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Summary of Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World by Book Wise
About Summary of Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World by Book Wise
Summary of Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World
Book Wise offers a summary of the popular book by Mark Williams and Danny Penman so you can gain an in-depth understanding of the book in shorter time!
It contains the following tantalizing sections:
-Book Summary
-Chapter by Chapter Summaries
-Background Information of the Book
-Background Information about the Authors
All in an easy to read, condensed version!
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*Note: This is an unofficial summarization book to Mark Williams and Danny Penman’s popular book Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World.
-It is meant to enhance your reading experience and is not the original book.
This Non-Fiction book is available in these Formats: eBook
The Stellar Way, Discovering the Star Within by Tina Donovan
About The Stellar Way, Discovering the Star Within by Tina Donovan
The Stellar Way inspires the imagination and captures every child’s attention with its compelling story and brilliant illustrations. This thought-provoking fantasy centers on two main characters: Sparky, a five-hundred-year-old star—a real superhero—and Kelly, a young girl who has found her life exasperating and wears a chip on her shoulder as proof. She learns to dismantle this seemingly gigantic chip when Sparky takes her to the Galaxy All-Star Camp, where she finally learns to become a star in her own right.
The Stellar Way’s universal appeal lends itself to all ages. The story and its researched-based curriculum has been field-tested twice and proved to be statistically significant in both studies. The supplemental guide is coming soon!
This Children’s Book book is available in these Formats: eBook, Print
CHACO by Peggy A. Wheeler
About CHACO by Peggy A. Wheeler
When everything you count on for your existence fails, could you survive?
Within days of a series of monster solar storms slamming into earth, electrical grids fail and everything in the northern hemisphere with a computer chip ceases functioning. Electricity won’t be completely restored for at least a decade, and the result is that everything modern life depends on to function is gone. There is no way to pump gas or water. Cell towers are wiped out, along with satellites. Airplanes and most vehicles will not operate. Communication is practically impossible. People cannot access life-saving prescription drugs or food. Police, fire services, and the military are overwhelmed, and hospitals can’t cope. There’s no one to come to the rescue, and as mass panic ensues, people begin dying. Fear and violence escalate until society collapses.
An unlikely hero emerges.
Chaco is a well-educated freedom fighter on a death list in El Salvador. Having fled to the United States, he is in hiding by working for a wealthy couple as their handyman and gardener. Following the disaster, he reveals his true identity, and convinces his employers and their neighbors to follow him over brutal mountain passes to a self-sufficient commune nearly 800 miles away.
But only a few will survive.
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Peggy is a writer of fantastical fiction. She’s published under the names Peggy A. Wheeler, Peggy Wheeler and Peggy Dembicer. Her non-fiction articles have appeared in COLORADO SERENITY, MOUNTAIN CONNECTION, and, LLEWELLYN’S 2012 MAGICAL ALMANAC. Her poetry and short stories appears in a number of small press magazines and women’s anthologies including WOMEN WRITING THE WEIRD II: Dreadful Daughters, by Dog Horn Press. Her publisher is Dragon Moon Press in Canada.
Her B.A. in English Literature is from U.C.L.A.; my M.A. in English with a Creative Writing emphasis is from California State University at Northridge. While attending U.C.L.A., Peggy was one of only twelve students (and the only undergraduate) chosen to study with Robert Pinsky, former Poet Laureate of the United States. She won first prize awards for two poems from an Evergreen Women’s Press nationwide poetry contest. Peggy’s poetry received honorable mentions from the judges of a Los Angeles Poetry Festival and The Academy of American Poets. Her poem Du Fu was nominated for a Rhysling award for Best Science Fiction Poem. Her debut novel, The Raven’s Daughter was short listed for a CCC Best Novel award, and her book, The Splendid and Extraordinary Life of Beautimus Potamus recently won a Reviewers Choice Award from Audio Book Reviewers. Peggy has led adult poetry and fiction writing critique groups and workshops in both Colorado and California.
The Stellar Way, Discovering the Star Within
About The Stellar Way, Discovering the Star Within
The Stellar Way inspires the imagination and captures every child’s attention with its compelling story and brilliant illustrations. This thought-provoking fantasy centers on two main characters: Sparky, a five-hundred-year-old star—a real superhero—and Kelly, a young girl who has found her life exasperating and wears a chip on her shoulder as proof. She learns to dismantle this seemingly gigantic chip when Sparky takes her to the Galaxy All-Star Camp, where she finally learns to become a star in her own right.
The Stellar Way’s universal appeal lends itself to all ages. The story and its researched-based curriculum has been field-tested twice and proved to be statistically significant in both studies. The supplemental guide is coming soon!
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The unwavering commitment of Tina Donovan, MSEd, LPCC, to bring her divinely inspired story The Stellar Way to life has spanned seventeen years, as she has both personally and professionally experienced the need for anger management within our schools and communities. Tina’s interest in anger began during her eight-and-a-half-year involvement with the juvenile court system. It seemed that every child who walked into that court had a chip on their shoulder. While this chip manifested in different ways, she noticed one element common to all cases: anger. Tina developed a strong desire to proactively help children with their anger, which led her to pursue and complete her master’s degree. She then developed a researched-based, research-tested curriculum that uses concrete tools and activities to help children process and deal with their anger—with the help of a very special superhero, Sparky.
Tina’s research was recognized by the Miami Valley Counseling Association, and she was awarded the Wray Rieger Scholarship Memorial Award for her potential to make the most impact in the counseling field. Her focus on prevention began while employed at United HealthCare, where she developed “Mint Condition,” a wellness program which was nationally recognized by Group Health Association of America for Innovative Answers for America’s Health Care: Best Practices in HMOs. Tina is currently a therapist at Ray of Light in Vandalia, Ohio, where she specializes in helping children.
Coming in Hot: Rescue Me: A Paranormal & Contemporary Medical Romance Collection
About Coming in Hot: Rescue Me: A Paranormal & Contemporary Medical Romance Collection
Featuring *brand new & exclusive* books from USA Today bestselling and award winning authors, we’re Coming In Hot, again!
More of the sizzling medical romance stories you love: doctors, nurses, firemen, shifters, werewolves, witches, and paramedics turn up the heat in this paranormal and contemporary medical romance collection.
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★✩★Authors Featured in this Collection★✩★
USA Today Bestselling and Award Winning Author Gina Kincade
International Bestselling and Award Winning Author Ditter Kellen
Bestselling Author Liz Crowe
International Bestselling Author Holly Cortelyou
USA Today Bestselling Author Amy Lee Burgess
USA Today Bestselling Author Elianne Adams
International Bestselling and Award Winning Author Linda O’Connor
International Bestselling Author Lashell Collins
International Bestselling Author Liz Gavin
Award Winning Author Lucy Felthouse
USA Today Bestselling and Award Winning Author Erzabet Bishop
International Bestselling Author Elvira Bathory
USA Today Bestselling and Award Winning Author Angelica Dawson
USA Today Bestselling and Award Winning Author Kathleen Grieve
International Bestselling and Award Winning Author Red L. Jameson
USA Today Bestselling and Award Winning Author Muffy Wilson
Shades of Pink
One awkward billionaire.
One failed psychic.
A tale as old as time…
When Lola Pink, failed psychic, takes a job with the infamous Dane Clark, she’s in over her head. Not only is she tasked to find a missing blueprint worth millions, but she can’t seem to keep her feelings for her boss in check. He’s awkward, difficult…and gorgeous.
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Gina LaManna is the USA TODAY bestselling author of the Magic & Mixology series, the Lacey Luzzi Mafia Mysteries, The Little Things romantic suspense series, and the Misty Newman books. Stop on by and say hello on Facebook!
Woodcastle: Courts Divided Book One
About Woodcastle: Courts Divided Book One
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A visitor from beyond the realms,
A threat from beneath the earth,
A secret that will shake the nations.
Pulled from the front lines of the war, Meeo Letlind isn’t expecting a difficult mission, though it must be for a good reason that she was the one called in.
Assigned alongside the legendary overlord slayer and a half-dragon that’s all bite and no bark, the group sets off for the hidden kingdom of the fairy peoples.
The team’s mission? To investigate a gruesome string of unexplained murders.
The suspects? Humans, as always.
Meeo and her party must prove their innocence and shine light on the true culprits before they’re taken by spear and bow to the executioner’s square.
What Meeo uncovers, and the fatal implications of her discovery, is something not even she is prepared for.
In an instant they’re on the run from the very people they swore to protect— fighting for survival as their phantasmal enemies and fae hunters close in, all for the sake of a once-in-a-millennia spiritual event that’s set the golden woods rife with anticipation.
But Meeo, the poor dear, is not that worried. After all, she has help from someone her fellow knights would never believe.
A High-Fantasy Thriller unlike any you’ve read, experience shock, whimsy and awe as the tightly wound enigma is slowly unraveled alongside a desperate cast of enchanting characters.
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“To be frank we actually don’t know that much about this creature. Ywn mentioned briefly that it observes happenstances in other dimensions, like a sort of spy or basement-dwelling loser, but that all seems so far-fetched… if Ywn says it though, it must be true. Current intel suggests it loves writing, reading, bird-watching and ‘getting emails from readers’; whatever the hell that is. It claims to be an analyst from S.E.E.R., but we don’t yet know what that acronym stands for. All we can go off of is what it publishes in different dimensions, so if you’re reading this, understand that Kell has likely integrated into your reality and is actively vying for control over your media networks.
Caution advised: intel suggests a non-physical cognitive structure and a riftwalk class of at least four, if not five.
Our datamancers have ascertained its communication hub: kellinkston.com, which is worth visiting for the sake of gaining additional intel.” – Scribe Tain, O.E.L.
Email: kellr.inkston@gmail.com
Earth and Beyond: MedSci Missions 1 by Wendy Gamble
About Earth and Beyond: MedSci Missions 1 by Wendy Gamble
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Review on Amazon.ca: “This fast moving, futuristic, science fiction could be the script for an entertaining movie.”
This intelligent fiction by a black belt author has interesting concepts for the future circ. 2066 and a good dose of martial arts and high-tech weapons action:
Earth had achieved a semi-utopia until aliens destroyed the peace that took decades for hacker revolutionaries to build. After a bizarre robot occupation leading to all-out war, humanity was left with a deadly alien pandemic. Their possible salvation lies in a team brought together to search for a solution beyond the stars.
The mysteries of genetics and microscopic entities, along with the wonders of the future surgical scene are at the heart of their quest, with the soul coming from each specialist’s own talents for using them.
As their journey into deep space begins they encounter obstacles and battles of wills as they strive to survive the harsh and not-so empty space on the way to their distant goal. Together, the hand-picked team deals with technical problems, illness, personal issues, and secret elements of Earth’s warring bio-tech ideologies as they kick off their mission to save Earth.
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I was born the year Star Trek was, so I was a little warped from the start (but my spaceship isn’t, it runs on the Quantum Displacement Drive). After an early childhood of hearing my father’s versions of nursery rhymes, such as “Ini mini mini mo, where did baby sister go—she is over by the socket putting electrons in her pocket. How cute! Electrocute!” My kindergarten teacher said on a report card, “Wendy has a good vocabulary. This, coupled with a vivid imagination makes her quite a story teller.” As I grew, I read through everything in sight. As a pre-teen, one of the large stacks of fodder I brought home from the library contained the first science fiction I encountered, “The City of Gold and Lead.” I still remember the title, as I was quite taken with it. I then discovered Heinlein’s “Star Beast,” and James Blish’s Star Trek adaptations, and eagerly devoured them. I was aware that there was a TV show version of Trek, but I didn’t watch much on our snowy black and white set. We did get a better colour one eventually, and then I couldn’t wait for the next weekly re-run to come on. (There was no internet streaming, and it was not out on even video tapes yet, so I was at the mercy of the CBC station.)
In my late teens I had the urge to write stories that popped into my head. I never-the-less went to university to study biology, where I spent stressful hours writing up lab reports, essays, and a senior level microbiology research project. I worked part time for a professor, starting with cleaning glassware and ending up supervising a high school student testing for coliform bacteria in the zoo department’s seal tank.
My brain was bursting to be free, so I left serious science for science fiction. As I worked in health care for a friend of my nurse Mom, I spent a couple of years learning my craft under the mentorship of the Ottawa Lyngaard writing group, where I drafted my first novel, set in the Star Trek universe. With that experience under my belt I went headlong into a long fantasy novel, which I still plan to edit and release in the future. I sold some art work and wrote for and edited print and on-line publications as I got a family started. Publishing isn’t as fun as writing, so I began a bio-tech spy thriller, and was happily writing that when I was caught in the after-wave of the Star Trek: Enterprise cancellation. I proposed an idea on the internet, hoping someone would write it and make a new show out of. Well, the people who pitched in ideas seemed to expect me to write it up, so I did, with their help and support. A rich world developed, full of technology and character sketches. I sorted and sifted, and with much help from the team, especially BJ Hanssen, and writer/illustrator István Szabó, Ifj., I wrote a glossary of terms, time line, Ship Guide, and Medical Compendium, all of which I referred to often for story writing (and will publish in the future, when they can be properly illustrated and laid out). After a decade of development (and breaks while family things happened), the project was ready to release in novel format. With the children now grown, I’ve headed back full force into creating what I hope will prove to be both entertaining and thought-provoking fiction.
City of Gold
When archaeologist Matthew Connor’s friend is kidnapped, the ransom comes at the highest price—her life in exchange for finding the Incas’ lost City of Gold. With the clock ticking, Matthew and two of his closest friends have limited time to make the discovery. To make matters worse, Matthew’s arch nemesis insists that two of her hired guns go along for the ride.
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CAROLYN ARNOLD is an international bestselling and award-winning author, as well as a speaker, teacher, and inspirational mentor. She has four continuing fiction series—Detective Madison Knight, Brandon Fisher FBI, McKinley Mysteries, and Matthew Connor Adventures—and has written nearly thirty books. Her genre diversity offers her readers everything from cozy to hard-boiled mysteries, and thrillers to action adventures.
Both her female detective and FBI profiler series have been praised by those in law enforcement as being accurate and entertaining, leading her to adopt the trademark: POLICE PROCEDURALS RESPECTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
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Carolyn was born in a small town and enjoys spending time outdoors, but she also loves the lights of a big city. Grounded by her roots and lifted by her dreams, her overactive imagination insists that she tell her stories. Her intention is to touch the hearts of millions with her books, to entertain, inspire, and empower.
She currently lives in London, Ontario, with her husband and beagle and is a member of Crime Writers of Canada and Sisters in Crime.
Her Wicked Hero by Caitlyn O’Leary
About Her Wicked Hero by Caitlyn O'Leary
ONE LOOK AND HE WAS HOOKED
A photograph. A feeling. A knowing. That’s all it took for Dante “Zed” Zaragoza to realize his fate was intertwined with a woman he’d never met. Now it was up to him to find Marcia Price and bring her home safely. Thankfully for Marcia he’s temporarily part of the Black Dawn SEAL team, who are on the hunt to locate eleven people whose yacht had gone missing in the South China Sea. A photograph means she’s alive…for now.
SHE NEEDED A HERO
Marcia Price realized she was in the hands of a monster as she was dragged deeper and deeper into the jungle. She wanted to give up so many times but dammit, no matter what, she would survive this even if it almost killed her. And maybe, just maybe, the universe would send her a hero.
HE’LL MOVE HEAVEN & EARTH
Zed’s blood turned to ice the moment he found out the history of the man who had Marcia in his grip. He wasn’t just a sociopath, he’d been trained as a SEAL. And that was only the beginning. Zed would need more than his standard bag of tricks if he and Marcia were going to get out of there alive…
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Caitlyn O’Leary is an avid reader and considers herself a fan first and an author second. She reads a wide variety of genres, but finds herself going back to happily-ever-afters. Getting a chance to write, after years in corporate America, is a dream come true. She hopes her stories provide the kind of entertainment and escape she has found from some of her favorite authors.
As of winter 2018 she has fourteen books in her two best-selling Navy SEAL series; Midnight Delta and Black Dawn. What makes them special is their bond to one another, and the women they come to love.
She also writes a Paranormal series called the Found. It’s been called a Military / Sci-Fi / Action-Adventure thrill ride. The characters have special abilities, that make them targets.
The books that launched her career, are a steamy and loving menage series called Fate Harbor. It focuses on a tight-knit community in Fate Harbor Washington, who live, love and care for one another.
Her other two series are The Sisters and the Shadow Alliance. You will be seeing more for these series in 2018.
Black Roses for Cassidy by Nancy Roe
About Black Roses for Cassidy by Nancy Roe
For six years, Cassidy Kincaid has led a picture-perfect life in Ghost River, Iowa with her loving husband. Then one Friday night, her husband commits suicide—or so she is told.
Days later, a peculiar request and a stranger’s declaration prompt Cassidy to question the cause of her husband’s death. However, someone who doesn’t want the truth exposed threatens to kill her unless she stops digging.
As Cassidy begins to unravel her husband’s secret life, she also discovers her own life has been filled with lies since childhood. Unlikely people she thought were deceased pop up, and those with a close connection to her are found murdered. Will Cassidy be able to expose the shattering truth in time or will the killer claim the victory?
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When Nancy Roe was twelve, she wrote an autobiography for a sixth grade English assignment. In the last chapter, Nancy wrote that she wanted to be an author. When she turned fifty, her dreams came true! And she hasn’t stopped writing since. Nancy has self-published six books.
One Must Kill Another by Marcus Alexander Hart
About One Must Kill Another by Marcus Alexander Hart
In a secluded hideaway, a family is trapped by a malevolent entity with a grim ultimatum: Two of them can leave the woods alive, but only after they murder the third.
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Happiness is elusive in Hollywood. So is love. Action star Kimberly Savage thought she’d found both. But when her husband Matty turned out to be an abusive freeloader, she divorced him and started a new life with their daughter, Rebecca.
Thirteen years later, a world-weary Kimberly wants to heal her estranged family. Matty is convinced he can win back the love of his life, but Rebecca wants nothing to do with either of them. The scars of her childhood have healed on her body, but not in her heart.
When the family reunites at their old mountain cabin they’re attacked by creatures straight out of a horror movie. Straight out of a B-movie, true to Kimberly’s career, but still deadly.
As dark secrets are revealed, each person must decide who’s to blame for their troubled past—and who deserves to die.
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Marcus Alexander Hart is a writer, karaoke star, and default awesome dude. He has written for stage and screen, including projects for Disney Channel and Disney XD. He once won a long-distance road rally driving a fake ice cream truck. Marcus lives near Portland, Oregon with his wife and two imaginary children.
Redeeming Ryker
Ryker Savage has always known who he is. He’s a brother, a friend, an orphan, and a murderer. One decision made twenty years ago altered the future of an entire town. At twenty-eight, he’s done his time, paid his dues, and wants to be left to his misery.
Twenty-four-year-old Ana Barrett knows who she is. A struggling artist, a loyal friend, an orphan raised by loving grandparents. After a string of unlucky events leaves her homeless, broke, and alone, she receives a timely inheritance—a house in Fury, Colorado. It’s a gift guaranteed to change her life in ways she can’t imagine.
When Ana arrives in Fury, the last thing she expects is to fall in love. But just as she thinks she’s found forever, the past comes back to tear them apart. Will their love stand a chance against a painful past or will it finally allow them to heal?
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International bestselling author of over 30 novels, Kelly Collins writes with the intention of keeping the love alive. Always a romantic, she blends real-life events with her vivid imagination to create characters and stories that lovers of contemporary romance, new adult, and romantic suspense will return to again and again.
The Astoundingly Persuasive Argument from Human Behavior
About The Astoundingly Persuasive Argument from Human Behavior
If you like C. S. Lewis, you will absolutely love this book. This argument is so angelic and astute, it could be used by God Himself if anyone were bold enough to challenge His judgment! This book was born on a street corner and polished in academia. Journal editors who have seen parts of this book have endorsed it as “a quality work,” “impressive” and “well thought-out.”
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Eric Demaree obtained a degree in philosophy from Western Illinois University in 1973. He has retired from being a letter carrier in the U. S. Postal Service. For the past 40 years, he has worked with many different ministries in the western USA and the Philippines, where he has made more than fifteen missionary trips.
He currently is the Director of the oldest local ministry in Las Vegas, NV—the God-in-me Ministries. When in the Philippines he teaches “Values” classes in the public schools, works with government social workers and co-pastors a small church.
Old Letters & New Demons by Richard A. DeVall
About Old Letters & New Demons by Richard A. DeVall
Old Letters and New Demons is a novel of the combined genres, Historic and Speculative for an adult audience. In 1928 Harry Crosby shot his girlfriend and two hours later he killed himself. They were found fully clothed with their shoes off and their toe nails painted red. After that incident, Hary’s wife Caress, moved to Bowling Green Virginia to an estate known as Hampton Manor. you can see the photo’s from Life magazine in which she is there with Salvador Dali. From there she wrote pornography for Henry Miller. she invented the brazier and tried to get paper back books published in the U.S. and was turned down.
In 1983 John and Julia Gavis dug up their father, killed by their brother along with their mother. This was about ten miles away from Hampton Manor. When they were arrested for disinterment of a human body, John and Julia had bread wrappers on their feet and hands to keep the demons away.
When Greg Singleton moves to Bowling Green he finds something that alters his goals and ambitions and he begins a long journey into a lifestyle he can’t do anything about.
The characters don’t blow themselves up in the first few chapters, their demise is a well crafted train wreck built out of history and mystery with words that nail down the track over time.
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An excerpt of this novel was published in RambleFish magazine in the December 2017 addition. This is my first novel and I wrote it kind of in rebellion to so many New York Times best sellers where the detective drinks too much pining over his lost love and the only thing that keeps him going is catching the bad guy. I wanted to break the formula writing that is so pervasive in our world and deliver a good product that is unique and hopefully stays with the reader more than five minutes.
Refugee by Reece Pocock
Reece Pocock has written an authoritative and intimate story of two families brought together by war and peace; in the process, he creates a fine study of how ordinary people are swept along by political and military events over which they have no control but which continue to colour their daily lives.
In North Africa in the 1940s, two men – Bill, an Australian and Rolf, a German – confront each other in a one-to-one fight in the vicious battles around Tobruk. Both are forever scared physically and mentally. Later, when Rolf is fighting in Italy, he learns of the Dresden fire bombing, deserts and returns home to find his family dead or dying. Rolf flees Germany and takes the identity of a dead companion, winding up in a displaced persons camp in France, from where he eventually migrates to Australia. The Australians meanwhile are withdrawn from North Africa and fight in the Pacific. In Papua-New Guinea, Bill is exposed to the horrors of jungle warfare and is invalided out of the army.
Five years after the War, Bill and Rolf meet each other by chance in Australia without knowing who the other is, and strike up a working relationship. Some of the locals resent the arrival of German migrants and Rolf is the subject of abuse and violence. When Rolf and Bill’s sister Elaine fall in love, family resistance is strengthened. Rolf eventually realises that it was Bill who wounded him in North Africa and must decide whether to forgive and forget or whether to seek revenge.
Pocock evokes powerful imagery of the viciousness of war in both the desert and the jungle as well as convincingly portraying how men respond under enormous stress.
The dissonance between men at war and men in peace is a central theme of the book
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Reece Pocock is from Adelaide, South Australia. He writes crime/thrillers, historical fiction, children’s stories, short stories, personal development books, screenplays and stage plays.
After years in the Army, Reece enjoyed a business career in sales and management. He was instrumental in introducing the Bobcat skid steer loader to the South Australian market—this was one of the highlights of this career.
He studied from 2000 to 2003 to obtain his Advanced Diploma of Arts (Professional Writing). This experience had a profound influence on his life, opening up many opportunities and proved life changing.
History as a Writer
Reece had about sixty articles published in, TheCheers online magazine. This website also published twelve of Reece’s short stories.
Two short stories, The Girl in the Red Beret, and What a Dirty Little Town was included in an anthology—The Killing Words—published by Crime-writers SA.
Reece won the City of Burnside Library crime short story contest, with his story, The Girl in the Red Beret. His screenplay, The Soldiers, adapted from his novel of the same name, was highly commended in the Di Cranston award administered by the Fellowship of Australian Writers. The Ned Kelly writing award long listed, Murder on Display and The Politics of Murder.
Reece’s first crime novel, Murder on Display, was published by Custom Book Publications in November 2012 and the same publisher published his second novel the Politics of Murder in September 2014. He has self-published Evil in the City, a book of crime short stories, Love and War, war-related short stories. Melissa Lane, girl detective a children’s story about missing lunch money, Sarah Loves ice cream a children’s story about a girl’s obsession with ice cream, How to achieve High Self-esteem, a self-improvement book. Refugee, a historical family Saga. He also writes articles, mainly for business.
Reece Pocock loves to read and after many years discovered he could write. He has published crime, children, history, short stories. He has also written screenplays and plays receiving an award for a screenplay. He lives with his wife and enjoys his family especially his three beautiful granddaughters.
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Dear F*cking Lunatic: 101 Obscenely Rude Letters to Donald Trump
About Dear F*cking Lunatic: 101 Obscenely Rude Letters to Donald Trump
Retracing the churlish antics of our 45th president throughout his unforgettable first year and a quarter in office, Dear F*cking Lunatic: 101 Obscenely Rude Letters to Donald Trump takes both a laser scalpel and a rusty chain saw — in equal measure — to Trump’s boundless ego, bottomless stupidity, and brazen incompetence. With acid tongue planted firmly in cheek, author Aldous J. Pennyfarthing takes on the president’s unsurpassed ignorance, rampant racism, shocking pettiness, vertiginous dishonesty, and more. Based on the viral Daily Kos post of the same name.
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Aldous J. Pennyfarthing is the pen name of Tom Breuer, co-author of three political humor books published by Nation Books, including Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O’Reilly and Fair and Balanced, My Ass: An Unbridled Look at the Bizarre Reality of Fox News. He has appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, The Al Franken Show, The Stephanie Miller Show, and Ring of Fire Radio.
Evershade: The Shifter Chronicles
About Evershade: The Shifter Chronicles
How well do you know yourself?
Sixteen-year-old Elle thinks she’s got life in Shady Oaks all under control until new boy Asher comes to town. Elle can’t explain it, but she can’t deny the connection she feels to him. Things with Asher are going great until they’re out one night and nearly attacked by a large wolf. Before she knows it, Elle’s life is spiraling out of control: Maddox is in love with her, she and Asher are in danger…
and she learns she’s a shifter!
If that wasn’t bad enough, she finds herself in the middle of an ages-old war between shifters and hunters.
What else can she do but join the cause?
Will Elle stay with Asher or break-up with him to be with Maddox? What does it mean to be a shifter? Who will emerge victorious in the battle?
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Michelle Areaux is a wife, mother, educator, and young adult author. When she isn’t carpooling her boys to baseball games, you can find her drinking gallons of coffee while getting lost in her next fantasy novel creation.
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