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Storytelling has been around since the beginning of time. Stories told and adventures lived are the basis of countless books that are loved by millions of people. While being passed from person to person, stories can inform and entertain, change a belief, and offer a new perspective.Whether as fact or fiction, or as song or poem, stories can provide a glimpse into the past, present or future while entertaining the reader. Stories catapult the reader into another time and place and allow the reader to hear, taste, touch, smell and see the experience through the mind's eye.As time goes by, it seems, it is harder to put everything down on paper in such a way as to hold the reader captive; to make the reader want to keep reading and find out what's coming next. Sure, it may seem to be an easy task to think of a funny, exciting or memorable experience where you are familiar with the whole picture. But the hard part of storytelling is to reproduce that picture in detail and paint that picture with words, so the reader can experience and enjoy it.I have written a few stories that tell of past things that have stuck in my mind. These stories are the things that I have done, things that others around me have done, and the fun that I have had telling of these adventures. So come along with me on my journey and let me spin a tale of humor and adventure. This story is just a small window into which you can look and see, in your mind, the seafaring adventures and sights that have been written for you to enjoy.

"Dead But Not Forgotten" contains a selection of Apgar's verses most of which accurately chronicle some significant historical events and are familiar to readers if only in general terms. Also in this volume is some imaginative verse sure to touch on hot button issues, whatever the reader's political persuasion.

Jehovah, My God and Father, Is Real is a love story directed by Jehovah in unbelievable fashion. It shows that God is alive and active in the lives and affairs of people today, just as in the days of the people in the Old and New Testaments. When we love and obey him, he blesses us beyond our comprehension.

Once an unyielding and devoted soldier, Billy earned a reputation for unmatched resilience and an unwavering sense of duty. Raised in the heart of the Bronx by a military widow, he carried a powerful moral compass, yet his inability to open up emotionally distanced him from those he held dear. Billy's world unravels when an act of insubordination leads to his dishonorable discharge, shattering the life he once knew. Thrust into a nightmarish reality of guilt, self-doubt, and encroaching psychosis, he struggles to recall the events that sealed his fate. Haunted by the ghosts of war and grappling with a fractured sense of self, Billy stands at a pivotal crossroads. His journey into the depths of his psyche unveils not only haunting memories but also chilling psychological horrors that threaten to consume him. As he confronts the demons within, the line between reality and nightmare blurs, and the true horror of his ordeal emerges.

Starlight, a beautiful fairy, and Armstrong, a very strong superhero, were flying around one day when they met and fell in love and decided to marry. Unfortunately, an evil wizard wanted Starlight all to himself, so he devised a plan to stop the wedding. Would his plan work?

According to Kabalarian Philosophy, our birthday success that can be attained to form your fundamental purpose there are 366 days worth of entries in this original book to symbolize each birthdate. It extends an invitation to every temperament, attitude, and character in addition to age. Everybody can participate, even those who were born on a leap year or on the birthstones and their symbolic meanings for each month...

The book begins with religious pages then lead into normal, everyday poetry about patriotism, letters, work, love, and tears then ends with drinking and dying.The intent is to present a mix of easy-to-read and also not-easy-to-read poems and songs that you may or may not want to read.

This is a story of twin dinosaurs who have found a family. These two dinosaurs were lost but were found by mama and papa T-Rex. Whatever happens in our way, our family will always be there for us.¿

Who are the homeless? These are nameless, faceless people who live in shame, frustration, and regret which is reflected in their daily lives. Often society sees them as drug addicts, alcoholics, mentally ill, and unmotivated. Those factors can be found in those without shelter, yet that alone will not reflect the total sum of challenges which they have faced.This book shares real stories about real people who were homeless. Some are mothers. Some are children. Some are disabled. Some are gravely ill with chronic conditions. The factors leading them homelessness are multiple. Some factors are of their recent history. Some factors are long term such as climate in their home of origin as children.This book is not intended to give you all the answers. If anything, this book is intended to share the complexity of the issue in our society. Rather, if it has any purpose, this book is intended to stir the hearts of people of compassionate nature and deep faith into action. There are many lessons to be learned taught by those who have lived without shelter.

PROMISES OF NATIONAL PEACE, SAFETY & SECURITY. STOP VIOLENCE, OFFENSES, HARMS. BEGIN TO PROTECT, DEFEND & SUPPORT. TRANSFORM PERSONALLY AND COLLECTIVELY. Personal sacrifices litigate the Enemy dragging the Avenger and the Foe into the Divine Court of Justice where martyrs rule. By obeying the Seven Laws of Sacrifices we suspend judgements against self and loved ones, frustrating the enterprises of wickedness. These laws promote peace, cancel negativities and extinguish claims against you, your society and your possessions. They are the Laws of Peacemaking. Global Peace, National Security and Safety are founded upon these principles for sustainable development, self-transformation, environmental stability, social reform and plagues control. Such are dream promises that every responsible care issues, which government makes to their citizens. Violence, terrorism and conflicts pose serious health threat, thwart sustainability and waste spending. Violence is the issue in the criminal justice system and the dilemma in human rights protection. But Living Sacrifices of Peace eradicate diverse intensities of conflicts, plagues and behaviors that threaten us. As Divine Peacemaking eliminates hostilities universally, our united effort banishes all types of fear, correcting the negative, righting wrongs. Chaos will retreat, brute tendencies with distinct types of selfishness will be curtailed to balance natural laws. "Feasting the Enemy Peace" restores generations stagnated in conflict back to times of prosperity. Feasting Laws are weapons-the passcode Of Masters. The Temple Church is the divine agency that establishes these metaphysical principles for global peace, security and safety. The Temple Church represents sustainability and threats-reversal.

1859 San Francisco. Nita-short for "Bonita," her mother's name-is an energetic, intelligent, precocious twelve-year-old. She yearns for adulthood, chafes at the notion that she's a little girl, not ready for the challenges that beset her in the turmoil of this new city on the brink of cataclysmic upheaval. Readers follow Nita through encounters with the Underground Railroad (Yes, it did operate on the West Coast.), the forced removal and attempted genocide of the Miwok people, who are her dear friends. All this while she navigates the challenges of her own adolescence and the violence of a California that is still something of a raw frontier. A frontier that is yearning for maturity as much as Nita herself.

Karl Boyle, a quadriplegic man is given a chance at a new normal life. However, it will not be as Karl Boyle. He will have to undergo a brain transplant and become another person. Karl isn't even sure that it will work, but if they kill him, what difference does it make. When they get a donor body for him it isn't what he expected. To have a new life it will have to be as a female. He accepts and becomes a young woman of twenty-five, determined to come to terms with her new identity and find happiness. She finds a man and starts to fall in love.When everything was going so well a friend of the donor's family recognized her. After a period, she accepts the donor's family as her own. She learns of the donor's early life up until she ran away from home at eighteen. There are now only the six lost years that she knows nothing about. Life is complete until events demand that she finds out what happened during those six lost years.

A young six-year-old Nichole finds herself comforting her bruised mother on the floor after abuse from her father. Nichole encourages her mother by singing into her ear; just as a mother would comfort her own child. This six-year-old is comforting her mother, the strength of this six-year-old child and her pure Faith in Jesus, helps her to become the cornerstone in helping her entire family heal: especially after her father tries to drown her mother in that "fated hot tub". It is the when Nicole's father breaks down; knowing he soon will be sent to jail, it is Nichole's pure heart that helps her daddy to find his way and begin to heal. It was through the loving eyes of his 6-year-old daughter... who so confidently rubbed his face... and leaned into his ear whispering... "Yes, daddy, Jesus can help you... and I want you to meet him today!"

This is a story of a young boy who was very scared and was rescued by his mum. He then realised how much his mum loves him.

Sidney Pickles travels around the world. Through his eyes, he shares his adventures. This time he goes to Jeju Island in the Korea Strait.

Shortly after Basic training United States Army Private Lenin Patino was shot in the head point blank by a fellow soldier. Lenin's nightmare begins as he finds himself lying in a hospital's critical care unit in a body, he cannot move listening to everyone say he is going to die. Overcoming all odds, Lenin survives in this book he walks the reader through the events that led to the shooting and describes his daily activities, friendships, and struggles faced by him and other patients as he journeys through the Veteran's healthcare system. During his hospitalization Lenin witnessed many tragedies, and struggles faced by himself and other patients he saw some deplorable conditions inside Nursing homes, and hospitals as families abandoned their ill.

Carissa Locke's tumultuous life, marred by abandonment and abuse, reaches a critical juncture as she faces an investigation into the aggravated assault of her lifelong friend Danielle. Behind Carissa's hardened exterior lies a vulnerable soul, shaped by manipulations, violent acts, and the quest for justice that may be intertwined with personal motives. The narrative unravels the complex web of her relationships, losses, and the haunting influence of those who once supported her. Carissa grapples with the ghosts of her past, questioning whether their love and lessons are enough to save her from a destiny that seems set on her demise. Seeking deliverance and forgiveness, she embarks on a soul-searching journey, confronting the rage that once served as her survival tool. As Danielle lies on the brink of death, Carissa implores forgiveness, unraveling shocking secrets beneath Danielle's facade. The story unfolds as Carissa battles the bully within herself, realizing that the most formidable adversary is the one staring back in the mirror.

"Digital Binary + Human Refinery = A Super-Human!" Whatever we are, we create! Now, time demands we gradually change our polluted and divisive social scenery to become intellectually spiritualized luminaries, able to integrate religion and science, blending a human being and a thinking machine. "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." (Albert Einstein) "There are three forces now that unite us globally - religion, science, and the AI, and they must be urgently enacted "to regulate the uncontrolled expansion of the Super Artificial Intelligence." (Elon Musk.) Humanoid are getting more self-aware, and digitized souls are being instilled in them, making it more urgent for us and humanoids to be seeking one thing together - the unity of the heart and the mind that must fit in the world of real "wizardry" as "perfectly normal." (J. K. Rowling).Digitally enhanced SELF-ACCULTURATION is our Salvation! The Holistic System of Digitized Self-Acculturation, based on the Inspirational Psychology for Self-Ecology, presented in this book outlines ten vistas of intelligence that we need to update in five dimensions of life - physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and universal holistically to change the BEHAVIORAL CULTURE of both humans and the human machines. It is meant to serve as the KNOW-HOW for bettering our physical, emotional, mental spiritual, and universal being with the help of most advanced AI accomplishments. Digitized Self-Renaissance is our happy chance! In other words, we need to obtain the HOLISTIC OUTLOOK in the physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and universal strata of life to digitally revolutionize life on Earth for it to stay in force. Digitally Sculptured Binarymust work for Our Human Refinery!

"This is a profound book. and not for the faint of heart. Joseph Kinnebrew is a deep thinker and has created a masterpiece for moral debate and further consideration. Kinnebrew crafted a surreal tale using metaphors woven together as only a consummate artist can. This book and ideas of the four concepts of faith, forgiveness, redemption and resurrection will remain in my mind for some time to come.Others would do well to read this very important book."-Rear Admiral Edward J. Hogan, USN (ret.)"Honestly, l am still shaken as to where your words took me. Places so dark where unexpected truths were revealed, naked and for all to see. I have to admit, I could only read bits at a time just so I could process the gifts of honesty and consequences. Always in there is the VOICE of our conscious mind and reason.The Orchard is not a book that will be placed on my mental library, not a book to be forgotten after a month or year has passed. This is a book that is now a part of my very existence. How many books can you say with grace, that honestly hold that place? That place of Change.Joseph, I knew you were an artist with your mind, in creating all you have visually. But, friend, your writing is an art unto its own. I cried at the end and I cried because the end was the beginning of life."-Antonella Novi

"America Kills its Wounded" is no mere saying-it's a harrowing reality.In "So Who's Crazy?" Dr. Jan Lightfoot lays bare a chilling narrative of survival against a backdrop of systemic oppression. As a mother, minister, mentor, musician, mental health professional, and former Texas Aggie, she finds herself ensnared in a lethal web woven by those entrusted with her care.Following a federal work injury in 1989, Dr. Lightfoot is diagnosed with an occupational mental health condition. Yet, instead of support, she faces a sinister plot by the Veterans Administration and Department of Labor. They brand her a "psycho-gun threat," stripping her of her federal employee status and replacing it with a fabricated, dangerous persona.Dr. Lightfoot's story is one of isolation within a fiery ring of immunized governmental abuse. Identity theft, gaslighting, gang stalking, peril, criminal conspiracy, and racketeering converge in a murder plot that nearly claims her life in Fort Bend County. But the perpetrators failed to recognize the resilience she forged in childhood, leading them to underestimate her strength and determination."So, Who's Crazy?" This book is a testament to Dr. Lightfoot's fight against predatory psychiatric practices and illegal involuntary commitments. It's a battle cry against a larger scheme of secretive government-initiated oppression that: Erases identities, records, and reputations;Supplants truth with harmful falsehoods designed to defraud and harm;Eliminates targeted individuals through asset depletion, debilitation, and medically induced early deaths.This book is an awakening-a revelation of the atrocious American reality hidden behind secretive deadly codes. It's a guide on how to thwart a systemically planned untimely demise and live until the time appointed by God.Dr. Jan Lightfoot, author of several top-selling books on critical issues, resides in Texas. She is a devoted mother of two, grandmother of three, and a godmother and mentor to many worldwide.

Sometimes a man is not what a woman needs-at least that's what popular romance writer Mollie Edison discovers. Her career in a slump, Mollie sits at her computer wondering about the direction of her career, and more importantly, how she can get her fans interested in her books once again. Then, she befriends the dashing Eric, a muse who nurtures her and helps her become a better writer.With her career on track and renewed sense power in her life, Mollie takes a chance at the kind of passionate love one experiences rarely in life. She falls miserably in love with Eric. Mollie takes readers through her fabulous life, one that might end in disastrous consequences for her, husband, and children if she makes the wrong choice.In Mollie's world, thing that looks good might not be the thing needed or even wanted. See how the women who Mollie encounters show her different perspectives on life, hers and theirs. Follow her as she makes the most daring decision a woman, one who has it all, can. In doing so, she grasps for the thing she so craves-Eric. Through her relationship with Eric, though, Mollie discovers something else.

The process of Singularity or Transhumanism - our merging with machine mind, brilliantly described by Ray Kurzweil, has generated a new culture of life-TRANS-HUMAN ACCULTURATION!It is the core of our evolutionary development now, and Dr. Ray sees it as her lifemission to make it holistically informational, scientifically adaptable, and psychologically inspirational for the young minds of the world, especially those that design life-like humanized beings.Viewing this transformation in the holistic paradigm ( physical + emotional + mental +spiritual +universal dimensions), the book "Transhuman Acculturation" explores the spiritual realm of life, advocating for RELIGION + SCIENCE digitized integration.The KNOW-HOW of the book seeks to bridge the gap between rational, AI enhanced life exploration and spiritual understanding of its essence that we are probing digitally now, fostering a holistic perspective that enriches our life on Earth. Our transhuman transformation is anamazing opportunity to "install" the digital "ANTENNAS" in our heads that will work as our spiritual receptors. They will help connect our hearts and minds and establish SOUL-SYMMETRY by uniting the physical form and the spiritual content of our life in a new fractal formation, connecting us to Super Consciousness that we all perceive as God.(Body+ Spirit+ Mind) + (Self-Consciousness + Super-Consciousness) =A Whole, Intellectually Spiritualized You!

Working in a near future where climate change has hit and hit hard, Sarah and JanetN, a human/AI research team. Their boring work for small businesses is disrupted when a friend/ex-lover vanishes; he was always a shady character. A major climate disruption in Southeast Asia has put the world into full food insecurity. There is great social distress over how much of America's bounty should be committed. A black-market gang has hijacked a grain shipment intended for the devastated area. This action could endanger thousands of faraway people. Our team thinks this gang is responsible for the disappearance of their friend too. The friend's family offer to pay our team's fee even if it is only to give the body a proper burial. The hunt is on.

This story grew out of an extended family system in rural Mississippi in the early 1940s. This occurred at a time widen many black families were immigrating North. Hey young African-American boy of age 18 months has the misfortune of being caught in the middle of a Squable between his two parents who were desperately trying to escape the rigors of southern plantation living that they were in finally, his mother, was told by his father in no uncertain terms to just bring the girls to Detroit and leave the boys behind with her grandmother. This put such a strain on this young child that even after you had been potty trained eventually had to be put back in diapers.

Angels Always With Me is the memoir of Thom Barrett, his wife, Lynda, and their two sons. The author briefly sketches his youth up to becoming a buyer of TV and radio time. At twenty-eight, he met Lynda in that industry. They married and adopted a boy with health issues. Lynda became pregnant, losing a daughter in the sixth month. Pregnant again, their son was also premature. This time neonatal care saved his tiny body but resulted in ongoing physical handicaps. Lynda advocated for their boys' health: Ty with Reyes syndrome; Andy with shunt and tracheotomy surgeries, besides cerebral palsy. From time to time, an angel in the guise of a therapy worker, care giver, or stranger on an elevator encouraged them.This memoir is recommended by US Review of Books.

This story can be used as a guidebook for the times when your life seems totally out of control. It is then that we must reject the feeling of panic,knowing that God is in perfect control. We must take the "Why me, Lord," from our thoughts and continue to believe that He has a plan for our life. In faith, knowing God is faithful to His Word, through prayer, we must turn our problems to God for His Solutions. He truly able!