BISAC Categories: Health & Fitness/Diet, Weight Loss, Cooking/Special ingredients/Natural foods

Description: Don't Be Round, Eat Round

The Round Diet will make your life simpler, your butt smaller, your jeans looser, and you will rejoice!

The Round Diet changes your view of food, even if you are an experienced dieter. Whatever your relationship with food, this book can help you choose healthy foods by their natural Round shape and help train your mind to be your ally in becoming stronger, sexier, leaner and more fit.

Diana Kaaha likes to say, "This book did not start out to be a diet book. It began as a healthy eating book that happened to make dieting simpler. I realized I could diet-down, but in a more sane and healthy way by tapping into the power of my mind and choosing Round foods to eat."  Visit Author's Webpage

BISAC Categories:
Family & Relationships/Love & Romance, Psychology/ Interpersonal Relationships, Reference/Personal & Practical Guides

Description:  WHAT EVERY WOMAN NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT LOVE

Treat Your Man Like A Dog… And Live Happily Ever After challenges women to look at the loving relationships they have with their dogs and extend equal kindness, devotion and understanding to the men in their lives.

Whimsical yet empowering, Treat Your Man Like A Dog…And Live Happily Ever After never scolds or insults women. Instead, it illustrates how unconditional love is an attainable goal, one they already share with their dogs. It is a wake-up call for meaningful change, with instructions included.  Visit Author's Webpage

BISAC Categories: Autobiography/Entertainment & Performing Arts—Actors & Actresses, Performing Arts/Film & Video/General

Description: FLASHBACKS takes you on Art Hansl’s journey through life — Marine Corps, Mexico, Europe, a film career, and all the adventures he experienced along the way. FLASHBACKS is a fun read about a very bright guy who got by on humor, good looks, and luck!

Art joined the Marine Corps during the Korean conflict, but the war was over before he was ready to ship out so he served as a military cop at Camp Pendleton. The bars between Laguna Beach and Newport kept Marines busy, and the assets of California beach bunnies weren’t exaggerated...

After the Corps, he returned to Mexico for three weeks and stayed for three years. It was a sunny place for shady people and he met a lot of them, from gangsters to con artists, along with a variety of playboys and playgirls. A plan to open a beach club with a couple of seriously unstable partners was dropped just in time. He moved on.

Spain was cheap and pleasant but Italy beckoned because of a beautiful, successful actress and model in Rome, whom he married. He will always credit Mary Arden for urging him out of his lackadaisical life-style. They partnered in a series of commercials that jumped to the head of the line in Italy—a stepping stone to feature films. His first was a barely visible gig in Cast a Giant Shadow with Kirk Douglas. He went on to more prominent parts with Ugo Tognazzi, Stefania Sandrelli and Ursula Andress, but was usually cast in action pictures, James Bond rip-offs, because he looked good and moved well. Location work took him to slave markets in Marrakech, through an avalanche in Switzerland, and he survived a mob in Yugoslavia. But the Dolce Vita ended around 1968 and Art, among other expat actors, headed for California... Visit Author's Webpage

BISAC Categories: Self-Help/Motivational & Inspirational, Body, Mind & Spirit/ Healing General, Autobiography/Personal Memoir

Description:  Lee Ann offers us a window into her own world as an example, through her experiences of navigating life with polio, how multiple challenges and opportunities create a sacred pathway inward for a union with Grace that calms the soul and creates miracles.

Insightful and authentic, Lee Ann shares her life story and spiritual unfolding from a metaphysical perspective in hopes of inspiring others to look beyond the surface of their own life experience to a deeper, sacred level that makes sense out of chaos and creates a joy-filled, peaceful life.

Despite the physical limitations of living through a severe, repeatedly undiagnosed case of polio in infancy, many medical calamities, and the ramifications of living with a progressing physical disability, Lee Ann Laraway has not lived in a limited way.  Visit Author's Webpage

BISAC Categories:  Self-Help/ Death, Grief, Bereavement, Autobiography/Women, Autobiography/Personal Memoir

Description: Beverly talks about Love, Life, Death, Grief, and Moving on

In the short span of nine months, the same time period required for birth, Beverly Kalinin nurses her sick husband and attends him lovingly in his dying. Painful mourning follows and she discovers a startling fact—that people grieve as they have lived. And the rate of successful healing is determined by the experience and quality of one’s journey. Alone on the Yellow Brick Road is a sensitively written memoir of love, life, death, grief, and moving on.  Visit Author's Webpage

BISAC Categories: Biography/Military, Biography/Historical/General

Description: 

This is a book of short stories:
• For young Marines who are just starting their tour of duty.
• For families who have members in the Marines.
• To keep the memories of a tour of duty alive.

“The stories in this book are about my life as a ground pounding mud sucking grunt. They might make you laugh, cry, and at times leave you wondering. To those who have given everything for this great country and asked for nothing in return, I SALUTE YOU.” ~ Joe C. Noriega Jr.   Visit Author's Webpage

BISAC Categories: Juvenile Fiction/Bedtime Stories, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Humorous Stories

Description:  My daughter Ellyn was moving into her “big girl” bed at the age of a year and a half.   When she was in her crib, she had been used to having me rock her crib to put her to sleep. With her moving to the bed, this ritual was transferred to gently rocking her bedpost to glide her to slumberland.  After several difficult nights of getting her used to the new surroundings Ellyn, a bright, articulate and imaginative child, told me that she could not sleep because she thought there were “things in her closet and under her bed.” To satisfy her fear, we added the closet and the under-the-bed check to our nightly ritual.

As with all small children fighting the sandman, she expanded the adventure to include me singing, counting, and ultimately story-telling. She would have me crawl in next to her and tell her stories of my childhood, my life, and anything else I could concoct. One night I drew an imaginary circle on the bedsheet with my index finger and told her it was the magical doorway to Mattress Land and the home of the Mattress People. She was exhilarated at the possibilities and each night was a different adventure followed by her exhausted repose.

Ellyn’s youngest brother Joe, age one and a half, was moving to his bunk bed below his three year old brother John. Like his sister, Joe was having fitful nights during his transition. This is the true story as created and told in their own words, using names they chose. This was the night that Ellyn, John, and Joe became one… in Mattress Land.

BISAC Categories: Health & Fitness/Weight Loss, Self-help/Personal Growth/Self-esteem

Description:  Where does the FAT go?  Join Cathy and find out how she went from size 22 to size 6 petite.

Before...
I was a forty nine year old woman who weighed over 200 lbs and was considered to be morbidly obese. Isn’t that a term? No sugar coating there. Weight wasn’t an issue when I was young. My mother likes to tell the story of how I wore a size 6X until I was twelve years old! As a matter of fact, I had a rather good figure up until I was about twenty-one years old. Who knows what happened to change everything...

After...
On my 50th birthday I was in Maui and weighed 121 lbs. It was just 12 days short of my one year anniversary since having gastric bypass surgery. All during the process, I have been asked numerous times, “If I had it to do all over again, would I have had the surgery?“ Well, as with any process, my answer changed along the way...  Visit Author's Webpage

BISAC Categories:Fiction/Fantasy/General, Juvenile Fiction/Science Fiction /Fantasy/ Magic

Description:A young man, Pevue Markstan, finds out that his companion has obtained a spiritual disease. This disease is known all over the world as Saint Anthony’s Holy Fire, which drains the victim’s soul within eight months. Pevue has until then to rid these spirits from the spirit dimension.

After seeing that these spirits are too powerful, Pevue gathers as much power as possible to fight the leader of all the spirits—Lord Daegon Cravius...  Visit Author's Webpage

BISAC Categories: Religion/Inspirational, Self-help/Personal Growth/Self-esteem, Body Mind & Spirit/Motivational & Inspirational

Description: After nationwide budget cuts, Linda Webbon suddenly lost her 18 year career job, finding herself in a tunnel of overwhelming dark thoughts and emotions. Determined to find a way out, Linda followed a simple plan. The results include one remarkable miracle, consistent peace of mind, and life changing joy that continues to this day.

This book focuses on the raw journal Linda kept for the first seven days of facing a radical life change. With God at the helm, Linda’s experience shows how consistently integrating and balancing spiritual and human needs daily not only enabled her to survive job loss but enabled her to thrive.  Visit Author's Webpage

BISAC Categories: Biography & Autobiography: Adventurers & Explorers, Travelers, Travel/Special Interest-Adventure

Description: At the age of 18, wearing a clean pair of jeans with $25 in my pocket, I climbed aboard a German freighter leaving San Francisco on a three year journey around the world. The trip began with me hanging off scaffolding over the Pacific, painting the ship’s hull.

In “The Land Down Under”, I roamed the pubs of King’s Cross by night while confronting madmen by day in Australia’s biggest insane asylum.

Arriving in Europe, I began a quest to transform myself into a Frenchman. While working the fields during wine harvest, waiting tables, clerking and cutting lumber, I took up studies at the University of Dijon. I crossed paths with gypsies, con artists, and drug dealers. I also found friends and lovers who showed me new ways of seeing the world.—Richard Lukon        Visit Author's Webpage

BISAC Categories: Body, Mind, Spirit /Meditation,  /Healing/Prayer/Spiritual

Description: This book is dedicated to those who would like to decode the hymns of Rig-Veda and understand the scientific principles hidden. The Rishis, in a state of super-consciousness, observed the laws of nature and its underlying scientific principles. They presented the observations in hymns with simple words but deep in meaning.

We knew the world would not be the same. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince to do his duty, and to impress him taken on his multi-armed form and says, “if the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be the splendor of the mighty one. Now I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.
— Oppenheimer after the success of the Trinity test         Visit Author's Webpage

BISAC Categories: Self-Help/Stress Management, Self-Help/Mood Disorders, Psychology/Emotions

Description: All you need to know about traumatic stress responses and steps to recovery.

An easy to read and use guide to understanding and healing painful events from your past, using Thought Field Therapy with complete instructions for using a non-drug, non-invasive, non-cognitive, safe technique to eliminate overwhelming upset in the context of a complete approach to mending the aftermath of horrific life and death experiences. 

A Safe, effective, and fast relief from overwhelming emotional distress and pain. Visit Author's Webpage

BISAC Categories: Education/Mentoring, Education/Leadership, Education/Teaching Methods and Materials

Description: Mentoring in Higher Education: Best Practices focuses on models of effective mentoring that can be used for staff development and also what administrators and faculty can do to work effectively with diverse student populations in order to promote high levels of student academic success.

This book describes the significance of best mentoring practices in academic institutions and is designed as a resource for boards and presidents, chancellors, faculty, affirmative action officers, administrators of mentoring programs, academic affairs officers, student counselors, and participants in mentoring programs. Visit Author's Webpage

BISAC Categories: Poetry: Inspirational & Religious

Description: This book reflects moments, experiences, and issues in black society. Cataloged in the written word of poetry, it explores character flaws and inspires ambitions from teens to adults.

In a montage of different times and places, this black journey is taken in areas of education and family relations. Poems such as “Curses” and “Freedom Don’t Ring” beat at the soul and unmask imperfections in the black community while celebrating the joys and pains that relate to the black experience. Visit Author's Webpage

BISAC Categories: Religion/Philosophy, Body Mind Spirit/Inspirational & Personal Growth, Self Help/Motivational & Inspirational

Description: The world has never been a more complicated place to exist. The current state of affairs at the global, national, and local levels is based on people and their choices. Simple as that. War is always a choice. Peace is always a choice. The provokers choose to provoke. The provoked choose to react. How people react is always a reflection of who they are.

We all can choose who we become, who we are. The choice belongs to each of us, but we must decide. The Book of Be is not another book that focuses on what is. It’s a beacon that shines much needed light on what can be. Visit Author's Webpage

BISAC Categories: Juvenile Fiction /Poetry/Nursery Rhymes

Description: This colorful book is a collection of poems for children and grandchildren everywhere.

The book is beautifully illustrated by Laura Sperlo, a gifted watercolor artist.

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BISAC Categories: Biography/Personal Memoirs, Biography/General

Description: The son of immigrant Italian family grows up in a small California beach town during the depression, joins the armed forces near the end of WWII, goes to college, raises a family, has a successful career... and through all of this enjoys his life with gusto, determination, and humor.

What was it like to grow up during the depression in a small town that had a Ferris wheel and roller coaster in it’s front yard and looked out over the Pacific Ocean? Louis Martini’s story is the American Dream made real, written by the man who lived it. This book illustrates his realities of life as they occurred. Visit Author's Webpage

BISAC Categories: Juvenile Fiction: Science&Tech/Astronomy & Space, Values, Self-esteem

Description: The other space ships always tell Alvin he cannot fly fast. One night Alvin decides to travel to a far off star that calls to him. In his travels he meets Asteroid and Comet who encourage him.

He travels on and visits the Solar System and all the planets. Each planet has something special for Alvin.

Alvin discovers what is important and learns a special lesson.  Visit Author's Webpage

BISAC Categories: Juvenile Fiction: Bedtime Stories, Animals, General

Description: Wally and Freddy find that although it may be crowded there is no place like home. This story was written for Juanita's grandchildren who were always begging to hear a story. Their love for small woodland creatures prompted her to tell the story of Wally and Freddy.  Visit Author's Webpage

BISAC Categories: Science/Energy, Reference/Questions & Answers, Reference/General

Description: Global Energy is a rapid, ever-rising river that we have not been able to control.

This handbook describes the flow of global energy, from initial production to its end-use...

It will show why the conventional wisdom for solving our energy problems has not been working...

You will understand why alternative energy sources have limitations that go beyond technology...

You will begin to question everything you read and hear about global energy, asking yourself, “Even if everyone actually did this, how much energy would be saved at the global level?”  Visit Author's Webpage

BISAC Categories: Biography/Autobiography/Humanitarians,
Biography/Autobiography/Travelers, Travel/Africa

Description:

Kathryn’s Crossing takes you on a poetic journey into one of the most remote regions of Kenya. West Pokot is an area barely touched by the print of modern man, where the people live as their ancestors did for eons.

This story begins with the love of two people, sweethearts from their youth, adventurers from their souls with a relentless quiet inward call that beckons them to reach out to others. They came to Africa to help build a bridge—one of many. You won’t have to buy a ticket or pack a suitcase, for Lynn’s writing will transport you into the world of Africa; her descriptions paint the scene...Visit Author's Webpage

BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction/Animals,
Juvenile Fiction/Bedtime Stories

Description: What to do? Where to go? How to get there?

Sometimes a frog just gets tired of playing in the same pond day after day. . .

Join Fred on his adventure as he experiments with new ways to get around,
and teaches all the other frogs a valuable lesson.  Visit Author's Webpage

BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction/Holidays & Festivals-Christmas, Juvenile Fiction/Bedtime Stories

Description: Does a Christmas tree get hurt when you cut it down?

That’s what Doug, the little tree, wants to know when he finds out he’s being raised on a Christmas Tree Farm, and that his biggest job is to be cut down and decorated by some family.

“CUT IT DOWN!” Doug was trying to pull his roots out of the ground. He wasn’t quite sure what he’d do if he got them out—roll down the hill or something. Doug had never felt so stuck before. He couldn’t understand why Royal wanted to be cut down—just to make some family happy? But, as Doug finds out, it’s not at all that scary and he even enjoys the surprise that awaits him. Visit Author's Webpage

Cherry Blossom Tree ~ A Graphic Novel

BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction/Holidays & Festivals-Christmas, Juvenile Fiction/Bedtime Stories

Description: This year, instead of giving out all the presents,Santa Gets the Best Gift Ever!

This delightful story, set in rhyme, is about four of Santa’s littlest elves who come up with a unique gift for Santa to show their thanks for all of his hard work getting ready for Christmas. It’s filled with gentle humor, fantasy and positive values. Visit Author's Webpage

BISAC Categories:
Biography/Personal Memoirs, Travel/France & Europe

Description: “From My Window in Paris” is an inspiring and funny book about the author’s move to Paris—a brave adventure for a single woman traveling alone, with no knowledge of the language!

Esther's story takes place over a period of one year and focuses on her life in transition after the death of her husband— her struggles adapting to the French way of life: plumbing problems in her tiny apartment, hilarious communication issues, the threat of possible spies, her encounters with French men, and "oh my goodness, the pastries!"

Esther’s adaptation to France and the general excitement of day-to-day living in a new culture combines frustration, surprise, tears, and laughter—and culminates in a peak cosmic experience, with a self-realization she never dreamed possible. Visit Author's Webpage