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The Blood of A Young Man
$15.99This delightful story is about a young man growing up in an alcohol, drugs, and gang infested environment. Most of his young life he grew up living in a garage with four brothers and their mother. Their father died at the age of thirty-six, He was a WWII veteran and died at a VA medical facility on August 14, 1962. The young man was only thirteen years-of-age then. He’s a smart young man but learns to become tough for not only self-preservation, but to care for and set an example for his younger brothers, plus he didn’t want to disappoint his mother.
The young man goes through some tough trials and tribulations but ends up joining the U.S. Marine Corps on August 30, 1965. While there he participates in some of the toughest battles that went down in Marine Corps history. What is described here is gut-wrenching. He ends up spending two tours in Vietnam. The young man was also part of a patrol that caught two hard core north Vietnamese officers.
Upon release from active duty, he was so grateful to be alive that he wants to spend some time with his family and friends. He doesn’t realize it yet, that he is no longer the same. But like everything he did, he charges forward and takes a bus to downtown. He grabs a cab and off they go towards home. When they arrive at the corner of his street, he stops the cab and tells the cab driver, “I want to walk the rest of the way, because I want to saver every step of the way.”
The young man was release from active duty on August 27, 1968, and after visiting his family. He buys a brand-new car, just like he told his friends in Vietnam he would. After two tours in Vietnam, he had plenty of money saved up to do just that. He starts out looking for a job.
The first one he applies for hires him. It was one of the biggest merchants in the county. He is assigned to the shipping and receiving section of the company. After a few months in that department he learns that the girlfriend he had before he left to Vietnam was dating someone from the same department. He is stunned, he tells himself, of all the places on this planet he could’ve applied for work, how could he be working here with a guy who is dating his girlfriend, the girl he wanted to marry. From that moment forward things just don’t go the way he dreamed. Things began to deteriorate rapidly, decisions he made are not in his best interest. He makes many mistakes, but is determined to get his girl back and obtain a job he could support her and a family well. He tells you what he had to do to accomplish most of his dreams. Be prepared to be taken on a roller-coaster ride of emotions.
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The Blossoming of the World: Essays and Images
$13.99In The Blossoming of the World, Brian H. Peterson-author of the critically acclaimed The Smile at the Heart of Things-picks up both pen and camera and journeys to the deep end of life. Along the way he confronts some painful contradictions-beauty and violence, love and grief-and reflects on illness, family, death, dreams, ephiphanies, and the birth of self-awareness.
More storyteller than philosopher, Peterson struggles to reconcile his Christian faith with his love of science, creativity, and spirituality in all its manifestations. Through word and image, he quietly looks for-and finds-the common ground that unites thinking and compassionate people of all shapes and sizes.
This beautiful book contains reproductions of Peterson’s photographs which accompany and enrich his collection of essays and reflections.
Brian H. Peterson has more than forty years’ experience as a curator, critic, visual artist, musician, and arts administrator. His photographs are in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Amon Carter Museum, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Denver Art Museum, among others. As the Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest Chief Curator at the Michener Art Museum (1990-2013), he managed the exhibition program, curated historic and contemporary exhibitions, and was the editor and principal author of the landmark publication Pennsylvania Impressionism (2002). The author of two prior collections of essays-The Smile at the Heart of Things (2009) and The Blossoming of the World (2010-Peterson has contributed critical writing to the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, American Arts Quarterly, and the Photo Review. In retirement he has taken up videography while continuing his work as a writer and photographer. His 1981 song cycle “Moon Songs,” based on the poetry of E. E. Cummings, was featured on the CD Modern American Art Song (2015) with mezzo-soprano Sharon Mabry. His most recent publication is I Give My Eyes, a spiritual autobiography and a story of healing and salvation.
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The Boat Detective
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99Colton James was a New York City Policeman. His motto was always “Give an underdog a step up in life.” Thanks to a sizeable trust fund left by his family, he quit the city police, and after ten years, he moved out west and opened his investigation agency and got his P.I license in Los Angeles. He also bought himself a beautiful Grand Banks, 42-foot twin diesel engines Yacht. He Loved living on it and called it “The Who Done It.”
The first client was Mrs. Gloria Cambell, whose husband was killed in a plane crash. Not just any plane crash but Flight 93 on 9/11. It was just faith that put him on that flight at that time. Before Charles went on that faithful flight, He told his wife Gloria that she would leave town and go into hiding if anything happened to him. He tried to get his brother away from a small-time thug in Philly. His name was Albert Gardeano. So, when the plane crashed, she followed his instructions and went to Los Angeles. When Gloria arrived, she rented a condo down at Marina Del Rey. Then she got word from her husband’s brother. He had said Mr. Gardeano had moved here because it was closer to his work. He had an office in North Hollywood, on Lankershim Boulevard. Things were Hot in Philly, so he moved the business to L.A.
Shortly after she moved into the Condo, she saw a couple of men following her around. They look familiar to her. She recognized them as the men she saw in her husband’s office back in Philly. She went hunting for a P.I. that could help her. She finds a Private Detective that lives on a boat in Marino, where she rented a condo, and the journey begins.
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The Book About Branka
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99This is the story of one life, one girl , woman, mother, a highly educated person, who wove her threads into one ball called family and tried to be and remain happy in all of this. A woman who had great influence on the family. A woman on whom a lot depended in the home. To a wise woman who knew this well, and that knowledge is not an easy task for a woman. A wife and mother knows that happiness in the home literally depends on her, and then she creates and builds that happiness… because she loves her family. It used to be understood that the husband should create a roof over his head, but what is under the roof-peace, well-being, harmony, health, togetherness … is what depends a lot on a woman’s life. It is a big task, which requires a lot of effort.
This is a book about a woman, a wife, as a rescue from chaos, a light at the end of the tunnel. . . .
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The Book of Damnation: The Second Death
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99Marie Smith is married to her supporting husband, Darren Smith, and has two grown daughters, Sabrina Hicks and husband Fredrick Hicks, her son-in-law, Michele Clay, and four grandsons: Kamari Boose, Lucas Boose, Terrance Johnson, and Jonathan Hicks. She has two Siberian Huskies: Smokey and Cherri, and Princess BB, a small dog. She loves traveling, writing, and spending time with family. She lives in Indianapolis, Indiana, and is from Quincy, Florida, and Tallahassee, Florida.
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The Book of Life
$23.99Salt Lake City is proud to see their own citizens embrace the Ameri-can dream. He has gone from a childhood sports champion to Martial Arts Master, to defending our country as a US Naval Veteran during the Viet Nam War. World sky diving champion and Hang-Gliding expert, National Ski and Survival expert, He is the original inventor and patent holder of the Nylon Velcro Locking Wallets and Nylon tool pouches President and owner of the Bear Body Wallets Inc. Born and raised in Denver, CO.
The oldest son of Denver Councilman Sam Sandos.
Currently he is one of the top financial advisors and businessmen. He has now written 7 books on Investing, 6 Do It Yourself books that are also available on CD. They cover everything from mutual funds, business plans, planning for retirement, Investing, protecting your wealth and your fi nancial-self, to Life Insurance. -
The Book of Life: The Eternal Life
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99The Book of Life = The Eternal Life
This is talking about your final destination, if you have salvation and the Holy Spirit.
The Lamb of God
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. (John 3:16).
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The Book of Mary: A Commentary on the Protevangelium of James
Price range: $3.99 through $21.99This commentary provides a new paradigm for understanding the Protevangelium of James. It is not an early Christian text but a late Jewish text with prophetic implications for the canonical works of the New Testament. The commentary begins with a study of selected portions of the Gospel of Mark. This indicates that Mark knew of the Protevangelium and encoded it within his gospel. As a result, it can be shown that the Protevangelium dates before any of the canonical works of the New Testament. With this perspective, the author provides a new analysis of the text of the Protevangelium without drawing on any canonical Christian texts. In the process, additional evidence is found that links it to works in the Old Testament. In conclusion, the Protevangelium draws on the Old Testament and has prophetic implications for the New Testament. The Protevangelium belongs to neither the New Testament nor the Old Testament but stands between them. The present analysis yields new information on how Christianity developed from its Jewish roots. It is ‘The Book of Mary’ that is the first link in the chain of development.
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The Bouncing Football: Life Lessons on the Gridiron
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99He questioned the system and paid the price….
But 44 years ago, he played for the Dallas Cowboys for a single season as a middle linebacker. During his rookie season in 1973, the 23-year-old from Waco was a backup to a fading legend, Lee Roy Jordan, and was traded by October of 1974 before he vanished from pro football altogether just two years later.
His official Rice University biography, penned upon his induction into that school’s hall of fame in 2011, notes that his career was cut short by injuries. Bu that is not the whole truth. Rodrigo Barnes was, he has long believed, punished for being an outspoken black man in an industry controlled by white men. He was banished for being “a radical at a time when radicals weren’t popular”, beloved Cowboy’s wide receiver Drew Pearson once said.
It might be tempting to say that before there was a Colin Kaepernick, there was Rodrigo Barnes – a man exiled from the game he loved. There may be a certain truth to the comparison. Both men sacrificed their pro football careers to protest the treatment of black men in America.
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The Brokenhearted Leprechaun Skip Into Trouble
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99A story about Skip, a young leprechaun with a broken heart who ventured out into the mortals’ world to save his missing parents he loved, who at the time were presumably held captive by mortals as slaves in or about Dublin Town. With only a smidgen of his grown-up leprechaunic powers, he manages to get himself drunk and a stowaway aboard a ship bound to America causing grave trouble onboard and almost sinking the ship. Until he gains his full powers as a leprechaun, he has many upon many mishaps. With his Emerald Irish luck, he manages to accomplish the risky task he set out on in saving both parents held by an evil mortal and brings them both back home to Ireland from America. In this adventure, he makes two mortal enemies of leprechauns who befriended him, very rich and happy by going out of their way to help him when he had placed himself in great danger, and who helped to save his loved ones.
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The Bruz
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Aiden “Fierce” Chance is the Bruz. His life as a fraternity adviser at a small southern HBCU is turned upside down by a hazing incident, quickly turning him from an academic golden boy to a campus pariah. Aiden is constantly redeemed by his friendship bonds within the fraternity, but his final redemption threatens to stretch his fraternal ties to the limit. The question is, will they break?
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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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The Call From Within
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99The plight of animals has been neglected for too long. This fact, simply obvious, and according to the many devoted witnesses to animal cruelty, inspires the desire for an existence of peace, having found some answers through time with people who care, bringing to life the Laws to assist.
Concern for our “pets”, and the problem of the “Crisis of Cruelty” is engaging all of us to help animals now exclaiming their woes for those who can hear such pain; and this time it is relevant to all people who have animal companions and/or concern for wildlife. And “Deborah” (The prophetess) is one who faces such ethical issues, and guides animal choices that exist precisely on the divide between species and the problem of The Animal that she studies.
Eager to see it unfold here through story, seeking the tools we need to succeed, the pen being one such implement, “Deborah” is the person who brings it all to bear, on life and love we share our gifts, precise and sure to find that place that we always seek, in peaceful gestures that exist within us.
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The Care and Feeding of Harry
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99It seems Harry Flapper leads a charmed life.
But then again, maybe charmed isn’t quite the right word. Because when Harry is around—and even when he isn’t—very strange things seem to happen. Like a moose goring a dune buggy to death. And the fixation of the local police with the mysterious Flapper Gang. And who could forget Victoria, Harry’s winsome mother who daily faces the many challenges of keeping her husband Bull alive and in one piece and her family one step removed from another calamity. Add a full cast of grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and several other hapless and sometimes flirtatious creatures, and you have a recipe for mishaps and hilarity.
And then there’s Harry himself: only son, besotted with his ever-expanding bug and coin collections, naïve to the wiles of certain young ladies of his acquaintance and never far from his own misadventures. The Care and Feeding of Harry is a fun-filled tale of Forrest Gumpian proportions. Prepare to enter Harry’s world, where nothing is sacred and each story is full of wit and irreverence. And find out why he detests chocolate.
