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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In a world that often feels like it is constantly handing us lemons, Mitchell Kuhnert's Lemon Shaker: Shake Your Thinking to Shake Your Life arrives as a refreshing, transformative guide to reclaiming your happiness and mental clarity. This isn't just another self-help book; it is a profound exploration of the Three Principles-Mind, Thought, and Consciousness-designed to help you understand that your experience of life is created from the inside out. Through vulnerable storytelling, professional expertise as an educator and coach, and a healthy dose of humor, Kuhnert demonstrates that the "sour" moments of life are often the result of our own internal narratives, and sweetness is always just one thought away. The foundation of the book lies in understanding the energy system that dictates our human experience. Kuhnert uses the Star Wars "Force" analogy to describe Mind-the universal energy and intelligence that binds us together. He then introduces the concept of Thought as the "film" we choose to play in our minds. With humans having up to 100,000 thoughts a day, Kuhnert teaches a vital skill: the River Analogy. Thoughts are like a river flowing past us; we feel pain only when we reach in and grab onto the negative ones. By learning to let go and throw those thoughts back into the stream, we allow our natural clarity to return. Finally, Consciousness is how that "movie" feels-it is our perceived reality at any given moment. What makes Lemon Shaker so compelling is its universal applicability. Kuhnert walks readers through the entire human journey, offering specific insights for every stage: For Parents: Learn why "regulated adults raise regulated children" and how to support your child's mental health by modeling healthy emotional expression.For Students and Teenagers: Discover the dangers of "teen groupthink" and the "University of MSU" (Make Stuff Up), where we create stressful stories about social media likes and peer opinions that aren't actually true.For Professionals: Navigate the "career storms" and the anxiety of the workplace by realizing that stress doesn't come from your boss or your workload, but from the thoughts you attach to them.For Relationships: Through the lens of Kuhnert's own experience with three marriages and a blended family, learn how to stay present for your partner and children rather than being haunted by the "temporary weather" of past mistakes.Transform Challenges into Opportunities The book tackles heavy topics like anxiety, depression, and professional setbacks with grace and ancient wisdom. Kuhnert illustrates the "Illusion of Mistakes," reframing failures as essential feedback for growth. He shares a powerful lesson on empathy through the "Four-Way Stop" story, showing how one new piece of information can instantly transform a feeling of blind rage into deep compassion. Lemon Shaker also includes the "Dog Rules," a charming and insightful look at how our canine companions live in perfect alignment with the Three Principles by remaining fully present, unconditionally loving, and resiliently joyful. Why You Should Buy This Book Mitchell Kuhnert's voice is that of a helpful peer rather than a rigid lecturer. He is honest about his own "University of MSU" moments and his journey through administrative leave and divorce, making the principles feel attainable and real. This book is a reference guide you can return to whenever life feels sour. It empowers you to stop being a victim of your thinking and start being the "Lemon Shaker" who transforms every challenge into a refreshing opportunity for growth.If you are ready to quiet the noise in your head, deepen your connections, and find the humor in the absurd journey of be Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Law Can't Touch Him. The System Protects Him. They'll Have to Break Both to Bring Him Down.In the deep, quiet corridors of the Pentagon, a decorated Rear Admiral hides a secret that could burn the U.S. Navy to the waterline. Four years ago, off the coast of San Diego, a submarine tender "accidentally" collided with a fleet oiler. It was a minor footnote in naval history.But it wasn't an accident. It was murder.The case begins with a whisper from the grave. A Navy chaplain, bound by the sacred seal of confession, hears the last words of a dying sailor-a terrified man named Weedman who admits he intentionally caused the 1963 collision on his captain's orders. It was a staged disaster to silence a young lookout, Seaman David Miller, who saw something he shouldn't have. Weedman's payment for his part in the killing: a single silver dollar.The chaplain's anonymous, untraceable note lands on the one desk in the Navy that can act on it: Admiral Fletcher's. He summons his secret weapon, the off-the-books investigative team that exposed the Point Defiance conspiracy.Lieutenant Commander Joe Pluss, the quiet, methodical lawyer, is tasked with working the official channels. He pulls the "perfect" four-year-old report and immediately finds the "inch that's out of place." The "minor collision" was a cover for two catastrophic, buried secrets: the murder of Seaman Miller and the "accidental loss" of a prototype nuclear depth charge component.Mr. Earl Kinn, the civilian operative and former "Earl of Mischief," is sent to hunt the unofficial truth. Working the smoky, dockside bars, he discovers the real story from an old Chief. The helmsman, "Little Abner" Weedman, was a screw-up facing a court-martial for theft. The day after the fatal collision, his record was mysteriously scrubbed clean, and he was honorably transferred to the other side of the world. It was a payoff.The trail leads Pluss and Kinn to the dead sailor's grieving family in Iowa, who provide the case's smoking gun: David Miller's last letter home.The two investigations merge on a single, chilling fact. The silver dollar given to Weedman is the exact same "tell" used by the assassin in their previous case-proving the murder of Seaman Miller wasn't an isolated crime. It was another hit by the same shadowy network that has infiltrated the Navy, a network run by the elusive Mr. Gray.But this time, the man who gave the order, Captain Garvey, is no longer a captain. He is Rear Admiral Garvey, a powerful, untouchable flag officer in a fortress of power at the Pentagon.When Pluss's official inquiry rattles Garvey's cage, the Admiral panics, ordering his patriotic young aide, Yeoman Sarah Jenkins, to illegally bury the evidence. In a desperate act of conscience, she makes an anonymous, secure call to Pluss, giving him the final piece of the puzzle: the real crime wasn't just the nuke. It was a "ghost ledger"-a massive, illegal sale of 50,000 barrels of Navy fuel to a civilian tanker owned by Argus Maritime, the same front corporation from their first case.To catch a traitor this powerful, they must stage their most audacious prank yet. They must become the ghosts.In a brilliant, high-stakes con, Kinn, disguised as a maintenance man, shorts the power to Garvey's entire Pentagon office wing. In the ensuing chaos, Pluss, the ranking officer on the scene, invokes security protocols to inventory the Admiral's "unsecured" personal safe. And in a masterful sleight-of-hand, he "plants the ghost"-the silver dollar-for the official witnesses to "discover."In The Nereus Deception, the lawyer and the prankster must risk their careers and their freedom to take on the system itself. They have the truth. They have the con. Now, they just have to get o Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Dragged from their disastrous westward hunt for a phantom peak in the Jagged Tooth mountains, scholar Ethan Kane and Captain Rourke's battered expedition are violently rerouted by their ruthless, obsessive patron, Julien Devereaux. New, cryptic orders, born from Devereaux's own fevered reinterpretations of Solakari lore, send them eastward into the ancient mountains and misty valleys of the Cherokee Nation in Tennessee. Their new objective: the "Solakari Heartstone," an artifact Devereaux believes is the next key to an unimaginable treasure, supposedly hidden near the sacred town of Chota or along the Tellico River. As they venture into these ancestral lands around 1820-1821, a period fraught with tension as the shadow of Indian Removal looms, they find a nation grappling with encroachment and fear. Their arrival coincides with fresh tragedy: a sacred mound site, deeply revered by the Cherokee, has been brutally desecrated, and a respected elder and wisdom keeper, Yonaguska, has vanished from the site after confronting the defilers. Suspicion immediately falls upon a shadowy U.S. military officer, Major Elias Thorne, who has been seen in the territory, aggressively seeking information about old trails, mineral rights, and Native sacred places. Ethan and his companions are soon confronted by the fierce and intelligent Anawa, Yonaguska's kin. Distrustful of all outsiders but desperate to find her grand-uncle and uncover the truth behind the sacrilege, Anawa issues a challenge: if they are truly scholars and not mere plunderers like Thorne, they will aid her. A tense, uneasy alliance is formed, leading Ethan, Rourke, the still-zealous Moreau, and a handful of their men on a perilous pursuit of Thorne's party, guided by Anawa's intimate knowledge of the mountain wilderness. After a violent confrontation, Yonaguska is rescued, and the immediate threat of Major Thorne is neutralized. With Yonaguska safe, the true nature of the "Heartstone" is revealed. It is not a Solakari gem of worldly power, but a sacred Cherokee river stone, holding the ancestral memories and spiritual guidance of the "First People" - perhaps the very Solakari whom Devereaux seeks. When Anawa sings a song of reverence, the stone glows with an inner light, unveiling a cryptic vision: a westward path, away from the Cherokee highlands, "towards where the sun sleeps on water."Trusting this genuine, if mystical, guidance, the expedition turns west once more. Their journey is an arduous passage through unfamiliar territories, facing near starvation and the constant threat of dwindling supplies. Anawa's profound connection to the land and Yonaguska's ancient counsel become their lifelines, teaching Ethan a deep respect for indigenous wisdom that transcends his book learning. His own scholarly skills are now applied to genuine observation and documentation, as he chronicles their path through lands increasingly scarred by conflict as they enter the Muscogee (Creek) frontier. After surviving desperate trials, including finding water where the earth itself seemed barren, their journey culminates on a bluff overlooking a breathtaking sight: the Mississippi River, the legendary "Father of Waters," where the setting sun indeed appears to rest upon its vast surface, fulfilling the Heartstone's prophecy. A factual report of their journey is dispatched to Devereaux. Though one more clue of the Serpent's Coil Legacy has been deciphered, and a path westward indicated, Julien Devereaux's relentless ambition still casts a long, dark shadow. Now, at the edge of this mighty river, a new chapter of their journey begins. What new challenges, ancient secrets, and human dramas await as they prepare to venture south into the heart of the continent? The quest is far from over, and the true meaning of the legacy remains elusive. This item is pr Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. From Captive Scholar to Desperate Prophet: Ethan Kane's Perilous Journey Continues in Charleston's Coil of Shadows!Following his harrowing escape from Boston, scholar Ethan Kane finds himself ensnared in the opulent yet menacing world of Belle Ombre, the sprawling South Carolina plantation of the ruthless Julien Devereaux. Devereaux, obsessed with the ancient Solakari legacy, possesses the second artifact - the Devereaux Coil - and sees Ethan as the key to unlocking its secrets and the path to a legendary treasure. Under the constant, chilling watch of the head overseer Moreau, and with his life hanging by a thread, Ethan is forced into a dangerous charade. He must spin elaborate tales of Solakari lore, inventing complex celestial alignments and prophetic interpretations to buy himself time and satisfy his captor's insatiable greed. His most audacious fabrication leads Devereaux to launch a perilous expedition into the uncharted Jagged Tooth mountains, supposedly in pursuit of a hidden Solakari valley and whispering caves. With the pragmatic but skeptical Captain Rourke leading the armed contingent, Ethan must "guide" them, his every pronouncement a gamble against the brutal realities of the wilderness. The journey tests their endurance to its limits, marked by dwindling supplies, treacherous terrain, and the simmering discontent of the hired men. Just as Ethan's deceptions seem on the verge of collapse, a stunning encounter with a Native elder impossibly corroborates the "Jagged Tooth Peak" name and legends of ancient, golden-skinned men, shockingly validating Ethan's lies and cementing his unwilling role as a prophet. But this "divine intervention" soon leads to horror. The fabled whispering caves turn out to be a monstrous lair, resulting in death and grievous injury to members of the party. Ethan's prophetic facade shatters amidst the bloody carnage. Stripped of his authority by a furious Captain Rourke, and facing the open hostility of the surviving men, Ethan is given one last chance: to use his genuine scholarly skills for practical observation and mapping, to help them survive, or be abandoned to the wilderness. Humbled and haunted, Ethan embraces this new role, his meticulous observations of natural signs guiding the battered expedition out of the cursed mountains to a life-giving river flowing west. This fragile success earns him a sliver of grudging respect and a path towards the vast Great Plains. They find temporary, uneasy sanctuary at Fort Union, a rough frontier trading post, where fresh supplies are bartered at a steep price, and new dangers lurk in the calculating eyes of men like the scar-faced trapper Jedediah Pike. Resupplied but with Julien Devereaux's ambitions still looming, the expedition ventures onto the seemingly endless prairie. Ethan, now a documenter of reality, chronicles their encounters with immense buffalo herds and savage plains storms. Charleston's Coil of Shadows culminates as they reach the confluence of their river with a mighty, southward-flowing waterway - a critical juncture and a moment of stark realization. A factual report of their arduous journey, devoid of Solakari fictions, is dispatched to Devereaux, leaving its reception, and Ethan's ultimate fate, deeply uncertain.Ethan Kane has transformed from a terrified charlatan into a resilient survivor, his intellect a tool for genuine observation in a world far removed from Boston's lecture halls. But the plains stretch towards an unknown horizon, holding untold perils and promises. What new challenges await on this great river? How will Devereaux react to news of their altered course, so far from his imagined Solakari treasure? The Serpent's Coil Legacy continues its deadly, enthralling unspooling. Will Ethan ever escape Devereaux's grasp? Dive into the adven Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. LARGE PRINT EDITION: Formatted with 18pt Arial Font and extra spacingThe Sangre de Cristo Conspiracy Step into the raw, untamed New Mexico Territory of 1825, a frontier balanced on a knife's edge. Four years after Mexican independence, the newly opened Santa Fe Trail floods Taos Valley with American traders, igniting tensions between Mexican authorities, ambitious merchants, displaced Spanish colonials, and ancient Pueblo communities. In this volatile tinderbox, Don Carlos Montoya, a prominent Mexican customs official, is brutally murdered in his hacienda, and the legendary "Sangre de Cristo Cache" - a fabulous hoard of Spanish gold and sacred religious artifacts lost since the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 - vanishes. This treasure, recently rediscovered and earmarked to fund the fledgling Mexican government, becomes the spark that threatens to engulf the region in war. U.S. Territorial Marshal Samuel "Sam" Hartwell, a stoic ex-army officer haunted by his past, rides into Taos from Santa Fe to find justice. The murder weapon, a distinctive Hawken rifle, immediately points to the fiercely independent American mountain men. But Hartwell, an outsider striving to impose order, soon uncovers a conspiracy far more complex and dangerous than a simple robbery gone wrong. Montoya, he learns, wasn't just killed for the treasure itself, but because he discovered the theft was an inside job, orchestrated by someone he trusted, with tendrils reaching into the highest echelons of power. Hartwell's investigation forces him into a treacherous web of conflicting agendas. The Mexican government desperately needs the cache for legitimacy; American traders see it as a means to end crushing customs duties; old Spanish families assert ancestral rights; and Pueblo leaders fear its discovery will bring further desecration to their sacred mountains. To navigate this labyrinth, Hartwell must decipher the coded messages and clandestine meetings at Elena Vasquez's bustling trading post - the nerve center of Taos where all factions collide. He must earn the trust of the enigmatic Elena herself, a shrewd widow with Spanish colonial roots, who walks a tightrope between her heritage and her alliances, and whose knowledge of the town's secrets is unparalleled. And he must forge an uneasy, perilous truce with Ely "Bear" Thompson, the formidable leader of the mountain man network, whose wilderness skills and knowledge of hidden trails become crucial, even as suspicion initially falls upon him. The trail leads Hartwell from bloodstained haciendas to the hushed sanctity of the Church, where Father Miguel Santos guards not only spiritual authority but also political influence over the sacred artifacts. He uncovers a plot to sell these priceless relics to rapacious American collectors while diverting the gold to fund a private army aimed at shattering Mexican rule. His pursuit of the shadowy "Mr. Smith," a nervous American agent, and the fanatical, whip-wielding renegade "Padre," who commands a band of brutal followers, culminates in a desperate race against time. The final, bloody confrontation unfolds in the haunted ruins of an abandoned pueblo high in the treacherous Sangre de Cristo Mountains, a place where history, greed, and vengeance converge. The Sangre de Cristo Conspiracy is a gripping Western mystery that plunges you into an authentic, rarely explored period of American history. Far from the typical Anglo-centric tale, it offers a rich, multicultural perspective, blending meticulous historical detail with relentless suspense. Can Marshal Hartwell, combining military discipline with hard-won frontier wisdom and a growing understanding of cultural complexities, unravel the conspiracy, recover the sacred treasure, and bring the killers to justice before the fragile peace of Taos Valley is irrevocably Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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