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I go by the name James Watson also known as Poetry Emotion and welcome to my sixth book titledS.O.A.P Stories.Of.A.Poet.These are the stories of my life.I have been through so much, and by thegrace of God. I have made it out of some of the roughest times in my life.I love to write and tellstories, some of the stories you read in this book will hit home on a lot of different topics.My poems helpme to smile again, love again, and to look at life from a different aspect.My poems will make you laugh orit will make you cry.There's so much to tell in this book.My main purpose of this book is to inspire you.Sosit back and enjoy this emotional roller coaster ride.As I send your mind on a journey.

Theresa Dove-Waters brings to herservice a wealth of experiencegleaned through two careers: oneas an Ordained United Methodist ChurchPastor and the other as a collegiate-leveleducator. Waters worked at several collegesin Florida and Georgia for over 30 years asan Administrator and College Professor. Shetaught on a range of subject matter duringthat time, from religion to other socialsciences subject matter. Also, during hertime in Higher education, she served in several supervisory positions,including as director of minority affairs.Waters received her Bachelor and Masters of Education degreesfrom the University of North Florida before going on to earn a Masterof Divinity, with a concentration in religious education, from EmoryUniversity's prestigious Candler School of Theology.She is a past board member of the Southeastern Institute onChemical Dependency and has held numerous lectures and workshopson substance abuse and addiction. Additionally, she started a supportgroup for young women: Saving Ourselves: Black Women of TodayHelping Black Women of Tomorrow in Jacksonville, Florida.Other community services include serving on several boards ofdirectors and listed in Who's Who in the South and Southwest, inAmerican Education and of American Women.

Family Matters examines the disjunct between upward-mobile successfultechnocrats, living in enviable suburban comfort, and their nearby blue- collar counterparts, many haunted by a sense of personal insignificance as lifelong jobs are eliminated or disappear altogether. From computer-savvy Barry Byrnes, forced into early retirement, to union leaders Jamie McClintock and Paul Doran, struggling to save a century-old industry in the heart of the picturesque Chesapeake Bay area, we collide against mutually opposed economic and family concerns. The effect is a profound cultural fracture, the central concern of the novel.

In this incisive book, Chaitanya Davé fearlessly takes you where few dare to tread.... According to Davé, few Americans realize how the United States operates globally. In its greed, hubris and lust driven march towards the world domination, it has trampled upon, crushed and killed millions of innocent and poor people in this country during the early period and around the globe later; in the process, destroying the aspirations and livelihoods of millions more.... Davé asserts with irrefutable logic and overwhelming evidence that the real purpose of U.S. global agenda is to make the world safer for exploitation by the U.S. corporations. This entails destroying the peoples' popular movements in other countries and replacing them with the puppet military dictatorships that do their bidding, opening up their countries for exploitation by the U.S. corporate interests. This devastating critique of U.S. foreign policy lays out in vivid details the utter folly of this ignoble policy of constant wars, interventions, treachery, bribery, deceptions and even assassinations in the other nations; thus, planting the seeds of future disasters for the people of the United States. Only the awakened public in America and the rest of the world can stop this intoxicated superpower from its nefarious path of hegemony and control over the nations.

The people of Earth went to sleep concerned only with their own dreams of tomorrow. Little did they know that tomorrow would only bring nightmares, and no hopes for the future of the Human race. Bill sat at the fi re burning in the pit, enjoying a cool October night. He built his hideaway in the Colorado mountains to escape the problems of the crazy world around him. Little did he know that the problems of the entire galaxy would soon be dropped right in his lap. The Earth is ruthlessly attacked by an alien race that has been watching our planet for decades. With billions of the planet's inhabitants exterminated in just the first few hours, the planet is in turmoil, and its leaders are helpless to stop the inevitable end to the human race. On the mountain outside of a small Colorado town, a motley crew of galactic inhabitants is gathered together to save the planet, as well as the galaxy, from a tyrannical race of aliens. This story is about the groups unusual as well as creative methods to achieve that goal by joining with a now unified galactic force to save both.

Mr. Solomon A. Minta is a native of Ghana and a naturalized citizen of the USA. He migrated to the United States upon in the early 1970's and had strived to educate himself on his own and a very religious person who love people. He earned his first degree from Howard University, majoring in Geology and his Masters at the University of the District of Columbia, majoring in Regional and Urban Planning. Mr. Minta is a creative writer and writes from his own life experiences and the knowledge he knows about the Black history and slavery. He is a humanitarian, and loves counseling people and striving to bring peace among all people. He believes that all men are created equal and no one should claim superiority over the other. Mr. Minta attempts to prove that Africans had never been primitive. It's just lacks of understanding of an African way of life. He believes that people, irrespective of race, color, creed or origin to live together in peace and in love. He addresses human suffrage, relationships and cultural aspects of life. He believes that Black people have not been given the honor and place in history that they deserve. The theme of most of this writings is to address what he sees wrong among the human race and solutions to solve them.

Prescott Barr and Priscilla Waterford are two brilliant young physicists recruited to work at the secret base Area 51 north of Las Vegas. Prescott and Priscilla steal a flying saucer from Area 51 and travel to the planet Serpo circling the binary star Zeta 2 Reticuli. What happens when Prescott and Priscilla arrive at Serpo? Find out in Zeta 2 Reticuli!

No one can truly understand the sacrifices mothers go through for the sake of their children. A mother's love is boundless, endless and strong, it is the oil that propel the wheel of life for her children and the only thing that never grows weak or dead. And so, it was for the sake of that undying strong love for her child, this novel tells the story of all heroic mother's out there whose story of struggle, strive and victory needs to be celebrated. I have always wondered in my mind eyes why mother's sacrifice so much for their children. I once ask my late mom why she would rather we eat and she go without food sometimes and the only answer she could give was-'' when you grow up and become a mother someday, then you will understand there is nothing a mother will not do for her child''. Indeed, today I am not only a mother, but a single mother of two great sons. My own story of struggles, strive, pain and triumph has given me so many answers to that simple question I once ask my mother. Looking back today, my two children are the greatest achievement of my life, they are the reflection of my true story and the story of many other unsung heroic mother's there waiting to excel from the brink of disaster. I am hoping that my story will give courage to all reading this novel to understand that you are not alone in that decision you make to keep your baby and fend for them come rain come shine. I know for sure that no sacrifice of a true mother will go unrewarded one way or the other. Looking back into the life of Richard Whiteman JR, it shows how true the saying that a son's bond with the mother is truly strong and incomparable. I draw inspiration from several circumstances of my life true story to put together this masterpiece as a tribute to all mothers and to celebrate women. Do you know how difficult it is for Richard Whiteman JR to carry the burden of his promise to his late mother? This novel is relatable in several ways to life situations, it tells a story that has deep roots in everyday existence. Above all, it shows and exposes the deceit that most marriages are fraught with and how we end up dying in silence because we want the world to believe we are doing okay. Can you imagine the torture Richard Whiteman Jr went through all for the sake of keeping his promise to his late mother? This man suffered and paid the ultimate price for his love of his mother- why? Because she sacrificed a lot to single handedly raise him to be the man he became. But, is this worth it? Find the answer after reading. This novel is about everything in life generally. A lot of stories to learn from, no harm to cry out for help. It is never too late to do so now if you are reading this and it relates to you in some ways, please reach out for help. Don't let the world dictate what your life should be, your life is in your hands. Keep it, don't lose it. Enjoy reading and be the wise one. Thank you for reading this - PHILOMENA ONYECH NGWODO.

The author suggests that physicists who violate the scientific method deserve to be teased with "It ain't necessarily so."Chapter one suggests that all we see (Matter) is God's Word-energy slowed down. The Creator's voiceprint lives in the particles and waves within all matter. Chapter two explains that God, being eternal, therefore always had a place to live, pre-existing the creation story we read in Genesis 1, and that the Bible tells about recent events. Chapter three suggests reasons to question that Earth spins at 1,000 miles per hour, suggesting that instead our sun moves around the Earth at a percentage of the speed of light Chapter four applies these deep questions to practical everyday life with the cheerful reminder that we must be humble and admit that our opinions "ain't necessarily so."

Robert Allen was the son of a plantation owner. Sammy Allen was the son of a slave living on the same plantation. They became best friends in 1850 when they were ten years old. How did the turbulence of the 1850s and the Civil War affect their friendship and their lives? Find out in Reunion!

During the summer after high school graduation, Randal Anderson finds his soul mate, Allyson Crawford, but there are problems. Allyson comes from an "old money," Catholic family in Boston, while Randal comes from a middleclass, Mormon family in Salt Lake. Their love is confirmed in an ancient spirit circle on the legendary mountain named Timpanogos. The difficult relationship breaks up when Randal makes a stupid mistake. After years of regret, Randal marries Maria Elena, a Spanish teacher and flamenco dancer. The marriage of short-lived passion deteriorates, while Randal makes his mark in the computer business. As the marriage falters, Randal begins an erotic affair with another woman he knows he can never love. Maria is killed in a tragic traffic accident while Randal is driving their car. Randal, guilt-ridden, dedicates his life to raising their three children. Though he has heard of Allyson's death, the memories of Timpanogos and that perfect summer love haunt his mind. As the children grow and prepare to leave home, Karen Troy comes into his life. Now he must finally rid himself of his phantom love, Allyson. He has a plan, but before he can implement it, he is led into the unexpected. Self-Publishing Review: Timpanogos is engaging and heartfelt. We follow Randal's journey, through all the day-to-day lumps and bumps of childhood, adolescence, and further, his self-discovery and dealings in the realms of romance providing a rather realistic and believable character ... Timpanogos is an unusual book, perhaps appealing to a slightly older YA readership with its traditional, 20th century retrospective - serial romance peppered with old-soul wisdom, and an accepting attitude toward loss and the gradual changes that sneak up in life. For people seeking a fresh, emotional read, Timpanogos is a very decent book to try out.Rebecca's Reads: I would hesitate to call Glen R. Stott's novel, "Timpanogos" a coming of age story. It does start while the protagonist, Randal Anderson, is a seventh grader, but it winds far ahead into adulthood, giving the book a wider scope than normal for any story of adolescents. What we do have is a loving, well-crafted tale of a young man's life and loves, his wrestling with faith and his reckonings about how he wants to be and live. ... "Timpanogos" takes us right through to when Randal Anderson is a father himself. Many harsh realities have hit him by then but the beauty of the book is in the search for love and understanding. It is a book full of forgiveness and awakenings. ... It is done with honesty, a certain heartfulness, purity and goodwill. I felt clean reading "Timpanogos." ... He has captured youth and growing up, true love and faith, and maturing, exquisitely. The ending is life affirming. It will make you glad, with a smile to light a room.

Black Divinity exposes the intricate beauty and complexity of the New York City street culture to allow those outside to see that those in the United States street life actually do have a very respectable, while yet Afro-centric, doctrinal system (including a pneumatology, psychology, ethnology, anthropology, sociology, eschatology, soteriology, Christology and ecclesiology) and how it applies to the real world. It is also an attempt to fulfil the mission of the early Afro-centric movements and resurrect an Afro-chic culture that connects black people the world over with the souls of our ancestors in ancient Kush.As a veteran of the 1990s United States gang wars and champion of the Brooklyn, New York Crips Tony Saunders was accepted by the 5 Percent Nation as Shahidi Islam in 2014 after a life in the gangs of his community. Prior to that, though not officially joining he maintained an outside affiliation through the godbody and learned heavily from their ciphers and building sessions. Being an experienced member of the 187 Gangsta Crips and New York's Christian Life Center Church he also helped organize and promote the expansion of both Christian and Crip membership and development in the Flatbush, Brownsville and East New York areas of Brooklyn. Shahidi also travelled the length of the United States in communion with numerous ghetto communities across the country before doing time in prison for assault and getting deported to London. While in London Shahidi joined the Stop the War movement, the Fair Trade movement, the Make Poverty History, Live Simply, the Campaign Against the Arms Trade, the Socialist Workers Party and the Afrikan Co-operative Union, before connecting with, and this time properly joining the 5 Percent Nation, that exists in London promoting the development of an Afro-chic and Afrosensual culture in the black community.

Is homosexuality evil? Is hell afterlife for somebody who is homosexual? These questions trouble me as I listen to the now by my opinion, the crazed maniac J. Michael Mahoney. Yet this short autobiography is not about a series of events in my life. It was the vampire chronicles I read when I was a kid and many other things, but not that. It just became part of the explanation of my story.

It seems like yesterday when Shari Darling helped send her second husband, Carl Paskel, to prison for molesting her eight-year-old daughter, Tami. Three years have passed and now, Carl has been released on parole, supposedly living an exemplary life. Carl seems repentant, but Shari is unable to forget his dark sideWhen the bodies of young girls begin to appear, Shar's friend, seasoned detective Tom DeMayo, starts receiving poetry claiming responsibility for the horrific crimes. Evidence points to Dale Richards, another child molester who has recently completed a thirteen-year prison term. But when Sherry begins to interview Carl's cellmate and self-proclaimed psychic, Russell Blaine, he alleges Carl is killing the girls and is preparing to come after Shari. Meanwhile, a tormented man stalks victims in the dark of night and cries, knowing nothing will ever be the same for him again.In this gripping thriller, Shari Darling, caught in the crosshairs of a serial killer, must face her deepest fears with nothing but her anger to protect her.

Triangular Man: Unlocking our being to Becoming Whole probes the deep structures, embodied in the angle and the triangle, that shape reality and give meaning to life. Through her private study of the Torah and her exposure and exploration of the history of interpretation that lives in Israel, Polaris arrived at a comprehensive approach to making sense of human existence.In its journey through the fie-grain details of the text of the Torah and its keen observations drawn from such diverse disciplines as linguistics, anatomy, environmental studies, and Jewish teaching, Triangular Man fashions a comprehensive synthesis. This combination accomplishes what the book's subtitle promises. It provides a key to unlocking the mysteries of human being and shows its readers a way to become whole. This book demonstrates how the figures 2 and 3, as reflected in the two-sided angle and the three-sided triangle, aid one another in interpreting life in all its aspects--the natural, the personal, the social, and the religious. It will challenge your beliefs, broaden the range of your thinking, and open your eyes to the riches of the human journey.

Triangular Man: Unlocking our being to Becoming Whole probes the deep structures, embodied in the angle and the triangle, that shape reality and give meaning to life. Through her private study of the Torah and her exposure and exploration of the history of interpretation that lives in Israel, Polaris arrived at a comprehensive approach to making sense of human existence.In its journey through the fie-grain details of the text of the Torah and its keen observations drawn from such diverse disciplines as linguistics, anatomy, environmental studies, and Jewish teaching, Triangular Man fashions a comprehensive synthesis. This combination accomplishes what the book's subtitle promises. It provides a key to unlocking the mysteries of human being and shows its readers a way to become whole. This book demonstrates how the figures 2 and 3, as reflected in the two-sided angle and the three-sided triangle, aid one another in interpreting life in all its aspects--the natural, the personal, the social, and the religious. It will challenge your beliefs, broaden the range of your thinking, and open your eyes to the riches of the human journey.

Our story starts with a small boy named Uriel. He grew up in Rawlins Wyoming. He lived with his family, his mother Madison, his father Ethan and his little sister Destiny. Uriel was the older of the two siblings he was ten years old, and his little sister was eight. They grew up in a small but very old house on West Davis Street. The house itself was built well back in 1800's; it had three bedrooms, and one bathroom. Down the hall was the kitchen, a reading room and medium size living room. There was a basement but it was not finished, they just used it for laundry, and storing odd things that did not fit in the upstairs rooms. They did not have much furniture but what they had was it old. Ethan worked as a guard in the nearby Wyoming Frontier Prison which was located on West Walnut Street, not far away from their home. Madison however did not work, she was a stay at home mother who looked after her two children, and seen to it that they went to school every day and those they had food to eat. Every day Uriel and his sister Destiny would walk to school which was about three blocks away from their house, Madison was fine with the fact that they walked to school and from every day knowing they were safe. One day at the age of twelve years old Uriel became very different, and withdrawn. He was not acting himself, and his family noticed it, this is his story of what happened to him as he gets older.

Novice archaeologist, Sandi Hartwell, finds exactly what she wants in the hills of northern Pakistan--hard fossil evidence that Neandertals and Cro-Magnons successfully produced offspring. Her future looks promising, but less than one month later, the attacks of 9/11 will change everything. Sandi soon finds herself plunged into a diabolical plot to arm a global network of terrorists with WMDs. She discovers that only she can find the key to stop a sadistic worldwide attack designed to kill five out of every six humans on the Earth. Desperate to stay even one step ahead of Solero, the mastermind behind the attacks, she joins Neandertal expert, Garret Chambers, and his assistant, Jektu, who lead her through a morass of intrigue. Rescued by a flying saucer, Sandi is taken into an alien world governed by an arthritic old man named Ronaldo. There, she finds herself questioning everything she thinks about her world. Using a sixth sense that Sandi herself cannot explain, she is compelled by her desire for truth to follow the fossil trail of an ancient Neandertal priestess named Kectu. Drawn together by shared peril, she falls in love with Garret. But their love will soon be tested, and her whole perception of who and what she is will be pushed to the limit--and beyond.

It is 3289 BCE when rumors of unusual people living in caves far from his land attract the attention of warrior leader Warlog. His shaman, Rayloc, fears the strangers are servants of evil determined to destroy his way of life. Meanwhile, Sotif, History Man of the Alliance between Earth People and Sun People, tries to guard his culture against changes that could induce Mother Earth to withdraw her blessings--while Warlog focuses on severing that alliance, which has lasted for hundreds of generations, by subjugating the Sun People and destroying the Earth People. Faced with this threat, Sotif races to find the Sprit Fire to help his people defeat Warlog. But the key to success lies in the hands of Tincolad, one of Warlog's warriors who has been captured by the Alliance. Now only time will tell if Sotif can persuade Tincolad to help find the Spirit Fire in time--as the fate of the Earth People hangs in the balance. The second book in a trilogy about the interaction between Neandertals and Cro-Magnons, Sprit Fire presents an epic adventure that sweeps across prehistoric Europe, Asia, and Alaska, as the man who invented war embarks on a quest to conquer the world.

A person's life takes many twists and turns before he has become disillusioned with his life; and, fear plays a major role. Whether one is raised in a wealthy family or hails from Milwaukee's inner city, it does not matter. The game changes. However, when a person ends up on the short end of the stick one too many times, it is hard to keep a straight face. A cast of characters stand out from the Crimson Maples, become fiercely independent while everyone they run into try to keep them from going off the 'deep end'. Thirty-eight-year-old siren, Genie Bartusek, a wounded housewife, yearns for one last chance for a smitten dalliance with a significant other when 'no-nonsense' Paul stumbles into her presence. Perhaps there is a God working her magic for the forlorn strangers because each have stumbled and become wary of life. Youthful Jasmine Padilla cannot relate to any adult, especially her successful mother. Even her friends she keeps at a distance. Is this how life is going to be for someone who has just tasted the fruits of life? An accomplished flutist, she still desperately wants to lead her junior varsity basketball team to great heights. That is if her new coach will overlook her junior high transgressions by asking her "why am I not getting enough playing time." Awe chucks, does Jasmine really want to hear another, "you don't really know how good you got it." Old Paul Bogdanov and two his two Burmese Cats quietly roam around his backyard garden as the neighbors quietly pass by him minding their own business. Their children roar by him on their bikes screaming at the top of their lungs. After all, school's out. "OK, OK, I give up. He enters his home through the back door his two friend as the mid-summer sun begins to set. The northwest Milwaukee Sherman Park Community seems to be so full of life as it has for decades. In the novel, Beneath the Crimson Maples, what has seemed to be so serene and alive becomes more complicated and less appealing. Here, in northwest Milwaukee where perhaps there is a chance that some will make it out of its entanglement without a scratch.

Jeremy had to go to his Uncle Jim's funeral. He had to honor the man who had taught him so muchabout horses and life in general. A man of influence was how Jeremy remembered Jim. Even in hisdeath, Jim was bigger than life. The way he dealt with people and horses had been a gift sent from heavenabove. Jeremy knew from all of Jim's teachings that he could also be a phenomenal horse whisperer andknew he had to share his talent with others. This talent was a gift only a few others who really lovedhorses possessed at the time. Jeremy wondered what other doors this gift might open for him as heauditioned for the Foreman position at the E & J Stud Farm owned by Esmira, a beautiful woman andconfidant of his uncle Jim.While working together to make a success of the E & J Stud Farm Jeremy and Esmira enlist the help ofthe Davis girls, Audra, Margret, and Kim. The Davis sisters become an intricate part of the plan in buildingtheir dream for the farm. Kim building her talents as a seamstress sets her sights on a new vision forherself and her family. This vision takes her from the sprawling mountains of Big Horn, Wyoming acrossthe sea to England where she creates new designs for the woman wearing the crown, Queen Elizabethherself. Follow Kim on her journey across the world and watch what happens after her return toWyoming and her family who resides at the E & J Stud farm.

The Shadow of The Bridge is a coming-of-age historical novel, located in the remote coal-mining mountains of West Virginia. El, age 12, and Edgar, 14, avidly follow the radio broadcasts of President Roosevelt, Churchill, and Lindbergh among others, tracking the war, and dreaming of one day flying, like 'Lindy'. They sneak out at night, climb up the mountain to the 121-foot high railroad bridge, lie on the crossties, and watch the activities in their town which is built below the bridge. A young couple, unable to accept the drowning of their baby daughter, become estranged. Later, when both are found below the bridge, it is reported as a double suicide. El knows better. She was on the bridge when it happened, and after running down the mountain to get help, she contacts pneumonia. El knows the global disaster precipitates the local tragedy but is unable to prevent it, just as Roosevelt and Churchill are unable to prevent the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The boys next door join the Navy, leaving behind a pregnant teenaged girl who doesn't know which one is the father of her baby. The boys are on board the USS West Virginia when it is sunk at Pearl Harbor, their fate is uncertain. El' s father is responsible for maintaining the high voltage electrical system that runs the trains hauling coal from the mines to the industrial sites, for the manufacturing of the implements of war. Roosevelt must deal with striking miners and railroad workers. He and Churchill craft the Lend-Lease Bill to give aid to Great Britain as that country stands alone against Germany. By the end of 1941, the United States and Great Britain have declared war against Japan, and war spreads world-wide. El survives pneumonia, but she has grown up; her ambition to fly like Lindy, remains.

This book is an inspirational guide written to help you find out where Loneliness fits into your life. Why you do things in your life that just doesn't make sense or just doesn't add up. This book can inspire you to determine if you can make your life better than what it is or even find new directions whenever you feel lost, lonely and clueless. Loneliness can be derived from so many areas in our lives when we give it some thought such and committing suicide, losing your self-esteem and self-confidence, depression, drinking excessively, drug addiction, rapist, abuser, going on blind dates, going places by oneself, committing ridiculous crimes, going clubbing every chance you get, smoking black and mild. This book has short topics to help you see where Loneliness fits into your life and address room for improvement if you recognize the signs of loneliness creeping inside your soul and becoming confused about how to handle different situations you in. Sometimes we are not aware of it. This book on Loneliness helps you to put everything into perspective concerning your life and helps you to deal, cope and meditate and not succumb to circumstances and situations that develop from being lonely where Loneliness exists deep inside your soul. This book is really designed for you to get on the right pathway turn your life around so your life can have some meaning. When you do things in your life think about what you doing, how the outcome of Loneliness sits in and how it can affect the entire world ways you wouldn't even imagine. I want you to lean on God, depend on God and pray to God on bended knee to get rid of Loneliness once and for all. Start making a difference with this engaging book "Say What? Loneliness.

Having met at Ithaca University as graduate students, the millennial year of2000 is soon approaching, Sydney Steinberg and Corinna Kipnis consider each othertheir exclusive significant other. While after graduation, Corinna takes up a positionas reference librarian in her hometown library of Thompsonville, Syd hastens to finishhis graduate degree in engineering. But after some irrepressible soul-searching, hedecides on a radical change of course--he will, instead, attempt that more challengingcareer in the New York financial world he has always aspired to, which, in his estimate, will not only demand his highest level of intellectual mastery but, simultaneously, willalso position him at the very cutting edge of significant decision making. This choiceand the lifestyle it engenders set Corinna and Syd on deeply discordant life tracks andtoward life goals that prove incompatible.In the meantime, Viktor, Corinna's father and now professor emeritus, hasbeen summoned to California for a hospital visit with his cousin and boyhood hero, Mitchell Kipnis. Despite Mitchell's palatial Malibu home, Viktor perceives Mitchell'sloneliness as a widower and retiree and convinces him that a prolonged vacation inhis old hometown--Thompsonville--is just what the doctor would have ordered.Additionally, Viktor reminds Mitchell that his son Paul, has just taken a position atEly College in Thompsonville and would be an added companion. Mitchell consentsto this transition and eventually becomes a thoroughly vibrant part of the wholeThompsonville scene. Inevitably, Corinna and Syd separate; and through this painfulprocess, Corinna actually begins to fall in love with another person--having herselfattained a depth and confidence she had never before realized. In this generationaland a career mix of interesting, well-realized characters, there are more than enoughopportunities for dynamic clashes of values and priorities--small-town community orbig-city glitz? Wealth and power or a dedication to personal development? Parentsand their children retaining familial ties between generations or opting to go it alone?Plenty of opportunity for second thoughts. And hopefully discovering second chancesalong the way, the reader might be drawn into some thoughtful reevaluation of his ownbasic assumptions. And that is, of course, the best of all outcomes.

Part drama, part comedy, Dancing in the Dark is about taking the risk to love as it explores the inner lives of its characters, spinning a tale of three flawed and wounded individuals who have suffered severe loss. Each must overcome grief and the fear of unfathomable loss to fully embrace life and love again. Theirs are journeys of self-discovery, healing efforts they dare not avoid.

Tapestry: A Medieval Tale of Curses, Crowns, and Courage introduces a wonderful world of dragons, knights, and powerful wizards. As imagined by author Jerry Smith, this world comes alive through a poetic narrative that follows the story of a gentle princess and her reluctant hero. They wind their way through a maze of lies, jealousy, and madness in search of truth, justice, and honor. Fortified with courage and stealth, they find the strength and perseverance to overcome the death, darkness, and destruction unleashed upon their land by an evil, power-hungry mage, and a scheming sorceress. Written in the style of the great Greek and Roman poets, Tapestry presents rich imagery and eloquent rhyming couplets portraying the adversity encountered by its characters. It follows them as they struggle - evil against good, death against life, and destruction against rebirth. Feudal lords, evil enemies, and noble knights emerge and entwine into colorful strands, creating this carefully woven tale as a vibrant tapestry filled with hope and promise for an age consumed by darkness and despair. Tapestry: A Medieval Tale of Curses, Crowns, and Courage brings the poetic narrative to a story of good versus evil in a world brimming with justice, honor, mystery, and magic.

A Successful Formula is a motivational book about making significant strides and major changes in our lives. It provides concrete, specific examples about people-past and present-and their unique life's experiences, which were influential in shaping our society. It shows how to not use violence as your measuring stick, overcoming unfairness, and being consistent in your endeavours. For example, if you've hit rock bottom, then it will guide you on how to climb out of your predicaments and get your life back on track.

It is an uncharacteristically rainy night when Robyn Briggs and her husband, George, return home early from a night out to retrieve their forgotten theater tickets. Robyn's grandfather, Joshua, volunteered to babysit their four-year-old daughter, Debbie. When Robyn enters the room and surprises her grandfather buttoning his Levies, Robyn's ensuing reactions cause Grandpa Josh to fall on his head and lose consciousness. After seeing Grandpa Josh fall, Debbie is too young and upset explain what happened.Robyn's mother, Joanne, supports Joshua's story that Debbie had spit up on him and he was only cleaning his pants. Robyn questions the explanation and sets out to find her biological grandmother and two of her aunts who have been banned from the family under a cloud of secrecy. Robyn's determined search leads her from San Antonio to Los Angeles to Paris.Robyn is the heartrending tale of a mother's gritty pursuit to unearth her family's secret past as she attempts to protect her young daughter from a potential child molester.Self-Publishing Review: Skipping between past and the present, it is an epic tale about how sexual abuse has affected people over generations ... Robyn is a fairly difficult book to read for its subject alone, but it is also a well-constructed book, evidently both a hugely painted and subtly drawn history of one family's tragic pastReviewed by F.T. Donereau The thread of the story involving Jo and her sisters left me astonished; it is so well done, with all its intricacies, all its fraught tensions carved out perfectly. I believe Mr. Stott, as an artist, has no fear. ... he not only shone light on truth, he gave us a story worth telling, worth knowing, and helped us learn.Cover Graphics by MSVisuals

Over the past year, Ms. Geer-Williams has traveled throughout many parts of the United States promoting her first book, Sexiful Rose. She is considering writing a third installment. Will there be a Sexiful Rose III? Hmmm . . . You'll have to wait and see.Clara Geer-Williams, a freelance writer and highly respected social worker, continues to live in New York City with her loving family. Ms. Geer-Williams remains on the board of directors of her favorite health organization, Survival Instinct--The Network, where she heads the organizations' community relations division. Ms. Geer-Williams enjoys writing about the characters she created in her first book, Sexiful Rose, especially Shawn Parker. Due to her readers' overwhelming requests for a Sexiful Rose sequel, she recently completed her second book, Sexiful Rose II: Back with a Vengeance. Yes ... La'Roc is back to free her man!

Spurred on by her Irish Catholic upbringing in 1950s, Eileen Tegins decided to enter the convent and become a nun at the young age of seventeen. Almost immediately, she ran smack up against rules, regulations, and arcane practices that ran counter to her free-spirited nature. Deciding this life was not for her she tried to escape, not once but three times in the first year. During the second year in the novitiate she was assigned to a mission where she would meet the person who would change her life forever. There, the elderly mother superior, Sister Anna, taught her how to develop her true spiritual self. As the years passed, her work taking care of those who lived in the poverty-stricken Brooklyn neighborhood of her parish and beyond, brought her much joy and solidified her commitment to being a nun. However, all that would change when she was reassigned to a wealthy parish on Long Island. No longer allowed to attend to the poor, her life in the convent became unbearable. She knew the only way she could be true to herself and to the mission instilled in her by Sister Anna was to escape. But the decision was a lot easier than the deed.