For the purposes of this post, I will identify two claims which many Christians accept (and which I understand you do not): (1) that the central claims of Christianity are true, and (2) that faith, properly understood, is a justified form of knowledge.
Even granting these two premises, I agree that religious activity has certain bad effects which are morally significant. That is, religious activity, as I see it, is an instance of double effect with both good and bad effects. On the above premises, the good effects include the promotion of truth about God and human life and the encouragement of moral living while the bad effects include the possibility of distortions leading to false beliefs and immoral actions.
I do believe that religious persons should be aware of these bad effects and work to mitigate them. When, for example, Christians quote the Bible, they should be aware that some verses are liable to misinterpretation and take appropriate measures to prevent this. Similarly, when Christians advance arguments about sexual morality, they should be aware that some in our society will use them as cover for hatred against certain persons or groups, and Christians must work hard (harder than they currently are) to counteract this kind of hatred.
I suppose that, in the end, almost all human enterprises are cases of double-effect, with both good and bad effects. Certainly, major world-historical institutions, such as the modern capitalism, almost always have both very good and very bad effects. For this reasons, I believe that Christians who do accept the above premises are morally justified in practicing religion, despite its at times very bad effects. At the same time, I appreciate the force of your original argument for those who do not accept the above Christian premises.
Thanks so much for your reply, Chris. Essentially, you concede that if your 2 premises are not true, my argument has a lot of force and you also concede that even if your 2 premises are true, my account highlights some of the actual pitfalls to which religious people in general must be alert and to which religious intellectuals in particular should take pains to warn their fellows against.
So, your premises are "(1) that the central claims of Christianity are true, and (2) that faith, properly understood, is a justified form of knowledge." It seems to me that assenting to premise 1 requires (in practice at least) acknowledging premise 2 unless you think that the central claims of Christianity are truly knowable apart from employment of faith as part of the process of "discovery" and "assent" to them.
You may claim some Christian beliefs are not matters of faith but rationally derivable. I will happily concede that, for example, the existence of God is a matter reason could theoretically investigate. While I think it is unclear how exactly reason could ever settle the question, I grant that various definitions of a metaphysical principle "God" can be formulated and those each could be assessed the way any other scientific or metaphysical proposition is assessable (depending on the extent to which a given particular conception of God takes more metaphysical or empirically assessable dimensions).
So, let's stipulate here that those issues are not relevant for this discussion because I am charging religious intellectuals of being complicit in promotion of intellectual vices, whereas rationally assessable claims are ones that can be investigated according to intellectual virtue or vice in a given case. An acute theist can formulate better reasons for believing in God than a simplistic atheist can formulate reasons against doing so. And vice versa.
And there is no reason to assume that, strictly with respect to what is accessible to reason and evidence that a priori a given theist or atheist will be less clever or scrupulous or more prejudiced. It is more likely I think that religious commitments could bias the theist fatally against genuinely entertaining the possibility of not believing. But, it is also very possible that a given atheist will have emotional prejudices against religion that bias her against even entertaining the possibility of even a metaphysical postulate of God from the start. And just as religion now warns people against unbelief as a grave error, so an ascendent atheism might add such cultural influences in the future (even though now most atheists are far more free agents with less at stake in switching sides and even more social approval to gain by being as favorable to religion as possible).
The real question is whether faith can be part of a rational epistemology and I insist it cannot and that we are not entitled to any beliefs which require an act of faith for their acceptance.
you seem to conclude that naturalism neither supports the claims of religion nor absolutely, 100% rules out their truth. (That is, you admit that there is a very small chance that the religious claims you list are true.) This does seem to follow from your other views, since many religious claims (like God's existence) could never be the object of naturalistic investigation.
At this point, you seem to have successfully shifted the burden of argument onto those who accept religious claims. That is, those who accept such claims must establish that religious faith, properly understood, is a justified form of knowledge, just as those who accept naturalism must do (and you have done).
Here, the one thing I would add is that if faith is a form of knowledge given by God, then it might be that some people can more fully grasp its justification than others. This, of course, would make it frustratingly unfalsifiable, yet it does seem that those who do not believe might still accept this special kind of knowledge as a possibility and thus remain agnostic toward the claims of faith.
On whether the existence of God is subject to naturalistic investigation: The God of the literally interpreted Bible is subject to some empirical tests. If his miracles are supposed proofs for his existence they can be confirmed or disconfirmed. Of course, until one has exhausted every possibility of naturalistic explanation one cannot simply throw up one's hands and call it a miracle. We do not provisionally declare unknown pathologies attacks of Satan or a demon until we have isolated an exact cause (although early Christians seem not to have such compunctions). We usually indefinitely assume naturalistic explanations. However, I think it is conceivable that there could be "miracles" that are confirmable events that take place with .0000000000000000000000000001 probability, which would require so drastically reconceiving the universe to explain them that we are entitled to say it is better to call them a statistical miracle.
But even that makes for a hard leap to a developed theological account as at all an explanation of the event. Whose theology interprets? That of the person who underwent the miracle? Who is to say this person can interpret anomalous events accurately?
Natural investigation can also test whether the universe evidences the sort of order that an all-good God would create or one who was perfect would create. If these words have any meaning they should give us testable predictions about what nature would be like.
I am unclear about what you mean that there "is enough experience to justify accepting faith as a justified form of knowledge." What kinds of experiences exactly would justify using faith as a justification for a knowledge claim? How would a given experience indicate to me that I now have justification to justify other beliefs based on my simple faith that they're true? This makes little sense to me.
If a given faith-based belief is, say, corroborated by experience and therefore reinforced that does not give reason to say that the faith itself was justifying, only that the evidence was justifying. In such a case I have not had one form of justification for a belief corroborated by a different form of justification, I have rather had one of my unjustified beliefs become justified through evidence. While the belief was based only in faith, it was still open to refutation by experience. And holding a belief by faith would be to insist on its established justification in the teeth of future evidence, requiring mental gymnastics of all sorts to rationalize away the new evidence since faith already justified the belief the evidence is now countering.
And even if we conceded that experience could somehow justify treating faith as justifying, what counts as "enough" experiences to justify faith as a justification? How does one determine in advance what counts as enough? And whose faith counts as a justified form of knowledge? Just Christians'? What about Muslims? What about believers in magic crystals? What about believers in Zeus or Scientology or those who are utterly convinced that they themselves are Jesus Christ?
Before I can reply to such a claim I need to know do you really mean to claim that all these people can have justified beliefs based on faith even if these beliefs (a) are inculcated and reinforced through epistemically arbitrary familial and social bonds, (b) contradict your own beliefs, (c) purport to give no publicly accessible and assessible reasons for these beliefs, and (d) base them on idiosyncratically cultural or personal, subjective intuitions?
In what sense are such beliefs justifying, if they're not publicly justifying. Who are you even justifying yourself to? Can there even be such a thing as justification without submission some independent standards of yourself or your community (depending on whether it is your idiosyncratic behavior or thoughts or the community's which have demands for justification made of them).
As you rightly ascertained, I am interested in shifting the discussion to the burdens of justification of the believer for the time being. While nearly anything is possible, I don't see faith-based beliefs, even if they turned out to be true to be justified since they reduce arguments to bald assertions without any comparative tests of their relative strengths possible.


Purpose: Acquired isolated hypoganglionosis (A-IH) is a late-onset intestinal pseudo-obstruction disorder and shows different pathophysiological findings from congenital isolated hypoganglionosis (C-IH). In this study, we retrospectively examined five cases of A-IH and investigated the features of A-IH. Methods: Five cases of A-IH were extracted from a nationwide retrospective cohort study in 10 years, from which totally 355 cases of Allied Disorders of Hirschsprung's Disease (ADHD) were collected. Results: Ages of onset were between 13 and 17 years in three cases, and 4 years and 4 months in ones. Initial symptoms were abdominal distension and/or chronic constipation in 4 cases, whereas one exhibited intestinal perforation. Affected lesions varied from case to case, extending various length of intestinal tracts. All cases underwent multiple operations (average: 4.6 times), such as enterostomy, resection of dilated intestines, and/or pull-through. Pathological findings showed the decreased numbers of ganglion cells and degeneration of ganglion cells, whereas the size of the plexus was normal. Currently, all cases were alive and almost all eat regular food without requiring parenteral feeding. Conclusion: A-IH is rare, but distinct entity characterized by different clinical courses and pathological findings from those of C-IH. The outcome is considered to be favorable after a resection of affected intestine.
Acquired isolated hypoganglionosis as a distinct entity : results from a nationwide survey. / Obata, Satoshi; Yoshimaru, Koichiro; Kirino, Kosuke; Izaki, Tomoko; Ieiri, Satoshi; Yamataka, Atsuyuki; Koshinaga, Tsugumichi; Iwai, Jun; Ikeda, Hitoshi; Matsufuji, Hiroshi; Oda, Yoshinao; Taguchi, Tomoaki.
In: Pediatric surgery international, Vol. 35, No. 2, 05.02.2019, p. 215-220.
Obata, Satoshi ; Yoshimaru, Koichiro ; Kirino, Kosuke ; Izaki, Tomoko ; Ieiri, Satoshi ; Yamataka, Atsuyuki ; Koshinaga, Tsugumichi ; Iwai, Jun ; Ikeda, Hitoshi ; Matsufuji, Hiroshi ; Oda, Yoshinao ; Taguchi, Tomoaki. / Acquired isolated hypoganglionosis as a distinct entity : results from a nationwide survey. In: Pediatric surgery international. 2019 ; Vol. 35, No. 2. pp. 215-220.
N2 - Purpose: Acquired isolated hypoganglionosis (A-IH) is a late-onset intestinal pseudo-obstruction disorder and shows different pathophysiological findings from congenital isolated hypoganglionosis (C-IH). In this study, we retrospectively examined five cases of A-IH and investigated the features of A-IH. Methods: Five cases of A-IH were extracted from a nationwide retrospective cohort study in 10 years, from which totally 355 cases of Allied Disorders of Hirschsprung's Disease (ADHD) were collected. Results: Ages of onset were between 13 and 17 years in three cases, and 4 years and 4 months in ones. Initial symptoms were abdominal distension and/or chronic constipation in 4 cases, whereas one exhibited intestinal perforation. Affected lesions varied from case to case, extending various length of intestinal tracts. All cases underwent multiple operations (average: 4.6 times), such as enterostomy, resection of dilated intestines, and/or pull-through. Pathological findings showed the decreased numbers of ganglion cells and degeneration of ganglion cells, whereas the size of the plexus was normal. Currently, all cases were alive and almost all eat regular food without requiring parenteral feeding. Conclusion: A-IH is rare, but distinct entity characterized by different clinical courses and pathological findings from those of C-IH. The outcome is considered to be favorable after a resection of affected intestine.
AB - Purpose: Acquired isolated hypoganglionosis (A-IH) is a late-onset intestinal pseudo-obstruction disorder and shows different pathophysiological findings from congenital isolated hypoganglionosis (C-IH). In this study, we retrospectively examined five cases of A-IH and investigated the features of A-IH. Methods: Five cases of A-IH were extracted from a nationwide retrospective cohort study in 10 years, from which totally 355 cases of Allied Disorders of Hirschsprung's Disease (ADHD) were collected. Results: Ages of onset were between 13 and 17 years in three cases, and 4 years and 4 months in ones. Initial symptoms were abdominal distension and/or chronic constipation in 4 cases, whereas one exhibited intestinal perforation. Affected lesions varied from case to case, extending various length of intestinal tracts. All cases underwent multiple operations (average: 4.6 times), such as enterostomy, resection of dilated intestines, and/or pull-through. Pathological findings showed the decreased numbers of ganglion cells and degeneration of ganglion cells, whereas the size of the plexus was normal. Currently, all cases were alive and almost all eat regular food without requiring parenteral feeding. Conclusion: A-IH is rare, but distinct entity characterized by different clinical courses and pathological findings from those of C-IH. The outcome is considered to be favorable after a resection of affected intestine.


Several of our Tennessee clients have expressed concerns over the TennCare cuts that may go into effect July 1.
For a summary of cuts, visit: http://www.tn.gov/tenncare/forms/tenncarewaiveramed12.pdf.
What concerns most of our clients is the eight day limit for hospital inpatient service, physician and nurse practitioner office visits and laboratory services.
Although we aren't fortune tellers, we think (and hope) the cut is unlikely.
The Affordable Care Act prohibits the reduction in eligibility for Medicaid between when the bill was passed in March 2010 and when the Act will be substantially implemented in 2014. Reducing eligibility = no federal funding. Although the amendments do not technically go to eligibility, the spirit of the Affordable Care Act was not just elibility but any reduction in benefits.
Per KHN: Governors are bristling against rules in the stimulus program and the health overhaul law that generally require them to maintain current Medicaid levels for adults until 2014, when much of the law kicks in, or risk losing federal matching funds. They say they need to be able to trim their Medicaid rolls now because their state budgets are in such dire straits – partly because stimulus funding that helped many prop up their health programs ends in June.
In Tennessee, cuts similar to those proposed for July were averted in 2010 when the hospitals agreed to a 3.5 percent fee on revenues. Hospitals will likely agree to continue the fee instead of facing the potential of no pay for Medicaid patients who exceed the eight days of inpatient visits.
Since Federal law requires Advance Notice of any change in Medicaid coverage, Tennessee put the public on notice about the proposed changes in case other funding options do not materialize.


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The Good Lawyer
November 30, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 1 Comment
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November 30, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment
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His summer vacation is ruined when twelve-year-old Buzz Collins is forced to share his room and emotional space with his grandfather, who has Alzheimer's disease, and his parents forbid him to associate with his best friend, Mitch. The thought of giving up his friendship is heartbreaking enough. But how can he relate to someone who forgets his grandson's name, wears adult diapers, and thinks dog biscuits are people cookies someone who could die in the night and scare Buzz right out of puberty.
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The situation turns deadly when Buzz and Mitch – whose friendship Buzz refuses to end – attempt to cure Grandpa of Alzheimer's disease by recreating the train accident on a hot summer day. (Ages 9-12+)
Readers who enjoyed the movie "Stand By Me" will enjoy this coming-of-age novel.
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Planetary Assault, by B.V. Larson, Vaughn Heppner, and David VanDyke, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 28 customer reviews.
Sometimes defending those you love means risking everything and attempting the most dangerous task in the universe—making a planetary assault against a heavily entrenched enemy. It's grim and always ugly. But as long as men refuse to bow their heads to conquerors, they will take the fight to the enemy or die trying.
Three masters of military science fiction have come together to tell harrowing tales of high-tech mayhem. In BV Larson's "Army of One" the Macros of the Star Force series invade from the skies, forcing a nanotized assassin into a deadly decision. David VanDyke's "First Conquest" tells of a bitter battle as EarthFleet smashes into an alien star system in a desperate first strike to save humanity. Vaughn Heppner's Space Marines of the Doom Star series race to the Oort Cloud in "Cyborgs!" For them, the hour of desperation has arrived.
Planetary Assault drips of glorious victories and grim defeats as humanity forces its way into the galaxy through sheer fighting ability. Despite their opponents, mankind will not be denied.
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Duchess By Chance, by Wendy Vella, is just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 55 customer reviews.
Category: Historical Romance
Daniel, Duke of Stratton, learns of his betrothal to Miss Berengaria Evangeline Winchcomb minutes before his father's death. Having gambled his fortune away, all the late Duke had left to sell was his son. To save his family's honor Daniel agrees to the marriage, but society's favorite bachelor is no longer a charming easygoing man – his father's betrayal has left him angry and with a thirst for revenge.
Eva learns she is to wed the Duke of Stratton on the way to the church. Inside she feels a flicker of hope that at last she is to leave her horrid family – however that flicker is short-lived as she faces the cold unyielding man who is now her husband.
Has she merely replaced one tyrant with another?
Winner: Romance Writers of New Zealand Clendon Award for a full-length romantic manuscript.
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Chest of Souls, by Michelle Erickson, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 24 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this is the last day for this book to be offered for free.
Brenna doesn't know that her mother is Hi-Sha of Eyes, or that her father was an assassin and he's supposed to be dead. She doesn't even know her pet is the Queen of all Shee's. Brenna is safe because she is oblivious to all but Talon.
Talon felt safe until he met Brenna.
Once he is ordered to protect her, he's had to fight monsters he never knew existed, run away from an assassin, and escape a forest full of carnivores. His father burned down their cottage and left him with people he just met and he isn't sure who to trust.
Talon and Brenna are destined to bring down the wickedest city in the world. They've been hunted their entire lives by the very evil they must destroy. They don't know that when they finally meet that evil, they may not win.
In the meantime the Chest of Souls waits to be powered and neither child can guess the price.
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Dead on Arrival, by Paul Oluikpe, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 6 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free for today only.
Ochomma, a famed warrior in Umuejia, is astounded by the sudden turn of events after a coup and a counter coup. First, Mazi Adichie's son arrives from the north, dead on arrival. As the days go by, more bodies arrive, causing a stir in the village. Then the refugees displaced by the crisis come back in droves and things take a turn for the worse. The crisis sets off a cataclysm that pushes the country to the brink of collapse, testing the very fabric of the village. A civil war between Nigeria and Biafra begins and the two sides fight a bitter war.
Dead on Arrival is a story about four characters in one family; Ochomma, a legend, Chibuike his son, Iroegbulam an army officer and Sochi, 'a prodigal son'. These, all entwined in the story of the civil war, provide a glimpse into the ravages of war and the foibles of humanity.
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Check out Amazon's Black Friday deals: you can click here or type in http://smarturl.it/amazonbfriday into your web browser – I'd strongly recommend you bookmark this link in your browser so you can keep in checking the deals as they seem to change every hour!
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The Time Hunters
Today's Featured Kindle Book of the Day is The Time Hunters, by Carl Ashmore, and is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 186 customer reviews.
Category: Children and Middle Grade
Becky is a typical thirteen year old girl. She likes Facebook, gossiping and plenty of sleep. So when she and her brother, Joe, are invited to stay with their 'loony' Uncle Percy at his stately home, she thinks it'll be the worst summer ever. What she doesn't realise is that Bowen Hall is also home to a baby Triceratops, two Sabre-tooth tigers and the mythic hero, Will Scarlet…
'The Time Hunters' is a thrilling adventure that takes Becky, Joe, Uncle Percy and Will on a quest through time to find the legendary Golden Fleece.
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I am a children's writer from Cheshire, England. In 2001, I achieved an MA in Screenwriting and won the Lynda La Plante Screenwriting Award. In 2006, I took a year's sabbatical and lived in the South West of France, where I wrote the first draft of my children's novel The Time Hunters
.' I have also written two other books for children – The Night They Nicked Saint Nick
and Bernard and the Bibble
I am currently working on the second TH book 'The Time Hunters and the Box of Eternity'.
Agents/publishers/readers can contact me on carlashmore@mailcity.com
Please visit me on my blog: http://carlashmoreauthor.blogspot.com/
You can visit Carl's Amazon author page if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/ashmore into your web browser.
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Six Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers
Included in this post are six free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for your consideration: for those books listed as being "free" in this post – while the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the "buy" button as it could revert back to paid status at any time!
Pandora's Grave, by Stephen England, is regularly priced at $3.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 181 customer reviews.
An American president who will do anything to win reelection. . .
An Iranian leader who will stop at nothing to bring about apocalypse. . .
An ancient evil, only waiting to be reborn. . .
High in the Alborz Mountains of northwestern Iran, an archaeological team disappears. American citizens are among the missing. . .
Days later, imagery from U.S. spy satellites reveals detachments of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps descending upon the site. . .
With the presidential election only months away, President Roger Hancock authorizes a covert CIA mission into the mountains of Iran. Their objective: rescue the archaeologists and uncover the truth.
With fifteen years in the Clandestine Service, paramilitary operations officer Harry Nichols is unquestionably the man for the job. He's a tough, ruthless veteran operator. He's led his men into harm's way time and again. For him, it's all about the mission. It's all about the team. He's never seen anything like this before. . .
Drawn into a web of conspiracy that reaches half-way around the world and into the highest levels of the U.S. government, he soon finds that nothing is as it seems. The mission itself is suspect. His team can no longer be trusted. And a misstep means world war. . .
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A Deadly Affection, by Cuyler Overholt, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 41 customer reviews.
Winner of ForeWord Reviews' 2012 Book of the Year Award
New York City, 1907. At the dawn of the twentieth century, Americans believe that science, especially the medical sciences, will soon conquer all of mankind's ills. For a brief time medical schools open their doors to women, allowing them to join the scientific crusade. Genevieve Summerford is one woman who answers the call….
After a past family tragedy for which she holds herself to blame, Dr. Genevieve Summerford wants nothing more than to succeed in her new career as a psychiatrist, and win back the respect of her family and peers. That goal is thrown into jeopardy, however, when one of her patients is arrested for murder – a murder Genevieve fears she may have unwittingly provoked. Desperate to prove to herself and the authorities that her patient is innocent, she is forced to enlist the aid of an influential Tammany captain who once worked for her family as a stable boy, and whose motives for helping her now are open to doubt. Forging an uneasy alliance, the two uncover an astonishing secret about one of the city's most powerful families: a secret which, should Genevieve choose to reveal it, could bring down catastrophe on those she cares most about, but which, should she let it lie, will almost certainly send her patient to the electric chair.
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The Adventures of Zeppi – New Friends, by C.K. Omillin, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 27 customer reviews.
Category: Children & Middle Grade
The Adventures of Zeppi series – Penguin Books for Kids!
How it all started …A lonely boy named Alesdor wishes for a new friend. One morning he discovers a penguin is his garden. A penguin! How is that possible? Is the penguin lost? Did it escape from a zoo?
Book #1 – New Friends: Will Alesdor keep Zeppi the penguin and give him a new home?
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Her Grace in Disgrace, by Claudia Harbaugh, is just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 91 customer reviews.
Her Grace in Disgrace: a Traditional Regency Romance in Kindle and paperback formats.
Reginald Aiken, Duke of Warwick is dead and his young widow is not grieving…until the will is read.
Isobel Kennilworth Aiken, Duchess of Warwick spent 6 years of her young life in a loveless marriage. Now, at the age of 24, Isobel is a widow. As Isobel awaits the reading of her late husband's last will and testament, she feels no grief, but in fact is quite hopeful. She is eager to start her life anew. But, as the droning of the solicitor's voice washes over her detailing the bequests to various servants and family members, a shock awaits her. The "other woman" was not his mistress, but his lawfully wedded wife and together they had a son. Six year old Reggie is now the Duke of Warwick, displacing Reginald's brother Charles.
There is a collective gasp as the revelation is made that instantly cuts off Isobel and Charles and dashes their hopes for the future. Isobel must indeed start again, not as a titled, influential and wealthy widow, but as plain Miss Kennilworth, tainted by scandal, something to be avoided at all costs in Regency England. Can she get past the disgrace and humiliation she has endured and fight her way back into society? Will she find love again with her childhood sweetheart, Andrew Stafford, former vicar, now Lord Saybrooke? Or perhaps she will rekindle the romance with Jeremy Ingles, Lord Westcott, who had caught her fancy at her come out six years earlier, but had not been ready to be leg shackled.
But before Isobel can find true love, she must come to grips with her past mistakes and the people she has hurt along the way. She must discover who she is without the title of duchess to her name.
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Divas of Damascus Road, by Michelle Stimpson, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 38 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through December 1st.
Category: Religious Fiction
After being blamed for her baby sister's death, Dianne Rucker swore she'd never come back to Dentonville, Texas. But her Aunt Gloria, who took her in after the accident, is getting remarried. Going back home means Dianne must face her own demons as well as a drug-addicted mother who is now falling even further into schizophrenia.
But Dianne isn't the only one struggling. Her two cousins, Yolanda and Regina must come to terms with their own issues after having grown up in this dysfunctional family of women. Yolanda's a control-freak who's on the verge of shutting down the best relationship she never had. And Regina has nearly outdone herself trying to lose weight despite the fact that her husband (and everyone else with eyes) thinks she looks perfectly fine.
Joyce Ann's mental state is no laughing matter. She needs help–but how do you help somebody who won't stay put long enough to see a program through?
Nobody's got more skeletons than Gloria May, the woman who raised all of the girls. But the matriarch of the family (Aunt Toe) is determined to make sure her sister's offspring shake the generational shackles loose and turn back to a faith in God that will never disappoint.
Like Saul on the road to Damascus, these women will endure an experience that will change everything.
Click here to pick up your copy of Divas of Damascus Road.
In the Middle of Nowhere, by Julie Ann Knudsen, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 30 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through December 30th.
A TEENAGE GIRL. A BROKEN HEART. AND A BOY WHO TRIES TO MEND IT.
Butterflies. Little, fluttering butterflies. That's what fifteen-year-old Willow Flynn feels in the pit of her stomach every time the mysterious boy is near. But Willow has other things to contend with as she deals with the tragic loss of her father, as well as her emotionally preoccupied mother, while being uprooted to a new house, a new school, a new life, far away, on an island, in the middle of nowhere.
At the beginning of the school year, the sickly, but cute Michael sends Willow the first of many cryptic notes during homeroom. He stares at Willow and gives her the creeps. Michael never returns to school after that, but Willow ends up connecting with the poetic boy on-line where they strike up an unusual friendship.
As Willow attempts to fit in and find her niche in the ever-cliquey high school world, she is further confused by Michael who strives to win her over and mend her broken heart. But will he be able to, especially when his own existence remains so uncertain?
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Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers
November 29, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 2 Comments
Here's your first group of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for this Black Friday morning: for those books listed as being "free" in this post – while the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the "buy" button as it could revert back to paid status at any time!
Virtual Justice, by M. A. Comley, is regularly priced at $3.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 14 customer reviews.
Internet Dating – A Stalker's Paradise
P.I. Lorne Warner is back in Virtual Justice, the seventh installment in the Justice series.
The body of a strangled woman draws Lorne into an intricate investigation that expands swiftly when a second innocent is murdered. A serial killer is on the loose, plucking victims from Internet dating sites. But when a third victim–this one male–is discovered, Lorne is forced to admit her worst fears… she is on the trail of a serial killer duo.
Lorne's personal life grows complicated as her sister, Jade, struggles to come to terms with their father's death. Lorne suggests drastic measures to cure Jade's grief.
The answers are out there, but will Lorne solve the crimes and find the killer before the next victim dies?
Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/72bczh into your web browser to pick up your copy of Virtual Justice .
The Devil's Cauldron, by Michael Wallace, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 22 customer reviews.
Seven years after a horrific caving accident left her paralyzed and unable to communicate with the outside world, Meggie Kerr's nightmare is about to end. A team of medical investigators specializing in locked-in syndrome has tracked her to a care center in the mountains of Costa Rica with promises to break her mind free using the latest brain treatments.
But a jealous rival and a treacherous ex-boyfriend can't let that happen. Not if there's any possibility Meggie will be able to finger them as the ones behind her "accident."
Meggie's only chance lies with a mentally challenged young man who knows her secret and has the means to help. But first he has to hold the details in his head long enough to pull it off before it's too late.
The third book of the Devil's Deep suspense series by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Michael Wallace, The Devil's Cauldron plumbs new depths of psychological terror as it travels from the cloud forest of Costa Rica to the secrets hidden at the bottom of a cave in the Nevada desert.
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Come the Night , by Christina Skye, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 72 customer reviews.
Deadly secrets unfold on the lonely English heath where a highwayman pursues his dangerous vow of revenge.
Silver St. Clair has vowed to reclaim her family birthright at any cost, but the precious formula for a rare fragrance coveted by all of fashionable London is lost, hidden somewhere in the misty lavender fields of her Norfolk estate. Now Silver must risk her reputation and her life, striking a wanton bargain with England's most notorious highwayman, whose price will be her unconditional surrender, her unbridled passion — and her stubborn heart.
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Love at First Date, by Susan Hatler, is just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 120 customer reviews.
Ellen may not believe in storybook love, but it's about to rewrite her life . . .
Ellen's figured out that finding the right guy is all about compatibility. That's why she signs up for Detailed Dating—the local online dating scene in Sacramento. They ask men the hard questions, compare their answers with hers, then she filters through the profiles of each provided "match." After numerous email exchanges, she narrows it down to two promising candidates she's excited to meet in person.
When Ellen's best friend asks her for a favor, dog-sitting leads to disaster and Ellen ends up at the local vet where she meets a man she can't get out of her mind. Henry isn't a logical choice, but she finds herself paying for dog obedience class to spend more time with him.
Ellen knows that in order to have a lasting relationship, she should take the safe route and go for one of the pre-screened guys. But, how can she think with her head when her heart keeps begging her to give Henry a chance?
Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/f99fjn into your web browser to pick up your copy of Love at First Date.
Russian Roulette, by Mike Faricy, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 62 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this is the last day for this book to be offered for free.
Start the Dev Haskell – Private Investigator Series with Case 1: Russian Roulette!
Beaten, shot, car bombed, and as if things couldn't get any worse, used as a human shield!
Dev Haskell, Private Investigator, just woke up next to his client without the foggiest notion she's signed him up with the Russian mob.
Why is Dev going through all this?
Love, of course. Well, at least that's what he's telling himself and their 'special' relationship quickly places him at odds with the FBI task force investigating human trafficking. On the hunt for answers,Dev finds himself with a foot on both sides of the law.
Click here to pick up your copy of Russian Roulette.
Kat McGee and The School of Christmas Spirit, by Rebecca Munsterer and Georgianna Manderioli, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 80 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through December 3rd.
If Kat McGee had one Christmas wish, she'd wish to be special.
Instead, she's the boring middle in a family packed with sparkly siblings, including three sisters who have all starred as Mary in Totsville, Maine's annual big-deal Christmas Pageant. All Kat's done is wet her pants on a rollercoaster and earn herself the horrible nickname, "Kat McPee." When she doesn't get the part of Mary, Kat's convinced that Christmas will be just another Kat McPee failure.
But then Kat's beloved Gram lets it slip that she went to school with Mrs. Claus. The Mrs. Claus. Before Kat knows it, a magical snowglobe whisks her away to the North Pole, where she makes friends, checks naughty and nice lists, and takes classes in cookie baking, reindeer training, and toy designing. It's a Christmas miracle …
But something is wrong. The North Pole is being threatened, and only Kat McGee can help.
MRS. CLAUS AND THE SCHOOL OF CHRISTMAS SPIRIT is a new Christmas classic about a modern girl in a magical adventure. Kat is about to learn that the spirit of Christmas is about what you give, not what you get, and who you can be if you believe in Christmas … and yourself.
Click here to pick up your copy of Kat McGee and The School of Christmas Spirit.
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Amazon's Black Friday Starts Now!
Black Friday at Amazon has officially started…all of that other stuff was just a warm-up.
To check out all of the deals, you can click here or type in http://smarturl.it/amazonbfridayinto your web browser. The deals will change every hour – sometimes they are for maybe an hour or two, others will last all day.
So, what have I seen so far? Let's start with the Kindle-related stuff:
A Kindle DX with free international 3G is discounted to just $169 – that's less than the price of a Paperwhite. If you are unfamiliar with the DX model, it's the larger screen e-Ink Kindle and I use mine all of the time. Seeing as how these used to cost $499, and are now regularly priced at $239, this one to me is a steal. You can check it out if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/kindledx into your web browser.
An 8.9" Kindle Fire HD is only $229 – that's the same price as the 7" Kindle Fire. You can check it out if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/firehd89 into your web browser.
The Kindle Daily Deal will re-populate in about two hours from the time of this post. I've been told on good authority (hint) you'll be very pleased at the offerings which will also feature 25 cinematic Kindle books for only $1.99 each: the lineup will include several new box office release tie-ins such as Star Trek Into Darkness, The Silence of the Lambs, and The Pianist. You can click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to check these out.
I've seen a list of the things that will be offered starting at different times throughout the day – they seem to have everything on people's wishlists including trampolines, a Kuerig coffee maker that I think I may have to sneak in to my office address, some tools, a new large computer monitor that would look great in my home office, and more things than I could list in this post.
To check out all of the deals, you can click here or type in http://smarturl.it/amazonbfriday into your web browser but remember – the deals will change every hour!
Have fun-
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Today is Thanksgiving Day here in the USA, and I just wanted to take the time to send each of you a quick note: I appreciate all of your support and encouragement over this past year!
If your house is going to be like mine today, it means visiting with family and friends as well as eating way too much before the inevitable retiring to the lazy chair or couch and trying not to fall asleep. I hope each of you has a blessed Thanksgiving, a good remainder of the year, and a wonderful 2014!
Michael Gallagher
Six Free and Discounted Kindle Book Offers
Here are six discounted and free Kindle book offers for your consideration from highly-rated independent authors in a variety of genres who have discounted the pricing for a limited time just for members of the blog. While the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the "buy" button as it could change at any time!
Earth Angel, by E. Van Lowe, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 31 customer reviews.
Category: Paranormal
Do Angels lie?
Just because Megan Barnett recently defeated Satan, has a fantastic new best friend, and has won the love of deliciously handsome Guy Matson doesn't mean her troubles are over. Far from it. For Megan doesn't realize it, but in her possession is a powerful weapon, one sought after by both angels and demons and everything in between…
Then when the mysterious and beautiful Roxanne shows up at Guy Matson's side, Megan finds herself questioning the sincerity of his love.
In the dramatic sequel to "Boyfriend From Hell
," Megan becomes a pawn in the power struggle between Angels and Nephilim, and winds up in a gripping life-or-death battle to save herself, the angel she loves, and all of mankind from unspeakable evil.
Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/earthangel into your web browser to pick up your copy of Earth Angel.
Michal's Window, by Rachelle Ayala, is regularly priced at $3.99 but has been discounted to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 100 customer reviews.
It's not easy being a woman, least of all princess of Israel. Married as a prize, abandoned as a wife, Michal fights to claim her rightful spot next to King David, the man she loves with all her heart.
Separated by war, concubines, and kingdom politics, Michal embarks on a journey of adventure and heartache where she is befriended by a goddess-worshiping priestess and tempted by a Philistine prince.
From reading scrolls high atop the palace walls to seduction with a henna-painted body, Michal is not your ordinary Bible heroine. Join her in Michal's Window and let her delight you with her courage, devotion, and outrageous passion in her relentless drive to win back her husband.
Too strong for her time, Michal's story resonates with women today.
Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/n2r7oe into your web browser to pick up your copy of Michal's Widow.
A Home for Wayward Husbands, by Johnee Cherry, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 9 customer reviews.
Category: Women's Fiction
You have to get off the freeways in America to find a by-road town like Atlanta, Texas where folks thrive on gossip, tie swayback horses in their front yards, hang washtubs on the back porch like a coat of arms, and plant petunia beds wrapped in old tires that hug dilapidated back porches. Simple, honest houses.
The roads are dusty in summer and sinkholes in winter. Bitzy Smith lives in Atlanta, Texas. She's spent her whole life trying to do the right thing but keeps coming up against the brickwall of life. She loves one man, wayward husband, Beau Smith. Beau is trying to rebuild a past he can see and smell and shape with his hands. His luck runs about as true as a bent horseshoe. He's been leaning in and out the easy curves of life until a straight road lands him back in Atlanta, Texas and into the arms of Bitzy… he hopes.
Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/0ry8sa into your web browser to pick up your copy of A Home for Wayward Husbands.
Scarlet and Gold, by Randy Mixter, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 5 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through November 29th.
Category: Action & Adventure
The Pirate Wars Have Begun.
Alliances are being formed. Treachery is in the wind. And danger hides in the shadows.
Rachel Caine knew that marrying Morgan Reid, a soldier of fortune, would lead to a life of danger, but when a deserted pirate ship is discovered in the Great Eastern Sea, she is plunged into an adventure that will test her courage like no other.
From battles at sea to a rescue on an island fortress, Rachel and Morgan face peril and betrayal by those whom they know and trust. In this game of deception and double-crosses, no man, or woman, is safe from harm, and only the strongest will survive.
Click here to pick up your copy of Scarlet and Gold.
In Search of the Fuller Brush Man, by Douglas Carlyle, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 10 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through December 1st.
Category: Contemporary Fiction / Romance / Suspense
Sean Marcum is driven to find the meaning of his mother's swan song. The last words she wrote in her journal were, "Fuller Brush Man". She always communicated life's most important lessons via riddles, and he is convinced this is her finale. Sadly, Sean was never good at solving riddles, and his quest turns into an obsession, nearly costing him his marriage, and his life.
Sean's high school sweetheart, Kim, had a special bond with his mother. She was also a master at riddles. The one-time lovers have been married to others for more than 30 years. Kim's marriage has been picture perfect, Sean's not so much. Upon Kim's death from breast cancer, Sean receives a memoir she penned celebrating their failed relationship. Her book, The Road to Monticello, contains the secret to a long, happy relationship for which Sean so desperately searches. It is a lesson all of us should take to heart.
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The Atlas Murders, by John Molloy, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 6 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this is the last day for this book to be offered for free.
Detective Inspector Henry Carter's life changes forever when his beloved niece is brutally murdered in a small town in England.
The police investigation stalls until an inspired hunch makes him realize he's looking in the wrong place entirely. Helped by Scotland Yard and his liberated lover, Vera, he prepares for one of the most audacious and unusual assignments ever undertaken by a serving officer. The manhunt spans four continents as the psychopath continues to murder at will. Despite a major failing of justice, Henry is determined to make the killer pay for his crimes.
In his continuing quest he meets the beautiful Kerstin and their relationship blossoms, opening up lost chapters in both their lives. Henry is stunned by a surprising revelation from a long past encounter.
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Here's your first group of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for this morning: for those books listed as being "free" in this post – while the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the "buy" button as it could revert back to paid status at any time!
Holiday Heroes, a special four book box collection by bestselling authors Dianne Greenlay, Mike Faricy, Martin Crosbie, and Sable Hunter, and is priced at just 99 cents through December 3rd.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED CHRISTMAS GIFT!
Celebrate the season by escaping with a hero. Here is a collection of four novels – each with a different type of hero: A Pirate, A Private Investigator, A Soldier and A Cowboy. Sit down by the fire, drink a hot cup of cocoa and enjoy…
Book 1: Quintspinner: A Pirate's Quest by Dianne Greenlay
A secret and unauthorized trip through the chaos of a 1717 London marketplace takes a bizarre twist for 16 year old Tess. Unexpectedly witnessing the murder of a renowned Seer, Tess becomes the keeper of the old woman's legendary spinner ring and its supposed power of prophecy. Returning home, Tess bears the brunt of her father's rage when he is informed of her disobedient excursion. An ensuing altercation with her father leads Tess to the discovery of a family secret that stuns her. Even so, she never imagines that she will soon find herself forcibly betrothed to the murderer and trapped on a ship bound for the pirate-infested waters of the West Indies. With increasing dread, she realizes a growing attraction that she has for a handsome sailor puts both their lives at risk. Moreover, she quickly discovers that her ruthless fiance covets her only for her ring and its power, and will stop at nothing to obtain it for himself. The stakes for survival become unbearably high when she is thrust into the hands of a marauding band of pirates, and she must make an agonizing and life-threatening choice for herself. A tale of pirates and treasure, love and betrayal, all bound together by a dash of ancient magic.
Book 2: Russian Roulette by Mike Faricy
Why is Dev going through all this? Love, of course. Well, at least that's what he's telling himself and their 'special' relationship quickly places him at odds with the FBI task force investigating human trafficking. On the hunt for answers,Dev finds himself with a foot on both sides of the law.
Book 3: My Name is Hardly by Martin Crosbie
A beautiful girl is missing, and may or may not want to be found, a soldier on his last and most dangerous mission, and a vow made to a dying friend. Northern Ireland, in 1996, is one of the most dangerous places in the world. The government called it a state of unrest, the people who lived through it called it the time of "The Troubles". Gerald "Hardly" McDougall is a forgotten man. He's abused, bullied, and left behind. The only escape left is to join the British Army. At first, he's a reluctant soldier. Everything changes when tensions in Northern Ireland escalate and the Army need a man with a particular set of characteristics. Hardly's re-assigned and sent into the heart of the troubles, living in the same houses as the IRA soldiers he's fighting against.
MY NAME IS HARDLY takes the reader on a twenty year journey through Hardly's life–from the beginning, when he leaves Scotland and joins the Army, to the tragic final days when he embarks on a search to find the only woman who can answer his questions.
Book 4: Cowboy Heat – Sweeter Version by Sable Hunter
Aron McCoy has sworn off women, he has been burnt once and doesn't intend to fall back into the matrimonial trap again. When Libby Fontaine arrives at Aron's Tebow Ranch, she is determined to cram a lifetime of living into a few short months. The doctor has told her she can't count on her remission from leukemia being a permanent one. Their attraction to one another is instantaneous and overwhelming. But when Aron finds out that Libby is innocent – he backs off. He has nothing to offer a girl who deserves white lace and promises. Then Aron catches Libby skinny-dipping in his stock tank and hears her cry out his name in pleasure – and the heat is on.
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Sand Dollar: A Story of Undying Love, by Sebastian Cole, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 358 customer reviews.
Category: Romance
Beverly Hills Book Award winner, USA Best Book Award finalist, ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award bronze winner, International Book Award finalist, ForeWord Firsts debut literary competition finalist.
The story opens with Noah Hartman, eighty years old, lying on his deathbed recounting his life of love and loss to Josh, a compassionate orderly at the hospital. As Noah's loved ones arrive one by one, they listen in on his story, and we're transported back in time to Noah's younger years.
Though outwardly seeming to have it all, Noah, now thirty-five, is actually an empty, lost, and broken man running on automatic pilot. He has no true identity due to having allowed his powerful, wealthy parents to manipulate, control, and brainwash him from a young age. With the threat of disinheritance and withholding love and approval if he doesn't comply with the plan they have for his life, Noah is lured in by the reward of great wealth and the illusion of running the family business empire some day.
Enter Robin, twenty-five years old, who — in direct contrast to Noah — is a vivacious, free spirit. Full of life and always living in the moment, Robin's love saves Noah by inspiring him to stand up to his parents and live his own life at all costs, reclaiming his true self.
They get married, and while snorkeling in the Caribbean, the captain of the boat warns them not to disturb anything in the sea. Ignoring the exhortation, Noah dives down and snags a sand dollar from the ocean floor, whereupon it explodes in his hand. With the fragile sand dollar taking on new significance, Robin inexplicably leaves Noah shortly after returning from their honeymoon. Like a passing breeze, she disappears out of his life without a trace, seemingly forever.
Years pass, and Noah still can't get Robin out of his mind and out of his heart. After all, the one he loved the most would forever be the one who got away. That's when he finds out about her hidden secret, the underlying condition responsible for her leaving. Noah has no choice but to move on with his life without her, meeting Sarah at the premiere of SAND DOLLAR, the movie he wrote about his time with Robin.
Years later, it's Noah and Sarah's wedding day, and Robin discovers a clue that Noah had surreptitiously inserted into the movie, inspiring her to race to the wedding to try to stop it. With the wedding in shambles, the scene jumps back to present day, with both Robin and Sarah placed in Noah's hospital room. But which one did he choose?
As Noah wraps up his story, he discovers a far greater truth about the past, present, and future. Things are definitely not as they appear as the pieces of a shattered love are put back together in the remarkable final chapter of Noah's life.
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God Loves You – Chester Blue , by Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 151 customer reviews.
***BEAUTIFUL NEW ILLUSTRATIONS BRING THE STORY TO LIFE!****
A charming book about a mysterious bear that shows up in the right place at just the right time. His comforting message and his cache of supplies always solve the problem at hand. The story is very reassuring on many levels, reiterating the old adage that all's well that ends well." – reader review
God Loves You. ~Chester Blue was originally written as a children's chapter book. However, since its launch it has found its widest readership as an inspirational story for adults. This is because, although each short chapter features a different person encountering God through this blue bear…half of the encounters involve adults dealing with real-life events such as job-loss and growing old.
AN INSPIRATIONAL BOOK OF HOPE FOR ALL AGES.
God's love always finds us just in time. No matter where we are, or who we are, God has a special message of Love for each of us.
What if when you most needed help, a blue bear appeared with a note from God?? One night, Miss Millie of Blossom, Ohio turns her face to the stars and asks God for help. The next day, a package arrives on her doorstep containing a blue teddy bear and a very special note.
God will meet us where we are…
Over the course of a year, this remarkable blue bear travels across the country, showing up just when he's needed most.
During his journey, Chester Blue helps a young girl trying to impress her big sisters; helps a man who has lost his job; saves a sailor caught in a terrible storm; reunites two constantly fighting brothers suffering from a terrible case of sibling rivalry; watches a cowboy become a rodeo clown; and helps a father and daughter after divorce. Each chapter is short story demonstrating God's love for us in every situation.
God is everywhere. His love can find us anywhere.
Whether you are a child or an adult, God has a very important message for you, too…
God Loves You. Chester Blue is an inspirational book for kids, adults, parents, families, in other words, everybody.
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Money is Thicker Than Blood, by Stephen Woodfin, is just $3.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 15 customer reviews.
Football, murder, greed, corruption, revenge, religion, sex—just a typical Saturday afternoon in the SEC.
When an assassin guns down leading Heisman contender, Eliab McDermott, during the Iron Bowl game in Auburn, Alabama, a team of investigators, led by legendary Nashville PD detective Shot Glass Reynolds, sets out to crack the case.
Murder follows murder while the officers attempt to unravel a thread of deceit that stretches across three generations. As they get closer to the truth, they learn that their investigation threatens to expose a cover up at the highest level of collegiate football.
And they learn that although blood may be thicker than water, money is thicker than blood.
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Into the Killer Sphere, by Stefania Mattana, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars based on 7 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through December 2nd.
Category: Cozy Mystery
Chase Williams is looking forward to a solitary week off, away from the office, when he is dragged into a strange murder case by his friend, Inspector Angelo Alunni.
Piero Galli has died as a result of a chandelier falling on him and breaking his neck. It looks like an accident, but Alunni is not convinced: so who killed Galli?
Despite his plans for a vacation, Chase ends up in a detective story; he has to unravel the knots in a high ranking family of Tursenia, a Medieval city in the heart of Italy, where appearances always come first and foremost, especially if you are wealthy.
As well as rough-necked youths, an interrupted wedding and a handful of noisy dogs, Chase has to cope with that Italian classic: meddling neighbours.
This is a murder case where attention to even the tiniest detail could make the difference between leaving a killer on the loose or bringing him or her to justice.
Will Chase take down the assassin before there are more deaths?
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Find Virgil, by Frank Freuberg, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars based on 13 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through December 1st.
Second-hand smoke gave Martin Muntor lung cancer…and he's mad. Very mad. And he's going to do something about it.
It's 1995, and the tobacco industry thinks it's invincible. But is it? Muntor devises an ingenious strategy to put Big Tobacco out of business, and he doesn't care how many people he has to take with him in order to do it.
Cigarette company investigator Tommy Rhoads has other ideas, though. Who's right, and who's wrong? Read Find Virgil now, and go along for the wild ride. You'll never forget it.
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Barcelona 'ready to buy' Philippe Coutinho in January
Liverpool FC rejected three bid from the Catalan giants last summer
PA SPORT
Barcelona are preparing to launch a fresh attempt to sign Philippe Coutinho during the winter transfer window after being thwarted by Liverpool over the summer.
Coutinho handed in a transfer request in an effort to engineer a move to the Catalan giants, who had three bids rejected as the Reds made clear they were unwilling to part with their star man at any price.
Barnes: Why Liverpool FC WILL beat Manchester United FC this weekend
The 25-year-old has since been eased back into the first-team picture following a back injury and has underlined his importance to Liverpool with goals in each of his last three outings.
Barca are unwilling to concede defeat in their pursuit of the Brazil midfielder and are set to test Liverpool's resolve in January - although any new arrivals must be offset by departures.
Jurgen Klopp speaks with Philippe Coutinho and Georginio Wijnaldum during the Carabao Cup third round match between Leicester City and Liverpool at The King Power Stadium on September 19, 2017 (Image: Getty Images Europe)
Chief executive Oscar Grau said in quotes reported in several national newspapers: "We are ready to buy Coutinho in the winter market or any player the technical staff request.
"But it is important to adjust ourselves, so if there are to be arrivals, there must be exits as well."
Jurgen Klopp could have been manager of Manchester United FC
Barca sold Coutinho's international team-mate Neymar to Paris St Germain for a world record 222m euros (£200.6m) fee in August.
But Grau added: "We must forget about the price paid for Neymar last summer. After taxes we received about 188m euros in income and a direct financial impact on the club's treasury of 144m euros."


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BVLGARI Man Wood Essence Launched in London
Man of Many, 15 Aug 2018
Italian fashion maison Bulgari has officially launched the latest member of its men's fragrance family Bulgari Man, aptly named Man Wood Essence. The masculine fragrance, which delivers spades of sweet, earthy notes and mild floral hints, was unveiled at an exclusive event held in London last month, at which Man of Many was in attendance.
Hosted at the lavish Sky Garden, overlooking London, media and A-listers flocked to the lusciously-catered event, which saw the opulent room filled with greenery and plant life, in reference to the night's theme: "Citizen of nature". With master parfumier Alberto Morillas in attendance to flaunt his latest creation (Morillas is perhaps most famous for his iconic '90s fragrance CK1, and has been responsible for some of the most famous perfumes of the past three decades), the night took attendees on a journey into the fragrance, and showcased how Morillas drew inspiration from natural elements to create a modern, urban scent that showcases a primal instinct to rediscover the wilderness.
Also in attendance was Canadian model and actor Nick Bateman. Bateman, a champion martial artist, was used as inspiration by Morillas from the initial inception of the fragrance, and is a fitting face for the campaign. Joking with Morillas on stage, the handsome and articulate brand ambassador took selfies with the crowd, to send home to his dogs (an avid animal lover, he insists they miss him too much when he travels for work.)
Bulgari Man Wood Essence is the latest men's fragrance in an already celebrated line up of scents by the famous fashion house. Joining "Man in Black", "Man Black Orient", "Man Black Essence" and "Man Extreme", it is a sweet and woody fragrance with complex layers of natural, earthy notes, and fits nicely into the range of masculine expressions which has brought a lot of fans over to the label.
With an afterparty on the richly appointed rooftop extending long after the sun went down, many attendees continued arriving late into the night to see a first glimpse of the perfume (and to experience wearing it for the first time). Mirrored rooms provided more opportunities for selfies (just in case the sweeping views of the city weren't enough), and a continuous supply of cocktails ensured a level of revelry worthy of such an exclusive and visually stunning event.
Bulgari Man Wood Essence is now available in stores and online.
The writer travelled to London as a guest of Bulgari.
Bulgari Man Wood Essence
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