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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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ORGANIC EATING THE SAI WAY USING SAI-ENTIFIC METHODS
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99The author suffered a near fatal illness (Asthma) in 1994. Soon after this, in a dream visit Sathya Sai Baba (Swami) informed her that her illness was not due to Asthma but her stomach. In absence of any medical diagnosis confirming a stomach ailment, she pondered over her food habits.
Her conviction and faith in Swami’s words, led her to not only read more of His food guide lines but to follow them implicitly. Over a span of close to twenty five years of following Swami’s Way of eating, she gradually noticed an improvement to enjoy full health, despite her advancing age over the eighties!
In this book, she is sharing, with one and all, a simple and easy way to follow the Sai-Entific food guidelines by selecting from wholesome (Organic) pure God given food groups for her daily menu selection. She has accomplished this only by following her beloved Bhagawan, Sri Sathya Sai Baba’s valuable teachings.
SAMSTHA LOKA SUKHINO BHAVANTU.
(May all the beings in all the worlds be happy)
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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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Gospels One: The Four Gospels Interwoven into one Narrative
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99This work began as a series of lessons for a Bible study class. At that time, no thought was given to the possibility that a book would be the final result of the study. In researching material for the individual lessons, therefore, no records were made of the sources of the material being gathered. After completing the study, there was such a large amount of material that had been used for the study that the writer decided at the last moment to consolidate it into a book. Regretfully, because the decision to make a book of the project did not arise at the beginning of the study, there is no bibliography attached. However, there are many instances within the manuscript in which the authority for the information used is cited. I deeply regret that credit for all the information received from outside sources cannot be given to the proper person or authority.
I trust that the failure of the author to provide a list of source materials will not detract from the acceptance or the enjoyment of the information given, especially since the reader will not be able to use the same sources of information to check the truth or reliability of the information contained herein.
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How to Survive the Death of A Loved One
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99Death and loss are unavoidable in our lives. Some have experienced multiple losses and can make their way through the grief process rather successfully. Others are just recently becoming acquainted with the flood of emotions that seem all consuming after the loss of a loved one. In this book the author gives not only his personal testimony of dealing with and overcoming tremendous loss, but he also gives tools to help you navigate through grief and advice on how to remain strong spiritually. God will not give us more than we can bear and with His help we will all overcome.
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IT FINALLY HAPPENED: SCIENCE FICTION, NON FICTION, ROMANCE, HUMOR AND FANTASY
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Critical Thinkers
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99Who has time for critical thinking? We have work to do! This statement is like starting on a long journey with an empty gas tank but deciding you don’t have time to stop and fuel up. For over thirty years, one of the highest-level concerns among world leaders has been the deficiency in quality thinking skills. Critical thinking has little to do with a person’s IQ, but everything to do with our mind-set.
Author G. Janice Miller links critical thinking and spirituality. If a complete stranger were to observe my actions and listen to my conversations for twenty-four hours with no other information available, what would they conclude concerning who or what I worship? Shallow thinking has taken many people down a path of idolatry without even realizing it.
Awake! Our enemy, Satan, takes advantage of shallow, fragmented thinking to promote his agenda. It is an enemy of Ephesians 4:13, “Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.”
Our culture encourages us to form and vocalize opinions and judgments before we have an adequate foundation to understand the topic. We tend to train our minds to think in sound bites and 280-character tweets. Couple this with the human tendency to overestimate our ability, and it results in perpetuating fragmentation.
God is calling us to wake up and see what the enemy of our souls is doing. We must be sober and diligent. Paul admonishes us in Ephesians 6:10, “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.” We need a solid foundation that the enemy cannot penetrate
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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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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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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? -
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.