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Our shelves are full of books written by local and independent authors, folks who have chosen to self-publish or to work with a publisher outside of the big national conglomerates. In support of their efforts, we're pleased to present the following selections currently on sale at Book Revue.
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Ultimate Betrayal
by Gene Ligotti
Our Price: $19.95
Ultimate Betrayal - a suspense-filled novel of an all-consuming desire for revenge and a love that wouldn’t die. Ryce Traden works in Montauk, aboard a fishing boat. His dream: own a fishing boat and marry Taylor Banning. Wesley, is Ryce’s ‘best friend’ and also wants Taylor.
Ryce’s dream sets factors exploding into the novel’s driving force. Needing money, Ryce makes a pick-up he thinks are knock-offs, but are drugs. Wesley notifies the police.
A judge and lawyer, protecting their smuggling, put Ryce in prison and say he died at sea. Taylor marries Wesley.
Ryce escapes, plans to use Taylor’s daughter for his revenge and hires a lawyer for a new trial with exciting courtroom surprises. The suspenseful ending is terrifying as Ryce fights Wesley in his final act of vengeance.
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Stinky Feet Stew
by Beth Capodanno
Our Price: $12.99
Every morning when the sun peeks into Stew's room, he has a chance to drive his cars, to run, jump, and dance the day away. But transitioning from one activity to another is sometimes really hard for Stew, especially in the evening when it's time to take a bath. Why with so much playing still to do, and so little time left to do it, would he want to waste it on something as unpleasant as a bath? Moms, however have many tricks up their sleeves, and Stew's mom turns the tub into a pot full of silliness and giggles.
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Comin' Home
by Walter Townes & Barry Cohen
Our Price: $20.00
Born and raised in the projects of Newark, NJ, Willie Joe Cunningham aspires to become a professional basketball player. Surrounded by everything from race riots to drug and alcohol abuse, Willie Joe manages to rise above his humble beginnings. Guided early by a few caring mentors, he now has to confront the issues of race and politics. After qualifying for a spot on a professional basketball team, he suffers an inury and a career setback. Willie Joe overcomes his injury, marries his college sweetheart and becomes a successful college basketball coach. He settles in suburbia. His perfect world is unsettled by the appearance of a former teammate, who implores him to come home andhelp the youth of his native city of Newark. Torn between two worlds, he finds major obstacles that include a wanting wife and an even more wanting ex-lover. Willie Joe's story concerns the search for one's own moral compass. It is everyone's story, regardless of his or her circumstances.
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The Truce
by E. Milan
Our Price: $11.99
When strangers Aaron and Amber die in the same car accident they wake in Purgatory. Haunted by their pasts they choose the unthinkable. Between Purgatory and Heaven lies Hell. Together they choose to walk through the gate and enter Hell hoping to reach Heaven and all they have lost on the other side. Once in Hell they will spark the culmination of a revolution that has been raging for 2,500 years.
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Maria's Duck Tales
by Maria Daddino
Our Price: $14.95
Happy, sad, and at times a little whimsical, Maria's Duck Tales is a collection of short stories of the sometimes complicated, sometimes heart-breaking but always enriching relationship between a woman and the wildlife who call her garden home.
Sharing her observations and interactions with the wild ducks, swans, opossums, ospreys and squirrels of Penataquit Creek, the stories are interwoven with fascinating facts about wildlife and insights into communicating with and understanding our wild friends. Maria's poignant and heartwarming memoirs, as well as the unique bond that she shares with her garden visitors, are, at times, touching, delightful, comical and heartrending.
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I Once Met A Monster On My Way To School!
by T. D. Snoggins
Our Price: $14.95
Have you ever lost a sock and wondered where it went?
Did it drive you bananas to search every drawer
in your room and still not find it?
You may have thought the dog buried it in the yard, or your cat hid it under the sofa. Or maybe you blamed your brother and sister for the missing sock. Any of these things are possible. But for ten-year-old Talbot, the truth about missing socks had something to do with meeting a Monster on the way to school.
It may surprise you to know what Talbot discovered.
It surprised Talbot—and everyone else too!
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Amiranda: Princess Amiranda ad the Tale of the Deciduous Forest
by John P. Adamo
Our Price: $15.99
An instant classic tale portraying the life of "Amiranda," an innocent and brave princess, who unwittingly sets out on a quest that will ultimately determine the fate of her entire kingdom. From her castle window, Amiranda would gaze at the beautiful countryside below-always watching carefully, always observing everything. Gradually the princess realizes that she knows very little of the small kingdom over which she would one day reign. Nevertheless, Amiranda would never disobey her father's wishes, especially the one to never enter the mysterious dark forest, which borders their kingdom. That is, until one day when she would have no other choice. Amiranda will take a journey that will lead her on a wild adventure, where the decisions she makes will determine the fate of many lives-the lives of her animal friends, her family members, those who dwell in her kingdom, and her very own life as well. Travel along on this trip where Princess Amiranda hopes to find the missing piece in her existence and ends up trying to achieve the impossible....
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Uncle Sam's Schoolhouse: Bullying, Predators, and Students
by Nancy Macnab
Our Price: $12.99
Through the lens of personal experience the reader is led into the origins of student bullying in the public school. Nancy Macnab and her husband Bill share with the reader their discovery that students learn to bully each other from a system that bullies them every day. Uncle Sam's Schoolhouse: Bullying, Predators, and Students includes a personal history. These parents struggled to protect their children from further retaliation after Bill was banned from the school for reporting the abuse of students by teachers and administrators. In this book, Nancy and Bill recount legal rulings that have corrupted the modern public school system and led to its deterioration. They combine personal experience with years of research dedicated to the subject of child abuse in the modern public school. The authors show how the outlawed Doctrine of Separate but Equal has re-emerged in the public school system. Nancy Macnab has been a mother for 19 years. She is a graduate of both Long Island University and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Nancy was born and raised in New York City. She spent much of her youth pursuing a career as an actress in off Broadway productions. Before becoming a mother, Nancy worked as a Wall Street financial typesetter, a University researcher, a New York City copy editor, and a Manhattan legal secretary. She is currently working on a children's book. Nancy has been married to her husband Bill for twenty years. Bill holds a bachelors degree in history from Stony Brook University. Bill was raised on Long Island in a small harbor village sixty miles from Manhattan. He is the co-author of a history book. Bill has spent many years as a painting contractor.
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Transform College Stress into Success: 7 Simple Steps
by Tildet Varon Schoenbrot
Our Price: $47.00
In the "Transform College Stress into Success: 7 Simple Steps" kit, Tildet Varon Schoenbrot gives students the tools to manage a wide range of daily stresses that they often encounter. Students will find solutions for budgeting money, keeping grades up, studying, resolving relationship issues, avoiding procrastination, overcoming homesickness, and managing time.
This anti-stress kit helps students overcome various emotional and physical pressures by implementing simple but incredibly effective techniques and exercises to get the most out of their college experience, both academically and socially.
By implementing the tools in this kit, students will gain self-management skills, increase self-esteem, and improve personal performance in college.
Following these 7 Simple Steps will guarantee success!
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The Road Back To Me
by Lisa A. Romano
Our Price: $16.95
Healing and Recovering from Co-dependency, Addiction, Enabling, and Low Self-Esteem This story is told through the jagged peephole of the author's awareness, examining her formative wounds and influences from the perspective of a woman who has now gained experience and wisdom. As she peers over her soul's shoulder, she recalls the chaos of her once-fragile childhood mind. She shudders as she is reminded of the sting of her lonely childhood, her feelings of abandonment, and her painful memories of being bullied. Her childhood self was once so lost that she even contemplated suicide. As the years progress, her mind is riddled with obsession, compulsion, and a crippling sense of low self-esteem. A turning point arrives many years later, after marriage and the birth of three children. This story is about healing the faulty programming of childhood. It is about recovery from relationship addiction, food addiction, anxiety, and constant fear. It is a human story that will resonate with readers from all walks of life, and which offers hope to anyone who has felt imprisoned by the past.
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Witches, Wizards and Winks?...Oh My!
by Mary Puma
Our Price: $16.95
W.W.W.O.M. is an 'authentic' autobiography from the Wicked Witch of the West who has been trying to get her true story out for centuries using the only form of communication available to her -- conduit authors. She has been attempting to punch through long before conduit authors L. Frank Baum and Gregory Maguire. Her truths have been misinterpreted, misunderstood and distorted more times than she cares to count...
The Wicked Witch knows the only path to obtain her freedom from purgatory, find restoration (and obtain a pulse again), is to break a curse as old as her translucent green skin. Unfortunately, she must pass through our level of existence to get there.
Her latest conduit author is refreshingly accurate in her ability to translate an uncensored account of the Witch's life. (Don't mistake this remark as kindness...) For this witch, there is 'real' freedom in truth.
W.W.W.O.M. is a powerful, moving story of a woman who lived, lost and wants to live again.
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What If Jesus Were a New York City Firefighter?
by Martin E. Coleman and Thomas J. Vito
Our Price: $20.00
Jesus is a young boy who dreams of one day becoming one of "New York's Bravest" - a New York City firefighter. As he grows up, both faith and fate play important roles in the shaping of his moral character. He must overcome a great personal challenge to attain his goal. Along the way he learns positive life changing lessons of honesty, integrity and devotion."
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A Prayer for the Devil
by Dale Allan
Our Price: $23.95
Twin brothers Luke and Aaron Miller could not lead more different lives. Aaron, a rising political star who manages the campaign of a man many believe will be the nation's next president, embraced his father's Jewish heritage. Luke, on the other hand, honored his mother's faith and entered the Catholic priesthood. When Aaron and the candidate he supports are killed in a bombing at a presidential stump speech, the Miller family's core is destroyed. Fear of a terrorist threat grips the nation, but the FBI and the press seem more focused on the death of a presidential candidate than on the other innocent victims like Aaron. Suddenly, Luke begins to feel the lure of a vengeance that is stronger than the bond of faith.
As he falls deeper into the abyss of political intrigue that surrounded his brother's mysterious professional life, Luke is tempted to break his promise to God and reassess his own sense of right and wrong. What sort of priest carries a concealed weapon? How can he judge others when he himself has strayed so far from his own flock?
Luke's comfortable life in Boston collides with the faraway world of the Middle East as he sets out on a journey to unravel the truth behind Aaron's murder. Will he take an eye for an eye?
In this murder mystery wrapped in a thoughtful meditation on the intersection of faith and justice, Luke's journey through his own darkness propels him to a shocking ending that will leave readers breathless.
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A Reason For Dreamers
by M. Delfosse
Our Price: $12.95
In the near future, science converges with an emotional inconvenience... romantic love. The feeling is regarded as a cause of clouded thought process and irrationality. Sighting the zeitgeist, doctors seek to classify romance as a potentially destructive mental condition. Realism is the chosen path, understanding is largely propagated, and everyone enjoys the safety of uncommitted sex. Yet in this surging pragmatism, there lies a strong undercurrent of treacherous leaders, and those who hold true to the battered "fantasy." When the deceitful leaders utilize violent control, brave runaway dreamers must resist the real world for their love to exist.
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Hamilton's Challenge of the West
by Bernie Rex
Our Price: $12.95
He hadn't lived this long without being careful. At 42 he didn't want to die any sooner than necessary. And Jim Hamilton had a Spencer .50 caliber rifle in his hands.
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New Mexico Drifter
by Bernie Rex
Our Price: $12.95
Bernie Rex's second novel.
Bernie Rex lives in the Sierra Foothills of Yuba county, Northern California. The author has enjoyed nature and other open spaces since childhood, and continues to pursue outdoor experiences at every oppurtunity. He is a Vietnam veteran and retired high school English teacher, who continues to coach middle and high school sports teams.
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Northern Oz
by VJ Kelley
Our Price: $9.98
Long ago, the wonderous Land of Oz was discovered by generations of children and adults. But few people knew that across the Great Desert and beyond the northern most territories of Oz lies a land long ago forgotten . . . UNTIL NOW So come join Kristi and her friends Obo the street clown, Oddbitz the car crash dummy, Timba who is half man half wolf, and Wim, as they journey to a land long ago forgotten, the land of Northern Oz.
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Oddities & Entities
by Roland Allnach
Our Price: $16.99
Set in the mysterious space between the everyday world and an existence just beyond reach, "Oddities & Entities" traces a path through the supernatural, the paranormal, and the speculative. With moments of horror, dark humor, and philosophical transcendence, these tales explore a definition of life beyond the fragile vessel of the human body.
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Missing Treasure Means Trouble
by JoAnn Vergona Krapp
Our Price: $12.95
Ten-year-old Douglas has a mission - to find the treasure he believes is buried in New York State's Fire Island Lighthouse. With his best friend Wesley and feisty younger sister Janet, whom he must drag along, Douglas plans an adventure that leads to danger as they climb to the top of the crumbling Lighthouse. In the Lantern Room, they meet Jake, a homeless old seadog who enthralls them with true stories of pirate raids, treasure, and shipwrecks dating back to the 1600's. Is there really buried treasure in the Lighthouse, and.... has Jake already found it?
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Night Lights
by Riki Nemser
Our Price: $16.00
This Christmas Cassie is turning ten, old enough to have a sip of wine and take part in the dinner party talk about the universe. Cassie imagines the blazing birth of suns and moons and stars, but, when her father speaks of infinity and the folding of space, she decides that some things just won’t fit inside your mind. Shortly after she leaves the holiday table to nap with her cat by the fire, she notices snowflakes melting into her cocoa mug. When her cat disappears into the evergreen forest that has sprouted in the living room, Cassie’s magical journey begins.
Evoking the feeling of classic children’s literature, NIGHT LIGHTS is reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland and A Wrinkle in Time. Kids, especially girls nine to twelve years old, will relate to Cassie. If the story is read to younger children, they will enjoy the magical characters, whimsical rhymes and colorful imagery. But the narrative resonates on many levels, with cross-over appeal to older children and adults. Twenty-three dreamy, full color illustrations weave through this winter night’s tale about space and time, sense and nonsense, and the power of imagination.
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Conversations on La Playa
by Robert Hodum
Our Price: $24.95
As a young American university exchange student in the early 1970s, author Robert Hodum found himself in the exotic and mystifying South American country of Colombia. The time he spent there left an indelible imprint upon his life and led him to a career in Latin American history. Journey back to a country torn by poverty and civil unrest, and travel through some of Colombia's most perilous and magical settings in conversations on La Playa. With candor and a good dose of humor, Hodum recreates all the sights, smells, and sounds of Colombia. He recounts the subterranean, dangerous world of the city of Medellín, its mist-enshrouded Cordillera neighborhoods, and the haunting characters of its urban landscape. In addition to his personal journey, Hodum includes an extensive glossary of important people, places, and things as well as cultural and historical information that are indispensable for any traveler to the country. He also gives a complete listing of survival vocabulary and expressions in Spanish that off er a deeper appreciation of Colombia, its people, and their language. Travel through Cordillera mountain ranges, mysterious jungles and deserts, and endure the travails of life on the road through one of South America's most exciting countries with Conversations on La Playa.
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All That's Left
by Rosalind Brenner
Our Price: $25.00
All That's Left combines poetry and paintings matched by mood, subject, theme and energy. The beautiful facing pages contain a painting on one side and a poem on the other. Both the quality and the subject matter shimmer with meaning and depth. The poems range from women's issues to the environment all the way to the poet's adventure in a nudist colony.
In this compelling and often beautiful book, Rosalind Brenner demonstrates through her poems and paintings that the all of All That s Left is considerable, while acknowledging the difficulty and fragility of the world she inhabits. The poems and paintings may be finely wrought, but they pretty up nothing. What I felt sure of after finishing this book is that one of the things Brenner is left with is talent. --Stephen Dunn Winner of Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Different Hours and the Academy Award in Literature from The Arts & Letters
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Surviving Curtis Hall
by L. A. Matthies
Our Price: $16.95
Attempting to avoid the violence and drugs at Hibernia High, sixteen-year-old Tristen McCoy and his friends have transferred on a sports scholarship to the elite Curtis Hall boarding school. Hometown lacrosse heroes, the boys are tested as they attempt to assimilate into a student body where excelling is the norm. Tristen hones his leadership skills and sense of humor while finding his way in this new environment. He and his friends must rise to the challenge of competing with peers whose skills equal and perhaps surpass their own. Tristen's attention is soon captured by the beautiful and alluring Marcella Venier. Despite their different origins and upbringings, the two are drawn to each other. Marcella, compelled to live a clandestine life with dark secrets and a covert research mission, struggles with her desire to further her own designs and still remain in Tristen's world. Events spiral out of control, and a student is lost in the subterranean tunnels beneath the school's campus. Tristen and his friends stand accused of foul play, and in an effort to make things right, he enlists Marcella's help in organizing a search party. During the perilous rescue attempt, danger threatens to not only sever the bonds of friendship of the group, but take their lives as well. They hope they can survive until graduation.
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Scarlett and Her Mother's Wishes
by Nancy Giambrone
Our Price: $10.99
Scarlett and Her Mother's Wishes is a fiction novel whose story evolves in Egypt. Beautiful yet humble, the girl Scarlett was born in a city that was built upon magical grounds. She possesses magical powers as do all who lived in the city of Anviculas. She is unique in her own way and is envied by many, but a threat to some as well. She seems to have it all, but still, she is curious to cross over the forbidden Black Gates and enter into the mortal world of Antoria. Central to the plot of my novel is the strange attraction Antoria has for our young heroine. The innocent but portentous visit becomes a reality and it is this which will change Scarlett's life forever. Mystery, adventure, friendship, romance, and secrets complete the circle of destiny which she must know how to use and balance. Baring this, Scarlett will have to deal with the tragedy brought by her own ignorance-a fire which will consume her but enable her to mature and continue on the path. I would love to share my characters with others and watch them capture the hearts of young adults, as they have captured my heart when I created them and brought them to life.
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Latent Heat: A Year's Worth
by David Fredette
Our Price: $10.00
Latent heat has to do with phase change. Hence, an ongoing lifetime has been expressed during the course of one year. May all that we face be saturated with positive coping strategies.
David Fredette is presently in the HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) trade, and has a past, in the merchant marine. He was raised, as the last of ten children, by both Robert J., and Doris Fredette. The sea was not more than a block away, growing up on Long Island. Its influence helped him decide on charting a course through S.U.N.Y. Maritime, at Fort Schuyler, NY, after gaining an interest in poetry at S.U.N.Y. Morrisville College (Morrisville, NY). Several years were spent, as an engineering officer, at sea, on oil tankers, and research vessels. But, success was followed by setbacks, when he found himself in the hospital, due to Bipolar Disorder. His recovery, after the hospital, has been continued with a good treatment regiment, family support, working full time, and pursuing goals (Some small, some larger.). David Fredette now lives in Connecticut, and looks forward to a patent, more to learn, and eternal freedom.
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God Bless The Dead
by Evan Geller
Our Price: $18.99
The truth will not set you free. The truth will get you killed." -Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Gabriel Sheehan is in the truth business. He has invented a practical mind reading technology. But his wife, Helena, is no friend of the truth. Gabriel knew she was something of an enigma when he married her, but occasionally she seems more catatonic than enigmatic. And he definitely has the impression that she may have killed someone, though he's not quite sure of the details.
While his company is a success, the change his technology works upon society attracts the attention of powerful forces, both in and outside of government: the kind of forces that his wife has carefully been hiding from for her entire life. But now she can't hide anymore. And those forces are intent on using his new technology in ways that Gabriel had never anticipated--in ways that may lead to his wife's final disappearance.
God Bless the Dead follows the lives of Gabriel, a failing grad student in Biophysics, and his wife, Helena. Helena is a brilliant, troubled red-headed Irish émigré, the victim of abuse in a Sisters of Mercy orphanage. Based upon the most recent research in the field, God Bless the Dead presents a prescient and realistic look at our society in the immediate future, when secrets no longer exist and justice is defined by technology. It is a love story and a story of overcoming one's past, an exploration of the nature of mental illness and, ultimately, an uplifting examination of what makes our thoughts manifest and our lives meaningful.
A portion of the proceeds from each book sold is donated to research seeking improved care for mental illness.
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In His Stead
by Judith Sanders
Our Price: $13.99
Retired Army Ranger Thomas Lane once burned for the taste of gunpowder and the thrill of the battle. But as he struggles to cope with his own PTSD and the death of his eldest son, killed by an IED in Afghanistan, Lane learns that the price of war is far too dear.
When the National Guard calls up Lane's youngest son to serve, Lane knows he will do anything to save his child--even if it means going in his place, a pursuit unheard of since the Civil War when slaves were sent to war in place of their masters.
In His Stead, Judith Sander's second novel, follows Thomas Lane's crusade against the United States Army, its JAG corps, a vengeful officer, the very son he is desperate to save, and his own wife, who has the Solomon-like choice of losing either a husband or a son.
Capturing the essence of family life in wartime--the good, the bad, and the hopeful--In His Stead explores what it means to be a father and a man.
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Risk of Change
by Kathleen Collins
Our Price: $14.95
Two older lesbians, Meg, a writer, and Joanna, an artist, have joined their lives. Now they search for ways to accommodate each other’s lifetime of established and independent habits, and their individual and complex histories. A history that intertwines with events personal and profound: marriage, children, Vietnam, loss, and lives spent in the closet. Their present lives hold fear: the two women and their trust in each other are being menaced by a homophobe who strikes during the night.
Reminiscent of Jane Rule’s great classic Memory Board, Risk of Change is a novel rich in its portrayal of older lesbian lives . At its heart it is a love story, an involving and moving depiction of a deepening relationship and the ordinary events and crises of life, and two very different women in their later years who lead active, energetic lives, and struggle to combine their working lives with their commitment to their love relationship and integration of the history that brought them together.
By the author of Lovers in the Present Afternoon
A Katherine V. Forrest Selection
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I Want To Do Yoga Too
by Carole P. Roman
Our Price: $9.21
Hallie and her mother go to the yoga studio. Hallie wants to join her mom's yoga class, but she isn't allowed. She complains to the babysitter, who gently guides her through four yoga poses. Hallie learns that not only is yoga easy, but fun as well.
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Captain No Beard
by Carole P. Roman
Our Price: $9.99
Captain No Beard and his pirate ship The Flying Dragon set sail for a voyage of the imagination with his fearless crew of four: First Mate Hallie, Mongo the Monkey, Linus the loudmouthed lion, and Fribbit the floppy frog. Normally a young boy named Alexander, his cousin Hallie, and three stuffed animals, once they board his bed their world is transformed into a magical vessel, sailing the seven seas on dangerous and exciting adventures! Captain No Beard - An Imaginary Tale of a Pirate's Life named to Kirkus Reviews' BEST OF 2012 for Children's Indie Books, and garnered the star of remarkable merit! "Roman charms with an imaginative,whimsical picture book that will entertain even the oldest pirates." Kirkus Review
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Pepper Parrot's Problem with Patience
by Carole P. Roman
Our Price: $11.99
The crew of the Flying Dragon are sailing again. This time, new crewmember, Pepper Parrot is having a hard time keeping up with the drills. Captain No Beard and his mates join together to help Pepper achieve her goals with patience and tolerance.
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B2B A To Z
by Bill Blaney
Our Price: $12.95
Having trouble gaining traction with your business-to-business marketing strategy? Fret no more. From a B2B marketing expert with over 20 years experience consulting Fortune 500 companies and aggressive startups, learn what's necessary to catapult your company into the spotlight through both digital and traditional means. B2B A To Z will explain:
• How to create advertising that brands your product or service smartly and breaks through the clutter.
• How the new tools of the trade, from social marketing to video, web to mobile, have changed the way marketers need to plan.
• How LinkedIn, Slideshare, Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, PRWeb, and Blogging can expand your reach to your target audience.
• How Fedex and UPS bridged the gap with creative B2B campaigns and what can be learned from them.
• How building a category or market-focused website will give you great flexibility and put you on a page one organic Google search.
• How to stay ahead of the competition with lead-generating campaigns that use every tool (from traditional to digital) — and the logic behind why they work.
From the trenches of the marketing business and for a clientele that’s included Canon, Chase, Capital One and more, B2B A To Z gives away the secrets on how successful B2B marketing can be accomplished for any company, with any product or service, and on any budget.
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Without a Spare
by Bonnie Kassel
Our Price: $12.99
Bonnie simply wanted a break after graduating from college. But unexpected things happened during a trip to Europe and she didn't return home for years. When Bonnie needed money, she did anything from working as a barmaid on an army base in Germany to helping the owner of an antique shop on a beach in Kenya; the red Volkswagen she bought in Germany often doubled as a hotel. Readers will be transported as the author attempts to drive from Cairo to Capetown in a post-colonial world and later, when she falls for a tall dark Frenchman and motors with him down the Usumacinta River searching for the last surviving Mayans. The author's stories are unique and heart-racing, but she doesn't consider herself a risk-taker. Instead, she describes herself as a person determined to spend less time doing mundane things and more time living a life rich in adventure and freedom.
Without a Spare is an unforgettable collection of twenty-four interconnected short stories that take place on islands, in jungles, deserts and the exotic cities of Africa, the Middle East, Mexico, Central and South America, Asia and India. The intoxicating mixture of stories are about independence, transformation, friendship, laughter, love, sex, youth--and that much doesn't have to change as one gets older if you don't let it.Without a Spare is essentially about another way to live a life.
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Tales from the Old Oak Table
by Susan Beck Korman
Our Price: $12.00
"Tales from the Old Oak Table" is a memoir told through a series of heart-felt, close-up and personal essays written by the last surviving member of a not so ordinary nuclear family. It chronicles a journey from Austria in the 1880s and 90s and turn-of-the-century Russia – to New York City in the 1920s, to upstate New York farm life during the depression, to the once nurturing working class community of the Bronx before it underwent dramatic changes in the 1960's – to a glimpse of life after the Bronx. The author has listened to, witnessed and been party to countless experiences and stories that date back more than one-hundred-thirty years which she believes makes her honorary “custodian of family history and recollections.” Knowing the uncertainties of this life and how memories tend to diminish over time, “Tales of the Old Oak Table” attempts to answer at least some questions about a now nearly extinct generation that played an important role in the American mosaic. The writer hopes it will bring back reminiscences for first-generation Americans and serve as a foundation for growing family legacies that will be passed along in a new genre of memoirs that celebrate ordinary people who led extraordinary lives. While neither famous nor infamous, our ancestors conveyed to our society their own unique knowledge, wisdom, values and life lessons. “Tales . . .” offers a first-hand look at the individual and cultural strengths, tenacity and humor of one immigrant family and their first –generation American offspring. Memoirs like this represent a one-of-a-kind opportunity for successive generations to get to know their predecessors and help make them part of the annals of history and literature. “Tales from the Old Oak Table” is about remembering, passing and preserving family legacies while establishing an often sought after link to the past.
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To Ride The Tiger
by Robert L. Parker
Our Price: $16.95
A frightening, horrific and terrifyingly honest story about what it was really like to serve on the ground during the Vietnam Conflict, how it affected those who served and how easy it was for the American Government to disavow all knowledge of the men who served in its Special Forces. All of the stories, told from a personal point of view, tell of how these men suffered, mostly in silence, from PTSD and how the medical establishment let them down, firstly by not acknowledging its existence until the 1970s and secondly by refusing to admit that combat veterans returning from Vietnam were suffering a form of this. Robert Parker also tells the real story of these Psychiatric Institutions that are supposed to help combat veterans returning from Vietnam deal with their problems, but because many Veterans were misdiagnosed, often the problems were exacerbated.
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My Wingmen
by Lorraine Recchia
Our Price: $17.99
My Wingmen is a true account of my journey with angels. They entered my world during a period of inner reflection as I researched personal growth during a challenging life transition. The books I was drawn to came alive as I read about alternate realities and spiritual concepts. I witnessed these realities as my home became a stomping ground for angels and spirit guides, where I enjoyed their appearances and intervention. They showed me how to interpret and discern the lighter side of the earth realm, and they gave me examples of what clear expanded believing could accomplish. As I began to openly talk about prayer, my psychic senses began to blossom. I was embraced by two angels, and they offered me healing along with their companionship. They have become my teachers, and they have helped me connect with truths beyond my wildest dreams. It was in expanded thought that I was able to grasp a world that is clearer to me now, as this present-day drama fades to black. I have opened my arms to an enlightened world, because where there is love, there is no room for fear. Meet my wingmen, Archangel Michael and Archangel Raphael.
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Christmas Lights
by Charles Hecht
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Hope and renewal may visit any one of us, arriving unexpectedly in the form of an event or person. For Nat Zeigler, still grieving several years after the death of his beloved wife Ida, it arrives in a snowstorm as unconditional kindness emanating from the hearts of a young couple, Lila Brook and her husband, Stephen. Can Nat step out of the shadow of his own grief in time to recognize the gift that Lila ultimately gives him and that it is not his alone to keep? Christmas Lights is a story of fate, friendship, and love. It is a quiet story that speaks to the heart.
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Pumpkin Soup and Shrapnel: Growing Up Under the Third Reich
by Gunda Davis
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Pumpkin Soup and Shrapnel-Growing Up Under the Third Reich is a memoir of a person who grew up in Berlin, Germany, beginning in 1939 when she was four years of age. In the process she survived the allied bombing of Berlin, the Russian onslaught through East Prussia, the terrible chaotic days of the final battle for Berlin, and the starvation which ensued thereafter. She was the daughter of early and ardent members of the Nazi party. It also deals with the indoctrination of a young child in Hitler's Reich and Communist East Germany. She later embraced freedom in West Berlin studying at the universities of Berlin and Heidelberg.
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Real Wisdom from Unreal Women
by Risa Palazzo
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This inspirational and uplifting collection of images and quotes is a celebration of women in all their guises. In Real Wisdom from Unreal Women, women fashioned from plastic, wax, clay, cloth, metal, cement, wire, and paper share their advice with their 'real' counterparts. Our world is populated by a multitude of these 'unreal' women. We pause to look at mannequins in shop windows, contemplate the beauty of statues in museums and gardens, play with dolls as children and see them flicker across our screens or in magazines. They have been with us all our lives and yet they remain strangers. Who are they? What are they thinking? How much do they know? If they could speak, what would they say? In this book we find out. Some laugh, some cry, but all speak from the heart to remind us to enjoy life.
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A Breach in Death
by Matt Thomas
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Arc is a new grim reaper, and his first day on the job doesn't go according to plan. The transition should've been a smooth one, more or less, as it's a process that's repeated itself time after time for eons. Arc died. He still had a debt to pay and this was to be his penance. Soon though, Arc and his fellow reaper Lucy, a guide on his journey into the underworld, learn that something—or someone—has upset the balance between life and death in a way that threatens us all. The debut novel by Matt Thomas.
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No Sleeping at the Snack Bar
by Craig and Nicole Quinn
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On March 13th, 2011, my wife Nicole gave birth to our first child, Brandon. Like most new parents a plethora of warm feelings came over us as life has become unlike we have ever known. While still in the hospital, Nicole was breastfeeding Brandon and he fell asleep while on the pillow in front of her. Nicole lovingly said to him,“No Sleeping at the Snack Bar sweetie.” From there we joked about it and began to think about how we could utilize that slogan to touch individuals and make light of something so common yet so pure and innocent. The story has evolved into 3 small children (Brandon, Micah and Lilly) that meet while at the beach and from their first encounter at the snack bar, they are being told by the big people that they cannot sleep there. Our 3 sleepy tots make a pact to travel the world in search of the ideal sleeping spot.
Join the babies as they travel the world and meet new friends all to find the perfect place to lay their heads.
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They're Fake and They're Spectacular
by Judy San Roman
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One woman's story about facing your fears head on and dealing with life and death with passion and courage.
"Judy San Roman's gift for explaining all the details of breast cancer diagnosis and treatment in down-to-earth terms is only matched by her compassion for others experiencing the same journey. Her courage in sharing the truth of her darkest hours as well as her life-affirming joys fill the book with authenticity, and that, coupled with the wealth of medical information and first-hand advice on every page, will inspire and educate women at the same time. Knowing Judy, a radiant beauty inside and out, makes me a better person, and her commitment to helping women navigate all the emotional and physical aspects of this disease makes the world a better place." -Antonia Felix, Author and Editor.
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Dancing to Mozart
by Edward Eriksson
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Dancing to Mozart is a send-up of Hollywood digital fantasies, Latin American dictatorships, Da Vinci Code conspirators, movie violence, magical realism, televangelists, mixed wrestling, extreme cosmetic surgery, and a host of other sensational idiocies that thrive on 21st century self-delusion. This quirky contemporary "Candide" offers a trip through the world out-of-control egos to a final revelation of ordinary common sense. The satire is a mix of shrewd perception and wacko action that includes the Society of the Crystal Skull, the Opus Dopus, a female wrestling amazon with one breast, a radical feminist colony in Africa, an Arab who wants to recruit Islamic converts like an American billboard evangelist, two energetic film directors with crazy ideas, a rescue from captivity through "mind-invasion" (a la Inception) and a Hindu swami who tries to set all straight with a Bhagavad burrito. And more...
"A zany tale of far-fetched adventures . . . a riveting tale of misadventure and magical realism . . . . Smartly told, as well as laugh-out-loud funny, [this] unique odyssey is a series of encounters unlike any other. The story’s satirical retelling of archetypal tales has a modern edge and unpredictable twists. A raunchy, epic journey as a man discovers he can be a hero in an unlikely way" (Kirkus Review).
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Greenpoint
by A.J. Caro
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Everyone knows huge problems exist in Greenpoint. Everyone wants change in this Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood. Everyone wants justice-but they all want someone else to do the dirty work. When New York State Senator Nicky Collins returns to his boyhood home of Greenpoint to care for his dying mother, he realizes the extent of the crime problem in this once-idyllic place. Worse, he understands that the root of much of the organized crime is his brother, Jack, whose business interests include extortion, prostitution, drugs, and murder. Jack harbors pure hatred for Nicky, and his one goal in life is to orchestrate Nicky's collapse. Jack's other ambition includes wiping out competing crime families-a bloody and deadly endeavor. As the violence escalates, Nicky, and boyhood friend, District Attorney Simon Banks, join forces to take out the center of the crime ring. In the process, they discover a deeper, more sinister conspiracy at work. A story of a deteriorating neighborhood and two brothers on opposite sides of the law, Greenpoint tells a saga of family, greed, and murder.
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DNA 9419
by A.J. Caro
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Following the death of his mother due to cancer, Dr. Ryan Carter made a promise to himself that he would cure the odious disease and save the world from further pain. It took time, but finally, he has done it. He has found the cure for cancer, with the help of his ever-present team -- Liz, a skilled geneticist, and Ethan, Ryan's second-in-command. Now, he is ready to announce his amazing discovery to the world.
Liz has other things on her mind. Not only does she harbor a mysterious secret, but she has developed feelings for the good doctor over the course of their work together. Of course, Ryan is too focused on his recent achievement to notice her, so she has resigned herself to living in his shadow -- until there is a murder attempt that threatens both their lives.
Now in protective custody, Liz and Ryan's relationship begins to bloom, but there's no time to enjoy their newfound love. Questions abound, and they have no idea who wants them dead. Ryan is also working on cures for diseases like HIV and cystic fibrosis. He has the power to save mankind from disease and death, but first he must outlive his pursuers. but do the death threats really relate to Ryan's cure, or is Liz's secret putting them both in danger?
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Unsung
by Heather Hamilton
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Unsung is a riveting, emotional memoir not for the weak of heart but for all who have wished for hearts capable of enduring in spite of loss. Unsung is about a mother and daughter’s battle to cope with schizophrenia, a disabling mental illness that resists treatment and affects the lives of everyone close to those living with it. Unsung cuts scalpel-like to the rotten core of our current mental health care system, exposing pharmaceutical companies, mental health care centers, and psychiatrists for the often unconscionable role they play in doing everything but healing those who are mentally ill. It is a memoir in which the truth is unbelievable. And the unbelievable is true. Fired with a mother’s fury and passion. Laced with love and laughter. Irreverently reverent about everything from affairs of the garbage industry to Zen, rich with one-of-a-kind friendships, it is one woman’s journey to heal her daughter and to find herself. The journey is both heartbreaking and heartwarming. There is romance so strong some readers will buy the book simply to read and reread Haley’s passionate encounters with Jake Welch—a German Italian bad boy and full-time mechanic, twelve years her junior. But there is more than one love story in these pages, along with many surprises. The memoir takes its readers through cross country moves, an eviction, a car wreck, hurricanes, a near drowning, the loss of two jobs, loss of credit, an audition for a reality t.v. show, suicides. Women of all ages will read Unsung because it will take them from the place they are and the things they have feared to who they can be. Men will read Unsung for a thoughtful, funny woman’s take on who they are and who they aren’t. Those living with mental illness will read Unsung to learn and to grieve and to find hope. Those who love action and suspense, thrill seekers, will read Unsung for an unbelievably believable adventure. Romantics will read Unsung for its unusual love story. Those who love true stories will read Unsung to connect with a mother’s real experience with her child’s illness. Unsung is both timely, with our newfound awareness and appreciation of the fact women do blossom as they age, and topical, since most of our lives are affected in one way or another by mental illness. But it is much more than that. With its honest, often funny, always courageously tender human voice, Unsung is a memoir that urges its readers to hitch hike through stars, to fly through water, to swim the earth, to dive down deep enough to find themselves.
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Three Marias-A Sicilian Story
by Roger Armbruster
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"Roger Armbruster's Three Marias is an engrossing family saga that focuses on the lives of three remarkable women sharing the name Maria. It begins in Sicily near the end of the nineteenth century, a world in which lives are shaped, often violently, by prevailing customs and traditions. Maria Pepitone is a sixteen year old girl abducted by Giuseppe Caiozzo, a crass middle-aged bachelor whom she is forced to marry in accord with the ancient custom of fuitina. A loveless marriage produces several children, one of whom is also named Maria. Then a series of violent events compels the family to flee to New York where still another Maria is born. The fortunes of an immigrant Sicilian family are vividly presented, and a reader is bound to become absorbed in the experiences of three fascinating women." -Geoffrey Aggler, Ph.D, author of the Confessions of Johnny Ringo, a novel hailed as, 'a masterpiece' by Anthony Burgess, author of "A Clockwork Orange".
This fiction inspired by fact story follows the lives and fortunes of three strong Sicilian women, devoted to their family, who endure and overcome the effects of treachery, deceit, betrayal and assassination, maintain their integrity, individuality and sense of humor, and their influence on a young boy, imparting to him the best of Sicilian culture and family heritage.
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Boathouses
by Christine Murdock
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The novel Boathouses is an antidote to F. Scott Fitzgerald's gilded vision of Long Island's "Gold Coast". Instead-reminiscent of the regional realism of Ann Tyler, Alice McDermott, Richard Russo, and the early novels of Bristish writer Doris Lessing-Boathouses describes the life of a small bayside town during the years 1964-1968, the years disrupted and polarized by the Vietnam War.
Boathouses follows the story of a young woman, Jane Hollander, who over four years is forced by events to confront the passivity of her unhappy parents and their generation's sentimentalized patriotism, the escapist delusions of a childhood friend who drifts into drugs, and the misguided idealism of a young man who volunteers for the war and is killed. The novel ends in 1968, recalled by political intellectuals such as Mikhail Gorbachev and Vaclav Havel as the most turbulent and memorable year of their lives. In America, that year was marked by the Tet offensive, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, the My Lai massacre, and the riots of the Chicago Democratic convention, events alluded to in the last two chapters.
in 2000, America observed the 25th anniversary of the war's end, yet the country remains haunted by political defeat and loss of innocence. Although Boathouses describes the changes to Long Island wrought by the dispersal of New York's immigrant communities (the changing notions of "spirit of place"), and the vastly different dreams of the first-, second-, and third- generation Americans who were overtaken by the ecstasy and terror of their increasingly divided country, the book is a relevant inquiry-especially during our current war against terrorism and religious fundamentalism-into the nature of loyalty to home, family, friends, and community. Facing the collapse of certainties that mark any coming of age- for an individual as well as a country- where do we find the bedrock of our beliefs? In our search for personal and communal virtue, what drives us to involve God as a protagonist against our enemies? Facing these questions, Jane Hollander returns to a derelict, long-abandoned boathouse, seeking sanctuary to find tentative conclusions.
It is men who have written most of the fictional and non-fictional war memoirs of the ear, mostly tales of those whose wounds or self-destructive excess fail to tell the stories of those left behind to grieve. Boathouses is an elegy for the singular lives of those who die and those who mourn, reminding us that, in any, grief-not victory-is the only certainty.
The Shiner
by G.A. Johnson
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G.A. Johnson’s debut novel mixes spirituality and inspiration with the brutality and filth of street life and addiction. Murphy Johnson was the man the world walked around. He held a blank cardboard sign, a streamer of drool stretched down the front of his denim jacket. His eyes were like a frozen river, nothing moved on the surface, but the water flowed beneath an expression frosted over by four-decades of drugs, alcohol, and concrete beds. Life after witnessing his father’s murder at the hands of the Klan was a narcotic waste land that took Murphy from Neshoba County, Mississippi to Denver, Colorado. It was here, under a tree in Civic Center Park, when he reemerged into consciousness.
With the “Occupy Denver” protests of 2011 as the backdrop,The Shinerexplores the gamut of political chasms in society. The man the world walked around becomes the man who changes the world around him. Murphy is entangled in the lives of an ensemble cast of street dwellers, suburbanites and aristocrats. Besides fighting the ghosts of his past and the possibility of relapse, he fights for survival on the streets and in the world of his new employer—an escort service pimp. Villains are not what they seem and the innocent are less than so, but Murphy embraces them all with a child’s love—even the man who is trying to kill him.
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