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Mirth is God’s Medicine: Coping with Cancer as a Physician 

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Mirth is God’s Medicine: Coping with Cancer as a Physician 

As a primary care physician in her mid-forties, Dr. Heather Thompson Buum is diagnosed with breast cancer; she is now facing multiple medical decisions, this time about her own health.

Experiencing the system firsthand informs her future approach in unanticipated ways; what initially seems like a negative event becomes a process of growth and transformation.

The story illustrates how a doctor, as both informed medical professional and human being, copes with a new diagnosis and disease. She falls back on what sustained her previously: music, faith, exercise. Along the way, she discovers new coping mechanisms: writing and sharing her story. Opening up to others, finding common ground, allowing authenticity and vulnerability to permeate teaching, mentoring, even patient relationships—this is almost an opposing view to how doctors are trained, to value privacy above all else.

The book is filled with stories and scenarios from academic medicine, both humorous and poignant, that illustrate the humanity of us all. Cancer survivors will resonate with many themes, including the emotional roller coaster that accompanies the entire ordeal. Readers will appreciate how she finds humor even in tough situations, sharing amusing anecdotes not only from her cancer journey but also her training and career as a physician.

Book details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Joshua Tree Publishing (March 8, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 242 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1941049524
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1941049525
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.61 x 9 inches
    • Doctor-Patient Relations
    • Breast Cancer (Books)
    • Oncology (Books)

Pendulum Over the Pacific: U.S. political scheming and trade friction with Japan jeopardize lives 

Joshua Tree Publishing
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Pendulum Over the Pacific: U.S. political scheming and trade friction with Japan jeopardize lives 

In Pendulum Over the Pacific, the President’s nephew and advisor goes rogue, teaming with a hawkish U.S. Senator who is scheming to force Japan to lower its trade surplus with the U.S. The senator and nephew see Japan’s trade surplus as a threat to the U.S. economy. They decide to manipulate facts and use history to their advantage to force the President to renegotiate an existing U.S.-Japan trade deal.

It’s the 1980s when Japan was the “bad” trade partner, before China’s rise.Once a student in Tokyo, Morgan Atwood returns to Japan to help foreign students adapt to a new country, language, and culture. A chance meeting in Tokyo with a former professor leads to Morgan’s introduction to the President’s nephew, Rob Harwell. Morgan’s actions help Harwell avoid public embarrassment, giving Morgan an opportunity to skim private papers hinting at the scheme.Morgan makes inquiries, raising alarms.

The Washington group enlists help to find out the source of the “leak” but needs to remain anonymous. Morgan’s new friend and colleague, Fumiko Nakajima, provides a sympathetic ear and helps Morgan fill in the unknown. When Fumiko uses her connections, the Washington group’s concerns rise as they perceive Morgan’s circle of friends as a threat to their plans.

Book details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Joshua Tree Publishing; 2nd ed. edition (February 20, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 334 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1941049923
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-6977374450
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.08 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.84 x 9 inches
    • Asian Dramas & Plays
    • Asian American Literature & Fiction
    • Political Fiction (Books)

Princess Isabella and The Mystery of the Twelve Santas of Christmas

Joshua Tree Publishing
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Princess Isabella and The Mystery of the Twelve Santas of Christmas

Book Five of the My Princess Isabella Series

Christmas is just around the corner, and Princess Isabella has made her Gift Wish List!


She takes it to Santa Blaise with high hopes that she will be given everything on her list.


But then she takes another list to Santa Gary.

And another list to Santa Forrest!

And then nine more lists to nine more Santas!

Her friends are puzzled and worried, because Isabella has never been a greedy doggie. She doesn’t need all the gifts she has asked for.


What is going on? 
Why is Isabella acting so strangely?? 
What is the Mystery of the Twelve Santas? ? ?

Princess Isabella is an accomplished Dog Dancer with many public performances to her credit. With her recent success at solving mysteries, she is also building a reputation as a clever and insightful detective. The Mystery of the Twelve Santas of Christmas is her fifth mystery.

Princess Isabella’s Next Adventure:
The Mystery of the Invisible Gift

Princess Isabella’s Website:
MyPrincessIsabella.com

K. B. Lebsock lives in Colorado. She has a B.A. from Loretto Heights College and enjoys ballet, classical music, freestyle doggie dancing, BBC TV dramas, and photography, which is why her camera goes with her everywhere. She has a love for animals of all kinds. Princess Isabella and the Mystery of the Twelve Santas of Christmas is her fifth book. 
Author’s website: KBLebsock.com.


Jessica Wulf is a native of North Dakota but has spent most of her life in Colorado, where she now lives with her husband, three happy dogs, and two spoiled cats. She has a B.A. in History and has published six historical fiction novels. Princess Isabella and the Mystery of the Twelve Santas of Christmas is her fifth children’s book. 

Book details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Joshua Tree Publishing; 1st edition (October 27, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 36 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1941049966
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-6977374498
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 0.09 x 10 inches

Yona: Discoveries, Doorways, and Musical Superpower

Joshua Tree Publishing
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Yona: Discoveries, Doorways, and Musical Superpower
Joan Kretschmer

We meet Yona at age ten, an unwanted, scorned child, discovering her unique talents and beginning to exercise her special gift, the power of music. Multi Tasker is her dramatic, magic-wielding piano teacher with his Flights of Fancy, a flying piano. Her new friend, Ulysses, is a ten-year old boy who finds an abandoned, dilapidated trunk and its colorful, ebullient occupant, Gene E. 

Tasker arranges for them to attend The John Brook Summer Music Festival, where they live and study in the historic mansion donated by Mrs. Goodnkind, a wealthy, benevolent role model. Daily lessons include trips and exciting adventures as well as Doorways to Understanding, a series of entryways to learning about creativity, life, nature, the arts, and values. 

The tip of the iceberg of their unique curriculum includes: Music, art, talent, generosity, fear, positive thinking, leadership, science, the beauty and complexity of Mother Nature, the Moon, alleviating suffering, good and evil. 

Dr. Joan Thomson Kretschmer, Artistic Director and founder of the Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York, attended Smith College, graduated from Barnard College, and received her M.A. and Ph.D. in musicology from Columbia University, where she was a Clarence Barker Fellow. A pianist and teacher, she has been a music critic for The New York Post and has written articles about music for The New York Times, Opera News, Stagebill, Keynote, The Greenwich Time, and other publications.

Book details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Joshua Tree Publishing; First edition (May 13, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 264 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1941049842
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1941049846
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.66 x 9 inches
    • Coming of Age Fantasy (Books)
    • Coming of Age Fiction (Books)
    • Paranormal & Urban Fantasy (Books)

The Fortunate Son: Top, Through the Eyes of Others

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The Fortunate Son: Top, Through the Eyes of Others

The Fortunate Son recounts the parallel lives of an army brat and a group of Vietnam veterans who intersect decades after the war. The veterans open up to me, the army brat, perhaps in a way they never have with their own families. Why? Through my father, Top, their First Sergeant, we have a common link. Over the years, we’ve gotten to know each other. They begin to understand the sacrifices of an army family. But, more importantly, they want me to understand how our family’s sacrifice and my father’s tour of duty in Vietnam with them, in the jungles, gave them confidence to believe they would make it home alive.

The Fortunate Son is not about a single battle or a single soldier’s tour of duty. You will meet us, learn something about us, and get a glimpse of our lives during the war years. You’ll find out why half a century after that tour of duty ended, we remain bound together. If you’ve ever been in the military or part of a military family, you’ll know that we all are bound together. For those who find the military to be foreign and unknown, our story may help you to understand why it binds so many together.

Fourteen of these soldiers have shared their stories. Their stories describe two life transitions—first from civilian teenagers or young men to combat grunts trying to stay alive in the jungle—and then back to stateside life. What happens between these transitions, as they slog through the jungle day by day paints their portrait of Top, my father. Now, I appreciate why they remain bound together half a century after their tour ended. Their stories are an unexpected gift that bestows new insight to me on my father. So, as you read and “listen” to these soldiers’ stories, both what they say and how they describe Top, you understand why I’ve learned that I am The Fortunate Son.

Author Timothy Trainer is an army brat, born into the Army in Japan and was a high school junior when his father retired from the Army. He did not arrive in the United States until he was past his fifth birthday. After arriving in the United States, the Army life meant living in various parts of the United States, on and off post, depending upon his father’s duty station.

For more information, visit:
TheFortunateSon.com
TimothyTrainer.com

Book details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Joshua Tree Publishing; 1st edition (April 1, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 146 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1941049737
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1941049730
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.37 x 9 inches
    • Military Families (Books)
    • Vietnam War Biographies (Books)
    • Vietnam War History (Books)

Junkbox Diaries: a day in the life of a heroin addict

Joshua Tree Publishing
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Junkbox Diaries: a day in the life of a heroin addict
Herb Stepherson

What is a junkbox? 
A person who is just so all consumed by addiction and drugs that they do not care about what goes into their body. They don’t shower, they barely eat, and the only sleep they get is a result from a high dose shot of some “high quality” heroin.

Herb Stepherson was born in Jonesboro, Georgia. He is the middle child of three boys. He is thirty-one years old and spent his youth like most young boys in central Georgia, riding bikes and playing sports—baseball in particular.

Since 2002, he has been involved in the fight for his life. He has been battling the nightmares of addiction for the past fourteen years. His first drug use was at fifteen, which was alcohol and from there quickly progressed to prescription pain medication and ultimately cocaine and heroin.

Heroin and cocaine took him to the absolute edges of humanity. He ended up homeless, eating food out of dumpsters, and strung out in some of the roughest neighborhoods in Chicago, in the dead of winter. The winter months are brutal in the Midwest. Herb slept in abandon buildings, airport terminals, and under bridges clinging to two basic needs: more heroin and to be numbed from the wreckage that this drug was creating in his life. All the while trying his best to keep hope alive that maybe one day he would finally be able to conquer this demon of addiction and recover.

Today, Herb celebrates life as a young man in recovery! He is an intervention coordinator, a budding young writer, a loving and active father to his five-year-old son, Lucas, and speaks on behalf of numerous agencies in his community hoping to shed some light on the true battles with heroin addiction.

So, why are you doing this, Herb? Why are you displaying all these horribly intimate pieces of your life for all the world to see? Don’t you know that the world looks down on the whole addiction thing? What will people think of you?

I am doing this because I hate the disease. I’m displaying all these things because someone has to. The silence, the taboo, and the shame have to end. Don’t hate the addict. Hate the disease. I’m writing all this to expose what this thing is doing to people. To our brothers, sisters, moms, and dads. I’m doing this because I want everyone to know that I have indeed suffered from this thing. I’m doing this because there is too much focus on the problem and not enough on the solution. I know that the world looks down on the whole addiction thing, which is another reason I am doing this.

For more information,
visit:
JunkboxDiaries.com
HerbStepherson.com

Dedication
This book is dedicated to many people. It is dedicated to anyone and everyone who has ever been touched by the nightmare the disease of addiction is. To all the mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, sons, and daughters who have lost someone to the disease of addiction. 
This book is dedicated to the addicts out there—clean or using. 
There is hope. 
This book is for anyone and everyone who thinks that addicts are lost causes. 
This book is for the purpose of silencing the taboo, shame, and guilt that still shrouds the disease and the addict. 
This book is for anyone who may be misinformed about the nature of addiction and the culture of recovery. 
The aim of this book is to paint an accurate and vivid picture of what a struggling addict faces on a daily basis. It is also the aim of this book to transform the way the world looks at addiction. 
IT IS A DISEASE. 
Addiction is not necessarily a death sentence, that lie is dead. 
WE DO RECOVER.

Book details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Joshua Tree Publishing; 1st edition (January 6, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 182 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1941049702
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1941049709
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.41 x 9 inches
  • Drug Dependency & Recovery (Books)
  • Christian Self Help
  • Memoirs (Books)

Unseen Arms Reaching Out

Joshua Tree Publishing
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Unseen Arms Reaching Out

Born without arms or legs and abandoned by her birth parents, Amy Brooks is an amazing story of faith, hope, and accomplishment. 

Brooks’ family friend, Karen remarked:

“The old saying goes, ‘when life hands you lemons, make lemonade.’ This does not apply to Amy; her story is more like ‘when life hands you lemons, make grape juice and sit back and watch the world ask how you did it.’ I am lucky I know Amy and her family for as far back as I can remember but not well enough to have known the intimate details shared in this story. Certain parts I cried, others I laughed until I cried. Amy takes us through the journey of her life and allows us to see a very private side of this humble, beautiful, intelligent angel sent from heaven to bless all who encounter her. I can honestly say from the bottom of my heart, this is one of the most heartwarming stories you will ever read.” 

Amy Brooks is a joyful, exuberant, faithful Christian whose vision is to glorify Jesus Christ by testifying to the unbeliever of His saving grace and by bringing encouragement to those who already know Him. Her writing honors her adoptive family and their unconditional love for her. 

Jeff Ferris began pursuing a biographical career in August 2006, at the age of forty-four. This is his third published book and second with Amy Brooks. Jeff is a contributing writer for Pathway Christian Newspaper, a print publication in Toledo, Ohio that can also be read online at pathwaycn.com.

For more information, visit AmyBrooks.org

Book details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Joshua Tree Publishing; 1st edition (December 8, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 264 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1941049389
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1941049389
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.66 x 9 inches
    • Biographies of People with Disabilities (Books)
    • Christian Personal Growth
    • Memoirs (Books)

Unseen Arms

Joshua Tree Publishing
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Unseen Arms

Can you imagine being born without arms or legs? What would be the quality of your life? How would you cope? What would your attitude or personality be like? How about the depth of your humor, the level of your faith, or your compassion for others?

Meet the lovely Miss Amy Brooks.

Amy was born with an extremely rare condition called Tetraphocomelia—having no arms or legs. She was then left abandoned at the hospital by her birth parents where the staff was asked if they could “put her in a room and not feed her.”

In her inspiring, humorous, and uplifting autobiography, Amy takes you on an amazing journey as she shares her life story and her enviable faith. All throughout, she will make you laugh. She will also make you cry a little. Most importantly, Amy will challenge and inspire you in a way that promises to change your life forever!

Amy Brooks is a joyful, exuberant, and faithful Christian whose vision is to glorify Jesus Christ by testifying to the unbeliever of His saving grace and by bringing encouragement to those who already know Him. Her writing honors her adoptive family and their unconditional love for her.

Jeff Ferris has more than fifty published articles with various publications and has written a book on evangelism. He is a contributing writer for Pathway Christian Newspaper in Toledo, Ohio where he resides with his wife, Ginny, and their three adult children, sons-in-law, and two grandchildren.

Excerpt from the Graduation Speech in Unseen Arms

“Ninety percent of life is showing up”

Feel free to jot that down in case you want to use it sometime. I really won’t mind. It isn’t my saying, anyhow; actor Woody Allen coined it.

You see, commitment and dependability go a long, long way. You might be surprised at what you can learn or accomplish if you simply show up and do what’s expected of you.

To do that, you may have to discover better ways to do things, as I have had to do. Sometimes you have to invent them. That’s been the story of my life, of which I am now sharing a portion with you.

I had to figure out how to do my schoolwork ~ everything from opening my book bag to developing good penmanship.

For me, this was all part of showing up besides just being in class.

At home, for me “showing up” meant many things, including sneezing a lot when dusting with a Swiffer in my mouth. Or having to apply a rear naked choke hold to use a shop vac. Don’t worry: that isn’t as bad as it might sound. It’s actually a legitimate martial arts maneuver.

And then comes the extremely essential tasks of life such as sending text messages. I have a friend in Ohio who has two perfectly good texting thumbs. He insists that I am merely faking it about not having hands because he claims that I text faster than he does. Though I sometimes use my arm for that ~ like I do on my computer keyboard ~ I mostly text with my bare mouth because I discovered that’s what works best for me.

When I do so, I guess you could say that each message I send is sealed with a kiss. Consider it a bonus. But your bonus to yourself and to others is to show up.

Book details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Joshua Tree Publishing; 1st edition (December 8, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 212 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1941049125
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1941049129
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.53 x 9 inches
    • Biographies of People with Disabilities (Books)
    • Christian Personal Growth
    • Memoirs (Books)
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