: The Rebirth of a Continent
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99The novel opens with Vatican intrigue between liberal and conservative Cardinals leading to the unlikely selection of an Indonesian Pope. Seizing the opportunity, the new pope uses Ex-Cathedra (papal infallibility) to declare poverty an immoral human condition. Deciding to lead by example, the pope takes the provocative step of selling the Vatican treasures, to fund a long-term project to build a strong African middle-class society. This project is estimated to take twelve to fifteen years to complete. This novel covers the first two years of the pope’s African project.
Project leaders during the first two-year period understand if Africa is to be successful in building a strong middle-class society a number of events must first take place.
African social order must change; Africans must feel safe in their homes and community.
The African political structure must be restructured to focus on serving the needs of Africans. Africa’s health care system needs a major overhaul.
Africa must have an intra-continental highway, connected to four deep seaports, for the distribution of agricultural products to a global market.
Africa must have dependable electricity that services all homes and businesses.
Africa’s tropical savannas’ land, which contains 63% of the worlds arable farmland, must be restructured to allow for optimal farming while at the same time protecting native wildlife.
The pope’s project, Build Africa Together, will be responsible for implementing these basic goals, which will eventually allow Africans to build a strong African middle-class society. -
Impossible Beginnings: A Love Story
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99Merry Morehouse, a city girl carrying a life-crushing secret, is betrayed by a woman she believes to be her best friend. This friend backs out of a planned camping trip to the mountains at the last minute. Although she has never camped out before, Merry is set on being a big girl and decides to make the trip alone. Lost at night in these mountains with few people, she decides to go home. Turning around, Merry crashes vehicles with a man who recently lost his beloved wife to cancer.
Doc Adams, a disabled combat vet in danger of being fired from his job, who holds no romantic interest in another woman after losing his much-loved wife, becomes the crash victim. He lives alone on this desolate mountain that becomes the crash scene. Merry accepts his offer to sleep at his home but panics when he pulls off on the dirt road leading to this isolated place. Their vastly different beliefs quickly become the foundations for arguments concerning God, guns, law enforcement, and news media reports. Overloaded with fear and difficult memories from her teen years, Merry is terrified of what he might do to her. Her choices for the night narrow with no place to stay, no vehicle, no way to protect herself, and a cell phone that won’t work in these mountains.
After this rough start, they work to get along with each other, and Merry struggles to become accustomed to mountain life. False accusations take them to court where the charges are dropped. They get married. Merry’s father, a big-shot lawyer, causes problems during their wedding and is ushered out. He shows up at the reception and tries to take his family home. Shots are fired, and total bedlam ensues. -
80 Adventures with God: Real Stories of God’s Intervention into Ordinary Lives
Price range: $3.99 through $11.9980 ADVENTURES WITH GOD is a compilation of eighty real-life encounters with God, showing His love in the everyday affairs of ordinary people. These stories will not only impart faith to you, but they will build your faith in the living God who cares about every detail of your life. Allow the Lord to speak to your heart through the events in this book. You will begin to see more of His heart and hand in your own life in the coming days.
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The Black Socio-Cultural Cognitive Learning Style
Price range: $3.99 through $35.99Learning is universal. Research on cognition shows that basic learning occurs at similar stages for most children at similar stages for most children. All children can learn, and most children learn to perform basic tasks; such as walking and talking, at relatively the same age. Researchers know that not only is learning universal, but that all children have very distinct preferences of what and how they learn. That is, children make very discriminating choices between what information they will actively commit to memory and what information they will actively commit to memory and what information is discarded. These choices are grounded in their personal life experiences which are indirectly determined by their family, culture and environment.
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Ashes of the City
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Ashes of the City is a gripping Young Adult dystopian novel that delves into the struggle for survival in a city shattered by disaster. When a massive earthquake devastates their urban home, a group of high school students is left stranded in the ruins, cut off from rescue and forced to confront a new reality where the old rules no longer apply.
Maya, a responsible and compassionate leader, steps up to guide the group, clinging to her belief in unity and hope. But her vision is challenged by Jace, a charismatic rebel who believes in a more ruthless approach-one where only the strongest survive. As their differing philosophies clash, the group fractures into factions, with the city’s remaining resources becoming the center of a dangerous power struggle.
As Maya battles to hold onto her humanity, Jace’s tactics grow increasingly harsh, leading to violent confrontations and impossible choices. Amidst collapsing buildings, dwindling supplies, and the ever-present danger of aftershocks, both leaders are forced to face the cost of their decisions. In a world where trust is fragile and survival comes at a price, Maya must decide how far she’s willing to go to protect her friends and what kind of leader she truly wants to be.
Ashes of the City explores themes of leadership, morality, and the loss of innocence in a brutal, post-disaster world. Perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and Lord of the Flies, this powerful story will keep readers on the edge of their seats, questioning what it means to survive when everything you once knew is gone.
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Reflections on Being Human
Price range: $3.99 through $27.99This special addition of Reflections on Being Human contains 150 exquisite poems, written by Dr. Nirander Safaya after his retirement from a brilliant scientific career. These poems portray the thrills and challenges of life and love in general and the saving grace of spiritual light and wisdom in particular.
The poems are divided into three thematic parts-Life, Love, and Light. The structured arrangement of poems followed in this book allows a coherently flowing exploration of human feelings, emotions, and aspirations, and of the human behavior; thus taking the readers through a panoramic journey of self-discovery. The verses are eloquent and evocative, with dazzling imagery that touch the senses and soul, delving into the pragmatic, romantic, and spiritual longings of human beings. These lucidly written verses reflect on, and expose, the secrets of achieving success in love, peace, and happiness.Positively uplifting and illuminating, Safaya’s poetic work is reminiscent of classical poetry, for it is deeply thought provoking about human nature and condition. Foreword Clarian Review wrote, “Reflections on Being Human works toward truth and self-actualization with many poems hinting at ultimate perfect unity …surprising imagery to uncommon and timeless effect.” Kirkus review remarked, “This earnest collection tackles serious questions…[c]onsiders the subject of love both abstractly and concretely.” An editor at iUniverse, A. Spencer, wrote, “these poems have a rare intellectual and spiritual depth as well as lyricism.”
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Something To Crow About
Price range: $3.99 through $18.99This story is about a young crow who worries about his diminutive size and wishes he might be larger and prouder. Moe the Crow, feeling puny and tiny, turns to his mother. She gives him
the family history tracing Moe to a time when his ancestors ruled the earth as dinosaurs. The story changes Moe’s perspective making him believe that life’s best is what lies ahead. The book gives young people a perspective of how dinosaurs evolved and a new way they can look at the birds around them. This book provides entertaining rhyme, colorful pictures, a scientific story, and a reminder of the bond between parents and their young. -
Yearly Devotional
$17.99Yearly Devotional is a compilation of sermons in abridged form that the author has preached in over twenty years of ministry arranged alphabetically by subject matter from everyday life. The author lends his love of history, sense of humor, and varied life experiences in relating stories from the Bible. He also includes personal reflections on each section to help provide perspective on the author’s viewpoints. The author makes no excuse for the “preachy” parts of this work as his purpose is to share the “good news” as he has experienced it in his life. In reading this devotional, then, it is hoped that the reader will “taste” the influence of a life lived from a small-town boy raised in Western Pennsylvania at a time when family, love of God and country, respect for authority, and a strong work ethic were the norm, rather than the exception.
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Glory Days: Tales of a North Shore Dangerboy
Price range: $3.99 through $28.99Glory Days recounts the hijinks of a North Shore Dangerboy growing up in the sixties and seventies. From childhood innocence through teenage rambunctiousness and into a fun-loving adulthood, Terrill shares exciting tales that will have you laughing one moment and crying another. An honest portrayal of a journey not dissimilar to your own.
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The Spare: Part 4
Price range: $3.99 through $18.99The Spare: Part 4 provides insight into aging and life’s reality of death. The trials and events that happen. The winter of our existence is projected in this book, covering the many frailties of living. The many blessings encountered in the journey of life.
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Advances in Overcoming Obesity: Is There a Future for Bariatric Surgery?
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Advances in Overcoming Obesity: Is There a Future for Bariatric Surgery? by retired surgeon Tom Taylor comprehensively addresses many of the causes, complications, and treatments of obesity for the lay public.
Despite billions of dollars per year being spent on diets, weight-reducing products, and techniques, few understand the fundamental nature of the problem, its complications, or the strategies available to overcome obesity. These challenges may recently have been radically changed with the emergence of new effective medications, not only for obesity, but for diabetes and other related health problems.
Dr. Taylor tackles the issues of energy intake and expenditure, while describing in detail the most popular diets, such as the South Beach Diet and Weight Watchers. He also explores the psychological and physical constraints of losing weight, related socio-economic factors, and the different types of surgical treatments and their possible effects, outcomes, and complications.
Although large amounts of weight can be lost following surgical treatment, for the first time ever, a group of drugs is now available that has been shown to also provide large weight loss, thereby presenting a challenge to surgical treatments.
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Honoring Holistic Health Habits: Down to Dealing with Deadly Diets
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Honoring Holistic Health Habits discusses the major killer health risks in today’s society, as well as how these threats can be significantly reduced by lifestyle modification in diet and exercise.
Heart disease, stroke, obesity, diabetes, cancer, vascular disease, and Alzheimer’s are all exacerbated by eating an unhealthy diet. Plus, these diseases have all dramatically increased over the past century as a result of dietary changes.
The nature of these diseases along with the adjustments necessary to overcome them are important. Issues involve underlying energy intake and expenditure, toxicity, and the unhealthy modifications in modern diet that have brought on these health problems.
Today’s diets contain unhealthy fats and toxic proteins loaded with excess carbohydrates, the latter being the major cause of weight gain and diabetes. Taken in excess, these are the major killers, which for the first time in centuries are causing a reduction in life expectancy.
These conclusions come from the author’s lifelong medical practice treating these disorders.
Dr. Tom Taylor believes it is vital to fight the major killers that are the biggest threats to long life, and to understand the ways in which these can be reduced or deferred, thereby improving our lifestyle.