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The Last Laugh Is Mine
$2.99This novel is about the struggle by a young man to change an age-old traditional matrilineal system of inheritance and its consequences. The hero Owia Atta is forced to become a farmer, contrary to his wish to be educated to play a leadership role in this fictionalized African community of Wofakurom. He works to create his father’s wealth but is disinherited at his father’s death when the assets are given to his father’s nephew in accordance with tradition and customs. Owia Atta’s resistance against this practice provides moments of tension in the novel, leading to his clash with tradition and consequent felony for which he is punished. But his daring efforts have a big impact on his society. The novel reflects the reality of an ethnic group’s worldview and draws attention to its potential to create social unrest. It interweaves political, social, cultural, and economic issues, bringing together historical developments and the place of the traditional African society in the modern world.
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Pirates, Privateers, and the U.S. Navy
Price range: $3.99 through $25.99The primary problem of the American Colonies in their quest to win independence from Great Britain was not the British Army, though it was formidable. Instead, it was how to deal with the overwhelming might of the British Navy. The Continental Congress had no ships and no taxing authority to fund the creation of nay in 1775. The first U.S Navy was a combination of the few merchants ships Congress was able to acquire and a large number of privateers who joined the cause of independence. The privateers were privately owned and operated by individuals and business. By the end of the war there were more than 2000 of them. The British called them pirates. From the Boston Tea Party to the battle of the U.S.S Bonhomme Richard with the British man-of-war, the H.M.S Serapis, this is their story.
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Turning Points: How Deception Steals Freedoms
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Ever wonder what is happening to our country? In Turning Points; Terry W. Bettis, takes you through the history of this country, looking at how through the years our Republic has had its ups and downs. As you read, you will learn about things that have given life to this country, as well as things that have drained the life from it. You will discover things that you thought were a blessing to this country, only to find that in fact, they are destroying our freedoms, and our Constitution, turning our country from one filled with God’s blessing to one of slavery. Discover those things which are causing our Republic to fade completely away. The United States was founded on Christian principals, though far from perfect, it has been blessed by God because we had put Him first. Being attacked on many fronts God is being pushed out the door of America. We are seeing the results. In Turning Points, you will learn how this is happening, plus the effect it is having on our country, churches, families and the future generations, yet to be born. It is a deep desire of Terry’s to awaken the American people to what is happening to our beloved United States. You will learn and be blessed with this book as well as with, Terry’s first book, Guards at the Gate hopefully finding understand about what our country is experiencing and what we are leaving for our children and grandchildren.
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We’ve Done Them Wrong: A History of The Native American Indians and How The United States Treated Them
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99“From the mountains, to the prairies
To the oceans white with foam,
Every Native American
Must leave his home.” I.
Imagine that someone comes to your home and forces you at gunpoint to leave. Your response might be termed “savage”
“Savage” was how the New World invaders described American Indians. Settlers chased them across the continent, as the government signed treaties that they later broke. They also subjected the native inhabitants to horrible atrocities.
Author George E. Saurman, a World War II veteran and proud American, explores what really happened to Native American Indians, examining
- Native American Indian tribes and their customs;
- the actions of early settlers, including William Penn and his holy experiment;
- contributions of the Native American Indians; and
- conditions on reservations today.
Saurman also considers how the Bureau of Indian Affairs handled relations between natives and settlers, as well as what Native American Indians from the past and today have had to say about events.
Even today, broken promises obscure what’s really going on in Native American Indian Communities, It’s time that a serious effort be made to rectify the situation, and it starts by realizing that We’ve Done Them Wrong.
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Peculiar Affinity: The World the Slave Owners and Their Female Slaves Made
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99The theory of peculiar affinity implies that Black people and White people in the 21st-century United States are connected by family, kinship, surnames, and genes. Peculiar affinity is profoundly implicated with racism in the United States. Peculiar affinity remained after the demise of slavery, but it transformed and adapted to the system of separate but equal. Peculiar Affinity: The World the Slave Owners and Their Female Slaves Made presents the discovery of a vital socioeconomic interconnection and interrelationship between White slave owners and enslaved Black women of the antebellum South during the second slave era of the 19th century, the domestic slave era. This interconnection and interrelationship consisted of a very strange dialectic of sex, which led to the reproduction of the bodies of the slave owners and their female slaves.
On a grand scale, and implemented on a consistent basis, this dialectic of sex transformed to a nexus of sex and reproduction of human bodies as commodities. The visual aspects appeared as a kind of veil that obscured actual family and kinship relations. In the antebellum South, the slave owner was the father, and the female slave and his wife were the mothers. The children from the slave owner’s female slave and the children from the slave owner’s wife were real and objective brothers and sisters with the same biological father.
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The Patriarchy of White American Slave Owners
$3.99The Patriarchy of White American Slave Owners: Family and Kinship with Black, Negro, and Colored Americans in the U.S.A. South provides the scientific certainty that during the U.S.A. “domestic slave era”, 1807-65, (the U.S.A.’s second slave era) the systemic patriarchy and the fatherhood practices of the White American slave owners of the U.S.A. South produced, fathered, over 10,000,000 Black, Negro, and Colored American children. During the same time, these same slave owners fathered over 5,000,000 White American children. This book’s scientific certainty verifies all these White, Black, Negro, and Colored American children were brothers and sisters to each other. Siblings! The South’s White American slave owners were the fathers of all these children.
Traditionally, the primary method used by the White American slave owners to distinguish among their own children to buy and to sell was skin color distinctions. Historically, those slave owners’ decisions of skin color exemplify the origin of white racism in the U.S.A. These White American slave owners and all their children constituted various White, Black, Negro, and Colored American families in the South. The relations between and among all their children constituted their kinships in the South.
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Colors
Price range: $3.99 through $14.50If a book can help provide a measure of insight into this dark turbulent age we find ourselves engulfed as a Nation this historical-fictitious read fits the bill. At a time when the Nation is on the brink of Moral Bankruptcy and on the verge of a second Civil War.
The truth be told Joe Valachi’s loose lips did not sink the Flag Ship and the last 4-years of the Presidency reviled where the Buck actually Stopped, proving that there are no Referees or Judges to pretend that social Just-Us and racial equality ever existed, nor will it ever prevail as long as the Red-rag blue-rag Rooster shot-calling gangster counterparts to the Crips and Bloods keep squabbling in the barnyard there can be no peace in the Hen House.
The racially charged divisive state of our Nation coupled with
the devastating fall-out from the disastrous Pandemic has caused unprecedented upheaval of a nature that what is needed is unprecedented help of a Godsend nature from the unlikeliest of Hero’s to step up to the plate.
Simply speaking this is the opportune moment for the Crips and Bloods to become Heroes not only of their perspective, concrete Jungle communities but the Nation as a whole is clearly out-of-control.
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Reparations for Black, Negro, and Colored Americans
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99The meaning of this book is that it provides a scientifically based affirmation for reparations. The overall conclusion is this! Reparations for Black, Negro, and Colored Americans must be based upon the money, profit, and wealth created by the buying and selling of any Black, Negro, and Colored Americans as a “commodity”, “a thing”, or as “commodities” in the open financial markets solely during the U.S.A. “domestic slave era”. The White American slave owners’ money, profit, and wealth was grounded in the slave owners’ systemic patriarchy and fatherhood practices during the “domestic slave era”, 1807-65. Finally, the South’s White American slave owners’ system of patriarchy and their fatherhood practices equate to family and kinship with Black, Negro, and Colored Americans. These fathers transferred all the wealth, money, profit to their White American children; and, these fathers transferred nothing to their Black, Negro, and Colored American children. Reparations!
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A Coloured Canvas
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99A Coloured Canvas is a trilogy; Book I Common People. Book II Lions and Eagles. Book III The Rainbow. Throughout this trilogy, for reasons only known to Lidy she used pseudonyms for the characters and members of her family, A Coloured Canvas is not a fictional account of the de Vries and Verboom families but an oral history of events beginning early in the twentieth century in impoverished Friesland.
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Nightmares
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Nightmares will keep you wanting to read more. If you never truly understood what a soldier went thru during the Vietnam war, this will give you a good idea. This is about a unit of the 9th Infantry Division. The unit goes on patrol looking for Viet Cong or NVA regulars. They are put under fire and lost members while out. They learned to survive both mentally and physically, as death on both sides of the war could happen at any moment. Yes, it is a fiction! The names were also changed, but it is based on facts. You will go on patrol with these young men, age range of 18-24, as they become exposed to the horrors of war. Their lives were changed forever, then returned home to supposedly forget it. I lost many friends who became Brothers in Vietnam. Some were shot, some were taken by booby traps, now called IED’s. We continue dying now due to age and exposure to Agent Orange since returning home. Agent Orange (is a blanket term for 15 chemicals used as a defoliant) a large variety of illnesses such as various cancers, diabetes and many more deadly diseases are a side effect of our exposure.
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Battle of Britain
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Another look at one of the battles during WW2, where Hitler thought he could invade and conquer during his reign of terror on the world. He decided to try and knock out the Royal Air Force of Britain. He was not expecting the resistance that the British Air Force and Navy were to give him in his quest for annihilation of Great Britain.
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A Fleeting Glimpse of Paradise
Price range: $3.99 through $45.99If ever there were an expert in the history, beauty, and overall best places to visit in Hawaii, Craig E. Burgess would be that person. His first visit to the islands was in 1974, the first of forty-one in total!
Providing a glimpse of Hawaiian culture, history, music, art, and daily lifestyles to the reader, A Fleeting Glimpse of Paradise was inspired by Craig’s time spent with special residents of Hawaii who shared a special “Spirit of Aloha” during his forty-one visits to the islands. His hope is that during your visit, you spend time with local residents of the islands and “talk story” with them, rather than simply going there for an “Aloha” shirt, flower lei, or some other souvenir.
This beautiful collection of anecdotes, inspired poems, and special stories you can’t get from travel books encourages readers to find ways to conserve the natural beauty of the islands-and to make the very best of their experience in this magical utopia.
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Paradise in Ruins: A Novel (View) of the Pacific War
Price range: $3.99 through $26.99Paradise in Ruins offers readers a look at the Pacific Theater of World War Two by introducing them to military and naval leaders from both sides of the conflict, as well as local populations of the Pacific islands whose lives were suddenly disrupted by the brutal events that exploded eastward from Japan in 1941.
Perhaps you had family members among the many thousands of young men and women who got transported across the Pacific Ocean to those mysterious islands that they were ordered to recapture from the Japanese.
If you have occasionally wondered what Grandpa (or Grandma) did in the war, you are not alone. The generation that experienced World War Two is notorious for not speaking about what they saw and learned in that previously unimagined multilingual, multicultural environment. They just didn’t know how to describe their adventures to loved ones at home afterwards, so they chose silence instead.
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The War We Almost Lost
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99In the War We Almost Lost the author explains how badly we were prepared for war in 1941. He discusses the areas in which we could have done much
better and how the responsibility could have been shared by many politicians and military leaders.
The author writes about mistakes and blunders as well as brilliant moves made during the war by both sides that allowed us to win, but almost cost us victory. Better planning and execution by the Axis countries could have had disastrous effects on the Allies. But in the end, through some good design, lucky breaks and bad-decision making by our enemies, we rallied and came through the terrible war with flying colors led by the “Greatest Generation” of all times.
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The Pain of Brokenness: A True Story
Price range: $3.99 through $10.95The Pain of Brokenness is the true story of a remarkable woman’s journey through tremendous and unimaginable trials. Having an unquenchable and ever-persistent desire to see her mother again, she clung to the New Testament promise that Christ would not leave her or allow her to be tempted more than she could bear.
Her uncrushable spirit, and burning desire to be remembered and loved like her mother, enabled her to turn to God. As a result, she found comfort and understanding. Her heavenly Father, ultimately healed her brokenness and brought hope and joy back into her life. By reaching out and touching lives of those experiencing emotional and physical pain, she was able to heal her own scars and become whole again.
The victory she attained and the wisdom she revealed will be an inspiration to all who are discouraged and totally broken.
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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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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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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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Off Days Gone By
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99A poignant and enlightening novel-rich in history, warm characterization and strong in sense of family.
Centered around New York City at the dawn of the Great Depression, the story depicts the warm, close relationship between a young boy abandoned by his mother after his father’s tragic murder, and the gentle, loving grandfather who raised him. Through the grandfather’s storytelling, the boy learns of his own rich and colorful history-his great-grandfather’s involvement in the Underground Railroad, his great-grandmother’s journey from Africa to America, and the multitude of changes that took place before and during the Civil War.
Of Days Gone By is delightful and informative reading. One will walk away from the novel with the knowledge that African-Americans have a valuable legacy well worth passing on to their own children.
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Courage and Devotion
Price range: $3.99 through $23.99This battle flag was given to the battery just before the Battle of Shiloh. I wrote this book with the purpose of having the historical narrative separate from stories of the men. If the reader wants to know about an individual, there are sections within the chapters about the officers and enlisted men. It is the intention of this book to describe the battery’s place in the large scheme of things. On the maps in this book are marks that show the location of the battery at each battle. In each chapter, after the narrative, there are descriptions of the officers and what they were doing, followed by information about the enlisted men. At the end of the book, there are several appendices that present lists of men for various times. The names are listed chronologically first and then alphabetically.
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The Victims of Rivalry
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99The Victims of Rivalry is the story of a silenced, vanquished people in a war that was declared: “No Victors, No Vanquished.” It is the story of the victims of the Biafran/Nigerian Civil War and its colonial connection. Set in a village in the Ikwerre tribe of southern Nigeria, the story opens with the roaring rage of the villagers, as they struggle to extricate themselves from the colonial stranglehold that had suddenly happened upon them. Initially unaware of the white man’s intentions for coming to their village, the villagers opened their arms to the visitor. But when they realize why he had come, their suspicions set in, their anger wells up, and they rise up in revolt, only to be calmed down by their revered, open-minded Chief. However, the white man, a Baptist missionary, has other plans. He decides to approach the uncooperative villagers with caution. In the end, the villagers succumb to his ploy by sending their children en-masse to the white man’s newly-built school. Not long after the school opened, a civil war breaks out in Nigeria, severely derailing the progress the village had made in educating its children.
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Spy in the Sky: A Cold War Story of Espionage, Romance and Intrigue
Price range: $3.99 through $14.65Pan Am flight attendant Natalie is the only thing that stands between the KGB and their attempt to steal submarine secrets from the United States Navy and alter the course of the Cold War. She and her naval submarine suitor, Max, find their budding romance plunged into the international intrigue of the 1970s when she discovers her roommate, Mia, is an East German spying for the Soviets. To complicate matters, Max’s submarine mate, Peter, has fallen in love with Mia. When Mia is ordered to turn Peter into a Russian spy, the result is a sexy espionage thriller that pits the creativity of the CIA against the treachery of the KGB.
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The New Christian Era
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99The book you are reading reveals new and incredible Godly mysteries that are coming upon the earth as we speak! This concerns the gifts of the Holy Spirit from 1 Corinthians chapter 12. There are nine gifting’s listed in these verses. However, the six Spiritual human senses are meant to be the tenth gift, which is a combination present. This has been unveiled by the Creator of the vast cosmos, and now revealed to civilization by yours truly!
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Adolf Hitler’s Ghost
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Elizabeth Maria was born in Vienna, Austria, just before Adolf Hitler occupied Austria. She then became a German citizen, and her father was drafted into the German Army to fight for Mr. Hitler in Russia. He had opposed Adolf Hitler openly and first lost his job at the University of Vienna and then was sent to Russia. Miraculously he survived Stalingrad and five years in Russian Prison Camps. Elizabeth, her sister, and Mother spent most of the War in small villages to get away from the constant bombing raids on the big cities. After the War she could go back to Vienna and attend high school there. During the 6th grade of high school, she received an AFS Scholarship to the USA and spent one year in Erie, Pennsylvania, with an American family. After graduating from Medical School, she did a residency in Pathology. As a result of some lucky circumstances, she was invited by Stanford University, CA, on a fellowship in Pathology. She fell in love with California and decided to stay there, she continued her residency at the Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. After she could afford to buy a nice house in Los Angeles, she brought her three children to America. She stayed in LA until her retirement at the age of 66 years and moved to Santa Fe, NM, where she became a painter with the help of the Community College in Santa Fe. She now lives in Albuquerque, NM, and works as a professional painter.
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Our Inner Struggle Untangled: Revelation Deciphered
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99This book is concerned with deciphering across a process that enhances the texts of Revelation with data regarding the “End Times” of individuals rather than the “End Times” of the world. The deciphered texts do not usurp the original texts but are dependent on them. The deciphering process is unique as it is a discovery of a process, not an invitation of one. The work was like a crypto quote where one letter stands for another;
the difference is that one word stands for another. This book is for Adult Christians who seek a spiritual lift and want to “get back on the wagon “so to speak regarding their faith walk. And for those who would appreciate the spiritual jolt this book provides.
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The New Bhagavad-Gita: Timeless wisdom in the language of our times
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Two friends have a conversation at the outset of an epic war. One of them, Arjuna, is sad and confused in the face of imminent doom; the other, Krsna, decides to cheer him up and clear his doubts. Through the course of their battlefield dialogue Krsna assumes the role of a mentor and inspires Arjuna, teaching him the timeless wisdom of the Bhagavad-gitä. If one wants to know about India’s grand heritage, religious traditions, ancient philosophy, and spirituality, the Bhagavad-gītā is a good place to start.
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The Scorpion’s Daughter: Designer Biological Weapon of Mass Destruction
Price range: $3.99 through $20.99The accidental discovery of secret military papers exposes a deadly threat. The Iraqi military has developed a designer biological weapon. American intelligence quickly learns that the pathogen will mutate and destroy all life on the planet if it is unleashed. Heading an elite rapid response team. Captain Robert Walker leads his soldiers into the heart of the Iraq desert to track down a young woman rumored to know of the weapon’s location. Time is running out as Captain Walker and his squad race to find the biological agent before its madman creator can use it to destroy the world.
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Graveyard of The Greats
Price range: $3.99 through $18.99The train of time has already travelled for a century since it first picked up his Imperial Majesty. The Sultan Abdul Hamid II, Emperor of the Ottomans, Caliph of The Faithful, and last picked Yitzhak Rabin the Fifth Prime Minister of Israel. A train that is a hundred years old carried the greats of the Twentieth Century: Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Kennedy, Gandhi and Jamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt and other passengers. Their briefcases were full of different ideologies that sometimes led to either bloody wars or cold wars.
The train has made its last stop at the Graveyard of The Greats and the journey is over, but its memories handed down by the passengers to be held between the two covers of this book.
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The Devil In Paradise
Price range: $3.99 through $21.99After Castro is murdered, the murderer, a ruthless Cuban Colonel takes over the Presidency of Cuba and is a blight on the Cuban people. He discovers a secret. Castro had been keeping, Nuclear tipped missiles in underwater silos. He then threatens the United States with the weapons. Special Force Team Leader Walker and his team must put an immediate end to the threat.
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El Dilema de los Adanes
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99La historia real de dos hombres enamorados de dos novias que experimentan dos dilemas en dos jardines y tienen que tomar dos decisiones que han tenido ramifi caciones temporales y eternas en la tierra.