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THE LONG HARD ROAD: FROM NAZI-OCCUPIED POLAND TO FREEDOM IN AMERICA
After Father left to catch the last train, I stood there looking in the direction of the train station until it was too dark to see anything. Afterwards, I went to my bed, lay down, and covered my face so my roommates could not see me cry. I was seventeen years old, almost a man, and a grown man didn’t cry even if he felt so terribly alone. Growing up in Poland at the start of World War II, Bogdan Tukiendorf lived through the clash of German, Russian, and Polish armies, the German occupation, the separation of his family, and a difficult immigration to the U.S. The Long, Hard Road details his journey from a farm in Poland to inner-city Chicago. Saddled with a knee injury from an early age, Bogdan limped through childhood and visited makeshift wartime hospitals as his knee worsened. His health prevented him from migrating to the U.S. with his family, so at seventeen he was left alone in a strange German city. The Long, Hard Road shares Bogdan’s experiences from the war, such as his family’s cooperation with the Polish freedom fighters, tenuous friendship with the occupying German commander, the fear of neighbors betraying them, his life in the netherworld while waiting to immigrate, his voyage to a free land, and his struggle to succeed in a new country. This engrossing autobiography will capture your attention as you read firsthand the story of one who survived World War II.
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The Making of A Llama Family
THE MAKING OF A LLAMA FAMILY chronicles a couple’s 26-year odyssey with their Llamas, first at their farm in North Carolina and later at their ranch in southwestern Virginia. The story begins in 1976, when the author and her husband met in Fairfax, Virginia, and it traces their adventures from Fairfax to Florida, to the Carolinas and back to their present-day farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. The journey relates incidents from the early years of the couple’s marriage, and then evolves into the long partnership with their Llama herd, starting in 1990. The author recounts the tale of moving to their current Virginia property in 1996 and creating a Llama ranch from a blank canvas.
The couple lived for several weeks in their van while their barn was being built and then, while their house was being constructed, they lived with their Llamas in the barn. Key to the story is how the couple interacted with the Llamas while sharing the barn with them, and how both humans and animals remain today as one family unit. The author details her years of observing Llamas as a family, and provides essential information for their care and happiness.
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The Mickey Deegan Poetry Collection
The book Mickey Deegan’s Poetry Collection is about life, faith, patriotism, people, animals, love and politics as she sees it and lives it. There are poems for everyone and hopefully to enjoy as much as she enjoyed writing them.
About the Author
The author Mickey Deegan, is God-loving, patriotic and animal lover. She also loves people and has a great admiration for people who have earned it. Her passion is poetry. She’s inspired to put her words on paper, most of her poems she has lived and describes her well.$15.00 -
The Most Feared Man In America
This biography of J. Edgar Hoover differs from all previous books on the subject. My book posits and documents the existence of two political myths about Hoover. One is a God myth, which was created intentionally by a long-standing FBI public relations campaign. The other myth is a Devil myth that emerged in reaction to the God myth. Both of these mythic perceptions are unidimensional stereotypical depictions of the man, which obscure the reality of the former FBI director. The author uses declassified FBI memoranda to shed light on the personality and professional performance of Mr. Hoover through examination of his marginalia. Hoover’s handwritten comments in the margins of FBI memos are candid and fascinating manifestations of his true self.
About the Author:
Dr. Dirk C. Duran-Gibson, Ph. D. teaches interviewing, persuasion, communication theory, professional communication, magazine writing, and serial murder communication at the University of New Mexico. He has published a book on communication in the practice of law, a half-dozen books
on serial murder, and two books on outer space studies. He is an acknowledged authority on product recalls, serial murder communication, and outer space, and has been interviewed more than one hundred times by international, national and regional media. He has served as a consultant to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and the Federal Aviation Administration. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife, Linda Duran-Gibson, BA, MA, CCC.$2.99–$48.37 -
The Odds of Grace: The Lynde Doup Story
By Lynde Doup
YOU NEVER REALLY KNOW WHEN YOUR ‘TIME’ IS GOING TO COME.
YOU NEVER REALLY KNOW WHEN
GOD IS GOING TO SHAKE YOU AND GIVE YOU A VIOLENT WAKE- UP CALL.
AND YOU NEVER REALLY KNOW WHEN
WHAT IT’S GOING TO BE LIKE WHEN YOU’RE HANGING ONTO YOUR LIFE
BY A TINY, FRAYED THREAD, BEGGING GOD TO SHOW YOU MERCY
AS EVERYONE AROUND YOU PREPARES TO SAY THEIR GOODBYES.
BUT I KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE. I’VE BEEN SO CLOSE TO DEATH
THAT I COULD SEE AND HEAR THINGS THAT ARE OTHERWISE UNIMAGINABLE.
MY BODY HAD BEEN BROKEN INTO WHAT FELT LIKE A MILLION PIECES
I WAS SO VERY CLOSE TO LEAVING MY FAMILY BEHIND ME;
WITH JUST A MEMORY OF WHAT I USED TO BE.
AND I COULD HEAR THE DOCTORS AS THEY TRIED TO CONSOLE MY FAMILY.
AND IN MY VERY FINAL MOMENTS OF PAIN AND DESPERATION
BY GRACE ALONE- MY LIFE WAS SPARED.MY NAME IS LYNDE. AND THIS IS MY STORY.
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The Sea of Feed
By Mingin Irn
Combat has given me the misfortune of seeing young men…in the prime of their lives DIE, at such YOUNG ages. The turmoil that stirs within my SOUL makes me grieve for those INNOCENT lives…that were NEVER given a chance to ever BEGIN…just END…senseless LOST POTENTIAL.
A belief system is a congregation of vocabulary conceived by those in search of meaning…because the truest and hardest actions…trials and tribulations…and especially TRUE EMOTION, what we feel deepest and hardest at our inner core can’t truly EVER be described…they can only be truly experienced, savored and translated by electrical activity experienced by the person and their individual SOUL.
I’m always in awe of the potential view of life. People LIVE,…people DIE. Doesn’t mean that I have to like it because those acts of life that may happen…and those acts of life that may not happen…prepare you for the Hyannis atrocities mankind commits against his OWN kind…for CONTROL…in what I’ve come to know as COMBAT.
COMBAT is designed to annihilate and destroy everything that it comes into contact with. The strong have to be prepared not to be broken down and they have to be mentally and physically prepared for all the catastrophic changes they’re about to ENDURE. If you’re not mentally and physically prepared for COMBAT…it will MENATLLY and PHYSICALLY CONSUME your SOUL,…and everything you’ll either EVER or NEVER become!!!About the Author:
Здравствуйте, (Hello – in Russian)…
With a Bachelor’s in Business Administration, and after serving in the United States Army for 14 years in the Military Intelligence Corps as a 35M, Human Intelligence Collector (Interrogator/Linguist), I was Honorably separated from Active Duty for service connected injuries I incurred while on OEF status, which left me on life support and in a coma for months. Throughout my many ventures during my Active Duty Military Intelligence career, I have traveled to many places, both foreign and domestic, and my writing depicts my arduous trek. Consequently, I am a “Wounded Warrior Alumni” and I am proud to be part of the “Wounded Warrior Project”.
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The Unseen Hand
Time can heal the wounds of the past. Can it also revive the flames of love that was once doused by the cruel hands of fate?
Vic is always prepared to face the worst challenges that life can throw his way. What he’s never prepared for is meeting Rita and falling in love with her. Now, is his love for her enough to conquer the challenges of love and life?
A young girl who is ready to give affection to everyone she knew, that is Rita. But when she meets Vic along the way, she is willing to give her heart to him, not just her fondness. She knows he is the right man for her, will everyone agree with her?
No one is ever prepared to hear the answers when it comes to love and fate.$9.20 -
THE WORLD STILL LIVING
By S. Shahid
About the book
THE WORLD STILL LIVING Is my third venture in English literature, My mother language is Bengali and I have no
proficiency in English language yet I have composed my verses in English to spread out my ideas around the world
for those who believe in human progress.
I am grateful to our National dailies and magazines for their news and information on the basis of which I have
composed some of my verses.
I believe any language can be benefited by other languages by taking and giving process in style, technique and idea.
Language moves like the course of the river quite independently to flourish itself from internal and external resources.
When we deal with our national matters we cannot ignore international affairs which are interlinked with our
interests. So the need for learning international language comes.
However, in composing the verses I have tried to follow the style of old Bengali poems in order to introduce a new
flavour in English poetrical system.
I remember with gratitude a few personalities like Dr. Sheikh Maqsood Ali, Poet Abdus Sattar, Poet Mozaffar
Hossain, Poet Kazi Salahuddin, Poet Nurul Huqe, writer Nilufar Begum and members of the Authors Association
(Bangladesh Lekhak Samiti) of Bangladesh who encouraged me in my literary persuits.
I am also grateful to Mr. S.M. Al-Hossainy and Mr. Salahuddin Ahmed, the Hony, Chairman and the Hony, Secretary
General of Swanirvar Bangladesh who were kind enough to give me a chance to serve their organisation meant for
the backward people of Bangladesh.
I am grateful to Mr. Sufi Md. Seraj-ul-Islam who has undertaken the task of printing this volume. The sale proceeds
of this book shall be spent for better studies of the children of the Dream Land Preparatory School which he founded
in 1984,
Earlier Mr. Seraj-ul Islam published my book ‘The Verses on Islam’, I believe ‘The Verses on Islam’ will succeed in
achieving its objective.
I am thankful to Mr. Antique Huge Choudhury, a famous dramatist and T. V. personality of Bangladesh, Mr. Kazi
Zahurul Huge and Mr. Atahar Khan two Journalists of repute who tried to expose me in my initial stage.
Lastly, I express my thanks to Poet maul Haque, Mr. Forhad khan, Mr. Abdul Mannan Bakery, Mr. Abdul Awaal,
Babul, Mr. S. Shahidullah, Mr. Shamsul Alam, Mr. Abdul Hye, writer Mr. Ahmed Kafil and many others for their
Constant inspirations.About the author
The full name of S, Shahid is Syed Shahiduddin Ahmed His father late Syed Shamsuddin Ahmed was a Civil Servant
in British India and his mother tato Azizannesa was a noble lady. His father came of on old Syed family at Andikote
in the district of Comilla, Bangladesh and settled in Tangail district. S. Shahid was born in 1923 at a village named
Mirer Betka near Tangail town.
He obtained M.A, degree in Bengali from Dhaka University and studied Public Administration of the American
University of Beirut, Lebanon. He served in the National Institute of Public Administration, NIPA, Dhaka (Now
known as PATC, located at Savar near Dhaka) as Instructor.
He retired from that service in 1982. His book of verses The Mad Thoughts was reprinted by the Scholars of PCI of the
United States of America and distributed by them around the world which made S. Shahid famous overnight. The
Authors Association of Bangladesh (Bangladesh Lekhak Samiti) recommended him for Nobel award in literature in
1986-87 in response to the invitation of the Nobel Committee of Swedish Academy.
He wrote a number of books in Bengal and English. At present he is serving as the Principal, Dream Land Preparatory
School and also serving as the Secretary, Publication, Information and Media cell of Swanirvar Bangladesh.
He visited many counties around the world.$12.99 -
TIME FOR A CHANGE
Based on a true story, “ Time For A Change,” is a Street thriller taking you on trip around the Bay Area. After being acquitted on a murder case, he feels the need to change his ways, but only after trying the streets again, This Time ending up on the other side of the gun. Shot 12 times, David makes a full recovery and finds love and a new way of living. Yet he will learn there is no good way to do wrong. This novel will have you on the edge of you seats from murder, sex, drugs and a loving marriage. Welcome to the world where the good dies young and the only color that matters is green.
About the Author
David A Buchanan’s, “ Time For A Change”, is the part two of his first novel Tell Them No Lies, all based on actual events that has happened in his life. Born in 1979, and raised by his mother Princess, and the help of many others, like her aunties, he never had it easy being the eldest of six children ( Jessica, Joshua, Sarah, Isaac, Asia). Growing up in the mean streets of Oakland, California, David has decisions to make at a early age and made a lot of bad ones. Yet it takes a village to raise a child, With the help of family, prayers, and friends, I’m still here on this earth to tell my story.
First and foremost I want to thank God for all his blessings he has given me and my family. To my dearest mother, I want you to know you could never do wrong in my eyes. You Are and always will be the Queen Of the world. To my loving sister Jessica, who has had my back from day one, you’ve supported me like no other. I love you baby girl I don’t know what I would do without you. In this regard, I want to thank my cousins more like my sisters Shawanna and Vicky I love you guys with everything in me.
In deep regrets I may not be able to Thank in person but hold you close to my heart, Big Mama, Granny,E.C, Teresa, Dawanzi, LJ, Dougy,Tracey, J.R. All gone too soon but will never be forgotten.
Last but not least my loving kids David, Damonte, Destiny and Dalaysha. The Mother’s Of my children I love each and everyone of you.
I cannot close without acknowledging the Murder Dubbs, the hood where it all started showing and giving the game. I inherited determination from streets as well as the true fact “ You Can Love The Streets But They Will Never Love You Back.”$18.33 -
True Confession: A Close Call Back To Prison
By Peter Ebanks
Neither the Electrical field, clothing store or sale of drugs were able to make a change to bring Peter closer to becoming wealthy, till eventually Peter ended up in prison being caught with cocaine where he became diagnosed with being schizophrenic because he was un able to cope with prison life.
He was later released from prison and got a job as an electrical inspector where he later decide to abstract electricity from the power company and was caught and barely missed going to prison for a second time as he was given a suspended sentence.
Now Peter is presently employed with an electrical company where he is in the process of seeking a loan from an institution to pay off the back fees that he owes the power company.$2.99–$7.59