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Victory Is My Name
Nicola Morrison is an editor and former BBC broadcast journalist, with a compelling and empowering life story to tell. Some of her greatest achievements include scaling the lofty heights of one of the largest news corporations in the world and reporting on some of the biggest breaking news stories of the century. But her biggest accomplishment to date is a personal one – overcoming life’s many challenges and living to tell the tale. From domestic abuse to suicide to the harrowing murder of a beloved relative, Nicola has survived it all. Victory Is My Name, is a story of setbacks and triumph, hardship and victory, challenges and hope.
As an optimistic, confident, voice of reason to her peers, Nicola is convinced that many will be surprised to learn of her eventful life experiences and to uncover her deepest insecurities that plagued much of her young and early adult years. She hopes that by bravely sharing her story, it will empower and inspire others to know that they are wonderfully and fearfully made, and that if she can do it, so can you!
“I’m not a victim, I am victorious!” – Nicola Morrison
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Candy the Rescue Dog
Does the routine of everyday living make you wonder if God truly sees and cares for you as an individual? You may grasp in theory that God loves all humanity, yet doubt His personal attentiveness to the details of your ordinary life.
In this book, Deborah shares profound moments when God intimately connected with her, reaching into the depths of her heart to communicate His unconditional love. His method to convey this timeless message? An anxiety-ridden rescue dog named Candy.
God knew this lovable canine mischief-maker would be the perfect instrument to reinforce Deborah’s inherent worth and value. Through humorous stories of Candy’s antics and the ensuing spiritual insights, Deborah unveils how God used an unwanted dog to powerfully transform her perspective.
These engaging true stories serve as encouragement for anyone longing to understand God’s complete, unquestionable love for them. Deborah reveals how intricately God orchestrates moments of divine connection for those who seek Him amidst the backdrop of routine. Her poignant reflections highlight how the Creator actively pursues intimate relationships with His beloved children.
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Chase, Willow, Tiggy and Barney
Chase, Willow, Tiggy, and Barney is a heartwarming true story that is sure to resonate with cat lovers everywhere. This book takes you on a journey through the lives of four unique cats who brought an array of changes, challenges, and joys to our lives.
The story begins with Tiggy, a confident cat who nonchalantly followed us home one day and decided to make our house her own. Next came Barney, whose initially promising relationship with us took a turn when he began exhibiting aggressive behaviour.
Willow, a shy and timid cat, joined our family and slowly learned the joys of the outdoors, while Chase, the outgoing explorer, preferred the comforts of indoors and needed gentle persuasion to venture outside.
Chase’s story takes a touching turn when, after a change in my work schedule left him alone for longer periods, he began to visit local shops, people’s homes, and most notably, a nearby care home. His presence there became so cherished that one of the residents, deeply missing him after his unfortunate accident, requested a special visit. The reunion between Chase and the resident, brought together in her wheelchair, was a profoundly emotional moment.
This book is a tribute to the deep bond between humans and their feline companions, celebrating the unique personality of each cat and the indelible mark they leave on our hearts. Join us on this journey filled with laughter, challenges, and poignant memories, as we recount the unforgettable impact of Chase, Willow, Tiggy, and Barney.
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An Ethnographic Study into the Social Organisation of a Small Medium Enterprise a Snapshot from 1983 to 2009
Because of their uniqueness, there cannot ever be enough literature on the organisational life of the Small-Medium Enterprise and its employees, wherever their location and whoever they serve. These legal entities contain an extensive array of social interactions as people form teams, work groups and relationships with others, within the confines of the operational environment and their own personal experience of everyday working life.
This book is about one such limited company and one individual who helped to form the SME which remained commercially successful in the engineering sector for over 30 years.
The working life of the employees in the SME were researched using an ethnographic approach to frame the social and working interactions into Ceremonial Rites. These rites have already been successfully researched by others and the book adds to that body of work.
In the book some rites repeat in a similar manner as has already been discovered. The more modern-day organisations may be able to recognise similar emerging or continuing patterns themselves that were found within the results of the study. Other students now have the opportunity to update and extend this work further in their own qualitative research on Small-Medium Enterprises or Organisational Life.
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The Enlightened Self
Calin Wheeler was an ordinary kind of guy living an ordinary life until he ventured high up into the Moroccan Atlas Mountains. It was there that he was woken up by a Voice and a light that connected him to God.
What he thought he knew about himself, and life was so far removed from the reality of what it is. And that the change that took place was so profound that it when he came down the mountains noy only did he leave the old version of himself of what he once was he became a new person entirely.
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When Phoebe Dances
Judith, no stranger to the paranormal, never anticipated that her extraordinary experiences would unlock the door to a budding romance.
With an entrepreneurial spirit that cannot be tamed, she plunges into fresh ventures, embarking on a rollercoaster journey that tests her resilience to its limits.
As Judith navigates the challenges of her business endeavours, her life becomes increasingly intertwined with a series of paranormal events and a blossoming romantic relationship. This compelling combination makes When Phoebe Dances a truly captivating read.
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War Trauma Chronicles
War Trauma Chronicles is a story that mixes real events of the Lebanese civil war with mythologies, philosophies, and different genres of fictions to create an anti-war book.
The book starts with the earliest memories of a young kid who lived and survived the war. It highlights and studies the effects that war has on a human’s brains, especially children’s.
Even though the story is based on real events, it’s neither a history book nor an autobiography. The timelines are scrambled in an unusual dimension: present, future and past got mixed with reality, fiction, and theories. Nothing is as real as the fact that nothing is real.
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Woman of her Time
Almost everything that life can throw at you is here in this busy London Hospital Doctor’s story: medical dramas, romance, betrayal, and abuse in its varied forms.
Ultimately, the author explains much of it by using her medical knowledge.
Running parallel is the tale of the vicissitudes of the State of Israel from its birth in 1948. Advocacy is used to neutralise its bad press.
Dry humour is maintained throughout. A journal in time of Covid keeps it up to date.
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A Pilot's Ups and Downs
For every 1,000 people who applied to be airline pilots in BEA/BOAC back in the day, about four made it. The other 996, plus their wives, parents, and children, might wonder how their lives could have turned out, so here is the story of one of the four. Besides, the passengers who sit behind that locked door and trust us with their lives must wonder, “What goes on up there, and how does it affect their lives and families?”
My education included the University Air Squadron, then learning to fly at the College sponsored by British Airways. There is a chapter of general information on aviation, then most of the book is an account of my experiences, whether dramatic, disappointing, exciting, or amusing, during my varied career in British Airways. Some incidents occur within the cockpit, others in social interaction outside, and a few come from pilot folklore. I also describe visits to sights around the world, an aspect that draws people to aviation as a career, and interests everyone.
I have added one professional pilot’s opinion on aviation topics in the news, the mysterious Malaysian disappearance, and the Alpine tragedy, and finish with my lifelong interest in designing model aircraft.
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Natasha Thom’s Soul Journey
Why am I here? Who am I? What am I?
In search of answers to these existential questions, Natasha Thom travelled and became involved with inquiring young minds who were and are on the same quest, from Southern Africa to England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Poland, and Russia… living in benders, vans, apartments, trains, churches, and nature… sharing their lives, many of whom, like her, became disillusioned and turned to drugs. Let us not condemn them, as we owe to them an awareness of the changes that are so needed in our world. Let us stop, listen and learn and help and join in the pursuit for change.
Art was life for Natasha Naida Thom, and she recorded her life in the form of art, writing, creating from discarded objects, welding sculptures and constructions, and choreographing dances and plays while traveling.
“I have captured my reflections whilst exploring the world, through the use of art. I feel that art is a means through which mankind can illustrate the few small truths that he does perceive, and so build on them. If change is the flow of life, then art is the picture that represents the way life’s river flows.”
She loved life and found beauty in that which others discarded, loving and encouraging those who society rejected, unlovable and fallen people. She always strove to make her environment better, meaningful, and open to man and animal alike. It is a call to join our Creator God who loves us, and those who want a life with meaning, in the fight to save the humanness of humanity.
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Resilience
A poignant, inspired and assured memoir, Resilience: A Dad’s Journey Through Grief chronicles one father’s intensely personal experience of grief after the passing of his beloved wife. Suddenly a widower and sole parent to three daughters – ages seven, five and four – the author intimately shares his turbulent emotional journey while adjusting to tragedy’s harsh new reality.
This candid, heart-wrenching account provides an authentic window into one man’s personal trauma. By spotlighting the power of inner resilience and maintaining positivity amid adversity, the book carries an uplifting message of hope for any who have endured loss or suffering. His inclination to openly face tribulation makes this grief narrative widely relatable.
While arising from harrowing personal upheaval, the author transforms his poignant tale into a parable of perseverance and grace emerging through life’s darkest moments. His desire to help others reveals that, although pain may carve deep sorrows, the heart always holds hope and inner strength can call us back to life.
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Sleep with the Holy Ghost
“Do you think, Sir, that Ireland should have joined the war against Germany?”
“I mean, Sir, that the married women in Ireland, like me Ma, and lots of other fellas’ mothers have loads of babies and are always having to go into hospital to have them or have to feed them and wash them. The mothers have stacks of work to do all the time and they’re always carrying babies around in their bellies or in their arms.”
Patsy Fagan, growing up in Dublin in the 1950s, asks awkward questions of his schoolteacher, Mr Bambrick.
A reflective memoir that touches on the impact of history, war, death of a young sister, religion, and schooling on the lives of the characters.
Patsy, falling in love as a teenager, facing the uncertainty of having to leave Dublin to live in England. This tender, amusing, sharp and gloriously sparkling work will appeal to a wide audience who enjoy engaging with the full range of human emotions.
Striking, thoughtful, funny; guaranteed to keep you reading – a book to relish.£9.99