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A Hero’s Life
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99The story of a war hero who is faced with a choice between what he believes is moral on the one hand, and his job, his family and the security of his country on the other.
Steve Pritchard was a World War II fighter pilot hero who returned from England in 1945 to his home in Los Angeles. He was a double ace with twelve downed Messerschmitt ME-109’s to his credit. Steve had married his high school sweetheart, the prettiest girl in town, went to work at Western Aircraft Company, the largest aircraft company in Southern California and moved into a new home with swimming pool on the Palos Verdes peninsula. Steve and Ellen quickly had three children and settled down to a comfortable post-war life.
He earned a master’s degree in aeronautical engineering at UCLA night school and became his company’s chief troubleshooter. The company’s design team listened to his suggestions and respected his opinion. All was going well when he was assigned a special mission by the company president to investigate multiple crashes of the company’s new, supersonic fighter jet. It would be a simple task, one that he was sure he could solve in a few days.
But those few days turned into months of futile probing, political infighting, Air Force interference, threats on his life and lack of support from his company’s management as well as from his family. Using his experience in airplane design and applying his flying skills, could he finally identify the cause of the crashes? If he identifies the problem, should he reveal the faulty design and lose his job, his home, and his family, or cover up the problem, get the promotion for which he had been working, and continue to live a comfortable life? A man who had been hailed a hero just a few years before in World War II was now to find out what it really meant to lead a hero’s life.
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A Private Life
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99Don’t get me wrong here, I’ve had an amazing life, the last thing that I want anyone to think is that this book, My Private Life, is about sour grapes. I consider myself a true American red-blooded capitalist like all other good Americans. This book is about my experiences growing up, my experiences fighting back and growing up to become the best that I can be.
Growing up black in the South, I felt that I had the cards stacked against me from the start. Despite that, I managed to get an education, join the United States Marine Corps and start a successful company. I’m not afraid of hard work either. I paid for tuition by picking up trash after school, delivering papers before school and working in a shipyard. I owned a boutique, ran and built a successful company from the ground with my own blood, sweat and tears.
There are a million different ways that my life could have turned out, but I wouldn’t change it for anything. This is my story, My Private Life, I hope you enjoy reading my story as much as I enjoyed living it.
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A Time Of War: Memoir of a Vietnam Medic
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99These are my stories from my time serving at the end of the war- but probably not in consecutive order. I am 66 years old as I write this and do feel that time and memory may not be 100%, but I will tell my stories as best I can remember them. May they give insight and understanding to anyone who cares to read them. The experience did change my life, however, I did not directly volunteer, nor would I choose to do it again if I could go back in time. I remember seeing tears in my Dad’s eyes, himself a WWII combat veteran, when I told him I, too, was going to war. My mother openly wept. I promised her I would not take any unnecessary chances-a promise I would later break.
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A Toy Black Soldiers Story
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99The Author grew up in a two-parent home on the northside of Chicago in an area known as Cabrini Green Projects. His parents gave birth to 10 children. Four brothers and five sisters. Willis is the oldest child.
My father served in Manila Philippines under General Wainright. He distinguished himself on rescue missions of American prisoners and special assignments during the ongoing battles against the Japanese in the Philippine Island 3 years hand to hand combat with the Japanese. He returned home and married the author’s mother who was an elementary school teacher and a missionary. He was a military police and after the war in 1959, became a Chicago Policeman. He was an American hero.
The author was unable to afford college and decided to volunteer for military service with plans to enter college upon completion of military obligations. This landed him in the middle of the Vietnam Era War at a place called Phan Rang Vietnam from 1968-1969 where he served as a medical corpsman.
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Angels I Have Seen
Price range: $3.99 through $27.99Marcia begins the book “Angels I Have Seen” by explaining, first, how her mystical gift of prophecy, seeing and hearing the things of the spirit, developed. She spent 25 years listening to the Spirit and automaticallywriting what she heard. The gift strengthened as she prayed and listened to the Spirit for people in staff meetings and at healing prayer services.
The second part of the book includes paintings of some of the angels she saw and painted and what the paintings mean.
Enjoy the angel paintings and see what they mean to you. Notice how strong and vibrant the angels are. Close your eyes to imagine what your angels may appear to be.
Marcia has been married to her husband, Ken, for over 41 years and lives in Leawood, Kansas. Ken and Marcia have two grown daughters and three grandchildren.
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Anointed For Battle: The Warrior Chronicles
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99What can be worse than being beaten and left for dead? Find out as Bryan Porter returns in the anticipated sequel to ‘Warrior for Christ.’ Finally, the questions are answered. What happened that night at the Italian Inn? Will he reconcile his marriage? Will he see his daughter again? How will his life change after the legal settlement? After facing all his fears, he is ‘anointed.’
As he struggles against: the legal system, financial hardships, afflictions, and mental health facilities.
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Been There, Done That, and Still Here! Decades of Invaluable Experiences – A Legend of an Unsung Warrior
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99In this 3rd Edition of the book-series; Been There, Done That: The author updates the memoir of his lifetime journey and related experiences. The book expands on a compiling and potent discussion of family values and determination. “Been There, Done That, and Still Here! is a concise creator of author Rachi Ngaine, BBA, MSPA, CPA, CGMA, a former native of Kenya. Now a naturalized citizen of the United States, Rachi finally served the US federal government in a civil service capacity for fifteen years prior to retiring at age 75 in December 2017.
In this decades of experiences titles “Been There, Done That, and Still Here!” Rachi Ngaine narrates decades of personal and invaluable experiences of survival —persevering the challenges of growing up in a traditional learning environment from early childhood in his native Kenyan village. The experiences and stories amplify the appetite and personal struggles for education and gaining knowledge through public schools, colleges and universities, choosing a career path, and taking tough handwritten academic tests, professional exams toward jobs that led to self-actualization, self-esteem, a successful career, and a formal retirement. The book is an affirmation of a typical family’s basic value system, endurance, human dignity, identity, and integrity.
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Being with Becky
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99No one said a word as we struggled to walk in the blustery cold to the spot where we would gather one more time to be with her. We all stared ahead to the area resting under the large crucifix, where we would say goodbye to her for the last time. I looked at the small, square hole in the frozen ground and started trembling. This would be her final resting place. Choking back tears and gasping to catch my breath, I wondered how a young woman so full of life and goodness could be ripped away from us in such a cruel and horrific manner. How could this have happened? How would we survive? No answers came to me. The only truth was that Becky was dead, and our lives would be forever changed. BEING WITH BECKY is based on the true life-sharing experiences of two sisters from Northwest Ohio. The author weaves tales of their times together from early family gatherings to ski trips with friends, revealing the close bond they treasured deeply. When Becky is tragically killed, the author must wrestle with the emotional chaos that sets in and cripples her spirit. In a world that no longer makes any sense, she desperately tries to pick up the pieces of her life and vows to honor the sister who once called her, my hero.
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Big Mama Said: You Will Understand It Better By & By
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Godly wisdom and great motherly council flourished in southern households. Many of which had more than one mother living in the same house. So the senior mother was usually called “Big Mama.” Bluefield, West Virginia had an exceptional big mama that everyone loved, respected, and listened to when in need of Godly advice. This book is a compilation of a tidbit of wisdom shared through stories told by my big mama to give spiritual direction to a child.
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Blessed by the Grace of God
$10.99Blessed by the Grace of God is about how the Lord has always been by my side even when I took a wrong turn in life. He never gave up on me. I have always loved God but didn’t give him the devotion he deserved. He was patient with me and must have known that I would come around sooner or later. God has blessed me so many times and his blessings continue. I am now fully devoted to the Lord. No matter what we do, God loves us more than we will ever know. I wrote this book because, no matter what I did in the past, God still loves me, and wants me to learn from my mistakes, and most of all He will always be there for me.
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Confessions of A Gynecologist
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99Dr. Dresden leaves no stone unturned as he navigates through the exciting world of the development and practice of an obstetrician and gynecologist. From start to finish, his story is wrought with startling revelations and shocking exposes. His journey uncovers the needs, hopes, anticipations and expectations of men who choose to become physicians and, later on, obstetricians and gynecologists. He deals, without evasion, with the compromises that must be made in a physician’s personal life in order to first learn and then practice his chosen profession. He explores, in stark detail, the life experiences that motivate men to strive to serve women’s medical needs. He uncovers the self-serving and abusive nature of medical training and the resultant waste, inefficiency and danger. He confronts the flaws and dangers in the medical delivery system that threaten our expectation of quality medical care. He exposes the rot, self-interest and hypocrisy that pervade the political power structure of hospitals and medical societies. Lastly, he uncovers the power that drug companies can exert to control the pricing and delivery of pharmaceuticals and concomitantly keep physicians in line. The task is monumental and the author has met the challenge.
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Cycles in Cycles
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Bryan John Farrell, always Johnny, was born on a homestead near the Sun River in Montana. He was the last of eight children, born to an Irish French Catholic family. Raised in San Francisco with little guidance, allowed to learn on his terms. Rather restless nature, dropped out school, joined the Navy and married by 17. Returning to San Francisco to raise his family, graduated from SF University, engineering degree, and worked many years in the Silicon Valley Technical industry. Hobbies over the years, Jogging, Bay to Breakers race many times, off -road motorcycle endurance, many times, antique collecting French and English 17th century, Oil painting, landscapes.
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Diabetes and God’s Unending Grace
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99Why I Wrote Diabetes and God’s Unending Grace
Diabetes and God’s Unending Grace is the story of my fifty-four-year journey as an insulin-dependent, type-1 diabetic. I believe that God has directly led me to write this book as a source of encouragement and inspiration for other people afflicted with this incurable disease. My journey as a type-1 diabetic began on December 4, 1965. I was almost sixteen years old. Diabetes was much more difficult to manage at this time, and I described this in the early chapters of my book. My parents were informed by the doctor to tell me to never get pregnant and that I might live twenty-five more years.
At age sixty-nine, I have survived type-1 diabetes for over half a century. Through divine interventions and answered prayers, I have cheated death many times over. Through God’s wisdom and guidance, I have probably accomplished more in my life than an average person. I give my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, all the glory and praise. Deep down inside, I know God allowed this disease into my life because he had a special plan for me. Throughout life, God’s strength and grace have met my every need.
If you are a diabetic, either a type 1 or type 2, I believe that God has you on a special assignment. I believe he wants to manifest his grace and strength through you. I believe that God also desires to help you discover the special blessings you could not have had otherwise without your diabetes.
I trust that my personal story in Diabetes and God’s Unending Grace will deepen your faith and trust in the divine sovereignty of Almighty God. He is a wonderful heavenly Father, and you will read about his awesome and unending grace!
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Driven By The Spirit
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99When we think of ourselves as children of God, we tend to imagine ourselves as small children, dependent and trusting. A better analogy would be to think of ourselves as adolescents. Anyone who has raised a child to adulthood can understand the dilemma of wanting our children to become independent, successful members of society, but realizing as they make their way in the world they will make mistakes. They will get hurt. God did not create us as robots programmed for total obedience. He knows that we will make poor choices as we grow. We will face trials and we will, at times, question His love for us. Just as the parent of an adolescent, God wants us to come to Him for advice, consolation and love. He wants us to remember all He has taught us, all He has done for us, and how much He loves us. He wants our love and devotion in spite of the hardships we face or successes we achieve. When I think about those who don’t believe they need God in their lives, it brings to mind the lonely widow who sits in her home day after day, hoping for the moment when her child will call or come to see her. Some never will. How sad is that!
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Glory Days: Tales of a North Shore Dangerboy
Price range: $3.99 through $28.99Glory Days recounts the hijinks of a North Shore Dangerboy growing up in the sixties and seventies. From childhood innocence through teenage rambunctiousness and into a fun-loving adulthood, Terrill shares exciting tales that will have you laughing one moment and crying another. An honest portrayal of a journey not dissimilar to your own.