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Suspicion
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99When Ivan’s Jewish parents smuggle him out of Germany during World War II, they leave him a letter with two pieces of advice: work hard, and be wary of those offering help. Taking this counsel to heart, Ivan studies diligently and becomes an internationally recognized neuroscientist. He marries and has a son, but his intrinsic distrust of others pushes his family away.
When the US government offers him a top-secret assignment working with German and Russian scientists in Iran to develop a new weaponized drug—along with a significant pay raise—Ivan jumps at the opportunity. Soon, however, his suspicious nature forces him to question the work’s real purpose. He discovers the German-Russian team are creating a weapon of mass destruction, and his suspicions are confirmed: the CIA didn’t plant him as a scientist but as a spy.
Meanwhile, Ivan’s son, Michael, has become a member of a US Special Operations team. Michael hasn’t spoken to his estranged father in years, and he never expects them to meet again. When they do, the circumstances will demand that they rediscover their ability to trust in each other. Their lives may depend on it.
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Santa’s Big White Chicken
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99On Christmas Eve, one of Santa’s reindeer informs him that all of his reindeer have come down with the flu and will be unable to pull his sleigh that night. Santa panics and wonders how he will be able to deliver all the toys to the children this Christmas. While searching for answers, he stumbles upon a little white chicken who informs him that he has the solution. He tells Santa that he has just spoken to Prancer, the lead reindeer, and Prancer reveals to the chicken that the jingle bells that the reindeer wear when they pull the sleigh provide the magic that allows the reindeer team to fly. The chicken takes the bells to Santa and tries to convince Santa that the bells will work for him. Santa is not convinced until the chicken puts the bells on himself, and in a blink of an eye, the chicken grows to be ten feet tall. Santa then mounts the chicken and with his sack full of toys, completes his mission that night. The story is told in rhyme and is brilliantly illustrated by the author’s grandson, Louis W. Lonsway.
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Illusive Innocence
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Henry and Barby are neighbors, classmates, and more. Barby’s family is affluent and well-to-do, while Henry’s family leads a simple life on a small income. Feelings of ambivalence pervade young Henry’s adolescence as he becomes involved with both Barby and her sister. Brandy, Barby’s older sister, seduces Henry, and their secret sexual escapades entrap them in a love they try to ignore. As Henry struggles to endure the love of two sisters, college and careers carry them into adulthood. Then tragedy strikes, and the two families unite as they try to hold on to some kind of normalcy. These were the innocent years. The two teenagers sat and talked while warming themselves. “Henry, I hate you.” Henry looked at Barby bewildered.” What did I do now?” Barby reached out and pulled his hair over his head covering his face. “Your hair looks nicer than mine. I refuse to associate with a boy who has hair like that. It’s bad enough that it’s longer but it looks nicer too!” He looked at her rolling his eyes back and forth. “So wash it once in a while.” She slapped him across his shoulder with her open palm. “Ouch,” she said. “Now you are trying to hurt me.” Her face broke into a repressed grin. “Barby, you hit me, 1 didn’t hit you.” She pouted now, sticking out her bottom lip. “Do you think I’m pretty?” Henry put his hands over his face hiding his response. “I think Brandy is pretty,” he said in a low voice-almost a whisper.
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How I Took Bartender Course and Traveled for Seventeen Years
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99IT IS 1979 – the dawning of a new, exciting decade. On the cusp of the eighties, the path of unlimited possibilities is laid at the feet of a young man by the name of Steven. Fresh into adulthood and poised to embark on a wild, new direction, he takes a bartending course in the throbbing metropolis of Montréal. In a politically-charged region of Canada that is constantly on the verge of separating from the rest of the country, he sets a solid foundation for what will become a rich career in Hospitality. Upon entering this demanding but rewarding vocation, he thrives and excels-and, unbeknownst to him, will be catapulted to as-of-yet unimagined vistas.
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Spelons: The Hidden People
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Spelons is a fast paced novel including murder, romance, mystery, and some science fiction. This is a story about a community of people that live in caves in Middle Tennessee. They are only ten inches tall, yet live a happy existence in their subterranean community. One day, while walking through the woods, Sebastian, their leader, finds Steve Mason, a normal size man, lying in a pool of blood near death. He has been shot by an unknown assailant. Sebastian asks Steve if he wants to live, and Steve, although puzzled by the man’s size, answers yes. Sebastian then gives him something to drink from a folded leaf. After drinking the green thick liquid, the pain begins and the story begins to unfold. Find out how Sebastian and the Spelons help Steve discover who tried to kill him and why.
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Trapped
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99After speaking from my heart and providing my husband with my real feelings. I could see from the expressions on his face that his ego had just been shattered into pieces. He never had to suffer from knowing my love could vanish away at an instance due to his cheating behaviors. I never expressed feelings of entrapment in our marriage either. And I sure didn’t express my thoughts of us going nowhere. I would just sit back and let him do him. But to be honest, my marriage for years has reminded me daily of a demolition ball swinging into a building. And once the ball made contact, all the bricks of the structure came tumbling down not knowing where they would land. The only difference is, these bricks in my marriage landed right where they were supposed to. Leaving Derrick and I trapped in a pile of broken people and situations trying to squirm our way out. But unfortunately, because our structure was destructed by a ball, we can’t get rid of. We can’t do anything but accept a reality of staying trapped, right in the pile of rubbish we put ourselves in. Better yet, we may even have to push and maneuver ourselves around for the very people we said we loved but showed them different. It may even get so hectic, that our marriage may look to be going in the wrong direction. But could it actually allow us to live happily ever after? Who’s to say. Maybe or maybe not! So, we think!
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Prophetic Prayers: Daily Prayer Guide Based on the Book of Proverbs
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Prayer is the beginning of everything, because it brings God’s move in situations and people.
Prophetic Prayers is a monthly devotional containing easy and brief prayers, based on the book of Proverbs, for you to make daily.
You will know how to pray for yourself.
You will know how, through prayer, to invest spiritually in your spouse and children for them to lead a life according God’s design.
You will know how to pray for your city, for the prosperity of all the righteous inhabitants who live in it and for solution of social problems.
You will know how to pray specifically for the government and for the president, ministers, governors, etc.
You will know how to make prayers that will weaken all the activity of witches and sorcerers in your city.
You will know how to pray for an increase of righteous people in your city, in the government and in the media.
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Adam and Steve: The Rules for Men Attracted to Other Men
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99In 2015, marriage equality is now the law of the land in the USA. Don’t ask don’t tell is a thing of the past and LGBTQ representations are in movies, television, and social media. Despite these milestones teenage bullying resulting in deaths due to suicide is being documented throughout the USA. Did these teenagers die in vain? Is that attraction a lifestyle or a real authentic life?
Adam & Steve, The Rules for Men who are Attracted to other Men, is written as an easy to read smart, sexy, and provocative road map about male same sex attraction along with this author’s findings that this is a real culture. Primarily this book will speak to three different audiences. One is a same sex attracted male teen or preteen who may be discovering his own sexuality or is being bullied because of it. The other is the adult male who may understand his sexuality, but not his obligation to others who come behind him. The third group is the parent or family member who just wants to be supportive.
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The Poppies on the Hill
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Poppies in the springtime have always been such a wonderful sight to me! I always shout, “Look at the poppies!” Then, I saw an elderly lady standing by her wheelchair and lovingly looking at a field of poppies and singing a joyful song. I greeted her and we sang a song together. We have been friends ever since. A fine lady enjoying spring and the joy of poppies. Join me as we laugh and play with the Poppies on the Hill!
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Adam To The Rescue!
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Eleven year old Adam Elgin is an avid baseball player who has been playing the piano since he was four years old.
An orchestra is to be formed in his small elementary school in order to participate in a Gala for the Year of the Child Project. They have teamed up with another small elementary school to expand the orchestra’s numbers. All interested students must audition for the orchestra. Adam gets the audition music for the piano, from the school’s music teacher and has a short time to prepare for the audition.
Everybody who plays an instrument, wants to be in the orchestra and so they practice, and practice, and practice for their audition. But on the weekend
before Adam’s scheduled audition on Monday morning, he gets ill and misses his audition. Two students are chosen for the piano, one is to be the alternate, and rehearsals begin.
But a lot is going on to prepare for his school’s customary year-end festivities, taking place the last week of school: the winter concert on Tuesday, the play on Wednesday, and the orchestral debut in a dress rehearsal on Thursday, school is closed on Friday, plus the school has started a gigantic fundraiser to help with expenses for the Year of the Child gala. Both teachers and students are “stretched to the limit” in these endeavors.
It is the last day of school before the Christmas vacation, and the first dress rehearsal, but at this first dress rehearsal the two students chosen for the piano, fail to perform their best and the dress rehearsal comes to a screeching halt.
Without a reliable pianist, the gala seems unlikely for these two schools. Can the Principal fi nd a suitable replacement that can play without fear of the crowd and the pressures of performing, someone who can take them to the Gala!
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Colonies in Ruins: Transformed by the Pacific War
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Colonies in Ruins is a collection of intriguing short-stories about foreign colonies of the Asia-Pacific region—British Malaya, French Indochina, the Dutch East Indies, and the US Philippine Islands. For a very long time, these colonies had generated fabulous wealth from mining and agriculture for their colonial masters, but colonial life came to an end on December 8, 1941 as they were each attacked by Japanese forces soon after the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor was devastated.
Following three years of harsh Japanese occupation, the clear focus of local people was to gain independence from foreign powers that tried to reclaim their former colonies. Hard-won battles and negotiations finally led to the emergence of Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines as new republics in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.
Read about the men and women who helped make it all happen.
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Patches and Leif
$12.99Patches, the farmer’s favorite scarecrow, is very dedicated to his job. Day after day he stands in the corn field, keeping watch over the corn. Then one day, he is surprised by a new friend, who comes floating out of the sky!
Leif is an adventurous traveling leaf. When he was pulled off the branch on which he was raised one windy day, instead of floating safely to the ground with his family and friends, he took advantage of the opportunity and sailed away to see the world on the wind.
He shares his adventures with Patches, the first of which is his discovery of a school, where he peeks in on children who are learning the alphabet, counting, and a little bit about animals and plants. He passes what he has learned on to Patches before sailing away on more adventures, but promises to return to teach the scarecrow what he learns.
With charming illustrations and straightforward language, Charles R. Abbott employs Patches and Leif to teach children valuable lessons about friendship, learning, and taking chances.
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Living for a Higher Purpose
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Living for a Higher Purpose is part history book and part personal diary. As these parts weave together, you will see the divine presence and secrets of life that helped Viet survive a harrowing journey after the fall of Saigon in 1975. Viet relied on the protection of his ancestors and the help of guardian angels-kind and generous people-that God sent to him. Most important, he looked to his loving God and a higher purpose to stay alive and move forward each day. This book guides you through the many stories of Viet’s life that helped him determine his higher purpose. Interspersed with Viet’s life story are reflections on current issues such as war and its victims, refugees and their life challenges, life under a Communist regime, core curriculum, how the world views America, the relationship between Catholicism (Christianity) and Buddhism, and much more.
Viet’s reflections on his life and current issues guides you to the secret of a fulfilling and joyful life: Use your life to serve Jesus and other people. By sticking to purposeful living, you will find meaning and unending joy even in the darkest night of your soul. Always trust in God’s love on the Cross of Jesus to guide, protect, strengthen, and encourage you!
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IT FINALLY HAPPENED: SCIENCE FICTION, NON FICTION, ROMANCE, HUMOR AND FANTASY
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Annika and the Giant Giraffe
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Annika and her brother, Elliot, set out on the savannas of Africa to save a tiny egg that has fallen from its nest. In a race against time, they encounter some of the resident animals of Kenya that turn out to be very useful in their search for the only one that can save the tiny bird. But will all their efforts be enough for Annika and Elliot to reach him in time?