SUMMARY OF CURRENT TITLES
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CHALLENGE:
AUTHOR: Bob Hoffman
SYNOPSIS: Stunned colleagues and friends grow suspicious after the shocking death of a popular college professor. Placing their own lives in jeopardy in order to expose the truth, they uncover the tendrils of a secret agency that for decades has been amassing economic, political and telecommunications power. Driven by a narrow agenda designed to control policy, culture and public opinion, it has unbridled and sinister influence over the American people.
Written with intensity and intelligence, CHALLENGE raises uncanny questions about the reach of the media, the unseen limits of personal freedom and the dangers of our failure to analyze all sides of the events and policies that affect our lives.
GERRY THE GRAPE:
AUTHOR: L.F. Hereford
SYNOPSIS: Join Gerry the Grape in his adventures of a lifetime. After suddenly falling from the safety of his vine, Gerry is confronted with choices he never imagined having to make. With courage and humor, Gerry becomes a model for how to respond when an unexpected event changes your life forever. The pages of this story are filled with engaging and lovable characters, who teach us important life lessons about becoming our best selves.
SOLVING THE MYSTERY OF ADHD - NATURALLY:
AUTHOR: Linda Santini, M.Ed.
SYNOPSIS: A new, essential resource for any individual or family coping with ADHD-like symptoms. From therapists to
risky medications, from extreme symptoms to dangerous consequences, family experiences led the author to a decade of
research into the causes of various conditions, including ADHD, ODD, anxiety, bipolar disorder, depression and
schizophrenia. If you thought your only recourse was prescription drugs, this may be the most important book
about natural treatments you have read in years.
SILENT SCREAMS OF A SURVIVOR:
A Polish-American Boy's Holocaust
AUTHORS: Mitch Garwolinski and Bob Hoffman
SYNOPSIS: In war years that took six million Jewish lives in unthinkable atrocities, this book exposes how Poland and her people were also caught in the path of the Nazi war machine.
This eye-witness account of a child survivor of concentration camps, torture, and medical experimentation offers authentic documentation of what happened in these most heinous facilities.
Mitch's perspective is unique: his family was not Jewish, but Catholic.
He was not a Polish citizen, but an American. History is starkly personal. Here, the experiences of one family provide a broader perspective on the devastating impact of the Third Reich on Poland.
Beyond the horror, this true story exults in the commonality and will to survive that all humans have somewhere deep within them.
A story of remarkable courage, compassion, and insight!
BETTER LIVING THROUGH UROLOGY:
21st Century Solutions to Age Old Problems
AUTHOR: Jack Cassell M.D.
SYNOPSIS: From the annoying symptoms of bladder infections to life-threatening urologic concerns, 21st century medicine offers remarkable new technologies as viable solutions to age-old problems. Advances in developing minimally invasive techniques for treatment have dramatically reduced patient pain and increased ease of recovery for many urologic conditions.
With intelligence, candor and humor, Dr. Jack Cassell describes in detail the symptoms, dangers and modern treatment options for common health concerns troubling to millions of patients.
EARTH TRAILS, HEART TRAILS: A Southwest Journal
AUTHOR: Julie A Kohlhaas
SYNOPSIS: A dynamic journal tracing a three-month journey through the American southwest. From one historic corner to another, taking us from Michigan to Mississippi, Texas, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, and home again. Through the medium of camping, hiking, simple meals, petroglyphs, and a step-by-step exploration of wilderness areas, Kohlhaas compares, and parallels the inner landscapes we all inhabit.
CARNEYVILLE: A Young Man's Journey through
The Old Catholic Seminary
AUTHOR: : Jim Murphy
SYNOPSIS: A controversial novel recounting the indelible memories of "Patrick Kelly" from 1959 to 1967 in a strict Roman Catholic seminary. In reconstructing the past, he can’t help but comment on the current travails of the Church, specifically those deviant priests who had reputations for victimizing youth or engaging in sexual liaisons with men or women.
THE PASSION FACTOR: Tapping Resources for Life
AUTHOR: Peter B. Kaoma
SYNOPSIS: A powerful reflection on life, work, love—and how to discover our own unique human potential. Peter Kaoma offers compelling arguments that passion may be a nearly forgotten virtue well worth re-claiming
MAMMOGRAMS & MASTECTOMIES: Facing Them
With Humor and Prayer
AUTHOR: Susan Farrell
SYNOPSIS: This is an easy-to-read story filled with practical information and insight into the personal and professional implications of breast cancer. Susan Farrell skillfully combines humor and advice as she covers the challenges of dealing with doctors, learning the language of cancer diagnosis and treatment, formulating the right questions and researching surgical options. She goes on to discuss how to tell the children, managing the news at work and the struggle to resume a normal life. It is a triumph of humor over adversity; a tale of spiritual re-awakening, an acceptance that destiny will follow its own path, coupled with the conviction that one can, nonetheless, influence the outcome.
MAKING A MAP: From Health to Heart Disease and Back Again
AUTHOR: Julie Kohlhaas
SYNOPSIS: A winter of early retiree travel through the southwest was interrupted by chest discomfort and a sudden, unexpected life-flight to Phoenix for triple bypass surgery—1,500 miles from home. The life-changing journey reflects a love of travel and learning, but also chronicles one woman's personal pilgrimage while recovering from heart disease to re-claim health. Great book for women, RV travelers, retired couples, and patients battling heart disease via healthy living.
ANSWERS TO FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS IN PARKINSON'S DISEASE
AUTHOR: David L. Cram, M.D.
SYNOPSIS: This new book about the physically and emotionally overwhelming Parkinson's Disease takes a fresh look at many of the less common symptoms and more effective ways of coping. As a physician with P.D. diagnosed 12 years ago, Dr. Cram has been able to tap his own experience as a patient, to offer information, comfort and hope to others who suffer with this distressing disease. Included are the most up-to-date treatments and discoveries working to combat Parkinson's Disease. This unique resource book promises to be most valuable to patients, family members and health professionals.
BEFORE YOU... THERE WAS ME...
AUTHOR: Dorothy A. Geary
SYNOPSIS: A gem of a collection of sketches and advice for women going through breast cancer treatment. Written simply enough that even children can better understand the emotional and physical struggles that accompany breast cancer. This gentle artist will make you laugh and cry and laugh again, because she taps her own hopeful experiences to help you through the journey.
THE PILL BOX
AUTHOR: Bruce Patzer
SYNOPSIS: One man's personal account of his family's struggle to deal effectively with Manic Depression.
A hopeful story with no shortage of realism or determination! Excellent resource for individuals touched by bipolar disorder.
SEEDS OF HOPE: A Physician's Personal Triumph over Prostate Cancer
AUTHOR: Dr. Michael A. Dorso, M.D.
SYNOPSIS: Writing to educate and encourage both men and their loved ones combating this cancer, Dr. Dorso skillfully describes the hurdles of biopsy, testing, diagnosis, treatment and sexual impotence. With intelligence, warmth, passion and humor he shares sound medical perspectives, poignant personal experiences and a reservoir of wisdom for anyone whose life has been touched by prostate cancer. This author really offers "seeds of hope."
MINDBODY CANCER WELLNESS:
A Self-Help Care Manual
AUTHOR: Dr. Morry Edwards, Ph.D.
SYNOPSIS: This valuable manual offers a comprehensive overview of techniques and coping skills to ease the stresses of cancer, its treatment and the strains illness can sometimes place on relationships with family and friends. It is a great resource for patients, survivors, counselors, medical staff, chaplains and loved ones. A product of 22 years of experience in the treatment of people with cancer and other chronic illness.
THE COURAGE TO LIVE: My Personal Journey with God.
A Kidney Patient's Story
AUTHOR: Carmen Critchlow
SYNOPSIS: A 20-year battle with Renal Disease, kidney failure, dialysis and organ transplants. An inspiring testament to faith and perseverance!
Tells the compelling untold story of thousands of families whose lives and finances can be devastated by a health crisis. Challenges us all to think again about our own faith, how we share in community, and how we respond to God’s invitation of growth in our own lives—through one woman's courage to live.
FIRESTORM
AUTHOR: Eleanor Weber Griffitts
SYNOPSIS: A forest fire out of control in the Oregon Coast Range threatens the residents of a small lumber town. Natural disasters leave deep scars in the environment. This firestorm alters the careers, dreams and destinies of a veteran medical corpsman and the woman he loves. Infidelity, death, destruction, vocation and a love story that just won't go away unfold in Griffitts' latest novel—reminding us that some events change us forever!
FROM OTHER DIMENSIONS:
A novel about mid-life change & the power of dreams
AUTHOR: Eleanor Weber Griffitts
SYNOPSIS: O.B.E. Dreams. Mistaken identity murder. Meditation. Mid-life romance. Spirituality. This delightful novel deals with some heavy issues without losing its own special charm. If you like in your nightly reading a touch of mystery, a bit more love and the challenge to believe more deeply than you may have yesterday, From Other Dimensions is recommended.
UNDER THE CAMOUFLAGE: A Memoir
AUTHOR: Sheila Evans
SYNOPSIS: This moving memoir examines the evolving bond between mother and daughter. The wisdom of a lifetime—from a shy and awkward girl through adolescence, youth, boyfriends, marriage, child-rearing and adult changes—pours onto these pages. Sheila Evans, author of three books, has the remarkable ability to make readers feel she is writing about their lives. Under the Camouflage is honest, stirring, insightful—and powerfully crafted.
SCARLETT ON THE CASE
AUTHOR: Kathy Mancl
SYNOPSIS: A children's mystery about a delightful Welsch Corgi—a not-so-ordinary farm dog turned detective—who takes on criminals and solves a case of stolen horses. Suitable for young readers 7-10.
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