Books published by publisher Gravitas Publications Incorporated

Twelve stories of wayward travelers. Twelve stamps on the passport of the soul. Walter struggles to see past his disfigurement, but a trip to Thailand and a mysterious woman may challenge his quest for perfection. Married to a workaholic, Leslie is accustomed to solitude until her overbearing Indian mother-in-law turns her kitchen into a verbal battlefield. A woman looks for the perfect souvenir in the Turkish Bazaar and instead finds a passionate love affair. From ice storms in Maine to swimming pools in Vera Cruz, errant souls must grapple with past baggage to forge profound connections and a new sense of direction. BONDS OF LOVE & BLOOD is a poignant collection of prize-winning stories featuring life’s unexpected arrivals and departures. If you like intimate accounts of lives at the crossroads, vibrant portrayals of global locales, and elegantly-crafted prose, then you’ll love Marylee MacDonald’s compelling tales of travel. Buy BONDS OF LOVE & BLOOD to embark on a heart-wrenching journey of love, loss, and redemption today!

Judy Frankamp discovered that being raised in a "religious" home was not enough. She takes us into specific issues that have bothered many Christians, but they could not quite get a handle on them. Not to worry, Frankamp knows how to put them into words. With an engaging, "homey style", the author explains how she learned that her favorite "Christian" talk show host was really pushing the New Age. She puts into plain language what is wrong with Harry Potter. She describes her confrontation with liberal pastors who didn't care if their Bible had removed or changed the words of God. They just didn't want to make waves. On several occasions, she writes from the point of view of Satan and his devils, scheming how to derail Christians. There are some things, like the Harry Potter craze, that we just "know" aren't right, but can't explain them. After you read Frankamp's story, you will know how. Includes two chapters explaining: "What's Wrong With Harry Potter?"

Thirteen and crippled, Eli Rawlins lives in the Indian War years of 1881 Colorado, the unsettled times between the Battle Of Little Big Horn and Wounded Knee. His father scorns him because he cannot carry his weight in labor on their meager cattle ranch. He is also the target of vicious neighborhood boys who relentlessly target him. After a stretch of humiliating incidents which only furthers to prove he is less than his cruel peers, he contemplates suicide, but decides to wait just one more day to see if his luck changes.When a hunt for a legendary, man-eating grizzly fails, Fate leads Eli to meet an old trapper. He tells Eli that he is spiritually chosen and soon to meet his destiny: hunting down a living Sioux spirit which dwells on a dangerous peak in a hidden valley which may not even exist.Try or die, Eli steals his father’s prized racehorse to embark on this perilous odyssey even though he knows next to nothing of tracking, hunting, riding or surviving in the untamed Rocky Mountains. During his impossible journey, Eli encounters more adventure than he’d ever dreamed and learns that independence comes with a high price.

In the third novel of The Murder for Lunch series, Annie and Lara find their quaint little hometown of Blue Ridge is anything but serene and uneventful. The United States Air Force lost a thermonuclear bomb in 1958 when a B-47 Stratojet bomber carrying a hydrogen bomb on a night training flight collided with an F-86 Saber Jet fighter at 36,000 feet. The weapon was purported to have been jettisoned in the sound off Tybee Island, Georgia, but was never recovered. Inadvertently, this relic of the Cold War brings 21st century international intrigue to Southwestern Virginia. When Annie is given the opportunity to preview items in an estate sale, she discovers the lifeless body of a real estate agent and is arrested for murder. Years before, Special Agents Steve Taylor and Clayton Haskins had been sent to the area to investigate rumors about the missing nuclear bomb – though Steve Taylor has been dead for a year, what he uncovered twenty years previously is the key to the mystery. The CIA’s black-ops director and a field team of special operatives are dispatched to Blue Ridge as the suspense plays out. Annie is shunned by the townsfolk as the body count escalates and Lara, Isaac, Simon and Crocker scramble to find the real murderer and solve an ancient mystery that could change history forever. With her life hanging in the balance Annie needs to know WHERE IS DEAD?Barbara Fleenor Turner lives in a small town in the Appalachian Mountains of southwestern Virginia and this newest edition of The Murder for Lunch mysteries is set exclusively in this area. Many of the landmarks will be familiar to people who live there but none of them will lead to an actual place – though there is a real town named Blue Ridge, Virginia, the community in this novel is completely fictional. As the series has developed, friends and co-workers have asked to be named in the books – two co-worker’s names are used as fictionalized characters in WHERE IS DEAD? Annie’s deceased ex-husband, Steve Taylor, has been an enigma (is he dead or faking his death), but in WHERE IS DEAD? the reader will follow Special Agent Steve Taylor on a post-Cold War mission that impacts Annie and Lara and their present-day community of Blue Ridge.

Inspiring Youth To Build Self Confidence! WCIU says of Pull Your Pants Up, "Amazing! Absolutely Amazing!" Do you know a teen unsure of the steps to take to improve his life? Pull Your Pants Up walks teen boys step by step through the core principles of adulthood. This self help book will benefit the young man who may not be fully aware of the steps needed in planning a good life. It will be equally beneficial to the young adult who has wandered away from a life of good judgments. Discover: - How to dream and obtain the life you want! - How to set goals and achieve them! - How self esteem is important to your success! - And much more! Pull Your Pants Up is a simply written, easy-to-understand inspirational self-help book for teen boys and young adults. "This book you are holding in your hand is designed to be one piece of the lifelong process/puzzle called "Self Improvement.' - Malik Yoba (excerpt from Foreword) Purchase your copy and start improving your life today!

The Focus On Elementary Geology Student Textbook introduces young students to the scientific discipline of geology. Students will explore the history of geology; tools used by geologists; rocks, minerals, and soil; the layers that make up Earth; volcanoes and earthquakes; the atmosphere; the hydrosphere; the biosphere; the magnetosphere; how the different part of Earth work together; and more. The Focus On Elementary Geology Student Textbook has ten full-color chapters. Grades K-4.