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  • Featured Book: The Band Director’s Lessons About Life: Volume 1 – 50 Parables on Life’s Performance Cycle by Donald Lee

    Featured Book: The Band Director’s Lessons About Life: Volume 1 – 50 Parables on Life’s Performance Cycle by Donald Lee

    About Featured Book: The Band Director’s Lessons About Life: Volume 1 – 50 Parables on Life’s Performance Cycle by Donald Lee

    In “The Band Director’s Lessons About Life”, author Donald Lee draws on his decades as both a band director and religion teacher to create modern-day parables from the classroom. People of any religious persuasion—or none—will be delighted and inspired by how these band-room vignettes shine a spiritual light on everyday experiences. The parables are short enough to read in the bathroom yet deep enough to ponder for days.

    It’s a cross between “Chicken Soup for the Soul”, “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten”, and “Conversations with God”. If you liked any of those books, you’ll love this one.
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  • Building Web Apps with WordPress by Brian Messenlehner

    Building Web Apps with WordPress by Brian Messenlehner

    Building Web Apps with WordPress by Brian Messenlehner

    This is a technical book about the inner-workings of the popular open source software called WordPress which powers over 30% of the websites on the internet.

    Compare WordPress with traditional app development frameworks
    Use themes for views and plugins for backend functionality
    Get suggestions for choosing or building WordPress plugins
    Register custom post types (CPTs) and taxonomies
    Manage user accounts and roles, and access user data
    Build asynchronous behaviors with jQuery
    Use WordPress to develop mobile apps for iOS and Android
    Integrate PHP libraries, external APIs, and web service plugins
    Collect payments through ecommerce and membership plugins
    Learn how to speed up and scale your WordPress app
    Extend the WordPress REST API and create custom endpoints
    Learn about WordPress Gutenberg blocks development

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  • The Budget-Savvy Wedding Planner & Organizer by Jessica Bishop

    The Budget-Savvy Wedding Planner & Organizer by Jessica Bishop

    The Budget-Savvy Wedding Planner & Organizer by Jessica Bishop

    Is your big day price tag giving you wedding bell blues? With the skyrocketing cost of planning a wedding, a majority of newly engaged couples find themselves opting for an intimate ceremony they can plan affordably. Whether your happy day is a low-key celebration or a lavish affair, The Budget-Savvy Wedding Planner & Organizer provides everything needed to plan a dream wedding on a realistic budget.

    With write-in resources and hundreds of practical tips, The Budget-Savvy Wedding Planner & Organizer provides the essential tools to plan a stress-free wedding. This fundamental wedding planner also includes sample budgets to track all of your expenses from creative inspirations to custom invitations.

    The Budget-Savvy Wedding Planner & Organizer includes:

    Save-the-datebook―Use organizational write-in tools to plan for everything from bridal party attire to DIY decor
    Pop the question―Interview vendors, venues, and more with vital must-ask questions
    Economical engagement―Calculate cost breakdowns for every part of your ceremony with sample budgets
    From your first dance to your final toast, The Budget-Savvy Bride Wedding Planner & Organizer will help turn your dream day into a reality.

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  • The Fields: Our Journey through Medicine, Mission, Life and Faith by Manh Dang

    The Fields: Our Journey through Medicine, Mission, Life and Faith by Manh Dang

    The Fields: Our Journey through Medicine, Mission, Life and Faith by Manh Dang

    The Fields is a Christian inspirational book written by a cancer doctor that discusses the challenges of life, especially from the medical perspective, the beauty of God’s creation and human relationships, the need to care for the least among us through mission works and appreciation for the simple gifts of life. 100% OF THE PROCEEDS OF THIS BOOK WILL BE DONATED TO:

    1. The Russell Hill Cancer Foundation (to aid poor and/or uninsured cancer patients in and around North Alabama).

    2. Project Abundant Life (a transitional housing ministry for single moms in Madison County, Alabama).

    3. Bessong Ministries (to aid poor and/or divorced, downtrodden people in North Alabama, and hospital and cancer center chaplaincy).

    4. Until They Know Ministry (a ministry for poor Haitians and Dominicans in and around Puerto Plata, the Dominican Republic).

    5. Desert Rose Ministries (ministries to rescue girls from forced marriages, FGM, and to reach the unreached people in Kenya, Africa).

    6. Kenya Relief (a ministry to rescue, house and educate orphans, and to provide medical care for the poor people in Migori, Kenya, Africa).

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  • FEATURED BOOK: The Most Powerful Goal Achievement System in the World by Mike Pettigrew

    Achieve anything 10 times faster and create the life you want. See amazing things happening in your career, relationships and personal life. In this Amazon bestseller you will learn how to quickly transform all your dreams into reality using the most effective time-tested goal achievement formula ever created. It’s simple yet extremely effective!

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