Vicarious Death: a short story
A gifted young artist, Matt struggles with the sudden emergence of a strange and horrifying power.
Saturday, November 30, 2019
Thursday, November 28, 2019
Single and Loathing It: A Novel
Low-life ad executive and part-time drunk Chris Van Zandt is on an existential conquest to find love any way he can.
Single and Loathing It is a razor-sharp and intensely funny depiction of the desperate days and nights on the dating circuit as a millennial.
With nothing but optimism, pharmaceuticals, copious amounts of alcohol, and an array of smartass comments to aide him in his mission, Van Zandt’s life spirals into a series of bizarre escapades, including getting catfished, dating a born-again virgin, attending an upscale orgy while on MDMA, and just about anything involving his unforgettably eccentric friend and co-worker, Greg.
Overflowing with satire, mediocre sex, and mindless drinking, Van Zandt learns the bitter reality of text etiquette, the awkward consequences of dating in the workplace, the constant hilarity of the advertising world, and even uncovers a few hidden truths about himself.
Will Chris rediscover his sense of morality and find the love of his life? Or will he stumble further down Desolation Row? Sure to appeal to anyone who has ever found him- or herself single without a clue about what they’re doing, Single and Loathing It is a laugh-out-loud odyssey that only a hardened veteran of the dating frontline could write.
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Kanban Confusion: An Introduction to Context and Use
Kanban Confusion:
An Introduction to Context and Use
(Carnsa Development Series)
Help to get your team or organised - Try Kanban!
This is the fifth short semi-fictional story from the Carnsa Development series focusing on the Agile method of Kanban. Get the edge and check out the eBook ‘Kanban Confusion: An Introduction to Context and Use’ by Chris Lewis. Join the Carnsa family in understanding the background, context, set up and maintenance of a Kanban process with an example from the home. Designed to be read in about an hour to help you understand the basics and a little more. Explore how Kanban visualises your project work flow and support continuous improvement!
Are you a busy entrepreneur, student or involved in a project and want to get organised? Check out this handy book available from Amazon as a paper book and other eBook stores. If you want to know more about this and other books check out the website https://www.carnsa.dev.com
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Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Rhapsody in Dreams
Rhapsody in Dreams
He saved her life when she was a little girl. She brought him the most incredible dreams and became his inspiration…
At twelve, Al rescued the little girl during the hurricane Andrew. But the most incredible thing was, he did that in his dream…
Eight years later, Al Gabriel, a world-renowned pianist sees a teenage girl at his concert and recognizes the child he dragged from the rubble.
Many years later, fate brought them together again.
Kira Wagner is a gifted surgeon; he is at the pinnacle of his musical career.
But neither one has forgotten the mysterious encounter many years ago. And both still have the most unusual dreams.
But while Al remembers Kira as a child he rescued, she remembers much, much more: all her previous lifetimes. Throughout the centuries, she has met and fallen in love with the same man who is now called Al Gabriel.
And she knows this is the last time fate brought them together.
Will Al's love without remembrance be enough?
Can Kira trust the man who doesn't believe her?
Will they be able to change the history and bring the cycle of their lives full circle, completing it at last?
Monday, November 25, 2019
Power To Heal My Whole Self
Often, the emotions associated with the feeling of being powerless are as a result of one’s fundamental flaw as a human being. Individuals can have a staggering level of low self-esteem, causing thoughts and feelings of worthlessness and despair to rise to the surface. They endure and suffer so much. It is essential too for them to address these thoughts and feelings that they carry within, to acknowledge their existence, and work towards facing them head-on.
Healing is usually more challenging because it is mainly about the individual and having the courage to face their fears and not any of the specific actions involved in the healing process. Feeling powerless has many forms and manifests itself within individuals in various ways. It differs from human to human; however, there are a few standard features shared across each human that has ever felt it. Some of these features include strong physical responses, uncomfortable thoughts, and troublesome behavioral patterns.
This feeling of powerlessness has many components. It is achingly painful and echoes within. It can even affect an individual in ways that can paralyze attempts to curb it. Consequently, it can cause the individual to withdraw emotionally and physically disconnect themselves from others.
I chose to write this book, Power to Heal My Whole Self, to direct attention to this topic because many persons do not truly understand how being powerless feels. Those who do are too afraid to talk about it and confront it. I struggled through the majority of my life with these feelings of being unworthy or good enough to be loved. Despite the progress I have made in acknowledging these feelings, even I still, at times, being drawn back to the same sentiments time and time again. One thing I failed to understand during my discovery phase was the greater importance of other individuals suffering from the same feelings. Thankfully, working with my clients helped me to understand this. Similarly, through them, I began to question things:
Why hadn’t they ever addressed these feelings?
Why were they just comfortable with masking their feelings of not feeling good enough?
Once I began helping them accept themselves and that they were worthy, lovable, and that their existence was meaningful, it spurred me on to continue to help others as well. I wanted to be there with them on their journey of self-realization; to guide them towards realizing their dignity, pride, and self-worth.
Power to Heal My Whole Self explores why individuals trapped in suffering cannot improve their lives. It explains why they need to understand what being powerless is, where it comes from, and how to move towards the healing process.
Sunday, November 24, 2019
Corporate Undertaker: Business Lessons from the Dead and Dying
Corporate Undertaker:
Business Lessons from the Dead and Dying
I go to work with a police escort. I am the gatekeeper of the worst behavior by the world’s biggest banks, law firms, and corporations. I’ve overseen the ruin of thousands of companies. Eighty percent of my clients die.
I am the Corporate Undertaker. You don’t want to meet me… but many of you will.
In this thrilling business memoir, author Domenic Aversa reveals the firsthand account of his messy life as an entrepreneur and corporate crisis manager. For more than 25 years, he has actively assisted companies in dramatic operational transition. During his career, he’s had chairs thrown at his head and guns pointed at his heart. Occasionally, he’s able to pull off a miracle and save a company. Most of the time, he simply tries to ease the agony. This book will show you how to navigate the most difficult stages of your entrepreneurial journey: life, adversity, crisis, death, and rebirth.
For those readers seeking an inside look at the downfall of business giants, as well as the slow fizzle of smaller companies, Corporate Undertaker: Business Lessons from the Dead and Dying by author and crisis manager Domenic Aversa offers a savage peek behind the corporate curtain.
A fast-paced, stark and emotionally candid memoir from a crisis manager and corporate restructuring expert. The author recounts his first hand experience of working 25 years in the volatile, corrupt and devastating corners of the corporate world. It is a compelling slice of the human experience.
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Saturday, November 23, 2019
Mockingbird Ridge
MOCKINGBIRD RIDGE:
The Wisdom of a Woman in the Woods
A charming tale of how one man discovers the path he once traveled and the path to spiritual freedom. All along the mountains he climbed when he was young. With a surprising discovery and conversations that changed his life, Mockingbird Ridge became the place where he found his past, but also found permission to roam in his own soul.
Friday, November 22, 2019
How to Love
How To Love isn’t a typical love story about a boy and girl. Instead it is a beautiful fictional story about two sisters, Jade Carter and Nicole Taylor who battle with self-image, self-esteem, social acceptance and colorism.
These biological sisters struggle with their idea of beauty and success. The discussion of “light skin vs dark skin” has been a prevalent part of their upbringing. This misstep in their foundational development has prevented them from recognizing genuine love.
All of these obstacles hinder them from having healthy relationships with anyone around them including each other. Neither sister realizes that they are winning within their own lanes because they are blinded by the jealousy they have for each other. They secretly want each other lives because they never learned how to love and they don’t realize a life better than their own doesn’t exist!
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Aaron Hernandez's Killing Fields
Aaron Hernandez's Killing Fields:
Exposing Untold Murders, Violence, Cover-Ups, and the NFL's Shocking Code of Silence (Front Page Detectives)
You think you know the Aaron Hernandez story? You don’t.
In prison, the ex-New England Patriots' star BRAGGED that he committed a FOURTH murder to his prison lover Kyle Kennedy in an exclusive interview with investigative journalist Dylan Howard conducted inside the Old Colony Correctional Facility in Bridgewater, Mass.
So who did he kill? The new book, Aaron Hernandez’s Killing Fields, reveals all. On the trail of a serial killer >> https://amzn.to/2C7WE7G
Further Details into the Criminal Life of a Former Football Star
From teenage gang member to $40 million star of the New England Patriots, from All-American college player to drug addict, murderer, dead by suicide in his jail cell at age twenty-seven…you think you know the Aaron Hernandez story? You don’t.
For the first time, Aaron Hernandez’s Killing Fields will reveal the real, hitherto unknown motive for the killing of Odin Lloyd—the only crime for which Hernandez was ever convicted and a revelation so shocking it will shake the foundations of the NFL itself. It will also unpick a pattern of violence and brutality stretching back to his time as a teenager at the University of Florida, revealing further shooting victims, evidence of his involvement in the double murder of Daniel Abreu and Safiro Furtado in 2012.
Featuring new interviews with Hernandez’s cellmates, serving police investigators, prosecutors, psychologists, attorneys—as well as key witnesses including Hernandez’s drug dealer, a male stripper he hired days before the killing of Lloyd—plus extensive testimony from relatives of Hernandez’s victims, Aaron Hernandez’s Killing Fields is the exhaustive, definitive account of the rise and fall of a man undone by his own appetite for violence, gangsterism, power, drugs, and self-destruction.
This is the real Aaron Hernandez story—and perhaps just the beginning of a whole new murder investigation.
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019
The Part Time Startup: Your Path to Financial Freedom While Building Your Career
The Part Time Startup:
Your Path to Financial Freedom
While Building Your Career
Trying to grow a business while still having that full time job? In this book, we dive into what it takes to build a business while working full time. There are a lot of people who glamourize the idea of quitting your job, and jumping in to create a startup – which you are more than welcome to do of course. Or, you can be one of those super successful people who not only have a successful career, but also a successful business!
We start with the key things any start up needs, giving you insight into helpful things to consider as you start your business. Then we take you back – as far back in time as middle school. We then go through what kind of internships and educational choices you’ve made or are going to make. Next, we investigate how your choices shape your ability to deliver professional success, and how that impacts your ability to maintain what is important in your life. As we finish reviewing ourselves, we piece together how to integrate your success with how to develop and grow your new business.
Learn how you can convert your passion into success, integrating your whole self with your mission. Then use your integrity and vision to give you the freedom, confidence, and security we all seek in our lives.
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Tenacious: Unique Strategies for Relentless Transformation with Behind the Scene Perspective from The Coach’s Wife
Tenacious:
Unique Strategies for Relentless Transformation with Behind the Scene Perspective from The Coach’s Wife
Change has been the primary theme of Penni Graham’s life. In Tenacious, she shares stories and lessons of how her and her husband, Coach Todd Graham, infused programs, people and places with transformation cultures that are about winning in all facets of life, including their own. Penni’s lessons are filled with authentic pain and passion that teach the reader to overcome, adapt and accelerate their personal and professional lives.
In Tenacious, Penni describes how their lives went from omission to a commission to make a difference in others’ lives. Both born with little hope, we learn how they achieved the American Dream by applying the strategies and plans outlined.
As the coach’s wife, Penni gives you a unique view of living in the arena. How it can create new challenges and adversity in many aspects of life. And a behind the scene’s look at college football shows you how you can learn from its challenges and champions. The Graham Plan gives the reader a road map to change their world from striving to thriving.
Penni is a strong presence who brings strength, determination, and drive to everything she does. Whether you see her volunteering for those in need or in the middle of the action inside the stadium, you will see her giving it her all. She pulls from her own experiences as a coach’s wife, mother, friend and insatiable learner to help others in all aspects of their lives. Using the power of wisdom and caring for others, Penni has already helped many people through her life and wants to add you to her list.
Change is the foundation we build our lives on. Daily we experience some type of change and how to struggle through and deal with it. Penni Graham has brought out the Graham Playbook about how to handle the game of life. The Graham Playbook helps you, the reader, with your life’s obstacles and challenges. Penni provides plays, tips, and tricks to become the champion of your own game all while cheering you on along the way. Rather picking this book up for personal or professional reasons you are joining the winning team. Now open the cover and step onto the field towards a new and positive life.
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Ebook available at Ebooks site
Hard back available on Amazon and Book Stores January 7th
Monday, November 18, 2019
KLEPTOMANIAC Who's Really Robbing God Anyway?
KLEPTOMANIAC, Who's Really Robbing God Anyway? is a trek through the pages of the Bible to find the untwisted truth about the centuries-old false teachings on tithes and offerings. Every page of this book has information that will make you become an analyst in discovering what tithing is in the Old and New Testament. It takes you on a epic theological quest to define the word tithe and then breaks down the differences between giving and tithing as the Bible instructs.
Monetary tithing has been taught as an undisputed fact in churches for centuries. Kleptomaniac: Who's Really Robbing God Anyway challenges that assumption and puts modern tithe teachings under the microscope of scripture. This book examines the word tithe from the original Hebrew language and presents the authentic meaning of the the orthodox term based on the land, language and literature of the Hebrew people.
For church-goers who are tired of being told they rob God of tithes and offerings every Saturday and Sunday, and that God requires a tenth of their income until death, this new book opens the biblical scroll and shines a light on the truth of scripture by debunking centuries-old tithe doctrines, which say a tithe is ten percent of a person's income. The author also explains why many church-goers are not the ones who really rob God. But exposes who the real God robbers are in this shocking tithe manifesto.
The message of the book is that ten percent of a person's income does not represent a biblical tithe. The biblical tithe has always been edible items. A monetary tithe of ten percent represents a tax for religious purposes. A true biblical tithe is narrowly limited to food and clean animals from inside the land of Israel. Also, true biblical tithing was never extended to crafts or trades, and since Jesus was never a farmer, nor headsman, he was not required to tithe.
Kleptomaniac: Who's Really Robbing God Anyway is an educational book that tackles the religious taboo subject such of monetary tithing and presents information about an under-saturated subject in the book world concerning tithing. The book is a scholastic, theological work and should be read by anyone who has skepticism about the truth and accuracy of the modern monetary tithe system that is not contained on the pages of the Bible.
Sunday, November 17, 2019
Planting Wolves
A writer in a purgatory bar, an art collecting housewife who time travels, a movie Production Assistant with stigmata, a codependent AA sponsor, a sex addict, a movie star with issues, a two-time liver transplant recipient and an abusive TV costumer who gets what’s coming to her. All connected to one another but completely and utterly alone.
“An experimental debut novel-in-stories about artists wrestling with addiction and sexual frustration in Los Angeles. A surreal and darkly funny set of tales of West Coast strangers.” — Kirkus Reviews
“A collection of thought-provoking stories of human connection.” — The US Review of Books
“This book will feed your voyeuristic urges as you look deeply through the eyes of each character. Brilliantly written.” — San Francisco Book Review
“Like the six degrees of Kevin Bacon but in a literary way. Six interconnected stories of unhappy characters make up Neda Disney’s Planting Wolves. The narratives all worked well individually and together they add up to a pleasing novel.” — The Manhattan Book Review
"Planting Wolves is a beautifully written masterpiece. A wonderful point-of-view story that comes full circle. Disney captures the lives of six intricate characters whose lives are so magnificently intertwined it will leave you wanting more." — Seattle Book Review
“With unhappiness as its central theme, Planting Wolves is a wild read that will leave you searching for clues to who the characters really are.” — Tulsa Book Review
Saturday, November 16, 2019
Whisper In My Ear
It's the 1960s, and cultural and political unrest is sweeping across America. In the midst of this turmoil, three young Americans find themselves on a path that sends them to join the war effort in Vietnam;Dion Murphy, a handsome football player from Georgia; Cathy Addison, a pretty young nurse from Minnesota; and Norman Coddington, a young man from a wealthy but dysfunctional Boston family. While in Vietnam, all three, along with a beautiful young nurse from the Philippines, must confront enemies from their pasts while walking into an uncertain future.
Set against the backdrop of minor skirmishes and culminating in one of the Vietnam War's longest and bloodiest battles, Whisper in My Ear is a story of two loving couples--with ordinary desires and passions--who are called on to bear witness to an extraordinary time as they serve in the US Marine Corps and the US Navy, and strive to fulfill their duties and follow their orders, whether they agree with them or not, while a gruesome and bloody war rages all around them.
This novel also emphasizes the important role women play in all wars, whether they remain at home or serve abroad, and the debt of gratitude the wounded owe to the critical and angelic care of a combat nurse. The insane torture of captured and or wounded American Marines by the Apache woman is almost unbelievable but true, as are the facts about the Vietnamese culture and the war itself. The Vietcong women were also adept spies and snipers, and the male sniper characterized in the story is based on the life of a famous North Vietnamese mercenary. The story also depicts the exploits of the Vietnam War's most famous American sniper, Marine Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, and the torment suffered by Americans in the prison camp known as the Hanoi Hilton. You will also learn about the unsung heroics of the "Brown Water Navy" and the "Blue Water Navy", and the major impact they had on the war effort and in saving American and South Vietnamese lives. The contributions of our allies, particularly those of Australia, Canada, Sweden, the Philippines, and South Korea, is acknowledged in this story and gratefully appreciated!
Friday, November 15, 2019
The Thread: Imperfect Steps to a God-Ordained Purpose
Discover how Leonie H Mattison achieved intentional transformation through Christ, and as you read, find hope, even in your most challenging times.
A childhood filled with adverse, severe experiences left Leonie Mattison with posttraumatic stress disorder, a prisoner in her soul, and trapped in her mind. As a single mother of three, when she looked at herself in the mirror, she saw herself as a broken girl with a sick soul, a noisy mind, and a broken heart.
The Thread was born out of these life-shattering circumstances. In a tapestry of stories, Leonie shares her struggles, pairing them with tales of women in the Bible who also faced severe tragedy, trial, or failure. She leads readers along a gentle path that shows them how they responded in faith and explains “the thread” it created in each of them. The result is a resounding six-step T.H.R.E.A.D call to action to help you:
Think of the Outcome You Want to Achieve
Harvest the Lessons You Have Learned and Heal Your Heart
Release Fear and Reclaim Your Life
Enlist Allies to Support the Woman Who Has Been Locked Inside
Adopt New Mindsets to Break the Hurtful Patterns and Create New Healthy Behaviors
Design Your Joyful Life and Enjoy It
The women of The Thread have the courage to discover, embrace, and accelerate their God-given purpose. Leonie's prayer is that each beloved reader will recognize that they, too, are worthy of love, can find freedom, and enjoy closeness with God.
Pre-order your copy today and receive it on November 14th, 2019.
Learn more about The Thread at www.leoniemattison.com
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