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Paradise in Ruins: A Novel (View) of the Pacific War
Price range: $3.99 through $26.99Paradise in Ruins offers readers a look at the Pacific Theater of World War Two by introducing them to military and naval leaders from both sides of the conflict, as well as local populations of the Pacific islands whose lives were suddenly disrupted by the brutal events that exploded eastward from Japan in 1941.
Perhaps you had family members among the many thousands of young men and women who got transported across the Pacific Ocean to those mysterious islands that they were ordered to recapture from the Japanese.
If you have occasionally wondered what Grandpa (or Grandma) did in the war, you are not alone. The generation that experienced World War Two is notorious for not speaking about what they saw and learned in that previously unimagined multilingual, multicultural environment. They just didn’t know how to describe their adventures to loved ones at home afterwards, so they chose silence instead.
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Freedom, A Call To Healing
Price range: $4.99 through $13.99In the history of America, other human beings seem to get the empathy to mourn and build memorials after a trauma occurs in their lives-except the black race. We had a trauma in the Western Hemisphere that lasted over four hundred years. Yet, after slavery and segregation, our people were expected to pick up the pieces of life and move on. We were expected to live in self-denial as if the scars we were carrying never happened. The statistics are heartbreaking. One in three black males can expect to spend time in prison. One in one hundred black women are in prison. The high school graduation rate for black males is under fifty percent. Fifty-four percent of black children are raised by single mothers. These tragedies have not occurred by chance. Thus, Jason Panton points out that the most important component is hope. This hope is the hope of redemption offered by a loving and merciful God. He is not a God who visits with us for a few hours on Sunday morning, nor a God to be called upon only in times of distress. He is a God who eagerly awaits a personal and constant relationship with every individual. The Bible is clear that Jesus Christ has a tender heart for the oppressed, the despised, the broken hearted, the hopeless, and the outcast, and His heart is unchangeable. “Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even unto the sure mercies of David” (Is 55:3).
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Diary of a Caregiver: The Dementia Journey
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99In 2009 my wife of over 59 years was diagnosed with Dementia with Alzheimer’s symptoms. My care giving responsibilities began before that time and
continued until her death in January 2018. She was provided care in her own home. As time went by the caregiver duties became more and more demanding. It was truly 24 hours each day and seven days each week. My Sweetheart was referred to the hospice program as a patient beginning in March 2013 with a life expectancy of six months or less. At the time of her passing, she had been a hospice patient for 4 years, 10 months and 5 days. The Diary of a Caregiver begins with her entry into the hospice program and continues until her death. Care giving can be very frustrating at times as one never knows what to expect or when to expect it. The Diary of a Caregiver identifies many of the problems and frustrations associated with care of a Dementia patient. It also identifies different techniques and solutions to some of those problems. It should be of interest to anyone who is involved in care giving especially those who are just beginning.
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The Lady In The Movies
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99The story opens with Sam Ryan and his move to his new office in North Hollywood. The case deals with a woman that has been missing from her husband for two decades. She began as an actress that got her start in the movies in nineteen-fifty-eight. She was involved in a scandal back then that made the headlines. She had to go into hiding without telling her husband. In the movie, she portrayed one woman in the all-women band in the movie ‘Some Like It Hot.’ Sam has some issues with his girlfriend, Kathy, who was injured while helping in his last case. In the end, everything is solved and resolved.
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The Fifth Day Lady: Can She Make It Work?
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Josephine goes undercover as a rich married woman in Siesta Key in Florida, where she purposely meets a dentist named Julio, suspected of having too much money as a dentist with a million-dollar polo team. A former barrel racer in rodeos at an early age, can Josephine help Julio, hurt on the field, win a Polo match in West Palm? Josephine also risks exposing her cover with military skills in a chopper attack by a Miami drug king. And Julio’s mother, Lucia, jealous and suspicious, plans to kill her.
In Buenos Aires, Josephine, at odds with her affection for Julio, convinced Julio that his mother smuggles drugs through her business. With a huge network discovered, new members join the mission to stare down death. In a final drug war, can the team destroy a smuggling system when no one else could? -
Carter and Ryder: My Little Brother has Autism!
Price range: $3.99 through $18.99This story is about my two grandsons, and one of them has autism. My family’s story is no different from other families that are dealing with autism, but I am telling our story so that others will know that they are not alone. My daughter never talked to me about Ryder until I kept noticing things about him that were different. I was scared to ask her if she thought something was wrong. Ryder is the best kid ever, but something was wrong. I initially thought he was deaf because of the way he spoke. It was never really clear, and since I was around several deaf people, I assumed that he might be deaf and he needed to be tested. The School of The Deaf and Hard of Hearing asked that we have him reevaluated. Then we came to learn he was not deaf but had autism. I insisted that he was not until my daughter said, “Mom, I think he is because I’ve been noticing things about him that are different.” She also said she has friends who have children that were autistic and they have the same issues. That’s were our story starts-by telling others not to give up but support each other and find the tools to help their autistic child have a normal life.
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Plant-Based Whole Food Recipes Healthy Homemade Meals Made Easy
Price range: $3.99 through $31.99A balanced diet is the key to good nutrition and nutrition is the foundation of our health and well-being. This recipe book, complete with tantalizing full-color photos, is your inspiration to explore a wide range of homemade, whole food, vegan meals, including many raw food recipes to give you a full range of nutrients and enzymes. You’ll be introduced to colorful and delicious Asian ingredients such as bitter melon, okra, lotus root, wood ear and shiitake mushrooms, gai-lan (Chinese broccoli), and water spinach. With more than seventy meal ideas, there’s something for everyone, including gluten-free, vegan, whole grain, and legume options. With easy prep and many delicious choices, Plant-Based Whole Food Recipes is an indispensable tool for healthful living!
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The City Dog And The Country Dog
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99“In the beginning, God created…” That is how it all began. In his infinite wisdom, God created animals before humans. Why? Could it be that he needed the animals to explain creation to us? Or rather to explain the Creator to us? Could it be that God knew that our intellects would try too hard to understand something that is very simple? In The City Dog and the Country Dog, the man learns that what all of creation is yearning for freedom–freedom to enjoy his Creator and all the benefits of creation. There is just one big problem: we are held captive by our cruel masters. They keep us bound up, and they lie to us about who we are and what God thinks of us.
Boone is an Australian Blue Heeler whose owner is a cruel master. He is always trying to escape to get his needs met. After being taken by animal services for neglect and abuse, Boone is adopted by a good master. His new master must endure the bad habits and behaviors of Bonne learned under the cruet master, even being badly bit. When his training is complete, Boone is a new dog and readily submits to his master. He never leaves his master’s side. By watching Boone’s transformation, his master learns God’s plan for him and all of creation– to be set free to experience the love of their Creator, to return that love, and to receive their inheritance.
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The Findog
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99This book is more of a collection of poems from the last twenty years. Some may be thoughts or include events leading to but most like this book is the return value of being single. Or suppose, my compromise didn’t work.
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Be Alone With Me: Poetry Moves Us
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99The book begins with Larry the romantic and then follows with the challenges of doing and living and questioning what we do to keep on trucking. Then it goes to quieter times when even nothing of consequence can gain your attention and appreciation for being alive. Still reality has its cold cut into our existence which is displayed in a battle poem and a walk on Tianamen Square. From there beliefs are what carry us on through our lives. The last chapter includes Haiku poems that compress so much about the serenity of nature in just three lines. Read aloud they are very much like enjoying a fine wine.
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Douggie’s Super Science Adventures: Stories for Teaching the Next Generation Science Standards for Third Graders
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Words of Wisdom: In Interest on Relationships
Price range: $4.99 through $12.99This book provides inspirational counseling, therapy, and essential knowledge about relationships. It gives fine points on how partners can communicate to build and establish stronger relationships, healthier families, and longevity in marriage. It provides you with notable recommendations.
For example, a marital recipe is similar to black-eyed peas and cornbread, peanut butter and jelly, salt and pepper, or ice cream and cake, foods that are assembled together so that they might bring out the best in each other. Similarly, marriages should join partners together so that they, too, may bring out the foremost positive traits of one another. If you don’t have a copy of this book in your reading collections, you wont regret getting one.
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Annika and the Emperor Penguin
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Annika is an adventurous girl that sets out to explore the South Pole with her best friend Grace. They stumble upon Penny, a lost penguin, in desperate need of help. While trying to reunite their newfound friend with her family, they encounter some dangerous chance meetings with other occupants of the South Pole. Determined to get Penny home safely, Annika and Grace prove that simple acts of kindness to those in need return great rewards.
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The Blood of A Young Man
$15.99This delightful story is about a young man growing up in an alcohol, drugs, and gang infested environment. Most of his young life he grew up living in a garage with four brothers and their mother. Their father died at the age of thirty-six, He was a WWII veteran and died at a VA medical facility on August 14, 1962. The young man was only thirteen years-of-age then. He’s a smart young man but learns to become tough for not only self-preservation, but to care for and set an example for his younger brothers, plus he didn’t want to disappoint his mother.
The young man goes through some tough trials and tribulations but ends up joining the U.S. Marine Corps on August 30, 1965. While there he participates in some of the toughest battles that went down in Marine Corps history. What is described here is gut-wrenching. He ends up spending two tours in Vietnam. The young man was also part of a patrol that caught two hard core north Vietnamese officers.
Upon release from active duty, he was so grateful to be alive that he wants to spend some time with his family and friends. He doesn’t realize it yet, that he is no longer the same. But like everything he did, he charges forward and takes a bus to downtown. He grabs a cab and off they go towards home. When they arrive at the corner of his street, he stops the cab and tells the cab driver, “I want to walk the rest of the way, because I want to saver every step of the way.”
The young man was release from active duty on August 27, 1968, and after visiting his family. He buys a brand-new car, just like he told his friends in Vietnam he would. After two tours in Vietnam, he had plenty of money saved up to do just that. He starts out looking for a job.
The first one he applies for hires him. It was one of the biggest merchants in the county. He is assigned to the shipping and receiving section of the company. After a few months in that department he learns that the girlfriend he had before he left to Vietnam was dating someone from the same department. He is stunned, he tells himself, of all the places on this planet he could’ve applied for work, how could he be working here with a guy who is dating his girlfriend, the girl he wanted to marry. From that moment forward things just don’t go the way he dreamed. Things began to deteriorate rapidly, decisions he made are not in his best interest. He makes many mistakes, but is determined to get his girl back and obtain a job he could support her and a family well. He tells you what he had to do to accomplish most of his dreams. Be prepared to be taken on a roller-coaster ride of emotions.
