Between the Bench

Between the Bench is bold and essential. It’s spicy, yet never crosses the line into obscenity. The message is crystal clear: something extraordinary is happening. Thoughts venture where people rarely tread, embarking on a spectacular journey into another realm.

Included are three bonus escapades, each distinct yet united by a logbook chronicling these extraordinary events and encounters. It’s a journey into a region of sheer madness – yes, madness! The hook? There’s no telling what one might bring back from such an experience. It’s crucial to return and share this revolutionary knowledge.

Craving something as irresistible as a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? This book has all the good stuff. So, buckle up and hold on tight! You’re in for a ride. Something poignant is about to break the seal, and it all begins now. Bon Voyage!

Between the Lines

Lucy can hardly believe the end of middle school has finally arrived. But faced with end of the year deadlines, a crush, and the ultimate manipulator, Lucy learns the hard way that silencing the signals from her body leads to missing the one event she’s looking forward to the most. Will Lucy figure things out before she ruins things for everyone?

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.

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.

Birthed Anew: From Pain to Passion to Purpose

We all have a part deep within us that is fighting to make its exit. Whether it’s hidden secrets, traumatic experiences, or soul wrenching memories, it no longer wants to reside there. Let me introduce you to Grace. She weaves us through the course of her life as she embarks upon this quest for freedom from life’s shackles. On this journey, we experience her deeply rooted pain, and her drive towards deliverance. We witness her attempts of resurrection from the dark pits of pain to the moment of her personal triumph.

Pursing growth commences through the identification of the who, what, where, when and why’s in our lives. Gaining a better understanding of how our past paves our future can help individuals make positive choices that will support authentic healing and restoration.

Birthed Anew: From Pain to Passion to Purpose will shed light on commonly hidden skeletons while simultaneously revealing the beauty of what it actually means to transition from a painful situation to a purposeful one and ultimately experience the gift of forgiveness.

Black Swan Impact

Creative, shocking, and constantly intriguing, Black Swan Impact is a taut geopolitical novel that features a bold but grim vision of a post-World War III future. The thrilling storyline never meanders, instead moving forward with purpose and keeping the reader in eager pursuit of it. Readers will enjoy this captivating, insightful, and detailed crisis that could only be created by an insider with many years of expertise in the subject matter.

A former government employee of the Department of Homeland Security, Helen Hynson Vettori delivers a credible and horrifying tale born from her consternation regarding the United States government’s suboptimal response to SARS CoV-2. Appalled that previous years of planning and preparation for biological incidents, to include pandemics, were overlooked, she wrote this sci-fi political thriller. As a result, readers will find unnerving truths woven throughout this terrifying fiction. Further, with her background as a Senior Medical Intelligence Analyst and paramedic, she provides graphic descriptions with visceral details that compel readers to turn each page with chilling captivation.

Bless Me Father

This is a tantalizing mystery driven by friendships and secrets. Maria-Teresa Rivera has no idea what’s in store for her when she arrives at her childhood church in Mesa, Arizona for a routine planning meeting with the hot new priest. The effect the handsome Brazilian priest has on the congregation of the St. Francis de Sales Catholic church is nothing less than murderous.

When a dead body is discovered at the church, Maria-Teresa fails to convince the police that, despite her blood-smeared appearance, she is innocent of the crime. As the body count rises in the church community, Maria-Teresa’s tenacious trio of multiracial girlfriends embark on a thrilling cat and mouse chase with a killer using wit, wisdom, and humor to absolve their friend of murder charges.

Through shudder-inducing twists and turns, these amateur sleuths uncover deep dark secrets about a plethora of suspicious characters. These ladies combine who-dun-it foundations with a contemporary empowering driven approach to crime solving only to leave one secret yet to be revealed.

Bluejay in the Attic

Bluejay in the Attic is a captivating, thought-provoking, and highly contemporary read. Throughout Andy’s travels, there is a compelling honesty with his reflections on society and its impact on him throughout his journey. The development of Andy’s character creates a fascination and a compulsion that carries the reader to the edge of their seat beyond the final moments. The authorial voice is transfixing, evoking eras of history, and each layer of this evolving journey further engrosses the reader. Supported by a nuanced and complex cast and a layered narrative, Bluejay in the Attic is undoubtedly a well-written and beautifully crafted novel worthy of attention.

Bowman's Bodacious Bazaar

Have you ever wanted to go back in time to make a difference? Bowman’s Bodacious Bazaar will transport you to some of the most meaningful events of our country’s growth by taking a unique look at each event. Follow along with James Jefferson and his friends as they investigate how Bowman’s Bazaar and its owner, Bob Bowman, may have affected the future of our country. Also, follow them as they help solve the murder of the local librarian.

Enjoy eight visits along our historical timeline as you become entangled in a murder mystery. Bowman’s Bodacious Bazaar includes fantastical historical events, a love story, and a murder mystery—something for everyone. Find out how the back room of Bowman’s Bazaar has been a special place for explorers since it was first built during the American Revolution.

Finally, this uniquely fictional look at the growth of our country may interest you in finding out more about the events in this book. Don’t be shy to learn more about our American Revolution, the Lewis and Clark Expedition, the California Gold Rush, the Civil War, the Transcontinental Railroad, Woman’s Suffrage, Pearl Harbor – WWII, and the Civil Rights Movement. This is one of those books that you just can’t put down. Spend your time enjoying all that Bowman’s Bodacious Bazaar has to offer.

Boy Refugee

Boy Refugee: A Memoir from a Long-Forgotten War is the story of a young refugee boy in the aftermath of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. The story chronicles his escape from war-ravaged Bangladesh to the relative safety of a barbed-wired internment camp in the foothills of the Himalayas, his day-to-day life as a civilian prisoner of war, and his thousand-mile, two-year-long journey back to Pakistan.

Breaking the Chains of Bondage

Thirty-four years ago, Charles Smith was incarcerated in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (or ‘Injustice,’ as he would say) with two life sentences. Now, he shares with us the harrowing and horrific experience of life in a Texas prison. Breaking the Chains of Bondage is his personal memoir that guides us through the fields and down the halls of everyday life, torture, and trauma in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison system. It is a read you won’t soon forget.

Despite facing numerous hardships and challenges during his 30+ years of incarceration, Charles persevered and achieved a master’s degree in psychology from UT-Clear Lake in Houston, earning widespread respect as a motivational speaker. He shares his passion for justice for all and his love for Esther and humanity at large. Breaking the Chains of Bondage is a riveting story of courage, resilience, and love. Open it up—take a walk inside.

Britain's First Black Headmaster of a Secondary School in Action

This is the ‘real life’ story of Britain’s first Black Headmaster of a large secondary school. In 1982 when the news first broke, all of Yorkshire where it happened, indeed, all the United Kingdom and beyond came alive with the media frenzy which attended the historical occasion. This was no fluke since that feat was repeated four years later by the same person, this time in the Midlands at one of Birmingham’s largest comprehensive schools.

Once the media frenzy, the seemingly glamour of his achievements, was over, Duncan, the Headmaster in question, had to face the reality of managing and leading the schools which he successively headed. These were not places of friendship but more like hostile gauntlets of racism and sabotage which Duncan must navigate daily whilst equally hostile external eyes watched his every move threateningly and, at times, abusively.

Navigating these obstacles successfully soon became a prominent aspect of the job description of this Headteacher.

Beyond school life, his journey was no less hazardous. It was littered or peppered throughout with difficulties such as police stops and searches, high speed police chase on the motorways, legal battles, romantic and marital discords leading to police lock-up, beatings by in-laws and hospitalization on his wedding day for daring to marrying a Sikh girl. With this Sikh girl, Duncan would make the headlines again in the same year as becoming Britain’s first Headmaster of a secondary school. In the August of 1982, Duncan’s Sikh wife gave birth to the world’s first black test-tube twins which opened the way for a whole new dimension in Duncan’s world.