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When Ellie leaves Wales with her husband for a new life in New Zealand she expects a difficult journey but is also looking forward to the adventure ahead so when Phillip is killed soon after they arrive she remains determined to carry on with their dream. When a friend invites her to the US she jumps at the chance to renew their friendship while considering where her future lies, but suddenly Ellie is thrown into a world of myths and legend hi...

It's midsummer, 2020, in a nightmarish, Orwellian world, where nuclear war has reduced the world to enclaves of people living in enclosed tower blocks in a rigid police state. Life is bearable and relatively comfortable at the top of the tower blocks, but a living hell at the bottom, which can be easily reached if you flout the rules. Everything outside is a wasteland. A studious young girl is doing her homework on this dark stormy night, half...

The Gift-A Collection of Short Stories and Poems" is a compilation of thought-provoking poems and animated stories written by Benton Harbor native, Lisa Eddie-Rimpson. If you haven't seen this talented chameleon around town performing her signature monologues, "Motherless Child" and "A Southern Woman Celebrating Life", perhaps you've sat through her stage play, "The Devil Touched Me Twice". If not, shame on you! You're just in time to enjoy "T...

This book has been carefully written to eliminate any confusion whatsoever regarding how to use the Microsoft Word and Microsoft Access toolbars in an effort to obtain professional looking results.  If you can see it in your mind, then this book will help you to achieve it.  It includes illustrations that are an exact image of what you will see on your computer monitor while working in the applications along with instructions on how to utilize...

Life is full of great experiences. But what have you learned frombthem? Are they helping you become the person you want to be? Are any preventing you from accomplishing your dreams? James Quinn uses these provocative questions to guide us through fifteen universal life experiences: Birth Family Love Faith Friendship Service Envy Anger Greed Fear Forgiveness Kindness Joy Hope Death These life experiences help you discover new strengths about yo...

Shortly after his retirement, author Robert S. Ashton buys a 1983 Nordic 40 sailboat. He names the boat Chandelle, not realizing at the time that it will be his home for the next ten years. Along with his friends, Don, Roger, and Martha, Ashton soon joins a group of boats preparing to brave the Gulf Stream and adjacent waters from Norfolk, Virginia, to the Caribbean. During the next ten years, "Captain" Ashton sails to numerous destinations in...

Group Captain Randolph Tremayne, RAF, the British Air Attaché and Lieutenant Colonel Bradford Rantzen, USAF, the United States' Assistant Air Attaché, both serving in their respective embassies in Bangkok, are embittered and disillusioned men. Passed over for promotion and beset by family discord and tragedy. Both men are former heroes, but are now tarnished by their experiences or weaknesses. Tremayne is a gallant, but philandering, self-indu...

Having known very little about the life of his own grandparents, Jack takes us on a memorable trip of his childhood where horse-drawn vendor wagons were common and television had yet to arrive. It is his attempt to educate his grandchildren and anyone else, for that matter, on how it was to grow up in the Central New York area during the time when life was "simple". Jack grew up in a predominately Jewish neighborhood, but he never realized unt...

When Dr. Yuri Kuchenkov learns that his daughter has lung cancer, he desperately plans a way to raise money for treatments-by selling a nuclear suitcase bomb to an Islamic terrorist organization headed by a wealthy Jordanian businessman. The nuclear device is secreted inside a container and put aboard a ship headed for the Port of Newark. But CIA Agent Peter O'Brien learns only part of Kuchenkov's story before both O'Brien's informant and Kuch...

This most archetypal of symbols can be found all around us: from the folds of coral and the internal structure of the Nautilus shell to the queue settings of Disneyland rides, in the monastic library of Melk in the novel and film In the Name of the Rose and Dorothy's yellow-brick road from The Wizard of Oz, to the hero's journeys undertaken by Neo in the Matrix, Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, and Frodo in The Lord of the Rings. This book is mean...

When Dr. Yuri Kuchenkov learns that his daughter has lung cancer, he desperately plans a way to raise money for treatments-by selling a nuclear suitcase bomb to an Islamic terrorist organization headed by a wealthy Jordanian businessman. The nuclear device is secreted inside a container and put aboard a ship headed for the Port of Newark. But CIA Agent Peter O'Brien learns only part of Kuchenkov's story before both O'Brien's informant and Kuch...

A unique blend of travel diary and coming-of-age story, The Love Temples of Khajuraho is filled with wonderfully written observations about the places, people, societies and situations author Steve Reichstein encountered during his journey around the world in 1964. Reflecting the adventurous spirit of that time, Love Temples is surprising, serious, funny and best of all-entertaining. "In The Love Temples of Khajuraho, Steve Reichstein remember...

This is the story of Dade Dollar. He moves with his family to a farm. He lures a dog to become his dog. A dog which saves Dades life, protects him from a bully and gets trapped under a chicken coop roof when a violent storm blows it off. Dade wins a duck at a festival. The duck comes at his call and is a friend to Dades friends at the swimming hole. Dade meets a girl and gets his first kiss. Dade goes to a fair bringing home an uninvited guest...

Having known very little about the life of his own grandparents, Jack takes us on a memorable trip of his childhood where horse-drawn vendor wagons were common and television had yet to arrive. It is his attempt to educate his grandchildren and anyone else, for that matter, on how it was to grow up in the Central New York area during the time when life was "simple". Jack grew up in a predominately Jewish neighborhood, but he never realized unt...

The story is about my mother's 101 year's of life experiences, as well as other related stories. How does a woman live such a long life of abuse and bitter trials? I do not advocate that anyone must tolerate the abuse she experienced, but her faith and dedication, to both God and family, kept her going, and must be admired. The title is a reflection of her main daily activity. Each day she turned a pot of water into a delicious Italian style m...

The current generation of elderly persons are also the longest lived population to date. The Baby Boomers are expected to live even longer. But at what cost? Information gathered from studying this current population reveals that Seniors have not aged well. This group has experienced the greatest loss of physical and mental function as compared to previous generations. While, all along, living longer with such disabilities. The BHS Factor repr...

Alphabet Blessings offers a practical look at the process of in vitro fertilization through explanation of testing, terminology and common lingo of the infertility community as well as factors affecting cycle outcome. With an honest and open discussion on life as an infertile couple, this book validates the intense emotions most couples experience as they struggle alongside their fertile friends. Addressing the unique issues and stresses faced...

What happens when you hear the doctor's dreaded words of a terrible diagnosis, your spouse passes away or abandons you, or a thousand of life's disappointments come your way? It might be easy to think that God has lost control and that he doesn't care. But nothing could be further from the truth. Author R. Wayne Johns tackles these difficult issues in his groundbreaking spiritual guide Eternal Eyes: Seeing Adversity from God's Perspective. Joh...

As Rose Bach's saga continued in Book 2, I imagined she would wilt under continuing pressures. Yet, the author evolved Rose into a 'universal person' challenging life's difficulties. Even through her weaknesses and failings, she remained a classical female warrior. I thank Mr. Zidbeck for revealing such a vital person, he balanced well the use of dialog within the documentary format. -S. Richard Snodey, PE, LLB, PhD., International Business Co...

An early English poem of magic, chivalry and seduction Composed during the fourteenth century in the English Midlands, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight describes the events that follow when a mysterious green-coloured knight rides into King Arthur's Camelot in deep mid-winter. The mighty knight presents a challenge to the court: he will allow himself to be struck by one blow, on the condition that he will be allowed to return the strike on the ...