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27 Apple Trees: A Memoir

Mindstir Media Publishing — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 06:32:00 +0000

27 Apple Trees is the story of a boy raised by a single mom who comes of age in suburban-Detroit in the 1970s and '80s before joining the military, traveling the world and then separating to go to college in the 1990s, before ultimately landing a job at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California in 2002.

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Wake the F**k Up!

Mindstir Media Publishing — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 06:52:15 +0000

Based on humor and satire, Wake the F**K UP is a book for the parents of teenagers, anyone who has been a teenager or just knows one for that matter. The struggle that surrounds teen-life is real and we can all use a little more laughter in our lives.

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Consensual Suicide

Mindstir Media Publishing — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 02:05:26 +0000

How did I get here? I mentioned the diets of most of us born in the south that consisted of pork, beef, chicken, turkey, fish and some wild game. These meats were cooked in lard for the most part or smoked. Desert was a mainstay in our home growing up, which consisted of massive amounts of sugar and lard for the crust of pies. Fat back or ham hocks were used in greens, and real butter in macaroni and cheese. This type of diet has little to no nutritional value because of the way they were prepared. With this type of toxic food consumption comes visits to the doctor. Why you ask? Because of the artery clotting meats and unhealthy fats we say we love and won't do without! Because of the excessive weight gain; which has become uncontrollable! Because of the inability to walk a flight of stairs without being completely winded! We make statements such as "My mother cooked this way and lived to be 90, therefore so can I", this is the attitude taken when someone else takes an interest in one's health. Here are some real facts about the consumption of meats and unhealthy fats, that's worth taken a closer look:

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Conception: A Fertility Doctor’s Memoir

Mindstir Media Publishing — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 23:23:50 +0000

Conception - A Fertility Doctor's Memoir will describe the history of IVF and the world it made from someone who has been practicing since its earliest days. It will describe how Dr. Merle Berger first got interested in becoming a doctor, then an obstetrician and gynecologist and finally a specialist in reproductive medicine and infertility as well as a fierce woman's health care advocate. The book will give readers necessary perspective on where this medical technology came from and how quickly it has advanced, and it will lay out many of the ethical conundrums we will face in the coming decades. It will appeal to anyone who has considered IVF in the past 40 years, and those who wonder if they will ever need it in the future. It will also likely appeal to those who have reservations about assisted reproduction and how it has so dramatically moved a fundamental human act out of the bedroom and into the lab, even as it has stoked our fears about designer babies. Conception will help people to understand the headlines we read every day about egg-freezing technology and the way in which celebrities over 45 get pregnant. (Hint: they use donor eggs.) It will make readers fluent in the technologies that will shape reproduction in the coming decades. It will more fully trace the way in which sex was decoupled from reproduction in the 20th century, and it will outline how reproduction might be separated from eggs and sperm in the near future.

What lies ahead is thrilling to contemplate and even a little bit frightening. But when we have context for these discussions, readers will be able to make the choices that are best for them.

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Bailing Out on the Borderline

Mindstir Media Publishing — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 00:09:12 +0000

AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-THREE and fresh out of college, Julia fell head over heels for Randy, a charming co-worker who swooped in with flowers, romantic dates and conversations about their beautiful future together. As far as Julia was concerned, there was no looking back.

Unfortunately, along with Randy’s affectionate behaviors came his highly dramatic, violent episodes. Having come from a similar home life, however, Julia didn’t blink an eye. It wasn’t until a grand finale abandonment that she recognized even her love wouldn’t be able to fix his issues.

Against the wishes of her own parents and her husband, Julia struggled to understand her abusive relationship and the right actions to take. When is it right to leave a spouse that you promised to stay with for life?

It would be another twenty years before she would learn about the final, horrific consequences of Randy’s actions and begin to understand the dangerous mental condition she had seen in him – Borderline Personality Disorder.

For anyone that questions whether they have been in an emotionally abusive relationship and where it could possibly lead, this book is a must read. It may even save your life.

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Unraveling the Zodiac Ciphers and Codes

Mindstir Media Publishing — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 23:38:34 +0000

Unraveling the Zodiac Ciphers and Codes takes the reader on a historical trek through the Zodiac letters and ciphers associated with the Zodiac murders in the 1960s. A systematic approach uncovers the messages hidden not only in the four Zodiac ciphers but, in each of the Zodiac’s letters as well, including some that have never been broken. The decrypted and unraveled ciphers reveal the identity of the people involved in the Zodiac case—including BOTH of the killers—their motivation for committing their crimes, the connection to the sinking of the Titanic, and the precise location of the death machine bomb.

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Out of the Field: A Memoir

Mindstir Media Publishing — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 12:21:38 +0000

The author’s early life was a twisted path of physical, sexual and verbal abuse so he anesthetized himself with alcohol and drugs to hide the pain. Later in life, he learned to forgive those who abused him only to discover his own body was his worst enemy as he endured 34 surgeries, often praying to die. Read his inspirational story.

LARRY A. LEE’S JOURNEY TO CLAIM HIS SOUL began at seven years old when he chose to defend his mother against his alcoholic father’s physical abuse in Unionville, Connecticut. Three years later, his mother passed away from infectious hepatitis. Before her passing, Larry promised his mother he would grow up to be a “Good Man.”

Since the age of ten, life undoubtedly threw itself against Larry time and time again. All forms of unspeakable torments and challenges made up his adolescence in Burlington, Connecticut. At eighteen years old, while he was living in a field in Oklahoma City, a single act of kindness saved him, and it forever changed his life.

And so it was, his journey of ten million miles to keep the promise he made his mother led him to a seven-year-old boy, who adopted him. Larry held love in his hand, and then he conquered his world.

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The “Freaky” World of Entertainment

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Arnold Kane is a 3 time Emmy nominee. Produced and wrote TV series: ALICE, ONE DAY AT A TIME, WEBSTER, PRIVATE BENJAMIN, LOVE AMERICAN STYLE...among others. He wrote 4 books and is an Award winning playwright and screenwriter.

Note from the Author: I really knew nothing when I wrote my first memoir, My Meteoric Rise to Obscurity, in 2008. I was just a kid and had a lot to learn. That’s why I called it A Very Minor Memoir. Since I’ve lived at least ten more years, this one deserves to be called A Very, Very Minor Memoir.

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Baile Ionaraora: The Campbells Are Comin’!

admin — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:31:51 +0000

John Campbell's fast-moving, action-packed memoir celebates the life of a centenarian and who was both successful as a centurion and a businessman.

The attentive reader will discover a great deal more than an American's long life and successful career. His hundred-year life story is set in the context of many of the great political, social, news, entertainment and leisure-time changes that have transformed the way we live our everyday lives.

His life-journey is that of a man who actually was "in the arena" in the trenches of war, bigtime broadcasting and the growth of the Leisure-time industries. He was always willing to try and dare new things. As Theodore Roosevelt might have said, "his place will never be with those cold and timid souls, who know neither victory nor defeat."

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The Praying Mantis

Mindstir Media Publishing — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 00:18:23 +0000

Of all the insects in the world, perhaps none more captivates and intrigue's the human eye as much as the "praying" mantis. Viewed as deities and messengers of the afterlife, the mantis is by far the most iconic of all animals deemed to be holy. But don't be fooled, the mantis is no prophet. Despite their god fearing stance, they are by no means peaceful but are rather formidable predators! Within the pages of this book, you will see how mantids are mistakenly regarded as "holy" by so many as you delve into the life histories of these amazing, yet exotic creatures!

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