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Mercer Evans found himself waking from a fitful sleep in a cold sweat for the past few nights. It was not the lucidity of his conversations nor the striking realism of his dreams that shook him, but rather the horrifyingly gruesome deaths that ended each nightmare. Were these dreams the product of the empty bottles on Mercer's nightstand and the creeping solitude of his studio apartment, or was there something more to the terrors that plagued him? Leaf Runner follows Mercer as he transcends time and experiences the potential dangers of changing his past and the intertwining histories of the many lives that went before him. The result is a relentlessly suspenseful pursuit played out during pivotal historical moments as Mercer and a collection of time travelers called Leaf Runners attempt to prevent a group of zealots from changing the world as we know it. Read the prologue, and you won't be able to put this book down until 'The End!'

The West Highland Way in Scotland is a hiking dream for Jamie McDonald and his daughter, Niamh. His upcoming divorce has made it impossible for him to make ends meet on his inadequate pay as an armored truck driver. When his daughter dies in a car accident, his world is then torn apart. Disgusted, he wants to put an end to his suffering so he can feel more like a father and less like a failure. What would you do to fulfill your dead daughter's dream when you have nothing left to live for? He battles his emotions, mobsters, and a new love interest along the way and while running from them. Then he learns that the man his wife has moved on to is a crime boss by the name of Devan Drake. It's possible that this evil man was involved in his daughter's death and much more. Now ending his own suffering is less important than ending Drake's life, but for some reason, he just won't die! With the help of an old army buddy, he plans to remedy that and begin a new life in Texas, unless his past comes looking for him.

This book is a compilation of recipes I learned from my grandmother (Phyllis), my mother (Joanne), and others I developed on my own through numerous iterations over many years. It is not a cookbook for specific diets, but it is more like a road map that leads you to your own recipe that becomes one of your family favorites. I am delighted to share these recipes, and I suggest you make additions or subtractions to the recommended spices as you see fit. Follow the advice of my nana, "Taste, Johnny, taste! When it tastes good, it's done." Mangia!

Does Money Answer All Things?Dal Mize is an up-and-coming writer and the son of an old-time circuit preacher. As a lad, Dal was taught that when life got hard, he learned that time and God would help him work it out and that he could find the answer in the Bible. Then one day he read a scripture that completely set him back. This scripture told him that money answers all things. This didn't seem to match up with what he had been taught as a youngster. That day, he decided to drive his own bus. This book tells of his life experiences and how he learned to make Christ the Lord of his life.

The Grasshopper and Mr. Frog is the story about a frog's and a grasshopper's--who are usually not thought of as friends--adventure in the forest long ago. Mr. Frog lives in a beautiful pond that Mr. Grasshopper becomes trapped into. Mr. Frog, who is busy sunning himself on a lily pad, hears the grasshopper and reluctantly decides to help the grasshopper out of the pond. The grasshopper is very grateful and thanks Mr. Frog, but Mr. Frog is already back to his lily pad.Later that afternoon, the grasshopper is busy in the grass, having his lunch, when he hears someone in trouble. Remembering his good fortune, he decides to investigate. Who does he find there but Mr. Frog, who had helped him and is now in trouble himself, not able to find his way back into the pond. The grasshopper climbs up a blade of grass, flies into the air, finds the direction of the pond, and returns to Mr. Frog, showing him where to go to get back to his pond. He tried to thank the grasshopper, but he was already back in the grass.This is a story about being kind and having kindness returned to us.

Surgeon Samantha Carothers thought she had finally found the perfect man, but when he dies, she becomes caught up in a love triangle. "Release the illusion," she was told by a holy man whose life she had just saved, and in trying to uncover its meaning, Dr. Sam found that the world around her was telling her just the opposite, and those worldly facts were slowly driving her insane. The only way to keep her sanity was to find out what was and what wasn't the truth, no matter the cost.

President of the United States Nicholas Simmons viewed the adoring crowd from the televised monitor overlooking the standing room only crowd at the New York Armory, sitting in the midst of the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a ten-minute walk from the George Washington Bridge.It was a payback campaign stop for local congresswoman Juanita Sanchez, who helped pass the President's tax-cut legislation amidst vociferous and politically damaging opposition.Secret Service Agent Zachary Thompson was supervising the Presidential protective division and, with an earpiece in place, sporting a black suit that did not hide the linebacker physique, again surveilled the surrounding crowd. His six-foot-four, 230-pound frame stood five feet to the right of the President and behind the bulletproof glass that encompassed the stage.Suddenly, Special Agent Thompson fell to one knee with his SIG Sauer P229 in hand, pointed directly at the President, and squeezed off one shot. The impact was immediate and with a spurt of blood, President Nicholas Simmons fell to the ground...

The year is 1960. Bill Pengallen, a young college student, has taken on a summer job working on a fire suppression crew for the U.S. Forest Service in the California mountain town of Truckee, where he meets and becomes friends with Mike Cameron, a pre-Med student. It is the third dries summer in the area's history, the forest is a tinderbox. An Interstate highway is being thrust through the area, fire danger threatens the livelihood of ranchers and loggers. Tension rides high. Violence threatens to break out at any time, and then the area is swept by one of the most disastrous forest fires in California history to that time.The fire changes the lives of everyone involved--some temporarily, others permanently. This is the story of the events leading up to and involving that monumental event, the time of the fire.

Maggie Isabella Langley lived in a world of wealth, privilege, and class. As a Langley, she was expected to accept certain social conventions like an arranged marriage and marry the old-money doctor, Charles P. White. Unlike other ladies in her position, she refused to accept this arrangement. It was then that she planned her great escape to New York City with her best friend Beatrice. The great escape led her into the arms of Salvatore Aaron Martucci - a notorious bootlegger and playboy whose bluest eyes and boyish charm melt her icy exterior. But the path of true love is never easy, and Maggie found herself wondering how she could so easily fall for a man who leaves a trail of broken hearts in every city and who will never fit into her privileged world. To complicate matters, her jilted fiancee was determined to win Maggie back at all costs and capture her heart. Even to the point of seducing her younger sister, Cecile Langley. If that is not enough, fate decides to take away her best friend in a vicious murder. How does fate intervene in this path of true love, and is Maggie destined to fix the mistakes of her past by her reincarnated spirit uniting with her one true soul? Get ready for an action-packed romantic ride taking you back to the 1920s, and please enjoy the ride.

Sparkle Coral Reef is home to the first Seahorse Unicorn, Seabrina. Seabrina discovers her own unique, special powers, as she helps children to learn how to handle challenges encountered in everyday life. Each new story revolves around social issues such as bullying, pandemics, same sex partners, and cell phone misuse. Parents and children can use Seabrina's adventures as a way to open discussions on these important issues.

This book, Kymberleigh Ryan, talks about how deeply she loved her late son, Spc. Ryan N. Kettell, and how she did her best to convey this message to him and often wonders if he knew of her need for his unconditional love also. Through all of this, she draws comparisons to the way she was raised and how she tried to use her experiences growing up in a dysfunctional family to be a better parent to her children.

Our American Flag was written to inspire minds of all ages, to see the symbols of America, and to learn and understand why it is so important that every generation learns the details and meanings of our flag. Let this book be a spark, a beginning, a way to enhance your patriotism.

This is my story. I, Albert Quinones, live my life with the pain of the death of my two best friends--Ricky Kasso and Gary Lauwers.I live with the pain, sorrow, and nightmares every day. I live my life wondering if I could've done something differently to change what happened. maybe I should've said, "Let's call it a night," or did not go to the woods. Well, maybe I should've just went to the party without them. I don't know, but I have to live with this for the rest of my lifeNo one should ever see or go through what I've been through--from seeing Gary being murdered to Ricky Kasso killing himself and from the chief of police lying and saying it was a cult. And it was not a cult. Then Howard, the chief of police, retracted his statement, and then I was interrogated. They kidnapped me and beat me for four and a half hours, and the police and the DA forced me to write a statement that wasn't true with the media circus and their fake news when they were told specifically it was not a cult. But the media just wants to sell papers and destroy lives at anyone's cost. I lives with the pain every day just for being a witness.I did not write this story for fame. My family does not want me to publish this story because of their image and their name, and I lost the one woman I ever loved (L.M). Her parents made us split up for their image.Know that my family refuses to talk to me because I decided to publish the story for closure for everybody else who needs it.I have lost everything in my life because of one night. I was at the wrong place at the wrong time.If the story helps give certain people closure, helps someone from going down the same hard road I went through, or prevent someone from losing their life or giving up on life--if it helps one soul--then I'm glad that I helped someone. And it would be worth going through this pain to do the story if it means I got to help someone save their life.Gary Lauwers family and I tried to stop it but I failed and I live with it every day to Gary's motherI want Gary's mother to know that her son had told me that night that he loved her. I am very sorry. I tried to stop it, and I failed to stop it. And it kills me every day. I had no control over this, but this was not a devil-worshiping cult or sacrifice. It was two kids on drugs that had a fight that got out of controlAnd for the parents out there who neglect their child and don't pay attention to their child, this is a form of abuse. When you neglect a child, they will get in trouble because they're hurt and angry to the point where they will lash out, getting themselves into trouble. Then you and the family have to deal with the tragedies and repercussions because all they wanted to was someone to care for them . That's all I wanted--love. That's all I have to say. Thank you for you your time and for reading my story.

In this what is called life, there will be good and bad. For some, life's lows seem to outnumber the highs.My story is a great example of that premise. Physical and sexual, as well as rejection, in my childhood left me with the perspective that life's lows were what life was. With very little instruction on life and what to do with it, I lived for the day, not really caring to see the next, not caring for my own life. I felt nothing for the lives of others, that carelessness put me in a place where I realized. Not only my physical person was imprisoned but the spiritual also. I knew that I couldn't escape this prison on my own. I needed something greater than myself. I sought to teach myself self-discipline and tried to enlighten myself studying religious text. But there was still a hole where I knew something should be. In my search, my eyes were really opened to evils of man, which enlarged the whole that I was trying to fill. As I was reading in my cell, one night, a wave of understanding washed over me. And I knew what I was missing: love. Here I was reading the story of a man who I didn't believe in demonstrate something that I've been missing and looking for without really knowing was missing in my life for so long. So I decided to obtain it by imitating who literally is it. And as I attempt this imitation, I see the highs and lows of life in a different light. I lived a life without hope. But there is always hope. Sometimes we just have to look for it, and sometimes we have to let it find us. And as for the highs and lows of life, I've learned to separate the pearls from the swine.

From the Front Room of the White HouseHistory, folklore, fact, and hearsay all contribute to the stories of these past generations of hill people, featuring decades of family history while being subjected to poverty, riches, hierarchy, to the lowest of lows is illustrated. Preachers, teachers, owners, and possibly slavery are explained and illustrated by the lives of four families brought together in one area, one region, and one clannish group.The story of a first-time writer born to a proud family of coal miners, lumbermen, and their distinguished women conveys the pain and hardship of the families along with the values and tributes experienced through the years until the modern day. These times show violence, compassion, religion, and hard work, combining the families from various aspects of living through the wars, Depression, highlights, and disappointment of the times.A czar of the local family--he began as a coal miner, union organizer, mine operator, and lawman, only to later serve prison time during hard times for moonshining. He returned to being a lawman and once stabbed a fellow lawman at a dance. He married an out-of-state orphan. That union brought a fourteen-year-old bride whose family once attempted to blow up a courthouse in Virginia due to a land issue.A one-armed man was the leader of the other family. A self-ordained minister who labored in the mountain life, cutting trees for the lumber company. He provided six sons for the work and joined his wife's family to provide three girls to prepare their food. His wife lived an exciting life raising the sons of a preacher. Shootings and death, even by the wife of one son, with two sons following the self-ordained ministry route, thus created challenges and excitement. Alcohol and religion are a surefire basis for interesting stories that surrounded her and her family.After writing this story, it seemed violence, religion, and family joined together to create a clannish, proud, and honorable history. Religion and violence seemed the main ingredient for our family through the years. Join us in remembering the stories and events.Sincerely,Billy Holcomb

Olders' Voices describes what it's like to become and to be older. Twenty-nine people tell their stories. They are in their 70s and 80s, one 99, and one 68. People from all over the United States and one from Canada talk about their feelings and well-being now and what they did before they were older. They come from a wide variety of professions and occupations and a wide variety of experiences and beliefs. This is a book for olders to read so they don't feel so alone, and for youngers to read to know what their beloved olders are doing and experiencing, what might they need to make their lives more meaningful and comfortable.

Some simple and exact beliefs organized religion has about an apple, a whale, three wise men at Jesus's birth, why Noah was the best man God could have chosen to repopulate the earth after the global flood, the treatment of women, slaves/Blacks, and homosexuals along with many other false dogmas will be exposed in this book. Disorganized Christianity will also address some lesser-known events like angels having sex with Eve's daughters, what the origin of the Antichrist's number 666 could be, that Eve NEVER sinned in the Garden of Eden, and the Biblical fact that Jesus CANNOT BE the Messiah.I had a falling out with my local church pastor. One week, I was singing "Amazing Grace," and the next week, I wasn't even allowed in HIS building. I decided very quickly to reread the Bible with a different set of eyes and a different heart and determine for myself if organized religion was correct in its damnation of my soul. Organized religion was not even close to being able to defend its damning position against me. I taught them scriptures and, in the process, recaptured my soul. I created a little study guide for others to fend off the relentless attacks on their souls by mean-spirited and intolerant Christians.The study guide grew into this book, Disorganized Christianity. We converted non-Christians now see the real darkness of organized religion's dogma, and we are no longer bound by its condemnation.

When you wake up on a hot July morning in the central Sacramento Valley of California, your first thought is normally, how long it will be before the temperature reaches one hundred degrees, and what am I going to do to deal with it? One of my favorite ways was to go see Mom and Dad. They always had the air-conditioning on at ten o'clock in the morning, so that seemed the best place to cool off for now. I had to pick up the papers they always saved for me anyway. Dad was out in his small backyard garden, cursing the birds for helping themselves to his brand-new tomatoes, and Mom was trying to get Dad to come in and rest; the birds needed to eat too. I picked up a copy of the famous Willows, California, newspaper, the Willows Journal, glancing past the front-page farming stories to the editorial page. Little did I know that when my eyes came to a small article written by a lady from out at Glenn, named Marge Pattison, my life would be changed forever...

Souls of the Untold is a collection of poetry that includes love, drama, trauma, sex, spirituality, and periods of transformation. Souls of the Untold unfolds as a journey into different perspectives and experiences based on the author's life coupled with vicarious conditions.Souls of the Untold will rock you as each poem resonates authenticity, a realness that cannot be faked. Each poem sheds light on how an individual can face obstacles and challenges, yet still rise from the ashes to overcome no matter the challenge. Souls of the Untold seeks to inspire you beyond creative expression and encourages you to form your own premise as you read each poem.Souls of the Untold isn't just poetry...it is a dialogue of the mind, body, and soul. Not once will you grow weary or bored while reading this collection of poems. Each page will invite you to a new topic, a fresh adventure to ponder and explore. Sit back and grab a seat and let your imagination flow as you enter Souls of the Untold.Souls of the Untold will shake you, break you, and take you to new levels of artistry as you delve within the creative forces of its author.

This story is about the life of a girl who grew up in the Tompkins projects in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. She enjoyed life with her family, joining her family for holiday fun, going on picnics, and enjoying the summer fun. Her teenage years were moving fast. She gets married to her childhood sweetheart, Leonard Brown, and life quickly changes from fun to the life of drugs and trying to hide their secret drug life. Drugs and death prove to be too much, but how did she survive?

A life of spiritual experiences that would shake one to the core, abuse and trauma that would destroy most people--and yet she battled on. She spent a lifetime hiding her pain and the trauma inflicted upon her. She lied and omitted information to keep a marriage together, to retain a job, and to hold on to a shred of dignity, over and over again. The lies she told herself were the most damaging. Lies like "If they know what happened to me, they'll disown me"; "They'll never love me"; "I am unlovable"; and so many more. These things she omitted were no little incidents. Many years later, her understanding and self-love grew. It is a feat, considering all that she had experienced in such a colorful life.

The Tree is a place where birds can achieve their potential due to the dedication of birds who believe that learning is the key to success. Sometimes, it takes the appreciation of struggles to achieve progress. It takes trust and dedication by others who you may not believe have your best interest. It takes belief in yourself and the willingness to learn in ways you never thought you could to assist in your growth.Through humor, trust, and faith, the birds of the Tree find that they can achieve the type of changes in their lives that will be beneficial in years to come. The Tree will make you laugh, cry, and shake your head. More importantly, it will entertain you in familiar and simple ways that will have you thinking for years to come.

She wasn't crazy...right?So begins the story of Justine Hornbecker. At eighteen, she dreams of being a published illustrator living in Manhattan. But life isn't always what you want it to be or seems to be... After a suicide attempt lands her in a state mental hospital, thanks to her older sister signing the papers and having her committed, she is locked away with others like her, but she knows--she swears--she didn't try and kill herself. She can't make sense of why her sister said she did, but her fresh healing scars prove that, indeed, it is true...right? Something did happen. That something went terribly wrong. It is 1968 and being committed and locked away forever is the norm for people with mental illnesses.Over the next decade, she will be locked away from the rest of society, and thus, her new life is filled with electroshock treatments, lobotomies, isolation wards, straitjackets...fear, pain, agony, and loss. Yet she finds comfort in new friends and mourns the loss of others who come but do not leave Wicklin State Lunatic Asylum, like people should. Instead, many pass into the morgues and are tossed into mass graves in the hospital's cemetery next door. Keeping her head above water with hope despite the pain of abuse and the cruelty that the nurses and doctors impose upon her and the other patients, she will seek the truth out and answer her own question: was she crazy...or not?

It is said that the more things change, the more they stay the same. But do they really?Fortune's Yoke explores in depth the lives of characters coming from diverse backgrounds and stations in life. The common thread among them is that all lead lives set in motion toward a clearly carved-out destiny.Set in the dark and bloody ground of the Appalachian coalfields, the novel is a gritty, unapologetic examination of the human spirit with all its frailties, imperfections, and magnificence.It is the mid-1970s, and the coal market is booming. Life in the small coal town Whitehurst is vibrant. Prosperity and optimism reign. Coal trucks grind incessantly through the hills, and mining jobs abound.Within this hum of activity, plans are made and schemes hatched. How does one react when life's road comes upon an unexpected fork? Bankers and hermits, tavern keepers and debutantes, lawyers and miners, good Samaritans and adulterers must all confront that dilemma and themselves. The results are various and surprising.The tumultuous story offers a thorough view of the rich life, culture, and politics of a rough-and-tumble part of the world in a time gone by, putting the reader in Whitehurst with all its glory and infamy.The author imposes no value judgments. The tale is told, and readers are given the respect to make of it what they will.

Rob is an unusual high school senior. He doesn't waste his talents playing video games all day after school. He's not a great athlete, nor is he interested in creating TikTok videos. He doesn't even experiment with vaping, drugs or alcohol. He is simply a young man dealing with ADD and anxiety along with insecurities caused by his verbally abusive mother.The trials, tribulations and complexities of being a teenager are intensified when he unintentionally discovers an extraterrestrial ring and its power. Now, besides worrying about college, dating and his studies, he realizes he has the ability to create change in his divided world and, along the way, finds the importance of strong morals and values and the meaning of true love.

The Constitution...revisitedFellow citizens, the chimes of time echo revolution! The frustrated voices of Adams, Paine, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, et al. cry out for change! Millions of graves from Bunker Hill to Iwo Jima demand it.Our Constitution, once the bible of free men, must now be resurrected on the blood of tyrants. Those lifetime-tenured November criminals, those Marxist apostles of greed and socialism spawned by the New Deal, the Great Society, and today's cabal of political czars have rendered the ballot box and our present Constitution less than worthless; but before they come after our firearms, we must vote with flint, ball, and gunpowder. If we hope to remain free, we must let the rattle of musketry be heard by those unindicted coconspirators inside the Beltway. No need for another Continental Army; with designated targets of opportunity, a strategic liquidation here and there will surely tip the scale in our favor. America, God's hallowed ground, must again be drenched with despotic blood. Capitol Hill must become another Bunker Hill.Minutemen, Sons of Liberty, volunteers, and hired liquidators, over three hundred million subjects await our making them free American citizens again.But all aforementioned carnage will be avoided if two-thirds of both houses of Congress and threefourths of the states ratify the amendments detailed in this book.This book will prepare the reader to see into the minds of the Founding Fathers and examine their original intent, confirming that America is not a democracy, as many uninformed politicians claim, but a constitutional republic.

Irwin Brunson was born the same year the Brown vs. Board of Education decision became law of land. That court decision set in motion the reality of the times as he, his brother Billy, sister Debbie, and their neighbors' two children, Michael and Gary Robison, became the first Afro-Americans to enroll in a public white school in the nation's oldest city, St. Augustine, Florida, on August 28, 1963, the same day Dr. Martin L. King's made his "I have a Dream" speech. This book is the story of his early experiences with racism, and ironically, the understanding that racism is a combination of hate, fear, and ignorance personified, limiting human growth, which in turn creates many shades in life. Through art, knowledge, and expression, he creates value that racism can never take away or destroy.

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