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Coming Soon! Nothing So Broken (Richards)

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Coming Soon! Available now on pre-order!  Nothing So Broken  - war, memoir, more. Book description:  Born and raised in a small New England mill town, Chris Richards was 19 years old when a close friend was crippled during an accident. At that same time Chris’ father began to present symptoms from his service in the Vietnam War. The immense challenges that followed both men would haunt Chris, shaping his adult life. It wouldn’t be until many years later, when faced with his own crisis that he would be able to look past his fears and grief and find inspiration within their broken lives. For more posts about Chris and his book, click  HERE . Read more posts about memoirs  HERE . Read more posts about PTSD  HERE . Pre-order this book at 25% discount with coupon code FF25 at  MSI Press webstore ! Want to read this book and not have to pay for it? Ask for local library to order it! Sign up for the MSI Press LLC monthly newsletter (recent releases, sales/dis...

Recently Released: Audiobook Edition of GodSway (Keathley)

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  Just released: the audiobook edition of the spiritually inspiring memoir, GodSway by Diana Keathley. Book description: Diana Skidmore Keathley's journey-of-faith account details a lifetime of extraordinary divine encounters. Messages from God in her childhood were countered by episodes of engulfing fear, culminating in one terrifying attack. In a last-ditch effort to rid herself of the torment, she challenged God's love for her and trusted Him to overcome the darkness. God responded and filled her life with a heavenly outpouring of messages, dreams, and outright miracles, molding her into a woman of audacious faith in the powerfully loving and intimately involved Creator. BOOK AWARD LITERARY TITAN GOLD AWARD Paperback copies of this book can be purchased at the  MSI Press webstore   at 25% discount with coupon code FF25. For more posts about Diana and her book, click  HERE . Want to buy Diana's book and not have to pay for it? Ask your local library to purch...

Daily Excerpt: Tucker & Me (Harvey) - Riding the Wild Mattress

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  Excerpt from Tucker & Me (Harvey) - RIDING THE WILD MATTRESS               I was a planned Cesarean birth. The doctor gave my mother a choice of several dates for delivery, and she picked the seventeenth. This was because her birthday was on the seventeenth, albeit in a different month. This was part of an inordinate role the number seventeen played in our family.                      I was brought home as a baby to our residence in the Los Angeles suburb of Monterey Park. I only lived there until I was two years old, but it was always referred to as the Hermosa Vista House, in reference to the name of the street. The street number was 417, thus continuing an odd streak of the number seventeen in our family residences. After that house, we lived in the city of Alhambra, with a street address of 1717. The next home we ...

Daily Excerpt: It Only Hurts When I Can't Run (Parker) - Introduction

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  excerpt from It Only Hurts When I Can't Run by Gewanda Parker Introduction   I believe in a God who heals, delivers, and sets captives free. Because God in His mercy did this for me, I have to let the world know that if God can do it for me, surely God can do it for the next person. That is why I had to write this book—and I must admit that writing this narrative has been an unexpectedly tedious but healing journey.   I remember the day I began writing about the sexual abuse in my life. I started writing early in the day. I wrote for about four hours. I revisited every encounter I remembered from ages five to sixteen. When I finished, I erupted into tears. This flood of emotions lasted for nearly six hours. Anger, hurt, scarring, shame, betrayals, disbelief and even fear gripped me to the core of my being. When I had finally stopped, the time seemed to have slipped by because it was well past 11p.m.   On this occasion, God and my good friend were there. She sat th...