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This Week’s Amazon Featured Book of the Week is A Life Begins by Keith Harrison Walker

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…a life begins…
by Keith Harrison Walker
Paperback $39.95; Hardback $49.95

This is a personal story of a boy from a small town in Illinois who manages to be the first person in his family to attend college (Northwestern), earn an officer’s commission in the Navy, go on to be a tv news reporter in Tucson, Arizona, become a film script writer, then public relations executive first for a small California firm, then MGM, and later for several of Hollywood’s top PR agencies, eventually forming his own firm, capping his career with nearly 35 years working for the Hyatt Foundation on their Pritzker Architecture Prize. All this, or most of it, in the closet, while in a sixty year relationship with another man.

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This Week’s Amazon Featured Book of the Week is The Winds of Malibu by Jeff Lucas

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The Winds of Malibu

by Jeff Lucas

(4.5 out of 5 Stars – 4 Customer Reviews)

Price: $34.95 Paperback & $46.95 Hardback

The Winds of Malibu is the true story of a boy whose father (a computer engineer with a grudge against Hollywood) has held on to a house in the movie colony of Malibu, California, after a bitter divorce. At the age of eleven, Lucas is fiercely bitten by the Acting Bug and does anything to act. What ensues is a war between him and his controlling father as to his Hollywood aspirations, amid crippling anxiety attacks. The story of an outrageous upbringing, where friends are preferable to parents and Lucas relies on his diary to guide him. Lucas’s peers at school will become Hollywood’s top actors in the coming decade. The ultra-quirky, stormy, funny account of an extraordinary boy’s struggle to hang onto his dream.
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This Week’s Amazon Featured Book of the Week is Kilo 3: The True Story of a Marine Rifleman’s Tour from the Intense Fighting in Vietnam to the Superficial Pageantry of Washington, DC by Richard W. Foster, Jr.

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Kilo 3 by Richard W. Foster, Jr.

(4.5 out of 5 Stars – 24 Customer Reviews)    Price: $33.95 PB & $49.95 HB

The true story of a 17-year-old kid who quit high school to join the Marines. After a short cruise with the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean, he was assigned to a rifle company in Vietnam during the heaviest fighting of the war in 1967 and 1968. Returning in shock from what he had seen and done, he was assigned to the most prestigious Marine ceremonial detachment in the world: the Special Ceremonial Platoon. As part of this unit, he served at the White House under two Presidents, and at ceremonial duties all over DC. The contrast from the jungle of Vietnam was startling. While fighting constant nightmares of combat, he stood before Presidents, politicians, celebrities and heads of state, all the while maintaining the dignity and poise required for his position. This book is honest, graphic, and yet enlightening, ending positively. For those interested in understanding the Marine Corps and the horror of personal, ground combat, contrasted with the bright lights and facades of Washington politics, this book will not disappoint.

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This Week’s Amazon Featured Book of the Week is An Unstoppable Survivor by Judy Welden

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An Unstoppable Survivor by Judy Welden

(5 out of 5 Stars – 7 Customer Reviews)    Price: $22.95

Stifled for two decades by an unloving husband, after his drowning death in 1980, Judy Welden helped her new husband set up his Chiropractic office, began writing songs (eventually wrote 400 +), started two publishing companies and two record labels.

Her Memoir tells of her earlier life and the struggles she endured in an interesting, often humorous manner.

Reading Judy Welden’s story will uplift the reader, motivating them to never give up on their dreams!

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This Week’s Amazon Featured Book of the Week is Tempest by Charles Coffin

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Tempest by Charles Coffin

(4.8 out of 5 Stars – 19 Customer Reviews)    Price: $19.95

Based on a true story, the following is about human relationships as we journey life’s path. Although set within a military backdrop, similar interpersonal relationships could just as easily have been experienced in a small company, small town, or even within a smaller department of a large corporation. War, over simplified, is a contest of wills. People skills are not common to all of us. We each can react quite differently to the same set of circumstances. Scientists tell us through DNA research that all human beings are 99.9% genetically alike. And yet, one of the things that makes us interesting is that our personalities can be so varied, and we react to the same circumstances quite differently. Tempest offers humor as well as frustration. It demonstrates the manipulation of power and the subtle grooming of people toward the will of those in authority controlling us.

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Author Inspiration

Make Summer Reunions Extra Sweet with an Easy-to-Use Memoir Writing Kit

As we eagerly await the first warm, fresh breezes of spring — and the endless picnics and reunions inspired by the warm weather — it’s time to start thinking about putting your own personal, extra special touch to this year’s round of reunions. Put that rich personal or family history into print by self-publishing your memoirs now, just in time to print copies for friends and family this spring and summer.

Write your memoirs!It’s easier than ever for the family historian to leave a legacy in print that can be passed down from generation to generation. All most people really need is a little guidance to remember the right details and organize their memories into a structured book. This is something the Memoir Writing Kit from Outskirts Press does exceptionally well — and painlessly! The kit offers 140 pages of memory-provoking questions to help inspire you to remember every delicious detail. Simply answer the questions in complete sentences, remove the questions themselves, and your memoir practically writes itself! In addition to questions to get the ball rolling, the Memoir Writing Kit includes some pre-written text to put each chapter into context. You are free to use the text as is or modify it as you see fit.

The Memoir Writing Kit is structured in roughly chronological order, beginning with “The Dawn of Life” and ending with “The Sunset.” The years between are organized by similarly themed chapters, ranging from “Childhood Holidays and Celebrations”  to “Serving My Country” to “A Taste for Life.”

Chapters include:

  • The Dawn of Life
  • City, County, State, and Country
  • First Family
  • Childhood Friends and Events
  • Childhood Holidays and CelebrationsMemoir Kit Large
  • First Days of School
  • Serving My Country
  • College Days (and Nights)
  • Starting a Career
  • Significant (and not-so-significant) Others
  • Starting and Raising a Family
  • Spiritual Matters
  • Pastimes & Sports
  • Politics and History
  • Continuing Career
  • Empty Nest
  • Overcoming Adversity
  • A Taste for Life
  • Ready for Retirement
  • Growing Old Together
  • A Mature Look at Life
  • Remembrances
  • The Sunset

However, since everyone’s life is different, the Memoir Writing Kit is flexible enough and comprehensive enough to help you add, embellish or delete chapters as needed to tell your story the way it needs to be told.

Find out more about how the Memoir Writing Kit can give you something priceless — that’s also quite affordable!

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