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To call an author "a renaissance man" would be extravagant had The Magic Ring and Other Tales come from the pen of other than noted physician, scientist, professor, poet and Argentinian-born author, Dr. Félix Fernández-Madrid. Tales from The Magic Ring are hypnotic as the author's vivid imagination and the diversity of his collection push the boundaries of creativity successfully.Travel into a womb to follow the thoughts of a fetus and those of a mother tormented by a surprising and unwanted pregnancy in, "Right to Life".Slide through a slit in time and travel into the future to a great capital city and witness the consequences of human mistakes in, "The Sunken Colossus".Attend the funeral of a man thought to be dead who was still alive and witness the miraculous return of his dead companion in, "The Secret Pact".Read the riveting centerpiece story, "The Magic Ring", in which an insane man gets a glimpse of his long-forgotten, suspense-filled past through the enchantment of a smoke ring.Readers will experience how the unusual can fascinate in Fernández-Madrid's magnetic collection of stories - filled with passion, political satire, humor and the suspense this inventive author always provides. "Every time I reread The Magic Ring, I am delighted again by the author's imagination and the diversity of his vivid tales," I. Michael Grossman, author, Shrinkwrapped: My First Fifty Years On the Couch.

When going through a carton marked "writing," I'm surprised at the number of personal essays inside, each one placed in a manila folder. They were written for no one in particular other than my writing group. As each is a "stand alone" memoir piece, I'd put them away and forgotten about them. But here they are.Spreading them out chronologically on the floor, I realize I have a timeline of my life in front of me, starting in 1950 when I was seven. The years chronicled begin with the appearance of television and end with cell phones and iPads. I re-read the recollections I'd put on paper and am inspired to publish a collection of stories for family and friends. There is a history here, not mine alone, but also of world events. I begin to edit, revise, compile, and create a legacy for the next generation. My memory for details has always been good. Perhaps not always accurate, but the pictures in my mind of events in these essays feel very clear. The fifty years of photographs I have in crumbling albums do capture the years, but the pictures have faded. The crisp digital images buried in my computer might never be discovered after I'm gone. But unlike photographs, the written word survives.Camilla Lee, May, 2019

"Poetic and pragmatic...a joy to read...a blueprint for making the most of our time on earth." -Marc Freedman, Founder/CEO, Encore.org, author, The Big Shift "Has fundamentally changed my understanding of legacy." -Fred Mandell, CEO of the Global Institute for the Arts and Leadership"An unforgettable source of guidance for the legacy work that we each must do..." -Harry R. Moody, Ph.D., Retired Vice President, AARPWhat legacies have you received and what will you pass on, to leave the world a little better than you found it? In Legacies of the Heart, Meg Newhouse provides an unconventional compass to discover and shape your legacies. She guides us to a more conscious and heart-centered imprinting of our legacies on the memories and values of those we touch and in the material records we leave behind. While a remarkably rich resource, Legacies is not the typical how-to book. Much of its appeal lies in the illustrative personal stories Newhouse tells, her own as well as those of friends, clients, workshop participants, and people in the media. Through her invitation to reflect on these stories, she takes readers on a journey of transformational importance, not only for one generation but also for the generations that follow.

This is the black and white interior version of The Aspirant which is also available as a full color paperback. At age 15 Roger Beaudoin's fascination with the Matterhorn was seeded. On a family trip to Disneyland, he stood in awe before a 300 foot high replica of the Alps' most famous mountain peak. Later in 1988, as graduate student on holiday, he saw the real Matterhorn for the first time on a train to Zermatt, seated among a throng of mountain climbers. If they can do it, he thought, he could too, and he determined he would summit it someday. His dream became a 10 year obsession that led a naïve young hiker back to Europe. He was ill prepared, even ill dressed for his first long hike along a dangerous trail that led from Zermatt. Hours later, only good luck spared him from his lack of experience, and he soon understood the depth of preparation needed to develop safe climbing skills. His growing respect for the task led to the ever-increasing knowledge needed to undertake the climb. After all, since Edward Whymper's first Matterhorn ascent, the climb led too many others to their death. "I was set on attempting to summit the Matterhorn," Beaudoin said. "but I was intimidated, fearful, and put obstacles in my own path. I learned that with basic fitness, instruction and an expert guide, I could challenge even a world-class peak. From the Tetons of Wyoming to the Alps of Europe, there are endless challenges and beauty to be discovered in the mountains. My hope is that The Aspirant will inspire other hikers and outdoor enthusiasts to climb." For those who hope to, The Aspirant is filled with technical tips, terms and explanations, practical advice, travel suggestions, and hard-won, inside knowledge. While The Aspirant is about a mountain and a climb, Beaudoin's journey is a metaphor for his readers. It is the story of single-minded determination to summit the Matterhorn which the author did, twice. It is about staying with a goal. "Everyone has their own 'Matterhorn' in life," says Beaudoin, "whether yours is a mountain or an ambition. Pursue it as long as it takes, no matter how difficult. Taking on the unknown teaches you about yourself, and your life is fuller for it."

Mike the Moose, Master of Marbles, won't tell his story to just anyone. It helps if you are solidly pro-moose and see no reason in the natural world why moose and man can't live together in a harmonious family. If assured of your position, Mike might let slip some juicy details of his adventures. Maybe how his first trip to a mall brought the police and how he wound up in a trash can. Or what the head of NASA says about him, and the spaceship to Mars, and the DANGERS he faced. Mike's still galactically annoyed at his human sister Carrie for that one. The easiest way to get Mike talking is to ask about his medal: his super shiny one from the State Department, after his encounter with Generalissimo Alfonso Ramonito Crakov del Buston, leader of the Spanish underworld. Mike insists he planned the entire mission to save America. Press him, and maybe, he'll admit to a bit of help from his mom and top agent, Harry Malone. But the way Mike tells it, the mission was run by a moose. Well c'mon, the Commander in Chief was impressed enough to give Mike one of THE most special, extraterrestrial gifts ever offered to man or moose! Mike would be the first to confirm that he is as brilliant, courageous, and handsome as they say - especially when he stretches his antlers - but he'll insist he isn't trying to be Supermoose. All he wants is to revel in his new-found family and play marbles with Carrie. (You do know that Mike is just about the most famous expert on marbles on the planet, right?) But what's a curious mooseling to do when duty calls?

The Battle of Gettysburg is arguably a monumental event in the annals of American history. The e battle was a turning point in a war that consumed the nation on every level. From a military point of view, Gettysburg was the midpoint in a devastating scenario that played out as Americans killed Americans in vast numbers and on a scale never witnessed before or since. Though the battle may have ended, Gettysburg is actually an ongoing story, one with issues of monumental importance that still resonate today. Yet at its core, the Battle of Gettysburg remains the story of the soldiers who fought in it - of their multiple personalities and of surprising endings. Join Stewart Cohen, Ph.D. in his riveting book, looks at what took place. Gettysburg - Death at the Angle is historical, fiction - yet a novel based on actual events and on the real personalities that shaped the war that enabled America to move on as The United States.

Marguerite Keil Flanders is one of the founding members of Ocean State Poets, a group that strives to bring poetry to all communities in Rhode Island, through readings, workshops and special events. She has led workshops for over 20 years, in libraries, schools, at conferences and Women's Centers. Her work has appeared in many publications, including Boston Review, Yankee Magazine, Ballard Street Poetry Journal, Coal City Review, Comstock Review, Connecticut River Review, Caesura, Main Street Rag, Nimrod International Journal, Poetry East, Poetalk, Snail Mail Review, and The Smoking Poet.

Advance Praise "A perfect blend of romance, humor and intrigue! Any reader will fall in love with these characters as they struggle in their quest for freedom. I loved it!" Linda Miranda, author of The Perfect Blend and The Seasoned Butcher's Wife Cookbook ______________ Iniki Beaumont has run out of time! The authorities that rule her tropical island are scouting everywhere to capture her. For years they have forced the other island landowners off their farms so that the workers no longer have jobs and many have been forced to flee. Conditions are so bad that the United Nations has sanctioned the island's ruler, President Simone, for human rights violations, and the Americans want to stop him too. But President Simone isn't about to lose, and he's out patience with Iniki, the woman seen by the islanders as a figurehead of hope for her people. She's undermined Simone's efforts to drive the people from their land. By helping poor farmers form small businesses on Iniki's land and sell their produce, she's slowed Simone's plans and has been a constant annoyance to him. Even worse, as Simone sees it, she's established schools for children and even supported a fledgling rebel cell. As the island's last remaining estate owner, Simone sees Iniki as the final detour on his route to success. He wants Iniki's land and he wants Iniki dead. The mercenary he hires, a man with a reputation for handling nasty jobs, is known to all as The Man in Black. His job is to make Iniki disappear, and as Iniki peers from behind her curtain, there he is coming up the road. To spearhead an effort by the United Nations to save Iniki, American deep cover agent Riley Taggart has been sent to rescue her. The plan is to have her testify at a UN hearing about Simone's ruthlessness. Agent Riley expects Iniki to be a damsel in distress. Instead he encounters a feisty, young woman who is more than willing to fight to her death. Iniki meets Riley and she knows he is her last chance. But, can she trust him? Riley doesn't expect that with Simone's forces in pursuit, rescuing Iniki will be easy. Especially since Iniki has a lot of demands, and handling her is way more than he bargained for. Falling in love with her is an unexpected bonus!

Angels are all around us, reaching out to offer comfort, guidance, and hope. For George Popovici, an award-winning safety engineer who had it all in the prime of his life, the people who appeared in his life as angels offered him hope in the midst of his despair as he searched for answers to a mysterious illness that had ripped away the perfect health he'd enjoyed all of his life. After a desperate eight-year search to find out why he had fallen so ill, and after seeing 42 physicians, George finally discovered that he was suffering from late-stage Lyme Disease. He learned of and sought out Maureen Hancock, a famous medium who told him that there was a purpose behind his illness: he was to bring together stories of hope and healing to inspire people who are desperate and ready to give up hope. He realized that his illness was part of God's plan to encourage him to reach out to others who were in need of help. Angels Walking with Us tells the story of George's quest for answers and treatment for a disease which affects hundreds of thousands the world over. His courage and persistence allowed him to meet many people and collect stories about divine interventions, miracles, and phenomenal healings from those who gave him hope over the course of his illness. ______________ "A book of faith, hope and miracles to lift those who need inspiration, particularly in times of trouble and despair. Read about the author's struggle with chronic illness and the amazing people he met along the way that offered their own stories of divine encounters and interventions, medical miracles and perseverance." Maureen Hancock, nationally renowned spirit medium, and author of The Medium Next Door

"Finally...a first-hand peek into an untold chapter of Coco Chanel's amazing life." "Richard Parker's recollections of his time as the assistant to the fashion industry icon, chronicles the untold challenges encountered in opening a new showroom for Chanel Perfumes in New York; the hand-to-hand corporate infighting between Gregory Thomas, the powerful Chairman of Chanel America, and Tom Lee, its legendary designer; and the ultimate resurrection of Coco Chanel's reputation and legend. Parker's insights and comfortable writing style bring this industry-defining event and its era to life in page-turning fashion." Archie J. Thornton, President and CEO, The Thornton Works, Inc., formerly Managing Director, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide "Coco Chanel's effervescent and strong personality is clearly delineated in this lively story of the launch of the Chanel Perfume Showroom in New York. After years of exile, her return to fame, as personally witnessed by her assistant, Richard Parker, was the second act in the astounding career of this fashion icon. Parker brings a sharp eye and dry humor to his first-hand account of working with Coco on the project which revived her career and made her a fashion star again." Holley Flagg, noted New York artist

On the coast of Rhode Island in 1978, the Winter family lives in a decaying farmhouse within view of the Atlantic Ocean. When family patriarch Jim Winter inexplicably commits suicide one January morning, his wife, Helen, teenage daughter, Joyce, and fisherman son, Dale, are left to pick up the pieces. Like the man whose life insurance is worth more than his life, Helen Winter knows that cashing in on the value of their oceanfront property would be both the salvation and destruction of the Winters, who have farmed this seaside land for three centuries. Cousin Ludlow Winter gives her a job in his real estate office, but he also pressures her to sell more and more of the farm. Neighbor Fran Kennedy befriends her, but also seems to be eyeing her antiques. Her sister-in-law, Loretta, wants to turn the Winter land over to the Audubon Society. Meanwhile, Joyce tries to make sense of her father's suicide and a generation of family secrets all while trying to preserve her Swamp Yankee heritage, which is threatened by greedy developers and outsiders who have no understanding of this land the Winters call home. Her best friend, Camille, a Narragansett Indian, is on a journey of her own to untangle her heritage. As a storm threatens to overtake the farm, the journeys of these women will collide with hurricane force.

Sharon White's book helps normalize the dying process and take the unknown out of the hospice experience. Follow her helping others find comfort, effective pain control and a higher quality of life while at the same time honoring each patient's individual processes. Learn how with hospice's expertise their journey is made a little easier.

Perhaps the world's longest coming-of-age story, SHRINKWRAPPED shows how one man's search for a better life worked-at last. In a blue-collar Michigan town where corporal punishment was seen as positive parenting, troubled families rarely sought professional help. But Michael Grossman's teachers sent him to see a Freudian psychoanalyst at age 7. It was the first of a parade of therapies that would include Rogerian bear-hugs, Gestalt dream analysis, Rolfing, Bioenergetics and even LSD. Sitting beside Michael on a succession of "shrinks'" couches, the reader follows his progress through one defense after another until he finally achieves a joyful capacity to care for others. Untangling the complex, sometimes eccentric and other times abusive family relationships that enmeshed his Midwestern boyhood in the mid-20th century, the author finally faces fundamental truths that lead to a profound transformation. By turns funny, poignant and shocking, Shrinkwrapped is a story of hope, of growing insight and ultimately of love reborn.

"Blood Lines written by Paul McLean, should be required reading for medical care givers as well as for parents whose child is diagnosed with a life threatening, albeit potentially curable, illness." Terry B Strom, MD, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School-Co-Director, The Transplant Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center *** "The story of a father's courage, a daughter's strength and a very personal triumph for medical research." P. Michael Conn, scientist and co-author of The Animal Research War. *** "Blood Lines will give comfort and answers to anyone who finds themselves in need of hope in the midst of chaos and tragedy." Susan Senator, author, Making Peace With Autism, The Autism Mom's Survival Guide *** "When a parent's worst nightmare occurs, the desperate illness and possible death of their child, most of us have no words to describe it. This is not a book to be read in public or just before going to bed. I wept, I laughed, I nodded in recognition, and I wept some more." Rev. Dr. Jim Sherblom, First Parish in Brookline, Massachusetts. *** How does an experience you wouldn't wish on anyone become one you wouldn't trade for anything? Paul McLean, newly enraptured with his ancestry, was living a dream with his wife and young daughter, discovering the islands and highlands of Scotland. But while McLean walked in wonder over ancestral grounds, his daughter's immune system was disappearing. She was abandoned by her blood line, the victim of a mysterious and life-threatening disease incurable only decades before but now requiring the sacrifice of a father's safe assumptions and the new blood line of a stranger. In the author's lifetime, medical science has transformed the nature of hope and possibility, putting in the hands of doctors and nurses the tools of the miraculous. McLean would come to know this intimately and searingly. A former sports writer, Paul McLean often heard the athlete's hopeful refrain: "There's always tomorrow." It's not true, though. There isn't always tomorrow. But within the unyielding and harsh truth of mortality exists astonishment and wonder. You may find, in Blood Lines, a way to live in the moment and be grateful for today.

Prodded by his formidable Aunt Bertha to become a doctor, college-grad, Gene McKee, agrees to explore Europe in search of a welcoming medical school. Seizing the opportunity will provide relief from the tedium and stench of a temporary job as a fish cutter in Rhode Island. The frustrations and apparent futility of the quest, extending through Ireland, England, Scotland, and France, test his resolve. But just before the clock's final tick, an unlikely acceptance to the College of Surgeons in Dublin opens the door to a future not exactly of his own choosing. McKee's rite-of-passage travelogue is replete with anecdotes of medical school and Dublin life during the late 1950's and early 60's. Recounted with self-deprecating humor and considerable honesty, we witness McKee's transformation from a reluctant medical student to a competent physician. Enjoyably peppered with historical tidbits, amorous entanglements, and imaginative riffs, reading Doc and seeing Ireland with its rich cast of "characters" through a young Irish-American's eyes, will surely bring smiles to the faces of readers and for some a twinge of recognition.

Remembrances Two Centuries, Two Countries, Two Husbands chronicles the life of a successful Buenos Aires-born woman who straddles two countries and two very different medical worlds during a century of transition. Luisa Stigol received her medical degree in Buenos Aires during the oppressive reign of President Juan Peron when his party dominated Argentina. Ten years later, Stigol relocated her family to Boston where, for thirty years, she was a pediatrician connected with the Harvard Children's Hospital. Follow Stigol's candid descriptions of a doctor's sometimes painful, sometimes joyful encounters with patients and their families, during a career that reflects dramatic changes occurring in medical care. Stigol's personal life intertwines with her challenges as a physician. Paradoxically, a woman who succeeded in a challenging medical career was unaware of the painful reality that she was married to a man consumed by alcohol dependency. That and Stigol's successful battle with cancer lets readers bear witness to the life of a physician whose experiences additionally reflect the transition in a woman's role.