Dangling from the puppeteer’s strings

By 2062, we’ve made a real mess of things. Though engineers, inventors, and business people alike scrambled to develop a solution before we were completely wiped out by an irradiated atmosphere, global warming reduced our inhabited space by half. The chosen solution became a temporary fix at best as it was burdened by the weight unchecked population growth.

With our workplace neutered by the Genderless Act, frustration grew and we came to embrace trystrooms where anything goes, everything is enjoyed, and it’s all kept secret by the Privacy Act.

Today, innovation and businesses thrive in an environment where unemployment and poverty have been eliminated, due largely to the Government Reorganization and Realignment Effort and business fostered by the GRRE enables one group of brilliant young designers to reclaim some of the ever-shrinking space—but bringing it to market exposes manipulation and corruption on a devastating, worldwide scale.

Animals are supposed to be our friends, right?

Not true for ten year old Scout, the kid with the elephant living in her own cottage in his backyard. She brings trouble, chaos, and wild humor into his life. This time, Ellie is helping Scout plan his birthday party. And asking for Ellie for help is setting him up for elephant temper tantrums, dangerous trunk tossing, and more laughter than he can handle. Come along for this awesome elephant ride with Scout and his circus family. I mean, what could go wrong at a birthday party, right?

Bio: Heather Leigh hangs out with elephants, a dog, two cats, and two sons while writing stories. It is an awesome life for her in northern California. You can also read her free stories at: www.thechildrensstoryplace.blogspot.com

Of Woodbridge and Hedgely is a literary examination of the phenomenon of science denial, set in the 1820’s countryside of Gloucester, England. The Industrial Revolution has begun to saturate country, but there are still quaint and naïve pockets like these binary towns whose inhabitants are resistant to change. Alas, the enlightenment is brought before them when a young bachelor and engineer, Thomas Winter – the son of a wealthy industrialist – moves into the area with the intention of applying science to their fields to produce higher crop yields.

Further, their local Anglican parson, Jonathan Moore, begins a series of science lectures dedicated to the memory of his recently departed brother, in which the subjects of deep time, uniformitarianism, and plutonism, formulated by pioneering geologist James Hutton, are introduced alongside pre-Darwinian evolution. Such is taken rather poorly by the towns’ Particular Baptists, led by the preacher George Edwards and funded by the recently wealthy Henry Wyatt, who conspire against these scientific men by way of news propaganda, the latter motivated by romantic adversity.

You’re about to discover a pletora of trusted helpful key information from someone who’s been in the business for half a decade. You are also about to discover proven strategies on how to maximize your sales, tips, recognition in your restaurant, guest comments, networking along with so much more all in an easy to understand step by step breakdown on how to accomplish the goals that you desire.

There are approximately 2,260,300 waiters and waitresses in the U.S alone, not counting the other countries across the world. Majority of these people are going through the motions day by day and not truly realizing the potential that is yet to be tapped in with their position in this industry. They accomplish the bare minimum as this is just a “transitional job” to them. Granted it may be for you as well, but at the end of the day it’s the current job you have. Why not learn, discover, and milk everything you can from this “transitional job” and you will become amazed from the benefits you will receive.

Most people watch other waiters and waitresses become showered with compliments and praise from the guests along with being compensated accordingly from all the extra cash tips that they walk out with at the end of the day. Many look and admire, others look in jealousy. They realize that there is more potential in this position that they currently are in but don’t know how to get remotely close to that or even where to begin so they continue doing what they normally have always done and remain in their comfort zone.

The truth is if you’re not accomplishing the goals that you sent out to accomplish, if you’re not receiving the tips and sales that you would like to be receiving, if you have not been getting the recognition and praise that you feel you rightfully deserve it’s because you are lacking an effective strategy and haven’t yet changed your associations to your fine dining knowledge. This book will cover so much information regarding fine dining in general that will make you a walking encyclopedia when it comes to food & beverage dining. This book will also cover a step-by-step strategy that will help you free yourself from the average mediocrity of being an order-taker and help you grab that reigns of your career and place them in your hands.

It is 1846 and Sarah Harlan is just thirteen when she sets out with her family on the great trek West to California. Confident and assured beyond her years, schooled and shaped by the Father she adores, Sarah believes life has little more to teach her. But this is a journey like no other. In crossing a Continent they must face all Nature can unleash upon them; tempests and floods; raging rivers and scorching deserts; disease and starvation.

To face these challenges and overcome them, Sarah must also take her own journey of discovery. Encouraged by her cousin Nathan, she must look within and find the truth of who she wishes to be, of who she must be.

Before her long journey is through her strength and resolve will be tested beyond endurance as, above and beyond the torments of the road before them, their small group must face the cruelty and corruption of their fellow travellers. A disagreement between two groups that will fester and grow; a poison that will cast a shadow across their path, until one last bloody confrontation high in the Sierra Nevada mountains.