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Stand For Something or Stand For Nothing : Ebony M. Jones-Kuye

Stand For Something or Stand For Nothing : Ebony M. Jones-KuyeStand For Something or Stand For Nothing

In 2002, former NBA Clippers owner Donald Sterling acquired the Ardmore Apartments in Los Angeles where 67-year-old Kandynce Jones, a Black woman who was legally blind, right side paralyzed due to a bad spinal fusion surgery, and suffered from Sickle Cell Anemia was living peacefully in her apartment.

As the building management started to change due to the acquisition, overt cruelty towards African-American and Latino tenants began to be undeniable. News websites like ESPN.comHuffingtonpost.com, and latimes.com, later shared that when Donald Sterling had first purchased the complex, he made a mention of an odor, stating that it was “because all the blacks in the building; they smell, they’re not clean…and, it’s because of all of the Mexicans that just sit around and smoke and drink all day” After this, he said, “So, we have to get them out of here.”

This is a true story written by Ebony M. Jones-Kuye who wanted the world to know about the courageous stand that her mother took against one of the richest and prominent men in the world. Ebony carried the torch to fight Donald Sterling when her mother died in 2005.

These women fought poverty, physical challenges, racism and discrimination, tragic loss of a son and brother, and insurmountable circumstances in their lives.

Kandynce and Ebony decided to fight Donald Sterling with no money or big time Attorneys on their side, they took a strong stand against the opposition that threatened to make them feel small and invisible.

The Associated Press would later report, “the settlement obtained by the plaintiffs against Donald Sterling was one of the largest of its kind and the public benefit terms were significant and wide-ranging.” Ebony wrote this story as an example of how you can beat all odds even when they are stacked up against you, this story will give you that encouraging word to strengthen and empower you.

This story will prove that it doesn’t really matter who you are or where you come from…Only that you continue to stand and fight against injustice, racism, and cruelty!

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I’m Not Crazy… I’m Allergic! : Sherilyn Powers

I'm Not Crazy... I'm Allergic! : Sherilyn PowersI’m Not Crazy… I’m Allergic!

What would you do if you found out that after 50 years of being told you have a “chemical imbalance” and mental illness, that severe allergies were at the root of your problems?

When this happens to a skeptical Julie, she goes on a journey of self-discovery that not only identifies the everyday things she reacts to, but also for the first time in her life, gives her control of her life and her attitude.

This book explores how every day things could be related to reactions like panic attacks, depression, uncontrollable crying, brain fog, body aches and pains and many more.

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Finding Family : Sharon Vander Meer

Finding Family : Sharon Vander MeerFinding Family

Widowhood is no fun, but Lilly is okay with that. And then a phone call from a niece she hasn’t seen in over decade turns her staid and stable world upside down.

Annie arrives with three children and a dog of questionable breeding in tow. From the moment they blow into her life on a windy fall night and Krank the dog pees on her carpet, Lilly Irish begins a life-changing journey.

Always one to do the right thing for the right reasons, Lilly takes them in knowing her resources are limited. Between the dog tearing up one thing after another, and the older boy tangling with schoolyard toughs, Lilly is put to the test. Annie and her children are looking for a home.

Will they find it with Lilly?

 

 

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The Damascus Cover : Howard Kaplan

The Damascus Cover Howard KaplanThe Damascus Cover

In a last ditch effort to revive his career, washed out agent Ari Ben-Sion accepts a mission he never would have 30 years ago, to smuggle a group of Jewish children out of the Damascus ghetto. Or so he thinks.

In Damascus, a beautiful American photographer, Kim, seems to be falling in love with Ari, but she is asking too many questions. His communication equipment disappears. His contact never shows up. The operation is only hours away and everything seems awry. Desperate to succeed, Ari might risk everything. Even his life.

Feature film adaptation of The Damascus Cover starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Sir John Hurt, Olivia Thirlby, Jurgen Prochnow and Navid Negahban wrapped shooting in Casablanca and Jerusalem in Summer 2015.

LA TIMES BESTSELLER.

TRANSLATED INTO 7 LANGUAGES

“KAPLAN IS UP THERE WITH THE BEST” – CLIVE CUSSLER

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The Glothic Tales Trilogy : Derek Haines

The Glothic Tales Trilogy : Derek HainesThe Glothic Tales Trilogy

All three Glothic Tales in a very big book!

Ever since that fateful decision was made to descend from the trees, stand on two legs and eat fewer bananas, humans have looked back on the decision with regret. It was at that very moment in time, when we began feeling that we were being controlled. By who, why and how is today, just as much of a mystery as it was then.

As a species, we have lived our entire existence under constant control; by lords of the manor, governments, banks, moneylenders, faceless men in strange brotherhoods and manufactures of shiny objects that go beep and keep us amused for hours on end. The one unsolvable conundrum though, has been who controls those who control us?

The Glothic Tales attempt to answer this mystery once and for all, by detailing in three separate yet connected tales, the truth behind the truth, and the lies behind the lies. From the days of our free tree ancestors and their immediate and unfortunate enslavement, through to early beliefs of a higher authority, usually up in the sky somewhere, and then onto more organised, tyrannical and mysterious oppressors.

The insidious links between church and state, heaven and Earth, and why salmon and calendars were so important in all of this is explained in depth. There is a little travelling involved, as not all the answers were to be found on the ground. But don’t be fooled. These tales should not be viewed as works of science fiction, even though a lot of the adventures contained in them happen ‘up there’. A lot happens in a place called Rom too, which is situated firmly on the ground.

If you have always wondered why things are as they are, then get ready to discover the truth when you meet up with February, Hal and Septimity in The Glothic Tales.

Book One – February The Fifth

A young fool becomes king and quickly discovers he has some very nasty enemies. Particularly the ones who are shooting at him.

In a remarkable turn of events, a young man with a lot definitely not going for him, somehow manages to come to terms with a startling reality. He has to grow up. Being handicapped by not only having rather nasty acne and an odd eye impediment, he also has to suffer the fact that his name is February. Or at best, Feb to his very limited number of friends.

While not at all wishing to rush into this startling new reality, circumstances and a few elbow nudges from his very protective elder sister ensure that his ‘not at all wishing’ turns out to be a complete waste of time. Thrust totally and altogether unwillingly into a position of authority by early afternoon, February finds himself with a new appendage tacked on to the end his name.

The Fifth. The new and very authoritative part of his name.

Of course, as is the case in all such rapid and thrusting types of promotion to positions of power, there will be those who are not happy about it. In February’s case however, he finds that in fact these those amount to just about everyone apart from his three sisters.

Book Two – Camera Stellata – The Adventures of Hal

Millions of years before February The Fifth, Gloth was making a nice little profit from the planet Erde, with the help of some cunning Popes and the very, very secret Star Chamber.

Being disowned by his father and booted out of his family manor in England, then transported off to the distant sun drenched shores of Australia didn’t sound like such a bad punishment for Hal. All things considered. Sydney however, didn’t prove to be his cup of tea, but a quick move to Brisbane leads Hal to a wonderful new life full of friends, back yards, barbecues, beer, surfing, The Breakfast Creek Hotel and Narelle.

The idyllic life.

For a short time unfortunately, as so often happens just when you think things are beautifully perfect, someone or something comes along to throw a spanner in the works. In Hal’s case, his idyllic life gets hit my a number of airborne wrenches. Then when he thinks things are are about as bad as they can get, they of course get a whole lot worse.

Book Three – Septimity and The Blood Brotherhood

Long after HAL and February The Fifth, the Gregorian Royal Family gene pool has degenerated so badly that the next Supreme Potentate of Gloth is destined to be a boy idiot, whose father died racing him to the Palace garden. His father won the race by jumping from the Palace roof screaming, ‘I win! I win!’ just before meeting his death on a brick pathway alongside a beautiful bed of roses.

The death however, finally provides Septimity and his six brothers the chance to enact Ichor. Planned for eons, their dream is to return a pure blood Glothian to the position of Supreme Potentate and rid Gloth of all the embarrassing Erdean monkey genes that had infected their planet for almost ever.

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Cut and Cover : Kevin Hurley

Cut and Cover : Kevin HurleyCut and Cover

Terrorists protected by an assassin who uses yoga as a killing art pose an imminent threat on the NYC water supply, and only one man can stop them. To his neighbors, Major John Rexford is a retired Marine living in the Catskill Mountains of New York on disability. Even John’s girlfriend, Maggie, has no idea he’s really a CIA spook recruited in Afghanistan and assigned to kill enemies on US soil.

With exemplary skills in hand-to-hand combat and small arms weaponry, John completes a string of successful kills, eliminating terrorists and their money supply in the New York metropolitan area. With the FBI hot on his trail for these illegal assassinations, John must find a way to stop an international team of explosives experts from destroying New York City’s aqueducts, killing thousands with chlorine gas, and burning the five boroughs to the ground. During his mission, John runs afoul of a high-level underworld assassin who uses his mastery of yoga to silently strangle his victims.

When the assassin discovers John’s one liability—his girlfriend, Maggie—John will have to make a terrible choice between her life and the capture of her abductor. This spellbinding thriller begins with a terrorist plot and gradually turns into a clash between two professional killers, with the lives of both John and Maggie hanging in the balance.

In Cut and Cover, as the characters collide with deadly force on the streets of New York, the line between right and wrong blurs, long-standing loyalties are questioned, and no one is really sure, even if they succeed, what the final outcome will be.

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Inside Out – One Actors Nightmarish Journey of Incarceration : Jack Kearney

Inside Out - One Actors Nightmarish Journey of IncarcerationInside Out – One Actors Nightmarish Journey of Incarceration

As an actor, Danny Belson has played many criminal types, but as the prisoner transport bus pulls out of the LA county jail, the realization of his conviction overwhelms him.

The irony is that only six months ago he taught an acting workshop at the same institution he is now going to be incarcerated in. Danny had been chosen to take part in California’s answer to New Jersey’s highly acclaimed “Scared Straight” by actually working with the inmates of the Medium Security Federal Prison in Lompoc. In his short stay, Danny made some interesting friends as well as unforgiving enemies. There has never been a plot like this before.

INSIDE OUT introduces the reader to multitude of characters. Some are good, some are bad, and a few are just evil. This is a book of fiction based on events that happen to inmates on a daily basis. It is a fictional account of what happens to an “Everyman” that gets caught up in a system deliberately designed to treat all felons the same.

This is the first book to take an absolute non-criminal type and toss him into a situation where he knows some of the inmates already. Utilizing a groundbreaking format, Follow Danny as he goes from a care free beach volleyball loving, pool shooting, actor, who’s only worry is knowing when his next audition will come, to a convicted murderer. Written using flashbacks, with no chapters, learn what a struggling actor goes through, and how, after his incarceration, Danny’s life is turned INSIDE OUT.

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The Student Librarian : Victoria Lynn Osborne

The Student Librarian : Victoria Lynn OsborneA journey to a mystical library deep in the heart of The Red Rock Desert proves deadly. Jason Litweiler, a young wizard, is assigned a case involving the murders of several guards, with the darkly beautiful Mortyiene as his partner.

Upon arriving at The Library, he befriends a library cat who helps him find his way through the library and investigate the deaths of the guards. Despite his allergies, he learns to rely upon her knowledge of The Library and its denizens.

As the investigation unfolds, he learns that the murders are part of a deeper plan. Together they uncover a truth that influences the nature of war itself. The trio discovers that the killer has motives more sinister than they can imagine.

 

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Eyes That Could Kill : Derek Haines

Eyes That Could Kill : Derek Haines

Eyes That Could Kill

When being abducted once, is not enough.

Langley Garrett discovers Greek gods and the myths and legends that surround the lost city of Atlantis are not ancient history to those who arrange his abduction. Within hours of being drugged and restrained, he finds himself imprisoned on a remote island, with no clue as to why he was kidnapped.

The Sons of Cleito, a mysterious group whose ideology and beliefs are guided by Greek mythology, believe he is a spirit, crucial to their  future, and immediately begin his indoctrination process – starting with explicit evidence that his wife is not only a member of The Sons, but also that she is an adulteress, and has been working with their enemies to destroy The Sons of Cleito.

Yet, before he has time to understand the ugly truth about his wife, he is abducted once again during a violent commando raid on the island and is rushed aboard a submarine for questioning – about his wife, and a long forgotten letter from his dead mother. Garrett learns very quickly that he is in deep trouble, but has no clue as to why he is being accused of involvement in an international terrorist organization. Later however, after weeks of interrogation and beatings in a desert prison, all he knows with any degree of certainty, is that he will be lucky to stay alive for very much longer.

Read about Langley Garret’s abductions, mysterious misfortunes, Greek mythology, gods, deities and eternal secrets – and why history can only ever repeat, in Eyes That Could Kill, a mystery thriller.

 

Amazon Review:  “I love a story that starts with “The internal organs located in and around the belly, while serving most notably as an efficient set of composting and sewerage services, happen to possess another completely unrelated and totally mystical function…”, because… I’ve recently co-written a book (called mBraining) about how Neuroscience has uncovered that we have complex, adaptive and functional neural networks or ‘brains’ in the heart and gut regions. And guided by the neuroscience, my colleague and I have completed 2.5 years of behavioral modeling research on the core competencies of these brains. And yes, the gut brain does indeed have deeply intuitive intelligence and wisdom.

So this story resounds with incredible insights into how we as humans process our world, how our guts and inner visceral organs, communicate to us to let us know about threats and dangers. The author has captured well the sense of this inner knowing, its upsides and downsides. And this makes the story so much more engaging and philosophically insightful.

It’s a great read, keeps you guessing and involved. It’s also quite a deep read, exploring the structure of human and societal power structures, our drives for wealth, acceptance, power and belief. I enjoyed it immensely and look forward to reading more by this author.”

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Nothing : Linda Naseem

Nothing : Linda NaseemNothing

Annie lives in a cozy pink house in San Francisco and doesn’t realize that her husband is hooked on meth until her world breaks into pieces.

She has no idea how to put the pieces back together.  One day she looks up from her desk in the Main Library and there he is:  the man who will help her.

She doesn’t know it at the time.  Her first instinct is to run.

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