Grace Street is about children growing up in a Lebanese neighborhood in Michigan City, Indiana, during the 1950s. Children in that era were safe to walk city streets and explore parks and wooded areas. Racial prejudice was rampant, and most families had stay-at-home mothers. The South Shore Railroad was in its heyday and Washington Park was a popular recreation area. With a healthy dose of humor tempered with a pinch of pathos and a sprinkling of irony, Grace Street touches on old-world beliefs and customs while telling the story of siblings and cousins who grew up in a sometimes confusing ethnic environment. This close-knit family had a few secrets, including an alcoholic uncle and a grandmother who was nearly deported, but the parents rarely spoke of these matters, especially to the children.

When a diagnosis of cancer upends her sister's life, the family has to map the way forward through the unknown. In the end, it's a path they seem to know by heart.

Traveling on Grace Street The most important lesson I have learned in the fifty years I have spent working toward the building of a better world is that the true work of social transformation starts within. It begins inside your own heart and mind. Thus, to truly revolutionize our society, we must first revolutionize ourselves. It's been a long journey, all the way from stepping off a cotton farm in Alabama to the epicenter of the struggle for civil rights in America. Some days when I go to my office in the early morning and look out over the great monuments beyond the Capitol, I think, How could this be? How could a poor boy from Alabama have lived such a life? I tell you, it has been the grace of God. Jeff Blake, a brother from Alabama, has written the story of grace in his own journey, and I am pleased to commend his Traveling on Grace Street to you. He too has been in the struggle. He too has kept his eye on the prize. John Lewis United States Congressman Atlanta, Georgia

Abandon, denial, surrender... Victor tried to stay away-he couldn't. He tried to start a new chapter, only to waste time. He did his best to keep his demons at bay, but it proved to be an impossible task. Now, Mr. Black is back to take what's his and face-off with the one player who beat him at his own game. Only this time he aims to win, even if his methods mean risking everything-including his job, reputation and what little of his sanity remains. Having moved past the emotional heartbreak and physical torture that Mr. Black put her through, Elsa's life is back on track. With a new love in her life and her future secure, she's horrified and angry when he reappears, threatening his wrath if she doesn't play his twisted game again. But despite being haunted by his dark, untold secrets, she's a different woman now-stronger than before and far more resilient. And more importantly, determined to make her own rules. This time around, both players are on equal ground. They will play with such passion and ferocity that their very existence is threatened, because in their eyes, there can be only one winner and there is no conceding when your mental and physical freedom is at stake. Warning: this is not a fairy tale love story. This is a story about facing the darkness within. The man written within the pages of this book is obsessive, possessive and broken, and he gets off on mind fucking his lovers. He's an anti-hero with an abusive past who often times pushes too hard in his quest to win his own sick game. The fainthearted, closed-minded and squeamish need not read any further. Contains erotic elements, total power exchange, and descriptions that may elicit discomfort or trigger past memories of abuse. Intended for mature readers aged 18+

This book was based on the true story of a woman who found her way to life on the streets, through drugs and alcohol, and back again, transformed by the love of God and an active program of recovery. This is one womans story of redemption in which she overcomes the addictions of her heart by placing her trust, future, and hope faithfully in Jesus Christ. From lost to saved, from legalistic acts of worship to a loving relationship and trust in the Lord, true repentance and true forgiveness of her own personal sins led her out of the destructive and broken life of drugs, homelessness, love in all the wrong places. Out of the darkness of this world she finds light in the arms of Gods grace and mercy. Sharing her testimony in these chapters, she seeks to offer faith and truth as well as hope for a life lived day by day not perfectly but perfectly saved by a God who Is, Was, and always will Be exactly what all of our hearts most crave. Ashley Young

Power. As a young boy, Angel Huertas witnessed an intruder come in through the window and attack his sister and torment his mother and grandmother. He grew up poor. He was often bullied in his neighborhood. But there was something about him something everyone recognized something that made him special. He learned fast how to take charge on the streets of Brooklyn. He learned what power was. How to wield it. He was respected on those streets. Feared. Known.Playboy Angel. He rose from the streets of The Southside to rule over an empire until he was betrayed and shot. Twice, he died. Twice, he was returned to life. This is the story of a boy who becomes a man; of the rise to street power and the fall. And the grace of God. This is the story of a boy who becomes a man not when he rules the streets, but when he learns what real power means.