Hands: The Story of Art in a Story About Art

 

HANDS: The Story of Art in a Story About Art

"Hands" is a unique work of fiction loosely based on the classic, "Don Quixote." The reader is invited to follow the flawed logic of a goof, Benny Fisher. Like so many people right now, Benny finds himself out of a job. As he struggles to find his next step, he falls in love with Margo. In an attempt to mask his unemployment, he pretends to be a famous artist. As Benny learns art, in order to become the artist he claims to be, so does the audience. 

Comedy, especially while simaltaneously teaching an art lesson, is very difficult to capture in writing. Z.B. Sanders does an excellent job keeping the reader entertained through the rotating perspectives of a whimsical cast of colorful characters. It is no surprise she has rave reviews for this delightful book. "Hands" is the perfect gift for the young adult reader, artists, and creative individuals looking to explore the world of art in a comprehensive way. This book answers many questions about the meaning of art, life and love. Books like "Hands", have the potential to become modern classics, such as, "Charlotte's Web, Harry Potter, Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory." Just like the classics mentioned, it would be no surprise if this book turns into a film in the future. The mixture of quirky characters, humor, deeper wisdom woven into comedic events, and illustrations turn the book into a "work of art" in its own right. Be sure to order a copy!

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Vignettes of the Possibly Dying 

Herein is the record; the Vignettes of the Possibly Dying- a collection of spiritual literature, guidance and meditations with a dash of metaphysical prose scribed for you. These vignettes are like coal and diamonds, sand and glass. Maybe you will find a jewel to keep for yourself and let it spark the torch you carry on this long dark night. 

A stunning linen hardcover edition- with a beautiful dust jacket, stamping, sketched illustrations along with insights into life, death, love, friendship and the quest for what lies beyond; heaven. Out Now!

About the Author: The year KB Eliza started to write stories was the year she tried to live in a treehouse. It was an unusually wet one, with thunder that made her dog shake. As a young child, she loved to escape into the dimension of storytelling, and she read literature to her dog to help with the shakes. This was also the year she experienced faith, hope, and a strong notion that there may be more beyond our world than we can perceive. A spiritual quest started, the muse for a life of metaphysical enquiry. 

Now the full-time Australian writer dedicates her time to simple living and extracting the thoughts and wonders that arrive most days, inspiring prose and heart filled pondering.

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Reviews: 

Vignettes of the Possibly Dying has a narrator who sees things clearly, acknowledging the world’s pain without succumbing to fear of it. In that sense, the book does inspire. Emily Dickinson wrote “Tell all the truth but tell it slant,” and Eliza takes this advice to heart. Her language is often ambiguous but stick with it. Receptive readers will find it a challenging but satisfying read.

KB Eliza’s VIGNETTES OF THE POSSIBLY DYING is a hard-to-classify book which couches truth in ambiguous language. Receptive readers will find it a challenging but satisfying read.

- indie reader 

Beautiful and thought provoking are the first things that come to mind with these poems. I found myself taking snippets of them and posting them elsewhere on my social media because they are completely relatable. It’s strange to see your feelings written down by someone other than yourself but it also gives you the sense that you’re not entirely alone. There are definitely parts of this that I will come back to over and over again.

A thoroughly enchanting set of thoughts and feelings with a warm, soothing feel to them. Reading this book is like putting on comfy slippers. Highly recommended!’ – The Wishing Shelf

 

 

How to Survive Without Grown-Ups

Get set for the new hilarious out-of-this-world adventure series for readers aged 8+ – this is the perfect new series for fans of Tom Gates, David Solomons and Star Wars! Highly illustrated throughout by the brilliantly funny Katie Abey. 

Mum and Dad have left – gone to Mars, and they’re never coming back . . .

 

FREEDOM AT LAST!

 

But this isn’t one of Dad’s weird jokes; it’s REAL. It’s up to ten-year-old Eliza and her genius little brother, Johnnie, to find out what’s going on, and launch a rescue . . .

 

Can they handle vampire squids, a suspicious villain, a secret island full of traps and a trip into space? And – more importantly – will they ever get their parents back?

 

The funniest, zaniest, most out-of-this-world adventure you’ll read all year!

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Unforgettable

I had everything I ever wanted.

Everything but him.

I had everything I thought I ever wanted.

I had a successful husband who spoiled me with the finer things in life.

I had the best son anyone could ask for. 

I had a thriving business of my own, fancy cars, a nice home.

What I didn't have was him.

I thought I could pretend.

I thought if I made everyone around me believe I was happy, I actually would be.

I was wrong.

I've lived the last eighteen years of my life on a stage, making sure my mask never slipped and revealed the truth.

But then, everything came crashing down around me, my perfect world no longer perfect.

When my past walked through the door of my bakery, I knew everything was destined to change.

He's not like the rest of my audience.

He pushed me to feel, to explore, to drop the act I've kept up for far too long.

And when everything else is stripped away, only the truth remains.

Will we get our happy ending or is the truth too much to overcome?

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Angel's Erotic Tales

 

Angel's Erotic Tales

Angel's Erotic Tales is a collection of ten Intoxicating, Erotic Seductive stories told by Angel herself. Angel is a lustful woman, who is not afraid to go after what she wants. She fills her sexual appetite with one-night escapades and taboo sexual pleasantries. Angel's Erotic Tales are enticingly mind-blowing and guaranteed to leave you breathless, in heat, and wanting more, as each tale stimulates all body senses, sparing no details with every sexual encounter. Angel’s Erotic Tales promises to leave you sexually fulfilled as she vicariously captures you with each erotic scene.

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Confessions of an Ethical Drug Dealer:

A psychedelic travelogue memoir

Jimi Fritz takes us on a journey both geographical and philosophical, while sharing a half-century of adventures in buying, selling and consuming psychedelic drugs. Along the way we learn the difference between smart drugs and dumb drugs, the truth about religion, and how to make a perfect cup of tea.

The book outlines Fritz's fifty-year journey in buying, selling and experimenting with psychedelic drugs while traveling the world.

He is also a filmmaker, musician, chef, writer, director and bon-vivant.

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Confessions of an Ethical Drug Dealer on Amazon / Kindle 

Reviews:

“This book has rather blown me away. It’s the best thing I’ve read in quite a while. Confessions is full of wonderful anecdotes and some truly eye-opening philosophy. I know that many people will love reading it.”

- Tatiana Wilde, Literary Consultant, UK.

“Totally absorbing. Creative non-fiction at its best.”

- Trina Woods, Writer and Therapist.

“This book is a marvel. Fast paced, action packed, and a thoughtful exposition on the intrinsic human need for meaningful social connections.”

- Abby Pollen Worth, Marketing Specialist, MA 

“Fritz can obviously write and the text is immediately engaging.”

– Susan Gaigher, Editor and Publishing Consultant.

“I can’t wait to read your book. I just dipped into a few passages and not only are you an incredibly strong writer, but you’re a great storyteller too.”

- Rachel Cone-Gorham, Literary Agent at RXD Agency in New York.

 

 

The Orange 

An orange and his friend think it's a good idea to rule the other fruit in the land. Don(The Orange) decides that only oranges and peaches were good enough to live there so he builds a wall and kicks out all other fruit. After coming down with a mysterious illness, he sends the doctor to find the cure. Once he discovers that he needs apple juice to live and that everyone else was sick in town, he begs the apples to return. The apples agree to give him the juice to save the oranges and peaches but they would rather not live in a land that can't teach us. This is a fictional story and no political satire is intended and should only be viewed by people with a healthy imagination and heart.

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Available in Portland,Oregon at Third eyeBooks, Floating World Comics, Cosmic Monkey Comics, Jans Books and Powells bookstore.

Wordsmith

 

"Wordsmith" - by Oliver Allen

A collection of poetry written during the pandemic era 2021.

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How To Get The Most Out Of Marketing:

An Action Plan For Small Business Owners

Are you missing critical marketing steps that can help your business grow?

Marketing is simpler than you think. Take control of your marketing, increase sales, and keep your existing customers by implementing street-smart actionable steps. 

WARNING: But first a warning, this book is not for everyone. This isn't one of those readily available "secret tips and hacks that double or triple your sales" books.

Do you wish that someone (with real marketing and small business experience) would finally tell you how to get your money’s worth out of marketing? Author and seasoned professional Zev Asch was once where you are now. In his latest book, he walks you through critically overlooked marketing essentials, gives his street-smart advice and shares simple steps that business owners can take right away to get a return on their marketing investment, increase sales and boost customer retention.

Asch, a successful corporate marketing executive and entrepreneur, has spent the last forty years learning what failing, stuck, and break-even businesses have in common. From start-ups to home-based and established businesses, including nonprofit organizations, Asch's simple insights will impact not only marketing but sales and customer service.

How to Get the Most out of Marketing is a jargon-free, actionable road map.

In How To Get The Most Out Of Marketing you'll discover:

• Why having a written marketing plan is critical for any business
• How to control your marketing budget instead of having your marketing budget control you
• The reasons why you must get tangible, measurable results in your marketing
• Why a strategy for consistent, measurable growth should replace your typical, roller-coaster sales ride
• How a "Walk In Stupid Every Morning" cultural shift will dramatically improve your ability to compete and grow
• What are the Three Engines of Growth and why they determine the fate of your business
• The most untapped sales potential in your business
• Three words that will boost your customer service delivery to "exceptional"

This book may be the best investment you've made in yourself and your business, and it can make a profound impact on the future of your business.

BUY "How To Get The Most Out Of Marketing" NOW

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New Moon Astrology :

Lunar Cycle Mastery, How to Say "I Told You So" & Spiritual Energy Meditations 

Are you fascinated by the moon & its potential power but don’t know how to harness its secrets?

Want to easily understand the different moon phases & the way each of them affects your life?

Do you finally want to stop wasting time & see what actually works for you?

If so, then it’s no coincidence that you stumbled upon these words.

You see, using the moon phases to your advantage doesn’t have to be difficult, even if you feel like you’ve tried every other book & video already.

In fact, it’s easier than you think.

The moment you fully comprehend the way the moon works with the rest of the cosmos, you will be able to unfold those mystical secrets of the universe & use them to your advantage for amazing results.

In a 1982 study, it was reported that more traffic accidents happened on a full moon than on any other night. If the moon is powerful enough to affect traffic, think about how it can affect your life.

Here is just a tiny fraction of what you’ll discover:

• Your morning coffee on steroids: How to literally drink lunar energy for breakfast

• What spikes inside you during a full moon & why you need to know

• The powerful breathing & mudra combo to supercharge your waxing moon manifestations

• The secret chant aimed to conquer the moons unique energy & find a gateway to your very existence

• The 1 min secret to finding out just how old you really are

• The unheard-of item that you must place in your room for explosive manifesting

• The right time to get into receiving mode & how to avoid fatal mistakes everyone else is making

• The secrets to turbo-charging your intuition & getting to say “I told you so” to friends & family

• The “pizza-cutter” trick for rapidly mastering the lunar phases

• How to easily grasp the magnitude of Astrology with these chart reading secrets

• Moon journal methods to track your goal-setting manifestations the right way

• The correct way to project your desires and the exact words to say to materialize your true love

• Spiritual purging secrets to make room for higher vibrations (including the items no one is using & the mantras no one told you to chant)

• The chakra secret to showering yourself with the moons magnificent energy

• The secret movements to channel divine feminine energy

• A done-for-you 30 min daily lunar mastery ritual to skyrocket your existence

• A *Bonus* Manifesting Toolkit Download Inside

And much, much more…

Take a second to imagine how you’ll feel once you can effortlessly conjure the moon’s power to recreate your outer reality.

This shocking guide may work for you, even if you have failed time & time again to work with the phases of the moon.

Click here to get New Moon Astrology on Amazon / Kindle 

 

There Really is A City In My House!

 

There Really Is a City in My House!

A Remarkable Tale of Adventure in a House Quite Lived In.

In her first instalment, Elsie Tendai Porter writes There Really is a City in My House! with charismatic imagination, connecting and enthusing all ages to come on an awe-inspiring journey, by sharing her love for adventure and respect for all creatures great and small.

Click here to get There Really is a City in My House!on Amazon US

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Lemon-aid: 

Our love-and-not-love story with fruit and vegetable water—and how we’re better at managing sugar addiction because of it

Lemon-aid is the self-help book for people who are curious about and courageous enough for a real life change when it comes to drinking sugar-loaded beverages and discovering solutions that are within reach.

This refreshingly odd (mostly) and tell-all true story is an account of how a frantically busy and (admittedly) overwhelmed couple learned to become better versions of themselves by changing their family’s relationship with recreational sugar.

It’s also a how-to guide for others who are looking to break up with sweetened beverages, beat a soda addiction, or otherwise turbo-boost a journey toward building better habits without turning their lives upside down—complete with stories, swear words, and side quests to help you get over your challenges of healthier hydration.

Ever feel like you drink way too much soda? We sure did, and we’ll help you…

• Confront your compromised routines and “sugar demons” that are bringing you down.

• Develop a more desirable mindset that’s required for genuine lasting change.

• Learn how to get real with yourself and build new systems of behavior that you won’t hate.

• Create and live a healthier lifestyle as you explore the waterful world of infusion.

When you’re through with Lemon-aid, you’ll have a clearer understanding of where you want to be and how to get there, along with some insights and practical recipes that we’ve tried and tested at home with our two “beverage buddies”.

Infusion we trust.

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Click here to get the Lemon-Aid Book on Amazon Print 

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Asian Trail Mix:

True Tales from Borneo to Japan

MIXING IT UP ON THE ASIAN TRAIL ..."So I get up at dawn ... marveling at fog burning off into mist tumbling down like the finest mosquito netting of silk ... The hills beyond the confluence, like shoulders of a woman undressing, the way the shroud of mist lifts off feminine curves, higher and higher ... I tingle all over, feeling there on Borneo the dream tug of Joseph Conrad's fiction." By turns pathbreaking and intimate, this smorgasbord of travel essays scales down the sprawl of Asia by focusing on the unique and revelatory in sharp, crisp prose. See up close and personal the razzmatazz of novice monks at play in northern Laos, the hustle of pedicab drivers in Ho Chi Minh City, the rainforests blazed on gutsy treks across Borneo and Thailand's Elephant Island ...Served up nice and spicy, Asian Trail Mix is travel at its most sumptuous. Snack on it!

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www.ericmadeen.com

Eric Madeen is an associate professor of modern literature at Tokyo City University and an adjunct professor at Keio University. He's an award-winning author whose writing has been published widely - in Time, Asia Week, The East, The Daily Yomiuri, Tokyo Journal, Kyoto Journal, Metropolis, Mississippi Review, ANA's inflight magazine Wingspan, Japanophile, The Pretentious Idea, several academic journals and so on. He has been featured in several radio interviews (9 in the USA and 1 in Japan) and various print media. From a very early age reading and writing have been as natural to him as breathing. Sharpened in then world's largest ad agency Dentsu for clients as diverse as Mazda and Sony (Sony No Baloney!) his prose allows for an immediate emotional entry into a sublime, exotic land. Specifically, his two-plus years as a Peace Corps volunteer in francophone Gabon, Africa, where he built a primary school complex in an equatorial village surrounded by rainforest, inspired his multicultural love story Water Drumming in the Soul, which resonates with the personal and passionate all the way through to the heart-wrenching end. His most recent novel Massage World is a super high-octane thriller. By turns erotic and exotic but always zesty, its plot twists and linkage are tight and full of surprises ... peopled as it is with a rogues gallery found in the nether reaches of a Dionysian dream. Sandwiched between the two is the travel essay compilation Asian Trail Mix: True Tales from Borneo to Japan which scales down the sprawl of Asia by laser focusing on the unique and revelatory in sharp, crisp prose. Originally from a Chicago suburb, Eric Madeen lives with his family in Yokohama. You can jam with him here: www.ericmadeen.com.