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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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The Color of Gray: (Living and Dying with Alzheimer’s) (Types of Abuse and Sexual Relations)
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Polly was born in Surry County, N. C. She graduated from Pinnacle High School in 1964. She attended Winston-Salem Business College, and worked for North Carolina Baptist Hospital until she retired in 2008. She has taken several writing classes at Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C. She was given the Editor’s Choice Award in The Path Not Taken, by the National Library of Poetry. She has also had poetry published in Beyond the Stars, Where Dawn Lingers, Poetic Voices of America, and Treasured Poems of America. She has also self-published Daisies Rainbows Dreams. This is her story of being a caregiver and her husband’s battle with Alzheimer’s.
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Going Postal: 2nd Edition
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Willie Roy Hargis worked for the Postal Service for 32 years. He began his Postal career as a City Letter Carrier in 1967. In January 1973, while carrying mail he enrolled at Tarrant County Junior College, attending night classes. After receiving a promotion in 1975 to Building Services Supervisor, he began working nights and enrolled at Texas Wesleyan College. He graduated from Texas Wesleyans College in December 1978, with a degree in Business Administration.
Mr. Hargis worked as a City Letter Carrier, a Carrier Technician, Building Service Supervisor, as an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Counselor, a Labor Relations Assistant, Injury Compensation Supervisor, Delivery Service Supervisor, Station Superintendent, Station Manager, Ad Hoc EEO Investigator, and Labor Relations Representative.
In 1988, the Fort Worth office became a District Office, and the Labor Relations Representative position was upgraded to Manager. Mr. Hargis remained in that position until retirement in 1999. In addition, to his Postal career, Mr. Hargis graduated from Special Warfare School at Fort Bragg, NC in 1966, and served his country as an Army Special Forces, Green Beret, Paratrooper.
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Have You Seen My Daddy?
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Who is your daddy? If Pastor John R. Peyton was asked this question when he was a boy, he might be ashamed to admit who his daddy was, having grown up in an abusive household with an alcoholic, womanizing father.
However, now as a faithful servant of God and pastor of a loving church, he can now say his true daddy is that of his heavenly Father God.
His new book, Have You Seen My Daddy?, is Pastor John’s detailed life story, beginning with his birth and childhood in Virginia to a strong Christian mother and an abusive, lost father. As he grew up, he witnessed hypocrisy in his home church and racism from other churches, wondering if this Jesus that was spoken of was really someone to be praised and worshipped.
He was soon drafted into the army and traveled to Central America and, all while struggling with his hatred toward white people that intensified through his involvement with the Black Panther Party. It wasn’t until the most unlikely of people witnessed to him of God’s love and Jesus’s sacrifice that Pastor John’s life turned around and because of this he was sent to Vietnam.
As Pastor John moved forward with his life, becoming a husband and father to three daughters, he began to feel God leading him down certain paths where his testimony of God taking away the hate and bringing him peace was impacting people’s lives.
Pastor John, as an agent of reconciliation for God, has been the vessel to change the lives of many, from lost lives in prison ministry to the well-to-do and various races and statuses. The hope is that readers will understand through his life story the need for God in our lives and that change for the better can only happen through Jesus.
Have you seen your Daddy? Because He’s looking for you!
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Murder In Stoney Lonesome
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99A Hollywood Producer, Andy Abbott, was kidnapped in Sapporo, Japan, by a Psychotic Scientist who plans to infect the world with a deadly serum, then become a Savior with an anecdote he has yet to perfect. Told by Japanese officials that his plane crashed and there were no survivors, the widow was given an Urn full of ashes and dismissed. No longer needing to live in Bal Air, Abby Abbott moves back to her roots in Bloomington, Indiana. Having built a new home in a nearby artsy community, Nashville, IN, she stumbles across the body of an Asian in a forest on her property. That murder leads to an investigation by a number of Federal Agencies. It stretches from the United States to Japan, Russia, Finland, England and back to Bloomington and Nashville. Intrigue combines with humor in a Senior Citizen Facility. It is a compelling read from cover to cover.
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The Perils of Beginnings: A Cavazos Historical Memoir
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99In 1967, the 18-year-old author hopped into her spicy Auntie Eloisa’s new GTO to embark on a road trip from San Antonio, Texas, to Tampico, Mexico. While searching for her baptismal certificate, Auntie shares the history of Narciso, a bold visionary who, in 1793, left an aristocratic life in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, to cultivate the 600,000 acres of land awarded to him by the King of Spain. As Narciso’s story unfolds, so do the secrets of the two women. Told with humor and warmth, I delighted in Bernadette’s tales of a cow greeting her while using an outdoor toilet, Auntie dropping her bloomers while dancing with abandon to the mariachis’ music, and a “gentle” horse baring her teeth at the author before riding her into the river. This book is a must-read for anyone who enjoys history, romance, and colorful characters.
Bernadette Inclan does an outstanding job weaving two periods of history to tell the story of her life and ancestor, José Narciso Cavazos, one of the early Texas settlers.
~Louise J. Privette, executive editor of Many Worlds, Many Stories: Inkslingers Anthology and author of Dancing Through Life: A Memoir
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I Have Not Picked Up My Dinosaurs Yet Today: A Personal Account of Life with Depression-Anxiety Disorder
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Helene Meyer grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. After graduating from Washington University with a BA, majoring in English and Spanish, she began a long teaching career in both private and parochial schools. All along, Helene struggled with her own private hell: waging a battle against depression and anxiety disorder. Ashamed to admit to anyone that she had these mental and emotional problems, she decided to write down all she had experienced.
Using new emotional/mental strength, Helene wanted to reach out to others who suffer from these devastating illnesses. Instead of doing so by writing autobiographically, Helene chose to use theatrically-styled readings based on her own life. These readings can be done in mental care settings by social workers, psychiatrists, psychologists or among families and friends who want to overcome the stigma of mental illness. In 2011, Helene founded an NPO called “Slaying Dragons” whose mission is to destroy the stigma of mental illness through theater. The website is www.slayingdragons.org. She hopes many people and organizations will reach out to “Slaying Dragons” performances to help those in need. The impact of these readings are overwhelming.
According to Dr. Collins Lewis, professor emeritus from Washington University, this book will help many people who suffer from depression and anxiety.
Proceeds from the sale of this book will go to “Slaying Dragons” to help destroy the stigma of mental illness. -
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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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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Seven Ways to Treat a Lady: Confessions of a Bartender
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99As a young man of eighteen years, in the time when the Vietnam War was raging, Joseph Palmese was given a choice by the court: court-sanctioned probation and possible jail time or enlist in the military. He chose the latter, joined the United States Marine Corp, and spent almost three years in Vietnam engaging in combat operations. But the mental stress and physical fatigue caused by his experiences in Vietnam had never tempered his dream of becoming a bartender, which he had a taste of right after boot camp. This book is fourteen years of his life as a Professional Bartender, during and after the military… and his passion for beautiful women… good wine… and Las Vegas… has only grown more intense over the years.
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Schätze der Dunkelheit
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99Der Autor, der sich auf die Suche nach Antworten auf die tiefgründigen Fragestellungen des Lebens gemacht hat, bietet in seinem Werk eine Fülle von Anregungen und Erleuchtungen auf dem Weg zum Frieden, zum Selbstfrieden und zum Frieden gegenüber Gott. In diesem Buch finden Sie Antworten auf die tiefsten Fragen des Lebens und werden ermutigt und erleuchtet, Frieden mit Ihrer Vergangenheit, mit sich selbst und mit Gott zu finden. Sie werden grundlegende menschliche Einstellungen erkennen, die es zu überwinden gilt, und Sie werden grundlegende Wahrheiten über Gott erfahren, die Sie in keiner Gemeinde hören werden. Wir lernen gesunde Wege kennen, mit unseren Ängsten, unserer Scham und vielen Täuschungen, denen wir in unserem Leben ausgesetzt sind, umzugehen. Entdecken Sie die wahre Definition von Rechtschaffenheit in Gottes Augen und werden Sie Zeuge der wunderbaren Art und Weise, wie Gott denen hilft, die ihn um Hilfe bitten.
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Tesoros De La Oscuridad
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99Para aquellos que buscan encontrar respuestas a las preguntas profundas de la vida, este libro tiene como objetivo animarlos e iluminarlos en su viaje para encontrar la paz con su pasado, consigo mismos y con Dios. Descubrirá las configuraciones predeterminadas de la humanidad que todos tenemos que superar, y descubrirá algunas verdades esenciales acerca de Dios que rara vez escuchará en ninguna iglesia. Descubrirás formas saludables de afrontar tus miedos, tu vergüenza y gran parte de los engaños a los que estamos expuestos en nuestras vidas. Descubrirás la verdadera definición de justicia a los ojos de Dios y serás testigo de las formas milagrosas en que Dios se acerca a quienes le piden ayuda.
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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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The Joy of Faithful and Cheerful Giving: Wonderful Principles to Embrace
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99“When you think of giving to the Lord, do you feel burdened? Or do you get excited about the amazing opportunities that will open up when you surrender your resources to His control?
In this wonderful little book, Vincent Nwankpa unlocks Biblical secrets about giving that will show you how giving to the Lord and to others is a pathway to joy and victory that you have never known. Putting these principles in practice will not only transform your giving, but also your walk with God for the rest of your life!”
by Jack Littlefield
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It’s Just Cancer, God is STILL God!
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99This book…… it’s JUST cancer…. is a totally different book with a totally different approach. It is written to give the often times hopeless (cancer patients) the assurance of eternal hope (God’s Will) for the disease (or any other extreme crisis) they may be facing. May God richly bless you as you read what I sincerely pray is God’s message through me, for you!!
