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Storm Frost
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99There exists an Anglo-Saxon manuscript, where we hear of an outcast wife, a husband, his messenger, a lover and a baby. Merge these tales with what we know of the royal family buried at Sutton Hoo in East Anglia, including Raedwald and his brother, Eni, living at the end of the 6th century AD.They believe in the old gods, like Woden, and have not yet encountered Christianity. Their culture is vibrant, exciting, terrifying in its cruelty, and uninhibited in its morality. Travel from the East Anglian fenlands, over northern moors to the remote Northumbrian river where the story reaches its climax. Along the way, discover life in a royal hall or a hovel; cure wounds or inflict them; share a feast or scrape a meal; work fertility charms or protect your folk from evil. Here is a tale of love and betrayal, courage and fear. Niartha, the fictional heroine, outcast from her people, encounters hardship, abuse and loss as she seeks her exiled lover; her survival depends on her practical skills, unexpected in a king’s daughter. In their desires and social lives, Anglo-Saxons, although separated from us by fourteen hundred years, are not so very alien, after all.
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Wedding Planning Guide, A Brides Work Book
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99Tanya Porter her experience as a wedding coordinator to produce thus resource for brides, grooms, parents, and other wedding planners/coordinators. If the steps are followed, anyone can plan a beautiful event with less stress and expense. Now retired from coordinating weddings, she still does consulting.
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The Sweetie Jar
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99This book is targeted primarily at younger children, but will certainly be enjoyed by older ones as well, and even parents and guardians alike.
This is a book to which most children could relate, in that, sweets, sweeties or candies – by whichever name they are known – are well liked by children the world over.
As they read the story, or, in some instances, the story is read to them, their imagination will come alive as they see their favourite sweets come to life as they speak from within the sweetie jar.
This book is vividly creative, and one that every child would enjoy and treasure.
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D is for Dog: An Easy Guide to Veterinary Care for Dogs
Price range: $3.99 through $25.99D is for Dog is just the book for you and your family. Whether you are a new dog owner, have children you would like to introduce to a new pet, a student seeking information on dog care, or a longtime pet owner, this book has basic information about dog and puppy care that is in an easy-to-understand format with colorful illustrations to make the information interesting and engaging.
Topics to include:
•bringing a pet home
•supplies for dogs and puppies
•vaccines and dog diseases
•spaying and neutering
•pregnancy in dogs
•dental care
•nutrition
•behavior issues
•arthritis
•testing for dogs
•finding lost pets
•and more
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Metamorphosis of a Young Maiden
Price range: $9.99 through $18.99From December 1969 until June 1970, Dr. Wm. Patric Leedom’s love interest, Shelley, allowed herself to go through major changes-from a naïve, shy recluse who never considered sex in relation to herself, to a more sophisticated young woman trusting another for the first time, feeling completed and totally loved for the first time. Metamorphosis of a Young Maiden is a collection of love letters between the two from 47 years ago. It is a powerful example of two lovers going deep into life and making themselves vulnerable to each other as they build toward an intense relationship. We should all remember to take risks with our partners and be encouraged to seek the deeper meanings and experiences that life can offer.
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Scrutineer’s Wake: Discovery in D.C.
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99For Jalen Harkness, the challenges of a new and bullied student provides a teaching challenge which threatens his own desire to develop and grow as a historian.
James Gholson is a product of Fairmont High School in the D.C. metro area. He has served as clarinetist with the U.S Navy Band, Professor of Clarinet at the University of Memphis, and Principal Clarinetist with the Memphis Symphony. Currently, he is a board member with the Eroica Ensemble of Memphis and performs with that group. He has authored Feets, Tight, Reading Rampage, and The Seasoned Clarinetist.
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The Wonderments of Life
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99The Wonderment of Life connects spirituality, political thoughts, and coming of life as a young man and woman experience it in this world with the promise that there is more; a return to The Source. This man faces an athletic endeavor and gradually seeks a life of service in politics. The woman dedicates her life to loving her husband, her family, and giving back to the homelessness issue. This book is about the wonderment of life.
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Don’t Quit, Don’t Cry!
Price range: $3.99 through $25.99Don’t Quit! Don’t Cry! is a Canadian’s gripping life story.
August 1967: Canada celebrates its centennial; Jacques R. Roy studies African history and Kiswahili in Montréal. With a deep sense of justice, freedom, and liberty, Jacques joins CUSO as a teacher and leaves for Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Jacques meets Dr. Agostinho Neto, President and Founder of the MPLA (People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola). Dr. Neto needs radio links. Jacques can solve this problem. All of this will require complete secrecy.
April 1968: Dr. Neto invites Jacques to the eastern Angolan front. He likes the radio results and sends Roy to mobilize Canadian public opinion.
• 1970: South Africa’s ANC external leaders Hani and Mbeki ask Jacques to create a spy unit. Cover: a love story with missions worthy of James Bond and Indiana Jones.
• 1974: Jacques brings Dr. Neto to Ottawa’s parliamentary committee. Dr. Neto asks for liberation for six nations from minority rule.
• November 11, 1975: Independence. CIA steps in.
• 1998: Unstoppable, Roy goes back to Angola. Mission: Stop the civil war. The plan: Follow the blood diamonds.
• Results: Canada’s UN Ambassador Robert Fowler visits Africa, writes the Fowler Report. The UN imposes sanctions and blood diamond funds dry up.
• April 2002: civil war ends.
• 2008: Veterans of Angola Liberation (LIVEGA) induct Jacques Roy, card number 00A.
WE… RECOGNIZE JACQUES ROY… A DIPLOMAT, AN EDUCATOR A PRACTICAL MAN, SENSITIVE, WOLRD VISION, INTERNATIONALIST… JACQUES IS OUR FRIEND AND ALWAYS WELCOMED IN ANGOLA AGOSTINHO NETO PRESIDENT REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA 1975
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Playing Hurt
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99BRIAN is playing his last high school football game. When he gets hurt, the coach tells him he must stay in the game since there isn’t anyone to replace him. Brian is worried about his future and his love for DEANIE, a beautiful cheerleader.
After the game, trouble develops when BILL, Deanie’s old boyfriend returns to town. Brian is distracted by e beer party and mischief with the rival school. Deanie is with her girlfriends when Bill appears. Deanie is coerced into his car and forced to have sex. Deanie doesn’t tell Brian. Bill leaves town, promising to return in the spring.
In February, Deanie tells Brian she is four months pregnant. Brian counts the months back and suspects that Bill might be the father. Deanie confesses and Brian is devastated. When Bill returns, Brian lures him out of town. Bill is severely beaten, but when Brian’s back is turned, Bill manages to get into his car and grab his pistol. Brian is shot in the arm. With the barrel pressed against Brian’s head, Bill blurts out that he had sex with Deanie many times. Suddenly there is another shot, but this time a bullet slams into Bill’s chest. Deanie is holding Brian’s rifle. Bill dies at the hospital.
In the summer, Deanie gives birth to a baby with dark hair and eyes like Bill’s. Heartbroken, Brian enlists in the army. Aboard the bus, he agonizes over leaving Deanie. Alone and afraid, he slumps back in the seat. Then, he remembers what his coach said about playing hurt, and he realizes that he must go on, even if it does hurt.
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The Businesswoman Edition 1
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Businesswoman is a story about success and talented women. This story is based on the success of an oriental woman living in Washington. She inherited a small fortune and treble her fortune in a few years. She has to fight the persistent crime triads that try to steal her fortune and valuables. She has questions about her sexuality. She wonders if she is gay, but she ends up falling for her Italian dancing teacher. She also has a secret, and she will reveal it to her personal assistant and to her dancing teacher (now her lover), in due time. Wait and read the rest of the story. It’s an amazing story of an oriental feminist businesswoman that shows woman power.
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Global Warming: All You Need To Know
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99This is the third book Wilfred Candler has self-published on the problem of Global Warming and the first on the associated issues of our running out of Non-Renewable Natural Resources. These problems will lead us back to the lifestyle we enjoyed before 1750, with or without electricity. As discussed in his book, Wilfred argues that although there is popular agitation to reduce the use of fossil fuels, there is no widespread awareness of the severity of the crisis. In 1750 (and before), the world supported less than a billion people (much less in previous centuries), with horse-drawn transport, little international trade, and no electricity.
People are still promoting a switch to wind and solar electricity generation, seemingly unaware that this only provides intermittent power (think a dark, windless night) when cheaper, permanent, and continuous molten salt nuclear power is available.
Although this book does not have suggestions for how we are to go from eight to one billion people, it does make the case that this is a problem that needs to be addressed.
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Helen Gordon: the Woman Behind the Greensheet
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99In 1969, Helen Gordon moved to Houston with her new husband, Robert DeYoung. A no-nonsense, pragmatic mother of three with the heart of a musician and the soul of a painter, Helen was determined to be her own boss by owning and operating her own company. It didn’t take her long to find success. Helen started the Greensheet, a free advertising tabloid with classified ads and a list of business services, in 1970. Within eight years, she expanded it to five Texas cities without the help of bank loans. But she lived in a good of boy atmosphere, in which long lunches over dry martinis were the norm and women were generally absent from the boardroom.
Even so, Helen was undeterred. She was determined to build a company that would prosper, and prosper it did. By 2012, the Greensheet had grown to a circulation of 650,000 and appeared within four Texas cities. Today, her company is a household name and continues to be one of the most successful classified tabloids in the state.
Her irrepressible optimism, sense of humor, and vivacious personality served her well in her personal and professional life. As told by her daughter, Rebecca, Helen Gordon: Th c Woman Behind the Greensheet is Helen’s inspiring true story.
Rebecca G. Blakeley worked for the Greensheet and Gordon Flowers with her mother for more than twenty-nine years. She is currently retired and works as a volunteer in the Houston community.