2015 IPPY AWARD | SILVER MEDAL | ADULT NON-FICTION2015 eLIT AWARD | SILVER MEDAL | SELF HELPWhat if finding love and purpose only requires we become more of who we are — would we know how?Envision a life where we no longer exhaust ourselves trying to fit in or change one another; where relationships are more about otherness than sameness; where the search for common ground and shared interests doesn't hold us back or limit our potential. Today's campfire for the long conversation about life, love and purpose is lighting up cyberspace and the global community. No longer can we pretend there is one right way to be in this world. Spiritual, religious and cultural beliefs may influence our choices — yet, each of us has the innate power to shape our life and form relationships through intention and volition.Guided by ancient and contemporary thought leaders, we discover a new alchemy of science, psychology and spirituality. Beyond theory, our capacity to co-create our life has become scientific fact — revolutionizing and reframing all we thought we knew about freewill.This book will take you to places far beyond the ordinary and offer you the power, courage and audacity to stand in your own otherness and form meaningful, lasting relationships. Turn the page — invite new energy and insight — as you begin to realize the potency of becoming more of who you are!

The Otherness Factor: Co-creating and Sustaining Intentional Relationships

Self-Help

Hall, Kathleen

Hardegree, Bonner

Personal Transformation

Collaborative Options

Award-winning author of The Otherness Factor takes us to Detroit during the turbulence of the Sixties.Detroit––July 25, 1967, two days after Detroit cops raid a blind pig (speakeasy) inciting the biggest race riot in American history, Maggie Soulier wakes to a deejay's cry for 'anyone left in the city' to hustle pop to police sweltering at highway checkpoints leading into the firestorm. Maggie's not a hippie chick looking for a cause, she's the daughter of notorious French Canadian secessionist radicals who disappeared without a trace. A grad student on a visa, Maggie covers absences at a pizzeria to support her stateside civil rights work. Delivering soft drinks to keep armed men from having a meltdown sounded simple. That was before she met Sam Tervo on the wrong side of a gun––before she offered him a Coke, before shared laughter ricocheted against shrieking sirens and a darkening sky.Sam, a fierce human rights advocate, thinks he's being targeted by mafia types who want something; the question is what. More and more he relies on his friend Clyde Webster, a black civil rights leader and Maggie's co-worker, to guide him through this underworld. Cold sober in the ash, soot and rubble, Clyde pulls together The Detroit Eights: eight working-poor, part-time activists, to curb white flight and integrate the burbs. Maggie and Sam, the token whites.With the intrigue, corruption, brutality and bigotry, Maggie, Sam, Clyde and 'The Eights' experience the love, laughter, irony and self-reflection of blacks and whites redefining friendship and transforming the world with pocket change.

If the Moon Had Willow Trees (Detroit Eight Series)

Literature & Fiction

United States

Two years after the biggest race riot in American history, Detroit was fast becoming one of the blackest cities in the nation. The Detroit Eights knew it was time for their token whites, Maggie and Sam Tervo, to 'move behind enemy lines' and infiltrate the burbs.On the day the Tervos pulled their U-Haul over a gravel driveway off Six Mile Road, Maggie had the sensation they’d stumbled upon a town wiped out by a nuclear accident. Livonia. The stillness seemed to take oxygen out of the air.Behind picket fences, beneath a sheath of quiet civility, Maggie and Sam begin to uncover the sinister underbelly—violence, corruption, oppression and racial hysteria. Power brokers crop up everywhere. They wear suits, neatly pressed aprons, hold respectable jobs, host fundraisers and move unseen in polite society. Amid the freshly painted houses and carefully groomed lawns, the Tervos find themselves embroiled in the apartheid of fear and the high-stakes dismantling of Detroit. Racism might have been the match, but the fire looks more like greed as mysteries unwind. The mafia’s calling card is everywhere. The cops, neighbors and Women’s League of Livonia are less than welcoming. What about the Eights? Maggie’s missing French-Canadian radical, activist parents, or their patron Jacques? Where do they fall within the tremor of underground forces between darkness and light?

Livonia | The Whitest City (Detroit Eight Series)

When Maggie Tervo decided to launch her ancestral venture, she dropped any pretense of being the dutiful housewife. Unleashing new-found feminist sensibilities, Maggie estimated her existential search for meaning, power, activism—and her missing parents—was a four-hour drive to Canada and a few days digging through public records. Her estimate didn’t contemplate murder, mayhem and high-wire acts.As a member of The Detroit Eight, one of the few grassroot civil rights groups to survive the Sixties, Maggie was finally ready to make her mark as an activist. She was less sure about Oz—the legendary, almost phantom, global human rights initiative. Without joining or declining, Maggie had subjugated her power to Oz for six years because her parents had once supported their work; because her husband and three of The Eights were members.Because there’s no Richter Scale for certain kinds of quakes, no one knew how Maggie’s venture would tilt scales, threaten the crime syndicate, or upend the balance of power.

One Wingbeat Away (Detroit Eight Series)

Literary

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The Otherness Factor: Co-creating and Sustaining Intentional Relationships

If the Moon Had Willow Trees (Detroit Eight Series)

Livonia | The Whitest City (Detroit Eight Series)

One Wingbeat Away (Detroit Eight Series)