(Ratings from Amazon.com, as of this morning.)
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The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury, $2.99
2,576 ratings
5-star: 77%
4-star: 14%
3-star: 4%
Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams and metaphor-of crystal pillars and fossil seas-where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn -first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars ... and then is conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race.
https://www.amazon.com/Martian-Chronicles-Ray-Bradbury-ebook/dp/B00CKOQC9C/
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/martian-chronicles-ray-bradbury/1100197062?ean=9780062242266
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-martian-chronicles
Death Is a Lonely Business, by Ray Bradbury, $1.99
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2,576 ratings
5-star: 67%
4-star: 13%
3-star: 8%
A stylish and slightly fantastical tale of mayhem and murder set among the shadows and the murky canals of Venice, California, in the early 1950s.
Toiling away amid the looming palm trees and decaying bungalows, a struggling young writer (who bears a resemblance to the author) spins fantastic stories from his fertile imagination upon his clacking typewriter. Trying not to miss his girlfriend (away studying in Mexico), the nameless writer steadily crafts his literary effort--until strange things begin happening around him.
Starting with a series of peculiar phone calls, the writer then finds clumps of seaweed on his doorstep. But as the incidents escalate, his friends fall victim to a series of mysterious "accidents"--some of them fatal. Aided by Elmo Crumley, a savvy, street-smart detective, and a reclusive actress of yesteryear with an intense hunger for life, the wordsmith sets out to find the connection between the bizarre events, and in doing so, uncovers the truth about his own creative abilities.
https://www.amazon.com/Death-Lonely-Business-Ray-Bradbury-ebook/dp/B00BS8P7XS/
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/death-is-a-lonely-business-ray-bradbury/1100387332?ean=9780062242129
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/death-is-a-lonely-business
Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds, by Kelly Turner, $1.99
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2,206 ratings
5-star: 82%
4-star: 10%
3-star: 5%
In her New York Times bestseller, Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds, Dr. Kelly A. Turner, founder of the Radical Remission Project, uncovers nine factors that can lead to a spontaneous remission from cancer — even after conventional medicine has failed.
While getting her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkley, Dr. Turner, a researcher, lecturer, and counselor in integrative oncology, was shocked to discover that no one was studying episodes of radical (or unexpected) remission — when people recover against all odds without the help of conventional medicine, or after conventional medicine has failed. She was so fascinated by this kind of remission that she embarked on a ten month trip around the world, traveling to ten different countries to interview fifty holistic healers and twenty radical remission cancer survivors about their healing practices and techniques. Her research continued by interviewing over 100 Radical Remission survivors and studying over 1000 of these cases. Her evidence presents nine common themes that she believes may help even terminal patients turn their lives around.
https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Remission-Surviving-Cancer-Against-ebook/dp/B00DB3A1UC/
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/radical-remission-kelly-a-turner/1115554737?ean=9780062268778
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/radical-remission
Radical Hope: 10 Key Healing Factors from Exceptional Survivors of Cancer & Other Diseases, by Kelly Turner and Tracy White
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161 ratings
5-star: 83%
4-star: 10%
3-star: 3%
Following the publication of the New York Times best-selling Radical Remission, researcher Kelly A. Turner, Ph.D., has collected hundreds of new cases of radical remissions--from cancer and now also other diseases--from across the globe. In Radical Hope, Turner explores the real-life application of the Radical Remission principles and the people who have chosen to take this journey.
Each chapter shares a survivor's in-depth story and their use of one of the ten key Radical Remission healing factors. Turner provides updated scientific research and new tips for each factor, and unveils a tenth key factor for integration into your healing approach. Male and female, young and old, these survivors recognize that by taking ownership of their approach to healing, they are giving themselves the best chance for a longer and healthier life, with the ultimate goal of achieving remission.
https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Hope-Exceptional-Survivors-Diseases-ebook/dp/B07Y7GWBXV/
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/radical-hope-kelly-turner-phd/1133745238?ean=9781401959234
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/radical-hope-4
Ask For More: 10 Questions to Negotiate Anything, by Alexandra Carter, $2.99
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470 ratings
5-star: 85%
4-star: 9%
3-star: 4%
Negotiation is not a zero-sum game. It’s an essential skill for your career that can also improve your closest relationships and your everyday life. Still, people often shy away from it, feeling defeated before they’ve even started. In this groundbreaking new book on negotiation, Alexandra Carter—Columbia law professor and mediation expert who has helped students, business professionals, the United Nations, and more—offers a straightforward accessible approach anyone can use to ask for and receive more.
We’ve been taught incorrectly that the loudest and most assertive voice prevails in any negotiation, or otherwise, both sides compromise, ending up with less. Instead, Carter shows that you get far more value by asking the right questions of the person you’re negotiating with than you do from arguing with them. She offers a simple yet powerful ten-question framework for successful negotiation where both sides emerge victorious. Carter’s proven method extends far beyond one “yes” and instead creates value that lasts a lifetime.
https://www.amazon.com/Ask-More-Questions-Negotiate-Anything-ebook/dp/B07Z44ZCJK/
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ask-for-more-alexandra-carter/1134080045?ean=9781982130503
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/ask-for-more-4
Before Beauty: A Retelling Beauty and the Beast (The Classical Kingdoms Collection, #1), by Brittany Ficther, free
473 ratings
5-star: 66%
4-star: 22%
3-star: 7%
Prince Everard’s father spent the boy's youth forging the prince into a warrior. Upon the king’s death, however, Everard realizes he’s lost himself somewhere along the way, and in his pain, makes a decision that brings a dark curse upon both him and the great Fortress that has so long guarded the people of Destin.
The prince's sin doesn’t simply affect those of his citadel, however. Isa, the daughter of a local merchant, has suffered the prince’s hasty temper before, and it changed her life forever. When Everard’s final outburst cuts off his people’s source of protection with a curse, he demands that she, a crippled commoner, come to help him break it. All the while, Destin’s northern enemy crouches at the foot of the Fortress’s mountain, waiting to capture the stronghold that has stood for a thousand years.
Can Ever and Isa move past their brokenness to save Destin together, or will they and their beloved kingdom remain under darkness forever?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00UI2Q3VK
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/before-beauty-brittany-fichter/1121383157?ean=2940154211939
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/before-beauty
Witches Steeped in Gold, by Ciannon Smart, $1.99
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187 ratings
5-star: 66%
4-star: 18%
3-star: 10%
A Jamaican-inspired fantasy debut about two enemy witches who must enter into a deadly alliance to take down a common enemy.
Divided by their order. United by their vengeance.
Iraya has spent her life in a cell, but every day brings her closer to freedom—and vengeance.
Jazmyne is the Queen’s daughter, but unlike her sister before her, she has no intention of dying to strengthen her mother’s power.
Sworn enemies, these two witches enter a precarious alliance to take down a mutual threat. But power is intoxicating, revenge is a bloody pursuit, and nothing is certain—except the lengths they will go to win this game.
https://www.amazon.com/Witches-Steeped-Gold-Ciannon-Smart-ebook/dp/B08D9K2HVL/
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/witches-steeped-in-gold-ciannon-smart/1136807926?ean=9780062946003
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/witches-steeped-in-gold-1
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., by Ron Chernow, $2.99
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1,717 ratings
5-star: 77%
4-star: 17%
3-star: 4%
In the course of his nearly 98 years, Rockefeller was known as both a rapacious robber baron, whose Standard Oil Company rode roughshod over an industry, and a philanthropist who donated money lavishly to universities and medical centers. He was the terror of his competitors, the bogeyman of reformers, the delight of caricaturists — and an utter enigma.
Drawing on unprecedented access to Rockefeller’s private papers, Chernow reconstructs his subjects’ troubled origins (his father was a swindler and a bigamist) and his single-minded pursuit of wealth. But he also uncovers the profound religiosity that drove him “to give all I could”; his devotion to his father; and the wry sense of humor that made him the country’s most colorful codger.
https://www.amazon.com/Titan-Life-John-Rockefeller-Sr-ebook/dp/B000XUDGHG/
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/titan-ron-chernow/1100619300?ean=9780307429773
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/titan-27
500 Miles from You: A Novel, by Jenny Colgan, $1.99
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2,111 ratings
5-star: 61%
4-star: 26%
3-star: 9%
What happens when two medical professionals--ex Army medic from a village in the Scottish Highlands and an inner city nurse from inner-city London—switch jobs for three months and become unlikely pen pals?
Lissa, is a nurse in a gritty, hectic London neighborhood. Always terribly competent and good at keeping it all together, she’s been suffering quietly with PTSD after helping to save the victim of a shocking crime. Her supervisor quietly arranges for Lissa to spend a few months doing a much less demanding job in the little town of Kirrinfeif in the Scottish Highlands, hoping that the change of scenery will help her heal. Lissa will be swapping places with Cormack, an Army veteran who’s Kirrinfeif’s easygoing nurse/paramedic/all-purpose medical man. Lissa’s never experienced small-town life, and Cormack’s never spent more than a day in a big city, but it seems like a swap that would do them both some good.
In London, the gentle Cormack is a fish out of the water; in Kirrinfief, the dynamic Lissa finds it hard to adjust to the quiet. But these two strangers are now in constant contact, taking over each other’s patients, endlessly emailing about anything and everything. Lissa and Cormack discover a new depth of feeling…for their profession and for each other.
But what will happen when Lissa and Cormack finally meet…?
https://www.amazon.com/500-Miles-You-Jenny-Colgan-ebook/dp/B07XPFXW53/
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/500-miles-from-you-jenny-colgan/1135431386?ean=9780062911254
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/500-miles-from-you
I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason, by Susan Kandel, $1.99
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88 ratings
5-star: 40%
4-star: 25%
3-star: 22%
All that writer Cece Caruso really wants to do is complete her biography of mystery legend Erle Stanley Gardner, find a vintage 1970s Ossie Clark gown to add to her collection, and fix the doorknob on her picturesque West Hollywood bungalow. Then a chance visit with a prison inmate who knew Gardner lands her right in the middle of a 40–year–old murder and another case where the blood is still warm. In fact, Cece finds the body. This brings her into irresistible contact with her inner personal sleuth and shows how crime and greed can reverberate through several generations of a single family.
https://www.amazon.com/Dreamed-Married-Perry-Caruso-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B001RS8KP6/
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/i-dreamed-i-married-perry-mason-susan-kandel/1103266102?ean=9780061972935
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/i-dreamed-i-married-perry-mason
Wisdom Is Bliss: Four Friendly Fun Facts That Can Change Your Life, by Robert Thurman, $1.99
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12 ratings
5-star: 100%
4-star: 0%
3-star: 0%
Buddha had to be an educator, rather than a prophet or religion founder, since he had achieved his goal of exact and complete understanding of reality by using reason, experiments to open his own mind, and vision to do so," Thurman writes. "From his own experience, he could help [others] as a teacher by streamlining the process. He could not just transplant his realization into their minds. They could not get their own realizations just by believing whatever he said. He could only provide them with a prospect of full realization along a path of learning and experiencing they could follow-they would have to travel on their own."
This book is your invitation to travel that same road. Deeply felt and bracingly direct, it doesn't teach about the teaching - it is the teaching. Get ready to get real, and have fun along the way, as you chart a path to reliable, lasting happiness.
https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Bliss-Friendly-Facts-Change-ebook/dp/B08WRWDFB6/
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wisdom-is-bliss-robert-thurman/1138843349?ean=9781401948788
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/wisdom-is-bliss
Dr. Drew interviewed Scott Adams recently, and Scott Adams mentioned the absurdity that Republicans went to overthrow the government on Jan 6, but they neglected to bring their guns. On the first or second anniversary of the event, that alleged oversight made the narrative appear absurd to me, so I made a "video" that was supposed to be audio from January 6, captured on a video camera from which the lens cap had not been removed. I'm posting it again just because.
While I was waiting on hold to talk with a human at the IRS, I decided to put some food out for the dogs. I set the full bag of dog food on a chair, and walked away to get the bowls. When I turned around I saw the bag slowly tipping over, spilling much of its contents onto the floor. Fortunately I had help cleaning it up.
The main task for today is to begin revising McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader. It may take a couple of weeks, possibly more. I still have to work at Publix, and next week I start a new job in the memory care unit of a rehab/nursing home facility, and I'll also be working at Publix at least one night.
After that I'll take a look at the double-slit experiment, and see if there is an interpretation that is consistent with my theory of wave physics.
Also, I came across the attached meme, which I had created two or three years (or so) ago. I thought I'd include it because I still like it.
I recently proposed a theory of matter and energy called Wave Physics. In this theory, the only things in the universe are energy and the universal membrane, which is the medium through which all energy is transfered and stored.
Tonight I realized that according to this theory, everyone and everything in the universe are connected to each other at all times. Things that would be impossible according to the standard model of particle physics, are very possible in the universe of wave physics. Psychic transmissions and the power of prayer are physically possible and make sense if the universe works in any way like the theory I proposed.
If you've ever heard the phone ring and felt sure who it was before answering it, and were proven correct, this makes sense in wave physics, but not with particle physics. If you've ever looked intently at someone, and had that person quickly turn and look directly at you (I have), that phenomenon makes sense if all of us are parts of the same vast, ...
I was only scheduled to work three days this week, so I decided to work on a theory I'd been playing around with for fun over the last few years. I'd never been a big fan of the standard model of particle physics, so a few years ago, just for fun, I thought about exploring some alternate ideas, with zero training and zero experiments.
This week I wrapped up a few loose ends, and posted it to a community I created called Wave Physics. Originally I had called it Alternative Physics, but I changed my mind, so the link still has alternativephysics in it, but the community name is Wave Physics. I'd love for people to pay $5.00 a month to tell me how wrong I am.
https://alternativephysics.locals.com/
I also posted it on my personal website:
