Many stories of people with unfortunate beginnings tell of how they escaped their circumstances - AND NEVER GO BACK. They go on to their success and leave their past behind - or buried.

Not Jillian Haslam. Her childhood in India after the end of British colonization is a modern-day Dickensian horror. But she climbed from the slums of Calcutta to the top of her success then turned back to her roots to support others.

Winner of the prestigious Mother Teresa International Memorial Award, she has embraced her purpose to become an important driver of global action for the most urgent needs of the underserved in India and the UK, especially during the pandemic.

Watch The Miss Singh interview with Jillian Haslam

Watch interview with World Affairs Council of America

Claire is a successful Southern California woman looking for her birth mother in Ireland, who in the 60s fell victim to the cruelty and arrogance of the Catholic Church's disregard for women caught in an unwanted pregnancy.

Wit, Snark, and Light in the Dark by Deborah Smith Parker is a compelling and convincing account of the humor and seriousness within the human condition.

Available June 28, 2022

Bigger Better Braver is a proven, step-by-step guide for uncovering and putting into action the vision we each have in our hearts to live the life we are meant to lead. Provided with clarity and enhanced with inspirational client and personal stories, it shows readers how to get unstuck from old ways of behaving and take bold steps toward something new and larger in their lives.

Foreword Reviews Winner. Chanticleer 1st Place and Finalist. International Book Awards Winner and Finalist.

Art for All Ages combines quality ”how-to” art instruction with self-discovery using fun, user-friendly art skills for individuals or groups.

Eric Hoffer Award winner 2020. Chanticleer Finalist 2020.

In the early 1960s, when land developers planned to dredge, bulldoze, and build on Upper Newport Bay, two Newport Beach residents objected. Their simple objection grew to become one of the most important ecological battles in California, with friends, neighbors, newspapers, the government, and the courts all taking sides. This is the story of Frank and Frances Robinson's life-changing journey, which ultimately impacted the history and ecology of Southern California.

“A thoughtful, firsthand examination of Islam’s peaceful mainstream.”
After 9/11, the world became more fearful, and acts of terrorism were prominent in the news cycles and Islamophobia became a political tool. In Why Do They Hate Us?, author Steve Slocum takes the spotlight off the extremists and instead exposes the heart of the everyday Muslim through Christian outreach.

How did Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838 - 1927) become the first woman invited to speak to the United State Congress, and then the first female to run for President. What made Tennessee Celeste Claflin (1845 - 1923) so beguiling that the richest man in America, Cornelius Vanderbilt, fell completely in love with her?

Volume 2 of The Victoria Woodhull Saga brings Victorian America and the struggle of women to life. The facts amaze, audacity engages, lascivious adventures entertain, and the abuses of power render all of it Scandalous!

Coming in 2020