Beyond Caring

When young Billy and his mother encounter Mr. Simmons in the waiting room of a veterinary clinic, they uncover a disheartening misunderstanding. Mr. Simmons, an elderly man unable to read, believed he was awaiting an appointment with a doctor for humans, not a pet doctor. The medical symbol on the building had misled him.

Moved by Mr. Simmons’ plight, Billy is determined to help in a way that goes beyond merely directing him to the correct physician. With his mother – a compassionate school teacher – by his side, Billy sets into motion an extraordinary chain of events. The pair not only help Mr. Simmons learn to read but, buoyed by their success, go on to establish an adult education center.

Beyond Caring is a heartwarming tale of empathy, community, and the transformative power of education. In its conclusion, the story casts Billy and his mother as modern-day Good Samaritans, figures who extend help beyond the immediate need, giving others the tools they need to thrive.

Beyond Gravity - Vector Fitness Training

What’s in it for you?  Beyond Gravity - Vector Fitness Training will quickly inspire you to:

1. Increase excitement for working out and getting the body training results you or your clients/athletes want ASAP. 

2. Use a variable directional system to stimulate the mind and body in order to reap the most of every set.
3. Target and maximally develop any specific segment of skeletal muscle for most any function or sports skill.
4. Get up to 10+ times more out of most any standard resistance exercise machine, free weigh, or calisthenic exercise.
5. Reduce injury and painful exercise motions, while breaking through sticking points and progress plateaus

The Training Doc...

Harry J. Einsig, MD, ATC talks the talk with distinctive sports medicine credentials, including Triple Board Certification in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Electrodiagnostic Medicine, and Athletic Training; many public medical and athletic training presentations; published research and articles; and televised medical segments on ABC, NBC, and CBS. He also walks the walk as a highly successful international level wrestler and U.S. national freestyle champion; Pennsylvania state honored football player; 20+ year coach encompassing wrestling, football, men's and women's lacrosse, baseball, softball, and basketball; and inventor/U.S. Patent holder of exercise machines and methods. His unique experience and charisma allow him to take the fitness and sports training industry by storm and transform it to a higher level ... BEYOND GRAVITY.

Beyond the Death of Ira Nesbitt

Beyond the Death of Ira Nesbitt is a heart-wrenching tale of love, sacrifice, and redemption. Ira Nesbitt lives in a small town far away from any large city, working at the local mill to support himself and his family. His parents spend their evenings getting drunk at the local bar, leaving Ira to care for his younger sister, Angie. But when Ira’s father starts to suspect that Angie may not be his daughter, he begins to treat her badly, leading Ira to plan her escape to another town.

One fateful night, Ira’s worst fears come true as his father beats Angie mercilessly. In a heroic move, Ira lunges at his father to save his sister, sparking a chain of events that changes the course of their lives forever. As the story unfolds, we witness Ira’s struggles and triumphs as he fights to protect his family and create a better future for Angie.

But amidst the chaos and tragedy, there is a glimmer of hope. In a selfless act, Ira changes the beneficiary on his life insurance policy from his parents’ names to Angie Nesbitt, ensuring that she will be taken care of even after his death. Beyond the Death of Ira Nesbitt is a poignant and powerful novel that will stay with readers long after they turn the last page.

Beyond the Hedge of Thorns

Beyond the Hedge of Thorns recounts the small moments in the everyday life of a boy growing up in a Pennsylvania mining town during the vanished era when the butcher, grocer, and milkman delivered right to the house, television had not yet arrived, and kids played softball on vacant lots, cruised the woods, and got into more or less innocent trouble.

Set against the backgrounds of the Second World War, illnesses not yet banished, and anthracite coal mining, with its machinery, scarred landscapes, profoundly influencing the town’s inhabitants, the boyhood described here was nevertheless a happy one, full of modest adventures in unlikely places. John S. Barrett brings it back to life in these pages with a unique voice and a grand gift for remembering the details, colors, and emotions of those times.

Beyond the Midnight Shadows

Julie drops the flashlight and it rolls around on the floor, casting odd shadows on the walls. As she turns to pick it up, there is a smoky image of a man's face in the shadow next to her. Startled, she starts to fall backwards down the stairs... With a sudden jolt, she awakes in her chair. She lets out a long sigh and looks around the room. The morning sun is already shining through the windows of the big house. Not everything is always as it seems, and for someone like Julie, there is a blurry line that connects her dreams and reality. As the two begin to merge, what will she discover? Beyond the Midnight Shadows is a collection of stories that will take you on a path of discovery, challenging what the characters (and you) think they know. After all, fate has a different vantage point.

BFF: Black Father Figures

Who is your BFF?

There is a special breed of men out there who love and care for children that are not biologically their own. These men have no hidden agenda to gain notoriety or self-recognition; but their entire purpose and premise for life is to help young men and women reach their potential. You don’t always get it right, you won’t always do things the right way, but one thing remains constant: the intention of your heart. So, I challenge you to open the pages of this book and let your past sorrows gain resolutions and your future dreams and visions gain clarity and wings as you sprout into the man whom young children need in their lives.

Bibles and Cigars

Bibles and Cigars are questions of why: Why Luxury? Why pain? Why Animosity? More importantly, Why Salvation?

We crave and understand what we see. It is the definition of finding ways through life and adjusting through meanings with time, energy, and shadows. With Light comes happiness, and with time comes experiences. With poetry comes self-indulgence with the luxury of life, which explains what we are doing and meant to do. Bibles and Cigars is a pleasure-seeking book that describes our sins, mistakes, and desires in many different ways to understand our growth in life.

Big Sister

A Loving Family

Cecily Mendez, a young Latina woman, lives with her parents and much younger brother, Norman. They are the perfect family, supporting, loving, and fiercely loyal.

An Awful Tragedy

When a tragedy occurs, ripping apart their family, Cecily is left to care for her brother. With a killer on the loose, the police begin an investigation.

A Dead-End Investigation

Detectives Michaels and Andrews have no further leads to follow, so Cecily begins an investigation of her own. Michaels has fallen for Cecily and secretly joins her in her search for justice.

An Act of Vigilantism

A violent act causes a rift between two families. When Norman gets caught in the crossfire and disappears, Cecily begins to unravel.

A Woman Unraveled

Detective Andrews and Michaels are at odds as Michaels tries to protect Cecily. Her friends begin to worry about her when Cecily suddenly goes missing.

A Shocking End

Cecily is on a fast-paced race to avenge her family, elude the authorities, and punish the bullies who have wronged her little brother.

Bihar Days

Prior to 1947, the Maithil Brahmans dominated North Bihar culturally, politically, and economically. Darbhanga Raj, the richest zamindari estate in British India, was owned by a family of the elite sub-group of Brahmans, the Srotriyas. The high prestige of this elite was based on a lifestyle prescribed by ancient law codes involving simplicity of life, daily Vedic rites, and intermarriage within a small network of lineages 24 generations deep. It was a highly conservative, inward-looking, isolationist community.

In 1980, anthropologist Carolyn Brown Heinz was privileged to see inside this elite community with a one-year grant from the Indo-US Subcommission and return trips over the next two decades. Independence had brought elimination of royal titles and dismantling of the vast Darbhanga Raj estate. The last king had died. These changes upended the old order, and she was able to observe the fall-out at close range. Told in first person, this is a highly personal account, told with grace and compassion.

An unexpected development during the same period was the emergence of a women’s art form known as Mithila or Madhubani Art, which Heinz was also able to observe at first hand and describe in this work.

Binding Bloodlines

Dexter Wittaker dreamed of a family dynasty where unity, power, money, and success rule. Through years of hard work and grooming the younger generations, his dreams were finally coming true, but once the eldest children take over no one could imagine what happened next.

They collide with a Russian family and it’s a race to see who will survive. A compelling drama dominated by the Wittaker, Stollenburg, and Gillespie families mixed with thrilling temptations, violent tempers, extreme jealousy, dangerous greed ending with murder, wrapped in a sadistic love affair.

Binka and Tina Play Football

Binka and Tina Play Football is a heartwarming tale of two dogs who become inseparable best friends and discover their unique ability to influence the scores of football games. As their extraordinary talent becomes well-known, Binka and Tina rise to fame, captivating fans and helping their favorite teams secure victories. However, their newfound celebrity status attracts unwanted attention, and the dogs find themselves in peril when they are captured by nefarious dog-nappers.

In a thrilling turn of events, Binka and Tina must rely on their wits and courage to defend themselves, buying precious time for the neighbors to alert the authorities. Thanks to their bravery and the timely intervention of the police, the duo is rescued from their captors and returned safely home. Despite their harrowing ordeal, Binka and Tina’s love for the game remains unshakable, and they continue to use their special powers to help their beloved teams triumph on the field.

Birds, Beaches, and Biologists

Flamingos, snowy egrets, ospreys, terns, black skimmers: These are nature stories.

What is it like to follow white-tailed tropicbirds in a small plane, miles from land, over the vast Caribbean Sea? Or capture wintering common terns from a small shark fishing boat in southern Trinidad?

Chesapeake Bay, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Guyana, Suriname, Southern France: This is a travelogue. 

How does a “flamingo roundup” in France include people from seven countries (and five languages) working in unison? How did a disappearing island (now being restored) in Chesapeake Bay once sheltering Native Americans, British troops, and a fishing village become a wildlife mecca?

Searing heat, hungry insects, boat problems, rescuing men at sea. This is a true-life adventure.

Learn how fieldwork in Green Bay, Wisconsin on night herons ends with saving two fishermen from drowning.

They are all part of Dr. Michael Erwin’s 40-plus-year career as a wildlife biologist. He brings his colorful experiences – the discoveries, the challenges, the dangers, and the joys – back to life in this riveting recollection of his love affair with our Planet Earth.