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CITY OF GOLD gives the readers a view of Cagayan de Oro's history through the stories of people who have made the place their home. Read about the local Boy Scout who crossed paths with General Douglas MacArthur, one of the icons of WW II, at the Cagayan de Oro port, the young girl who witnessed the 97-kilometer Bataan Death March and later emerged as one of Cagayan de Oro's most influential women, the trader who fled war-torn Jolo, settled in...

Extraordinary Centenarians in America is a treasure. In each chapter, you will find pearls of wisdom, which unquestionably you can begin incorporating today, so you too can enjoy such spirited longevity. The people come alive on the pages and will make you laugh, cry, but mostly inspire you." - Charles F. Glassman, MD, FACP, founder of The New York Center for Longevity & Wellness and award-winning author of Brain Drain "Forget reading about...

Extraordinary Centenarians in America is a treasure. In each chapter, you will find pearls of wisdom, which unquestionably you can begin incorporating today, so you too can enjoy such spirited longevity. The people come alive on the pages and will make you laugh, cry, but mostly inspire you." - Charles F. Glassman, MD, FACP, founder of The New York Center for Longevity & Wellness and award-winning author of Brain Drain "Forget reading about th...

SO THAT THE POEM REMAINS is published by Agio Publishing House in cooperation with the New Pen League. "Youssef Abdul Samad's poetry is animated by extravagant lyricism that is both intense and disarming. His poetry delves deep into the human condition, the mundane, sublime, and political, all with precision and pleasing detail. Life's issues are couched in an elegant and eloquent style that is simultaneously profound and accessible. Ghada Al...

Excellent and informative... A well-written, fascinating look at day-to-day life in a nation on the brink of collapse" - Kirkus Reviews "B.A.K. Sim's eloquent descriptive writing draws you into a thrilling yet unnerving and astonishing journey in Zimbabwe during the financial collapse, rampant hyper-inflation and the protagonists' dependence on the black market and a .38 calibre pistol for survival, ultimately ending with a harrowing escape....

Retired Canadian architect pursues African dreams -- Sponsors and oversees construction of primary schools in impoverished areas of Tanzania In September 2010, Canadian architect Alan R. Roy left for Tanzania to realize two long-held dreams -- climb Mount Kilimanjaro, and build a school. He accomplished both, and ended up building two schools, in only five weeks! One school is in the slum district of Majengo in Arusha, and the other in the ...

The Slope of Kongwa Hill by Tony Edwards Kongwa, in central Tanganyika (now Tanzania) had been the central location for the post-World War II British government's, 30-million-acre Groundnut Scheme. With its failure, a village of tin roofed and white ant infested abandoned shacks, devoid of water-born sanitation, became available - suited, it was decided by the Tanganyika legislature - to temporarily locate a co-ed secondary school for Europea...

From growing up in a Canadian Mountie household to writing Hollywood screenplays, debut short story writer Rick Butler has mined his real-life experiences for THE MOUNTIE IN THE HOUSE AND OTHER STORIES. "These are lively, insightful and highly entertaining stories from a very fine writer with talent to burn, " says Leo Furey, author of The Long Run. "Prime reading for lovers of vivid, fast-paced fiction." Among the 14 quirky, o...

JUST PASSING THROUGH offers you 26 opportunities to consider life in perhaps a new way. The thoughts, quotations and photo/art collages were designed to inspire us all to create the lives we want. We hope they will help slow down the spin of daily life and gently remind us that our everyday thoughts are extremely important. The ideas in our heads are what create our lives, so we need to pay close attention to them and decide if that is really...

AN UNFORGETTABLE AFTER-GRAD takes the guesswork out of planning and operating one of the most important events in a graduation year - the all-night graduation party. Combining her many years of corporate event planning along with her desire to keep her own three teen graduates safe, Linda Hunter has developed an easy-to-understand and easy-to-use guidebook for volunteer committees to produce a successful and memorable After-Grad event. Des...

ABOUT THE BOOK: Thomson Martin writes: "My book is an unfolding of my soul. In these pages I travel from my early attachments to the Christian tradition to a much wider, open and fresh place. Here and there from among the pages a trickster may appear in the form of a bluff detector. The trickster giggles." ABOUT THE AUTHOR: W. THOMSON MARTIN is a retired microbiologist. Born in Northern Ireland, he now lives in Victoria, BC, Canada. ...

A VERY FUNNY BOOK! Chuckle and chortle with St. Timothy's pranksters as they lead you along their twisting, turning, craftily constructed schemes. Groan and grumble with their victims as they discover they've been led down the garden path. PRANKSTERS AT PLAY: TALES OUT OF SCHOOL is chock-a-block with, what else -- pranks! Reader beware, lest you become a victim yourself. You have been warned. Remember, in this book, as at St. Timothy's, "Noth...

e3 for LIFE explains the 3 elements for attaining abundant health and happiness with ease - FOOD, THOUGHTS & HABITS. Adam Hart begins his story by revealing how he was once very unhealthy. Despite being pre-diabetic, overweight and suffering from mental illness in the form of depression and anxiety attacks, Adam was able to regain control over his own health once he discovered the power of food. It was this discovery that allowed Adam to begin...

In Rowland: A Heart of Sunshine, the sequel to Surviving the Shadows, author Caroline Whitehead meets her long-lost elder brother, Rowland Marshall, for the first time in 1991 when he is 72 years old. Rowland had heard about Caroline's existence when he was thirteen, but had been denied any details. He'd searched for her in vain for almost sixty years. Caroline tells Rowland of being raised as an orphan by nuns, how she was forced into war wor...

It's Cool To Be Clever: The story of Edson C. Hendricks, the genius who invented the design for the Internet IT'S COOL TO BE CLEVER tells the true story of an inquisitive boy in the 1950s who doesn't fit in at school. Edson Hendricks is bullied because he is so smart (people accuse him of getting answers from his father who is the principal) and has red hair. He finds comfort in an imaginary world where he has machine parts, and no internal o...

THE SECOND SERAPH is an autobiographical fiction trilogy and is a suspenseful psychic drama. As a chosen handmaiden and an esoteric teacher sandwiched between the forces of Divine Love and the Dark Shadow Angels, Lori teaches Sister Immaculata, the ex-Nun now known as Alicia, about esoteric realities. The timing is critical because the Dark Forces are aligning to sabotage her and the Child -- a female, who is yet to become the Second Coming o...

Andromeda: the third book in the Dream Believe Achieve Series, written by Martha M. Goguen, illustrated by Patricia M. Walker The story continues... Dream Star, hero of Global Heart Warming, travels to another galaxy to solve a great mystery. With the help of Tanner, an Andromeda boy, Dream discovers that World Peace is possible! Andromeda encourages children to believe in themselves and in the power of their dreams, appreciating what they...

Pictures On My Pillow: An Oceanographer's Exploration of the Symbols of Self-Transcendence is the entertaining, lucid and thought-provoking autobiography of Dr. Patrick B. Crean, a Canadian ocean scientist and accomplished amateur philosopher/theologian. Written frankly and with great period detail, Crean's accounts are buoyed by an inimitable wit and a poignant recounting of his childhood, between the great wars, in rural England. The fami...

The practical philosophy and worldview outlined by one of the 20th century's foremost theologians is the subject of Dr. Patrick B. Crean's new book, Science, Self-Knowledge and Spirituality: A Feedback Model of Bernard Lonergan's Philosophy of Human Consciousness (ISBN 978-1-897435-60-1). This creative, concise book is a perfect primer for those curious about, or challenged by, the works of Bernard J.F. Lonergan, SJ, CC (1904-1984), the Can...

Safety and Security for the Over-55s Compiled by Carl Mawby Those of us who are about or over 55 should take safety and security seriously because we have something to lose -- loved ones, life, health, money and possessions -- and aging brings increasing vulnerability to crime, accidents at home and elsewhere, bad health and disasters (natural or man-made). Upon retirement, CARL MAWBY, formerly a soldier, public servant and business ex...