Buddy Dunker

Join Donald as he returns to his hometown of Bryan, Texas and reflects on the memories of his childhood. From riding bikes and racing barefoot on the streets to the sound of his mother's sweet voice calling him in for dinner, the memories flood back as he sets foot in his childhood home. But one memory stands out above the rest: the trash-talking clown named Buddy Dunker. Follow Donald as he recounts the wild and unforgettable journey of how a homeless hobo became a legend and how it all began with a chance encounter at a local dog pound.

Bullied and Blind

Often, life throws us some unexpected curveballs. For some people, the challenges and obstacles we face are so intense that they can make or break us. This book is a journey that takes the reader face-to-face with the challenges of being bullied in more ways than you may expect. Life can really beat us up by throwing us punches and jabs that are near-unrecoverable.

It is when we are knocked down to the ground that we learn the most about ourselves. If you feel like life is bullying you from all directions, and you are running out of answers or places to turn, then this book is for you. If you’ve ever felt hopeless with no place to hide, then this book is for you too. The author is about to take you upon two parallel journeys into the abyss and back. Lessons are learned as the unimaginable becomes reality. The author’s survival of the two traumatic experiences is enlightening and inspirational. Fasten your seatbelt as you take a rollercoaster ride that will have you self-reflecting on every page. It’s time to be inspired as you’ve never been inspired before.

Bustle

This story is about a young black man, who grew up in Compton California, who overcame the tragedy of being shot, not once but twice. And then all the difficulties that came after, all while surviving the relentless 70s, before the age of 18 years old.

What makes my book different than any other book out there? The only difference is that it’s my story. I’m no different than you or anybody else out there, we all have a story to tell, a purpose in life. After reading my book, I hope that you will be encouraged to tell your story and fulfill your purpose. That being said, my book is raw it’s not sugar-coated, it’s not watered-down, it tells the true story of how my life was. It talks about; Joy and pain, happiness and sadness, sex, drugs and abstinence, love and hate, courage and fear, strength and weakness, being honest and dishonest, being helpless and overcoming obstacles, having faith and doubt, loss and gain, laughter and sorrow. It’s not too long and it’s not too short, it gets right to point.

Can Love and Talents Survive Opposite Political and Economic Environments?

Can Love and Talents Survive Opposite Political and Economic Environments?

This author believes that it is important to narrate how he has been affected by living under opposing political and economic systems.

This book shows how the command economy differs from the market economy through the example of a highly qualified Cuban economist and scholar who has lived for decades in developing and developed market economy and command economy countries.

Another very important and interesting aspect of this book is that it establishes the talents of this man’s two big loves’ –– his mother and his second wife –– as important and influential contributors in developing his behavior in the politico-socio-economic environment in which his life has so far taken place.

This book is divided into four sections: CHAPTER I contains an analytic summary of chaotic situations in Cuba and the United States, in which he had personally participated. CHAPTER II is a comparison of the political, social, and economic advantages and disadvantages existing between the market and the command economies, and the social democracy according to his international scholarly and personal experience, in developing and developed countries, especially during the last half of the twentieth and the first two decades of the twenty-first centuries. CHAPTER III explains in depth what is meant by each one of this author’s seven talents: reading and writing, pedagogy, tenacity, learning foreign languages, traveling around the world, singing, and being empathetic. CHAPTER IV explains how these talents are related to those of the two women who had considerably influenced the performance of his life.

Canadian Family Law Handbook

This book provides an easy-to-understand survey of family law across Canada. For those interested in Ontario or other provinces, perhaps working toward paralegal certification, this book provides all the relevant details of family law and competencies in an organized fashion using plain language. The latest amendments to the Divorce Act concerning decision-making responsibilities, parenting time, and contact orders are fully canvassed as are new requirements for moving or relocating, and the broader definition of family violence. Indeed, not all marriages and families are harmonious. There is a thorough review of domestic abuse and resulting trauma as well as legal remedies including peace bonds, restraining orders, and civil contempt. This book also examines the client-centered, trauma-informed, anti-racist approach to providing legal services.

The laws of marriage (but not solemnization), annulment, and divorce are essentially the same no matter where you live in Canada. The first six chapters are very informative about those topics and issues of parenting, child support, and financial assistance for spouses. This book also deals with disputes concerning parenting responsibilities, support, and property division that arise when the parties never married but cohabited in a conjugal relationship of some duration prior to separation.

While this book is not legal advice, it provides every reader with a solid grasp of their rights and obligations in family matters. And those who will qualify as legal advisers in family disputes will benefit from the breadth of the material and the comparative approach.

Canyons of the Mind

Russell James Ray is credited with the first canyoneering descents of the Barrancas Sinforosa and Batopilas. It was an endeavor that spanned several years, and included a self-delusional non-first descent of the Barranca Del Cobre. He currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he dreams of other things. 

Caregiver’s Diary

After COVID-19, the next medical crisis will be Alzheimer’s Disease. It is estimated to impact 5.5 million in the US alone. This little booklet chronicles one woman’s slide into eternity. The disease is hard to diagnose, and both difficult and expensive to treat. The disease sometimes starts in middle age, but mostly affects the elderly. Once it affects a family, it tends to dominate all other activities. It affects all races and appears worldwide. This booklet tells of ten years care for one man’s wife. Compare your situation to his.

Celestial Scepters I

Celestial Scepters I challenges the Church to explore the Scriptures, and to cease cutting, pasting and ignoring the Bible. The Church, in other words, must challenge their leaders, who have, since the beginning, distorted Jesus’ words.

Yet the Church is continually in conflict, forcing schisms and fusing theology with the political world, the Great Harlot. This has led them to deify kings, dictators, and papal autocrats. Why have they neglected Jesus’ teachings, going so far as to support antichristian figures like Hitler, Mussolini, Putin and Donald Trump?

Time is running out, the assault on the truth continues. Two movements emerged after Jesus’ death, the Church of James and the Church of Paul. Paul agreed to obey James, and to honor the Spirit that led Paul to do obey. Yet, Paul returned to his ways and ignored his sacred pledge. The early disciples, those who followed James, soon died out, who never left Jesus’ teachings. Paul, a man of contradictions, commanded his followers to obey the very kings who empowered the Church to ignore Jesus’ words and mission, making him, in reality, a Gentile god. But Jesus was explicit that we can become one with God, while yet alive, in the same way Jesus is one with God. We never needed a dictatorial taskmaster that Paul was and continued to be. What’s been lost since the beginning is the fact that we were given the glory, and we too are created in the image of God, and we too are the Way.

Chasing Dreams in a Sailboat

Chasing Dreams in a Sailboat is an anthology of stories about the interesting people we met in foreign sailing destinations; vibrant people with different perspectives, backgrounds, and life experiences, who have shaped us into more open-minded individuals.

This is a collection of memoirs about the cultural experiences we have encountered in our beloved British Virgin Islands, the shockingly beautiful French Polynesian Society Islands, the ancient villages along the ink-blue Tyrrhenian Sea’s most dazzling stretch of the Italian coastline known as the Amalfi Coast, and the magnificent Dalaman sailing region in southern Turkey, appropriately nicknamed the ‘Turkish Riviera.’

In each destination, we mingled with the locals and embraced unexpected opportunities so that for a passing moment in time, we could become a part of the diverse civilization we visited.

Chasing Rommel

On June 6, 1944, tens of thousands of American soldiers, sailors, and airmen assaulted the German held coast of France at Normandy. Some were killed, some wounded, and all of them were changed as the battles raged against Rommel and his defenders. They fell for yards of sandy beaches, for critical roads, bridges, villages, towns, and cities. Together, we will travel to those places, and we will relive all the bravery and horror, all the mistakes and honor, as we learn their stories - Chasing Rommel.

Child Protection in America

Child abuse and neglect are tragically common. Each year, more than 1,000 American children die due to maltreatment. Thousands more suffer physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect. Across the country, every community has a system of government-operated and funded child protective services (CPS). But given that social workers of CPS have the authority to remove children from unsafe parents, it is no surprise that CPS is controversial. Does CPS protect children? Does CPS do more good than harm? Is CPS fundamentally racist, as some critics argue? Should CPS be abolished? To answer these questions, it is essential to understand the origins of child protection in America. How did we arrive at the child protection system in place today? This book traces the history of child protection from colonial times to the present and provides the most in-depth analysis ever published of the origins of child protection.

Christianity as the Moral Order of Integration

This book is an integration of the Old and New Testaments, and it is intended to demonstrate that there should be only one Testament. Together they form the Bible of the Jewish people. They unfold the long journey that Abram and Sarai were summoned by God to initiate. As migrants without a country and without an ethnic identity, they personified the Truth of God by incarnating “the Lord God’s” being of presence and transcendent possibility. Incorporated into an eternal covenant as Abraham and Sarah, they established the birthright of God’s elect people as the embodiment of the integration of universality and ethnicity.

The journey continued through their descendants, vacillating between the union of universality and ethnicity and mere ethnicity, and, in the course of Israel’s history, it separated the prophets from the priests. The journey traverses the Yahwist Strand of the Pentateuch, the four prophetic divisions of the Book of Isaiah, Book 1 of I Enoch, the Apocalypse of Daniel, John the Baptist, and it climaxes in the ontological termination of the moral order of separation through the death of Jesus of Nazareth and the inauguration of a New Creation and its New Humanity through his resurrection from the dead.

The journey is concluded by Paul the Apostle who, as an ethnically determined Pharisee, is called by God to proclaim the moral order of integration as a gift to the nations of the Gentiles.