A Christmas Carol in Maine

THE OPERATOR

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When Harold takes his wife, Laura, on vacation to quaint Prescott, Arizona, to jump-start their strained marriage, he finds himself swept through a squirmhole into the arms of the beautiful Talia Sanders, the hotel’s 1929 switchboard operator. Together, they scheme to prevent the Great Depression but, before he can put his plan to the test, the stockbroker re-emerges in 2017. He discovers nothing changed, except for the billion-dollar fortune Talia left him with instructions to derail an imminent, nation-wide, financial collapse.He’s immediately confronted by Talia’s son, who will stop at nothing to gain control of the money. Meanwhile, Harold must navigate the murky political backwaters of Washington, engaging a dangerous power broker with his own traitorous agenda. Caught in a web of greed and deceit, he is forced to find a way back in time to enlist Talia’s assistance. Her valiant attempts backfire and, instead, puts his life in jeopardy. Will he survive to stop the pending disaster? Will the love of his life come to his rescue... and, if so, which one?

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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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