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Remembering ZEOLA
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99The stories Zeola told about herself show aspects of her character that was budding at age four and five, for example learning to clean and care for her home and to beautify it. After marriage, she expressed her love for husband and children as she labored daily to take care of them. Preparing three meals daily, washing and cleaning as well as teaching and training her children to work and care for the home are all expressions of her love without using words. She loved her home and cultivated many flowers and trees on the outside. She worked hard to clean and beautify the home on the inside too. For example, she made curtains for the windows and doilies for many tabletops, cushions for chairs and tablecloths for tables. She and Brenda partnered to make quilts and bedspreads for the beds. The church and community were very important to her, and she gave herself to teaching children in Sunday School classes. She loved to sing and worked with the children’s choir at church for many years. Her devotion to Jesus Christ was shown in the zeal with which she took on tasks such as tending to the sick about her and helping those who were in some kind of need. Many of the examples I recount bring to light her service to others. She persisted in the face of multiple trials and afflictions; always getting up and trying again without giving up under their weight. When I began to think about her legacy, I rejoice as I look back over her life and realize that she developed enduring faith and Christian character through all of these things. She chose not to grow bitter because of them, but to submit to God’s will and to press toward victory that would someday be hers.
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Schätze der Dunkelheit
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99Der Autor, der sich auf die Suche nach Antworten auf die tiefgründigen Fragestellungen des Lebens gemacht hat, bietet in seinem Werk eine Fülle von Anregungen und Erleuchtungen auf dem Weg zum Frieden, zum Selbstfrieden und zum Frieden gegenüber Gott. In diesem Buch finden Sie Antworten auf die tiefsten Fragen des Lebens und werden ermutigt und erleuchtet, Frieden mit Ihrer Vergangenheit, mit sich selbst und mit Gott zu finden. Sie werden grundlegende menschliche Einstellungen erkennen, die es zu überwinden gilt, und Sie werden grundlegende Wahrheiten über Gott erfahren, die Sie in keiner Gemeinde hören werden. Wir lernen gesunde Wege kennen, mit unseren Ängsten, unserer Scham und vielen Täuschungen, denen wir in unserem Leben ausgesetzt sind, umzugehen. Entdecken Sie die wahre Definition von Rechtschaffenheit in Gottes Augen und werden Sie Zeuge der wunderbaren Art und Weise, wie Gott denen hilft, die ihn um Hilfe bitten.
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SEASONS AND SENSES: POETRY & OTHER THOUGHTS
Price range: $3.99 through $31.99SEASONS AND SENSES is a collection of poems written over the course of twenty-five years by Darlene Ewers. Her life experiences and reflections on various aspects of nature can be found in her poetry. Many of her thoughts are based on life experiences growing up on a family-owned Kansas farm with her two younger sisters and about how those events reaffirmed her Christian faith. This is her first work of poetry, although one of her poems was published in the form of a children’s book as THE SEA in 2009. It introduces children to their five senses by way of exploring the various aspects of the sea.
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Shatter Some Worlds: Reinventing, Realizing, Reintegrating: A Sickness Begins
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99At the innocent age of ten, author Andrew Tirado is confronted with a life-altering, near-death experience after a bicycle accident leaves him with a collapsed lung and a traumatic brain injury. With remarkable fortitude and the support of his family, Tirado slowly begins the road to recovery. He relearns how to walk, how to eat, and even how to talk. Tirado perseveres despite these setbacks and returns to school with a determination to lead a life that is as normal as possible. During his teen years, Tirado has brushes with the law, experiments with drugs, and tries to understand the opposite sex. He graduates from high school and enrolls in a local community college. But he receives another drastic blow when he is faced with the sudden death of his fiancé. Tirado pens a touching, bittersweet memoir with Shatter Some Worlds. Tirado’s portrayal of his life is honest and frank and reveals his indomitable courage in the midst of grief and suffering. He uses his adversity as an accelerant that drives his consciousness to rise to the occasion and accomplish great things.
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Solomon Levi MacKeefer: A Gypsy with a Very Great Heart
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99He was a gypsy, part of a gypsy band. His name was Solomon Levi Brown. His coming was not a part of his parents’ plans but was more of an example of the old saying that “accidents cause people.” As a consequence, he ended up as a child of the whole band of gypsies, dined with anyone handy, and slept wherever he could lay his head.
They called him Solly MacKeefer, and he started his life on a rough road. He learned compassion as a young boy as he watched a girl cry over her lost pet. He eventually found love with a beautiful gypsy woman, and they brought a child into the world. However, tragedy struck this happy family when they moved to Canada, and nothing was ever the same again.
Still, Solly persevered even after facing terrible loss. No matter how cruel the world, Solly refused to be the same. He found friends in unexpected places and even died a hero. At his funeral, crowds came from all around, proving that one man changed many lives. This is Solly’s story-a gypsy boy who grew into a man and left a legacy of kindness and love.
The author, having grave concerns that in the present situation, there is too much discrimination and persecution for the least fortunate of this world and because of his belief that the vast majority of the people as a whole are a kind and benevolent society and quick to respond to the plight of their fellow man. He has tried to show that in this story.
And we should all be reminded that someone once said: “and as ye shall do unto the least of my brethren likewise shall I do unto you”. -
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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Summer’s End: A Novel
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99As a music composer and author, KATHRYN B. HULL is a member of ASCAP and SCBWI. She is a State and Nationally certified teacher of music with an active studio in La Quinta, California, having taught music in elementary schools and college. She has written children’s books as well as this novel. She volunteers her time with numerous community organizations with a focus on the arts and education. She is listed in The Top Ten Registry and several Who’s Who publications, including Who’s Who of American Women.
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Tales from a Far Off Place Called Home
Price range: $3.99 through $23.99Hickshaw, Georgia is home to Mave and Shirley, life-long friends that separate after high school graduation. They each travel far from their small town beginnings but remain true to their values while happening upon a revelation on their journey into adulthood. Mave is a promising student about to graduate and accomplish great things, except life circumstances mandate she marries, and for Shirley, life takes her on an adventure after her parents’ failed attempt at marrying her to the town’s most eligible son.
Spanning 20 years beginning in 1965, the women grow into extraordinary women. Mave struggles with the role she has been given as wife and mother all the while longing for the independence and freedom to pursue her dreams. Shirley, on the other hand, travels the world in search of the thing that she discarded so easily years ago.
Tag along as these two women face heartbreak and disappointment forcing them to choose different paths. As their friendship is tested by separation and betrayal, follow these two women as they remain close to one another, even when it seems their friendship might not last the pettiness and intrusion that characterize this fictional small town. Tales from a far off Place Called Home is about a journey of self-discovery that comes at the price of growth.
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TAVERN: A HISTORICAL NOVEL BASED UPON AN EARLY SAN FRANCISCO SALOON AND THE FAMILY THAT OWNED AND OPERATED IT
Price range: $3.99 through $21.99Tavern: A Historical Novel Based Upon An Early San Francisco Saloon And The Family That Operated It describes an underachiever inheriting his family’s saloon. In the process of dealing with the sale, he must make a choice between a woman’s love and his slacker lifestyle.
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Tesoros De La Oscuridad
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99Para aquellos que buscan encontrar respuestas a las preguntas profundas de la vida, este libro tiene como objetivo animarlos e iluminarlos en su viaje para encontrar la paz con su pasado, consigo mismos y con Dios. Descubrirá las configuraciones predeterminadas de la humanidad que todos tenemos que superar, y descubrirá algunas verdades esenciales acerca de Dios que rara vez escuchará en ninguna iglesia. Descubrirás formas saludables de afrontar tus miedos, tu vergüenza y gran parte de los engaños a los que estamos expuestos en nuestras vidas. Descubrirás la verdadera definición de justicia a los ojos de Dios y serás testigo de las formas milagrosas en que Dios se acerca a quienes le piden ayuda.
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The Arkansas Lawyer
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99The Arkansas Lawyer is a meticulously detailed account of one family’s long and frustrating sojourn through the loopholes, disappointments and deceits of a labyrinthine legal system, in innocent pursuit of an equitable estate disbursement according to their beloved uncle’s documented financial wishes. Anyone who has ever had to endure the injustice of our current court system, which focuses more on “what is legal” than “what is right,” will draw comfort from this well-written case in point. Beginning with a glimpse into the lives of a family the reader will come to truly care about, and moving on to an unintentional clerical error compounded by a corporation’s unscrupulous moves to cover their ass-ets, a well-intentioned lawyer’s early misunderstanding of a simple situational fix, the lower court judge’s careless findings, state Supreme Court efforts to countermand those rulings, monies unjustly obtained and devoured by greedy in-laws, and ultimately the whisking away of a large portion of an inheritance by an incomprehensibly self-serving attorney, this account is fast-paced and never dull. The story is backed with revealing email chains and court documents that will be of interest to laymen and legal professionals alike. Join The Arkansas Lawyer on a unique roller coaster ride through a prevalent and important aspect of our lives
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The Big Secret : A Parent’s Treasure
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99Do you want to achieve a better life and higher promotions?
As a manufacturing plant supervisor, I was approached
by an engineer who asked me many questions about a
particular job he was interested in.
He asked several general questions, and our conversation
went on for months as he talked about his goal of earning
a promotion. I asked how long he had been trying to
accomplish his goal and he said he had worked on it for
two years.
I bet him one hundred dollars that if he would apply my
secret methods, he would receive his promotion within
six weeks. I told him to think about what I had said and
I walked off.
The very next day, he came to me and said he was
skeptical, but because he had learned a lot since he
started talking to me, he was willing to gamble. He said
he would take me up on my bet and I handed him my
materials to study, follow and apply to his future.
Five weeks later, he came back to me, glowing like a
beacon, and filled with enthusiasm.
He thanked me repeatedly, with moisture in his eyes.
The expression on his face was priceless, and he
handed me a folded up “green back”. With excitement
and enthusiasm, he told me that he had received his
promotion!
More than fourteen of my coworkers received their
promotions in record time, using the secret methods in
this book!
“The Big Secret, A Parent’s Treasure”
Do you have a plan? Do your research and homework;
get a second opinion, compare your options – James Markham -
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.
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The Book About Branka
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99This is the story of one life, one girl , woman, mother, a highly educated person, who wove her threads into one ball called family and tried to be and remain happy in all of this. A woman who had great influence on the family. A woman on whom a lot depended in the home. To a wise woman who knew this well, and that knowledge is not an easy task for a woman. A wife and mother knows that happiness in the home literally depends on her, and then she creates and builds that happiness… because she loves her family. It used to be understood that the husband should create a roof over his head, but what is under the roof-peace, well-being, harmony, health, togetherness … is what depends a lot on a woman’s life. It is a big task, which requires a lot of effort.
This is a book about a woman, a wife, as a rescue from chaos, a light at the end of the tunnel. . . .
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The Etiquette Guide For Trailer Folk
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99Michael Smith has been published in numerous poetry anthologies, and written dozens of short stories for several magazines. His solo debut, The Illustrated Poetry of Crazy Bear, was met with wide acclaim, and sold out quickly. The Illustrations came from his studio of watercolor paintings. He currently lives in Northern Nevada, with his companion, Susan, and a small herd of cats.
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The Haunted House Kid
$3.99Alex Connelly’s parents are getting a divorce. To make matters worse, they have refused to let him use their garage this year for the haunted house he has put on since he was very young. Fortunately for Alex, he has been temporarily allowed to live with his adoring maternal grandmother, inadvertently gaining himself a new venue for his spooky hobby, his Grandma Ruth’s near-empty garage.
When Alex’s mom acting all kinds of weird, and Grandma Ruth is away from home all the time (because she’s managed to pass her driver’s license test, after several years without a license) and he starts to notice strange things going on during the construction of his “latest and greatest spook galley” stranger than normal, that is he considers scrapping the project entirely.
Yet…something is driving Alex to finish his haunted house at all cost! All he knows is that he has to get it finished by opening night just before Halloween!
Meanwhile, Alex left with a lot of free time to work alone and undisturbed in his grandmother’s garage is worried about his little sister, Maggie, being alone with his Mom who has begun acting very strangely and is gone from home most of the time. And his heart is breaking for his dad, who is sad and living across town in a lonely apartment. But, unbeknownst to Alex and the rest of the family, Grandma Ruth is trying desperately to find a way to keep her daughter, Allison, from embracing the family roots into witchcraft a tradition Grandma Ruth herself, has spent a lifetime trying to deny and from which she has always tried to protect her daughter.
Long lost relatives come out of the woodworks. Mythical monsters are being summoned from distant quarters of the earth. Everyone is worried about Alex too because of the strange way his mother is acting toward him, a well as for the strange way Alex, is acting.
But at least new friends offer comfort along the way.
Alex just hopes that somehow his haunted house is going to save his family!
