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Like the yin and the yang, Jin-Ling is comprised of two equal parts that fit together. One part is the dutiful Chinese daughter who does everything her immigrant parents expect of her, and the other part is the American teenage girl who yearns for the independence that she sees her peers taking for granted every day. Jin-Ling would do anything to have Tony Blake - the smartest boy in school - for her prom date. Tony not only has the look that ...

Positive Spirituality in Health Care" offers a fresh, holistic, and practical framework for the integration of spirituality in health care. Dr. Craigie proposes that excellent spiritual care arises from three arenas: the personal groundedness and spiritual well-being of clinicians, the clinical encouragement of patients' spiritual resources, and the organizational cultivation of spirited leadership and "soul." In an approachable and conversati...

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Joseph Campbell, the mythologist, once stated his understanding of art to be of objects for aesthetic arrest which are of no practical use, but which open dimensions within. Such is the intent and value of this poetic piece. "The New Gospels / The New Sutras" is an artistic expression of the process of enlightenment as relevant to these times. Should one be patient enough, contemplative enough, one may receive the transformational insight and ...

The Shanghai Madonna" is a story on two levels. It is a romance inspired by a true story and a work of historical fiction reflecting decades of Chinese exploitation by foreign nations. Set primarily in China between 1930 and 1949, readers follow the lives of a stubborn Italian marine and a resourceful Russian exile who fall love amid war, economic upheaval and ethnic tension. When the two lovers in this improbable romance are separated, they s...

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When Rad Roberts, an aspiring criminal lawyer with the Iowa Attorney Generals Office, accepts an assignment to investigate a bizarre murder case, he has no idea how much of his personal life will be exposed as he uncovers a major criminal conspiracy. The murder mystery written by former journalist Daniel Dundon, takes Roberts from an Iowa pig farm to a Florida nudist resort and back to a Dubuque cathedral. In the process, he experiences a new ...

Training Wheels for Sale" is the second book in the series featuring "Pap and Gram" Applegate. With grandparents playing major roles in the lives of their grandchildren, these books will lighten the hearts of readers of all ages...

In a time of so much uncertainty and chaos, it is increasingly difficult to feel that anything in the world is stable and reliable. However, there is one thing that can always be depended on and that is your relationship with God in Christ. In "Walking With the Twelve, " author Brad Fulton offers a brilliant and insightful look into the lives of the twelve men who had the closest relationship with Jesus Christ imaginable -- His twelve disciple...

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This book makes the economy more meaningful and easier to understand by portraying it as we experience it: unnoticed in the background of our daily life, yet always influencing it. Economist Doramas Jorge-Calderaon, writing with the non-economist reader in mind, uses the tale of two fictional young entrepreneurs on a tropical island, who go about pursuing their life's dreams. How well the two young men fare has little to do with equations and ...

Andrew Piligian's word crafting explores widely polarizing elements of the human psyche. In his first novel, "Killer, " he presented his readers with a bone-chilling story of a serial killer gone haywire in a small mountain town. Now, in his latest work, Looking for Love, Lost, Piligian explores the complications of romance, the twists and turns that lovers experience in their search for happiness, the emotional rollercoaster that flings them ...

Englewood Tales" is a series of interrelated short stories about African American children and teenagers growing up on the Southside of Chicago during the 1970s and 1980s. Each unique story is told from the viewpoint of its own hero or heroine faced with - and responding to - personal conflicts, ranging from bullying, incest, and child abuse, to sexual behavior, murder, death, and homosexuality. While "Englewood Tales" is about children and te...

Sister Kate, an ex-nun, is the owner of Holy Spirits, a run-down bar in Key West where two retired Michigan lawmen hang out in "A Pound of Flesh." Their worlds change drastically when a twisted wild man from the cops' past breaks out of prison and heads south bent on absolute revenge! Suntans and boat drinks will have to wait while the nightmare from another time litters the emerald waters with bodies as his calling card to lure them out. Rico...