 
“Laughing
at the Sky is a charming “web of words” whose inspirations range from Lao-tze
to Eckhart Tolle to Jack Kerouac. Through a down-pour of lines, fresh tender
new growth displays its multiple potentials. The talent is obvious, the
energy genuine, the tempo of rapture is in the mode of tomorrow. Zaki Aizaz
is “on the plane of the mind”. I am hopeful that one day a giant Sequoia of
his poetry will tower toward the sky, laughing or solemn, to shelter our
fragile lives.” -Zhang Er, Ph.D.

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Humanity’s return to Earth following the devastating
nuclear war has met with catastrophe and forced the survivors to retreat to
the thriving human colony on Tau Ceti 2. With the re-colonization of Earth a
bust, the Reptons include their human friends in their own colonization
plans. With the new generation of Repton starships, the two species can
reach every habitable world within a thousand light-years of Tau Ceti. Paul
Collins and Heather Dixon are members of the mixed Repton/human crew aboard
Te Laposo, the first of these new super ships. Their mission is to seek out
planets suitable for habitation and to return to Tau Ceti to report.
However, the new hyperdrive still has bugs in it. When the drive
malfunctions and hurls them far across the Milky Way, they find themselves
more than 50,000 light-years from Tau Ceti with no way to get home. Nor is
fixing the hyper-drive their only problem. The local stellar neighbor-hood
is full of danger and crowded with other spacefaring species, some of whom
are not happy to see them…

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The nuclear war that everyone has always feared finally
comes to pass after friendly reptilian humanoids, the Reptons, reveal
themselves to the people of Planet Earth. Unable to halt the cataclysm, they
manage to save a paltry one thousand humans and transport them to the
aliens’ home planet in the Tau Ceti system. There the Reptons help the
refugees establish a colony to act as a latter-day Noah’s Ark until such
time as the Earth can once again be made habitable. Charles Pankin, the
leader of the colony, works with Interplanetary Ambassador George Abooli and
the Repton rulers to prepare for the day when humanity can return home. With
the example of the Reptons’ nearly-utopian society to follow, Pankin
believes he can evade the mistakes that almost led to the extinction of the
human race. However, the age-old dream of a utopian society once again
collides with the imperfections of human nature. The colonists find they
must overcome daunting challenges and personal tragedies to achieve their
goal of a repopulated and peaceful Earth. Then something else goes wrong.

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Making
meaning out of chaos, L. L. Morton shares her unusual life in First
Comes Love: The DeProgramming of An Army Wife. This insightful
family drama is a backdrop for discovery of self that lies beneath a sea
of denial and pain, and misplaced sexual expression – a gripping story.

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The nuclear war that everyone has always feared finally
comes to pass after friendly reptilian humanoids, the Reptons, reveal
themselves to the people of Planet Earth. Unable to halt the cataclysm, they
manage to save a paltry one thousand humans and transport them to the
aliens’ home planet in the Tau Ceti system. There the Reptons help the
refugees establish a colony to act as a latter-day Noah’s Ark until such
time as the Earth can once again be made habitable. Charles Pankin, the
leader of the colony, works with Interplanetary Ambassador George Abooli and
the Repton rulers to prepare for the day when humanity can return home. With
the example of the Reptons’ nearly-utopian society to follow, Pankin
believes he can evade the mistakes that almost led to the extinction of the
human race. However, the age-old dream of a utopian society once again
collides with the imperfections of human nature. The colonists find they
must overcome daunting challenges and personal tragedies to achieve their
goal of a repopulated and peaceful Earth. Then something else goes wrong.

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L. L.
Morton’s Love ‘N’ Stuff is a myriad of happy, sad, humorous, and emotive
stories. Her characters will grab at your heart strings and leave you
wanting more. 
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When Pat Morgan inherits a gold mine after returning from a tour of
duty in Iraq, he feels his troubles are over. And they were, until
his life is interrupted by a gang of kidnappers who have taken a
beautiful tutor and her student, a Kuwaiti prince, hostage.
Suddenly, his special forces training comes in handy as he eludes
the gangsters and escapes into the wilderness with the girl and her
charge.
From then on it's a struggle between Pat Morgan, ex-Green Beret, and
some of the most ruthless people this side of Saddam Hussein's
broken empire.
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Slim
-- Western
   

Life was hard in the Old West. After the death of his parents,
young Slim Parker set out to make a life on his own. With the help
of a friend, he learned the horse trade and how to handle both rope
and gun. For a time, the latter skill led him to the life of a hired
gun. Though he was fast and a dead shot, one particularly bloody
encounter forced him to vow an end to his violent ways. Eventually
he found himself the proud owner of a horse and hay ranch. Along the
way, he adopted an orphan and courted two beautiful women. It was
only then that he discovered the peaceful life held terrors more
frightening than any he had faced staring down the barrel of another
man’s gun.
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Forty Guns
West
When the raiders hit the Wagon Train, the troopers were lined up and ready.
He had the bugler sound the charge and as they rode forward, they pounced
upon the raiders, decimating their ranks...
An Iron
Fist With A Velvet Glove
The lynch mob gathered in front of the jail and their leader said, “The
Marshal can’t kill us all.” John stepped off the walk, jammed his shotgun
into the leader’s middle and hissed, “When the first man steps forward, I’m
gonna blow this man’s gizzard out his spine. The leader’s face went white
and his forehead was covered with perspiration...
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Ben Carey left Idaho to see what was on the other side of the
mountains. As he crisscrossed the West, he worked as a cowhand, a
bounty hunter, a range detective and a lawman. By the time his
wander-lust subsided, he was a United States Marshal.
Law and order was coming to the West. Outlaws and bad men were being
forced out of the big cities and states newly admitted to the Union.
Feeling the heat, many fled to the wilds of Idaho, to Ben Carey’s
home.
Ben returns fto Idaho. While there, he meets a beautiful woman while
cleaning up the outlaw element. His life and that of his sweetheart
are in constant danger until he completes his mission and marries
the woman he loves.
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It wasn’t supposed to be Lieutenant Joe Brady’s case, but two
homicide detectives had called in sick that day. So Brady answered
the call when the report came in that a pawn shop owner had been
murdered. At first it seemed a routine case of robbery gone wrong,
but the signs of torture on the body soon suggested something less
routine. That “something” was revealed when the coroner found a
small silver coin hidden in the victim’s shoe.
The coin was a Spanish dollar, or piece-of-eight, minted when
Spanish gold fleets still plied the waters of the Caribbean. It was
the coin that had been the inspiration for the U.S. dollar.
What first seemed a botched robbery quickly escalated into
something far more sinister. As Joe Brady investigates, his path
crosses that of Jean Lock, town librarian. Suddenly, Joe has two
competing goals: solve the case, and win the heart of the lovely
keeper of the books.
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In
too much of modern life, people who claim to be religious are not living up
to their responsibilities to God. People who should be the Light and Salt of
the World are bringing shame and disgrace to His church as they fail to live
up to His commandments for us. It is His desire that whosoever be called by
the name of the Lord shall be set apart, to be used by the Master as His
instrument. When everything a person says and does reflects honor to the
Lord, that person can truly be said to be a Vessel Unto Honor.
We, as vessels, must strive to meet the standards put down by Jesus Christ
at all times, either through ministry of the Word, through the
administration of ordinances, or by some other duty that He has called upon
us to perform in the expansion of His kingdom here on Earth.
That is the timely message of Vessels Unto Honor and one that will benefit
all Christians everywhere.

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George Abooli, a recently unemployed amateur astronomer, has everything to
gain when he encounters the Reptons, a friendly race of reptilian
humanoids from the Tau Ceti system. He accepts an invitation to visit
their home planet and is taken on an interstellar journey. George
marvels at the pristine world and nearly utopian society he discovers.
Concerned with humanity’s social problems, he asks his alien hosts to
help him introduce their advanced technology to his home world. George’s
request fits in with the Reptons’ own plans. They have been studying
Earth with cloaked starships for half a century and are ready to reveal
their existence to the people of Earth. They appoint George as their
ambassador. However, as with any new diplomatic initiative, things do
not go as planned…

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The
path back to God was blocked by sin and disobedience. So God sent his
Son Jesus, to become the way back to Him. Seek God and be found by Him.

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Guy Kitrick was a gunfighter. Most men who made their living with a gun
died young. Sooner or later, they met someone a little quicker on the draw.
Guy had no trouble seeing the handwriting on the wall, which is why he
decided to walk away before he, too, was fitted with a pine box. He figured
no job was worth his life, no matter how many twenty-dollar Gold Eagles it
paid. He hung up his guns and rode north, seeking a place to settle down. He
changed his name and prepared to live out his life in peace. However, it was
not to be. When he found a damsel in distress, he had to rely on his deadly
skills to save his own life, and the life of the woman he had come to love.

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John Henning was
everything she’d ever dreamed of …
But now, Alexandra
Morgan found herself in a horrifying situation for which all of her training
and experience in emergency response had never prepared her. On a rainy New
Year’s Eve, Alexandra finished her shift and headed home to spend a quiet
night alone. While at an intersection, a car in the lane next to her was
broadsided. But for her skills as an Emergency Response Technician, John
Henning, a successful, young businessman, would have lost his life that
night.
After two weeks in
a coma, John awakes with his past, including any memory of his father,
mother, and fiancée, Jessica, temporarily erased from his mind. His only
memory is that of the beautiful face of Alexandra and the way she looked at
him for that split second as the light turned to darkness in his mangled
Porsche. John’s compulsion to be with Alexandra creates a plot for Jessica’s
vengeance. This story of compassion, romance, and revenge will keep readers’
attention and interest until the thrilling, gripping climax!

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This
book assumes that you can already solve the Rubik’s cube. Maybe you’ve
only solved it once and you figure that’s enough of an accomplishment.
Maybe you’re an accomplished solver who races others to see how fast you
can solve it. Maybe you’re like me and you’re not too fast, are kind of
bored, and you need new challenges. If you are any of these people, you
should find this book enjoyable. You will be amused and challenged by
easy to seemingly impossible patterns that you can recreate on your
cube. Both 3x3 and 4x4 cube puzzles are included, and unique full-color
photographs make the book a true collector’s item.

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Jim Taylor was a range detective with a habit of dressing all in black,
earning him the sobriquet “Blackjack” among the felons and rustlers he
tracked and brought to justice After a career with enough excitement for a
lifetime, he decided to hang up his guns and lead the quiet life of a
writer, chronicling his adventures in the dime novels of the day.
However, his peaceful retirement came to an end one day when he met a
beautiful lady rancher named Michelle Hayworth, whose ranch was threatened
by a gang of rustlers. A lady in distress was more than sufficient reason
for Jim Taylor to put down his pen and strap on his six-shooter. As the
rustlers and their silent partner would soon learn:
Blackjack was back!

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The end of the Civil War found Mike Castle, a hero of the Battle of
Atlanta, sick of carnage and the stink of death. Doffing his uniform for
the last time, he sought peace in the West with his uncle, a rancher in
Colorado. There he found a new life and Jean Lock, a blue-eyed beauty.
His search for serenity was short lived when he met King Wesley, a land
speculator whose gang was threatening to drive those Mike loved from their
homes. Despite his best intentions, Mike soon found himself strapping on
his gun, once again facing violence to oppose evil.

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Vusi
Moloi encapsulates humanity with its universal emotions and feelings
in a pulsating rhythm of a symphony. Flavored uniquely with African
condiments of benevolence, compassion, and forbearing (Ubuntu) in
his A Goodbye To My Little Troubles, the author gives us the
lay of the land in terms of the purpose of the writings.
In this poetry, we
experience a cavalcade of grief and joy, darkness and light, despair
and hope. See the depths of grief in “It Was a Victims’ Fault”. Here
is a heart-wrenching example of man’s inhumanity to man. Despite
that, life has to go on, and one has to persevere. Hence, three
poems later we watch and enjoy “Beautiful Canada Dancing in the
Rain”.
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Mind
over Matter points the way towards universal prosperity, self-sufficient
households, abundant new living space, ideal physical health, and
well-balanced, more powerful minds. Humanity can reach these goals by
thinking small, assembling life size structures from simple electrical and
mechanical parts as small as human cells. Ordinary clothes will soon become
bioclothes, structures of biological complexity created through the art of
biodesign.
Bioclothes will be adjustable, shape changing fabrics that protect,
support, and strengthen our bodies, and even modify our outward appearance.
Bioclothes will make telepresence a reality, providing instant travel by “teleforms”,
empty, mobile sets of bioclothes. Miniature teleforms will open the
micro-world to us, expanding our effective living space a thousand fold.
Robotic forms of bioclothes will perform routine tasks swiftly and
tirelessly, providing the labor for small scale, family size production,
freeing us bit by bit from the need for a job.
Biodesign within the human body will use modified forms of our own nerve
and immune cells as “parts” to create a cell care network that examines and
repairs our tissues, cell by cell. By judicious stimulation of cell growth
in selected parts of the body and brain, plus much physical and mental
exercise, each of us can work towards our personal vision of an ideal self.
Cell care networks in the brain will lead to a profound understanding of
the relationship between the human mind and the brain that supports it.
Humanity will begin to explore a mental universe of unknown reach by
extending our present neural structures in new directions. Our journey will
continue towards a future barely seen, then beyond to the presently
inconceivable, to a time when mental growth will predominate, when we will
indeed become “mind over matter”.
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My Gift To You is for people in love
and for anyone with the soul of a poet:
I am in my moment
when I write,
When the words can't
stop running from my mind to my heart
And then out into
the world.
This is my gift to
you
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Max Fox
Alternate History
 

Imagine a world
where the Romans discovered and colonized America some 1500 years before
Columbus, a world where the colonists of Americum revolted against
Emperor Tacitus rather than King George III, and where the Declaration
of Independence was signed on the 4th of Julius 276 AD.
The classical Roman history America might have had.
From discovery to freedom and all things in between.

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The fight between good and evil is eternal and usually unseen by mere
mortals. Join the angels in training and you just may learn something.

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Compiled by Fitness & Life Coach, R. D. Cain, Meditations, Quotes and
Affirmations is an aid to meditation.
Cain's
interfaith background as a minister has given him a spirituality that
embraces ideas that offer different perspectives and broader acceptance
of humanity's strength, weaknesses, and foibles. Cain encourages the
reader to embrace ideas and premises of a wide range of belief systems by
encouraging individual thought and personal accountability.
In
this book, he shares words of wisdom that inspire clarity and self
awareness. He makes you think, act, and ultimately, benefit, from
the positive outlook that accompanies meditation and contemplation.
He
invites you to meditate on the things you desire, to daily affirm that
you are worhty of of all the gifts the Universe has to offer. The
book provides visual comfort through photographs and inspirational
quotes, as well as providing space to record your own thoughts as you
progress toward that higher plane that is only possibly through
meditation.

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The race
is on across the heartland as two subversive groups vie to assassinate the
Mahonys. Luckily, their plans do not take into account Angela's
intelligence and courage.

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This is not your momma's cookbook. This book offers over 150 recipes,
a cooking and spice guide and alternative product information and info
on factory farming, additives and genetically modified foods. It will
leave you amazed, informed and full. And all of the recipes ARE
DELICIOUS!

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Whispers From My Field Of Dreams is a collection of love poetry unlike
any other. In his poems, Tommy manages to capture the loneliness and
longing that we all feel at some point in our lives, and to celebrate
the loves of our life… wives, children, parents, lovers… in his own
unique way.

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Paul
Allison, a Treasury Agent, is assigned to a trail town, Abilene, Kansas.
He is to ferret out a counterfeit ring. Along the way, he meets a
crooked banker, a newspaper man who prints the bogus bills and their
henchmen. He befriends a famous gunfighter, an Irish saloon owner and
falls in love with a beautiful woman. After several skirmishes, he wraps
up the case in a deadly shootout to save his girlfriend. 
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Daystar - Science
Fiction
   

Two super alliances compete for the galaxy: the Federation,
a constellation of systems centered on Earth, struggles against
the Galactic Independence/New Confederacy (GINC) as mankind
spreads like a bloody stain, consuming entire planets in a
rapacious competition for resources. Some colonies will live,
but most will die to fulfill the needs of the core alliances.
A rebel organization, the Planetary Independence Movement (PIM), strives
to obstruct the devastation. Its messianic leader, Daniel Enos Callihan, has
not been seen for decades, but his sedition continues to hamper the
alliances. Each alliance seeks to use Callihan against the other…or else to
kill him. His location becomes available—Daystar System.
Duncan, a Federation ground-pounder, leads a penetration team onto the
planet and discovers a pre-industrial society unable to defend itself—at
least apparently so. A curious energy source leads Duncan to Callihan; but
it is the energy source itself that changes everything. The elwar, a race of
gentle innocents, possess a power unlike any previously known. It is this
power that ultimately makes all the difference.

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