The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told is an inspiring personal narrative about a filly who broke through the male-dominated world of horseracing and inspired crowds of men and women alike, along with a trio of gamblers who embark on an unforgettable adventure that's as epic as the historic victory of Winning Colors. It's Seabiscuit meets Narcos, and the best true-life gambling story ever told.

In the late 1980s, a spectacular 3-year-old female racehorse named Winning Colors was being groomed for success under her famous Hollywood trainer, D. Wayne Lukas, and the billionaire owner of the San Diego Chargers pro-football team, Eugene Klein. Meanwhile, three fun-loving gamblers, Miami Paul, Dino Mateo, and Big Bernie believed that Winning Colors could be the unlikely female winner of the 1988 Kentucky Derby.

When the gamblers unknowingly place their longshot bet with members of a suspected drug cartel at a racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico, they must figure out how to claim their prize - without getting killed in the process. In a heart-pounding race of their own across the U.S.-Mexico border, the trio come face-to-face with suspected killers, are arrested by the Border Patrol, and fumble their way through the riskiest bet of their lives.

About the Author

Mark Paul lives for action and adventure at locations where gambling occurs. While racing motorcycles at age 15, he was incarcerated in a Mexican jail (he was released after six days, completely rehabilitated). He began his gambling career by sneaking into Hollywood Park and Santa Anita at age 16 by giving degenerate looking gamblers free betting tickets in exchange for pretending they were his parents. Mark made a 5,000-mile sail boat journey through the Panama Canal and then on to the island of Jamaica, to attend Caribbean and South American horseraces. He completed these gambling junkets alone, via bus, to gamble at the local thoroughbred racetracks. Blond and blue eyed, he stood out from the local horseplayers. He was robbed a few times. He was a participant in a $1 million win on the 1988 Kentucky Derby with two other gamblers through a bet placed in Tijuana, Mexico. Cashing this wager and getting back to U.S. soil alive was the adventure of a lifetime. He has owned interests in 34 racehorses. Mark has enjoyed a long career in commercial real estate in Southern California having transacted over $3 billion worth of transactions. With his wife, Renee, Mark raised over $750,000 for City of Hope Cancer research through events held at the Santa Anita racetrack. In May 2018 the Supreme Court ruled to allow State legalized sports betting. Mark believes that public interest in gambling and sports in general will reach new levels, and he plans to chronicle the lives of adventurous risk takers who aim to win the benefits from life-changing horseraces, and other kinds of sporting events.

The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told is an inspiring personal narrative about a filly who broke through the male-dominated world of horseracing and inspired crowds of men and women alike, along with a trio of gamblers who embark on an unforgettable adventure that's as epic as the historic victory of Winning Colors. It's Seabiscuit meets Narcos, and the best true-life gambling story ever told.

In the late 1980s, a spectacular 3-year-old female racehorse named Winning Colors was being groomed for success under her famous Hollywood trainer, D. Wayne Lukas, and the billionaire owner of the SAn Diego Chargers pro-football team, Eugene Klein. Meanwhile, three fun-loving gamblers, Miami Paul, Dino Mateo, and Big Bernie believed that Winning Colors could be the unlikely female winnder of the 1988 Kentucky Derby.

When the gamblers unknowingly place their longshot bet with members of a suspected drug cartel at a racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico, they must figure out how to claim their prize - without getting killed in the process. In a heart-pounding race of their own across the U.S.-Mexico border, the trio come face-to-face with suspected killers, are arrested by the Border Patrol, and fumble their way through the riskiest best of their lives.

Why Members Leave and Strategies Proven to Bring Them Back

What if everything we know about membership is all wrong?

Let's face it. People no longer jump at the chance to join. It takes more effort and there's considerably more turnover. It's become the norm for associations to report losses in membership or revenue. Some organizations have been forced to downsize and others are struggling to survive.

There's no denying it. Membership growth has become increasingly difficult for membership organizations to obtain. A new strategy is needed, and Sarah Sladek introduces it in her latest book, MemberShift.

Sarah's research on membership engagement and social change is unparalleled. She began researching shifts in membership trends in the United States in 2002. She has since conducted global research, authored several books on membership, and been a consultant to organizations worldwide. Her strategic guidance has been credited with influencing significant increases in growth and revenues.

In MemberShift, Sarah makes the case associations have been misguided by borrowing best practices from business models and relying on traditions of the past. As a result, they lost sight of who and what matters most and struggled to leverage their assets.

But Sarah proves it's possible to reverse the disengagement and decline.

Whether the association is struggling to engage younger members, show value, manage change, or strategize for the future, Sarah's book delivers the much-needed insights and tools to reposition the organization for greater success.

Her book brings readers an entirely new perspective and way of thinking about membership. No other book has gone into such depth to explain membership strategy and provide practices proven to lead to membership growth.

This is the book to read if you want to improve your association's performance or realize different results.

With MemberShift, associations can stop responding to decline and focus on advancing their industries and serving their communities. With MemberShift, membership growth is possible once again.

#2 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER

USA TODAY BESTSELLER

#1 AMAZON BESTSELLER (In 9 Leadership, Business & HR Categories)

***Includes a free workbook, as well as discussion questions for use by students as well as teams***

This amazing book is loaded with insights, ideas and strategies that you can use immediately to become the Leader in your field.

Brian Tracy - Author, Speaker, Consultant

Dr. Karyn Gordon has written a must-read book for anyone wanting to develop great leadership skills both as an individual or as a development tool to support your team to build core skills of great leaders. The Three Chairs hooked me from the start with its engaging storytelling, scientific research and abundant actionable tools.

Erin Lukie - Senior Global Director, Young Presidents' Organization (YPO)

Dr. Karyn is an incredible force for good when it comes to leadership, communication and building high performance teams. The Three Chairs: How Great Leaders Drive Communication, Performance and Engagement is a must read for leaders seeking to implement and an integrated, authentic and effective management process in their organizations, for their high performance teams and in their personal lives in a changing world.

Scott O'Neil - CEO, Philadelphia 76ers (NBA)

Dr. Karyn's concept of The Three Chairs is brilliant in its simplicity. The way she applies it to leadership skills everywhere from the classroom to the boardroom shows her strong grasp of how leaders are not born, they are made.

Michael Gelman - Executive Producer, LIVE with Kelly and Ryan

The Fastest Way to Grow Essential Leadership Skills

We all want to be great leaders who are confident, productive, and highly energized. But if you don't learn foundational leadership skills, research shows you will face problems with communication, performance, engagement, and employee retention. The stakes are high.

How can you quickly learn essential leadership skills? While most organizations and professionals value leadership development, it is often time-intensive and impractical.

In The Three Chairs, Dr. Karyn Gordon provides a proven framework to transform anyone's ability to lead others. Nominated for the 2021 RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Award, Dr. Karyn has spent over 20 years teaching more than 500,000 people across 17 countries. Her unique approach, based on the 5 Leadership EQ Skills(TM), will show you how to:

• Identify Great Leadership: Understand the most essential attitudes in yourself and others
• Master Communication: Give and receive feedback to drive team accountability
• Enhance Proper Goal-Setting: Build a confident mindset and alignment on key objectives
• Improve Decision-Making: Drive performance, time-management, and delegation
• Reduce Stress And Anxiety: Increase wellness and reduce burnout
• Increase Employee Engagement: Boost retention and build a better culture

The Three Chairs is the breakthrough leadership book for the 21st century. Discover tools you can easily apply at work and home that get results for everyone from CEOs to students. See yourself more clearly, engage more deeply with those around you, and equip yourself to be a confident great leader.

Dr. Kimberly McGlonn's life is a story of two childhoods and two Americas. Born on the Northside of Milwaukee, a city Dr. Martin Luther King called the Selma of the North, she was afforded all the comforts of middle-class life. However, when McGlonn was twelve, all that changed. What came next taught her about the consequences of poverty, the nuances of criminality, and the obstacles women in poverty navigate.

In Build It Boldly, she calls on the world's 524 million entrepreneurs to embrace a new kind of activism and legacy-building: one that puts people and the planet in the balance of the pursuit of profit and that promotes the kind of optimism necessary for climate resilience. A unique voice, Dr. McGlonn offers timely wisdom on what daring leadership requires and how we might use business design to create powerful impacts on behalf of the common good.

First published in 2001 and revised in 2017, the Docent Handbook 2 is a valuable resource for docents, guides and interpreters from museums and cultural institutions of all types in the US and Canada. A stimulating and informative nuts and bolts manual, the Docent Handbook 2 is useful for new and veteran docents, as well as an important tool for museum educators in their training of docents and guides.

The Docent Handbook 2 updates and expands the original handbook with new sections, material, and additional references to reflect the increasingly diverse audiences for museums, the arrival of our digital world, and evolving tour strategies geared to museums of all kinds. Included are sections on learning styles; seeing or learning from objects; family groups, school groups and serving visitors with special needs; appropriate language and guidelines for current practice in addressing arts and artifacts of indigenous peoples; dealing with problems; technology and the docent; and much more. Examples in the handbook reflect a wide range of museum settings. In addition, the handbook serves as a workbook. Each section in the chapter gives you ideas and best practices as well as space at the end of the chapter to write Your Personal Notes.

Is your body betraying you? Are you constantly feeling low on energy, chronically inflamed, or running for the toilet every time you eat? Have you been diagnosed with celiac disease, gluten sensitivity or an autoimmune disorder? Do you experience lingering symptoms despite your best effort to eat gluten free?

In Dear Gluten, It's Not Me, It's You, Jenny Levine Finke shows you how to take control of your diet, kick gluten to the curb, restore your health, and live a life free from annoying and painful symptoms.

Jenny gets it. She is a patient of celiac disease herself. She only felt marginally better after breaking up with gluten. Over the years she realized it was going to take more than simply swapping out wheat bread for gluten-free bread if she was going to heal her broken body.

Consider Dear Gluten your transformational guidebook to eating gluten free AND healing your body. Jenny will help you see why gluten is up to no good, how to get all of gluten's sneaky bits out of your life, and other steps you can do to heal your body, restore your gut health, and live a symptom-free, healthy life.

Goodbye, Gluten. Hello, healthy you

Real estate serves us all in so many ways. It can build generational wealth, contribute to financial independence, and provide a home to those who cannot afford to buy-or who choose not to. It can also be your legacy to others, in that you left it better than you found it and helped others along the way. Investing in real estate is good for you and those whom you serve.

Replace Your Income: A Lawyer's Guide to Finding, Funding, and Managing Real Estate Investments will help aspiring and beginner real estate rental investors to:

• Decide what type of real estate to invest in
• Find rental properties worth owning
• Calculate the potential return on their investment
• Build the right team to help their business grow
• Expand their portfolio quickly

Having amassed a growing portfolio of 18 short-term and long-term rentals, Brian Boyd shares what he has learned along the way. His goal is to help shortcut your path to real estate wealth and navigate the inevitable challenges that come with real estate investing.

Whether you are looking to earn some extra income through renting, are interested in the tax benefits that come with owning real estate, or want to work towards replacing the income from your day job, this book will show you how!

#2 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER

USA TODAY BESTSELLER

#1 AMAZON BESTSELLER (In 9 Leadership, Business & HR Categories)

***Includes a free workbook, as well as discussion questions for use by students as well as teams***

This amazing book is loaded with insights, ideas and strategies that you can use immediately to become the Leader in your field.

Brian Tracy - Author, Speaker, Consultant

Dr. Karyn Gordon has written a must-read book for anyone wanting to develop great leadership skills both as an individual or as a development tool to support your team to build core skills of great leaders. The Three Chairs hooked me from the start with its engaging storytelling, scientific research and abundant actionable tools.

Erin Lukie - Senior Global Director, Young Presidents' Organization (YPO)

Dr. Karyn is an incredible force for good when it comes to leadership, communication and building high performance teams. The Three Chairs: How Great Leaders Drive Communication, Performance and Engagement is a must read for leaders seeking to implement and an integrated, authentic and effective management process in their organizations, for their high performance teams and in their personal lives in a changing world.

Scott O'Neil - CEO, Philadelphia 76ers (NBA)

Dr. Karyn's concept of The Three Chairs is brilliant in its simplicity. The way she applies it to leadership skills everywhere from the classroom to the boardroom shows her strong grasp of how leaders are not born, they are made.

Michael Gelman - Executive Producer, LIVE with Kelly and Ryan

The Fastest Way to Grow Essential Leadership Skills

We all want to be great leaders who are confident, productive, and highly energized. But if you don't learn foundational leadership skills, research shows you will face problems with communication, performance, engagement, and employee retention. The stakes are high.

How can you quickly learn essential leadership skills? While most organizations and professionals value leadership development, it is often time-intensive and impractical.

In The Three Chairs, Dr. Karyn Gordon provides a proven framework to transform anyone's ability to lead others. Nominated for the 2021 RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Award, Dr. Karyn has spent over 20 years teaching more than 500,000 people across 17 countries. Her unique approach, based on the 5 Leadership EQ Skills(TM), will show you how to:

• Identify Great Leadership: Understand the most essential attitudes in yourself and others
• Master Communication: Give and receive feedback to drive team accountability
• Enhance Proper Goal-Setting: Build a confident mindset and alignment on key objectives
• Improve Decision-Making: Drive performance, time-management, and delegation
• Reduce Stress And Anxiety: Increase wellness and reduce burnout
• Increase Employee Engagement: Boost retention and build a better culture

The Three Chairs is the breakthrough leadership book for the 21st century. Discover tools you can easily apply at work and home that get results for everyone from CEOs to students. See yourself more clearly, engage more deeply with those around you, and equip yourself to be a confident great leader.

Tours with Children and Teens: A Handbook for Docents and Guides is a companion to The Docent Handbook 2. It enhances and deepens information and guidance for museum touring with children pre-K through high school, home schoolers and multi-aged groups, and those with special needs. Based on research and real-world success stories, the handbook provides practical suggestions and extensive examples from a variety of cultural institutions. Take your tours to the next level with a how to manual designed to prepare new and seasoned docents for an engaging experience with younger visitors.

Interacting with one another, as bosses leading associates, peers influencing peers, salespeople attempting to win customer business or wives dealing with husbands, the inescapable truth is that our success or failure is a direct result of our ability to create and sustain productive, reciprocal relationships.

Dr. John W. Hanes has witnessed far too many leaders who pay little or no attention to the relational aspects of business. Yet, his experience has been that most leaders who fail to live up to their potential crash and burn due to their unwillingness or inability to relate well with the key people they encounter.

Winning with Style is a battle-tested process which will allow you to recognize, understand, relate to and influence people to get the results you want out of life. You will learn to increase awareness, build trust, more effectively use power, develop social sensitivity, control your emotions, act like a professional and avoid the seven deadly sins that destroy relationships.

How to Steal A Lot of Money... Legally is a practical guide to investment scamming based upon true events and insights gleaned from over three decades forensically investigating over $1 trillion in assets managed by Wall Street. Edward Ted Siedle is a widely-read writer for Forbes, a former attorney with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, and America's leading expert in investment scamming. In 2018, Ted secured the largest CFTC whistleblower award in history―$30 million―and in 2017, the largest SEC whistleblower award of $48 million. Siedle was named as one of the 40 most influential people in the U.S. pension debate by Institutional Investor magazine for 2014 and 2015. He and Rich Dad, Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki co-authored Who Stole My Pension? How You Can Stop the Looting.

Lying, cheating and stealing are so commonplace in life generally, and in the world of investing especially, that they are not the exceptions. Scamming mercilessly overwhelms any so-called rules and devours those who play by them. So, learning rules without learning the even greater larcenous exceptions makes no sense-it's reckless. Schools and professors who teach the rules alone are negligent and put students, at a minimum, at a competitive disadvantage, or, worse still, in harm's way.

For investors young and old, the choice is simple: Either study Wall Street bad behavior and be forewarned, or risk losing everything you own, says the nation's leading forensic investigator.

ENGAGEMENT

Whether you're answering the phone or conducting the new patient exam, the excellence of your systems and performance of your winning team influence your new patient to start treatment. Doctor confidence and soft skills will further motivate you to take action and advocate your dentistry leading the patient to begin care.

CONVERSION

With consistency of follow-up, most exams will schedule. Ask questions to eliminate patient roadblocks and excuses. Your actions, follow-up, and processes will determine your office results as reflected by numbers.

DELIVERY

Scheduling, payments, and sound financial systems will determine and maintain practice profitability. Successful systems will produce happy patients, business management ease for the doctor and team, and fulfilled referring dentists all leading to more referrals. Monitor practice metrics on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis to create momentum, reach goals, and achieve treatment coordination success.

The title Take Action is an understatement. This book is how to take EVERY PROFITABLE ACTION needed in a dental practice. Take Action will fill your financial cavities and straighten your bank account... Painlessly, Permanently, and Profitably. Buy it. Read it. And put it into practice - your practice. - Jeffrey Gitomer, Author of The Sales Bible and The Little Red Book of Selling

If you have ever considered opening a used bookstore, here is your chance to learn from someone who knows first-hand what it takes. In 2003 Stephanie Chandler left behind a career in the Silicon Valley and opened a 2800-square foot bookstore in Sacramento, California. Along the way she documented her processes, noting what worked and didn't work, and compiled the results into this comprehensive, real-world guide that explains what it takes to start and run a successful used bookstore. Features in this workbook include: WORKSHEETS: Budget planning, evaluating competition, forecasting, and more BUSINESS BASICS: What you need to get started INVENTORY: Twelve sources for acquiring used books SUPPLIERS: Library supplies, printed goods, retail supplies and more SHOP SET-UP: Store layout, book categories, bookseller software and tools OPERATIONS PROCEDURES: Trade policies, overstock, and a sample operations manual MARKETING: Low-cost and no-cost tactics for maximum exposure WEBSITE: Steps for setting up a website and selling books online RESOURCES: Dozens of useful website links BUSINESS PLAN: Sample business plan (actual plan used by the author) Chandler doesn't sugar-coat her experiences. Instead, she offers realistic and practical information that can save you countless hours in research and planning, while preventing you from making costly mistakes. This is an essential guide for anyone who is serious about starting and running a bookstore. Reader feedback from the first edition: I just wanted to say thank you. I used your book to set up my used book store and we celebrated our one year anniversary on August 1st. I couldn't have done it without your book. Many thanks - Lou Grantt, www.hidesertbookoasis.com Thank you SO much for this great book find My sister and I are planning to open a new and used bookstore within the next few months, and I thought we had thought of everything already, yet I found very valuable information in your book. You have really given great website resources and information to think about and consider... I just wanted you to know that I am one happy customer and can't thank you enough for having taken the time to actually put all your thoughts onto paper to help people like me - Janet Long Starting any business can be terrifying, especially if you have never done it before. You wish you had someone to tell you the ins and outs of the overall business world and someone else to tell you the specifics of your field of interest. Thankfully for us, Stephanie Chandler is both. In developing our used bookstore, her wealth of hard earned wisdom, experience and passion are invaluable to us. While you can't avoid every mistake, her book comes as close as possible to helping you do just that... Her material is well worth the money, time and energy. Trust me, without it, you'll needlessly waste far more of all three. - Jamie Arpin-Ricci, founder of The Dusty Cover

The Three Stories Leaders Tell is designed to give leaders practical methods for using stories to lead. This guide translates what fuels the power of stories into a wide range of step-by-step techniques for storytelling. Since storytelling is social, the guide also gives how to's for team and organization wide engagement. The Three Stories Leaders Tell covers the Who am I?, Who are we?, and Where are we going? narrative. The reader will be able to understand what makes each narrative unique as well as how to craft each narrative with the desired level of involvement and impact. Whether you are a leader, a leadership and organizational development professional, or an executive coach, you will find this guide to be an easy-to-follow resource for one-on-one or group leadership development efforts. About the Author Christine Cavanaugh-Simmons works with leaders and organizations that want to: project a memorable identity, drive positive change, and rapidly cascade strategy through the stories they tell. Ms. Cavanaugh-Simmons has been coaching executives and working with small to large organizations for over 20 years. Using narrative process, she has helped her clients with post-merger integration, branding, leadership development, visioning, and strategic planning - all with the use of stories, storytelling and the narrative process.

Beyond the Morning Huddle: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT for a Successful Dental Office shares tips,
experiences, strategies and solutions to make your dental practice the best it can be.

RECRUITMENT
With time and attention given to the hiring process, the doctor and team implement a strong
management system to select the best candidate and build a strong team.

INTEGRATION
By creating an effective feedback system which includes cross-training and team involvement, the dental office is improved with each new hire.

MANAGEMENT
Trust, confidence, and job satisfaction are built by education, communication and active participation. Never underestimate the effectiveness of acknowledgement and appreciation as well as setting clear individual standards and goals.

FEEDBACK
Immediate feedback builds trust, understanding, commitment, accountability, results, and excellence. Communication is the key to success.

DISTRIBUTION OF RESOURCES
Making smart HRM decisions will keep HR costs under control.

EMPLOYMENT LAW
Be aware of changing state and federal employment law and how it applies to your dental office.

How could something that happened so long ago affect me today? I asked my therapist right after she told me I was suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). How could an assault at six years old be the defining factor in my adult existence?

And with those questions, my life's trajectory changed. I began to search for answers.

This is the story of that journey. A journey that took me deep into past traumas to face memories I'd tried to bury my whole life. A journey that revealed how my trauma was not mine alone but was connected to my parents' and grandparents' traumas. A journey that showed me how this transgenerational trauma had controlled my thoughts, my choices, and my life. And how it now infected my children's lives as well.

This is a story of how I finally broke the cycle of transgenerational trauma and found healing-not only for me but for my children. And now, I share that healing with you. I invite you to travel along with me, practice the exercises at the end of each chapter, and begin your own healing journey from surviving to thriving.

MARKETING The business of dentistry is more competitive than ever. An understanding of marketing will help you conquer this challenge. It All Starts With MARKETING-201 Marketing Tips for Growing a Dental Practice shares ideas, experiences and strategies to gain new patients and grow your practice. It will serve as a useful resource for the dental professional. PATIENTS With attention to your patients, their experience in your office, and the things they love, the doctor and team implement a strong internal marketing system and can make ideal dental care more available than ever before. COMMUNITY By building a unique brand and participating in community events, new patients discover you, get to know you and learn your story. Public relations is an external marketing method that should be considered for the exposure, name recognition, trust, and credibility that it gives you. RELATIONSHIPS Professional dental and medical relationships are built on trust by education, communication and participation, as well as giving of yourself to others and producing excellent dental results. Never underestimate the external marketing effectiveness of expressing acknowledgement, appreciation, kindness and love. Dr. Ann Marie Gorczyca is a Clinical Adjunct Professor of Orthodontics at the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, University of the Pacific, where she speaks on practice management topics including marketing, teamwork, treatment coordination, customer service, management systems and human resource management. She was a marketing speaker at the 2011 and 2012 American Association of Orthodontists (AAO) Annual Sessions. Formerly a faculty member at UCSF School of Dentistry, she has received teaching awards from UCSF and University of the Pacific Dental Schools. Dr. Gorczyca is a Diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics and is in private practice in Antioch, California. She lives in Northern California. This is her first book.

Puritans, Plagues, and Promises transports you back four centuries into some of England's most tumultuous times. From the beginning pages, a web of intrigue engulfs the first two characters: the Cole family patriarch and his Puritan vicar. A participant in secret nonconformist meetings, the vicar is arrested, imprisoned, and put on trial in England's highest courts. Standing firm for his faith, he and eight fellow Puritans reveal conflicts of conscience with the Church of England's powerful leaders and with Queen Elizabeth's hand-picked Privy Council. In the face of adversity in London, powerful forces collide-with consequences of life or death.

Author Cole's meticulously researched creative nonfiction narrative contains more than 500 citations to early books, manuscripts, court records, and other sources, some dating back hundreds of years. These records illuminate his characters' lives and reveal long-lost details hidden in England's archives-underutilized treasure troves of genealogical gems. The author provides eighty-five images of people, places, and parchment. Two dozen have never been published, revealing more than twenty historic genealogical breakthroughs.

The resulting stories expose formidable influences and challenges-political, religious, legal, and economic-that set the stage for conflicts of Church and State, the rule of law, and a monarch's absolute power. Puritans are caught up in extraordinary circumstances that reveal the adventures of ordinary people who were brave and daring. Plagues decimate some families and skip others. Their stories rivet our attention. Deeply touched, we are left to reflect on what might have been. Promises are made, broken, fulfilled, unfulfilled, and sometimes deferred. These multi-faceted storylines draw us into the lives of those who set the stage for colonizing America.

As a fitting climax, the author delves deeply into the final straws that push, pull, and propel the author's ancestors and 21,000 other English men, women, and children to leave England during the Great Puritan Migration and forge new lives in America. The story of Puritans, Plagues, and Promises is one that represents us all.

Have you ever wondered what a surgical residency is like?

Becoming A Surgeon is an inspirational account of Dr. Joe Garri's time spent in general surgery residency. Recounting five years of training through real-life anecdotes and interesting personalities, this compelling book peers through the retrospective lens from Dr. Garri's many years of private practice.

While autobiographical, Becoming a Surgeon is in some ways a universal story reflecting the experience of many surgical residents in Western medicine. Each chapter deals with topics related to the training of surgeons, including the personal sacrifice involved and the challenges of learning the craft. It also addresses the heart-warming and heart-breaking experiences in dealing with patients and their families.

Becoming A Surgeon is a must-read for anyone interested in medicine, surgery, or the training by which surgeons are forged. If you want to learn about doctor-patient dynamics and the interactions of young doctors with students, colleagues, and mentors, this book is for you. It is an insightful case study of one doctor's unforgettable journey and metamorphosis through the process of becoming a surgeon.