Category - Blurbs

A fantastic book that is perhaps the best exposé ever written on the world’s largest and most popular religion (approximately 2.5 billion adherents) from an ‘insider’ who participated in Christianity for many years. You can search far and wide and you will not find a better book on what Christianity is, why it is a successful failure, and why it’s being a successful failure should be of urgent interest to you and those you care about.

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Apparently, being an “insider” for many years didn’t teach him humility.

When Jillian Farmer meets Carly Foreman in the pediatrician’s office, she has no idea how her life is about to be forever changed. After tragedy strikes, Jillian feels led to help a motherless child, but not everyone appreciates her help, and Jillian is soon put in the middle of a family feud. Jillian only wants what’s best for Ben, the child she quickly grows to love as her own, but will she make an objective decision, or will her own feelings get in the way of doing what is right?

Want to borrow my whiteboard? (h/t Nuclear_i9_Meltdown)

Late one Saturday night Aaron Tyler has a choice to make, the noise coming from his front door is unusual – nobody has knocked at Sotherby House for nearly 20 years.

A recluse for almost half his life, the idea of someone at his door both terrifies and excites him.
Denying his natural instinct he decides to open it.
What he finds is a barely conscious, beaten and bloodied girl.

From that moment on his world is about to become complicated in ways he could not have imagined.
Many questions need answering.

How did 15yr old Sophie Thomas end up on the doorstep of Sotherby House? More importantly – Why?

And what does she want from Aaron Tyler?

I love the English language too much to like this at all. (h/t Doug)

The next fertile undiscovered frontier of science is the study of how the individual (you) naturally inhabit this universe. This topic speaks to the really interesting question of how any living individual came to be where you are in the form that you are. Consciousness, self-awareness, sentience are evolved attributes had by very few forms of life in Earths’ ecosystem, yet all are just as alive in nature. Such attributes cannot be relevant to either natures’ fundamental implementation of life, to being alive, or to experience. These attributes may enhance experience as they evolve in more complex hosts or species, but the phenomena which establish an instance of life likely brings no experience at all. The universal mobility of individuality is made evident by recent discoveries which describe a cosmos with an abundance of planetary solar systems of which Earths’ solar system is but one. The LINE hypothesis is a groundbreaking complement to Darwins’ seminal insights and builds upon existing scientific principles and leverages logic, reason, and evidence to describe the natural mechanisms by which nature implements and distributes life and individuality throughout nature.

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I have a suspicions that this makes sense only to the author (and maybe not even him).

This book is about life. To describe it with a single metaphor would be like putting the universe into a single equation. It is not all that feasible. With how complex it is, everyone’s always trying to figure everything out, their minds kicking up dust as they run and run. But when they sit and breathe, the dust settles, and they see what was right in front of them all along. The chapters explain this meditation perspective and some of its applications. Picture this: if you’re living in the fast lane, everything is a blur outside your vehicle’s window. It is hard to appreciate those simple things if you do not slow down. Discover how the empty mind dwarfs the open mind.

196 pages of this? Shut up and take my money!

12 Cookies of Christmas, is a cookie cookbook for all ages. You will experience well written recipes with directions and pictures of each cookie. The more in-depth directions show step by step pictures to help guide you on your cookie making voyage. Holiday traditions are a MUST and I love creating them and sharing history about mine, with you, as to inspire you to do the same! I believe in writing cookbooks that are for everyone. The cookies I have showcased in these recipes have been used in many kitchens around the globe. Cookies are meant to taste good, be fun, and plant “memory seeds.” If you take a moment to reflect on the cookies that you had as a child you will recall the place you were, who you were with, and what events took place around you. It is amazing how impactful one little cookie can be. The cookies that you remember may not have been Christmas cookies at all, but Christmas is a great time of year to make lots of different types of cookies to share with those you love and appreciate.

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It continues in the same vein (and in the same paragraph), for over 500 more words.

Hey! My name is Larry Taylor, I’m 29 years old, born in Cleveland Ohio. I would like to share with you a little of my story. In 2012, the doctors told my family and I, that I only had 48 hours to live… BUT GOD!!! In 2013, I had a house fire, and my family and I lost everything… But God!!! In 2016, I Had brain surgery, and was diagnose with brain cancer… But God!!! 2018, I’m an inventor, I’ve created 4 business plans, I’m an Author, I’m a deans list student, I’m a 2018 college graduate, I’M A SURVIVOR!!! GOD’S SO GREAT!!! I’m currently working on my prototype for my first invention and getting my patents/copyrights, working on promoting my book I just published in September 2018, working on my business plans, working on finding a team to prosper with, and thanking GOD EVERYDAY!!! On this journey I’ve learned a lot and connected with a lot of great people that has helped me out tremendously. I’m ready to bring my story out to the world to show GOD’S GLORY!!! I really could use some help on promoting my book and getting to the next level! He’s that little bit of hope, when your backs’ against the ropes, YO I made it(THANK YOU JESUS!!!), he’s the Worlds’ greatest(THANK YOU JESUS!!!). I just asked the lord to help me… GODS’ SO GREAT!!! I just said in the name of JESUS… GODS’ SO GREAT!!!GOD used my health problems to pull me out of the real storm, the storm/battle against myself; I was fighting and drowning myself… BUT GOD!!! THANK YOU JESUS!!! my health problems was nothing compared to what i was doing to myself. God allowed me to see why I went through everything I did as a kid, teen, and a younger adult! Just know NO matter what you go through, GOD IS GUARANTEED!!!

Just imagine 70 pages of this.