Biography

by Blessed One

## **📖 Synopsis** In *How I Found My Joy and Peace in Jesus Christ*, **Frank Eugene Dukes Jr** shares a deeply personal journey from brokenness to restoration. When life’s weight became unbearable and hope seemed lost, Frank experienced **Spencst** — a Spirit Encounter that marked the turning point of his faith. Through this divine moment, he discovered the healing presence of Jesus, who led him out of depression, isolation, and confusion, and into joy, clarity, and purpose. Blending testimony, reflection, and spiritual insight, this book invites readers to witness how God transforms pain into peace and despair into destiny. Frank’s story reminds us that no matter how dark the valley, Christ’s light still reaches the heart willing to receive Him. *How I Found My Joy and Peace in Jesus Christ* is more than a memoir — it’s a call to rediscover the power of grace, the beauty of surrender, and the peace that only Jesus can give.

by Don Wilbert

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by Sarah Bantu

Forget the green beer. Forget the plastic shamrocks. Forget the myths of little green creatures and fairy tales. Long before he became a legend, he was just Patricius an arrogant, wealthy sixteen year old Roman British boy who cared about nothing but his own comfort. But when brutal Irish raiders tear through his home, his world is violently shattered. Dragged across the sea in chains, Patricius is sold into slavery, stripped of his name, and left to survive the freezing winters of a wild, pagan land.\ Forced to herd sheep on a desolate mountain, the terrified boy must either break under the cruelty of his captors or forge himself into something unbreakable.\ *The Confessio* is the raw, cinematic, untold true story of Saint Patrick. From a daring, near-impossible two-hundred-mile escape to a powerful, miraculous return to the very land that enslaved him, this is an epic tale of survival, grit, and a faith that would forever transform a nation.

by Sarah Bantu

**About the Story** What if the key to your survival was locked inside a secret, ancient bloodline?\ Spun from a fascinating true piece of Russian history and set against the brutal, breathtaking backdrop of the frozen north, *Daughter of the Falcon* blends gripping suspense with an unforgettable romance.\ For centuries, deep within the endless, snow covered forests, an elite and hidden clan of warriors lived by their own laws. They did not just survive the winter they ruled it, training lethal military falcons to hunt, fight, and protect secrets hidden from the world. Today, that fierce bloodline legacy is alive, but the isolation of the frozen north is cracking. A dangerous, unpredictable threat is closing in, forcing old secrets into the light and testing the loyalty of a clan that has never bowed to anyone.\ Filled with high stakes twists, deep betrayal, and a slow burn love story that burns hot against the bitter ice, this fiction novel proves that some family histories can never stay buried. Step into a harsh, beautiful world where danger hides in every shadow, trust is a luxury, and you never know what's going to happen next. Discover what happens when the frost bites deep, and the falcon finally takes flight.

by Sarah Bantu

Forget the green beer. Forget the plastic shamrocks. Forget the myths of little green creatures and fairy tales.\ Long before he became a legend, he was just Patricius an arrogant, wealthy sixteen year old Roman British boy who cared about nothing but his own comfort. But when brutal Irish raiders tear through his home, his world is violently shattered. Dragged across the sea in chains, Patricius is sold into slavery, stripped of his name, and left to survive the freezing winters of a wild, pagan land.\ Forced to herd sheep on a desolate mountain, the terrified boy must either break under the cruelty of his captors or forge himself into something unbreakable.\ *The Confessio* is the raw, cinematic, untold true story of Saint Patrick. From a daring, near-impossible two hundred mile escape to a powerful, miraculous return to the very land that enslaved him, this is an epic tale of survival, grit, and a faith that would forever transform a nation.

by Sarah Bantu

**A breathtaking true story of unimaginable loss, survival, and the fierce resilience of a child's heart.** **In the gritty, contrasting streets of post-Soviet St. Petersburg, nine-year-old girl lived as a "Little Shadow" always running to keep pace with her older brother and undisputed hero, Yuri. To her, the city was a sun-drenched playground of fortresses and boundless adventure.** **Until the fateful morning a catastrophic explosion shattered her world in a single second.** **Left holding nothing but Yuri’s scuffed rubber shoe, she was thrust into a downward spiral of adult tragedy. As grief mutated into fatal addiction and suicide, she lost both of her parents, survived the cold cruelty of an abusive relative, and was violently torn away from her sister by state authorities. Stranded in a sterile Russian orphanage, she had to build a calloused armor just to survive the freezing institutional gray.** **But from clouds of flour in the kitchen to the hot spotlights of the orphanage stage, her spirit refused to bleed out. Clutching her brother's shoe beneath her iron cot, she used her memories as a weapon against the dark.** **UNBROKEN is a profoundly moving, cinematic memoir of a young girl’s journey through the deepest shadows of trauma to the brilliant, twinkling Christmas lights of a new beginning in America. It is a raw, heart wrenching testament to the unbreakable bond of siblings, the cost of survival, and the beautiful, enduring light that can never be extinguished.**

by Chasity Phillips

Growing up eleven years behind her big sister Tonya on a mountain in rural Northwest Alabama, Chasity Phillips spent her childhood living in the wake of someone larger than life. Tonya was the kind of woman who fought a claw machine to win a stuffed bear for her baby sister in a hospital room, who let a seven-year-old ride shotgun in her Ford Ranger through the Alabama evenings, and who stayed up through the long, dark nights so a grieving child could finally sleep. She was fierce, funny, and stubbornly alive — and to Chasity, she was the safest place in the world. But life on the mountain was never without its storms. Tonya's teenage pregnancy brought fear and anger crashing through the family in the summer of 1996, followed by a dangerously complicated birth that left her newborn son Ronnie fighting through withdrawals in the dead of winter. Through it all, the family bent but never broke, planting roots deeper into the same hillside soil — two siblings building side-by-side homes on land their father secured for them, raising a wild, beloved army of cousins, answering fire calls for their neighbors, and holding each other through the losses that came without warning. As the years passed, the bond between the sisters only deepened. Chasity grew from the little girl hiding behind Tonya's shirt into a young woman who still reached instinctively for her sister whenever the ground shifted. Through car wrecks, grief, and the ordinary beautiful chaos of mountain life, Tonya remained the constant — the one who always showed up, always made room, and always kept the light on. Then, in October of 2025, the mountain went quiet in a way it never had before. Headlamp in the Dark is Chasity's tribute to the woman who shaped her — a raw, tender memoir about sisterhood, sudden loss, and the impossible work of learning to stand in the open when the person who always sheltered you is gone.

by ANDRE WILLIS Sr

This story is about being a square and faced with survival and the hard streets living in Atlanta Ga.