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1979 in the tiny English village of Little Saddlington where local auctioneers Rubicon & Shipley find their next auction has been mysteriously publicised around the world causing thousands of people to descend upon it, many to find their lives become changed through the extraordinary occurrences created by The Great Convergence .

Major George Roberts lives in a cottage on a stretch of salmon river next to Little Saddlington. Still wracked by nightmares of the defeat and slaughter of his men during world war two the Major has been fighting a twelve year running battle with his landlord Geoffrey Rawlston, who has unsuccessfully tried everything possible to force the Major out of the cottage. Now that the Major cannot afford to renew his lease Rawlston will finally get the cottage and salmon fishings back, forcing the Major to move to a retirement home.

All over the world people are making plans to come to what has been advertised as a very important auction. General Chuck Verbeer from America, an Arab Sheikh from the Ahram desert, Bill Boyd from Australia and Hiroyuki Takada from Japan arrive along with thousands of people who overwhelm the tiny village.

The villagers and crowds of visitors become embroiled in chaotic scenes throughout the six day auction, but in amongst the chaos there is much more going on than meets the eye and in the end there is a very different outcome for the auctioneer and his silent backer than the one they were expecting as there is for almost everyone involved, including the Crow that was a Rook

Book Excerpt:

The daggers came even closer.

But you would be welcome in my home for no payment at all, as are all the peoples who wander upon the earth. What is the price?

I can t, I mean, really, you must understand

Silence We shall not wait longer for I can see that you are a difficult man. As you will not give us the price the Sheikh snapped his fingers and the one who was not the Religious One produced a flat bag from within his robes and handed it to him without moving his eyes from Rawlston or removing the dagger from his face.

The Sheikh produced a fistful of money from the bag.

This is what we offer to stay in your house

Rawlston looked in amazement at the large wad of notes in the Sheikh s hand.

Take it or we go

A shaken Geoffrey Rawlston took the money and the Arabs walked past him into the hallway and on into the lounge. He ran after them.

But don t you want to count what you ve just given me?

The Sheikh made a dismissive gesture.

We would like to eat now.

Eat?

Yes, you do eat I suppose?

Rawlston nodded dumbly.

Well have you any lamb?

Lamb?

Yes, it is a small sheep.

Oh, lamb Yes, I ll get some lamb You just hang on here and I ll organise some food

The Sheikh sighed.

Rawlston s brain had finally overcome the shock and shifted into gear as he realised how valuable these guests of his might be considering the large amount of money they had just furnished him with.

Good, we will look to establish ourselves in your house, find our places to sleep and await your call to dine.

Dine? Yes, of course, I ll just be a little while your, er

He backed out of the room half bowing and left them to get his car and go shopping.

Book Contents:

The Plan

Little Saddlington

The Major

The Response

The Arab

The Aussie

The Yank

The Jap

The Cornishman

The Lancashire Lads

The Scotsman

Converging

Countdown

The Viewing Days

The Auction

Day Two

Day Three

Day Four

Day Five

The Great Day

Aftermath

Epilogue

Jess Miller's 'We're All In This Together' has helped many people get themselves through stressful and depressive periods in their lives.

Jess outlines how we gradually get battered down by the system of life we live under until we finally cave in and reach the darkness of depression, but that this is a normal place for human beings to find themselves in. After all each of us has a different level of resistance to stress so it's hardly surprising that many of us succumb to its battering and become depressed.

Once we're in the darkness though there are things that we can do for ourselves to help us find our way back to the light.

Jess gives you twelve easy yet powerful self-help therapies, his 'Neil Armstrongs' being one small step that becomes a giant leap away from the darkness of stress, tension, loneliness and depression.

These easy yet powerful self-help therapies get you to slow everything down that is going on in your life and do things for yourself whilst truly appreciating what you are doing. They stop you being reactive to the things that have made you stressed and depressed and you become proactive for yourself in simple ways that push the 'noise' going on in your life away so you can enter a period of calm in which your mind and body can start to mend.

For people who are all up and together, rushing through their lives utterly convinced they are living the right way these therapies may seem trivial, but for someone who is hurting in the darkness of depression and whose life has become surreal they are of real value.

By understanding the stressful descent into depression, what it's like when you're there, how you've joined countless millions of human beings who go through this experience and the things you can do for yourself to help you find your way back to the light, you will be giving yourself every chance of making that journey and returning to a much happier life.

This book is not written for those suffering from bipolar or manic depression, although many of the symptoms and their effects are the same, rather it's for everyday people who are existing under extreme stress or feeling really down, giving them the proven therapies Jess used to bring himself back from the darkness.

Book excerpt:

NEIL ARMSTRONG 2 THOUGHTLESSNESS

'It is important for you to accept that you cannot do what you did before. You may be able to do those things again one day, but right now your fractured consciousness cannot take more than one small step at a time.

So here is another small step:

You do whatever it takes to find somewhere quiet to sit and relax undisturbed and then close your eyes and try to banish all thought from your mind so that you can simply drift in a panacea without a single, solitary thought entering your mind.

This is hard to do when you are in the darkness with your mind racing and careering around as a response to not being able to function properly and at first you might find this exercise nigh on impossible.

When I first tried to do this I was in the darkness and it was not two seconds before a thought entered my mind.

Today I can hold that drifting, thoughtless state for about as long as I want, which is interesting considering that for many years my teachers wrote on my school reports that this was precisely what I was brilliant at doing in class.

But if you are able to manage just a few seconds of thoughtlessness and then practice at extending that amount of time, you will find your consciousness thanks you for it.

It thanks you for not having to work at all, not having to continually process all those thoughts for the first time in years?

And you will feel the difference.

Go ahead and try it.

You are doing something that enables your consciousness to rest and believe me when I tell you that it needs to be rested more and more.....

In Book 2 of his 'How to Beat the Energy Thieves' series Jess Miller shows how your emotions can get into control of the energy you are and steal it away from you.

Anger and fear are two of the most powerful emotions that work against you by getting you to react to situations in ways that guarantee they take over your energy.

Using road rage as an example Jess lays out how this all consuming anger can change you from a usually placid person into someone you hardly recognise, as experienced by those who after coming under the influence of road rage feel remorse and shame once their anger subsides and can't believe they acted the way they did when road rage was controlling their energy.

Jess's advice: when a powerful emotion such as anger strikes immediately recognise what's going on, take a step back and think hard about whether you want to go down this potentially damaging road or stay in control of your energy so that you stop anger from hurting you and others.

Fear works on differing levels, some where you become totally terrified and some that work quietly away on deeper levels within you in the form of stress. The system we live under likes to wrap fear up in clever words such as: apprehension, concern, nervousness, self-doubt, worry, etc., but behind each of these words lies fear, so all of them are your enemies because they create stress that damages you within.

Your fears never help you, they only bring you down and once you learn how to master your fears, remove your energy from them and leave them behind you can change your life massively for the better.

Jess brings perspective to the problem that affects so many of us - eating far too much His answer lies in the ancient, closely guarded secret Formula for Life.

He also shows how people all around you in life, including those close to you, can be stealing your energy and dictating to you how you will be while you are here, which they have no right to do because it's your energy to manage, not theirs.

Do you understand why when you are suffering in the middle of a major problem someone who isn't involved can often shine a light into what seemed to be nothing but darkness? That's because the problem isn't consuming any of their energy, whereas it's stealing all of yours and that's why when you're in the middle of it you can't see your way out.

Most of us have experienced things that still live on in our past and keep hurting us in the present. These are traumas, some of which dull with times, but others just sit there and hurt us every day. Jess gives you the hugely powerful exercise he has used to help many people get the better of traumas that still hurt them.

In 'How to Beat the Energy Thieves and Make Your Life Better - Book2' Jess takes you further down the road to understanding how to manage and guard your great gift of energy, constantly bringing you unique perspectives to help you manage your energy in better ways so you can find your course through the daily minefield of Energy Thieves we all face.

Book Contents:

A New Beginning

Understanding Energy The System, The Great Reactionary, Honesty, The Question, Good and Evil, The Passing of Time.

Energy Thieves Within Your Emotions - Fear, T-Rex, The D-Words, Making Transition, Credo's Proverb, Loneliness, Big Event Nerves, Testing Yourself, Wherever I Hang My Hat, Giving Talks, Beating Fear, Anger, Think Thief , Hatred, Envy, Greed, Lying, Selfishness, Arguing, Stress.

Food - The New Bodies (NB's), Food's Secret Secret, The Mystery of the Line, The Mystery of the Other Line, Moby Dick , Taking Your Energy Back , That Nasty Little Feeling

Major Problems - Financial Wipe Out.

People - Energy Thieves in the People Around You.

How to Win - Becoming a Winner.

No Regrets

Managing Your Energy

Another 50 Ways to Help Someone

Jess Miller s powerful message that you have been created as energy, but that out there in our world are countless energy thieves such as alcohol, drugs and tobacco that are determined to steal your energy and divert you from your true path, breathes new life into the self-help world.

Energy thieves will do you just as much harm as they can so you are never able to find and live out your true purpose as a happy, fulfilled and satisfied being living a beneficial existence for you, those around you and the wider world in general.

Whatever you reach out to in life, whether it be alcohol, drugs, tobacco, bullying, stealing, gambling, gangs, knives or guns thinking they will somehow help you, make you feel better or more powerful, you need to understand the con being perpetrated against the very energy that you are, because these things will actually be doing precisely the opposite.

The con that is run by every great energy thief is to get you to be absolutely convinced that you are in control of it when all the time it has managed to get itself into control of you and the great gift of energy you have received.

This first book in the How to Beat the Energy Thieves series makes ideal reading for groups, families or people with reading difficulties or short attention spans. Formatted in a large font with short paragraphs and with many single sentences highlighted to bring their importance home to the reader this easily understood yet powerful message can help everyone, especially those whose lives are seriously hurting.

Having enjoyed many highs as well as travelling to some of the darkest and most daunting corners of existence Jess Miller has gained unique insights and perspectives on life through his experiences that are encapsulated in the message of help in his Energy Thieves series.

Excerpt from Book 1:

... Here s a scenario you might be familiar with:

Your day has been a total nightmare from the moment you got up. Everything has gone wrong. You ve argued with your family, friends and work colleagues. Your day s work has been nothing short of a catastrophe and you haven t had a second to catch your breath. Your job is under threat. You re in debt and running out of options and your partner has threatened to leave unless you sort it out. Your best friend just passed away. You got a speeding ticket on the way home after which your car broke down and you had to walk three miles back to your house in the pouring rain without a coat or umbrella. Finally you arrive back at your place soaking wet and miserable and, as you walk through the front door and cross the threshold, you need a drink.

Sound familiar?

So you head for where you keep it and open the door to your stash.

And there it is, the old familiar, your friend, the one you know will help you and is going to make you feel better .

You find the sight of the bottle, the weight and feel of it in your hand and the colours of the label and the liquid inside comforting and reassuring.

And you are absolutely positive that you are in total control of your energy and what you are doing.

But nothing could be further from the truth..

Book Contents:

A New Beginning

Understanding Energy The System, The Great Reactionary, Honesty, The Question, Good and Evil, The Passing of Time

Alcohol The Alcohol Exercise, Alcohol and Evil, The Henchman, The Energy Thief Alcohol, The Hangover, Get Real, How You Can Win, Do Not Engage, The Greatest Weapon of All, Helping Others, The Counter Attack

Tobacco The Energy Thief Tobacco

Bullying Change Yourself

Stealing

Gambling

Gangs The Gang, Gang Busters

Knives, Guns, Weapons

Your Circumstances

Where's The Thief?

The Garden of Energy Thieves

Managing Your Energy

50 Ways To Help Someone

Imagine the son of Cinderella and Noah. That's Alabaster Ash, professional window washer and amateur foot fetishist, thrall to his three physically fit, brutally aggressive stepsisters. After polishing foot after foot of glass in the gingerbread city of Candyland and cleaning up after the "wicked stairmasters," he haunts the bars and streets looking for love and appreciation-or a really nice pair of feet. Like it or not, Alabaster finds himself reliving and reimagining his parents' lives as he roams from bar to bar, from thrill ride to stunt show in the linguistic funland that is Ark.