This Week in America with Ric Bratton

Sherwood by Bette Hurst When 15-year-old Colleen Reilly becomes a patient in Sherwood TB Sanitarium in December, 1945, she leaves behind a life of orderly transition from student to adulthood. At Sherwood, she finds that there are two kinds of people- those who play by the rules and those who rebel against them. She finds herself falling into the group who take chances in order to live rather than...

Women Telling Our Story: Baring Our Soul From Behind the Wall by Mae Dixon "Women Telling Our Story - Baring our Soul from Behind the Wall " is a compilation of stories told by incarcerated women as they begin the process of healing. These women could be any one of us except they lost their way mentally, physically, emotionally, or spiritually.  The telling of their experiences is helping them to...

Matriarch And World War III: A 9/11 Incursion - Internal State Terrorism in Australia by Daisy Snow In addition to what the author, Daisy Snow, revealed in her interview last year about her 1st encounter with the UFO Alien, Itt, her findings have become more important than ever because, as said , the American government has advised the world that flying saucers, UFO’s—now called Unidentified Aeria...

The Day My Life Changed: An Accident Survivor by Linda Crosby featuring Roy Crosby       The moving true story of Linda Crosby, an accident survivor who was left permanently and totally disabled, and Roy Crosby, her devoted husband and caregiver, The Day My Life Changed: (An Accident Survivor) offers a glimpse into the lives of an everyday couple whose love endured and thrived, even in the most im...

LIVE ON PURPOSE: How to Find Your Inner Peace to Fulfill Your Life’s Purpose by Peninnah M. Kako, Ph. D God's desire is that you live your life on purpose, to do what God purposed you to do. Believe and know that God is with you right now, and that He has the best plans for your life. You will discover the secret of attaining peace with God, even in the worst of times. My heart is moved with love...

Art with a Story: Original Paintings. Original Fiction by John Nieman This is a book of original art and original flash fiction (3 pages or less) The stories can be amusing, enticing, romantic, or shocking. Fun to read…especially for American’s busy culture. You can read some stories on the train, in bed, and airplane or anywhere.  After college, I started in the advertising field, creating work f...

Words to Enhance the Soul” by Yvonne E. Brown In a society where certain thinking or expressions can be viewed as a taboo, this book dares to show us how we can reflect on our experiences, whether in dreams or reality. Yvonne hopes that her writing will have an indelible impact on our lives from the wonderment of the words that are written.  Yvonne Brown’s book “WORDS TO ENHANCE THE SOUL” (2ND EDI...

Cora: An All Alone Girl by Elaine Vanderberg Cora, a very intelligent young lady feels trap because of her family life being poor. She has no father and she has a poor mother. Searching for ways to escape she found her self and her hopes through books. Will Cora finds her greatest escape and have a good future? Elaine has always enjoyed reading books but never imagined writing one. Her first book,...

Worthy: From Cornfields to Corner Office of Microsoft, Stories of Overcoming by Jane Boulware WORTHY's relatable stories will make you snort, sob, cheer and rethink what's possible. Jane Boulware shares failures and successes from dirt-poor Iowa field worker to corner-office Microsoft executive. Too scrappy to fail, too stubborn to give up and too scared to let others down, Worthy is a vulnerable...

Egonomics 101: The Awakening Has Begun Within or Without You BY Tommy Joe Laux This book is about Tommy Joe Laux's near-death experience and the message of honesty from the Great Spirit of Life. His NDE happened in 2008, and it has taken him almost twelve years of research into psychology, politics, and religion to understand what he was exposed to in the death of his fragile ego/self. When this h...

The Angels Were Amazed by Mihai Oara Human history has had many mysterious episodes for which there is no easy explanation. Why did the magi decide to take a long and dangerous journey, all the way from Persia to Jerusalem, to bring gifts to a supposed future king? What about the Chi-Rho sign in the sky that encouraged Constantine's soldiers to fight the army of Maxentius and win a great victory i...

The Power of Prayer in It's Working: Things Most People Do Not Know About Prayer by Walton Weaver What in the world is God REALLY doing, and HOW is he doing it? Prayer is one of the most powerful ways to find hope and inner peace. The Power of Prayer in It’s Working is a wonderfully written devotional book that will encourage you to reflect on your spiritual life. Walton Weaver provides the guide...

The Power of Imperfect Parents: Practical tools to parent your child with disabilities by Lynda Drake Author Lynda Drake shares a toolkit for parents of children with disabilities. It aims to teach kids about handling money and food. It also helps deal with disappointments, failures, extreme behaviors, and more. Lynda shares her experiences raising three children with various disabilities and diag...

As I Walk In the Heart of God by Terry Buhecker Struggles in life are fierce; the battle to overcome fears and shortcomings is in the Lord. Struggles turned us to our Lord. I wrote down my feelings on earth and God's thoughts like incense rising to heaven. My desperate prayer: our Lord and his Father would turn into power and faith, revealing to me loving thoughts, correction, that restored my fai...

The Life and Times of Walter Reuther: An Unfinished Liberal Legacy by James Ten Eyck The Life and Times of Walter Reuther recounts the events and social movements that have shaped modern America and the role Walter Reuther played in many of them. For over thirty years Reuther and his United Automobile Workers Union were in the vanguard of voices advancing economic and social policies that raised t...

From The Magical Island of Jo-Pa: Dragon Dee and The Fireman by Joseph Padilla This children's story focuses on a green dragon named Dragon Dee, who lives on a Magical Island and wants to find a job to help him purchase healthy food to eat. He finds a job as a fireman and comes to learn characteristics about himself he didn't know he had. The school is on fire the children are trapped. Will Dragon...

My Alaska! by Nancy Lee An adventure from the get go, it contains Nancy's earliest memories of Alaska and the 1964 9.2 Good Friday earthquake. Her stories are inspirational and heartfelt, humorous and gripping. All true situations add faith to the faithful and hope to the hopeless. This book gives the reader a good taste of the Alaskan life as it was in the 80's. Nancy grew up in early Alaska, and...

Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet: Panorama of the Bible by Joseph Mondesir Joseph MONDÉSIR is from Fonds des Nègres (Haiti). He did not have the chance to grow up in a Christian environment. However, from his conversion, he took the Lord and the ministry very seriously, for already thirty years. He is an evangelist and pastor. He has contributed without interest or condition to building lives and fa...

The Devil Disguised as Covid-19 Tried to Kill Me, but Thank God, Jesus Healed Me! by Sheila J. Brooks Hopefully, this book will be the closest that ANY reader will get to an experience with COVID-19. This book will place you inside of the very grip of death as it exists inside of a COVID-19 reclusive medical ward! This book will take you from the very edge of DEATH (within moments - even seconds o...

How I Made It Through by Pastor Parthenia A. Stegall We all have a path that we must walk in life that leads to an expected end. In this walk of life when we overcome situations, we are expected to share our testimony so that others may know how we overcame them. In doing so, it encourages others to keep going. Revelation 12:11 says, "They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the wor...

Tomorrow, Again by Justin Andrew Wild If you took a blank calendar and looked at it month by month, would each month hold a special, life-changing anniversary? Could you fill the calendar with events which have shaped you and stood out, or would it be filled with blanks? Do you seek a life where you create more meaningful moments which can become important anniversaries as you look back? Are you s...

DISCOVERING ONE'S PURPOSE by Dr. James A. Gordon This beautiful world of ours was created by God for His divine purpose and is filled with such great beauty and uniqueness. Man, God’s masterpiece, has such a wonderful ability and the potential to capitalize on his full purpose. Without purpose, life is empty and meaningless. I have come to the understanding that purpose is like the key to life its...

SEASONS OF THE SOUL: 38 LYRIC POEMS by Beverley Manley Named Moonflower, "one who blooms in the darkness," by an Acoma Pueblo tribal elder in the 1960s, Manley's 38 poems burst forth with love, resiliency, and sheer joy. Playful, yet poignant, the author's skill with the written word pulls you in and holds you until the very end. Beverley Manley lives in the small desert town of Truth or Consequen...

How It All Ends! (White Horse Series) by Richard Ruhling An increasing number of people are wondering, Are we getting to the biblical end-times? The answer is YES, but most people do not know that Muslims will precipitate it as seen in Christ's warning for Jerusalem. We can expect the war against Israel to escalate with Jerusalem taken as Zechariah 14 shows. Hezbollah has already joined with Hamas...

To the Nth Degree: Genesis through Revelation by Marjorie Gray Do you wonder at The Bible's timeless, worldwide appeal? Why do more and more people rely on this holy book of books for daily soul vitality? How does God's Word keep coming alive in the unified message of these ancient writings? Consider this your invitation to a poetic journey through The Old and New Testaments. Words in italics deno...