Those Emotions: 21 Things You Wish You Knew

Those Emotions: 21 Things You Wish You Knew
by Daniel Speraw

RELEASE IT

Negative feelings do heave, yank and drag down the quality of life, day by day; they can even push us away from those we care about, which is why much of this book is about releasing anger, sadness, guilt and the like.

WHAT THIS BOOK WILL DO FOR YOU

It will give you that one often overlooked element for releasing negative emotions (#9 & #10).

You will recognize the most popular way of trying to stop guilt—you know, the one that doesn’t quite work—and you will know how to make it work for you (#1thru #4).
You will also know what to do with uncomfortable feelings that come up around loud children (#18).
Forgiveness too: so simple to talk about; so simple to do; and so very difficult to continue doing—some helpful tips await you (#5 & #6).
And so much more. Best of all, while making these discoveries, you will find yourself being entertained. Yes, entertained!

FASTEN IT!

I hope your chair is equipped with a seat belt, because this book has some jolting (read unusual) ideas and approaches (and takes an uncommon look at normal approaches), all to get you thinking in new ways.
IF YOU DO indeed turn these pages, you will find yourself flipped below the surface of life, straight to the heart of those hurtful problems, and you can gain an array of new ways to take action.

BONUS: A FREE eBOOK offer within that has full topics from all four books in the series.

A WELL-KEPT SECRET

It does not take an entire book, or even 15 pages to understand a simple solution. One or 3 pages is usually enough, and here is a book that does it short, sweet and on the run.
You can also add the word entertaining, because you have never seen solutions presented in this way.
IS THIS BOOK REALLY ALL THAT? See for yourself by scrolling up, looking left and clicking the “Look Inside” icon.

WHAT READERS REALLY THINK OF THIS 4-BOOK SERIES:

You should definitely compile all of these columns into a book! I would buy it straight away. PARTIKIN
The title is an understatement. The unique way that the author explains examples of everyday griefs, gripes, and negative thoughts and then in turn gives insightful solutions to help you change your mindset in small simple ways that everyone can implement at their own pace and comfort level. It has definitely left me thinking. GOODIEGUNTZ
I have nominated you for the Very Inspirational Blogger Award. Keep up the great writing! ANONYMOUS
I felt like you were writing this to me! lol. I am going through this exact thing at work right now. What an interesting approach. I am already imagining the look on my boss’s face when I decide to let her win in our next discussion. Thank you. ANN
When the ego rears its ugly head, Speraw has his finger right on its jugular. With a touch of levity, he adeptly analyses common emotions and life situations to help the reader see through the veils of habit and peer pressure initiated behaviors. I consider this a meaningful read for understanding contemporary cultural quandaries. JAMI

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The Mating (Law of the Lycans)

The Mating (Law of the Lycans)

by Nicky Charles

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Elise had no idea when she came home that day that she'd end up mated to a complete stranger. A new Alpha and the need for an alliance between packs have made her a pawn Excerpt: She lay beside him, staring blankly at the ceiling. The deed was done. They were mated. It didn't matter that she had no love for him nor he for her. Political alliances were more important than feelings...

The Elysium End

The Elysium End
by Roland Cheek

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He was an old man holding a brown bag, with cancer slowly having its painful way. He had nothing left for which to live. 
Wife—gone. 
Son—gone. 
Favorite horse and world’s greatest dog—both gone. 
Few friends left—the best of the rest having passed over the Great Divide.
Once young and vibrant, with a young and beautiful wife who loved him and loved to do the kinds of thing that turned his crank: visiting wild places and watching wild things, climbing mountains, riding horses over winding trails; theirs was a life of envy to other outdoors lovers. Now all left were memories, some bitter, some sweet. Memories and a couple of horses, one bitter, one sweet.
He’d planned it carefully, chosen the wildest, most beautiful, most remote cliff-lined basin he knew; a place seldom (if ever) visited by another human. He’d hunted elk a couple of times there in the blush of his youth, then revisited with his wife forty years later. He said he wanted to go to this most beautiful place “one last time,” and she insisted on going too, mostly because she feared, in his dotage, to let him venture to such a remote and dangerous place alone. It was their last horseback packtrip together. . . .
Now, he’d fought off yesterday’s pain, ignored bone-tiring weariness, spaced out traitorous second thoughts, and dismissed the questioning of an ordered mind to reach this, his own private wild place for what would certainly be his last time. It was to be his “Elysium End.”
The last two horses from the years he guided others to wilderness adventure brought him here, the ugly dishwater mare and the bay packhorse. The bay was a fine, trustworthy packhorse, though long in the tooth—growing old. The mare was something else: ugly as sin, with a head so large his old friend Lars claimed she “could lick oats out of the bottom a fifty-gallon drum and still stare all around for enemies.” But Lyle, another old friend, said the Nez Perce Indians bred appaloosas because it was a breed that was “so clumsy and slow that its owner could catch one while on foot.”
The ugly mare was indeed clumsy. And her trot was bone-jarring. She galloped like a sick milk cow. But she was good for one thing: she could walk! Smooth, too. Riding her running walk was like squatting in the rear seat of a brand-new Lincoln Continental on a fresh-laid macadam highway. Just because God didn’t make her into a surrey trotter or a steeplechaser wasn’t her fault. Neither could she help her lack of color, or the size of her head. She could walk, though. And if walk was what was wanted, then walk, by God, was what she’d do!
But he could never warm up to her. He couldn’t warm up to her mostly because she ignored him as if he never existed. If he scratched an ear, it was something to which she was resigned, but cared not a whit about one way or another. She accepted oats as if it was her due, showing no gratitude, and certainly no affection. The animal tolerated him. That was all.

Writing Children's Stories

Writing Children's Stories: Unique method using public domain classics for inspiration

by Ruth L Harding

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Over 100 pages of detailed information about writing children's stories and self publishing through Kindle, Lulu, and other popular avenues. Included is detailed information about identifying your target audience and writing age appropriate stories, also, if you prefer traditional publishing methods, these are covered as well. 
The secret to writing children's stories is to take inspiration from tried and tested old time public domain classics. If you don't know what Public Domain means, don't worry; as well as explaining it in detail you are also taken through a step-by-step process that shows you how to check if a book is in the public domain.
A selection of copy-free public domain images and stories are provided to get you started.
Why wait to follow your dreams of being a children's book author. Start your journey today.

My Best Work is Done at the Office

My Best Work is Done at the Office
by Roland Cheek

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Mark Twain once wrote: “I am an old man and have known a great many troubles,most of which never happened.”
Smart guy, Mark. His dry-humor analysis of the way we take ourselves too seriously, worrying trivial warts until they turn cancerous, eating away our sensitivity to surrounding wonders and our natural zest for life sounded a klaxon-call to me. As a result, my common everyday working stuff is driven by two firm beliefs: 1) that we should never take ourselves too seriously; and 2) that everybody needs inspiration to make it through each day’s imagined threats and foibles.
I’ve tried to be true to that vision throughout My Best Work Is Done At the Office. I trust to success from its initial chapter (following a boy on a broken-down bicycle pedaling alongside a string of horses plodding down a dusty country road in order to talk to the cowboy leading them), through a “Trail Rider’s Dictionary,” through watching platoon substitutions take place amid wedges of Canada honkers on their way north, through fishing with Barney, and finally to the last days of my best friend and how he impressed me with the importance of “Shared Experiences.” I trust, too, that each vignette will entertain, be laced with humor, and carry a worthwhile message for readers to relish.
I tell folks that these are 100 of my best stories taken from former newspaper columns and radio programs scripts over the years. Then I tell ‘em, that’s a lie because there are 112 separate vignettes in the book. “Besides,” I might add, “having crafted over 1,200 weekly outdoors columns and 1,600 daily radio programs over a 20-year period, the law of averages dictates there are many, many more just as good as these that couldn’t be crammed into a single book.”
Still, you can believe these are my “best” stories, many first surfacing in the flickering light of Rocky Mountain campfires, backed up against the inky black of star-filled nights, regaling saucer-eyed guests with tales of wilderness derring-do while horses stomped at picket lines and coyotes howled at a rising moon.
Reader Joe Remick emailed to say: “Your book of short humor is perfect for the brief moments my personal life, work, and family permit.”
Joe is right. In fact I’m fond of telling readers My Best Work Is Done At the Office is a “bathroom” book, made for brief periods of thoughtful contemplation. John Phelps thinks so, too. John, who was a guest of mine during several Bob Marshall Wilderness adventures wrote to say: “Well, Roland, you said ‘My Best Work Is Done At the Office’ is a bathroom book, and I want you to know that’s where I’ve been reading it—and it worked every time!”
Having spent a great deal of time with Phelps during copious wilderness fishing trips, I feel it important for you to know John’s veracity can sometimes be held in question. However, fairness compels me also to advise you others may likewise wish to hold my feet to the fire—as does Gerry Pearson of Salmon, Idaho who writes: “I just talked to your wife [on the phone[. Nice lady. I told her my brother Herman, Paul Harvey, and you are alike. A man has to allow for some windage.”
What does all the above mean? 
It means My Best Work Is Done At the Office is a damned fine read. So hunker down and listen up as this long-time wilderness guide and master storyteller brings to life the characters and places that make the Rocky Mountain West so captivating to all the world.
But it also means maybe you can't believe everything I say, so maybe you'd ought to see for yourself—either via e-book or in paper.

37 Ways to Learn the Italian Language

37 Ways to Learn the Italian Language
by Larry Aiello

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Looking to learn Italian but don’t know where to start? Do you need a roadmap to get you started? Or perhaps you are frustrated in your attempts and feel like you are getting nowhere. It could be that you are not going about it correctly. Many people need to learn the correct methods or the proper approach in order to properly learn. In fact, most people require a combination of methods to get them over the hump.
Let’s take the analogy of changing a flat tire. If you don’t have a jack, then you probably won’t get far. It does not matter how strong or intelligent you are. It does not matter how much money you have. The same holds true for language learning as well. Without the proper tools and techniques, you will not get very far.

Socialite

Socialite: Mission to Mission

by Martin Renaud

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The critical first stage of the Amis’ mission was a resounding success. Fantastically cunning and manipulative fourteen-year-old Elle Amis has creatively inserted herself into the lives of her neighbours, the Liebes, simultaneously shattering the emotional barrier between Jacob and his chosen protector and guardian Ryan Poole, Jacob’s former enemy, and, establishing an initial bond of affection between herself and Jacob. As the Christmas season approaches, and their relationship strengthens, Jacob remains unaware of Elle’s ultimate plans for his life. Her parents, Ray and Grace, however, are distracted by the destruction of Socialite servers around the world, and the associated catastrophes that are killing hundreds of people. Ray’s investigations lead him to suspect that Benny, a persuasive and wealthy evangelist, is the cyberterrorist. Ray uncovers a link between the Socialite attacks, Benny’s organization and the events of Jacob’s previous novelty night, that threatens the safety of Elle, Jacob and all of their friends. Ray realizes that their mission may be lost unless he cautiously reveals some of his secrets to the Liebes so they can help stop Benny before it’s too late.