Joe Ecks: X Band's Rock and Roll Guitarist. Though a musical genius, he's tortured and miserable under the demands of the industry. Dogged by bad headaches and other ailments, Joe erupts in violent outbursts. Ultimately (on page 1), Joe has a breakdown that results in a complete personality change. Joe now thinks of himself as Mike Smith: Harvard Grad. Mike Smith is the opposite of Joe Ecks in nearly every way; he's no musical genius, and he can't play guitar, but he loves being a rock star. 'Xylene X Band' is the story of how the New Joe learns to live Joe's life, and, to a certain degree, how Joe's life adapts to his new personality. But to truly live Joe's life, New Joe must develop the skills, and they will be severely tested by the upcoming 'Xylene' tour. New Joe is no Old Joe, and X Band desperately needs Old Joe to return.

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Xylene X Band, by Charles Harvey

The mystery of what they endured as young children took a lifetime to unravel.
MK-ULTRA, a covert CIA mind-control program, forces Tommy, Beth, and Curtis Matthews to take part in life-altering experiments during the late 1950s. The experience dramatically impacts their lives, but they don’t remember it.
As they come of age through the turbulent 60s and into the 80s, invisible strings pull them toward their preordained destinies.
The Nazi-trained psychiatrist in charge of their CIA program harbors a secret agenda to turn Tommy into a future world leader, but forces surrounding him compromise his work.
When the MK-ULTRA project is aborted, the siblings are left deeply damaged without access to the memories that can free them. It takes Curtis's psychotic breakdown and Beth's startling vision to open up the pathways to their buried past. These developments lead to the detective work of a diligent therapist. But will it be enough to unravel the hidden tapestry of deception?

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Memories of MK ULtra, by Bill Yarborough

‘From Budapest to Hollywood: Searching for the Promised Land’ is a story of resilience, hope, and the pursuit of a better life. Katherine MK Mitchell’s memoir begins with her birth in Nazi-occupied Hungary. From there she survived war, the ill-fated S.S. Exodus, and communism before fleeing her home country once the Russians crushed the Hungarian Revolution. Her journey as a refugee brought her to New York, where she overcame countless challenges, ultimately making a name for herself in Hollywood. Katherine worked as an agent, writer, and story analyst, earning membership in the Writers Guild of America West.
Throughout her life, Katherine has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to honing her craft, sharing her stories, and inspiring others to live authentically and with purpose. Her memoir is a testament to what one can achieve when they refuse to give up hope and continue moving forward.

From Budapest To Hollywood, by Katherine MK Mitchell

In this fiery love story set in equatorial Africa, Peace Corps volunteer David Fields in on mission: to build a medical dispensary in a remote village where he seldom has his bearings and must fight a cocktail of tropical maladies and cultural taboos. He throws himself into work, which he’s deliciously distracted from in his pursuit of a gorgeous African lady. In her vitality, Assam rocks with the energy of a dozen women and bye and bye David becomes the hunter captured by the game. And what a rollicking game of love it is with delicious “distractions” keeping the reader spellbound. With its hunting ventures into rainforest and original Bantu folktales recounted fireside, this is a novel that, in its haunting end, will strum elegiacally at your heartstrings. Resonating with Nabokov’s truism, “The finest art is not simple and sincere but rather complex and deceitful.” Think of the Mona Lisa’s smile. Think of Water Drumming in the Soul ... Your soul.

Water Drumming In The Soul, by Eric Madeen

This book is about a man's journey from his hospital bed to his small hometown of Magnolia, New Jersey, where his journey to heaven begins as his guardian angel helps him answer questions that we all have about heaven. Questions such as: What will heaven be like? Will we meet relatives and friends there? Will there be food and wine? Will there be sex? Will we see our pets? How will we get around? Will we have bodies?
In Magnolia, by going back there from my deathbed (or Lou’s deathbed), I am setting up his journey to heaven – a new journey where time and life change. A joyful change. Guided by his guardian angel (Micah), Lou starts afresh, yet that start, for him, is very similar to the joys he experienced in Magnolia when he was nine years old.
I don’t go deep into religion or scripture in this book, rather I decided to “show” the reader via Lou’s journey through the first stage of heaven – a stage that is almost comprehensible to us in the earthly realm.

Magnolia, by Thomas Fargnoli

Shelby is a young flying squirrel who lives with his mother and his twin sister, Darby.
This series of adventures includes necessary lessons for skills the young ones will need as adults, and endless fun and excitement as Shelby explores the world around him.
Shelby hiccups and stutters when he is upset or nervous, trouble finds him much too easily, and growing up is not what he wants to do.
The forest provides him with many good friends, but when their beloved meadow is changed forever they all move to the woods beside a farm, where Shelby meets and learns about farm animals; a whole new experience.
The stories relate loosely to the realities of wild flying squirrels, but liberal poetic licence allows much more to happen.
SHELBY F. SQUIRREL is the perfect introduction to learning more about real flying squirrels, one of nature's very little-known and most amazing creatures.

The Complete Adventures Of Shelby F. Squirrel and Friends, by Eleanor Lawrie

FINDING ZACHARIAH hits a lot of tender spots: a homeless vet seeking solace in alcohol; two kids and their mom hurt and broken by an absent dad; a feral cat who knows everyone; and a wide array of community members who make this little book so touching and delightful.
You’ll meet Big Joe, a man with a past and a big heart; Darlene the dirt lady; Backhoe the mulch mover; Ike the irrigation expert; Latifa the beekeeper; Wiley the muralist, and more.
When Zorro and CeCe, twin brother and sister, and their mom Otoña, come to the garden to work their own little plot, they find out a lot about themselves, their mom, and the mysterious man keeping away from others in the healing garden.
As Zachariah talks out his sadness with the feral cat, Sebastian, and as he begins to work in the garden with Big Joe and other volunteers, we learn that people can make the best of second chances and find healing and reconciliation.

Finding Zachariah, by Nancy Hicks Marshall

Breaking into Showbiz is like breaking into Fort Knox. Breaking out, we're talking Alcatraz. Abigail Paine, born Miriam Rosen, has been in love with Show Business since childhood, perpetually fantasizing herself as the Little Trouper Who Finds Stardom and True Love by the end of the movie. After a hundred shows and a hundred one-night stands, love and fame still elude her, and she'd rather suck a tailpipe than face another audition. Complicating her search for the Busby Berkeley ending is her primitive alter-ego- The Beast. This creature can track, kill, dismember and devour an entire cheesecake; can beat the hell out of smaller muggers on the sidewalks of New York; and can't say no to recreational sex with a famous director on the Third Ring of the New York State Theater while a public tour is in progress. When Abigail finds love at long last, she is faced with an agonizing choice: Showbiz or The Guy

Jewish Thighs On Broadway, by Penny Orloff

Author Peter Ticktin was Donald Trump's former platoon sergeant at New York Military Academy when they were both 18 and to this day, they have remained lifelong friends and Trump occasionally as his lawyer.
Peter outlines in this book why he always has and always will stand behind Trump, who is today President-elect of the United States, which will be his second term in this high office.
In What Makes Trump Tick, Peter presents an eye-opening account of what made Trump the awesomely successful businessman, a U.S. President and simply the great man he is today.
Ticktin was recently featured in a documentary film about Trump which was shown at Trump's stately home in Florida, Mar-a-Lago.

What Makes Trump Tick, by Peter Ticktin

The Perils of Beginnings weaves two periods of history to tell the story of an ancestor, José Narciso Cavazos, one of the early Texas settlers. In 1969, 18-year-old Barbara, the narrator, hopped into her spicy Auntie Eloisa’s new GTO to embark on a road trip from Texas to Tampico, Mexico. While searching for her baptismal certificate, Auntie shares the history of Narcisco, a bold visionary who, in 1793, left an aristocratic life in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, to cultivate the 600,000 acres of land awarded to him by the King of Spain. As Narciso’s story unfolds, so do the secrets of the two women. Barbara’s humorous and warm tales told of a cow greeting her while using an outdoor toilet, Auntie dropping her bloomers while dancing with abandon to the mariachis’ music, and a “gentle” horse baring her teeth before riding her into the river. The Perils of Beginnings has something for everyone; history, romance, and colorful characters.

The Perils Of Beginnings by Bernadette Inclan

Did you know?
● It is Emotion that drives all behaviors and actions of each and every individual!
● The Emotions that drive each individual’s every behavior and action originate from an
inborn instinctual foundation of only FIVE primary Emotions!
● When an individual is subject to emotional repressions or a person has learned faulty beliefs about the emotions and as a result thereof exhibits incongruent behavior which now originates from a foundation of distorted emotional attitudes—then, the results of one’s behaviors and actions may prove to be off-target of the expected or desired outcome, and further, prove to be disastrous to both oneself and others!
● By and large—in varying degrees—all humanity may be out of sync regarding natural rhythmic emotional behavior and expression!
● Emotional repressions and disharmonies form the behavioral foundation of the Modern-Day Liberal!

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Modern Day Liberalism by JD Mitschke

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