Welcome to Issue 98 of the SUPERIOR BOOK PRODUCTIONS newsletter!
Happy Summer, Everyone!
I am thrilled to announce the release of my twenty-fourth book: Odin’s Eye: A Marquette Time Travel Novel. It’s also the ninth historical novel I’ve written set in my hometown of Marquette, Michigan, but this time it has a science fiction twist as well. Here’s the description from the back cover:
“John” has a problem. He doesn’t know his real name. He doesn’t know where he’s from. He’s not even sure if he’s in the right time.
When John is found unconscious at the Huron Mountain Club and brought back to Marquette, Michigan to recuperate, everyone assures him it’s the year 1900, but somehow John’s memories of automobiles, televisions, and other modern devices seem to suggest he doesn’t belong in this time.
Soon several people are trying to help John regain his memory from his teenage friend Hugh Allen to Marquette’s most prominent businessman, Peter White. But despite how many times John walks around Marquette, and no matter how many people he talks to, he can’t seem to remember anything and no one recognizes him.
Then Hugh suggests John accompany him and his friend Howard Longyear on a canoe trip to the Huron Mountain Club. That way John can visit the place where he was found unconscious and see if it triggers his memory. Desperate for answers, John agrees to return there, but he is hardly prepared for what will happen next.
The book is available at my website www.MarquetteFiction.com as well as several stores local to the Marquette area and online bookstores.
To get an autographed personal copy, you can also come visit me at the annual Outback Art Fair in Marquette held at Shiras Park/Picnic Rocks on Saturday, July 29, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, July 30, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. I’ll have copies of all my books for sale, plus dozens of other vendors will be there, including many other authors.
Below are some other wonderful books to consider for your summer reading. Enjoy!
This Month’s Great Book Quote:
“It was to open the minds of all who looked to beautiful thoughts.
And that is the beginning and end of literature.”
— J. M. Barrie
Anyone who has ever tried to find themselves will be able to relate to the title character’s predicament in Donna Rodrigues’ new novel, Finding Everleigh.
The story begins when twenty-six-year-old Everleigh, who lives in Seattle, loses her mother to cancer. In the days following the funeral, Everleigh learns more about her and her family’s past than she ever knew in all her years growing up. The handsome young family lawyer, Stan, helps Everleigh with settling her mother’s estate, and during their meeting, he gives her a letter her deceased grandmother left for her. In the letter, Everleigh finds out the truth about who her father was and that she also has a twin brother who was given up for adoption. Everleigh is astonished by what she learns, but she is also pleased to find out she does have at least one family member still alive and wants to get to know him. She goes in search of her brother while at the same time going in search of herself.
While Everleigh is cleaning out the family home, she also discovers her grandmother’s diaries and photograph albums. She learns more about her grandparents’ courtship from these albums, inspiring her to recreate a trip made by her grandmother.
To read more, visit Finding Everleigh.
In The Next Page: Aging Is an Art, Patricia Fitzmaurice, a ninety-year-old professional woman who now resides in a senior living residence in Florida, discusses how to make the best choices for yourself during your retirement, especially regarding choosing a senior living residence that will meet all your needs.
Patricia made the transition from her home to a senior living residence just a year before writing this book. Now she wants to help seniors prepare for the move by sharing her experiences and letting them know what to expect from costs and amenities to social life and their specific needs.
Moving can seem scary and overwhelming, but Patricia gives the reader much to think about to prepare them for the move. Chapter topics range from how to choose the right kind of residence for you to communicating what you need and committing to happiness.
To read more, visit The Next Page.
Sandy Bowen’s new book Becoming a Living Sanctuary: A Personal Journey Into an Intimate Life with Christ offers a rare look into a Christian’s life and how God transformed her into something beyond the typical churchgoing, Bible-reading Christian. Sandy shares her personal journey in these pages along with reflections and prayers to help the reader also come to know God in more personal ways.
Sandy divides the book into three sections, which she calls the three “seasons” of her life to date. Each season reflects part of the structure that became the metaphorical sanctuary she built. This sanctuary, however, is not itself metaphorical because it reflects the Christian concept that the Kingdom of God is within you. Sandy describes how she built herself into a Sanctuary in which the living God could dwell.
Season 1 of Sandy’s life is the Foundation, which encompasses her childhood and early adult years as she learned the Christian faith through attending church, reading the Bible, and singing hymns with her family. She is grateful for the strong Christian faith of her parents and forebears, and how this background set the groundwork for the Christian transformations she would later experience.
To read more, visit Becoming a Living Sanctuary.
In Create Your Personal Significance: Leading Yourself in Who You Are, What You Do, and What You Leave Behind, Dr. Eric Lake reminds us that we all can be significant, but sometimes we forget that when life becomes difficult. He has written this book to help us reclaim or recover who we are and figure out how to use our significance to improve our lives and the lives of the people around us.
Eric defines significance as “a state of being worthy.” In other words, we can have worth even though we often may feel we are not good enough or we are lacking in some way. Using a tree metaphor throughout, he declares that we can take the scars in our lives and turn them into shade for others. In the book, he shows us how to create our significance if we never knew what it was, or how to unbury it from life’s demands and other people’s expectations.
Eric is the perfect expert to teach us how to plant and water our significance so it will grow. And not because he has a fancy degree or some superhuman wisdom….
To read more, visit Create Your Personal Significance.
In 12 Grief Solutions: How to Grow from Unresolved Grief, Stella Rose shares her personal experiences with overcoming grief to live a full life. As a nurse, Rose also collected stories and experiences from numerous patients about their own experiences with grief. Rose knows that if grief is not worked through and a loss is not mourned, it can lead to paralysis, unhappiness, depression, and a failure to live life to its fullest extent. Rose knows this firsthand because she lost her son in a tragic car accident. Even though she was not involved in the accident, she spent nearly twenty years blaming herself and repressing her grief. She has written this book to help others work through their grief so they do not have to suffer as long as she did.
Rose notes that grief comes in many forms. While it is usually associated with the loss of a loved one, it can also come from the loss of a job, a divorce, moving to a new place, or a number of other incidents. In each case, the grief must be mourned fully or the unresolved grief will later spring up when we least expect it.
To read more, visit 12 Grief Solutions.
Freedom to Live Your Best Life: The Pathway to Wealth Through Real Estate Investing opens with a powerful quote by its author, Lorraine Jordan: “Anything is possible, and so is everything.” If anyone has proven this quote true, it is Lorraine. A long-time realtor and real estate investor who now holds more than $71 million in real estate across Canada and has grown her business, Team Jordan, to $3.5 billion in sales, Lorraine Jordan has never let the thought that something was impossible get in her way.
Now in Freedom to Live Your Best Life, Lorraine shares the wisdom she has learned from decades in the real estate industry, beginning with when she bought her first investment property at eighteen. Throughout, she shares processes and strategies for investing in the real estate market and some truly out-of-the-box ideas that will fit whatever situation you may be in so you can also find financial freedom through real estate.
This book is no pie-in-the-sky, too-good-to-be-true, get-rich-quick strategy. It is the advice of a seasoned professional who has worked hard to achieve success and what she most values—freedom to live her life the way she wants to.
To read more, visit Freedom to Live Your Best Life.
