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This book is showing readers how a young African American man deals with real life situations. There are examples of betrayal, success, optimism, love and heartache in this book. He is displaying how to deal with everyday problems and struggles versus going the opposite route and becoming a statistic. He shares with readers his most intimate thoughts and his most diminishing life lessons.

These writings were my way of expressing myself in my different situations. As you can see by the different writings, my mood goes from dark to light. As I grew older, my writings grew with me. I tried to be a role model to my peers and my family. My writings are an expression of my state of mind...

During the politically and socially charged years of the late 1960s and early 1970s, two seemingly unrelated lives echo and overlap across time and circumstance. The narratives finally come together in a conclusion affirming the spiritual connections that can lie just below the surface of day-to-day existence. A USA Book News 2007 Best Books Award Finalist.

Where are the voices of vision and reason as we gaze timidly, even somewhat fearfully, into this new millennium? Where, the impossible dreamers we knew? The likes of Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead, Albert Schweitzer, Aldous Huxley, Isaac Asimov? All gone now. Carl Sagan left us, ever so...

[Barbara] did not fi t the classic model of an immigrant who becomes acquainted with America through school or work, learns English, falls in love with and adopts Americas values, and is helped along in many cases by an American spouse. First of all, I was not an American. We became American together;...

A Bygone Yesterday is a remembrance written by a grandson of Samuel and Louise Freund, detailing their roots in 19th century Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) and their shoots in the New World, from New York Citys Yorkville neighborhood to Chicago and Florida. It is the history of one couple that stepped...

They Stole Our Chocolate Factory documents Hans Schrameks memories from his prosperous childhood, the Holocaust, and his efforts to receive compensation for his familys business. This book recounts a true story about a little boy who enjoyed Sunday rides in the familys limousine with a chauffeur,...

Jheri Hardaway (Ms.Jheri) was born in Durham, North Carolina in 1989 and since then has held no punches when it comes to speaking her opinion on world issues. She is a student of life a graduate of North Carolina A&T State University and Kingston University London. Her literary talents carefully...

Pizzazz! is a graphic nonfiction self-help bio by Bob Pauley. Its a color-filled, adventure-packed motivational book that outlines tips for success from flipping houses to writing hit songs. Bob describes his journey from country bumpkin to becoming a prestigious member of the Albert Einstein Fellowship...

The Briefcase is based on facts as the author recalls them. The Author has taken the literary license to embellish some of the facts and change the names of people and companies. This novel is a story about a young man growing up and facing some of the challenges faced in business and in life.....and what a ride it's been!

As a refugee from Nazi Germany, Siegmund Spiegel came to the United States in 1938. Shortly before the United States declared war on Germany, he volunteered for the Army to help defeat his homeland which destroyed the lives of his family and so many others. He spent three years overseas, serving in...

Another Time, Another Place ... Once, in a dream I saw my mother and my father waltzing. She wore a long pink gown with a lace overskirt of white apple blossoms. She was smiling and my father wore a dark green tunic like a Prussian prince: red and gold braid adorned his collar. The cuffs of...

Synopsis American Wars: Good, Bad, and Ugly This work contains an unusual view of American wars that may stimulate new thoughts of the price we have paid and the gains we have made in the folly of our wars. Disagreements are bound to arise, but no one will walk away from this book having been bored...

The Life and Times of Dahn Batchelor My father returned to Canada in the early spring of 1944 and took a train across Canada, and when his train stopped at Quesnel, a mere twenty-six miles from Wells, he changed his mind and got on a train heading south toward Vancouver, with the intention of returning...