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Maria Jane Schuyler Hatch wrote her "Centennial Journal" in 1876 for her best friend, Clara Shelley. Maria was born January 20, 1850 in or near Atlanta, Georgia. She moved from Georgia to join her father, James Schuyler and her stepmother who owned the elegant Schuyler Hotel in the coastal town of Half Moon Bay.Each entry is filled with images of Maria's daily life. Some were of sorrow and heartbreak while most were filled with humor and fun. Faith was a very important part of her life. Maria was an adventurous, independent woman full of spunk and spirit.

When Mary of Bethany insists on walking alone to the Gihon Spring for water, this choice proves to become a harrowing decision as she is captured and taken across the sea to serve as a concubine to a master. She tries to flee but her strength and faith are tested to the brink. Meanwhile, her neighbor Simon, a businessman, returns from his travels stricken with leprosy which challenges his faith. When both seem lost and in despair, YHWH has deeper plans for both Mary and Simon.

New Liberty weaves together the lives of Hector Miguel Navarro, a young Hispanic police officer, and members of two vicious gangs. He is assigned to a gang unit to gain plain clothes experience. He is exposed to human trafficking, drug sales, alcoholic officers, and Veterans suffering from PTSD. He struggles, makes mistakes, and must face the consequences of his decisions. Recovering from a decision leading to a disastrous incident, he grows in skill and maturity with the help of a strong woman who stands by him.

Mary is the seventh born child of a small-town California family with a household of colorful characters and their stories. Told with warmth, humor, and sorrow, Never a Dull Moment invites you to join Mary as she reflects on her journey from her 1960s upbringing to forming her own family and sense of self. Through it all, she pulls herself up through the losses and finds her inner joy, once again. Never a Dull Moment is Mary E. Heaton''s second book.

This is the story of Maya, a show dog from Texas, who finds a new life in California. She evolves into an experienced therapy dog who travels around the San Francisco Bay Area to visit retirement homes, schools, rehab centers and many other places.

The search for the Red Asscher continues to its conclusion. Read further escapades of Anya Pavlovitch as she undertakes her final mission.In Living in Fear, Anya escaped capture from the Japanese in Shanghai. In Living in Turmoil, she traded a precious heirloom to save her partner, Commander Macdonald Benson. Now, she is asked to accept a new assignment. The catch is she must trek through the steamy and treacherous Chinese jungle.In meeting up with local guerilla fighters, she discovers that her mission has gone awry. Chased by Japanese soldiers, she and others become prisoners. But her tenacity refuses to succumb to her circumstances, and she remains steadfast in her quest to retrieve her ring from the assassin Sun Temujin.Can she survive long enough to escape and accomplish her goal?   

Lura Grisham Myer lives a perfect life until her world is ripped apart. Reborn, forged of pain and misery, she battles to recapture happiness with the help of two orphans and a mysterious stranger.The Mona Lisa Sisters, a historical fiction novel of Lura Grisham Meyer, George Cramer’s debut novel, will be released in the fall of 2020. Wealth cannot protect Lura from the tragedies that befall her in the late nineteenth century. She voyages to Paris after months as a recluse in Grisham Manor. There Lura finds a new purpose when she meets two American girls who face a tragedy of their own.

Are his machines an irresistible trap?Or is Philip Machen offering humanity a fresh start?He doesn't talk about subverting the world's power elites.He just enables 55 million people to ignore them.Overnight.For revenge.Like most of us, Everett Aboud is stuck in a personal dead-end, a pilot who can't fly.Until Makers set him free.Meanwhile, markets crash. Banks and businesses collapse.The FBI hunts Philip.But to make his revenge permanent, he must convince thousands of Freemakers to form enclaves, to adopt sharing sensibilities, and to defend their new entitlements against Tory vigilantes. With time running out and the FBI closing in, Philip discovers he must become what he most despises: another fake messiah.You'll love Maker Messiah because it's more than the sum of its parts.It's a vision to die for.Read it now.

Barbara Flores, a successful designer and cookbook author vows to keep her family and her thirty-year marriage intact. When her Latin lover professor husband dumps her for a younger woman, she plots an over-my-dead-body warpath against the interloper-a thirtyish Halle-Berry-look-alike. Conflicting advice comes to her family and friends: the white suburban crowd eggs her to "forget that no-good cheater," and her Hispanic amigas urge her to lure him back home with homemade enchiladas, rosary petitions, and if all else fails, witchcraft. With relentless honesty and humor, Flores invites us to witness how lifelong marital commitments can shatter, shift, and reshape our very core. Yet this life-affirming memoir proves the bonds of family can heroically survive its most threatening challenges: infidelity, bi-cultural chasms, and Viagra.

"This brief book on ME will be most helpful to young people and their parents as it provides an excellent overview of what this disease is including its history and possible causes. While there is still no cure, there are coping strategies that can help patients better adjust to one of the more debilitating illnesses that affect thousands of youth in our country. Clearly, more research and educating needed for this most vulnerable population that is affected with ME."-Leonard A. Jason, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, DePaul University "An Adolescent's Guide to ME/CFS is an essential book addressing a hidden health crisis. Young people dealing with this devastating disease not only have to deal with their illness but with the lack of understanding from the outer world. This book will both give them and their families the practical information they need and will be a balm, leaving them feeling less alone and misunderstood."- Julie Rehmeyer, author of Through the Shadowlands and contributing editor at Discover magazine"An excellent, concise overview of ME. There is a crisis in (lack of ) health care for these patients. Shetty knows more about ME than most health professionals and demonstrates that one person can make a difference-even a teen. Share this book widely, for education and research are crucial to lessen the suffering of millions of patients worldwide."- Dorothy Hassler, MD, pediatrician and parent of severely ill patient

Susan thought she was done with space aliens when she sent her mother Edna and daughter Cecily as ambassadors to the planet Schtatik. Instead, she must travel across the galaxy to stop a civil war that Edna started when she managed to get herself made queen of one of the clans.The Chenille Ultimatum is the third book in the Chenille series. It takes place on the exotic planet Schtatik, home to quarreling clans, and in San Francisco, where Susan's great-grandmother Agnes met aliens from that planet when she was a child. Agnes' ghost is only one of the allies Susan finds in unexpected places both in space and at home as she struggles to make everyone calm down and get along. On the journey, Susan learns how strong she really is, and how important it is to carry an embroidery project wherever she goes.