For Immediate Release: Kindle™ Fire User Group Features Christian Fiction “Jesus, Mo and Cheese Puffs” as eBook of the week

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San Francisco based Kindle Fire User Group, an independent organization which is open to membership to users of Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Fire tablets has featured Author Lisa Boucher’s eBook Jesus, Mo and Cheese Puffs as the book of the week. 

Jesus, Mo and Cheese Puffs is a Christian fiction hit among those seeking renewal in their faith in humanity and themselves. The eBook by Lisa follows the journey of an elderly couple, Flo and Mo, as they journey across country to see a surgeon to correct an issue with one of Flo’s eyes, which resulted from a car accident. 

“The idea for Jesus, Mo and Cheese Puffs came to me after I had suffered for three years with Graves Disease, and yes, I had bulging eyes,” says author Lisa Boucher. “During that time I was running back and forth to Cleveland from Dayton and I realized how not looking well affected my self esteem. I found myself avoiding people and social situations because I could not stand the way my eyes looked. I wore dark glasses a lot! However, toward the end of the three years, and once my condition began to resolve, I also realized how I had been the one to reject people and social situations. Not one person had rejected me based on my looks. It also dawned on me that trite as it may sound, a beautiful spirit covers a multitude of flaws, and what most people remember is how you treated them, not how you look. I had imposed limitations on myself that ultimately kept me from living my life to the fullest. I realized I was my own worst enemy!”

Jesus, Mo and Cheese Puffs is a story with two central themes. First, it is a book about faith and trust in God. Second, the book is about letting go of issues that are holding one back and remaining open to the possibilities in life that happen when least expected. When Flo purchases a winning lottery ticket, Mo knows what he wants to do with the money – find a surgeon to fix the deformed eye of the woman he loves which has caused her to be overly self-conscious and held her back from enjoying life fully for years. The couple meets a cast of characters during their cross country journey whose faith has been diminished and being the good people they are, Flo and Mo help as many as they can. In the process, Flo learns valuable lessons about her self-worth in spite of her physical deformity.

Jesus, Mo and Cheese Puffs has received rave reviews from readers. One review called Flo and Mo Brown the most unusual, but charming and memorable main characters that will enter and remain in the heart long after their story ends. Another reviewer noted that this story makes the reader stop and think about how often people pass others by that need help, even if only small acts of kindness?

“We are glad to feature Ms. Boucher’s eBook as the eBook of the week,” said Ms. Ann Phipps, a spokesperson for California based independent Kindle Fire User Group. “The independent Kindle Fire User Group was established to serve the needs of users of the Kindle Fire, and bringing such books to them is one way we provide value to our members.”

About Kindle Fire User Group
San Francisco Bay Area based Kindle Fire User Group is an independent organization that allows users of Kindle™ Fire and Fire™ tablets to connect with each other on an unbiased social media platform. Kindle Fire User Group is not affiliated with Amazon and does not officially represent Amazon.com, Lab126 or any other subsidiaries. Amazon, Kindle, Fire and all related logos are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.

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FreeebooksDaily.org Celebrates Halloween by Featuring Horror Kindle™ Books Everyday until October 31, Honors “The Virago Book of Witches”

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Online Kindle Book deals website Freeebooksdaily is celebrating Halloween by featuring deeply discounted Horror eBooks on Kindle™ on its website every day from October 15th to October 31st, just in time for the chilling holiday. It has also created a special “Halloween/ Horror” section on its website that is visited daily by thousands of readers.

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San Francisco bay area based Freeebooksdaily.org is featuring Kindle™ ebook deals in the horror genre on its website every day until the end of October. This is in addition to featuring select Kindle books that are temporarily discounted or are being offered at no cost in other genres. It has also created a special “Halloween/ Horror” section on its website.

“People love to get into the holiday spirit and Christmas and Halloween are two of the biggest holidays celebrated,” says Ann Phipps, the Spokeswoman for Freeebooksdaily.org. “Halloween isn’t just about trick-or-treating, dressing up in costumes, or carving pumpkins- it’s also about facing our worst fears by reading scary stories. There are plenty of great Kindle eBooks out there that will send chills down your spine and keep you up at night, and many of those are being offered at a discounted price of$0.00 to $2.99. Our editorial team is painstakingly sifting through thousands of discounted Kindle books to feature the scariest books that will keep our subscribers glued to their eBook readers, although they might be hiding under the covers with it.”

Freeebooksdaily.org features bargain priced eBooks and alerts the website’s subscribers every day. The editorial staff sifts through thousands of Kindle™ books that are being temporarily discounted or offered for free, looking for the best reads for its 100,000 subscribers, fans and twitter followers. Subscribing to the email newsletter that is offered at no cost makes it easy for eBook readers to be alerted of new high-quality books and authors. Readers can grow their library without breaking their budget and be kept up-to-date on the latest popular books that are being offered at discounted prices with the help of Freeebooksdaily.

Freeebooksdaily is also honoring The Virago Book of Witches as the Book of the Month for October. Witches have a strong historic connection with Halloween. The tradition of lighting a candle inside pumpkins carved as Jack-o-lanterns is done to protect people and livestock from the effect of witches, who were believed to accompany the malignant spirits as they traveled the earth on Halloween night. The flames are deemed to have protective powers. What is now called Halloween was celebrated in Celtic cultures as Samhain - the transition between summer and winter. It is one of the Greater Sabbats, or High Holidays, in witchcraft and in modern times, it is celebrated as a day to remember and honor the dead.

"Witches are such varied and wonderful creatures - the outright terrifying to helpful ones but often mysterious,” says Shakrukh Husain, author of The Virago Book of Witches. “I have loved them and been scared, intrigued and enchanted by them since my childhood. They cater for every taste and age. The stories in this book are in different voices: rustic, funny, sophisticated and menacing. Enjoy them!"

Readers can check out the daily Halloween Horror selections through October and sign up for the Daily Deal Alert at http://freeebooksdaily.org/horrorhalloween/

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Really Dude, a Surfer Terrorist? American Travel Overseas Becomes More and More Dangerous

It is an undeniable fact that Americans are avid travelers.  In the 1800s, the Industrial Revolution virtually led to the formation of the travel industry in the U.S.   If you build it, they will come describes this time period – railroads, hotels, beach resorts and other new destinations sprang up in increasing numbers as American wanted to get away from their everyday lives.  International travel also became an option due to the invention of large ocean liners and then the airplane.  Each decade saw the creation of larger and faster travel options.  Europe could be reached in hours, not weeks.  Feel like a safari in Africa?  Sure, just jump on a plane and go.

Once upon a time, Americans were darlings – welcomed with open arms almost anywhere in the world, free to move and safe doing so.  Sadly, that world is now gone.  The danger to American citizens could no longer be denied after September 11, 2001.  Americans are now specifically targeted by an untold number of violent and extreme groups and stories of kidnappings and murders happen regularly.  Even in so-called friendly countries, the heightened state of alert regarding security means citizens may be mistaken for terrorists, with devastating consequences.

Who is one of the least likely American icons that anyone would think of as a terrorist?  The surfer, whose main objective is to catch the next wave and enjoy the ride.  But as the true story Surf Guns of Morocco illustrates, even the harmless surfer is not immune to violence against Americans overseas.  Catching a wave in Morocco they are forced to flee under a hail of bullets from AK-47s.  Thinking Spain would be safe, they travel there by ferry – only to be mistaken for terrorists and almost shot by the Guardia Civil.  Searching for the perfect wave suddenly also becomes searching for a way to survive.

Surf Guns of Morocco is available in a Kindle ebook edition at Amazon – click here

Gun of God by David Cudlip: Good Concept, Poor Execution

First theorized in the early 1970s, gene therapy has been touted as the key to curing all human diseases.  It involves replacing the DNA sequence of a mutated gene with a normal one, carried into the body using a vector such as a virus.  Since its very conception, gene therapy has been an extremely controversial subject.  There are well-founded concerns that in the hands of unscrupulous persons, genetic manipulation could create a house of horrors with devastating effects on the world.

When one thinks of curing diseases, one of the first thoughts in many people’s minds is pharmaceuticals.  The pharmaceutical industry generates trillions of dollars a year in sales, leading to the question that is being asked frequently – do these companies actually want a cure for all diseases found or do they attempt to suppress such efforts to maintain their vast revenues?

The controversial nature of gene manipulation has long been rich fodder for authors.  Decades before the concept became reality, Aldous Huxley wrote of a society where humans have been engineered for perfection.  Several non-fiction books have been written about a machine, developed by a physician in the 1930s, which could cure almost every disease and was ultimately suppressed and destroyed.

Gun of God tries to intertwines all of these issues but the author does a poor job combining these ideas. The book is a compilation of very loosely connected chapters with characters suddenly appear in random places around the world.  Thomas Courmaine is a rogue among Jesuit priests – he’s also a geneticist whose scientific ideas are against religious doctrine.  He is supposedly banished to Africa, where of all places he discovers the key to gene therapy.  Not very believable place for major discovery and no real reason is given. 

When his discovery is made public, the pharmaceutical industry tries to bring him into the fold, but he refuses to play by their rules.  Funded by the only person willing to do so, his ‘gene gun’ soon fires – a shot heard round the world – but soon the intent of his discovery is adulterated.

Using his discovery, competition among people begins of who can become more – more beautiful, more intelligent, and stronger.  Courmaine watches his cure become a curse as the Law of Unintended Consequences wreaks havoc on society.  He must now attempt to undo what has been done, while being turned on by his financial backer and losing the woman he now loves.  Can he stop the madness in time and save the human race – and himself?

We will give this book two stars for a good concept but a poor execution.

Loss of Faith in Humanity and Power of Media to Lift Spirits

In today’s world it seems more and more people are losing their faith in humanity as a whole.  It is not difficult to understand why this has happened.  News channels constantly bombard with stories of crime, war, and disease.  The financial crisis that began in 2008 has touched almost every life in the United States and untold numbers of people around the world.  Many people have lost jobs, homes, and hope.  

Loss of faith in humanity is not a new phenomenon.  The great physicist Albert Einstein said in his era that “perfection of means and confusion of ends seems to characterize our age.”   One example of a loss of humanity people today are all too familiar with are those who witness an injustice and do nothing – except take a video of it with cell phone cameras to post online.  This, too, is not something limited to our age.  Einstein also commented on this issue, saying that “the world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”

Fortunately, television and movies can have a positive effect on a person’s faith in humanity as well.  Television series such as Touched by an Angel and Highway to Heaven helped depressed or troubled people and showed there is still goodness in human kind.  There are few people who have not at least heard of the movie It’s a Wonderful Life, where a kind-hearted man falls into despair but has his faith renewed.

Through the years, the written word has also had a powerful influence, and often times authors can have a profound effect on the opinion of the masses.  The author of Charlotte’s Web, was a strong supporter of a writer’s duty to uplift the human spirit.  In 1973, the author received a letter that spoke of the letter writer’s loss of faith in humanity.  The author’s response is a testament to the power of the written word to uplift:

         As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate 

         woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate.  Hope is the thing 

         that has left us, in a bad time.

Now, more than ever, people need uplifting prose to remind them why humanity is not a lost cause. Lisa Boucher’s Jesus, Mo and Cheese Puffs is just such a manuscript.  Flo and Mo Brown, the main characters, are an elderly couple who have seen their share of adversity.  Their only son died as a teenager.  Flo has a deformed eye from a car accident.  Yet through all this, Flo has never lost her faith in Jesus or her love for Mo… and oh yeah, a love of cheese puffs.  Mo is a bit more jaded, but Flo has a way of making him see the best in most things.  When Flo wins on a scratch off lottery ticket, there are so many things they could do, but Mo has an idea.  He wants to take Flo to a TV doctor in California for plastic surgery on her eye, and the two set out from Indiana for an appointment in California.

But, as with real life, the couple is often sidetracked along the way.  In every place they stop, they find people in need – some financially, some spiritually – and Flo being who she is cannot help but help them.  Mo is wise enough to follow Flo’s lead, sometimes leading to new outlooks on life.  Every person Flo touches is uplifted and has at least a little faith in humanity restored thanks to her kindness.  In the end, Flo learns a great lesson about herself and how often the only limitations people have are those they put on themselves.  

Jesus, Mo and Cheese Puffs is available in Kindle edition on Amazon - click here

The Benefits of Home Brewed Beer

Drinking beer is more than just consuming an alcoholic beverage. It’s a social activity that brings good friends together for good times and memorable moments.

Most people don’t know it, but it is possible to make your own home brewed beer. It’s a great conversation starter, with home brewed beer also having several benefits compared to the beer that you purchase from the store.

• Better Quality. Commercial beers sacrifice quality for quantity, whereas in making home brewed beer, the quality of your beer depends on what ingredients you use. If you use the best ingredients, then you’d end up with great tasting beer.
• Reduced Hangovers. Home brewed beer contains large quantities of yeast with vitamin B, which naturally reduces the effects of hangovers. Not only do you get better tasting beer, you also get to drink more of it!
• Social Aspect. The social community of home brewers, whether in real life or online, is a vibrant community of people who are passionate in what they do. You will find no shortage of people who will help you out as you start off in home brewing beer.
• Unlimited Potential. The beer that you make will only be limited by your imagination. You can come up with different mixtures and flavors once you understand the basics. With a little cash, enough time and a creative mind, who knows how far your beer can go?

If you are interested in making home brew beer, you should read “How to Make Beer Like a Pro: Complete Guide to Home Brewing - Even in Small Spaces” by Randy Frank.

This book goes over the complete history and procedures of home brewing beer, preparing you for this challenging but enjoyable hobby. The book contains anything and everything you need to know about home brewed beer – you’ll be a master home brewer in no time!

“How to Make Beer Like a Pro: Complete Guide to Home Brewing- Even in Small Spaces” is currently available in Kindle format at Amazon.