This Week in America with Ric Bratton

The Last Padilla Standing by Joseph N. Padilla The Last Padilla Standing is a look back in time, my journey through the years as told by me. Through memories and story's passed down through generations. The good times and the bad, But my family always seemed to prevail. This story will live on through my pages for future relatives. I am the last Male Padilla in my family tree, and this is how I re...

Where Are Cocoa Puff's Treats? by Jeanne Cornish and Melissa Pottberg Cocoa Puff, a little Chihuahua puppy, loves to save each and every treat that is given to her. Her friend Sassy Sweet, a mischievous Yorkie, eats her treat as soon as she is given one. Find out what happens when Cocoa Puff wakes up one day to find her treats have suddenly disappeared!  Jeanne Cornish and Melissa Pottberg are a m...

The Raid: More Than A Body Ought To Bear by Robert J. Rosenbaum When the DEA raids Jake Grummond's dairy in the wee hours of an August morning they find no drugs but they devastate the dairy and turn Jake's wife into a basket case. With little help from the legal system, Jake takes the hunt for who falsely fingered him, into his own hands. County Sheriff C.W. Blakenship also tries to unravel the r...

World of Why by Xavier Yeldell Nostalgia is a fascinating phenomenon. Recognizing certain objects, signals, or sounds is just enough to trigger what once was and what was contained within the circle of an old life. Visiting the affluent city of Weston, Florida, triggers my mind into a perpetual marathon of memories. Family, friendships, love, heartbreak, depression, confusion, mistakes, and betray...

A Death at Christmas And Other Wondrous Events by Artell Smith In this heartfelt story, a young man grapples with the emotional weight of his comatose father during the Christmas season. His life takes an unexpected turn when he starts receiving visits from his father's ghost. Through these encounters filled with love, jokes, and sarcasm, he finds guidance and support that help him navigate the ch...

Christmas is Love: #2 of the Magical Forest series by Dawn Harvey Kittle As Beatrix watches her friends skate on the pond, she is sad because she doesn't have any skates. She works to earn them. With Christmas coming she is confronted with a big decision of how to spend her hard-earned money. Charlie Chipmunk and Beatrix's grandmother help her with this dilemma. As a result, she learns the meaning...

Claim Your Victory Over a Stressful Lifestyle TODAY SusanSmithJones.com • Twitter @ SusanSmithJones Who is not under stress these days? From concerns about Covid-variants, to inflation, to health and healing issues, to lacking faith and confidence or feeling depressed, to making ends meet each month, to looking older and flabbier by the week, to squabbles with family or employees/bosses — learning...

A Faith That Overcomes the World by Eldred C. Marshall III Are you a member of a book club whose book you have never read? The Bible is the best-selling book of all time. It adorns coffee tables and church pews. We swear on it in court and politicians take their oaths of office on it, yet few have actually read the Bible in its entirety and even fewer rightly divide and apply it. However, what is...

Miracles, Masterpieces, and the Madonna: A Mother's Journey of Faith and Revelation by Prof. Aban P. Kavasmaneck  My book is a true story of a mother’s unwavering faith, a journey spanning 35 years and 3 continents, starting with the instantaneous healing of our 5-year-old son from an incurable skin disease, in Lourdes, France in 1988 ABAN KAVASMANECK is a professor of English literature, philosop...

on that Day: A Trilogy by Thomas Fitzhugh Sheets "on that Day" is a trilogy of books written without knowing how it all would end: Book #1: “The Death of The Promise,” Book #2: “The Resurrection of The Promise,” and Book#3: “The Land of The Promise.”  The common theme of the trilogy was witnessing the faith of the First-Century Church, as demonstrated in the Parable of The Ten Virgins. The five wi...

ENLISTMENT by Jodi M. Swanson My military career started out as a way for me to grow, to expand my opportunities, and leave my little rural hometown in Wisconsin. Who am I trying to fool? I was a broke farm girl trying to get an education. Everything after that just happened. But you're not here to read my sappy teenage memoirs. You're here to find out about "them". How I was selected. And what ha...

God Is Proud of Who You Are by Jenni Guzman Bautista God Is Proud of Who You Are , sung to the tune of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star," is a wonderful book for parents and their children that incorporates prayers into song, which works wonders in comforting all lives, both big and small. The pages of this book represent the deep love we feel for our children and also the profound messages of hope an...

SOUL LICENSED: TIPS AND TALES by David Tuttle David Tuttle received messages from psychics encouraging him to write spiritually. He created a website in 2012 and years later after further messages, he joined an online bookwriting class offered by psychic medium James Van Praagh. “Soul Licensed: Tips and Tales” was completed 2 years later. Tuttle realized that many people lack hope for an afterlife...

Within and Beyond: The Connection Revisited by Gayle Redfern Within & Beyond, The Connection takes complex concepts that have been around for many years, explaining how the earth and the universe are connected, pulling the magnetic energy up from the Earth and the electrical energy down from the Universe. This merger flows into each cell forming a star tetrahedron providing the wisdom of life...

The Final Keystone by John Kevin Crowley Every case in the history of Jurisprudence involves three things: Trust, Betrayal, and Accountability. Through his education, studies, and observations and experiences, author John Kevin Crowley has learned the interconnection of history, law, philosophy, and religion with the human condition. How that relationship has played out in human history leading to...

Living Art as Life, and Life as Art: Mid-century Artist Milton Cavagnaro and Five Generations Passing the Torch of Creativity By: David Cavagnaro  About the Book In the late 1930s, with World War II looming, the famous German Bauhaus art school closed, and many of its teachers migrated to America, greatly influencing the course of modern art and architecture in the 1940s and 1950s. Influenced by t...

A High and Noble Mission: The Adventist Outreach to African-Americans During the Civil War Era and Beyond by Robert W. Price They were turbulent years, the ones following America's Civil War. The emancipation of those held in slavery opened new ministry opportunities for Northern churches. Previously blocked from reaching any held as slaves, they now were free to preach the Good News to the poor,...

From Stressed to Blessed: 5 Simple Steps to Learn Meditation and Change Your Life by Cynthia Chase MA, CHTHA Are you stressed? There are many reasons why we feel stress in life. Family problems, ill health, financial problems, addiction, divorce, the death of someone close, a stressful job or loss of a job, problems in school, or problems with relationships are just a few examples. When you begin...

Chicken of Courage by Sarah Scott Nutt I would like to begin by saying that I truly appreciate the time you have taken to read my book. My daughter is autistic and had an extremely hard time going to school for the first time. As most children with sensory issues, she had a hard time adapting to school life as well as new routines and people. This is a true story of how she overcame her fear with...

SELECTED STORIES by Xue Mo Selected Stories by Xue Mo is a collection of short tales set on the ancient Silk Road, exploring love, hope, faith, life and death. The first three tales depict the lives and relationships of outsiders in rural villages, offering a contemporary perspective on the impact of rumour, pain and suffering. The last novella tells a gripping story of two sisters-in-law crossing...

A True Australian Outback Story by Colin Barnes Colin Barnes traces the life of his father, Ronald Barnes, from his modest beginnings on a property about three miles west of a little town in New South Wales called Peak Hill, to a lovely coastal spot called Kings Point near Ulladulla, New South Wales. He also shares memories from his mother, Margaret Barnes. The book—filled with an assortment of fa...

The Love and Power of God: Missionary Experiences in the Jungles of Ecuador by Maria Luisa J. Edwards The book covers from the beginnings specifically to the time spend in the jungle besides evangelizing learning the peoples cultures adapting myself to them to earn their trust and going on with teaching , participating in their lives .living poor with the poor. Building communities around, trainin...

I Be Emma by Charlotte Pritchard For Clara, life in the backwoods of Tennessee is all she knows. She lives with her parents, who have kept her isolated from the outside world. And until the day she is allowed to leave their rural home, she has no reason to suspect that her life is in any way unusual.  She goes out into the world to help her father sell brooms, and there, after a seemingly chance e...

An Honest Christian Poet: In the Dead of Winter, I Have Seen A Wondrous Thing by Chuck Worthy An Honest Christian Poet is a reflection of my journey through this life. In it, you will find my thoughts, fears, views, passions, struggles, and faith. With the reading of this book comes an understanding of all that I am. It is honest, open, and leaves nothing hidden. My journey has been unique and ind...

HAMBURG'S HYBRIDS by Sarah "Flit" Thomas The contents of this book will open up the full spectrum of the readers' interest in knowing who are the Langleys and what is the secret the patriarch of the family left in a package after his demise. This novel paints a captivating picture of the lifestyle and history of a well-established wealthy family in Charleston, South Carolina. The family has to fac...