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Cāltīpan – Our Homeland
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99This is a fictional book based on historical journeys by Americans of Mexican decent to settle San Francisco and California.
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The Last Western
Price range: $9.99 through $16.99CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865, origin of today’s political, economic and social conflicts and the 19th Century national transformation from farm to factory, town to city, pioneer to wage slave Bible to Darwin, honor to profit. The story of this historic pivot set in Colorado 1882. Strong characters in a vortex of political corruption, genocide, drugs (Merck, the start of big pharma, founded in 1827 to produce morphine and later cocaine; Union army purchased 10 million morphine tablets for field hospitals and more than 200,000 addicts returned home after the war), gun violence (endemic after 650,000 fratricide in the Civil War), abortion, homosexuality and abiding hope. Not to be missed!
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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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Miss Manhattan
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99Miss Manhattan truly captures the richness of diversity and the simultaneity of life happening in New York. The text is rich, tumbling, and layered, yet never chaotic as the sensations of people, cars, birds, flowers, and all forms of city life cascading around the speaker’s (and reader’s) attention. This unique collection cleverly displays the inherent resonance of life in the city, in a beautiful, joyful, and sometimes riotous, but always with a sense of life and creative force, not destruction or entropy. These poems live in the individual body, even as they describe an external and collective experience.
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Midge: My Life Story
Price range: $10.99 through $16.99My hopes for writing this story about Midge is that children with disabilities or children who have switched foster homes a lot will benefit them. It doesn’t matter what has happened to you, it is how you handle it and have the foresight to realize that it is not your fault. Your personality is what shines through. Midge went through a lot of changes and handicaps, but her personality shined through, and no one knew. What people saw was a sweet little dog.
How she handled the many transitions that she went through was amazing.
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Before I Became Me: The Path To My Greatness
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99After the fourth puff, my head would begin to spin. At that time in my life, puffing a cigar was an experience I thoroughly enjoyed. i enjoyed it so much I tried to smoke everyday.
As I reflect, that was the time I started on the wrong path in life. A year before, I started skipping school. I liked the control I had when I didn’t go to school. Looking into my life, the first time I got high began a downward spiral. When I skipped school after that, smoking created a path toward girls, lying, robbing, and stealing. Then my drug use began in that order. I stayed on that path for nearly twenty-three years. Though it was exciting at times, it was also dangerous. I can remember times I almost died. I’m so grateful to be alive with most of the senses God gave me.
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Deepening the Mystery: A Guided Journal through Mystagogia
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99This is a religious and spiritual Journal for personal use. It is primarily for those who have found to have an encounter with the Presence of God in their lives. We are not always able to define or describe to others our heartfelt encounters, so this journal offers a way for us to write or enter into deep thought those aspects of our spiritual encounter.
The intention of this journal is to help each person who celebrates an encounter with God’s Presence to be courageous enough to not only recognize for themselves how much they are loved, but to then be faith filled enough to spread the Good News to others they meet through actions and words in the Love of God for all.
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Evergreen Pines: Book of Religious Poetry
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99When I was pondering a name for this book, I heard a small voice saying to me, “Look at you. You are like an evergreen pine that has stood the test of times. It bends in the wind, bears the summer heat and the winter snow, laughs at the coolness of fall, and gets ready for the songbirds to nest in the spring.”
At that time, the name Evergreen Pines: Book of Religious Poetry was born.
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Leaving Mother Russia
Price range: $5.99 through $16.99Anthology of life stories of emigrants who left Mother Russia, Treatment of Jews and Kulaks, Questions asked of emmigrants prior to boarding ships, Business Management Issues, Rescue of the Kurenetz Torah, Babi Yar, and the attraction of the United States.
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The Impossible Dream
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99Racism and healthcare disparities have always been a problem in the black community, especially small country towns. This book illustrates how a poor Black boy at the age of twelve watched his mother almost die from the lack of adequate health care from a White doctor.
I come from a very poor family of eleven children, poor education environment, low self-esteem, and with no Black professionals except for Black teachers to inspire me and other Blacks in the community; but at the age of twelve, I promised my mother that one day I would become a doctor so that Blacks would not have to suffer from the lack of adequate health care. The promise to my mother was “an impossible dream.”
By reading this book, you will learn how the miracles of God navigated my crooked journey and how the impossible was made possible, and I was able to obtain a Bachelor of Science, two years on a PhD program before completing a medical degree. Along with other health care providers, I was able to organize a not-for-profit organization to decrease healthcare disparities in the Black community.
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Respect, Commit, Change: Facing the Truth and The Light
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99Food for Thought!
1. The real key to life is that you have to be ready to do whatever it is you want to do.
2. Remember, in your life, other than God, you are the only person with you, your entire life.
3. Things happen good and bad, so endure, grieve, and move on.
4. Try not to worry about anything, but to pray about everything.
5. Live, Love, Laugh hard and as much as you can.
6. Enjoy simple and small things.
7. Surround yourself with positive things and with people you love.
8. Thank and praise God for everything, good, bad, and indifferent.
9. Respecting others gives you a good feeling in life, or it can cause you to lose your life.
10. Think of the consequences for the choices you make.
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Great Gobs of Goose Grease: An Account of A Stroke Happening and the Trial and Struggles to Comeback
Price range: $13.99 through $16.99A book like this would have given our family some much needed hope during Connie’s most critical weeks in the hospital. It should be mandatory reading for stroke family members.
– Bonnie Ferrin, twin sister
Watching my mother suffer through the pain and frustration of a stroke has been a horrible experience. However, her determination towards survival and recovery has taught me invaluable life lessons, and with each hurdle crossed, I have learned the powers of faith, hope, and believing in yourself. My mom is my hero.
– Angela Bailey, daughter
A stroke is two things:
1. The easy part, the short life or death emergency where everyone exists on fear and adrenaline.
2. The hard part, everything else! I wish I had an idea of what that was going to be like!
– Amber Livsey, daughter
Will a devastating stroke change your life forever? Yes. Will if rule your life forever? At times if feels that way, but time heals all wounds, and in time you will find a way to rule your own life again. Jenny Hughes, daughter. This book gave great insight into the trials of a stroke victim. Had my family only known beforehand that this is how it felt, we could have provided a much better support system.
– Summer Gordon, daughter
This is a book that shows how a person’s life can change in an instant.
This book shows how ordinary people who are confronted with overwhelming obstacles can triumph with a positive attitude and hard work, then become an inspiration to everyone around them.
– Steven Smith, husband
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La Tarte, La Tarte, Et Oh Cette Odeur
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99La maman de Cindy adore cuisiner de DÉLICIEUX gâteaux, pâtisseries et autres desserts ! Mais un jour, maman en a assez de faire toute la cuisine et le nettoyage elle-même, et elle arrête complètement de cuisiner. Votre famille s’ennuie de la merveilleuse odeur de votre pâtisserie. Mais comment peuvent-ils vous montrer à quel point ils sont reconnaissants? Et maman va préparer sa tarte aux pommes spéciale pour l’anniversaire de Cindy ? Le gâteau, le gâteau ! enseigne aux enfants l’importance de montrer leur appréciation pour les choses merveilleuses que leurs parents font chaque jour, et le plaisir de participer et d’aider !
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Polyxena: A Story of Troy
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99After Troy falls, Polyxena, daughter of King Priam, faces death for having rejected the advances of her captor. She relates her thoughts to Aphrodite, the Goddess she holds responsible for having orchestrated her fate, to find solace and overcome her fear of death. She recounts how she was sent as an envoy to the Amazons to secure them as allies in the war and how she becomes a captive of Achilles when he defeats them and the two find romance in each other. After returning to Troy, she tries to keep their forbidden love a secret but, through treachery, her brothers learn of it, leading to a tragic outcome for them both. As she tries to make sense of it all, Polyxena’s introspection leads her to surprising conclusion about the life she has lived. All the personages associated with the Trojan myths – Helen, Cassandra, Priam, Paris, and others—are given fresh life in this epic retelling of the classic story.
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El Pastel, El Pastel, y Oh Ese Olor
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99¡A la mamá de Cindy le encanta hornear tartas, pasteles y otros postres DELICIOSOS! Pero un día, mamá se cansa de hacer todo el horneado y limpiar ella misma, y deja de cocinar por completo. Su familia extraña el maravilloso olor de su horneado. Pero, ¿cómo pueden mostrarle lo agradecidos que están? ¿Y mamá horneará su pastel de manzana especial para el cumpleaños de Cindy? ¡El pastel, el pastel! enseña a los niños la importancia de mostrar su aprecio por las cosas maravillosas que sus padres hacen todos los días, ¡y la diversión de colaborar y ayudar!
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Following My Dreams
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99This is a compelling true story of a young boy born and raised in poverty in Oklahoma. He struggled in school, especially in reading and math. It was his mother who helped him learn reading and math, not his teachers. Fighting in order to protect himself resulted in several “paddling’s” and other disciplinary actions at school. Facing the possibility of being sent to a delinquent home for boys, he devised a plan where he would catch a train going north with King, a dog, who he promised would never be a stray dog again. He had even practiced jumping a boxcar while the train was moving! He would miss his family, but he was not going to the place for delinquent boys. In the fifth grade, with the help of his mother, he started turning things around. He accelerated to the top of his class in all subjects. Not only was he top of his class academically, but also, he burgeoned in sports. He played on the seventh- and eighth-grade basketball and baseball teams when he was only in the fifth grade. He loved reading about medicine, rockets, math, and the universe, among other subjects.
When he told his counselor and teachers that he wanted to become a doctor, he was encouraged to go into something else. Again, it was his mother that encouraged him to follow his dreams. With his poor education, it was doubtful his dreams would come to fruition. Still, he never gave up on his dreams. Through hard work and perseverance, his dreams come true.
