New World

After Julia Winfrey wins the big lottery, she spends the rest of her life trying to make the world an equal and peaceful place for everyone.

It starts off with her winning the United States Presidential election. From there, with the help of a few close friends, she soon takes over control of the world. Julia’s plans don’t stop there though. She knows that for everyone around the world to be equal, man woman or child, there has to be a change in the way that people think.

Along her long and arduous journey to make the world a better place, Julia has to make some extremely difficult decisions. Many of these decisions make her out to be cold blooded. But she knows that without these decisions, her goals can never be achieved.

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

Learning How to Let It Go in the Shadow of the Belvedere

Sometimes it becomes difficult for us to recognize the beauty of the forest in its full splendour and diverse grandeur, even though it has always been right in front of us. Our view becomes obscured by the thick, opaque tangle of branches. To overcome this universal challenge for us all, we need to be able to adopt a new perspective. This can come from meeting new people and considering their point of view, or even by putting oneself in an entirely different time and place. In doing so, even the most stubborn and set-in-their ways can be jostled out of their slumber and comforting complacency.

The elements necessary for this process of self-transformation are already in our souls for those who allow them to surface, while for others who are more resistant, a more literal journey can be exactly what is required to shake us loose from our preconceived notions.

Kabaslot

Life for Allison Johnson, a young girl growing up in the heart of a thriving independent capital city, was good. Part of a well-to-do Krio family, she and her siblings had enjoyed the best of everything, and Allison was quick to share her life with their new adoptive sister, an orphan from the provinces.

Just as she starts to discover love with an unlikely suitor, tragedy strikes. The Republic is in crisis. As events spiral out of control, Allison’s life as she knows it is turned upside down. On the other side of a vicious civil war, she must give up everything she has known as home, to seek safety in the United States.

Navigating the turn of events and her new life as an immigrant, she finds strength and resilience she had only heard about in the stories of her ancestors.

She immerses herself in a quest for spiritual restoration until a sudden shift puts her at the center of a plot to bring the decayed Republic back from the brink. She’s intrigued by the opportunity but must contend with ghosts from a dark past.

Just a Collection of Recollections About Stuff That Really and Truly Happened As I Recall

We all reach a certain age where we can remember exactly what we did, said, and felt on any particular day thirty or so years ago, but forget where we parked the car last night. This occurred to me at the age mark of 57, and not being one to look a gift horse in the mouth, I am going to ride this wagon till the damn wheels fall off.

How many times has each of us been told that we should write a book after relaying this or that odd thing that occurred in our lives? I just did.

Ibo's Landing

Two families on Edisto Island, SC are convulsed by the mixed-race child of a white woman and her black lover. Set between 1959 and 1994, this explosive novel poses crucial questions about the extent to which two families can escape the legacy of slavery. Why do even well-meaning modern men and women become bearers of the south’s sadistic practices?

I Found Me

A volatile, abusive marriage. Loss of confidence and a sense of identity. A journey in search of redemption. Ah… the weekend – what a holy mess! What an unholy mess in fact! That weekend, I watched as Jack reeled about drunkenly and insulting friends. All veneers and facades were stripped away. He revealed to everyone the ugly side he usually saved for me. And there was nothing I could do. The cat was not just out of the bag, it had ripped its way out, yowling and tearing, nasty and vicious. There was no conceivable way to hide, diffuse or halt the raging storm. I could only watch aghast, horrified, embarrassed, and so, so sad. I was ashamed and full of sorrow for myself, and for Jack. I watched in horror as this once-charming man, staggering about, stripped away all years of my shielding, protecting, and covering up his dark side. I was beyond shame and beyond humiliated. Now, everyone knew the dark side of Jack and the secretive, weak, pitiable side of me.

Hard Hat

Loretta "Lolly" Novak has a great job as a project manager for a construction company in San Francisco. She likes to work hard and play hard. But when she begins to experience her life in a male-dominated world, Lolly realizes that the hat she chose to wear is harder than she ever imagined.

Freedom Village

Time waits for no one. Everyone knows age is out there waiting…waiting…waiting. The big question is: how will we decide to deal with it? Given a choice, most seniors would never choose a care facility.

Life in Freedom Village is unlike any nursing home one could imagine. Residents take their aging and drawbacks into their own hands. Monica, Toni, Ari, Harrison, Frank, and others hold interesting and active past lives.

The tenants come together, weaving the need for companionship, suspicion of backroom theft, and finding missing family members into adventure, laughter, intrigue, peril, and much more. Your spirits will lift and soar in a fast-moving account of their escapades. Join the ride!

Forever Our Sunrise in Saigon

With echoes of Tom Clancy and Jack Higgins, Forever Our Sunrise in Saigon is Patrick Greenwood’s first book in a new series about romance, love, and passion against the backdrop of the Post- Vietnam War. Forever Our Sunrise in Saigon is a romance novel about Jack Kendall and Linh Ng. After connecting online, Jack sets out on a cycling tour of Vietnam to meet Linh while keeping his intentions hidden. They both choose to leave their current relationships and share an unforgettable romance.

But like all good things, their time together is limited, and the sunrise in Saigon symbolizes their love that lasts a lifetime. Intrigued by the country of Vietnam since 11, Jack Kendall long remembered the fall of Saigon in 1975 and its painful aftermath.

After years of chatting online, Jack desires to follow his heart to meet Linh in person. Linh, wanting to feel Jack’s love, wanted nothing more than to be held by him. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Linh agrees to meet Jack in Saigon.

They both know they have found something special when they set eyes on each other. Despite their obstacles, they leap a faith and give their love a chance, even if it means giving up their current relationships. Experience the passion and romance that ignites between Jack and Linh as they explore Vietnam and each other.

Follow their journey as they discover the true meaning of love and the courage it takes to pursue it. But like all good things, their time together is not forever. The sunrise in Saigon that brought them together becomes the emotional connection between them for the rest of their lives.

Eyes Open

Jon W. C. Flanagan is in his mid-sixties when a combination of auto accident, stroke, and seizure leaves him apparently comatose. Involuntary reflexes remain; he can breathe on his own, but is unable to move. Unbeknownst to the medical team, he can see and hear.

Expected to quickly pass away, he lingers reflecting on his life while observing the staff and infrequent family/friend visitors. He develops a relationship of sorts with Rachel, the primary treating nurse who is less sure of the diagnosis than the physicians.

Meanwhile, an ‘angel of death’ is working in the hospital. Flanagan identifies the killer and determines to somehow tell Rachel. His life now is a race against time and a quest to perform a final, perhaps his only heroic act.

Provided a rare gift of total self-reflection, he is provided a rarer opportunity for personal redemption.

Difficult Days

In Difficult Days, Rosemary McComb is a debutante from New Orleans who finds herself caught up in a fight for equality when she falls in love with a black professor from Boston. Threatened by the KKK, who are determined to see the professor dead, Rosemary and her friends must find a way to continue their fight for justice even as they face great danger. As tensions rise and the stakes become higher, Rosemary must decide how far she is willing to go to protect the man she loves and the causes she believes in. With the fate of both the professor and the fight for equality on the line, Difficult Days is a heart-wrenching and powerful tale of love and activism in the face of hatred and oppression.