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In February 1992 Todd and Coby Gent went to UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, so Coby could be evaluated for, and hopefully have, a double-lung transplant. Transplants were a new way to prolong the lives of cystic fibrosis patients, and this major surgery was Coby's only hope for living beyond his twelve years.Todd, Coby's dad, kept a journal from day one of the Gent family's journey from borrowed lungs to new life. The journals include other patients from all over the country awaiting transplants. Coby, at twelve, was the youngest among others in their twenties, thirties, and forties. Tricia and Casey, Todd's wife and daughter, respectively, remained in their hometown of Wylie, Texas, and traveled back and forth to North Carolina during the transplant process.Todd Gent had not read these journals since he wrote them in 1992, but his daughter brought them out in order to publish them by the thirtieth anniversary of Coby's double-lung transplant. The journals prove that Coby made it count.

Facing Reality: The Man in the Mirror is about love, unity, and guidance as a whole. In this world, it's hard to find people who will love you unconditionally. All they want to do is use you to their advantage. Coming together is not an option. Therefore, when the road seems cloudy and you're all alone, you must continue to hold on to God's unchanging hands because he will never lead you in the wrong direction.

Life is a mosaic of pieces that don't always quite fit perfectly together. Tragedy and reward both take their places in the life puzzle that is Caponi's Home of Champions. Its unavoidable fingers touching each and every one associated within its walls. Secrets of the past don't always stay that way. Revenge is a meal best served cold. In today's world, Dan and Marylou are what the gym rats would term old school. They hold friendships sacred. This time their friendship with Paul DeLuca could cost them everything, even their lives.

The Heart of a Lion will captivate the life pains and victories of men and women like you. Until my last breath, in the summer of 1983, a little boy was kidnapped from his mother and has since conquered numerous challenges in life. This book will captivate your being once you read the first poem. This poetry is about the life and struggles of everyday men and women. Some are happy, some are sad, and still, some are angry poems, but all tell a story about learning, letting go, remembering, and being grateful. This book will inspire you to live life, to focus on the true you. It will inspire you to be better, to lead, to move on. Upon reading the first page, you will want to continue and crave more reading. Because this book of life poems is not just from a man but from above. Everything good comes from above. Until I see you in my words. To God be the glory.

Follow the tales of mystery from Maine to Virginia and back again. Discover the hidden secret of a Boston family that owns a summer home in a small coastal Maine village. Join the investigation of an old bank robbery by a Maine criminology student. Next, travel to Virginia where a special investigative unit is tracking down a serial killer. Finally, return to coastal Maine to learn about a Nazi attack on one of the state's lighthouses during World War II.

What is one year of human life worth?In the not-so-distant future, criminals are no longer given lengthy prison sentences. Instead, they must surrender years of their lives by subjecting themselves to an artificial aging medical procedure that leaves them older, broken, and despondent. Sixteen-year-old Mia suddenly finds herself convicted of a horrific crime, and she knows that her life will be cut drastically short. Having always wanted to be a writer and knowing that she will never get the chance to be one, she begins to urgently document everything in a journal, hoping that someone will find it someday and give her life just a little bit of purpose. As she fills the pages with a combination of profound observations and dull everyday minutiae, Mia begins to slowly accept the person that she has both become and been turned into, finding beauty in unlikely places and ultimately realizing that she simply wants what everybody wants: to figure out what humans-and life itself-are really made of.

There Is No Music is based on incidents that happened in life to people that were struggling to live in a place in time where you could not hear joy, peace, security, love, trust, patience, and loyalty. There is no music when a child is abused or misused by an adult.There is no music when you just want your civil rights, but you are punished because you want equal rights, and you have to leave where you live and have no place to go.There is no music when you are abused by people who see you every day and say they love you but do not have the heart to love and keep you safe.There is no music when we allow Satan to captivate our lives because of our selfishness.

Bernadette and Jim Lindemer were living the good life. A happily married well-rounded young couple who enjoyed the company of family and friends, raising their two dogs, Jake and Tess, and living busy, healthy, and productive lives in their very welcoming and comfortable home in the suburbs of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Never in their most dreaded thoughts did they ever think that their lives would be shattered by death, but unfortunately, that did happen. Almost six months before Jim's diagnosis, Bernadette had a dream that conveyed a mysterious message from what can only be described as a guardian angel. Who that guardian angel was and how he came to be involved in her journey started a series of unusual and sometimes almost crazy-sounding events that still continue to this day.

Prison is a closed society, and even the news media has an extremely difficult time getting inside to interview prisoners. Special permission is needed from the warden, which is normally denied. This book does not criticize prisons. It gives the reader a view of prison life in a way not seen or heard. It is full of true stories, true events, and true situations.Mama, I wish I would have been a better son.

This book, Water Meditation: Its Significance, majorly addresses the issue of stress and anxiety. The author has talked about how stress affects an individual's life and some ways of coping with stress. The author has also talked about the various water meditation techniques as well as their significance and benefits to individuals who are infected with stress.

She looked at me shocked, mouth wide open, and eyes wet from the tears that had just fallen from the telling of my story. "e;What do you mean you would not change anything? The things that happened are so horrible!"e; My reply, just like all the other times I have been asked this question, is always the same. "e;No, I would not change any of it. I love who I am today. I would not be me if I had not endured everything throughout the years."e;This life has not been an easy one. I honestly don't think life is supposed to be easy, as we are all here trying to learn new things once forgotten from our past lives. I have met many people in my life, and the one thing most of us have in common is the struggle. The struggle to have and be what we are told to be. The struggle from paycheck to paycheck, the struggle in relationships, the struggle in careers, and the struggle to love ourselves. We all struggle with something. My hope is to give each of you some insight on how I have survived my struggle. How to keep moving forward during the struggle, and how to be happy despite it all. I am not perfect by any means, but I have heard this conversation too many times. The intention is to help those in need. It's not meant to hurt or make anyone feel sorry for me. I am one of the strongest people I know, and I don't need pity. I need to help those who have felt trapped or wanted it to all be over and have had nowhere to turn. I want to give hope to those that feel there is none left.Finding the courage to move forward is hard, but I have found it in every event that has happened because I am still here, still spreading love and knowledge the best I know howAs I look back on the things I have endured in my life, I know I have been blessed even through the heartache and pain. Even through the desperate times where I thought life was never going to get better. I have been blessed beyond my wildest dreams and also tested to the same degree.

If anyone only knew what God has asked me to walk through is a personal memoir filled with trauma and miracles. A journey of finding peace and self-worth, forgiveness, and healing. It is a beautiful story of God's love and promises.He wants to prepare you for a testimony. A testimony of becoming more like him. A testimony of overcoming obstacles and circumstances where you felt the things and people you loved the most were what made your life complete. Life is not completed by tangible items or relationships with other human beings. Life is completed when you come full circle, work through your disappointments, have a complete change of heart, and love others the way God loves you.

When Buckley the Duck falls asleep under a tree, he mistakenly gets left behind by his friends. Sad and lonely, Buckley wonders if he should fly away or stay and hope his friends return to find him. While he is deciding, a mysterious but friendly visitor comes along and offers Buckley a very important job as a birthday duck. Will Buckley accept the challenge and become an inspiration to children of all ages? Read this heartwarming story to find out.

For Jasper and Miley Klein, their lives are forever altered when their father gets married. This means a new school, new friends, and most importantly, a new family. To Julia Bliss, family is everything. All hell breaks loose when she leaves for college. What will she do to protect her family from afar? With her sister off at college, Holland Bliss has taken on a new set of problems. How will she deal with the life-and-death situations which face her? Who will Holland turn to when her world comes crashing down? Dansby Swann is nobody. At least, that's what people tell him. He has no friends, and his family is dirt poor. What happens when he crosses paths with the most unexpected person possible? Bella Jax brings an edgy style to a small town in southwestern Pennsylvania.

Look no further for some good ole Southern recipes guaranteed to get your mouth watering! From scrumptious desserts to Southern favorites like fried green tomatoes. Get ready to be the talk of the picnic or gathering when you show up with one of these dishes or desserts. This book is a culmination of roughly eighty years of family recipes.

Petey, a pigeon, and Quackers, a disabled duck, form a natural relationship and become inseparable friends for life.

I decided to call the book Lito Wuz Here and use a picture of the neighborhood I grew up in (Georgetown South) because I want to be able to inspire young kids who grew up in that neighborhood or in a similar one. Lito is my childhood nickname; my siblings, along with close family and friends, still call me that. When I was growing up in the South (Georgetown South), there were times when I felt trapped and thought to myself that I would never make anything of myself in life. I look back now and realize the drugs and alcohol had a heavy influence on the mindset that I had at that age. I am now thirty-one years old and have been completely sober since Christmas of 2019. Many of my poems were written while hospitalized in many different psych wards and throughout many sleepless nights. It makes me realize that there is a purpose, even for our hardships in life. My goal is to reach out to anyone that is willing to hear and make them realize there is always hope, no matter where you come from. That hope may just not come from a direction you initially thought. I never thought nor had the goal of becoming a published author or poet. I wrote my first poem in April 15, 2020, and have been writing them ever since. Though I do not follow a certain poetic format, I believe I've meshed my love for hip-hop and my fondness for poetry and developed my own style, which is the way I like to write. My poetry book, Lito Wuz Here, was written with the hopes of inspiring a younger generation.

This is the story of five talking dogs, all deceased. The story deals with how these five canines raise hell while they are alive by stealing food, wrecking stuff, chasing other animals, and skinny-dipping and then pulling the same shenanigans after they die. Four of the five dogs were abused by humans when they were alive.Now that they are dead, the tides have changed. The dogs are telling the humans what to do. In hell, the dogs become correction officers over the humans. In hell, the dogs come face-to-face with those humans who abused them. It's bad enough for the humans to be hell's prisoners; it's much worse with the dogs being the prison wardens. In heaven, the Almighty assigns the dogs tasks to carry out on earth. They accomplish their tasks without regard to pride, ego, vanity, anger, prejudice, or greed. The dogs can't be bought or conned by any of the humans they meet during their assignments. They carry out their assignments with total objectivity.The dogs will do anything that the Almighty tells them to do. They know that, during and after their assignments, there are banquets for pigging out, items to wreck, critters to chase, and heated swimming pools. Having immortal bodies, the thrill of being injured, killed, or captured and executed is not there anymore; however, the Almighty sometimes improvises for them.The main characters are five dogs: Runner, a greyhound, the philosopher; Danny, a greyhound, the spiritual leader; Vinney, a whippet, a risk-taking lunatic; Doggie, a treeing walker coonhound and cocker spaniel mix that will chase anything; and Peanut Butter, a puggle, who is naive with four months of college.This is a sequel to The Human World from a Canine Point of View.

He often appeared amusing to family and friends alike. Daddy was seen as a very cool guy by many people. Of course, I looked up to him. However, secretly, I didn't expect Daddy to be around for very long. As I continued to get to know more and more of Daddy, this very troubled and dark side of him began to emerge. I hadn't yet realized that we're all very complicated and complex beings. Thus, Daddy became frightful to himself, as well as to me. Something about his behaviors became off-kilter.

In Life Is Not a Dress Rehearsal, the author takes the reader along a journey filled with love, laughter, hope, and courage. Through detailed storytelling, the author takes the reader along the path of how she came to discover her empathic abilities as a teacher during her time in the K-12 and preschool classrooms. Most of the stories will confirm what you may have suspected about what most teachers go through to an extent, but this story is very unique in that these stories occurred during the author's first two years of teaching. Granted, most people would have given up after the first year, but the author realized that there had to be a deeper meaning for all of the traumatic and head-turning things encountered. During this journey, she is able to relate her experiences in trying to work with both children and adults who have their own set of issues while trying to remain grounded and self-aware and maintaining a healthy learning environment for her students.If you like a story about overcoming obstacles and challenges, this book is for you. If you struggle with maintaining healthy workplace boundaries with coworkers or others in the workplace, you will enjoy reading about the author's trials and tribulations as a newly recruited teacher fresh out of college. If you have ever felt like there was something more that you should be doing in your life and your career, this book will be an entertaining and page-turning read. It is the author's hope that you will be able to apply some of the knowledge gained from her experiences of trial and error to avoid many of the workplace pitfalls that come with a toxic work or social environment.Through the experiences shared throughout this book, the author was essentially forced to come to terms with her own empathy for others, all while navigating within a toxic work environment. It is the author's sincerest hope that all readers-whether empaths, highly sensitive persons, or non-empathic-be able to find their own inner voice while navigating challenging or toxic work environments, social groups, or awkward situations in a more empathic and humane way. As you read this memoir, you should ask yourself, "e;How would I react or respond in a challenging situation?"e; or "e;How can I become a more empathic or understanding person while maintaining healthy boundaries?"e; Through the sharing of these various experiences, the author hopes to help all readers, empaths and non-empaths alike, to find their own inner strength to overcome negative situations in work, school, and in general.

In life, we face certain circumstances that can be so overwhelming there seems to be no hope. We all may face betrayal even by our own blood, such as the lack of love and validation on this earth, which can put us in a dark place. But with Christ in our hearts, we find hope that no matter what we go through, we can do all things through him. The poems included in this book are filled with the hope we find in Jesus Christ. The author describes how God took her out of two very abusive relationships-an abusive relationship with her mother and an abusive marriage. Some of the poems just express a romantic side, like her conversations with the Lord. God's love can transform us in a way that we could never imagine. Through Jesus Christ, we find who lives within us and the person whom God created us to be. She hopes that by reading this, you, too, can find that hidden treasure God put inside of you.The cover and images of this work was painted by the artist:Maribel JuarezIG: mari.bellarte012mmamcd4@yahoo.comLove never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.-1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT)

Meet Charles, a man with an IQ matching Einstein's but looking like an escapee from some B-rated Western. Mischievous, sparkling green eyes, twitching chestnut moustache, and curly, dark hair. How does this curious Irishman teach those around him about love, honor, integrity, and endurance? From his own words to words shared by others, join in this wonderful love story that transcends even death. Enjoy the prankster, giggling as karma catches up and gets even, and marvel at his legacy that lives on after him. Meet Charles and be blessed.

John Kennedy, like Marcus Aurelius two thousand years ago, served at the apex of his country's power and glory. His life was only half over when an assassin's bullet took him away from his countrymen and his family. For those who were alive in 1963, his violent death was a bigger jolt than the natural death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1945. Kennedy has been gone now for fifty-eight years. The controversy surrounding his death has never abated. Half the country believes Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole architect of the murder. The other half believes the government hid the real conspiracy. The sands of time have finally revealed the actual actors responsible. Fallen Prince is a political thriller involving interaction between historical and fictional characters. The goal is to finally name the men who ended Camelot after one thousand days. A secondary goal is to entertain readers who love history and drama.

While staying at their grandparent's house, three sisters ask grandpa to tell them a story before bed. At first, grandpa's story seems too unbelievable to be true. As the story continues, things begin to make the three sisters think it might be a real story. Eventually, grandma helps tell the story, and everything begins to become clear to them. This book is a heartwarming family story that is filled with humor and silly sayings. It begins by making no sense, but eventually, the story comes full circle, and by the end of the book, the three sisters are surprised about the truth they discover.Coming soon: What is Green and Eats Stone?

There is a lot to say about Monica because she is only sixteen years old. She is currently dealing with sexual abuse, mental abuse, and with all of this going on she has to deal with personality disorders that came as a defense mechanism for her to survive. She has no idea that what she is encountering is going to be a lifelong healing process from the inside out. All Monica knows is that she is sixteen and is fighting every day for her life. There is no other adult female who she can talk to about any of this because she assumes that she is the only one in the world who is battling something like this. So will Monica be able to service this trauma, or will it be the death of her in the long run?

Sandy, the flower, is sweet and optimistic. Going through life with joy and light in her eyes, she loves helping others and making friends. However, some of the other flowers make fun of her, and this makes Sandy really sad. She begins to question who she really is and decides that if she couldn't beat them she would join them.Sandy goes from a sweet, loving flower to a bad seed. After losing all of her friends and the things that once made her smile, she realizes that being true to herself was a better way to go. Just like Sandy, we should all strive to be true to ourselves.

A Jolly Good Santa addresses faith, hope, and believing...Looking through a small child's eyes is brought to life by having faith and believing in your dreams...This story will touch the hearts of all ages!

Buckle up, people! 13 has disappeared with the doc, and the only sorry sumbitches who can do anything are Stone, Jack, Kate, and Stacy. The gang teams up with Hightower and a cocaine-addicted alien named Frost. Time travel seems all fun and games until shit goes wrong, and like everything with the gang, it does. Time travel, pirates, Nazis, Viking werewolves, giant bears, giant man-eating plants, raptors, more Alien 13 monsters, alien gods, a dark, ancient evil, Amelia Earhart, Elvis, and an alternate universe-nothing seems to go right for Stone and the gang. The stakes seem to add up, and with stakes so high, it's best to be killing in a kilt!

These kids are now history!In 2019, two new stepsiblings, history-minded Jenny Newton and inventor-in-the-making Brian Hawke, move together into their new home, which once belonged to Brian's grandfather, a man who had loved to study history and make incredible, new inventions. One day, while searching their new home, Jenny and Brian stumble upon Brian's grandfather's greatest invention: a watch.However, it is no ordinary watch. After Brian puts it on, he and Jenny are inadvertently zapped back to the year 1881 in the Wild West town of Sunset Gulch. Not long after they arrive, the watch, their only way home, is broken, leaving them stranded.Fortunately, a kindly couple known as the Finers offer to take them in. As the two kids attempt to repair the watch, they become involved in the town's affairs and witness the rampage of a notorious gang of bandits and a terrifying assassin, but above all, they find themselves becoming part of a new family. It would seem they are destined for a fantastic adventure in history, and to grow stronger, smarter, tougher, and closer as they work to find their way home!

In this action-packed true crime thriller, from a perspective and insight that has never been put into print, you will not be able to help but fall inside the mind of the author/character Nick Bourland. Set in Portland, Oregon, Flail's Kitchen delivers a heartfelt story of a young man battling with addiction, love, and internal conflict over the criminal lifestyle he found himself devoured by. Nick and his cousins are on a crime spree with no limits as they run through the Portland Metro, creating a whirlwind of chaos. From one intense high-speed chase to the next, nothing can seem to slow these boys down. The sex, drugs, and money are above the law until it all comes crashing down upon them when one of their own turns them in. It is a page-turning adventure you do not want to miss!