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It’s Okay to Be Scared—but Never Give Up: A book of hope and inspiration for life and business

by Jim Palmer, founder and president of Custom Newsletters, Inc. and Dynamic Communication

and Martin Howey, founder and CEO of TopLine Business Solutions and Martin Howey Consulting

From the back cover:

Each of us faces challenges in life and in business, some challenges more severe—and fear-inducing—than others. The knowledge that you’re not alone can be a tremendous comfort. In addition, the stories of others who have persevered and overcome great odds can help you surmount—or avoid entirely—similar obstacles. Those stories may also prove to be inspirational, even transformational. That’s why this book was written.

Marketing and business-building experts Martin Howey and Jim Palmer have come together to share with you their true stories of overcoming significant—even immobilizing—challenges in life and business. And not only theirs. They’ve interviewed a dream team of highly successful entrepreneurs—each one sharing his or her story of overcoming a significant challenge. They also reveal some incredible nuggets of wisdom on how to make your life and business more prosperous and enjoyable.

Prepare to be motivated, inspired, more hopeful, and perhaps even transformed!

The dream team:

Melanie Benson Strick Vander, James Malinchak, Adam Urbanski, Joe Polish, Stephanie Frank, Joel Bauer, Mike Koenigs, Renee Airya, and Susie Miller

Jim Palmer is internationally renowned as The Newsletter Guru—the go-to resource for smart, effective strategies that maximize the profitability of customer relationships.

Martin Howey is one of the busiest and most respected business consultants in North America. He has generated more than three and a half billion dollars in sales for his clients, and has contributed to the financial success of more than 10,000 small businesses throughout the world.

The Fastest Way to Higher Profits! 19 Immediate Profit-Enhancing Strategies You Can Use Today

by Jim Palmer, founder and president of Custom Newsletters, Inc. and Dynamic Communication

From the back cover:

This book will help you generate higher profits in your business—fast! Hang on tight, as you’re about to discover 19 proven “insider” marketing and business-building strategies that will take your business to higher levels of success and profitability, even in a recession!

Stick Like Glue: How to Create an Everlasting Bond with Your Customers So They Spend More, Stay Longer, and Refer More!

by Jim Palmer, founder and president of Custom Newsletters, Inc. and Dynamic Communication

From the back cover:

Discover proven over-the-top strategies and techniques to take you and your business to an entirely new level of success and profitability. Read this book with an open mind and you’ll find the ideas and wisdom you need to truly transform your business.

The Magic of Newsletter Marketing: The Secret to More Profits and Customers for Life

by Jim Palmer, founder and president of Custom Newsletters, Inc. and Dynamic Communication

From the back cover:

Unlock the secrets to stronger and more profitable customer relationships. Discover how to make a customer newsletter your strongest marketing and business-building tool—one that fills your pipeline with repeat and referral business.

Hooked on Hopium: Overcome the biggest obstacle to your sales success!

by E. Michael Shannon, BS, MBA, president of Axiom Development

From the back cover:

Where Will You Be Financially, Six Years from Now?

Six years ago, two beaten-down salesmen met each morning for coffee, and to commiserate about the challenges of trying to maintain a sales career in the New Economy. So far, their longing for the good old days in sales, and their addiction to “hope” in better financial success, have led to nothing.

Six years pass, and the two meet again. One has achieved financial independence after engaging in a unique sales training and development program. The other, still hooked on “hopium,” his financial situation worse than ever, mentally scoffs at the notion that some so-called sales expert’s training could make much of a difference. Still, to humor his old friend, he listens politely to specific solutions the expert taught to enable salespeople to break through New Economy—and New Consumer—sales barriers, and his mind begins to tingle with fresh possibilities as he discovers how he too can once again excel in his own sales career.

Based on actual events and financial results, Hooked on Hopium is an entertaining, quick-to-read fictional story that details proven New Economy sales solutions, and is a key first step toward overcoming the obstacles to your sales success!

The Ultimate Sales Letter, 4th Edition (by Dan Kennedy);

"Use Graphic Enhancement" chapter

by Mike Capuzzi, founder of CopyDoodles

Mike Capuzzi is internationally recognized as a master of “copywriting cosmetics.” He has helped business and marketing professionals around the world get outrageous response boosts—typically response boosts of 50%, 100%, 200%, and more—without changing a single word of their copy. Mike is also a skilled marketing consultant and dynamic speaker on advertising and marketing subjects.

Achieving Objectives Made Easy! Practical Goal Setting Tools & Proven Time Management Techniques

by Raymond Le Blanc, Clinical Psychologist and NLP Master Practitioner

From page four:

Discover Raymond Le Blanc’s powerful time management methods and goal setting techniques to turn around every area of your life—at home or at work.

Engaging and down to earth, author Le Blanc walks you step by step through practical goal setting techniques to enable you to reach previously unreachable dreams and goals, while his proven time management methods teach you innovative ways to make the most of your valuable time.

Get Out of Your Way: How to Eliminate Self-Sabotage and Win Your Life!

by Tim Shurr, MA

From www.eliminatesabotage.com:

Are You Sabotaging Yourself? People have been unconsciously programmed to fail. Are you one of them? If achieving your goals feels like a struggle, get this book. It’s the cure for insecurity and self-sabotage. You will not be able to attain the things and emotions you most want through effort and willpower alone. Positive thinking and desire are not enough. You must mentally and emotionally reprogram yourself to recognize and overcome self-sabotage that lurks in your career, marriage, money, and health. Most self-help books tell you what to do. This book gives you the tools and strategies for how to do it!

From Sorrow to Dancing: The Recent Widow’s Handbook

by Marcy Kelly, Certified Life Coach, B.A. in Psychology

From the back cover:

From Sorrow to Dancing portrays the emotions, thoughts, actions, and experiences of widows as they struggle through the aftermath of losing a spouse, and it addresses key situations where decisions can change life for the better.

If you, or someone you know, feel stuck in grief, loss, or fear, this book is for you.

From Sorrow to Dancing is recommended by Focus on the Family.

Two Scoops of Grace with Chuckles on Top: Sweet, Funny Reminders of God’s Heart for You

by Jeanette Levellie

From the back cover:

What do drive-by diaper stores and God have in common? When is blabbing an acceptable habit? Why should you beware of moths and slugs?

In her entertaining, uplifting style, award-winning author and humorist Jeanette Levellie weaves 72 amusing stories with affirming biblical truths that will help you:

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Laugh when you find cow patties in your field instead of daisies

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Discover the bottomless heart of God

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Grow in your acceptance of yourself and others

Splashdown: The Rescue of a Navy Frogman

by John Wolfram, US Navy UDT/SEAL

From the back cover:

On July 20, 1969 America did the impossible.

Astronaut Armstrong’s left boot sank into the charcoal-like powder as the citizens of Earth held their breath in wonder. They listened in awe as his words resounded through space and time.

“That’s one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind.”

Four days later, in the midst of the media’s frenzied activity aboard the USS Hornet, the space capsule Columbia burned through the earth’s atmosphere and SPLASHED DOWN into the Pacific Ocean.

UDT/SEAL John Wolfram, a member of the Navy’s elite Special Forces and trained in spacecraft recovery, leaped from a Sea King helicopter into the waves of the Pacific Ocean to become the first person on Earth to greet the astronauts.

Despite a difficult childhood plagued with crushing disappointments and multiple brushes with death, Wolfram dared to reach past his limits. His firsthand experiences are intricately woven into a fascinating period of America’s history.

Journey with him as he recounts Basic Underwater Demolition Training, the living hell known as the Vietnam War, and the rescue of the Apollo 11 astronauts from the sea.

Splashdown: The Rescue of a Navy Frogman is an inspiration to all who strive to achieve the impossible and is a remarkable challenge to those who seek inner strength.

Military Fly Moms: Sharing Memories, Building Legacies, Inspiring Hope

by Linda Maloney, U.S. Navy Naval Flight Officer (NFO), Ret.

Military Fly Moms is a collection of the true stories of more than sixty women who shared the same two dreams—becoming a military aviator, and being a mom. These stories and their accompanying photographs weave a beautiful tapestry, passing on a lasting legacy to inspire future generations to reach for their dreams.

A coffee table book.

400 Days

by Danette Hayes, Blue Star Families’ Director

of National Guard/Reserve Outreach

"Since 2001 the families of our military have been burdened with deployment after deployment. The activation of the National Guard is unprecedented today. Not since WWII has the National Guard been routinely deployed as they have been since 2001 to help fight the war on terror. This is our family's story from a civilian life to an active military life. Keeping the marriage and family together is the best defense in maintaining a strong military. Every family is unique as they begin this "new normal," learning to survive the deployment and aftermath of a life that is hardly recognizable anymore. As much as this is our story, it's also our rehabilitation back into civilian life, returning to a community that has little understanding of what faces the civilian soldier and their family."

So impressed with the real-life wisdom and heart in this biography, the Adjutant General of Illinois has incorporated 400 Days into Yellow Ribbon Reintegration training for all military leaders/commanders.

Escape from Berlin: The Diane Jacobs Story

by Frank J. Zanca

From the back cover:

“When life is all you have left, escape is the only option.”

The year was 1936 when she first saw Adolf Hitler face to face. His attempt at genocide would ultimately lead to the destruction of a nation and bring about the greatest war the world had ever seen. Young Daisy Gronowski had little choice but to change her identity and leave her family behind, fleeing to England. This is the story of her long and dangerous journey to freedom.

The War that Touched the World as told through the eyes of a young Jewish girl with a passion to live.

The View from a Hammock: Finding Fulfillment When Life Unravels

by James F. Motyka, Vietnam Veteran

Navy aircraft plane captain and Vietnam veteran Jim Motyka had it all—he played a role in the Gemini 12 space capsule recovery, was decorated for outstanding service to our country (including the Presidential Unit Citation and two Navy Unit Commendations), owned businesses, houses, cars, boats, and enjoyed vacations, family, friends, and good health. He truly had it all.

Then he lost it all.

For decades he wandered through life with no real direction. Then he retired. And found what he’d been missing all along.

Adventurous and inspiring, The View from a Hammock provides hope and direction for people who search for meaning and answers during life’s overwhelming challenges.

Dating With Swagger: How to Be a Rock Star Dater

by Kim Ward, the Chick Gab Chick

Dating is like driving cross-country on Route 66 in a red-hot convertible. Every turn has new and exciting possibilities, the scenery is always changing, and there is a certain amount of risk with putting the pedal to the floor.

But oftentimes in this world we look at dating as if driving through a crowded city street with dirt on the windshield clouding the view ahead. There is no fun in being in traffic with no view to boot. It’s merely stressful and unpleasing.

Dating should not be hard; it should be as fun as skydiving from the Empire State Building on warm summer day. Yes, dating can be that fun, and I, the gifted girl of gab, am going to teach you how to have fun as a single by learning how to date with “swagger.”

The Gold Standard, a Heartsong Presents Mystery, Barbour Publishing

by Lisa J. Lickel

From the back cover:

Just how high a price does buried treasure command?

School teacher Judy Winters sets out to solve the mystery surrounding her Aunt Louise's murder back on the family farm. Amid her sleuthing, Judy encounters Hart Wingate, a young man who rented the adjoining farm and helped Aunt Louise with farm chores. When Judy learns her boyfriend, Graham, has been secretly visiting Louise, she decides to move away from him for the summer and think over the situation.

As Judy explores her aunt's house, she finds and follows clues in Louise's mother's diary to unearth buried treasure. But was the treasure behind Louise's murder?

Thyme for Love

by Pamela S. Meyers

From the back cover:

When April Love signs on to be an in-house chef at an old lakeshore mansion in Canoga Lake, Wisconsin, she comes face to face with her long-lost love, the drop-dead gorgeous Marc Thorne. It doesn't take long for their old magnetism to recharge, but how can she trust the guy who left her nearly at the altar eight years earlier? Her gut tells her something happened to Marc in between—something he's reluctant to reveal.

When April's boss is murdered, Marc is accused of the crime. Unless April can find out who really killed Ramón Galvez, her chances of love will end up at the county jail. But someone else is just as determined she not solve the mystery . . . and will go to any length to stop her.

A Case of the Heart

by Beth Shriver

Liz, a spirited and compassionate social worker, has one of the roughest beats in Denver. Officer Alex Demas has bailed Liz out of more than one tough situation, and his attraction for her is building.

When one of her clients is caught up in a drug ring, Liz and Alex must face what lies between them and snare the drug dealer before he finds her client.

Love is a Rose

by Beth Shriver

Rose Fontane, a homeless shelter caseworker, would do anything for the residents who live there. Her life is the shelter, even to the point of having no family of her own.

This all begins to change when architect Jeremy Wheeler stumbles upon the shelter while scouting out the area for the site his company plans to destroy and build an outdoor shopping area. In order to date Rose, he has to court the shelter as well, and in doing so he becomes attached to the people there.

Rose begins to change her view of the corporate world as she finds that Jeremy’s heart is as genuine as hers when it comes to helping those in need.

Hangtown Creek: A Story of the California Gold Rush

by John Putnam

With her rescuer beside her, Maggie flees deeper into the unknown foothills, pursued by her memories, fears, and two ruthless killers who will stop at nothing to get her.

In an isolated valley filled with gold, she finds a refuge, and marries the good man who saved her.

When young Tom Marsh shows up, Maggie takes him in and suddenly feels complete, even happy. After the loneliness, pain, and tears of the past, she has a family to love again.

Then the killers burst through her door.

The majestic landscapes of Brett Harte’s California unite with Larry McMurtry’s epic old west realism in an explosion of love, lust, murder, and betrayal that comes to a powerful climax along a beautiful stream, home to the largest strike in the mines, where a burning barn ignites the passion of a gold rush boomtown and, in one dark night of revenge, earns that stream the name it bears to this day—HANGTOWN CREEK.

Obscure Origins

by Jason Robert Macumber

When you have no past, how can you justify your existence? Rion Hart thought he had the perfect life—until the day it ended. After suffering a near-death experience, Rion discovers his entire life was nothing more than a fabrication, and everyone he loved never existed. To make matters worse, he is an alien hybrid, who was part of a secret government project known as Guardian, established after the Roswell crash of 1947. Taken in by a family of hybrids like himself, Rion learns more about his shaded past while he struggles to cope with all he has lost. Thankfully, being part alien comes with some perks, including a wicked ability that allows him to move objects with his mind. When his new life is threatened by the arrival of three mysterious transfer students with powers of their own, Rion realizes he will do anything to defend his new family, even if it means sacrificing his past to secure an unknown future.

Love at First Flight

by Beth Shriver

Neely's family trip to Mexico started out as one last hurrah before college. She's determined to make this her trip, in spite of the fact that her parents are celebrating their twenty-fifth anniversary and that her sister is back from college. But Neely’s trip turns into love at first sight when she meets a young man who is attracted to her old-fashioned sentimentalism and her love for the disadvantaged people of his country.

Neely meets another guy who is desperate for her attention, even dangerous at times. At first it seems innocent, but his stunts grow more serious. When the worst incident strikes, she must face an overwhelming fear.

Too, a painful decision awaits: At the end of her trip, will she be able to leave the beautiful beaches of Mexico, impoverished people she longs to help, and a guy she'll never forget, to return to her own country and the future she had planned?

Sister Water and Misses Wind

by celebrated storyteller Kirk Waller

Do you know how the very first storm came to be? Sister and Water and Misses Wind, Kirk Waller's first children's book, is a delightful and comforting story that begins in a peaceful age before there were storms in the earth.

As Wind and Water fuss over their children, Mamas and Papas all over the earth comfort their little ones. This beautifully illustrated 26-page picture book, inspired from an old African-American folktale, recounts how the very first storm came to be. For the young and young at heart.