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Reflecting On The Word Of The Lord
$3.99We Christians live in a rushed and hurried culture which our churches have accepted without thinking through the consequences. It seems that we have allowed ourselves to equate busyness with spirituality and bible study with the loudest opinion in the room.
Reflecting attempts to call us back to a matured time in Christian history when congregants did not read the Bible speedily. One of my high school English teachers used to warn us that just vocalizing words aloud was different than truly reading. This book calls us to read the Scripture, reread the Scripture, think about what we have read, and to meditate on the concepts of a passage following them throughout Scripture. By this means, we should be able to grasp a more complete understanding of the ideas the verses have presented to us.
Moreover, a slower reading and a rereading allows time for the Holy Spirit to speak to us. Often, I hear someone express that as often as they have read a certain passage of Scripture, they did not gain the newest understanding from their latest reading. Why is that?
It is because we have just called words without reflecting on them. Reflecting and meditating are old ways of studying the Word of God. You will be richly blessed by beginning and maintaining the practice. It is indeed food for the hungry Christian’s soul.
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Reflections III: The Magic Beyond the Pain: The Journey, My Impact, Their Impact
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99This book reflects life-each and every one of us in our journeys as all of us inevitably end in the same place. It is our journeys, individually and those we share time and space with, along with the many souls on four legs that define the happiness inside. It is also imperative that we find ways to help the world we live in-for those many starfish that ended on the beach, and for each of those starfish that we can throw back in the water,-well, one more life we have saved. Inevitably, it is the lives we save that actually save us-aren’t they? They fill our souls with energy with that special feeling that we mean something that we actually are all connected but to live life with purpose-well that is ultimately the most fulfilling of all important feelings. To each of you I hope you fill those moments in the simplest of ways-giving back, and pay forward to become the power and energy that will save us all.
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Reflections of Humanity: A Tapestry of Perceptions
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99This collection will take on different meanings at different points in time. Many of the key themes have multiple messages. This is also the case in many interpretations of the vocabulary. Everyone has an individual perception of what truth is. These works are representative of this writer’s understanding of that entity.
It is my hope that this collection will inspire the realization within each reader that the true wisdom in life is one’s ability to believe in oneself. Thus, will it become possible to accept responsibility for our own actions? Once this end is accomplished, we can, each in his own right, make beneficial changes. Many have had this same dream since the dawn of time. It is this writer’s most ardent hope that this work will find acceptance within the heart of each reader. A further hope is that these perceptions will serve as an inspiration to each to establish a positive sense of self and a more cohesive view of the people around you.
Try to set gender aside in these works. Wherever possible, substitute people and situations within your own life and the lives of the loved ones around you.
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Reinvented
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99This “pearl of wisdom” is derived from my need to leave some tales about my life as a legacy for my family. It has become my story for anyone who may venture to read it with the assumption that some folks out there either share my spirit or will identify with a time in my life.
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Remembering ZEOLA
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99The stories Zeola told about herself show aspects of her character that was budding at age four and five, for example learning to clean and care for her home and to beautify it. After marriage, she expressed her love for husband and children as she labored daily to take care of them. Preparing three meals daily, washing and cleaning as well as teaching and training her children to work and care for the home are all expressions of her love without using words. She loved her home and cultivated many flowers and trees on the outside. She worked hard to clean and beautify the home on the inside too. For example, she made curtains for the windows and doilies for many tabletops, cushions for chairs and tablecloths for tables. She and Brenda partnered to make quilts and bedspreads for the beds. The church and community were very important to her, and she gave herself to teaching children in Sunday School classes. She loved to sing and worked with the children’s choir at church for many years. Her devotion to Jesus Christ was shown in the zeal with which she took on tasks such as tending to the sick about her and helping those who were in some kind of need. Many of the examples I recount bring to light her service to others. She persisted in the face of multiple trials and afflictions; always getting up and trying again without giving up under their weight. When I began to think about her legacy, I rejoice as I look back over her life and realize that she developed enduring faith and Christian character through all of these things. She chose not to grow bitter because of them, but to submit to God’s will and to press toward victory that would someday be hers.
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Respect, Commit, Change: Facing the Truth and The Light
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99Food for Thought!
1. The real key to life is that you have to be ready to do whatever it is you want to do.
2. Remember, in your life, other than God, you are the only person with you, your entire life.
3. Things happen good and bad, so endure, grieve, and move on.
4. Try not to worry about anything, but to pray about everything.
5. Live, Love, Laugh hard and as much as you can.
6. Enjoy simple and small things.
7. Surround yourself with positive things and with people you love.
8. Thank and praise God for everything, good, bad, and indifferent.
9. Respecting others gives you a good feeling in life, or it can cause you to lose your life.
10. Think of the consequences for the choices you make.
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Resurrection?: Fact or Fiction? A Trial Lawyer Examines The Evidence
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ are the central facts undergirding Christian faith and life. Joe Otto brings to bear his legal training in a succinct and masterful summary of the Biblical and historical evidence for the reality of these events and compellingly urges their significance for us today. This little book will both greatly encourage Christian disciples and challenge those who do not believe, are skeptics, or simply have questions, to take the step for faith. I especially liked the compendium of references to the incredibly intricate way God’s design is displayed in the small details of the natural world.
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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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Rhymes in Me
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99A homo-sapient with ORD – Obsessive Rhyming Disorder, Giridhar was born in a city named Dharwad, Karnataka- India, Giridhar always wondered if it’s something about cities that makes Art stick in the air & gives wings to those seeking beyond the obvious, The city of Dharwad has a history with the literary kind. But then Giridhar found his true love affair with words was through his mother who held a Masters in Arts & must have fed me a handful of her thoughts, even before he made an entry into the world. Giridhar Jaded led a life of adherence until the age of 35 (did someone say mid-life?) before realizing that the voices in his head wanted an outlet ever so badly. When the floodgates opened, Giridhar found it impossible to hold the words that had started a silent revolution inside until then and a book of poetry ensued in a mere 40 days. Giridhar has a Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial Engineering & also an MBA in Information Technology. He is married to Rachna Sahu and lives in Dallas, Texas. Giridhar has sailed through living the corporate life for 13+ years & currently works as a senior QA manager in an IT company. Giridhar believes that he could live the rest of his life speaking poetically if he tried, that is. There is a camaraderie that Giridhar feels in his mind where the thoughts are constantly in a state of overflow. Besides his passion in writing, Giridhar loves to travel, cannot imagine a day without music & has a newfound vigor to be on the fitness wagon even though he slips up every now and then.
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Rocks, Roots and Rattlesnakes (Revised Edition): A Geologist’s Journal: 150 Days of Discovery on the Appalachian Trail
Price range: $3.99 through $23.99Rocks, Roots and Rattlesnakes is the captivating story of my five-month 2020 journey hiking the Appalachian Trail, as told from a geologist’s perspective. It is written as a series of daily logs originally transcribed from my daily journals, then embellished with additional details resulting from further recollection and research. All of the stories are true, and many contain elements of human interest relating to the many fascinating hikers I met on my adventure. Perhaps the most enjoyable aspect of doing such a trek is encountering so many interesting people along the way. My goal in assembling this book was to provide entertainment and information for two main audiences First, for those who have hiked the trail, I included stories relating to places and things all of us have seen, along with frequent observations about those mysterious rocks beneath our feet. For those new to the trail, or who have never hiked long distances, this is a glimpse into the wonders and excitement out there to be discovered, as told by just one of the many thousands of past thru-hikers. The book contains three parts with 26 chapters and reads like a journal log, capturing my challenges and experiences each day on the trail. In addition to the 240 pages of text, there are over 100 beautiful color photos, 6 figures and 6 charts. Hopefully you will find this book both informative and entertaining, as you read and enjoy my tales of 150 days of discovery on the Appalachian Trail!
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Ron’s Ramblings: Characters, Critters and Us Cantankerous Rednecks
Price range: $5.99 through $19.99Big Sky Country is one of the many nicknames for the state of Montana, the place the author calls home. While Montana is a diverse state in people and in geography, north-eastern Montana is characterized by soft rolling hills and sharp coulees; scrub grass, sage brush and wild flowers cover the prairie lands and tall cottonwood, ash and willow trees shade the waterways, all outlined against skies a magnificent shade of blue which make this countryside unforgettable and unique. The people that have and still do call this place home are just as unforgettable and unique as the skies.
This is a collection of stories and tales, mostly centered around the rural area of north-eastern Montana; some are from the authors own experience, including family and local history, as well as stories of wildlife, hunting and farming, and some belong to others who have been kind enough to share their own histories and recollections.
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RUN… Tell Someone!!
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Run… Tell Someone is a book about safety practices for children. Follow Brock as he demonstrates how he stays safe. Listen, as he gives tips and pay attention to how you can do the same.
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Sally’s Home of Championship Horse’s
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99This story is about a pony who refused to give up despite his little size. His owner told him she didn’t want him just because he was small, he left and continued on his adventure until he met someone who would believe in him. Similarly, to the book’s author. She had always wanted to write a book, but several people doubted her, so she named the pony Determination. He will never give up, and neither will the author.
Have fun reading!
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Santa’s Big White Chicken
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99On Christmas Eve, one of Santa’s reindeer informs him that all of his reindeer have come down with the flu and will be unable to pull his sleigh that night. Santa panics and wonders how he will be able to deliver all the toys to the children this Christmas. While searching for answers, he stumbles upon a little white chicken who informs him that he has the solution. He tells Santa that he has just spoken to Prancer, the lead reindeer, and Prancer reveals to the chicken that the jingle bells that the reindeer wear when they pull the sleigh provide the magic that allows the reindeer team to fly. The chicken takes the bells to Santa and tries to convince Santa that the bells will work for him. Santa is not convinced until the chicken puts the bells on himself, and in a blink of an eye, the chicken grows to be ten feet tall. Santa then mounts the chicken and with his sack full of toys, completes his mission that night. The story is told in rhyme and is brilliantly illustrated by the author’s grandson, Louis W. Lonsway.
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Scrutineer’s Wake: Discovery in D.C.
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99For Jalen Harkness, the challenges of a new and bullied student provides a teaching challenge which threatens his own desire to develop and grow as a historian.
James Gholson is a product of Fairmont High School in the D.C. metro area. He has served as clarinetist with the U.S Navy Band, Professor of Clarinet at the University of Memphis, and Principal Clarinetist with the Memphis Symphony. Currently, he is a board member with the Eroica Ensemble of Memphis and performs with that group. He has authored Feets, Tight, Reading Rampage, and The Seasoned Clarinetist.
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Seasons of the Soul
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99Seasons of the Soul is a collection of prayers arising from meditation, a prose section which describes a moving mystical experience, and thoughts on peace. Finally, a poetry section contains a wide variety of poems, many of them thoughtful and spiritual in nature. Some are just plain fun. All are in a highly readable form. The book is an exploration of the author’s own spiritual journey. Readers may smile as they recognize the gifts of a shared path.
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Secrets to Receiving Uncommon Breakthroughs: Uncommon Breakthrough Prayer Points Handbook
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99Praying is not enough: You need to be praying for the right things in order to see results. In this prayer handbook, you will discover areas to cover in prayers that you may be overlooking. Knowing what to pray for will greatly improve the effectiveness of your prayers and prayer life. Whether you
are seeking to achieve better results in business, finances, academics, marriage, raising children, or some other area, the lessons in this book will help you fulfill your destiny. Find out how to:
• stop the enemy who wants to stop you, so the enemy dies instead of you;
• protect your life and the future of your family;
• deliver yourself from demons and satanic oppressions;
• live the fruitful life that God intended for you.
Don’t allow yourself or family members to suffer because you don’t know how to pray. Rise above enemies and gather strength from the Lord with the action steps and insights in Secrets to Receiving Uncommon Breakthroughs.
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Servant Leaders: The Greatest Among us from Research to Practice. This is Why?
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Seven Things That Heaven and Hell Have In Common
Price range: $3.99 through $6.99Has anyone ever taken the time to talk to you about Heaven and Hell? Have you studied them on your own? Do you realize you are a mortal? You will die. Someday. How does that make you feel? Where will you go once you take your final breath on earth? Who will be there? Where’s there? And, most importantly, have you come to grips with the fact that YOU are in charge of your destiny? Yes. You heard me right. You decide where you will end up. So, with that being said, permit me to ask one more question. Are you going to Heaven or are you going to Hell?
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Shadow of Danger
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99Author, Betty Clark, lived in a very secluded, quite town in the northeastern panhandle of The United States. A little town call Cameron. She has two daughters who support her. She loves both of them, and she dedicates this book to them, Cheryl Murray and Ronda Enyeart.
This book is about the dangers in our lives today. It tells a story about unthinkable things that we never fear until it happens to you.
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Sharecropper to Entrepreneur to Pastor
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99There’s an old question about whether a person will be a thermometer or a thermostat in life. A thermometer merely registers the temperature of the surroundings, but a thermostat actually controls the temperature. This inspiring story demonstrates how during the major junctures in his life, John Womack has and continues to be a thermostat.
Growing up in a Virginia sharecropping family in the midst of pernicious racism and economic deprivation, Womack was able to learn how to overcome these obstacles without losing his belief that human beings are basically good and will do right when given the opportunity. Throughout his life, he combined his creative vision not only with the necessary business acumen, but also with moral and ethical responsibility in spite of an environment of greed, egotism, and selfishness. Regardless of his position–whether in the navy or as an entrepreneur, husband, father, student, pastor, board member, and friend–Womack has acquitted himself with a spiritual consciousness that girded him with the capability to overcome the barriers to progress and prosperity.
He never abandoned his fundamentally Christian orientation amid a variety of temptations.
Remaining humble through all these endeavors, Womack longs to share his life work with today’s youth, young adults, and others. He yearns to encourage them to believe–despite surrounding hardships and institutional barriers–that they can transcend their existential circumstances and make something out of their lives. By sharing his life story, Womack hopes to encourage others to confront today’s challenges with wisdom, faith, hope, and love. Certainly, the Rev. Dr. John Womack–sharecropper, veteran, entrepreneur, husband, father of three, pastor, and author–exemplifies this possibility and personifies this truth.
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Shatter Some Worlds: Reinventing, Realizing, Reintegrating: A Sickness Begins
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99At the innocent age of ten, author Andrew Tirado is confronted with a life-altering, near-death experience after a bicycle accident leaves him with a collapsed lung and a traumatic brain injury. With remarkable fortitude and the support of his family, Tirado slowly begins the road to recovery. He relearns how to walk, how to eat, and even how to talk. Tirado perseveres despite these setbacks and returns to school with a determination to lead a life that is as normal as possible. During his teen years, Tirado has brushes with the law, experiments with drugs, and tries to understand the opposite sex. He graduates from high school and enrolls in a local community college. But he receives another drastic blow when he is faced with the sudden death of his fiancé. Tirado pens a touching, bittersweet memoir with Shatter Some Worlds. Tirado’s portrayal of his life is honest and frank and reveals his indomitable courage in the midst of grief and suffering. He uses his adversity as an accelerant that drives his consciousness to rise to the occasion and accomplish great things.
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Shattered Glass
Price range: $3.99 through $14.95Obstacles and hardships will either make you push harder or keep you stagnated. Please do not choose the latter. This book is about the truthfulness of the author’s past experiences and how she rose to become one of God’s most deserving and faithful servant. It will challenge you to step out of your comfort zone and experience the gifts and promises God has destined for you.
Shattered Glass serves as a guide post of hope and healing for those who has experienced or experiencing molestation, rape, rejection, termination, low self-esteem, loss of a loved one and suicidal ideations. God has spoken. You are more than a conqueror. Blessings to all who inspire a closer relationship with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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Silent Invasion
Price range: $3.99 through $13.50Reporter Amber van Hosteen and CIA agent Jeff Smith discover atrocities against humanity that appear to be only a test run for what is to come. It’s an alien plot on an unimaginable scale, decades in the making, and if they don’t stop it, within months, a new holocaust will be unleashed upon all of humanity-the Silent Invasion.
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Sin: Walk of Shame
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99SIN; WALK OF SHAME is a story that I created as an adolescent about the Seven Deadly Sins and the people in Hell who must find the Seven Heavenly Virtues in order to escape slavery by the Sins. Their journey through the various parts of Hell in their enslavement to SIN and see the workings of all of the Sins as well as the Virtues against the Sins. This story is a precursor to other stories that I have created and hope to spread a message with, as well. I hope that the stories I create are influential to those who read them.
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SISTERHOOD: The Story of Bella
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99The Sisterhood – Story of Bella is the first book in a series of 5 individual books. The storyline is basically about 4 women who grow up together in a small town in Mississippi. They are sisters to one another and end up controlling the town and everything that happens within and around the town.
Bella happens to be one of the sisters and she is a fashion model who ventures away from town and travels all over Europe for her career. She eventually moves back to her hometown with a new husband in tow.
Bella really does not know who she married and of course the other sisters are somewhat leery of him as something just doesn’t seem right. Well, could they be right and when one of the sisters happens to learn about a few things he does not want Bella to know about, the world takes on a new look.
The sisters come together to review all the information they know, make plans on how to verify the information and then decide on what to do. They have hidden talents that only they know about that enable them to do many things out of the ordinary.
There is a mystery man who seems to be hiding in plain sight throughout the story. Who is this man and what is he doing? Odd how nobody has picked up on his presence yet. And who is he reporting to?
This first book ends with a concern about what will happen next and the 2nd book – “The Story of Eleanor” will bring some light to the mystery man.
Each book is about each sister with the final book tying the 4 previous stories together. Save the 5th book for last so you can be surprised with the final ending.
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Six Notch Road: The Joshua Trail Trilogy (Book 1)
Price range: $3.99 through $12.95SIX NOTCH ROAD the first book in The Joshua Trail Trilogy, is an epic western in the tradition of The Outlaw Josie Wales and The Searchers. It is the story of a peaceable Welsh Coal Miner of immense size, but easy disposition who pursues Six Brothers who murdered his wife from the Coal Mines of Pennsylvania to the Gold mines of California. Over the course of this pursuit, he learns how to be a deadly gunfighter, but a new love clouds his reason just when he needs the killer instinct the most.”… Eli checked The Colt Peacemaker he kept in a cross-over holster. He hefted it to assure himself it was ready if need be. Once an awkward feeling to hold, it was now a source of much comfort to him. Now, it belonged in his hands and he had total confidence in his ability to use it. Where a pick axe handle had once felt comfortable in his hand, but was a source of drudgery and pain – the feel of a gun handle was now a source of power and joy. Then, his thumb felt the handle of his Peacemaker absent the one notch he wanted most of all …”
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Small Ironies
Price range: $3.99 through $15.00Max Draper is the younger child in an ordinary American family growing up in New York City. His life is as straightforward as it can be and his family as seemingly normal as possible. There is one thing, though. His family business, for generations, has been prostitution. Raised in an environment that encourages honesty he falls in love with a childhood friend, a girl named Freddy. That love, and all that it brings with it, masks his true nature, his homosexuality, and living that dichotomy brings him into a life he could never have anticipated. A world of tolerance and understanding is stretched to the breaking point as Max discovers the reality of his friends’ secrets, desires and mistakes.
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Something To Crow About
Price range: $3.99 through $18.99This story is about a young crow who worries about his diminutive size and wishes he might be larger and prouder. Moe the Crow, feeling puny and tiny, turns to his mother. She gives him
the family history tracing Moe to a time when his ancestors ruled the earth as dinosaurs. The story changes Moe’s perspective making him believe that life’s best is what lies ahead. The book gives young people a perspective of how dinosaurs evolved and a new way they can look at the birds around them. This book provides entertaining rhyme, colorful pictures, a scientific story, and a reminder of the bond between parents and their young. -
Spear of Odin
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99Based on the Norse myth of Thor fighting the Frost Giant Hrungir. When the giant’s weapon is smashed by Thor, a piece falls to the arctic. Olaf, a son of a Jarl, on his manhood quest, forms an alliance with a wizard to keep the talisman from falling into the hands of the dark forces seeking the power of the metal from the stars to lose evil that has been imprisoned for ages. Dark machinations fuel a mercenary invasion across the lands of the Norse. Far across the ice flows, in a squalid seaport Olaf hears of the assault upon his people and vows to be the Spear of Odin, the weapon against the evil that threatens his homeland.
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Speedbumps in the Middle of the Sea
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99The author was born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya. He was very mischievous, so he was sent to a boarding school in England. Since he did not participate in sports, he did all his homework (Prep, as they called it) during sports hour. As a result, he would wash dishes after evening meals, and all three Sunday meals, to earn extra money. With the extra money, he would buy candy, and records (45 RPM in those days). He would then make a recording of these songs on a cassette tape and send the tape back home to his sister. Since, in those days, Kenya was not yet up-to-date on modern technology, the songs on the charts were not quite caught up. So my sister would get songs that they had not heard on the radio yet!
From his high school, he went to University in USA (Atlanta) to study Business Administration. He could not get his rights to stay in USA, so he had to return back to Kenya. Meanwhile his parents had emigrated to England, so the author spent time with his grandparents, uncles and aunts. After a long stay in Kenya, (20 years), his sister sponsored him to come to Canada.
This book, Speedbumps in the Middle of the Sea, is all about his adventures from High school to present day. With a title like this, it promises to be hilarious. Enjoy!