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The Zen Experience by Thomas Hoover (Penguin)

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(New American Library,1980)
“The best history of Zen ever written.”
Library Journal

Beginning with Indian Buddhism and Chinese Taoism it shows Zen as it was created by the personalities, perceptions, and actions of its masters over the centuries.

Gradual and sudden enlightenment, shock enlightenment, the koan, the migration of Zen to Japan. With anecdote and memorable quotation, this long-needed work restores Zen to its living, human form.

The Wall by Kanmi Iyanda (MyAppitude)

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Sometimes in life, all we want to do is navigate our journey the simple way. At least this is the intention until we begin to interact with our parents, siblings, friends and the world at large. This is when the real living begins….

The Wall is the story of a young man constantly striving to be a better person in what he deems a chronically cynical and unloving world. Constantly irritated and eternally damaged, he struggles against the unpredictable tides of life. Will the all-embracing memories of his mother’s love bring him back to the right side or will the resulting demons from his father’s deeds constrain him to a narrow, myopic and dark ending?

Faced with the impossible realities that continue to hold him down, he tries everything from therapy to the love of an unattainable stranger, all the time meandering through the imagined maze of his dramatic life. As he approaches the crucial watershed of his life, he realizes he has two choices; wither and slowly come to an ignoble end or power through and break down the wall in his way. Told through his own words, the story follows him from the idyllic hometown of Bakers Heath to the heady heights of the neighboring Providence City.

In the midst of the battle for sanity, George Williams finally decides to be the master of his own fortune, reshuffling the cards he was dealt and propelling himself to his desired destiny. To his great satisfaction, he was becoming a man - million miles from the monstrosity that his father was…..or was he?

SHADOWS BEYOND THE FLAMES AND OTHER STORIES by J.M. TRESAUGUE (BEAR LORD PUBLISHING)

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Somewhere in the depths within us all we possess good & evil, honorable & shameful, ugly and beautiful. J.M. Tresaugue’s “Shadows Beyond the Flames and Other Stories” proves just that. Within each of us we have the power to do great good, and in the blink of an eye we can turn into a depraved, immoral human being. You find variations of these human characteristics within the contents of stories such as “The Manual” and “Sometimes Always”. However, within “Graphic Burn” we are given a glimpse of what being a better person truly means. There are stories that grip us, stories that shake us to our cores, and stories that inspire. The stories contained within this volume touch on a little of everything; from the macabre, to the hopeful, but mainly the darkness within us. You won’t be disappointed with the variety of science fiction, horror, fantasy, strange, unusual, and revenge thrown in for good measure in “Shadows Beyond the Flames and Other Stories.”

Pretense for Murder by Karen L. Abrahamson (Twisted Root Publishing )

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A dead girl, an empty phone booth where one shouldn’t be and a school full of suspects with too many unusual powers.
When student, Vallon Drake discovers the dead body of a girl and a British phone booth standing outside the American Geological Survey Preparatory Academy, she knows someone with special power committed the murder. Heck, her school exists to teach students with the talent to rewrite the landscape as future special agents. But while Vallon wants to solve the crime, everyone else wants to cover it up. Trust Vallon to break the rules to take the investigation on—even when the cost of doing so might be her life.

Pencils Make Good Darts by Dan Balman

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Humorous and poignant, serious and funny (exactly what you get when a middle age man with the mind of a child less mature than his own children writes about life), Pencils Make Good Darts is a collection of short nonfiction essays that are well suited for reading on the toilet or before you go to bed and will either make you hate the author for wasting your time or laugh and cry like you are young again.

Wrapped in a Rainbow by Delyse Rodrigues-Trink

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What would you do? Would you drop everything and take a chance? Life presents to Kristy a fabulous once in a lifetime opportunity to work in the Bahamas. If she decides to go for it, will it meet, exceed, or fall short of her expectations?
Handsome Dave is wary and jaded about women. He likes his life in the beautiful Bahamas where his romantic encounters are fast and fleeting. Gorgeous Kristy catches his eye but refuses to play by those rules. In fact she has studiously avoided men like him! David is intrigued by her resistance and so relentless in his pursuit, that much to her astonishment, Kristy finds herself agreeing to go out with him.
They end up having a sensational first date, but then it all turns to shambles. Could it be that David isn’t everything he appears to be? Could it be that Kristy isn’t everything David assumes her to be?

A New Pet in the Family by John H. Carroll and Claudia Mendoza (Bookata, LLC)

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Between the arrival ("A New Pet in the Family") and the passing away ("We have such a great time together") of a pet, Bookata's compilation cover the whole cycle of family-child-pet dynamic by introducing elements from the child environment into the story, creating a unique, personalized book.

Aimed for readers age five to ten, Bookata’s books allow the users (parents and children alike) to change in a few minutes the whole content, from illustrations to text.

The Shakespeare Manuscript by Stewart Buettner (Performance Arts Press)

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Not one of Shakespeare’s plays exists in manuscript form until a failing bookseller discovers a long-lost, early version of HAMLET. In an attempt to trace the puzzling manuscript's origins, its new owner finds he can’t trust the identity of play’s author and soon has doubts about his own. But by then, the race to stage the new HAMLET is on, taking a toll on everyone involved. In the end, the new play leaves audience and actors alike wondering about the unexpected and moving consequences of the play they’ve just experienced.

The Written (Emaneska Series) by Ben Galley (BenGalley.com)

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His name is Farden. They whisper that he’s dangerous. Dangerous is only the half of it.

Something has gone missing from the libraries of Arfell. Something very old, and something very powerful. Five scholars are now dead, a country is once again on the brink of war, and the magick council is running out of time and options. Entangled in a web of lies and politics and dragged halfway across icy Emaneska and back, Farden must unearth a secret even he doesn’t want to know, a secret that will shake the foundations of his world. Dragons, drugs, magick, death, and the deepest of betrayals await.

Breathtakingly vast, chillingly dark, brooding and dangerous, The Written will leave you impatiently waiting for the next adventure…

Welcome to Emaneska.

THE WRITTEN is the first book in the thrilling and fast-paced Emaneska Series and the debut book of Ben Galley, a young upcoming author from the UK. The eagerly-awaited sequel and second in the series, PALE KINGS, is due for release in 2012. If you would like to know more about either of these books, or more about Ben, then you can find it all at www.bengalley.com

Lux 1.1 Seeds by Jalex Hansen (BenGalley.com)

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In a crumbling America where teenagers are hunted and contained, a small group of rebels rises up to fight a desperate battle against a power greater than themselves.

Lissa isn’t your average seventeen year old to begin with. Raised in a hidden lab, she has been genetically manipulated and given the Lux Marker, an adaptation that allows her to control energy and matter. And she isn’t the only one.

Connor has everything a man could want, and he would trade it all in a heartbeat. At least that’s what he thinks until he does just that, giving himself over to the wrong side in return for what he thinks is freedom.

Hikari never wanted to be part of the system, but she never expected to be on the run from it, either. When she discovers her congressman father is taking part in a plot to kill innocent people, she pulls a team together from the geek squad at her high school in order to break into his office. However, once they hack into his top secret files, they get way more than they bargained for.

Now, as America falls and everything they know and love is destroyed, they will have to build an army to fight for what remains…

Because time is running out.

The Ultimate Real Estate Investing Blueprint: How to Quit Your Job in 19 Weeks or Less by Sean Terry (eBookIt.com)

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Discover how to quit your job in 19 weeks or less by flipping properties in your spare time even if you have NO cash, NO credit and have never bought a house before. In this book you find the key to unlocking a huge vault full of money. This key will allow you to quickly and easily flip houses in your spare time banking you $5,000 to $20,000 per deal. The beauty about this business is you don't need any money AND no one will ever ask you for you SSN to pull credit.

Short stories:

Ghost Plane and Other Disturbing Tales by Suzanne Tyrpak and Scott Nicholson

Cage Life by Karin Cox and Michele Perry

Order of 5ive: Season 1 Episode 0 by 711 Press

Lighthorse Magic and Other Stories by Lindsay Edmunds

Romancing Snow White: A Prince Charmaine Story by Karen Kiefer

Miracle, Texas by DeAnna Knippling

Prime Pickings (An Eater Short) by Richard Raley

Without A Word by C. Kevin Provance (Provance Publishing)

Ink by Mark Graham

The Prisoner's Hat by Tarrin P. Lupo

Marcus In Iraq by Sonia Rumzi

Smite Me, Oh Dark One by Steve Thomas

Bi-Quinary Rescue by Gerald Weinberg

Dead Men Don't Cry: A Short Story by Nancy Fulda

Just Play the Game by Amber D. Sistla and Certo Xornal

Favored Son: A Short Novelette by Joshua Scribner

The Rich Man by Miroslav Halás and Miroslav Halás Jr.

Sunda Cloud (K-Cycle Series) by Kat Duncan

One Step Closer by Iain Rowan

Where is Paradise? by Aliya Anjum and Alia Anjum (Kolachi Publishers)

Cigs, Bolan & Strange Men With Guns (Prequel #1) (Assassination Series) by Gayle Ramage

Meet the Madfeet (Fiction Friday) by Michael Jasper

Natural Order (Fiction Friday) by Michael Jasper

Skidmark and Mudbeam (Fiction Friday) by Michael Jasper

The Last Hero by Ben S. Dobson

Travelling light by Vickie Johnstone

#baphomet: a short story by Marcin Wrona

Left Behind by Dave Freer

The Necessity of Man by Tarrin P. Lupo

The Elements of Love by Stuart Wakefield