This Week in America with Ric Bratton

RAISING HEALTHY CHILDREN & THE YOUNG-AT-HEART: 12 Simple Tips that WORK! with Susan Smith Jones, PhD Raising healthy children can be a very daunting and challenging task in this day and age with so many activities, poor food choices, sitting too long in front of the computer or smart phone, peer pressure from friends and much more. Our guest today, holistic health and lifestyle expert, Susan S...

Little Window Visits: on Lindenpopper Lane by R. J. Snyder At times, we all might feel like we are on the outside looking in. Sometimes, the windows we stare into show us all the things we wish we had. Sometimes, the windows show us the people we want to hold and keep close to in our lives. And sometimes, the light glinting off the glass shows us who we are and who God encourages us to be.  During...

Stormfront: Book One of the Stormsong Trilogy by Stephen A. Reger An epic storm is threatening all of Europe… The year is 1618, and the Christian world stands, once again, on a knife's edge. The once great Holy Roman Empire, like most of the rest of Europe, is divided along religious, political, and economic lines - pitting Catholics against Protestants, princes against monarchs, and the rich agai...

A Turkey's Thanksgiving Story by Justin Boyd Tom has a problem. He just learned that he would be the guest of honor at this year's Thanksgiving dinner, which is not usually a bad thing, unless you are a turkey! Tom must hatch a plan if he is going to survive this holiday, something to truly be thankful for on Thanksgiving. An all-new barnyard classic that will have you laughing out loud and believ...

The Revelation of Revelation: A Book of Revelation - A Total Fraud by Ken Vernon and Brooke Folk The Revelation of Revelation is a story never told before now because it wasn't to be told until now, according to scriptures. It didn't happen in a vision, not in a sudden rush of a mighty wind, but instead a gentle but profound inspiration.  Ken Vernon has had this respect for the scripture that says...

What the Bible really says about Money and Giving: It's Not What You Think! by Dr. Michael Davis Ever wonder if, as a Christian, it's OK to be rich? Or, how much should you really be giving each month? Believe it or not, God's Word, written over 2,000 years ago, provides specific answers to these questions and many others impacting our everyday financial decision-making. In fact, the Bible deals m...

Charlie and The Elephant by Loretta Beacham Charlotte, a girl who's curious and kind, is chosen by a big blue elephant to banish the cruel poachers from the forest. In a daring and determined plan, they join forces with the clever, talkative Mr. Crow and the empathetic, self-sacrificing Miss Ash Tree. With bravery, teamwork, and a surprise ambush by a large flock of crows, they save her friend and...

Freddy B: My Last Encounter With the Law Got Me A Trip for a One Year Stay at a Department of Corrections Facility by Yvonne Stevens Walton Harris I believe Freddy B will open the eyes of young men and women-"There are consequences to your actions in life." My hope is this book will continue his ministry to others. His struggle may help parents realize, no matter how difficult, to find a way to br...

The House of Wolves: Murder Runs in the Family by James Patterson and Mike Lupica James Patterson and Mike Lupica are the thriller dream team! Jenny Wolf’s murdered father leaves her in charge of a billion-dollar empire—and a family more ruthless than Succession' s Roys and Yellowstone ’s Duttons.   The Wolfs, the most powerful family in California, have a new head–thirty-six-year-old former high...

Friendship City: Hanging by a Thread By Carl H. Mitchell It is 2058. NYPD detective Nick Garvey and Lenora Allison, President of the battered and reeling United States, are battling the many remaining remnants of the murderous World Council. They must confront the forced introduction of a man-made killer plague and the destruction of the newly created Friendship City. President Allison succeeded i...

Bending Atmospheres: A Journey from Inner to Outer Space by Glenn J. Butler with W.B. King A memoir of a young man's dream of space flight, Bending Atmospheres is a dazzling adventure recounting daring, heroic professionals learning to work at undersea pressures to 1,000 feet sea water and in the vacuum of orbital space traveling at 18,000 miles an hour. Readers are taken through the early develop...

Into the Canyon with Mary Colter by Dr. Barbara ten Brink ​The work of the Atchison, Topeka, Santa Fe Railroad, the work of the Fred Harvey Company, and the talent and brilliance of Mary Colter formed a “perfect storm” to complete their many building projects along the Western Ho movement from her first hire in 1902 until her retirement in 1948. Please know that my book, Into the Canyon with Mary...

A Penny for Your Thoughts: Penny Johnson's Legacy by Jane Penny Johnson Poetry is the song that poets sing to beautify the world. In A Penny for Your Thoughts, contemporary American poet Penny Johnson presents verses about nature, love, life, death, philosophy, and religion. She considers American life in the present day. With her writing, she hopes to teach, fulfill, entertain, heal wounds, and s...

The Message by Dr. Michael Ritivoi Hansen The Message is a birds eye view of the origin of Marxism, how it came to be a political system, what kind of a society it is, its daily life, all woven around my personal experience. "The remarkable power of his "message" derives not from rhetorical device but from the searing authenticity of his early life experience." "Without exception, the most potent...

 I Kidnap Girls: Stealing From Traffickers, Restoring Their Victims by Pamela Rigdon "I kidnap girls from their traffickers. Their pimps never know it until the girls are in the car with me, speeding toward the safe house." Iana Matei did not always do such things. In fact, Matei, a once battered, imprisoned woman, had spent 10 years carefully constructing a better life halfway around the world. T...

The Shingle Weaver's Picnic by P.C. Smith It's 1941, and the chill of something evil is spreading around the world like a black plague. Suspicion and fear have replaced the trust of innocence of humankind. The news of unheard-of violence and brutality presses heavily on the hearts of mankind. What is tomorrow going to look like? What has happened to the world as we once knew it? World War II begin...

Healing: MY PILGRIMAGE WITH TAGORE, INDIA'S REVERED TEACHER by Linda L. George Ph. D. A retired clergyperson, with over 30 years of experience in civilian and military chaplaincy, explores her own grief experiences, including the deaths of two husbands, as well as reflections on myriad other losses everyone suffers. The author shares how we can easily relate to the sorrows of the Nobel-prize-winni...

Hunting the Comeback Trail by Bill Padilla Roy's lack of depth perception caused him to stumble several times while negotiating deadfalls....When Roy twisted his ankle on one of those logjams, he thought it safer to stay along the road. Roy's patience had grown as would that of any man who's survived serious injury. He waited and when shadows started to get long that evening, he spotted his first...

Gratitude for Your Miraculous Body The Healing Power of Being Grateful For a woman with three of America’s most ordinary names, Susan Smith Jones, PhD, has certainly made extraordinary contributions in the fields of holistic health, anti-aging, optimum nutrition and balanced living. For starters, she taught students, staff and faculty at UCLA how to be healthy and fit for 30 years! Susan is the fo...

From Prosperity to Adversity by Curtis L. Sangster A prisoner, addict, ex-Marine, and now a devout Christian, Curtis L. Sangster has made his share of mistakes in life. Inspired to enter the U.S. Military by his father, an Army veteran, Curtis L. Sangster got in top-notch shape and joined the Marine Corps. He assumed he was physically and mentally prepared to serve his country and to face any batt...

Escaping Our Fallen Nature by David Piper As the fall of this tree following an ordinary weather event surprised its community, revealing that the roots beneath the surface had decayed, the minor turbulences in our own lives will often reveal that the foundation on which we have built our lives has severe deterioration just beneath the surface also. It is when we come to realize that our falling f...

A Hundred Honeymoons: A Novel by J.S. Wilson Women are predators too, only the prey is different? - A.J. Strindberg A Hundred Honeymoons? storyline develops like a carnally driven small town soap opera revolving around two innocent teenagers, Todd and Sally. Drenched in hormonal confusion, Todd?s teenage adventures offer a good number of relatable moments for the reader to quip, ?Yeah, I remember...

I'm Here for the Bath by P.E. Rolita I'm Here for the Bath was a labor of love for me to write. In the sixty plus short stories that I put together for you I shared not only the experiences of the people I served and their caregivers but my own as well. My life unfolded during the thirty plus years I cared for the dying and supported the people around them. My work as a hospice aide molded me, sha...

The Don: A Story of Discovery, Deception, and Defiance by Lillie Timmons Bella Rossellini, a young widow, mother, and athlete, is looking for work at the end of the semester break. Upon applying at the casino for a summer job, Bella finds the staff to be abrupt and rude, deciding a casino job is not for her. As she leaves the casino, she doesn't realize she has captured the attention of a mafia do...

Memoire Memes by Dr. Henrietta Abbey Adventure, life lessons, traveling, marriage, birth, migration, education, life experience, literature, assimilation, fitting in, history, and autobiography It's a memoir. It's an interesting story of the author's life. She narrates her life history, from childhood through kindergarten to the university. She migrated to the United States and experienced motherh...