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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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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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Short Timer
Price range: $3.99 through $26.99Short-Timer is a small part of the history of the Vietnam War; America’s longest war where for the first time, men of every ethnic background and color fought together side by side in fully integrated units. It is the story of one individual’s survival in a war where flashing the peace sign was perfectly acceptable, while waving a clinched fist in the air, the Black Power symbol, was a court martial offense. At times, it’s a frightening account of how, during combat, men bonded as one to fight the enemy, while back at base camps, the realities of the sixties caught up with everyone and whites openly called blacks “nigger” while blacks angrily cursed “honkies”.
It is centered around one Marine’s experiences in the service during troubled times. The story follows the Marine from boot camp to his tour in Vietnam. It graphically illustrates the suffering and horrors that are a part of war and the sense of humor necessary for survival under such adverse conditions. The plight of innocent, little children who are far too often the biggest victims of war, is brought home all too clearly by the central character’s encounter with a Frenchman who runs an orphanage in Da Nang.
The reader is exposed to all the realities of combat in a crazy war that by 1970 had clearly begun to mean very little to those who served except surviving the war and returning to the “real world”. For the central character in Short-Timer, his tour is cut short by President Nixon’s Phase I Pull Out from Vietnam. The central character’s war experiences take on an added craziness when he is forced to commit one last, horrifying act of war just a few hours prior to his scheduled departure from Vietnam. It is apparent that the life of the central character and all those he served with will never be the same after having survived the Vietnam War.
Short-Timer blends all aspects of life in a memorable story, too authentic for comfort. It is sensitive, tough, gutsy, draws the reader in, makes them
expend emotion and doesn’t let go.
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Strawberry
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99This is a story of our beloved pony named Strawberry-the pony I’ve always dreamed of. Read as we unfold the life story of Strawberry and how she changed the course of our lives! Visit also the bookstore section of www.authorreputationpress.com
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My Son Phillipe
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Do you know that mothers never stop loving their kids? They did, do, and will put themselves in great danger to protect their children.
In the memoir My Son Phillipe, the author tells of her saga to rescue her little son, Phillipe, who became trapped in Jerusalem during the Palestinian uprising known as Antifada. Phillipe is one of the first Americans to experience terrorism and its strategies in action. He saw suicidal bombers, smelled the gas of the explosions, and was beaten up, dragged by his hair and starved. Due to tremendous humanitarian efforts of the United States and its allies, the special agent on the terrorism, Nadia Phillips, guided by the war veteran John Koss with the support from President Ronald Reagan and Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens, rescued Phillipe from the iron grasp of war that devastated the nations involved.
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My Luv Affair With The World Words
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99BARRY LEE COYNE is a 1940s product of urban Brooklyn in the days when trolleys sped by his front window and the milkman delivered to the front door metal box. Back then an ice cream cone was only 5 cents. He grew up as the first grandkid living with five grown-ups. Each had their own influence. Words soon became his playthings. As Lee matured, he became a writer and educator. In 1962, he served as a UN press intern. A year later he landed a job as the first white reporter on a leading Black weekly. He moved on to become an editor of a statewide labor union newspaper. Changing careers, Lee morphed into a retro therapist licensed in five states and taught college in NYC and Metro DC. He pioneered the use of health teleconferences for shut in elders in Queens, NY. Going west to Oregon, he turned to planning community events honoring Mandela, Gandhi and Chavez among others. He also won several poetry contests.
Today he hosts four cable TV talk shows that feature non celebs sharing their wisdom on life’s hidden treasures. Now a widower, he loves to travel and attend plays and concerts. Forever upbeat!
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Code Koral
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99Code Koral takes you inside secret operations of the intelligence worlds of the 1970s in both the United States and Russia where both balance on the edge of perestroika. There is a new world order waiting in the wings. Ironically, it is the would-be defecting Wings of the Soviet ice hockey team on center stage. The players become like puppets and the double-dealing puppet-masters vie for who can pull the strings. Careers, consciences and lives are on Red Alert. When the reward for loyalty is betrayal, freedom itself is in danger of being put on ice.
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Whispers From Heaven
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99The book is filled with inspirational poems that expresses God’s love.
The greatest gift is the stories that each poems tells.
This book is available in three (3) formats: Kindle, Paperback and Hardback.
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Bring Back Summertime
Price range: $12.99 through $26.99When Jeanne Starr Gater picks up the phone one morning, she receives the shock of her life. Her strong, robust, athletic husband, Dr. Julius Gater, is in the hospital! — comatose, suffering from a stroke, broken bones … Dr. “J” IS DYING!! A car accident that morning has left her husband unconscious, though still alive and hanging on for dear life! ..And it had been a good life — full of sunshine! Why this! .. Dear GOD! … Why this?! She knows she must get to him — and fast! They had come through too much together. If she gets to the hospital in time, they will come through this awful thing too But she needs all her resources now. In her inner spirit, she petitions her God for mercy and compassion and strength to bring Dr. ‘J” back from near death. Next, over time, she contacts her family and friends for their positive thoughts and prayers. She begins her long hard journey to “BRING BACK SUMMERTIME.” Thus begins the remarkable true story of one woman’s courage and faith in the face of the bitterest of odds, and one man’s miraculous recovery despite doctor’s dire predictions. Family, and friends, new and old gather round to offer support, faith, and love, as the Gaters’ begin their trek back to a normal life. They encounter incredible (and numerous) obstacles from resistant medical personnel and uncooperative rehabilitation staff to other family misfortunes. Their very survival as a family depends on their determination to hold fast to their hopes and faith. BRING BACK SUMMERTIME is a soul searching story of a family’s struggle for the restoration of physical strength, grace, and human dignity. A story that portrays the power and strength of human bonding, prayer and the belief in the power of God to sustain and revive. This family somehow does not allow itself to be thrown even by this devastating accident. They continue their noteworthy accomplishments, as they struggle to deal with the prolonged recovery of Dr. “J”. Their story is truly an inspiration to all.
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Preacher’s Kid
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Being a member of a preacher’s family brings on a myriad of expectations. The preacher’s wife must always project an image of being in tune with godliness. That is a learned condition where she walks around with an angelic smile and speaks softly to the congregants and is always available with a sympathetic ear and assurances that she will bring up their concerns to the pastor.
The preacher’s progeny is expected by everyone to be an example that all people can point to as a kid that the congregants can hold up to their normal children to aspire to. This is not only the expectation of the congregants but also of the preacher. Their mother, who did not get the calling, is responsible to see that they live up to their expectations as the preacher is too busy counseling the congregants and their children.
It is expected of a preacher’s kid, that they attend and lead in children and youth groups and that they by example extend the Christian teachings of their father. Also, is expected that a preacher’s kid is not worldly. He or she does not really know what life is all about for those who must struggle in the real world to survive. He or she have never been subjected to the words that get a mule team moving on a cold morning or the vagrancies of a Jersey cow who will only quit kicking at the milk bucket when she is told loudly that she is about to receive a swift kick in the ass with proper invectives. They don’t really know what life is all about and therefore are really not viable functioning people like normal kids are.
Of course, there is the other expectation of the maverick preacher’s kid. He is the kid that gets in trouble just like any normal kid and because he or she does not participate in the ministries to the church is considered a bad seed and unfortunately hinder the ministry of the preacher to his congregants.
The following is the story of a real preacher’s kid and his family from the recollections of a preacher’s kid.
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The Early Years: A Memoir
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99The author of this book, The Early Years, Rachel G. Carrington lays no claim to lofty jobs, higher education, nor grand accomplishments except for a love-filled, multifaceted, family-oriented, poverty-to-plenty life. In The Early Years, the first in a series, she shares her story.
As a young teenager, just entering high school in the small town of Denton, Kentucky, Carrington planned to attend college and become a teacher. With coursework geared toward college attendance, she was offered a lucrative scholarship that would help her to attain her goal. However, it took only a single event to send her down a different path. She met a returned World War II veteran who was attempting to pick up the pieces after finding his marriage in irreparable shambles and his children gone. As he struggled, Carrington was there, and they pulled together to clear the many hurdles before them.
In this memoir, she tells the story of their journey and how their love and dedication for each other kept moving them forward. Filled with the joys, disappointments, and struggles of a couple, The Early Years narrates how the love of the heavenly Father was the continuous thread that bound Carrington’s life together.
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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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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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Coffee With Jesus
Price range: $4.99 through $14.99This book is full of short stories containing common sense, knowledge, adventure and humor. These are all true stories of life’s experiences, growing up in a small Indiana town along the Ohio River from the 1950s until now. Open this book and read any story that tickles your fancy. I guarantee you will learn many things from these stories. If after reading one story and you don’t feel this book is for you, well then, you have read the wrong story!!
You will find this book is designed for all age groups and is very easy and entertaining reading.
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Diary of a Caregiver: The Dementia Journey
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99In 2009 my wife of over 59 years was diagnosed with Dementia with Alzheimer’s symptoms. My care giving responsibilities began before that time and
continued until her death in January 2018. She was provided care in her own home. As time went by the caregiver duties became more and more demanding. It was truly 24 hours each day and seven days each week. My Sweetheart was referred to the hospice program as a patient beginning in March 2013 with a life expectancy of six months or less. At the time of her passing, she had been a hospice patient for 4 years, 10 months and 5 days. The Diary of a Caregiver begins with her entry into the hospice program and continues until her death. Care giving can be very frustrating at times as one never knows what to expect or when to expect it. The Diary of a Caregiver identifies many of the problems and frustrations associated with care of a Dementia patient. It also identifies different techniques and solutions to some of those problems. It should be of interest to anyone who is involved in care giving especially those who are just beginning.
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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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Before Dawn: A Time of Testing, Humbling, Suffering, and Sacrificing
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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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Sculptor Of The North: The Evolution of a Soul
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99It was the summer of 1973, and the Vietnam War was casting its insidious shadow over the world. Caught in a riot that began as an anti-war protest, I found myself running for my life from club-swinging cops and being teargassed from pepper fogging guns at the University of Minnesota. The protest was a result of American airplanes bombing neighboring Cambodia. It was soon after the deadly shootings at Kent State University where four students were gunned down. Many students gathered at Coffman Memorial Union watching television monitors broadcasting that day’s protest-turned-riot.
It was announced that the Minnesota National Guard had been called in. Oh-oh, here we go again. Were they going to open fire on us too? I was a senior at the university and had been accepted at the University of San Diego Law School. That day’s events changed my life. No way was I going to be a part of a money-crazed system as a lawyer, so I began my journey as an artist/sculptor.
Five years later, I found myself living in a tent in the woods near Ely. After two years of tent life, I moved to an old hunting shack filled with spiders, mice, and snakes on the property I bought. It was a roof over my head. After seven laborious years of remodeling with popular logs that I fitted into a log hut around the shack, the structure burnt to the ground during the blue moon on New Year’s Eve 1990. It was minus 40 degrees. I sat in the firetruck with then chief Klun after racing to my nearest neighbor’s house, logger Buster Nicholson, where I burst through his door yelling, “My house is on fire!”
“Use the phone,” he hollered, and I did. The Ely Fire Department met me at the beginning of Mud Creek Road, and I escorted them six miles down the road and into my remote haven in the woods. It was too late. Fire was consuming everything. Glass and ammunition were exploding, and the hoses on the truck were frozen. A night to remember for sure, but if anything is going to get the motivational juices flowing, it was that.
I created a monumental sculpture 31 years later of this resolute and powerful Viking, which is now the second-tallest cement statue in the state. It was a year-long project that stands nine feet tall and weighs about 3,500 pounds. Located in Tower behind the football field, he stands with his sword rammed into the ground looking skyward for a sign from the heavens, just like I did in 1973 and on New Year’s Eve during the blue moon.
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Big Bunches At The Jam Factory: We Are Only Dead If We Are Forgotten
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99The early 1980s witnessed the rise of a devastating disease that would kill millions worldwide, including thousands of young gay men; what would become known as the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In those dark days, Keith Paulusse transformed his South Yarra flower shop, Big Bunches, into a pioneering refuge and community for young gay men, their loved ones and families.
Paulusse promised his friends that their journeys would not soon be forgotten. Big Bunches at the Jam Factory is their tale, a chronicle of the personalities and events that made Big Bunches a vibrant hub of community activism, spirit, and perseverance. It is also a tale of Paulusse’s own travels, both physically and emotionally, from San Francisco in the heady days of the HIV/AIDS crisis, to the bedsides of dying friends back in Melbourne.
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The Going Was Good: Memoir of a Transatlantic Life
Price range: $3.99 through $12.50Spanning the decades from 1934 to 2020, The Going Was Good: Memoir of a Transatlantic Life follows the life of author David Buisseret from his early childhood to his life in retirement. Woven within the text, Buisseret recounts many historical events and trends, not only as a historian, but as someone who experienced the many changes and challenges of the times. Simultaneously, he expounds upon how these events affected his life, both professionally and personally, as well as the lives of his family.
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Selectively Lawless
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99This is the story of the son of a sharecropping lay minister who, at age 14, walks off the Texas cotton field his family is working on and tells his brother he is never picking cotton again. For the next 18 months he travels halfway across the country and up the Pacific Coast honing his skills as a gambler. At the end of that time he returns to his family driving a new Buick Roadster with $18,000 in his pocket. The money bank rolls his bootlegging enterprise.
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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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Princess Diana 2020: A Quest For Love
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99The Princess Diana story lives on.
Diana’s youngest son, Prince Harry, now 35, made headlines in late 2019 by saying his “greatest fear” is that because of several years of tabloid bullying of his wife Meghan Markle, she is being hounded like his mother was, and “history may repeat itself.” The royal couple had just sued a London tabloid for publishing Meghan’s private letter to her estranged father that fans the flames of their personal family feud. Prince William echoes his brother’s fear for Meghan’s and his wife Kate Middleton’s mental and physical health and safety.
Other Diana biographers have told pieces of the jigsaw puzzle of who she was. This book puts all the pieces together for a more comprehensive emotional portrait of the beloved but enigmatic Princess 22 years after her tragic and unexpected death at age 36 in 1979. We learn more about her through knowing about the thirteen men who were in her love life as she was on a quest for love all her short life.
We also learn about a woman who was Prince Charles’s “other mistress,” besides Camilla Parker Bowles, whom other biographers have not mentioned.
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More Than A Conqueror
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99Life was different back in the day. Community was vital. Childhood antics, teenage exploits, and the challenges of young adulthood revealed I didn’t know what I thought I knew. Through all of this, the greatest influence of my life was my mom. She helped me process the good and the bad. Instead of being one-dimensional live, love, and laugh with the great intention and anticipation of more. As she is no longer with me her words and laughter linger on, and I am emancipated. I learned that the greatest gift of life was and truly is love; unpretentious, nurtured, and existing to be shared with others.
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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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The Miracles in the Life of Abeth
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Dear Family, Members of the Prayer Group, and Friends: My heartfelt thanks for your purchase of this book and the contributions for this worthy cause! It will take the Mission to the next level in making a difference in people’s lives and the future of the Mission Rosary Prayer Group. You and your families will always be remembered in my prayers as I go through this journey of propagation of faith with the Mission Rosary Prayer Group. This had become my livelihood and it definitely changed my life and my priorities to serve Our Lord Jesus. Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary had impacted my life and so many others that I had to share it with the world. I authored this book to open my life, my love, my heart, and I even poured tears along the way. This book will benefit the Abeth Foundation, the descendants of this prayer group.
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Parables for Purposeful Walk
Price range: $3.99 through $21.99Parables For The Purposeful Walk follows in the tradition of Jack Worril’s first two books, “Parables for Plain People” and “More Parables for Plain People,” offering brief devotional messages for daily encouragement and inspiration. It was in the metropolitan Atlanta area that he made his living, raised his own family, carried out his various ministries, and witnessed the events and news items that have served as the basis for his writings. Since 2012, Jack’s ministry opportunities have expanded to include medical and evangelistic missions to Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Myanmar and Brazil, as well as several local Mission projects. Each of these personal experiences has added new perspective to the concept of walking the Purposeful Walk, and contributed to the enrichment of Jack’s observations of the working of God in the everyday lives of those with whom he has come in contact. The result is a collection of articles composed with the objective of focusing the readers’ attention on the Presence of God in each day’s events, whether personal, local, or worldwide. Jack’s desire is that these Parables will serve to give encouragement, guidance and inspiration to each one who engages in the purposeful walk through life.
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Aloha Nui Loa: A Pineapple Plantation Story
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99It was going to be a great summer on O’ahu, enjoying, working, a part timr job, while relishing time off from college life on Maui. Yet culinary student Eden Andres didn’t foresee that her return to her beloved plantation home, after two years away at school, would change the direction of her life. In Aloha Nui Loa, local girl Eden Andres Meets Ben Alexander. She is the daughter of the union representative, and he is the son of the chief stockholder of the corporation which owns the pineapple plantation where her father is employed. They couldn’t be more contrasting in their backgrounds and lifestyles. But frequent encounters cause sparks to fly, and with more lengthy time spent together, love blossoms.
As their relationship deepens, Eden and Ben must face what seem like insurmountable obstacles to their happiness. Ben has ghosts from his past that will challenge the trust and respect they have for each other. It will take a steadfast belief in their love to weather the impending storm in their paths. Will love conquer all?
Aloha Nui Loa paints an accurate and insight picture of pineapple plantation living in Hawaii in the mid to late 1900s. Manu details are provided that could only be known to someone who lived them. This is part pf the real Hawaii, and you’ll be grateful to have an inside view.
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Captain Jack Goes North To Alaska
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Captain Jack is an old geezer who creates the life he hopes to live before he dies. He is generous to a fault, bribes his family, his employees and their proposed marriage partners to go north, convert to Christianity, and join and eventually own his newly acquired business shipping freight among the islands of Alaska. He is a successful author, an accomplished craftsman, a builder and a man whose hard work, courage, generosity and greatly inflated self-image impacts an Indian village, a town, assorted small businesses and three generations of his family. With plenty of time to spare before he kicks it, the bucket is emptied.
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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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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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Escaping Tragedy: The Power To Forgive
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Escaping Tragedy: The Power to Forgive highlights the gruesome generational curse that thrust the Evans family into tragedy after tragedy until the power of forgiveness was discovered and applied against the dark, merciless familiar spirit. Now the family is slowly healing, yet the road ahead is long.
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An Obscure Life
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Also, by writing this it has become a therapeutic tool for myself to step back and reflect on the struggles and triumphs in my life and, overcome and deal with the bad within. The book’s title can be used as a verb or adjective. I use it as an adjective as in vague or unknown. So please do not judge me harshly and enjoy the story of An Obscure Life.
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The Spare: Part 2
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Our marriage was given about two weeks to two months to survive. We stood two chances of making it work out-slim and none. But through commitment and stubbornness, we hung in there. The name sumpter is in the dictionary and says “a packhorse,” which I relate to a mule, telling Bill he was stubborn as mule. This book tells a little of the years we live in Rapid City and how we grew. I’m sure there are others that have endured more turmoil and grief, but this is my tale of those formative years of marriage.
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The Spare: Part 1
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99I was born and raised on a working ranch twenty-eight miles north of Philip, South Dakota. As a young person, we worked hard and played hard, and events that occurred caused considerable pain to me both mentally and physically. My choices were not the best, and at seventeen, I was much on my own. The saying “I was the only hell my mother ever raised” was probably very accurate. I write this to tell what it was like growing up and to let others know their choices are important to their future.
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Recovery Happens Through Christ (My Story of Abuse, Alcoholism, and Adultery)
$17.99Recovery Happens through Christ is taken from the journals of Marilynne Harrison, an otherwise regular person who found herself sexually abused as a child and exposed to a world of sin in such a way as to bring tears to one’s eyes. By the time she was eleven, Marilynne was exposed to drugs, alcohol, and sex; and worst of all, was told to keep her situation to herself. The results of being robbed of her childhood led Marilynne to continue to live her life in the only way she knew, by continuing in the same sins.
Finally, many years later, Marilynne makes a dramatic turn to God. He lifts her out of her pit in a truly impossible way. This book covers seventeen painful and then triumphant years in Marilynne’ s life. She shares her tremendous struggles with sin, painful choices leading to more wrongdoing, and finally, a real call from our ultimate Savior, Jesus Christ. Celebrate her recovery and find hope for your own recovery, or that of your loved ones.
Are you struggling with drugs, alcohol, and wrong sexual relationships? Are you trapped in a sex addiction and can’t find your way out? Do you long to understand the relationship between the Christian and homosexuality? Is there real hope for gay and lesbian recovery? Do you feel as if there is no possibility for addiction recovery or abuse recovery? Before you lose all hope, find some quiet reading time and read the story of a lady with all the same reoccurring temptations and failures. With all her miserable existence, she provides hope to those who know exactly what she is talking about when she discusses her deplorable and self-destructive lifestyle. Do not give another moment of your life to yourself and Satan. Instead, allow yourself to be guided by the Holy Spirit to the One who also understands your temptations and is able to finally give you relief. Jesus Christ died for you, just as much as He did for Marilynne and the whole world. Just as He rescued Marilynne and gave her new life, He can surely do the same for you too.
We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who we are. For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard … People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood (Romans 3:22-25)
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Return to Vietnam, The Memories: Facing my Demons and Coming to Terms With Them
Price range: $10.99 through $17.99When I was waiting to board the aircraft in Saigon in July 1968, following my 13-month tour of Vietnam, the last thing I would have expected was to come back to Vietnam. Not until forty-five years after the Vietnam War ended, I was dealing with nightmares, and was diagnosed with PTSD. I was encouraged by my counselor and others to write about my experiences from Vietnam. That resulted in my first book, You Are Never Alone. I started to have a better handle on my daily images, nightly dreams, and nightmares. It was about that time I began thinking about the possibility of returning to Vietnam to face my demons.
This book, “Return to Vietnam-The Memories,” Began a trip to face my demons. It was more than I expected, by meeting a VC soldier during peacetime and making friends with several gracious Vietnamese people. A cruise down the Mekong River brought memories of crossing the river during convoys. My main goal of the trip was to find the orphanage in MyTho where during a VC attack a couple of kids were killed. Having a knowledgeable tour guide that followed many leads to locate our objective worked endlessly. We saw where the orphanage was, which now was replaced with a school, but finding the last of the living nuns that worked at the orphanage in 1967 when the VC attacked and interacting with someone who was virtually there and remembered that day was overwhelming. Sister Renee and I visited parts for three days. This book covers the details of this fantastic trip and the results it had on me.
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CARMI’S LOVE STORY: How Ted and Ruth Ann Made the Word Marriage, “Extraordinary”
Price range: $12.99 through $18.99THE GIST OF THE STORY
This is not a story about a movie star, a famous politician, or a corporate billionaire. It’s a narrative of the lives of two “normal” kids in a small town and how they fell in love and then overcame overwhelming odds to be an example for all of us of what true love and commitment to each other look like.
-Ryan Jorstad
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After graduating from Illinois with a degree in physical education, my first teaching job was in the Dixon school system. I was also the new basketball coach. The school was in the northwest corner of Illinois, not far from the Wisconsin border. Some people in the area knew of my being with the Milwaukee Braves (a very short stint in the summer of 1958), which led to invitations to speak at some high school athletic banquets in the area. It was very surprising that after some of those speaking engagements, someone would tell me, “Coach, you ought to be a minister.” I never thought much of that comment the first or second time I heard it. But it kept happening. After the fourth time, I told my roommate, who happened to also be a new teacher at Amboy and an assistant football coach. He said, “I feel the same way. You ought to be a minister. You would be a damn good one, too.” This past June, I completed my sixtieth year in the ministry as a pastor in the United Methodist Church.