Thought Mechanix

Thought Mechanix
Author: Derek Schreurs
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2011-12-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466905530

In the aftermath of the Iraqi invasion, as the Republican guards flee, the National Museum of Baghdad is left unprotected. Thieves enter the museum and steal ancient stone tablets they feel will bring top dollar. But little do they know that the power behind the ancient tablets has the potential to change the world forever. Across the world, motivational guru Hans Pedersen has built a successful organization that helps millions achieve their dreams. Yet the secret behind his message of empowerment has triggered a chain of events that now threatens organized religion worldwide. As Pedersen discovers the ambitious forces behind his success, he soon leaps to his death. Now his friend and accountant, Jason Wakefield, is determined to get to the bottom of the startling events that have rocked the Pedersen empire. But when a beautiful woman named Jasmine comes to his rescue, Jason is drawn into a dangerous world of greed and religious fanaticism as he races to avert a catastrophe that he unwittingly helped to create. Little does he know that Jasmine is concealing a secret agenda of her own. In this gripping tale, a truth not told since the dawn of creation is suddenly revealed, causing an unsuspecting accountant to realize that some things are never meant to be discovered.

Promise of the Valley

Promise of the Valley
Author: Jane Peart
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2009-08-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 031083290X

When Southern-born Adelaide Pride follows her Yankee employer to California, she faces a private civil war and re-examines her values of love and honor. Twenty-six-year-old Adelaide Pride stepped out of the horse-drawn buggy to gaze one last time at the charred remains of her childhood home. Six generations of Prides had lived and entertained there under warm Southern skies. That was before the Civil War- robbing Addie of her youth, her parents, and the man she would have married! Fortunately, an aunt and uncle had taken her in, but they could scarcely afford to feed themselves. Not wishing to remain a burden, Addie accepted a position as a companion to a Yankee spinster at a health spa in Napa Valley, California. Addie shivered with a mixture of fear and anticipation. Very soon she would journey by train to the remote land that was untouched be conflict and overflowing with financial prosperity and social opportunities. Did she dare to hope that her dreams of love and belonging were yet possible? Or would she become lost in the a world of the sick and aged, ending up a spinster like her employer, Mrs. Amberly?

The Gods Within

The Gods Within
Author: J. L. Doty
Publisher: Telemachus, LLC
Total Pages: 1683
Release: 2015-12-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1942899785

Complete 4-eBook Boxed Set Praise for The Gods Within: "...a magical world of witches, wizards and war in this high-energy first installment of an epic-fantasy series...A fine fantasy novel that will provide readers with a good weekend escape from reality" — Kirkus Reviews Child of the Sword: Kindle Book Review Editor's Pick Child of the Sword: "This book grabbed from the start. I finished it and had to pick up the 2nd one right away."—A. C. Rat is no ordinary Thief A small feral child, he steals what he can to feed the gnawing hunger in his gut, though nothing can satisfy the hunger in his soul. But he has a special talent that the wizards and witches of the clans covet, so Clan Elhiyne abducts him and gives him the name Morgin. Can he escape the scheming of the clan's calculating and manipulative leader, the matriarchal old witch Olivia? And as he grows into manhood, can he survive the inter-clan rivalries, and the hatred that smolders between Olivia and her arch-enemy Valso, leader of Clan Decouix? A can't-put-it-down read. Pick it up today!

Tall Tales about the Mind and Brain

Tall Tales about the Mind and Brain
Author: Sergio Della Sala
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 550
Release: 2007
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0198568762

Does listening to Mozart make us more intelligent? Does the size of the brain matter? Can we communicate with the dead? This book presents a survey of common myths about the mind & brain. It exposes the truth behind these beliefs, how they are perpetuated, why people believe them, & why they might even exist in the first place.

The Stranger

The Stranger
Author: Albert Camus
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2012-08-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307827666

With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, Camus's masterpiece gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. Behind the intrigue, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd" and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. First published in 1946; now in translation by Matthew Ward.