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It's tough to find your way in the no-man's-land between traditional religious dogma and New Age "woo-woo". Spiritual author and speaker Donald Lee masterfully reveals a common-sense and universal view of spirituality in his new book of modern-day parables.Do you feel adrift in a sea of conflict? Do you feel your life needs direction? Has your spiritual journey got you lost in the woods? "The Band Director's Lessons About Life" offers simple advice and relatable stories from your friendly, neighborhood band director. Using music as a metaphor for life, each little parable begins with a story from school and ends with a reflection on the spiritual meaning of the story.How to: Find your path. Be yourself. Persevere through struggles. Learn from failure, and Love the process.Fifty stories and reflections to pick you up, dust you off, and set you on your way. Or take five minutes before bed to read a parable. You'll sleep with a positive, inspirational message in your mind.Donald Lee draws on decades as both a band director and a religion teacher to expertly craft band room vignettes that are both entertaining and illuminating. Whether you're a Sunday pew-warmer, a hermit monk, or a high-mileage astral traveler, you'll find something to love, cherish, and chuckle at in these fascinating stories. Pick up your copy today!"If you pick up this collection, consider that you found a treasure. I do. It both entertains me, and inspires me."Archbishop Gerard Pettipas, C.Ss.RArchbishop of Grouard-McLennan"The stories made me laugh. The reflections made me think. These lessons are for everyone."Joanne Byfield,Journalist, Radio/TV Producer

Immortality and Death on the Pathways of the GodsIn a dark future the Confederation of Free Worlds is over-run by enemies both foreign and domestic. The ship of state is adrift, riding stormy seas, guided by subversives who hate the people of ConFree and seek the total destruction of the Confederation. National suicide is government policy. The NewFam invaders have seized control of much of society. The people are weak, helpless and leaderless, stunned by close to a hundred years of relentless hateprop from the alien enemy. Resistance is unthinkable. Something new and evil is emerging.A new squad of Legion recruits is thrown immediately into the battle. The future looks hopeless for ConFree. The ConFree Legion is being disbanded and merged into the People's Militia, but the Legion is not quite dead. Four hundred years of service to the people of ConFree will not disappear quietly into the night. Is it indeed too late, or will the embittered new Legion recruits risk it all to do the right thing for the women and children of ConFree?

The magic of living and traveling in exotic locales doesn't insulate anyone from a crisis of the soul. Nine Years in Bangkok: Lessons Learned is a memoir of Sharon Bazant's adventurous, roller-coaster life as an ex-pat in Thailand.Her path to self-discovery and acceptance is illuminated by a very real cast of characters: a Russian Shaman a spell-casting Thai massage master a Scottish hairdresser named Frankie Love a maid named Boom a spirit-channeling ambassador's wife and Andrew who became Annie.As a westerner in Southeast Asia, she pulls back the covers on such topics as traversing culture shock, long-distance parenting, marital breakdown, workplace betrayal (and revenge), mid-life career change, and more.Read how Sharon overcame these challenges and underwent a spiritual transformation during her nine years in Thailand. And, perhaps, see a path for yourself.

Slap Happy takes readers on a quirky, hilarious ride through the Galaxy to a parallel universe where a smooth-talking agent named Bob offers success, fame and fortune to struggling Scribblers all out of hope.Could there really be a roadmap to make it to the Bigs of the Publishing business? Could your latest masterpiece star at Barnes and Noble and run up the scale on Amazon? Perhaps there is a magical formulas to explain away all the disappointment, pain and frustration that challenges many writers to fall into utter despair and mania.How much is it worth to bargain away your soul to make your dreams come true? Bob has the answer for all those louts and losers at the keyboard who follow his roadmap through a parallel Uni where monsters, grifters, con men and purple nymphos illuminate the Dark Side.Follow authors as they wander through the unknown of Bob's Book of the Dead to discover even in Paradise, there are roadblocks and potholes big enough to harvest the mud ball we call Earth. The moral may be "Be careful what you yearn for. You might not like it. Especially if you don't look good in green.