First Day of Christmas- Dear Passenger

Dear Passenger

Elizabeth Calwell’s Dear Passenger: Welcome to My Wacky World as a Flight Attendant contains three decades of amusing anecdotes and episodes that have happened on and off the airplane

First Day of Christmas-Gathering of Angels

On the first day of Christmas, the Realization Press fiction book recommendation is Diana Henderson’s Gathering of Angels, a novel about angels come to earth. This Illuminating love story will lift your spirits and remind you that love conquers all.

Thriving Beyond the Storm

The new digital book,Thriving Beyond the Storm: Practical Advice for Small Business Owners from Small Business Owners will be released on Monday, June 8 to benefit the the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina. See the front page for details.

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New Release: The Last Pilgrim

The Last Pilgrim: The Life of Mary Allerton Cushman

by Noelle Granger

Available on Amazon 

This book captures and celebrates the grit and struggle of the Pilgrim women who stepped off the Mayflower in the winter of 1620 to an unknown world – one filled with hardship, danger and death.  The Plymouth Colony would not have survived without them.

See Noelle’s Site and Blog

New Release: Nathan Ross and the American Revolution

Set during America’s revolution, the fictional journal of Nathan Ross is a compelling coming-of-age tale. Nathan fills these pages with anecdotes and illustrations about his family on their farm, in their smithy, and with their companions. A steady stream of war news inspires his sister, Abigail, to challenge the social restrictions of the time, and inflames Nathan’s desire to fight alongside their valiant older brother.

Risks to loved ones and the shock of traitors among friends intensify the family’s emotions until individual choices are made that change their lives forever. This novel is not only for young adult readers, it is for anyone who wants to experience the uncertainties, hardships, and courage that founded a nation.

Available at Amazon at www.amazon.com/Nathan-American-Revolution-Francis-Applequist/dp/1944662448/

FRANCES’ BIO

Frances Applequist was born in Newark, New Jersey, and lived in different towns across the state. As a young mother, she fell in love with the rich colonial history of the area and haunted historical sites—including the locations in this novel—with her younger son, Matthew. Her older son, Mark, throughout his long service with the National Guard, reinforced Frances’s love for their country and respect for the military. Her husband, Ken, brings balance into their lives with his support and spirituality.

After careers as college instructors in New Jersey, Frances and her husband moved to North Carolina to continue teaching. In Raleigh, the author’s brother, Daniel Bode, the Revolutionary War reenactor and artist who inspired this story, also guided its research. Nathan Ross and the American Revolution is the culmination of the people and events in Frances’s life and she is excited to share this act of love with you.

Happy New Year 2019

hope

another year’s turning finds its cloudy close

a forward look churning replete with new dreams

let go of your sorrows take stock of short falls

embrace higher roads, release bonds to lows

though the external world revealed turmoil too deep

it provided the time to steel anchors internal

to build perseverance and reach out through mist

a helpful hand to those with lifepaths too steep

this new year is for hope and to tear down your walls

to look outward for bridges to mend what’s been torn

emit higher rays and let your heart beam out light

to brighten the world and prevent courtesy’s fall

Drew Becker

New Year 2019