Blazing in Blue

Same Kind of Different as Me

Rebuilding What Had Been Destroyed

Rebuilding What Had Been Destroyed focuses on how to rebuild your life and restore good human values lost from living through the Sudanese Civil War. It is also written as a testament to what the Southern Sudanese people underwent and how to safeguard oneself when your immediate environment becomes unjust, discriminatory, and corrupt. The book is designed to correct the erroneous behavioral and mental patterns that many Southern Sudanese have had to accommodate or tolerate during five decades of civil war.

Mariak Chuor, the author, is one of the lost boys from Sudan, a group of young boys and girls who were forced out by civil war in their homeland at a young age. The Sudan civil war has raged between the Arab Muslim of the north and the predominantly Christian in the south since his birth. He was born in a small village called Maper, (Twic Mayardit County), Warrap State in South Sudan in 1984. From being born into poverty in Southern Sudan and choosing to be a Christian, he learned early that it takes hard work, faith, hope, self-motivation, a positive attitude, purpose, dedication, commitment, patient, passion, self-confidence, self-control, consistency, and self-discipline to be successful in life. By 1991, Arab militias attacked his village and burned his village. They killed those who were unwilling to be their slaves. The young girls were sold into domestic service. They young boys were either forced to fight or be slaves. As result, Mariak Chuor was separated from his parents when he was eight years old and was forced to join the Sudanese People Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M) when he was nine years old. By 1998, he came to Kakuma Refugee Camp, (Kenya) and from Kenya to USA as a refugee. He settled in Richmond, Virginia in December 19, 2000. He is now living in Garner, North Carolina and received his degree from ECPI in computer electrical engineering.

Mariak Chuor was featuring in the 2002 documentary, The Lost Boys Film , by Megan Mylan. Now he is telling his experiences as a Lost Boy in a book, Rebuilding What Had Been Destroyed, which chronicles his experiences and, most importantly, details his vision of the future. Rebuilding What Had Been Destroyed  focuses on building the core values of respect, positive attitude, encouragement, empowerment, and inspiration when one lives in a broken world.

The Ultimate Book Club Experience

CALLING ALL BOOK CLUBS, AVID READERS, AUTHORS & COMMUNITY to Join Tanisha Webb, president of the KC Girlfriends Book Club and creator of the first magazine solely for book clubs called, Book Club 101 for conversation and book signing of her the new release The Ultimate Book Club Experience: How to Create & Maintain a Successful Book Club

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Books will available for sale at event

About Book:
The Ultimate Book Club Experience: How to Create & Maintain a Successful Book Club is the first complete book club resource guide created to help take the 'guess work' out of creating and maintaining a book club. The Ultimate Book Club Experience is designed to prepare future book club presidents as they go through the process of creating a book club including: how to recruit members; how to prepare for the first meet & greet; how to create bylaws; how to create an internet presence and maintain a book club.

About Author:
TaNisha Webb is the president of the KC Girlfriends Book Club, which is a book club based in the Kansas City, MO metro area. TaNisha helped rebuild the KC Girlfriends Book Club after the book club fell to only two members. Since then the book club has been thriving and has become a great asset to the Kansas City community by sponsoring book signings, literary events and community service. In 2008 and 2010, the KC Girlfriends Book Club was recognized for their community service efforts by receiving the National Book Club Conference Community Service Award. TaNisha has also moderated the "Maximizing Your Book Club Experience" panel discussion for the past three years at the Natinal Book Club Conference in Atlanta, GA. In 2009, TaNisha co-founded The Black Book Club Experience Social Network which helps African American book club presidents from all over the country connect and support one another as they maintain strong book clubs. In 2010, TaNisha decided to push forward with supporting book clubs from around the country by assisting individuals as they move forward to create their own book clubs, along with supporting established book clubs efforts in keeping their group going strong by creating The Ultimate Book Club Experience resource website. In late 2010, TaNisha founded Book Club 101 University, which offers quarterly eCourses, vlogs, resources and also the only online conference for book clubs called, Book Club University Online Conference. In 2012, TaNisha created the first magazine solely for book clubs called, Book Club 101 Magazine.

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June's Reading Selection

Same Kind of Different As Me

Ron Hall and Denver Moore

Meet Denver, a man raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana in the 1960s; a man who escaped, hopping a train to wander, homeless, for eighteen years on the streets of Dallas, Texas. No longer a slave, Denver's life was still hopeless-until God moved. First came a godly woman who prayed, listened, and obeyed. And then came her husband, Ron, an international arts dealer at home in a world of Armani-suited millionaires. And then they all came together.

But slavery takes many forms. Deborah discovers that she has cancer. In the face of possible death, she charges her husband to rescue Denver. Who will be saved, and who will be lost? What is the future for these unlikely three? What is God doing?

Same Kind of Different As Me is the emotional tale of their story: a telling of pain and laughter, doubt and tears, dug out between the bondages of this earth and the free possibility of heaven. No reader or listener will ever forget it

May's book selection

Unspoken Lies

Darrien Lee

Cherise McKenzie, an Atlanta crime scene investigator, and her husband, Detective Mason McKenzie, have experienced some turbulent ups and downs in their marriage over the years. With demanding careers and two children, the McKenzies find themselves spending more time apart than together, which allows infidelity with a trusted loved one to darken their doorstep.

It is only through a series of near tragic events and a lot of prayer that the young couple is able to rebuild their lives and rekindle the love they once shared. Everything is going great for the McKenzies, and their careers now compliment their lives instead of complicating it. Mason and Cherise are determined to keep family first in their lives; however, their devotion will be tested once again when tragedy strikes, leaving Cherise to make a decision that could not only cost her marriage, but the one person she loves more than life itself.



Great April Meeting

The Diner made for a perfect meeting spot as we enjoyed each other's take on Rochelle Alers's Pleasure Seekers!

Look at those Shining Blue Diamonds!

Book of the Month

Pleasure Seekers

From national bestselling author Rochelle Alers comes a sizzling, sensuous story of three diverse thirty-something women whose lives are forever changed when they are invited to join the exclusive world of the Pleasure Seekers.ILENE is a captivatingly beautiful supermodel, FAYE is an award-winning advertising executive and ALANA is a brilliant editor for today's hottest fashion magazine. Now all three women are caught in the whirlwind of the super rich and famous. They find themselves the objects of the desires of every man--from movie stars, politicians, CEOs and rock stars to European royalty--men for whom there are no limits, nothing is too expensive, nothing is forbidden.From Manhattan to Paris to Southampton, their new worlds are a torrent of sensual delights and unlimited luxuries. But ultimately they realize that there's only one thing more satisfying than money and power...love.