This Week in America with Ric Bratton

PALE BEASTS by John Thrasher Every human culture has tales of white animals. For example, Native Americans have their white buffalo. Revelations describes a pale horse. Pre-Christian Europe had white unicorns, China has white tigers and white dragons, India actually did have white elephants, and Wales believed in a harbinger of doom that took the form of white owl. The coming of any of these meant...

SURVIVAL OF THE BLOOD by Beth Bristow Charles Stuart came to Scotland seeking support to dethrone England’s King George II and replace him with his father, James Stuart. If the Highlanders will join his uprising, his promise to them is freedom from English tyranny, as well as guns, artillery and provisions for the battle. However, when the Battle of Culloden began, weary Highlanders had no weapons...

LIFE, A BIT MORE? by Andrew Thomas Elder Other than a few poems in reference to veterans, the topics are basically the author’s experiences in dealing with life as a double amputee. It is meant to inspire, motivate, and be inspirational. This collection of philosophical poetry is spiritual in nature. It is meant to inspire hope, faith, love and peace of mind. It lets readers find these things as t...

700 POETIC POINTS by Dr. Nader F. Nowparast The 700 Poetic Points that you are to read and enjoy are the English version of their Farsi (Persian) original version entitled 700 Guftar (Points) versed and translated by Dr. Nader Frank Nowparast. The Original Farsi Version was published by Ketab Cor. In Los Angeles, CA is 2007. It contains 700 Quatrains or Rubaiyat. The first Quatrain was versed when...

CRYSTAL TRAVELER: BOOK 1 OF THE CRYSTAL MESSAGE CHRONICLES by Breighton Dawe and Kathleen Dawe A love story stretching across time, Crystal Traveler takes the reader from the present day to the last days of Atlantis, then forward again through myth and history. Modern scientist Ta-rel, caught in a mysterious crystal generated time portal, finds himself thrust into the midst of plots and intrigues...

Dream No More: Rise of a Lion: Book I by Marrio C. Mathews “Dream No More of a Lion – Book 1” is the beginning of a new Sci-Fi, Fantasy quest. This coming of age hero’s journey follows a young black boy named, Lyone. He is torn away from his family by a civil war that reduces a nation to ash. Then, he is found injured and taken into the care of a host family who learns of his strange misplacement...

ELLIE'S JOURNAL by M.E. Castanares This is an adventure story about a mortal teenager named Emily Castle and her immortal vampire-with-a-soul father Daniel Sangelos, who set out on a journey to find Emily’s mother, named Ellie. Ellie was thought to have died years ago; however, that is not true. Ellie is alive, and now Daniel and Emily must race to find her. Along with Daniel’s abilities, they hav...

YOUR CHILD IS SMARTER THAN YOU THINK! UNLEASHING YOUR CHILD'S UNLIMITED POTENTIAL by Wanda Draper Your Child Is Smarter Than You Think! bridges the gap between how children think and learn, and how they feel and behave. Dr. Wanda Draper discusses a whole-child approach to articulate a child's developmental relationship to behavior and learning. Dr. Draper says, "You can't send the head to school a...

God's Truth About the End of Time by Arnold Johnson God’s prophetic work is the only prophecy that I know of that comes to pass 100 percent of the time. All prophecy in the Bible has come to pass exactly as it was prophesied, or is waiting until the proper time for it to be fulfilled, no exceptions. Therefore, you can rest assured that the Bible’s version of the end of time is 100 percent accurate...

VESTIGE by Monique Gliozzi Dr Maxwell Stein, a seasoned child psychologist practicing in New York, is about to head off on vacation, when the past comes back to haunt him. A visit by a former patient, now a mysterious adult, takes him by surprise to deliver a priceless gift. Her simple message, sets the wheels of his conscious and subconscious mind in motion till he is on the verge of derailing. H...

BELONGING: FEELING LOVED, COMFORTABLE AND SAFE by Paul Carlo, Ph. D. Personal connections that leave people feeling a sense of being cared about and valued, with a true sense of belonging and being wanted, is something most of us include when listing the kinds of things that lead to feeling happy and fulfilled. Yet many of us don't have the kinds of close relationships that leave us feeling deeply...

A HOMELESS PANIC: THE HOMELESS EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA by James H. Lough A gripping and powerful story about survival on the streets. This is a true account, in descriptive and sometimes graphic detail, of what it was like to survive homelessness. It is the story of one person’s struggle to come to terms with what can only be described as a real-life disaster. More than just a good read, A Homeless...

MUSICAL THOUGHTS: A POETRY TO PONDER ABOUT by Ami K. Kalsi Here is a poem collection for everybody to lie back comfortably on their couch holding a cup of cocoa and lose themselves into a world of thoughts. These thoughts seem to be so rhythmic that we call them ‘Musical Thoughts’. The poems in this book mainly focus on nature, human behavior and elements which influence the mood of a person. The...

Lauren Lake, the TV Judge Who Sang Back-Up for P. Diddy & Mary J. Blige, Presides over Lauren Lake’s Paternity Court Ric Speaks with Judge Lauren Lake About Her Unusual Path to the Courtroom and the Emotional Cases She Oversees in Lauren Lake’s Paternity Court, Now in its Seventh Season It’s safe to say Lauren Lake isn’t quite like other TV courtroom judges. Yes, she earned her law degree at W...

MURDER IN THE DUST: ARCANE INVESTIGATORS, BOOK ONE by Shaun K. Thornhill Through the years, the villagers of Sannat have struggled to overcome a horrible battle. When several of Colonel Hawthorn’s sheep are brutally slaughtered, echoes of the past worry many. Colonel calls on the Arcane Investigators, mages Ross MacTaggert and Rick Logan to take the case. Very soon it becomes clear that there’s mo...

THE HARDING SISTERS OF STERLING CITY ROAD AND ME by Carol E. Plimpton This book is the often-humorous, sometimes sad, story of a Connecticut Yankee family from the perspective of a great niece who was very involved in the everyday lives of her great aunts. It is autobiographical on her part and biographical on the part of the aunts of whom she writes. Carol E. Plimpton is Professor Emeritus from T...

THE UNSIGNED, UNDELIVERED LETTER: PINDLING LEFT FREE...MANDELA SET FREE by Philip Rahming In the dying months of my seventy-eighth birthday in the year 2011, something clicked within me. I was remembering a historic undelivered letter and the private and painful burden I bore for a time to keep this letter undelivered. My reflections took me back to the 1985 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetin...

THE LOST DUTCHMEN MINE AND THE PEG LEG PETE MINE by Harold Cohn One who searches for what is not lost is a fool: " ! The book "THE LOST DUTCHMAN MINE and PEG LEG PETE MINE" may lead one to the forgoing conclusion in regards to the Lost Dutchman Mine. However, after over five years of research and writing this writer can state that his conclusions are not fact nor fiction, just supposition. However...

THE ADVENTURES OF SLICKEY, TRICKEY, ICKEY, AND THE BAD CAT EARL by Charles McClure Bad Cat Earl is up to his tricks again, and it’s only two days before Christmas. Why is he so silent? Who is the receiver of his mysterious letter? What happened to all the Christmas presents and what’s the greatest gift of all? Read on to find the answer to these questions and to enjoy the adventures of Tricky, Sli...

RIVER RAT by Michael E. Oppitz Robbie Jasper is a graduating high school genius who lives in a family whose parents are very controlling and neglectful towards his interests and needs. Mr. Jasper is an Architectural Engineer who travels the world maintaining his family’s wealthy lifestyle while Mrs. Jasper is more interested in what others have to say about her than she does about her own family....

This Black History Month, a New Documentary Celebrates the Legacy of the World’s First Black Astronauts BLACK IN SPACE: BREAKING THE COLOR BARRIER, Premiering Monday February 24th at 8pm ET/PT only on Smithsonian Channel Ric Speaks with the Emmy-Winning Director of African American Documentaries, Laurens Grant During the Cold War Space Race, the U.S. not only had to defeat the Soviet Union in a co...

LOOKING AHEAD: A PERSONAL THEOLOGY OF HOPE by Charles Lee Holland Jr. Looking Ahead considers Christianity in our time as it confronts the crisis of the relevance of the church and the challenge facing biblical theology. The reflections and observations in this book are autobiographical in nature because they mirror the personal perspective of one who for sixty-five years has sought to communicate...

WE HAVE ALL BEEN BROKEN by Ben Rekittke I write the things you wish you could say,but can only whisper in the dark. This book is dedicated to the broken, living and dead alike. We have all been broken. Every one of us. Some get stronger, the rest stay broken in the darkness. I observe people and tell their story. Vanity, greed, and ego have eroded the Human condition for far too long. Ben Rekittke...

Health Benefits of Kindness with Susan Smith Jones, PhD We all know that random acts of kindness are selfless acts performed by kind people to either help or cheer up a random stranger, for no reason other than to make people happier. Random acts of kindness can also help our friends and family, as well as ourselves. And this is our uplifting topic today with our guest, holistic health expert Susa...

THE LIGHTER SIDE OF DARKNESS by Troy "Poppy" Johnson The LSD is a supernatural thriller based on actions taken by GOD to extinguish evil for evermore. In this story ironically GOD commission sinners to rid Hell of Satan by answering the final prayer of Protagonist, (Dimitrius Steele, aka The Redeemer) an Ex- Marine now condemned death row prisoner; by sending him to Hell to save the souls of his f...