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What would you do if you were me? A testimony of survival in prison is side-splittingly funny, moves at a pace that absorbs the hours without your noticing, and goes down like pink cotton candy.This book will introduce you to the challenging and not-widely-known world of incarceration in the Illinois Department of Corrections where Mr. Raylan Gilford, inmate number B-66509, has earned his PhD in prison psychology after twenty-six years of imprisonment.Mr. Gilford moves from street vernacular and prison lingo to acute philosophy without blinking an eye. In the process of reading this literary Steve Harvey, you will become savvy in prison slang and grow acquainted with the five jailhouse archetypes distilled from over one thousand cellmates that Mr. Gilford has spent time with in a seven-by-ten-foot chamber outfitted with nothing but bunk beds, shared sink, and toilet wide open to any eyes passing by.Do you have the forbearance to transform a life spent mostly inside a pantry-sized enclosure with individuals who are not the best company, engage, in rich intellectual pursuits, and provide wise counsel for the next generation coming up?Mr. Gilford was convicted of murder and concealment of a homicide at the tender age of eighteen and has been incarcerated ever since, which means that he has had to learn to be an adult in a challenging situation. And his carceral wisdom will attest to that fact.This story will make you laugh, and it may make you cry. It will certainly fill you with respect for the knowledge gained through great effort in a setting that does not readily encourage the human spirit.It contains information essential for young men and women who may be at risk for prison time and who will learn from Mr. Gilford that this is not an experience that they want to have.This book is a good incentive for young people who are struggling to make their way into adulthood and who need to look closer at all the options available to them and be sure they do not end up in prison. Be part of convincing them to find a different path.

As a renowned kidney transplant surgeon and one of a small number of African Americans to hold such a title, Dr. Charles Modlin has overcome enormous odds, roadblocks, and trials. In his book, It Isn''t Difficult to Do It if You Know How to Do It, he provides an extensive compilation of the successful strategies used to overcome challenges and accomplish his goals in hopes of encouraging high school students and college students whose ambition is to succeed in life. From life in high school through applying and succeeding in college through the beginnings of one''s professional years, It Isn''t Difficult to Do It if You Know How to Do It not only outlines the proven tactics to embrace but also offers navigation around many of the pitfalls that entrap youth and prevent success in college and graduation.This resource is written specifically for ambitious high school students and college students who are aiming to achieve no matter their goals. This book details for the reader the most important guidelines for youth to consider when transitioning from high school to college and beyond that Dr. Modlin has learned from his childhood through medical school and eventually his profession as a kidney transplant surgeon.

The real-life adventures of a United States Secret Service undercover agent. In Street Guy, a retired special agent in charge details his experiences working undercover against some of New York''s most notorious members of the Mafia and traveling overseas on undercover assignments against transnational criminal groups. Street Guy details his experiences investigating crimes, including armored car robbery, the counterfeiting of US currency, financial fraud, and the murder of a government witness. This book shows the reader the gritty side of what it takes to be a Secret Service criminal investigator, a side not often seen by the public. Street Guy gives the reader the excitement, unpredictability, and danger of working undercover. It puts the reader right in the room with members of the Mafia where one mistake could mean death for the undercover agent. Street Guy details the very diverse responsibilities of the Service and opens up a new and exciting look at one of the premier law enforcement agencies in the world.

These tales of human intrigue and folly are both compassionate and hilarious. The bachelor who is forced to marry to receive an inheritance, the woman who "e;fishes"e; for information about her friend's sex life, the little girl who dresses as a nurse and vaccinates her doll so her doll won't get the flu, the ambitious girl who plots to marry a man with money but ends up with a man who has nothing, the gossipy woman who gives new meaning to the words "e;fake news,"e; the couple who hides a million dollars in their furniture because they don't trust banks-all these people are chronicled here in stories that are filled with irony.Some of these tales are inspired by actual events, and Jack Clubb has read them at various venues in the Los Angeles area to great acclaim. There are people in this book that you will come to love in spite of, or perhaps because of, their strengths and weaknesses. They may even be the people next door.

Life throws each of us curves, and there are times these curves can damage us for life. Some curves stem out of our childhood, siblings, and so-called friends. There are so much envy, jealousy, and hatred among those who smile in our faces day to day. There comes a time when we have to say enough is enough, no more feeling sorry for ourselves, no more regrets, no more comparison with others, and no more allowing people taking charge over us. We must not let our past rule us. We must not let rejection hinder us from trusting, loving, and forgiving. We must show kindness, compassion, and love; and we must open our hearts to receive kindness, compassion, and love. Why continue to go through life in denial putting up a mask over our hearts and minds?We must see ourselves as special, unique, appreciated, and loving. Let the queen and king in you shine. Allow yourself to love and be loved. Always put an effort to be the best version of yourself first to yourself and let that flow out to others. These writings are not just for encouragement to you; they are also for reflection of how you can start renewing your mind and opening your heart to the real you. Just because you failed before doesn't mean you must stop trying. Change is inevitable in life. Some people handle change in a positive manner, and some do not. In order to have change in a positive manner, we first have to change our thinking. We must be willing and teachable and adapt to be big and better. When we choose to fight change, we are not willing to see the big picture for something better. Change for some takes time to equate their thinking, actions, and perception. When we are set in our ways, we tend to be stubborn and suspicious of authority of people and new ideas. Change sometimes makes people feel like it is an attack on their ability or performance. They are unable to adapt to constructive criticism which is not the case in the majority of the time. When there is a new administration, there will be changes with new ideas on the operation, duties, and opportunities. When there is a new person in our lives, we tend to immediately think that they have hidden motives rather than accept that they bring a positive change that we have not seen before. The wrong perception can hinder us from seeing the positive change that they bring to our lives. Adapting to change is up to you. Ask yourself, "What do you want? What do you want to accomplish?" These are questions only you can answer. Be honest with your answer and then put your all into adapting to making your life better. If there are areas in your life you need to change, start making those changes. The question are, "How do you handle change?" Do you handle it with anticipation for a new beginning or with dread? What perception are you bringing forth? What attitude are you displaying?

The City of Brotherly Love is an unforgiving place for a hungry eight year old living on the streets. For Jack 'Bojack' Salterelli it was the training ground for the future life as a stick up man, a hardened convict by twenty-one, enforcer, and meth kingpin. After decades in 'the life' Bojack would turn his life around by going undercover for the F.B.I. However, what he thought was the road to redemption ended as another double cross leaving his fate , once again, to the only person he could trust, himself.

Captured in the African desert Battle of El Guettar, the German corporal Erich Keppler must survive POW camp in Texas. The Americans follow the Geneva Convention's rules, but the real danger is within the camp-Nazi, anti-Nazi, and neutral-minded POWs. Erich clings to his dream of working as a rocket engineer to sustain himself through his service to the homeland. Germany incurred punishing devastation during these years, and in 1945, Erich returns to an impoverished, starving country, where his dream has little hope of succeeding. Erich struggles with ideas of how to fit his life into postwar Germany. His family tags him as an outsider, enamored with life in America. Disgusted and despondent, he tenaciously pursues a life-changing opportunity and discovers he is not an outsider. He is free.

┬┐Por qu├⌐ escribir├¡a un libro sobre un poeta? Siempre he tenido un gran amor para el idioma espa├▒ol, algunas de mis primeras palabras que me ense├▒├│ mi t├¡a Gloria cuando ten├¡a nueve o diez a├▒os eran "agua" y "Hasta luego". Palabras tan sencillas pero las recuerdo. A├║n tuvimos vecinos que eran de M├⌐xico y siempre trato de escuchar y entender sus conversaciones. Aun en la escuela secundaria escog├¡ clases de espa├▒ol. De hecho, fui a Chile despu├⌐s de la escuela secundaria y aprend├¡ a hablar Castellano con bastante eficacia y sal├¡ del pa├¡s hablando de una manera m├ís fluida.Decid├¡ estudiar Espa├▒ol en la universidad. Pablo Neruda fue uno de los primeros poetas que conoc├¡ al estudiar espa├▒ol en una clase de literatura de la universidad, y antes en Chile, y de casualidad, pude ver la pel├¡cula de Il Postino en italiano. Cuando me asignaron a escribir un trabajo final en la universidad sobre un tema de literatura sobre el que quer├¡a saber m├ís, ten├¡a que ser sobre Pablo Neruda y su influencia. Quer├¡a saber que lo convirti├│ en un gran poeta y si otros fueron influenciados por ├⌐l y por m├¡ mismo. Desde entonces me gradu├⌐ de la universidad. No fue hasta ocho a├▒os despu├⌐s que decid├¡ exponer mi trabajo y convertirlo en este libro. 

My Two Cents is a book I started over a decade ago while deployed to Baghdad, Iraq, during the days and nights I could not sleep. I was experiencing so much turmoil, and this book is a direct reflection of ideas and opinions from a man's perspective (from my heart) of what is necessary to be said or done within a relationship. These opinions are solely based on my experiences over my lifetime, which, as a result, shed light on the possibilities of sustaining growth, maturity, love, and support throughout friendship or a relationship. The chapters currently written do not cover everything, but it is a synopsis of the many attributes, values, and morals that are needed to be considered to defeat divorce or breakups. Furthermore, this book is filled with relatable content to help readers understand the importance of being who you are as well as accepting others as themselves. In order to grow and not hide behind a mask, one must unmask their true identity and live their truth.

This book offers a challenge to all who search for the truth as to why we do the things we do. It traces biblical history (which is designed to bless) against the backdrop of today''s world and that which has plagued mankind throughout time. Within each chapter the truth bubbles to the surface and the reader is slowly introduced to the menacing power that has clandestinely guided many into making wrong decisions. Truly this book is a window of opportunity that offers a view into a much larger world, a world filled with truth, peace, love, and hope. By the end of the book, the reader will truly be able to answer the age-old question, “What is Truth?”

Sarah Thompson is on the run after ΓÇïhe ΓÇïfound her again. Fighting back, she barely escapes and finds herself in Brooklyn, New York. It would’ve been the perfect place to hide, but the handsome stranger managing the apartment is persistently curious. Uncomfortable answering his questions, it quickly becomes obvious Sarah isn’t who she pretends to be. Desperation leaves her no choice, keeping secrets is what keeps her safe.Immediately drawn to her, Brady Harper is determined to learn all he can about the mysterious girl who seems to have appeared from out of nowhere. Brady knows she’s hiding something, but he doesn’t care. She makes him ΓÇïfeel again. Fighting a few demons of his own, he wants more with her. Although, he gets the sense she might disappear as fast as she arrived, before he gets the chance.He might be right.

In 1997, after surviving a devastating, disfiguring accident, a six-year-old waif from Honduras was brought to Madison, Wisconsin, where University Hospital's world-class reconstructive surgeons took her into their care. In this true story, her mother tells how the adventurous and resilient young Brenda immediately embraced seven complete strangers, adopting them as her foster family with hardly a backward glance. As an expected one-year stay turned into two years, then three, and then forever, Brenda submitted to more than fifty surgeries, facing each one with courage and good humor. She endured hundreds of therapy sessions, unimaginable pain, setbacks, and complications. But she kept a curious, friendly, indomitable, and forgiving spirit-never pitying herself or becoming bitter, angry, or entitled. As hundreds of medical professionals cared for her over the years, she also ministered to them in profound and inspiring ways. The experiences recounted in this book are extraordinary, not only because of Brenda's unusual childhood, but because she herself is not, and never has been, ordinary.

If extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) exists elsewhere in our universe, any meaningful and absolute confirmation would require either a transformative announcement, global broadcast, single fantastic irrefutable event experience, or acknowledgment of a large accumulation of increasing evidence which equates to that historical revelation. The Humaniverse Guide to First Contact with ET embarks on an exploration of how ETI is viewed by theologians and their antagonists as well as by advocates and refuters alike. This work is a detailed investigation of how religious philosophy aligns with other worldviews and its potential reliability toward application and assistance in the development of a future relationship with ETI. The lens is focused on humankind's evolution of cognition, conjecture, logic, and knowledge about ETI as transformative toward these end points. As we know, the only way these end points can be resolved are through the eyes, experiences, and activities as undertaken by the only intelligent life-form of which we are aware-namely ourselves. Do you think your worldview about the meaning and purpose of life will be changed if and when ET comes calling?

Simon stands on a cement seating bench in the empty Dolphin Play Time Stadium watching big trucks break down the stadium stage. No more laughing kids, no more lemonade and popcorn, and no more home. He has to leave. Simon kicks off the stadium bench, waves good-bye with his very long wings, and begins his journey to find his magical friends and a new home.

This booklet describes the conflict between individual freedom (good) and collective force (evil). The author defines the Collective to be an assembly of elitists-people at the top of their fields in politics, academia, media, and the arts and sciences. Two characteristics define these elitists: greed and need-greed for never enough wealth and need for never enough power.Their prominence and prestige makes them feel entitled to rule. They write the laws and want sameness, obedience, and conformity. This flies in the face of the Bill of Rights which protects us from the government.Elitists have nothing but contempt for the individual. The group is everything. That belief makes it easier to rationalize murder. Likewise, elitists dismiss the Ten Commandments, the morality guide for millions. When "e;the end justify the means"e; is adopted by our leaders, morality goes away.Elitists reside in the Democrat Party and live on Hypocrisy Highway. Democrats used to speak for the average citizen. We have been betrayed. Democrats now wrap their arms around Marxism and one-world globalist government. Being good Marxists, they have become good liars, and they lie like sidewalks.How do we cope with this sickening realization? A healthy sense of skepticism is required. Let's borrow some advice from Peter Finley Dunn. A century ago, when asked who we can trust, he said (paraphrasing), "e;The answer to that question is simple. Trust everyone. But cut the cards."e;

Historical evidence has consistently demonstrated the inequalities endured by the downtrodden by so-called social norms. This book contains a tale that strives to implicate past hardships in conjunction with contemporary knowledge of the times through the ramifications following young ladies undergoing psychological evaluation and exorcism.In the wake of a global influenza, a world now destined to treachery and deception, the medical industry coveted for its science, and the church for its compassion are put to the test, as a psychiatrist finds himself coping with a dark secret from the past in a villa among the hills of Tuscany. Accompanied by his assistant and a local priest, together they witness the deaths of many within the corridors of the villa as they come to realize the hidden malice.Soon afterward, the assistant questions her mentor's reliability, and therapist becomes patient, companion becomes foe, and reality becomes madness. Trapped in the Italian countryside, the villa's residents come face-to-face with their demons while one tragedy leads to the next. Indeed, as the guilty make amends for past sins and the untreated plot revenge, one question comes to mind: Is reality in fact the truth, or is reality truly insanity?

My handsome, precious, well-mannered son, Kalan Timothy Joshua Smith aka Spook, may you rest in peace. The love for my son would never ever die. His father, Fitzroy Kenneth Smith Sr. This is a heads-up I'm going to give to the younger folks as I outlined earlier in this book. This is what caused the death of my son. The sickness that he developed in the last part of his life is very common in today's life. The sickness came from a blow to his head during an accident he had as a teenager. If you are getting headaches frequently from any type of blow to your head, seek medical help right away, such disease in your brain should be taken more seriously. I'm not saying that the blood clot in your brain is far worse than a blood clot in other parts of your body, but just remember, your brain does all the thinking. An aneurysm occurs when a blood vessel in the brain begins to grow like a balloon and bulge. This huge obstruction can lead and leak to rupturing that causes bleeding in the brain. Once an aneurysm has burst or broken, it becomes life-threatening. It can also go unnoticed.

Lost and Found is a love story born after many visits to the area near Glacier Park. Annie's life changed overnight after bumping into a handsome man in the grocery store. With a loving relation building between the two of them, tragedy struck when Tom disappeared on a solo hiking trip. What happened next over the next year is truly what dreams are made of.

For the Beginner or Pro. Be one of the first to use this new troubleshooting technology. Learn to troubleshoot electrical circuits within minutes. How to test parts as well. This is totally new and much easier to understand and apply.

This book of short stories and poems reflect the wisdom of lessons, the caring, loving, and sharing through the eyes of children, animals, and nature. It inspires your imagination and often makes you feel like you are actually in the story or poem. It is a memory, thought, or actual life situation. This book is fun and a joy to read!

This book is part of a series that addresses sets of sounds. Dede's Pet Shop is the T/D book that highlights these two sounds in order to give your child auditory and visual bombardment in a fun and interactive manner. Come join Tommy and Daisy as they explore Dede's Pet Shop in search of their perfect pet. Will they find a new friend?For further information regarding the book series, please refer to the "e;Book Introduction"e; located in the front of the book. Visit my website: www.sound-sprouts.com for interactive book printouts and other resources.

Offered here is a comparison of the customs, practices, moral code, and attitudes of 1900s individuals as they gradually morphed into those of today as observed by the 101-year-old author who is an internationally recognized scientist and lecturer/consultant as well as a sculptor with pieces similarly positioned in museums and private collections; an author of textbooks and award-winning fiction; a professor; USCG Captain with Masters papers; winner of international sports awards; a veteran of WWII and Korea.

This book is about my life. I crossed county sixteen times on foot on most of it and lived on the road for fifteen years, eating wild edible plants and always leaving home with no money. This book is more than just a book. This book can save lives. Say you have no family and no friends and you're homeless. The knowledge in this book can save your life. Of course you will have to be extremely careful if anyone ever tries to do this. I urge anyone who reads my book to use this knowledge only if they are in trouble. The reason for this book is to save people and open people's eyes to the drifter world, a world most people only briefly hear about. I'm letting the world know what these homeless world travelers go through in great detail. It took me fifteen years to write this book because I kept getting rained on and my book kept getting ruined. I'm proud to finally give the world The Diary of a Drifter.

This is the story of a man and a woman who have made their respective plans to enter into their golden years after going through all of life's challenges, raising their families, wanting only to enjoy their retirement years with each other; filling those remaining years of their lives with travel, adventure, and grandchildren, along with making memories, only to discover their plans lost upon losing both "e;loves of their lives."e; A surprise event in their lives opens the door to their wildest dreams, thus providing the book's title, The Day Isn't Over. However, finding each other living happily ever after proves to be harder the second time around and has become more difficult than the first, but they remain steadfast in their live for each other regardless of the newfound obstacles in their way, making the love they had discovered for each other's golden years shine brighter.

My Pain Became My Strength was written as the start of the healing process for me. While attending counseling sessions, I was unaware of how my childhood was still affecting me as an adult, how it affected my decisions, communication, and last but not least, how I interacted with others. I had never expressed myself, nor did I allow myself to deal with all the emotions or feelings from past experiences. Until I started writing, I wasn't even aware of how much I had gone through. Through this process, I was able to express, acknowledge the problems, and most importantly, allow myself to feel and deal with every emotion in order to start my healing process.When I took these steps, I was finally able to see the real me. I was also able to finally love myself, which I was not able to do for years. This is what inspired me to tell and share my story. There are many elements to my story. I survived being molested by a family member. I was also abused sexually, physically, and verbally. I also had to deal with mental illness that separated me from my mom at a very early age. All these obstacles caused me a lot of pain. But in the end, every obstacle made me stronger and became my strength because of my faith in God.During my journey, God had also placed very important people in my path. They were very instrumental in my view on life and of people. Each person that God had placed in my life provided me with something different, but it was very vital to my well-being. I felt very blessed to have them in my life and very grateful for the role they each played. While writing my story, I was able to see my life come full circle. My happiness comes from helping others. Despite my past, if sharing my story encourages others to find their purpose in life, as well as find salvation in Jesus Christ, it brings my heart so much joy. I would like for that little girl, little boy, young lady, young man, woman, or man to know that despite how grim or dark things may be, there is light and happiness on the other side, to never give up on your aspirations, and most importantly, never to give up on yourself. I was able to find peace, love, and happiness as an adult that I did not have as a child by growing spiritually. I found my purpose in life, so I want to inspire others that they, too, have a purpose in this life!