This Week in America with Ric Bratton

"Cleansing the Sanctuary of the Heart: Tools for Emotional Healing" by David and Beverly Sedlacek "Cleansing the Sanctuary of the Heart" is filled with the stories of real people who have had the courage to face the pain of their abuse, addictions, and relational challenges. They have chosen to walk the path to healing. We do not claim that they live a life free from emotional pain today, but they...

The Top Trending Videos of 2018 are Revealed. It’s Time for the… YouTube Rewind Ric Catches Up with Head of Culture & Trends at YouTube Kevin Allocca. He’ll Share His Thoughts and Analysis of Videos that Defined Pop Culture in 2018. Whether launching a global career or rallying people in far corners of the earth to a cause, YouTube connects and entertains the world. People around the world are...

The Future of Tech Is Female: How to Achieve Gender Diversity by Douglas M. Branson An accessible and timely guide to increasing female presence and leadership in tech companies Tech giants like Apple and Google are among the fastest growing companies in the world, leading innovations in design and development. The industry continues to see rapid growth, employing millions of people: in the US it...

Be Chief: It's a Choice, Not a Title by Rick Miller Conventional wisdom has long defined “Chiefs” as rulers of people—those at the top of the organizational chart who hold the most power. We’ve always viewed Chiefs as “special,” selectively chosen to lead others. The perception in business and society is that only those at the top have the power to be Chief. Conventional wisdom got it wrong. And t...

KARAMBA by O.K. Oyenekan A compassionate government-employed medical doctor stakes everything in an attempt to save his AIDS patients and donor agencies from the exploitation of a corrupt government administration. But can he In the wake of a gale of AIDS pandemic that sweeps through an African country, along comes a group of international donor agencies to rescue the situation with funds and medi...

SWIFT BOAT DOWN: THE REAL STORY OF THE SINKING OF PCF-19 by James Steffes ENC Retired A Swift Boat is sunk by two rockets from an unidentified aircraft near the border between North and South Vietnam. It is June 15/16th, 1968, around midnight, and now five sailors are dead or missing. Two survivors and several witnesses report seeing lighted aircraft that move and hover like helicopters flying in...

THE NIGHT THE MIDWIFE CAME TO CALL by Melinda Bybee THE NIGHT THE MIDWIFE CAME TO CALL is the recollections of a modern Midwife. It is mostly autobiographical, although there are times when two situations of different births fit one birth with more excitement. All birth stories are essentially true, the names may have been altered for privacy of the client or the Midwife. The stories begin in 1974...

A NEW BEGINNING by Alyss Morgan It was the year 1773. Anne Spencer and her siblings set their foot in Boston during the latter years of American colonial era. They belong to one of the aristocratic families in England. However, after the death of their parents in a carriage accident, it was learned that their father incurred a considerable amount of debt, the payment of which left them penniless....

SPACE RANGERS by Sebastian Deras Two kids fall down a sewer and they find a secret base for robots that were training for war. The boys trained hard. They meet their foes along the way. They feel the urge to train for a battle like no other. They will take a win for the world to stop the aliens from destroying the universe. Will the boys take the risk to save the universe? Find out in "Space Range...

From Facebook & Google - To What You Buy & Your Location Most Every Entity Collects Your Personal Data. Corporations and Marketers Make Billions of Dollars on Your Data. Even Your Medical Records are Sold to Make Money Off of You. Hu-manity.co is the Company Behind the 31st Human Right, Empowering People to Own Their Data as Property. Ric Talks with author and entrepreneur Richie Etwaru, A...

Iterate: Run a Fast, Flexible, Focused Management Team by Ed Muzio Amazon Best Seller in Teams Amazon Best Seller in Management Iterative Management Is Nimble Management This book is a guide to the iterative organization, the only kind of organization that can learn and adapt fast enough to keep up in today's world. For anyone running a team of managers, or advising someone who does, it describes...

Culinary Spices Discover the Healing Secrets in Your Spice Rack For thousands of years, mankind has relied entirely on plants, herbs, and spices to treat illnesses both minor and serious. On every continent, stretching back centuries, native cultures turned to indigenous plants to develop healing remedies. Over 4,500 years ago, Chinese and Native Americans began to organize bodies of knowledge abo...

LOOKING FOR AFRICA IN AMERICA: THE POWER OF POSITIVE CHANGE by IKE OKWUONU This book is about an African American male frustrated as a result of difficulties he encountered growing up. He found his problem common to majority of peer members of his ethnic group compared to other ethnic peer group members' experience. Johnson attributed his failure to the stripping away of the African American cultu...

BECAUSE IT'S WRONG: BULLIES VS. NAZIS by Lydia Greico M.A. Because It’s Wrong is relevant today because each year, bullying is on the rise. Few people want to talk about the subject as if it is taboo. Lydia Greico, the author, was bullied herself in elementary school, as well as in the neighborhood in which she grew up. She feels that bullying is wrong, especially for the victim. Childhood bullies...

The Mirror by William A. Stephens Jr. The Mirror dates back to when I was a child, to a time I was suffering with severe Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. This is an inspirational book for people who are dealing with issues and trying to cope from the demons of PTSD. The stories you are about read, some are long but never dull. Some of the stories are based on relationship and based around family an...

Delivered on Christmas by Dean McFalls Delivered on Christmas: a journey of faith through two decades that changed the world. Read the story of one believer’s misadventures and personal crises, intertwined with major historical events and woven together in an anthology of poetry, verse, humor, art, and reflections. The starting point is that enduring classic “The Night Before Christmas.” The endin...

IS THE CROW A BAD BIRD? by David Omondi IS THE CROW A BAD BIRD? IS A CHILDREN'S BOOK DEPICTING ROSEMARY AND THE CROW FIGHTING OVER THE RIBS SHE IS COOKING ON A HOT GRILL. THE CROW IS SHREWD AND CONNIVING, OUTWITTING ROSEMARY AT HER OWN INTELLIGENCE; HE PEED AND POOPED ON THE SCARECROW AND LAUGHED AT HER. THE CROW IS GOOD AT WHAT HE DOES BEST; PEEP AND PECK. DAVID "OVID" OMONDI IS A PROLIFIC WRITER...

THE JEW: NOVEL BASED ON A TRUE STORY by Dominik Poleski The book is based on real-life events that took place in the historically pivotal years 19671969 amid widespread students protests in Europe and America, the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union, the Vietnam War at its height, and sociopolitical turmoil in Poland, resulting in several thousand Jews fleeing the country. Its a deeply...

Laurie Hollman, PhD author of the Busy Parent's Guide series of books The Busy Parent's Guide to Managing Anxiety in Children and Teens by Laurie Hollman, PhD The Parental Intelligence Way Are you the busy parent of an anxious child or teen? “Do you wonder why your child or teen seems on edge, unduly nervous, or restless at times—maybe all the time? Are you uncertain if and when you should be worr...

Ric Speaks with Emmy-Nominated® TV Chef Nathan Lyon About the Deliciously Entertaining New Series “The History of Food” The Host of Several Cooking Shows, Chef Nathan Shares His Unique Spin on Traditional Holiday Dinners CuriosityStream – the on-demand destination from Discovery Channel founder John Hendricks – presents a new five-part original docuseries, The History of Food, which delves into th...

LOVERS BY THE LAKE: MORE THAN A ROMANCE by Bruce J. Spohn Touching story of two lovers who meet late in life. They seek to find the answers to life's questions and they seek to understand how the events of their lives made them "Lovers by the Lake" Bruce Spohn was born March 5, 1947, in Lancaster, California, near Los Angeles. His parents moved north to the Bay Area, and he attended K–12 in a numb...

It's About Time: How to Do More of What Matters in the Time You Have by R. Shawn McBride and Shannon J. Gregg Shawn McBride and Shannon J. Gregg lead readers on a new path to effective time management and productivity with a holistic approach to achieving balance in work and life. The authors are busy professionals who have taken control of their time. Follow their lead, and you will too, with a p...

ORDAINMENT BETRAYAL by Dennis Quiles Jack Steele is an ex-naval intelligence officer turned private investigator who has just proposed to his girlfriend, Martha, over dinner when he sees a bloodied and frightened boy running toward him outside the restaurant. After Martha steps in to protect the boy from the two men in hot pursuit, a gun battle ensues, leaving Jack's beloved fiancEe dead on the si...

A PRODUCT OF GUYANA'S BITTER-SWEET SUGAR by Nowrang Persaud This is an attempt to briefly record my long life story as a Guyanese who evolved from a broken parental home and the pits of poverty in colonial British Guiana to become, first a successful school teacher and an unconventional school administrator. I then won a coveted Cadetship offered by the expatriate firm of Bookers Sugar Estates Ltd...

Celebrate Eight Recipients of the Military’s Highest Award for Valor in Netflix’s Original Docuseries… Medal of Honor Bestowed upon fewer than 3,600 Americans since President Abraham Lincoln signed it into law in 1861, Ric Catches up with Clint Romesha, Medal of Honor recipient . With archival footage and commentary from historians and military leaders, the series highlights the lives and experien...