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Peace Breathing
Lessons on Achieving Peace in Everyday Life
by Charles H.C. Kim
Originally given by Charles H.C. Kim at The Peace School, this book’s 31 talks offer practical yet profound insight into becoming a person of peace amid the challenges we face in today’s world. Peace Breathing combines the vital energy of breath with the powerful energy of thought to calm your mind, reduce stress, and open your heart to your true self. Kim draws on more than 45 years of meditation practice and uses vivid stories and examples from nature and everyday life to show how we can bring peace to ourselves and the world.
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 America’s Fool
Las Vegas & The End of the World
by Jay Amberg
The most lethal poison ever concocted is about to be loosed on Las Vegas. TV reporter Andrew Wright is the only one who can stop the apocalypse. Confronted by madness on all sides, he stumbles into a conspiracy of racial, religious and military fanatics. His only allies are a beautiful Iranian doctor and a mysterious desert wanderer. But who can he really trust? While lunatics on the fringes receive so much media attention, Wright must resist the spotlight and somehow do the right thing. He must make the decisions that truly patriotic Americans now face.
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 Campaign!
The 1983 Election that Rocked Chicago
by Peter Nolan
In Campaign!, veteran newsman Peter Nolan, who covered all the players in the 1983 contest, has written a first-hand account of not only the key participants, the candidates and their top supporters, but also of relatively unknown election workers who invested their time and passions in a way not seen since in Chicago politics. This is a book that every Chicago politician ought to keep under his pillow…There is never enough history, and this is a nice slice of it.
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 Forest High
Short Stories
by Bob Boone
In a time when the importance of teachers has been unfairly challenged, Bob Boone gives us a collection of simply told, hard-edged tales from the lives of educators and their students. These rich, multifaceted stories ring true with details gleaned over the course of a full life. Reading them, one feels as if they are entering another version of our familiar reality, where secrets thrive in quiet classrooms and a passionate love of the pitfalls and victories of teaching motivates the creation of narrative.
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 Whale Song
by Jay Amberg
Each of our lives is a voyage of discovery. In Whale Song, we hear the voice of a fellow traveler, an albino sperm whale. We hear of life in his words—the joys of family, the pain of loss, the confusion and frustrations of a changing environment—familiar aspects of life even in the ocean. His observations and insights give us much to consider. If we listen, we may better understand how we affect the global society, and what we now need to do.
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 52 Poems for Men
compiled by Jay Amberg
Every poem in this collection speaks directly to men, capturing powerful moments, deep insights, and honest glimpses of life. The themes are universal: birth, death, love, loss, war, beauty, and family. Both classic and contemporary poetic masters are represented, including William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Pinsky, Langston Hughes, and Dylan Thomas. Each poet speaks to men in a voice and language they trust and understand, without using contrived poetic forms, avant-garde imagery, or esoteric references. This anthology will leave no reader unmoved.
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Further reading from associates of Amika Press. |
 Notes of Valor
by Bryan Meeker
In the relative calm before World War II, a young musician finds love and fulfillment. He is wounded by the war in every sense, and his long recovery is dealt a devastating blow, leaving him a broken man aged beyond his years. His despair is only abated by a chance event, one that reacquaints him with an old love, and leads him to find redemption through the greatest of humanity's creations—music.
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 The Off Season
National League 1953/54
by John Oelerich
In 1953/54, the United States was changing—and so, too, was our National Pastime. The Off Season is John Oelerich’s poetic tribute to baseball in an era when the color barrier was breaking down. We revisit the Polo Grounds and Shibe and Ebbets and Sportsman’s Park. We meet again the National League’s heroes and villains—Jackie Robinson, Warren Spahn, Bobby Thomson, Stan the Man Musial, and Leo the Lip Durocher. Umpires Jocko Conlon, Al Barlick, and Augie Donatelli call balls and strikes. Hall of Famers Waite Hoyt, Vin Scully, Russ Hodges, Jack Brickhouse, Harry Caray, and Pittsburgh’s incomparable Bob Prince announce the games. It’s all here, including—at least for one more moment—mitts on the field.
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