My book is about a woman with many emotional traumas about the lost of her children from a previous marriage, the death of her father, and in the process of a divorce from her husband of twelve years. He travels extensively for his job and she finds herself alone in a foreign country as an expat must of the time. As a consequence of the distance, they experience emotional detachment and lack of communication. He made excuses not to attend her father's funeral which deeply hurt her feelings, and brought much anger into her life. She was unable to be present when her father passed on while living in Dubai, which made her feel quilt and anger; she then settles all the emotions by connecting to herself and returning to her passion for writing. After twelve years of marriage, she felt that something was missing in her life and she had to find it. When they finally get divorced, she begins to explore all of her talents, painting, writing, dancing and traveling. Despite all her efforts to move on after her divorce, she finds herself stock in Dubai without much hope and friends to relay on. She returns to the US where she meets an Italian man who reminded her of her ex-husband. In her relationship with him, she finds that he is the perfect image of her ex-husband. She felt as if the spirit of her ex-husband has return to hunt her as a ghost. During her meditation, she can see the image of the man from India she so much admire not knowing that this feelings she is experiencing is nothing more than the ghost of her ex-husband. One day, she seeks out to continue her dream of publishing a book about the power of the mind were she finds the courage to succeed and move on with her life. She leaves the past behind her and finds true love. Today, Leilani is sixty five years old, and has published five books and continues her creative passion for writing.

Have you ever been in so much pain that sometimes it’s hard to breathe? Spiritual pain? Mental pain? Physical pain? I write this story to give you the hope no one was able to give me because people didn’t understand. Just about every character you read about is someone I know and the struggles they had in their lives. From divorce to panic attacks, it’s all here. The characters in From Death to Life are all in heaven, and they each have a job to do. Walking into the spiritual world can be fascinating and scary at the same time. They are waiting for Christ to return, but in the meantime, their jobs are complicated. From heaven to hell on earth, it’s a complex military structure. A thought can become an action. Action becomes a habit. Habit becomes a serious addiction. Let this story take you in and see that it does get better. God promised us, and he doesn’t lie.

Pacific Voices Talk Story invites Pacific Americans to record their hearts and minds to be turned into pages not only Pacific Americans want to read, but our neighbors up the street. We ve much to learn about ourselves, other Islanders here, and the diversity of America. If we re not talking to each other now, reading Pacific Voices Talk Story will tell you that tribalism and village mentalities followed us to the mainland. Read and join the dialogue of Pacific Americans claiming new identities and finding a place in the mainland that trumps their nostalgic past.

As Hawaiians continue to recover their language and culture, the voices of kupuna (elders) are heard once again in urban and rural settings, both in Hawai‘i and elsewhere. How do kupuna create knowledge and “tell” history? What do they tell us about being Hawaiian? Adopted by a Midwestern couple in the 1950s as an infant, Leilani Holmes spent much of her early life in settings that offered no clues about her Hawaiian past—images of which continued to haunt her even as she completed a master’s thesis on Hawaiian music and identity in southern California. Ancestry of Experience documents Holmes’ quest to reclaim and understand her own origin story. Holmes writes in two different and at times incongruent voices—one describing the search for her genealogy, the other critiquing Western epistemologies she encounters along the way. In the course of her journey, she finds that Hawaiian oral tradition links identity to the land (‘aina) through ancestry, while traditional, scholarly theories of knowing (particularly political economy and the discourse of the invention of tradition) textually obliterate land and ancestry. In interviews with kupuna, Holmes learns of the connectedness of spirituality and ‘aina; through her study and practice of hula kahiko comes an understanding of ancient hula as a conversation between ‘aina and the dancer’s body that has the power to activate historical memory. Holmes’ experience has special relevance for indigenous adoptees and indigenous scholars: Both are distanced from the knowledge agendas and strategies of their communities and are tasked to speak in languages ill-suited to the telling of their own stories and those of their ancestors. In addition to those with an interest in Hawaiian knowledge and culture, Ancestry of Experience will appeal to readers of memoirs of identity, academic and personal accounts of racial identity formation, and works of indigenous epistemologies. A website (www.ancestryofexperience.com) will include supplementary material.

A TIME OF PROPHECY FULFILLMENT IS AT HAND AND THE WOMEN WISDOM KEEPERS OF EARTH step forward to request our assistance in making Earth a Place of Respect. These womenof great power and knowledge have long waited for the moment in time when reverence,responsibility, nurturing and life affi rmation of the future would signal the re-turning of Earth'¦ respected feminine in all areas ' from healing and spirituality to peace education and cooperative lifestyle changes, the teachings being presented here are fundamental elements of earth wisdom, including actualization of common nobility, individual potential recognition, and the interconnection with Earth. The teachings refl ect the proud andancient truth of Now.Ω

Retold Stories, Untold Histories concentrates on how challenging questions concerning the nature of historical representation, the formation of national/ethnic identities, and creative agendas are addressed in the diverse and inspiring writings of Maxine Hong Kingston and Leslie Marmon Silko. The rationale behind juxtaposing two writers coming from diverse cultural contexts originates in the fact that both Kingston and Silko share the experience of historical and cultural marginalization and, more importantly, devise similar methods of rendering it in creative writing. Writing from the perspective of two distinct marginalized groups, Kingston and Silko share the view that the official version of national history may be seen as a narrative of misrepresentation and the exclusion of people who either greatly contributed to the building of the country or occupied the territory of the present United States long before its creation. In their texts, both writers engage in a polemic against a history that, using its legitimizing power as a scientific discipline, produces and perpetuates stereotypical images of Chinese and Native Americans, and, more importantly, eliminates the two groups from the process of constructing the national narratives of origins that monitor and control the borders of what constitutes American identity. Despite apparent differences in cultural and historical contexts, Kingston and Silko share an enthusiasm for employing unconventional tools and sources for offering creative reconstructions of a past which had been silenced or repressed.

In Tahiti, it's a well-known fact that women are wisest, mothers know best, and Materena Mahi knows best of all -- or so everyone except for her own daughter thinks. Soon enough, mother and daughter are engaged in a tug-of-war that tests the bonds of their love.

Worlds Without End is a book about matter manipulation, time travel, and travel between planets. Plants use their aroma to speak to humans. Matter is manipulated to form earth-like planets. It is a book that goes through generations and shows how the matter manipulators come to be. It shows how the worlds are created using the principal of free agency and honoring the creators.

NIGHTS END. As David Dane is whisked away to the morgue a stranger appears out of nowhere to shadow Kate Shamrocks every move.Nights End, the final installment in The Urban Rain Trilogy that witnesses the finality of a legend. Now, a hooded stranger has emerged from the twilight to watch over Von The Icons niece prior to one of the greatest betrayals ever witnessed by a man who was once thought of as a hero. In the seedy alley walls off of Ontario Street, one fighter must face his greatest fears as he comes face to face with his toughest challenge ever. NIGHTS END, as a seasoned fighter makes an appearance with a band of thugs, Ontario Streets only hope is the one that theyve lost to eternal darkness. NIGHTS END, the last in the trilogy about the life and death of Monica Medeiros Abbona a.k.a. Lilly Chicoine who inspired a series that has the entire world talking. NIGHTS END, bare witness as two famous Brothers(Robert and Richard Gray) from the back alleys of Grey Stone come to assist David Dane during his darkest hour. NIGHTS END, bear witness to the final chapter in one of the most popular sagas in modern history.

In The Genome Odyssey, Dr. Euan Ashley, Stanford professor of medicine and genetics, brings the breakthroughs of precision medicine to vivid life through the real diagnostic journeys of his patients and the tireless efforts of his fellow doctors and scientists as they hunt to prevent, predict, and beat disease. Since the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, the price of genome sequencing has dropped at a staggering rate. It’s as if the price of a Ferrari went from $350,000 to a mere forty cents. Through breakthroughs made by Dr. Ashley’s team at Stanford and other dedicated groups around the world, analyzing the human genome has decreased from a heroic multibillion dollar effort to a single clinical test costing less than $1,000. For the first time we have within our grasp the ability to predict our genetic future, to diagnose and prevent disease before it begins, and to decode what it really means to be human. In The Genome Odyssey, Dr. Ashley details the medicine behind genome sequencing with clarity and accessibility. More than that, with passion for his subject and compassion for his patients, he introduces readers to the dynamic group of researchers and doctor detectives who hunt for answers, and to the pioneering patients who open up their lives to the medical community during their search for diagnoses and cures. He describes how he led the team that was the first to analyze and interpret a complete human genome, how they broke genome speed records to diagnose and treat a newborn baby girl whose heart stopped five times on the first day of her life, and how they found a boy with tumors growing inside his heart and traced the cause to a missing piece of his genome. These patients inspire Dr. Ashley and his team as they work to expand the boundaries of our medical capabilities and to envision a future where genome sequencing is available for all, where medicine can be tailored to treat specific diseases and to decode pathogens like viruses at the genomic level, and where our medical system as we know it has been completely revolutionized.