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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.
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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.
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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.
Biography
Self-Help
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.
Goal Setting/Time Management
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.
Fiction: Romantic Suspense
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.
Fiction: Young Adult
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?
Business/Marketing
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.
Jim Palmer is internationally renowned as The Newsletter Guru—the go-to resource for smart, effective strategies that maximize the profitability of customer relationships.
Fiction: Romantic Mystery
The Gold Standard, a Heartsong Presents Mystery, Barbour Publishing
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?
Fiction: Science Fiction
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.
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.
Read the Chicago Daily Herald article praising 400 Days
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.
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 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.
Jim Palmer is internationally renowned as The Newsletter Guru—the go-to resource for smart, effective strategies that maximize the profitability of customer relationships.
Childrens
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 the 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.
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.
Fiction: Contemporary Romance
Fiction: Western
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 fings 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.
Relationships
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.”
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!
Jim Palmer is internationally renowned as The Newsletter Guru—the go-to resource for smart, effective strategies that maximize the profitability of customer relationships.
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.
