Life and Times of Miss Daisy Weed

A magical and mysterious garden where the unexpected seems to take over. A dissatisfied Daisy, an adventurer, caught up in mischief and desires, bringing about a whole new world of humor, tears, and love. The wild flowers and creatures take on a new meaning, as they grow in the imagination of the reader, each new character with their special task and story blends reality and fiction into a magical world of flowers, fairies, and humans. Plants that appear in this innocent garden, pushing their way in, overtaking other more charming plants, echo similarity to what the children and adults appear to go through, in this magical, enthralling story.

Life of the Party Girl

Life of the Party Girl is a raw and inspiring debut memoir of a top wedding planner reflecting on the moments that define us as human beings, both the traumatic and fantastic.

The author and subject, Megan Estrada, isn’t your typical wedding planner. She is tattooed, assertive, stylish, and doesn’t take no for an answer. She is reflective and decisive, in bringing a fresh and unique perspective to the special events industry. Estrada is a trailblazer in the event industry and harnesses her past experiences to create momentous occasions.

Before Megan Estrada became a nationally recognized wedding and event planner, she spent forty-years navigating a life of unexpected circumstances, one that was dictated by a twisted series of trauma and celebration. From enduring a school shooting, an unsuccessful suicide attempt, and a difficult marriage, to landing a record deal, becoming a mother of two, and leading the special events industry through the Covid-19 pandemic, Life of the Party Girl follows Estrada’s journey to self-worth and self-discovery.

Life's Love Song

The Trestin family, with their enviable upper-middle-class life, large house, and prestigious school, is the epitome of aspiration –until their perfect world begins to crumble.

Maddie and Duncan, basking in the glow of admiration at school, find their star status dimming as a series of misfortunes strikes the family. Illness, injury, and the turbulent tides of high school romance test them all. United, the Trestins draw strength from one another, facing each challenge head-on. In the midst of turmoil, they discover the true value of what they have, learning a profound lesson in what matters most in life.

Like a Champion

Champion did not possess the confidence to do what he loved – gymnastics! He thought he was too slow to master the flips and springs it takes to be a good gymnast. He was frightened to even try when others watched him practice. In this tale about patience, building confidence, and focusing on his own improvement, Champion learns to overcome his doubts by listening to every instruction delivered by his coach.

A story inspired by challenges so many young athletes face, the authors designed this book to help parents, teachers, and youth coaches talk to young children about fear and anxiety over competitive athletics. The book includes common core aligned questions that teachers can utilize with student.

Lillian: A True Story of Multiple Personality Disorder

For most of us, the varied parts of our personalities are woven together and unified by our memories. But what happens when we have no memories? What happens when the components of memory (facts, feelings, and body states) are split apart and no longer relate to each other?

When this story began more than 40 years ago, doctors and psychiatrists were mystified by patients with more than one personality. The diagnosis at the time was Multiple Personality Disorder. Lillian was afflicted with this condition owing to severe abuse during her childhood. Her mind held each trauma separately. Each personality took over her body, developing a life and personality of its own.

Lillian’s aunt, Jean, became friends with 22 personalities. She played hide and seek with four-year-old Mary, taught five-year-old Amy to write, shopped for undergarments with Robin Jean, and communicated endlessly with each of the others. In the process, each personality revealed its beginnings. Over time, each personality revealed its own memories of their trauma and eventually became integrated.

This is an exquisite and beautifully written story of poverty, transgenerational abuse, mental illness, and the healing power of love, science, and spirituality.

As one reader puts it: “You will laugh, cry, turn away and come back again to its compelling truth.”

Little Zuri Lynn, Where Have You Been?

Little Zuri Lynn is one child whose imagination is truly limitless. When this young lady goes wandering, there’s no telling where she may turn up.

She heads for places that she knows and loves, but she also ventures to destinations that she can only see in her mind’s eye.

Join little Zuri Lynn on a wonderful journey to fabulous places near and far, proving that a child’s imagination can take her anywhere. You’ll be amazed by what you find inside this youngster’s mind!

Living With the Little Devil Man

Sterling was another soul lost to addiction. He was a schizophrenic plagued by the little devil man. Heroin saved him from that reality so many times. Most people aren’t plagued by creatures, but what are they plagued by? What reality are they escaping? Sterling’s story gives us some of the answers we seek. One thing is for certain, his story teaches us the importance of human connection and how to love. Not to love the addiction, but to love the person behind the addiction. It teaches us to the importance of helping others through dark times without judgment. This emotionally riveting story shows how good can triumph over evil in ways we never can anticipate. Expect to both cry and laugh.

‘“Living with the Little Devil Man” introduces us to Sterling, a young man with searing blue eyes. The life Sterling was dealt: childhood cruelty, serious mental illness, and addiction, is woven into an energetic, funny, attractive young man that we come to care for as much as his adoptive mother who opened her home and family to him. Who does that? Who lets in addiction and mental illness, sleepless nights, and worry? This story is unaltered by resentment or judgment. It is a frank telling of one young life, lived with zest despite the terrible odds against him, and the woman who opens our hearts to let him in.’ Dominique Simon-Levine PhD—Founder of AlliesinRecovery.net

‘Reading “Living with the Little Devil Man” was like being on a train that I knew was going to be wrecked. I was on the train, I met all of the passengers and developed feelings for them and about them. I desperately wanted to be able to stop that train. I cried so many times while reading the book that I can't count them. This book encompasses intimacy, compassion, and horror, but it also gives us a sense of hope, passion, and transcendence.’ Eugene Isaak, J.D.—Author in Recovery

‘“Living with the Little Devil Man” is a gripping story about the demons of addiction and the struggles with mental illness during the course of a young man`s life. “Living with the Little Devil Man” brings out the humanistic side of it all and teaches us to love unconditionally, especially those who struggle with addiction and mental illness.’ J. Bruno – Narcotics Detective 20+ yea

Lost and Found Me

Do you always feel something is "not right" about your relationship, while at the same time you are not sure what is really not right, and it's hard to describe to anyone else? Do you always feel that you are not being appreciated no matter how much you contribute to your relationship? Do you always feel that you just cannot get it right no matter what you try? Lost and Found Me will share with you real-life experiences from real people and will: * help you understand you are not alone, * help you recognize and acknowledge what is going on in your life experiences, * help you take back your personal power, * help you make a positive change in your life experience, * help you focus the right energy on the right person, * help you realize life is all about decision-making, * guide you on how to walk toward the light.

Love at the End of the World

After thirty-five years of quiet acceptance, Tonia Rotkopf Blair returned to Poland and confronted the Holocaust. Growing into an outspoken survivor, she began to write precise, poignant stories. Some concerned her childhood or traveling halfway around the world, or New York City, where she raised a family and attended the renown Columbia University. But all grappled with memories, dreams, and the Holocaust, many taking us into its depths, notably the three weeks she endured in Auschwitz.
What makes Rotkopf Blair’s perspective unique is that, while working as a nurse in the Lodz ghetto or enduring the concentration camps, she remained very much a romantic young woman. As history’s most murderous war raged around her, she practiced love and kindness, and was sustained by encounters with decent people—including some Germans. So fresh are her views on these fraught subjects, Love at the End of the World includes an essay by her son, which teases those issues out by examining Darwin’s theory of evolution, revising it from “survival of the fittest” to “survival of the ‘lovingest.’”

Love Under Fire

“Love Under Fire is dedicated to the women who have inspired me and whom I have known and loved and in a few cases loved too much. Their number is many, and I thank all in memory of their timeless appreciation and remembrance – the cornerstones of immortality for all.

Their combined life stories have emboldened the world and enriched the uniqueness of all our individual lives, journeys, and endeavors.”

The Way of the World…

What Loss

My heart is strong enough

to give…

But not strong enough

To give away.

Lyco Art

In Paul Hartal’s Lyco Art, the act of creation inexorably interweaves the logic of passion with the passion of logic through the voyage of consciousness.

Paul Hartal, the originator of lyco art, or lyrical conceptualism, presents a stimulating and meaningful panorama of a new element on the periodic table of art. This book is a significant contribution to the development of contemporary art and the history of ideas.

Similar to his approach to poetry, Paul Hartal’s vision of paintings (views) identifies the heart of art as the art of the heart: Love is the most important journey of life and its final destination. We come to this world through love in order to love and to be loved.

M.A.X.X.

Marie Winterfield founded and directed the S.N.O.W. agency, a group of advanced investigative search and rescue specialists, is world renowned for cracking the toughest cases. When a massive power outage in New York City compromises the FBI, CIA, and NASA; Marie takes on her hardest case ever; taking on a top-secret agency that was believed to be shut down, but has actually gone global, kidnapping, killing, and framing innocent people for crimes they did not commit.

When things get out of hand and people start dying, Marie realizes that even her closest friends and colleagues have been corrupted, and her enemies are everywhere. She isn’t safe at home, at work, she isn’t safe… anywhere. Can Marie stop this group of computer criminal masterminds before it is to late or are they even the real enemy? Hold tight in this nonstop futuristic thriller with all the twists and turns that come with it.