Biography & Autobiography
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A Flash of Life
Lani Kauten
About the Book
Lani Kauten’s wicked memoir of her brother, John, foretold an intimate chronicle of emotional ties that forged a special bond…Dreams are just dreams they say, but my nightmares weren’t just dreams.
About the Author
Lani Kauten grew up in Concord when it was a small town in Northern California, around a tight-knit family, with an open-door policy to family and friends. This later encouraged the foundation to write. Kauten is also a long-standing member of Write On and California Writers Circle of Orange County. She worked as an Administrative Assistant for almost thirty years, most of which were in the oil industry.She launched her first short story, Breaking Summer, back in 2014. Knightfall: Midnight at the Montclaire, an anthology which is a product of the collaborative efforts of the author and California Writers Circle, is also available on Amazon. She is currently wrapping up her latest book, The Briefcase, and is in the process of working on another title, called The Umbrella Jade.
She now resides with her family in Orange County, California.
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Living in the Shadow of Music Row
Stories from the Heart of Music City
Leta Langford
About the Book
To verbalize an experience is difficult. Living in the Shadow of Music Row: A Story Of Hope from the Heart of Music City, USA, Nashville, Tennessee is not different. It can be said that anyone working in a faith-based community will easily identify with the book contents and relate to each of the chapters. The chapters are broken down into short paragraphs which are written to bring clarity and understanding to the reader.The author, has worn many hats over the years, through her responsibility and understanding from being a minister’s daughter, a minister’s wife, and a minister’s mother. Her book offers to those who read the inspiring stories she relates understanding and empathy.
Stories of Living in the Heart of Music Row brings hope to the hopeless, and joy to those who despair, and light into darkness. This book offers life to the depth of death that humanity suffers, while trying so hard to enter the chosen group that is usually seen, in the glitter and light found in Music City as country music “stars”. Each star has paid a great price for his and her success in the entertainment industry. Yet, each person still seeks the light that is so desperately elusive and hard to keep. This book brings the Light that is sought, the Life that can be lived, and the joy that is found in Music City. Those reading, will feel more strength, when a word of inspiration is needed from a book that relates to everyone.
About the Author
On Wednesday, January 16th, 1929, my dad, who was pastor of a local church in the city of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, had scheduled a workday at the church. As he was getting ready to leave the house on this frozen, icy day, he picked up his hammer and headed to the door of our house, when my mom said in a tone not usually heard in her voice, “You’re not going to work at the church today, our baby is coming!”My brother who had heard the conversation exclaimed, “that’s just another egg”. He was responsible for taking care of the chickens our family relied on for breakfast and other meals.
Our family moved often, because of his ministry, and I attended eight different schools. I graduated from Isaac Litton High School on one night and married W. C. Langford, from Jackson, Tennessee, the next. I met my future husband at a District Council in Milan, Tennessee as I played the piano for my dad who was District Superintendent. I was at the ripe old age of sixteen. I travelled over the entire state of Tennessee. I committed to myself that I would never marry a preacher.
God had a different plan.
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Either Everything Was Wrong from the Git Go or Right From the Start
Debbie Lewis
About the Book
“”We never know who, what, and when our lives will be touched. What impact it will have after It’s been touched… Things that happened and didn’t happen in the past, with the things happening in my present was starting to bring sadness and grief to my heart. I believe in Love, beating the odds and letting things go to see will they return to me; but that doesn’t mean time will stand still for us to capture all our dreams. I’ve made my decisions in life and I’m all right, but it’s okay to dream and to ask “”What If “” I had one more try? Well, I did that, now I’m writing about the “”one more chance”” in life to do something else. The question is what will you do? I’m doing my “”What If “”, I’m writing. I hope you enjoy my precious gift to you from above with continuous LOVE.. There’s no greater gift without Thee.
D.L.L.””About the Author
“Greetings I’m a Mother, Actor, Writer, Director, Producer, Model and Private Duty Nurse Debbie Lewis.I started acting at John F Kennedy Junior Summer Camp in Atlanta Georgia. I was under the direction of Mr. Eddie Murphy. His summer camp provided a summer of Unforgettable moments and productive work. This is the fi rst stage I was on as a yellow brick in The Wizard Of Oz. From there I continued and participated in every Stage production I could from Elementary throughout College. As an adult, I’ve thrived in the business as an independent artist. Now it has equaled up to 30 years of active acting, writing, modeling and nursing. During my college days, I became a private duty nurse, to continue as an independent artist.
My accolades for playwrights throughout this journey until now are awards in: JB Star’s 2007 Atlanta Georgia Play Fest •Best Production •Best Writer •Best Male Lead •Best Vocalist •JB Star’s 2013 Atlanta Georgia Play Fest •Dare to Be Different
Published Author of: “Either Everything Was Wrong from the Git-Go or from the Start” `… From the Beginning II Now…’
Projects completed this year (2019) •Wins and Losses Full Movie – Director Spike Jones •The Cleanzing of Lake Lanier – Director Jibril Haynes •Hell on Earth – Director Jiwe Morrison •G Warriors – Director Jerome Enders •“Crack Baby” As Nurse Teresa Johnson Written by Jason Jenkins •“CMGPARISFASHIONWEEK” DESIGNER Norahs Khan 2018 Collection
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An Irishman by Now
An American Boy’s Tale of Passion and Discovery in Rural Ireland
R. Michael McEvilley
About the Book
““…Excellent, a rattling good story… a serious pleasure to read… (McEvilley is) a born storyteller.”–Eamonn Sweeney, literary critic, best-selling author, journalist, Cork, Ireland
Mickey Monaghan never intended to tell anyone that he was adopted. After all, his adoptive aunt and uncle had instilled in him–since age 3 when they had brought him from America to their sheep farm in Ireland—that he’d be “looked down upon” if people knew.
But at age 22, as he nears college graduation with business and political aspirations, his parish priest Father McDermott and his long-time best friend Caitlin O’Connor confront him with their own concerns for his future. Father McDermott is troubled by Mickey’s philandering lifestyle, and Caitlin by an oddly disturbing slip of his tongue about family secrets; and both Father McDermott and Caitlin can see what Mickey won’t–that he and Caitlin belong together.
Add in a death at Mickey’s hands and his reckless tryst with a married woman, and he’s ready to open up. Alas, his own secrets lead to others–and to a tale more startling than any of them had imagined.”
About the Author
R. Michael McEvilley practiced law in Cincinnati, Ohio until retirement. He now resides in Kentucky with his wife, Irish trad singer Mai. He has four children and five grandchildren. He began work on this, his first novel, after reading his newspaper horoscope suggesting he “do something creative.”
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The Rebirth
Jack Schauer
About the Book
It is Paris 2005. Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and a Catholic priest by the name of Farther Brody have survived into older age. They are debating past and current trends in philosophy as they meet in a number of coffeehouses and night clubs throughout Paris. They are also tracing historical philosophy back to its roots within the present perspective of the American Iraqi War. Camus is now a Christian Catholic, Jean-Paul Sartre, still, the committed Marxist Socialist is on the verge of a mental breakdown and ripe for religious conversion. The stage is set for a tragic ending, leaving Camus questioning his faith.About the Author
Jack Lynn Schauer graduated from the University of Jamestown, Jamestown, North Dakota in December of 1980. He has two Master’s degrees: one in the Liberal Arts as well as one in Nonprofit Management. His interests, in addition to history, politics, philosophy, and issues of social welfare focus upon the various levels of spiritual development as they relate to a postmodernist crisis of modern man in a world seemingly gone crazy. Jack Schauer is also President of Angels of the Muse which provides music to underserved populations within the Fargo-Moorhead area of North Dakota and Minnesota. -
Twice Broke But Never Broken
Richard L. Freitag
About the Book
My name has been added to the roster of a very exclusive club. This club’s roster
has names in it that may very well surprise you. The club’s membership includes
some very prominent individuals of great wealth and lofty social stature, as well as
some individuals of great historic and/or heroic significance.
Allow me to be a “name dropper” of a few my fellow club members.
Have you ever heard any of the following names? For instance; Thomas Jefferson,
Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Harry S Truman. R.H. Macy, Henry Ford,
Walt Disney or Charles Goodyear just to name a few? Any of these names “ring
a bell”? All of these guys are on the club’s roster as well as so many others you
would instantly recognize. And just think, I’m a member in good standing of this
exclusive club too.So, what exclusive club is this and
how could I become a member of
this club you ask? What exactly
are the requirements to become
eligible to belong to a club like this
with such an impressive roster?
All you need to do to belong to
this club made up of such famous
and distinguished members – to
enter your name on this exclusive,
prestigious roster is;
HIT BOTTOM – FAIL – GO
BROKE.
Are these guys a bunch of losers?
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Journey Into Self
Book II, A Philosophical Autobiography
James Joseph Blaha III
About the Book
What I’d like to do, if some of the readers get confused as to exactly what an autobiographical trilogy means, is to provide a working definition.
An autobiography is a book published by me, about me. A biography is a book published about me by someone else. An autobiographical trilogy is three books.
Book 1 “Who Am I?” was published in 2010. Book 2 “Why Am I?” is being published in 2021. Book 3 “Where Am I?” will be published sometime in the future. All three books are published under the title “Journey Into Self”. Book 1 is a Psychological Autobiography. Book 2 is a Philosophical Autobiography and Book 3 will be an Astro Physical Autobiography.
Dedicated to Socrates and all the great Philosophers, Thinkers and Doers who brought us to where we are today!About the Author
Write your own story – for seniors, high school students and all those curious readers in between a unique three volume story of one’s whole, full life.
“”Learning how to develop a philosophy of and for life will make you the reader a better person””.
THINK FOR YOUSELF!!!
“”This is the second book of an autobiographical trilogy. The first book Journey Into Self answers the authors question – Who am I really? This second book develops a philosophy of and for life to answer the question – Why am I?
The author lived his first seven years in Cicero IL (Al Capone territory) in an apartment on the second floor of his grandfather’s building – Blaha’s Hall & Tavern.
The family moved to a Bohemian Bungalow in Brookfield IL when Jim was in the second grade. He became a successful professional musician while still in high school which helped pay his tuition through college. He later found, he could have had a full scholarship to Northwestern University if he played in the Marching Band. He stayed with the twelve piece Dance Band which he helped form while in high school and college.
His paradigm in life was to get into the best University that would accept him, get hired by a top corporation with a great management development training program and if lucky enough to find the love of his life, It was accomplished.
The second paradigm of his life was to have a successful career with Westinghouse, get married to Barbara the love of his life and have a family with three children. After accomplishing this, his next paradigm was to change careers, watch his family grow and his 3 sons go to college and have grandchildren. This was also accomplished and for the last twenty years he has lived his paradigm by spending winters on Okaloosa Island in his condo in Northwest Florida and summers in Naperville IL watching his grandchildren grow and graduate from college. As he said in his first book his goal is to show that anyone with mental health challenges can be happy, healthy, wise and responsibly wealthy.
His favorite autobiography is Benjamin Franklin. -
Pee Wee Serial Killer or Homicidal Maniac
O. Grady Query
About the Book
Pee Wee Gaskins killed without hesitation and apparently without remorse over and over again. He did so as he meandered in and out of maximum security prisons where he spent more than half of his life. Sentenced to reform school at age thirteen he honed his skills in the use of extreme violence. The horror of his crimes is played out against the backdrop of one of the most rural areas of South Carolina during the tumultuous change from absolute segregation to forced integration.
In a lifestyle of absolute lawlessness Gaskins exercised a bizarre charismatic control over the women who surrounded him and ruled his little gang of miscreants with violence and murder. Sometimes driving a hearse and bragging of a private graveyard he maintained a macabre and confusing presence to those he encountered. Diminutive at five feet three inches and one hundred thirty pounds he feared no man and struck fear in most. Undaunted by arrests and imprisonment he conducted a crusade of murder
and mayhem over nearly three decades and killed more than fifty people. His motives were as varied as his methods.About the Author
GRADY QUERY is a practicing attorney in Charleston, South Carolina. He has written the story of Pee Wee Gaskins, based on his years of representation of the diminutive mass murderer. Court appointed to represent Gaskins Query spent hundreds of hours in court, visiting crime scenes, interviewing witnesses and simply listening to his client.
is book while fictional is based largely upon those experiences and the direct information gleaned from his time with Gaskins. -
Hands Up, Don’t Shoot
Ulysses Mcdowell
About the Book
Hands Up, Don’t Shoot is an account of my initial travel to Ferguson, MO in August 2014 to visit the site where Michael Brown – another unarmed Black person – was killed by a police officer. In March of 2020, Breonna Taylor was killed by police. Then in May of 2020, George Floyd was killed by police, and like the Brown killing, I felt compelled to visit his death site because his death shocked the conscience of the world and began a movement not seen since the Civil Rights era. In August of 2020, Jacob Blake was killed by police.
About the Author
Ulysses McDowell Jr. was born and still lives in Charlotte, NC. He has three siblings, and his mother still lives in Charlotte, NC. He’s a graduate of Pfeiffer University where he received a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and a master’s degree in Organizational Change and Leadership. Ulysses is a retired Master Sergeant from the U.S. Marine Corps, and he retired from the Federal Reserve Bank as an Assistant Chief, Law Enforcement. Ulysses has coauthored two books with the Charlotte African American Writers. He’s also a Guardian ad Litem volunteer. He likes fishing, golfing and listening to audio books
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Beth’s Song
William Blake Gabriel
About the Book
On Destrire, a far-flung planet at the edge of the Humanity’s galactic empire, a sleepy little colony is slowly being forgotten by its imperial guardians. Life on the colony continues, as the human colonials and their new alien neighbors find ways to build a peaceful home for all. But trouble brews on the other side of the continent, thanks to a secret, centuries-old program to form a covert prison on Destrire. There, unknown by the colonists, the empire has an established a dumping ground for political prisoners. Stripped of the basic necessities, the prisoners have evolved into a barbaric frontier civilization, eager for ways to improve their quality of life—at any cost. And now that the prisoners know the location of the thriving colony, plans are made to make its resources their own. The prisoners begin a brutal series of raids on the colony, and life will never be the same. Caught in the conflict are one church-going human family and their alien friend. In a desperate attempt to reunite with her family, one woman must turn to her alien friend for support. Equally torn by the recent exposure to the horrors that humanity willingly unleashes upon its own, the aliens must now make a choice. Will this intergalactic culture clash strain existing relationships and loyalties to the breaking point? Will the brutality of the prisoners’ attacks finally crush the faith and culture of the sparsely populated colony? And in the end, can the family survive—even in victory?
About the Author
William Gabriel was born in Los Angeles, California in 1958. He first read Asimov’s Foundation trilogy when he was seventeen and started to search for methods of applying psychodynamic thought. At twenty seven he first started writing science fiction and reached the million word mark in 1998. At thirty one he tried out for and qualified as a Special Forces soldier in 1990 and spent the next decade serving on A-Teams and was a peacekeeper in Haiti in 1996. He went on to serve in B-Team and C-Team elements. He studied International Studies at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2010 and moved back to California where he graduated from the University of California at Riverside on the Chancellor’s Honor List with a degree in Global Studies. After three decades of writing he published his first science fiction work in 2013. He now has three books in print: “Beth’s Song”, “Twenty First Century Crusader”, and “Women in Wars of the Future”.
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