Author Line-Up for 7-19-22

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A story finally told from an enlisted soldier’s unique perspective.

Command Sergeant Major (CSM) Bradley P. Jones in his wildest dreams, never thought he would make a career out of the military. Like many, he joined for the college tuition assistance. He was determined to serve out his first and only enlistment, and then move on to bigger and better. He managed to leave the military – called a break in service – for four years, but the military never left his thoughts or his system. There was something about serving his country that constantly called to him through his missionary service in south America and then into his university studies. A calling Bradley finally succumbed to, reenlisting back into an AH-64 Apache helicopter battalion near the university. From there, his service led to a career he loved working on Apaches as a full-time federal employee, while starting a family with his wife as a newlywed. While serving in Kuwait on September 11, 2001, his life and career, along with everyone in uniform, changed along with the rest of the country. From there, his career trajectory seemed to him to be predetermined, finally culminating in his appointment to serve his beloved fellow soldiers as the top enlisted member in the battalion. In Treading the Deep, Bradley’s humor and faith promoting experiences, restores readers beliefs in the tenacity of the human spirit and its ability to ultimately overcome, no matter the trials or circumstances.

Author Line-Up for 7-12-22

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Every time Jenna Kravitz sees her sex on a stick ex-husband, she still craves him like he's a hotdog with all the fillings. They were soulmates, meant to grow old together...before his freight train wreck dropped her off at despair station. As if that weren't enough, she's tasked with finding her employer's hacker, which might be the colleague whipping up her innermost fantasies. Marco Kravitz returned from Afghanistan with PTSD. In a moment of lapsed judgment, he ruins his marriage. So, when his ex-wife proposes they have kinky fun, he accepts. After all, she can't help being drawn to his gigantic...brain. How could his plan to win back the mother of his children possibly go wrong? He must rise to the occasion. She has to swallow her pride.

Author Line-Up for 7-5-22

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A story of two women in NYC in 1973: Michelle Cooper, age twenty three, is despairing and without direction, having barely survived the turbulent household of her parents, and her own adolescent foray into sixties' hippiedom. Forty-something Ida Birnbaum, a Queens, NY wife and mother, and survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp, thirty years later battles her own malaise during a serious and potentially damaging midlife crisis. Like many folks during the so-called "Me Decade", both Michelle and Ida indulge in hedonistic and self-destructive activities and then must deal with the consequences. They each turn for support to their evolving friendship and to characters such as Theo, an idealistic young immigrant who lives in an Upper West Side SRO hotel and works for a telephone prayer service run by Charles, another Holocaust survivor, and self-fashioned spiritual guru. Both Michelle and Ida, Ida's husband, and even Paul, a white supremacist who stalks Michelle after a one-night stand, seek psychological healing via another of Charles' creations. The Rogen Treatment Program is a unique process wherein participants "experience" the Holocaust and, through a kind of aversion therapy, conquer their respective individual demons.

Since childhood, the author has had the parallel interests of psychology and writing/literature. After spending her twenties writing and earning a living at menial jobs, she spent the next thirty or so years as a psychotherapist and social worker, finding time to write whenever possible. Now retired, Ms. Beck-Clark hopes for her writing to have the same positive impact as her work as a clinician.

Her writing career began with the publication of several nonfiction articles. In 1999 her creative nonfiction book, Concurrent Sentences: A True Story of Murder, Love and Redemption, was published by New Horizon Press. A screenplay adaptation is in process. She's recently published flash fiction and essays online, along with a paperback poetry collection, The Zen of Forgetting. Thirty Years Hence is her second novel; the first remains unpublished, and the third is underway. The author lives with her adult special needs son in Yonkers, New York.

Author Line-Up for 6-28-22

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At 9:05 am Author Sandy Keach will discuss Steps and Stories

Did you know that Dr. Bob sponsored the first 13th stepper? Or that during the first Canadian convention in Montreal the nearby Seagram’s Distillery flew its flags at half-mast, or how the Serenity Prayer came into use with AA? Those and many other interesting stories are told about the history of Alcoholics Anonymous. Sandy’s perspective on the Steps makes clear that from Step One that you are beginning a spiritual journey. His “slide projector” provides wonderful imagery and clarity to Steps 4 through 12. Sandy offers a message of hope in a way which makes the steps accessible to all and spirituality a desirable goal. He also reminds us that if we are not having fun, we are doing something wrong!Sandy considered this talk to be his quintessential work and we are sure you will agree. He recounts the remarkable confluences of people that lead up to Bill W. & Dr. Bob first meeting in Akron and tells little known stories from early AA history and along the way."The most important book since A New Pair of Glasses"

Author Line-Up for 6-21-22

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Tentatively scheduled for 9:05am, Author Stacey Lee will discuss , 

The Hundreth Time Around   Book 1 of a trilogy :

The Noble Light Series 

A love story about following your heart, sacrifice, and second chances.

Cassidy Quinn is an attorney living in Boston who comes close to making the biggest mistake of her life. Picking up the pieces and retreating back to a town that holds her heart, Cassidy reunites with a summer fling and uncovers a connection exists between them they could never even imagine. In the midst of discovering the secrets and heartbreak that lay deep within her own family’s legacy, Cassidy will learn that sometimes when life gives you lemons — it gives you a second (or a hundred) chances to get it right."This decades-spanning tale of love lost and found ebbs and flows like the tide on the Maine coast that serves as its setting. Cassidy Quinn has known her share of heartbreak, from family tragedy to failed romance. But just when she thinks she's got it all figured out at last, another loss sends her right back to where she started. Now she must unravel the mystery of some intertwined family trees, odd gaps in her memories, and what true love really means." Kim H., Copyeditor, Red Adept Editing—

Author Line-Up for 6-7-22

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Tentatively scheduled for 9:05am Author Marjorie Turner Hollman will discuss, 

" My Liturgy of Easy Walks" 

“Liturgy” can mean a written order of worship, and can also describe "a way of meeting God." Here, liturgy takes on the widest interpretation of finding God. Learn how a ball, a bell, and a bicycle offer a path toward healing. Easy Walks, a phrase the author has become known for, has brought the author physical healing, spiritual refreshment, and joy.

My Liturgy of Easy Walks is a memoir of learning to thrive in the face of life-changing events. Writing has helped the author make peace with her experiences. The Easy Walks book series shares information about how to get outdoors safely. This latest book in the Easy Walks collection inspires hope for those facing lives altered by illness or injury.

Learn how a simple childhood game becomes a portal for spiritual awakening. A walk in the woods brings moments of insight. Encounters with strangers foster understanding and joy.

Emotional, physical and spiritual struggles are all part of living with chronic illness, out of the mainstream. Adjusting to changed life circumstances can be difficult, isolating, and lonely. The author shares her own challenges, ponderings, and triumphs, discovering unexpected healing along the way.

Author Line -Up for 5-24-22

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Tentatively Scheduled for 9:05am , Author Cathy Hermanson will discuss, "The Answers You Seek"

Orphaned as a young girl, Payton Sinclair has been bounced around the foster care system for most of her childhood. When the family she is living with discovers her secret, Payton is sent to live in a group home. A fire breaks out, someone from the home is put in danger and Payton is the prime suspect. With the cops in hot pursuit, she goes on the run to find the one person that holds all the answers. With the help of an old doll, a fortune teller and a mysterious drunkard, Payton heads out on a journey that will change the course of her whole future.