Jennifer Needle in Her Arm: Healing from the Hell of My Daughter's Drug Addiction

Jennifer Needle in Her Arm: Healing from the Hell of My Daughter's Drug Addiction
Author: Bonnie Kaye
Publisher: CCB Publishing
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2014-08-10
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 177143161X

Jennifer Needle in Her Arm explores the emotional turmoil that parents go through when they have either lost a child to drugs or have to deal with a child currently addicted to drugs. Bonnie Kaye, who lost her daughter Jennifer in 2002 at the age of 22, suffered the guilt and shame almost all good parents go through in the aftermath of losing a child to drugs. In this book, Kaye talks about the journey she and her daughter went through together, and how in the end, nothing she did changed the outcome. She shares some articles she wrote in the years following her loss to help people understand what parents go through with a drug-addicted child. Kaye has also included a number of heart-wrenching writings that Jennifer gave to her to share with others in hopes that they would read about her pain and not have her daily struggles of survival. One passage includes these words of despair and hope: Dear Addiction, What have I ever done to you to deserve all this pain and agony? You have taken everything from me. My family’s trust, my family’s sleep, my sleep, my apartment, car, jewelry, etc. But worst of all you’ve taken my sanity, my life, and me. I think of you every day. I even dream about you at night. I’m sure your only thoughts about me are to totally destroy me. I love you yet hate you so much. No matter how hard I fight, you are stronger. I’m 19 but feel 69 because of you. You have robbed me of my childhood. Because of you I have killed, robbed, sold drugs, sold myself, and hurt everyone close to me. You’re a liar!!!! You swore you would make things easier for me. You swore I wouldn’t have to worry about anything. You promised fun and heaven. But all you have given me is hurt and agony and a living hell. This is my life and I’m taking it back. I’m going to win this battle. I PROMISE. The book is comforting to parents who continue to suffer from shame, guilt, and feelings of helplessness. They will realize they are not alone--and they are not responsible.

Finding Your Peace Within the Chaos

Finding Your Peace Within the Chaos
Author: Alexa Servodidio
Publisher: CCB Publishing
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2016-03-22
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1771432705

Alexa Servodidio, LCSW is the author of Finding Your Peace Within the Chaos and Host on her radio show Insight into Healing. While preparing to write this book, Alexa decided to start each chapter with a question from her radio show. Her vision is to provide each reader with at least one educational tool for them to utilize and then share it with another. Giving back and paying it forward are the principles she bases her book, her show, and her life on. She wishes to thank everyone for joining her on this journey. Praise received for Finding Your Peace Within the Chaos "In her radio show and now in her book, Alexa brings to the forefront the challenges that people often suffer from in silence, including heroin addiction, anxiety, and domestic violence. Drawing from her vast experience as a therapist, she provides empathy, knowledge, and paths for change and healing." - Lauren Priday, MA, LCSW "My overall experience with Ms. Servodidio's book was excellent. I read the book in 2 days and could not put it down. For example, I am a social work student and this book really touched on poignant stories, and also focused on current issues and epidemics. She interviewed people, and made people aware of their stories and struggles. It also provided me ways to examine, use tools, and to think critically about future clients that I may come in contact with in the future. This is truly a very inspiring book and I am looking forward to a Part 2. I really found my peace within the chaos." - Mary-Kay Kallergis

News Anchor Sweetheart

News Anchor Sweetheart
Author: Jack Engelhard
Publisher: CCB Publishing
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2016-05-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1771432764

Great stuff from a great American novelist. Jack Engelhard (Indecent Proposal… The Bathsheba Deadline… The Days of the Bitter End…) brings it as only he can in language that is economical, hard-boiled and fast-paced to uncover through the art of fiction the naked truth about a TV news personality who resembles someone we all know. Brilliant and elegantly done, Engelhard dishes the scoop on this “queen of Chick Power with legs to die for.” What’s it like to live under the glare of the spotlight, and to love after the lights go down? In Engelhard’s masterful rendering, we follow the glamorous Marjorie Carmen’s rise to TV news stardom and what it took to get there, and what it takes to stay there. She came along when network TV news was dominated by living but dull white males. We root for her, hurt for her, love with her, find fault with her, and are always fascinated by her. But she is only half the story. As she keeps winning, her husband, Rick, keeps losing. He’s a failure. He must do something to prove he’s worth keeping. The choice he makes leads to a fascinating result, and in taking us inside a teetering marriage, Engelhard is peerless. Watch for the third major character Engelhard adds to the picture – Ruben Franklin! This is a newsroom swashbuckler you’ll never forget, just as you will never forget Marjorie Carmen, so fictitious, but so true. To know her, is to know our culture. This is a superb, thrilling novel that must be read. Praise Received “Engelhard zeroes in on a news anchor who resembles Megyn Kelly. It’s fiction, but WOW!” - Bonnie Kaye, author of Jennifer Needle in Her Arm “Jack Engelhard’s novels are filled to the brim with clear spirit, serious soul, and gritty honesty. His writing style is so light and bright it carries the reading in an effortless flow.” - Linda Shelnutt, author; most recent book, Myrtle’s Penultimate Walkabout “Engelhard writes with the sparseness of Hemingway and the moral intensity of I.B. Singer.” - Michael Foster, author of Three in Love (HarperCollins) “Jack Engelhard is a writer without peer and the conscience of us all.” - John W. Cassell, author of Crossroads: 1969

The Death Watcher

The Death Watcher
Author: Chris Carter
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2024-06-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1471197638

Pre-order the 13th chilling and adrenaline-packed Robert Hunter thriller, from the #1 Sunday Times and multi-million-copy bestselling author, Chris Carter. When a routine autopsy on what looked like a straightforward hit-and-run leads the LA Chief Medical Examiner, Dr Carolyn Hove, to discover some puzzling inconsistencies, she calls in Detective Robert Hunter of the LAPD Ultra Violent Crimes Unit. Not only did Dr Hove discover that the death wasn’t caused by a hit-and-run, but she also found indications that the victim had been severely tortured prior to death. What no one realises is that what Dr Hove has stumbled upon is just the tip of the iceberg and it will lead Hunter and his partner, Carlos Garcia, on the trail of a twisted and clever killer who hides in plain sight. A serial killer no one even knew existed – a killer who has always operated under the radar, expertly disguising every gruesome murder as an accidental death. But with no leads as to why the victim was targeted, the investigation comes to a standstill, until another body is discovered with an alternative cause of death. What becomes clear is that this serial killer isn’t going to stop – unless Hunter and Garcia can get to him. But how do you investigate a murder when you have no victims? How do you catch a killer who leaves behind no crime scene? How do you stop a ghost who no one can prove even exists? PRAISE FOR CHRIS CARTER: ‘This is a chilling, compulsive portrait of a psychopath, and proves that Carter is now in the Jeffery Deaver class’ Daily Mail ‘Carter has a background in criminal psychology and the killers at the centre of his novels are all the more terrifying for it’ Mail on Sunday ‘Carter is one of those authors who makes writing look effortless . . . I couldn't put it down’ Crimesquad ‘An insanely good crime series. Extraordinarily well written, high quality and high drama all the way’ Liz Loves Books ‘An intriguing and scary thriller’ Better Reading ‘A gripping psychological thriller’ Breakaway ‘Punchy and fast paced’ Sunday Mirror

Unconditional Counsel

Unconditional Counsel
Author: Arnita R. L. Lewis
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2022-11-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1098032934

aEURoeBrokenaEUR"I hadnaEUR(tm)t been myself for a long time. The enemy had me stuck with blinders, and I denied that there was the sin and shame from my past I never dealt with. How much could I refute it before my lifeaEUR(tm)s miserable existence bested me? I was in that drowning thought of nothingness, forever trapped as my course of life was not worth enduring.aEUR When Erica realizes thereaEUR(tm)s been the constant turmoil within her marriage, and her relationship with God was in the most trouble, getting back into a right relationship with Him is her aim. Amid all, she identifies something has to give. Erica sees her life and the lives around her shift forever. As she contends with lust and emotions, an old boyfriend shows up at an espresso shop she frequents, and heaEUR(tm)s what sheaEUR(tm)s yearned for in a believing spouse. The battle is on when her husband divorces her after winning the lotto. She leaves California and heads to Georgia to get a fresh start with a new career, but murder and mystery interrupts her new beginning, when a missing teenager is dead in a drain at CarteraEUR(tm)s Lake. Erica finds that following wise counsel, GodaEUR(tm)s counsel, is the best thing she can do to make it through whataEUR(tm)s happening to her. aEURoeI will bless the Lord who has given me counsel; My heart also instructs me in the night seasonsaEUR (Psalm 16:7, NKJV).

Domain of the Dead

Domain of the Dead
Author: Iain McKinnon
Publisher: Permuted Press+ORM
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2009-11-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1934861499

A group of strangers battle their way through a zombie hoard to reach a chance at freedom in this post-apocalyptic horror series opener. The world is dead, devoured by a plague of reanimated corpses. In a crumbling city Sarah, Nathan, and a band of survivors barricade themselves inside a warehouse surrounded by a sea of shambling putrefaction. Days in seclusion blur by, and their food is nearly gone. The group is faced with two possible deaths: creeping starvation, or the undead outside the warehouse. As Sarah stands on the edge of the warehouse roof preparing to step out into oblivion, she spots a glimmer of hope. In the distance a helicopter approaches the city...but is it the salvation the survivors have been waiting for? And do they dare attempt to fight their way through the mass of infected dead to reach it? Praise for Domain of the Dead “Surprised me. . . . A quick, violent, and exciting adventure.” —David Moody, author of Hater

Jennifer, Inc.

Jennifer, Inc.
Author:
Publisher: Russ Haywood
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2017-12-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A speculative dark political comedy on the codependent love between empaths and narcissists. Jennifer’s co-workers learn the hard way about the honest love of a corporation. They watch in supportive confusion as a pro-business society succumbs to a psychopathic narcissist bent on the minimization of everyone but herself.

THE NOAH WARRIORS

THE NOAH WARRIORS
Author: JW Luff
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2017-10-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1387294865

Twenty years ago, Earth was invaded by an alien race. Its once great cities have been reduced to ruins. Those that didn't die in the initial battles are rounded up for slave labor. A reptilian race known as the Draki, are led by a powerful being that considers itself a god. The most violent place on the planet is the area formally known as the United States. America was the last to fall. Some say the U.S. is gone forever. But deep underground, a nation is rebuilding itself. New weapons, new tactics. The aliens suspect the humans are planning an uprising. But that's not the least of their problems. Five years before the invasion, God removed a remnant of the human race. That remnant is coming home, and they?re bringing some friends along with them. And they have a score to settle too.

Mastering Anxiety

Mastering Anxiety
Author: Ronald A. Kleinknecht
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2013-12-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1489973192