A Southern Multi-generational Family Saga About Race, Secrets, Love, Blood, Life, Death, and History

“The country road to hell and back is paved with the good intentions and secrets of Southern women.”

Prodigal son Duddy Doogan has a promise to keep. He is going home, to a place where his eccentric storytelling kin await his first visit since his father went missing. Home to where a powerful river carves an age-old border between Florida and Alabama. Home to a family tree of hidden secrets, lies, memory, and skin colors—but there is nothing black and white about the mysteries buried in its roots.

Haunted by the trauma of a terrifying childhood accident and the love of too many Southern women, Duddy must excavate the bones of his family history to put his own broken life back together. When tragedy suddenly strikes, a promise to return home becomes a dangerous quest to reclaim his father’s remains from a long-lost psychotic uncle living deep in the Alabama swampland.

For Duddy Doogan, a journey into the heart of darkness will lead him to a shattering revelation about his own past, a secret truth hiding in plain sight powerful enough to alter the course of Perdido River history for generations to come.

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The time, post second world war; the backdrop, Soviet Russia; the hero, Jez Kornfeld. We follow the transformation of Jez, from wide-eyed recruit to elite soldier to avenging outlaw. Amidst a murky underworld of flesh-trafficking, prostitution and institutionalized corruption, Jez is thrown into a world where nothing is what it seems, nobody can be trusted, and everything can be violently torn from him.

Ordered to disperse and arrest a crowd of Jewish demonstrators in Red Square, Jez breaks up the rally but finds his sisters amongst the protesters. He sneaks the girls from under the noses of secret police and hides them in downtown Moscow. But they are no longer safe in Russia, and the rescue has compromised his own security. He has to get them out. Crossing into the Ukraine, he finds a port on the Black Sea and bribes passage from Soviet soil for his sisters, but he is unaware that his every move has been observed and that he is setting in motion a chain of events that will plunge his life into a headlong battle to stay alive.

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Entrusted by the king to escort his daughter to meet with her betrothed, Captain Barwick has a problem. The princess wants to elope with a common sailor.

But that is not all. Because of increasing hostilities on Albion toward all magical creatures, Uncle Melador has refused the faerie help needed to help keep track of the maid. Now Barwick must decide: Does he value his own way of life more or less than he values the safety of a foolish princess or the future of an island nation?

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DISCOVER How to Get More out of Life with Less

We live in a world where the masses seem to celebrate those who have more and actually envy them for what they have. With that mindset, we tend to buy anything that we convince ourselves that we need—simply because we can afford it. Whether it’s a new phone every year, tons of new clothes or that second (or third) car that we need for the weekends, consumerism has taught us that we should buy new stuff as frequently as possible in order to remain trendy.

We have made our lives cluttered with so many material things that we have ended up feeling hollow and overwhelmed by the things that we actually bought having convinced ourselves that we need them.

But do you want to continue working for your stuff as opposed to living the fulfilling life that you constantly try to attain with your materialistic mindset? You probably bought all these things expecting them to make your life better, but is that really true?

My question is simple: Are you honestly living a happy and exciting life with each of the items that you have?

All seven chapters will help you to live a more simple but meaningful and fulfilling life. It’s like Bruce Lee once said: “It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”

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A redemption-seeking police captain and a group of college students confront questions over the fundamental causes of evil as the tranquility of their remote island community is shattered by a series of horrific murders seemingly related to a century-old local ghost story born in the island’s dark and violent past.

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Legends of the Winged Scarab, Book 3

Yellowstone Supervolcano explodes. This dystopian action/adventure plunges straight into a post-apocalyptic world.

Egyptologist Naunet Wilkins and her scientist husband Jonathan flee their lawless homeland, accepting an uneasy offer from Egyptian archaeologist Jabari El-Masri, a fugitive from his own country. Did El-Masri barter the ancient Golden Tablets and the expertise of his American friends for his own exile?

Once again, Naunet is torn between translating the ancient curses or protecting her future world from the dire prophecies. As another ill-wind blows, she finds her answer.

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The Women in His Life: What Jesus Saw in Them gives the reader a peek into the mind of Jesus through the creative expression of the author as she imagines his relationships with the women of the New Testament.This book is a collection of forty-three stories about women in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Each story begins with a verse or verses from the New Testament, followed by the words the author imagines Jesus would have spoken to express his thoughts and feelings about the women he interacted with or heard about during his life.

Against the historical, cultural, and religious backdrop of the restricted public role of women in the first century, Jesus comes through as a man who honored, appreciated, and respected the true value, importance and needs of women. He enjoyed their company and celebrated with them. He was gentle, playful, and challenging. He treated women as equals. He honored their natural gifts and disregarded the societal conventions that forbade him from interacting with them. Speaking and listening to women directly, he looked into the hearts of all he encountered with compassion and love as he ministered to them. He drew from them their opinions and ideas and they responded to him with love, loyalty, and respect. He was a Zealot who also was tender and caring.

This unique, thought-provoking book will be of interest to those who already enjoy a spiritual relationship with Jesus as well as those who are simply curious to know more about the historical man whose life has impacted the world for more than 2,000 years. It can be read in a book club or a women’s spiritual group. It can be used for personal meditation or as a Bible study aide for those who enjoy women’s New Testament studies.

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