“I wasn’t even going to tell this story, but Violet had to go and write a whole book about all of us before getting herself killed.”Ten years ago, Jerry came to New York City to break into show business. Today, his career is stalled, his ex-fiancé is a TV star, and he survives by bartending in Manhattan’s high-end cocktail lounges. Stunned by loss and regret, he is sleepwalking through a hung-over life when he discovers Violet’s book about when they were young, hop...

Does the following dedication from this book apply to you? “I dedicate this book to you the reader – especially if you have longed for better fellowship but have not been able to find it. May Jesus use this book and work in your life to bring you to wonderful friendships of true heart-to-heart fellowship!” If this dedication does indeed apply to you, then may Jesus truly use this book in wonderful ways in your life! You may wonder how Jesus could use this book in your life in such wonderfu...

Four in One contains within it four published books written by Scott and Bonna Brooks. These four individual books work together in this Four in One book as a single unit with some concepts more fully explained in some of the books than in others. Book 1: Twos and Threes Book 2: Would you like to see an Amazing Miracle? Book 3: Deeper Friendships Book 4: At His Feet Four in One is written from a relational view of the Christian life. As such, it is a wonderful book toward a more relational...

Broadly speaking, the traditionally conceptualized mid-twentieth-century Civil Rights Movement and the newer #BlackLivesMatter Movement possess some similar qualities. They both represent dynamic, complex moments of possibility and progress. They also share mass-based movement activities, policy/legislative advocacy, grassroots organizing, and targeted media campaigns. Innovation, growth, and dissension—core aspects of movement work—mark them both. Crucially, these moments also engender ag...

My first book, A Soul Call from Prison: How Yoga and Taoism Cured My Crises with Cocaine and Christianity, covered how I survived 23 years in federal prison using various forms of meditation to cope with the experience. There, I quoted passages from an obscure book that provided me with many answers I had been seeking. This scripture revealed God in a way I could understand. The words were like a ringing bell rousing me from a deep sleep. It confronted and conquered, the contradictions and...

This book focuses on the personal relationship between a convict and his mind, body, and spirit. It teaches inmates how to cope with the stress incarceration places on the individual. Following the advice in my other books, the newly convicted should be able to minimize the threat from other inmates and never make unintentional mistakes that could ignite violence, but this book explains how to decrease the threat from the time itself: the idle hours, the loneliness, the separation from lov...

What does it take to survive 322 months in federal prison? I had to bend over, grab my ankles, close my eyes, and breathe through the pain. That's right!....I practiced yoga. Part humorous memoir, part spiritual self help book, this work highlights the mistakes I made which led to half a life spent behind the razor wire. It also shows how yoga and meditation helped me survive the experience with my sanity in tact and allowed me now to look back on the experience with almost as much...

Federal Prison Etiquette teaches white collar criminals and other first-time offenders how to stay safe and avoid unintended mistakes that could lead to friction in federal prison. It explains the lingo and details all the unwritten rules that govern life in a correctional institution. Most importantly, it shows how to properly interact with cellies, fellow inmates, different races, cars, and gangs, as well as the correct way to approach staff. This book covers the second part in ...

The New Fish Companion Series: Book I. Each installment provides information to help the newly convicted adjust to federal prison. This edition focuses solely on what occurs post-conviction through the first, three-months in custody. Take any writing course, and the first thing they tell you is to write about what you know. That adage made this series inevitable. After spending twenty-three years in custody, I know more than most people selling their expertise to the recently conv...

In the Western imagination, the Middle Eastern harem was a place of sex, debauchery, slavery, miscegenation, power, riches, and sheer abandon. But for the women and children who actually inhabited this realm of the imperial palace, the reality was vastly different. In this collection of translated memoirs, three women who lived in the Ottoman imperial harem in Istanbul between 1876 and 1924 offer a fascinating glimpse "behind the veil" into the lives of Muslim palace women of the late nine...

I have been a teacher for my entire career, educating surgical students and caregivers around the globe. Nothing makes me happier than to teach, sharing what I know, and helping to make the world a better place. Your success is nothing less than my greatest honor.--Dr. Jeffery Scott Brooks

Are the day-to-day pressures of your business preventing your organization from reaching its full potential?If you are spending the bulk of your time and energy streamlining your operations - squeezing more output from your resources, shaving costs, or pressing for speed – you are risking your organization’s future. Today’s top leaders must balance their daily operations with future-oriented explorations so that their organizations can respond and adapt to any challenges in today’s...