Books by CruGuru

Discount on Scaramouche

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:51:00 +0000

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Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:36:00 +0000

A Romance of the French Revolution

Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Scaramouche starts off when Andre-Louis Moreau vows revenge after his best friend was killed in a mockery of a duel by an arrogant nobleman, Marquis de la Tour d’Azyr.

With his courage, intelligence and quick wit, Moreau excels as a skilled dramatic actor, a scenario writer, a fencing master, a lawyer, a passionate orator and eventually as a politician, and throughout this he keeps on upsetting the aristocratic Marquis de la Tour d’Azyr in his pursuits. During all this time, the expectation towards the final confrontation between these two men builds up until it is finally settled in an unexpected way.

However, being a man who can fight equally well with his sword, his mind, his pen, as well as his mouth, Moreau stays true to his morality and does not allow his quest to destroy the nobleman cloud his judgement as the world around him spirals into total chaos, testing his human character and spirit to the utmost.

Filled with exciting swashbuckling action and adventure, duels, romance, intrigue and politics, Scaramouche remains one of the most stimulating and engaging historical action-adventure novels ever written.

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available in paperback from Lulu.com and in PDF E-book format from Lulu.com. ISBN: 978-1-920414-52-8; 978-1-920414-53-5.

Yet Another Day by J. H. Jowett

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:55:00 +0000

A Prayer for Every Day of the Year

Yet Another Day incorporates a short prayer for each day of the year to guide and fulfil your prayer life. These prayers directly penetrate your heart’s deepest recesses and open your eyes for the all-encompassing love of Jesus Christ by teaching you to listen and to be quiet in God.

The author, the Rev. John Henry Jowett, M.A., stated the following in his foreword: We need a firmer and quieter assurance while we pray. Even in our supplications it is needful to “rest in the Lord.” Perhaps it would be a good thing for many of us in our praying seasons if we were to say less and to listen more. “I will hear what God the Lord will speak.”

Listening might bring restfulness where speech would only inflame us. It is not an insignificant thing that the marginal rendering of that lovely phrase, “Rest in the Lord,” is just this, “Be silent unto the Lord.”

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available in paperback from Lulu.com and in PDF E-book format from Lulu.com. ISBN: 978-1-920414-49-8, 978-1-920414-50-4.

The Red Battle Flyer by Manfred Freiherr Von Richthofen

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:33:00 +0000

The Red Battle Flyer is Manfred von Richthofen's autobiography which mainly deals with his role as an ace Fighter Pilot in the First World War for the German forces.

The book describes how he went from being a cavalry officer to an observer on an aircraft, to a fighter pilot, and finally to the most famous fighter pilot of the war. Von Richthofen provides gripping detailed descriptions of his and his comrades' exciting exploits as fighter pilots, but we also learn about the continued loss of comrades in death and the suffering of war.

Von Richthofen had 80 "kills" to his name, making him the most successful flying ace during the war. He was known as the "Red Baron", where the "Red" referred to the bright red colour of his famous Fokker triplane and the "Baron" referred to his title of Freiherr, which means Baron.

This thrilling account of air fighting in World War I allows us more than a glimpse into the mind and life of one of the most effective and skilled warriors of all time.

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available in paperback from Lulu.com and in PDF E-book format from Lulu.com. ISBN: 978-1-920414-32-0, 978-1-920414-33-7 .

Within You is the Power by Henry Thomas Hamblin

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:26:00 +0000

Within You is the Power shows us there is a power lying hidden in mankind, by the use of which any person can rise to higher and better things in life. The object of this book is to help people to bring their inward powers of mind and spirit into expression, wisely and in harmony with the laws of life and to build up character.

There is no way whereby the discipline of life can be avoided. There are no cunning means by which fate can be tricked or evaded. Each life must meet its own troubles and difficulties: each soul must pass through its deep waters, every heart must encounter sorrow and grief. But no one needs to be overwhelmed in the great conflicts of life, for one who has learned the this great secret, dwells in an impregnable city, built upon the Rock of Truth, against which the storms of life beat in vain.

While this book does not offer any vain promises of an easy life, it rather endeavours to show how to become so strong that life looks almost easy by comparison.

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available in paperback from Lulu.com and in PDF E-book format from Lulu.com. ISBN: 978-1-920414-30-6, 978-1-920414-31-3.

The Terror by Arthur Machen

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:11:00 +0000

During the First World War in Britain a series of unexplained deaths and murders occur with no sign of who or what is responsible.

-- "The working man told me about it, and added some dreadful details. Corpses so terribly maimed that coffins had been kept covered; faces mutilated as if by some gnawing animal..."

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available in paperback from Lulu.com and in PDF E-book format from Lulu.com. ISBN: 978-1-920414-34-4, 978-1-920414-35-1.

A Martian Odyssey by Stanley G. Weinbaum

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:55:00 +0000

A Collection of Science Fiction Short Stories

Stanley G. Weinbaum is best known for his pioneering science fiction short story, A Martian Odyssey, published in 1934 to large (and continuing) praise, which introduces a sympathetic alien, Tweel.

Other stories by Weinbaum deal with Dixon Wells, a playboy who runs afoul of the inventions of his erstwhile tutor in "Newer Physics", Prof. van Manderpootz, a boastful genius who rates Einstein as his intellectual equal (or even a bit inferior). In "The Worlds of If", the professor’s invention exposes what might have been; in "The Ideal", Manderpootz constructs a device that can show the image of someone's ideal (in Wells' case, his perfect woman); the invention in "The Point of View" allows one to see the world from another's perspective.

This collection of Weinbaum's stories include A Martian Odyssey, Valley of Dreams, The Adaptive Ultimate, The Mad Moon, The Worlds of If, The Ideal, The Point of View, Pygmalion's Spectacles, Parasite Planet, The Lotus Eaters and The Circle of Zero.

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available in paperback from Lulu.com and in PDF E-book format from Lulu.com. ISBN: 978-1-920414-11-5, 978-1-920414-12-2.

Rookie’s Guide to Writing Effective Online Sales Letters by Richard Goldhawk

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:59:00 +0000

Discover Simple and Proven Step-By-Step Techniques to Create Hypnotic Sales Copy That Turns Visitors into Paying Customers

What is the secret to sales letters that keep readers reading until the final line? Why do we buy on the basis of some sales letters and not others? This book will focus on the sales letters used by Internet Marketers. Since the art of writing the sales letter was perfected long before Internet Marketing was born, the essential characteristics of offline sales letters will be studied in this book to get an insight into what worked in the past. These principles will then be transferred and applied to the online sales letter. This book provides further insights into the online sales letter and chapters are dedicated to the format of the online sales letter, how to write the online sales letter, how to improve its effectiveness and how to scientifically measure and test its effectiveness.

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available in paperback from Lulu.com. ISBN: 978-1-920265-78-6

The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:06:00 +0000

The House on the Borderland is a classic novel that facilitated the bridging of the gap between the British fantastic and supernatural authors of the later 19th century and modern horror fiction. The classic American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft listed this work by Hodgson as amongst his greatest influences.

In 1877, two gentlemen head into Ireland to spend a week fishing in the village of Kraighten. While there, they discover in the ruins of a very curious house a diary of the man who had once owned the house. The diary’s torn pages hinted at an evil beyond anything that existed on this side of the curtains of impossibility.

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available in paperback from Lulu.com. ISBN: 978-1-920265-77-9

Rookie's Guide to Profitable List Building by Richard Goldhawk

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:20:00 +0000

Learn How to Build an Effective Opt-In List for Profitable Internet Marketing

One of the most important things in an Internet Marketing business is a list of contacts. Just as in any other business, online businesses also need to build relationships with their customers. Subscribers are the contacts on your lists that are the most valuable asset of your online business.

Therefore, list building leads to building relationships, which in turn encourages prospects to visit your website, sign up and get closer to buying your offer. But people are not just going to flock to a website and leave their contact information! To attract them, they must perceive some value.

That’s why every business that does online marketing must build its own lists, targeted at specific prospects. It is time consuming and you have to work really hard.

This book will show you how to set up a profitable opt-in list so that you don’t need to experiment anymore, allowing you to enjoy the fruits of your efforts in a much shorter time.

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available in paperback from Lulu.com. ISBN: 978-1-920265-76-2

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:32:00 +0000

Think and Grow Rich describes the secret Andrew Carnegie formula of personal achievement by which he accumulated hundreds of millions of dollars for himself and made a number millionaires of people to whom he taught his secret.

The book was written by the man to whom Carnegie disclosed the astounding secret of his riches-Napoleon Hill. He took more than 20 years to write the book and researched more than 500 men of great wealth who revealed the source of their riches.

The Thirteen Steps to Riches described in this book offer the shortest dependable philosophy of individual achievement ever presented for the benefit of the man or woman who is searching for a definite goal in life and financial independence. It not only describes WHAT TO DO, but most importantly also HOW TO DO IT!

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available from Amazon.com. ISBN: 978-1-920265-54-0

The Girl in the Golden Atom by Ray Cummings

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 15 May 2009 09:09:00 +0000

This novel is a classic work of science fiction, and it was one of the first to explore the world of the atom. The Girl in the Golden Atom is the story of a young chemist who finds a concealed atomic world within his mother's wedding ring. Under a powerful microscope, he sees within the ring a beautiful young woman sitting in front of a cave. Captivated by her, he uses a method he discovered to shrink himself and does so to join her in her world. Eventually, four friends join him through many adventures to assist the beautiful woman, Lylda, in her conquest of her microscopic world.

Having worked for Thomas Alva Edison, Ray Cummings (1887 – 1957) was inspired by science's possibilities and began to write science fiction.

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available in paperback from Lulu.com. ISBN: 978-1-920265-75-5

Keys to Affiliate Profits by Barry Richardson

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 09 May 2009 11:36:00 +0000

How to Profit from Affiliate Marketing on the Internet

Open the door of opportunity to a steady income from the Internet!

The principle behind this book is to give you the information, tools and resources you must have to be an effective affiliate marketing professional. Keys to Affiliate Profits is a resource for building your business online and discusses the many affiliate marketing programs that are available to you to accomplish this goal.

It shows you how to generate passive income on autopilot - you can literally make money while you are sleeping. Even if you have never tried Online Marketing before, by the time you read this book you will have a good idea of how you can harness the profit potential of affiliate marketing, putting it to work for you to generate a steady and continuous flow of cash!

About the Author: Barry Richardson (1954-2009) was a well-known and respected Internet marketer, and an active member in many Internet marketing forums. He lived in Columbia, Missouri.

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available in paperback from Lulu.com. ISBN: 978-1-920265-74-8

The Hidden Places by Bertrand W. Sinclair

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 08 May 2009 09:23:00 +0000

When Hollister returns from World War I, he is officially dead. He was so reported, so accepted 18 months earlier.

His wife married again. She and her husband vanished from England. And with his wife vanished his assets, his estate, by virtue of a pre-war arrangement which he never revoked.

He wanders the streets of London, one of innumerable stray dogs, ruined, deserted, disfigured, a bit of war's wreckage. He does not exactly consider himself a victim of injustice. He does not blame Myra, his ex-wife. He is simply numbed and bewildered. But then he grows conscious of what it means to a sensitive man, a man in whom all warm human impulses flows so strongly, to be penniless, to have all the dependable foundations of his life torn from under his feet, to be so disfigured that people shuns him.

He has to gather up the broken pieces of his life, fit them together, go on as best he could. Will he ever be able to resume where he left off before the war and find true love again?

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available in paperback from Lulu.com. ISBN: 978-1-920265-73-1

Time: Your Ally or Your Enemy? by Clive Boyett

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:19:00 +0000

Get Time on Your Side with Effective Time Management Techniques

‘Tempus Fugit’, or Time Flies as expressed in Latin, is a saying that is very relevant in our modern lives. We would often feel the urgency of life, the rapid changes of our environment, and the fast mobility of people and work.

Time should be kept not as an enemy, but as a companion towards your destined paths. There's a time for love, for jubilation, and for sorrow. There’s a time to relax, and a time to catch up with the running moments. But what is important is to be in control of time, no matter the amount of pressure.

You only have one life to live. Would you like to spend most of it just working and being inundated with too many responsibilities to handle? Would you like to have more than enough time in the world to do the things you love and to enjoy your life, amidst all your tasks?

This book will show you how to manage your time efficiently using powerful techniques in the art of prioritizing, delegation, goal-setting, planning, organizing, and conquering the ‘time robbers.’

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available in paperback from Lulu.com. ISBN: 978-1-920265-71-7

Get Balance in Your Life by Clive Boyett

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:04:00 +0000

How to Balance Your Life as a Busy, Stressed-Out Individual

The characteristics of modern society are a combination of long working hours, stress, bad diet and lack of exercise and can lead to an excess of health-related problems. Yet, we feel pressurized to have it all – a big house, two smart cars, a career, and a family. But you need to review these demands in life and decide what your priorities are. If things like good health and good family relations are at the top of your list, you will have to learn how to balance your life.

Get Balance in Your Life is a guide to help you find that right balance between your work, family and personal life so that you can life a longer, healthier life full of joy and fulfillment.

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available in paperback from Lulu.com and as a PDF e-book from ClickBank.com. ISBN: 978-1-920265-70-0; 978-1-920265-69-4

The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:21:00 +0000

The year is 1913. The disgraced and formerly penniless aristocrat Sir Everard Dominey returns from German East Africa a reformed and wealthy man determined to take his place in English society. But is he Sir Everard or the German spy, Baron Leopold von Ragastein?

Leopold, educated at Eton and Oxford with the Englishman, bears a striking resemblance to Dominey and was often taken as his double at school. After a chance encounter in Africa, one of them has returned. But who?

The Great Impersonation is one of the most famous spy novels of all time. This is excellent reading with its fast moving plot and its imagery of the rich life of English aristocrats before the First World War, as well as its bold characters.

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available from Amazon.com. ISBN: 978-1-920265-64-9

Greenmantle by John Buchan

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:14:00 +0000

Greenmantle is a classic espionage thriller packed with action that is set in the First World War.

The reckless all-action hero Richard Hannay, first featured in John Buchan's thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps, is summoned to probe rumors of an uprising in the Muslim world. He undertakes a dangerous journey through enemy territory to meet up with his friend Sandy Arbuthnot; and together with Peter Pienaar, the old Boer scout, and John S. Blenkiron, the American determined to fight the Kaiser, they travel in disguise to the Russian border to face the German conspirators: the grotesque and hard-headed Colonel Ulrich von Stumm, and the powerful and wicked Hilda von Einem.

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available from Amazon.com. ISBN: 978-1-920265-63-2

The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:08:00 +0000

"I realised that I was bottled as sure as a pickled herring, and that there was only one way out. I had to die. If my pursuers knew I was dead they would go to sleep again."

Richard Hannay returns to England from South Africa to start a new life, but he gets caught up in a plot to ruin the British war effort (the First World War). Soon Hannay has to flee from his pursuers and has to fight for his life while trying to reveal the cipher code that will uncover the plot.

The Thirty-Nine Steps is a suspense-filled thriller (the first of three by John Buchan) featuring Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and an astonishing habit of getting himself out of sticky circumstances.

The novel formed the basis for a number of film adaptations, notably Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 adaptation, a 1959 color remake, a more faithful 1978 version, and a 2008 version for British television.

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available from Amazon.com. ISBN: 978-1-920265-62-5

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:45:00 +0000

Seventeen year-old Catherine Morland goes to Bath for the season as the guest of family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen. Catherine is a naive girl who also has an overactive imagination, which is further magnified by her obsession with gothic literature.

She is captivated by Henry Tilney with his views on literature and his knowledge of history and the world. Henry's father, General Tilney, invites Catherine to visit their estate, Northanger Abbey.

Because of her interest in gothic literature, Catherine expects Northanger Abbey to be ancient, dark and full of fantastical mystery. She soon starts to imagine several gruesome secrets regarding the General and his house, but eventually she discovers that she cannot interpret the world through the pages of lurid thrillers.

Will it be too late to regain the General's trust and save her romance with Henry?

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available from Amazon.com. ISBN: 978-1-920265-61-8

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:40:00 +0000

A humorous portrayal of the social atmosphere of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England, Pride and Prejudice deals with the intelligent, but high-spirited Elizabeth Bennet who endeavors to stay true to her ideals while her dim-witted, meddlesome mother plots to see all five her vivacious daughters married and to secure her family's destiny.

Twists and shocking revelations await Elizabeth who has to choose between the dashing Mr. Wickham and the aristocratic, but proud and aloof Mr. Darcy.

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available from Amazon.com. ISBN: 978-1-920265-60-1

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:35:00 +0000

Sense and Sensibility is the classic first novel by Jane Austen about the lives of the sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood.

After the death of the sisters' father, the estate passes to their older half-brother named John. The sisters are left in reduced circumstances and they have to move to a new home, a cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience both romance and heartbreak.

The story describes how the two Dashwood sisters, who have contrasting temperaments, both have to find a balance between sense and sensibility in life and love.

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available from Amazon.com. ISBN: 978-1-920265-59-5

Love Among the Chickens by P. G. Wodehouse

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:24:00 +0000

A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm.

After seeing his friend Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge for the first time in years, author Jeremy Garnet is dragged along on holiday to Ukridge's new chicken farm in Dorset.

Hilarious situations abound with Garnet's troublesome courting of a girl living nearby and the struggles on the farm, which are worsened by Ukridge's bizarre business ideas and methods.

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available from Amazon.com. ISBN: 978-1-920265-58-8

A Rip Van Winkle of the Kalahari by Frederick Cornell

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:55:00 +0000

Seven Tales of South-West Africa

First published in 1915, these seven stories exemplify the beautiful, but arid and treacherous area that forms part of the Kalahari Desert in South Africa and Namibia (then South-West Africa).

Most of these stories were written on the veldt; at odd times, in out- of-the-way prospecting camps, or in the wilds of the Kalahari Desert. They bring us reminiscences of a long-forgotten era and of a variety of fascinating characters and dangerous animals that roamed this area.

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available from Amazon.com. ISBN: 978-1-920265-56-4

The Man-eaters of Tsavo by J. H. Patterson

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:49:00 +0000

And Other East African Adventures

In 1898, the British East Africa Company commissioned Col. John H. Patterson to oversee the construction of a railway bridge over the Tsavo River in present-day Kenya. Almost immediately after his arrival, lion attacks started to take place on the workers, with the lions dragging men out of their tents at night and feeding on their victims.

Despite taking various measures to curb the attacks, they escalated dramatically, and eventually the bridge construction stopped due to a mass exodus of the workers. The superstitious workers became increasingly hostile and many of them were certain that the lions were evil spirits who came to punish the bridge builders.

With his reputation, livelihood and personal safety at stake, Patterson realized that he had to deal with the crisis in the only way he knew how - hunt the man-eaters down and kill them. This true story was the basis for 3 films; The Ghost and the Darkness (1996), starring Val Kilmer as Patterson, being the latest.

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available from Amazon.com. ISBN: 978-1-920265-57-1