Book Pick For The WEEK ( 65 ) !

Book Description:

 

Girl, Come & Get Your Blessings is an inspirational and empowerment book for women. We learn about Gods love for us and how we as women should love ourselves. We also learn how to develop that relationship with God and how to deal with hurt and pain from the past. This book also covers just how important it is to change your mind set and surround yourself with positive people and things. For those of you who are going through things in life and wondering…where is God when I need him? Turn the pages and you’ll find the answer to your question. You will find true stories of women, these women allow us into their lives so that we as readers can see exactly what they went through and how they overcame these things. One of the women in the book that tells her story tells us how she was addicted to drugs, a victim of incest, and how she saw angels. She goes on to tell us how the Holy Spirit spoke to her and guided her through the streets of Miami Florida. This book is very deep and real and there is something that all women can take from this book. My story is included in this book as well. Many of the stories in this book will touch you in many different ways; many of you may be going through or may have gone through many of the same things. My family has never known the things about me that I have included in this book about myself. When they turn the pages it will be the first time they too will read my story, life’s lessons are truly our blessings.

 

Author Bio :

Born January 24th in Saint Petersburg, Florida to Katie Mae Smiley, Shalona was the last of twelve children. She was often sick as a child and her illness caused her to be separated from the rest of the kids. After being isolated for more than a year she began to get bored with watching television so she began to write. She wrote anything that came to mind and anything that rhymed. Shalona’s writing was first noticed in the fifth grade when she won a poetry contest for grandparent‘s day. She touched the lives of many grandparent’s that day. However, she never had any grandparent’s of her own. Her grandmother was poisoned when her mother was just six weeks old and her mother never knew her father. Her teachers all saw something in her that she was too young at the time to understand.
When entering middle school she continued writing hiding her work under her bed. The amazing thing about her writing as a child is that many of her writings she can recite still today.

 

 

Author radio show interview link : http://www.blogtalkradio.com/girlpower/2012/10/26/girl-come-and-get-your-blessings

 

 

Author book link :http://astore.amazon.com/bernadine-20/detail/0982561814

 

 

Quote Pick For The WEEK ( 61 ) !

Fear of  failure must never be a reason not to try something new.  You are risking   nothing but  faith !

By  Unknown  Author

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Back To School Poem !

School !

 

Back to school. Back to school, to prove to Dad that I’m not a fool. I got my lunch packed up, my boots tied tight, I hope I don’t get in a fight. Oh! Back to school… back to school… back to school. Well, here goes nothing but drama, fights, girls, bullies and classwork……back to school .

 

 

By Billy Madison

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Poem Pick For The WEEK ( 52 ) !

 

One Person Can Make a Difference !

 

 

 

 

A man on the beach where thousands of starfish lay dying in the sun saw a girl tossing them into the sea, one by one. ” Why bother ? ” he asked. ” You won’t makes much of a difference .” Tossing yet another starfish into the sea, the girl said. ” I made a difference to that one I SAVED ” !

 

 

Online bookstore link ;  http://astore.amazon.com/bernadine-20/detail/B003HS4VR0

 

WHAT  ABOUT  THE  CHILDREN’S ?

 

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

By Martin Lutheran King

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Book Pick For The WEEK ( 45 ) !

 

From the fans of Gravano’s reality TV series “Mob Wives and true crime aficionados.”  !

 

Book Description :

Karen Gravano is the daughter of Sammy “the Bull” Gravano, once one of the mafia’s most feared hit men. With nineteen confessed murders, the former Gambino Crime Family underboss—and John Gotti’s right-hand man—is the highest ranking gangster ever to turn State’s evidence and testify against members of his high-profile crime family. 

But to Karen, Sammy Gravano was a sometimes elusive but always loving father figure.  He was ever-present at the head of the dinner table.  He made a living running a construction firm and several nightclubs.  He stayed out late, and sometimes he didn’t come home at all.  He hosted “secret” meetings at their house, and had countless whispered conversations with “business associates.” By the age of twelve, Karen knew he was a gangster.  And as she grew up, while her peers worried about clothes and schoolwork, she was coming face-to-face with crime and murder.  Gravano was nineteen years old when her father turned his back on the mob and cooperated with the Feds.  The fabric of her family was ripped apart, and they were instantly rejected by the communities they grew up in.

This is the story of a daughter’s struggle to reconcile the image of her loving father with that of a murdering Mafioso, and how, in healing the rift between the two, she was able to forge a new life.

 

About the Author:

KAREN GRAVANO was born in Brooklyn, New York.  She is a star of the VH1 Reality TV show Mob Wives, about the day-to-day struggles family members are faced with after a loved one is sent to prison. She is also producing a movie based on her family’s story and developing a scripted television series about her wild days living in New York City. Outside of the entertainment business, Karen is putting her experience as an esthetician and her love for skin care into developing her own line of products.

LISA PULITZER is a former correspondent for The New York Times. She is the author of more than a dozen non-fiction titles, including New York Times bestseller Stolen Innocence (with Elissa Wall) and Portrait of a Monster: Joran van der Sloot, a Murder in Peru, and the Natalee Holloway Mystery (with Cole Thompson.)

 

ONLINE LIVE RADIO SHOW LINK : http://www.blogtalkradio.com/girlpower/2012/07/27/mob-wives-author-karen-gravano

 

ONLINE BOOK STORE LINK: http://astore.amazon.com/bernadine-20/detail/1250003059

Quote Pick For The WEEK ( 43 ) !

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors because. They were educated from the school of  hard knocks ( life ) !

 

 

By Author Bernadine Feagins

 

website: http://astore.amazon.com/bernadine-20/detail/B003HS4VR0

 

Book Pick For The WEEK ( 44 ) !

  This is a book  of  TESTIMONY of  faith   that leads  to  courage in our everyday life !

 

 

Book Description :

It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning, great is Thy faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-23
God’s mercies are sure; His promises are fulfilled; but a dawn of a new morning is God’ grace.

If you need a testimony about God’s grace, then If I Should Die Before I Wake will encourage your soul. Nothing happens in our lives by chance. If you need a miracle, God’s got that too. Trust Him.

Has it been a while since you’ve had a testimony? Increase your prayer life, build your faith and walk in victory because without a test, there is no testimony.

Author Bio:
Pat Simmons is the award-winning and bestselling authorof the Guilty series.

She is a self-proclaimed genealogy sleuth. She is passionate about digging up the dirt on her ancestors, then casting them in starring roles in her novels. She envisions some unsuspecting reader will connect names, places and family tales, then begrudgingly, admit to sharing Pat’s heritage. She has been a genealogy enthusiast since her great-grandmother died at the young age of ninety-seven years old.

She describes the gift of the Holy Ghost as an amazing, unforgettable, life-alternating experience.
Pat has a B.S. in mass communications from Emerson College in Boston, MA. She has worked in various media positions in radio, television, and print for more than twenty years. Currently, she oversees the media publicity for the annual RT Booklovers Conventions.
She is the award-winning author of Talk to Me, ranked Top #14 books in 2008 that Changed Lives; the Katherine D. Jones Award recipient for Grace and Humility from the Romance Slam Jam committee in 2008; and Still Guilty was voted the Best Inspirational Romance for 2010. Pat is best known for her Guilty series: Guilty of Love, Not Guilty of Love, and Still Guilty. Crowning Glory is her 2011 release.
Pat has converted her sofa-strapped, sports fanatical husband to an amateur travel agent, untrained bodyguard, and GPS-guided chauffeur. They have a son and daughter.

Book website link: http://astore.amazon.com/bernadine-20/detail/B004XTTQ7M

Quote Pick For The WEEK ( 43 ) !

The  DIFFERENCE  IN  MEN AND  WOMEN !

Men often give love for sex, women often give  sex  for love. There is NOT  such little difference in men and women, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude, behavior and personal growth but . The biggest difference is whether it is positive or negative !

By author Bernadine Feagins

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Book Pick For The WEEK ( 42 ) 1

 

Book Description:

 

This book is not a book of absolute authority. It is the compilation of thoughts and blogs that the author has reflected upon over the recent history of the global economic conditions we face at this time. It is a book of current events substance, and not a book to be put on a shelf for later reflection. It is a book about you and me and how the political, social and economic forces prevalent in our society today will manipulate and control our environment if we do not respond. The book is a “call to action” for each reader to respond accordingly to his own intellect, will and discernment. The author has gone to great pains not to present a conservative nor liberal perspective, but a perspective that leaves open the door for more discussion and refinement. In no way is this book meant to be a definitive authority on any subject. Instead, it is to be used as a thought provoking piece to prime the pump of each reader’s mind and heart to activate further knowledge and awareness of the forces around us. It is a primer textbook on the national and global economy today. It is a manual of how one is able to shape ideas and put those ideas into practical reasoning and action. It is a book for anyone concerned about our economy to give him/her the time needed upon which to reflect, understand, and remain informed of the most important issues of our day.

Author Bio :

 

 

The author of this book, Phil Cioppa, is a pragmatist and every person economist. He does not hold himself out to be a Wharton School of Business graduate or the sole expert on any subject. Instead, he sees himself as a person who stays informed and educated on the issues and observes how they impact his and his family’s life. We know, for instance, that anyone can tell why the price of gas is affecting each person, but do we know why the possible Greek and Spanish default on their loans could be as equally dramatic for each of us? The world has become a very small experience and Phil maintains that it is this interdependence and awareness that he is called to bring to the attention of his reading and listening public. Each week, Phil hosts “The Phil Cioppa Show, syndicated into over 140 markets via Cable Radio Network, BusinessTalk Radio Network and Radio Linx. This book is another effort on Phil’s part to attempt to keep the American public abreast of the issues that face a world in crisis. He does not see the economic sphere improving. Instead, he sees a decline in the economic situation globally, yet has confidence that the correct leadership will emerge to address these issues as at other times in history. Whether the leaders we need are already in place is yet to be seen according to Phil. There is no way of knowing the greatness of a person until the historical moment of opportunity

 

Book Link:

http://www.amazon.com/My-Views-Todays-Economy-ebook/dp/B0089MP3ZS/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1340041703&sr=1-1&keywords=phil+cioppa

 

 

 

Author LIVE radio show interview link:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/girlpower/2012/06/15/news-reporter-phil-cioppa