This Week in America with Ric Bratton

THE PRESIDENT'S ESCORT: THE JOSEPH BROWNING CORBIN STORY by Joseph B. Corbin with Susan Funk The Presidents Escort: The Joseph Browning Corbin Story is an adventure-packed journey through time from Corbins early life in the Shenandoah Mountains during Prohibition and into the farmlands of Culpepper County, Virginia. The true story spins the reader through a tornado that leaves the toddler homeless...

DISPENSING TRUTH: DIVINE PRESCRIPTIONS TO RESTORE AND MAINTAIN GOOD HEALTH by Dr. Ron Girardin Would you volunteer for open heart surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation treatments? Would you consider becoming severely depressed? Well don’t worry, you won’t have to volunteer. Unfortunately, heart disease and cancer are the leading causes of death in the United States. If you live a normal life span, t...

THY KINGDOM COME: RE-EVALUATING THE HISTORICIST'S INTERPRETATION OF THE REVELATION by Marsue and Jerry Huerta Contemporary history and progressive revelation regarding the Hebraic festivals are the basis for a renovation of the traditional historicist’s house and its perception of recapitulation in the book of Revelation, which does not disturb the historicist’s view that the papacy is the Antichr...

MODERN FAMILY: THE UNTOLD ORAL HISTORY OF ONE OF TELEVISION'S GROUNDBREAKING SITCOMS by Marc Freeman An oral history, with the full participation of cast and crew, of one of the most popular sitcoms in television history. Since premiering in 2009, the groundbreaking television sitcom Modern Family has garnered tens of millions of devoted fans, earning 75 Emmy nominations and 22 Emmy Awards, includ...

Celebrate Pride Month Two New LGBTQ Stories from These YA Authors Are Sure to be Among the Summer’s Most Popular Beach Reads Ric Speaks with Dean Atta and Ciara Smyth About Their Highly Anticipated New YA Novels June is Pride Month, when the world's LGBT communities come together and celebrate the freedom to be themselves. Pride Month arrives during an especially difficult time for our nation when...

BORN TO LOSE by Rebekah Right Being Born was my only crime Memories of childhood, of youth, of now...why am I continuously being afflicted, scorn, rejected, tormented and outcast. Before knowing pain and affliction was a way of life for me, I was already experiencing it. Why? What was I to learn from pain and suffering? Why was pain and suffering necessary for me? My God, My God, where are Thou? I...

MEMOIRES OF A TRASH HAULER: VIGNETTES FROM THE VIETNAM WAR by Henri L. Bailey, III: Lieutenant Colonel, USAF (Retired) Did you ever wonder why Air Force Special Operations Command came into being? The many roles and missions of tactical airlift blossomed and grew during the Vietnam conflict to such an extent that the Air Force later established an Air Force Special Operations Command to retain and...

ANCIENT LIGHTS: THE REAL DEAL ABOUT THE AMERICAN NATIONS BIRTH: HOW THE RACE CARD EVIL INFILTRATED AND UNDERMINED THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT by Christine and Haywood Isaac This volume is the sequel to the first book, covering the period ranging from the Portuguese-Spanish exploration of the New World (circa. the 1500s A.D.), the founding of the thirteen British Colonies and their Revolutionary War wi...

GOD'S INDESCRIBABLE GIFT by Jeffrey Cantine This book is designed to help the reader get to know God on a deeper spiritual level. In addition to this, the book is meant to address A.W. Tozer’s observation that the modern-day Christian is taught to be content with very little of God’s presence. The author spent much of his life as a non-believer. He began to grow disillusioned with the philosophies...

Dr. Gerhard Behrens is as international as can be. German, born in Greece, graduated in law after studies in Germany and Cairo, professional career as a banker and businessman in the Middle East, since 20 years living in London. Now retired. Married to an Egyptian lady and one son (half German/half Egyptian of course). And yes: Even two years in Boston and Charlottesville, where his wife worked as...

A SERVING OF PISTACHIOS HAS AS MUCH PROTEIN AS AN EGG. AND LIKE EGGS, MEAT, FISH AND DAIRY, THEY’RE A COMPLETE PROTEIN The Food and Drug Administration defines a “complete” protein as a food that contains adequate amounts of all nine essential amino acids. Amino acids are the building blocks of protein, and while the body can naturally produce 11 of them, there are nine essential amino acids the b...

THE PROPHET by Gay Le Jai a professional hypnotherapist who has studied past life regression and life between life experiences considers himself an expert on reincarnation till he meets Roxy. Seh teacher him about the continuum. She teaches him how to live and love without our flawed vicimisation. He and his wife then takes their live and their teaching to the world and show you how to releaseyour...

INVESTMENT SUCCESS: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO MANAGING INVESTMENTS BY Zachariah Dauke Suleiman Investment Success: (A Practical Guide to Managing Investments) is a practical do-it-yourself book on how to invest in today’s world and making a success of it in an environment where investment failure is a huge possibility. The author, based on his educational background, experience and practical day-to-day...

FAMILY TRIP TO MAGICAL MADAGASCAR AND BEYOND by Nicki Geigert Family Trip to Magical Madagascar and Beyond is about a family’s adventure to Madagascar and then Zimbabwe. They discovered that Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world. It hosts a huge array of lemurs, fossas, aye-ayes, many species of plants, chameleons, and insects found nowhere else. The experience of traveling together...

WEATHERING STORMS: FLYING BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL by Roger Johnson While on his deathbed my father revealed to me a long held and very closely guarded secret, the topic of which he had never shared with another person, not even his late wife. I am convinced he became an alcoholic and closet madman due to the subject of that deathbed confession. I only wish he had told me years earlier as it would...

BELOVED AND THE PEPPER TREE by Ann Gonzales “Beloved and the Pepper Tree” is a wonderful book for children that explores how to cope with life’s big changes. SYNOPSIS Beloved is best friends with the Pepper Tree who lives down the hill from her house. She loves the Pepper Tree because it gives her shade to read in and branches to climb. When Mama tells Beloved they are moving away, Beloved is hear...

GLIMPSES OF GOD by Mike Black Quite often, we see things only when we are looking for them. This lead me to begin looking for glimpses of God in my day-to-day life and all the things that were directly part of my life or just in the world and events around me. In the pages of this book are observations and insights from life-glimpses of God that I only saw because I was looking for them, for him....

THE SMOKEY LOUNGE by Jose Gabriel Garcia The writing style to this book is again on relationships, lonesomeness, the hip scene teenagers and adults talk about, and, on another topic, nature. Poems written in Spanish have been followed by the English translation as well. I held on to the shamanistic realm of depicting nature, though not as strongly as in my first book. The language is generally smo...

MOMMY MOMMY: LOOK THE MAN ONE LEG! by William Dalmas with Martine Dalmas Children ask so many questions and want to be engaged with their world at an early age. Once the social protocols (Manners) are learned, the boundaries are limitless. About the Author Born in Sacramento, California and grew up in San Diego, California. The beach was his salvation. Not formally educated but was always able to...

I'LL BEE THERE: SHORT STORIES AND PERSONAL ESSAYS by Diane Gustafson Do you have limited time to read? Do you want a complete, satisfying story in ten pages or less? This is a collection of short stories and personal essays illustrating life’s challenges faced by men and women of various locales and time periods. These include a Savannah widow who must house four of General Sherman’s officers, an...

Messages: Flowing with Synchronicity by Denny Daikeler Denny Daikeler is amazing. She puts into words what so many of us need to think about. Most people live their lives oblivious to the little 'magical' messages. It is in this guidance that there is a POWER out there patiently waiting, aware of our travails. It will steer our lives, if only we will look deeper. Daikeler sees the magic, is in tou...

Ric Catches Up with Investigative Journalist Diane Dimond As She Highlights Six of the Most Riveting Headline-Making Stories on Investigation Discovery’s … ID Presents: Nine at 9 Dimond is at the helm of six of the nine specials and can speak about the cases of Brittany Murphy, Heather Elvis, Faith Hedgepeth, Kyron Horman, Jeffery Epstein and Jennifer Dulos. The special event begins with an explor...

Reach For the Stars This Memorial Day Week: Space Launch Live: America Returns to Space Watch the LIVE extravaganza from the comfort of your own home as Discovery and Science Channel document history in the making when Americans blast back into space. Wednesday’s NASA launch of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Capsule marks the first crewed space mission from the U.S. since 2011. Ric Talks with former astrona...

THE BLUE ORB by Suzy Vivian Hundreds of years ago in the land of Uranallee, a powerful wizard creates a blue orb capable of amplifying directed thought with just a few words. It lies dormant for many years, until a coven of vile witches discovers it and develops a plot to take over the world. Zarcon is a great wizard who fears the witches have the legendary blue orb that provides them with more po...

A MILLION MONKEYS: THE REAL STORY BEHIND GENESIS AND THE MEANING OF LIFE BY Dennis Patrick Treece Why are we here? What are we supposed to do on this earth? Who created us? Humankind has struggled with these questions for millennia. We’ve created complex societies, religions, and theories to answer them, but we’ve ignored the simple truth. Dennis Patrick Treece shares this truth with readers of al...