Psychotherapist, educator, and author Carol Jones wrote Hopeful Heart, Peaceful Mind: Managing Infertility to fill a void in the current literature for infertility patients. Although medical books on infertility abound, few authors address the emotional and spiritual needs of these individuals. The material in the book is grounded on Jones own experience with infertility and on her many years of counseling individuals and couples struggling with infertility issues.

I wrote the book to help individuals and couples deal with the many emotional issues they confront on their journey toward family building. It includes practical advice, personal stories from my clients, and techniques to promote overall health and inner peace. Just as I do in my counseling work, I explain and encourage a range of practices such as yoga, meditation, visualization, and music-evoked imagery.

Amy L. Powell

Saturday, October 2, 2010 @ 1pm-3pm

THERE ARE SOME THINGS EVEN GOD CAN'T DO! "God can't rescind a promise, nor can He ever stop loving you." However, Chanel Grace Atkinson didn't get that memo. What she DID get was her heart ripped out by Him when both her parents died as Christians. "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints"? Funny. That verse was a slap in the face at both funerals. Anyway, who needs redemption when you're the young CEO of a multinational cosmetics conglomerate, and you have the world at your fingertips? And having the "three m's" never hurt, either- millions, mansions, and men. Unfortunately, Chanel hadn't bargained on a fourth "m"- murder. Throw in some Japanese yakuza, an Italian mafia, a demented sorority sister, a vengeful spouse, a growing list of scorned ex-lovers, four trigger-happy CIA operatives, a shady senator, and hundreds of disgruntled employees--just to name a few--and Grace just might be better off dead after all. But in steps Simeon Bloodgood, an ex-Navy Seal, a former cop, and the Christian founder and president of Bloodgood Securities. Will the cunning seductress, who stops at nothing to have her way, be the warrior's downfall? Will the gray-eyed country boy with the easy smile be just what the Good Doctor ordered to tame the wealthy shrew? Or has fate dealt both Simeon and Chanel a very cruel hand?

http://outskirtspress.com/webpage.php?ISBN=9781432751791

Jennie Helderman

Saturday, October 9, 2010 @ 10am-12pm

New Book AS THE SYCAMORE GROWS is a Harrowing

True Story of Escape from Abuse and Religious Zealotry 

In October, National Domestic Violence Month, Summers Bridgewater Press will release Jennie Helderman’s new non-fiction book AS THE SYCAMORE GROWS, which details a woman’s descent into poverty and abuse at the hands of three ice-hearted and controlling men: her stern, self-righteous, father; her vengeful, bad-boy first husband; and her bible-toting, pistol-packing second husband.  

It also chronicles her challenging steps to recovery, resulting in her graduating from college and becoming a court advocate for battered women in the shelter she previously escaped to. 

Author and national authority on abusive men Lundy Bancroft writes, “Rarely has a story of a woman’s courageous fight for freedom been told in such an eloquent and moving way. And, even more unusual, we get an open view into the twisted mentality of a man who was able, like so many abusers, to convince the outside world he was normal. A hard book to put down.” 

Rick Bragg, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin’, declares, “Jennie Helderman has taken a heartbreaking issue and boiled it down to human beings of flesh and blood, enduring lost days and fearful nights. It opens the door on a too-common story and closes you in with it.” 

Retired DeKalb County (GA) police lieutenant L.D. Hesse states, “Jennie Helderman’s thoroughly documented book proves that the cycle of domestic violence can be broken, that hope exists for the batterer and the abused, and that the written word can heal.” 

In AS THE SYCAMORE GROWS, the journalist-narrator meets Ginger, who relates the harrowing tale of her escape from a lonely childhood and two abusive marriages. Her parents embraced a super-strict Christian doctrine which teaches that men lead, women follow and divorce is a sin. Ginger escaped from the first abusive marriage, but it meant leaving her baby boy behind. Her second husband virtually enslaved her in isolation, poverty and physical abuse. Once, on Mother’s Day, he viciously beat her and then demanded that she cut the grass—with scissors. 

There is a secret that will bring America to its knees. Reporter Dorian Valentine discovers the horrific truth regarding the Strategic Offensive Reduction Treaty (a critical peace agreement between the former Soviet Union and the United States): One side is cheating, and even worse - the cheating side holds the ultimate trump card. Brutally trained from birth to live, talk, and think like Americans, foriegn powers have constructed the most dangerous network of secret operatives ever known - created for the ultimate trinity: Intelligence, Espionage, and Warfare. This dynamic organization has been planted on US soil long ago by the former KGB to retrieve information at any cost, cause political catastrophe, or kill on moment’s notice. Now they are out of control, striking fear into the heart of the Pentagon. The Central Intelligence Agency assembles a powerful team of assasins that “do not exist” in an attempt to terminate an enemy that cannot be caught by any traditional methods. The Invisible Enemy grabs the reader by the arm, and casts them deep into the furious depths of intense warfare, awesome espionage, and unpredictable deceit - where there is a frightful undercover agenda that even the operatives themselves are not aware of.

"The reader is paralyzed with anticipation as the plot somersaults out of control after the enemy operatives swiftly perform a devastating political strike, and then realize they have been set up. Here the game changes and no one has told them the rules. Betrayed by their own country and thrown into a world they can not trust, they are forced to depend on the most potent weapon they had ever been trained to use: their unnatural minds. In a fast paced novel that spins from one explosive scene to the next, the most high-tech weaponry is used including speed of light weapons, “smart chips”, artificial intelligence, and never before exposed government technology and organizations, thus introducing a new, exciting, untapped level of spycraft where nothing is what it seems."

http://www.anthonyrhoward.com/