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8 Days Before Christmas: Christmas Wishlist

There are numerous things that people love about Christmas. The touch of snow falling while walking the streets full of people buying Christmas gifts, the delicious taste of hot chocolate that we love to drink, and the joy of having the whole family together while opening gifts on Christmas day—these memories are one of the things that we look forward to every holiday season.

Creating your Christmas Wishlist is also one of the most exciting parts of the holidays that people look forward to. They utilize it for exchanging gifts at school or work. Typically, the lists include things like new clothes, favorite items, necessities for work or school, and upcoming interests.

If you still haven’t finalized your Christmas Wishlist, check out these amazing books that you might want to add to your wishlist.

Enrichment Of The Self And Soul

This book shows how people in other disciplines and walks of life have enhanced and enriched their self and soul to become more successful, spiritual, and satisfied in life and how you can do the same.

 As humans we often become trapped in circumstances where we are unable to discover or change our genuine selves. This is a matter that must be resolved at all costs,

 Richard J. Choura’s Enrichment of the Self and Soul presents new insights for improving yourself and soul by bringing together spiritual thought and aesthetic vision with the holy, cultural, and scientific realms of knowledge. It uncovers sources of inner abilities and outgrowths such as sacredness, symbols, epiphanies, and cosmic thinking, all of which have the potential to alter our view and enhance our level of spiritual awareness.

 It is remarkable in that it holds the spark of life. It broadens our personal and spiritual vision. And fills the voids of human life with light.’ as they say. This compelling book equips the reader with the capacity to harness the self in conjunction with spirituality in order to discover a deeper purpose in life that they have been searching for in spirituality.

 So, if you are yearning for a more profound spiritual meaning, this inspirational and influential book is the one you have been longing for.

Bloodline: The Legend Of WindWalker

Reoccurring dreams of looming decisions plague Nhaya, and they bring her to the point where she is forced to make a choice for the direction of her life-but what direction to choose? She be-lieves the answer she’s looking for lies hidden in the folds of her Nez Perce heritage. But since the death of her father, Nhaya’s mother has forbidden her to explore that path. When Nhaya escapes to Camp Cocolalla, in the mountains of Northern Idaho, she finds herself in the woods at night chased by an unseen danger.

In defiance of her mother and going against all that she knows to be right and true, Nhaya pursues the truth hidden in her bloodline as she seeks the only person who can help her, the legendary shaman, Wind Walker

Carol is a native Idahoan and lives for the time to enjoy its great outdoors. After raising her son, two daughters, and two granddaughters, Carol began her writing journey. After learning the craft to write children’s short stories, The Legend of WindWalker became her challenge. Carol says, “I have been told everyone has a story to tell, WindWalker was mine. For me, writing is like breathing; essential, refreshing, and sometimes necessary for my sanity-and always fun.”

Big Foot: Monster Of The Ice

Frantic about his missing wife, Adam Reese travels to a small island off the coast of Canada with their thirteen-year-old son, Sean. There the two learn that a major new animal discovery was made while Mary was filming a documentary on polar bears for Planet X. Now members of that film crew are disappearing, one by one. Is it because the documentary is now worth millions? Not any amount of money or new animal discovery drives Adam on. Adam won’t give up finding the love of his life, Mary, especially for the sake of their son. Somehow, Adam must rescue Mary from the fanged creature that has snatched her out of the cold, freezing snow. He must save her from the white-haired Bigfoot, the Yeti…the monster of the ice.

The Pie, The Pie, And Oh That Smell!

Cindy’s mom loves to bake pies, cakes, and other DELICIOUS desserts! But one day, Mom gets tired of doing all the baking and cleaning up herself, and she stops cooking altogether. Her family misses the wonderful smell of her baking. But how can they show her how grateful they are? And will Mom bake her special apple pie for Cindy’s birthday? The Pie, The Pie! teaches children the importance of showing their appreciation for the wonderful things their parents do every day-and the fun of pitching in and helping out!

The Pilot Fish: A Joe Barrett Series

It’s a fast and silent missile and it threatens a city along the U.S. East Coast. The only sure thing: It comes from North Korea. But where is it now? It’s a deadly puzzle attorney Joe Barrett needs to solve in The Pilot Fish, Vince DeOrchis’ second fast-paced book in his thriller adventure series published by Author Reputation Press.

After a collision with a container ship in the English channel reveals a shocking discovery, Joe Barrett is sent to investigate and what he uncovers is the intricate plan of a powerful Korean family involving a never-before-seen device of questionable origins that the dubs The Pilot Fish.

When you’re looking for a needle in a haystack-or a bomb ready to blow up a famous skyline- you take all chances. From the streets of Italy to London and back to the shores of the United States, Barrett plays a game of near-misses, where clues are figured out at the last second, including the most important one of all – locating a device invisible to sonar and radar on one of the most important holiday events of the year. Relying on his new best friends, including allies from the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. and British Navies, he needs to solve the mystery of a threat that seems to come from many possible directions but only one that can mean the difference between saving millions of lives . . . and annihilation.

Is the threat coming from the sky?

Or a place more undetectable?

Miss Manhattan

Miss Manhattan truly captures the richness of diversity and the simultaneity of life happening in New York. The text is rich, tumbling, and layered, yet never chaotic as the sensations of people, cars, birds, flowers, and all forms of city life cascading around the speaker’s (and reader’s) attention. This unique collection cleverly displays the inherent resonance of life in the city, in a beautiful, joyful, and sometimes riotous, but always with a sense of life and creative force, not destruction or entropy. These poems live in the individual body, even as they describe an external and collective experience.

Critical Thinkers

Who has time for critical thinking? We have work to do! This statement is like starting on a long journey with an empty gas tank but deciding you don’t have time to stop and fuel up. For over thirty years, one of the highest-level concerns among world leaders has been the deficiency in quality thinking skills. Critical thinking has little to do with a person’s IQ, but everything to do with our mind-set.

Author G. Janice Miller links critical thinking and spirituality. If a complete stranger were to observe my actions and listen to my conversations for twenty-four hours with no other information available, what would they conclude concerning who or what I worship? Shallow thinking has taken many people down a path of idolatry without even realizing it.

Awake! Our enemy, Satan, takes advantage of shallow, fragmented thinking to promote his agenda. It is an enemy of Ephesians 4:13, “Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.”

Our culture encourages us to form and vocalize opinions and judgments before we have an adequate foundation to understand the topic. We tend to train our minds to think in sound bites and 280-character tweets. Couple this with the human tendency to overestimate our ability, and it results in perpetuating fragmentation.

God is calling us to wake up and see what the enemy of our souls is doing. We must be sober and diligent. Paul admonishes us in Ephesians 6:10, “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.” We need a solid foundation that the enemy cannot penetrate

Death Unexpected

When a young paralegal collapses at work, the staff physicians at New City Hospital in Cincinatti are puzzled at her condition and prolonged coma. Then, a senior staff cardiologist also falls inexplicably ill and dies at work. The deaths of these two, so close together, lead the chief of staff to call an old friend who is now a homicide detective to look into the circumstances.

Death Unexpected is a hospital-based murder mystery that provides an intimate glimpse into the thoughts and daily activities of various staff members in the hospital. As Detective Ron Looney and others seek to crack the case, the narrative recounts activities in both quality improvement of health care and medical treatment and diagnosis. For readers seeking a suspense-filled mystery that also enlightens, Death Unexpected does not disappoint.

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