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Author Lloyd Lim's ten short stories take readers on a rapid-fire tour of the human capacity for wistful remembrance, flawed memories, self-deception and cruelty to others, without losing sight of the humor in it all. His writing is simple and concise, but his ideas about the human condition are subtle and complex. Readers who enjoy a certain amount of ambiguity and ambivalence, who like to mull over the meaning of a short story as a reflection of their own present concerns, will find this collection intriguing and entertaining. Also included in this volume are some of his previously published and unpublished essays on culture, politics and education. Mr. Lim puts it this way: "drawing a bright line of distinction between fiction and non-fiction may not always make sense when reflecting upon contemporary life and society." His essays cover a dazzling array of topics, but are always pointed and relevant. Because Mr. Lim worked in government, has taught in a classroom and is a musician and writer, he doesn't only draw from academic theory or creative imagination. He isn't just looking in from the outside; he has the insights of a practitioner. In short, there is a rare variety and range in this volume that readers will find both engaging and provocative.

Realms Book Two vibrates with the magic of the seemingly impossible, and glitters brightly with the implausible. A Casino Royale among the stars, it is every traveler's sought after destination, every newly married couples honeymoon oasis, as well as a fabulous family friendly vacation resort. Realms is the place to make and/or break contracts of immense proportions, and for those galactically licensed, an establishment of innumerable opportunities. Owned and operated originally by Yala and Haim Liamd, who left their war torn world in search of a better life and a new beginning, invested all they had into an old rusty hull, and revamped it and christened it 'Realms' for a new beginning. The second of the Realms trilogy continues with head Mixologist, beautiful Terran, Y'nay of Barbera, space station manager, rugged Rali, Yorum Zadok, and the ever irascible, but loyal ex-slave, Casseian, Mrita Cadagh. Join our heroes as their lives continue to revolve around love, friendship, and the reliability, truth, strength and integrity they share with each other, in the never-ending battle of good versus evil. Realms...the journey continues...

The life of a celebrity fashion stylist is not all glitz and glamour! Money, drugs and beautiful women were within arm's reach. Nevertheless, it was hard work. Especially back in the early-mid 2000's. Vincent's clients ranged from working with HIP-HOP royalty and R&B superstar artist such as: Busta Rhymes, DMX, Missy Elliott, Jay-Z, Nas, Mario and Ruben Studdard. From short turnaround deadlines, long hours on set for videos and photoshoots to celebrity meltdowns, Vincent has experienced it all. But those issues were the least of his concerns. The greatest issue he faced was trying to maintain a healthy relationship with the women he dated during that time. A player he was not, but the game he did enjoyed. Was he satisfying his carnal urges by compromising his personal life with his occupation and hallow-lifestyle? Could he balance a healthy monogamous relationship, while staying true to himself and the woman he loved? It's easier said than done when temptation is constantly at his fingertips.

If we're not careful, the 2020's will go down in history as being more significant than the extinction of the dinosaurs, the fall of the Roman empire and the Industrial revolution all rolled into one. A handful of families with hybrid alien-human DNA who are thousands of years ahead of us technologically, have been manipulating our perceptions of reality since the first civilizations began. They are now nearing their end-game which is, a centralised one world government with a cashless society and social credit system that will make the worst form of any communist dictatorship seem like a picnic.When they installed the moon to invert the information waveform that composes planet earth, that was the end of an era known as the Golden age or the Garden of Eden. That monumentally affected our very existence and locked us into a matrix of the five senses that we've been trapped in ever since. In present day, man is evolved enough to utitlise the nano technology that these entities brought along but not enough to realise that it will be used against them. The original royal families have now sired enough hybrid offspring and placed them in positions of power around the world through secret societies to create this global corporate cabal. As more of the worlds wealth is transferred to this Satanic cult via taxes, government bailouts, foreign aid, commercial monopolies, asset forfeiture, banking and foundations-charities etc, and they impose further restrictions on the populous, the plan to enslave mankind through bio-tech that has been four thousand years in the making is potentially nearing its fruition. If not enough people wake up from a collective mass-hypnosis spearheaded by social and mainstream media, (cabal owned and controlled) 2020 will be recorded in the history books as the year that they ushered in the New World Order.

Meet Danny Foster as he meanders through life, actually through nine lives! Danny takes you on his journey as he shares stories of his near-death, nearly near-death, and almost nearly near-death experiences. You laugh, maybe cry, mostly laugh (okay- some crying) at these nine stories of coming of age and coming to grips with the fragility of life.You'll walk with Danny as he is almost abducted, electrocuted, held captive by an army in a foreign country, in a high-speed chase, risks a head-on collision, needs numerous life-saving operations, and is slammed to the ground over and over by an Olympic wrestling medalist.Along the way, you'll delve into how time-travel, Buster Brown shoes, Rollie Fingers, fruit kabobs, Killer Kowalski, good-looking doctors, being husky, Little League, South Africa, nicknames, bingo, the metric system, the 5-Finger Spider Death Grip, New Age music, grade school playgrounds, making beds, beer, mailboxes, driving in England, swimming nude, Stonehenge, and government plots all play a role in Danny's adventures.Danny helps unlock the secrets to staying one step ahead of the Grim Reaper, staying out of the path of the Pale Rider, and what to do when Death comes knocking at your door (hint: pretend you're not at home). Each humorous anecdote explores how to face our deepest fears and realize that our focus in life may not be about how we might die- but how we might live!Danny shares his heart-warming stories of lessons lived and lessons learned. In the end, he sees triumph and hope in every circumstance. Ultimately, realizing that life is fragile, and life is a gift!This is the perfect book for those that enjoy real-life stories of life's challenges, facing our fears, and insights on living our potential each day. Its lighthearted approach is a perfect way to delve into issues of our own mortality and how to live life to the fullest. It's a humorous, uplifting, and joyous celebration of living in each moment and recognizing the beauty of life!

Wishing Rocks: Find Your Anchor is an inspiring, realistic adventure novel for middle graders who enjoy searching for rocks, sharing a day at the beach with family, and learning about nature and its healing influence.Following ten-year-old Kedge and his dad at the beach on the summer solstice, searching for "wishing rocks," those beautiful stones encircled with thin white quartz lines, and remembering family tradition in the process, Macall S. Robertson playfully reveals facts about the sea and its treasures along with gentle and hopeful reflections on grief and loss.

In the autumn of 1986, a lovely young woman visited a psychic, hoping to find answers to questions about love, marriage and children. Although Marina didn't truly believe a psychic could predict the future, she saw the practice as a harmless form of entertainment. The reading took place on a cold, wet night on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Near the end of the session, a vision appeared to the elderly psychic of a man on the other side of the Atlantic who was destined to fill the young woman's life. Desperately few details followed, leaving Marina to wonder how, and where she would come face-to-face with the psychic's ethereal vision. Two years later, a remarkable twist of fate brought truth to the prediction. "A Love Story" follows Marina's journey through the French countryside to the man of her destiny. Their astonishing story is true, although the passage of time has obscured details that had to be imagined. It's a stunning testament to perseverance and the power of love. Read it with a handkerchief nearby because this implausibly beautiful love story will fill your heart, and break it too.

Get ready for the second book in the Izzy the Corgi Adventure Series!Izzy is the beloved dog of superhero Mr. M. Although Izzy longs to be Mr. M's sidekick on his adventures, Mr. M always leaves her behind because she doesn't have any super powers of her own. Find out how Izzy finds a way to help Mr. M beat the Bad Bunch and save the day once again in Izzy the Super Corgi.Izzy the Super Corgi is the second book in the Izzy the Corgi Adventure Series and is written and illustrated by small-town Kansas teenager, Kady Toole. All of the Izzy books are inspired by her own, real-life Izzy and her many adventures. Find all the Izzy the Corgi Adventure books and learn about Kady and Izzy at www.izzythecorgi.com."It was a really great book! It was funny that there was a cheese factory for every type of cheese! Izzy is still as cute as always!" - Jonah, age 9"5 stars. I liked how the bad guys and Izzy saving the day were like the first book." - Jacie, age 7"Absolutely amazing book. I was extremely impressed with not only the quality of the storyline but also the artwork." - Charlie, age 124"The story was really good - i just wanted more!" - Spencer, age 9.

Lincoln's ordinary life as a college student becomes complicated when she takes a job caring for an old invalid woman, five days a week from late afternoon until the following morning. The woman lives in a guesthouse behind a large mansion situated in a rural estate.The woman requires little attention, so Lincoln has ample time to study and complete her class assignments. However, she starts to hear unusual sounds and sees light flashes in the middle of the night. She ignores them until one night she is physically attacked by an unseen force. The next morning, she convinces herself that she just imagined it all.Disturbing dreams together with catastrophic environmental events happening worldwide makes her frightened and unsettled. She soon learns that the old woman has prior knowledge of everything. All this makes Lincoln question everything and everyone she ever believed in. Could it all be connected?

Patrick McFadden tells his story in his own words during the winter of his life surrounding his many adventures, accomplishments, and failures over the past seventy-five years of his life providing boundless reflection on what it was like growing up in central Pennsylvania on a farm where horses were boarded, attending a one room school, when neighbors living a mile away were considered family and everyone helped each other during time of need. Telephones were shared on a party line, and you had to call the local phone company owner in order to make a long-distance call. His father's farm was purchased on a handshake and Twenty-Five Dollars a month payments. The cost of groceries for a family of six was twenty-five dollars a week, Gasoline was sold for twenty-five cents a gallon, cigarettes were twenty-five cents a pack, and there was no such thing as air conditioning. As he grew older, His first but not last emergency participation was the possible melt down of the Three-Mile island Nuclear Power plant "TMI". What it was like to be executive director of a large nine-hundred and ten square mile area responsible for the safety and security of over one-half a million residents. The world during and after the attacks on nine-eleven including some little-known insight about United Airlines flight 93 which went down in Shanksville Pennsylvania.

About the Author, Tommy L. Peck Jr., talks about being train and raised in the local church, like many other people. We sometimes thought we were doing things according to the Word of God. But we were doing things to please and satisfy words of man and not the words of the living God. Are we performing for the local church for glory and honor? Or are we living for the new, authentic, and true church which is Christ Jesus? Knowing, he seeker for the true worshipper, to have a personal relationship and daily fellowship with him, for YOURSELF. In his first book, he details the 7 steps to better Yourself with God and not man.

"We don't come into this world with a GPS!"In his work as a life coach, motivational speaker, and personal trainer with Proactive Fitness Solutions, the company he founded in 2012, R¿zvan "Raz" Petrea has heard lots of people say that. They struggle or drift through life with no sense of purpose and direction and wish they had a guide. The Champion Mindset: How I Went from Homeless to CEO offers that sense of purpose and direction. It empowers you and shows you how to live your best life and make the most out of your journey.Raz came to the United States from Romania with $100 he'd borrowed from his dad...and that was about all he had. But by turning the fire in his belly into a strategy for success, he evolved, reached his potential, and lives a happy and meaningful life. The Champion Mindset shares his tips and insights, many of which can be found nowhere else-and all of which can help you do what Raz did: develop a Champion Mindset!

This book was published as an afterthought but is based on a compilation of journal entries of a veteran high school principal working through the Coronavirus Pandemic...I made the decision while venting to my wife that this would be my last year in education (making a total of 32 years). I also decided that I would write this journal and make entries as often as I felt the need to reflect on experiences that unfolded for that day, or, just VENT...So, the journal took a life of its own and soon became more than just 'therapy' to get me through the year. After trends became apparent regarding student behavior and 'rock star' teachers feeling more overwhelmed than I had ever witnessed, it seemed that this journal may actually have a higher purpose than to simply provide me therapy. After tragic events had taken place at Apollo HS, after continued concerns with student absenteeism and the trouble we were having with our youngest students engaging in learning, I reached out to some of my most trusted educator confidants for advice and I sent them the 1st quarter journal entries to read.

Naugle provides an amusing tale of passion, adventure and misadventure in Obits and Pieces of My Life: A Saga of Family, Friends and Basketball. He relates his baby-boomer experiences growing up in a middle-class, blue-collar family in Hagerstown, Maryland. It follows his career of playing and coaching basketball and the opportunities it afforded him throughout his life. Naugle covers his service in the Peace Corps in the seventies and his professional career working to improve the quality of leisure services for people living with disabilities. He also shares his reflections on how family and friends from many different backgrounds have enriched his life.

Self-acceptance is an important issue to address with children from an early age. A Job for Joshua explores positive thoughts and actions to help build self-esteem and a positive self-image. It centers on an angel named Joshua and the struggles he faces trying to fit in. This book will address issues many children feel such as, feelings of frustration or sadness, dealing with new challenges, feelings of failure, comparing themselves to other, and the lack of self-confidence. The story is a practical tool that can be used to empower children to explore and make sense of their emotions. Children will discover through Joshua's journey to accept who they are and to believe in themselves.

This text was born out of a desire to help transfer students transition into a new academic environment. My experience is from the point of view as an educator, learning community advocate, former academic advisor, and as a transfer student. In all of my work with students, I have found that there are clear themes that transfer students from all walks of life will experience. The work you are about to read will help you focus on two things: your academics and how to take ownership of your educational experience. You will read practical suggestions for "what to do" as well as examine your personal experiences as you navigate this new landscape.

A lightning storm brings a lonely dragon to the pond of a spunky goldfish. They share their dreams, hopes and fears and become the best of friends. Together they find the similarities in their differences. Padraig's heart embraces all the creatures of the valley. He defends their homes, unites them all together and teaches them to fly. Families are reunited and new friendships created. Enjoy this journey with them.

In 1938 amid the buildup to world war, seventeen-year-old Antonio leaves Mussolini's Italy for the U.S. at his parents' urging, traveling alone. Antonio immediately and irrevocably finds affinity for his new world and American values. He seizes opportunities newly available to him and radically redirects the trajectory of his life. A testament to human resilience, Antonio's Story, Coming of Age on the Battlefields of WW II, offers a compelling account of Antonio's transformation from teenager to Italian American war hero through gripping scenes revealing his nature and character. The book is not a war narrative. Rather it's the author's sensitive re-creation of her father's story as he and family members told it. Her treatment of the wartime and post-war Italian American immigrant experience will pull readers into the fears, joys, and challenges that shaped Antonio's life and the lives of the more than one million non-citizen Italian immigrants who fought against their homeland as U.S. soldiers. Antonio's Story will stand out in literature as one of few books that celebrate a population of immigrants who served in the war and then returned to become an integral part of American Society.

The author was retiring from teaching and needed to celebrate. He could finally travel, budgetary restrictions limited him to this continent. His Mazda had 174,000 miles on it. He spent much of his savings on a Kia Rio with 11,000 miles. Around the country, he had relatives...and friends...and he had a tent.

Ren Wardlow can't imagine her future, but is convinced her "real" mother can-if only she can find her. Growing up in the 1980s, in an upstate New York college town where she sees no one who looks like her, she feels "most at home among the mutations the world creates and disowns." She often doesn't know "who or what to believe" when fierce quarrels erupt between her deeply divided parents and her two brash, scientific-minded sisters. After being seduced by a member of her adoptive mother Celeste's spiritual circle The Aurora, she travels alone to Ireland, where she gains the courage and insight she needs to search for her mother Alison, an environmental activist who has inexplicably vanished. Helped along by her ornithologist boyfriend and by her adoptive father John's long-held secrets, Ren's meandering investigation slowly unearths the truth about her mother-and what the future holds for them both. Decades later, Ren's passionate, outspoken millennial daughter Una reads her mother's diaries as wildfires, viral outbreaks, and homelessness plague the Pacific Northwest. Living in a comfortably secluded Portland home, recovering from a painful divorce, and mired in grief over her biracial son's death in a school shooting, Una is humbled-and surprised-to learn of Ren's struggles to trust her instincts in an increasingly post-truth world. In re-imagining her mother's life, Una, a history teacher, deepens her understanding of the perilous, irrevocable endeavor that is motherhood. While continuing to demand justice for her son's murder, she also realizes her own capacity for self-deception-and, she fears, a heritage that predisposes her to martyrdom. The Pardoners entwines a rite-of-passage story with a tale of loss and reckoning, with especially high stakes for women as they confront tensions between ideals and appetites that persist on an imperiled planet. From the vexations of predatory landlords and science deniers to the changing meanings of home and family for the young, the novel asks not only what it means to forgive, and what absolution costs, but how to bear responsibility for injustice.

Jon is in a pressure cooker. The ethanol plant he manages, Core Fuels, is crumbling and his disgruntled employees grow testier by the day. The executive board relentlessly micromanages and Jon wonders if he might soon be replaced. Evenings are for unwinding but a marriage in distress only adds to his anxiety. As things under pressure often do, Jon breaks. But he doesn't break down - he breaks in two. In his reflection, Otherjon emerges as a dark therapist. Jon tries to keep his significant Other's wickedness at bay but as his world twists, Otherjon's inspirations gain credibility.

"The Podium Papers" is an honest and entertaining dispatch from the front lines of one of the world's most interesting and misunderstood professions. Like Anthony Bourdain in his "Kitchen Confidential," Martin Kessler takes the reader through the swinging doors and into the real 'kitchen' of the art of conducting. This non-linear memoir uses the informal essay to explore the life and work of a veteran mid-level artist, and it does so in a voice that excludes no one. It contains a surprising assortment of topics--from sex and drugs, to short-cuts taken and reputations deflated. It also offers elegant portraits of the author's colleagues and mentors, while celebrating the hard work and dedication that this unusual calling requires. Obviously, the book's strongest appeal will be for readers with an interest in classical music--from the casual listener to the seasoned professional. But like any well-written memoir, it is also a snapshot of the author's generational milieu--in this case, coming of age in the '60's and maturing in the 21st century. It should find an avid following in those locales that provide the backdrop for the arc of author's life: college at Harvard, post-graduate studies in London and Salzburg, and of course, in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio, where Mr. Kessler spent the bulk of his conducting career.

The Poems of Meng Haoran is a collection of English translations from Classical Chinese of the 267 extant poems of the Tang Dynasty poet, Meng Haoran (689-740 CE), one of the important and influential figures of the "golden age" of Chinese poetry. The source of the Chinese texts is the Quan Tang shi (The complete Tang poetry, 1705 CE). In addition to translations of the poems, this volume also contains an introduction by the translator, a set of appendices that includes translations of the surviving early documents of the of the life of the poet, and an extensive glossary of Chinese terms, names and places to which reference is made in the poems. Standard pinyin romanization is used for transliteration and Chinese characters are supplied for poem titles and terms in the glossary and at appropriate places in the preface and introduction.

From shootouts, suicide by cop, and violence of all kinds, to working undercover, and violent SWAT operations, this fast moving and hardhitting account puts you on the street with both the humor and the horror that real cops encounter. So, buckle up and let's hit the streets. We have a wild ride ahead.