The Love I Shared With The Mother Who Wasn't My Own

        

The Love I Shared With 

The Mother Who Wasn't My Own:

A 2021 COVID-19 Pandemic Memoir 

Experience a Healthy New Life of Acceptance!

As we go through life, we have so many experiences - positive and negative. But what do we do with them?

This book portrays my journey of losing a great mother figure, the pillar of my world, to the Covid- 19 Pandemic. We all have lost someone near and dear to us due to the Covid-19 Pandemic or know people who have. Collectively, as a whole, in most ways, the world is grieving.

It takes time to accept our loss. But it takes understanding and ardent desire to grasp the new instant reality, and make the progress we know we should make. This is what I hope to achieve in sharing my experiences of the tragic loss of The Mother Who Wasn't My Own due to the suddenness of the Covid-19 Pandemic.

It is my belief, that as you read this memoir, you will be able to guide yourself back to a healthy new life of acceptance. And, that you will be able to find all the tools you need in life to aspire ambitiously, achieve relentlessly, and progress continually.

Kamini Mason Bio

Most writers find a story they want to tell. But sometimes, the story finds you.

From her earliest days, Kamini Mason dreamed of being a writer, but a challenging childhood made that seem like a distant and unattainable vision. That all changed the day Kamini met someone who would forever transform her life and purpose; an incredible woman whose spirit needed to be shared with the world, and—as terrifying as Kamini found the idea—she knew she the time had come to find her voice and use it.

The Love I Shared with The Mother Who Wasn’t My Own is Kamini’s debut memoir, with her second book, World’s Orphan to be released in early 2022.

When Kamini isn’t spending time with her daughter or kickboxing, the Boston native is pursuing her writing goals and looking for opportunities to support her local community. A portion of the proceeds from her memoir go towards Family Aid Boston, a charity in Massachusetts. By sharing her stories of grace, courage, and resilience, Kamini hopes that others might find their voices too.

Stay up to date at www.kaminimason.com.

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Photographs of my Life

 

Photographs of my Life 

Photographs of My Life is a compelling memoir about a young black woman coping with life the best she can, through the many tragic losses of her most cherished loved ones. Her heartfelt stories share how she managed to survive the tragedies of her life and grew to become a more empowered woman despite all of her pain and suffering. 

Shanae Higgenbotham addresses the biggest challenges she’s faced over the years and provides insight to many young people of her generation that love and loss can create new perspectives. On her path, she discovers how love and loss can offer people a vast array of relationship hues, which are seen differently based on their cultural humanity lenses, which affect the choices they make. She learned after experiencing so much grief and heartache that it is difficult to figure out how we balance the light and dark of our experiences when added to a mix of colorful emotions. Once grief collides inside us, it ignites into fireworks, and our lives shatter. These exploding encounters blur our memories and overexpose the truths of our reality. 

She writes about how she finally understands the dark parts of her world and accepts that her life is filled with both beauty and pain. And now believes it is possible to change and refocus the view of your world into clearer images regarding love and loss. She encourages others to create their own snapshots, choice by choice, thereby framing the people and experiences in photographs of their loved ones, which will help alter their lives for the better.

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SIGIRIYA: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, Betrayal and Tragedy in the Royal Court

     

SIGIRIYA:

The Epic Story of Love, Loss, Betrayal and Tragedy in the Royal Court

This is artful storytelling at its finest with a rich narrative tapestry full of eloquent prose and poetic imagery. The book will keep you enthralled from beginning to end - Sunday Observer.

Kasyapa is the bastard child of a king and a village girl. On his mother's untimely death, he is plucked from his tiny village and brought to the royal palace. Shunned by his father, the king, this lonely little boy is raised by royal courtiers. As an adult he is sidelined, but fate intervenes. The villainous Migara, the chief of the army and Kasyapa's nemesis, murders the king and implicates Kasyapa in this hideous crime. Even though his lowly birth denies him the right to the throne, Kasyapa must act to save the kingdom. What events unfold next that drives him to build Sigiriya and rule as a god-king?

This is also the story of Amira, a beautiful red-haired, blue-eyed girl, who is only twelve years old when her father sells her into slavery. At eighteen, she is traded for a hundred pearls and joins Kasyapa's harem. Here, she is transformed into an alluring concubine. Amira soon infatuates the king with her stunning beauty, wide-eyed innocence and good heart.

Set fifteen hundred years ago and based on real people and events, Sigiriya is a hauntingly beautiful story of palace intrigue, passion, deceit, betrayal, and tragedy. It reminds us that little has changed over the centuries. Good and evil, love and hate, decency and cruelty are ever-present. But some, by the sheer strength of character and determination, rise above their stations and do great things.

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My Soldier

 

My Soldier

My Soldier recounts the story of Bill Wheatly and Gail O’Hara, who meet by chance and are from two very different backgrounds. Wheatly, a Green Berets, is sent overseas and wounded in combat. While receiving medical treatment in New York City he meets O’Hara, a beautiful movie star from a billionaire family. Wheatly and O’Hara fall in love and marry only for Wheatly to be deployed again. Will their love last or fail, what lays in store for them?

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Spanish Roots

Spanish Roots

Is there a dark secret that Mireya’s family had been hiding from her? 

Is her father alive or dead and can she unlock the mystery of her troubled past and find out the truth?  

When Mireya’s adopted parents die in a car crash, she inherits a hacienda in Spain and finds some letters that suggest her real birth parents could be alive and her father, who had been in prison, was possibly a murderer. Grieving with unsettling dreams and unable to motivate herself her best friend Gemma comes to stay and pushes Mireya to set out to Spain on holiday to claim her inheritance and find some answers to why she was adopted.

Thinking that her parents would be at the hacienda they find the property empty. That’s when the attractive Sandro walks into her life and she immediately feels tingling going along her spine like she has been plugged into an electric socket. Mireya loves the sunshine, eats tapas, drinks wine and with Gemma, she begins to laugh again. However, she becomes plagued with strange feelings about the past that escalates when she meets with her feuding Spanish relatives. 

As Mireya’s memories start to increase, she experiences a ghostly vision of her father each day and realizes that her dreams can mislead as well as bring back hidden emotions and thinks he has probably died. As secrets past, start to unravel she wonders whom she can trust. Can she trust Sandro? Is it love or hot sex? Will her passion and romance with him override her common sense. Will there be a conflict between them as she is determined to find the true reason of the mystery that led her to be adopted? Within her mind, she is at war and silently screaming…..

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The Relic of Waeter 

What happens when your fate and destiny are already chosen for you?  

At the age of ten, Aqua is awakened by the sounds of gunshots ringing through the house. Only to realize, that her mother has been shot down in cold blood.  

Abducted by the killers. Aqua finds herself being sold into the dark, dangerous world of drug runners and money launderers.  

She is plagued by a series of bizarre dreams that surround the creation of a cylindrical rod, with a priceless sapphire resting on the top.  

Aqua must now, somehow, escape from her captors, survive the dark streets of Los Angeles, figure out the meaning behind her dreams, and the strange powers that are awakening within her. All the while, battling an evil force that had been set in motion to stop her from finding the truth. The truth about who and what she is.

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Scrutiny

 

Scrutiny: Judgment Is Hers To Keep 

Born and raised in Long Island but of Filipino - German heritage, Seandra is close to her parents, friends, and boyfriend Stanley. All she's ever wanted in life is to help others. But when her friends suddenly go missing - the apparent victims of a sadistic methodical killer - Seandra begins an investigation of her own. However, the deeper she digs, the more dangerous the stakes.And as Seandra falls into temptation and an intimate relationship with one of her patients, she finds herself on a path that will test her resolve, strength, and trust. Those closest to her may be the ones hiding the deadliest secrets.

Everyone is a suspect in Mary Paches's sexy and intense debut novel, Scrutiny.

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Letters From 1969

How far would you go for love?

An Army officer visits a mysterious antique shop and is given a hope chest containing love letters written more than fifty years prior by a nurse in Vietnam.

Mike Falco is a young Army lieutenant and 1960s aficionado. When Mike visits the new antique shop in town, the eccentric proprietors insist that he’s the rightful owner of an old dust-covered hope chest.

Reluctantly, he accepts the piece, despite the caveat that, “Once you touch what’s inside this chest, it will touch you back." He quickly discovers that the sole contents are love letters written in 1969 by a twenty-two-year-old Army nurse serving in Vietnam.

As Mike reads the letters, he finds himself deeply moved by them. And by the young woman who’d penned them more than a half-century before. He sets out on a quest to track her down, hoping she’s still alive so he can return them. But what he discovers when he finally unlocks the Secret of the Letters From 1969 propels him on an odyssey that spans not only continents,but across Time itself. It’s a journey fraught with risk and danger. But Mike’s willing to go as far as necessary for love, even if that means finding his future in the past.

So, put on your bell-bottoms, tie-dye, and love beads because Letters From 1969 will take you back to the Age of Aquarius, to the music, the culture, and the events that embodied that tumultuous time. And to all the joy—and heartache—that shaped both a nation and a generation.

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Four Minutes to Midnight:

Four Dark Tales From The Wee Hours

This independently published book is both macabre and surreal. It is a compilation of four Short horror Stories, and within its pages, the author touches on different subjects of humanity's beliefs and fears. Here we are confronted with Myth, the Afterlife, and humanity's impending doom. The first-person point of view places the reader at the center of the story. The book can appeal to different kinds of readers, not only the avid readers of the paranormal subject. We encounter influences from classic writers such as H. P. Lovecraft and Algernon Blackwood in this great short fiction. Although the stories share common aspects of the horror genre, the way the author had utilized imagery and suspense makes the book unique. Also, the endings of the stories are not what you would expect.

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Halotempora

 

Halotempora

Charlie Swingling is a suburban teen who lives his life just like any other high schooler his age--that is until he embarks on a treacherous bike ride to his home through a forest during a storm. There, he encounters a warrior with abilities that defy reality. Charlie finds himself at the brink of death. Then, when all hope seems lost, something curious happens. Charlie has a moment of awakening and finds he can harness the power of the storm to strike down his adversary.

The next day, Charlie gets a letter in the mail. It’s an acceptance letter to a school he’s never heard of, Halotempora Institute for the Inertly Adept. He wonders if this acceptance letter is linked to what happened the previous night. There is only one way to find out.

At times in life, we are presented with challenges that seem monumental. Yet, it is what we do in these moments that define who we are. Halotempora is this kind of story—the tale of an unlikely hero who encounters the insurmountable and conquers it in the process.

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Gods of the Bay

 

Gods of the Bay

Katie Russo grew up on the east end of Long Island. When she was a child, she spent most of her time outside when the land was wilder. There she received visions of things to come. As a teen, she explored the Great South Bay and its murky waters as well as Davis Park and the Atlantic Ocean. Certain traumatic events convince her to move away from the coast when she enters adulthood, but the memories of Fire Island and the Great South Bay still continue to haunt her long after she left. Ultimately, she must come to terms with her past as well as the changes in the world around her.

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Tales of Reverba - A New Ember

 

Tales of Reverba: A New Ember

A train has appeared over Earth and thousands are abducted!

A new epic fantasy, Tales of Reverba: A New Ember. The story is set during modern times but takes place in a new world. Follow Jordan, an African American abducted from Earth by a mysterious train and dropped into the wilderness of the strange world called Reverba. He must now adapt to the new world if he wants to survive. Maybe some fire magic is needed?

Tales of Reverba: A New Ember is book 1 in the Story of Fire series. It’s a gritty NA Epic Fantasy Adventure filled with mystical creatures, disembodied voices, brutal fights with a dash of a sailor’s mouth and a world filled with new races.

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God's Gift (Woman) 

This book is about the empowerment of women in today’s world,

including young girls and adult women alike. No two women are

the same, nor is every situation; however, what remains the same is

God’s Word and his commandment of how men should place a high

value on the woman. Scripture is noticeably clear when it speaks to

love a woman, to honor a woman. My vision is to take you back to

God’s Word and show you why you must have self-worth, know your

value, be respected, and motivate you to get your groove back. You

will never change what you tolerate.

 You can no longer settle for just a man.

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The Doom Tapes:

And More Science Fiction Stories

In "The Doom Tapes", the earth is invaded by aliens. The only ones who can save the world are the clerks at Last Chance Video, the last movie rental store that still stocks VHS.

This book includes thirteen more science fiction short stories filled with adventure, aliens, robots, and monsters! Take your flying car to the drive-in because the show’s about to start!

“Robot Eden” is the story of a trio of machines wandering a post-apocalyptic wasteland in search of the one place humans can never enter. Gangs of survivors fight them at every turn, seeking to scrap them for parts.

In “The Many Bodies of Harlan Thorne”, a spacefaring assassin has a collection of cloned bodies, each with a different super power. It’s a great life, until a clone refuses to go back into storage.

In “The Texas Creepers”, a man plays poker with parasites from another dimension.

“Mystery Meat Monster” features a truck stop in space, aliens, ray guns, and the galaxy’s most dangerous meatloaf.

The collection also includes the novella “The Asteroid Heist.” A thief and conman has a plan to pull off the biggest crime in history. But how do you steal three miles of space rock?

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Wake Up Positive - FREE Book Download

  

FREE Book to 

Wake Up Positive

Each Morning we wake up to start our day. Many times we don't wake up in the best of moods. When we don't wake up in the best of moods we can find ourselves struggling thought the entire day. A downward spiral starts when we wake up with that bad attitude towards the day. 

This book is designed to help you break out of bad attitude routine and start your day off in the most positive of moods. Within this class you will find several tips to help you wake up and start you day in a positive manner. 

This book is the first in the efforts of The Temple of Positive Energy to start helping people become more positive and excited about life. Believe it or not but your moods are contagious and your actions impact the actions of all the others around you, starting out with the people you love the most, your family, then you take it to work and share it with your friends and co-workers. Making Little changes in the morning to start it out positive not only helps you but helps everyone you come in contact with.  

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Knowing Jesus in the Broken Places

 

Knowing Jesus in the Broken Place:

Wounds Healed by His Scars

At the age of 8 years old, I tried to commit suicide. From 12-14 years old, I ran away from my father, who abused me physically, mentally, and emotionally; eventually, I became homeless. I was raped at the age of 14 by a person who claimed to be a relative of mine. I became pregnant, and when I told them, no one believed me. I needed a way of escape. In the early 1980s, I became addicted to drugs.

Abused by my father, abandoned by my mother, and rejected by those I felt were supposed to love me. I know what PAIN is. I understand what it means to be alone with no one to turn to. But then I found out that the Lord was going to deliver me. He told me that I belonged to him and would be healed by him when I allowed him into my broken areas.

“Knowing Jesus in the Broken Places: Wounds Healed by His Scars” is a prophetic book that has been given to me by the Holy Spirit. I hope that it will help people understand that the Lord is with them even in the broken areas of their life. 

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Disciple of Vengeance 

(Shattered World Book 1)

Betrayed and left for dead, rage is the only force keeping Janis alive. Rage at the enemies who slaughtered his family, at the wizard who sold them out, but most of all at himself for letting it happen.

Yet now it's too late to do anything about it.

His body spasms. His memories leak away. In his final moments, a presence approaches him. Alien but powerful, driven by a hunger he's never known. "Give me life within you," the nameless one offers, "and I will give you your vengeance."

Janis will go from prince assassin to fugitive sorcerer as he hunts the people who killed his family. He'll battle mercenaries, cultists, gods and wizards in a magic devastated world as he unravels a conspiracy that goes far beyond the treachery of one wizard.

He fuels his success with a diabolical power that will force him to ask what he sold his soul to, and to wonder what it really wants.

All he knows for sure is that there’s no going back.

Vengeance is only the beginning.

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