This Memorial Day, we honor those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for their country by offering up their stories. Today’s self-published books collection includes firsthand accounts of war, heart-wrenching insights into the soldier’s life and riveting stories of war based on true tales.
Here’s our list (in alphabetical order) of the Top 5 Soldier Books in Self-Publishing:
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Self-publishing a book is an exciting undertaking. Because we understand the dedication that is required to write a quality book, we like to feature our top authors each week so that you can get to know a little bit more about them and their book. This week, we are featuring Allison Wynn’s The Answer.
In The Answer: A Journey from Anger to Peace, self-publishing Outskirts Press author Allison Wynn explores deeply meaningful territory, but in unique and accessible ways through a lead character that touches and transforms the reader.
Eric McPhearson was just looking for a little pick-me-up when he stopped into his local coffee shop on his way to work. He ended up making a life-changing discovery. It all starts when he spots a stranger’s journal and reads an entry titled, “The Last Day of My Life.” What he learns silences all the anger inside of him—leading to a breakthrough in his troubled marriage and a happier, more peaceful existence.
The Answer: A Journey from Anger to Peace unpacks the intense meaning of that journal entry. In this unique, accessible book, you’ll explore the roots of frustration, conflict and unhappiness in our daily lives and relationships. Its simple, resonant message stresses making peaceful human connections—something that’s easier said than done.
The Answer is about learning to behave in a way that helps you feel a sense of significance and peace while establishing more fulfilling relationships. Reading this book will present you with the opportunity to create something different in your life. And it’s something you can begin in your very next conversation with someone you really care about … if you know the answer. This powerful book is a must-read for anyone who recognizes conflict in his or her life. It’s quick, easy-to-digest, yet profound … and, most of all, it works.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Allison Wynn has spent 30 years helping people create more peaceful lives. The two questions she’s been asked the most are, “How do I deal with anger in either myself or others,” and, “How do I create a more peaceful life?” She lives in Mission Viejo, Calif.
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Self-publishing a book is an exciting undertaking. Because we understand the dedication that is required to write a quality book, we like to feature our top authors each week so that you can get to know a little bit more about them and their book. This week, we are featuring Stephen E. Donnelly’s “The Beatles Discography: Volume One.”
Emmy-winning editor and Outskirts Press author Stephen Donnelly takes his compilation talents to task with one of his other passions: music. Specifically, the music of The Beatles, inarguably the most influential musical force in rock ‘n’ roll history.
“The Beatles Discography” presents the Beatles recorded legacy like never before, with US and UK releases side by side with important releases from Germany, France and more. Plus their solo efforts in the same chronological listings, complete with release dates, record labels & numbers, full track listings with composer and producer credits, recording dates, mix variations and song lengths, all in a compact and easy to understand format, including many rare images of front and back covers, picture sleeves and record labels.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Stephen Donnelly is a Writer, Producer and Editor. He resides in a small town in Colorado with his family, a self-described Beatles fanatic; he has spent the better part of the last two decades researching and compiling The Beatles Discography. He is currently working on future volumes.
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Self-publishing a book is an exciting undertaking. Because we understand the dedication that is required to write a quality book, we like to feature our top authors each week so that you can get to know a little bit more about them and their book. This week, we are featuring J.E. Hopkins’ “Lover’s Betrayal.”
Self-publishing Outskirts Press author J.E. Hopkins challenges everything you thought you knew about vampires and the paranormal in “Lover’s Betrayal,” the first book in her Misfits of Lore series. Savvy, sexy and full of surprises, “Lover’s Betrayal” will keep you guessing right up to the shocking finale.
Vampire couple Olivia and Lucian were forced to separate nearly two centuries ago, but now a series of murders has brought them back together. Their task? To investigate who’s responsible for the grisly killings. And the prime suspect is none other than Olivia’s son, Kaden. For Olivia, the reunion brings back all the pain of their shattered love—a love she abandoned to marry another.
The decision held fateful consequences for herself and her troubled, warring sons. But her new mission also offers a chance at redemption as she risks everything to prove Kaden’s innocence—and put back together a fractured family before it’s too late.
Through it all, Olivia faces the seemingly unyielding hate of Lucian, a powerful leader of the Council, the enforcers of all immortals.
He’s determined to seek vengeance on Olivia and her son—but can his hatred withstand the love his heart can’t deny?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
J.E. Hopkins published her first novel, The Broken, in 2007. She is a practicing attorney in New York and an avid fiction writer. Hopkins holds a Juris Doctor from St. John’s University and a Bachelor of Arts from New York University.For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/loversbetrayal.
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Self-publishing a book is an exciting undertaking. Because we understand the dedication that is required to write a quality book, we like to feature our top authors each week so that you can get to know a little bit more about them and their book. This week, we are featuring Allison Wynn’s The Answer: A Journey from Anger to Peace.
In her latest book, self-publishing Outskirts Press author, Allison Wynn, innovatively starts her readers off with the clever, but startling prompt: “How do you want to feel on the last day of your life?”
Wynn’s accessible narrative begins with Eric McPhearson stopping off at his favorite coffee shop for a pick-me-up before work. He is an angry man. His marriage is non-existent; his career seems on the rocks. While sipping his coffee, he spots and starts reading a stranger’s journal left on a table.
What he reads in the fine, leather bound journal suddenly silences all the anger inside him. He undergoes a breakthrough in his troubled marriage and his work, and he begins to live a happier, more peaceful existence.
Like Eric, the readers of The Answer will begin to explore the roots of the conflicts they’re experiencing in their relationships, and through the book’s simple, resonating message begin to make peace with those relationships. While that is sometimes easier said than done, Wynn acknowledges, her process does work and does restore the power of choice to create changes in one’s life.
Allison Wynn has spent thirty years as a professional in leadership effectiveness, personal empowerment coaching and family and relationship development. The two questions she’s been asked the most, she writes, are “How do I deal with anger in either myself or others?” and “How do I create a more peaceful life?”
This guide was written from her experience in helping others to find a practical way to answer those questions.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Allison Wynn has spent 30 years helping people create more peaceful lives. The two questions she’s been asked the most are, “How do I deal with anger in either myself or others,” and, “How do I create a more peaceful life?” She lives in Mission Viejo, Calif.
For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/theanswer.
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Self-publishing a book is an exciting undertaking. Because we understand the dedication that is required to write a quality book, we like to feature our top authors each week so that you can get to know a little bit more about them and their book. This week, we are featuring Mark S. Foster’s A Life of Courage and Love.
In her latest book, self-publishing Outskirts Press author, Mark S. Foster, tells the remarkable story of a woman who agreed to be an “experiment” as an early kidney transplant recipient and went on to become the world’s longest living diabetic kidney transplant survivor, all the while working tirelessly to provide hope to other kidney transplant patients and to the blind.
Marcia Lortscher’s early years showed no signs of the exceptional life she was eventually destined to live. She was born and raised in a comfortable, conservative middle class Catholic family in Denver and she finished college before the 1970’s feminist revolution. She then explored several different career paths before marrying in her late twenties.
Then fate intervened. Marcia had been diagnosed a diabetic at age ten, but just after she married, her kidneys failed. She had been looking forward to settling comfortably into a conventional housewife’s role, but instead doctors suddenly began measuring her life expectancy in weeks. So serious was her condition that her doctors initially demurred at performing a kidney transplant.
She was finally accepted for the operation as an “experiment” and she ultimately became the longest living diabetic kidney transplant patient, surviving for thirty-six years.
Marcia experienced an endless array of harrowing medical problems and she went blind in her early forties, but she devoted her life to serving others through volunteerism. She and her husband had no biological children of their own, but they became surrogate parents to well over a hundred young people whom they called their “kids.” Marcia’s continuing work on behalf of other social service groups eventually brought her widespread recognition as one of the nation’s most valued volunteers.
Although this exceptional woman was uncomfortable with being singled out for praise and disliked being called an “inspiration,” readers of A Life of Courage and Love may decide that that label is, in fact, totally appropriate.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Mark S. Foster is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Colorado at Denver, where he taught for 33 years. He was named both teacher of the year and researcher of the year and has published eleven books previously, including works on urban transportation, city planning and the automobile culture in the United States; five biographies, including Henry J. Kaiser, Carl G. Fisher and Quigg Newton; and works on the history of baseball.
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Self-publishing a book is an exciting undertaking. Because we understand the dedication that is required to write a quality book, we like to feature our top authors each week so that you can get to know a little bit more about them and their book. This week, we are featuring Michael L. Watson’s A Glimpse Into the Inner Workings of My God.
In his latest book, self-publishing Outskirts Press author, Michael L. Watson, shows how the outdated and counter-productive dogma of today’s organized religions discriminates against all non-believers and against any believers who tend to be different and often overlooks the importance of women in God’s universe.
Today the media embellishes the thoughts of scientific geniuses such as Stephen Hawking and Craig Venter in their rush to heighten their celebrity status, but by doing so they lower the value that God plays in the sanity of this universe. For those struggling to find some moral conscience in a world full of economic and political unrest and natural disasters, organized religions no longer provide the spiritual and pragmatic support to parishioners made uncertain by this endless assault of “bad news.”
Believers and non-believers alike want to know why the endless strife of the world creates more pain and suffering than does transitory spiritual joy. They want to know if God created evolution or if evolution created God and they want to know if there is any other reason than blind faith to believe in an afterlife.
In A Glimpse into the Inner Workings of My God Watson chronicles his thirty year spiritual journey overcoming challenges to his health and to his human frailty and offers his readers a new understanding of a personal relationship with God that will bring them an inner peace in this world at war with itself.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Michael L. Watson is an inspirational author whose life has been nothing short of exceptional. Michael was raised by a divorced, always working, tough-loving mom who placed God first in their tiny, cramped apartment and put Michael through disciplined parochial education. Following in God’s ordered steps, Michael weathered more than his share of life’s endless struggles. For almost 30 years, with a “thy will be done” attitude, he overcame such life threatening health challenges as uncontrollable hemorrhaging, Tuberculosis, and Stage IV Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. With a Bachelors Degree in Health Care Administration, this proud father of seven college-educated children spent over 50 years experiencing life to perfect his reality-based personal relationship with God.
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Self-publishing a book is an exciting undertaking. Because we understand the dedication that is required to write a quality book, we like to feature our top authors each week so that you can get to know a little bit more about them and their book. This week, we are featuring Alexander Flint’s Highway Odyssey.
In his latest book, self-publishing Outskirts Press author, Alexander Flint, reinforces for readers what really matters in life and how important it is to tell the ones we love how much they mean to us.
Flint’s first trip was in 1978 when he and his seven year old his son set out in their customized van to drive from New York to Colorado with their eyes set on the adventures of the road. Little did either know that that first summer trip would start a twenty year tradition that would make Flint’s son eligible for setting a Guinness world record. Nor did they realize how close these treks would bring them to each other.
Highway Odyssey tells of treacherous moments, such as when father and son backpacked across the snowfields of the Grand Tetons and had to climb over a closed mountain pass to reach Hurricane Pass and then descend down into the Alaska Basin. It also reveals moments of candid introspection and consequent revelation, such as the trip that should have been merely a short visit with old friends, but turned instead into an unexpected increase in understanding by the author of his role and his responsibility as a single parent still struggling with the failure of his marriage.
Flint’s tale is far more than a fascinating travelogue of the western United States, although it is that, too. It also reveals the healing power of travel itself as well as the unyielding strength of family bonds forged on the road.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Alexander Flint is a native New Yorker and retired New York City high school teacher. He is also a retired military officer, having served in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. His previous books are The Frozen Dozen (Rutledge Books, 2002) and Stress Survival (Xlibris, 2006). Flint edited his father’s memoirs, The Way It Was: From Second Avenue to Staten Island (Xlibris, 2005). The father of five children and six grandchildren, Flint lives on Staten Island, New York, and Hollywood Beach, Florida.
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Self-publishing a book is an exciting undertaking. Because we understand the dedication that is required to write a quality book, we like to feature our top authors each week so that you can get to know a little bit more about them and their book. This week, we are featuring La-Temus Marshall’s Race War.
In his latest book, self-publishing Outskirts Press author, La-Temus Marshall, uses the dramatic tale of two U.S. politicians trying to turn back the hands of time in America for their own racist agenda in a riveting fictional vehicle that shows readers the dangers of ever allowing racism and separatism to prevail.
Race War starts off not far from the reality of today. The American economy is in shambles. Crime and unemployment are at an all time high. Then, as things worsen, many cities move to the verge of anarchy. Blacks suddenly begin to blame whites for allowing America to lose its place as a world leader. Whites have already been blaming blacks for the decline.
Two U.S. congressmen hide behind this racial confusion and use their influence and powerful friends to stockpile weapons for the white race after a majority of federal lawmakers vote to change the Constitution, dissolve the United States of America and give each race its own territory.
As the blacks — themselves now armed – and the whites wage war against each other and start to take heavy casualties, a Chinese-Russian federation is quietly being formed. It begins to build its own armed force and to prepare for attack in order to take advantage of the disruption and take over what was formerly a unified, and impregnable America.
Race War shows that what makes America great is the appreciation of one culture and race for another. When Americans live and work together in harmony toward a common goal, the country is, in fact, indivisible, and freedom and justice can become available for all.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
La-Temus Marshall is a graduate of Sullivan University and recipient of the Who’s Who Among College Students and the 110 Percent award (now called Student of the Year). He began writing Race War after observing his daughter’s second-grade class, where the children played happily together regardless of skin color. Marshall’s mission is to eradicate racism in the United States, and he is a passionate advocate of the unity of humanity of all colors. He lives and works in the pristine, beautiful city of Lexington, Kentucky.
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Self-publishing a book is an exciting undertaking. Because we understand the dedication that is required to write a quality book, we like to feature our top authors each week so that you can get to know a little bit more about them and their book. This week, we are featuring Pamela Greenhalgh Hamilton’s Snow Day.
In her latest book, self-publishing Outskirts Press author, Pamela Greenhalgh Hamilton, tells of the joy of a snow day spent with spirited and loving grandparents and the warmth of a close family and activities that do not involve computers, video games or any other high-tech gadgets.
It had snowed all night and Tessa, Jake and Molly had slipped on their winter coats over their PJ’s so their mother could drive them to their grandparents for the day. Their young-at-heart grandma and grandpa spend the morning teaching them how to catch snowflakes on their tongues, make snow angels and pack a mean snowball. Afterward it’s an afternoon of baking sugar cookies, brewing warm cocoa and lighting a cozy fire.
“A light snow storm in early December inspired the story,” Hamilton recalls. “Little did I know that the storm was a precursor for the winter to come. The Shenandoah Valley had record snowfall and the area kids got lots of snow days.”
That snow storm reminded Hamilton of many of her activities as a child growing up in a snowy Massachusetts and the snowmen her father would help her build in their back yard. Those memories of close times with family – before the days of Mario Karts and tiny digital screens — inspired Snow Day and set the tone for the adventures Tessa, Jake and Molly have with their grandparents.
Although Snow Day is Hamilton’s first picture book, she is no stranger to the worlds of writing and journalism. Her fiction and nonfiction has been published in Hopscotch, the South Coast Insider, the Bristol County Baby Journal as well as other regional and national publications.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Pamela Greenhalgh Hamilton followed her childhood dream to become a writer when she swapped her career as an elementary school teacher for one as a journalist and public relations specialist. A recipient of recognition by the New England Press Association and the Council for Advancement in Secondary Education, her articles and fiction have appeared in regional and national publications. Originally from Massachusetts, Pamela now lives in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley with her husband Bate and three cats. Snow Day is her first picture book.
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