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Snippets: Invitation to Celebrate Life New Orleans Style
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Snippets is a collection of very short scenes in the author’s life, that help the reader to recall similar moments in their own life. Over fifty snippets recount memories from childhood to old age. Topics range the gambit from preschool experiences to on the job memorable moments to hard-to-forget death scenes. Along the way, you are treated to first-hand accounts of fishers dodging bees and alligators. You have a front row seat as the author catches snakes and sells them for profit. You skate with him on a bridge over the Mississippi and ride falling trees. You watch in horror while little boys scare their mother with a dozen lizards. You go behind the scenes to see how New Orleans’ traditions get started. You scramble for Mardi throes and watch mature adults turn into children. Along the way, you are introduced to another way to look at life.
The book concludes with a postscript, an essay on the origin of New Orleans’ popular culture. It is the distillation of years of research on the demography and history of the City. It brings together in one place, the authors own work and the very best studies on the uniqueness of New Orleans.
The unmistakable message in the book is that life is meant for living. From the silliest scenes of two young boys stealing a large bean bag in front of a merchant to the more sobering episodes of death and dying, you meet life. Whether simply amusing or dramatic. each snip of life depicted is a message of hope and joy. Each snippet is a moment in time, a solitary note that points to an eternal song. The reader is asked to enter the song in celebration of life New Orleans style; forsake forgetfulness and watch for the rainbow.
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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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A Hero’s Life
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99The story of a war hero who is faced with a choice between what he believes is moral on the one hand, and his job, his family and the security of his country on the other.
Steve Pritchard was a World War II fighter pilot hero who returned from England in 1945 to his home in Los Angeles. He was a double ace with twelve downed Messerschmitt ME-109’s to his credit. Steve had married his high school sweetheart, the prettiest girl in town, went to work at Western Aircraft Company, the largest aircraft company in Southern California and moved into a new home with swimming pool on the Palos Verdes peninsula. Steve and Ellen quickly had three children and settled down to a comfortable post-war life.
He earned a master’s degree in aeronautical engineering at UCLA night school and became his company’s chief troubleshooter. The company’s design team listened to his suggestions and respected his opinion. All was going well when he was assigned a special mission by the company president to investigate multiple crashes of the company’s new, supersonic fighter jet. It would be a simple task, one that he was sure he could solve in a few days.
But those few days turned into months of futile probing, political infighting, Air Force interference, threats on his life and lack of support from his company’s management as well as from his family. Using his experience in airplane design and applying his flying skills, could he finally identify the cause of the crashes? If he identifies the problem, should he reveal the faulty design and lose his job, his home, and his family, or cover up the problem, get the promotion for which he had been working, and continue to live a comfortable life? A man who had been hailed a hero just a few years before in World War II was now to find out what it really meant to lead a hero’s life.
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Price range: $3.99 through $19.99Working in a family print shop as I grew up led to my career, first in education and then to publishing and dramatic technology development – with R.R. Donnelley, Readers Digest, and Sothebys over 50 years. While working at Columbia University for 5 years “at the turn of the century”, I became fascinated with geothermal energy technology and have since attended conferences and visited geothermal energy sites. (http://thnktnk.net/drill.html) is a paper I wrote on the subject.
Presently I am involved in several community organizations (Library, Parks, Arts, Downtown, Bird Sanctuary) in my hometown where I moved five years ago from New York. I live there with my fiancée whom I re-met at our 50th high school reunion. We have enjoyed Europe, China, and US travels together. -
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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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. -
The Perils of Beginnings: A Cavazos Historical Memoir
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99In 1967, the 18-year-old author hopped into her spicy Auntie Eloisa’s new GTO to embark on a road trip from San Antonio, Texas, to Tampico, Mexico. While searching for her baptismal certificate, Auntie shares the history of Narciso, a bold visionary who, in 1793, left an aristocratic life in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, to cultivate the 600,000 acres of land awarded to him by the King of Spain. As Narciso’s story unfolds, so do the secrets of the two women. Told with humor and warmth, I delighted in Bernadette’s tales of a cow greeting her while using an outdoor toilet, Auntie dropping her bloomers while dancing with abandon to the mariachis’ music, and a “gentle” horse baring her teeth at the author before riding her into the river. This book is a must-read for anyone who enjoys history, romance, and colorful characters.
Bernadette Inclan does an outstanding job weaving two periods of history to tell the story of her life and ancestor, José Narciso Cavazos, one of the early Texas settlers.
~Louise J. Privette, executive editor of Many Worlds, Many Stories: Inkslingers Anthology and author of Dancing Through Life: A Memoir
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Schätze der Dunkelheit
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99Der Autor, der sich auf die Suche nach Antworten auf die tiefgründigen Fragestellungen des Lebens gemacht hat, bietet in seinem Werk eine Fülle von Anregungen und Erleuchtungen auf dem Weg zum Frieden, zum Selbstfrieden und zum Frieden gegenüber Gott. In diesem Buch finden Sie Antworten auf die tiefsten Fragen des Lebens und werden ermutigt und erleuchtet, Frieden mit Ihrer Vergangenheit, mit sich selbst und mit Gott zu finden. Sie werden grundlegende menschliche Einstellungen erkennen, die es zu überwinden gilt, und Sie werden grundlegende Wahrheiten über Gott erfahren, die Sie in keiner Gemeinde hören werden. Wir lernen gesunde Wege kennen, mit unseren Ängsten, unserer Scham und vielen Täuschungen, denen wir in unserem Leben ausgesetzt sind, umzugehen. Entdecken Sie die wahre Definition von Rechtschaffenheit in Gottes Augen und werden Sie Zeuge der wunderbaren Art und Weise, wie Gott denen hilft, die ihn um Hilfe bitten.
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Murder In Stoney Lonesome
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99A Hollywood Producer, Andy Abbott, was kidnapped in Sapporo, Japan, by a Psychotic Scientist who plans to infect the world with a deadly serum, then become a Savior with an anecdote he has yet to perfect. Told by Japanese officials that his plane crashed and there were no survivors, the widow was given an Urn full of ashes and dismissed. No longer needing to live in Bal Air, Abby Abbott moves back to her roots in Bloomington, Indiana. Having built a new home in a nearby artsy community, Nashville, IN, she stumbles across the body of an Asian in a forest on her property. That murder leads to an investigation by a number of Federal Agencies. It stretches from the United States to Japan, Russia, Finland, England and back to Bloomington and Nashville. Intrigue combines with humor in a Senior Citizen Facility. It is a compelling read from cover to cover.
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Warrior for Christ: The Warrior Chronicles
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Image being beaten and left for dead. Waking up from a coma finding yourself separated from your wife and children. Only to face a trial of Job, losing everything.
Logan Crawford – On Spotlight Network calls this, “An awe inspiring true story of Bryan Porter . . . ‘Warrior for Christ – Warrior Chronicles.’ After surviving a brutal attack, Bryan’s life spirals into the unimaginable-into unemployment, homelessness, and imprisonment. Through it all; however, he has an unshakeable faith in God.
This gripping real-life narrative chronicles Bryan’s journey of resilience, faith, and triumph over adversity.’
– Atticus Publishing
Lion Leaf Publishing & Marketing – “Warrior for Christ . . . embodies the relentless fight against adversity, both seen and unseen, as he traverses the tumultuous landscapes of physical confrontation and spiritual warfare.
Bryan’s journey serves as a rallying cry for believers and non-believers alike – a call to arms in the battle for the soul. His story is a testament to the enduring power of faith, a reminder that even in the darkest of times, hope remains eternal.
– Lion Leaf Publishing & Marketing
Now he boasts that he has no fear. Through Christ he is immortal; and a warrior for Christ!
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The Color of Gray: (Living and Dying with Alzheimer’s) (Types of Abuse and Sexual Relations)
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Polly was born in Surry County, N. C. She graduated from Pinnacle High School in 1964. She attended Winston-Salem Business College, and worked for North Carolina Baptist Hospital until she retired in 2008. She has taken several writing classes at Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C. She was given the Editor’s Choice Award in The Path Not Taken, by the National Library of Poetry. She has also had poetry published in Beyond the Stars, Where Dawn Lingers, Poetic Voices of America, and Treasured Poems of America. She has also self-published Daisies Rainbows Dreams. This is her story of being a caregiver and her husband’s battle with Alzheimer’s.
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The Joy of Faithful and Cheerful Giving: Wonderful Principles to Embrace
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99“When you think of giving to the Lord, do you feel burdened? Or do you get excited about the amazing opportunities that will open up when you surrender your resources to His control?
In this wonderful little book, Vincent Nwankpa unlocks Biblical secrets about giving that will show you how giving to the Lord and to others is a pathway to joy and victory that you have never known. Putting these principles in practice will not only transform your giving, but also your walk with God for the rest of your life!”
by Jack Littlefield
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The Spare: Part 4
Price range: $3.99 through $18.99The Spare: Part 4 provides insight into aging and life’s reality of death. The trials and events that happen. The winter of our existence is projected in this book, covering the many frailties of living. The many blessings encountered in the journey of life.
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Glory Days: Tales of a North Shore Dangerboy
Price range: $3.99 through $28.99Glory Days recounts the hijinks of a North Shore Dangerboy growing up in the sixties and seventies. From childhood innocence through teenage rambunctiousness and into a fun-loving adulthood, Terrill shares exciting tales that will have you laughing one moment and crying another. An honest portrayal of a journey not dissimilar to your own.
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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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This is My Song, This is My Story: I’m Not Who I Used To Be
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99The powerful, personal story of how a woman whose entire identity was rooted in homosexuality and poverty thinking became transformed and set free into her true identity as a beautiful, strong woman through the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
When life turns upside-down, who do you turn to? And when you turn to God, what do you do when His very presence in your life disrupts everything you thought was true about yourself, your relationships, and your sexual identity?
That was the challenging, yet ultimately freeing place that music-lover Terrie Broom found herself facing. With the unexpected, untimely death of her brother due to complications from AIDS, Terrie began seeking answers to her grief…which miraculously led her to an encounter with God.
The only problem? Her long-term, same-sex partner didn’t want to come along on that spiritual journey. Terrie’s entire world suddenly turned upside-down as she lost her beloved home, her pets, many friends, and her income.
Facing grief, loss, a dramatic breakup, financial struggles, and loneliness, Terrie had no choice but to double down on her faith in God, no matter what. With each season, she gained valuable insights into God’s love for her through devotional time, the help of godly people supporting her journey-and music that spoke to her struggles and provided powerful encouragement to continue to walk in faith.
Part memoir, part devotional, part homage to all kinds of music, Terrie’s inspiring, open-hearted, authentic story of change and freedom is a powerful reminder of how God can truly transform anyone and everyone-no matter what you’re going through. You’ll be encouraged to open your life to God’s transforming power, trusting as Terrie did, that all things work for our good-and all for His glory.