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Sin: Walk of Shame
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99SIN; WALK OF SHAME is a story that I created as an adolescent about the Seven Deadly Sins and the people in Hell who must find the Seven Heavenly Virtues in order to escape slavery by the Sins. Their journey through the various parts of Hell in their enslavement to SIN and see the workings of all of the Sins as well as the Virtues against the Sins. This story is a precursor to other stories that I have created and hope to spread a message with, as well. I hope that the stories I create are influential to those who read them.
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Friction and Fantasy: Opening Pandora’s Box
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Human sexuality resists simple or facile evaluations and no generalization can do justice to the vast inventory of sexual feelings, practices, or behaviors. Our sexuality is not only a source of joy, wonderment, emotional release, and happiness, but also of frustration, revenge, intimidation, and deadly power. Coming to grips with our sexuality is no easy task, for our attempts to understand ourselves, to distinguish between reality and illusion, are mired in mythologies of the past, misinformation, moral and religious imperatives, lack of scientific knowledge, and wishful thinking. By tracing the development of our understanding Friction and Fantasy: Opening Pandora’s Box presents a historically informed way of trying to make sense of one of the most emblematic aspects of our humanity. Beginning with the seemingly simple query what is sex, Friction and Fantasy: Opening Pandora’s Box provides for the general reader a wide ranging exploration of the complexities and mysteries of our multidimensional sexual universe – sexual fantasies, why we have sex, the mythologies of our sexual anatomy, love, sexual desire and arousal, orgasm in females and males, the taboo subject of solitary sex, the controversies regarding erotic preference and gender diversity, unusual sexual practices, sexual violence (rape, pedophilia and child sexual abuse), and the dilemmas of sexual discontent. Blending scientific and historical perspectives with literary commentaries, Friction and Fantasy: Opening Pandora’s Box offers a wealth of information not easily available to the general reader in a stimulating and thought-provoking manner.
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Becoming Female and Male: Our Extraordinary and Perilous Journey
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Becoming Female and Male: Our Extraordinary and Perilous Journey focuses on critical aspects in the development and biology of our reproductive system. A wealth of information not readily available to the general reader is complemented with a rich assortment of historical perspectives and commentaries. It begins with the amazingly complex, seemingly miraculous processed that lead to the formation of eggs and sperm, follows the fetal development of the genital tissues, the post-pubertal reproductive functions of females and males, the pubertal transition, and finally our reproductive twilight. The next section focuses on fertilization and implantation, birth and lactation, and exciting new studies relating the origins of chronic adult diseases to our pre-birth environment in the womb. The third section covers pregnancy loss and birth defects, while the final section reviews birth control methods, the causes of infertility and the new growth industry – assisted reproduction. In addition, three appendices supplement the main text and provide more detailed information about sex chromosomes, mutations, hormonal integrations of the reproductive system, and disorders of sexual development.
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Freedom, A Call To Healing
Price range: $4.99 through $13.99In the history of America, other human beings seem to get the empathy to mourn and build memorials after a trauma occurs in their lives-except the black race. We had a trauma in the Western Hemisphere that lasted over four hundred years. Yet, after slavery and segregation, our people were expected to pick up the pieces of life and move on. We were expected to live in self-denial as if the scars we were carrying never happened. The statistics are heartbreaking. One in three black males can expect to spend time in prison. One in one hundred black women are in prison. The high school graduation rate for black males is under fifty percent. Fifty-four percent of black children are raised by single mothers. These tragedies have not occurred by chance. Thus, Jason Panton points out that the most important component is hope. This hope is the hope of redemption offered by a loving and merciful God. He is not a God who visits with us for a few hours on Sunday morning, nor a God to be called upon only in times of distress. He is a God who eagerly awaits a personal and constant relationship with every individual. The Bible is clear that Jesus Christ has a tender heart for the oppressed, the despised, the broken hearted, the hopeless, and the outcast, and His heart is unchangeable. “Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even unto the sure mercies of David” (Is 55:3).
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The Lady In The Movies
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99The story opens with Sam Ryan and his move to his new office in North Hollywood. The case deals with a woman that has been missing from her husband for two decades. She began as an actress that got her start in the movies in nineteen-fifty-eight. She was involved in a scandal back then that made the headlines. She had to go into hiding without telling her husband. In the movie, she portrayed one woman in the all-women band in the movie ‘Some Like It Hot.’ Sam has some issues with his girlfriend, Kathy, who was injured while helping in his last case. In the end, everything is solved and resolved.
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Nightmares
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Nightmares will keep you wanting to read more. If you never truly understood what a soldier went thru during the Vietnam war, this will give you a good idea. This is about a unit of the 9th Infantry Division. The unit goes on patrol looking for Viet Cong or NVA regulars. They are put under fire and lost members while out. They learned to survive both mentally and physically, as death on both sides of the war could happen at any moment. Yes, it is a fiction! The names were also changed, but it is based on facts. You will go on patrol with these young men, age range of 18-24, as they become exposed to the horrors of war. Their lives were changed forever, then returned home to supposedly forget it. I lost many friends who became Brothers in Vietnam. Some were shot, some were taken by booby traps, now called IED’s. We continue dying now due to age and exposure to Agent Orange since returning home. Agent Orange (is a blanket term for 15 chemicals used as a defoliant) a large variety of illnesses such as various cancers, diabetes and many more deadly diseases are a side effect of our exposure.
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The Fire Club: A dangerously humorous journey with a regular crew of irregular firefighters.
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Cole Walker, an inexperienced fire captain, is cruelly baptized into fire life when he is ripped from his air-conditioned desk job and plunged into the command of an obstinate crew of four mischievous firefighters. Walker’s book-smarts do not prepare him for tumultuous firehouse life, or the vivid horrors of his dangerous profession.
Cole Walker finally realizes his life-long dream when he is promoted to fire captain, and takes the place of a highly respected, veteran captain. Ironically, Walker has never held a command nor even worked in a firehouse! His entire career has been safely sheltered behind the insular walls of headquarters. Rookie Captain Cole Walker painfully discovers he must lead his rebellious firefighters through predicaments he’d never experienced before. In his cathartic journey to prove himself as a worthy field captain, Walker discovers that he must fight more than fire.
His firefighters despise him for his lack of experience, they quarrel and plague him with vicious pranks. A rival captain and nefarious mayor torment Walker through public humiliation, while a mirthful young coed from the ladies Auxiliary sparks a contentious rivalry. In between station conflicts, Walker and crew are deluged with deadly fires and agonizing rescues. Walker and his firefighters struggle to survive the volatile incidents that assail them from both inside and outside the firehouse.
Amid the dangers and persistent firehouse hazing, Walker must allay firefighter rivalries, survive career sabotage, mend broken people, and make command decisions that could easily kill himself and his crew.
Based on Real Events
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Captain Jack Goes North To Alaska
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Captain Jack is an old geezer who creates the life he hopes to live before he dies. He is generous to a fault, bribes his family, his employees and their proposed marriage partners to go north, convert to Christianity, and join and eventually own his newly acquired business shipping freight among the islands of Alaska. He is a successful author, an accomplished craftsman, a builder and a man whose hard work, courage, generosity and greatly inflated self-image impacts an Indian village, a town, assorted small businesses and three generations of his family. With plenty of time to spare before he kicks it, the bucket is emptied.
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Turning Points: How Deception Steals Freedoms
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Ever wonder what is happening to our country? In Turning Points; Terry W. Bettis, takes you through the history of this country, looking at how through the years our Republic has had its ups and downs. As you read, you will learn about things that have given life to this country, as well as things that have drained the life from it. You will discover things that you thought were a blessing to this country, only to find that in fact, they are destroying our freedoms, and our Constitution, turning our country from one filled with God’s blessing to one of slavery. Discover those things which are causing our Republic to fade completely away. The United States was founded on Christian principals, though far from perfect, it has been blessed by God because we had put Him first. Being attacked on many fronts God is being pushed out the door of America. We are seeing the results. In Turning Points, you will learn how this is happening, plus the effect it is having on our country, churches, families and the future generations, yet to be born. It is a deep desire of Terry’s to awaken the American people to what is happening to our beloved United States. You will learn and be blessed with this book as well as with, Terry’s first book, Guards at the Gate hopefully finding understand about what our country is experiencing and what we are leaving for our children and grandchildren.
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My Journey To Spiritual Restoration
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Gurmay had a rough start in life. At three months old, she was poisoned by her 12-year old cousin. Burned and unable to swallow, she was in intensive care for several months, then discharged with a grim prognosis. But Gurmay survived, only to be raped at 4 years-old, violated as a teenager, experienced domestic violence, plus a variety of serous medical conditions and the removal of a large and extremely rare tumor. With the help of God, the Author and Finisher of her faith, she was able to embrace the experiences that shaped her and began her spiritual restoration. Now, you experience your own journey to spiritual restoration, and receive the radiance of God’s anointing in, on, and through your life.
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When Half Of Your Heart Dies
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99This is a story of a loving, christian mother who has suff ered the greatest loss of all ; the loss of her child. Her youngest son Darian was shot and killed as he and friends were leaving a social club in the city of Buff alo, New York. She was the product of God-fearing parents who taught her about the love of God and the power of prayer at an early age. Despite her upbringing, and the spiritual teachings of her parents, she began to falter in her faith and became angry at God for allowing the death of her son. Th is is a poignant account of a mother with a broken heart and her strugg le to remain faithful through it all while also praying for closure through the capture of her sons’ killer.
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Little “d” Deacons
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99The tittle to this book may be surprising to many! For most active Church going folks, we normally associate the word deacon to a well-respected beloved individual. We usually would associate the word deacon as an honorary title. Over many years since the formation of deacons in the Book of Acts the word deacon stopped being a descriptor of the job of deacon and increasing became a title, much like aristocratic England. This is an intentional analogy. This was not the case in the early Church. Sadly, many deacons have become titled men rather than servant men. This tittle book is simplified call for God’s deacons to rise and discard the title of Deacon and return to the Biblical mandate for deacons. And by their good works establish a framework for God’s Revival Fire.
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Time of Trial
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Exploring the pernicious underpinnings of the medical malpractice industry, Time of Trial is a novel that chronicles one doctor’s struggle to defend himself against an unjust malpractice suit. Employing the protagonist as narrator adds a personal tone to the narrative. Early one morning in a Vermont emergency room, Martin Wennar dies of cardiac arrest despite the best efforts of the staff to save him. Having suffered from senile dementia and the frequent falls that accompanied the condition, no one is surprised when the seventy-year-old man passes away. His primary care physician, Jon Ziebaska, is very surprised, however, when he receives word that Martin’s wife, Kathy, is suing him for malpractice. Initially confident, Jon reviews the patient’s records and believes nothing even remotely questionable occurred during the care of his patient. Yet forces beyond his comprehension are at work. To make matters worse, Cassy, Jon’s beautiful and loving wife of several decades, is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and begins to slowly slip away from him. Ultimately, Time of Trial critiques the legal and medical professions for their involvement in an industry that in the end helps no one.
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The Healing Touch
$13.99Many couples wish for the type of marriage Adam and Eve had, but their chances of achieving that relationship are minimized when they don’t have the necessary tools to get there.
Dave Bennett’s The Healing Touch not only promises a paradisiacal marriage, such as Adam and Eve had in the beginning, but also provides the tools to get there. He shares how two people can grow in Christ together. Bennett provides the scriptural means for sustaining the relationship and the know-how to resolve issues so the relationship can continue to grow in social, emotional, and spiritual intimacy and in the richness of life skills.
It is essential for all of us to learn how to truly walk with God in intimacy on a daily basis. The Healing Touch shows it is this ongoing intimacy that enables us to relate to our spouses with the unconditional love of agape and an uncommon commitment all of us need. Loving each other becomes fun, spiritual, and emotionally and physically intimate. It never gets old.
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Streams of Living Water: Lectionary Devotional for Cycle B
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99STREAMS OF LIVING WATER
In addition to offering theological reflections on each of the lectionary passages in Year B, the author also offers five formats for prayer. A pastor or active lay member could make use of this material on retreat. This volume provides a pastor with a disciplined way of opening oneself to the Spirit in preparation for each Sunday’s worship. Active church members will find this volume an excellent way of listening more deeply during each Sunday’s worship or for small group study that is connected to the weekly worship experience.
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HoneyBee TreeHouse
$13.95“Nina Kelly’s Book, HoneyBee TreeHouse, successfully introduces children to the importance of bees and the role they play in nature’s sustainability. The book demonstrates the power and success when the children unite together. A delightful and educational book for anyone’s library”.
–Jack Canfield, Co-Author of the New York Time’s Best Selling book Chicken Soup for the Soul series and The Success Principles.
“Nina M. Kelly shares the story of a young girl who learns to appreciate the great outdoors for all that it has to offer and discovers how to advocate for her new friends, the honeybees. Educational and heartwarming, HoneyBee TreeHouse is a must for any parent or educator seeking to teach children environmental stewardship”
-Miriam Laundry, Author & Founder of Miriam Laundry Publishing
“Nina M. Kelly captivates readers through her educational and creative prose in HoneyBee TreeHouse. Each page invites you to join the adventure of a curious young girl as she overcomes her fear and discovers the important work of Honeybees. The beautifully illustrated gardens sparks the imagination of both young and old.”
-Mary Bauswell, Art Therapist
“Do you know that the honey you eat begins with a dance?
But bees don’t just make honey. In this beautiful book, children discover wondrous facts about these little creatures who we depend on for most of the food that keeps us healthy.”
-Sabiha Rumani Malik, founder, The World Bee Project