Fundamentals of Power-Filled Living: How to Live a Power-Filled Life Through Daily Application of God's Word

  

Fundamentals of Power-Filled Living: How to Live a Power-Filled Life Through Daily Application of God's Word

By Robert Canton

What Does It Mean to Live with God’s Power in Everyday Life?

At a time when faith-based and self-help writing often competes for attention with quick fixes and instant answers, Robert Canton’s Fundamentals of Power-Filled Living: How to Live a Power-Filled Life Through Daily Application of God’s Word takes a more grounded approach. Its central concern is not simply what Christians believe, but what those beliefs look like when practiced through prayer, trust, service, forgiveness, humility, and reliance on the Holy Spirit.

Canton writes from years of experience in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, including leading prayer meetings, giving spiritual talks, serving as a Catholic evangelist, and conducting healing and deliverance ministries in the United States and abroad. That ministry background gives the book an experiential quality. Scripture is not presented merely as something to study; it becomes a foundation for responding to uncertainty, weakness, conflict, responsibility, and spiritual struggle.

The scope is notably broad. Christian growth occupies the opening portion, with discussions of faith, surrender, trust, spiritual gifts, leadership, evangelization, forgiveness, and intercession before the book moves into spiritual warfare and healing. This structure makes Fundamentals of Power-Filled Living less like a single-topic devotional and more like a practical handbook for readers seeking consistency between faith and daily life.

That emphasis feels particularly relevant to contemporary Christian writers. Inspirational writing can encourage readers for a moment; application asks what happens after the page is turned. Canton repeatedly brings spiritual principles into human relationships and responsibilities. His discussion of leadership, for example, emphasizes love, compassion, humility, putting others ahead of personal preference, and focusing on the good of those being served. 

Those ideas also give the book significance beyond individual spirituality. A society shaped by more compassionate leadership, forgiveness instead of prolonged resentment, concern for others, and service rather than self-interest has greater room for healthier families, stronger communities, reconciliation, and responsible citizenship. Canton’s treatment of intercession similarly turns attention outward, presenting prayer as an act concerned with the needs and struggles of other people. 

Robert Canton’s work is worth discovering for readers seeking a faith-centered book that does not stop at inspiration but challenges Christian belief to become visible in everyday life. 

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Bid Whist at Midnight

 

 Bid Whist at Midnight

By Marva Washington

History does not only live-in textbooks—it lives in the people who had to survive it.

A card table, an empty chair, and nearly twenty years of silence provide the deceptively intimate setting for Marva Washington’s Bid Whist at Midnight. What begins as a late-night reunion among former college friends Sardis, Grace, and Dorcus gradually becomes something far more revealing: an examination of friendship, memory, identity, and the history people carry long after the defining moment has passed.

The novel opens in February 1988, when the women reunite for the game that once helped bind them together in college. Their familiar rhythm cannot completely disguise what has changed. Four chairs surround the table, but Taletha will not be joining them, and the absence immediately gives the gathering emotional weight. 

From there, Washington reaches back into their college years, placing personal stories alongside the social unrest of 1968. Student demonstrations against segregation, debates over Black identity, changing attitudes toward beauty and belonging, and the pressures surrounding the Civil Rights era become part of the characters’ everyday lives rather than distant historical footnotes. The friends themselves do not always agree on how change should happen. Taletha embraces activism, while Grace weighs the fight for equality against the possibility of losing the education her family sacrificed to provide. 

That tension gives Bid Whist at Midnight particular relevance for contemporary readers and writers. Washington demonstrates how historical fiction can make large social movements personal. History is not presented only through famous names, protests, or political ideas; it is felt through friendships, family expectations, romantic relationships, ambitions, prejudice, grief, and the decisions ordinary people make when society itself is changing.

The card game becomes especially meaningful in that context. Bid whist is more than recreation. During college, the foursome grows from an uneasy grouping into friends who share personal trials, changing beliefs, and the complications of becoming adults. Their story suggests that meaningful relationships are not necessarily built on complete agreement, but on the willingness to listen, challenge assumptions, and recognize experiences beyond one’s own.

That idea carries considerable weight today. In a society still wrestling with questions of race, identity, inequality, belonging, gender, and generational trauma, fiction can create room for conversations that statistics and headlines alone cannot provide. Stories such as Washington’s remind contemporary writers of the value of preserving lived perspectives while giving readers the opportunity to encounter history through human consequences.

Bid Whist at Midnight offers readers something to carry beyond its final page: the understanding that the past rarely stays neatly in the past—and sometimes healing begins when people finally return to the table.

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The Third Estate: Devil's Tango (The Third Estate Series Book 2)

 

The Third Estate: Devil's Tango

(The Third Estate Series Book 2)

When Sophie Allard is accused of murder, her only chance of surviving is to trust the last man on earth she should. Trying to bury her past and build a future, medical student and military officer Sophie Allard lives by precision, discipline, and instinct—until a dying gunshot victim whispers a message in her ear meant for someone else. By sunrise, she is suspended, framed for murder, and hunted by people who don't leave witnesses. Evidence vanishes. Someone is tying off loose ends—and Sophie just became one of them. Three years off the grid hasn't erased Kai Lovac’s name from the kill lists. Cold, disciplined, and lethal, he knows exactly what happens to people who uncover the wrong secret. His friend died protecting Dossier 1627—a file powerful enough to expose the Third Estate, a covert syndicate that kills to remain invisible. Lovac once worked in their shadows. Now they want him erased. Driven together by a shared threat and a past neither can escape, Sophie and Lovac are pulled into a labyrinth where assassins close in, hidden labs bury the truth, and betrayal waits at every turn. Each clue pulls them deeper. Alliances fracture without warning. Every step demands perfect timing. A single misstep carries a body count. And when the music stops, one wrong move will end everything. Relentless, cinematic, and razor-sharp, Devil's Tango is a high-stakes thriller of precision, power, and survival—where every turn is calculated, every secret is lethal, and trusting the wrong person can be your last mistake.

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From Brilliant Bitch To Dynamic Diva!: Real Advice for Real Women!

    

From Brilliant Bitch To Dynamic Diva!:

Real Advice for Real Women!

Fed up with getting ‘advice’ from a minister that has a mistress on the side? Or a ‘man of the cloth,’ that suggests you must ‘live with and deal with’ being married to an abuser, a philanderer or a spouse whose sole career goal is to not HAVE a career? Are you still nurturing a mate that has been unemployed more years in his life than he’s been employed? Tired of psychoanalysts that are just plain ‘psycho and anal’ themselves? Frustrated by a therapist telling you to put your fears to ‘bed,’ as he tries to get YOU to bed? Real Advice For Real Women is the book for you if you’re ready to be the Powerful, Purposeful, Passionate woman you’ve envisioned yourself to be! Are you ready to take a step in the direction that encourages you to abandon the backward beliefs of an era past it’s time and that doesn’t acknowledge you in your prime? Learn to generate and create positive benefits in the four most important relationships in your life: •Relationship with YOU•Relationship With Your Children•Relationship With Your Spiritual Self•Relationship With Your Spouse/Lover/Mate

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Justice (The Justice Trilogy)

Author and playwright Dyanna Morrison is bringing renewed attention to the enduring principles of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights through Justice, the first installment in her acclaimed trilogy of stage plays published in book format. Available on Amazon, the award-recognized work combines courtroom drama with documented historical dialogue to encourage thoughtful discussion about the First Amendment, civic responsibility, and the continuing relevance of America's founding ideals as the nation marks its 250th anniversary of independence.

Justice follows newly appointed Judge Grace Porter as she presides over two contemporary First Amendment cases inspired by real events, including the January 20, 2017 inauguration protests and the Charlottesville Unite the Right Rally of August 2017. Throughout the proceedings, America's founding fathers observe the courtroom proceedings through one-way windows, offering commentary drawn largely from their documented writings and debates during the drafting of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

This distinctive narrative approach creates a conversation between the nation's founding era and present-day legal interpretation. Readers are invited to consider how constitutional freedoms continue to influence modern society while reflecting on the responsibilities that accompany those rights.

The foundation of Justice reflects more than twenty-five years of research by Dyanna into the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the historical debates surrounding America's founding. Originally written as a screenplay, the project evolved into a stage play before ultimately being published in book format, allowing readers worldwide to experience its thought-provoking message.

Justice is available in hardcover, paperback, and eBook editions through Amazon. Readers interested in constitutional history, courtroom drama, and historically inspired theatre can learn more by visiting the book's Amazon listing: https://www.amazon.com/Justice-Dyanna-Morrison/dp/1735911615.

The work also examines the historical context surrounding the founders, acknowledging their aspirations, imperfections and interpersonal dynamics, while encouraging readers to evaluate history through careful study and informed discussion. By presenting documented dialogue alongside contemporary legal issues, Justice offers an engaging reading experience for audiences interested in history, law, theatre, and public affairs.

Justice has earned recognition as a finalist in several respected literary competitions, including the Book Excellence Awards, National Indie Excellence Awards, International Book Awards, and Best Book Awards in the Performing Arts category. These honors reflect the book's strong writing, creative concept, and thoughtful presentation of constitutional themes. 

The premise for Justice began with a simple question that has stayed with Dyanna for years: What would the framers who wrote the Constitution think if they could witness today's legal proceedings? Would they agree and does it matter?  Dyanna hopes this story encourages readers to reflect on Americans' shared history and the principles that continue to guide the foundation of American democracy.

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MIND: PSYCHOLOGY, THE UNTOLD STORY OF HOW YOUR MIND WORKS...

   

MIND: PSYCHOLOGY, THE UNTOLD STORY OF HOW YOUR MIND WORKS...

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This is a book about the most important discoveries in psychology. Not just the gnawed bones of the studies in a textbook, but what has been left out of what you think you know. From Genius to Suicide Bombers, from Science to Sex, all the best they never told you in school. 362 Pages, 7.5X9, fully illustrated

• The Brain: How experience controls the biology of the brain: Adrenalin, Cortisol, and Neurotransmitters flood the brain in response to words, Hollywood horror movies, anxiety-producing thoughts, and the girls shrieking “Witch, Witch!” at the Salem witch trial...

• Quest for the Mind Code; how the mind is programmed by the environment.

• New Evidence: How learning "hardwires" the brain for language, emotion, culture, sex....

• MInd Control is an everyday occurrence. Psychology’s General Theory of Relativity; Kamikaze pilots, suicide bombers, celebrity, Tank Killing dogs, sex, and Sacred Cows.  

•The success of Genius is not about the brain, it is about learning how to think. How the greatest minds in history made their discoveries, in their own words.

• Cogito, ergo, cogito cogito: I think, therefore, I think, I think. The fact that we can think has created the illusion that we do think. Test yourself.  Perception determines our reality.

• What the greatest minds in psychology know about how the mind works. Understanding how the mind works gives us the potential to control our own mind, just as Einstein’s understanding of the atom gave us the potential to control the atom. We are far behind in that understanding.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. OUTSIDE THE BOX: Genius is from the MIND, not the Brain. 

 Learned programs of thinking make Genius possible.  Genius, in their own words.

2. INSIDE THE BOX: Quest For The Mind Code

"The obscure we see eventually, the completely obvious, it seems, takes longer." The Dean of news, Edward R. Murrow.  Psychology’s Special and General Theories of Relativity

3. PEEKING OVER THE EDGE The Conscious Mind: Assembly Required: The new evidence. The Brain itself cannot develop without experience.  Experience “hardwires” the brain; from language to sex.

4. CULTURE AND ATTRACTION: THE "WOW" FACTOR:  ANY STIMULUS—ANY EMOTION

5. THE MYSTERY OF INSTINCTS THE NATURE VS NURTURE CONTROVERSY The Real Story.

6. ORIGIN OF THE INDIVIDUAL Forget the Theories, this is the Hard Evidence

7. DNA: THE GREAT MYSTERY OF BIOLOGICAL PROGRAMS IN OUR BRAIN

“...instinct functions in a blindly mechanical way especially apparent when its function goes wrong.” 

8 THE ORGANIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE:  COGNITION AND CREATIVITY Experience Becomes Cognition.

9. PERSONALITY "Never forget that each of you is a distinctly different individual, just like everyone else."   Margaret Mead

10. WHAT INTELLIGENCE REALLY IS “If people knew how hard I had to work to obtain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful after all.”  Michelangelo 

25 POINTS:  IMPORTANT GENERAL PRINCIPLES FOR A WIDE VARIETY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIENCES:

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Best of Friends Trilogy

     

Best of Friends Trilogy

Book 1: Best of Friends: What happens when a family death wreaks havoc among siblings? What would you do if the ‘peace-maker’ of the family suddenly loses control? If the opportunity arose, would you agree to simply ‘burn the will,’ sell the estate and split the proceeds? What would be your response when calling the cops and being told: “We’re not coming out, unless there are bullets flying and bodies to count?” Elizabeth Caliente is faced with such propositions in Sherry Brantley’s award-winning ‘Best of Friends’ trilogy. Best of Friends has won two national awards for ‘Best Fiction of the Year!’

Book 2: Before Best of Friends: In this much-anticipated prequel to the ‘Best of Friends,’ trilogy, readers discover how the Fabulous Five group were formed in their youth, and are introduced to the unfolding of the powerful secrets binding the group together. Secrets only this private group were privileged to know. Join this tight-knit group as you uncover the mystery of the ‘Secret of the Blanket.’ Included is an excerpt from the books’ final work of the trilogy, ‘Still Best of Friends.’

Book 3: Still Best of Friends: The explosive conclusion of the ‘Best of Friends’ trilogy! The Fabulous Five were bound together by secrets they’d all swore to carry to their graves. But with the ‘Dastardly Duke Discovery’ exposing the ‘Secret of the Blanket,’ will the Fabulous Five find themselves desperately being consumed in a modern-day media frenzy that is threatening to consume them? Will this group of friends be able to survive the onslaught of the public revelation of their past deeds? Or will they crumble under the weight of their unexpected circumstances? Travel with the Fabulous Five: Elizabeth Caliente’, Kim Worthy, Kiona Stone, Angela Jackson-(A.J.) and Quineeta Davis as once again, they attempt to weather the storms of adversity that threaten to decimate their bond, their friendship, their past! Will the ‘Dastardly Duke Discovery’ prove to be the final nail in the coffin? Or will vow to continue to ‘deny ‘til they die,’ their involvement in the mystery they’re shrouded in?

Meet the dynamic members of the Fabulous Five as this explosive trilogy takes readers on a whirlwind excursion among five friends. Though often humorous, the ride is filled with lessons on friendship, family dynamics and strong relationships. You’ll love connecting and bonding with the members of the Fabulous Five, as they deal individually and collectively with the drama that surrounds them!

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