10 days ago by booktoots

Book excerpt: After being in my first body cast for six months, my cast was removed. The doctors “sawed” it off. They asked me if I wanted it. “Do you want to keep it and take it home with you?” I was asked. “ Why?!” I incredulously asked. I thought they were kidding. “ Some people like to keep them ...

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15 days ago by Rose

Excerpt from Chapter 1 ( available on web here) I’ll never forget that summer night. Our last vestige of normalcy. One evening we sat down to dinner, and by the time we finished, our lives would never be the same. It was a beastly hot night in early July, 1945. We were celebrating William’s seventh ...

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18 days ago by Rose

The hooded figure stood motionless on Pennsylvania Avenue facing the White House. His dark cloak billowed in the evening wind as he waited. “Soon they will be here,” he thought. “And then it will start. All I have wanted to keep secret will be exposed.” Chapter 1: The Reluctant Harbinger A throng of ...

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19 days ago by Susan Macatee

Since I've turned in my final edits for Erin's Rebel, my Civil War time travel romance, in to my editor, thought I'd whet everyone's appetites with an excerpt. Erin's Rebel Time Travel Romance The Wild Rose Press - American Rose The sound of her name on his lips made her skin tingle. She tore the pa ...

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21 days ago by mymindonbooks

From The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology by Jack Kornfield (Bantam Dell, 2008) p. 39-40. Through Buddhist analysis, consciousness, like light, is found to have two dimensions. Just as light can be described as both a wave and a particle, consciousness has an unb ...

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24 days ago by Melinda Tyler

I realized I might not have been as clear as I should have been regarding the podcast. To hear it, you can either click on the small icon that is located in the post, you can download it (where it says 'Download"). I did have a media player on the sidebar, but it did not work well so I decided to de ...

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24 days ago by admin

This was before coffee shops were a big deal. Starbucks existed but it wasn't an obsession yet. Instead, those greasy eateries were the place to be and be seen... if you were drunk, foreign or weird and not out getting laid. It was commonplace to see other fuck-ups drinking coffee, eating pancakes, ...

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25 days ago by pumpupyourbookpromotion

The Face of Death Cody McFadyen Crime Thriller Bantam 464 pages About the Book: “I want to talk to Smoky Barrett or I’ll kill myself.”The girl is sixteen, at the scene of a grisly triple homicide, and has a gun to her head. She claims “The Stranger” killed her adoptive family, that he’s been followi ...

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27 days ago by registeredghost

Black and white relief of a young man looking stricken with a hand to his chest, an image of his face imposed again to the left There’s an excerpt from “Nausea” below, which was written by the French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and published in 1938. Perhaps his best known work, it w ...

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28 days ago by Aida

I finally got my copy of Recover Your Good Heart this week and I've been enjoying what Jim Robbins has to say. I haven't gotten very far into the book yet but I would like to share some excerpts that you may enjoy. "Notice that salvation is a rescuing of the heart, for when you rescue the heart you ...

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