This Week in America with Ric Bratton

THE DIAPHRAGM: THE MUSCLE SOURCE OF LIFE by Rasheem J. Northington THE DIAPHRAGM- The Muscle Source of Life is about the significant role of our muscular thoracic diaphragm. Since the diaphragm is a muscle, its function is limited to a contraction and a relaxation of its muscle fibers. Yet the effects on the body from this simple function of the diaphragm allows the sustaining of the existence of...

THE ANASTASI SYSTEM - PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT LEVEL 1: THE FUNDAMENTALS, SECOND EDITION by Sandy Anastasi An Amazing Book That Will Help You Discover and Open Your Own Psychic Abilities! With more than 30 years of teaching experience, Sandy Anastasi has been successfully training students, teachers, and professional psychics worldwide how to open, develop, and master their psychic abilities. Created f...

FROM COTTON FIELDS TO MEDICINE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Hazel Coley-Greene, M.D. The life story of Dr. Hazel Coley-Greene, M.D. Dr Hazel Coley- Greene was born in 1908 in Saulston, North Carolina. She graduated from High School at the age of 20 and college at age 24. At the age of 44 she decided to study medicine in Europe after being refused Medical School acceptance in the United States. This course...

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD: IN THE MIDST OF TRIALS, TRIBULATIONS, & TEMPTATIONS by Bishop Ray Washington “In the world you shall have tribulations, but be of good cheer for I have overcome the world.” It’s easy to say you love God when all is well in your life. But God never promised us that life in this world would be a bed of roses. The word of God tells us that many are the afflictions of the righ...

STORMIE'S ADVENTURES: STORMIE'S NEW MYSTERIES by M. L. Brown This is a story about Stormie’s secrets that she hasn’t revealed to anyone and that leads to a mystery that changes her life forever. Her secrets get revealed one at a time. Also, in this story, it also teaches life’s lessons. I am married and live in Pennsylvania. I have two cats and one service dog that keep me busy. I have had pets my...

DANCERS AMONGST THE STARS: THE WONDER, THE BEAUTY AND THE MAGIC OF WHO WE REALLY ARE, SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF AN AWAKENING WOMAN, WHO HAPPENS TO HAVE A THERAPIST IN HER POCKET by Janny Juddly This is a very particular kind of self-help book. It is a book of remembering. Our journey is a spiritual one even if we do not always realize it. We humans spend a lot of time trying to work out who we are,...

VIETNAM AMBUSH: SOLDIER IN THE BUSH by Daniel Seidenberg Jr. Vietnam Ambush tells the story of a young man answering the call of America to fight a war against the communist Vietnamese as a replacement with the 199th Light Infantry Brigade in 1968/69. It tells of his days in training, combat, recovering from injuries, and his return home amidst the antiwar fervor that had engulfed the USA at that...

HE MIGHT BE STILL ON MARS by Paul Dalzell He Might Be Still On Mars is a thriller set in the latter years of the 26th Century. Mankind has spread out into the rocky planets of the Solar System and the rocky moons of the Gas Giants such as Jupiter and Saturn. Despite light speed and near light speed travel, the number of people emigrating to these new worlds is in the doldrums. This lack of enthusi...

CONQUER YOUR YIPS: WIN THE EMPLOYMENT YOU TARGET, HOW UNDERSTANDING GOLF STRESS DEFEATS JOB SEARCH STRESS by Chuck McConnell Even if you have a job, there’s a good chance you want to find a better one. If you’re actively looking for work or seeking to make a change, you know it can be quite stressful--it’s similar to the uncomfortable feeling, or “yips,” that most golfers experience on the course....

A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS; PENNY JOHNSON'S LEGACY by 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 show t...

MARY HITE'S STORY: A PIONEER WOMAN WITH GRIT by Joseph M. Fox In this book, you will meet men and women who pioneered the early western expansion of our country and others who developed Washington as our nation’s capital. You will experience the War of Independence and the War of 1812 through new eyes and will meet some famous men and women. Mary’s stepmother was President James Madison’s aunt. A...

WHEN THE KNIGHT FELL: PART 1-CLEAR'S RISE by Christopher Gary Simmons “When the Knight Fell” is a literary version of the modern musical. Follow characters Clear, Ego, Cash and Diamond on a theatrical odyssey inspired by the fictional tragedies of the Shakespeare cast Othello, Iago, Michael Cassio and Desdemona. Perceptions of race, class and societal norms are all challenged here. Imagine Othello...

STRONGER WITH YOU by Carol Ann Iaciofano Trick Sullivan was looking for someone to save him only he didn’t know it. He had everything but it wasn’t enough. He found himself in trouble and was saved by a guy who promised to change his life. David Bell. David Bell has a daughter who has the ability to change everyone she encounters into a better person. David knew that Jessica, his daughter would br...

FULTON & COMPANY by Una Leonora This little caper is about how five of the most amazing cats brought down a Drug Ring which had been operating in their very own neighborhood. And, if things couldn't be worse, the ring was run by their mistress, Lola Carr's, unscrupulous and unsuspecting boyfriend, Neal Pointer. Come to think of it, Ms. Lola actually never knew what Neal did for a living; all s...

TURN AROUND! UNLOAD! LISTEN by Louise Brunner With all the hatred and violence in the world, we need a plan to change things. This just might start a conversation about how to do that. We are supposed to "love our neighbor " and do for them as we would want them to do to (for) us. So how do we go about it??? Maybe the answer is in here. Over a span of 33 years eight fields of nursing: Surgery, Med...

FOODS & LIFESTYLE PRACTICES TO BOLSTER IMMUNITY Human immunity is the state of being immune from or insusceptible to a disease and more. It’s the protection against infectious disease and illness given by the immune response. It includes capacity to distinguish foreign material in the body, and to neutralize, eliminate or metabolize that which is foreign. Our guest, Susan Smith Jones, PhD, wil...

NIGHT SHADOWS OVER SANDY CREEK: SOUTHWEST TEXAS RANCHERS by Jerry Snodgrass At forty-four years old, Steve Barker—a former Army Ranger, professional rodeo roper, steer wrestler, and oilfield roughneck—turns to owning and operating a cattle and horse ranch in Southwest Texas. He is driven by his love of the cowboy life to find peace after his wife and little girl were tragically killed in an automo...

HAPPILY HIPPIE: MEET A MODERN ETHNICITY by Paul Dougan Happily Hippie: Meet a Modern Ethnicity rethinks “hippies.” Hippiedom didn’t die; rather, as with other outgroups, it became socially invisible. Happily Hippie argues that the Counterculture is a 50-year-old ethnicity and explains Hippiedom’s ethnogenesis. We’ll learn how anti-Hippie demagoguery has warped American politics, how the War on Dru...

THE ELECTRIFYING ANGELS FLIGHT by Joy Munson This book is a continuation of "The Electrifying Demise" that Jim Munson wrote, with Joy's(wife) help side by side at the computer in 2008. Joy wrote this sequel in 2020. Jim had a fatal fall in 2018 and left many unfinished manuscripts of other stories and detailed notes and ideas. He had told Joy to destroy them but she did not and one day she made a...

ORIGINS AND SUFFERING by Jim Szana “Origins and Suffering” provides an artistic approach to the story of God’s creation of heaven and earth and explains its relation to our existence. Humans have pondered the meaning of our existence for centuries, philosophizing on questions such as “do my choices and actions matter?” and “what’s happened in the world that has caused so much suffering?” Author Ji...

DAUGHTER OF DESTINY by Jennifer Thomas This is a story of an orphan who overcame and triumphed over adversity in her life. She had many premonitions, dreams, and visions that came to pass. She is a great, extraordinary, gifted, unique visionary, and prophetess who has the ability to sense and discern what lies beyond her imagination. She can also interpret premonitions, dreams, and visions and wat...

HELPING HANDS by Ken Saik Jill Kreshky is recently divorced. She is doing her best to reclaim her life. After an accident causes her to spend six weeks alone in a hospital, she is haunted by the awareness that she must find a way to once again become part of her childrens lives. Unfortunately, Jill doesnt have a car, her job is temporarily on hold, her bank account is empty. There is no question t...

UNTIL I SMILE AT YOU: HOW ONE GIRL'S HEARTBREAK ELECTRIFIED FRANK SINATRA'S FAME! by Peter Jennings with contributions by Tom Sandler “Until I Smile At You” reveals for the first time the life of one of the most enduring musical talents in the 20th century: a young Canadian girl named Ruth Lowe, who wrote a song that dynamited Frank Sinatra's career into the stratosphere in 1940, “I’ll Never Smile...

HEAVEN TO GAIN AND HELL TO SHUN by Doreen Rose To have this published is nothing short of a miracle. In 1997 Rev. Phil West recalled a phrase “There’s a heaven to gain and a hell to shun”. That ended up as a 9-month series at the Highfields Baptist Church, with people filling the church to listen be challenged. I suggested that it go into print. As the topic covered the entire Bible, I brilliantly...

UNDERSTANDING CANCER: CAUSES, SPREAD AND CONTROL MEASURES by Rishikesh Ram Motilall Ram Motilall’s book Understanding Cancer: Causes, Spread, and Control Measures is a comprehensive yet simple description of what causes cancer and how we as humans can understand what is happening in our bodies. Although cancer is referred to as a disease, it is actually a part of life that includes growth and repr...