WILDFLOWER

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Trudy Kelly began her life in the rolling hills of Oklahoma in 1915. The child of a sharecropper/preacher, and a tiny, stubborn woman, Trudy feels certain of her father's love, but endures escalating conflict with her bitter mother who struggles to provide for her six children’s physical needs but shows little tenderness. After one last climactic encounter, Trudy escapes with a young man she has known all her life but doesn't love. They set out for California, pursuing her husband's dream of owning his own trucking business. The journey takes years and leads them through the depths of the Great Depression and their own worsening relationship. Trudy, with two sons before she turns twenty, becomes accustomed to “making the best of it.” Empathy for her mother grows as she begins to understand what Mama's struggles have done to her.At last Trudy and Joe arrive at their destination, but by that point her husband’s drinking and abuse have destroyed any chance of her loving him. A devoted reader of the Brontë sisters' novels before her elopement, she gives up on ever finding her Heathcliff—until she meets someone who renews her hopes.However, she soon realizes that real life isn’t a romance novel and that relying on her own interior strength is her best option.

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First Break

		Jamie Weil October 10 at 12:04 PM
ZERO! So excited to tell you FIRST BREAK IS NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON! So fresh the print image isn't there as I type yet, but then, you've seen the cover, right? https://tinyurl.com/y93dgazm Happy World Mental Health Day! Happy Book Birthday, First Break! Please share this post with anybody you think may be interested in this story that affects us all. Here's what a few of my favorite authors are saying about First Break. So grateful for your work, your words and your support, Deborah Halverson, Charlie Price, and Lois Sepahban. “A gripping journey to understanding that at once shakes you up and cradles you tight.” Deborah Halverson, Author of YA for Dummies "Jamie Weil’s novel FIRST BREAK accurately depicts a young woman dealing, or not dealing as is sometimes the case, with bipolar illness. The book chronicles the inexplicable shifts in Paige’s mental processes as her unacknowledged psychotic break begins to skew her reality and damage her ability to make a successful transition from home to freshman year college. As the illness progresses, Paige becomes unable to trust anyone who might help her and unable to understand or organize her own perceptions. She spirals increasingly out of control and drifts away from school far beyond the reach of her loving and desperately concerned mother. FIRST BREAK powerfully establishes its unique truth and Weil’s clear and graceful prose rivets us as we share Paige’s perilous adventures. Author Jamie Weil’s novel gives adults, young adults, and parents the gift of being simultaneously entertained and educated as we grow to understand the harrowing nature of bipolar illness and the steps necessary to manage it." ~ Charlie Price Winner of the 2011 Edgar for Best Young Adult Mystery and numerous award-winning YA novels. "Paige's experiences with mental illness are painful, honest, and raw. Hers is an important story for a society with a mental illness crisis among teens. When I started the book, my eyes were opened. By the time I finished it, my heart was opened, too." ~ Lois Sepahban Award-winning author of multiple nonfiction books and debut novel, Paper Wishes, Margaret Ferguson Books (FSG imprint). I am so excited to bring this story to you! I am so grateful to be on this journey called life with you. All Things That Matter Press, Deb McCollett Harris and Philip F. Harris, I love you guys!

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A Balanced Life

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Pursuing a sport without the requisite talent can be considered foolish; pursuing it over decades can be considered borderline madness. In this lyrical memoir, Patricia Schultheis uses skating to examine the richness and constraints of her Catholic girlhood, the impact of the upheavals of the sixties on her young marriage, and how skating provided a release from the demands of marriage, motherhood, and a career. When a series of devastating losses, including the death of her husband, knocked her off her feet, she wondered if she could get up again. But skating had been a constant in her life for so long, she returned to the ice and discovered that features of the sport ~ its unpredictability, unexpected rewards, and many possibilities for grace ~ mirror those of life itself.

About the Author

Patricia Schultheis grew up in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the second of three daughters in a Polish-American family. Struck by polio when she was six years old, she became an introspective, anxious child who found release in reading and ice skating on neighborhood ponds. After graduating from Catholic schools and Albertus Magnus College in 1965, she moved to Baltimore in order to be near her beloved older sister. A week later she had her first date with the man to whom she was married for forty-one years. While raising their two sons, she worked in a variety of public rela-tions positions, including jobs with The Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting, Kiplinger Washington Editors, and The University of Maryland. But she had always wanted to be a writer, a goal she began pursuing forty years ago, when the now-defunct The Sun Magazine published her first article, a story about a local cheesecake entrepre-neur. Since then she has had nearly one hundred articles, essays and book reviews published, as well as two books. The unexpected death of her older sister at age fifty-five, followed soon by the deaths of her father and mother, prompted her to turn to more intimate forms of expression: the personal essay and fiction. Just as reading and ice skating had afforded her release as a child, these more in-depth forms served as avenues for her to explore her values, her relationships, and her mistakes and triumphs. They also formed the basis for A Balanced Life, which she wrote following the death of her husband. She continues to write and ice skate and to live in Baltimore, where she teaches in the Odyssey Program of Johns Hopkins University.

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Quran and Wisdom of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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This book is a journey into the spiritual realms of Islam and Sufism. Endowed with the gifts of music, spirituality and mysticism, Hazrat Inayat Khan guided by the poetry of the Quran and by the Grace of God came to America more than a century ago to unite East with the West in God Realization. His message still resonates fresh in this century twenty-one. The wealth of esoteric and exoteric knowledge in this book can serve as the contemporary books of Quran, Bible and Torah for the People of the Book. Love, peace and harmony is the only message in this exquisite journey into the valleys of truth from sharing to caring, to living to the fullness of one’s own divine-self within. May every reader discover the kernels of spirituality to the fulfilment of their own faith and fealty.

About the Author

Farzana Moon is a poet, historian and a playwright. Writes Sufi poetry, historical, biographical accounts of the Moghul emperors and plays based on stories from religion and folklore. Her published works in religion and spirituality are: Irem of the Crimson Desert; Sufis and Mystics of the World; Prophet Muhammad: The First Sufi of Islam; No Islam But Islam; Sharia Exposed. Published works in the sequels of the Moghul emperors are: Babur, The First Moghul In India; The Moghul Exile; Divine Akbar and Holy India; The Moghul Hedonist: Glorious Taj and Beloved Immortal; The Moghul Saint of Insanity; Poet Emperor of the Last of the Moghuls: Bahadur Shah Zafar. Another of her published book in history is about the partition of India and Pakistan, Holocaust of the East. Her play Osama The Demented had a staged reading in Stockholm. Another of her play, Russian Roulette, is being considered for production. Latest published book, Friends Incarnate. Currently working on a book, The American Queen, about the wife of Hazrat Inayat Khan, Ora Ray Baker who was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico USA.

TIP OF THE BLADE

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Madelyn has risked everything to fulfill her mother’s demand, “You must survive and tell the tale.” Sins committed to keep this vow have summoned Satan, threatening Madelyn’s eternal soul. Now she’s confined to a cell in Saint Michael’s Abbey. The heavenly warrior lends his mystical sword to battle the demon’s evil influence. But her only hope of escape is confession and absolution. TIP OF THE BLADE is set in ninth century France, a tumultuous era during the decline of Charlemagne’s Empire and the upheaval caused by Viking invasions. Travel through medieval settings, meet complex characters, delve into the realm of mysticism, and fall under the spell of forbidden romance when you join the adventure of Madelyn’s story of survival.

About the Author

Cris Harding, is a native Floridian. She is an award winning playwright for the musical, Western Trail. Since retiring from a teaching career, Cris is self-employed as an author. Many stories relate to her experience, but most belong to an insistent voice from the past. Cris graduated from University of South Florida with a Bachelor of Arts in Speech Communication. Later, she earned a Master of Fine Arts from Florida State University’s School of Theatre. As an actor, she performed numerous roles in many productions. Since retiring, she is self-employed as an author. Many stories relate to her experience, but most belong to an insistent voice from the past. Cris writes plays and books for children. She is an award winning playwright for the musical, Western Trail. Recently, she has added historical drama and fiction to her repertoire. Cris enjoys researching her genealogy. Ancestors leave remnants of their lives, creating a patchwork pattern of pathos and joy. These discoveries inspire plots of her fictional novels. www.crisharding.com and www.flatmadelyngoestofrance