Salmon Swimming Upstream and Homebound: Tales about brotherhood from Bear Creek

  

Salmon Swimming Upstream and Homebound:

Tales about brotherhood from Bear Creek

"Salmon Swimming Upstream and Homebound" by Stephen E. Johnson is a heartfelt nostalgic memoir that captures the essence of growing up in rural America during the 1960s and 70s, specifically in Woodinville, Washington. Through vivid storytelling, Johnson reflects on his childhood adventures, family traditions, and the rhythms of farm life in the Pacific Northwest. The book is divided into seasons, mirroring the passage of time and the cycles of farm life, with each chapter offering a glimpse into the joys, challenges, and transformative moments of youth.

Rich in sensory details, the memoir transports readers to a world of frosted landscapes, crackling fireplaces, and the quiet beauty of nature, while exploring universal themes such as resilience, family bonds, love, loss, and the enduring power of memory. Johnson's narrative balances humor, emotion, and introspection, recounting experiences like Swedish Christmas Eve celebrations, snowy sledding escapades, and the awakening curiosity of adolescence. It is a celebration of childhood, family, and the lessons that shape us as we grow, inviting readers to reflect on their own cherished memories while immersing them in the author's beautifully crafted world.

Siblings are shown as central to the narrative, with moments of camaraderie and conflict that strengthen their bond. Extended family members, such as Aunt Ikey and Uncle Ralph, are depicted as nurturing figures who provide guidance and warmth, emphasizing the importance of family traditions and creating lasting memories. Overall, Johnson celebrates the complexities of family relationships—their joys, struggles, and sacrifices—while underscoring the enduring bonds that bring meaning and unity even during challenging times.

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Living Above the Chaos: The Pathway to Personal Creation

  

Living Above the Chaos:

The Pathway to Personal Creation

By Owen Thomas Ashton, MD, ABVLM

What if everything you believe about yourself—and the world around you—is only part of the truth?

Living Above the Chaos is not your typical self-help guide. It’s a transformative journey written by a physician who has walked through both inner turmoil and spiritual clarity—and invites you to do the same. With a voice that is both deeply personal and boldly philosophical, Dr. Owen Thomas Ashton challenges readers to break free from the illusions of ego, fear, and conditioning to reconnect with something much deeper: your original perfection.

This book doesn’t promise quick fixes or surface-level motivation. Instead, it dares you to examine the story you’ve told yourself your entire life—and to ask whether you’re ready to surrender it for something more powerful, more truthful, and more peaceful.

Rooted in both scientific and metaphysical principles, Living Above the Chaos explores topics like intuitive awareness, natural law, and the Universal Subconscious Mind. It speaks to the deep, unspoken longing in many of us: to remember who we truly are before the world taught us who to be.

Through stories of personal transformation, meditative insights, and moments of spiritual awakening, Dr. Ashton makes the case that chaos is not something to be avoided—it’s something to rise above. In doing so, we rediscover the joy, love, and clarity that were always available to us… if only we would stop resisting and start remembering.

"You are the latest version of God’s greatest vision—perfect, powerful, and ready to remember who you truly are."

—Dr. Owen Thomas Ashton

If you’ve ever felt like something within you is meant for more—more peace, more understanding, more connection—this book offers not just permission, but a pathway. Because the project isn’t the world. The project is you.

And you were always meant to live above the chaos.

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Gun Runner

After the untimely demise of her husband, Bobbi Burgess struggles to maneuver two jobs and support her teenage son, until the production plant offers up the irrevocable blow that will almost certainly leave her homeless. Disenfranchised Bobbi turns to her brother, who offers her an unconventional solution. Guns. With an abundant supply, and a laxity of regulation in her home state; Bobbi dips her toes into the murky fringes of the black market gun trade. Just as she begins to rebuild a semblance of renewed life; law enforcement in her small town becomes suspicious of her frequent excursions and myriad of cash and suggests she skip town. Refusing to be thwarted, Bobbi embarks to complete the greatest single transaction of her illicit career...

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9 Steps to Build a Life of Meaning:

How to Unlock Your Mind, Happiness, Power,

and Your Enemy's Demise

In this urgent, heartfelt self-improvement memoir by leading founder and simplifier Rick Walker, you are offered 9 powerful steps to build the most meaningful life imaginable. This is your moment. Dr. Ben Carson calls this: “A profound, refreshing, and triumphantly hopeful way of thinking.” Imagine it: Unbeatable focus. Unstoppable passion. Incredible resilience. Honorable leadership. A flourishing family. And more-much more. Everything you need for a life of true and deep meaning.The once impossible is now accessible. In 9 Steps. Rick wants to rip away the comfort now enslaving your potential. He discovered the steps the hard way. Hidden where he least wanted to look: The abandoned genius of ancients. The hard-won wisdom of warriors. The overlooked art of the masters. And, not surprisingly, within his own failures. Most self improvement books are focused on happiness. However, this self help book for men is focused on something much more important: meaning. The steps in this book help men in their personal development and their purpose development. With a foreword by US Representative and Navy SEAL Dan Crenshaw, this high-energy calling uplifts men to the next level of their manhood. Dr. John Vervaeke praises this book: “I admire both Walker’s journey and this wonderful book that shares that journey with others so that they can undertake something similar.” To walk these steps is to undergo a profound evolution, as Rick personally experienced and now shares for the first time. Your personal journey begins now. Transformation starts with a single step. Dan Crenshaw- Foreword Bio: Dan Crenshaw is a former United States Navy SEAL officer now serving as the U.S. representative for Texas's 2nd congressional district. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Fortitude.

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Re-Enlightening: A framework for practical political economic debate

 

Re-Enlightening:

A framework for practical political economic debate

Starting from the insight that economics is essentially sociology with a scorecard — that is, the outcome of political choices — this book invites the concerned citizen to confidently explore the options free people have to shape the economy they live and work within. What is the role of government? What role do private enterprise and investment play? Where does power reside, and how is it distributed and controlled?

The beauty of political economics lies in the many possible answers and far-reaching implications to these and other questions. The challenge is to examine these questions with an open, curious mind—free from inherited ideological bias.

At its heart, Re-Enlightening is an optimistic call to action, a belief in the power of an informed citizenry to engage in honest debate about the future economy already taking shape around us. This book is a contribution to that essential conversation—one grounded in economic possibility and human potential.

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How to Say A Good-Bye!

How to Say a GOOD-Bye is a tiny tale about three little friends, Pete, John and Zoe, and how they each come to terms with the loss of a loved one. While this is a children’s book written for children, it also aims to help parents find the words to soothe themselves and their children when dealing with loss.

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Land Shadows

This novel follows Murdoch McNeil, a boy who survives the Highland Clearances, only to arrive orphaned in New York City in 1851. Taken in by a powerful attorney, he rises from law clerk to lawyer in the turbulent 1860s. Fueled by a desire for justice—and revenge—he masterminds a daring land fraud against the English and Dutch-owned Maxwell Land Grant. To solidify his deception, he relocates to New Mexico, embedding himself in the very land he manipulated.

But the West is a land of shifting power, where survival depends on more than just the law—where the foundation of settlement is built on fraud, power, and the brutal displacement of those who came before.

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