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The Natural Fat Loss Pharmacy, Drug-Free Remedies to Help You Safely Lose Weight, Shed Fat, Firm Up, and Feel Great
by Bill Gottlieb 

The first science-based, responsible, practical guide to help dieters make informed decisions about which weight-loss supplements to take—which work, which don’t, and how to design a personal supplement program that’s truly safe and effective.

By Harry Preuss, MD, one of the world’s top experts on using natural supplements for health and healing, and Bill Gottlieb, former editor-in-chief of Rodale Books and Prevention Magazine Books, and author of the 1.5-million copy bestseller, Alternative Cures.

You’ll learn how to:

• Speed fat burning—with green tea extract
• Lose fat and build muscle without dieting or exercise—with CLA (conjugated linoleic acid)
• Stop weight regain—with MCT (medium-chain triglycerides)
• Reduce carbohydrate cravings—with 5-HTP
• Balance blood sugar for easier dieting—with chromium
• Block the absorption of excess starch and sugar—with white kidney bean extract and L-arabinose
• Get off a plateau, where pounds don’t seem to budge—with HCA (hydroxy citric acid)
• Turbo-charge fat-burning exercise—with HMB (hydroxy methylbutyrate) or BCAA (branched-chain amino acids)

You’ll also read about the weight-loss supplements that aren’t likely to work or are possibly unsafe. You’ll find a customized program to help you pick the one or more supplements that are right for you. And you’ll discover an easy-to-follow, no-diet food plan for controlling calories, and a simple, no-sweat approach to physical activity for long-term weight control. Continue reading »

Instant Income, Strategies that Bring in the Cash for Small Businesses, Innovative Employees, and Occasional Entrepreneurs
by Janet Switzer

When Chicken Soup’s Jack Canfield says Janet Switzer’s income-producing magic turned his $572 expenditure into $31,000 in just six hours, you have to take notice! 

Switzer, the co-author of The Success Principles and a member of the Chicken Soup for the Soul Team since 1993, has developed a system of income-generating tactics that she shares with readers in her new book, Instant Income.

According the Switzer, the secret to small business growth is the ability to generate a fast and consistent income. But how to achieve that goal? By tapping previously untapped sources, analyzing existing resources, and identifying new wealth-building opportunities.

Not just a rehash of old marketing ideas, Instant Income details the nuts and bolts of real business success.  Included is information on how to:

• get others to bring in the cash
• write ads that make the phone ring
• prospect
• help your sales team
• make instant income on the Internet
• find income in overlooked assets
• turn instant income into lifetime wealth Continue reading »

An Interview With Mary Carter, Author of Accidentally Engaged by Mary Carter (Read Simon’s review here)

Accidentally Engaged by Mary Carter it is a delightful romp. I enjoyed the book so much I decided to ask the publisher if the author would grant an interview. She did!

I loved the characters, are they based on real people?

Thank you. I can’t say the characters were based on anyone, at least consciously, although some bits of family members and myself may have leaked in from time to time. I’ve found even if the characters begin as an amalgamation of people I know, they eventually take on their own lives and persona.

Do you see Clair as part of your own persona?

I can definitely see bits of her in myself; I think it’s a natural bleed-over of writing in the first person, and being a beginning author. I have always been interested in psychic phenomena but have never had any earth-shattering skills to back up that interest, and although I haven’t been married and divorced three times, I’ve fallen victim to the “falling in love with love” syndrome. I think those are the biggest similarities.

It is a light, easy book to read, but your use of the Tarot shows some research was involved. How long did the project take, and did you use personal knowledge or ‘hit the books’?

I had nine months to write the book and used every bit of it. I can read Tarot cards, but I don’t have them memorized, and have to leaf through a book. So I did refer to Tarot card books. I also had to research the Shawnee National Forest area, and I did enough research on stock terms and stockbrokers just so I’d know enough to not know what I was talking about. Not all of the research made it into the book, but between that and figuring out all the plot points, it kept me pretty busy. Continue reading »

This book shows you the safe, easy, dependable way to become RICH!

Rich By Choice gives complete and detailed investment advice for the Great American Middle Class. It has all the facts and figures and many real life stories to help you achieve your financial independence. It points out the differences between savings and investing, and between taxable and tax deferred. It explains all the different types and styles of mutual fund investing and the results you should expect.

Rich By Choice shows you how to invest and save for early retirement if that fits your lifestyle. There are examples of people who retire early and retire young, and also of people who just keep going in their careers.

Managing your money well and building your financial success gives you many choices. Retirement annuities give a guaranteed lifetime income, like a pension, and provide the freedom that some people desire. It also shows how to work actively with your investments, your families and heirs, make gifts to charities and set up trusts. Continue reading »

Instant Income by well-known marketing guru Janet Switzer 

Every day, thousands of small businesses like you are losing out on money you could be making from your existing business — simply because you don’t fully exploit the multitude of business assets, marketing assets and relationship assets you have in place right now.  

The truth is…you’ve spent a lot of time, effort and money to get where you are today.  You probably put your own money into starting your business…you hired employees or established outsource relationships.  You spent time and money developing a product or service…and every day of the year you spend even more time and money advertising it, selling it and delivering it. 

Along the way — without even knowing it — you created something else, too: Marketable assets.  Assets that don’t necessarily show up on your inventory print-out or balance sheet.  Assets like your customer list, your relationships with suppliers, your advertising calendar, your Internet presence, the knowledge of your key employees, the sales pitch your salespeople use…and on and on. 

Using this guide, you will learn countless simple strategies you could be using tomorrow to bring that money into your bank account.  Continue reading »

Are you a Rockford Files or James Garner fan? Then pick up THE definitive guide to the ever-popular Rockford Files. Thank you to author Ed Robertson for allowing us to reprint this excerpt from Thirty Years of the Rockford Files.

He looked like Steve McGarrett. He dressed like Joe Mannix. But he acted like no other private detective prime time television had ever seen. When he threw a punch, Jim Rockford (James Garner) was more likely to hurt his own hand than his opponent.He rarely carried a gun (he didn’t have a permit), and on those occasions when he did, he was more likely to point the weapon than fire it.

Rockford hated trouble, wouldn’t hesitate to quit in the middle of a case if things got too rough, and had no qualms about telling you why (“You’re damned right I’m afraid!”). But he did like money: he charged $200 a day, plus expenses, so he’d hang in there no matter what if he could smell a fat check down the road. “I won’t kill for money, and I won’t marry for it,” he once said. “Other than that, I’m open to just about anything.”

Most private eyes—at least, the ones we see portrayed in movies and on television— have a lieutenant friend on the police force with whom they trade information in the course of a given case. Continue reading »

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Ricochet
The night before Sheila Carpenter begins her career as an FBI Agent a bomb is detonated sending Sheilas best friend to the hospital in a fight for her life. Then Sheila discovers clues her mother left in the days before her parents deaths leading Sheila to believe their deaths were not accidental.

Now Sheila is on the trail of her mothers killers while the bombers are closing in on Sheila. She’s swept into the dark underbelly of illegal immigration, identity theft, and terrorism. And now shes on a collision course with terrorists intent on sending the United States into chaos. And for Sheila, now its personal.

Reviewer Richard Blake said about  Ricochet, “Terrell does not waste words in this masterfully written novel of conflict, intrigue, adventure and romance. This fast paced novel is hard to put down.  It is a book that begs for more of  p.m.terrell.”

And reviewer Delores Michelle says  Ricochet is “Riveting…fast-paced…heart pounding….with just a hint of romance. If you like mysteries jam-packed with action, you’ll love  Ricochet!”   And reviewer Donna Coomer says “Page turning action, a slight scent of romance and an overview of the role immigrants play in our society,  Ricochet once again shows Terrell’s tenacious handling of touchy subjects.” Continue reading »

Through the Eyes of a Survivor
by Colette Waddell

The events leading up to and through World War II are so well known, particularly to the baby boomer generation, that people often tend to take for granted they know what went on. This book makes it evident that most have only glanced at the surface.

Through the Eyes of a Survivor is a brilliant synthesis of oral history and historical research. It pierces to the heart of the matter and transforms mere information into vibrant experience.

This book is a shining testament to the magnificence of the human spirit. It teaches us we have the ability to endure the unthinkable and emerge strengthened and somehow more whole…though forever changed.

Nina Morecki , (née Grust), was born into a wealthy merchant class family in Lvov, Poland, the youngest of three daughters. She lived a life of privilege until her teens, when her family was ripped asunder by the Nazi invasion of Poland. She never saw her loved ones again.

Nina became an educator in her mid 70’s after reluctantly telling her story to a high school English class. Its profound impact on her audience propelled her into this unlikely avocation. Colette Waddell, then a student at the University of California at Santa Barbara, heard Nina speak and thought the world should know her story, not as a memoir, but as a historical work.

Colette found in Nina a survivor who proves that people may pass from our physical lives, yet live on in our hearts. Nina’s story offers tolerance in place of forgiveness, and a point of view recognizing the brutal inhumanity that allowed the holocaust, and, more importantly, the human potential to endure it.   Continue reading »

About Final Paradox, by Mary E. Martin

Can love and forgiveness be found amongst fraud and deceit?
 
Mary E. Martin, a Toronto lawyer and author,  answers this question in Final Paradox, the second book in the Osgoode Trilogy.

In Final Paradox, Harry, an honest lawyer, is shocked by the apparent, sudden madness of his once lively and shrewd elderly client, Norma Dinnick. He becomes embroiled in Norma’s dark world of conflicting and paradoxical claims, as she drifts back and forth from lucidity to madness. Secret and illicit wealth has worked its poison through the years and ultimately results in the death of five people.
 
Drawn further into an invisible web of deceit, Harry tries to sort out the twists and turns of the fraud upon a fraud, until he is personally implicated in the framing of an innocent party.

About the Author:
Mary E. Martin grew up in Toronto where she began practising law in a small estates firm.  In 1999, she became a full time writer and photographer.  Married in 1973, she and her husband live in Toronto and have three adult children.