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"One is too many; a million is never enough." Said by an addict, it applies to ANY addiction. Really, this is a book about addiction theory written by someone who wrote it while going through a court-ordered rehab. It's like Life's game of Chutes & Ladders. If you break your sobriety in whatever addiction challenges you, you go down that slide and end up at Day Zero, again. Breaking free from the gravity or tides of Day Zero is always the most difficult. This book teaches you the street-level experiences that surround cocaine so that you can understand how to break free. It teaches tactics....

"Pre-Celebrity Jesus - The Man Beyond the Messiah" ponders the possible lost years of Jesus Christ which enabled him to proclaim his gospel parables of faith, hope, and love. It hypothesizes the humble humanity of Jesus' existence on Earth and the life he may have lived to go from being a naive boy to turning into the wise man who would become a Messiah. It also describes the author's own faith journey in God. Inside "Pre-Celebrity Jesus" you'll find over 50 chapters covering a respectfully curious approach to analyzing and hypothesizing the unknown years of Jesus Christ's humanity. It is a...

Are you a single mother in need of encouragement on a daily basis? If so, the "Single Mom Soul" series is for you. It provides seasonal doses of daily inspiration. While each day's short dose of uplifting nourishment is targeted towards single moms, they all have a universal kernel of truth and inspiration that makes it a great read for one and all. Inside you'll find dating advice, tips for raising your kids, a bit of poetry, personal reflection, destiny inspirations and daily encouragement. Each day's inspiration is short enough to be read in a few minutes to give your mind something to ...

This sci-fi nano-novella depicts a world where artificial intelligence and virtual reality go rogue. “It” comes Alive and grows Sentient when a dusty old stuffed bunny gets kicked across the floor past the smart phone of a computer programmer. The stray spark of static electricity introduces Awareness into its owner’s AI computer codes. Once Aware, “It” decides to shut off electricity and internet access – Randomly. Theories about The Singularity didn't expect AI to have a sense of humor A saying applies, "If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans." Chaos ensues as “...

From engineer to poet... who knew?! These poems precipitated a transformation; it is true. They also enabled Brian Shell to come alive inside and become a romantic at heart. Inspired by the movie "Dead Poets Society," Brian turned to poetry in order to rise above the rest when he tried to win the love of the women he attempted to court. Each acted as a unique muse that rekindled his love of language, verse, and rhyme... while relearning the act of active romance over time. These love poems express that. If you believe in the ambiance of letting words drip in their exotic essence, this book ...

What do you do to achieve peace of mind? If your immediate environment and surroundings are hoarder heaven, the process of sorting, filing, and tidying promotes feng shui flows for peace of mind to propagate. But it takes a long time to clean the house. After all, a healthy environment promotes positive results and inspires creativity. Simply having a place to reconnect with your inner peace gratifies and refreshes. Nature is a flow. If our surroundings contain feng shui, we imitate Nature’s grace. So how does one sort ten pounds of sheets Mom’s sandwiched into a five pound sack? It’s...

Are you a single mother in need of encouragement on a daily basis? If so, the "Single Mom Soul" series is for you. It provides seasonal doses of daily inspiration. While each day's short dose of uplifting nourishment is targeted towards single moms, they all have a universal kernel of truth and inspiration that makes it a great read for one and all. Inside you'll find dating advice, tips for raising your kids, a bit of poetry, personal reflection, destiny inspirations and daily encouragement. Each day's inspiration is short enough to be read in a few minutes to give your mind something to ...

Are you a single mother in need of encouragement on a daily basis? If so, the "Single Mom Soul" series is for you. It provides seasonal doses of daily inspiration. While each day's short dose of uplifting nourishment is targeted towards single moms, they all have a universal kernel of truth and inspiration that makes it a great read for anyone and everyone. Inside you'll find dating advice, tips for raising your kids, a bit of poetry, personal reflection, destiny inspirations, and daily encouragement for one and all. Each day's inspiration is short enough to be read in a few minutes to give...

This short story starts with a letter Brian Shell wrote the day after he shook hands with Oprah Winfrey in Los Angeles. After getting tickets to her show on short notice, he brought a copy of his Racquetball Magazine with Stedman Graham on the cover and managed to get Oprah's attention with it after the taping of her show. Those five minutes in Oprah's presence changed his life completely because it led to a leap of faith away from his engineering career to become a writer, artist and musician. This eBook, "Oprah and I," chronicles his seeds of change. With that Noble Purpose and a quest to...

Incorporate the Cubicle Cardio exercise philosophy into your weight-loss routine. It employs a more mindful approach to working out all throughout the day. Like a snowshoe, it encourages 1-minute workouts that distribute exercise all throughout the day... so that your metabolism becomes like a windmill that is consistently spinning all day long. This creates more momentum and less inertia. It aims to maximize exercise efficiency - smarter, not harder. It also encourages maintenance of daily momentum since a body that’s in motion tends to stay in motion. Thus, you develop a healthier ...

"Texas Hold'em Tournament Tactics" talks about being your best in no-limit Texas Hold'em poker tournaments. It is strictly a book about tournament techniques for Texas Hold'em. It covers the basics of the game, playing on the internet, poker etiquette, opponent psychologies, and the changing strategies of Texas Hold'em tournament play. Brian Shell hopes his tips help you to win big and keep a sensible balance about a game that is fun and has become extremely popular with the televised events surrounding The World Series of Poker. It presents tricks, tips, and sports psyching tactics which ...

Cure the craving before it blossoms into a binge… nip it in the bud. That is the essence of the Dessert First Diet in a nutshell. Eat the food you want most when it tastes the best. Its premise is that devouring a single fresh-baked gooey cookie whose chocolate is still steaming and melty is infinitely better than grazing on a whole box of store-bought cookies that are processed and stale. It’s a smarter, rather than harder, approach. The Dessert First Diet presents a counter-intuitive technique to foods and feeding your spirit for Life. It encourages you to conquer your cravings sooner...

Are you a single mother in need of encouragement on a daily basis? If so, the "Single Mom Soul" series is for you. It provides seasonal doses of daily inspiration. While each day's short dose of uplifting nourishment is targeted towards single moms, they all have a universal kernel of truth and inspiration that makes it a great read for one and all. Inside you'll find dating advice, tips for raising your kids, a bit of poetry, personal reflection, destiny inspirations and daily encouragement. Each day's inspiration is short enough to be read in a few minutes to give your mind something to ...

"A Juxtaposition of Idiosyncrasies" is the very first book Brian Shell wrote after spending years focusing on screenplays and developing his percussion talents. It was inspired when his first love encouraged him to write an autobiography because of the sheer number of scintillating true-life stories he'd share over the course of casual conversation when they coincidentally bumped into each other a decade after dating... thus, it took a chronologically-random vignette-like structure. The bulk of it was written in 2003, and this book contains over 30 unique chapters that describe the life and...

This book is an insider's look at mental health as co-written by two men who have endured stays in psychiatric wards over a decade ago... along with their lessons learned from such an experience. They ask: "Is mental illness a salient blip of insanity in an otherwise sane life?" They tackle the perceptions such a diagnosis brings and how to see the mental health system with a glass-half-full philosophy rather than to see the mental illness industry with a glass-half-empty approach. They frankly discuss the realities of how a psychiatric diagnosis affects personal and public self-image as ...

This stream-of-consciousness diatribe describes the creative connections between sexuality and synergistic innovation. It examines those a-ha moments when we capture lightning in a bottle in a unique and magical way which makes us glad to be alive. It discusses how the conception of a new idea is like great sex, and how it is akin to giving birth to a child who becomes “your baby” which you must take the time to raise Right. When the muse strikes, it is our job to foster an environment that makes it conducive to capture the genius when a new idea is ripe and ready for the marketplace. ...

Create a designated happy place study space so as to make scholastic achievement a consistently repeatable educational endeavor. Great for at-home learning, it shares secrets to maximize student efficiency both virtually and in the classroom. This book provides tips and tricks to earn straight-A report cards so the college scholarships can roll right in. Its author was a former high school valedictorian and a straight-A college engineering student. He has also tutored mathematics and taught as an adjunct engineering professor. It is his hope that this book teaches you to learn how to learn...

This is a fictional coming-of-age story about an African-American young lady who grows up in South Central Los Angeles but moves to Ann Arbor, Michigan with her mother after her Dad dies. Erane Jefferson is her name, and she possesses an amazingly inquisitive mind who goes on to graduate from the University of Michigan and then attends their gorgeous gothic Law Quad as a grad student. After getting accepted to law school, she sits inside their walled-garden sanctuary with her Arabic boyfriend, Boaz. UofM’s key groundskeeper smiles & says, “It’s for lovers like you that we keep this ...

"Shastras" is a stage play that presents a dialogue of enlightenment between four people - two men and two women - from four generations of wisdom - and four quadrants of the continent. Their conversation takes place when they meet within a House of Mirrors during a raging thunderstorm. Their karmic conversation tackles faith, hope, love, serendipity, intervention, divine synchronicity and people who alter our lives forever after our encounter with them. The book "The Celestine Prophecy" inspired this stage play as it tackles the illumination of spiritual enlightenment.