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Finding Me: Finding Yourself When Half Of You Is Missing
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99Finding Me chronicles the author’s journey of grief after losing her husband of 50 years. Vickie found herself alone for the first time in her life. Without a clear sense of who she was as an individual or how she would cope without Gary at her side. After sharing so many years together, her journey was difficult. With Gary, she was strong but without him, simple daily tasks seemed overwhelming. She realized that she had lost half of her identity in the loss of her husband, Gary.
Leaning on the memories of a happy marriage, and remembering the goodness of God, she found the strength and will to move forward and discover her own identity. She learned to recognize and deal with the recurring waves of grief. “You never get over the loss, but you can get through it somehow,” she affirms. Her experience leads down the path to peace and fulfillment for those who find themselves traveling alone.
At the age of 70, Vickie found that God was not finished with her yet and had an exciting plan for the next chapter of her life!
Finding Me takes you through the process of grief and finding out who you are when half of you is missing. There is hope in every chapter of life. Finding that hope is what this book is about. The author’s prayer is that reading this book will ignite joy in the “YOU” that is left and help readers discover the best is yet to come!
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Following My Dreams
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99This is a compelling true story of a young boy born and raised in poverty in Oklahoma. He struggled in school, especially in reading and math. It was his mother who helped him learn reading and math, not his teachers. Fighting in order to protect himself resulted in several “paddling’s” and other disciplinary actions at school. Facing the possibility of being sent to a delinquent home for boys, he devised a plan where he would catch a train going north with King, a dog, who he promised would never be a stray dog again. He had even practiced jumping a boxcar while the train was moving! He would miss his family, but he was not going to the place for delinquent boys. In the fifth grade, with the help of his mother, he started turning things around. He accelerated to the top of his class in all subjects. Not only was he top of his class academically, but also, he burgeoned in sports. He played on the seventh- and eighth-grade basketball and baseball teams when he was only in the fifth grade. He loved reading about medicine, rockets, math, and the universe, among other subjects.
When he told his counselor and teachers that he wanted to become a doctor, he was encouraged to go into something else. Again, it was his mother that encouraged him to follow his dreams. With his poor education, it was doubtful his dreams would come to fruition. Still, he never gave up on his dreams. Through hard work and perseverance, his dreams come true.
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Freddy B: My Last Encounter With the Law Got Me A Trip for a One Year Stay at a Department of Corrections Facility
Price range: $3.99 through $22.99I believe Freddy B will open the eyes of young men and women-“There are consequences to your actions in life.” My hope is this book will continue his ministry to others. His struggle may help parents realize, no matter how difficult, to find a way to break the wall of silence that teens frequently suffer when they think their parents do not understand.
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From Dean’s List to Dumpsters: Why I Left Harvard to Join a Cult
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99Jim Guerra was recruited during his sophomore year at Harvard College into the religious cult known as “Th e Brethren” or “Th e Garbage Eaters”. For the next decade, Jim was transformed from a happy, self-confident Christian college student to a highly controlled devout follower of Jim Roberts, a charismatic leader of a nomadic Bible-based ministry. Forsaking Harvard, family, career aspirations and all his possessions, he departed Harvard to join with a vagabond ministry that subsisted on food from supermarket dumpsters and fast-food restaurants.
This book captures the mind control processes that prolonged his departure from society, alienation from his family, his forced celibacy, and the rejection of all Christian churches outside this small ministry. Jim is careful to chronicle both the growth and the metamorphosis of his mindset as he isolates himself from society for ten-and-a-half years in order to be saved with a small remnant of end-time believers. Follow him from Harvard to the woods and finally back to his family, and experience it through his 20/400 vision. You will see why bright young people are sucked into cults, and how he eventually escaped. -
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.
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God Shall Wipe Away All Tears: A Mother’s Journal of Caregiving, Tragedy, and Hope
Price range: $3.99 through $27.99“God Shall Wipe Away All Tears is a fascinating look into the life of a courageous woman who suffered unimaginable personal tragedies. Readers will find insight, inspiration and strength from Colleen’s faith-based perspective on confronting difficult life problems. To those who have a loved one with an immunodeficiency, her story will show that you are not alone. Her non-sense chronology sheds light on very rare medical condition.”
–Ulrike Ziegner, M.D., PhD., Allergist/Immunologist
“Thank you for your wonderful book! Your insight into life and death, and your terrible experiences from which you have learned patience and understanding, will help us all to become better people.”
–Paula Bjornn, Registered Nurse
It was dusk as my husband and I entered the small cemetery to place flowers on the three graves-Jonathan, our firstborn son who died at eight months from a rare pneumonia; Michael, our violinist son who left us at age sixteen due to pancreatic cancer; and Seb, a loving son who trained hawks and suffered blindness and neurodegeneration after thirty years of immunodeficiency. As the sun set with crimson colors. I placed bright summer flowers on each grave. ‘Help me to do what I should do with my life,’ I said to my sons. It was clear what my path should be. I could not let their lives be lost in vain! I should write stories of struggle, love, and faith. “They are doing work now in heavenly spheres, and I must do mine while I still have time!” I said to myself. It all seemed so clear.
This powerful memoir describing Colleen Openshaw’s frequent encounters with illness and death will convey important insights when we experience these unwanted sorrows in our own lives. Losing her parents to cancer and old age, a sister in a car accident, her husband to organ failure and Alzheimer’s, as well as her three precious sons to hyper-IgM Syndrome-has given Colleen unusual understanding in facing end-of-life issues. Relying on her faith in God as well as her own grit and determination, her experience can give us a unique comprehension of how to confront these inevitable trials common to all mankind.
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GOD!!! Where were you?
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Family is not always perfect, but tell that to a five-year-old child, whose innocence was literally snatched away. Learning to live alone, in her mind of silent cries. How do you turn off the anger against your past? While being haunted by the guilt, that you can’t change.
With love, God’s love!!
In this candid and powerful memoir, Author Angela White gives a detailed look into her life growing up in the mean streets of Newark NJ. She opens up about the heartbreak of being abandoned by her biological parents, which caused her and her siblings to be placed in foster homes and orphanages at the age of 5. Angela recalls the horror of being molested by her foster parents, which one of her foster parents was the pastor of a local church at the time. This gutsy, heartfelt, and humble memoir lets the reader look through the eyes of Ms. White, as she shares her experiences with homelessness, rape, domestic violence, drug abuse, and teenage pregnancy. Through all of her daunting setbacks in life, Angela was able to defy the odds and now she’s living out her dreams.
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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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Hard Way Jay
Price range: $3.99 through $22.99The title of this book tells the reader that in America the American dream could be obtained by anyone in America, even a poor farm boy born in a barn and struggled through hardships without a mentor from childhood to a good life as a nuclear weapons engineer the hard way.
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Havana 1995: English Version
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99“The work between a dream and reality, is a symbolic encounter of two individuals who represent one, the Cuban exiles, and the other the new cuban generation who developed in Castro’s Cuba. The story isa deep reflection on the future of Cuba, the fragmented identity of Cubans and their conflicts in the face of the possibility of what is becoming more and more inevitable: the freedom of Cuba.
The primary value of the book is that it will have meaning before and after the fall of the socialist’s regime. Ileana contrasts the generation of the Cubans in Cuba and those who live in exile. We must read these revealing pages, so literally beautiful and so shockingly Cuban. We all learn a lot from this magical form of this writer who now surprises us with this volume that cannot be ignored. She will prepare the mood and the attitude for the day.”
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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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Heart of Leadersheep 2015: Protector of All Things Small
Price range: $3.99 through $25.99Cheri Magnuson is Shepherd of Coldstream Icelandic Sheep in the beautiful State of Maine. She retired from Aerospace Engineering in 2013 and purchased a small farm in Maine to follow a childhood dream. Since she was a young girl her dream was to someday own a little farm with a clear, clean rushing stream running through it. There would be a healthy woodland full of all kinds of beautiful trees. The most important part of the dream was the lovely meadows where wildflowers grow and a flock of beautiful, colorful sheep. Her dream has become a reality, the journey has been one full of both joy and sorrow. The year her first lambs were born her only son took his life. She found that writing eased the pain and gave her a more positive focus. Writing stirred up a God given gift and gave her a more meaningful existence. So now she shares her dream, the journey of life, on her farm with others. Other people who may also have a dream yet to be. Through all the tears and laughter, she shares her journey and faith in God living that childhood dream.
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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.
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His Grace in the Midst of Tragedy
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99At this very moment you are not only holding a book; you are holding the testimony of my life and my struggle with schizophrenia.
If you should decide to read it you will take a journey through a horrific tragedy through the eyes and mind of a paranoid psychotic man, years of hospitalization; psychotropic medications with side effects that sometimes seemed worse than the schizophrenia, reconstructive surgeries and a trial that held my freedom in the balance.
You’ll read of the years of continued drug and alcohol abuse, the self defeating sabotaging of good things in my life, even when I was not aware of how I was destroying any hope of recovery. To be perfectly honest; I did not know if I wanted recovery. All I could feel was guilt and shame.
Then it happened; a supernatural experience with the Lord of all the earth. at night I received my salvation. Now I had hope! My life has not been the same since that night. Yes, there was still ups and downs and four more years of hospitalization, but this time it was different; I had a whole new outlook.
Today I am a totally free man and it is all because of Jesus.
If you decide to read this book I hope you will not be disappointed.
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How I Got Off That Tree Limb
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99How I Got Off That Tree Limb is based on an experience that I had when I was 22 years of age and a preacher that I had worked with in a revival in Little Rock, Arkansas said to me, “Get off that Limb” He explained to me that if I wanted to make an apple pie I would have to get the apples off the tree to make a delicious Apple Pie. This book shares early beginnings of my childhood. It takes you through my journey of getting off of the tree limb. I have had lots of highs and lows in my life but I have learned how to push myself forward. And today I continue to push forward to be the very best that I can be and try every day to make a positive difference in myself and others.
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How I Took Bartender Course and Traveled for Seventeen Years
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99IT IS 1979 – the dawning of a new, exciting decade. On the cusp of the eighties, the path of unlimited possibilities is laid at the feet of a young man by the name of Steven. Fresh into adulthood and poised to embark on a wild, new direction, he takes a bartending course in the throbbing metropolis of Montréal. In a politically-charged region of Canada that is constantly on the verge of separating from the rest of the country, he sets a solid foundation for what will become a rich career in Hospitality. Upon entering this demanding but rewarding vocation, he thrives and excels-and, unbeknownst to him, will be catapulted to as-of-yet unimagined vistas.
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I affirm
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99More than ten years ago I started writing affirmations for my husband’s Ministry, Our Fathers Business, a noon-day prayer line. I have always believed that the use of affirmations is an effective tool for becoming or having what you desire. However, it wasn’t until I based them upon the “Word of God “that I truly experienced their awesome power. I believe that when we speak, and feel with our hearts what we speak, we receive or manifest what we have spoken. Therefore, I suggest you place your name in affirmations, prayers, and scriptures. Replace my shared experiences with your own. Sing and meditate with others and “you “in mind.
I encourage you to make these affirmations and your time with God a truly personal experience. For they will not only enlighten and encourage all believers, they will, also, inspire, enrich and transform the lives of everyone. Because my background is faith-based, all prayers and testimonies are scriptural. Furthermore, all presented Biblical writings and footnotes are derived from The Holy Bible, King James Version (KJV).
As for the purpose and meaning of my life heretofore and the information presented in this book, I stand firmly upon, “For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.”
2 Corinthians 1:20
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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. -
I Survived My Childhood: Yes, Miracles Still Happen!! (A Guide for Parents of Accident-Prone Children)
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Claiming simply to be a mischievous child, as this author grew up, he managed to get himself into enough mischief to fill a book with hilarious, delightful tales of childhood intrigue.
I Survived My Childhood: Yes, Miracles Still Happen!! is a memoir that highlights the many adventures and mishaps experienced as an accident-prone child growing up in the ’60s and ’70s. Included at the end of each chapter are parental tips based upon the author’s education and experiences. The author hopes that by sharing these memories and tips, he provides humor as well as insights into the mind of an accident-prone child, along with nuggets of wisdom to aid parents as they contend with the various emergencies associated with raising an accident-prone child.
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I Wanted The Wedding, Not The Marriage
Price range: $5.99 through $18.99I Wanted the Wedding, Not the Marriage is a look at what happens when the fantasy ends and real life begins. Across every culture, men and women are expected to take on certain roles once they say “I do,” yet most couples walk into marriage without truly understanding themselves or each other.
So what do you do when the marriage you imagine doesn’t match the reality you are living? Do you stay and fight? Or do you leave to save yourself?
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Im Wesen einer Rose
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Wir schreiben das Jahr 2005 und Ed, ein pensionierter Oberstleutnant der U.S. Air Force, wurde als hochrangiger Logistikexperte eingestellt, um mit dem afghanischen Verteidigungsministerium als Berater und Mentor für zwei hochrangige afghanische Offi ziere zu arbeiten. Doch kurz nachdem sich Ed in seine neue Arbeitsroutine eingelebt hat, fi ndet er sich in einem Behandlungsbereich außerhalb von Kabul wieder und ist in einem achtwöchigen Traum gefangen. Was folgt, ist ein geradliniger und kraft voller Roman über die Erfahrungen eines Mannes in Afghanistan und darüber, wie sein persönlicher Kampf ums Überleben sein Leben für immer verändert.
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In The Chaotic Murmur of an Unclear Destiny
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99This is a book of deep love, devotion, and respect for the author’s late wife of the author, and it can also be seen as a guide and practice for overcoming difficult situations in life. Exploring his inner self, especially the unconscious part, the author talks about emotional reactions in the modern, alienated world. Improvising his imagination, he talks about a microcosm, which can be anywhere, in which there are long-standing injustices that need to be dealt with. How?
Please read it, and protect yourself with knowledge, it will certainly not lead you astray and accept everything that life puts in front of you, be ready, and understand all sorrows, difficulties, and injustices as a game that you solve, so that you, not others, set limits for yourself. – Marina Denadic
Željko Vujovic seems to be moving in a silent sailing ship not far along the mainland and observes everything on the shore… He looks precisely at the long past time and presents it to the reader as if it happened now. Sometimes that coolheaded composure gives way to a slightly emotional subjective assessment. Then the character of the Anemic Director appeared who was “appointed to that position by the Hepatobiliary Surgeon who applies the knowledge of hepatobiliary surgery in the politics of the Microcosm, and the Hepatobiliary Surgeon was appointed to the position by the Tall Man Who Sees High Above the Microcosm.” That emotional assessment is contained in a mild edge of irony which only reinforces the image of society that we survived a long time ago…
Željko is the treasure of many generations before him… Sometimes he breaks into a biting caricature: The Running Pissing Man, but, that is a testimony of the times we lived in, maybe we forgot and it comes back to us again and again: bad students raise respectable professors. And those respectable “beat the stone” on Naked Island. “Why? For nothing.” Answers a stout old woman, carrying on her mare a full “carload” of grapes and figs, which she picked with her own hands and laboriously and intended for her son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren, pointing with her head to the house of Blažo Jovanovic, who, at that time, was cheering and dressing in Montenegro. – Dragan Perišic
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It’s Life Jim
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99This book is a journey through a life of battling homosexuality, self-hatred, religious obsession, suicidal desperation, guilt, shame, loss, and into a world of unconditional love and acceptance. It’s a spiritual journey that breaks through tradition and dogma to discover the depth of what it means to live loved.
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Jesus Is Looking Down “On A Sinful World”
Price range: $4.00 through $9.99Jesus is looking Down” teaches substantially how people can clear the destruction of their sins, the gift of repentance; power of unity and also how important it is for Christians to pray continually throughout life and worship God even after having repented, when man is never clear of sin or sin approaching in whatever the means. Explanations are highlighted with scriptures from the bible along with the author’s commentary. An additional inclusion consists of a short version memoir illuminating reason and actual connections to God’s unfailing hand. This book inspires thought and encouragement to support a clear walk with God. As a young child, I knew that God was guiding me, revealing things to me, in visions and in dreams though I did not understand completely what was happening, I just accepted it. In 1980 I became a member of Faith Temple Apostolic Church under the leadership of Bishop Jerry McCullough. While there I taught Sunday school, did volunteer work at the state hospital, received presidency of the mother’s board, and was in charge of Monday night prayer service. In 1993 I was ordained a minister, I moved to Alachua, Florida in 1995. In 1995 I became a member of St. Luke AME Church under the leadership of Pastor Walter Lassiter. I worked in the ministry along with the late Rev. Alexander Holmes. I also assisted in 12:00 prayer service. From 1998 to 2003 I worked as part of the ministerial staff with Rev. Keeton, Rev. Denmark, Dr. Sconiers, Rev. McGriff and Rev. McCaslin. Presently, I am working under the leadership of my Pastor Rev. James Watkins Jr. I also have a jail ministry teaching, praying, encouraging and giving biblical counseling to young women. I have earned a master’s degree in Ministerial Theology and two doctorates, one Evangelism and the other Christian Philosophy in theology.
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Just Passing Through: A German-American Family Saga – Revised Edition
Price range: $3.99 through $29.99In this updated and revised edition of Just Passing Through: A German American Family Saga, first published in 2011, the author tells the story of several generations of his unique but dysfunctional family spanning over a hundred years including the two world wars. Peter Zell was eight years old when World War II ended and in a prologue entitled A German – American Childhood recounts his boyhood experiences that included the apocalyptic firebombing of his hometown of Stuttgart by the western Allies, the postwar occupation of Germany, and his family’s emigration to America. The book centers on the author’s mother, whom her children called Mutti, and her ordeal during the Nazi era for having been married to a Jew, the son of prosperous Frankfurt business owners, with whom she had two children. With anti-Semitism on the rise in Germany, her husband decided to emigrate to America but Mutti chose to remain behind to take care of her ailing father. The couple had an amicable divorce and while her ex-husband
took their son with him, their daughter remained with Mutti in Germany. Under the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, mother and daughter now found themselves classified as non-Aryans which meant that Mutti could not remarry while their teenage daughter, being half Jewish, was put in dire jeopardy of her life. At this point Mutti’s older brother, himself a dedicated National Socialist, proposed an unconventional solution that ensured her survival. Following his advice, Mutti had more children, fathered by so-called Aryans, who were eventually all brought to America. The book follows the lives of the five siblings, all half-brothers and half-sisters, and their difficult relationships with each other as each sought to achieve his or her version of the American Dream.
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Karma: My Journey
$3.99Karma is open and honest as she describes her growing connection to Christianity; she later gives her heart to Christ, as she develops an unwavering faith in God’s Glory. Her story includes inspiring tales of surrender to God’s will, but also contained tragedy as she has dealt with family loss. Karma’s tale is a gripping unique narrative written from the heart. Her mission is to spread the great news that Jesus Christ is the only answer to the problems every human faces today.
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Lady in Red Where is Your Head?
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99“Lady in Red, Where is Your Head?” by first-author Carolann deBellis, tells the story of a woman who survived a brain injury and a coma after a car accident on an icy New Jersey Turnpike in 1987, when she was 34.
Carolann had it all, the perfect life, before the accident-a great job at a hot Philadelphia salon, a passionate 12-year marriage and a wide circle of friends and family who marveled at her energy and infectious spirit.
Then, in the aftermath of the near-death accident, she lost it all-job, husband and sense of self. After learning to walk, talk and cut hair again, she faced the life-long task of going beyond recovery, beyond recreating the person she was before the accident to aspire for something better. Psychological counseling and the support of a loving circle of family and friends helped her to see that all was not perfect before the accident, helped her redefine a new Carolann, a work in progress who’s less self-absorbed and more self-aware, less controlling, and more open in her relationships with men in her life.
If it weren’t for the imperative, painful job of remaking herself physically, cognitively, and emotionally from a child-like state after the accident, Carolann might never have undertaken the intense personal journey that leads her today, at 59, to say “I thank God for my brain injury that cured me.”
More than a conventional memoir or self-help guide, “Lady in Red” stitches together Carolann’s own words, a diary that her cousin Michael Biello wrote during her coma and rehabilitation, hospital documents, notes from nurses and visitors and Carolann’s collection of inspirational quotes.
“I wrote and rewrote this book for over 20 years to help others who suffered or know someone who has suffered a brain injury,” Carolann says. Certainly, those directly or indirectly affected by a traumatic brain injury will benefit from reading her book, but so will anyone who believes it’s never too late to re-examine yourself and get to work making yourself a better person.
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Last of the Small Towns: Short Stories
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99Last of the Small Towns: Short Stories is a charming collection of tales that recount the boyhood years of author Stewart Hyson. From gatherings in the “Indian Graveyard” through unprecedented encounters with baby chicks, here is a sentimental recounting of a range of colourful juvenile adventures experienced by a boy during a time that was poignantly more innocent than today.
Hantsport, Nova Scotia, might have been a small place during the 1950s and early 1960s, but it was a veritable hive of activity in certain sectors and for certain segments of its lively population-especially through a kid’s eyes. In this memoir, Hyson invites readers to share his childish perspective of the postwar years on the streets of this little town. With a strong wash of nostalgia that characterizes his memory of his time there, Hyson shares his growing-up experiences of such preoccupations of the time as Sputnik and the widespread introduction of television.
Last of the Small Towns: Short Stories is a labour of love that delivers readers back into their own childhoods, so vividly painted are its scenes. It is this energy, this devotion to subject, that are the book’s greatest strength.
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Leaving Mother Russia
Price range: $5.99 through $16.99Anthology of life stories of emigrants who left Mother Russia, Treatment of Jews and Kulaks, Questions asked of emmigrants prior to boarding ships, Business Management Issues, Rescue of the Kurenetz Torah, Babi Yar, and the attraction of the United States.
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Lenin: A Soldier – A Story of Survival
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99Shortly after basic training, United States Army Private Lenin Patino was shot in the head point blank by a fellow soldier. Lenin’s nightmare begins as he finds himself lying in a hospital’s critical care unit in a body, he cannot move listening to everyone say he is going to die. Overcoming all odds, Lenin survives. In this book, he walks the reader through the events that led to the shooting and describes his daily activities, friendships, and struggles faced by him and other patients as he journeys through the Veteran’s healthcare system. During his hospitalization, Lenin witnessed many tragedies and struggles faced by himself and other patients. He saw some deplorable conditions inside Nursing homes and hospitals as families abandoned their ill.
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Lessons from the Mahaw Bog
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99This story of a woman’s journey was written to inspire people to achieve great things. She feels that all who want to achieve great things must set goals and exhibit tenacity, perseverance, and sacrifice in working to achieve those goals. She feels that people should actively pursue their goals regardless of the pitfalls, hurdles, and roadblocks they might encounter in the pursuit of their dreams.
Crippled by socially imposed limitations that were a product of that time, she found creative ways to circumvent those challenges and use the resources
available to her to make a difference. She believed that if you empower yourself, you can improve the world by helping others.
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Letters from Prison
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Letters from Prison
This book contains the letters of my son wrote to me and my family while he was in prison.
He was out of state on a fishing trip when a friend broke into his house and set up a meth lab. When he returned home and started cooking his friend heard a loud bang on the door with a loud voice shouting. “This is the police, open the door!” He opened the door and they shouted, “Stand back! We need to search your house!”
The door to the back bedroom was locked. They cut the lock and found several fans running. All evidence was gone, but the smell was still there. My son was arrested and taken to jail. I saw his picture and the story on the evening news. I went to his house the next morning and police were everywhere. I ask, “What is going on?” He answered, “We found a meth lab in the bedroom.” I said, “Why was my son arrested. He didn’t do it, he was out of state for weeks, fishing!”
The police wanted my son to narc for them. If he didn’t, they wouldn’t take him to court. He narced for two years. Almost got killed and spent lots of money trying to make a drug bust. He did not make a bust.
We had to hire a lawyer and got on court. When the judge ask how do you plead. My son answered, “Your honor, I’m not going to plead guilty to something that I did not do, nor knew nothing about.” I am guilty of trying to help the guy after his family kicked him out. I let him spend a few night at my house while I was on my trip.
He was sentenced for 10 years for maintaining a drug house. He was sent to prison. He was put on work release. He was a master of electrion so started making good money. He has his own apartment at the prison. He said it wasn’t so bad, just missing family and friends and was the worst punishment. He saved enough money to buy a trucking company while working after he was released. He served 2 and a half years of the 10. When he got out, he said, “Thank you God! If I haven’t went to prison, I would never have saved enough money to buy my own business.
He wrote me every day for those 2 and a half years. I love him so! That’s why I’m sharing this story and his letters.
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Life Struggle of a Vietnam Veteran: Out of the Vietnam War
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99This book is all about personal life experiences, which aims to inspire people. This book is made out of the realization that you should share your story to the world so that when you die, people will know about you, and your story will serve as an inspiration to other people.
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Like a Tree Planted
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99Most Christians have had periods when they felt alienated from God. Circumstances and life situations propelled them into seeming darkness and despair. In such times Satan takes advantage of the Christian’s confusion and ignorance to launch a subtle attack. This book describes such a period in the author’s life, but focuses on God’s deliverance from the darkness via a powerful revelation – the revelation of the tree.
Jannah Mitchell was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Early education was in Indianapolis, Indiana. Jannah graduated with a B.A. in Journalism and Criminal Justice from Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. She later completed her MEd at the University of Illinois at Chicago and an MPA at Roosevelt University in Chicago. Jannah reconnected with her childhood religious roots at Living Word Christian Center in Forest Park, Illinois in 2000. She graduated from the Living Word School of Ministry in June 2002. Jannah has served with missions’ teams in Bogata and Cali, Colombia, S.A.; Hyderabad, India; Panama; and Haiti. Jannah has a heart for new Christians and any Christian who is struggling. She hopes that her works will speak to the commonality of obstacles confronted when Christians are moving from darkness into the Kingdom of God. Hopefully this book and her other works will point the way to victory through spiritual development and renewal of the mind.
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Like The Moon, Mr. Purple
Price range: $3.99 through $39.99God creates the human families and grants them the ability to weave stories of their own existence. The Morada Clan of Bicol, therefore, as any family in the world, cannot claim a monopoly on life’s blessings and crucibles. But let me tell our peculiar stories just the same.
We are neither perfect, nor are our stories grandiose, but it’s our imperfections and their simplicity that make our stories more compelling and relatable. Even before the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, we told ourselves that someone had got to narrate them, or they could lapse and fade into insignificance and oblivion. That’s how and why my role came into being.
At work in Texas, they called me Mr. Purple. from an obscure corner of the Third World came this educator with his bio, love affair, work exploits, bittersweet memoir, and family history replete with actual events and genuine people, rolled into one. With the pandemic as standpoint, here is a look-back at the itsy-bitsy events that form the collective tale of my family and me – and my pursuit of the American Dream.
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Live or Die A Stroke of Good Luck
Price range: $3.99 through $19.95Struck down with a stroke and all but declared dead at age 38, Dick Burns regained consciousness and a life. This is the wise and witty story of his long and slow recovery and resurrection. It is a story of hope and practical advice for victims of any serious illness and their families. It is also about what he learned from the ordeal and how his life and values changed for the better with each step of his recovery.
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Living In God’s Grace
Price range: $3.99 through $18.99Living in God’s Grace is a collection of daily Bible verses, followed by a unique and personal prayer. The prayers are a way to help everyone fi nd a way to make the words in the Bible applicable to each person’s own personal life and daily prayer. Everyone will be able to engage in reading the Bible through the daily section printed above the prayer. The goal is to make one’s prayer life intimate and directed by the Bible selection. The prayers will help those hesitant about praying to use a format that encourages each person to make their own unique prayer to God.
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Love Kept Hope Alive
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99The aim of this book is to enlighten anyone who reads it what dementia and Alzheimer’s can do to the family if it is not prepared and do not work together and get outside support from sources willing to help like Alzheimer’s Association. Also with new Hippa laws if not wrote down exactly how you want to be taken care most likely, it won’t be done and there is nothing can be done about it. The old saying about not looking into the future is so wrong, because you should plan if something bad like this was to strike. Your health and well-being is so important. God lets us stay alive so let us thank Him for each moment and be grateful for each moment we are granted to spend with our loved one and cherish all the good memories. This is my story and my struggle with mom’s Alzheimer’s.
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Love, Faith & Bullets: My Unspoken Sermon
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Love, Faith, & Bullets
This is a beautiful collection of poems written over the span of a decade. It is a timeless tale of love & heartache while Nate was discovering his faith and what it meant to be in the 21st Century America military. He masterfully colors the emotional toils of his heart onto every page.
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Married To The Backslider: If My People Which Are Called By My Name Would Humble Themselves
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Have you been looking for love in all the wrong places? Do you feel a huge void in your life? Do you know or would like to know the true meaning of love? If you answered yes to these questions, then this book is for you. Join me as I take a journey to my heart to find my true love. We often times leave the one who loves us the most because the grass seems greener on the other side. Once we get to the other side, we realize that we were better off where we started. Jesus is so gracious with us that He allows us to leave Him, and it is only to see that when we become hurt He is right there to heal us and welcome us back home with open arms.
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Memoir of A Black Christian Nationalist: Seeds of Liberation
Price range: $3.99 through $20.99These days are filled with social unrest. Lack of compassion from elected officials, police brutality, unjust laws that create poverty through minimal wages but soaring profits for capitalists, benign neglect of blighted neighborhoods, and crime within the cities and in governments create a landscape of oppression that directly diminishes the quality of life, especially for African Americans. What is the role of the Black church and Black Christians in light of these realities? Just to save souls is not enough!
Memoir of a Black Christian Nationalist: Seeds of Liberation is a poignant personal story of the author’s thirty-year experience of being a Black Christian Nationalist. The theological framework, program, and organization re-establishing the Black church’s relevancy to the liberation struggle are eloquently and informatively interwoven in. . .
•The DNA Research about the Race of Jesus
•The Powerful Leadership of Reverend Albert B. Cleage Jr., Founder of the Shrines of the Black Madonna
•The Transformation of Black People
•The Seeds of Liberation-Answers for the Black Church
•Practices That Create Freedom, Power, and a More Humane World
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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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Mississippi Girl
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99The Mississippi Girl is Ms. Whitfield’s fourth book. A well-written story of farm life in rural Mississippi, Circa 1940 through 1950, with great insight into rural life in our history. Filled throughout with wit and humor, you will follow the Blakney Family on their many everyday adventures. Never will there be a dull moment. It is Ms. Whitfeld’s wish that you enjoy the stories and tales of “Mississippi Girl” as much as she enjoyed writing them. She complimented throughout with poetry, written solely by Ms. Whitfield.
