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Books In Sync Recognizes For A Second Year Author Marcia P. Cole

Books In Sync Recognizes For A Second Year Author Marcia P. Cole

Featuring: Caught Between Life & Death by Marcia P. Cole

What are you leaving behind for others to remember you by?

A life insurance policy?

A family heirloom?

In Caught Between Life & Death, Marcia Cole, believing herself on deaths edge, writes her will. Her son, Danny, has just returned from the hostile Iraqi desert and announces his newfound career choice. Concerned for her son’s obsession to be part of Hollywood’s rich and famous, the author looks deep within her own frailties to leave behind something more valuable than just a life insurance policy. Inspired by her son, the author cleverly finds a unique way of leaving behind a part of herself through a tale of wealth, poverty, and faith.

Caught Between Life and Death exposes valuable lessons that shed new light on old perceptions giving us new hope for old problems.

Caught Between Life & Death Book Excerpt:

It appeared as if I was caught between life and death when the paramedic placed the nitroglycerin pills under my tongue.

Nitroglycerin? I thought to myself, surely I’m not having a heart attack. Everything was a blur. I felt like Darth Vader behind this oxygen mask as I could scarcely breathe with this crushing chest pain. Despite all the commotion going on inside this body of mine, I was more amazed by the hub of the fire and rescue squads that caused more attention in the neighborhood than I would have liked. I could feel the eyes of curious onlookers peering at me wanting to know the obvious question, “What happened to her?”

“Wow, who’d have thought it, me riding in an ambulance causing people to part the road like the Red Sea. Lord knows I never saw this day coming. Aren’t I supposed to be too young for this?” I smiled within.

I wasn’t afraid to leave this world. As far as I was concerned, everyone I would possibly leave behind had somebody. I wouldn’t be leaving anyone alone. However, I will never forget the look on my son’s face when he arrived at the house to find the paramedics wheeling me out on the stretcher. It was a defining moment in my life. I glanced over and noticed a frightened boy instead of the usual jovial, confident young man. What I saw in my son’s eyes that day unnerved me to the core more than any health issue I’ve ever faced. I saw an indescribable fear in his eyes as his expression revealed a lost look of utter hopelessness. Danny appeared worse than I felt. Life withdrew from his face like the waters from the shore when the tide goes out. The light instantly went out of him. He looked about as different as I did to him. Apparently, I had more influence in my young adult son’s life than I realized.

Details:

Genre: Inspirational/Religious

Price Print E-book: .99

Date Joined Books In Sync: June 19, 2009

Please Visit Author Marcia P. Cole’s Author’s Page At Books In Sync

http://www.booksinsync.com/authordirectory/colemarcia.html

Tate Publishing Book Purchase Link

http://www.tatepublishing.com/bookstore/book.php?w=978-1-60462-877-7

Marcia Coles E-mail Address

Marcia1628@aol.com

Interview Done by Books In Sync

http://www.booksinsync.com

Submission Date: May 2010

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Sony e-book Reader


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Sony’s Reader plays back PDF files, JPGs and text documents which means it’s a pretty good tree saver in my line of work. The PRS-505 has never received the press bounce of Amazon’s Kindle, mainly because you have to sync the Sony PRS-505 to your computer to get the files on board. Sony has now updated the reader’s firmware to allow the Reader to use purchased books in the protected EPUB format from whoever is peddling them, instead of being tied to the Sony’s e-book store, or just DRM-free text and PDF documents. It’s a 0 purchase in the States, around £300 if you buy it in the UK.

Books In Sync Recognizes Author Deirdre Kelley-Hall

About The Author:

Published author of Peace in the Storm, Deirdre Kelley Hall won awards for some of the articles that she wrote as a newspaper reporter in Southeast Arkansas for three and a half years. She returned to her native home of Houston, Texas where she has been employed as an ASE certified Automotive Service Manager for the last eight years. Early on she was a single parent raising three loving boys to manhood. She attributes her strength and perseverance, over coming great odds, to her faith in God.

Featuring: Peace in the Storm by Deirdre Kelley

Amy Alexander’s life changed in a way she could never have foreseen after her marriage ended. Fear became her companion when her ex-husband began threatening her children in a desperate bid for money to support his drug habit. While fighting emotional battles, Amy and her sons learn their strength is a prayer away. New relationships emerge and old ones are strengthened as they seek Peace in the Storm.

About The Author:

Deirdre Kelley works as a newspaper reporter in Southeast Arkansas. She has returned to school to further her education, seeking a degree in Journalism and English the Houston native became a single parent early on raising three loving boys to manhood. She attributes her strength and perseverance, over coming great odds, to her
faith in God.

Peace In The Storm Book Review:

Peace in the Storm by author Deirdre Kelley tells the often traumatic story of divorce from a drug addicted and abusive spouse. We meet Amy Alexander as she walks away from the courthouse and the battle to save her marriage. She is free of the violence and fear of her husband, Brandon. However she can’t help worrying about her future and whether she is strong enough to make it on her own and take care of her two sons.

Over the next several chapters we learn about how Amy’s children deal with an absent father and their memories of how Brandon hurt their mother mentally and physically. Fifteen-year-old Marshall seems to be the perfect son and student; hard working, mature, understanding, a good Christian teen. He steps into his new role as man of the house and is glad his mother no longer has to endure the bruises and the fighting. Like most seven-year-olds, Sean loves video games and playing with his friends. He struggles with the belief that since his father doesn’t visit, and yelled at him for no reason, that his father must hate him.

Peace in the Storm is well written with good character development and believable dialogue. Deirdre Kelley does a good job showing the stress and fear involved when dealing with a violent, unpredictable ex-husband. She also draws a clear picture of the joy of a new beginning, of rebuilding and reaching out to help others. Throughout her struggles, Amy discovers a great strength in prayer and the new friends she makes along the way. Just when you think the Alexander family will be okay, Brandon begins harassing and threatening the family for money to support his and his girlfriend’s drug habit, culminating with Sean’s disappearance one day after school.

Peace in the Storm is a wonderful work of Christian fiction. I understand that in difficult times, many people lean on their faith for direction. However, I occasionally felt the religious passages pulled me from this otherwise interesting story. I recommend Peace in the Storm to those who enjoy stories of faith-inspired strength and survival. I hope to read more from Deirdre Kelley.

Peace In The Storm by Author Deirdre Kelley

200 pages

AuthorHouse (May 16, 2005)

978-1420829808

Review Submitted by WR Potter for Reader’s Choice Reviews

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Peace In The Storm Book Details:

Publisher: Author House

Publishing Date: May 16, 2005

Paperback: 200 Pages

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1420829807

ISBN-13: 978-1420829808

Genre: Christian Fiction/ Fiction Inspirational

Print Price: .50

Deirdre Kelley Hall Author’s Page On Books In Sync

Author’s Websites:

http://www.myspace.com/cachlyn

http://christianworks.blogspot.com/

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Our Written Voices

by Members of The Written Voice

This book is a collection of various short stories and poems written by members of ‘The Written Voice’.

The profits obtained from the sale of ‘Our Written Voices’ will be used to support ‘David’s House’, a non-profit organization that helps families with critically ill patients in the hospital.

About The Authors:

‘The Written Voice’ is a featured writing group on the popular website for mothers, ‘CafeMom’. Established in May 2008, ‘The Written Voice’ welcomes writers and readers alike and is comprised of passionate, talented, and supportive women. Collaboratively, members of ‘The Written Voice’ created Our ‘Written Voices’, a compilation of their original works.

Book Details:

Publisher: CreateSpace

Publishing Date: 12/14/2009

ISBN Number: 78-1449901103

Number of Pages: 248

Genre: Short Story Anthology/Fiction

Book Proceeds Charity

Book Print List Price: .34

Submitted by Books In Sync

Author/Book Promotions

Website: http://www.booksinsync.com

Submission Date: April 2010

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Books In Sync Recognizes For A Second Year Author Roland Hughes

About the Author:

Roland Hughes is the president of LogikalSolutions.

Logikal Solutions is a business applications consulting firm specializing in VMS platforms. Hughes serves as a lead consultant with over two decades of experience using computers and operating systems originally created by Digital Equipment Corporation (now owned by Hewlett-Packard).

With a degree in Computer Information Systems, the author’s experience is focused on OpenVMS systems across a variety of diverse industries including heavy equipment manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, stock exchanges, tax accounting, and hardware value added resellers, to name a few. Working throughout these industries has strengthened the author’s unique skill set and given him a broad perspective on the role and value of OpenVMS in industry.

Roland Hughes welcomes opportunities for Book Signings, Expert Panels and Consulting. Please contact Roland at Logikal Solutions:

Roland@logikalsolutions.com

Ph: (815) 949-1593

Featuring: INFINITE EXPOSURE by Roland Hughes

On the road to a bleaker future, is there still a chance to get it right?

This work of fiction uses historical information and relevant news stories to draw a line from post 9/11 through the off-shoring of IT jobs and the largest terrorist strike the free world has ever known to the resulting nuclear war.

By the year 2012 the U.S. will no longer be a world power.  The world will have seen many countries deploy nuclear weapons.  Anarchy will reign in many parts of the world and electricity will be considered a luxury nearly everywhere.

That, however, is not the interesting part of the story.  How we got there is a far more interesting tale indeed.  Follow the story from post 9/11 to where it all went bad and see if you can find a way out, not just for yourself, but for everyone.

Read Infinite Exposure, Roland Hughes’ new work of fiction: a stark portrayal of a world gone wrong.

Infinite Exposure Biz Purchase Link

http://www.infiniteexposure.biz

Review For “Infinite Exposure’:

Roland Hughes’s Preface in his book “Infinite Exposure” begins with “This book is a work of fiction. It uses many historical events, news articles, and company names to build a time line necessary for projection forward. Without using many of these actual names and quotes, it would be difficult to build the sense of realism that gives credibility to the outcome. There is no slander or malice intended. Indeed this book is intended to be a wakeup call for both an industry and a country.” (p.7) Reading through the book, I found Hughes’s writing to indeed be very close to reality. The occurrences in the book mimic existing situations in the world and the resulting consequences are not desirable by any means.

The basic premise of Hughes’s book is how developing data centers and sending IT jobs overseas is detrimental to the future of the world. The result of this cost-cutting measure is the biggest al-Qaeda attack in history, and nuclear war. As anyone who has ever called for technical support on a computer or other product knows, overseas centers are a current and prevalent fact of life. I could go on for pages and pages about what I think about overseas support centers but this is not the place for that. However, Hughes’s fictional account of what the resulting effects of this money-saving action could be is a frighteningly realistic possibility.

On the title page it is stated that, “The book is meant to be a warning of what very well may happen if policies, laws, and business directions are not changed quickly.” I think that this book would be a relevant read to anyone who has ever pondered what the effects of sending jobs offshore may be and to those that have fears about the future of the world.

Hughes does a great job of presenting a detailed account of just how everything may unfortunately play out. The writing is interesting and will definitely get the reader’s attention and open their eyes to changes that need to be made. For those that are up-todate on current events, the scenarios presented in the book will hit all too close to home.

Hopefully the events that occur in the fictional “Infinite Exposure” will not become a reality in the not-too-distant future.

Reviewed by Kam Aures of RebeccasReads

Other Titles by Roland Hughes: Books for Real Programmers

The Minimum You Need to Know About Service Oriented Architecture

The Minimum You Need to Know About Logic to Work in IT

The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Application Developer

The Minimum You Need to Know About Java on OpenVMS Volume 1

Roland Hughes Website

http://www.infiniteexposure.biz

Roland Hughes Webpage On Books In Sync

http://www.booksinsync.com/authordirectory/hughesroland.html

Roland Hughes Email

Roland@logikalsolutions.com

Submitted by Books In Sync

http://www.booksinsync.com

Submission Date: April 2010

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