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Written for young people starting out on life's financial journey, Grow Your Money Protect Your Wealth offers a sound, steady-eddy approach to investing discretionary income. It provides a blueprint that enables you to build a long-term investment portfolio to help meet your financial needs in retirement with a level of risk that is right for you. The book also details the necessary tools including insurance products, legal documents and steps needed to preserve the wealth you grow.

At seventy, Rebekah Lang resolved to confront the guilt she has carried for decades. This journey draws her back to the turbulent summers of the mid-1960s, when she was a bright but self-absorbed teenager, caught between the innocence of youth and the harsh realities of a world unraveling. Amid the backdrop of war, racial unrest, and long-buried family secrets, she encountered a series of emotional, physical, and spiritual awakenings that would shape—and scar—her life.

Many military husbands and dads are struggling to keep their marriages and families together. Spouses and family members notice the changes as well. Lesson’s Learned by a Patriot Husband and Dad will help with some common mistakes that may help keep the family and career together.

In 1920s New Orleans, Eugene Ste. Cherie, a naïve Pullman Porter, stumbles into a world of booze, sex, and jazz when he helps a white passenger. He is later hired to work at a lakefront casino. Despite prohibition, alcohol flows freely, and Eugene tends bar at lavish social events.

His wife Eartha remains oblivious to the secrets and lies surrounding him. As Eugene’s good looks and skills make him a sought-after man, he narrowly escapes seduction and scandal. When Eartha uncovers his affair, she learns the painful truth about his involvement with the city’s elite.

Set against a backdrop of glamour and deception, this unforgettable story explores the price of ambition—and what’s left when the lies run out.

What does courage look like when no one is watching?

It’s the teacher running barefoot through a Texas storm, the bus driver guiding children off a burning school bus, the doctor walking city streets at midnight, the volunteer who simply listens.

In Quiet Valor: Everyday Americans — Acts of Character That Change a Life, a Street, a community, author Larry Nouvel continues his acclaimed series by turning the lens toward the people who hold the country together quietly — teachers, caregivers, mentors, civic servants, artists, and everyday neighbors. These are not celebrities or politicians. They are citizens whose constancy, compassion, and conscience shape the real strength of America.

Across seven themes — from Disaster and Emergency Response to Everyday Generosity — the book collects true stories of unrecognized bravery.

The story began as a fantasy based on a childhood memory about a Banshee in Ireland. As repressed memories surfaced, the story evolved into an memoir unlike any other. The story blends imagination with the true story about six-year-old Paddy in the 1960sand his life in New York City, to rural Kilkenny County in Ireland, and back to New York, and how he learned that Banshees are real while also managing to navigate and survive a broken home and a variety of other early-life challenges. The boy’s name may not really be Paddy, but to tell this story, a hint of Irishness and anonymity may be necessary.

Wild Pitch is a true story that tears the human condition of a man's life down to the bare bone. Its pages paint a portrait of a childhood shattered to pieces by an alcoholic father that leaves Jeff Grose with an anger that grows into a beast born from his dad's belt. Jeff channels the beast inside him into extraordinary success as a baseball pitcher on high school fields and then inside professional ball parks after he is drafted by the New York Mets at age 16.

Life in the minor leagues and a debilitating arm injury send Jeff crashing onto bathroom floors with addictions to drugs and alcohol. Life after baseball leaves him with a drink in one hand and a bag of cocaine in the other, a strong sense of self hatred, suicidal thoughts and no resume for the job market.

Finally, during his search for self identity, he learns that salvation has always been much closer to him than the sixty feet, six inches it had taken for his blazing fastball to explode into the heart of a catcher's mitt.

What can you learn about someone when life throws constant challenges at them? For Randy Rauh, the answer was simple: everything.

In A Letter Unwritten, Randy opens the pages of his heart to share the remarkable lives of two women who shaped his world his mother and his wife. Through a blend of heartfelt storytelling and powerful personal letters, this unforgettable and unique memoir honors the quiet strength, unshakable love, and fierce resilience that defined their lives.

One was a single mother with no money but boundless determination, raising three children in the turbulent 60s and 70s. The other was Randy’s soulmate and partner through decades of love, heartbreak, infertility, adoption, and brave battles against cancer. Their stories—told in their own words and through Randy’s reflections paint a vivid portrait of women who faced adversity with grace and grit.

With tenderness, wit, and emotional depth, A Letter Unwritten is a tribute to the kind of everyday heroism that too often

In the spring of 1862, widowed Rachel Barnum leaves three children with her farm’s hired man to search for her dying son, Dwight, a soldier in Michigan’s 2nd cavalry. Rachel’s decision to travel alone to Missouri, into the heart of darkness, is either a hero’s journey or a fool’s errand.

Mounting obstacles lead to a large Rebel force entrenched on a Mississippi River island. Rachel fears her chances of finding Dwight in time to save him are shrinking each day she’s gone from her 10-year-old twin girls and another son, 16, who can’t abide the hired man.

With time running out, Rachel faces an agonizing decision: abandon her firstborn to the ravages of the Civil War and go back to family and the man she loves? Or fight on against all odds?

Korea DMZ—1983. Rip Razorton, a newly minted Second Lieutenant in the United States Army, enters a military environment filled with danger. He learns the DMZ mission from a friendly NCO while being harassed by superior officers. What keeps him going is his love for his exotic Native American girlfriend, Angeni James. Razorton, collecting battlefield intelligence on the North Korean threat at Guard Post Ouellette is taken captive but is saved by SFC “Wild Bill” Harrison. Suffering PTSD, Razorton turns to alcohol to ease the pain and the guilt. Razorton, punished for being defiant to a senior officer following the firefight, is assigned as an army escort for a USO band from America called “Total Infusion.” Feeling empty and full of pain, Razorton continued to drown his guilt and sorrow in alcohol. Then, with no warning at all, the female lead singer of the band with purple hair came to his rescue.