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The world today moves faster than ever. We are time poor, many juggling the roles of wife, mother, father, friend, employee, cook, and housekeeper. With all of these responsibilities, time for you is a scarce commodity. Increase Your Peace from A to Z Simple Steps to Find Calm Amid Chaos, aims to give readers easy 30 second to 30 minute breaks in their busy days to increase their personal serenity and decrease anxiety.The average person doesn't have time for a daily 90-minute yoga practice-I get it. Turn to B - Breathe! Take a nice, long, deep, breath, filling your lungs with oxygen. Exhale. Empty your lungs. Even five minutes of deep breathing will help to calm frazzled nerves. Each of the 26 chapters from A to Z outlines a simple technique to add calm to every day.

As much as we suffer from collective amnesia, believing the present moment is the worst of times or the best of times, the intense anxiety many people are feeling has been around for quite a while. This anxiety was perhaps sharper among some than others, but now seems ubiquitous, reflected in areas as diverse as economic fears, nuclear proliferation, presidential tweets, even mistaken Oscar announcements.This is not just about politics or even economics, but the culture and mass psychology of an entire people. That is why solutions, if they come at all, are not going to be easy. This author does not believe in offering platitudes or fairy stories, but in looking honestly at what confronts us, as responsible adults and not just consumers of junk optimism.

Wanting to "make a difference," young Iris Amory joins the Red Cross as a nurse and finds herself serving in a hospital over in France during World War I.Iris gets her heart broken open -- once or twice (at least) -- by it all and is transformed by the horror around her, becoming a strong, compassionate woman and an inspiration to Dawn Kailey, the young journalist she tells her story to.

Joy, at the end of World War II, turns to despair for thirteen-year-old Mary Pacios when her friend, the neighborhood beauty is murdered. Mary's despair is compounded a few months later when her mother leaves. Pregnant by her high-school sweetheart, at age seventeen Mary is forced to drop out of school and marry. Five years later Mary is a divorced, single parent living in the Columbia Point Housing Project with her three children. She wends her way through the repressive 1950s, supported by a community of women who live in the project. Mary refuses a dean's request to quit art school because he believes she belongs at home "taking care of her children properly." Mary graduates, while working as a waitress in a famous Boston jazz club to support her family.Mary and her three children move to California with her second husband where she finds herself in the crux of the Bay Area's 1960s protest movements - civil rights, United Farmworkers, anti-war, People's Park. As a co-founder of a Berkeley environmental group, with a small cadre of volunteers she helps to produce educational leaflets and essays and organize events. Mary continues developing as an artist and exhibiting her work.Moving to the Central Valley of California, Mary struggles to find a balance between environmentalism and her art. At a California state university she begins the relief printing process for which she becomes well known and graduates with honors. Unjust treatment by "true crime" writers and the sensational media coverage of her childhood friend's death drive Mary to examine her own past and search for the truth surrounding her friend's murder.

When an aging male bear joined a rare and natural return of black bears to West Texas, wildlife researcher Bonnie McKinney trapped him for evaluation. She found the bear near starvation. Little did she know that she and El Patron would soon become celebrities throughout the national park and wildlife research communities.El Patron's story tells the trials of a starving bear marked as a nuisance, the dedication of a wildlife researcher, and the commitment of the people of Carlsbad who rallied to aid this renegade bear after he escaped his new home. Certain to captivate, El Patron's story also provides readers the opportunity to learn more about black bears with its sidebars featuring educational information. Ultimately readers will delight in the endearing, true tale of this outlaw bear and how his story became the Legend of El Patron.The Legend of El Patron: A True Story is winner of the Rocky Mountain Outdoor Writers and Photographers contest in their unpublished works writing category.

Set in New York and suburban Connecticut, the early months of 1970 leave in their wake a string of disquieting memories for single parent Erich Mauer, all of them unpleasant. His younger son is confined to a state-run rehabilitation facility following a nearly fatal OD, Erich loses his globetrotting management job when his company restructures, and he's bedside when his fiancee loses her battle with leukemia. Erich feels that his life is starting over at forty. While offering support to his wayward son, he begins a search for a new job and the woman who will one day take the place of his beloved Tina. Affairs follow, but with two marriages that've failed, Erich is understandably cautious. With his career in disarray, a son in rehab, and Tina gone, he still finds the grit to adjust to his setbacks. The story of his revival and what lies ahead are the focal points of the book that follows: A Matter of Time.

"Bombs away!" Usually, that means a mission is halfway over. For one man, it's just the beginning. The Bombardier is the story of Captain Rosen of the U.S. Army Air Forces. He is shot down over Nazi Germany in 1943, the country he had escaped from six years before. As a Jew, he knows he must not be caught. He makes his effort to escape, and finds treachery at every turn. He must also endure a staggering air raid that brings him to the edge of death. Any mistake can be fatal, but Rosen will do what must be done, and knows that if he fails, he must take a lot of Nazis with him.Join one man's quest to escape to freedom. Follow The Bombardier!

Sometimes it takes going back to finally BREAK FREE.After fleeing the Theosian authorities and acclimating to their new home, teenage aliens Joshua and Mani have at long last carved out lives for themselves on Earth. With a circle of human friends more supportive than they ever imagined, Joshua and Mani discover true friendship is universal. And, for Joshua, so is true love, in the form of an Earthling named Emma.But the Theosian authorities are not so easily thwarted. The decree of no first contact with Earth must be upheld. A spy sent to Earth aims to find, capture, and return Joshua and Mani to Theos for prosecution.To protect Mani, safeguard his human friends, and preserve his idyllic existence with the love of his life, Joshua risks going back in order to finally BREAK FREE.Get your copy today!Joshua: Life After Theos (Book 1 in the series) was a finalist in the 2019 Next Generation Indie Book Competition in the category of Young New Adult (ages 17+).

Count Stefan Vladeslav is wandering about Marshall Fields department store while waiting for his wife to be fitted for a dress. He sees the art gallery and enters, lured by a sign promising beautiful paintings of New Orleans women.In the gallery, he finds a painting of his previous wife, Barbra, who he abandoned in Zagreb when he came to America. How could this be? A chat with the artist reveals she is, in fact, now a resident of New Orleans and he even learns on which street she lives.His American wife's social circles in Gary, Indiana include steel mill executives who believe the immigrant workers are lazy and despise them for getting injured on the job.This insults Stefan. He wants to be back among his Croatian people. He wants to be back with Barbra. Is that Stefan's destiny?

2019 Kindle Book Review (KBR) Awards Semifinalist, Mystery/ThrillerAuthor Chris Norbury donates a portion of all book sales to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Minnesota (BBBS).STRAIGHT RIVER, the prequel to the award-winning thriller CASTLE DANGER, is a mystery-thriller set during the emotional and financial aftermath of the Great Recession.After his estranged father dies in a farming accident, professional musician Matt Lanier returns to his hometown of Straight River, Minnesota. While he's settling his father's estate, an old family friend and neighbor asks Matt for help. Her husband's recent death was ruled a suicide. She insists it wasn't. If she can't disprove that ruling, she'll lose her farm.The local authorities are uncooperative, so Matt turns to his ex-wife and a young computer prodigy for assistance. As he gets closer to the truth, Matt suspects both deaths are connected to a violent conspiracy with national implications. When the conspirators intensify their efforts to silence him, Matt must decide if it's worth risking more lives-including his-to protect his friend and hundreds of other farmers from financial catastrophe.Norbury pens an extremely suspenseful, hard-to-put-down thriller in this prequel to "Castle Danger." The author hooks the reader with intrigue from the early pages and never lets go. --Valerie Biel, author of the "Circle of Nine" seriesThis well-told story has a compelling and brilliant plot line. Engaging and twisty (there were several places where "I didn't see that coming!") - this book is a page-turner that kept me up well into the night.--Laurie Buchanan, author of "Note to Self" and "The Business of Being."

When Andrea and David Granahan first met, she was 17 and on her way to get a marriage license with her first husband. David and the husband were roommates at an Airforce base where they both played in the Airforce band. He was engaged to his first wife, but fell head over heels for Andrea. Five years later, while he was in graduate school at an Ivy League University and had established himself as a sculptor, the couple began their life together with Andrea's two children, and eventually they had a third. Their life took them from Maine to Maryland to a Greek island, and eventually to California where with two hammers and a hand saw they built their home. Their decades of love and challenges finally ended up with David facing brain cancer. This book is about their love and David's courage as he faces his impending death.

Red the Dog chronicles the adventures of a real-life dog that shortly after being abandoned by his previous owner, soon becomes the neighborhood pet.For over ten years Red has chosen to remain near the spot where he was dropped off, patiently waiting his master's return. In the meantime Red confidently roams the neighborhood biding his time and getting into various sorts of trouble.The book intentionally highlights the plight of so many abandoned pets; they appear suddenly, out of nowhere and quickly vanish again. Often abused and scared they become prey in a totally new and foreign environment without the survival skills to care for themselves.By apparently defying those odds Red has managed to win the hearts of an entire South Texas subdivision.

Insynnium is the name of a mysterious sleeping pill derived from a tiny seed that only three people know how to germinate. For its users, though, Insynnium stimulates vivid dreams with an emotionally uplifting effect that leaves them with the most restorative rest imaginable. For a population hungry for sleep and a little magic inside their slumbering minds, it is the fix everyone is in search of.But Insynnium is also a drug with dimensions that seem to know no bounds; a substance that creates its own vortex and pulls the main characters, Duncan, Max, and Rachel apart as they struggle to reassemble what their lives once were and have since become in this dark comedy about the power of secrets and the mutable nature of identity.Through a twisted chain of events, fate leads Duncan Wisegerber to the heart of Insynnium; a beating core that holds a deep secret guarded by a curse. By outward appearances, Duncan is a magnetic and charismatic drifter who connects easily with others, but inside lurks something dark and mercurial that only he can answer for.When Max McVista, during a low period in his life, reconnects with old college friend, Duncan Wisegerber, his life takes an unexpected turn. While recovering from alcoholism, Max is tempted to try Insynnium, and falls into an unexplainable coma where he becomes convinced that he has time travelled back in his life for a year. His existence soon becomes a succession of comas and time travel and learning experiences that reach beyond anything he could ever have imagined.When the beautiful and enchanting, Rachel Redcalf, finds her husband, Max McVista, back on her doorstep after missing for more than a year, she is astonished by his subtle yet incredible transformation. Her love for Max is rekindled, and she begins aligning her psychic abilities with her husband's puzzling new skills and talents to avert a significant number of accidents and tragedies in and around the city where they live.A novel that explores the unknown landscapes that exist between people, and how the combination of memories, dreams, and music can lead to unexpected truths; nothing is as it seems in this journey to the center of Insynnium.From the majestic Canadian prairies and the towering California redwoods to the deserts of Israel and the beaches of Cuba, this shifting third person narrative reveals a tale of three friends connected by love and divided by fear as they piece together their past and present and contemplate their futures under the pervasive tunes of Insynnium.

Rai, Second's petite yet powerful guitarist, epitomizes the persona of a rock star and thoroughly enjoys the lifestyle it affords. A brutally talented musician with a humanitarian heart, she spends her life proving her worth to the world, onstage and off. Sidling the tough work and keeping her relations casual, she prefers the tempting over the tedious. Tough yet sultry, the charismatic musician earns her place in Second with exotic Asian beauty and the natural ability to sway even the most guarded producers and venue owners.But when she tangles with an older, successful television writer and fellow art fan, she doubts all the tough lessons she's learned in life. The years of routine are threatened by his golden good looks and sharp mind. And his heart hides a desperate secret, one that keeps his soul in chains. Desperate for proof, hungry for affection, she pushes her perceptions, gambles with her heart, and puts her faith in his hands.Can she dig deep, learn to love the man and the life he offers, and still find the proof she so desperately needs from him?

LOSING TIME, a memoir, offers a frank account of gay life as I lived it in Sacramento, CA during the AIDS crisis--the Losing Time of the title. It focuses on the later life and too early death from AIDS of one man among the many remembered here--Dore Tanner (1949-98)--who taught me in that dark era that love was more than the heterosexual illusion I had always believed it to be. LOSING TIME offers an honest, sometimes humorous, depiction of two gay men who blundered into a love neither of us was looking for, and subsequently, the fat grief felt on so soon losing a lover so lately found and the determination it took to find my way again when my compass pointed only south. This memoir's interweaving of the account of a particular loss with the stories of so many others who lost time entirely in the AIDS era presents the texture of life as many gay men lived it during the Losing Time, which began nearly 40 years ago. The book's focus on personal experience particularizes an AIDS history fast becoming generalized, its human details being lost to memory.

This remarkable woman, Ida May Morris was an imaginative raconteur, telling tall tales to entertain her family and friends. Her own story takes the reader through history as Ida experiences discrimination, brutal riots, class struggles, sexual abuse and the suffrage movements. When her husband William is killed at the Battle of the Somme, she takes her two children and extended family to Australia for a better life. Moving to the raw outback was not a simple solution.

Inspired by real-life events, this is a gritty and dark crime thriller, telling of a warrior's journey. The traveler on this journey is an of a one-of-a-kind disconcerting individual, a transgender, and biracial woman, who is isolated, lonely, and emotionally troubled, a stranger in her own body.Her crimes of violence are at first, life-preserving, and later become opportunistic as she fights the obstacles that fuel her fear of returning to childhood misery. Our warrior begins her journey in a notorious prison in the Philippines where she is locked up for murder at a young age, with the belief that she will not survive. She is noticed by the prison's warden and selected to fight in the Muay Thai underground prison circuit, where prison and government officials conduct rigged fights for betting purposes.When a promised journey outside of the Philippines allows her to leave the prison with her warden, she escapes to Bangkok, transitions sexes, and lives, and works in the district infamous for the tourist sex trade. Seeking to find her father, an ex-serviceman, she comes to the United States to begin her search. Here through misrepresentation, and overcoming countless obstacles, she becomes a police officer, and her new identity leaves her living her life in turmoil, struggling to find where she belongs in a field ruled by toxic masculinity, corruption, and cruelty. She attempts to exact justice for victimized children who have been cast aside by the system.

Have you ever felt as if something were missing from your life? Do you long for a clearer sense of purpose? If those questions are on your mind, know that there are real answers. You have a unique existence in the universe. There is no other like you. God knows very well who you are and tracks every hair on your head. Because you are unique, you are the only one who can worship God the way you do. God seeks your worship and you are most blessed when it is at its deepest, most intimate level. Worship was never meant be limited to once-a-week in a church building nor should it be considered to be the same as daily devotions. Private worship (worshiping God without the presence of other humans) can be a pathway to to a deeper, more fulfilling relationship with God.That depth and intimacy can be achieved through private, personal time with God. Worshiping in a body is important, but worship involving just you and God is far more important. Worshiping Alone is a handbook designed to introduce you to the pleasure and practice of expressing your individuality to God through personal worship in truth and in spirit. With the Holy Spirit as your guide, and Christ as your mentor you are encouraged to develop your particular style of regular, private worship.Advice on how, when and where to worship alone is included as well as examples of personal daily worship plans. Additionally, there are numerous examples of items (both traditional and non-traditional) that can be included in your personal worship plans.Following the guidance of the Holy Spirit will place you squarely on the path to sanctification and lead you to become more and more Christ-like. As you travel along that path, you are encouraged to notice and celebrate the changes within you.The first of the Ten Commandments says there is to be nothing more important in our lives than God. Jesus tells us to "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind." Worshiping Alone provides a strategy for putting God first and expressing our love for Him on a regular basis.

The book presents a revolutionary approach to higher education based on empathy, trust and collaboration. It describes how people can be brought together across cultural, racial, ethnic, gender, sexuality, class, ability and other divides in a spirit of love and liberation. The setting for the book is "The Bible as Literature" course taught at the University of South Florida by Dr. Gary L. Lemons. The teaching,learning and writing experiences and methods described here can be deployed not just in academia but in business, politics, community activism and beyond.

One woman's view of neighborhood antics, a man's description of eight close calls with death, a heart-wrenching look into the life of a musical conductor who suffered a loss, a mother and adult son on a comedic shopping spree,a connection with a disgruntled cyber-friend, family and friends trying to keep the peace at a baby shower,grief and forgiveness at the end of a life, childhood friendship on a farm that ultimately brings distress, an aging woman's dark night of the soul, an experienced female nurse who makes a shift in employment from hospital to doctor's office, a Los Angeles sheriff who works a task force in gang territory,an irresponsible male truck driver who never wants to grow up, a female retiree who chose to live and survive in the badlands, father and son who witness a life altering event on the way to a ballgame, a single mother who goes through marriageable boyfriends, a single woman who faces a cancer diagnosis and chooses alternatives, two elderly sisters who spend a day at bingo together, a mother working through her own grief and loss, a young married couple living in Belgium under duress, a woman of senior age who just up and leaves her husband one day, a journey to become human from the perspective of a soul.

Have you ever felt like where you come from determines the outcome of your life? What if you could learn to let go of the past and leave a new legacy?Abandoned with several kids in the backwoods of Missouri, my grandma's faith changed the course of our family's future. Ripples is the story of a family plagued by generational sins of violence and addictions.But this isn't just our story. This is a redemption story for everyone who longs to know their lives aren't too messy for Jesus! That you are fully known and fully loved regardless of your past.It's an opportunity to discover that where we come from doesn't have to determine where we go. God is in the business of restoration and He wants it for you as well.In Ripples, father and daughter team, Bill and Laura, take you on a journey through true stories of heartache but also of great victory! In their down home way they share the hope weaved through their own story, in hopes it will help transform yours!Come along as we discover how God's redeeming power leads to freedom and forgiveness along the way.

Gadara: The Story of the Gadarene Demoniac is a work of fiction based on the true biblical account. Jesus cast a multitude of demons from a man into a vast herd of swine. The story attempts to bring this to life, as well as many other events.The demonic 'Legion' is a hideous beast until totally transformed by Jesus. The local people saw what had happened and demanded that Jesus depart out of fear. The swine had run into the Sea of Galilee and drowned. 'Jason' is the original name of the former demoniac and wants to go with Jesus, but he forbids him and tells him to go and tell what good things God had done for him. It is a mission that Jason takes very seriously, for he becomes a man of incredible faith.And so, the fictional account of Jason, the former Gadarene demoniac begins early in the book. My story interacts with the Bible, but in no way re-interprets it. Jason discovers that he has the authority to heal the sick and cast out demons in the name of Jesus; no different than the disciples of Jesus before and after the crucifixion. He affects the lives of many and soon has a reputation; both good and bad. Many had not forgotten his previous life. Jesus returned to the Decapolis months later and was well received. This 'Jason' must have done something to change the hearts and minds of the people deeply entrenched in their cultural beliefs and traditions.Although Jason is delivered and restored in every way, his body remains covered with scars from years of cutting himself with stones. His challenges are relentless. Despite this, he makes friends and meets the love of his life, which doesn't begin well. The story is a roller coaster ride with some good teaching along the way. I wrote the book to be enjoyed. It is an epic novel with action, adventure, romance, and emotion with a touch of humor. The story offers a slightly different point of view: Pagan Greeks confronted with the word of God by one of their own; a strong, fearless, lovable, scarred former demoniac with a mission...and a past.There are many scriptures from the King James Bible used in the book, where appropriate, and all are referenced. All of the words of Jesus are his actual words. The beliefs in the book are basic biblical concepts, as well as the apocryphal book of Enoch to describe the origin of the demons. This was a widely accepted concept in the first century, but it may make the book a bit controversial. I hope so. The demonic activity depicted in the book is also a result of years of interest in the subject of real demonic possession. It was intended to be realistic.This story was also written through compassion for the lost. Jesus came to seek and save that which was lost. It's not flesh and blood we fight against, but spiritual wickedness in high places, which is what this work is really about. Therefore, this book is dedicated to Jesus, and to the lost.

While almost everywhere else is experiencing an increase in criminal activity, this Southern city is witnessing exactly the opposite. The crime rate is going down but not all crimes. People with a variety of illnesses are experiencing unexpected improvements to their health. There are even unusual changes to the behavior of some of the animals at the local zoo. All these things are occurring in just this one city.There is no one who can account for the strange goings-on. Those few who are even aware that something is in the works have no idea why it is happening. They have been unable to come up with an explanation that makes sense.A freelance writer, Ardan Healy, being naturally curious, finds himself drawn to the search for explanations. The more he learns the stranger it all seems. How can these things be related to one another? After false starts and dead end trails, Ardan intensifies his efforts but questions whether he will ever find the answers he seeks.Ardan's search for the solution to this puzzle leads him straight into conflict with other parts of his life. Will he stumble on missing pieces of his past while he is looking for parts of the other puzzle? Can he solve both puzzles at the same time?He discovers more than he ever imagined and is pulled deeper and deeper into the mystery. He recruits others to help with the quest for reason in what is going on and finds himself trusting some troubled persons to help him.Ardan uncovers other hard to believe changes taking place in his adopted hometown and they are not all bad, though they are unusual. Is there an unrecognized crime at the root of all these occurrences? What will he do if he finds that someone is responsible for all this and it is not an act of nature? And if there is someone, who could it possibly be?

Losing a loved one leaves a void not just in your life, but in your ability to process life. Grief is a multi-faceted emotion. It unfolds almost minute by minute, revealing loneliness, despair, anger, and a host of other emotions. Learning to process these emotions, despite the pain can be therapeutic.If you're drowning in grief, having difficulty processing your emotions, or just feel like you won't make it through, this book is for you. Grief is tough and it's ongoing, you now must deal with a new normal of living without your loved one. While reading this book you will reminisce, recall, remember, and reflect on the life and love you shared with your loved one. Some days you will laugh, some days you will cry, but you will never forget the love you shared.