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Koolura isn’t an ordinary girl. She has what every child dreams. She has the COOL.

Koolura has doubts about herself. She and her father have relocated so often she has few community ties. Here, at her new school, for the first time in her life she feels right at home.

Koolura is a sixth grade Armenian girl and this story tells how she obtained the cool powers and gradually learns to use them. She has the ability to dematerialize at will and reappear where she chooses. She can move objects with her mind and she can even defy gravity!

But will these powers be of any use in stopping a stalker intent on the destruction of Koolura and her friends? He’s determined to retrieve Koolura’s unrealized cool powers with the mysterious decoolerizer.

The hour approaches for her final confrontation with her nemesis, the stalker believed to be responsible for her mother’s death.

Author Bio

Michael Thal is the author of five published novels—Goodbye Tchaikovsky, The Abduction of Joshua Bloom, and The Koolura Series—The Legend of Koolura, Koolura and The Mystery at Camp Saddleback, and Koolura and the Mayans. He is also a columnist for the Los Angeles Examiner writing articles about parenting and education.

Moving from the frigid Northeast to comfy Southern California in 1973, Michael taught elementary and middle school for 28 years until a freak virus left him deafened at the age of 50. He reinvented himself as a writer composing over 80 published articles in print magazines as well as novels for middle grade and high school aged students.

You can learn more about Michael Thal on his website and blog at www.michaelthal.com. His books can be purchased on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble in print and as e-books.

Book Genre: Spirituality
Publisher: PuddleDancer Press
Release Date: September 1, 2014

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Book Description:

Interviewed by God is an account of Beth Banning’s journey of spiritual awakening—her conscious connection with God and the lessons she’s learned along the way. From a very young age, Banning experienced phenomena that could only be called extraordinary: she’s received messages from spirit animals, felt kundalini energy awaken in her, and experienced dimensional shifts in her awareness that have allowed her to witness what only a few have seen. She was visited by totem animals, took ritualistic baths, and visited shamans and healers; she experienced ecstatic states and received messages; her ego mind began to battle against her higher mind. As she experienced her spiritual journey, a small voice within guided her. With doubt as her constant companion she continued to follow her inner promptings, which led her to higher levels of truth about her connection to  herself and the world and reality as we know it. Written in a format in which the author is “interviewed by God,” the book is meant to be a mirror for the reader to reflect their own experiences back to them, and a gentle guide for those who are at the precipice of an extraordinary adventure and are either scared to jump or who hunger for answers and understanding.

INTERVIEW

Defining Ways interview

1. Your path through spirituality is unique and diverse, were you raised in a particular philosophy/religion or with an open forum to all?

I was brought up Jewish, but with little understanding of the religion itself. My mother came from an English-Jewish background and mixed various holiday traditions, so she first celebrated Christmas by putting presents under the bed instead of a tree. However, my brother became so overexcited about all the presents that we changed to a more traditional Hanukkah. But aside from that holiday, religion wasn’t part of our daily lives. My father came from an Eastern-European Jewish family who kept kosher, but he was a rebel of sorts, so I didn’t get any clear religious understanding from him either.

What I did get from my mother was that there was something more to this world, something bigger than we could understand with our mind alone. She always had an unspoken sense of spirituality about her.

When I was young I asked her what religion we were, and she said, with much conviction, “The only real religion, is to be a decent human being.” And that’s what I’ve always tried to be. I think because I was raised in more of an open forum I didn’t have to rebel against anything and was more open to what called me.

2. Spiritually can unite us to those with common beliefs as well as pull us away from people who are not open to our philosophies. Can you give personal examples of each?

The example that pops to mind is actually in relation to my book and happens in both directions. Drawn closer and pushed away. The example I’m talking about relates to my book title – Interviewed by God. When people are more religious, they’re draw to the word ‘God’ in the title. They’re very excited and assume we have much in common – which we actually do at a spiritual essence level. But when I explain that the book really isn’t “religious” at all and that it leans more towards spirituality in the New Age sense they seem quite disappointed and turned off.

Like I said, this happens in the opposite direction as well. Because of the word ‘God’ in the title more “spiritual” New Age individuals seem to be turned off from the get-go. Then when they get to know me and what the book is about – if they are willing to – they get very excited and those kinds of common beliefs bring us closer together.

It’s quite an interesting phenomenon to experience in real time and in both directions about the same title. Because of this and other experiences I’ve had in my life I pay very close attention to what personally draws me and pulls me away from people. My intention now is to always go a little deeper and make sure my preferences aren’t just unconscious beliefs keeping me separate from others.

3. What is the greatest tool to Spirituality in your experience?

This is one of my favorite subjects. In my experience the greatest spiritual “tool” is our Inner Guidance. From a very young age we’re taught that all our answers, our reassurance and our acknowledgment comes from other people. We cannot be loved unless someone loves us, we do not feel successful or truly happy unless we are being acknowledged by others. We are taught to go for the gold star, for the good job, the big house, the perfect relationship, etc. If we can achieve all these things, then we’ll be happy. And look where it gets most of us. The level of stress and dissatisfaction in most cultures is appalling.

When we learn to reconnect fully to the guidance of grace and wisdom within us, our experience of life transforms. We are no longer confused, lonely, or fearful in the same way ever again. We learn that we are never alone, we are completely capable, and always cared for. What could be better than that!

Author Bio:

Beth Banning is a best-selling author, inspirational speaker, and spiritual catalyst who lives in California with her husband, their cat, and their six pound poodle. She was born in New York City and from a very young age could sense the feelings of people around her, felt kundalini energy running through her body, and experienced other unusual events that she didn’t understand. The well-meaning adults in her life told her she was depressed and that these experiences were just her imagination. Growing up in this cloud of ignorance and disbelief, these gifts were buried and unable to flourish and so she was left confused and lonely.

As a young adult she recognized the same sense of confusion and loneliness in others and became passionate about helping people better understand themselves and those around them. Later in life she took this passion into her work with her husband Neill and co-founded Focused Attention, Inc. She has written numerous books, co-created the Pathway to Personal Freedom, and the Art of Conscious Connection Seminar Series.

After many years of integrating this consciousness shifting work into her own life and teaching it to others, she experienced a profound reconnection with God that turned her life upside down. This radically changed the way she perceives the world and functions in it. Beth now lives her life guided by her inner source of divine wisdom. She is committed to helping others discover this for themselves and fully experience the essence of who they truly are.

Author Links –

Website: www.BethBanning.com

Blog: bethbanning.com/blog

Facebook: www.facebook.com/BethBanning

Twitter: @BethBanning

Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/bethbbanning

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/BethBanning

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I’m very excited to have author and blogger Christoph Fischer as the subject of today’s ’20 Questions’. Christoph has a very interesting background that he is going to share…

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by

CARMEN STEFANESCU

                           

 

Publisher:
Solstice Publishing

 

Genre:  A Paranormal Romance

 

Release
date:
9th June 2016

 

Barbara
Heyer can hear voices of dead people. They whisper of their deaths, seek
comfort for those left behind, and occasionally even warn her about future
events. But when Barbara’s brother, Colin, is accused of murder, it will take
more than her gift to prove his innocence.

 

Becoming
smitten with the handsome investigator, Detective Patrick Fischer, is a serious
complication given his assignment to her brother’s case. Barbara senses there
is something far deeper—and perhaps much older—than the surface attraction
between them. Could that be why she’s visited by a mysterious woman named Emma
in her dreams? Could past life regression tie all the seemingly unconnected
events together?

 

Barbara
and Patrick must overcome heartache to find the truth to save Colin, and
perhaps themselves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Author
Bio

 

Carmen
Stefanescu resides in Romania, the native country of
the infamous vampire Count Dracula, but where, for about 50 years of communist
dictatorship, just speaking about God, faith, reincarnation or paranormal
phenomena could have led someone to great trouble – the psychiatric hospital if
not to prison. 

 

Teacher of English and German in her
native country and mother of two daughters, Carmen Stefanescu survived the grim
years of oppression, by escaping in a parallel world that of the books.

 

She has dreamed all her life to become a
writer, but many of the things she wrote during those years remained just
drawer projects. The fall of the Ceausescu’s regime in 1989 and the opening of
the country to the world meant a new beginning for her. She started publishing.
Several of her poems were successfully published in a collection of
Contemporary English Poems, Muse Whispers vol.1 and Muse Whispers vol.2 by
Midnight Edition Publication, in 2001 and 2002.

 

 Her
first novel, Shadows of the Past, was released in 2012 by Wild Child
Publishing, USA.

 

                   Carmen joined the volunteer
staff at Marketing For Romance Writers Author blog and is the coordinator of
#Thursday13 posts.

 

 

You can stalk the author here:

 

 

Links

 

Shadows Past Mystery@blogspot.ro

 

@Carmen_Books

www.pinterest.com/carmens007/

 

www.facebook.com ~ Carmen Stefanescu Books

 

www.goodreads.com~Carmen_Stefanescu

 

Carmen@Google+

 

Carmen Stefanescu @ AMAZON

 

 

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