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SUBLIMINAL RACISM
Essays

Arthur J. Graham
Amen-Ra Theological Seminary Press


"After burying all obnoxious ciphers described in these essays on ... Phillis Wheatley, Jupitar Hammon, George Moses Horton, Nat Turner, David Walker, and Freedom's Journal ... the next battle is for reparations - worldwide.
Brace Yourself!

 


Thoughts from Within
A Poetry Journal

by Carol Giacomucci
February 2005
Wheatmark Publishing

Each poem is followed by a page of blank lines, giving you a chance to respond to the poet's words or to simply record your own musings. If you would like to explore your creative side but don't know how, this little book will help get you started.
More at:
www.carolgiacomucci.com


TYRANNY'S OUTPOST
co-author R.R.Draube
Mystic Publishers 2005
ISBN  0-9727840-0-4  Paperback
ISBN 1-50607-494-9 Audio CD

The year is 2368. A gang of privateers led by Amanda Callin is routinely savaging the fleets of interstellar cargo ships that carry freight between Earth's twelve colonies.  The raiders attack without mercy, leaving death and destruction in their wake as they disappear back into uncharted space. The best efforts of the authorities to track down the marauders and bring them to justice have been ineffective. In this environment, Captain Elsie Danion pilots the cargo vessel Capricorn on a mission to the new colony of Mithras. She, and her co-pilot Russ carry only one passenger Alex Ballard. Alex, the foremost computer expert in the colonies, would make a valuable prize for these privateers.
 

SHE, Tales of Womyn, a collection of short stories by
Maureen Jones-Ryan
published by Fractal Edge Press

short stories about the lives of womyn by a seasoned psychologist and insightful writer. If you are not moved by these stories of transitions and troubled times in the lives of womyn, call your therapist for an emergency session.
In the field of psychology, the bar for literary achievement was set at a nearly super-human
level by the example of one of the earliest pioneers. Maureen Jones-Ryan mines twenty-five years of therapeutic engagement with womyn and men and extracts powerful stories centered on a wide variety of themes encountered in the complex and troubled lives of womyn searching for identities, running along the precarious edge between inner reality and socially dictated roles, suffering and coping with the varieties of abuse visited on womyn with frightening frequency. She also shows how strong the influence of spirituality can be in the development of positive and negative outcomes for her characters. The absolute openness of her voice brings her readers into these stories with such sure and delicate comfort that readers respond, without embarrassment, as strongly as they feel their own lives.

Angela Hutchinson Hammer, Arizona Pioneer Newspaperwoman

Betty E. Hammer Joy

University of Arizona Press - ISBN 0-8165-2357-6 Paperback $14.36 - September 2005
"The story of pioneer newspaperwoman Angela Hutchinson Hammer, based on her own lively memoir, is rich in little-known aspects of frontier life, including insights into its dark corners: the cruel practical jokes to which even girls were subjected, religious intolerance, and lynching. This engaging biography expands the stereotypical portraits of women in the West at the turn of the last century." - Kristie Miller, author of Isabella Greenway: An Enterprising Woman.

Goodbye, Walter The Inspiring Story of a Terminal Cancer Patient by: RuthAnn Hogue

Mapletree Publishing
ISBN: 0972807128

Terminal cancer patient Walter Schifter experiences a spiritual awakening as he approaches the end of his life. Reporter RuthAnn Hogue, a 33-year-old mother of five barely out of journalism school, documented his life and impending death. Nearing her final date in divorce court, she had a best friend to see her through the turmoil, Jason, a talented television news producer working for the top-rated local morning show, more than 12 years her junior. He could be a romantic prospect, but they belonged to different faiths. Through her acquaintance with Walter, RuthAnn has a spiritual awakening of her own. Join them on this journey to the edge of life in this remarkable and inspiring story. More at www.goodbye-walter.com

DESPERATE JOURNEYS  a collection of stories, including one from Betty Webb

Desert Deceit

To escape and unwind, Scottsdale private eye Lena Jones joins a dude ranch cattle drive through Arizona's most rugged and remote area. But the brutal murder of a media magnate turns the 120-mile trip into a trail full of unforeseen danger.


Soul Searcher
The Reckoning

by Stephen S. Arend
PublishAmerica

One man strives to find his past by answering to the strange memories and images which have plagued him for the past ten years. In search of who he really is... and was, Rork find ties to a long forgotten race, a secret protector, and a boisterous islander with pride as large as the open canyon country.
Torn between what he must do for himself and what he can do for others, he learns of friendship and caring, and that is hard for a man with only half a soul. But the past cannot be changed and for some, reality may prove too much to accept. 


Membranes
Raul Roqué
Authorhouse
ISBN  1-4208-7568-x

When is a photograph more than just a snapshot? What if it's a portal into another reality and you are free to travel between infinite numbers of worlds? Ron Matalavage teaches art and visual perception at a prestigious university. But behind his rather benign professorial facade hides a unique ability - he can pierce the psychological membrane of drawings and photographs.  Ron can travel through these membranes and live in virtual worlds beyond!
 


Good-bye and
Good Riddance

Valerie Hagenbush
iUniverse 2005
Paperback: 274 pages
Retail Price: $17.95

Magalee's Diamonds and Other Gems
Children's stories by
Mali Berger
XLibris ISBN 1-4134-6486-6

This books contains stories that will grow with the child and be of special enjoyment to a family. Kiki's Sunflower will delight the youngest, Ophi, the Snake will appeal to the older child. Magalee's Diamonds will enchant the growing child who imagines his or her own world.

OVER TIME
Brian Hill & Dee Powers

Time is running out for Dan to save the business that took his family sixty years to build. Kelly's lifework crumbles around her. Mike thinks he'll always be the guy watching the world from the sidelines. Mark dies just when his dream of playing professional football seemed within reach.
Then a letter lost for twenty years arrives and sends the game of life into overtime. It all comes down to a desperate financial gamble, a football game for the ages, and the emotional reunion of four friends who could not be separated by time, distance or even death. All this "team" needed was a little more time than reality normally grants us.

The Beiderbecke Adventure by Mary Frances Richards

$20.00  -  ISBN 0-9753652-1-5 For more information, call 480-946-6992

This sequel to "A River to Hide By" is also an adventure story featuring the same characters.

THE PAWN  by Nancy Minnis Damato

ISBN 1-59088-602-X.
from  Wings E-press - August 2005

A tale of greed, deception, betrayal, revenge

In 1879 Illinois, a strict Dutch Apostolic society prohibits the life Josefina Taylor desires.  Her choices to escape include an acceptable marriage arranged by her father, elopement with the handsome but poor adventurer Jacob Broderick whom she loves, or a paper contract with Francois ducLaFevere, a wealthy Frenchman.  Her decision leads her into a life of hardship and desperation and establishes her as a pawn in a plot to destroy everything she values. 

www.nancydamato.com

 

The Booneville Pirates D. Ted Klingman

XLibris ISBN 1-4134-6231-7

The locals had named the two lads riding rafts down the Missouri River the Booneville Pirates. Later in life, Doctor Gunner Kidd, who never met a lady he didn't like, disappears at sea in his aging yacht. Sailor Robert, ex CIA pilot, part owner of an aerial photograph service and cyberterrorist fighter, swears to solve the mystery of the lost yacht. This fast-paced adventure takes him to the jungles of Honduras, the sandy beaches of Belize and the enchanting city of New Orleans. On his quest he encounters smugglers and bloody pirates, finds his life in constant jeopardy, and discovers that true friends are not always loyal. Through intrigue, misfortune, and romance with beautiful ladies, he experiences deception and finds and loses true love. More at: daleklingman.tripod.com


Counting 1-10 in
American Sign Language
Children's book
Joan and Allen Silvey
Silvey Book Publishing

Before children begin to speak, they use their hands to communicate.  By associating words, pictures and signs, they learn to develop better communication skills that enable them to express their needs with less frustration.  Also, early exposure to language encourages early reading and reading skills. Like other languages and cultures, American Sign Language (ASL) is a foreign language used by the Deaf.  In order to communicate properly, one would benefit by using their language.  Since SEE (Signing Exact English) is not a language but a method, the authors use true ASL and intend to help improve communication. They thank the Deaf for giving them a beautiful, expressive language to accomplish this.
More on the website at: www.silveybookpublishing.com
 


THE GLASS BALL
Vivia Giovannini
Infinity Publishing, 
ISBN# 0-7414-1923-8

Born at the turn of the Twentieth Century and orphaned at an early age, Timothy Collins discovers truth through the eyes of those he meets, a truth that opens him to the spirituality of The Great Manitou, a mighty hawk and an intelligent Glass Ball that mysteriously collaborate to carry Timothy from abject poverty to undeniable wealth. But a man is judged by the decisions he makes and Timothy's journey rockets along an emotional roller coaster of incredible success and utter despair - a journey that in the end realizes the power of a human spirit and its oneness with the Universe.
www.viviagiovannini.com
www.theglassball.com


The Garrison
LOCKDOWN
Vijaya Schartz
Triskelion Publishing
Paperback ISBN 1-933471-61-1
e-book ISBN 1-933471-24-7

The year is 3033, the place Zurin Five, a mining planet in the Andromeda Galaxy, with an underground high security prison run by a human corporation. An artist at heart, Rhonda Alendresis never wanted this prison job. When the civilian personnel vanishes and an earthquake damages the nuclear reactor, she must go down to effect the repairs with Captain Perfect himself, Cole Riggeur, who always plays by the rules and never trusted a woman in his life. But deep in the underground penitentiary, something has gone terribly wrong. The most wicked convicts in the Galaxy are loose, and a treacherous shape-shifter plans his revenge. Disconnected from the Garrison, against impossible odds, Cole and Rhonda now face their greatest challenge... trusting each other in order to survive.
www.vijayaschartz.com

 

The Old Buzzard Had it Coming -  Donis Casey

The Poisoned Pen Press Hardcover ISBN 1-59058-149-0

"As an Okie farm boy of the dust bowl depression days, I can testify that Donis Casey sure sounds like she's been there and done that. She gives us a tale full of wit, humor, sorrow and, more important, the truth. Her Alafair Tucker deserves to stand beside Ma Joad in literature's gallery of heroic ladies." Tony Hillerman
"Donis Casey's debut mystery is as vivid and unforgettable as a crimson Oklahoma sunset. The Old Buzzard Had it Coming is a book to savoir, lyrical, authentic, and heartwarming." Carolyn Hart.

www.doniscasey.com


Come Sit a Spell
Recalling & Writing Memoirs
by Eileen Birin
from Neelie Publishing

This is your life, distinctive, fascinating, challenging, and entertaining!
Come Sit a Spell is a valuable guide to help you recall those precious moments in your personal history. The step-by-step procedures will show you how to unlock your memories, walk you through the writing process with ease and encouragement, and explain how to use sensory details, create setting, develop characters, incorporate dialogue, express feelings, capture dramatic events, translate conflicts and inject humor so that you can transform your life stories into meaningful and compelling narratives.


Predator Turned Prey
Ravyn Crescent
Authorhouse.com
ISBN 1-4184-883-1

The comet Despair changed everything, even creating a race of animal people (Anasiens). The humans and Anasiens form a tentative alliance, but one tragic day a war known as the human revolt forces the two species apart. Once again, slavery and trafficking are legal and rampant. Once again, there is devastation in the land. Once again, society is ruled by chains.
Year laters, a child is born of both sides, thirteen-year-old Hunter is trapped, caged, isolated, alone, enslaved, and forced to hold the knowledge that it doesn't have to be this way. Sometimes you don't need a comet to change the world forever.
 


More Than Petticoats
REMARKABLE
Nevada Women
Jan Cleere
The Globe Pequot Press
ISBN: 076272739X

The riches of the Comstock brought women to Nevada seeking wealth for a variety of reasons. More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Nevada Women presents the compelling stories of twelve pioneering women who braved dangers and desolation in Nevada Territory during the tumultuous 1800s. Facing unimaginable challenges, they climbed mountains seeking untold riches, swooped down legislative hallways, wove intricate artistry and taught the next generation about equality.  Find out more on the author's website at: 

www.jancleere.com


DEATH  KEY
Greta Manville
iUniverse
ISBN 0-595-34232-9
paperback: $14.95

A murder victim's wife is forced to become the detective after the police close the case as an accidental shooting. Caro Weston returns do Key West from her New York home, determined to find evidence, but befor she can act, a dark foreigner abducts her, taking her to an obscure, uninhabited island. The man, seductive Collin Sanders, attempts to convince her he is not the killer, beguiling Caro with his gentleness and show of sincerity. She finds herself reluctantly falling in love with Sanders - until a discovery at Death key sends her trust reeling.  On sale at: www.iuniverse.com
More on the author and the book at:   www.gretamanville.com
 


Secret Love
Maggie McGlone
(aka Mabel Leo)
PublishAmerica

Edward Doyle, handsome, successful, with a beautiful wife and accomplished children, his name meant wealth and happiness to the less fortunate. Only his wife knew about Eddie and  his need for other women. She loved him, confident in the  knowledge that he tired easily of new conquests. Even she did not know of his deeper secret, his passion for Tara, the girl he loved in high school. Through the years, he'd looked for her in airports and shopping malls, always hoping to catch a glimpse of her. One night he found her on the internet. The seduction he'd meticulously designed began. Nothing could stop him from having the beautiful Tara. His email messages stun Tara, reminding her of her secret crush for him. Seducing her is easy, Discarding her, as he has the others, is not. The unthinkable happens. 
He falls in love.
More at:
www.booksbyleo.com

 


Operation: Pleiades
FULL CONTACT
Toby Heathcotte
Triskelion Publishing.
Trade Paperback - ISBN1-933471-48-4

In 2023, a world based security agency called ORION uncovers a mysterious threat to all humanity. Seven women with deadly capabilities could destroy the world, unless they are dealt with immediately. ORION wants them dead. These women will die unless a secret group of operatives can reach them in time.
"For a plot thickening, mind-grabbing, romantic story, grab your copy of Toby Heathcotte's FULL CONTACT today." Sinclair Reed, Romance Reviews Today.


DEE
by Linda Griggs
ISBN 1-4120-7330-8
Trafford Publishing

An unstable scientist encounters an alien’s ability to read his mind and he is terrified. He preaches that all people with these strange abilities should be called Espies and destroyed. Dee has exceptional abilities and it is with her help using what she learned from her mother, her father’s assistance, and the alien’s guidance that she is able to help Espies find a place in the world helping their fellow man.  However, there are other Espies who because of the hatred and persecution they received, don’t want to help, but take over.It is up to Dee to stop them


Wolfcub
BetteLou Tobin
BookSurge

ISBN 1-4196-1562-9
$15.95


Wolfcub is an action/adventure novel for all ages, about wolves and boys set in the mountain wilderness of the Southwest. There is high adventure, intrigue, humor, pathos and violence in this story. The wolves are portrayed in their natural state, shy, yet fierce predators with close-knit pack loyalties. This book is a great gift for animal lovers and nature enthusiasts as well as mystery and adventure readers. The subtitle is KGUEE-SHAN (Wolfcub in Kiowan) because there is also a Kiowan Indian who helps the boys and teaches them some of the Kiowan language and culture.

 

Gifts of Sisterhood A Journey on to Your Own by Patricia L. Brooks
AuthorHouse.com
ISBN 1420818759

We give and receive gifts, but the gifts that keep on giving—Faith, Courage, Love, Friendship, Happiness, Acceptance—to name a few—are the gifts she gave so freely. Too often, it takes a life changing experience to recognize what we already have, affirm what we already know, welcome what is given to us and share it with others. More at www.plbrooks.com

Because of Sean - The True Story of a Mother's courage

Susan Henley - iUniverse

Author Susan Henley never suspected the worst when her son Sean suddenly developed a fever at a soccer game. When the fever persisted after several days, she and Sean visited the doctor. Suddenly, Henley's world was turned uside down when she heard the three awful words: "Sean has leukemia." In a mother's poignant and loving conversational style, Henley describes the long first night in the hospital, how she learned to cope with terminal illness, when she learned that ignorance may be bliss, and how she dealt with relapse and Sean's last week of life.  This sometimes-funny, more often sad, tale of a family's struggle and spiritual journey through a difficult crisis will make you laugh and cry, but it will also offer hope and healing through its most important message: you can survive and re-create beautiful memories of your child.

auraimages.com

The Making of a BESTSELLER

Brian Hill & Dee Power Dearborn Trade Publishing

 Success stories from authors and the editors, agents and booksellers behind them

50+ top authors, publishers, editors and agents reveal what it takes to become a bestseller

more at www.brianhillandDeePower.com


A Flower for Angela 
by Sandra Lee Smith
Tau Publishing
ISBN # 0-9719921-5-0

Former school board member and news reporter Ricardo de la Cruz was ready to condemn Angela Stuart's revolutionary teaching methods. He'd vowed to protect the barrio students and wouldn't have Angela Stuart and a crazy bunch of professors experimenting in the inner city school. Ricardo wasn't prepared for the beautiful and caring teacher, but he couldn't let that confuse his judgment. 
Dedicated and determined, Angela Stuart vowed to defend her program. However, Ricardo swept away her defenses with his charisma, intelligence and charm. How could she fight against such attraction? Not only could Angela lose her job, she was in danger of losing her heart.
 


Broken Promises
Dolores Allen
Authorhouse.com

This shocking saga begins in 1919, extending over decades. A broken prosise changed Millie forever. It nearly destroyed her soulmate, Jacob, who struggles to drive out the demons and recover from alcoholism. Jacob allows a selfish sister to send his away, even though his true love is with child. Millie, on the other hand, nurtures deep hostilities as an unwed mother, but as a spiritual woman she still keeps her faith. Share the tragedies and triumphs of these families as they work to overcome losses, abandonment, lies and secrets.
Visit the author at:

www.doloresallen.com


 
   

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