Business Tax Essentials for the Entrepreneur provides a thorough understanding of how the United States tax system works and the major tax issues that confront business owners. Many businesspeople assume tax rules are so complicated that they won’t even know when they have a problem, or if their actions will achieve the desired results. This book is directed at people contemplating starting a business and those wanting to get clarity on tax rules and to take better control of their tax obligations. Each chapter of this book covers a separate topic relating to business taxation and is designed to take less than one hour to read and digest.

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Paperbacks available from the author through davidalancpa.com

Come Journey With Me

“When people think about Iowa, they picture flat ground and cornfields as far as the eye can see. Well, that stock image is true. No one grows corn like Iowa. But it’s only half of the picture. If you live at the far eastern part, along the Mississippi River, the land has an altogether different look. This is the area where I was born and raised and lived for the majority of my life. On that side of the state, there are bluffs and trees of every shade of green imaginable. In the fall, there is no more beautiful place than along a river in the Midwest. The leaves change from green to gold and red and all shades in-between, and when you are lucky enough to drive along and find a bluff covered with them or a lake where they reflect off of the water, it is truly breathtaking.” – Connie Hildebrand.

Come Journey With Me is a collection of brutally honest short stories told with self-deprecating wit, that span the years of her youth in Iowa, nursing school in St. Louis, marriage to Don and a move to Colorado, then their return to Iowa where she lived, worked as a registered nurse, restored a hundred-year-old farmhouse, and raised her three children — Gina, Russell, and Charles. After Don’s death, Connie began a new life in Newport, Oregon, a queen who lived happily ever after in a land that was far, far away from her first home.

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Paperbacks are available from the author at connieh@actionnet.net

I Love You Today

John F. Dresen began writing poetry a few months after the death of his beloved wife Phyllis. At first, he tried to write of his loss, but soon found solace in writing to his bride as though he were speaking to her as they had done during their twenty-nine years of marriage. With his characteristic wry humor, John writes, “I can just see St. Peter saying, ‘Phyllis, you’ve got mail!’ “

He sits at his computer and types in a title, and soon finds a poem. He looks around to see who’s written that, but it has come from deep within him. “When I concentrate on the love, it instills a peace that is hard to describe. We were a couple. We are a couple… I love you today.”

 Paperbacks available from the author through tawkpress.com

Rumi & Lily: An Internet Love Story

This is a completely true internet love story, except dogs don’t type.

Once upon a time, some women on the Internet were discussing gender differences. Jean wrote, “Women apologize too much. I even apologize to my dog.”

Someone else on the list asked, “What did you do to your dog?”

Penelope wrote, “She probably stepped on him. Because dogs want to be exactly where you are.” And she signed it—Penelope (owned by Lily), because dog-people are owned by their dogs.

Jean posted a response. “Hey, he’s a guy. I’m the one who wants to be closer to him.”

And then A WONDERFUL THING happened! Jean’s dog, Rumi, sent an email to Penelope’s dog, Lily.

Read on to see what came next….

Paperbacks available from the author: penelopeschott@comcast.net

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Breaking Free

As a woman approaching her middle years, Janet Ballenger was content as a wife and mother, until the women’s movement of the 1960s brings a sense of excitement and wonder into her life. Although she’s older, and on the fringe of these years, she watches her daughters take advantage of this new society through education and business, while enjoying the freedom to be on an equal level with men. Her husband, Martin Ballenger, is unable to accept this generational change. When his daughter, Mavis, marries a non-Jew, and Janet takes a job as a real-estate agent without his approval, he allows himself to become consumed by his business as a way of coping.

Janet, in her eagerness for adventure, takes off to Paris with a friend and soon discovers that other women are also questioning their life experiences in this new world of free thought. When two clients mention their interest in the purchase of second homes in Israel, Janet agrees to make the trip to see firsthand what is available. She had planned to be gone only a few days, but she extends the visit each time she phones home. Unexpectedly, those weeks abroad open up emotions that cause her to make a daring decision with little thought to possible consequences.

(excerpt from Prologue)

“Martin Ballenger drummed his fingers on the kitchen table as he drank his morning coffee and tried to concentrate on the front page of the Chicago Tribune. He had thought about this trip to the airport for days, looking forward to it and dreading it at the same time. He wondered if his wife was actually returning home today, or would he sit up there in the arrival lounge watching and searching the faces, but not see her among the throngs of passengers pouring into the baggage area. She had called several times and kept extending her trip, and now he wasn’t sure if today’s plans were definite. Something was going on that obviously he knew nothing about. His wife, Janet Ballenger, had gone off to Israel weeks ago in search of vacation homes for two of her clients. She had planned to be gone for only a few days. But the days turned into a week, then several weeks. He was convinced she had changed in that short span. He sensed it in her voice. He felt it in the pit of his stomach.”

Another book by this author is “Deadly Prayers” by Pascal Littman.

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The Zoo:

My story is not about war, but about young men in the Army having fun playing war games and traveling while stationed in Germany during the Cold War—a time when the Viet Nam War was starting up on another continent. This is a true story and I have not changed names to protect anyone unless I could not remember a name, and in those cases, I just made one up to fit the circumstances.

The name of the book, The Zoo, comes from the twelve-man bay I lived in. One might say it had some reference to the animals that lived there, but we were all proud to be Zoo members. I start at end of the story and end it at the same place.

Paperback copies of The Zoo are available direct from the author: winjo1@winfinity.com

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Riva Beside Me: New York City 1963-1966

Riva’s guardian angel is a wisecracking cynic who would rather be anywhere than imprisoned in Riva’s body. But assignments are not negotiable. The place is New York City. The time: Spring 1963.

The story of Riva Beside Me is told by the guardian angel, the spirit who shows up in response to Riva’s call: “If I don’t find someone or something to love, I will die.”

Scenes take place at the Museum of Natural History, Horn & Hardart, Chock Full O’Nuts, in subways, at Columbia University, on the Staten Island Ferry, in Greenwich Village, Chinatown, Grand Central Station, at the Fuji Bank on Wall Street, and the Alice in Wonderland statue in Central Park. The music of the era pervades the book.

Paperback copies are available direct from the author by sending a check to:
Carla Perry, P.O. Box 832, Newport, OR 97365
Email: carla@dancingmoonpress.com
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Kalamazoo: A Fictional Ramble through Musical History

Nicholas Holmes is a roots style singer/songwriter who lives in Eugene, Oregon, with his wife Roxanna, who is also a musician. They enjoy fiddling around together.

Also a sculptor, potter and artist, Nicholas delights in the joy of creativity. This is his first foray into writing and he picked the musical, historical genre because he is so comfortable with it. He has many instruments, but his favorite is the 1938 Gibson-built Kalamazoo that inspired this story.

Kalamazoo is available direct from the author: kniknik@msn.com.

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Check out these titles on your Kindle, Nook or iPad:

The Brooch - The dark pink, multifaceted, sapphire brooch sparkles in the window of the pawn shop in Portland, Oregon. Franklin Adams is intrigued, not only by its beauty, but by the irresistible pull that draws him into the shop.

Greatest Hits: 60 Years of Lookin - Greatest Hits: 60 Years of Lookin offers a panoramic view of life from birth through death with all its attendant triumph and tragedy.

Coldspring - In the early 1700s, a Seneca Indian brutally murdered two of his own tribe – the woman he loved and the man who had won her heart.

—Mary Slocum