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Janine: Tale of an Abandoned Wife and Mother
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99Janine is left homeless and penniless when her husband deserts her. She is left to explain all his thefts and misdeeds as she loses her friends and status. All the while, she must protect her children as she builds a new life. When Janine discovers a way to recover some of her money, she resorts to wits and stealth. Many women are caught unawares by the deeds of their spouses. Not everyone is as eventually fortunate or brave as Janine.
Mark Eric Johansen is a retired bus mechanic. He began seriously writing when he had time to devote to retelling the events he had heard and seen. He is working on a chronicle of forty years in a diverse, racist, bewildering work environment. Mark and his wife have always lived in the Chicagoland area.
Janine is Mark’s first completed fiction piece.
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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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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. -
The Other Wife
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99Janice Bordeaux is an American woman from New Orleans, who lives and works in Chicago. WANDA ARRINGTON AKOREDE Janice and her cousin Melinda share an apartment. They are both young and ready for love and marriage. Janice finds her true love when she meets a Nigerian name Olufemi (Femi) Adegoke, who is completing his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Janice is employed at the University as an Administrative Assistant. They meet at an Africa party and romance blossoms. They become engaged and get married despite their cultural differences. Olufemi is from an upper class Nigerian family. He has lots of money and takes Janice on an extended honeymoon in Europe. They plan to settle in Nigeria afterwards. It is upon their arrival in Nigeria, that the other side of Femi is revealed. He kept from her the fact that he was already married. You see in their culture, it is legal to have more than one wife. But for Janice, this was culture shock! Devastated and distraught, Janice tries to live in their culture, rather than return home. Her love for Femi is very strong and she hopes that one day he will come to his senses and see that she is all the woman that he needs. But being faced with a very strong and male dominated country and living in a strange and sometimes overwhelming country, she finds it difficult to deal with her husband’s infidelity. She feels cheated. He should have told her about his other wife, and she
would never have married him. Omolola (Lola) is Oulfemi’s Nigerian wife. She waits two long years for him to complete his education and return home to her. She had not bargained on him marrying an American woman and bringing her home. She had planned to have a family and enjoy the fruits of his success upon his return to Nigeria. Instead she was forced to share him with Janice. Omolola knew that her husband has taken another wife before they arrived in Nigeria. It was part of their culture for a man to have more than one wife. Several of her relatives were actively living in polygamy. They tried to live together, each woman sharing their husband equally. But Lola was not satisfied with their arrangement and schemes to have Olufemi to herself. She uses any means at her disposal including juju (witchcraft). While Janice who is innocent in this is losing the battle to maintain her marriage. Consequently, Janice catches Olufemi and Lola in bed together and decides that she had had enough of their culture and polygamy and leaves for America. But she takes with her their unborn child; she is several months pregnant. So the tie is binding. -
The Hidden Reality Surrounding the Environment of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ
Price range: $4.99 through $15.99If you are a good reader with great desire and hunger to enrich your intellectual capacity and further increase your biblical knowledge, this book is for you. This book is designed not for any controversy but for the reader to continue to discover teachings that, for many years, have been hidden by a dense veil. At any given time, someone with crooked teachings can come to you, so you must be alert and prepared to use everything stored in the vault of your mind. I invite you to acquire this book, and I guarantee you will not regret acquiring it. Here you will find some topics with your proper deep explanations, such as uncertain birth of Christ; who carried the cross that was used to crucify Christ, Jesus or Simon; the true day and time that Christ died; what happened to the nails that were used to crucify Christ; and many more topics of great interest. Well, anyway, the prologue to this book, as much as the introduction as well as the conclusion and as well as the twenty-six chapters it contains will be of great interest to you.
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Philosophy
$15.99I started writing this philosophy book as my gift for you, my beloved one. You will like it. This book has been written in Arabic, especially for those who love reading it in the beautiful Arabic language and also writing some of my own words on my philosophy. As philosophers, you will also know some of the philosophers from their words on philosophy.
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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.
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Predestined Journey
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99Luke 8:8 “And other (seeds) fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.” 2024 is the year of the open door.
Biblically based, Predestined Journey explains planned parenthood, how it began, who began it, and our responsibility in God’s creative plans. As the author of this book, my hope and prayer are that you will not only enjoy the information offered you, but you will allow the information to become jewels of revelation knowledge so you can fill your treasure chest with gold, silver and the twelve precious stones of understanding. This captivating book open the doors of God’s Word from Genesis to Revelations, delving into revelations about the trees in the Garden of Eden, to explaining the truth around the men we know as Job, Jacob and Judas Iscariot. It answers essential questions, doing so specifically through the role of abortion in our culture and how it reveals our falling short of God’s intent for us based on His Word.
Using past and present experiences, Hof-Corrigan invites us to go on a life-changing journey of discovery and revelation. Holding up the principles of God’s Word to our daily decisions, Predestined Journey shows us that we must first un-learn all faulty and deceitful doctrines and dogmas of our past before we are to see the order and intention with which the Word of God was written. Starting from before the beginning of time and ending with the eternal destiny for all overcomers, Predestined Journey offers a revelatory vision of the actual meaning of parenthood (both naturally and spiritually) and how our choices, both Past and Present, decide the ultimate outcome of our predestined journey Now and into Eternity Future.
Are you like the smallest seed, willing to break through the soil and reach He who is the Light? Are you willing to obey what God’s Word actually says and not what you want it to? Will you read more than this book cover? If the answer is yes, then may the revelations in this book lead you closer and closer towards full reliance on the sovereign Will and dominion of God and His Kingdom.
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The Pie, The Pie and Oh That Smell!: Korean Edition
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99신디의 엄마는 파이, 케이크, 그리고 다른 맛있는 디저트 굽는 걸 좋아해요! 그런데 어느 날, 그녀의 어머니는 혼자 굽고 청소하는 일에 너무 지쳐서 요리를 아예 그만두었습니다. 그녀의 가족은 그녀가 굽는 냄새를 그리워한다. 하지만 그들이 그녀에게 얼마나 감사하는지 어떻게 보여줄 수 있습니까? 그리고 그녀의 엄마는 Cindy의 생일을 위해 특별한 사과 파이를 굽을까요? 파이, 파이! 이는 아이들에게 부모가 매일 하는 훌륭한 일에 대해 감사를 표하는 것의 중요성뿐만 아니라 참여하고 돕는 기쁨을 가르칩니다!
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The Pie, The Pie and Oh That Smell!: Japanese Edition
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99シンディのお母さんは、パイ、ケーキ、その他のおいしいデザートを焼くのが大好きです。 しかしある日、お母さんは自分でパンを焼いたり片付けたりすることにうんざりして、まったく料理をしなくなってしまいました。 彼女の家族は、彼女が焼く素晴らしい匂いを懐かしんでいます。 しかし、どうやって彼女に感謝の気持ちを示すことができるでしょうか? そしてお母さんはシンディの誕生日に特別なアップルパイを焼いてくれるでしょうか？ パイ、パイ！ は、両親が毎日してくれている素晴らしいことに感謝の気持ちを示すことの大切さと、協力して手伝うことの楽しさを子供たちに教えます。
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The Pie, The Pie and Oh That Smell!: Italian Edition
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99La mamma di Cindy adora preparare torte, torte e altri dessert DELIZIOSI! Ma un giorno, la mamma si stanca di cucinare e pulire da sola e smette del tutto di cucinare. Alla sua famiglia manca il meraviglioso profumo dei suoi dolci. Ma come possono dimostrarle quanto sono grati? E la mamma preparerà la sua torta di mele speciale per il compleanno di Cindy? La torta, la torta! insegna ai bambini l’importanza di mostrare il loro apprezzamento per le cose meravigliose che i loro genitori fanno ogni giorno e il divertimento di contribuire e dare una mano!
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The Pie, The Pie and Oh That Smell!: German Edition
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99Cindys Mutter liebt es, Torten, Kuchen und andere KÖSTLICHE Desserts zu backen! Doch eines Tages wird Mama es leid, das ganze Backen und Aufräumen selbst zu erledigen, und sie hört ganz auf zu kochen. Ihre Familie vermisst den wunderbaren Duft ihres Backens. Aber wie können sie ihr zeigen, wie dankbar sie sind? Und wird Mama zu Cindys Geburtstag ihren besonderen Apfelkuchen backen? Der Kuchen, der Kuchen! vermittelt Kindern, wie wichtig es ist, ihre Wertschätzung für die wunderbaren Dinge zu zeigen, die ihre Eltern jeden Tag tun – und wie viel Spaß es macht, mitzuhelfen!
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The Pie, The Pie and Oh That Smell!: Arabic Edition
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99تحب والدة سيندي خبز الفطائر والكعك والحلويات اللذيذة الأخرى! ولكن في أحد الأيام، سئمت أمي من القيام بكل أعمال الخبز والتنظيف بنفسها، وتوقفت عن الطهي تمامًا. تفتقد عائلتها رائحة خبزها الرائعة. ولكن كيف يمكنهم أن يظهروا لها مدى امتنانهم؟ وهل ستخبز أمي فطيرة التفاح الخاصة بها في عيد ميلاد سيندي؟ الفطيرة، الفطيرة! يعلم الأطفال أهمية إظهار تقديرهم للأشياء الرائعة التي يفعلها آباؤهم كل يوم – ومتعة المشاركة والمساعدة!
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In The Chaotic Murmur of an Unclear Destiny
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99This is a book of deep love, devotion, and respect for the author’s late wife of the author, and it can also be seen as a guide and practice for overcoming difficult situations in life. Exploring his inner self, especially the unconscious part, the author talks about emotional reactions in the modern, alienated world. Improvising his imagination, he talks about a microcosm, which can be anywhere, in which there are long-standing injustices that need to be dealt with. How?
Please read it, and protect yourself with knowledge, it will certainly not lead you astray and accept everything that life puts in front of you, be ready, and understand all sorrows, difficulties, and injustices as a game that you solve, so that you, not others, set limits for yourself. – Marina Denadic
Željko Vujovic seems to be moving in a silent sailing ship not far along the mainland and observes everything on the shore… He looks precisely at the long past time and presents it to the reader as if it happened now. Sometimes that coolheaded composure gives way to a slightly emotional subjective assessment. Then the character of the Anemic Director appeared who was “appointed to that position by the Hepatobiliary Surgeon who applies the knowledge of hepatobiliary surgery in the politics of the Microcosm, and the Hepatobiliary Surgeon was appointed to the position by the Tall Man Who Sees High Above the Microcosm.” That emotional assessment is contained in a mild edge of irony which only reinforces the image of society that we survived a long time ago…
Željko is the treasure of many generations before him… Sometimes he breaks into a biting caricature: The Running Pissing Man, but, that is a testimony of the times we lived in, maybe we forgot and it comes back to us again and again: bad students raise respectable professors. And those respectable “beat the stone” on Naked Island. “Why? For nothing.” Answers a stout old woman, carrying on her mare a full “carload” of grapes and figs, which she picked with her own hands and laboriously and intended for her son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren, pointing with her head to the house of Blažo Jovanovic, who, at that time, was cheering and dressing in Montenegro. – Dragan Perišic
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Driven By The Spirit
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99When we think of ourselves as children of God, we tend to imagine ourselves as small children, dependent and trusting. A better analogy would be to think of ourselves as adolescents. Anyone who has raised a child to adulthood can understand the dilemma of wanting our children to become independent, successful members of society, but realizing as they make their way in the world they will make mistakes. They will get hurt. God did not create us as robots programmed for total obedience. He knows that we will make poor choices as we grow. We will face trials and we will, at times, question His love for us. Just as the parent of an adolescent, God wants us to come to Him for advice, consolation and love. He wants us to remember all He has taught us, all He has done for us, and how much He loves us. He wants our love and devotion in spite of the hardships we face or successes we achieve. When I think about those who don’t believe they need God in their lives, it brings to mind the lonely widow who sits in her home day after day, hoping for the moment when her child will call or come to see her. Some never will. How sad is that!
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Freedom of Religion by Individual Choice
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99We often hear that America’s Founding Fathers were deeply religious, but were they really? Was America meant to have a state sponsored religion, or did they believe that all Americans have the right to worship and observe and practice their religion their way. The Founding Fathers were from a time when many European Countries had state or national religions and as these men observed and learned about the conditions that citizens lived under, they came away with a deep understanding of what it meant as they set out to build a new country from the ground up.
This work looks closely at what these men thought and said about organized religion by making use of letters, papers and documents written in their own hand, to help the reader better understand why the country was founded without a national religion.