Kahwallawallapoopoo: Maynard’s Big, Bad First Assignment
Kahwallawallapoopoo: Maynard’s Big, Bad First Assignment

Author: L.A. Osgard

Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company

Published: 2018-06-07

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1620235145

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Jake has never hit a homerun. He doesn’t have a cool dog. The only time they go on vacation is to visit his grandmother. Middle school is boring, except when he’s hanging out with his best friend Kacey. Jake loves baseball; he’s gonna play in the MLB one day! His boring life changed in an instant the day Maynard peeked his head out of Jake’s baseball bag during one of his games. Maynard’s a Mystical Manatee. He disguises himself as a cute, little, stuffed animal, but he’s way more impressive when he morphs into his HUGE, AMAZING, BIG-BAD-BUFF SELF! Jake is Maynard’s first assignment, and Maynard must find a way to convince Jake to hop on his back and travel to Maynard’s wonderful world because King Moo Moo and Queen Mee Mee have an urgent matter to discuss with Jake. Will Jake find the courage to join Maynard on an exciting adventure to Kahwallawallapoopoo, an island somewhere in the South Pacific Ocean full of amazing creatures, where Jake’s dreams just might come true?

Kawallawallapoopoo: Maynard's Big, Bad First Assignment
Kawallawallapoopoo: Maynard's Big, Bad First Assignment

Author: Lisa Osgard

Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company

Published: 2018-06-07

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1620235153

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Jake has never hit a homerun. He doesn’t have a cool dog. The only time they go on vacation is to visit his grandmother. Middle school is boring, except when he’s hanging out with his best friend Kacey. Jake loves baseball; he’s gonna play in the MLB one day! His boring life changed in an instant the day Maynard peeked his head out of Jake’s baseball bag during one of his games. Maynard’s a Mystical Manatee. He disguises himself as a cute, little, stuffed animal, but he’s way more impressive when he morphs into his HUGE, AMAZING, BIG-BAD-BUFF SELF! Jake is Maynard’s first assignment, and Maynard must find a way to convince Jake to hop on his back and travel to Maynard’s wonderful world because King Moo Moo and Queen Mee Mee have an urgent matter to discuss with Jake. Will Jake find the courage to join Maynard on an exciting adventure to Kahwallawallapoopoo, an island somewhere in the South Pacific Ocean full of amazing creatures, where Jake’s dreams just might come true?

Conversations Worth Having
Conversations Worth Having

Author: Jacqueline M. Stavros

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Published: 2018-05-22

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1523094028

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Conversations can be critical and destructive, or they can be generative and productive. This book shows how to guarantee your conversations will help people, organizations, and communities flourish. --

You Can't Buy Love Like That
You Can't Buy Love Like That

Author: Carol E. Anderson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-10-17

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1631523155

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A young lesbian girl grows beyond fear to fearlessness as she comes of age in the ’60s amid religious, social, and legal barriers. Carol Anderson grows up in a fundamentalist Christian home in the ’60s, a time when being gay was in opposition to all social and religious mores and against the law in most states. Fearing the rejection of her parents, she hides the truth about her love orientation, creating emotional distance from them for years, as she desperately struggles to harness her powerful attractions to women while pursuing false efforts to be with men. The watershed point in Carol's journey comes when she returns to graduate school and discovers the feminist movement, which emboldens her sense of personal power and the freedom to love whom she chooses. But this sense of self-possession comes too late for honesty with her father. His unexpected death before she can tell him the truth brings the full cost of Carol's secret crashing in compelling her to come out to her mother before it is too late. Candid and poignant, You Can't Buy Love Like That reveals the complex invisible dynamics that arise for gay people who are forced to hide their true selves in order to survive and celebrates the hard-won rewards of finding one's courageous heart and achieving self-acceptance and self-love.

Sisters of the Vine
Sisters of the Vine

Author: Linda Rosen

Publisher: Black Rose Writing

Published: 2021-03-25

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1684336708

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Housewife and mother with a loving husband to take care of her - that's all Liz, a Fifties gal, ever wanted. Over her father's objections, she drops out of college to marry Rick, who dreams of living off the land. They buy a farm on a verdant hillside in the Hudson Valley, but can't agree on what to plant. When they discover French-American hybrid grapes, Liz is confident they'll be happy. Grapes are classy. As the rich soil sinks into her soul and the vines begin to thrive, the marriage grows rocky. Refusing to disappoint her father again, Liz is determined to make her marriage work . . . until she discovers a photograph hidden in the old barn. Faced with impossible decisions, Liz is desperate. She has a vineyard ready to harvest and no idea how to accomplish the task. Does she have the moxie to flourish? Or will she and the land turn fallow?

Blade of the Destroyer
Blade of the Destroyer

Author: Andy Peloquin

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-07-11

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9781515038955

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The Hunter of Voramis is the perfect assassin: Ruthless, Unrelenting, Immortal. Yet he is haunted by lost memories, bonded to a cursed dagger that feeds him power yet denies him peace of mind. Within him rages an unquenchable need for blood and death. When he accepts a contract to avenge the stolen innocence of a girl, the Hunter becomes the prey. The death of a seemingly random target sends him hurtling toward destruction, yet could his path also lead to the truth of his buried past?

A Song for the Road
A Song for the Road

Author: Kathleen Basi

Publisher: Crooked Lane Books

Published: 2021-05-11

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 164385691X

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Cheryl Strayed's Wild meets Katherine Center's How to Walk Away in Kathleen Basi's debut novel about an unconventional road trip and what it means to honor the ones we love. It's one year after the death of her husband and twin teenagers, and Miriam Tedesco has lost faith in humanity and herself. When a bouquet of flowers that her husband always sends on their anniversary shows up at her workplace, she completely unravels. With the help of her best friend, she realizes that it's time to pick up the pieces and begin to move on. Step one is not even cleaning out her family's possessions, but just taking inventory starting with her daughter's room. But when she opens her daughter's computer, she stumbles across a program her daughter has created detailing an automated cross-country road trip, for her and her husband to take as soon-to-be empty nesters. Seeing and hearing the video clips of her kids embedded in the program, Miriam is determined to take this trip for her children. Armed with her husband's guitar, her daughter's cello, and her son's unfinished piano sonata, she embarks on a musical pilgrimage to grieve the family she fears she never loved enough. Along the way she meets a young, pregnant hitchhiker named Dicey, whose boisterous and spunky attitude reminds Miriam of her own daughter. Tornadoes, impromptu concerts, and an unlikely friendship...whether she's prepared for it or not, Miriam's world is coming back to life. But as she struggles to keep her focus on the reason she set out on this journey, she has to confront the possibility that the best way to honor her family may be to accept the truths she never wanted to face. Hopeful, honest, and tender, A Song for the Road is about courage, vulnerability, and forgiveness, even of yourself, when it really matters.

Beyond the Miracle, Beyond the Grave: A Medium's True Experiences
Beyond the Miracle, Beyond the Grave: A Medium's True Experiences

Author: Melissa Gabriel

Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company

Published: 2019-12-13

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 1620236516

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Melissa Gabriel is 17 years past her expiration date. When she was rushed to the emergency room as her liver failed and her body was pierced with agony, she didn’t think she would see her friends or family again––and fate didn’t plan for her to. But through a miracle from the other side, she recovered and began her second life on Earth, seeing it through new eyes. After realizing that she was being shepherded and protected by her personal guides and angels, Melissa’s purpose in life changed completely. In Beyond the Miracle, Beyond the Grave, she tells her story of how her miraculous healing awakened her psychic mediumship and set her on a path to enlightenment. By seeking out those who have passed into the spiritual plane, she has been able to uncover her untapped potential that enables her to connect with her psychic abilities and spread healing and hope to those still in our world. In a collection of short stories, Melissa Gabriel recounts the miracles, both large and small, she’s experienced on her incredible and inspiring journey.

The Telling Image
The Telling Image

Author: Lois Farfel Stark

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1626344728

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Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Best Non Fiction 2019 National Indie Excellence Award Winner Nautilus Book Awards, Gold #1 Amazon Best Seller in Architecture History & Periods Amazon Best Seller in Art Subjects & Themes Seeing the World Through Shape How do humans make sense of the world? In answer to this timeless question, award winning documentary filmmaker, Lois Farfel Stark, takes the reader on a remarkable journey from tribal ceremonies in Liberia and the pyramids in Egypt, to the gravity-defying architecture of modern China. Drawing on her experience as a global explorer, Stark unveils a crucial, hidden key to understanding the universe: Shape itself. The Telling Image is a stunning synthesis of civilization’s changing mindsets, a brilliantly original perspective urging you to re-envision history not as a story of kings and wars but through the lens of shape. In this sweeping tour through time, Stark takes us from migratory humans, who imitated a web in round-thatched huts and stone circles, to the urban ladder of pyramids and skyscrapers, organized by hierarchy and measurements, to today’s world of interconnected networks. ​In The Telling Image Stark reveals how buildings, behaviors, and beliefs reflect humans’ search for pattern and meaning. We can read the past and glimpse the future by watching when shapes shift. Stark’s beautifully illustrated book asks of all its readers: See what you think.

HOW I LOST MY MIND & FOUND MYSELF
HOW I LOST MY MIND & FOUND MYSELF

Author: DAVID RABADI

Publisher: Austin Macauley

Published: 2020-08-31

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9781641824477

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The sentence for being gay and Arab is death-even when the punishment is self-inflicted. Living a closeted life in a Middle-Eastern culture is brutal-and potentially deadly. Add to the mix mental illness and your odds of survival drop to near zero. How I Lost My Mind and Found Myself is the true story of how one man lived to tell the tale. Gay Arab, David Rabadi, had been taught from a very young age that there are no genies and no gay Arabs. But while David might accept the fact that genies might not exist, he knew from a young age there was at least one gay Arab and it was, in fact, him. The fear of losing the love and respect of his family kept David in the closet for more than twenty years, but living with undiagnosed mental illness kept him a prisoner in his own head for what seemed an eternity. How I Lost My Mind and Found Myself is a touching, sometimes funny story of David's struggles and eventual triumph in overcoming not one but two stigmas still judged, misjudged, and misunderstood in today's society. Told with poignant honesty, David shares his inspirational journey from a fresh perspective and gives the reader a rare view of what it means to be living as an openly gay Arab and coping with mental illness. David Rabadi is the first Jordanian to come out publicly in Yonkers.