Scanned and Denied — By Trudy G. Masters

 

 

Scanned and Denied - By Trudy G. Masters

What happens when technology influences how consumers are evaluated, monitored, or treated—often without their knowledge? Scanned and Denied explores surveillance technology, digital profiling, retail bias, and the growing questions surrounding consumer privacy. Through an educational and thought-provoking approach, author Trudy G. Masters encourages readers to look beyond everyday transactions and consider how data-driven systems may affect consumer experiences, transparency, and individual rights. What consumers don't see can still affect them.

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Murder at the Shore

 

Murder at the Shore

Robert Louis Rodgers

2nd Edition – Now Available (2026)

Windemere Bay is a peaceful summer resort at the New Jersey Shore, where families return year after year for sun, swimming, and relaxation. For twenty-year-old college student Alex Rhodes, it’s supposed to be the perfect escape—lazy beach days with friends, a summer job at the local supermarket, and the hope of finally asking out Grace, the new cashier who catches his eye. Then the notes appear. On the Fourth of July, identical typed messages turn up in every mailbox: “SOMEONE IS GOING TO DIE TONIGHT.” Most people laugh it off as a sick prank. Until the assistant groundskeeper is found floating lifeless in the resort pool the next morning. The police rule it an accident. Alex isn’t convinced. When a second body turns up—and then a third—the pattern becomes impossible to ignore. As more cryptic warnings appear, the idyllic resort begins to feel like a trap, and Alex realizes someone at Windemere Bay may be hiding a deadly secret. With the body count rising, Alex and his tight circle of friends race to uncover the truth before another life is taken. In a close-knit summer community where everyone knows your name, the killer could be anyone. Murder at the Shore is an atmospheric whodunit blending small-town secrets, summer nostalgia, amateur sleuthing, and escalating danger along the Jersey Shore. The first book in the Windemere Bay Mysteries series. This 2nd Edition features smoother pacing, a revised ending, updated formatting, and a new cover. Available now—because some notes you can’t ignore.

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Capitalism: A Pillar for People, Community, and Our Ways of Life

 

Capitalism: A Pillar for People, Community, and Our Ways of Life

By William M. Togbah

What if the future of capitalism depends not only on how markets grow, but on how widely opportunity is shared?

Economic systems are often discussed through statistics, policies, and political arguments. William M. Togbah takes a more human-centered route in Capitalism: A Pillar for People, Communities, and Our Ways of Life, examining capitalism through the people and communities expected to live within it. Rather than treating capitalism as a settled idea, Togbah presents it as an economic model that should be reconsidered for a changing, increasingly interconnected century. 

Africa plays an important role in that discussion. Togbah argues that conversations about capitalism often overlook developing economies, particularly places where governments and public services may have less capacity. His examination considers how private enterprise, individual initiative, competition, and different levels of government regulation affect economic life across African societies. 

Yet the book reaches beyond a defense of one economic system. Its chapters move through women’s empowerment, the growth of the middle class, technology, education, multinational business, and job creation—subjects that bring economics closer to everyday concerns. Education receives particular attention as a path toward specialization, productivity, knowledge sharing, and greater economic participation. 

That perspective gives the book particular relevance for today’s writers, thinkers, students, and socially conscious readers. Discussions of inequality, employment, education, and development can easily become abstract. Togbah continually returns those discussions to human outcomes: whether people can find work, develop useful skills, participate economically, strengthen their communities, and imagine better possibilities for the next generation. His exploration also draws from interviews concerning education, wealth disparity, public safety, and other social concerns, alongside his own experience of economic inequality in Liberia. 

For contemporary society, perhaps the book’s most valuable invitation is not that every reader must agree with its conclusions. It is that economic ideas deserve closer examination when they shape education, opportunity, work, identity, and community life.

Readers interested in African politics, global economics, development, education, and the continuing debate over capitalism will find plenty to consider in William M. Togbah’s Capitalism: A Pillar for People, Communities, and Our Ways of Life. 

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From There to Here and Beyond: Evidence of Spiritual Warfare

From There to Here and Beyond:

Evidence of Spiritual Warfare

By: Constance ‘Destiny’ Johnson

Some journeys are not about escaping the past, but discovering what can still be built beyond it.

A memoir can do more than recount what happened. At its most meaningful, it can give language to experiences readers may have struggled to understand and show how a life shaped by hardship can continue to change. That is the territory Destiny B. Sincere explores in From There to Here and Beyond: Evidence of Spiritual Warfare.

The book begins with memories of family, church, childhood security, and belonging before that stability gradually fractures. Alcoholism, domestic violence, abuse, damaged self-worth, difficult relationships, and destructive choices become part of a much larger journey. Rather than presenting those experiences as isolated episodes, the memoir considers how early wounds can follow a person into adulthood and influence the way that person understands love, identity, faith, and purpose. 

That perspective gives the book particular relevance today. Conversations about trauma, generational patterns, accountability, and emotional well-being have become increasingly visible. Sincere approaches these subjects through an explicitly Christian lens, interpreting the unseen struggles behind her experiences as evidence of spiritual warfare. Yet the memoir does not stop at what wounded her. Its direction steadily shifts toward what changed her.

The progression itself is telling. Chapters move through being Safe, Shattered, and Stripped. Then toward Struggle, Surrender, Salvation, Sanctification, and finally Surrender Daily. That structure turns the memoir into more than a record of survival. It becomes an examination of transformation as an ongoing process.

One of its most relatable ideas is that meaningful change requires more than simply wanting different circumstances. Sincere distinguishes outward reform from inward transformation and reflects on learning to recognize mistakes, take responsibility, change patterns, and “grow through” challenges rather than merely endure them. 

That message carries significance beyond one life story. In a society where people can be quickly defined by their worst decisions, family history, or painful experiences, this memoir offers another possibility: a person’s past can be acknowledged without being allowed to dictate the future. Within Sincere’s faith, surrender to God becomes the turning point that makes restoration, purpose, and service to others possible.

What if where someone has been is not the final measure of where that life can go?

For readers drawn to candid memoirs about faith, adversity, personal responsibility, and spiritual renewal, Constance ‘Destiny’ Johnson journey offers a story worth discovering.

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50 YEARS IN A SECT:

My Life with a Radical 'Sex Cult'!

50 Years in a Sect: My Life with a Sex Cult! tells the story of life within one of recent history’s most controversial religious sects: The Children of God! Later changing its name to the Family of Love, or simply ‘The Family’ -- the fast-growing and highly unorthodox Christian movement gained notoriety as a ‘sex cult’ due to its practice of using sex to win converts! It also believed in sexual ‘sharing’ with other adults within one’s communal group.

Following a firebrand maverick preacher, members left their old lives behind and dropped out of society to begin new lives in idealistic communes, made up mostly of ex-hippies and society rejects who now lived together and shared everything. Members quickly learned that the end of the world was not far away, with Jesus expected to come back in 1993!

David Berg, nicknamed Moses David, the founder and self-styled prophet of this ‘spiritual revolution’, had warning dreams of God’s impending judgments falling on the wicked nations of the western world. In his messages, known as Mo letters, Berg strongly encouraged his followers to leave the West and go to poorer, undeveloped countries to be missionaries.

With no financial support whatsoever, members dutifully obeyed, travelling to far-flung parts of the globe. Thus it was that this author spent the next 50 years in India, Nepal, southern Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific islands! All through this incredible life journey, the Family’s numerous ‘revolutions’ brought tremendous social upheaval and 180 degree changes in direction, making life exciting and eventful, but also bringing some personal heartbreak as families sometimes found themselves separated due to being on different status levels. In the case of the author’s second family, the children were ‘kidnapped’ and taken away by the Social Services.

Although this book has some mild sexual content, it is not intended to be a scandal-filled, lurid account of sexual excesses. It is meant to be a real account of what life was really like within the groups’ closed communities -- both good and bad. And how, 50 years later, after changing its form and reinventing itself several times, the group is still going strong…

The fireworks & the prophet have long gone, along with sexually permissive communal living; however a small band of aging but dedicated believers still remains...

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Margarita's Secret

 

Margarita's Secret

by Valerie Cullers - Historical Romance

It is 314 A.D. and Constantine has been in power for two years. He has betrothed Lady Margarita to Lucius Marius in marriage. Will this be a political alliance, or is there a possibility of something more? Before she even has time to find out, she is made aware of a plot against the emperor himself. She must keep the secret close as she travels to tell the emperor in person. Her live is about to change as Constantine takes his revenge. She and Lucius are thrust into the political forefront and must navigate their new surroundings with discretion. All is going well until she comes down with a devastating illness. Will she survive? Join her in the journey as she ultimately carries her most important secret of all.

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Dying to Serve: Confessions of Suicides (Attempted/Completed) Within Our Military Ranks

 

Dying to Serve:

Confessions of Suicides (Attempted/Completed)

Within Our Military Ranks

Dying to Serve is a candid compilation of twelve moving stories written to honor the memories of United States service members who were facing dire circumstances and chose to take their own lives (attempted or completed). Many of these circumstances were temporary issues that could be mitigated with the right assistance provided. The purpose of sharing these stories and the author's CARE paradigm is to help eliminate these tragedies in the future. CARE stands for Concern, Awareness, Referral and Evaluate, and it reflects a well-reasoned and thoughtful approach to the mental health crisis occurring in both military and civilian populations. This must-read book encourages us all to remain vigilant, act, when necessary to truly help CARE for each other and potentially save lives!

TUCSON, AZ — September 2026 — Local writer N.K. Stephens announces the release of his impactful book; Dying to Serve: Confessions of Suicides (Attempted/Completed) Within Our Military Ranks, available worldwide today. 12 short stories depicting situations that forced some military members to make a decision that impacted their branch of service, themselves, families and friends.

Drawing from a 28-year military career, N.K. Stephens crafts a compilation of compelling stories to ultimately raise awareness about a crisis impacting our military. A crisis seldom discussed outside those who serve. The stories are creative, entertaining and thought-provoking. Readers will connect with the characters and their circumstances. Not every story ends tragically, however each story ends with the same decision. The author uses an acronym: CARE, to strike a chord with readers leaving them to answer questions on how they could potentially help someone contemplating suicide and possibly save a life!  

Dying to Serve is an independent release targeting military members, families, friends, acquaintances and civilians with no military ties at all.  This book is to raise awareness on a subject that many might initially be hesitant to read about. In the end the reader is encouraged by the author to take a moment and recognize using CARE could eliminate this crisis altogether!

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