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From the Brink of Suicide, Author Details Victory Over Setbacks in New Book

Posted on October 01, 2012 by Bobby Bernshausen | 0 Comments

Nothing But Respect: A True Victim-to-Victory Story, by Julie-Anne, follows the obstacles in the life of a woman suffering from the setbacks of mental and physical illnesses.

Dedicated to rape victims, those suffering from depression, Fibromyalgia patients, those fighting the need for suicide, or even people needing a push to change, the author takes readers into the accounts of her experiences with each of these trials. Julie-Anne has overcome each of these events in her life from a suicide attempt in 2008 to the depression that followed and has come out of them with different and more rewarding perspectives to share with others.

Julie-Anne states, “I hope that my words may help you gain perspective on the past, and avoid the same mistakes I've made as you go forward. I now view every single experience of my life as a positive experience, because it brought me here — to this place where I can help you heal your life.”

Nothing But Respect is available in softcover (ISBN 978-1-62137-124-3) from Virtualbookworm.com, Amazon.com, and Barnesandnoble.com. This book can also be ordered from most bookstores around the United States and United Kingdom. More information can be found at the author’s website www.julie-annesjourney.com, where she also writes an inspirational blog to further connect with readers.

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New Book Series Follows Families through American History

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Bobby Bernshausen | 0 Comments

The second book in the Diane McAdams Gladow series, A Journey of Voices: Stewards of the Land, follows the Crume family through seven generations of rich American history.

Gladow’s A Journey of Voices series begins with book one, A Journey of Voices: Chasing the Frontier, and continues with Stewards of the Land  tracing common, ordinary families through letters, pictures, land documents, Bible records, and historical references with accounts on the family’s lives and movement through generations.

While the first book in the series focused on the lineage of the Jordan family, the second installment charts the whereabouts in history of the Crume family. Whether it be flatboating down the Ohio River, building homes in the wilderness, fighting in the American Revolution, enduring the Civil War in a border state, dealing with Indians in Texas, surviving the Great Depression and Dust Bowl, or experiencing two world wars, this family will continue to surprise and challenge readers to look at history in a completely new way.

Diane McAdams Gladow is a former English Composition instructor at Emporia State University, heading the Emporia Literacy Program and working for the University’s Grammar Hotline. She has authored two other books, one a memoir of her husband’s family, Rich Heritage, and the other the first book in the A Journey of Voices series, Chasing the Frontier.

A Journey of Voices: Stewards of the Land is available in softcover (ISBN 978-1-62137-075-8) from Virtualbookworm.com, Amazon.com, and Barnesandnoble.com. This book can also be ordered from most bookstores around the United States and United Kingdom. More information can be found at the author’s website, www.dianegladow.com.

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New Book, “A Journey of Shadows,” Keeps Readers Guessing

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Bobby Bernshausen | 0 Comments

Hired to solve the strange disappearance of Phillip Atchison III, novice private investigator Ivan Dunn is thrown into an unexpected series of events in the new book, A Journey of Shadows, by Frank A. Perdue.

When a teenager disappears on the day of the stock market crash on October 29, 1929, it goes unnoticed by the community. Almost twenty years later, Ivan Dunn is hired by a mysterious employer to investigate the whereabouts of Phillip Atchison, unaware his answer lies almost a continent away. Who holds the key to the mystery? Where is Phillip now? And what connection does his mysterious employer have to himself and his case?

A fast-paced mystery, A Journey of Shadows will take readers through events in history, all the while keeping the audience’s hands full with its mix of action, secrets, and romance.

Frank A. Perdue is an unlikely author, finding out the truth about his past at age fifty-nine. He was never informed he was an adopted child and, after solving a small mystery of his own, discovered he was the great grandson of a slave. He has six children, eleven grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.

A Journey of Shadows is available in softcover (ISBN 978-1-62137-102-1) and eBook (ISBN 978-1-62137-103-8) from Virtualbookworm.com, Amazon.com, and Barnesandnoble.com. This book can also be ordered from most bookstores around the United States and United Kingdom. More information can be found at the author’s website, www.perduebooks.com.

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New Book Compares Dog Training to Workplace Leadership

Posted on August 21, 2012 by Bobby Bernshausen | 0 Comments

Author John Covington relates dog training to managing people in the workplace in the thoughtful and inspiring new book, What I Learned about Leadership from My Dog.

While training the newest addition to his family, a German Shepherd named Maggie, Covington realized the correlation between dogs and people. He discovered the leadership and relationship building required to work with dogs is exactly the same as with people. So he began using dog training as a “laboratory” for learning leadership skills, since canines provide instant and honest feedback.

Covington breaks his book up between true — and sometimes knee-slapping — stories of his experience as a chief executive officer and the training of Maggie and other dogs. The stories quickly show the hidden connection between the two types of leadership.

Covington is a trainer and handler of working dogs and CEO of Chesapeake Consulting. He was educated at the US Naval Academy and the University of Alabama, earning a BS in Chemical Engineering. He is active in community affairs and has written four previous books.

What I Learned about Leadership from My Dog is available in softcover (ISBN 978-1-62137-110-6), hardcover (ISBN 978-1-62137-129-8) and eBook (ISBN 978-1-62137-111-3) from Virtualbookworm.com, Amazon.com, and Barnesandnoble.com. This book can also be ordered from most bookstores around the United States and United Kingdom. More information can be found at the author’s website, covingtonbooks.com.

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“It’s All Right, I’m Only Crying” Illustrates there is No End to a Great Love Story

Posted on August 13, 2012 by Bobby Bernshausen | 0 Comments

An elegantly written memoir recounting the loss of a spouse, It’s All Right, I’m Only Crying by Kathleen Christison describes the author’s process of dealing with grief.

Kathleen and her late husband, Bill, exemplified the institution of marriage, living happily together for over thirty years. After a series of falls and sudden illness, Kathleen became a widow. Christison describes the changes in her life through the years in terms of the immediate loss of her husband, the following depression, and the realization grief will always be a part of her.

At what point do love stories begin and end? Christison shows through her writing that being in love with someone doesn’t end with death, as they are still a part of you. With her pen and her memories, Kathleen Christison wrote this cathartic memoir honoring the lasting love between a husband and wife.

Kathleen Christison was a CIA political analyst for 15 years, serving in Vietnam and working on the Arab-Israeli issue. She has written numerous articles for Middle Eastern scholarly journals and frequently writes for the online newsletter Counterpunch. In addition to this memoir, she has previously published three books centered on Palestine and the Middle East: Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy, The Wound of Dispossession: Telling the Palestinian Story, and, co-authored with her late husband, Palestine in Pieces: Graphic Perspectives on the Israeli Occupation.

It’s All Right, I’m Only Crying is available in softcover (ISBN 978-1-62137-091-8) and eBook (ISBN 978-1-62137-096-3) from Virtualbookworm.com, Amazon.com, and Barnesandnoble.com. This book can also be ordered from most bookstores around the United States and United Kingdom. More information can be found at the author’s website, www.christisonbooks.com.

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New Book, “Memories, Pain, and Gin,” Illustrates One Man’s Battle with Moral Conscience

Posted on August 09, 2012 by Bobby Bernshausen | 0 Comments

A man who is paid to take lives must face the murder of his daughter in Danny Yarger’s new thriller, Memories, Pain, and Gin.

John Wilson’s daughter, Anna, is exceptionally beautiful and intelligent with a full scholarship to study at Harvard in the fall. While wanting to spend precious time with his daughter, John has to leave immediately for an assignment to assassinate a man unknowingly threatening the government.

Anna, unfortunately, decides to follow her father’s lead and is murdered while trying to unravel her father’s world. This is John’s story of balancing respect for life with orders to kill — truth with lies, pain and suffering with hope and relief.

Danny Yarger, MD received his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Kentucky. He has a very diverse upbringing, experiencing different stages of his life in Spain, Texas, the ghettos of Detroit and Kentucky. When finding relief from work, Yarger can be found at the lake with his wife, children, dogs, cats, and other sundry animals.

Memories, Pain, and Gin is available in softcover (ISBN 978-1-62137-093-2) hardcover (ISBN 978-1-62137-092-5) and eBook (ISBN 978-1-62137-094-9) from Virtualbookworm.com, Amazon.com, and Barnesandnoble.com. This book can also be ordered from most bookstores around the United States and United Kingdom. More information can be found at the author’s website, www.dannyyarger.com.

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“de Générès and Allied Families” Traces Bloodlines of Seventeen Louisiana Families

Posted on July 09, 2012 by Bobby Bernshausen | 0 Comments

Follow the trials and tribulations of the de Générès and Allied families on a path that led them to settle in Louisiana during the 18^th and 19^th centuries in the new book “de Générès and Allied Families,” by Roland Anthony Gravois. The allied families are Abat, Antonini, Claiborne, Daboval, Damare, de Lesseps, Derbes, Druilhet, Gravois, LaCour, Malacher, Mayre, Morrison, Petit, Story and Theriot.

A genealogy of these seventeen connected families, this new book provides an example of the “melting pot” of many cultures in Louisiana, and the events that led them to their future homeland. Many of these families faced tragedy on their respective journeys such as Slave Insurrection in Saint Domingue, the English Deportation of the Acadians from Nova Scotia, the French Revolution, and the Natchez Indian Massacre. Nevertheless, they overcame these complications to gain statehood in Louisiana, and are still there today.

Gravois states, “The hardest thing to do with a genealogy book is to make it interesting as well as factual.” The author has attained this goal by adding notes that describe the various hiccups in history the early members of the families had to overcome.

Gravois was born alongside the Mississippi River in Vacherie, Louisiana in 1927. He enrolled in Louisiana State University, where his education was interrupted by service in the Navy during World War II. He and his wife, Carmen, were college sweethearts and married after graduation. The name, Carmen, has been carried down for generations from ancestor Maria Del Carmen Ribas, Maria’s father, Mariano Ribas, was a Spanish soldier who chose to remain and settle in Louisiana.

“de Générès and Allied Families” is available in hardcover (ISBN 978-1-62137-090-1) from Virtualbookworm.com, Amazon.com, and Barnesandnoble.com. This book can also be ordered from most bookstores around the United States and United Kingdom. More information can be found at the author’s website, www.degeneresfamily.com.

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