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Balkymor: The “Talipes” Effect
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99In 1997, a baby girl named Kelly was born in Sarnia, Ontario with two club feet. While still a baby, she went to the Montreal Shriner’s Hospital for twenty-three visits in eight months to surgically correct her condition. By the time she was six, she was running around freely.
Her Scottish grandfather had been born in 1938 with a left club foot. Knowing what his granddaughter faced through many medical procedures at a very young age, he collected together his writings about his life from early childhood through to a long and successful career and many international travels.
Told with love and humour, Balkymor follows the author through his childhood in Scotland during World War II, his youth, falling in love, marrying and moving them to Canada with no job prospects, little money and as much optimism as they could muster.
Balkymor is a heart-warming memoir of humour, strength, courage and faith in the face of pain, and a rapidly-changing world. It is about overcoming adversity with determination and resolve. It is also a story of love, family and adventure that will have you cheering for the Currie family.
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The Max Faraday Chronicles
$14.99Who am I and why should you read my story? My name is Max Faraday. Nobody is going to believe me, but here I am putting it all down on paper. I am a man of two time periods. Forgive me, this sci-fi stuff is new to me.
A week or more ago, in July 2002, I came home for my 1982 high school class reunion. I was staying with my friend Jamie Scott and his family. On the way home from the reunion, we picked up his kids at the babysitter. Their little girl comes out and bounces a ball that tumbles out of her hands into the street.
Just as we arrived, a car speeds up and my instincts take over. I pick her up and get her out of the way, but I was then hit by the speeding car! Stunned, I wake up in September 1978! I am a thirty-eight-year-old man in a fourteen-year-old’s body! I can’t tell anyone, or they would lock me up, thinking I’m crazy! I know I would.
So here I am in the eighth grade all over again. When I went to bed in 1978, I woke up in a coma in 2002, wondering about the driver who ran me over.
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Overcoming Adversity: Resetting Goals
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99Overcoming Adversity is an interesting, intriguing, and inspiring story of hope, courage, and determination. The book emphasizes the spirit of tenacity.
As an African American in the United States, Fowlkes endured generational poverty and economic disadvantages that were frustrating and painful. He remained focused on his goals and alleviated the pain through faith, self-reliance, and perseverance.
Take a stroll with Fowlkes and observe the insightful and dynamic strategies he employed to achieve his goals and dreams despite rejections and ever-changing setbacks and barriers.
The reader will observe his astonishing and remarkable rise from a splintered childhood and poverty to faithfully serving twenty-year in the United States Army and achieving the grade of Lt. Colonel. He also earned two postgraduate degrees and two professional certificates.
How will you achieve your goals and dreams when experiencing setbacks and rejections?
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How Did You Come To School Today?
Price range: $11.99 through $20.99Going to school can be an adventure, whether it is childcare, preschool, or school. How we get there is only limited by our imaginations!
In this delightful tale, little ones are invited to travel to school in a variety of ways. Should they soar in a balloon, float in a boat, or ride in a truck? There are so many ways!
How Did You Come to School Today?” is a colorful story for children that encourages them to use their imagination to travel to their unique learning environment, wherever that may be.
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What’s Your (Analyst’s) Diagnosis? Truth (Or Fantasy)?: An Essay On Human Perception
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Human perception of reality, and scientific advancement, is linked to the truthfulness of verbal and mathematical description(s) of real event(s). Human verbal and mathematical descriptions of reality reveal psychic reality of those persons projecting the descriptions and relate to prior real experiences or verbalizations of others.
This book presents as natural phenomena:
- “Free will” of human perception, or its absence, results from the truthfulness, or fantasy world conceptualization, of a primary relationship.
- The ‘”Unified Field Theory of Charged Particle Relation(s) and Mass-Energy Transformation(s)” gives universal understanding of positive, and negative, realities of the universe and unifies, by truthful mathematical ”identification”, the three current theories of physics.
- “Structural Development” of the ”personality” is an ”identification” process of the ”self”, as a being, apart from the genetic person. To use Einstein’s words, it is ”apart from humanity”.
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A Terror From Within
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99A Terror from Within is a fictional account of an embedded terrorist cell within the United States. A psychologically flawed middle-eastern student endeavors to attack the United States by any means possible in order to fulfill his misguided destiny.
Yousef Khan devises challenging scenarios and plots putting his injudicious plans into action, with not always the best results. Will he be discovered the next time one of his plots fails, or will he continue to devise plots until he meets with the success that he desires to honor Allah?
Based on real-life intelligence reports and law enforcement bulletins, the story is a no nonsense account of the security realities facing our nation post 9/11. The notion of a rogue group of individuals being able to penetrate and disrupt our society is plausible in the face of the challenges in homeland security that we are facing today.
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The Blossoming of the World: Essays and Images
$13.99In The Blossoming of the World, Brian H. Peterson-author of the critically acclaimed The Smile at the Heart of Things-picks up both pen and camera and journeys to the deep end of life. Along the way he confronts some painful contradictions-beauty and violence, love and grief-and reflects on illness, family, death, dreams, ephiphanies, and the birth of self-awareness.
More storyteller than philosopher, Peterson struggles to reconcile his Christian faith with his love of science, creativity, and spirituality in all its manifestations. Through word and image, he quietly looks for-and finds-the common ground that unites thinking and compassionate people of all shapes and sizes.
This beautiful book contains reproductions of Peterson’s photographs which accompany and enrich his collection of essays and reflections.
Brian H. Peterson has more than forty years’ experience as a curator, critic, visual artist, musician, and arts administrator. His photographs are in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Amon Carter Museum, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Denver Art Museum, among others. As the Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest Chief Curator at the Michener Art Museum (1990-2013), he managed the exhibition program, curated historic and contemporary exhibitions, and was the editor and principal author of the landmark publication Pennsylvania Impressionism (2002). The author of two prior collections of essays-The Smile at the Heart of Things (2009) and The Blossoming of the World (2010-Peterson has contributed critical writing to the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, American Arts Quarterly, and the Photo Review. In retirement he has taken up videography while continuing his work as a writer and photographer. His 1981 song cycle “Moon Songs,” based on the poetry of E. E. Cummings, was featured on the CD Modern American Art Song (2015) with mezzo-soprano Sharon Mabry. His most recent publication is I Give My Eyes, a spiritual autobiography and a story of healing and salvation.
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Lessons
Price range: $3.99 through $13.80This book is a collection of life lessons Hawkeye has gained over time. Some painful. Some deeply moving. Others entertaining. All intriguing and powerful. See for yourself how Hawkeye uses the art of poetry to explain the facts of life and many lessons learned on his amazing journey along the road that has been his life.
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The “New-Age” America & President Trump’s Invisible Politics in World Governance: The Future & the Security of You & I
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Autumn Festival
$14.99Autumn holiday is rapidly approaching, and for the first time, Little Mai has not accompanied her mother to purchase the required moon cake. She is worried that the cake has not been bought, so she explores the pantry and gets into trouble.
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Journey to Gettysburg
$13.99Journey to Gettysburg is a dramatic replay of the events leading up to the most important battle of the Civil War. It is seen through the eyes of a Quaker boy who is first, a bystander and observer. Then, he is drawn into the conflict and becomes a participant in Pickett’s Charge, the climax of the three-day conflict. Matt Mason is a 15-year-old boy who was raised on an isolated farm in rural North Carolina. With the untimely death of his mother, it becomes necessary for him to nd his father who is fighting for the Army of Northern Virginia. Much of the story is involved with the trek of the young man through war-torn Virginia in search of the Southern Army which is on the way to Gettysburg and the climactic battle that proves to be the turning point of the war. During the trip to north, Matt matures from a boy to a young man in what becomes a “coming of age” story. e experiences on the trek, the challenges he faces day to day as he searches for his father, and the friendships he develops make the book memorable and hard to put down once the story begins. at is especially true in the developing relationship with the beautiful Ami-Ruth who provides a new dimension to his life as the conflict surrounding them threatens to consume them both.
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Call of The Panther
$3.99A Novel of the Ancient Maya
An aspiring anthropologist journeys to Mexico and becomes entangled in a tale of the Ancient Maya, amidst the Late Classic political upheaval, where foreigners infiltrate cities and social changes break up economies and families. In the midst of this turmoil, a young woman struggles to make her way, haunted by visions and a mysterious summons from a Panther Spirit. Raised to value the old traditions, unable to accede to her husband’s heartless demands to participate in bloody rituals, she flees with her infant son into the unknown, discovering lost kindred and caring helpers, and learning to walk in the Otherworld in search of the key to her family’s destiny. When she faces the ultimate challenge, will the Panther Spirit’s power enable her to overcome it?
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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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Summer in Jane’s Garden
Price range: $3.99 through $23.99Tells about a scarecrow named Lisi Anthus that comes to live in Jane’s Garden. Plants that grow there and creatures who come to eat. She is not always happy with the creatures but shares with her neighbors. Ending shows neighborliness of gardening.
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