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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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A Terror From Within
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99A Terror from Within is a fictional account of an embedded terrorist cell within the United States. A psychologically flawed middle-eastern student endeavors to attack the United States by any means possible in order to fulfill his misguided destiny.
Yousef Khan devises challenging scenarios and plots putting his injudicious plans into action, with not always the best results. Will he be discovered the next time one of his plots fails, or will he continue to devise plots until he meets with the success that he desires to honor Allah?
Based on real-life intelligence reports and law enforcement bulletins, the story is a no nonsense account of the security realities facing our nation post 9/11. The notion of a rogue group of individuals being able to penetrate and disrupt our society is plausible in the face of the challenges in homeland security that we are facing today.
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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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The New Tower of Babel
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99Do we really believe in God? What difference does it make if God exists or does not exist? Are we better off with God or without God? Are we made in God’s image or is it God who is made in our image? Is God our creator or are we the creators of God the way we create other gods? Does God tell us from on high what to do or do we go on building higher and higher towers and defy the God of heavens? Does God have rights? Do we have rights? Are these and those rights the same, different, or incompatible?
Obviously, it is not easy to fi nd adequate answers to such fundamental and life or death questions. In this book, philosopher Jean Maalouf helps us to find our way around. With “[his] gift for writing about the most sublime truths in the most simple language,” as his style was once described, he masterly walks us through the eras of Enlightenment, modernism, post-modernism, existentialism, and the deconstruction and cancel culture projections. With clarity, lucidity, and boldness, he explains how we are building the new tower of Babel, what the meaning of it is, and what the next step in our human journey could be.
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The World As It Was When Jesus Came: A Companion to the New Testament
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99Endowed with an unusual ability to identify current issues of importance to the public, Dr. Hopkins has the gift of analyzing reasonably and fairly every issue and then communicating his views in everyday language. He writes like he talks and, as an experienced Sunday school teacher and pastor, knows how to engage his audience. He tackles every issue with a strong ethical undertone but is always tolerant of other views. He utilizes history and factual data, is a stickler for accuracy, and stays clear of offending his readers. He brings to his books the background of an experience college president, and international traveler, and deep family roots which ground him in Christian values. He is a creative thinker who can challenge conventional wisdom on just about any Biblical subject while maintaining a balance between extremes. In an age when extremism gains national and international attention, it is refreshing to hear a sane voice which can be heard by young and old alike. Every serious-minded reader will be enriched by this book, especially Sunday school teachers and church leaders.
-Dr. Randall Ruble
Former dean of Erskine Seminary and Vice President of the College
Former president of Erskine College and Seminary
Due West, South Carolina
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Germania: La Retorcida Fantasía de Hitler
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99La Retorcida Fantasía de Hitler
En esta historia ficticia del mundo de Hitler de “que hubiera pasado”, vemos en su neurótica mente el conflicto entre el bien y el mal. Mientras el duerme, nos lleva en una aventura en la cual su fantasia retorcida revela pensamientos de eventos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial como las Olimpiadas de Berlin de 1936, Lebenstraum, Oktoberfest, Blitzkrieg, la Operación Barbarossa, La conexión Lindbergh-Hitler, el plan de éxodo Judío, la Cumbre del pacifico, Gobierno Mundial, y Germania – buena vida.
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Germania: Hitler’s Twisted Fantasy
$11.99in this “what if” fictional tale of Hitler’s world, we see in his neurotic mind the conflict of Evil versus Good. In his sleep, he takes us on a journey in which his twisted fantasy will reveal thoughts of World War II events such as the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Lebenstraum, Oktoberfest Blitzkrieg, Operation Barbarossa, Lindbergh-Hitler Connection, the Jewish Exodus Plan, the Pacific Summit, World Government, and Germania-Good Life.
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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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Havana 1995: English Version
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99“The work between a dream and reality, is a symbolic encounter of two individuals who represent one, the Cuban exiles, and the other the new cuban generation who developed in Castro’s Cuba. The story isa deep reflection on the future of Cuba, the fragmented identity of Cubans and their conflicts in the face of the possibility of what is becoming more and more inevitable: the freedom of Cuba.
The primary value of the book is that it will have meaning before and after the fall of the socialist’s regime. Ileana contrasts the generation of the Cubans in Cuba and those who live in exile. We must read these revealing pages, so literally beautiful and so shockingly Cuban. We all learn a lot from this magical form of this writer who now surprises us with this volume that cannot be ignored. She will prepare the mood and the attitude for the day.”
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La Guerra Que Casi Perdimos: Cómo Estuvimos a Punto de Perder la Segunda Guerra Mundial
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99La guerra que casi perdimos: Cómo estuvimos a punto de perder la Segunda Guerra Mundial
En “La guerra que casi perdimos”, el autor explica cuán mal preparados estábamos para la guerra en 1941. Discute las áreas en las que podríamos haberlo hecho mucho mejor y cómo la responsabilidad podría haber sido compartida por muchos políticos y líderes militares.
El autor escribe sobre errores y meteduras de pata, así como movimientos brillantes realizados durante la guerra por ambos bandos que nos permitieron ganar, pero que casi nos cuestan la victoria. Una mejor planificación y ejecución por parte de los países del Eje podrían haber tenido efectos desastrosos en los Aliados. Pero al final, a través de un buen diseño, golpes de suerte y malas decisiones tomadas por nuestros enemigos, nos recuperamos y salimos adelante en la terrible guerra con colores voladores liderados por la “Generación más grande” de todos los tiempos.
Arthur A. Edwards fue un oficial naval y veterano del conflicto de Corea que creció en el norte de California durante la depresión y la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Estudió la guerra en la Universidad de California, Berkeley, y tiene una biblioteca llena de libros de historia. Desciende de una larga línea de veteranos; dos de sus bisabuelos sirvieron en el Ejército de la Unión durante la Guerra Civil, un abuelo que intentó alistarse en la Guerra Hispano-Americana y un padre que sirvió en la Marina dos veces, una justo cuando terminó la Primera Guerra Mundial, y otra en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Arthur se graduó en ingeniería mecánica en Cal Berkeley, y trabajó en la industria aeroespacial construyendo satélites meteorológicos y de comunicaciones. Cada vez que trae a casa otro libro sobre la Segunda Guerra Mundial, su esposa pregunta, “¿Hay algo que no sepas sobre la guerra?”
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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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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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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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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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Uniquely American
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99THEY ARE YOUR FRIENDS, FAMILY, AND FELLOW AMERICANS. BUT HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW THE NATIONAL GUARD?
Step into the pages of history with Uniquely American, a captivating book written by Leslie Wolf, a 30-year veteran of the National Guard. In this informative tribute, Leslie’s deep-rooted passion for the National Guard shines through as she takes you on an-depth exploration of this military institution’s evolution over time.With a profound desire to share her insider knowledge and extensive research, Wolf delves into both the triumphs and the errors committed through the National Guard’s rich history. This meticulously crafted book offers a comprehensive look at how various necessary but widespread grassroots militia forces transformed into the organized reserve force that benefits us today.
Prepare to be captivated as Wolf recounts pivotal moments in American history, including head-to-head conflicts between governors and the president during Civil Rights Movement and the fallout when protests become civil disturbances such as Kent State and the Watts Riots. With unwavering honesty, Wolf shines a light on mistakes made by political forces that set progress back and the laws and policies that set the National Guard apart as an essential piece of our nation’s security. Through her vivid storytelling, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by the National Guard despite its unwavering commitment to protect and serve threatened to undermine the most important purpose of the United State military engine.
The National Guard is more than just an institution; it is America’s link to the political climate of the world. As you immerse yourself in Uniquely American, you’ll come to appreciate how the Guard’s members are not just soldiers in uniform but neighbors, family, and friends within our communities. -
Oregon History: Score Key, Test & Test Key
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Score Keys, Test Key & Key for the Oregon History Workbook, a comprehensive overview of the history of the state of Oregon for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. It is presented in a refreshing easy to read format with abundant graphics. It is a concise, one-volume workbook designed to be self-instructional or lecture taught. This student workbook will be a welcome addition to your Christian School curriculum and will guarantee your students a thorough understanding and lasting appreciation of Oregon State History.