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Life’s Apologies
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Carolann Murray is a Florida native, and after graduating from high school, she joined the United States Army and retired with honorable service. She treats writing as a personal hobby that she enjoys. Through her observations and past encounters with others, she took it upon herself to be expressive through her own opinionated views. By putting this new revision into print, she feels it is her own reality and the reality of others that support existence of Life’s Apologies. Furthermore, Life’s Apologies enables Murray to boldly identify situations and allow transparency of everyday situations to her audiences. Murray shows a genuine interest in people and how their actions and experiences affect their emotions. She attempts to reach and convince others that honesty and moral values are critical in today’s society. Murray thinks people should always treat others with dignity and respect, and to forgive and be forgiven.
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Bring Back Summertime
Price range: $12.99 through $26.99When Jeanne Starr Gater picks up the phone one morning, she receives the shock of her life. Her strong, robust, athletic husband, Dr. Julius Gater, is in the hospital! — comatose, suffering from a stroke, broken bones … Dr. “J” IS DYING!! A car accident that morning has left her husband unconscious, though still alive and hanging on for dear life! ..And it had been a good life — full of sunshine! Why this! .. Dear GOD! … Why this?! She knows she must get to him — and fast! They had come through too much together. If she gets to the hospital in time, they will come through this awful thing too But she needs all her resources now. In her inner spirit, she petitions her God for mercy and compassion and strength to bring Dr. ‘J” back from near death. Next, over time, she contacts her family and friends for their positive thoughts and prayers. She begins her long hard journey to “BRING BACK SUMMERTIME.” Thus begins the remarkable true story of one woman’s courage and faith in the face of the bitterest of odds, and one man’s miraculous recovery despite doctor’s dire predictions. Family, and friends, new and old gather round to offer support, faith, and love, as the Gaters’ begin their trek back to a normal life. They encounter incredible (and numerous) obstacles from resistant medical personnel and uncooperative rehabilitation staff to other family misfortunes. Their very survival as a family depends on their determination to hold fast to their hopes and faith. BRING BACK SUMMERTIME is a soul searching story of a family’s struggle for the restoration of physical strength, grace, and human dignity. A story that portrays the power and strength of human bonding, prayer and the belief in the power of God to sustain and revive. This family somehow does not allow itself to be thrown even by this devastating accident. They continue their noteworthy accomplishments, as they struggle to deal with the prolonged recovery of Dr. “J”. Their story is truly an inspiration to all.
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The Early Years: A Memoir
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99The author of this book, The Early Years, Rachel G. Carrington lays no claim to lofty jobs, higher education, nor grand accomplishments except for a love-filled, multifaceted, family-oriented, poverty-to-plenty life. In The Early Years, the first in a series, she shares her story.
As a young teenager, just entering high school in the small town of Denton, Kentucky, Carrington planned to attend college and become a teacher. With coursework geared toward college attendance, she was offered a lucrative scholarship that would help her to attain her goal. However, it took only a single event to send her down a different path. She met a returned World War II veteran who was attempting to pick up the pieces after finding his marriage in irreparable shambles and his children gone. As he struggled, Carrington was there, and they pulled together to clear the many hurdles before them.
In this memoir, she tells the story of their journey and how their love and dedication for each other kept moving them forward. Filled with the joys, disappointments, and struggles of a couple, The Early Years narrates how the love of the heavenly Father was the continuous thread that bound Carrington’s life together.
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Karma: My Journey
$3.99Karma is open and honest as she describes her growing connection to Christianity; she later gives her heart to Christ, as she develops an unwavering faith in God’s Glory. Her story includes inspiring tales of surrender to God’s will, but also contained tragedy as she has dealt with family loss. Karma’s tale is a gripping unique narrative written from the heart. Her mission is to spread the great news that Jesus Christ is the only answer to the problems every human faces today.
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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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Lady in Red Where is Your Head?
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99“Lady in Red, Where is Your Head?” by first-author Carolann deBellis, tells the story of a woman who survived a brain injury and a coma after a car accident on an icy New Jersey Turnpike in 1987, when she was 34.
Carolann had it all, the perfect life, before the accident-a great job at a hot Philadelphia salon, a passionate 12-year marriage and a wide circle of friends and family who marveled at her energy and infectious spirit.
Then, in the aftermath of the near-death accident, she lost it all-job, husband and sense of self. After learning to walk, talk and cut hair again, she faced the life-long task of going beyond recovery, beyond recreating the person she was before the accident to aspire for something better. Psychological counseling and the support of a loving circle of family and friends helped her to see that all was not perfect before the accident, helped her redefine a new Carolann, a work in progress who’s less self-absorbed and more self-aware, less controlling, and more open in her relationships with men in her life.
If it weren’t for the imperative, painful job of remaking herself physically, cognitively, and emotionally from a child-like state after the accident, Carolann might never have undertaken the intense personal journey that leads her today, at 59, to say “I thank God for my brain injury that cured me.”
More than a conventional memoir or self-help guide, “Lady in Red” stitches together Carolann’s own words, a diary that her cousin Michael Biello wrote during her coma and rehabilitation, hospital documents, notes from nurses and visitors and Carolann’s collection of inspirational quotes.
“I wrote and rewrote this book for over 20 years to help others who suffered or know someone who has suffered a brain injury,” Carolann says. Certainly, those directly or indirectly affected by a traumatic brain injury will benefit from reading her book, but so will anyone who believes it’s never too late to re-examine yourself and get to work making yourself a better person.
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Inspirational Stories That Spark Our Emotions and Touch the Heart and Soul
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99In today’s world, it’s hard to find a novel that brings a message to us in a healthy and positive manner. I, however, worked very hard to make that possible for every reader who purchases my novel! Inspirational Stories that Spark our Emotions and Touch the Heart and Soul is a novel about a host of highly desirable Inspirational Stories wrapped around life’s circumstances that Touch the Heart and Soul and give meaning to our everyday lifestyle. The novel brings curiosity, compassion, and an uplift of encouragement to anyone who reads it. When our eyes see our hands, voice, and feet doing the work of our gifts from God, the door of our soul flies open, and love steps forth. If we conform our lives to the principles and teachings of Jesus and let his teachings guide us and live through us in our daily lives, in return, we will become a ray of beauty, in resemblance to Jesus himself. My novel is highly recommended and creatively written to bring joy and happiness to your reading adventure!
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Christmas with the Famous
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Famous men and women in a wide range of occupations tell heartfelt, sometimes sad, sometimes humorous, and often inspirational stories about their best-remembered Christmas. Many times, the Christmas they remember best was when they were poor, perhaps out of work, alone, and with little hope. Yet, they felt the spirit of Christmas within them that brought new hope.
Their stories can inspire us today who are coping with global terrorism, violence and, for many, physical, emotional, or economic concerns that are especially hard to deal with at Christmas. If you’re alone, you can spend Christmas with those of the famous who know what that is like.
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I’m Not Chinese: A Tale of Satori, Cooking and Self-Discovery
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99For the past thirty years I’ve operated a Szechuan take out concession at Grateful Dead like musical events, dog shows, Harley bike events, you name it. Sold 16 tons of noodles and thousands of egg rolls doing it, met lots of great people, had lots of self-discovery, learned how to profitably operate a business, and lived the talk as well as the walk. Please, ask me questions. The book is about all of the above and the title is a pejorative reference to things not always being what they are assumed to be. It’s about claiming responsibility for your life, operating a business, finding fulfillment and joy and finding an escape clause for being who I am and whom I wanted to become. A self fulfilling prophesy. This is a how to tale for anyone wishing to take charge of their lives and begin living their dreams. Hopefully it is easy to read, easy to comprehend and perhaps even the inspiration we need to ‘get on with living the dream’.
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When Half Of Your Heart Dies
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99This is a story of a loving, christian mother who has suff ered the greatest loss of all ; the loss of her child. Her youngest son Darian was shot and killed as he and friends were leaving a social club in the city of Buff alo, New York. She was the product of God-fearing parents who taught her about the love of God and the power of prayer at an early age. Despite her upbringing, and the spiritual teachings of her parents, she began to falter in her faith and became angry at God for allowing the death of her son. Th is is a poignant account of a mother with a broken heart and her strugg le to remain faithful through it all while also praying for closure through the capture of her sons’ killer.
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A Dream Fulfilled
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99This book will show an incentive of what can be accomplished by those who follow what they wish to become when they grow up. As it has been said, “Follow your dream, and it will come true. Never ever give up, and believe in yourself.
My intention is to instill the desire of children making their dream a reality.
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Time, Only Time
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99“Poetic Rumblings”: a collection of free verse poems – most of which were written during the 1970’s & 1980’s – my personal ramblings about life, its good days and bad days, with all its misunderstandings, mishaps and other unfortunate happenings. Or, it can be whatever you believe it to be! Time, Only Time, will tell.