Jeff de Leyer is the grandson of a Dutch immigrant and equestrian champion, Harry de Leyer. This in itself, created an impression of a young man born into a world of privilege and entitlement. However, this could not be any further from the truth. His biological mother and father abandoned him on a doorstep when he was only three years old, leaving him with a void that was nearly impossible to fill. Jeff spent his teen and young adult years on the streets of New York making a name for himself as a drug dealer. This is where he not only found acceptance, but also a sense of family he so desperately wanted and needed. In 1998 at 21 years of age, Jeff was arrested and later convicted of a gang-related murder, after a drug deal went horribly wrong. In prison, he was a high-ranking member of the United Blood Nation, involving him in gang wars, fights, and riots. Rock bottom came years later at the age of 39. At this point, the only thing he was looking for was redemption. He decided it was time to walk away from the only life he had ever known. This is the compelling and true story of the rise and fall of a New York Ecstasy Kingpin. It is an eye-opening excursion through the pulse of the drug world, street life, drug addiction, prison, art and true love. Through his passion for art, desire for education and love, he rose above his circumstances to embrace a new vision of the world around him.
As a registered nurse, Gail Stewart Frare knew too well all the terrible medical possibilities that could devastate a person, and couldn’t help but fret over her two sons, Jeff and Christopher. By the time Christopher entered his teen years as healthy as his older brother, her worries subsided. Then the unspeakable happened.
While on a spring break trip to visit Jeff, fifteen-year-old Christopher nearly died from a virus-induced heart failure—becoming one of the only six in one hundred thousand people who suffer from post viral cardiomyopathy. Shortly thereafter, he had to undergo heart transplant surgery. The transplant was successful, but eventually his medication made him vulnerable to an aggressive form of cancer, and he died at the age of twenty-two.
After his death, Frare found an entry in her son’s journal declaring, “True, unadulterated joy in my life is to write at least one piece of literary mastery.” Painkillers and Gummi Bears is a coauthored mother-son memoir about facing fear, enduring pain, and choosing love. In writing it, the author holds out the very real hope that what you suffer will not ultimately crush you.
***Book 1, BECOMING ALPHA, is free for the month of September***Seventeen-year-old Tessa McCaide has come a long way since her abrupt entrance into the world of werewolves, but she still has just as far to go before she’s comfortable with turning full wolf. In the meantime, she’s avoiding the topic of shifting to four legs any way she can. Thankfully her mate, Dastien Laurent, is quite the distraction. When she finds her best friend, Meredith, getting sick in the bathroom, Tessa knows something’s majorly wrong. Meredith was cursed years ago, and the dark magic kept her wolf dormant—only now the wolf is awake, and that same spell is killing her. Tessa has no intention of sitting around while Meredith wastes away. Even if it means playing with magic she doesn’t understand, she’ll do anything to save Meredith’s life. Including bargaining with the local coven of witches and its crazed leader, whose only goal is getting Tessa to join the witchy ranks. Can Tessa save her friend without losing herself?***A 52K Word Novella***THE ALPHA GIRLS SERIESSeptember-Only Promotion!1. BECOMING ALPHA is FREE!2. AVOIDING ALPHA is FREE!3. ALPHA DIVIDED is 1.99!4. BRUJA is 2.99!5. ALPHA UNLEASHED…releases September 22nd!
All the training in the world cannot touch what love can teach. An expert communicator, Jack McAfghan writes the memoirs of his four-legged life. From Obedience Training to hospice therapy work, he and his master learn life lessons side by side, inevitably applying what they have learned as their own lives unfold.
This extraordinary love story will comfort, inform and support those who are in the process of training a dog, falling in love, or learning to live with loss. Jack presents observations about interpersonal relationships, points out the psychological aspects of canine behavior, and reveals the possibilities that exist in life and after death.
This heartwarming account of Jack’s life will touch anyone who has ever loved. It matters not if they have four legs or two. Throughout the book Jack reminds us that by keeping one’s heart in the right place and by thinking positive thoughts we can manifest the changes needed to alter the course of our lives. Jack brings the wisdom of a lifetime to his readers and he expands our tolerance and compassion for all of humanity. He extends himself to every creature of the earth, every human on the planet, every spirit in the universe and to the bona fide Master over all.
On his 19th birthday and the day after his freshman year at the University of Georgia, Jack McDermott was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Sitting right behind his optic nerves, the tumor rapidly threatened to take his vision, and Jack was rushed into surgery. For the next six months, he fought the battle of his life. Told with honesty, tenderness, and compassion, All the Above chronicles his mom’s emotional struggle as she and her family did everything possible to help Jack survive brain cancer. This inspiring true story of courage, optimism, and hope will touch all those whose world has changed in a day, and who have faced grief and loss.
The incredible, edible egg – sounds amazing doesn’t it? But the truth is, many egg recipe books are filled with either complex formulations for the chef in residence (if you are fortunate to have one of those) or simply yawn-inducing recipes that have been floating around since Great Grandma first scrambled her eggs in the iron skillet.
This book is different! With creative twists on some old family favorites – plus entirely new gems such as the “Thai Chili Egg Scramble”, you are sure to find something to suit your tastes that will help you to reach your weight loss and fat burning goals – without boring, bland “diet” foods!
Easy low carb egg recipes that are both healthy and tasty make for quick and easy meals – any time of the day. That’s what this cookbook will bring to your kitchen.
Whether you’re looking for ideas for breakfast / brunch, lunch, dinner, appetizers, snacks or desserts, this healthy recipes cookbook has you covered!
Welcome to Here’s the DEAL Eggciting Low Carb Egg Recipes!
Carol D’Anca integrative nutritionist and gourmet cook is reinventing whole food plant based cooking and elevating it to a delicious, elegant and healthful cuisine. Her extraordinary recipes and culinary tips have delighted students at her cooking school, “The Academy of Plant Based Cooking and Nutrition” and are now beautifully presented and artfully photographed in this recipe and resource guide. More than a cookbook, “Real Food for Healthy People” serves as a resource guide for organizing the kitchen, stocking the pantry and learning basic culinary tips that are extremely helpful when preparing a whole food plant based diet. Carol’s unique combination of her Mediterranean background, clinical nutritional training and gourmet cooking skills makes this distinctive book a go to staple for plant based cooks.
We only learned about our father’s girlfriend after he became deathly ill and lay in a coma 120 miles from our home.Overhearing the nurse tell Linda—since I was nine I had called my mom by her first name—about the girlfriend who came in almost every day to visit him when we weren’t there confirmed that the last moment of normal had passed us by without our realizing it. Up to then our family had unhappily coexisted with Dad flying jumbo jets to Asia while we lived in Montana. We finally came together to see Dad through his illness, but he was once again absent from a major family event—unable to join us from his comatose state. This is the moment when our normal existence tilted.Dad recovered, but the marriage ailed, as did Linda, with cancer. Our family began to move down an entirely different path with silver linings we wouldn’t see for many years.In this candid and compassionate memoir Nicole Harkin describes with an Impressionist’s fine eye the evolution of a family that is quirky, independent, uniquely supportive, peculiarly loving and, most of all, marvelously human.
A story of resilience, courage, and triumphRecalling her life, the author takes us on a journey of unimaginable abuse with continued explicit threats that eventually led to her being sent overseas on an impossible mission. She repressed the memories of her past until a family tragedy forced her to face what her life had been. A history of abuse, torture, and threats to maintain her silence or be killed could no longer be denied. This is the story of facing the truth and risking the consequences of breaking the silence. The author learns to accept the effects of the trauma that echo through her daily life as PTSD. Through years of self-exploration, she learns to live her life fearlessly, with eyes wide open. Ultimately this book is about resilience; hope for victims who have suffered trauma and for the people who support them.
