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Life in a Week
A simple dinner invitation leads a middle aged woman to have blackmail on her mind. Still grieving from the loss of her best friend, Clarissa soon discovers money is actually the least of her concerns. Old friends, new acquaintances, painful memories and fading mental acuity collide to make this a singular week – with far reaching consequences.
Clarissa is inwardly simmering at the way her husband, Edward, is managing their future. Existing in a dual disharmony of crumbling house and marriage, the desire to be transported away from the mundane leads to family betrayals, unearths secrets and puts Clarissa on an irreversible path to vengeance.
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Life in the 22nd Century
In this book, the author recommends a project that will ensure a crime-free, abundant 22nd century. He has aptly called this project “Project Minus Four”, which is intended to describe the four elemental concepts that need to be removed from a civilised society in order to free it from crime, poverty, social and national conflicts, domestic violence and needless tragedies, such as acts of terror, wars, buildings going up in flames, killing all who live in them, as well as all kinds of “accidents” that result on account of people being too anxious, too angry, too frustrated, or too tense—all of which are a direct result of the pressure that the economic and/or the social system puts on them. In this book, the author has set down the details of how these problems are to be solved and what the society in the 22nd century can expect to be like if his Project Minus Four is implemented now.
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Life Lessons & Tales of Little MisFit: Book 2: Life Isn't Always Fair
This is the second book in the series of Life Lessons & Tales of Little MisFit. The first book, Life Isn’t Always What It Seems, is the winner of the Fall 2020 Pinnacle Achievement Award in the Young Adult genre and the Top Ten Finalist for the 2021 Author Elite Award in Middle Grades/Children’s Category. Book 1 also has more than two dozen five-star Amazon reviews (including a UAE book newsletter). One reviewer said that the book is “for the child in each of us.” Another: “It’s a laugh-out-loud, fun read.” Most reviewers indicated that they cannot wait to read book 2 in this series. The life lesson in book 2 is: “Life Isn’t Always Fair.” This book is written for children, young adults and adults who are young at heart along with those who have found themselves to be a “MisFit” at some point or situation in their lives. In Book 2, Ivy Sue (Little MisFit – LMF) learns that “Life Isn’t Always Fair,” when she is punished by her teacher for doing something that she did not do. The teacher tells her that she had probably done things before that she didn’t get punished for and that it’s time she learned the lesson that “Life Isn’t Always Fair.” LMF decides to use humour to get back at her teacher and from her tales and antics, we see how she learns to handle this important life lesson. Through challenging and unfair situations, LMF shows us that it’s possible to move forward in life and learn to make the best of most situations and opportunities that come our way, even when “Life Isn’t Always Fair!”
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Life Lessons and Tales of Little MisFit
Ivy Sue Klutz (Little MisFit - LMF) finds one of her first memories confusing. This is when she is three and a half years old and is at her sister Lynn's birthday party. Their cousin, Janet, asks the partygoers to guess what Lynn's birthday present is as the truck delivering the present is backing up to the front porch of their house. Unbeknown to LMF, Janet told the other kids not to really guess that it's a bike. You guessed - LMF guesses that her sister is getting a bike for her 5th birthday present. But instead of everyone being happy that LMF guessed the right thing, everyone is mad at her and none more than her mother. LMF runs off to her soon-to-be baby brother's bedroom and tries to hide behind his dresser, with her mother hot on her heels, yelling at her all the way. From this experience and many others through her 4th grade years in school, LMF learns the Life Lesson that Life Isn't Always What It Seems.
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Life Like the Bird
“When I hold the pen in my hand”
The eyes are the reader.
The ears see the beauty
The breath inhale both of that
The lips are smiling like a new moon
The mind is crazy
It holds all-stars
Hands start the dance
When I hold the pen in my hand
The Soul is a perfect rhythm
With all of them
The flower, stars, moon with sunlight
All come on together
In the photos, like a poem
When I hold the pen in my hand. (SI)
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Life of a Psychic/Medium
Do you often question what happens when we die, where do we go, is there life beyond this world? With my acquired knowledge and true stories, I would like to open your heart and your mind to the spiritual world, giving you a true understanding of Angels, Ghosts and Spirits, and how you can be just like me. Yes, I said it – how you can become a medium and connect to life after death!
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Life of Brain
This book is about everything that goes on in your conscious experience: sensations, perceptions, feelings, thoughts, imagination, plans, expectations. It’s also about your conscious experience of self, the sense that there is a YOU behind everything, a YOU that is having all these experiences, a YOU that seems to control all those activities of the mind.
Some of the questions it explores:
- What is conscious experience?
- How did it evolve?
- Why did it evolve?
- How does it develop in the young child?
- What can we do with it?
- Why might it cause us problems?
- Why is it still a mystery?
This book is NOT about the neurological landscape and its functions studied by the neuroscientist armed with the latest fMRI technology (which incidentally measures brain activity indirectly through the flow of blood in response to different tasks). You don’t have to know brain anatomy, you don’t have to tell your hippocampus from your hypothalamus.
This book will be of interest to YOU if you have ever wondered about the nature of conscious experience and the workings of your own consciousness. It may well tell you more about YOU than any other book you have ever read.
Students of psychology, philosophy and evolution will find it of particular relevance to their areas of inquiry.
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Life on the Other Side of My Neighbourhood
Often, we traverse through life in a bubble, oblivious to the realities unfolding just across the neighbourhood. It’s not deliberate, but a common human tendency. Yet, when a sliver of life ‘on the other side’ catches our eye, it prompts a riveting realization: do we indeed inhabit the same world?
This newfound perspective might send shivers down your spine as you grapple with the stark contrasts of life, especially in the landscape of Southern Africa. Here, countless souls are relegated to the status of ‘desperadoes,’ their lives shackled by the chains of poverty, a situation exacerbated by the haunting shadows of colonization.
How I yearn for our leaders to don disguises, to walk a mile in the shoes of those on the other side of the neighbourhood. Such an experience could unveil the crushing repercussions of lacklustre governance on the future generations of Southern Africa. Perhaps then, they might reconsider their leadership ethos, valuing citizens as beings of emotion and aspiration, not merely as ballot ticks.
Through the lens of an ordinary South African immigrant, this narrative unfolds a tapestry of daily challenges, endeavouring to offer you a deeper understanding. As you traverse through her journey, may it spark a transformation within, urging you to look beyond the familiar, and delve into the unseen narratives that share our world yet remain veiled in the mists of unawareness.
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Lifestyle Manners to Drive Success
How confident are you that you are practising and teaching the manners needed to succeed in life?
Good manners are the tools for life that provide a charisma and presence wherever you are.
Learned and used well, such manners will ease you through the maze of social etiquette, making a successful future for you and your children ever more attainable.
Lifestyle Manners to Drive Success is an easy-to-read guide that will teach you the subtle art of social acceptance in any situation and will equip you with the confidence that removes the anxiety from new experiences.
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Light and Dark: Poems and Stories
Indulge in a captivating journey of poetry and short stories that will evoke a range of emotions from charm and sadness to shock and horror. This collection promises to keep you engaged, page after page. But it’s not just about the serious stuff; there are plenty of witty moments that will make you chuckle and have you reaching to share with friends.
Do you crave a spine-tingling ghost story? Look no further. Or perhaps you’re in the mood for some romance or political satire? This book has got you covered.
The beauty of nature is also celebrated within these pages, providing a welcome respite from the chaos of everyday life. Whether you’re seeking thrills or just a moment of tranquility, this book offers a little bit of everything. So settle in and get ready to be transported to new worlds of wonder and intrigue.
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Lights Camera Action
She’s an architect on top of her game, owns her own home and has a partner that equally matches her status. Bella Frederic is living the ideal success story… or is she really? When her partner Pierre Jackson finds out about her dark secret, will it destroy their perfect love?
Jazz Burns may be a successful fashion designer and dresser of the stars, but she doesn’t have it together as people may think. The man she loves is not her own. Will her scandalous affair cause her to fall from the stars?
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Lines from New Zealand
On a dull Tuesday morning in early October 2008, I lost my battle to save our business and property—a French provincial styled restaurant and homestead on a vineyard estate—and with it my job, my reputation, my balance, my clout, my life’s savings, my mind—my life as I knew it. Afterwards, I began writing like a madwoman, and in time a book took shape describing a myriad of experiences and the long journey back to just being me.
After our epic loss, we lived for a year in one of the highest houses in Christchurch with an unparalleled view of the Pacific Ocean and the curved coastline. That house of Up Above Down Under and those mercurial skies saved my life. We now live in The House of Cluck-Cluck where I still spend endless hours in our rambling country garden as I dig in the soil tenaciously for answers about my life.
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