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An Affair with Hollywood
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99An Affair with Hollywood are stories of a bodyguard and limo driver working during the height of male chauvinism in Hollywood during the historic 1980s. His personal relationships with clients, and his interactions with wishful young actresses, presented him with a medium into the party scene… and what was truly going on with this sexually charged era. Throughout these stories, he dives headfirst into exploring the Hollywood scene and the mindsets involved during the peak of the casting couch, favor making, and drug usage.
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Bible Lessons for Broken People
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99This is a book to hand to a broken teenager captured by pills, pot, or meth. This is a book for a woman from an abusive background who feels unworthy of love. This is a book to hand to a recovering addict, desperately seeking Tough, forceful, and poignant. This is exactly the Bible-study book ministers and Christian counselors have been waiting for! So very many people in the modern world are deeply broken – some are so broken that they refuse to even enter a church. Whether victims of child abuse, neglect, addiction, or sexual exploitation, these broken people, young and old, are crying out for help even as their fierce pride forces them to refuse any help that is offered. When pride is all you have, pride is what you cling too. These broken individuals have lived in hell already, and that fierce, desperate pride kept them alive even as it now blocks their progress.
For those deeply broken people, this book is the answer. It speaks to the brokenness – directly to the heart of the darkness that many broken people feel with each breath, speaking with an authentic, direct message of Jesus’s love and compassion. The Roque Warriors document at the first of this book grabs the broken reader by the throat and lets those individuals know that many others have been in their situation before and have found help in these pages. The Bible lessons themselves tackle the harshest issues facing people today: fear, frustration, a complete, desperate sense of aloneness, homosexuality, child sex abuse, the problem of evil, contemplations of suicide, overwhelming guilt, dark rage, unforgiving hatred, and the deeply felt need to find peace amid the darkness of one’s lost soul. This book does not mince words, and the most challenging issues facing broken people today are presented and discussed herein using the Bible and, when possible, Jesus’s own words.
The minister or counselor should discuss each lesson with these broken ones, leading them through these pages as the broken grow stronger in their newly-found hope: their faith. Even when they read alone without a counselor, this book can reach broken people. It could be a gift for many. It will be a lifeline for some.
As Christians, we know that Jesus can and does change even the most broken lives. This book, presenting Jesus’s love and compassion, will help him do exactly that.
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Covering All The Grounds: From Birth to Maturity in God
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Quote from Blair Townley, Xulon Press This nonfiction book educates readers in what it means to “grow” in Jesus and fulfill the purpose bestowed to each person by a loving God. The main concept of the book is that salvation does not conclude a Christian’s purpose on earth, but revitalizes it in helping those lost in the world find God. The book’s content is organized and very linear in its approach, as it explains thetopic more thoroughly through the chapters and uses realistic examples to connect readers’ experiences to the truths of the Bible. The author’s tone is very even and helpful towards readers, keeping the book’s dialogue informative but light-hearted that will encourage readers in seeing the eternal merits of a relationship with God through Jesus.
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Diabetes and God’s Unending Grace
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99Why I Wrote Diabetes and God’s Unending Grace
Diabetes and God’s Unending Grace is the story of my fifty-four-year journey as an insulin-dependent, type-1 diabetic. I believe that God has directly led me to write this book as a source of encouragement and inspiration for other people afflicted with this incurable disease. My journey as a type-1 diabetic began on December 4, 1965. I was almost sixteen years old. Diabetes was much more difficult to manage at this time, and I described this in the early chapters of my book. My parents were informed by the doctor to tell me to never get pregnant and that I might live twenty-five more years.
At age sixty-nine, I have survived type-1 diabetes for over half a century. Through divine interventions and answered prayers, I have cheated death many times over. Through God’s wisdom and guidance, I have probably accomplished more in my life than an average person. I give my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, all the glory and praise. Deep down inside, I know God allowed this disease into my life because he had a special plan for me. Throughout life, God’s strength and grace have met my every need.
If you are a diabetic, either a type 1 or type 2, I believe that God has you on a special assignment. I believe he wants to manifest his grace and strength through you. I believe that God also desires to help you discover the special blessings you could not have had otherwise without your diabetes.
I trust that my personal story in Diabetes and God’s Unending Grace will deepen your faith and trust in the divine sovereignty of Almighty God. He is a wonderful heavenly Father, and you will read about his awesome and unending grace!
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Embracing Freedom: Healing from Within
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Living a life of freedom from mental and emotional issues is a challenge yet attainable. It requires tenacity, endurance, and a resolve to be completely and forever free. This book was originally written 17 years ago as a doctoral dissertation project about inner healing and deliverance for hurting women and children from sexual trauma and intimate partner violence, relating the narratives of women who have experienced healing. Although its focus during the initial dissertation process was narrowed to only include African American women, it is about all women, men, and children across all cultures. Considering the trauma experienced by the entire world during the COVID-19 pandemic, its expanded chapters include PTSD and other mental health challenges. It also includes research of other cultures. Though the author writes from a biblical based spiritual perspective, by no means is she implying, it is the only method of receiving healing.
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Emergency Preparedness 101: A multi- Faceted Approach To Survival
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99This book has covered a range of topics related to emergency preparedness and survival skills. It included discussions on food and water storage, first aid, communication devices, survival techniques, butchering animals, security measures, herbal alternatives to medications, creating a homemade fishing pole, and developing an effective emergency plan. The emphasis was on practical tips for self-sufficiency and safety in various scenarios.
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Engaging the Silent Sufferer
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99In Engaging the Silent Sufferer, Dr. Jerome Newton addresses the issues of shame, guilt, and disgrace that continually plague men and women who are suffering in silence. By its nature, abuse is a topic that is rarely discussed. Perpetrators remain silent because they recognize their acts could be deemed criminal, and victims remain silent because of many factors are addressed in this writing.
Dr. Newton discloses the pains and wounds of those affected by such abuse while simultaneously exposing the perpetrators who inflicted the pain. Many have kept the secret of abuse to prevent punishment and embarrassment to the family’s reputation, while the real crime of the abuse scenario is that of silence. The stories disclosed in this book include various types of abuse; however, sexual and/or physical abuse and the difficult conversations surrounding the incidents became the catalysts for the book.
This book is designed to help give illumination and provide a vehicle of expression by:
• Sharing stories of abuse that encourage those who are still suffering in silence to come out and be heard, understanding that they no longer have to hide their private struggles behind their public success.
• Providing the necessary tools for those who are suffering in silence to regain freedom, rehabilitate their lives, and be empowered to live with strength, honor and dignity.
• Providing assistance through the resources available via clinical or pastoral counseling, as well as other professional venues.
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Going Postal: 2nd Edition
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Willie Roy Hargis worked for the Postal Service for 32 years. He began his Postal career as a City Letter Carrier in 1967. In January 1973, while carrying mail he enrolled at Tarrant County Junior College, attending night classes. After receiving a promotion in 1975 to Building Services Supervisor, he began working nights and enrolled at Texas Wesleyan College. He graduated from Texas Wesleyans College in December 1978, with a degree in Business Administration.
Mr. Hargis worked as a City Letter Carrier, a Carrier Technician, Building Service Supervisor, as an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Counselor, a Labor Relations Assistant, Injury Compensation Supervisor, Delivery Service Supervisor, Station Superintendent, Station Manager, Ad Hoc EEO Investigator, and Labor Relations Representative.
In 1988, the Fort Worth office became a District Office, and the Labor Relations Representative position was upgraded to Manager. Mr. Hargis remained in that position until retirement in 1999. In addition, to his Postal career, Mr. Hargis graduated from Special Warfare School at Fort Bragg, NC in 1966, and served his country as an Army Special Forces, Green Beret, Paratrooper.
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HUMAN MORAL BEHAVIOR is A Principle of Nature Discovered by Philosophy And Modern Evolutionary Sciences: Essays from Antiquity to Modern Times Reedited and Updated
Price range: $3.99 through $18.99This book is a collection of essays on the development of moral philosophy and review of studies in evolutionary sciences related to the cooperative behavior published previously and arranged in a thematic sequence. The book is a reedtion of slightly modified and updated previous publication. It contains essays grouped into several thematic sections: The Virtue Ethics: The Ethics of a Sage; Christian Ethics; Critique of Christian Ethics; Discursive Ethics; Ethics and Evolution; Humanist Ethics; Issues in Practical Ethics.
The book attempts to summaries the attempts of the human mind to deal with the question of human condition of living in a society and how we should behave toward each other and toward the rest of the world.
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I Have Not Picked Up My Dinosaurs Yet Today: A Personal Account of Life with Depression-Anxiety Disorder
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Helene Meyer grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. After graduating from Washington University with a BA, majoring in English and Spanish, she began a long teaching career in both private and parochial schools. All along, Helene struggled with her own private hell: waging a battle against depression and anxiety disorder. Ashamed to admit to anyone that she had these mental and emotional problems, she decided to write down all she had experienced.
Using new emotional/mental strength, Helene wanted to reach out to others who suffer from these devastating illnesses. Instead of doing so by writing autobiographically, Helene chose to use theatrically-styled readings based on her own life. These readings can be done in mental care settings by social workers, psychiatrists, psychologists or among families and friends who want to overcome the stigma of mental illness. In 2011, Helene founded an NPO called “Slaying Dragons” whose mission is to destroy the stigma of mental illness through theater. The website is www.slayingdragons.org. She hopes many people and organizations will reach out to “Slaying Dragons” performances to help those in need. The impact of these readings are overwhelming.
According to Dr. Collins Lewis, professor emeritus from Washington University, this book will help many people who suffer from depression and anxiety.
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Keys To Destiny: Life From Inside-Out
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99This writing was delivered to me by the Spirit of God many years before I was fully aware of it’s becoming in my own life. After years of prayer and experience, life itself has co-authored its conception and completion. So now it is with great joy that I am fi nally able to put pen to paper. Though it’s been years since it was fi rst introduced into my heart, I feel that it is now being released as a Word in Season for your reading after God has prepared both the writing and the writer in one vessel for your edifi cation.
Keys to Destiny is not only a Word of Wisdom and Knowledge to the Body of Christ, but also a road-map for every soul that is thirsting for purpose, destiny, and a framework that will help establish the desires of their heart.
Although many years have been poured into in their formation, the keys and insights found in this writing are presented in concise and relevant portions for believers and seekers at every level.
My prayer is that you would let these living words extracted from a heart committed to delivering life-changing truths to all that would hear; in order to motivate, elevate, and propel you forward into your destiny, no matter what age or season you are experiencing at the moment you hear them.
Keys to Destiny is not all the truth you will ever need, but some jewels to add to the treasures that your life is gathering along the way. -
My Dad (Mr. P): THE POET AND HE DIDN’T KNOW IT
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Joseph L. Piranio is kind, loving, and a sincere person who loves his family. He always puts other people first. He can put a smile on anyone’s face. He would start a conversation with anyone. As for hobbies, he has lots. He would go fishing and race pigeons. His favorite one was singing Frank Sinatra’s song, “My Way!” in karaoke sessions. His on-circuit name was Mr. P. Everyone knew him as that. He was a U.S. Navy veteran. He served in the Korean War. He worked as an electrician for Kansas City. He helped build projects like Worlds of Fun, the Kansas City International Airport, and Liberty Hospital. He has five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. One of the things he is great at was writing down his thoughts as poems. He would teach his two sons to hunt and fish. Anyone who knows him knows family is very important to him in every way.
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My Life Story
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99This book is an autobiography that depicts my life as a child that lost her mother at a tender age of three. It will show the good and bad of how I did or did not cope with many situations. I had many insecurities that captivated my progress in becoming the true successful individual that! should and could have become. But for the grace of God, I am who I am today.
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Poetry for the Soul: Plus Satire
Price range: $11.99 through $18.99God’s spirit can fill our very soul;
We are restored, and love reigns whole.
God blesses freedom and allows you to choose,
But those who steal freedom are destined to lose.
Bad thoughts from the past can be banished at last. Then your heart is set free to be all you can be.
What you think is what you feel.
Emotions are but mirrors real.
The Lord will protect better than ever we can,
For even in the worst of times, He can perfect His plan.
What sets this collection apart is McPhee’s versatility as a poet. Each poem is a testimony to her ability to seamlessly transition between introspective messages and razor-sharp wit….Yet beneath the humor lies a deep sense of compassion and understanding, reminding us that laughter can be a powerful tool for introspection and growth.
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Set Yourself Free Live The Life You Were Meant To Live
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99More than two thousand years ago a great master instructed the masses on simple techniques to live lives of passion, joy, and vibrancy. His pragmatic approach is as viable today as it was then; and by incorporating his methods, you have the power to live the exalted life for which you were designed. Set Yourself Free: Live the Life YOU Were Meant to Live provides an outline of these dynamic teachings. In this book, Jesus is used as a prototype for each person and his trials and tribulations are symbolic of yours. By learning through his example, we save time, effort, and frustration and move to enlightenment with ease and grace. There are numerous examples given of individuals who have overcome major challenges and obstacles to live dynamically and express the fullness of their divine potential. By following these teachings, you can do the same.
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The Alzheimer’s Guidebook
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Alzheimer’s/Dementia is out there in our world and creating distress and sadness in the lives of millions of people every day, and more in years to come. The number of people with this disease is staggering-MILLIONS! Who is going to be taking care of these people? If it’s not the family, it will be hired caregivers at home or staff in facilities. The concern is, will they be prepared!
Does someone you know–a loved one perhaps, have Alzheimer’s?
Are you concerned for a loved one that has increased forgetfulness, behavior changes and/or has wandered off and forgotten where they were or how to get home?
Do you work with Alzheimer’s patients and feel you would like to have a better understanding of this disease?
Are you having a difficult time coping with someone with this disease and you just don’t know how to handle things or even how the disease will progress?
IF YOU ANSWERED “YES” TO ANY OF THESE QUESTIONS, THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU.
This is a simple, easy-to-read, guidebook. It is designed to help you care for and better understand a person with Alzheimer’s. Many people have not been educated on what to expect or how to properly care for someone with this disease.
As a Registered Nurse, working for hospice, I had the opportunity of managing the care of Alzheimer’s/Dementia patients for over nine years, on a daily basis, in many aspects of their disease process. I shared in the lives of their families as I listened, watched, learned and took notes. From those notes, I comprised this guidebook. It includes actual stories told from the families who have dealt with this disease, personal experiences, factual information, and is put together with tips and scenarios.
MY HOPE, AS THE WRITER OF THIS BOOK, IS THAT BY SHARING THIS INFORMATION, PEOPLE WILL HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THIS DISEASE, AND THEY WILL RESPOND TO SITUATIONS WITH COMPASSION, SO THAT THE DIGNITY OF THE PATIENT IS MAINTAINED AND BETTER CARE IS PROVIDED. AT THE SAME TIME, BY HAVING THIS INFORMATION, THEY WILL BE FILLED WITH MORE ENJOYABLE, EASIER DAYS AS SITUATIONS ARISE, VERSUS DAYS WITH TROUBLES, STRESS, SADNESS AND THE LACK OF ADEQUATE CARE.
