Brain Storms: Surviving Catastrophic Illness by Les Duncan

https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Storms-Surviving-Catastrophic-Illness/dp/1604622237

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Can one person survive four brain hemorrhages and two brain surgeries, and still live a normal, joyful life? Join survivor Les Duncan for Brain Storms, a collection of twenty-seven tips for coping with and recovering from catastrophic illness. These easy-to-read chapters-free from confusing technical jargon-will inspire you to take back your life. Full of tips and practical information-like how to find an exceptional doctor, the trick to listening to your body, building a life of sheer determination, and becoming an occasional but likable nuisance when necessary-will enable you to make recovery your full-time job. Applicable both for survivors and caretakers, Brain Storms also deals with the importance of maintaining relationships throughout the difficult healing process. Be inspired to survive.

The Triggering Scent: A Medical Thriller (The Abbey Roberts Series Book 1) by Jenny White

https://www.amazon.com/Triggering-Scent-Medical-Thriller-Roberts-ebook/dp/B0GTX6ZT74

Beep….Beep…..Beep…….
When the brilliant neurosurgeon, Dr. Mark Winston III operates on Abbey Roberts, he knows it will be a challenging procedure. But a drug addiction and withdrawal symptoms cause his hands to shake. Four hours into the operation, disaster occurs.

Almost a year after the botched brain surgery, Abbey returns to work, in her comfort zone the ICU. But all is not well. She struggles to differentiate right from wrong, realizes her personality is different and has gaps in her memory she can’t resolve. Living with her brain damage, she has to create her new world and at the same time hide her challenges.
Then her worst nightmare walks through the ICU doors and she must work side by side with the man who almost killed her, twice. How can Abbey navigate the ethical minefield of treating patients while her tormentor operates just down the hall?

When past and present collide, Abbey must decide if vengeance is worth risking everything.

Eternal Nights: Arrival by Richard Spegal

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https://www.amazon.com/Eternal-Nights-Arrival-Richard-Spegal/dp/1970703512

The Time Has Come.

In AD2019 they met their Progenitor and finally learned the truth about not only their origins, but the origins of all vampires. They also learned the horrible truth of the beginning of everything, and the scourge that was unleashed throughout the universe. A force that had gone unchecked for billions upon billions of years. They vowed to stop it… assuming it still existed.

In AD3325 the enemy was no longer hypothetical, and the human race was no longer alone.

The coming force is an enemy unlike anything the races of the galaxy had ever faced. A living hunger, capable of consuming entire galaxies. Sentient locusts with numbers that could blot out the stars. When they enter a galaxy, it is a sign that the End of Days has begun.

This is not an enemy that can be fought from the shadows.

Having lived for thousands of years, they have changed. Their entire family has changed. They will still stand in defense of the mortal races, but it will be on their terms. The mortal races will accept them, or they will disappear forever and let the galaxy burn.

The Shakeeth have arrived, and in order to face the coming darkness, Johnathon and Danielle will have to take their family into the light.

About the author
I’ve been writing for years, but only started publishing about 3 1/2 years ago. I pride myself on adult oriented entertainment. The relationships, the language, the complicated plot threads, and a lot of the situations are geared toward an older audience. Honestly, I think anyone would get enjoyment from the reading, but the more life experience you have, the more you will be able to relate to what is happening. Regarding relationships, for example, my characters tend to be married or have a family. This isn’t the kind of romance that younger audience members can relate to.

I also pride myself on brutal realistic detail. The characters talk like real people, act like real people, think like real people, and make the decisions real people would make. No one goes “suddenly stupid” so that the plot can happen. No, my characters are the one driving the plot. That is how it should, but that’s been forgotten by creators over the last decade or so, which is why so much of everything fails now.

There are old editions on Amazon, because Amazon refuses to take listings down. I hate that because it can be confusing, but at least the old editions are marked as unavailable, or are otherwise obvious. The new stuff tends to be at the top. My 5th book should be out within a couple weeks of this posting, and number 6 is scheduled for Spring 2026. Beyond that, it’ll be my publisher’s decision as to how fast the books go live.

What Do You Call Your Grandparents by Eileen E J Walker

https://www.amazon.com/What-You-Call-Your-Grandparents/dp/1970749326

Lily has a day off from school. She will spend the day with her grandparents. Grandparents are always a lot of fun. Perhaps you have a favorite memory of your grandparents. Maybe your favorite memory as a child relates to food, eating or preparing it. Maybe your favorite memory is visiting a certain place, playing games or making crafts. Around the world, the name for ‘grandma’ and ‘grandpa’, varies. Enjoy reading this book to your grandchildren and may the memories you create bring joy to you all.

About the author
Eileen Walker has launched into the world of writing children’s book, quickly, with her 3rd book in a series. This book was initially intended to be her first. Although writing has been in the recesses of her mind for many years, it wasn’t until she became a grandmother, that she was inspired to write children’s books. She hopes you and the children you read with, will enjoy learning what to call family members, in other languages.

The ‘i’ Problem Theory: Solve your problems by Anthony Robinski

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The I Problem Theory starts from a simple claim: if you can precisely describe how you stand in relation to a problem, you can deliberately change that relationship. The book expresses this with a single equation, The I Problem Theory. Rather than offering vague motivation, the book shows how to increase certain factors by using better habits, better information, and better use of other people’s expertise-while recognizing things that cannot be changed but used to your advantage.

About the Author
Author, Anthony James Robinski, is a Navy veteran from the Dallas, Texas, area. He joined the Navy at 19, serving 12 years in active services until transitioning to the Navy Reserve. During service, he worked with cutting-edge technology on submarines and taught dance around the world. The time spent in the service allowed him to live in the Imagination of his predecessors.
The many stories he heard from his fellow sailors and their outlandish adventures inspired him to share his own using the same practical techniques. He sent out on his adventure to write and tell his own stories. No longer on active duty, Anthony lives his dream of working with technology and taking a plunge into his greatest passion, writing. His writing contains the same principles and lessons learned from his time visiting countries worldwide.

My New Home and Me by Holly Seaver

https://www.amazon.com/My-New-Home-Holly-Seaver/dp/1968640460

Five children go to homes that are very different from their own. Their worries and fears turn into surprise and joy when they meet friendly new people, try tasty new food, and learn that the thing that makes us friends is what we have inside.

About the author
Holly Seaver is a Christian mother, grandmother, foster mom, nurse, cat mom, and grateful wife of Ralph Seaver, Christian father, grandfather, foster dad, and technical wizard. They live together on beautiful Cape Cod. She can be reached at: [email protected]. All profits from this book are donated to organizations who help foster kids.

FREDDY THE FALCON in Honor Your Father and Your Mother By: Reverend Leo

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BOOK SYPNOSIS:
Freddy the Falcon in Honor Your Father and Your Mother by Reverend Leo is a heartwarming children’s story that teaches the importance of obedience, respect, sharing, and honoring parents through biblical values. Freddy the Falcon enjoys a fun summer day playing in the sprinklers until he learns important life lessons about listening to his parents, completing responsibilities, and treating friends kindly. Guided by the Bible verse from Exodus 20:12, Freddy discovers that honoring his father and mother leads to love, wisdom, and personal growth. This inspiring story encourages young readers to embrace faith, family values, and good character in their everyday lives.

Promotion: Denied by Lt Col Joseph W. Hoffler USAF-Ret.

https://www.amazon.com/Promotion-Col-Joseph-Hoffler-USAF-Ret/dp/B0GGZ36KCG

Promotion: Denied is a powerful true account of institutional racism, betrayal, and moral courage within the United States Air Force Academy. In this deeply personal and meticulously documented narrative, Lt Col Joseph W. Hoffler, USAF (Ret.), exposes how a distinguished twenty-two-year military career was derailed by racial prejudice, unlawful investigations, and a deliberate cover-up by senior leadership.

Recruited to serve as a role model for minority cadets, Hoffler instead found himself targeted by a system meant to uphold honor, integrity, and justice. Through firsthand testimony, official records, and lived experience, this book reveals how misuse of authority, fabricated allegations, and bureaucratic silence led to the denial of promotion and forced early retirement.

More than a memoir, Promotion: Denied is a compelling civil rights narrative that challenges readers to confront uncomfortable truths about racism in elite institutions. It serves as a warning to future service members and a call for accountability, transparency, and reform within the military and beyond.

Whispers on the Swing by Keith A Hartzler

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Explore the childlike wonder of faith with heartfelt reflections that invite you to express your thoughts freely, connecting with God as a loving Father. Discover the beauty of simplicity in spiritual conversations and embrace your inner child in faith.

In Whispers on the Swing, readers are invited to engage in a playful dialogue with God, reminiscent of the beloved television show Kids Say the Darndest Things. This book transforms the profound into the playful, allowing us to voice our innermost thoughts and questions as if we were children again. Each page offers a collection of candid reflections that encourage a more authentic relationship with the divine. The author shares snippets of musings that reveal a desire to understand God more deeply, presenting Him not as a distant figure but as a caring Father eager for connection.

These reflections serve as a gentle reminder that faith can be simple and accessible. By embracing our curiosity and vulnerability, we can explore our spiritual journey with the same openness and honesty that children exhibit. The book encourages readers to let go of adult pretenses and engage in a heartfelt conversation with God, fostering a sense of wonder and discovery.

As you read through these thoughts, you may find yourself inspired to express your own feelings and questions, allowing your spirit to soar in the freedom of childlike faith. Whispers on the Swing invites you to rediscover the joy of spiritual exploration, reminding us that it’s perfectly okay to say the darndest things in our quest for understanding and connection with the divine. Embrace this journey and see where your thoughts may lead you.

Loving Black Women by Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd

https://www.amazon.com/Loving-Black-Women-Larry-Johnson-Redd/dp/B0F7VMZFCW/

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Synopsis: “Loving Black Women” is a two-fold book about realigning our awareness to improve the way brothers and sisters love each other, and about overcoming racial discrimination, political domination, and white supremacy.

It is Johnson-Redd’s strong opinion that African-Americans need to understand Africans in America, to experience nurturing and wholesome relationships despite how African-Americans have been discounted. He elaborates on what he calls the golden question…how much do these oppressive situations impact the _expression of love among people of African heritage in America? He believes that only if we face the future as a united people will we truly overcome and learn how to express pure love.

With five headers, Brothers and Sisters: Facing the Future Together, African Identity: African World, Sister Praise Poetry, Black Love: Spoken Word, and Loving Black Women, he covers a multitude of issues and assertions about life and love. After these indigenous words, Johnson-Redd takes readers on a poetic journey.

Fighting in the Street is a plea for people of color to stop killing each other. No Matter compares and relates the differences or similarities between Tribal war and civil war. Black Love Spoken Word and Loving You All Seasons, challenge brothers and sisters to ‘pull up’, and learn to embrace each other so as a people we will have a sequel.

LOVING BLACK WOMEN is a seed that will hopefully fertilize our dreams as our ancestors’ blood fertilized this land, to produce acute awareness and cogent love. This is a concise, thought-provoking read that enlightens, educates, and embraces us as a people. Reviewed by Ann of the Rawsistaz Reviewers (http: //www.rawsistaz.com/

Autobiography: Larry is a High School Diploma Teacher at Pittsburg Adult Education Center in Pittsburg, CA, who has written nine books in his lifetime, including an Autobiographical novel, poetry, and several books of different genres.

Liv’s Secrets by Janet Levine

https://www.amazon.com/Livs-Secrets-Janet-Levine-ebook/dp/B0BSZ5BBKH

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Liv’s Secrets is a passionately envisaged saga of one fictional South African Jewish family, the Weiszs, immigrants from Eastern Europe. One among a great wave of Jewish immigrants in the latter part of the 19th century, washing up mainly in America, but a wavelet of Lithuanian Jews on South Africa’s shores.

Alongside the Weisz family, other characters inhabit the novel where historical figures interact with the fictional cast amid the background of South Africa’s racial turmoil and apartheid’s authoritarian iron fist. Not least of the characters is South Africa itself. Landscape of astonishing beauty and nature’s abundant flora and fauna.

Decades pass, generations of Weisz family members play out the fully fledged saga-romance, first loves, lust, betrayal, true love, despair and elation, cruelty and evil, hope and fulfilment. In the background the chilling reality of World Wars and escalating racial tensions within South Africa that culminate in the bloody Sharpeville Massacre, March 1960, and its aftermath.

From 1960, the saga pivots on the third generation, embodied by Liv Weisz. Five years earlier, a recent divorcee, passionate and headstrong, she heeds the call to become part of the resistance to the authoritarian White apartheid government. And pays an unimaginable price with resounding consequences for many characters, as the country itself undergoes seismic, racially evoked challenges.

About the author
Janet Levine is an award-nominated author of historical fiction and narrative nonfiction, and a journalist whose work explores South African history, human rights, and the enduring power of literature. She is widely recognized for writing that blends rigorous social history with compelling storytelling, appealing to both literary fiction readers and serious nonfiction audiences.

Her latest novel, LIV’S SECRETS, nominated for the 2023 National Book Awards, is a Jewish historical fiction family saga set in South Africa between the 1880s and 1960s. The novel traces the life of Liv Weisz against the backdrop of apartheid-era South Africa, weaving a multigenerational historical narrative that brings personal identity, political change, and intimate human relationships into sharp focus. The book follows Inside Apartheid (1988), her best-selling and critically acclaimed nonfiction work that remains a key text on 20th-century South African history.

Levine is also the author of influential nonfiction, including READING MATTERS: How Literature Influences Life, a widely praised work of literary nonfiction that examines how books shape thinking, empathy, and personal growth. Her nonfiction writing is frequently cited by educators, lifelong readers, and cultural commentators.

A respected voice in literary and cultural discourse, Levine has been interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross and is a reviewer for the New York Journal of Books. Her work has reached international readers, and she is known for writing that resonates with book clubs, history enthusiasts, and intellectually curious readers.

Born in South Africa, Janet Levine later immigrated to the United States. She is currently working on a memoir. More information about her books, essays, and ongoing work can be found on her website and Wikipedia author page.