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Live or Die A Stroke of Good Luck
Price range: $3.99 through $19.95Struck down with a stroke and all but declared dead at age 38, Dick Burns regained consciousness and a life. This is the wise and witty story of his long and slow recovery and resurrection. It is a story of hope and practical advice for victims of any serious illness and their families. It is also about what he learned from the ordeal and how his life and values changed for the better with each step of his recovery.
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Metamorphosis of a Young Maiden
Price range: $9.99 through $18.99From December 1969 until June 1970, Dr. Wm. Patric Leedom’s love interest, Shelley, allowed herself to go through major changes-from a naïve, shy recluse who never considered sex in relation to herself, to a more sophisticated young woman trusting another for the first time, feeling completed and totally loved for the first time. Metamorphosis of a Young Maiden is a collection of love letters between the two from 47 years ago. It is a powerful example of two lovers going deep into life and making themselves vulnerable to each other as they build toward an intense relationship. We should all remember to take risks with our partners and be encouraged to seek the deeper meanings and experiences that life can offer.
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Dad Only Tried To Shoot Me Twice
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99To save Dad’s business and control his drinking were the doubly impossible tasks I was burdened with.
The effects of alcoholism tore my family apart. I was shocked by his alcohol consumption. The longer he drank, the less responsible he became.
Facing Dad, with his gun aimed at me, are images I will never forget.
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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.
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From Dean’s List to Dumpsters: Why I Left Harvard to Join a Cult
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99Jim Guerra was recruited during his sophomore year at Harvard College into the religious cult known as “Th e Brethren” or “Th e Garbage Eaters”. For the next decade, Jim was transformed from a happy, self-confident Christian college student to a highly controlled devout follower of Jim Roberts, a charismatic leader of a nomadic Bible-based ministry. Forsaking Harvard, family, career aspirations and all his possessions, he departed Harvard to join with a vagabond ministry that subsisted on food from supermarket dumpsters and fast-food restaurants.
This book captures the mind control processes that prolonged his departure from society, alienation from his family, his forced celibacy, and the rejection of all Christian churches outside this small ministry. Jim is careful to chronicle both the growth and the metamorphosis of his mindset as he isolates himself from society for ten-and-a-half years in order to be saved with a small remnant of end-time believers. Follow him from Harvard to the woods and finally back to his family, and experience it through his 20/400 vision. You will see why bright young people are sucked into cults, and how he eventually escaped. -
BOSNIA NEEDS TO BE PASSED: Aporias of Elijah of Thunder
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99Individuals, communities, peoples, nations, states, and the society in the Western Balkans. Their mutual relations and influences, as well as relations with neighboring societies and Europe as a whole. Review and reflect on historical conflicts that have taken place in the Western Balkans and the relationship and influence of Europe against these conflicts. Reflection of these wars on the lives of individuals,
the state, and the entire society in the Western Balkans. Encourage thinking by asking questions. Who needs to learn from? Western Balkans from Europe or Europe from the Western Balkans?
The book describes the real personality and actual events.
A register of personal names is given, which served as an inspiration for writing a book, with some of these names being given a literary, symbolic name to get the book’s literary character. Other names were left in the original.
The river Bosnia and the Source of river Bosnia are a source of life that does not dry in the center of the Western Balkan … the world and the pearl… the treasure in which we should dive…
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Victims of Ineptitude: An Insider’s Account of Injustice within the World Health Organization
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99For years, critics have demanded reform of the World Health Organization. Its management structure in particular is said to be archaic, its staff deeply demoralised. But, since WHO like other UN bodies, is accountable to no-one but itself, it dodders along unchanged. It is left to the ground staff of International Civil Servants to grapple with the real difficulties the ivory-tower academics pinpoint in long winded reports. The work of these International Civil Servants in distant lands among foreign cultures is often hazardous and lonely, and requires good management by those at the centre if it is to succeed. Instead, as this story shows, there is often lack of support and callous disregard which matters deeply because, if staff are as a result, unable to meet the extremely difficult challenges they face, no blast of grand talk at a conference, no high flying plan on plush paper, will save millions of dollars donated by the developed world from sinking like water into the sand. The individual human story related here reveals weaknesses in this great Organization which, multiplied over the region, help to explain why Africa remains the most disease-ridden continent on earth.
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Overcoming Trials With Trust: A Single Mother’s Journey
Price range: $4.99 through $14.99Although no one dreams of becoming a single parent, it is becoming increasingly common across generations. Single parenthood comes with its own set of personal, professional, and relational challenges, making it difficult to care for both yourself and your children. After unexpectedly becoming a single parent and struggling with postpartum depression for several years, I turned back to my faith in God. Through regular Bible reading, prayer, and connecting with like-minded individuals, I experienced God’s restoration. Now, I am sharing some practical tips that may help other single mothers facing similar challenges gain their own restoration.
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A Candle Beneath My Bed: Betrayal
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99“On a very old winter night, Jacqueline (Jackie for short), was born to the proud parents of Ruth Green and Matt Jones,” and on this very cold winter night, the story begins.
In a small rural town in Savannah, Georgia lives the Jones family. At first glance, they appear to be a strong, faithful group, despite their almost constant struggle with poverty. It appeared that this family was netted together with love.
About a year after the birth of Jackie something happened that caused Ruth to be afraid to say anything. But, when she decided to talk all her fears became a reality. The love of her life, her fiancé Matt walked out on her. Falling into despair, she begins to wonder if she would be able to find the strength she needed to move forward.
A Candle Beneath My Bed is not merely a thread of a young girl’s earliest memories but it provides a heartwarming story that rekindles our faith in family and sheds new light on the things that matter most.
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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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A Life Not Expected: But A Journey Worth Taking
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Born in her grandparents’ bedroom on October 11, 1925, Violet Grayson says of her writing, “At the age of fourteen, I wrote a poem and a rather dismal short story. I sent the short story to Collier’s magazine, where it was immediately rejected. I redeemed my pride by later winning a school-wide essay contest at Cumberland High School and becoming an at-large reporter for our school paper, The Chronicle. As a senior, I was named literary editor of our yearbook. My English teacher, Mr. Skahan, suggested I switch to the college course since he saw me as scholarship material, but that was too much of a reach in those Great Depression years. After graduating in 1943, I worked in an office, married in 1949, and became a mother in 1950 and then a single parent in 1952. My writing would have to wait until January 1986 when, at the age of sixty, I launched my literary career.”
Violet has had twenty-four personal-experience stories, articles, how-to pieces, and short stories published. She also wrote a column for the Foxboro Reporter in her former home of Foxboro, Massachusetts. In California, since 1993, she contributed to “Two Cents,” an opinion column in the San Francisco Chronicle maintained by a pool of citizens. She is an active member and Secretary of Writers West of Alameda Inc.
This is her fourth book. The first, In the Village Lonsdale, was published in 2006. Her second, A Gossamer Cord, was published in 2011. Her third, Jeremy’s Cottage, was published in 2013.
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Diary of a Caregiver: The Dementia Journey
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99In 2009 my wife of over 59 years was diagnosed with Dementia with Alzheimer’s symptoms. My care giving responsibilities began before that time and
continued until her death in January 2018. She was provided care in her own home. As time went by the caregiver duties became more and more demanding. It was truly 24 hours each day and seven days each week. My Sweetheart was referred to the hospice program as a patient beginning in March 2013 with a life expectancy of six months or less. At the time of her passing, she had been a hospice patient for 4 years, 10 months and 5 days. The Diary of a Caregiver begins with her entry into the hospice program and continues until her death. Care giving can be very frustrating at times as one never knows what to expect or when to expect it. The Diary of a Caregiver identifies many of the problems and frustrations associated with care of a Dementia patient. It also identifies different techniques and solutions to some of those problems. It should be of interest to anyone who is involved in care giving especially those who are just beginning.
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The Going Was Good: Memoir of a Transatlantic Life
Price range: $3.99 through $12.50Spanning the decades from 1934 to 2020, The Going Was Good: Memoir of a Transatlantic Life follows the life of author David Buisseret from his early childhood to his life in retirement. Woven within the text, Buisseret recounts many historical events and trends, not only as a historian, but as someone who experienced the many changes and challenges of the times. Simultaneously, he expounds upon how these events affected his life, both professionally and personally, as well as the lives of his family.
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Lenin: A Soldier – A Story of Survival
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99Shortly after basic training, United States Army Private Lenin Patino was shot in the head point blank by a fellow soldier. Lenin’s nightmare begins as he finds himself lying in a hospital’s critical care unit in a body, he cannot move listening to everyone say he is going to die. Overcoming all odds, Lenin survives. In this book, he walks the reader through the events that led to the shooting and describes his daily activities, friendships, and struggles faced by him and other patients as he journeys through the Veteran’s healthcare system. During his hospitalization, Lenin witnessed many tragedies and struggles faced by himself and other patients. He saw some deplorable conditions inside Nursing homes and hospitals as families abandoned their ill.
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The Story of a Warrior Who Broke Free from Mental Anguish: A Memoir
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99“The Story of a Warrior Who Broke Free from Mental Anguish” is not just a book-it’s a lifeline, a love letter to the wounded heart, and a testimony to the strength that rises from broken places.
The Story of a Warrior is more than a personal memoir-it’s a blessed offering-a reflection of what it means to survive the things meant to break us. To sit in the ache of unanswered questions and still rise. To love, to lose, and to somehow find ourselves again-sometimes in pieces, always in truth. This book is both a mirror and a map-a companion for anyone walking through grief, wrestling with identity, or searching for a deeper sense of self.
If you’ve ever felt unseen…
If you’ve ever questioned your worth…
If you’ve ever longed to feel whole again-this is for you. -
More Than A Conqueror
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99Life was different back in the day. Community was vital. Childhood antics, teenage exploits, and the challenges of young adulthood revealed I didn’t know what I thought I knew. Through all of this, the greatest influence of my life was my mom. She helped me process the good and the bad. Instead of being one-dimensional live, love, and laugh with the great intention and anticipation of more. As she is no longer with me her words and laughter linger on, and I am emancipated. I learned that the greatest gift of life was and truly is love; unpretentious, nurtured, and existing to be shared with others.