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Beyond the Breakpoint: How I Survived As A Young Widow And Returned To Joy
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The Names of My Mothers
Price range: $3.99 through $18.99The Names of My Mothers is the touching story of the tender and all-too-brief relationship forged late in life between Dianne Riordan (nee Susanne Sanders) and her birth mother. In 1942 Elizabeth Bynam sanders was a young woman who left home under false pretense and travelled to Our Lady of Victory, a home for unwed mothers in upstate New York. Shortly after surrendering her daughter for adoption, she returned to her life in Johnston County, North Carolina. She never married and never had another child of her own.
This powerful and moving memoir speaks of the profound need for connection. It is a story about identity, the hunger we feel for a sense of belonging and the ineffable significance of blood…
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A Life Story of Heritage and Faith
Price range: $3.99 through $18.99A Life Story of
Heritage
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A Life Story of Heritage and Faith is a book of my life experiences of rural upbringing and as an internal medicine physician over a 40-year career. It is centered around my relationships with God and man: family, friends, patients, community; and my heritage and faith, through serial personal tragedies, and in working with others in the joys, trials and challenges of life.
Please come with me as I chronicle my humble beginnings through education and ministering to patients, friends, employees and many others. Let’s get started in 1955 on our farm on the day and occasion of my first remembrances and self-awareness.
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Where Are You Going, Human?
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99Ladislaw, the famous gypsy mayor of his village, and one of the most famous Romani activists in Wonderland died under tragic circumstances on 14. July 2020. He was able to change and turn around his whole village in fourteen years with his benevolent, and unorthodox style. He was a man who always lived up to his promises and had a fight against unfavorable odds in his entire life. Even his enemies admitted his positive results, and originality during his negotiations. His lifelong fight against poverty, prejudice, and discrimination was courageous, persistent, and always optimistic. As the leader of his gypsy village, he did his best for the future positive changes, he acted like a good father to his people.
I wrote this book in his best memory for everybody who knew him, and who would like to know him better.
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The Journey: The Dream of a 6th Grader
Price range: $4.99 through $20.99It’s often been said that every person has at least one book inside of them. The main purpose of this book is to express in written form my experiences I had throughout my journey to North America for my children and grandchildren.
But, if this book will have an impact on someone that is going through a similar experience or has been in my shoes and it will help them not to stop or give up, it will definitely accomplish its objective.
My motto for this book was to learn from the past, to live in the present, and focus on the future. My guide: Proverbs 3:5-6; Trust in the Lord with all your heart; and lean not unto your own understanding. In all the ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.
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A Life Not Expected: But A Journey Worth Taking
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Born in her grandparents’ bedroom on October 11, 1925, Violet Grayson says of her writing, “At the age of fourteen, I wrote a poem and a rather dismal short story. I sent the short story to Collier’s magazine, where it was immediately rejected. I redeemed my pride by later winning a school-wide essay contest at Cumberland High School and becoming an at-large reporter for our school paper, The Chronicle. As a senior, I was named literary editor of our yearbook. My English teacher, Mr. Skahan, suggested I switch to the college course since he saw me as scholarship material, but that was too much of a reach in those Great Depression years. After graduating in 1943, I worked in an office, married in 1949, and became a mother in 1950 and then a single parent in 1952. My writing would have to wait until January 1986 when, at the age of sixty, I launched my literary career.”
Violet has had twenty-four personal-experience stories, articles, how-to pieces, and short stories published. She also wrote a column for the Foxboro Reporter in her former home of Foxboro, Massachusetts. In California, since 1993, she contributed to “Two Cents,” an opinion column in the San Francisco Chronicle maintained by a pool of citizens. She is an active member and Secretary of Writers West of Alameda Inc.
This is her fourth book. The first, In the Village Lonsdale, was published in 2006. Her second, A Gossamer Cord, was published in 2011. Her third, Jeremy’s Cottage, was published in 2013.
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The Spare: Part 3
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99The major move of our family back to the family farm in 1975 was like a marriage, years of compromise and commitment but sticking with it through the good and the bad. After all, we had made a decision to save the family farm. After the death of dad, the brothers created a very hostile environment and Bill and I were evicted as they took over with their majority ownership and sold the farm.
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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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Daniel Seven: The Beginning and the Ending of All Times as We Know It
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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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Don’t Quit, Don’t Cry!
Price range: $3.99 through $25.99Don’t Quit! Don’t Cry! is a Canadian’s gripping life story.
August 1967: Canada celebrates its centennial; Jacques R. Roy studies African history and Kiswahili in Montréal. With a deep sense of justice, freedom, and liberty, Jacques joins CUSO as a teacher and leaves for Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Jacques meets Dr. Agostinho Neto, President and Founder of the MPLA (People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola). Dr. Neto needs radio links. Jacques can solve this problem. All of this will require complete secrecy.
April 1968: Dr. Neto invites Jacques to the eastern Angolan front. He likes the radio results and sends Roy to mobilize Canadian public opinion.
• 1970: South Africa’s ANC external leaders Hani and Mbeki ask Jacques to create a spy unit. Cover: a love story with missions worthy of James Bond and Indiana Jones.
• 1974: Jacques brings Dr. Neto to Ottawa’s parliamentary committee. Dr. Neto asks for liberation for six nations from minority rule.
• November 11, 1975: Independence. CIA steps in.
• 1998: Unstoppable, Roy goes back to Angola. Mission: Stop the civil war. The plan: Follow the blood diamonds.
• Results: Canada’s UN Ambassador Robert Fowler visits Africa, writes the Fowler Report. The UN imposes sanctions and blood diamond funds dry up.
• April 2002: civil war ends.
• 2008: Veterans of Angola Liberation (LIVEGA) induct Jacques Roy, card number 00A.
WE… RECOGNIZE JACQUES ROY… A DIPLOMAT, AN EDUCATOR A PRACTICAL MAN, SENSITIVE, WOLRD VISION, INTERNATIONALIST… JACQUES IS OUR FRIEND AND ALWAYS WELCOMED IN ANGOLA AGOSTINHO NETO PRESIDENT REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA 1975
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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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An Ordinary yet extraordinary life
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99The Lord of Heaven has been my guide and helper throughout my life and ministry. I consider myself an ordinary human being but believe that God has continually guided my life in very wonderful and extraordinary ways.
