This Week in America with Ric Bratton

LEGACY: EPISODE SERIES BY Robert Maxxim Episode 41 30 years in the making, five episodes, million year-old romance, past lives, space battles, intrigue, Lemuria, Atlantis, inter-dimensional scientific and spiritual principles, today's false religious beliefs and other secrets exposed in detail. This series is a must-read by every truth seeker.​ Legacy is a futuristic novel based on the author's vi...

Cost Of Truth by Julie K. Parrott Donna had all she wanted. She was a much loved daughter, sister, friend and devout catholic who chose to serve as a nun. Three years in the convent led Donna to a career in nursing. . A marriage and five children followed; a perfect family life for thirteen years. But, it ended with the truth she was gay. In Donna’s words, “I could have continued to live a comfort...

The Magic of Holiday Gift Giving is All In One Place! Etsy Trend Expert Dayna Isom Johnson Has the Most Special Holiday Gifts for Everyone on Your List. Plus, Dayna Shares Her Tips with Ric for a Fun and Easy Shopping Experience. Unique and unexpected gifts are what make Etsy the go-to site for your holiday shopping needs. It’s the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. It’s home to a u...

FABLED TRUTHS: SELF PORTRAITS AND POETIC ESSAYS by Lurlynn Franklin "With themes wrapped around tabooed comedy routines, Fabled Truths, Volume One is the first of three collections containing easy, but uncomfortable, self-portraits and poetic essays addressing social situations through parodies of American iconography, uncompromised profiling and mindless stereotyping. The book presents skewed mod...

POEMS SHORT STORIES AND THINGS REMEMBERED by Gloria G. Blakeney This book is a collection of poems short stories and things remembered from the author's years of growing up. The poems were started when, while watching tv, I started writing down stuff about angels. The next thing I knew I had three poems written about angels. Things just kept going from there. The book of Ruth has always been a fav...

PERSPECTIVES: A BOOK OF POETRY UN LIBRO DE POESIA by Glade A. Myler This book is a new experience in poetry with Spanish and English poems of varying themes and sizes, but with many sonnets. The sonnet form has not been used much is recent years but has again surfaced as a succinct way to express oneself poetically. Although these sonnets are not exactly like the ones of old of Elizabethan and Ita...

Just A Dream by Vernal Wright (The Wizard) Just A Dream is like a dangled bone to a hungry dog that is dripping froth from its mouth like snowflakes. I know not whether a bite is possible, but I do know that yesterday has gone, today is here, and tomorrow is on the verge. I hope, I hope. About the Author Vernal Wright lives and works in Hammersmith, London, where his job as an assistant librarian...

The Transition, Initiated by Copernicus and Galileo, from Religion to Science: The Beckoning Bridge Many Find Difficult or Impossible to Cross by Lawrence Wood Have you ever wondered: "Why two diametrically opposite explanations of ourselves -- Religion and Science -- coexist?" As this book explains, the reason is, one explanation began before the other. The first explanation's development began t...

What Better Way to See the Country in Full Bloom This Spring Than With a Family RV Trip? It’s Not Too Early to Start Planning. Ric Catches Up with Outdoor Travel Expert Misty Wells. She’ll Share Her Tips Buying the Best RV for Your Needs and Tell You About Some of the Best Places to Camp in Your Area or Beyond. Misty loves the outdoors. She raised her two children as a single mom and living the ou...

Sharpen Your Knives and Whet Your Appetite... The Final Table is Coming to Netflix! Ric Talks with Host and Bon Appétit Editor at Large Andrew Knowlton about this New Cooking Competition Featuring the Greatest Chefs from Around the Globe. The Final Table is a global culinary competition show featuring the world’s most talented chefs fighting for a spot at the elite, Final Table made up of the grea...

Charlie Chaplin and Stars from the Silent Movie Era Come to Life In a Colorful New Way in: America in Color From the Golden Age of Hollywood to the Wild West and Organized Crime, Season Two of the Smithsonian Channel Series Explores Some of the Most Significant Moments in American History, Now in Color for the First Time! Premieres Sunday November 18 at 8PM ET/PT Ric Talk with Producers Nick Metca...

Premiere guest wkend 11-17-18 Grammy Award®-Winning Vocalist Judith Hill and Filmmaker Livi Zheng join Ric Profiled in the Acclaimed Documentary 20 Feet from Stardom, Judith Can Now Be Seen in the New Film Bali: Beats of Paradise opening in select theaters Friday November 16. Nyoman Wenten is a celebrated Indonesian composer whose rhythmic style of Balinese music and dance, known as gamelan, is fa...

A New Season of ESPN’s 30 for 30 Podcasts Returns with Sports’ Most Compelling Stories Ric Speaks with ESPN Podcast Host & Producer Jody Avirgan for a Preview of This Season’s Topics Including Jose Canseco, Rickey Henderson, Hideo Nomo and More In addition to being an acclaimed film series, ESPN’s 30 for 30 is also available in the podcast realm. Now in its fourth season, 30 for 30 Podcasts fe...

Get Ready for REAL COUNTRY, USA Network’s Search for the Next Country Music Breakout Star Featuring Shania Twain, Jake Owen and Travis Tritt Ric Speaks with REAL COUNTRY Host and Former Country Music DJ Graham Bunn Premiering Tuesday, Nov. 13. on USA, REAL COUNTRY is a new competition series featuring three of the biggest icons of country music: Shania Twain, Jake Owen and Travis Tritt. In each ep...

The CATNIP DIARIES: THE FIRST YEAR by Eileen Novotny The CATNIP DIARIES highlight Sparkles' progression from a kitten to a full-grown cat. It is done with word pictures describing plenty of cat adventures, a smattering of philosophy and lots of humor. My adoption of Sparkles from the local animal shelter was therapy for me when I put my husband in a nursing home and our dog died. My sister Helen h...

#Sellout: How a Great Experience Can Help You #Sellout of Your Product by Kory Angelin BUILD VALUE - The art to being successful in sales is directly due to the experience you create for the customer. People in the sales business sell too much. You would think that it would be normal to sell your product or service in any sales job but a sale is nothing more than a transaction of money. Therefore,...

Finding Joy by Ellen Payne The book tells of the problems Joy has with feelings of sorrow, anger, shame and frustration that are stirred by media reports of sexual abuse of children in Institutions. She knows that many more survivors, who were abused as adults and outside of institutions, are still unacknowledged. She is one of them. Her abuse began in her home. The story is about Joy’s attempts t...

GOD'S TRINITY DEMYSTIFIED: The veil Covering It Is Finally Removed by Adeoye Adedeji David God’s Trinity Demystified is an academic and resource material for seminary and university students and lecturers, pastors and teachers of God’s Word. About the Author Adeoye obtained a master's degree in architecture from the University of Lagos (1976) and a bachelor of theology at LIFE Theological Seminary...

A Doomsday Killing (Mitch and Al Book 13) by Glenn Ickler It’s no April fool joke when Sister Rebekah, leader of a religious sect called The Faithful United for Beatification at the Second Coming of Our Blessed Lord and Savior, tells her followers on April 1 that the Rapture will occur in two weeks on Easter Sunday. Watching the television news clip of Sister Rebekah’s proclamation, Warren “Mitch”...

GRANDMA'S MAGIC BOX by Nadine G Thomas This book is a collection of stories written by a grandmother and sent to her grandson as a way to keep in touch over a long distance. These stories are delightful adventure trips for young children. The stories all revolve around a box that the grandmother had given to her grandson for Christmas. Each story takes the reader to a different location with facts...

FARMER'S SON,MILITARY CAREER by Clarence E. "Kip" Vold Interview #2 The book is done, it is published and now it is ready for you to read and enjoy my story. I am happy to share my experience growing up on the plains of South Dakota, completing grade school in a one-room school, surviving blizzards, including getting lost in our yard. I have virtually all positive memories, for example, I remember...

Come Fill Up My Cup by Jean Murray Munden On a trip to Scotland, Robin Lindsay, a 40 something Canadian widow, meets James Maclachlan, a Scottish widower. James is still haunted by his poor relationship with his wife who died under mysterious circumstances nearly 10 years ago, leaving a young daughter and an infant son. The couple fall in love, but events emerging from the past, and a violent murd...

An All New Season of PEOPLE MAGAZINE INVESTIGATES Profiles Ordinary People Thrust Into the Spotlight After Notorious Crimes Ric Speaks with PEOPLE Magazine Staff Writer Elaine Aradillas About the Compelling Stories Featured in the Third Season of Investigation Discovery’s People Magazine Investigates PEOPLE MAGAZINE INVESTIGATES features compelling stories of ordinary people thrust into the spotli...

Steve Hannagan: Prince of the Press Agents and Titan of Modern Public Relations by Michael K. Townsley "With its behind-the-scenes views of the newspaper world during the first half of the twentieth century, the book is a valuable historical record of a time prior to seismic journalistic shifts. On-point descriptions impart Hannagan's keen understanding of what stories appeal most to editors and r...

REAL LIFE CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT GUIDE FROM A-Z by Jamil Soucar I have been managing construction projects since 1983. I studied books in college and read several of them afterwards to improve my Construction Management knowledge and skills. I learned a lot from these books, but what those books did not teach me was the real-life challenges in implementing these principles, what works and what do...