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Psychologist Dr. Kixx Goldman explores the nature of intuition and resilience. When people honor their intuition, the "little voice" inside, and speak openly about their feelings, they thrive in their relationships. You, too, can follow your inner voice, speak from your heart, and claim your power.

The eight engaging fictional stories in this collection are personal, drawn from experiences in Dr. Kixx's life and the lives of her clients. The characters are tested by everyday traumas

My Story, My Song tells the fascinating tale–sometimes sweet and sometimes not–of the eldest daughter in a family of thirteen children, nine boys and four girls, growing up in the fifties and sixties in rural Ontario. The one-room schoolhouse and the church on the hill with the huge steeple both affected the lives of all who lived in that Embro community. The memoir shows a close and caring society in the midst of a burgeoning post war economy, and the changing world that provided them all so much opportunity. Those changes wrought challenges for everyone.

Dinah Hance is unfulfilled by her simple life on her family’s farm near Salina, Kansas, in 1883. She longs for excitement and adventure, but when a ghost from her past suddenly returns, she casts those dreams aside. Notorious outlaw Sal Valentin and his gang ride to the Hance homestead to lay low after a bank robbery goes wrong, and Dinah’s father takes up arms to protect his family. Sal kills him in cold blood, and Dinah vows to bring him to justice—for he is the same outlaw who killed her best friend ten years ago. Despite the protests of Salina’s marshal, she joins his posse, along with veteran bounty hunter Jasper Lawrence. Left behind during the bank robbery....

No one escapes the palace intrigue, divided loyalties and tribal battles that characterized life 3,000 years ago.

A catastrophic battle sets in motion events that birth Israel’s first monarchy. Eldad, a metalsmith from Mizpah, goes to fight to protect country, tribe and family from invading Philistines. He barely survives the battle of Ebenezer, in which 40,000 Israelites die.

Four members of a cursed family of priests die during the battle and its aftermath, and a courageous young woman has to escape a burning city to rescue the last remaining heir to the priesthood, so the religion of Yahweh can continue.

Against his better judgement, the prophet Samuel accedes to the people's demand that he install a king. Believing God has selected him, Samuel anoints Saul, a tall, young man with kingly bearing. He initially performs well, freeing the Israelite town of Jabesh-Gilead from the Ammonites who have besieged it, but Saul becomes depressed and paranoid, putting the fate of the nation in doubt.....

Yesteryear is a magical novel based on the true story of Fran Striker, a struggling radio play scriptwriter who would eventually create The Lone Ranger. Set in Buffalo, New York during the early 1930s, Yesteryear explores the events and magical influences that led to the show’s debut, a show that provided hope to Americans during The Great Depression and made The Lone Ranger and Striker heroes. To write the pilot, Striker needs to overcome writers block, a Gypsy curse, foil a plot to assassinate FDR, deal with an alcoholic midget, and recover stolen diamond rings belonging to an equally alcoholic boxing champion. Populated by characters who lived during that era—radio actor John L. Barrett, Mafioso Stefano Magaddino, former boxing champion Jimmy Slattery, and president-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt--Yesteryear is written in the same spirit as W.P. Kinsella’s Shoeless Joe, Bernard Malamud’s The Natural, and Daniel Wallace’s Big Fish.

A young African-American soldier nearly meets his fate honoring his country in World War II and the Korean War. Suffering physical and psychological injury, he is finally, after decades able to recount the harrowing and traumatic events that took place during those years. The strength of his faith, and love for his family and country kept him alive to return home, get married and raise a family. The main character Sgt. David Henry had to fight the enemy in the field while fighting racism and prejudice from the U. S. armed forces and the American public. The book is historical fiction and partially based on accounts provided to the author by veterans of World War II and the Korean War.

Michael Zimmerman chronicles the painful story of two families built on one lie, forever linked through betrayal, infidelity and bigamy. Then, after hitting rock bottom, Mike becomes a father of his own, and soon discovers something more powerful than the lies; a story of resilience, recovery and hope.

In Michael's Words...

“Looking back now, there were always red flags – signs that my father was not the man we thought he was…his absence on holidays, his secrecy, and the constant excuses that took him out of town. It’s human nature to trust the people we love. But that’s what makes my father’s betrayal so heinous. He took advantage of the trust that the people who loved him had invested in him. It wasn’t simply infidelity. No, my father’s deceit was truly sociopathic. He built and designed our entire identity as a family – our lives – to facilitate his deceit. The truth, when we finally learned it, not only fundamentally changed our family moving forward, it tainted every memory we had together.”

I’m an author (5 books) and writer of countless articles and a weekly blog at MaddenMischief.com. Partly writing is a therapy to get things off my chest that disturb me or impress me that I have to write about. In the PR firm I started when I left NBC, I’m forever “polishing” press releases, media pitches, PR proposals. “Dad, can you polish this, meaning can I make it more effective, engaging, inspiring. So I polish . . . and polish words, sentences, paragraphs, hence came my latest book WORDSHINE MAN about how to make writing inviting.

American Christianity Black Liberation White Legalism attempts to understand and explain the churches' passive and, in some cases, silent national attitude and behavior towards matters of privilege, discrimination, greed, and racism in and throughout the western world's history. For too long, this sin of silence has caused many good people of faith to ponder this same question while searching the Holy Scriptures for answers on salvation and deliverance. This book will attempt to seek truth in all its rawness and discomfort as I address race relations in the west from the colonization of the Caribbean to the inception of America. My goal has been to find and identify a specific character in our spiritual genome that can make some sense for the centuries of atrocities, pain, and suffering we have burdened each other with, in the name of progress, profit, and politics.

Terror to Triumph, by Chris Whittemore by The Authors Show