Suggested March Reading Below:
“My Books”, is an online book club for women, men, and children that highlights writers through author spotlights and book reviews. Each month a suggested read will be posted for each group with a featured list of upcoming book events within the Washington, DC Metro Area.
Women:
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How To Make Big Bucks Without Selling Your Soul! (Paperback)
by Georgia Woodbine (Author)
How To Make Big Bucks Without Selling Your Soul reveals the secrets to living a life of fulfillment and will save you lost time on costly mistakes living in a world of false hopes with no guarantees, while providing information on various stages of personal, spiritual and business development that contribute to your destiny and finding true success. The do’s and don’ts in this book will help you to maintain a mental, emotional, and spiritual foundation to keep you grounded. It uncovers how you can build a great foundation and enjoy the awesome life you have always dreamed of when you put God at the center of your life without sacrificing your moral values. This easy-to-read book was developed to help people who are searching for a greater life of purpose and seeking to change from unfulfilling careers and dead-end relationships. It will help you build and live in your highest potential within God’s grace. It bares effective strategies that you can use to find the business that is best suited for your natural abilities, skills, and talents and will open your eyes to the great things that God has in store for you.
Men:
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Paperback)
by Barack Obama (Author)
Barack Obama’s first book, Dreams from My Father, was a compelling and moving memoir focusing on personal issues of race, identity, and community. With his second book The Audacity of Hope, Obama engages themes raised in his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, shares personal views on faith and values and offers a vision of the future that involves repairing a “political process that is broken” and restoring a government that has fallen out of touch with the people. We had the opportunity to ask Senator Obama a few questions about writing, reading, and politics–see his responses below. –Daphne Durham
Teens:
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Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success (Paperback)
by Russell Simmons (Author
Russell and I both are both from the streets of Queens–different neighborhoods, but a similar struggle. So I have a true appreciation and respect for the commitment he’s made to uplifting himself in life. But I have even more respect for the commitment he’s made to uplifting other people in the struggle as well. And these Laws are just another demonstration of that commitment. With Russell, it’s never just been about stacking paper. He’s never been satisfied just making a hot record or a hot jacket, he’s always wanted to teach the rest of us how to make something hot too. So that we can enjoy the same kind of longevity he’s enjoyed. And more importantly than the records or the clothes, Russell’s always reminded us to speak our truth. He’s encouraged us to stay on the side of right and share what in our hearts. This book is Russell’s truth and if you listen to what he’s saying, you’ll find the inspiration and the knowledge to start the journey you want to take in life too. (Nas)
Native Washingtonian Tiah Short is COO of DC Bookman,“A Unique Book Experience ” dedicated to on and off location book events and promotions that increase exposure for both self-published authors and small publishing houses. DC Bookman’s primary goal is to increase literacy appreciation in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area by bringing authors up close and personal with readers through unique book promotions which consist of vending in DC, online at www.dcbookman.com and through their internet radio show Urban Literary Review at www.urbanliteraryreview.com. Email Tiah at tiah@dcbookman.com
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1 stephanie // Mar 26, 2008 at 4:56 pm
I also have a poetry book out called “The lessons of love,life and laughter “. By Stephanie Morgan
The other “bc”
Brain cancer
It’s not going to beat me
This all started from a headache
That would not leave me alone
A headache that I had for a few months
Regular medicine would not get rid of it.
I went to two different hospitals
One took my blood and urine and tossed them out and told me it was just stress and to go home and lay down
I would have went home and laid down and never gotten back up
The other hospital set me in an eye exam room and looked at my eyes and asked me to read the eye chart
He said that it was a sinus infection
And he gave me a prescription for some sinus medicine
I’m looking at him like you must have lost your mind
I’m sitting here telling you all of my symptoms and he overlooks what I’m telling him
I should have the license not him
Going through all of these
Operations was not a joke
From losing my hair and gaining weight
When the doctors cut me across my head
It was for a good cause but the deformation
That was left behind I dislike
My features are not like they were when I went into the operating room
I also have a scare on my head which I can never get rid of
Even the one on my chest where they removed a piece of my rib to reconstruct my airway
I sit here and complain but I’m grateful
Because I could be dead
Every operation that I went through was life threatening but successful
Even when I went through radiation
It wasn’t easy
I wish that there was a better way
For us to get our treatments I wish this on no man
I’m in remission and I pray that it never returns
There are still some pieces of tumor in my brain
But they can’t be touched because I might die
I still have a lot of life left in me
And I plan on beating this beast
That I call the other B
It’s not breast cancer it’s brain cancer
By Stephanie morgan
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Hello my name is Stephanie Morgan
I would love to be a guest on your show I ‘am a brain cancer survivor I was born at 5 1/2 months 1lb 7-1/2 ounces I almost died because I could not breathe the doctors had to give me a condroid spit and placed a pipe into my airway so that I could breathe.” I pulled my cords out 63 times” in 2004 while working I had a stroke. My head had been hurting for some months and I had begun to loose my eye sight in my left eye I was missing school because my head was hurting so bad. I knew something was wrong medicine could not take care of it. I went to a community hospital and told them that I had a stroke they took my blood and urine and thought it out. I believe it was because I had no insurance the doctor told me to go home and lay down. I would have lain down and died just the mere fact of me listening to them. the following day I went to an university hospital and asked them to give me an ct scan or an mri I explained about the stroke and me losing my eye sight in my left eye that I had one day ago the doctor placed me in an eye exam room looked down my throat, ear, my nose and said ohh you have an sinus infection he then proceed to write me a prescription for some sinus medicine and sent me on my way. I went back to the same hospital and asked them to give me a cat scan or an MRI. The doctor placed me in a room and begins to do a lumbar puncture to drain fluid off of my spine. The doctor gave me some ladacane and began to stick me I told him that I could feel it. All together he stuck me 6 time on the 6 time he caused me to have another stroke my left side went numb. One they had given up they then sent me to get a ct scan. That’s when they found out that there was a tumor. They then sent it out for a biopsy a few weeks to a month went by. The results came back it was cancerous. Its called a condroid sarcoma 40-65 yrs of age is affected with it. It’s a slow growing tumor. I then went through a transphornorital “nostril” to remove the tumor. the doctor could not get it all so they did the crainioscopy “cut from ear to ear” they removed my smelling nerve I can no longer smell or taste, half of my pituitary gland “controls hormones” removed fat from my hip to put behind my nose so that my brain would not slide down my nose, a tracheotomy, a week later I began 52 sessions of radiation a couple of sessions later I began to feel the symptoms I did lose my hair I continually gain weight from the steroids. I began to get the moon face and a lot of memory loss that I still now suffer within blessed I struggle with my self because I don’t look the same and I want to lose weight it’s my stomach I can lose the weight anywhere else but my stomach I have even starved myself to get rid of my stomach I got down to a 17/18 in women but gained it all back my waist is medium it’s just my stomach, even osteoporosis “thinning of the bone” and near syncope ” low blood pressure. I need help I have tried to reach out to oprah, tyra, even maurry,i’m desperately seeking help they wont answer me will you I also was able to write a poetry book out online The lessons of love, life and laughter” by Stephanie Morgan online at borders books,amzon.com,barnes and noble. I also have a myspace page myspace.com/queen617or queen6172003@yahoo.com or Stephanie_patrice_morgan@yahoo.com
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