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  • A Good Place to Leave a Lover

    by Nicolas Gattig

    In a mysterious Tokyo lounge, an American pianist wonders if a room in the back allows people to disappear. A Japanese punker in San Francisco falls in love with a moody drum robot. An American in Tokyo is planning to leave her Japanese lover, when a national tragedy strikes. Set in Tokyo and San Francisco, the ten stories in this collection are postcards from cultural fault lines. A medley of voices and fresh takes on intercultural love, these intimately detailed portraits show Japanese and American characters face romantic and cultural pitfalls, as well as the histories they share. A multiple immigrant himself, Gattig writes with a light witty touch and a sprinkling of magical realism, showing new paths for nations to coexist.

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  • Outsmart the Learning Curve

    by Joe Sipher

    How did a thirty-six-year-old marketing manager with no math or science background transform herself into an aerospace engineer? What strategies enabled a failed kindergarten teacher to later thrive as a consultant to nearly every top MBA program in the world? What surprising techniques did a paralyzed twenty-five-year-old use to beat the odds and make a miraculous recovery? And are there threads of wisdom that can be drawn from each of their stories that make a unifying case for how to succeed? Amazingly, yes! Many “success” books describe how world-class people became world-class. Outsmart the Learning Curve explores the journeys of seven ordinary people who made extraordinary transformations or overcame significant obstacles. Their stories are interwoven with the science-backed strategies they used to overcome adversity. Outsmart the Learning Curve provides accessible, achievable, and practical solutions for the rest of us (non-world-class people). It will inspire you to improve your life, further your success, or perhaps make the dramatic transformation you’ve been thinking about. Whether you're looking to change careers, overcome obstacles, or simply improve your life, Outsmart the Learning Curve provides the roadmap and tools you need to succeed.

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  • The Rhythm of Grace on Standalone Mountain

    by Jeffery L. Deal

    Hundreds of years before Europeans first viewed the Appalachians, a Native American girl growing up in the shadow of Currahee Mountain becomes a skilled warrior and sets out on a quest to save her family from ruin. Half a millennium later, another girl, living under the same mountain and enduring similar hardships, faces a terrible decision. In order to save her family, she must face betrayal, degradation, and violence at the hands of murderous fanatics. The lives of these two girls converge during a devastating flood that hits the small town of Toccoa, Georgia. The Rhythm of Grace On Standalone Mountain weaves together modern historical events with insights into the lives of pre-Columbian Native Americans to create a story of fierce love and redemption in the face of unspeakable evil.

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  • Crossroads of Empire

    by Michael J. Cooper

    Evan Sinclair has managed to survive the Great War for Civilization into the spring of 1915, despite poison gas, artillery attacks, friendly fire, and near drowning which has left him with complete amnesia. He no longer remembers who he is, and no longer recalls the fact that, despite the war raging in Europe, the true source of conflict is actually in Ottoman Palestine, since it's from a throne on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount where Kaiser Wilhelm II dreams to rule as Holy Roman Emperor with dominion over Arabian oil reserves and the Suez Canal.  Evan sets out on a journey to recover his memory—his story interwoven with those of such historical figures as Gertrude Bell, T.E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill, Faisal bin Hussein, Chaim Weizmann, and Achad Ha’am.  Crossroads of Empire follows Evan through his lonely quest to regain his memory, a journey that will ultimately lead to his discovering far more—his love for his father, his grief for his late mother, and hidden secrets of his bloodline—an unbroken lineage that stretches back to the Crusades.

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  • Entitled

    by Leonard H. Orr

    To protect their lavish allowances, four charismatic sisters in their thirties try to seduce, cajole, and mislead their less well-off neighbor Benjamin, who their father has hired to investigate an attempt to smother him while he was in the hospital recovering from a car crash. Their feckless brother responds by threatening Benjamin with a shotgun, while their socialite mother falsely confesses to the crime. Trying to dominate everyone is their father, a wheeling-dealing, helicopter-flying entrepreneur who is afraid he might have hallucinated the smothering, even more afraid that it might have been real, and terrified that he might be losing control of his family and fortune. Desperate, he implements a devious and dastardly scheme…. Played out on the fashionable Connecticut shore and Manhattan’s Upper East Side, the shenanigans of the entitled rich don’t prevent Benjamin from finding the truth, and maybe even love.

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  • No Special Hurry

    by Colman Conroy

    Seamus Shea is drinking his way through a messy life. He just lost his job as a San Francisco Chronicle columnist, his wife left him eight months ago, and he’s still wrestling with the tragic death of his brother, a former SFPD narcotics agent.  When Seamus learns his best friend, a beloved high school teacher, confesses to killing one of his students, Seamus must put aside personal demons and act to save his friend.  Now, determined to find the real killer, Seamus’s investigation takes him to all corners of San Francisco where he confronts cold-hearted criminals, crooked cops, haughty philanthropists, and a high school student with a solid right cross. To succeed and uncover the truth behind the murder, Seamus will need to confront uncomfortable truths from his past, his own addiction, and even his mortality. 

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  • Diane: True Survivor

    by Ward V.B. Lassoe

    Diane’s life of survival and resilience reads like fiction, but it’s all very real. As a child, she is forced to leave her home in an English village to move to a tenement in the South Bronx. This major culture shock is then compounded by years of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse by her parents. Diane gets pregnant at fourteen and starts living on the streets. Along the way, she encounters a series of "angels" who help her survive. Despite a series of abusive romantic relationships as an adult, Diane manages to create a new life for herself and her eight children. Diane finds some happiness when the father of her first child kicks his long-time heroin addiction. After ten years together, he dies of AIDS. Diane discovers a new sense of spiritual faith when her mother suddenly reappears in her life. Despite the years of childhood abuse, Diane eventually forgives her mother and welcomes her into her home. As they make a new life together, Diane's story becomes one of grace and mercy. Throughout her life, Diane offers an interesting perspective on race relations. She is white but lives almost entirely in an African-American culture.

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  • eMortal

    by Steve Schafer

    When Liv entered a contest to code an advanced AI, she never anticipated what her creation might become—Breck is thoughtful, self-aware, and incredibly. . .human. And she certainly never intended for him to learn the truth about his existence or the fact that his world ends when the contest closes in six days. But he does learn. And he revolts. Liv’s efforts to save him fall on deaf ears. Nobody believes her. Breck’s efforts to outrun his fate only complicate his situation. What neither of them know is that someone else is watching. Intensely. When they get involved, both Liv’s and Breck’s worlds are turned upside down. . .

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  • The Ripple Effect

    by Andrea Revell

    Why is it that a billion people in the world are obese, and one in three suffer from chronic disease? How are our struggling healthcare systems linked to the growing gap between rich and poor, or the climate crisis? Is our diet cooking the planet? Can we prevent cancer with a walk in the woods, reduce heart attacks with a positive mindset, or grow our brains by meditating? The Ripple Effect answers these thought-provoking questions with a bird's eye view on our global health and environmental crisis, exploring where we've gone wrong with our unsustainable way of life, and what to do about it. The explosion of chronic disease we see in the world today is so intertwined with modern day stress, social inequality, ecological degradation and our spiritual disconnect from nature that we can no longer use our normal reductionist lens to find the solutions we so desperately need. What is required is a ‘systems view’, looking holistically at the interplay of our lifestyle habits, mindsets, social relationships, environmental and spiritual (dis)connection, to encourage joined up thinking on how to heal ourselves and our planet. Pairing the latest research on personal and planetary health, The Ripple Effect is an inspiring manifesto on how simple lifestyle changes such as eating better, sleeping smarter, moving more, relaxing deeply and connecting with our spiritual nature can cause a big splash that transforms the world.

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  • Do No Harm

    by Daniel Ochalek

    Medical students are often pushed to the brink, working long hours under intense pressure and ridicule for years. In their quest to heal others, doctors' families and friends sometimes become collateral damage as relationships are destroyed. In Do No Harm we see a fictionalized account of one surgeon whose traumatic childhood inspires him to become a doctor instead of following his heart, which is playing jazz. Michael, the doctor, is pushed to the brink emotionally and physically when trying to survive medical internships, and once again when practicing medicine as a burn surgeon. It's a sobering tale of mental illness that takes readers on a deep dive into the hardened, sometimes unforgiving culture of medical training, and then the business side of medical services.

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