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Sins Of A Mulatto Outcast: An 18-Hole Wayward Identity Quest: 2nd Edition Round 1
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Homer grows up knowing he looks different than most kids in his neighborhood. Although both his parents are African American, his appearance more closely resembles a Caucasian. As he struggles to fit in with others in his African American race, Homer faces prejudice and bullying by those who brand him “the white kid,” until he decides to fight back, transforming himself and his attitude forever. On his wayward journey to removing himself from his surroundings, Homer feels his looks are a curse which sets off a series of horrific events that test all his emotions. To others it seems as though Homer has been given all the keys to unlock the American Dream. Unfortunately, they are unaware of his sins as a youth. As Homer relives his experiences, joys, and challenges through the metaphorical structure of eighteen holes of golf, he shines a light on his determined quest to overcome his outcast label, accept his mixed heritage, seek forgiveness, and-more importantly-love himself. Sins of a Mulatto Outcast tells the compelling tale of one man’s struggles to embrace his uniqueness in order to achieve happiness in life.
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Live or Die A Stroke of Good Luck
Price range: $3.99 through $19.95Struck down with a stroke and all but declared dead at age 38, Dick Burns regained consciousness and a life. This is the wise and witty story of his long and slow recovery and resurrection. It is a story of hope and practical advice for victims of any serious illness and their families. It is also about what he learned from the ordeal and how his life and values changed for the better with each step of his recovery.
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Adolf Hitler’s Ghost
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Elizabeth Maria was born in Vienna, Austria, just before Adolf Hitler occupied Austria. She then became a German citizen, and her father was drafted into the German Army to fight for Mr. Hitler in Russia. He had opposed Adolf Hitler openly and first lost his job at the University of Vienna and then was sent to Russia. Miraculously he survived Stalingrad and five years in Russian Prison Camps. Elizabeth, her sister, and Mother spent most of the War in small villages to get away from the constant bombing raids on the big cities. After the War she could go back to Vienna and attend high school there. During the 6th grade of high school, she received an AFS Scholarship to the USA and spent one year in Erie, Pennsylvania, with an American family. After graduating from Medical School, she did a residency in Pathology. As a result of some lucky circumstances, she was invited by Stanford University, CA, on a fellowship in Pathology. She fell in love with California and decided to stay there, she continued her residency at the Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. After she could afford to buy a nice house in Los Angeles, she brought her three children to America. She stayed in LA until her retirement at the age of 66 years and moved to Santa Fe, NM, where she became a painter with the help of the Community College in Santa Fe. She now lives in Albuquerque, NM, and works as a professional painter.
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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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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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Deliverance by Force
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99Are you afflicted, depressed, oppressed, or tormented by the evil one? Your deliverance is sure. This book throws more light on this area of Christian authoritative activity. It is my prayer that in reading it, you shall be led to the God of deliverance who shall surely propel you into your deliverance by force, and you shall act on its message and thereby expand the Kingdom of Jesus on earth as we occupy till He returns. Idong Wilson’s first book is an indication that there is in him a well, and we expect several springs to flow therefrom. Amen.
– Elder Uyouko S. Uyouko
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An Angel is Born: A Family’s Story
Price range: $3.99 through $24.95It would be impossible to keep track of all the people that we encounter during the course of a lifetime; however, the few that affect and change us forever could be counted on the fingers of one hand. There are people such as those depicted within this book. There are a lot of people whose stories are told here: their lives, their times, and their fate, but there was one who changed everyone around her without ever trying. An Angel is born spans the course of nearly seven decades, and looks back at a time when things were simpler yet not always better.
If you are nostalgic you’ll reminisce, if you are a parent you will appreciate, if you are spiritual you will be sustained, and if you have a heart you will be forever moved. Their lives, their world, their future lay before them sweet and dying… Angel’s parents sat at her bedside holding her hand and whispering sacred words of encouragement with agonizing thoughts of farewell. Then a voice from the Holy Firmaments of heaven spoke to them saying, ”You are now separated…”
…a story about how generations shaped by the unique demands of Appalachia helped one kid to thrive against all odds.
An Angel Is Born is much more than a story about the life and death of an amazing girl with special needs. Nostalgic, honest, and moving, this is a contemplative history of how every life–and every death–adds its own thread to the tapestry of a family and community.
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Blackout and Poetry
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99I was born in a Harlem Hospital raised in Hell’s Kitchen. I ran the streets of Harlem New York, and my public school was in Harlem, also in Hell’s Kitchen. Thanks to my sister for giving me the inspiration to write my story. I began writing poetry in 1995 and life was hard, looking back; God has blessed me, and I have seen a lot in my lifetime. I have tried to better my life and tried helping others on the way. I went to Manhattan Bible Institute of New York for about a year. I graduated 1987 as an Evangelist then I moved to Hudson, New York. I joined State Street A.M.E. Zion Church and under the leadership of my Pastor, for about 3 years of studying, I had to travel from Hudson to New York and to other churches for my class. I moved to Poughkeepsie, NY and I joined Smith Metropolitan A.M.E. Zion church, and I was ordain on 6-13-98 under the leadership of my pastor, I learned a lot. I have always dreamed of becoming a writer. This is the first book and poetry and I pray it won’t be my last. May God bless you and may it bring you hope.
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When Sorrow Comes: What Can God, You, and Others Do to Help Cope With Grief
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99The death of a loved one usually triggers a grief crisis and often a spiritual crisis as well. How do we face those crises and the devastation that can accompany them? Drawing on his background as a physician, bereaved parent, grief support group leader, and lecturer on coping with grief, author Richard Dew presents an examination of the effects of these crises and provides advice on dealing with them. In straightforward language, he describes what grief is and how it affects the bereaved. He suggests practical things you can do for yourself to cope with the roller coaster of emotions typically brought on by grief-sadness, hopelessness, depression, guilt, and anger-and includes helpful information for those wishing to comfort friends, colleagues, or family members. Using his experiences and those of others with whom he has worked, he offers reassurance that the bereaved can emerge as hopeful, happy individuals at peace with themselves, their faith, and God. This guide for those who are grieving shares heartfelt encouragement and easy-to-understand steps you can take during the process of healing after the death of a loved one.
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Poetry in Motion: The Lyrics and Poems of Carolyn Luger Vermes (Original Edition)
Price range: $3.99 through $20.99‘Uplifting’ is the term that best describes Carolyn’s verse. Humor and poignant reflection exist side by side in her world of individuals at the crossroads of change.
Like her sister, novelist Sondra Luger, she believes in happy endings. As she expresses it, “All endings are really beginnings. The ‘happy’ part is ours to create.”
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UNTIL NOW: The Love We Always Needed, But Never Had “Until Now”
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99If you have experienced or are currently experiencing abuse and rejection at any level and from any source, especially from immediate family members and friends, I dedicate this book to you. If you are a survivor or a victim of domestic abuse-whether it is physical, mental, emotional, financial, or verbal abuse-I dedicate this book to you. You can overcome all situations and circumstances when you learn to focus on God and realize that you are somebody, too.
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Balance of Nature
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99The balances in physical body, mental health, families, cultures, societies, politics, religions and other aspects of our life are necessary for our humanity. The author shows us how to achieve the benefits of the goodness, beauty and longevity. This book is a solution for everybody who wants to balance his or her life. ” Spirit in peace, longevity will be attained. Spirit in pieces, body will be ruined.” The balance can be practiced through the techniques of nutrition, yoga, breathing, exercise. peace of mind and good spirit. The book includes and illustrates the ways to open the main acupuncture points for healthy body and clear mind. By combining several different cultures in the world, the author shows a direction to bring up the truth, the goodness, and the beauty in human life. One of the beauties of human is the great sea of love to create a happy world. The creation is in our hands and our heart, The practices in balance of life are the key for our own rescues. This goal is equal to the natural balance because “There is Yang in Yin and there is Yin in Yang” and helps keeping ourselves in balance with the “seven emotions”. If we are not able to control ourselves, we will be overwhelmed by these seven emotions, and illnesses may result.
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God Speaks to Me in Silence
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99Where does poetry come from? For Janet Safford Cline, her poetry comes from a lifetime of loving words and putting them together to express her faith in Jesus Christ. A lifelong Christian, in her inspiring poetry collection, God Speaks to Me in Silence, she imagines biblical scenes and stories in the poems “Shepherds, “Temptations” and “Why” She gently pokes fun at Sundays-only Christians in “Dear Bishop” Janet lived many years in the Texas Panhandle and recalls it lovingly in her poem “In the Panhandle” and she ponders her life in several poems about her family and friends. For the last forty years, she has lived on the Texas Gulf Coast, complete with hurricanes and uncertain weather, all of which is reflected in God Speaks to Me in Silence. God speaks to me in silence, never bombast or demand. The Lord of Lords is patient, always holding out his hand. I seldom take the time to sit and wait for his soft word, But I know God’s there and waits for me whatever has occurred. It’s only when I quiet down I hear God’s wondrous voice. God’s always there to talk to me, but I have to make the choice. God speaks to me in silence, when my mind is rapt and still, And it’s up to me to listen then to hear his perfect will.
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The Scars You Don’t See: Overcoming the Legacy of a Dysfunctional Family
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99“Normal” can be a mysterious, unreachable goal to people who grew up in dysfunctional families. The good news is, there’s a solution for adults who struggle in their relationships, their social interactions, and with their concepts of themselves. Negative childhood experiences teach developing personalities to misinterpret others’ motives and behaviors, making them stumble and blame themselves in situations when others wouldn’t. Feeling isolated and “different” becomes cyclical. So if you’ve been waiting to hear “I get you, because I’ve been you,” here’s how to change what your childhood experience taught you. Part memoir and part self-help, The Scars You Don’t See gives readers new understandings and new interpretations of a childhood filled with angst, confusion and embarrassment – and an adulthood of twisted perceptions and tortured social failures. Be cheered: a more enriching life awaits, minus the unhealthy childhood conditioning. Perceived liabilities rooted in the past can be turned into assets. The Scars You Don’t See is a candid, raw and honest, blue-collar first-person perspective, full of effective ideas and daily practices to help identify and overcome the damages adults face after a childhood in a dysfunctional family.
Not a lofty sermon from an onlooker, The Scars You Don’t See traces the path out of a dysfunctional upbringing, so others don’t have to experience what I did. The resonant tale of an escape from painful clenched confusion, The Scars You Don’t See shares validation and accessible practices to a path for self-acceptance and empowerment. It’s not academic or clinical, and it’s not just my story, it’s an alternative to the twisted lessons shared by so many. The solution can be approached through physical, emotional and spiritual practices. This book shares lessons from two decades of treating people with voice disorders, musculoskeletal problems and breathing impairments; restructuring “dysfunctional” into “productive and fulfilling” also requires recognizing the struggle with painful lessons of daily lived reality. I bring you the unique blend of personal perspective, training and experience that allows looking at the world through different lenses. That new vision makes it possible to start living more effectively, steering toward a not-painful “normal.” What this book shares will benefit anyone who spent their developmental years being shaped in a dysfunctional family, and help you move from painful to exceptional.
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Picks!: The People’s Choice vs God’s Choice
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99In the position that you now hold or that you aspire to, are you the people’s pick or God’s pick? Here, a number of Bible characters provide salient illustrations of the differences between God’s rubric for voting for people as opposed to how humans choose. May you find help as you read in discerning and copying God’s way of picking your leaders or presenting yourself as a leader in accomplishing the task the Lord has put you here on earth to do.
