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In a world where racism, violence, illness, and poverty can feel so overwhelming that we often close our eyes-and our hearts-to the suffering around us, we may not believe we have the power to change things. As Barbara Greenspan Shaiman shows us in Live Your Legacy Now!, this simply isn't so. This part memoir and part how-to guide provides the tools and strategies to help you create meaningful change in your own life as well as in the lives of...

Throughout its history, enchanting and mysterious Venice has attracted seekers. Some travel to the city to experience its storied charms, while others look for something else. This is the story of vastly different seekers whose lives unexpectedly intersect over six decades in a city shrouded in mystery. In the Venice of pre-WWII, Costanza, a talented baker, and her husband Piero Agostino, a glass blower, are blessed with a daughter, Breva. She...

Throughout its history, enchanting and mysterious Venice has attracted seekers. Some travel to the city to experience its storied charms, while others look for something else. This is the story of vastly different seekers whose lives unexpectedly intersect over six decades in a city shrouded in mystery. In the Venice of pre-WWII, Costanza, a talented baker, and her husband Piero Agostino, a glass blower, are blessed with a daughter, Breva. She...

She could see the lights of the train and the parking lot, but where she was standing was pitch black. She took out her silver vial and unscrewed the top. She scooped out a pile of cocaine with the little spoon and snorted it up one nostril, then the other. It was an exquisite moment as the drug charged through her brain like a stampede of white lightning. "Hot damn, "she whispered, and gave her head a little shake as she exhaled. She felt so ...

The Reverend Michael Richey, rector of St. Christopher's Episcopal Church and chaplain to the Madison Police Department, is blessed with a beautiful family, an enthusiastic congregation, and a fulfi lling ministry to the homeless men and women of Madison, South Carolina. However, when the police discover the body of a homeless man in a street-side stairwell, MPD Chief Detective Jerry Majors surprisingly implicates Father Mike in the old man's ...

On September 5, 2008, Abraham Lambrechtse died of a massive stroke. I was overwhelmed with sadness for the lost of my friend, Bram. I was honored to be asked to write his obituary, and after his memorial service, I decided that the test way to me, a writer, to honor Bram further would be to write a book about him. I interviewed his partner, his friends and siblings. I read everything I could find about the history of The Netherlands. I wanted ...

REMARKABLE WORLD TRAVELS is an exciting description of places, cultural events and other interesting things to do as you travel around the world. An overview of the world is presented. Life in Europe describes many countries such as Great Britain, France, The Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Lichtenstein, Belgium, Norway, Sweden and Finland. A tour to Hong Kong and mainland China will enlighten you about Asia. Adventures in the South Paci...

Hold tight, hold steady, " were the last words Claudette Gormley heard her mother proclaim as she took her last breaths before dying at the age of seventy-seven. In this memoir, Gormley links the past and the present and discusses how she has honored her mother's final words. A wife, mother, grandmother, friend, and teacher, Gormley shares her memories as life lessons. A child of the sixties, she survived a rough childhood of divorce and pov...

The Los Osos Stags Lodge, a charitable fraternal order, is selling prime beachfront property along the central California coast. Harry Warrener's best friend, Randy Lismore, dies in a bizarre incident. At the inquest into the death, an FBI agent reveals startling connections to organized crime. Harry begins an investigation and joins the Stags. He meets and falls in love with Janet Zimmer. Together with Thor, Harry's German shepherd, they unc...

The Los Osos Stags Lodge, a charitable fraternal order, is selling prime beachfront property along the central California coast. Harry Warrener's best friend, Randy Lismore, dies in a bizarre incident. At the inquest into the death, an FBI agent reveals startling connections to organized crime. Harry begins an investigation and joins the Stags. He meets and falls in love with Janet Zimmer. Together with Thor, Harry's German shepherd, they unc...

Using the words "church" and "civil rights" in the same sentence may seem unusual. But in "The Church and Civil Rights, " author and pastor Thomas Searcy Jr. explains how these two are closely intertwined and how faith and religious beliefs should impact behavior in everyday life. For this discussion, Searcy defines civil rights as fruit of the spirit operating in one's life. It is important to provide love and assistance to the world's oppres...

Hold tight, hold steady, " were the last words Claudette Gormley heard her mother proclaim as she took her last breaths before dying at the age of seventy-seven. In this memoir, Gormley links the past and the present and discusses how she has honored her mother's final words. A wife, mother, grandmother, friend, and teacher, Gormley shares her memories as life lessons. A child of the sixties, she survived a rough childhood of divorce and pov...

Lets meet the seven deadly sins. Pride. Greed. Envy. Anger. Lust Gluttony. Sloth.Surely in life these sins exist. We've all committed at least one deadly sin at some point in life, maybe more. And more you shall receive while reading Dante's Sins. Each story is bound to touch your heart and make you ask yourself, What would I've done? How would I have reacted? Be prepared to go on a journey. Here we go. Let Pride introduce you to Katrina whose...

Research has shown that people who participate in their healthcare - those who ask questions of their doctors and play an active role with their doctors in making decisions about their care - are the ones who get the right care and have the best outcomes. How can you be sure you're receiving the right care? You need to get smart, be informed and take control of your healthcare. This book helps you do that. The Kreisberg's have taken their many...

Research has shown that people who participate in their healthcare - those who ask questions of their doctors and play an active role with their doctors in making decisions about their care - are the ones who get the right care and have the best outcomes. How can you be sure you're receiving the right care? You need to get smart, be informed and take control of your healthcare. This book helps you do that. The Kreisberg's have taken their many...

Blessings of the Father-Book Three is aptly subtitled: The Boys Break Out! Yes, this is still the continuing saga of Las Vegan billionaire, Marc Morgan, America's leading Restaurateur...and his kooky yet endearing family and staff. In this exciting episode however, we identify closely with Marc's sons, Trevor and Taylor as their dream of success as musical performers unfolds...but will this be their time?We focus too, on the entire Morgan clan...

Most Americans had never heard of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) before the summer of 2008 when gas prices exceeded $4.00 per gallon. At that time, a national cry rang out for relief at the pumps and for increased energy security to prevent such a painful recurrence. ANWR suddenly became a highly contentious issue in the energy debates raging in Congress, eventually spilling over into the presidential campaigns throughout the fall....

Most Americans had never heard of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) before the summer of 2008 when gas prices exceeded $4.00 per gallon. At that time, a national cry rang out for relief at the pumps and for increased energy security to prevent such a painful recurrence. ANWR suddenly became a highly contentious issue in the energy debates raging in Congress, eventually spilling over into the presidential campaigns throughout the fall....

Sounding like an underdog whos worked against difficult obstacles on his way to personal happiness and professional success, Renard has compiled 7 key themes: do not focus on circumstances largely beyond your control, do what you have to do so that you can do what you want to do, carry yourself in a manner that affirms your dignity, actions define the man, do not let comfort and familiarity stymie your growth, know what you don't want to do, a...

Jack Pierce, a down and out Colorado writer, has retreated from society to the sanctuary of the mountains above Leadville. To his astonishment, an old lover, Miranda Talbot, a poet and faith healer from Texas, arrives at his house shortly after the death of his live-in girlfriend and proceeds to inspire him to write a biography about the recently deceased Yale Nobel Prize recipient Theodore Hudson. Reluctant at first, he eventually succumbs to...