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Smooch’s World (We Just Lived in It)
by Kristan Shimpi
In 2013, Kristan Shimpi turned forty. She was a parent of two school-age children, and she and her husband were trying to decide if their family was complete. They could never get on the same page about more children. Kristan had a strong desire to nurture. So, in six months, she collected four chickens, two cats, and a puppy named Smooch. Smooch’s tongue was so big that it did not fit into her mouth, and she used that tongue to smooch everyone she met. Smooch was a bullmastiff, a breed that was supposed to be calm, not need a lot of exercise, and really easy to train. Smooch was the total opposite. She was one-hundred-percent love and not a good listener. She taught their family that love can be accepting and unconditional. This book includes anecdotes of Smooch’s life with Kristan’s family. It was not a long life, but it was full of so many adventures and memories that she will cherish forever.
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Brothers Bound
by Bruce K. Berger
How much can the human spirit endure? Buck, a Caucasian teacher, and Hues, a multiracial street preacher, form an unlikely friendship after meeting in a bar fight near their Army training base in 1969. When their helicopter crashes later in Vietnam and they’re captured by Viet Cong soldiers, they begin to learn the power of brotherhood. Marched to a prison camp and forced into hard labor, they are beaten frequently and given little to eat or drink as they suffer a brutal life in a bamboo cage. Each day begins with the ominous question: how can they survive another day? They discover the gift of good memories and share them often. And they find great hope in Hues’s incredible life spirit that lights their darkest days. Fourteen months after their capture, Hues damages his ankle so severely he can’t walk. With death closer than ever, they escape and begin a harrowing journey through the dense jungle filled with predators—the enemy, the wildlife, and even their fellow soldiers who may not recognize them. Buck vows to carry Hues every step until they reach safety, but can they possibly make it? Their devotion to each other drives them onward.
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Etched In Stone
by Sarah Alserhaid
Imagine if who you thought you were wasn’t your true identity? That is what Jade and her sister Amber discover soon after inheriting their multimillion company from their late parents. Gathering clues to understand the strange coincidences and answer the questions left unanswered for years, they come across the truth and learn that everything is two-fold. With knowledge comes consequences. The Parker sisters must navigate this new information while keeping their parents’ legacy alive and each other safe. Etched in Stone is a harrowing and magic-rich novel that takes you on an incredible journey of self-discovery and teaches the power of heritage, choices, owning one’s gifts, and the ultimate lesson of forgiveness.
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Two Stitches and a Patch: Overcoming the Power of Grief Through Faith
by Dr. Terry Megli with Robert Lofthouse
We are witnessing a crisis in the Christian community of unresolved grief and pain. Not acknowledging the truth of death holds us back from fully enjoying the divine gifts of hope and happiness. If anyone can model the ability to live with joy after life, it’s Job. Two Stitches and a Patch builds on the seven movements of Job’s restored happiness while filling in the pieces of the divine action physics that leads to life after death. Build confidence by leaning in and listening to those who are at the end of life, and reboot your life in the embrace of the changes that create a life well lived.
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Sticky Note Mantras
by Helene Ann Zupanc and Beth G. Valdez
These days, so many self-help books have become just shelf-help. You know, buy the book, leave it on your shelf. Or if you do read it, you can’t remember to use any of it or don’t know how. There is also just so much info today that deciding what to use or where to start can be overwhelming. What if we told you there’s a highly effective, simple strategy to focus your brain on a more constructive and healthier track? This free, no-appointment necessary strategy will encourage your brain to hop aboard the wellness train. It also taps into our creative and unique personalities, using what is beautiful and special about us to help our brains escape survival mode. The world of wacky and wonderful mantras lies ahead! Let us be your guides! Learn how to use these intention-setting powerhouses to let go of thoughts that no longer serve you and weave more positive, lighthearted ones into your mind and life.
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The Man Who Loved Trees
by Annaliese Bischoff
The Man Who Loved Trees tells the story of Frank A. Waugh (1869-1943) and his evolving love for trees. Waugh was a professor of landscape architecture and a pioneering advocate of native planting design. He wrote prolifically about trees and landscape design, publishing over twenty books and three hundred articles. He urged people to enjoy nature in the way that they enjoyed music or painting or sculpture. In the last seven years of his life, Waugh created at least 223 etchings, many of them trees, but few have been viewed by the public. Annaliese Bischoff was inspired to write The Man Who Loved Trees after visiting an antique store in 2019, where she stumbled upon the prospectus for Waugh’s book. It was packed in an orange crate along with over 150 etchings and drawings Waugh had created. Her book describes how Waugh’s life as a professional landscape architect and renowned writer inspired him to learn the art of printmaking. Waugh’s etchings reflect the themes he used in analyzing nature and in landscape design. Bischoff catalogs Waugh’s loving portrayal of trees as individuals, families, and social groups.
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Brilliant Disguise
by Susan Kellam
After their nuclear family exploded into a vaporous mushroom cloud, the two siblings could only duck and cover. The young Susan basked in her brother Robert's glow. Teachers singled her out because, certainly, the little sister would excel too. But how could she ever reach their expectations? Instead, she rebelled, chose the wrong men, drank and took drugs. Susan talked her way into a job at Rolling Stone magazine in 1976. Three years later, as an organizer of five nights of No Nukes concerts at Madison Square Garden with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, and many others, she got snared in the rock politics scramble and her brother saved her. Many years later, though, she could not save him. Only in retrospect can Susan piece together how Robert's too-brief life was a brilliant disguise. Traumatized by their childhood experience, he buried his pain behind an outsized personality. On his twelfth wedding anniversary in 1990, he ended his life. Brilliant Disguise winds together Susan's rock-and-roll odyssey with an exploration of Robert's life, teasing out clues as to why the past so dangerously swamped him.
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Misdial
by Joshua Fagan
A young man engrossed with taking his family from a life of mediocrity to luxury. A young woman willing to sacrifice that same luxury to restore a sense of family. A businessman willing to sacrifice everything for a chance to gain more. When Calvin finds a phone that can call into the past, all three of their lives come to a head. While Monty built the device for altruistic purposes, his wealthy brother and benefactor Robert had other plans in mind. After being threatened by Robert, Monty flees, until he is robbed and killed by a stranger in front of his daughter Mia. Many years past before the phone reappears in a Los Angeles pawnshop, where Calvin unknowingly makes his purchase and discovers it’s unique abilities. And while the phone proves to be Calvin’s ticket to riches, he finds himself dialing his way to safety as Robert will stop at nothing to obtain the phone, even if it means prying it from Calvin’s corpse.
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Stop the Hiring Gamble
by Gerald J Nebeker, PhD, DBH
You can continue to hire the same way you have always done, but you will continue to get the same results. Innate ability hiring adds a third factor to your hiring protocol that significantly increases the odds of you hiring the right person for the job. It’s not just a matter of education and experience that qualifies someone for a job or how well their interview went. Those are important, but equally essential is determining a candidate’s innate ability. This book teaches you how to identify the six innate abilities in applicants and how to establish your expectations for various job positions better so you can hire right the first time.
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The War You’ve Always Wanted
by Mike McLaughlin
Pat Dolan’s father has a box. In it are treasures from Jimmy Dolan’s service in World War II—his photos, his medals, his memories. But ten-year-old Pat can’t understand why his father refuses to look in the box. After all, the war was a grand adventure, wasn’t it? Determined to serve in the Army like his father, Pat enlists nine years later—but it’s 1972, and the American military is withdrawing from Vietnam after seven years of futile combat. As an Army combat correspondent surrounded by people growing more desperate by the day, young Dolan quickly learns how bleak the South’s prospects are. He is forced to witness the slow, steady death of a nation. When Pat is wounded in action, he wonders if he will live long enough to fill a box of his own. Are there any treasures to be found in a country as fragile as this?
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