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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 Devil In Paradise
Price range: $3.99 through $21.99After Castro is murdered, the murderer, a ruthless Cuban Colonel takes over the Presidency of Cuba and is a blight on the Cuban people. He discovers a secret. Castro had been keeping, Nuclear tipped missiles in underwater silos. He then threatens the United States with the weapons. Special Force Team Leader Walker and his team must put an immediate end to the threat.
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The Devil In The Cave
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99When a World War II Veteran, Archibald Arthur, a United States Serviceman retired from active military duty in November 1943 after a grueling experience fighting the Japanese in the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska, he must battle to rebuild his civilian life and emerge from the ashes. The Post Traumatic Stress-Disorder was intense, but finding a job at the Anchorage Hotel in Downtown Alaska provided a safe haven for him to revitalize and start over. But when he met a vacationing young lady from Zagreb, Croatia at the Hotel, his world was turned upside down after a beautiful picnic with her in the foot of the Alaskan Mountains.
The Devil that must have killed her in the woods was too powerful, but he must face him to avenge her demise and, in the process, discovering it was far more complicated than he had previously imagined. It took years of living in the mountain foot, surviving bitter winters and learning for him to discover that the battle that he must fight was not only carnal, but spiritual as well. Deep inside the cave with his loyal dog, Gossiper, they came face to face with the Devil and that marked a new beginning for them both……
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The Diary of Lady X: Song of the Sea
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99A yearning for love and adventure evolves into a search for the meaning of life. Tony had a passion for travel. What started out as an innocent pursuit for adventure took many turns: through love, tragedy, and disillusionment; and awakened his sleeping soul, setting him on a path of aspiration. THE DIARY OF LADY X, a novel in two volumes, is filled with actual accounts. The story has appeal for a wide ranging reader-ship who will find its characters to be engaging, and its story to be intriguing.
Who Was the Lady?
She was a small ship that had sailed
the biggest ocean in the world.
She was an innocent of twenty and
an actress.
She was a gifted dancer and artist
of the striptease.
She was a teenaged prostitute to keep
her family from poverty.
She was a mother and diplomat’s wife
in need of love.She was of the lowest caste and in love
with a man of the highest caste.She was a woman of dignity looking to
the education of others.
She was lying half naked in a gutter in Calcutta begging for money for her cremation.
She was a proud mother and still innocent.Most of all she was a lady.
Om Shanti
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The Diary of Lady X: The Journey Within
Price range: $3.99 through $25.99This story is based on actual events. The names of many of the participants and businesses have been changed for their anonymity and protection. The ones that have not been changed are correct in their presentation. Therefore this work must be regarded as historical fiction. A yearning for love and adventure evolves into a search for the meaning of life. Tony had a passion for travel. What started out as an innocent pursuit for adventure took many turns: through love, tragedy, and disillusionment; and awakened his sleeping soul, setting him on a path of aspiration. THE DIARY OF LADY X, a novel in two volumes, is filled with actual accounts. The story has appeal for a wide ranging reader-ship who will find its characters to be engaging, and its story to be intriguing.
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THE DIGNITY OF PROFIT: Creating Community through Entrepreneurship
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Consultants, by nature, are a questioning bunch. Unlike engineers, who will tell you how to make a watch when you ask them the time, consultants will take your watch and then tell you the time. Many answers have bubbled up from experience and research as this book was put together. God has offered many alternatives that were far better than the traditional ways of helping people. With all the money spent on efforts to eradicate poverty and revitalize communities, one might think that the problem is being solved. Nothing could be farther than the truth.
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The Dignity Of Service: The Power of Social Entrepreneurship
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99The Dignity of Service explores how servant leadership and social entrepreneurship can restore dignity and create meaningful change in communities. Nathan and Jeff share their journeys, insights, and practical strategies for tackling poverty through innovative solutions and community development. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, they emphasize the importance of understanding the “why” behind our efforts, offering guidance and inspiration to those seeking to make a difference. This book is a call to action for individuals and organizations to engage in transformative service, fostering resilience and hope in challenging times.
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THE DIGNITY OF TRUST: Building Community Through Reliability and Truth
Price range: $3.99 through $20.99Any activities that involve associations between people require that there be an acceptable level of trust. The ability to make accurate assessments about the reliability of others will determine, over time, how trustworthy they are. While it takes a long time to build trust, it takes even longer if trust is lost.
This book is designed to aid in building and maintaining healthy relationships. In doing this, we investigate several ways that trust is betrayed.
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The Dilemma of the Adams
Price range: $3.99 through $18.99The true story of two men in love with two brides experiencing two dilemmas in two gardens and having to make two decisions that have had temporal and eternal ramifications on earth.
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The Divine Way to Help Christians in Troubled Times
Price range: $3.00 through $11.99This book is meant to serve as both a teaching resource and a valuable reference for anybody interested in learning about biblical counselling for spiritual guidance. However, it clearly presents a category of secular counselling approaches with a caveat. This book’s theological approach blends methodical field research and personal reflection on biblical counselling. This work does not profess to have all the answers or to have reconstructed biblical counselling, but God’s servants can use its contents to inspire individuals to read the Bible, to meet God, and to pursue a clear path toward certain changes. Troubled individuals who turn to God receive help through the ministry of his servant as a spiritual advisor.
This instrument of God also serves as the Coordinator for the province of Quebec for the Global Christian Ministry Forum, a network of Christian leaders, ministries, and churches that share their gifts, callings, and resources for the benefit of the fellowship.
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The Door to Heaven Is Open, Come on in
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Jesus has an open door and invites you to come on in.
These are true stories of love and faith and how lives are changed when you dare to put the Lord first in your life and decide to follow Jesus.
So come along with this family and experience the miracles that happened to them and the joy they felt in their lives.
The door to heaven is open, come in in!
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The Doors of Deception
Price range: $3.99 through $20.99There are different doors of deception, and this book will help identify areas where deception may present as “good opportunities”. We prepare the caring and bold hearts to navigate life without being easily deceived. In a world filled with corruption, it is challenging to navigate through the chaos without clear insight from God. Many live in regret, and this guide will help prevent years of bad decisions and a life of error. We share essential keys to discern people, places, and things and help to identify what is most important. Your life is valuable to God, and He has a plan for you, that requires you to walk in your God-Given Identity by clothing yourself in His righteousness. I pray that God will open your spiritual eyes to see the world surrounding you and idle words will not deceive you. “I will give you the treasures of darkness And hidden riches of secret places, That you may know that I, the LORD, Who call you by your name, Am the God of Israel.” Isaiah 45: 3.
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The Dragon Commons
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99The year is 2048. In lands beyond a wall-enclosed city known as the Tiered Nations, a war is waging between dragons and Wyrms. Ardyce, a Tree Crown Drake and leader of her people, ventures out to investigate a gaping hole in the land. She is joined by her kin and friend, Sasithorn, who soon must fight for their lives when a Wyrm suddenly attacks. Within the Tiered Nations, a mantra exists: “Live beyond satiation,” and consumerism is the only religion. Hadryn and his best friend Thaddius are soldiers, investigating an unusual death at the city’s morgue: a limb-hewn corpse, which appears to have been mauled when animals are no longer of this world. Meat products, as well as all foods, are grown in laboratories and manufactured as “cubed food.” Before Hadryn and Thaddius can further their examination of the body, two letters arrive for Hadryn. One is from a woman, Oshin Rysing, who is Hadryn’s long-time epistolary paramour, living outside the Tiered Nations in a rebel colony which resists the gluttonous ways of the city. The second letter is from his father to notify Hadryn that he will be wedded to an unknown man, as is customary for young women of marital age. Hadryn attends his engagement banquet with the intention of confronting his father, but strange occurrences of people, who seem to be infected with a terrible disease leading to self-cannibalism arise, and a creature out of nightmares emerges
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The Early Years: A Memoir
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99The author of this book, The Early Years, Rachel G. Carrington lays no claim to lofty jobs, higher education, nor grand accomplishments except for a love-filled, multifaceted, family-oriented, poverty-to-plenty life. In The Early Years, the first in a series, she shares her story.
As a young teenager, just entering high school in the small town of Denton, Kentucky, Carrington planned to attend college and become a teacher. With coursework geared toward college attendance, she was offered a lucrative scholarship that would help her to attain her goal. However, it took only a single event to send her down a different path. She met a returned World War II veteran who was attempting to pick up the pieces after finding his marriage in irreparable shambles and his children gone. As he struggled, Carrington was there, and they pulled together to clear the many hurdles before them.
In this memoir, she tells the story of their journey and how their love and dedication for each other kept moving them forward. Filled with the joys, disappointments, and struggles of a couple, The Early Years narrates how the love of the heavenly Father was the continuous thread that bound Carrington’s life together.
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The Echoes of the Timber Wolf: A Study In The Life Of David
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99The Echoes
of the
Timber Wolf
If you are looking to learn about one of the most intriguing characters of the Bible, mentioned over 1,000 times and brought to light as both a legendary and larger than life story of divine selection, struggle, and accomplishment, then this book and study of the life of King David is for you. As you turn these pages, you will find that “The echoes of the Timber wolf ” are in you as they were in the shepherd boy king. You will find the inspiration to walk deeper in your journey with God and discover the God of David as your very own source of power!
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The Elders’ Book of Cherishing: Coming Back to the Vision at the Beginning of the Lord’s Recovery
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99“I say again that shepherding is the all-inclusive care that includes two things: the side of cherishing and the side of nourishing. Cherishing is in His humanity; nourishing is in His divinity. Cherishing is just to warm up someone, to make them happy, to make them joyful…By then they would be ready for any message you want to give them. Don’t despise cherishing. I feel, actually, in the Lord’s move we are rather short of shepherding. This is why in many places the feeling is cold, the atmosphere is icy, the relationship is distant in many churches. It is not warm, it is not ardent, it is not hot, it is not burning. Dear saints, don’t try to pray and then the Spirit comes down and we will all be hot. Start to care and start to warm up. I don’t mean this in a natural way. We have to do this in the humanity of Christ, which is altogether in resurrection and not in the natural man. Nevertheless, Christ in resurrection is not cold.” Minoru (1998, Atlanta Conf.)
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The Etiquette Guide For Trailer Folk
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99Michael Smith has been published in numerous poetry anthologies, and written dozens of short stories for several magazines. His solo debut, The Illustrated Poetry of Crazy Bear, was met with wide acclaim, and sold out quickly. The Illustrations came from his studio of watercolor paintings. He currently lives in Northern Nevada, with his companion, Susan, and a small herd of cats.
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The extra ordinary life of an extra ordinary bear
Price range: $3.99 through $27.99Richard Henry was born, raised and educated in New York City. After his service in the United States Marine Corps, which included a tour in Viet Nam, he returned to New York where he worked as a teacher and coordinator of Alternative High Schools.
In 1983, he moved to Oklahoma to serve as the Director of Alternative Dispute Resolution for four counties under the direction of the Oklahoma State Supreme Court. In 1990, he moved to California and set up a training program for formally incarcerated youth. In 1992, he served as the “Economic and Business Development Coordinator” for military base closures.
He published his first book of poetry, “Beyond the Skull” in 1976. His novel, “Of Days Gone By” was first published in 1990, followed
by his second novel, “Short Timer” in 2002. His third book, “The Extraordinary Life of an Extraordinary Bear” was published in 2023.
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The Fabric of Love
Price range: $3.99 through $6.99HAVE YOU EVER QUESTIONED WHETHER GOD REALLY LOVES YOU? IF SO, THEN THIS BOOK IS A MUST READ!
In six heart-warming short stories the author discloses how God’s love surrounds each of us, even when we may not recognize it.
“Deeply personal and candid, yet woven with great care and creativity, The Fabric of Love envelopes the reader with the warmth of God’s love and perfect provision.” Dr. Jennifer Jones, Radford University
“Every story I read reminded me of someone who needed this book.” Carol Lucas, Certified Teen Challenge instructor, M.A.P.S. member and Commissioned AG Pastor
“This is a wonderful and thought provoking collection.” Pastor Al Carpenter, COG
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The Faithful and The Damned: Demon of the Swamp
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99A demon is born and the clock is ticking. The town of Clearmont, Massachusetts becomes a place of terror overnight. As disappearances and gruesome murders stack up, reports of a monstrous beast becomes the norm. Jonathan Bailey, a retired folklorist, and his estranged son, Philip, travel to a distant land in search of mythical powers to stop the demons in their quest to destroy the only defense protecting humanity from the terror devouring the town. In this contest of good vs. evil, will the residents of Clearmont find the heroic within themselves? When all seems lost, the most unassuming among them will step forward to selflessly face an enemy more powerful than any human being.
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The Fifth Day Lady: Can She Make It Work?
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Josephine goes undercover as a rich married woman in Siesta Key in Florida, where she purposely meets a dentist named Julio, suspected of having too much money as a dentist with a million-dollar polo team. A former barrel racer in rodeos at an early age, can Josephine help Julio, hurt on the field, win a Polo match in West Palm? Josephine also risks exposing her cover with military skills in a chopper attack by a Miami drug king. And Julio’s mother, Lucia, jealous and suspicious, plans to kill her.
In Buenos Aires, Josephine, at odds with her affection for Julio, convinced Julio that his mother smuggles drugs through her business. With a huge network discovered, new members join the mission to stare down death. In a final drug war, can the team destroy a smuggling system when no one else could? -
The Findog
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99This book is more of a collection of poems from the last twenty years. Some may be thoughts or include events leading to but most like this book is the return value of being single. Or suppose, my compromise didn’t work.
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The Fire Club: A dangerously humorous journey with a regular crew of irregular firefighters.
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Cole Walker, an inexperienced fire captain, is cruelly baptized into fire life when he is ripped from his air-conditioned desk job and plunged into the command of an obstinate crew of four mischievous firefighters. Walker’s book-smarts do not prepare him for tumultuous firehouse life, or the vivid horrors of his dangerous profession.
Cole Walker finally realizes his life-long dream when he is promoted to fire captain, and takes the place of a highly respected, veteran captain. Ironically, Walker has never held a command nor even worked in a firehouse! His entire career has been safely sheltered behind the insular walls of headquarters. Rookie Captain Cole Walker painfully discovers he must lead his rebellious firefighters through predicaments he’d never experienced before. In his cathartic journey to prove himself as a worthy field captain, Walker discovers that he must fight more than fire.
His firefighters despise him for his lack of experience, they quarrel and plague him with vicious pranks. A rival captain and nefarious mayor torment Walker through public humiliation, while a mirthful young coed from the ladies Auxiliary sparks a contentious rivalry. In between station conflicts, Walker and crew are deluged with deadly fires and agonizing rescues. Walker and his firefighters struggle to survive the volatile incidents that assail them from both inside and outside the firehouse.
Amid the dangers and persistent firehouse hazing, Walker must allay firefighter rivalries, survive career sabotage, mend broken people, and make command decisions that could easily kill himself and his crew.
Based on Real Events
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The Four Gospels Into One Book: According to Matthew, Mark, Luke, John with no ‘If’ or ‘But’
Price range: $14.99 through $20.99The
FOUR
GOSPELS
Into One Book
Did you ever wonder when reading the four gospels, Who is
actually right?
Is it Matthew, Mark, Luke or John.
Which one when describing a certain story, is most likely
telling the true.
Well I did, and I decided to put it chronologically, so that you
do not need to “Wonder” no more.
Happy reading.
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The Frown of Fortune: A French Affair
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99In 1653 Luke and his deputy Harry are sent to Paris to negotiate secretly with the exiled king. They are separated and pursue independent investigations. Harry, who reaches the royal court attempts to solve the murders of two ladies-in-waiting, while a disabled Luke investigates the death of an aristocrat’s wife. The investigations are complicated by a feisty abbess, hysterical nuns, an unscrupulous courtier, a Canadian adventurer, and a rampaging bear. Thee search for English Catholic treasure focusses everybody’s attention.
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The Funny Side of Chaos: Featuring COVID-19: Featuring COVID-19
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99FUNNY SIDE OF CHAOS is meant to make pandemics look better than they are, so this book tells the funny side of situations that you wouldn’t laugh about from countries such as Mexico, UK, Spain, and South Africa. There are funny stories from 2 travelers that tell their antics also Chaotic pandemics like Covidl9, Wars, illnesses they feature in this book. So this is the tale of two women travelers that get caught in awkward situations. but they see the funny side of it. They do lots of things that Latin woman wouldn’t do. they travel, they have a career and they help women charities as well. A great story for feminists. Enjoy!
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The Game
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99A terrified girl takes refuge with a stranger and pleads for her help in escaping the pursuit of the mob. Marie agrees, and takes Ann into her home and works to hide her from her pursuers. They confide in each other and become friends. They think they have evaded the mob, but when Ann is spotted again, Chicago becomes too hot for them, and they flee to London.
Once in London they relax, but all too soon they realize that their followers have found them again. Only when Marie plucks up her courage to strike back at the shadowy menace does she discover the strange twist in the story, and then the truth comes out at least.
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The Genome of Faith: A Life Unfolding Between Heaven and Earth: A Scientist’s Testament Beyond the Timeline
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Dr. Ulysses Lagrimas Labilles, an epidemiologist, cancer researcher, and public health advocate, has a personal journey that has shaped his professional path. His academic achievements, including a PhD in Applied Public Health Epidemiology and the presidency of the Golden Key International Honour Society and other distinguished academic societies, are impressive. With a 3.8 GPA and a distinguished career during the COVID-19 pandemic and in precision oncology, Dr. Labilles has dedicated his life to improving outcomes for the vulnerable. However, it is his journey, following a diagnosis of stage 4 non-small cell lung cancer, that has led him to focus on healing, faith, and legacy, making his story one of resilience and hope.
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The Gift of Sobriety: A Spiritual Transformation
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99This book describes Rose’s gradual descent into alcoholism over a 45-year period. Starting out as a moderate drinker for many years, her descent into the depths of depression and despair of alcoholism was exacerbated by the death of a spouse of 20 years. Retired and alone she started abusing alcohol. This led to suicidal ideation and eventually to Out Patient treatment. However, it was only in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous that she finally found the solution she needed. This book describes her first nine months in AA, what she experienced, thought, and felt. It takes the reader deeply into the spiritual transformation that this 12 Step program offers. This book is helpful to those who struggle with their drinking and want to quit. Those in recovery can relate to the chapters and it may be used as a book study in groups.
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The God of Times and Seasons: Knowing what to do with Times and Seasons and Acting on it to Derive Maximum Benefits
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99In life, there are natural times and seasons and also spiritual times and seasons. In the natural, seasons come and go, and we often appreciate those seasons based on how we feel about them. Make no mistake about this. Neither summer nor winter cares about who likes them or who doesn’t, but they come and go as they have been commanded to do by the Lord.
This book will empower you to be sensitive to discern the right season and the right soil to plant your seed. God is the God of times and seasons; He works in times and seasons. When God gives you a prophetic word, you must realize that it is for a time and a season. When it comes to God, timing is everything. Times and seasons are what make life beautiful and colorful. -
The Going Was Good: Memoir of a Transatlantic Life
Price range: $3.99 through $12.50Spanning the decades from 1934 to 2020, The Going Was Good: Memoir of a Transatlantic Life follows the life of author David Buisseret from his early childhood to his life in retirement. Woven within the text, Buisseret recounts many historical events and trends, not only as a historian, but as someone who experienced the many changes and challenges of the times. Simultaneously, he expounds upon how these events affected his life, both professionally and personally, as well as the lives of his family.
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The Great Abortion: A Holy Book for Isolated Souls
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99These assorted poems are philosophical works as much as they are art. The myriad of subjects contained in this collection cover freedom, depression, lust, solitude, paradise, risk, labor, spirituality, and transformation to name a few. As diverse as these topics are, they all coalesce into an insightful and provocative spirit of exploration and moral exhortation. I have titled this work of mine as The Great Abortion hoping that it will become exactly that to the majority of people who have turned away from poetry. I aim to stop a mindless tradition of emotional stimulation, which neither betters the writer or reader. There are countless poems that have become nothing but an endless stream of adjectives that create great mental pictures, but drown out the few words dedicated to the actual content. Each of my poems combine to create a great halting power, and an eventual abortion. These poems operate by lifting the veil of curiosity on philosophical verities without the rigors and stagnation of logic. These poems strike through carefree levity, sharp barbs, and creative allegories. Weather the reader finds themselves in agreement with these works or not, they will consider meaningful life subjects with a fresh new energy supplied by these poems. I promise the reader a new spirit of contemplation upon completing this book.
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The Great Mission of Jesus Christ on Earth
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99On earth today, many Christians and humanity have now reached a stage where they must make a shift into the next level of their consciousness to enable them to communicate with Jesus Christ through prayer, meditation, and fasting to receive the baptism of the holy spirit to complete their rapture or ascension. In this book, The Great Mission of Jesus Christ, John Entsuah explains the most important key points.
The first key point are the hidden teachings of Jesus Christ, which is also known as the spiritual gospel of Jesus Christ, where many teachings of Jesus Christ were rejected by the Christian council organized by King Constantine during his reign as the Roman emperor in the second century.
The second key point is the great mission of Jesus Christ, where he came to give humanity the power of the Holy Spirit to awaken their Christ consciousness to conquer sin and death.
In the third key point, John Entsuah explains the second coming of Christ, which is about Christ conception and Christ-consciousness awakening in the
heart of every soul on earth through prayer, meditation, and fasting to connect directly with Jesus Christ to receive the atonement power as the grace.
Last of all, he explains that the human consciousness separates us from God because of the spiritual fall of Adam and Eve caused by Satan.
Christ consciousness reconnects us back to God through Jesus Christ by receiving the atonement power through the baptism of the Holy Spirit and the
light of Christ in the heart of our souls. This is transforms us all into Christ like beings with Christ body, Christ blood, and Christ consciousness to inherit the kingdom of God.
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The Greatest Human Deception
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99The Greatest Human Deception is certainly one of the most explosive thought-provoking books of immense proportions and dimensions. Certainly, a “Christian Classic” and a must-read book beneficial to all. Using indisputable scientific facts, the author diagnoses the reasons for world problems of health, hatred with wars, and provides the “magic” prescription to cure all individuals and world problems. Argues forcibly that the present educational system of the world is flawed because it is in the “wrong direction,” and advocates a “turn around” to the “right type of education.” And inspiration to believers, an eye-opener to unbelievers, a challenge to atheists, agnostics, and the uncommitted. In the Greatest Human Deception, the existence of God is not an exercise of “Quod Erat Faciendum” but a magnificent and colossal statement of “Quod Erat Demonstratum” (that which has been proven or demonstrated). A grand philosophical edifice, cemented with scientific facts.
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The Greatest Semester Ever: A Memoir of Studying Abroad
$11.99An old college journal found by accident led to an inspiration 34 years later. I had always told oral stories about my travels and encounters at parties and pubs to positive responses, and reactions. After a while, I thought I might actually have a book to write here?!
It’s like a “Let’s Go Europe” travel book for those who venture to go beyond their own comfort zones. Traveling isn’t just getting into long, endless lines at the airport during the holidays. Rail is the way to go if you want to see the actual country and not from 30,000 feet. That is, of course, if you don’t have thousands of miles to cover like one doesn’t have in Western Europe. In the Spring of 1989, the Iron Curtain was still standing, and the Soviet Empire still reigned over Eastern Europe. Therefore, we were limited on where we could go, however we did manage to go behind the Iron Curtain at one point and view the former Communist World.
It explores the trials and tribulations of college students going way out of their normal surroundings, not only just to continue their college educations, but also to learn a “metric butt-load” about the world and themselves most importantly. If you want to do something amazing, see something amazing, or even achieve your wildest dreams, you’re going to have to go beyond the horizon and venture into the unknown. While the pomp in that sounds glorious, fluffy, and boisterous, the reality is that it’s true. You’ll never see the world by staying in “Mayberry”.
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The Grottos of Barigoule: A Novel
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99In April of 1545, a horrific massacre of more than 3,000 “heretics” in southern France occurred. In one small village, twenty-five women and children hid in a secret grotto in the hills above town. But they were betrayed. Royal and papal troops built a fire in the mouth of the grotto and murdered them all by suffocation. So much is an established historical fact.
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The Happy Harrow Murder Trilogy: Murder to Music, Murder in Marriage, Murdered Mothers
Price range: $3.99 through $22.99Murder to Music Rick Harrow, a British racehorse trainer, and his Kentucky-born wife, Happy, are thrilled when twin opera stars, Fran and Carla Purcell, enter their yard. Shortly after the twins buy horses, Carla is murdered. Three more famous artists in the music world are murdered, as Happy hones her skills as a sleuth to find the serial killer, her quest taking her to Australia, Scotland and Monaco. Murder in Marriage Rick Harrow, now the father of three, and his wife, Happy, become embroiled in a double death, which the police cannot decide is a suicide/murder, or what? While working as a horse trainer and buyer in Miami, Rick had strayed from the marital bed while Happy gave birth to their third child. Rick has had a scorching affair with Lois Blair, a wanton wife from the central-Florida town of Sunblair. On Christmas morning, Lois’s step-son arrives at the Harrow’s rented Miami cottage, and accuses Rick of having murdered his father. Had Rick killed the Senior Blair, an eminent attorney and scion of the founders of Sunblair? Had he murdered Lois as a cover-up? Happy travels to the central-Florida horse country, to Disney World, and into a swamp area to do her sleuthing. Murdered Mothers Rick Harrow, who has come up in the world of valuable racehorses thanks to winning races, particularly one in Tokyo with his Kentucky-born wife Happy in the saddle, suffers through an excruciating experience in Miami before being thrust into the throes of an horrific series of murders in Kentucky. There, in what was the peaceful town of Honeyville, the Harrows are caught up in four murders by a serial killer who targets new mothers. Meanwhile, they attend the equine Olympic events in Hong Kong, travel to Dubai, where again a femme fatale enters their lives in the shape of Mafalda, an Egyptian seductress who veers from international playgirl to Muslim Fundamentalist.
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The Haunted House Kid
$3.99Alex Connelly’s parents are getting a divorce. To make matters worse, they have refused to let him use their garage this year for the haunted house he has put on since he was very young. Fortunately for Alex, he has been temporarily allowed to live with his adoring maternal grandmother, inadvertently gaining himself a new venue for his spooky hobby, his Grandma Ruth’s near-empty garage.
When Alex’s mom acting all kinds of weird, and Grandma Ruth is away from home all the time (because she’s managed to pass her driver’s license test, after several years without a license) and he starts to notice strange things going on during the construction of his “latest and greatest spook galley” stranger than normal, that is he considers scrapping the project entirely.
Yet…something is driving Alex to finish his haunted house at all cost! All he knows is that he has to get it finished by opening night just before Halloween!
Meanwhile, Alex left with a lot of free time to work alone and undisturbed in his grandmother’s garage is worried about his little sister, Maggie, being alone with his Mom who has begun acting very strangely and is gone from home most of the time. And his heart is breaking for his dad, who is sad and living across town in a lonely apartment. But, unbeknownst to Alex and the rest of the family, Grandma Ruth is trying desperately to find a way to keep her daughter, Allison, from embracing the family roots into witchcraft a tradition Grandma Ruth herself, has spent a lifetime trying to deny and from which she has always tried to protect her daughter.
Long lost relatives come out of the woodworks. Mythical monsters are being summoned from distant quarters of the earth. Everyone is worried about Alex too because of the strange way his mother is acting toward him, a well as for the strange way Alex, is acting.
But at least new friends offer comfort along the way.
Alex just hopes that somehow his haunted house is going to save his family!
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The Hawk of Yonezawa: Historical Fiction with J.S Bach
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99The Hawk of Yonezawa is a short novel, or novella, about the fictional adventures of Johann Sebastian Bach who is transported to the island of Japan. Bach is on a rare trip outside his world of Leipzig, Germany, a little after the year 1742. The coach breaks down and he misses the concert that would have featured George Frederic Handel performing his own works by him. On the return trip he meets a twelve-year-old boy and his young mother.
They find that he knows how to play the organ and so they invite him to fix the one at their church. Bach refuses graciously, but once more the stage coach breaks down, and Bach is transported in a dream with the boy and his mother from him to Japan, where he is beset with adventures while trying to fix the local church organ. This novella is written for a general, religious and musically inquisitive audience. It is family fare, also suitable for high school and college readers.
Donald D. Joye is a retired professor at Villanova University. He has been enthusiastically involved in classical music since he was thirteen years old.After growing up on Long Island, New York, attending college in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, he settled in Philadelphia, where he and his wife Claudia raised their three boys.
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The Healer
Price range: $3.99 through $7.99When Jean-Marie Nkusi was only twelve, he fell into a coma from the effects of malaria while living in a refugee camp in Burundi. As he lay near death, with his family saying the Rosary around him, he experienced an amazing, life-changing religious event. He felt his body ascend to Heaven where he met Jesus Christ and His mother, the Virgin Mary. They told him that he was healed, but needed to return to earth to share the special message of God’s love.
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The Healing Touch
$13.99Many couples wish for the type of marriage Adam and Eve had, but their chances of achieving that relationship are minimized when they don’t have the necessary tools to get there.
Dave Bennett’s The Healing Touch not only promises a paradisiacal marriage, such as Adam and Eve had in the beginning, but also provides the tools to get there. He shares how two people can grow in Christ together. Bennett provides the scriptural means for sustaining the relationship and the know-how to resolve issues so the relationship can continue to grow in social, emotional, and spiritual intimacy and in the richness of life skills.
It is essential for all of us to learn how to truly walk with God in intimacy on a daily basis. The Healing Touch shows it is this ongoing intimacy that enables us to relate to our spouses with the unconditional love of agape and an uncommon commitment all of us need. Loving each other becomes fun, spiritual, and emotionally and physically intimate. It never gets old.
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The Helpmate
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99This is a well-orchestrated prose-work, fiction. Although events in the narratives are mirrored to reflect real life occurrences. It is a tragic story. A tale of struggles, hardship, fortune, survival and death. The Book has fifteen chapters in total running into 108 pages with intriguing starting ending narratives which qualifies the story as comical tragedy.
It touches on some cultural demeanors of people from certain tribes in Africa (Nigeria as a focus) where extra-marital affair is silently prevalent despite legality to engage in polygamy. The book: Helpmate muckrakes the evil of broken-homes and parental negligence on young adults. The strenuous roles of fending for self as a child and taking up the responsibility of an adult in the process of survival is pivotal incident within the pages.
Man’s love for beast is not always without the influence of what they could produce. This statement is justified by the roles the Dog: ‘Riro’ plays on Dara’s path to fulfillment. These unique roles have usually been sanctioned to be the reason why many pet-owners (especially in Africa) own their Dogs and cater for them and not really because of unaligning love for these animals. The story justifies this more with the dramatic risk of life efforts ‘Riro’ (the Dog) had to make to preserve Dara’s life whle the Dog owner-Dara could not be said to attempt similar efforts to the turn of substituting his own life to rescue the Dog when her own (the Dog’s) critical situation beckoned.
We dream, we hope, we expect with longings in life, but we do not know what tomorrow holds. This is explained by the unexpected and sudden end of Riro. For this sudden and unexpected end of Dara’s lover bring him back to a zero level of fulfillment, bruising his desires like the impact of the sun upon a fallen leave…