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Interview with an Oracle, Profound Revelations about Our World by M.G. Hawking

About Interview with an Oracle, Profound Revelations about Our World by M.G. Hawking:

Free on Amazon 7/13 – 7/16/19. If you’re concerned about the current state of the world, the political turmoil in our country, the future of our country, and the future of Western civilization, this book is an important read.
The revelations in this book came because a thousand voices called for them, and for good reason. Theology has crumbled and political theory collapsed; technology complicates life and war; “political correctness” subverts truth to enthrone ignorance; the transformation of mainstream journalism into agenda-driven propaganda obliterates facts and conceals realities; religious fanaticism infiltrates governments, terrorizes citizens, inflames the world, and imperils every rational nation on our planet.
In this unprecedented account, while trekking in a remote region of the Himalayan mountains, explorer M.G. Hawking encountered an ancient Oracle Temple in the highlands of Tibet where he met with a true shamanistic Oracle of the esoteric B’on tradition. Hawking’s discussions with the Oracle revealed a profound series of insights and revelations about our country and the condition of our world’s civilizations.
A brief excerpt of the Oracle’s comments: “In your country what was once a government of reason and law has been replaced by a tyranny of men. The sovereignty of the people has become a sovereignty of manipulators, politicians as conscious agents of a great deception, the power of which dements even more than it corrupts. Your society is divided into a tiny group of men who choose and decide, a small number of others who know far less and decide nothing yet wield power in conformity with the hidden policies—those who gather in your congress to go through the motions of democracy’s ghost—and the masses, compelled to act and live absent a true comprehension of the manipulation of their lives.” Author’s note: “As the Oracle expressed this, there was no trace of mocking or bitterness in his voice, only a certain weariness, a calm acceptance of what is.”
An extraordinary narrative that is compelling, entertaining, and thought provoking, this book will impact you, engender discussions, and linger in your thoughts long after the last words have been read. 2019 Second Edition, Kindle e-reader page count 296 (estimated, actual count varies depending on the reading device used). A Kindle Unlimited Book. Includes Reference Citations and Associated Material Anthology. For more information, please see the ‘Look Inside’ feature on the book’s Amazon page. Thank you.

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You Can’t Buy Love Like That Growing Up Gay in the Sixties

About You Can’t Buy Love Like That Growing Up Gay in the Sixties:

Carol Anderson is raised in a fundamentalist Christian home in the ’60s, at a time when being gay is in opposition to all social and religious mores and against the law in most states. Fearing the rejection of her parents, with whom she shares a loving relationship, she hides the truth and pursues false romances with men while struggling to harness her powerful attractions to women.

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.

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If My Heart Had Wings: A World War II Love Story

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An enthralling true story of star-crossed love, the brutality of war, corrosive family secrets and a young widow’s hard-won journey to finding herself…

It’s 1943 and World War II is raging when 22-year-old Nina Raff learns that her Army pilot husband has been killed in action. To escape her grief, she quits her job, moves across the country, and soon marries a man she hardly knows, unknowingly plunging herself into a psychologically abusive and powerless marriage. Because her husband won’t allow her to mention her first marriage, the past stays buried for the next twenty years… until her teenage daughter finds an unfamiliar picture of her mother as a bride, and a heartrending, amazing story tumbles out. Those who love the romance and high stakes of WWII will eat up this saga of love, loss, family secrets, breaking free and the indelible bonds of true love.

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Memories of Pith By Pith Schure

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Following his love for travelling, the author offered his services as an expert in the field of physical and institutional rural development in 23 countries into the age of 70.

From Africa, back to Europe and then on to the Caribbean. Back and forth from Europe to countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean as far as South America, this is an extensive account of the places and cultures he experienced, combined with important family events that marked his life.

Memories of Pith by Pith Schure is the author’s memoirs of his travels and developmental work for countries in need.

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Kid69 By Sandy McKnight

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Sandy was a Brooklyn boy in search of a world beyond Bensonhurst. By 1969, he was 15, and ready for anything — and in the fields of people at Woodstock, on the incense-laced streets of the East Village, and amidst Vietnam war demonstrators…he found it. It’s the story of an adventurous kid in even more adventurous times. Part ‘coming of age’, part ‘coming of rage’, part revolution, part revelation…here comes Kid69!

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A Prisoner of Jesus Christ

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This is the true story of a young boy who grew up with a deep desire for love and acceptance. Instead he was harshly abused and mistreated by his alcoholic preacher father and older brother. He grew into a violent man whose life consisted of fights, and scrapes with law enforcement. He learned to run when things got really tough.
Often, he sought the will of God for his life, rising from being a victim to an overcomer several times, however drugs and alcohol always pulled him back down. He had a beautiful wife and children that he loved dearly, but when things got tough,he’d walk away into the ready arms of alcohol and other women. This would be his undoing.

Finally, one day in 1984, a shootout left a man dead and him in the county jail on a murder charge. Thinking his life was over, he attempted to end his life, but two ministers of God felt led to pray with him, thus preventing his death. Finally, in an honest attempt to be set free from his guilt and pain, he cried out to God, and God saved him and set him free. He found that God was not finished with him and discovered his life had just begun.

This story is a must read for evangelical use or prison ministry, for it points those who are going astray including those already in jails or prisons to the cross of Calvary and to a loving, forgiving Savior who will set them free too.

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90 Days to Live

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How an ALL-Natural Cancer Treatment Took the Author from “90 Days to Live” to Full Remission

2019 National Indie Excellence Award Winner
2019 Independent Press Award – Distinguished Favorite

When an out-of-the-blue cancer diagnosis quickly turned into a 90-days-to-live death sentence from his doctor, Rodney Stamps and his wife Paige defied the medical establishment, and drew their line in the sand.

With both a growing family and business–and given that their doctors promised only to briefly extend his life with chemotherapy–the Stamps gave a resounding “No” to chemo and radiation.

90 Days to Live recounts the Stamps’ incredible and inspirational journey to find an alternative answer to cancer. In the end…

They’d beaten cancer while building a million-dollar business.
Following his ALL-natural protocol religiously, Rodney’s cancer went into full remission. On top of that triumph, he took his fire-and-safety business–which had just begun to take off when he’d received his cancer diagnosis–into a million-dollar enterprise.

An ALL-Natural Treatment Focus
Unlike other books by cancer survivors claiming to cure their own cancer “naturally,” but in actuality, relying heavily on modern medicine (surgery/drugs), 90 Days to Live outlines a 100% alternative medical treatment (i.e., using absolutely no allopathic–a.k.a. conventional–medicine)–a treatment that’s delivered incredible results to Rodney and countless others.

Alternately heart-wrenching and heartwarming–and delivered in an engaging dual-author format–90 Days to Live will speak to anyone struggling with an “incurable” disease, building a business under trying circumstances, or anyone who just loves a good old-fashioned, “beating-the-odds” story.

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A Hero’s Heart by Tiffany Fenton

A Hero's Heart by Tiffany FentonAbout A Hero’s Heart by Tiffany Fenton:

A Hero’s Heart is a a true story of victory, captivatingly told for the first time, from the survivor herself. It is a story of brutality, cruelty, and loss. It is a story of demons, heartache, and agony. It is a story of love, joy, and abundance. And lastly, it is a memoir told with fervor and elation. The writer shares her emotions in intimate detail as she conveys her journey from abuse, to illness, to deaths, and ultimately to ascendancy.

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Fractured Grace: How to Create Beauty, Peace and Healing for Yourself and the World by Julie Krull

About Fractured Grace: How to Create Beauty, Peace and Healing for Yourself and the World by Julie Krull

Fractured Grace is a prescription for individual and collective healing—a resounding call for wholeness in today’s escalating state of chaos, separation and fear. With a unique and intimate journey into the author’s own healing process, from an early childhood Near-Death Experience to a freak accident with several broken bones, you are invited to step outside of an outdated worldview to create more beauty, peace and healing for yourself and the world.

Dr. Julie Krull offers an impassioned spiritual perspective on global healing and the evolution of consciousness. She demonstrates how an illusion of separation is the root cause of wide-spread pain, suffering, and even necessary whole-systems breakdown in every aspect of life. Fractured Grace breaks through that illusion and inspires a return to wholeness. Krull challenges the understanding of popular, fragmented models of healing and crisis response, and moves you into a grounded place of hope and clarity, helping you create the conditions for individual and collective healing to occur. She weaves personal stories, current events, and prophetic vision to lay the foundation for deep and regenerative systemic transformation and change. Her masterful story-telling and authentic voice, inspire and enliven the path to wholeness and the reclamation of your inherent unity. Her down-to-earth, palatable approach invites you to explore new concepts and expand your consciousness.

Fractured Grace is based on Dr. Julie’s thirty-plus-year career as a healer, spiritual teacher, and psychotherapist, working with individuals, groups and organizations, interviewing and working with hundreds of evolutionary leaders, and drawing on her own mystical experiences. The book reveals how the radical application of a heart-based, soul-centric lens can calm your mind, heal your body, create sustained peace, and jump our interconnected, whole-living-system to a higher order.

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A Surgeon’s Life With Bipolar Disorder By John A. Emery MD

A Surgeon’s Life With Bipolar Disorder By John A. Emery MDAbout A Surgeon’s Life With Bipolar Disorder By John A. Emery MD:

Dr. Emery presents a proactive memoir, which discusses pipolar disorder and how this disease affected his life before and after the diagnosis at age 39.

Dr. Emery has had many unique experiences including a childhood in West Virginia, exposure to the UCLA football program in the late 50’s, UCSF Medical School, the Watts Riot of 1965, the Vietnam War and the Tet Offensive of 1998. He practiced Urology in Southern California for over 30 years.

He draws from these experiences to explain his experience with bipolar disorder and to describe many other medical conditions he has delt with.

The book has been described as a very good book to read for all those interested in bipolar disorder and see how one person dealt with this disease.

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The Illumination, A Story of the Magic of Life and The Light by M.G. Hawking

About The Illumination, A Story of the Magic of Life and The Light by M.G. Hawking:

Free on Amazon 6/1 – 6/2/19. Explore one of the most fascinating of all mysteries. In this richly illuminating short story, while deep in the vast frozen fortress of the Himalayan mountains the author encounters something very unexpected; an experience of enlightenment that answers his innermost questions.
“Always I have loved the vastness and beauty of nature, sensed some deep mystery there, some great and profound meaning. One explores the great mountains, standing eternal like monumental puzzles, inviting wonder and curiosity. What is this vastness, what does it mean?—and the beauty, what is the cause of it? What is this enormous energy of the world, the power, the life, the light? For so long I traveled the wilderness, thinking how incredible everything was, often dangerous, sometimes sad, sometimes joyful, yet always beautiful. I lived and walked the mountains and traveled through forests, searching—and certain things looked so enchanting, so mysterious—tongues of flame writhing against the darkness, an eagle wheeling through the blue, a crystal lake huddled in emerald forest, a great white peak sailing on the sky, millions of stars scattered across the night like so many cities of the gods. So often I gazed in wonder and awe, and once a strange feeling came over me, as though something never seen yet long anticipated was about to happen, that a veil was about to lift, the riddle unravel, the secret reveal itself, that at last I would see into the mystery.”
Compelling and inspirational, this Kindle Unlimited book will stay with you long after the last words have been read. An important read for anyone on a spiritual path. 2019 Edition. For more information, please see the description and ‘Look Inside’ feature on the book’s Amazon page. Thank you.

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Ever the Patriot: Recollections of Vincent J. Riccio, World War II Veteran and POW

About Ever the Patriot: Recollections of Vincent J. Riccio, World War II Veteran and POW:

Like many Americans, as soon as Vincent J. Riccio heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor he wanted to enlist in the military. This memoir recounts his experiences in the United States Army Air Corps as an Instrument Technician, Aviation Cadet, and Flight Engineer in World War II. It describes his escapades during training and deployment, the missions flown over Germany, the fateful events that led to his captivity in Stalag Luft IV, and the long road home. It reflects his impressions of military service, the people he met, and the lessons he learned along the way.

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Hello This Is Us

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“Hello This Is Us,” is about a summer vacation that my family and I had taken one summer to the country to visit some relatives. The setting of the story takes place in rural Mississippi and in parts of Louisiana. One of the characters in the story finds that her parents after staying in the country while on vacation, had decided that they were going to be permanently living in the country, after Elcee her uncle had persuaded her father Alex that life was much better in the country than it was in the city which made her very disappointed to know that she would have to leave her friends behind in the city.

Despite some of the disappointing moments that took place in the book, the book is also filled with lots of hilarious events that happened on some occasions that’ll keep you laughing throughout the book.

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Tornados, Rattlesnakes & Oil — A Wildcatter’s Memories of Hunting for "Black Gold" by Thomas Cochrane, Geologist

About Tornados, Rattlesnakes & Oil — A Wildcatter’s Memories of Hunting for “Black Gold” by Thomas Cochrane, Geologist

Black Gold…OIL…the magic bullet of liquid petroleum not only propels all manner of people-movers globally, it’s also a component of more than 6,000 products everything from motorcycle helmets, to vitamin capsules, to ink. But who DISCOVERS these critical and elusive fossil fuels of oil & gas?

MEET A WILDCATTER whose back-in-the-day journey from the hills of New York, to the ice fields of Alaska, to the plains of the Midwest brings the reader along on this complex quest to SEE underground. Here’s an insider’s look at the petroleum industry of the latter 20th century and what geologist Thomas E. Cochrane experienced along the way. From Oklahoma, to Texas, to rubbing elbows with iconic oilman T. Boone Pickens, his personal tales of the oil fields provide a firsthand glimpse into the art as well as the science of exploring and drilling all in the relentless pursuit of hitting the big one, every wildcatter’s dream.

From company man, to making indie deals and partnering on the fly while chasing the next hot prospect, Cochrane discloses the technical processes involved in detail…but also the thrill of the hunt including what can sometimes go very wrong. From dry holes, to blowouts, to sketchy money men among a cast of other colorful oil patch characters, his story delivers a step-back-in-time look at a bygone era in an ever-evolving global industry… and he has a sage perspective to share on its future as well.

INCLUDES: over two dozen vintage B/W photos, charts & diagrams along with helpful sidebars to introduce the uninitiated to the science of hunting for oil.

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Man & Horse: The Long Ride Across America by John Egenes

About Man & Horse: The Long Ride Across America by John Egenes

In 1974 John Egenes saddled his young horse, Gizmo and set out to do the impossible. Together, the pair started down the trail on a quest to cross the North American continent. This is the true story of their seven month adventure, a journey that took them across the United States, from ocean to ocean, across an America that no longer exists.
“What a genuine piece of writing! And what a pleasure to read a work that wasn’t pretentious or self-aggrandizing, but that was, in fact, just the opposite… Everyone needs to read this book. It is a modern classic.”

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Hello This Is Us

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“Hello This Is Us,” is about a summer vacation that my family and I had taken one summer to the country to visit some relatives. The setting of the story takes place in rural Mississippi and in parts of Louisiana. One of the characters in the story finds that her parents after staying in the country while on vacation, had decided that they were going to be permanently living in the country, after Elcee her uncle had persuaded her father Alex that life was much better in the country than it was in the city which made her very disappointed to know that she would have to leave her friends behind in the city.

Despite some of the disappointing moments that took place in the book, the book is also filled with lots of hilarious events that happened on some occasions that’ll keep you laughing throughout the book.

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Paid to Live the Dream by Anthony Edwards

About Paid to Live the Dream by Anthony Edwards:

From steam tugs on the Thames to yachts in the Med. If you like a nautical adventure combined with an uplifting tale of achieving your dream, this is for you!
This is a moving story of a young man’s determination to escape from the limitations of an unhappy childhood in a Gravesend council estate and experience the wider world that had been revealed to him in the children’s cinema shows he had attended every Saturday morning when he was a boy.
A serendipitous decision had resulted in him experiencing the harsh life of a Thames Tugman, with its long hours and ever-present dangers. He had relished the risks and enjoyed the comradeship, but after seven years, he had felt the urge to move on. An electrifying flash of inspiration led him to the exhilarating world of ocean racing.
Enthralled by the thrills of sailing, he set himself the new goal of combining yachting with his overwhelming desire to travel. However, he was not expecting to have to deal with a gun-toting con-man, Americans demanding that he control the weather, perverts, orgies, and the chaotic fiascos of a boat not fit for purpose.
• Part 1. Anthony Edwards entertains us with stories of his early life in 1950’s Gravesend and tells of the momentous decisions that would change the course of his life.
• An insightful account of working in the dangerous environment of Thames steam tugs in the ‘50s and ‘60s.
• Intense love and the heartache that followed.
• Christmas Eve in custody and other exploits and misunderstandings on trips to France and Spain, on what were precursors to modern package tours.
• Part 2. An exciting change in direction, with a lucky break leading to a new life.
• Navigating the French and Belgian canals en route for the Med in an ill-conceived and disastrous new yacht. This first command involved a delusional owner and his nymphomaniac muse, an engineer who knew very little about engines and a boat built more like a coach than a luxury yacht.
• Insightful observations and historical anecdotes about places visited.
• Mediterranean charterers – dealing with the perverted, the demanding, the selfish, the terrified.
Some people might question whether climbing up a cliff face in the dark or being tossed around in a storm in the Bay of Biscay could be considered the dream, but at least he was doing what he wanted to do!

Anthony Edwards’ story is not only absorbing but unforgettable. His ability to risk it all for everything he had only dreamt about is beyond inspirational. Paid to Live the Dream is definitely captivating and, on top of that, enlightening.’
From a five star review by Edith Wairimu for Readers’ Favorite

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