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Truth Revealed
Journey Seeking Truth
John Perry
About the Book
RECEIVING ANSWERS FROM HEAVEN TO OUR QUESTIONS. Prayer, pondering and reading can be a powerful force in our lives. In this enlightening and inspiring book that John E Perry penned in just fourteen hours are precious jewels if learned and applied will jettison one to a new perspective on life.
The author studied, read and pondered the scriptures and many other books for decades, memorizing the new testament, before he received inspiration to pen this book. He learned there are layers of precious knowledge in the scriptures. One can read the same verses and add wonderful insights each time it is read. Line upon line precept upon precept, until a fullness is received.
In this little book are precious jewels of correct principles that can jettison one to a new height by using and applying them. These jewels are truly life changing if they are discovered, used and applied. They can bring peace, joy and happiness to all who embrace them.
The author believes the purpose of life is to learn and apply these truths and that will eventually illuminate ones soul to eventually receive a fullness of Joy! The joy the author is writing about can only come from knowing, who you are, where you come from, why you are here in mortality and where you will spend eternity. This can only happen by learning and applying righteous principles. The glory of God is intelligence, without it one cannot receive a fullness of Joy.
About the Author
John E Perry had been blessed with a very special friend, partner, wife for 61 years. They have six
sons, 15 grandchildren, 25 great grand children. John loves family and church actives and he also
enjoys developing real estate. He believes learning and properly applying TRUTH is one’s major
purpose in life. The truth will set one free. John’s ability to laser focus on finding and properly applying
truth has and does give him GREAT JOY, even in difficult times. John knows that going “through
difficult times” is a great learning experience. He desires all to receive this joy he has written about.
For this reason was TRUTH REVEALED written.
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To My Best Girl
Courage, Honor, and Love in the Civil War: The Inspiring Life Stories of Rufus Dawes and Mary Gates
Steve Magnusen
About the Book
Behind all descriptions of historical events are the stories of real people. This is the extraordinary true story of a citizen soldier and the girl he loves, as both become embroiled in the cauldron of our nation’s Civil War.
Rufus R Dawes will emerge from a troubled family background to become an officer in a famous unit thrust into horrific battles in the eastern theater. But before those stirring war scenes, there is the early life of a proud and intelligent descendant of leading Revolutionary War figures, ancestors who helped form the United States, the Northwest Territory, and the state of Ohio.
Rufus will meet beautiful and vibrant Mary Beman Gates and fall in love. But there is separation due to distance and social standing, apparently little reciprocal feeling, and competition by others better situated than he. Can it ever become more than infatuation? The outbreak of war intervenes. Faced with the doubt of his own survival, is it possible to fulfill any dream of a life with Mary?
Mary is a girl with a loving family who becomes a young woman while witnessing many acquaintances and suitors, along with an only brother, march off to war. Tragic battle losses soon mount. Will she—should she—become involved with a soldier whose life is in daily jeopardy far away?
The drama unfolds upon Rufus and Mary, and upon family members and soldiers who experience their own battles, trying to survive while patriotically performing their duty to the nation. Based on many letters and diary entries, most never published, this is a timeless story of love and courage.
About the Author
Steve Magnusen enjoyed a nationally recognized engineering career in north suburban Chicago after receiving his degree from Purdue University. He has led several professional and non-profit organizations, and served fifteen years as an infantry and armor officer in the US Army Reserve.
Steve’s particular interest in the Civil War’s elite “Iron Brigade” led him to diligently research the life of Rufus R. Dawes, the intrepid young commander of the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. Extensive original documentation not only revealed extraordinary battlefield heroism, but also an incredible wartime romance involving delightful Mary Beman Gates of historic Marietta, Ohio. Steve was inspired to bring their captivating personal saga to life in To My Best Girl.
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Eastside Crazy
Kwanna Bradley
About the Book
Surviving to see another day was always the mission. Before she was able to hit puberty, Kwanna found herself making adult decisions. The pressure from the streets was on. While the pot of dysfunction was broiling at home. There was nothing else left for her to do but pack her bags and take that walk down the boulevard of broken dreams. After adopting the streets as her family she went on to become a notorious gang member who was well known all across the city. In the streets it was an accomplishment to be a female who was respected.
Remaining loyal to the brotherhood, putting in the work to show and prove herself, Kwanna and the children she came up with were literally products of chaos, genocide, and self-destruction. They were a generation that was fearless, had no conscious, no direction and held no punches. The only thing they had was each other and that was enough.
After all the countless funerals and multiple trips to jail. Kwanna begins to reap all the seeds she had sown which had grasped her attention to change. Most children grow up preparing for which prominent university they plan to attend. That was not the case for Kwanna and majority of her peers. This is memoir sheds light on the children who were raised in urban communities in the early 90’s. Children who were preyed upon, exploited and led astray from becoming the best versions of themselves.
About the Author
Kwanna Bradley is a native of Chicago’s southeast side where she was born and raised. She made her debut as an author with the release of her first memoir, “Death of an Ego” which outlined the hardships and struggles she had to face on her journey in order for her to become who she was destined to be. Eastside Crazy is introduced as the sophomore literature that is connected to a 4-part memoir series based on her life. She triumphantly shares her growing pains as she continues to embark on her journey to the road of redemption.
Eastside Crazy takes the readers back to the beginning of her journey by defining how inner city children respond to their environments. Kwanna uses the experiences she encountered as a gang-member, a drug dealer along with a host of other criminal behaviors to reflect and touch basis on topics such as negative brain patterns, trauma and systematic conditioning. These subjects and more are all covered in the reading to invite the reader to mentally illustrate and stimulate a new programming of the mind.
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Wheel Dog Cheechako
John Spitzberg
About the Book
JOHN SPITZBERG and his five dogs, Chucky Cheese, Gracie Girl, Reba III, Jjay and Wu Wu live in Willow, Alaska, the home of the start of the Iditarod Dog Race on the first Sunday of March each year- weather permitting. Wheel Dog Cheechako is John’s memoir of how a kid from Washington D.C. wended his way to the Last Frontier and spent 30 plus years going from Native villages to the Mat-Su Borough where he presently is spending his senior years. He is 81 years old.
About the Author
John is the parent of two sons, Jeffrey and Jerry, a wonderful daughter-in-law, Royanne and three grandchildren, Jeremy, Jordan and Emily. He was in the US Army and Air Force, taught school, practiced social work and has written three books, Doing it the Hard Way, Tsunami, No Good and Kelly
House.
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Thiana
AVDELA-A Macedonian Village in the Northwestern Greece-Thiana’s Native Land
Rea-Silvia Costin
About the Book
Thiana is the first book in a trilogy that spans the lives of three generations of strong women, the author’s grandmother Calliope, the author’s mother Thiana, and the author herself.
Thiana depicts Calliope’s and Thiana’s struggles with life’s adversities, and Thiana’s courage and determination in forging a better life for herself and her family.
Thiana, the book’s heroine, grows through life experiences, her character steels with every adversity life throws in her path.
The narrative begins around 1920 in a remote mountain village in the northwestern Greece called Avdela, and moves to Salonika and Romania, encompassing the events up to, during, and after Word War II, including the closing of the Iron Curtain.
The book depicts picturesque settings in the northwestern Greece and the customs and language of the Macedonian people.
About the Author
The need to write came into my life unexpectedly and with such force that it left me no choice but to follow.
I published my first book Short Stories: The Story of a Refugee with Vantage Press in 1997. In 2003, I published the first book of a trilogy, Thiana-AVDELA-A Macedonian Village in the Northwestern Greece: Thiana’s Native Land, and in 2004 I published the second volume of the trilogy ATHENS with iUniverse. American Publishing Company has published the third book of the trilogy America-The Final Destination on February 2006.
My poetry is published in The Best Poems and Poets of 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2005, The Theatre of the Mind, and The Celebrations of Honors as well as Who’s Who in Poetry 2004 and 2005, editions by the International Library of Poetry. In May 2002, I obtained my Laureate Certificate from the International Library of Poets. I am the recipient of the Editor’s Choice Award, 2002, 2003, 2005, from the poetry.com site as well as the President’s Award for Excellence in Literature from the National Authors Registry.
In January 2019, I was presented with the “Albert Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award” by Marquis Who’s Who for my work as a professional engineer and author.
My first poetry book Pearls on a String was published by Publish America on December 18, 2006, and the second volume Pearls on a String: Love songs-Volume II was published by Publish America on June 29, 2009.
Publish America has also published my book Different Tales: A Children’s Book in 2010.
I was born in Greece and raised in Romania. I am a Professional Engineer.
What does poetry mean to me?
It’s a way to express deep feelings, to share with others my philosophy and understanding of life, and to give testimony of my faith in God.
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Thanks Be To God: A Minister’s Memoir
Larry LaPierre
About the Book
The author is a retired United Methodist minister and a former Department of Veterans Affairs Chief Chaplain. He writes about a series of people to whom he owes a debt of gratitude for the difference that they made in his life. When asked how he got to be a minister after working in laboratories for eighteen years, he responds, “It’s a long story but the short version of it is that I had a twenty-one year argument with God.” Most people pause and then say, “And God won.” Yes, God won! The book describes how God worked through many people to equip him to face changes in denomination, career path and education. The book originates with a desire to thank the people who helped him to make the changes that God called him to make. This, in turn, began with a decision by the United Methodist Church conference where he holds membership to limit retiring pastors to no more than a three minute talk at their retirement ceremony. He decided that there were far too many people to thank to even begin to try in a three minute speech. This book is the result of his desire to thank those who helped him as he struggled to become the person God needed him to be at each stage in his life.
About the Author
The author is a retired United Methodist minister who pastored a number of small churches in northern New England. He was also a chaplain at the Veterans Hospital in Vermont for twelve years. He is board certified as a chaplain (retired) by the Association of Professional Chaplains. He had also been board certified as a chaplain by the National Association of VA Chaplains. Chaplain LaPierre holds an undergraduate degree in chemistry, master’s degrees in counseling and in divinity as well as a Doctor of Ministry degree. He is the author of over sixty articles and essays. He continues to lead worship and preach for pastors who are on away. He also continues to write articles concerning pastoral care and spirituality. He lives with his wife of forty three years in San Jose, CA.
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Looking Back Through The Crack
David King
About the Author
David L. King, a new author born and raised in San Francisco, California; in the bay area. Brings us the first installment of an amazing true to life coming of age story with a unique and hard hitting writing style; that will keep readers turning page after page. Today, as he looks back, he is proud and thankful that from a troubled child he becomes a man, a dope fiend, a thousandnaire and marries a queen. God is good.
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