Miracle At The Higher Ground Cafe'
by Max Lucado
with Candace Lee & Eric Newman
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date: February 17, 2015
ISBN: 978-0718000882
Pages: 192 pages
Blog Tour: http://litfusegroup.com/author/mlucado
Buy Link: http://bit.ly/1EaivpU

Review:
 
Being a coffee drinker, I enjoyed sipping on a cup of coffee while reading the recently released Miracle At The Higher Ground Cafe', a short novella by Max Lucado, Candance Lee & Eric Newman. Probably almost every reader has heard or has read a book by Max Lucado. For me, this is the first fictional book that I have read by the author.

Miracle At The Higher Grounds Cafe' centers on a Chelsea Chambers returning to her hometown in San Antonio to reopen the family's coffee shop, which is located on the lower floor of an old Victorian house. This isn't exactly her dream job, but it is a good distraction as she tries to forget about her separation from her NFL star husband, Sawyer Chambers, but it trouble seems to follow her as she receives notice from the IRS that the coffee shop owes $86,000.78. Now there is no way that she can pay that off in 30 days, so she does some negotiating and agrees to pay $9,555.64 per month for nine months, which means she needs to sell 155 lattes a day!

Luckily for Chelsea, she has a guardian angel, Samuel, looking over her, whom tweaks the WiFi router at the coffee shop. Now whoever uses the WiFi can only have access to one site - The God Blog, where anyone can have their prayers answered. Soon enough, Chelsea easily has the first month's payment for IRS, but the cafe's success will come with a price.
 

The Baron of Coyote River
by L. Ron Hubbard
Publisher: Galaxy Press
Pub. Date: February 1, 2010
ISBN: 978-1592123773
Running Time: 2 hours 13 minutes
Buy Link: Amazon

Review:

A new western novel is hard to come by these days, but there are many classic western adventures being re-released for a next generation of readers. Galaxy Press has been releasing paperback and audiobooks based on the western novellas and short stories from on the late author L. Ron Hubbard. These stories were published during the 30s' and 40s' or otherwise known as the Golden Age, a time when countless adventure stories appeared in Pulp Magazines.

The Baron of Coyote River was first published in the September 1936 issue of All Western Magazine and was released as an audiobook on February 1, 2010 along with the short story Reign Of The Gila Monster. The voice cast includes Martin Kove, Bruce Boxleitner, Bob Caso, R.F. Daley, Jim Meskimen (whom also directs), Fred Tatasciore, Josh R Thompson and Michael Yurchalk.

The first tale is centered on a wanted man, Lance Gordon, who has been dodging the the law ever since he killed his father's murderer, a Deputy Marshal, in a fair fight. There is a price on his head and everyone is out to get him, including the US Cavalry. He almost runs out of luck in Santos, when he is surrounded by the cavalry, but out of nowhere, a stranger, Tyler, rescues him. To return the favor, Lance agrees to ride to Coyote River to stop a cattle-stealing Baron.

I think many of us forget how important it is to include extra protein in our diets, especially if you are exercising and lifting weights on the regularly. Luckily, there are many different whey protein powders on the market that can solve this problem for us.

A few weeks ago, I received three sample packets (30.3 grams) of 100 % Pure Whey Protein Isolate (Dutch Chocolate) to test out. Unlike other brands, this protein powder is free of gluten, lactose, soy, whey concentrate, dextrose, maltodextrin, ion exchange whey and acid treated whey. It is also free of fat and sugar with no fillers, excipents, banned substances or hidden ingredients. Each packet has only 100 calories.

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  This week's question is submitted by Elizabeth!

Do you think a book's title is important?

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My Answer: 

Yes & No. A catchy title will always grab my attention, but that doesn't necessarily mean I want to read the book. If the book's blurb doesn't impress me, then I won't read that book. 

 
Tinker Bell and the Legend Of The NeverBeast
Director: Steve Loter
Voice Cast: Ginnfer Goodwin, Rosario Dawson, Mae Whitman, Lucy Lui, Raven-Symone
Studio: Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Retail: $36.99
ASIN: B00P8KD29I
Running Time: 76 minutes
Rated: G
Buy Link: Amazon

Review:

Now available on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital DVD from Walt Disney Home Entertainment is Tinker Bell and the Legend Of The NeverBeast. Bonus Features include 5 Essential Ingredients To Getting Gruff, My Dad's Movies: The True Story Of The NeverBeast, Jeff Corwin's Guide To Real-World NeverBeasts, Deleted Scenes With Director Intros and much more!

Tinker Bell and The Legend Of The NeverBeast marks the 6th and finale film in the "Tinker Bell" franchise. The film centers on the animal-loving fairy Fawn (voiced by Ginnfer Goodwin), who stumbles upon a mysterious creature known as the NeverBeast in the forest. The NeverBeast has awaken from a 1,000 year sleep, whom takes up an odd habit of building rock towers. Fawn befriends the creature and names him Gruff.

Nyx (voiced by Rosario Dawson) is newest scout in Pixie Hollow. After a hearing an odd roar from the forest, she decides to investigate and also stumbles upon the NeverBeast. She quickly does a little research in the fairy lore library to see what kind of creature he is and discovers that the NeverBeast will eventually turn into a deadly beast. In fear that he will harm Pixie Hollow, Nyx is determined to protect her fellow fairies at all costs.

Hopefully nobody will forget that this weekend is the start of Day Light Savings Time (DST), you know the day when the clocks have to upgraded an hour, resulting in us losing an hour of sleep. While the benefits of the time change are still debatable, we all still have to put our clocks forward one whole hour.

To help everyone out, I have put together five tips to help you adjust to DST:

5 More Minutes - According to the new national survey from Sleep Number, only 54% of the respondents didn't think they were getting enough sleep. The DST hour loss doesn't help a bit. A lack of sleep can cause serious health issues, including depression. All you have to do to adjust to the new time change is to go to bed five to fifteen minutes earlier for 3 to 4 days.

Change the Batteries - Yep, nobody wants to wake up to a beeping smoke detector. Most decetors take nine-bolt batteries and they normally only last about six-months, so the perfect time to change them is when the time changes twice a year. I always install new batteries in my smoke detectors during the DST weekend, so I can guarantee I'll get a perfect night's sleep.

Prepare For the Future - Fast forward an hour on all your clocks on Saturday afternoon as this way you'll already be on DST time and you can go to bed one hour earlier. Make sure not to drink too caffeine during the day; don't drink any coffee past 11 AM.

Arriving on Blu-ray Combo, DVD and Digital HD on Tuesday March 10, 2015 is the exciting animated film The Flintstones & WWE Stone Age Smackdown.

When Fred loses his family's vacation money, he hatches one of his hair brained plans to get it back. It's a sports entertainment spectacle that involves throwing his best bud, Barney into the wrestling ring with the likes of John Cenastone (John Cena), Rey Mysteriopal (Rey Mysterio) and even The Undertaker, with Fred himself as event promoter! The crowds roar, the "clams" are pouring in from ticket sales and even Mr. McMagma (Vince McMahon) is taking notice of all the hoopla. Including all-star appearances from The Boulder Twins (Brie and Nikki Bella) Marble Henry (Mark Henry) and Daniel Bry-Rock (Daniel Bryan), it's time to get the whole family together for hard-hitting, side-splitting laughs from the most epic event in all of prehistory!

 

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ghostbusters
by Erik Burham, Dan Schoening, Tom Waltz
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Pub. Date: May 5, 2015
Retail: $17.99
ISBN: 9781631402531
Pages: 104 pages
Buy Link: Amazon

Review:

In my humble opinion, last year's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles feature film reboot was a complete letdown and next year's Ghostbusters all-female reboot looks like a major disaster. Luckily, the Nickelodeon TMNT animated series has ignored all the errors the 2014 movie made and has turned out to be a great cartoon. TMNT has continued to appear in comic book form with this May's release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ghostbusters, which combines all 4 issues from the crossover mini-series.

The crossover occurs when Donatello tests out Fugitoid's Interspatial Teleportation Unit and accidentally zaps himself, along with Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, April O'Neil and Casey Jones, to a parallel dimension. They literally crash a church wedding  and before they can figure out where they are, a supernatural demon is unleashed - a Japanese warlord named Chi-You.

Chi-You takes possession of Casey Jones and the wedding guests, turning them all into his minions. Out of nowhere, the Ghostbusters (Dr. Peter Venkman, Dr. Raymond "Ray" Stantz, Dr. Egon Spengler & Winston Zeddemore) arrive to save the day, well, kinda, as Chi-You is much stronger than your average ghost, so they ghost-busting team must team up with the four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to stop the demon and his league of minions.

Easter Day is just over a month away and a perfect gift for a family member or friend is a Custom 50x60" Fleece Photo Blanket from Collage.com! You can't go wrong by putting your favorite family photos, baby photos or even pictures of your pets on a blanket, so you can cherish the pictures forever.

You don't have to download anything to your computer. All you have to do is go to Collage.com an click on "Design" to upload your pictures from your computer, Facebook, the web, Instagram or Flickr. Then you can design the layout for the blanket. You can choose from a variety of different backgrounds and add text blocks. The blanket can feature one big picture or multiple pictures in a collage. The 50x60 blanket retails around $125.

I decided to have seven photos of my cats put on the blanket. The calico cat is named Gaby and the tabby cat is named Fred, whom sadly passed away last summer. I picked out the textured background called "Bleach Spots" and the "Torn Paper" for the picture borders.