Bücher veröffentlicht von Outskirts Press

Imagine a democratic Catholic Church run by the parishioners. Molly Winters experienced that in Massachusetts. She didn't expect to find another such parish when she returned to Minnesota, until one found her. Since childhood, she wanted to be a priest and, in many ways, she functioned as one. Despite wondering if ordained priests would become obsolete, she prepared for ordination. She refused to be ordained until she was called by a worshipping community. A dilapidated building, tornado and a bishop who wanted priests back on their pedestals, created such a possibility. The bishop wanted St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Church closed and the parishioners merged into other parishes. He scolded them for allowing divorced Catholics to receive Communion, welcoming same sex couples and refusing to use the official 2011 translation of the prayers for worship. He knew closure was impossible. His successor suppressed the parish only to have the Catholic Community of the Apostle Mary Magdalene become a reality, and the ordination of Molly Winters a necessity. Over the years Molly observed one of her parishioners, Amanda Donato, deteriorate after learning her parents were not her biological parents. She drowned her mother's abandonment in alcohol. While she despaired, her brothers searched for her birth family. After rehab Amanda is forced to join her pastor driving around Lake Superior. Molly's priesthood had been threatened by nasty notes and stalkers who saw women priests as destroying the Catholic Church. Molly's expectation that in leaving town she was escaping these threats was unfounded. Along the way police assist as together the women face addiction, kidnapping and car bombs; as well as beautiful foliage. As their journey winds down, Amanda's brothers connect their sister to her birth family. The story begins with campaigning for Senator Paul Wellstones. As the books nears its end Amanda finds a shocking reason why Donald Trump might be elected president. She's sure

I reach for the stars. A worthy goal or dream is essential in life. I climb every flower, leaf, and stick, hoping one will take me high enough. Ronnie Rana, red-eyed tree frogFrogs need clean air and water to survive. Las ranas necesitan aire y agua limpios para vivir. Carol

Sherita's 83 year old father was diabetic, blind, and had 2 strokes. Her 75 year old mother had spent years dedicating herself to taking care of him and had done a fantastic job. A matter of fact, according to Dr. Chelsea, their primary care physician, he was an ideal patient. His blood pressure and his A1c was good and he was strong, even though he had to use a cane or a walker. But Sherita's mom Roxanne, began to feel a little overwhelmed caring for her husband, the responsibilities of their home, and her part-time job working in Sherita's office. So Sherita and her husband Carl thought it was a great idea for her parents to come and move in with them giving her mother some assistance caring for her dad. But little did she know that the real medical challenge was not her father, but with her mother, who they discovered later after her parents had moved in, was suffering with Alzheimer's Disease.This is a true story of a family's ten (10) year journey through the various stages of Alzheimer's. It is a story of the difficulties a woman experiences as she watches the disease progress through her mother's mind from the mild, to the moderate to the severe stages of Alzheimer's. It is a story of how she attempts to find her way through a maze of caring for her mother and the difficulties of managing the potholes of her own life, all at the same time. It is a story of attempting to make the right decisions and discovering when she's in over her head. It is a story of her learning when to let go because she is no longer capable of doing it all herself due to the degree of the illness. If you are a family member, a caregiver, or a friend of someone who is caring for an Alzheimer's patient, you will love this book. It is a story of even though mistakes and wrong decisions are made, you begin to understand that "Love Covers A Multitude Of Sins."

Many employees of companies across the country can relate to the idea that their office sometimes resembles the hot mess of a soap opera. Such a premise generated an interesting question: What happens if an employee and his manager showed up to work one day, only to find themselves inside the chaotic environment of a TV soap opera? The co-authored manuscript, "Days of Our Work Lives: The Incredible Journey of a Manager and Employee" explores that very idea."Days of Our Work Lives" is a single story written from two different perspectives. Designed as a flip book, it provides the reader with one angle written from the manager's view, while the other angle is written through the eyes of his employee.Our main characters, Jack (employee) and Mark (manager), arrive at work expecting a typical day, only to discover that their office has inexplicably transformed into a set of a typical soap opera. Jack is now the star of the soap, navigating his new world while trying to find his true role. Mark is thrust into the role of the soap's director, delicately balancing the needs of his team with the pressures coming down from the network bosses.Readers of self-help, motivational and business management books will appreciate the unique way each writer navigates through the sudden chaos of a TV soap opera production, complete with humorous and sometimes eerie similarities to the typical work environment at any company. The story showcases the tensions that exist between managers and employees when the heat is on, and how such situations can be resolved.About the authors: Jack is a former actor and current corporate speaker who humorously addresses workplace challenges for audiences nationwide. Mark owns his own marketing advisory firm in Minneapolis and spent several decades as a senior marketing executive who managed people and projects for Fortune 500 companies.As an added bonus, the book features two forewords from industry notables: one from the former longtime producer and director of "Guiding Light" and "Days of Our Lives," Roy Steinberg, and the other from Alice Hirson, actress from "Edge of Night," "Another World" and "One Life to Live," with primetime credits including "Dallas" and "Ellen."

As the last soldiers of World War II say their goodbyes, the stories of their experiences go with them. Have you ever wondered what WW II was REALLY like? Does Hollywood really capture the essence of life at war in their block busters? What were the days really like for humble privates in the Army trying to do their best to answer their country's call to war? "Steve's Story" lays it out, day by day, month by month, year after year. Based on a war diary kept by a Signal Corpsman during his nearly 3 years of duty and brought to life with his photographs and postcards, this book will introduce you to the day in and day out activities during the war. With historical context and perspective of the war added to the journal entries, you will come to know and understand what survival at war was really like. The joy at being able to bathe after weeks of living in mud, the lack of movement with endless days waiting for orders, and the delightful discovery of an abandoned wine factory are just a few of the ups and downs related on these pages. While this book was produced primarily for the preservation of family history, those of you with an interest in the mundane affairs of war or the work of the Army Signal Corps may also enjoy going on this journey into World War II.

Buckle Up, It's Going to be a Bumpy Ride, is a behind the scenes look at my 37 years in the Car Business. 49 Short Vignettes. After College, I worked in Radio for a year, then was laid off. Needing a Job, I responded to a newspaper ad for Car Sales. I knew the sales manager at the dealership and thought I would do it for a year or so. It turned into a 37-year career. For decades, I threatened to write a book about some of the wacky people and wild situations, I encountered, but did not think anyone would believe it. I retired last year and made good on my threat. Here it is! A must read for anyone, who ever worked in the Car Biz and a good, funny read for everyone else. So, hop in, join me on a my crazy, wacky, wild, funny, poignant journey. ......Buckle Up, It's Going to be a Bumpy Ride.

How important is DNA to the development of an individual as opposed to the teachings he or she receives throughout his life?George Rothacker addresses this and other aspects of his personal development as he takes you on an artistic journey from childhood to a lifetime in the profession of art, design and creative thinking that has endured for more than 50 years.The memoir offers the reader a glimpse into the influences of his two artistic parents, and maternal grandmother who strove to elevate her family beyond the working classes. It also provides a portfolio of the development of the artist/writer own work, and the insights into the choices he made, and the people and circumstances who guided him throughout his career."Those who are not both blessed and tortured by an artistic nature often don't understand the jagged and often impractical path taken by a people in the arts," says the author. "It has taken me to the last segment of my life to see the precipices upon which I walked throughout many of my years, and how fortunate I was to survive and realize the dreams imagined by my maternal grandmother."

Your Secret Weapon to Surviving Today's Workplace Culture and Changing It! The Communication Revolution That Listens, Challenges and Protects THE COMMUNICATION REVOLUTION THAT LISTENS, CHALLENGES AND PROTECTSWHY THIS BOOK? If you want results but feel you are fighting an uphill battle, this book is for you. When you feel no one is listening, being inquisitive helps you create a strategy that will engage the people around you. In this culture of "Whoever speaks the loudest wins," being Inquisitive celebrates introverts and extroverts by changing the way everyone communicates. There is no class to teach you about dealing with workplace politics and difficult people. This book shows you how. An inquisitive question can: Change your lifeSave a marriageSave a life.Inquisitive is a communication revolution that listens, challenges, and protects.

Holbrook College is a place for second chances. But what happens when the danger you face is worse than the danger you escaped? At first, Audrey Connolly regrets her restless urge to come to a college so far from home, but to her surprise, she finds Holbrook friendly and enriching far beyond her modest expectations. Even a local murder can't spoil her newfound optimism.But then the death count begins to mount. Audrey's friends, Denny and Laurie, have faced their own hardships. Now life at Holbrook will challenge them to overcome the biggest of all, as the killer targets them with repeated attacks and no clear motive.

It is time to make reading fun again. These stories is for all to enjoy, It is fun filled with fairy tales with no violence and having happy endings. This is a variety pack of fun stories where dreams come through. Here determination, trails and error leads to success, this helps build moral character, it has a constant reminder of kindness and love, also it is a reminder that dreams still comes through, and good things still happen to good people. This is where kindness repay kindness with interest. Here dreams become a reality with a happy ending. This is a family pack of fun fill stories, where kindness is on display. I will always remind readers, that dreams still come through and miracles still happens to people with humility and good character. Good family stories can still be found here. I am sure that you will enjoy these stories.

Peter and Meena are fourth year medical students at St Louis University. In spite of fiancée’s skepticism about his mental problem, Peter decides to take certain pivotal steps to deal with it straightway. He visits his mother at Farmington, Missouri and learns from her, dad was an alcoholic and also exhibited severe mental symptoms. She did not know much about his side of the family, but recommended to contact a grandma living in New York.Peter found Grandma Agnes extremely forthcoming about her family history and learnt from her, his father returned from Vietnam as a heroin addict, quit using it after finding out of his Hepatitis and later turned to alcohol. Grandfather lived in and out of State Hospitals and committed suicide.The next step for Peter was to find a good psychiatrist. He learnt the best way to find one was through the Physician Referral Services of a good hospital, following it up with Face to Face Assessment. He was totally surprised by the first psychiatrist selected, who in spite of his high qualifications ignored the family history he painfully collected, telling the medical student’s problems came from witnessing as a child, the abuse father inflicted on the mother.With no desire to see him again, Peter met another psychiatrist who was extremely interested to hear about his family history. She told him, he definitely has a Depressive Illness, however, the family history increased the risk of developing Bipolar Disorder. After discussing the various treatment options, they decided on a trial with an antidepressant.  A week into the medication, Peter woke up from sleep feeling more energetic than usual, a natural high, and asked himself if the medicine hit the target earlier than intended. He learnt from the new psychiatrist, his diagnosis now was Bipolar 2 and she told him to discontinue the antidepressant, as it could make his condition worse.Meena got perplexed hearing about Peter’s new diagnosis and began to worry about her future with a seriously mentally ill person. Grabbing an offer that came from New York Presbyterian to do neurology clerkship, she moved to the Big Apple, on the pretense to be closer to her parents. Devastated Peter took an overdose. It took a while for him to recover.Couple of months later, Peter received an unexpected phone call from Meena – Her father, a neurosurgeon was in coma after a plane accident that happened on a business trip - Mother had a nervous breakdown. Meena begged him to come to New York and help her. Father died soon after his arrival. Mother showed signs of improvement only after receiving ECT.Father’s sudden death and mother’s illness shook up the daughter. She returned to St Louis to finish the school year and prepare for graduation. Peter was accepted to the residency program in psychiatry at the University. His main interest was to do research and wished Meena would take up residency in psychiatry as well and be part of his research team. However, she was into the neurology residency.One Sunday afternoon, after church Peter and Meena decided to take a stroll through the Saint Louis botanical garden. It was a beautiful day and a gentle breeze made it feel even better. They sat on a bench, close together, in the Japanese section and watched the people passing by. She chose this moment to reveal her secret, “Pete, I have a surprising news for you. I just found a slot open in psychiatry. Someone from overseas cannot make it. I have been promised it.” 

This is the city tourists don''t see and most New Yorkers - the ones with jobs, the ones with money, the ones who own homes - don''t even know about. It''s the city where the hookers and pimps and strippers live and survive, where the predators exist and prey on the rest of us and on each other, the city where violence is commonplace and nearly always present. It''s midtown Manhattan where visitors come to see shows and eat in fancy restaurants and sleep in expensive hotels but it''s also where the furnished rooms and SRO''s are, where the chicken hawks work the streets and docks, where weapons are always close to hand and the police write off murders and assaults. It''s the world of John Board and John Puddle and others like them. This is the seventh in an exciting and almost unbelievable series of books about life in the underbelly of New York City, a place populated by strippers and pimps, prostitutes and predators. The author was a New York State parole officer for thirty years and lived the life he writes about. His characters come alive, their problems become your problems and their adventures will be felt and experienced by you. The story is told by a man who barely survives each day but does manage to do so. He is violent but some people depend on him and trust him with their lives. It''s a book that you will probably have difficulty putting down and may read more than once.

My Voice, God's Mouthpiece takes you on the journey of a woman who needs God to awakening her voice in order to fulfill her purpose. Her voice was silenced as a result of sexual abuse and rape during her adolescent years, the unbearable loss of her unborn son and other loved-ones, devastating job loss and unexpected health issues. Her pain produced her purpose, her trauma fueled her testimony and her tears became liquid words that drew her closer to God. My Voice, God's Mouthpiece offers a cognizance of restoration, healing, direction to faith focus, peace and hope.

The strong Irish-Scottish roots enthralled into the Maughon and Norton family has withstood decades. The families toiled throughout the formation of our great nation, the settling of our communities, the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korean Conflict, Vietnam and up to present day. The love for their country and their unrestrained bravery throughout military history is to be admired and remembered. This tribute tells their story thru each decisive moment of not only their life but also the livelihood of their beloved country.

Reflections of Love and LossI SHOULD HAVE LOVED YOU LESS is a compilation of poems that capture the experience of intense love and intense loss—poems chronicling the beginning, middle, and end of an intimate love affair that transformed into a tumultuous relationship. While there are two sides to every breakup, these words reflect Casie’s story—and her words will resonate with anyone who has gone through the ups and downs of love.

The Biscuit & Timely Tales offers short stories about time—as in running out of time, wasting time as the meter keeps running, and going back in time, as in dream time. Author T. L. Needham also presents poems that, like a helium-filled balloon, tug at the string of your imagination.The collection begins with THE BISCUIT—a story about the times when you do the wrong thing for the right reasons and then the right thing for the wrong reasons—and ends with THE RING, which describes traveling with spirits in the car…and not the kind of spirits you drink! These two stories frame short prose with broader themes based on growth and enlightenment, life, death, and the spirit world. The Biscuit & Timely Tales eloquently nudges us to learn to listen to the whispered guidance of spirit friends and family guiding us along the path we are destined to follow on our mission of discovery.

Lawless mountain men traveled west into Montana Territory to escaped the law. With these men came their savage demeanor and knowledge of no law, the crimes flourished. Most victims being young Indian girls along with robbery ending in murders that covered the scene. With the death came scalps that sold to the Trading Post. The Hellgate treaty of 1851 forced the Indians tribes to move to their newly established reservations, creating uprising from young braves not wanting to leave their ancestral grounds. This problem solved with U.S. Calvary to keep peace with the Indians. Alexander Culbertson, Montana Territorial governor soon learned that Indian girls were missing, with no possible peace with the tribes until this problem solved. He questioned, "Who would track down and capture these elusive mountain men? The answer came from Fort Benton in a burly, young arm bending blacksmith named Caleb. Along with an a half breed French Canadian raised Blackfoot named Fitz and a giant befriended black wolf, Sage. As a team they would run these criminals to ground, Sage would lead the hunt, Caleb would pronounce the sentence and Fitz would dish out immediately punishment that be met their lawless ways.

Initiated primarily from the fear fact that all those vast funds out there whenever made available; meaning ready to be allocated to supposed or genuine lifesaving projects in less developed countries in those part of our world, will end up for the majority of cases squandered with no guilt of any kind from none of the parties involved in it. So, why, and how then this different kind of book can be a useful one for partners in any given project per se? Verily, after having been a constant watchful recipient about project funding subject from the field and having accumulated a sound experience for such a long period, it has appeared to me like a personal duty to release my modest contribution to all parties involved in any project, for now, hoping that as the first of its kind, this book can awaken from the fact only both funders and recipients. By genuinely attempting to show to all partners in project funding how to preserve funded projects around the third world particularly, that should at the same time open up a global debate that would ultimately lead us to more sustainable projects.

A passion for life and learning exemplified the short career of one of the best American portrait artists of recent times. Florence McNeil Hardy started from the Kansas plains and, by her college days, was developing into an extraordinarily talented artist, winning an international competition while in college. She continued training at the Kansas City Art Institute and at the prestigious Art Student's League of New York, finally settling in Monahans, Texas, where most of her portraits were done. Her portraits won first place and/or best of show at major exhibitions all over the United States. Many of her paintings, including some that won exhibits, "Jane's Stormy," "Asyrian," "Kellen's Child," "Dark Canyon," and "Adeline Kennard" and others, have not been found. And, there is a mystery about her painting, "Girl in Pink"; who is she? Retirement brought Florence and her family to northwestern Arkansas, settling at Winton Springs in Pea Ridge. Florence did only six landscapes in Arkansas, all at our new home at Winton Springs; there are no portraits known from her brush after leaving Texas. About a year later on her wedding anniversary, April 15, 1955, Florence died of a massive heart attack.

Some churches are reluctant to deal with issues involving heterosexuality or homosexuality.  Perhaps their ministers and leadership do not have the necessary training needed to relate to people struggling with sexual issues especially involving homosexuality, transgenderism and pedophilia.  This novel illustrates what happens when a Christian ministry tries to help individuals with these problems.  In the course of doing so there is the risk of harassment, injury or death.Through prayer, group support and the studying of the Bible many individuals can change or modify their self perception and their behaviors.  If anyone requires mental health specialization, then he or she is referred to the medical professionals. Otherwise, there still continues to be a spiritual component to overcoming one's unwanted same sex attraction or gender confusion.

The second volume in this series introduces the author''s maternal ancestors, who were among the first to settle on the East Coast of North America. More than half of the Mortimores lived in the New England colonies, with some arriving on the Mayflower. Many participated in the American Revolution. Relying mostly on historical documents, the author pieces together a story that spans more than a century in the life of the Mortimore family as they migrated from the East Coast through the Northwest Territory and eventually settled in Iowa. You''ll meet larger-than-life characters like Jack Mortimore, who left his family for three years with no explanation and returned to complain about how they''d run things while he was gone. You''ll thrill to the courage of heroes such as Rachel Combs, the midwife who let nothing get in the way of helping the women who needed her-not even a bear in her path. And you will be delighted by everyday eccentrics like Jim Mortimore, who was very proud of his job as skunk controller for the town of Saratoga, Wyoming. Soldiers, pioneers, farmers, artisans, visionaries-the story of the Mortimore family is the story of this country''s courage and curiosity, making this book a treasure for anyone interested in America''s westward expansion.

It is our human right to know who we are. After her adoptive parents passed away, Diane decided to take the DNA plunge to find her biological family. Learn how she found her biological family after years of wondering who she was and why she was born. With the help of a search angel, science and technology a lifetime of questions were about to be answered. Christmas, 2018 is just the beginning of her emotional journey to connect with her family.

In this novella, TAYLOR''s question is answered from the first novella, My Angels, My Fallen Angels, Our Destiny Awaits, and provides for the journeys of each ANGEL (BRITTANY, SIERRA, and TAYLOR) and FALLEN ANGEL (MONIQUE, AUTUMN and ERIN), leading up to The Last Stand from the first novella. BRITTANY and MONIQUE fly to Puerto Rico to train at MONIQUE''s Palace. In Puerto Rico BRITTANY meets three other vampires that assist her in becoming a fully operational superhuman. BRITTANY meets a famous General from the 1800''s and becomes a scholar. SIERRA and AUTUMN fly to the Netherlands to train at AUTUMN''s Manor. In the Netherlands, Sierra is trained on the fine art of battle where it is discovered she has a unique survival sense. When her life is in jeopardy, she gets an adrenaline rush to assist her in defeating an opponent. SIERRA becomes an assassin. TAYLOR and ERIN travel to various parts of the world to enhance TAYLOR''s superhuman strengths and a select few vampires are enlisted to assist with TAYLOR''s training. TAYLOR also discovers she has a unique survival sense, like that of SIERRA. TAYLOR becomes an antique professional and ruffian. BRIAN and LINDSEY extinguish the main vampire covenants throughout South America, Africa, and Europe in order to draw-out the NOBLE COUNCIL. They discover that the NOBLE COUNCIL created BLACK KNIGHTS, hideous vampire creatures, to destroy them as well. Present day, BRIAN answers TAYLOR''s question and BRIAN becomes ill. BRIAN calls MONIQUE for answers to his illness; however, his phone goes dead. The third and final novella will provide for BRIAN''s illness and a final confrontation that will determine the destiny of BRIAN''s family and the Vampire Nation.

Ramblin'' Ruminations is a collection of essays on a wide range of topics intended to spur reflection. They incorporate the author''s take on life, informed by his long study of history and human nature and punctuated by his own experiences. His contemplations are at times quirky, humorous or adamant, but always heartfelt. In short, his chewing on subjects produces much food for thought.

This book deals with the underlying issues associated with Personnel Security Vetting. It provides the rationale as to why certain behaviors are thought to have value in the process and others do not. The environment is largely that of the national security arena but much of the material can be extrapolated to the private sector. Various levels of vetting are linked to risk levels i.e. how important are certain assets to protect and how much in resources is the company willing to invest to protect those assets. The methodologies typically used (background investigations, polygraph and interviewing techniques) are dissected and decisions as to which to employ are explored. In the final analysis, decisions in Personnel Security vetting are risk/benefit determinations dependent on the mix of circumstances present at the time. Probabilities, percentages and environmental limitations are some of the ultimate determinants in the decision making process and recognition is given to the notion there are no perfect vetting measures.

Experience a coming-of-age journey of tenacity and faith.Growing up amidst the colorful but tumultuous backdrop of the 1970s through early 1990s, author Dan Biegler takes readers on the emotionally raw, transformative journey he navigated as a youth. “For fear or for spite,” Dan winsomely writes, he learned to chase life and his dreams in ways he once never thought possible: Through Fields and Fire.Dan candidly relates not a hero story but a human story—from his younger days when the labels of “bully magnet” and “underachiever” dogged his trail . . . to his launch from the sidelines of life into the unexpected, in-your-face trials-by-fire of boot camp as a US Marine . . . to his soul-searing deployment across the globe to serve on the battlefields of Operation Desert Storm . . . to the realization he could dare to step out, take risks, and grow into his best strength.Through it all, Dan inspires readers who see themselves on a similar “dark horse journey,” those who hope-against-all-hope to overcome their biggest obstacles. He spurs on those who wish to learn, as he did, that chasing life with persistence and faith can make all the difference—and lead to life’s most amazing discoveries.

This is a warm and fanciful story of a little boy’s very vivid imagination and how a collection of Rainbow animal friends help him overcome his loneliness.Noah is an active boy, who loves animals, but is lonely with no brothers or sisters.  His teddy bear, Polo, is his constant companion.          He loves going to his Uncle Robert’s veterinary office, but one day he doesn’t go because he is sick.  That night Noah’s illness, his fever and imagination all work together to bring a beautiful rainbow and mischievous animal friends to life right before his eyes!  With the help of a magical “Special Key” and keyhole visible only to the boy, the visions are brilliant and real as life.A big red Unicorn leads the pack of animals through all their paces and fun antics as the story unfolds. Noah’s mom doesn’t believe the animals visited him, yet how do you explain the silver stars and red hearts that mysteriously appeared in his bedroom?Noah’s rainbow animal friends appear to him more than once throughout the story and help him overcome his loneliness, help make him feel better and help solve his “Show and Tell” problem.Each of the animals is represented by the colors of the rainbow.  There is a red Unicorn, orange Main Coon Cat, yellow Labrador dog, green spider monkey, blue parrot dinosaur, indigo lamb and violet pony.Children will be delighted to learn that the parrot dinosaur in the story is a real life dinosaur and is the smallest dinosaur discovered to date.  It looks more like a bird, than a typical dinosaur!Noah’s colorful imagination and love of animals come to light in this whimsical story. We are left wondering if it is really Noah’s brilliant imagination or if his rainbow animal friends are real and if they will come back to share more adventures with Noah.

As we finish of what geography requires of us, we now dwell on giving a clear account to the important natural impact of the desert and other sections and regions of the peninsula on the people as topography affects them and colors the weaves of their fabric. Topography gives us a clue of how and why people believe and think in such a fashion and how they differ from other people in another natural topography. Aside from that, it imprints upon the people a denominator and a common natural bond. Meanwhile, we are equipped with whatever factors we examined above, and are ready to discuss the early people of the Arabian Peninsula and their development of a tribal state system, as some tribes began to establish themselves within a permanent geographical location, functioning as a sociopolitical entity independent like city states in early Europe. Arab tribes were pagan and had many natural and physical gods. Tribes had special gods, and seldom, a single tribe had one adopted god too. At a later stage, we find some tribal heads confessing Judaism and converting therefore number of their tribes to this faith.

If you are tired of Democrats and Republicans making empty promises, and their followers dogmatically choosing sides on every debate and issue so their guys can remain in power, you''re a lot like the author of this book. Tackling tough issues like the immigration debate, slavery reparations, minimum wage, taxes, college tuition, the insurance industry, business, the role of government in ordering our lives, prisons, the relationship of society to police, and many more, he proposes revolutionary solutions instead of choosing to spend 70,000 words needlessly criticizing. Coming from the view that every human is an image-bearer of God, and that all man-made structures and agendas are open for debate, he offers up solutions to some of America''s most burdensome problems which can be considered and implemented to make both sides happy. Understanding that too many people nowadays take themselves far too seriously, he also gives the reader many self-deprecating and humorous asides (something sorely lacking in political and social debate). Buy this book and join the fight against poverty; namely his poverty.

Parallels That Cross is a delightfully creative novel that will take you down literary paths like those you have explored with Barbara Kingsolver’s books. Gary Graham interweaves stories of his two equally important main characters and presents their stories with diverse sentence and paragraph structure in a literary manner that may remind readers of Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See. Perfect for book clubs seeking an enjoyable alternative to dystopian or fantasy novels.Parallels That Cross launches us into the worlds of ancient cultures, never before seen wildlife, parental and sex-based relationship anxieties, and the fundamentals of love – all wrapped around a man and woman presented as equals and given equal page time.This novel pivots on Mica, an archaeologist, and Clay, an ornithologist, who are independently and simultaneously resolving their anxieties while searching in 1982 for extraordinary treasures hidden deep in the Peruvian wilderness. Mica is exploring for an ancient city she theorizes was founded by women led by a princess daughter of Peru’s last reigning Inca ruler. Clay, working on his doctoral research on another side of the same mountain, is testing his new biodiversity model that predicts discovery of new avian species. Mica suffers from a lifelong self-doubt that she will turn out like her lesbian mother. Clay is tormented by his own nightmare that he has become his philandering dad. Ultimately, they must confront whether their lives are controlled by destiny or free will.Rich with humor, poetry, music, imagery and using a creative story-telling format Parallels That Cross and 2019 William Faulkner - William Wisdom CreativeWriting Competition Semifinalist Gary Graham deliver a novel unlike any you have experienced. What Makes Parallels That Cross UniqueMica and Clay•    Their love of life, discoveries, music and humor coupled with childhood traumas.•    Female and male main characters are given parallel and equal page time.•    Characters portrayed realistically without the sanitizing constraints of mainstream media.Settings•    Experience the beauty and mysteries of Elfin forests and puna grasslands in Peru.•    Quirky campus fun at Berkeley, Louisiana State University, University of Wisconsin and University of New Mexico.•    A Peruvian culture rich with wonderfully gentle people you will want as friends.How the story is told•    Genre bending - shifting easily among literary, thriller, romance and adventure fiction.•    Side-by-side chapters to reveal Mica’s and Clay’s lives simultaneously.Discoveries•    Explorations in nature and archeology that make you want to become a scientist.•    Original poetry and humor that make you want to become a writer or comedian or both.Book Excerpts•    “I choose, navigating by grace and with gratitude. I choose, being queen of my inner kingdom.”•    Where Ewoks escape from Return of the Jedi to find a secret home on earth--one that no human has ever beheld.•    “Free will, her strength undeniable, if you believe Destiny is merely in the eyes of the beholder.”