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Last of the Small Towns: Short Stories
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99Last of the Small Towns: Short Stories is a charming collection of tales that recount the boyhood years of author Stewart Hyson. From gatherings in the “Indian Graveyard” through unprecedented encounters with baby chicks, here is a sentimental recounting of a range of colourful juvenile adventures experienced by a boy during a time that was poignantly more innocent than today.
Hantsport, Nova Scotia, might have been a small place during the 1950s and early 1960s, but it was a veritable hive of activity in certain sectors and for certain segments of its lively population-especially through a kid’s eyes. In this memoir, Hyson invites readers to share his childish perspective of the postwar years on the streets of this little town. With a strong wash of nostalgia that characterizes his memory of his time there, Hyson shares his growing-up experiences of such preoccupations of the time as Sputnik and the widespread introduction of television.
Last of the Small Towns: Short Stories is a labour of love that delivers readers back into their own childhoods, so vividly painted are its scenes. It is this energy, this devotion to subject, that are the book’s greatest strength.
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The 12 Days of a Soul Food Christmas
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99Everyone is welcome at Big Mama’s house for the holidays!
Come in and celebrate with Big Mama’s family and enjoy a tasty new tradition of mouthwatering main courses and scrumptious side dishes shared with smiles and seconds for everyone!
A whimsical new version of the traditional Christmas carol written by LaShonda M. Stewart and illustrated by JL Straw.
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Zach’s Journey
$11.99This book tells the story of Yeshua (Jesus) of Nazareth as seen through the eyes of four teenagers who lived in Capernaum during the years 27 – 30 AD. These intelligent, sometimes disbelieving, youths listen carefully to Yeshua, watch him attentively and constantly discuss his teaching so as to try and make sense of his message. They also listen to and are aware of the views and opinions of those who disagree with Yeshua and disapprove of him.
The writer feels that if the public life of Yeshua is told through the experiences of four individuals near the readers own age, it could help them to understand more clearly what Yeshua’s example and teaching means for them in their busy, everyday lives today.
The recounting largely follows the Good News translation of the Gospel of Mark up to Yeshua’s final days in Jerusalem, when all the gospel narratives are then taken into account.
A simplified Biblical map of the Holy Land is added so as to help the reader situate more clearly the many places referred to in the text.
In short, the aim of this book is well summarised in the often-quoted words from a prayer of St Richard of Chichester who lived in thirteenth century England:
O most merciful redeemer, friend and brother,
may I know thee more clearly,
love thee more dearly,
and follow thee more nearly, day by day.
Amen.
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Spy in the Sky: A Cold War Story of Espionage, Romance and Intrigue
Price range: $3.99 through $14.65Pan Am flight attendant Natalie is the only thing that stands between the KGB and their attempt to steal submarine secrets from the United States Navy and alter the course of the Cold War. She and her naval submarine suitor, Max, find their budding romance plunged into the international intrigue of the 1970s when she discovers her roommate, Mia, is an East German spying for the Soviets. To complicate matters, Max’s submarine mate, Peter, has fallen in love with Mia. When Mia is ordered to turn Peter into a Russian spy, the result is a sexy espionage thriller that pits the creativity of the CIA against the treachery of the KGB.
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Ron’s Ramblings: Characters, Critters and Us Cantankerous Rednecks
Price range: $5.99 through $19.99Big Sky Country is one of the many nicknames for the state of Montana, the place the author calls home. While Montana is a diverse state in people and in geography, north-eastern Montana is characterized by soft rolling hills and sharp coulees; scrub grass, sage brush and wild flowers cover the prairie lands and tall cottonwood, ash and willow trees shade the waterways, all outlined against skies a magnificent shade of blue which make this countryside unforgettable and unique. The people that have and still do call this place home are just as unforgettable and unique as the skies.
This is a collection of stories and tales, mostly centered around the rural area of north-eastern Montana; some are from the authors own experience, including family and local history, as well as stories of wildlife, hunting and farming, and some belong to others who have been kind enough to share their own histories and recollections.
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The Bouncing Football: Life Lessons on the Gridiron
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99He questioned the system and paid the price….
But 44 years ago, he played for the Dallas Cowboys for a single season as a middle linebacker. During his rookie season in 1973, the 23-year-old from Waco was a backup to a fading legend, Lee Roy Jordan, and was traded by October of 1974 before he vanished from pro football altogether just two years later.
His official Rice University biography, penned upon his induction into that school’s hall of fame in 2011, notes that his career was cut short by injuries. Bu that is not the whole truth. Rodrigo Barnes was, he has long believed, punished for being an outspoken black man in an industry controlled by white men. He was banished for being “a radical at a time when radicals weren’t popular”, beloved Cowboy’s wide receiver Drew Pearson once said.
It might be tempting to say that before there was a Colin Kaepernick, there was Rodrigo Barnes – a man exiled from the game he loved. There may be a certain truth to the comparison. Both men sacrificed their pro football careers to protest the treatment of black men in America.
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The Faithful and The Damned: Demon of the Swamp
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99A demon is born and the clock is ticking. The town of Clearmont, Massachusetts becomes a place of terror overnight. As disappearances and gruesome murders stack up, reports of a monstrous beast becomes the norm. Jonathan Bailey, a retired folklorist, and his estranged son, Philip, travel to a distant land in search of mythical powers to stop the demons in their quest to destroy the only defense protecting humanity from the terror devouring the town. In this contest of good vs. evil, will the residents of Clearmont find the heroic within themselves? When all seems lost, the most unassuming among them will step forward to selflessly face an enemy more powerful than any human being.
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Kevin VS The City of Heroes
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99In a world where heroes and superweapons are as prominent as the concrete they’re living on, a simple reporter takes a job with a sociopathic man with a dream. Getting thrown headfirst into a madness-fueled rampage to take the central city of Megatropolis — where the most powerful of Heroes and Villains alike reside — the reporter is forced to keep up with one of the lowest self-controlled people he’d ever thought he’d meet: The self proclaimed Supervillain Kevin “Motherfucking” Andréson.
With a plan, a group of equally crazy followers, and some extremely intelligent advisors at his back, this is the account of one man’s rise to becoming one of the scariest living things that anything would ever meet, told by a simple and mundane person. Let’s see what’s in store, shall we?
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Firewall
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99This is the story of how our species got smart, and emotionally driven. It uses common knowledge and common sense to speculate on how EVOLUTION could feed and shelter 7 billion people, build modern computers, the internet, AND Jesus, Mohamed, Buddha, Confucius, Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot.
The UNDERLYING force of EVOLUTION, is ENTROPY because TIME is a CAUSE and EFFECT process with predictable CONSEQUENCES, so we can use mental SIMULATION of the causes to anticipate how to change the future using observation, thinking, and experimenting.
However, that was the EASY PART, because that chain of causation then gave us PURPOSE and INTELLIGENCE to achieve it by making us FIGHT among ourselves for millions of years till those left standing were SELF AWARE and able to use reason to define meaning and intelligent purpose in joining together as a SPECIES, to survive and prosper by LOVING each other, with shared JOY in OVERCOMING ENTROPY in a CYBER universe of our own. Jesus and the other prophets just opened the message that evolution had already coded in our genome.
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Finding Me: Finding Yourself When Half Of You Is Missing
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99Finding Me chronicles the author’s journey of grief after losing her husband of 50 years. Vickie found herself alone for the first time in her life. Without a clear sense of who she was as an individual or how she would cope without Gary at her side. After sharing so many years together, her journey was difficult. With Gary, she was strong but without him, simple daily tasks seemed overwhelming. She realized that she had lost half of her identity in the loss of her husband, Gary.
Leaning on the memories of a happy marriage, and remembering the goodness of God, she found the strength and will to move forward and discover her own identity. She learned to recognize and deal with the recurring waves of grief. “You never get over the loss, but you can get through it somehow,” she affirms. Her experience leads down the path to peace and fulfillment for those who find themselves traveling alone.
At the age of 70, Vickie found that God was not finished with her yet and had an exciting plan for the next chapter of her life!
Finding Me takes you through the process of grief and finding out who you are when half of you is missing. There is hope in every chapter of life. Finding that hope is what this book is about. The author’s prayer is that reading this book will ignite joy in the “YOU” that is left and help readers discover the best is yet to come!
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The Second Son: Dynastic Disasters and Political Intrigue: England 1660
Price range: $3.99 through $23.99Luke, now the King’s special agent is sent to one of the home counties to assess the suitability of the shire’s gentry to represent the King across the county, in Parliament and on the bench. Luke finds a fractured Royalist community divided by family feuds, social class, generational disputes, and bitterness between those who went into exile with the King and those who remained behind and suffered under the Republic. The assessment is sidetracked by an alleged massacre, a disappearing Cromwellian magistrate, ambitious, conniving and predatory women, a vindictive husband, secret societies, the plague, closely kept secrets, man eating animals, and a spate of attempted and successful murders.
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On The Shoulders of Leaders: A Leadership Pocket Guide
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Acquire the secrets of successful leadership.
Dr James Fantauzzo offers you many realistic and practical applications to implement effective and successful leadership. The challenge we now face is to make leadership and essential part of our corporate culture. The information contained in this book is rich with realistic ideas and approaches for clear judgement, selecting the right leadership behavior and will capture the true essence of leadership. On the Shoulders of Leaders is a team centered leadership book and can be a resource for anyone in a position of authority. The case studies referenced within embrace the real world of work and will prove to be invaluable and an extremely useful tool for the 21st Century managers at all levels. No book is able to teach everything about the importance of leadership. However, On the Shoulder of Leaders is an excellent place to start!
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Ben
Price range: $3.99 through $7.99Ben is the story of a brilliant woman’s Love for her little dog and their infinite bond. The thought of losing him to illness initiates her mind to go beyond limits and barriers into the mysteries of life, death and existence. Donna’s mind is tested and stretched to the boundaries of the unknown.
The story of Ben is equivalent to a maze, with the exception that the maze consists of words, not corn in a field or hedges in a garden. The three forms are challenging and enchanting. The words of the story depict the maze. At the end there is light with the emotion of satisfaction and illumination.
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