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Like The Moon, Mr. Purple
$3.99 – $39.99God creates the human families and grants them the ability to weave stories of their own existence. The Morada Clan of Bicol, therefore, as any family in the world, cannot claim a monopoly on life’s blessings and crucibles. But let me tell our peculiar stories just the same.
We are neither perfect, nor are our stories grandiose, but it’s our imperfections and their simplicity that make our stories more compelling and relatable. Even before the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, we told ourselves that someone had got to narrate them, or they could lapse and fade into insignificance and oblivion. That’s how and why my role came into being.
At work in Texas, they called me Mr. Purple. from an obscure corner of the Third World came this educator with his bio, love affair, work exploits, bittersweet memoir, and family history replete with actual events and genuine people, rolled into one. With the pandemic as standpoint, here is a look-back at the itsy-bitsy events that form the collective tale of my family and me – and my pursuit of the American Dream.
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Unexpected Transformation
$3.99 – $36.99“Thus being conformed to the image of Christ becomes a very
practical exercise throughout the entirety of the Christian life.”
This extremely thorough and wide-ranging devotional encourages readers to study the Bible in pursuit of learning the characteristics of Christ in hopes of implementing Christ-like behavior in all of life’s situations. Dr. Leland offers firm and loving guidance throughout this study as he organizes each chapter by identifying a characteristic of Christ, followed by scripture-based examples of how Christ demonstrated it. Making the teaching personal, Dr. Leland also gives examples from his own life and ministry that show the characteristics or recalls examples from history, friends, and other biblical encounters. Finally, each chapter is also a call to action and asks readers to consider how they can demonstrate a specific characteristic in their own lives.
With wisdom and experience, Dr. Leland carefully ministers to readers with thoughtful, biblical insight and probing questions that foster reflection and inspire action. He hopes all readers and followers of Christ will align themselves with God’s purpose through careful study and attention to the activities of Christ. This devotional is replete with Bible verses that serve as the foundation for the truths identified and explained with the hope that readers will “pursue and apply the truths of this study.”
For those seeking to strengthen their faith and connect to Christ, this collection of lessons offers clear guidance and a way forward from confusion and uncertainty about God’s purpose. Reading and following these lessons will likely help readers conform to the image of Christ. Dr. Leland offers a deep understanding of Christ’s characteristics and believes with unwavering faith that lives in pursuit of Christ can be transformed. With over 300 characteristics to consider, readers can delight in the multitude of teachings and continuously seek Christ through his
words and actions.
– The US Review of Books
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Warriors of the Deities: Orisha Bloodlines
$3.99 – $34.99This book is a tribute to the ancestors who walked before us and the power that still flows through our blood.
It is fiction, yes-but it’s also truth, myth, memory, and resistance. To read this is to reclaim something forgotten.
This story isn’t just meant to entertain-it’s meant to awaken.
As you journey through the Yoruba land of Ilaro, ask yourself:
What traditions are worth fighting for?And what truths are you brave enough to reclaim?
Myth meets memory.
Bloodline meets destiny.
And silence meets revolution.
This is not just a novel. This is a calling.
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Fully Human/ Fully Allive: A Human Model
$3.99 – $32.99Fully Human / Fully Alive is written to help the 70% of all Americans Living today who are stuck on Maslow’s social level of living, not realizing that there are three levels above them that would greatly enhance their lives. The book will help them build bridges over or detours around their own barriers that preclude them from fully living their own lives. The book provides paths around your barriers without destroying your current beliefs. They simply no longer control you. Those who read this book with an open mind can find their own path to become one of the one percent of people living today who live a fulfilled experience and are truly Fully Alive.
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The Search: A Historian’s Search for Historical Jesus
$3.99 – $30.99The Search is neither predominately scholarly, historical, nor inspirational. Rather, it is a book that seeks to understand why Jesus said what he said and did what he did in light of the fact that he was not only a loyal Galilean Jew but he was also a loyal Roman subject, who was probably educated in Greco-Roman influenced schools, who probably worked under the authority of Roman administrators, who ministered under the protection of Roman officials, and who died as a enemy of Rome as mandated by Roman law. The book is not intended to present Jesus in any lesser light than that of deity. Yet, within the context of known Greco-Roman history, customs, philosophies, and manners of the time in which Jesus lived and ministered. It attempts to show under what circumstances his ministry and popularity grew and flourished in Roman Mare Nostrum and then floundered. The Search is historical in that it portrays the life of Jesus as it was in Roman Mare Nostrum East. It is scholarly in that it confirms each Gospel recorded event with non-biblical authenticating documentation. It is inspirational in that it assumes that the Gospel records are the most accurate records available about the life of Jesus and that the word and deeds recorded in the Gospel narratives have been preserved for two millennia because they were the narratives that God felt would be most spiritually beneficial to this Current generation. This book will attempt to discover Jesus’ life by filling in the empty center between birth and death by reaching beyond the bare bones skeleton of historical Jesus and alighting upon the fully developed historical epic of Jesus-the loyal Jewish Roman
subject of Roman Mare Nostrum East.
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Mental Illness
$3.99 – $30.99To whatever conclusions can be drawn from this, it is as much ado about its own obviousness. But nonetheless, it is an important part in the belief of a phenomenal world, a world beset on prenominal experience. Such an assemblage of information must first take issue to derive from their categorical presentations for the existing sense of control, the effect or affect of underlying displacement or discouraging accounts of estrangement depend upon a better understanding and the best of possible explanations for which is not to be expected, even to expect of expectation. What is more important is to leave an open to a closed condition.
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StarChild
$3.99 – $30.99It’s now the year of our Lord, 2915… Human civilization having attained near perfection… and Womankind’s very first starship, the S.E.A.S.S. StarChild, is about to disembark on its bachelor voyage to the stars…There it will encounter absolute Hell. A Hell that changed Human herstory for the very worst nearly 7,000 years before- threatening to do that very same thing YET AGAIN!!!
Yet even so StarChild is more than just science fiction, just as much an adventure romance novel set in the future, a strong element of mystery added. Mostly a love story in the truest sense, the main focus of StarChild is on people and the Human element versus mere gadgetry and futuristic jargon.
And with its powerful depiction of a better society StarChild could even be looked upon as a mistress blueprint for a much better society than that we know today, hope for a brighter future known as the “New Matriarchate” … the “Tammyite Matriarchate”.
Depicted in a more intelligent, realistic, sophisticated, and sensitive manner than normally experienced in works of fiction involving matriarchal civilization it is a time in which “history” has been replaced by “herstory” delving as well into our past as well as the future.
Claiming all you need to do to know him is read his work. Jim was nevertheless born and raised Canadian, living in Hamilton, Ontario. And also a devout Christian, he writes only that not in conflict with his own spiritual faith, including the more perfect world he writes about.
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PHOTOGRAPHER’S GUIDE TO WASHINGTON’S BEST VIEWS: VOLUME I – MT. RAINIER
$3.99 – $29.99Photographer Rollin Geppert lives in Olympia, Washington and through eBooks, his website, www. Geppertphotography.com, fine art prints and other published works, shares his 50 plus years of experience in searching out the best views in Washington State from which to photograph the scenic beauty of nature.
Mount Rainier, the largest of the five major volcanic mountains in the state, is featured in Volume I of his Photographer’s Guide to Washington’s Best Views.
Proceeds from the sale of the Photographer’s Guide to Washington’s Best Views, will be donated to the Ecosystems Scholarship Fund (www.Ecoscholarfund.org) which provides financial aid to college students majoring in natural resources and land use planning.
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Just Passing Through: A German-American Family Saga – Revised Edition
$3.99 – $29.99In this updated and revised edition of Just Passing Through: A German American Family Saga, first published in 2011, the author tells the story of several generations of his unique but dysfunctional family spanning over a hundred years including the two world wars. Peter Zell was eight years old when World War II ended and in a prologue entitled A German – American Childhood recounts his boyhood experiences that included the apocalyptic firebombing of his hometown of Stuttgart by the western Allies, the postwar occupation of Germany, and his family’s emigration to America. The book centers on the author’s mother, whom her children called Mutti, and her ordeal during the Nazi era for having been married to a Jew, the son of prosperous Frankfurt business owners, with whom she had two children. With anti-Semitism on the rise in Germany, her husband decided to emigrate to America but Mutti chose to remain behind to take care of her ailing father. The couple had an amicable divorce and while her ex-husband
took their son with him, their daughter remained with Mutti in Germany. Under the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, mother and daughter now found themselves classified as non-Aryans which meant that Mutti could not remarry while their teenage daughter, being half Jewish, was put in dire jeopardy of her life. At this point Mutti’s older brother, himself a dedicated National Socialist, proposed an unconventional solution that ensured her survival. Following his advice, Mutti had more children, fathered by so-called Aryans, who were eventually all brought to America. The book follows the lives of the five siblings, all half-brothers and half-sisters, and their difficult relationships with each other as each sought to achieve his or her version of the American Dream.
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THE ROBOTIX SAGA: Book 1: THE HUMAN ELEMENT
$3.99 – $28.99Robot, or human? Regardless! Shilloqwai was committed, vowing to fulfill the quest entrusted to her. She was left with the unenviable task of bridging the gap between the two factions, a void left after an all-out war between them. Robots ruled the world, Humankind sought to regain its power. Robots claimed to be protecting humans from themselves. Humankind insisted its rights were being violated, privacy inparticular. Tensions between the two factions were mounting again. An attacking intragalactic AI force, left the factions with a life-changing decision — continue fighting one another — and likely be destroyed — or fight together in an attempt to save their existence, and
that of Earth!
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Arundel Haven: Mordecai And Raven Including Saviour’s Day (Book One)
$3.99 – $28.99Mordecai Jefferson was a lonely high school student, seemingly alone. He had been bullied by three bullies who were all-state players at Oak Ridge, where he had attended, and had received no support for his depression from his family since his cousin Amelia started college two years ago. He suddenly started having dreams about a large dragon, claiming he was one of the two prophesied by a fairy queen on her deathbed a century and a half before to be his bane. When the jocks left him in the woods after beating him up, he met a beautiful black fairy, and his life changed forever. The dragon continued to appear in his dreams and had recently made an alliance with a world-renowned geneticist, Dr. Haman Von Braun, who had a secret obsession with finding fairies and the hidden fairy kingdom of Arundel Haven, and U.S. President Ahmad Faroiuk to find the young man and keep the prophecy of his death from coming to pass. Soon, Mordecai will learn his role in the Prophecy of Queen Hephzibah and how he and another will bring about the end of the dragon.
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Portersville
$3.99 – $27.99A flicker of lightning behind a thunderhead then a deep rumble marked the approach of a storm. Selena squeezed the hand of her handsome Greek husband. Together they peered across the vastness of the Gulf of Mexico while digging their toes into the cool sand. A weathered lighthouse offshore split the darkness, casting its light across the treacherous waters.
They braced themselves against the wind gusts and pelting rain. Between lightning strikes, they watched the squall line draw nearer. A dark tendril reached skyward attaching itself to the cloud above. The waterspout danced along the outer sandbars then crashed ashore ripping and tearing before dissipating among the pines and sand dunes.
Only twelve miles to the north, hotels glowed like jewels scattered along the shoreline. Bandstands blasted out music across the bay as vacationers danced under the stars and giant oaks. Children carrying torches and nets squealed and laughed while chasing crabs in the shallow grass beds. Lovers whispered as they walked along the banks of the bay. Old people sat in the glow of lantern light on their porches reminiscing of times gone by, legends of pirates, fast schooners, floating spirits, and the lost art of voodoo. Lightning on the southern horizon gave warning that the evening was about to change.
Cy and Selena fled Greece to avoid a personal storm and protect their families. They knew that this same storm could cross the ocean and track them to Portersville. Dripping wet and chilled, they vowed never to run again.
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A People Set Apart
$3.99 – $26.99When chance, the flamboyant scion of a well-to-do family, makes it to the United States from his war-torn Biafra, it doesn’t occur to him that life isn’t going to be the same as it is in his homeland.
But he learns fast. And by sheer will and personal grit, he is able to bulldoze his way in his new abode. Turning adversities into advantage he develops one of the most enduring relationships ever imagined. Turnkey, his nemesis turns friend, and over a short period of time, that metamorphosis yields an instant result. Chance schools him to change course and makes him to understand that he can buy himself out of the box seemingly reserved for him and his ilk that will place him in low level of society’s cadet in perpetuity. Having seen the light, they hit the ground running. Their friendship bossoms, and Chance becomes his greatest confidante.
When Chance offers to take him and a group of his American friends to his homeland of Biafra, a country remembered in flashpoints of war and pillage and destruction, and man’s inhumanity to man, Turnkey is there to defend his friend and dispel all erroneous notions of a people he hasn’t met except one man.
Biafra, plundered since time immemorial, and thought dead, has risen from the ashes of pillagery by dint, and indefatigable spirit of her irrepressible people to hoist her flag in the firmament for all to see. In Biafra, Africa is unbound.
Turnkey, a fortuitious child, and even luckier than a cat with more than nine lives, doesn’t leave anything to chance. Like his father, he toils from a young age knowing where he’s coming from but also with an eye to where he’s heading to. Yet, it’s him that the mighty God has had his path cleared before him.
And when fortune smiles on him owing to a huge bequeathal of his granduncle, it’s to Chance that he turns to, and it’s in his friend’s homeland that he chooses to invest his largesse because he wholeheartedly believes that they’re a people a set apart in spite of the challenges right and about them.
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Unusual Attitudes: Flight Instructor Memoirs
$3.99 – $26.99Captain Ed (Edwin D. Armbruster) lived a fascinating life as he flew thousands of hours over the jungles of Panama and the Caribbean in single engine planes. Over seven hundred students called him their instructor as he piloted them from Atlantic to Pacific over and along the Panama Canal, through Panama, Central and South America. Beginning with the halcyon days of Canal Zone life and navigating more troubled times as the drug wars escalated, adventure calls on every page.
As exciting and spell-binding as the tropical background is beautiful, “Captain Ed” regales and inspires with his stories of crashes and near-misses, student antics, hair-raising escapes and unusual friendships, all as the glory days of the Panama Canal slowly faded into memory.
For those who fly and those who long to fly — this book soars with adventure. -
Pricing the Profitable Sale: The Manager’s Guide to Value Pricing
$7.99 – $26.99Pricing the Profitable Sale: The Manager’s Guide to Value Pricing represents a complete revision of a prior work entitled Pricing for Profit: The Manager’s Guide to Market Oriented Pricing. Like the earlier book, its purpose is to assist corporate managers in realizing the full potential available in the product or service price as a company’s primary revenue and profit generator. The book is a radical departure from standard texts in its practical and quantitative approach. Because of its heavy use of formulas, graphs, reference tables, and pricing rules and guidelines, it will appeal primarily to marketers with a background in the sciences or engineering and less so to individuals who prefer a less rigorous treatment of the subject. A special feature of the book is three chapters devoted to price optimization techniques for determining sell prices of products or services designed to achieve maximum sales revenues, market share, or profits for the firm. Numerous examples throughout the text demonstrate the use of the material presented. Pricing the Profitable Sale should also be of interest to academia. In a business school MBA program, it could serve either as the primary text in a course on pricing or, in an advanced marketing class, as a supplement to one of the standard marketing texts.
Peter Zell grew up in Stuttgart, Germany, and Oak Park, Illinois, where he attended high school. He holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois. After two years of active duty with the U.S. Army Reserve, Mr. Zell was employed as an engineer by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Virginia. He subsequently left for New York City to study business administration earning an MBA degree from the Columbia Business School. There followed a successful career in marketing and sales management with diverse multinational companies, both stateside and abroad. Mr. Zell also holds a law degree and is a retired member of the Illinois State Bar Association. Since 2003, he has lived in retirement near Phoenix, Arizona.
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Love Made Well-The Trilogy to “How I Killed My Father” and “Connections”
$3.99 – $26.99Join Claudette King-Welcome as she enters the worlds of three extraordinary women who play out their innermost fears over a period of fifteen years.
Gabrielle Fairchild can no longer violate her conscience, and her secret life is about to become public. Millions of dollars are at stake…all of which she’s willing to walk away from just to see her children happy and at peace.
Her estranged sister, Marlene, and stepmother, Mrs. Tate, thorough pride and prejudice, are pitched hard against the harsh realities of life, while their fractured lives keep unfolding, God, the fixer of all things, is doing all the mending.
King-Welcome, creates a cast of unforgettable characters and a thoughtfully compiled novel where the readers an grasp the phenomenon and the sufficiency of forgiveness.
Love Made Well, is truly inspiring, funny, and thought-provoking work of fiction.