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Fathers of Invention: An American Story of Family, Faith and Innovation
Price range: $3.99 through $23.99- The story of the Pansini family sets an historic example of the power of imagination. From the development of the first paid-parking facilities in the early 20th Century that “started with a nickel,” to key technical innovations that drove growth of swimming pool and aquatics industry. Andrew A. Pansini’s account of his father’s and grandfather’s history is as far-reaching as it is personal.
-ERIC HERMAN, senior editor, AQUA Magazine
- A fascinating book that captures the entrepreneurial spirit and vision of an all-American family dynasty. Read how Andrew L. Pansini’s inventions and business genius helped transform the aquatics and automotive industries.
-VANCE GILLETTE
- An informative story showing the application of the fundamentals needed to create products and grow a business while maintaining a strong family life. A great guide to keeping one’s professional and private life balanced for success and happiness.
-GENE PECCI
- Inspirational book about the American dream, amazing how just one person with an entrepreneurial spirit can impact so many during their life and beyond.
-SCOTT FROST
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The Little Bird Bible: Philippians Retweeted
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Using the modern language of emojis���������������� and the contemporary design of a social media page, the Book of Philippians has never been so approachable, engaging, fun, and easy to read.
Designed with the 21st Century reader in mind, each Little Bird Bible book is a short paraphrase translation that applies:
- Diverse Spiritual commentary
- Gender-inclusive language
- Inline pronunciation guides
- Character biographies
- 140-character chapter summaries
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to simplify and enhance the Bible reading experience.
This Retweeted version of Philippians, formatted like a social media page, inserts a number of side conversations parallel to the original text from a theologically diverse cast of historic philosophers and thinkers who debate and discuss the meaning and significance of key passages. Further, the Retweeted version is seasoned with a series of built in reflection questions and hashtag prompts, to best bring the discussion and interpretation of the sacred text into an ongoing open online dynamic discussion. This second edition includes more illustrations, more theologians, and simplified inline emoji translations to make this work easier to read with greater spiritual depth.
Of all the letters the Apostle Paul wrote, Philippians is the most personal and the most joyous. From start to finish joy fills each page, even though the author is in prisonawaiting trial at the time he wrote it. Experience all the hope, conviction, and passion this book offers in a whole new Little Bird way.
Young adult and teenage readers will enjoy the union of Scripture with emojis, while readers who do not have time to read a traditional Bible will appreciate this translation’s brevity. Little Bird Bible books are the perfect way to introduce the major themes and teachings of Scripture to readers new to the Bible, while also appealing to long time avid Bible readers with a fresh interpretation and added unique multidisciplinary commentary. We hope you enjoy Philippians.
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Poetic Heaven or Hell
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99This book of poetry presents a thirty year collection of thoughts, both about life in the here and now and life in the hereafter. It shares the message of God’s forgiveness and seeks to awaken the spiritual beings in everyone.
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Facts and Interpretation: A Prayer Manual for Prayer Warriors
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Some people believe that there is a difference (albeit inconsiderable) between a Christian and a believer. They argue that a Christian has not completely understood the valid, valuable, and invaluable role that the Holy Spirit plays in serving Christ. They aver that a believer, on the other hand, is a Christian who has learned and developed a conviction born from experience that, without a daily contact and yielding to the Holy Spirit, could not be true to God, let alone communicate with Him.
The question is, are you willing, hungry, and determined to communicate with God on behalf of lost souls in ways that would enrich your participation and discipline your understanding about the great commission as a prayer warrior?
Prayer warriors are believers who have made a conscious effort to intercede for lost souls and to reach the world for Christ. They believe and have this inveterate conviction that prayer undergirds witnessing, and witnessing cultivates a culture of absolute and undeviating dependence on the Holy Spirit. They also believe that the church exists to witness for Christ.
This book is about the Holy Spirit and His influence on all aspects of prayer. That is why any church qua church that does not have a group of dedicated men and women whose avowed mission is to pray for souls (prayer warriors) is making itself irrelevant in preparing for the second return of Christ.
As you read, whether it is the chapter on prayer and the knowledge of God, prayer and the will of God, prayer and praise, prayer and faith, prayer and witnessing, prayer and the sovereignty of God, or secret prayer, you will discover, as I did, that the Holy Spirit stands ready to transform your own life because “He that watereth shall himself be watered” is an inflexible Biblical principle.
My hope is that the Holy Spirit will not only fight for His outcomes as you read and apply these principles in your own life but also leaven your conviction. -
Dashell and Caroline
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99“For Caroline, a woman whose identity is a mystery, nothing is certain – except the love she and Dashell share. Now that crucial missing documents have been found, she has the answer to one of her biggest questions: her real name. With that information in hand, she and Dashell can now begin to plan their wedding and her future as Lady Lonsdale.
Dashell and his youngest brother Maxwell travel up to Yorkshire to find out what they can, and what they do discover greatly saddens them.
Another search commenced by Dashell’s aunt, Lady Smythe, has uncovered one more surprise for Caroline – a blood relative. It’s a shocking revelation for both Caroline and her new family member, who thought he had no relatives. Once the man recovers from his surprise, he shares information that may hold the key to the truth. As answers emerge it seems that every mystery of Caroline’s past will be revealed. But within the joy of discovery lies the heartbreaking story of how one person cruelly deceived Caroline’s mother. Isobel.
Will the truth set them free – or will the lovers find themselves ensnared in a bigger mystery than they imagined?” -
My Dad (Mr. P): THE POET AND HE DIDN’T KNOW IT
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Joseph L. Piranio is kind, loving, and a sincere person who loves his family. He always puts other people first. He can put a smile on anyone’s face. He would start a conversation with anyone. As for hobbies, he has lots. He would go fishing and race pigeons. His favorite one was singing Frank Sinatra’s song, “My Way!” in karaoke sessions. His on-circuit name was Mr. P. Everyone knew him as that. He was a U.S. Navy veteran. He served in the Korean War. He worked as an electrician for Kansas City. He helped build projects like Worlds of Fun, the Kansas City International Airport, and Liberty Hospital. He has five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. One of the things he is great at was writing down his thoughts as poems. He would teach his two sons to hunt and fish. Anyone who knows him knows family is very important to him in every way.
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The Life We Share
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99In 1972, my mother left her farming village in México with six young children and one suitcase to go by bus to California. I was eight years old. This is the journey that changed my life, as portrayed in my poetry, writings, and artwork in “Art & Poetry – nested in these – Captured Moments,” published 2021. As an engineering graduate from Loyola Marymount University, my professional career began designing theme park attractions for Walt Disney Imagineering. After 10 years as an engineer, and after researching other fields in which to apply my experience, I discovered the field of Intellectual Property (IP). I hold a patent agent registration from the United States Patent and Trademark Office and a Juris Doctorate. I’ve worked in the IP field for 20 years. My journey continues as I’ve discovered the joy of writing poetry, photography, and painting. Although, I embark in these gratifying art forms during my spare time, I take each moment to the fullest until a project is complete.
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Icky Sticky Cotton Candy
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Peggy Seeney Caranda is an artist and author.
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Thoughts on Marriage: A Journey to Oneness
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99A DISCUSSION OF SUCCESSFUL MARRIAGE, AS LINKED TO GOD’S IMAGE, FROM OVER 40 YEARS OF NOTES AND THOUGHTS.
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With Dangerous Aim
Price range: $3.99 through $22.99The Alexander Hamilton Foundation in Washington, D.C. needs someone to escort a Chinese defector from Shanghai, China to America. The defector has vital top-secret security information for America. Lieutenant Commander Pilar Marshall volunteers for this clandestine assignment. At the final pickup point off the coast of Shanghai, a submarine is to collect the defector. Suspense builds as they move through the city to the marina, followed by an unknown watcher. As they are ready to cast off from the dock, the watcher appears with a gun. They scuffle with the watcher who is knocked down. He fired one shot, which hit a member of her team. They escape to the pickup point. To avoid being caught by the Chinese patrol boat, they hide in the coastal fog. Little do they know, there is no submarine to pick them up. A zodiac picks up the group to a waiting U.S. destroyer. One member of the group is a Chinese sleeper spy. The spy accompanies the team to America. In a tense scene, the sleeper spy locates the defector. With dangerous aim, does the assassin accomplish her task?
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A Chronicle of the Roman Twilight: A Novel
Price range: $3.99 through $33.99The story begins in A.D. 364 when the author of this memoir, Marcus Cedranus, is born into a middle class landowner’s family in western Britain. While his material prospects are promising, his deteriorating relationship with his parents causes him to leave home for the continent. In Gaul he becomes a teamster for a freight hauling company, meets an older woman who will eventually play a major role in his life and is drafted into the Roman army in 382.
He is assigned to Legion XXII in Mainz and in 383 is temporarily transferred to Belgrade on the Danube. A revolt in the west makes this transfer permanent. He participates in several military campaigns and takes part in a triumph in Constantinople in 386. In 388 his regiment takes part in the eastern offensive against the revolt in the west that has by now spread to Italy. With the revolt suppressed, he is assigned to a new imperial guard regiment for the restored western emperor, Valentinian II. During another transfer to the east Marcus suffers a terrible personal tragedy from which it is impossible to recover. Another civil war breaks out in the west and is suppressed with terrible casualties.
Marcus is appointed tribune and made a member of the personal staff of Stilicho, the new generalissimo of the west. Further military adventures take place in Greece, Britain and Italy. A massive barbarian invasion of the west on December 31, 406 triggers political instability leading to revolts in both Britain and Italy. This inevitably leads to the sack of Rome by Alaric and his Visigoths in 410.
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The Church in the Last Days
Price range: $3.99 through $27.99Above all, the writer believes that The Church in the Last Days addresses the main sources of doctrinal confusion, clearing the air and exposing the contradictions to which many Christians still cling regarding crucial end time prophecies. First, the writer has received direct revelation from God’s Spirit which has led to the solution of these problems. Second, he has also compared many other salient scriptures which have apparently been ignored, thereby clarifying pertinent contextual details regarding the relative timing of end times events. Also, this book is a “primer for victory” for all those who believe the truth of the complete Gospel of Christ. One cannot miss the fact that the New Testament is full of glowing examples of what believers can do just by taking Jesus’s Word at face value. Solomon wrote that “the righteous are as bold as a lion.” Not only that, the writer believes that the New Covenant aptly sketched out simply in ”the Lord’s Prayer,” is a manifesto for a spiritual revolution that we can implement today and finally, in these “last days,” bring about a worldwide revival and the fulfillment of the great commission.
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A Trip to the Moon
Price range: $3.99 through $30.99A Trip to the Moon is the story of the Apollo 11 moon mission described through an interesting story of animals. In the story, a rabbit, a crow and a fish, with a wise old owl travel to the Moon and learn all the scientific facts about the moon through their exciting fun-filled adventures. From my experience as a mother and teacher, I found most children avoid reading pure science books on their own because they appear monotonous to them. Children love stories. So, I have combined science with an interesting story of the animals so that the children will enjoy reading the story and simultaneously learn science.
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On the Way
Price range: $3.99 through $27.99When William (Dub) Brooks and George Sayre first met, they soon realized they shared a mutual love for Ireland’s northwest coast. One had a passion for writing verse. The other had a love of photography. They decided to spend a month together in Ireland viewing with their separate lenses and combining their views in this book. There were four driving mechanisms.
Most of us dream of taking a “time out” to go on a journey. Virgil and Dante come to mind.
The two authors have a yearning to see Ireland again but in a differing light. It would cover thirty-three days of grand effort and joyous exploration.
That prism being also enhanced by the frame of raw winter. Who knew a Nor’easter would blow through the island and captivate and intrigue the people in the grip of HY’s unique brand of cold? It certainly added flavor and character to the sojourn.
The basis of our journey was threefold.
One was to capture the powerful hues and chromas of Ireland. No other land hosts such verdancy.
The second was to trace the various and sundry foot paths of W. B. Yates, writer after the Irish manner, romantic and modernist, dramatist, poet, and passionate believer who proclaimed Ireland’s wondrous brand of seeing and expression.
Dromahair (Lough Gill), Drumcliff, and Sligo being our northwestern home base.
Lastly we wanted to follow and appreciate the establishments and creative works of St. Cohlumncille, artist and author of Celtic Christian communities and hand-drawn books from the sixth century CE.
We hope that our journey inspires your own freeing journey of the heart that allows each of us to realize and to expand our inner horizons and to liberate our souls’ deep desire to see. -
Poetry for the Soul: Plus Satire
Price range: $11.99 through $18.99God’s spirit can fill our very soul;
We are restored, and love reigns whole.
God blesses freedom and allows you to choose,
But those who steal freedom are destined to lose.
Bad thoughts from the past can be banished at last. Then your heart is set free to be all you can be.
What you think is what you feel.
Emotions are but mirrors real.
The Lord will protect better than ever we can,
For even in the worst of times, He can perfect His plan.
What sets this collection apart is McPhee’s versatility as a poet. Each poem is a testimony to her ability to seamlessly transition between introspective messages and razor-sharp wit….Yet beneath the humor lies a deep sense of compassion and understanding, reminding us that laughter can be a powerful tool for introspection and growth.
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A REQUIEM FOR EVOLUTION
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99Does God really exist?
How can we be scientifically, mathematically, logically, theologically, and personally sure of His existence?
Why did God create the universe?
Why is there evil in the world, and if there is a God, why did He let that happen?
Do you suffer from HEXAKOSIOIHEXEKONTAHEXAPHOBIA?
When was Jesus Christ really born? How old was He when He was crucified?
What does the number 666 mean? Who is the Antichrist?
What is Heaven Like? Is Hell real?
What is the most difficult passage of the Bible? What are the four verses in the Bible no one can possibly understand? What can the 70 Weeks of Daniel have to say about the end of the World?
Is the Bible really the word of God?
Are the biblical verses the words of God in the words of men, or simply the words of men?
What sets the Bible apart from any ordinary book?
How can anyone study the Bible?
Is the clergy the only entity with the mental and spiritual fortitude to understand the Holy Scriptures?
What are some of the patterns of the Holy Scriptures?
Are the biblical markers reliable?
What is Salvation arguably the most misunderstood word in the entire Bible?
How can anyone be sure of His salvation?
Who do you think are the top 100 most important people of all time?
Does your list match the author’s (Please, use the “MY TOP 100 INDIVIDUALS OF ALL TIME” form at the end of the book and start ranking your top 100 most important individuals of all time! Then post your list on as many social media platforms as possible, and e-mail it to Piwb101@aol.com).
A Requiem for Evolution provides refreshing answers to those very important questions.